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After the Gulf Oil Disaster, Americans said it was more important to protect the environment than it was to develop U.S. energy supplies, by 55% to 39% favor environmental protection, according to a May 24-25 USA Today/Gallup poll taken -- the second-largest percentage (behind the 58% in 2007) favoring the environment in the 10-year history of the question.
Just one month previous to the Gulf Oil Disaster, the same USA Today/Gallup poll question resulted in an opposite opinion
An Environmentalist would consider such a Sophie’s Choice poll question as misleading however. RFK Jr. writes in the forward to Van Jones Green Collar Economy (2008) that an enslavement to a debilitating inefficient carbon economy is in fact a ball and chain and drag on America’s economy.
Read more here: http://wwww.examiner.com/x-50672-SF-Solar-Energy-Examiner~y2010m6d14-Van-Jones-Has-a-Point-Bears-Torch-on-Kennedy-Legacy-of-Clean-Energy-and-Sustainable-Economies-as-On
GASLAND INTERVIEW ON PBS
http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/613/index.html
NOW talks with filmmaker Josh Fox about "Gasland", his Sundance award-winning documentary on the surprising consequences of natural gas drilling. Fox's film—inspired when the gas company came to his hometown—alleges chronic illness, animal-killing toxic waste, disastrous explosions, and regulatory missteps.
Some good news here on the status of electric cars to go along with those lithium deposits in Afghanistan. I must declare, if those Taliban are on top of our clean green energy future, I am feeling less merciless...
Electric cars – As described in an earlier post, acceptance and growth of the electric car in California has been hampered by the lack of charging stations. Nissan and GM have mass-market electric vehicles that will be available in just a few weeks, but finding a place to charge them will be a challenge. A Bay Area company – Coulomb Technologies – recently announced plans to install 4,600 charging stations in nine metropolitan areas over the next 18 months. They are counting on money from a bill proposed in Congress that would allow the Energy Department to award $800 million in grants. Lots of plans, but in the Bay Area and elsewhere, charging stations are still a rare sight indeed.
Thom,
There are too many Americans, Canadians, Australians, Brits and Chinese who know that pre-planted exploves were used to bring down the Twin Towers and WTC-7 on 9/11/2001. This issue is settled science in the minds of millions of "We the People" in the professional groups of Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth, Pilots for 9/11 Truth, Firefighters for 9/11 Truth, Author, David Ray Griffin and the International team of Scientists who published a peer reviewed scientific paper describing the explosive (super-thermite) that was used as the primary demolitions of the towers.
You lose huge credibility and do disservice to the the people's quest for the "truth" about 9/11 when you recklessly use the Bush/Cheney version of 9/11 events as the merits of your debate.
I read many of your fine books, but now I'd like you to return the favor by reading at least one David Ray Griffin Book: "The Mysterious Collapse of World Trade Center 7 - why the final official report about 9/11 is unscientific and false." Every one of Griffin's books is well sourced to provide a quality of factual data that stands alone to devastate the Bush/Cheney story.
http://www.amazon.com/Mysterious-Collapse-World-Trade-Center/dp/1566567866
Thom, we challenge you to spend some time learning about the Bush/Cheney lies of 9/11. It's very important to have our progressive leaders speaking the unambiguous truth about why we went to war and why our civil liberties are at stake....it all began with 9/11...Is that why 9/11 is the most taboo topic in all of progressive and right-wing talk radio?. Why don't you do a program on that? Why not invite Architect, Richard Gage on your show, or David Ray Griffin?. Can you help us stop the 9/11 talk radio taboo.?
When asked, you always say you're in favor of a new 9/11 investigation...but your shows are never pro-activley reflect your fall-back view. . Your fellow "progressives" are asking YOU to be pro-active to break the spell of the progressive talk radio 9/11 taboo.
Thom, It's not "progressive" until you expose the 9/11 cover-up
Harold Saive
http://ae911truth.org
what I wish Obama would say:
Deregulation has been a failure: if you need examples, see BP/Halliburton/Transocean disaster, Savings and Loan fiasco, Enron/Engergy sector ripoff, or Financial Industry bailout. the Government will now regulate industries to prevent corporations from causing future harm to our economy or our environment.
The world is run by large corporations, but the USA will no longer support efforts of Economic Hit Men as described by John Perkins.
Bush and Cheney are war criminals, started an illegal and immoral war by lying to us, and they will both be prosecuted for war crimes.
Here is my review of Unequal Protection, ...
Thom Hartmann's Unequal Protection 2010 is a treatise on predator corporations that prey on the classes beneath, and dupe them into hastening their carnage.
Read more at Suite101: Thom Hartmann Unequal Protection 2010 - Predator Corporations http://peacesecurity.suite101.com/article.cfm/thom-hartmann-unequal-protection-2010---predator-corporations#ixzz0qqnAMbqh
EPA Launches National Study of Hydraulic Fracturing
by Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica - March 18, 2010 4:38 pm EDT
The U.S. EPA plans a nationwide study to see if reported water contamination in gas drilling areas is caused by the practice of injecting chemicals and water underground to fracture the gas-bearing rock.
http://www.propublica.org/series/buried-secrets-gas-drillings-environmental-threat
The Ocean is Sacred says the President. He should open with a moment of silence not only for the 11 human lives, but all the beautiful whales and dolphins and jellyfish and gulls and birds.
Thom, Ngo Dinh Diem was assassinated in the summer of 1963 when JFK was in office. He was replaced by "Big" Minh, general in the SV army.
40 Mile Long 2 mile wide plume in Florida Waters
Here it comes for real folks. Hell on earth is arriving.
http://www.floridaoilspilllaw.com/video-florida-senator-spots-40-mile-long-plume-of-thick-oil-that-came-to-surface-from-the-bottom-of-the-gulf
Government grew larger under Raygun.
How the Reagan Revolution Succeeded: Strangling Government in a Bathtub and Destroying Public Services
MARK KARLIN FOR BUZZFLASH, AN EDITOR'S BLOG
The success of the right wing strategy known as the "Reagan Revolution" is like a toxic underground river that keeps gaining in strength and can only be seen from time to time as it emerges to the surface and grows in strength and power as it undermines the common good.
http://blog.buzzflash.com/editorblog/323
@10 drichards, the last president was a SIMPLE Figurehead
#9 Rachel Maddow points out that BP's safety plan for the Gulf outlines how seals and walruses will be protected.
Local businesses pay a franchise fee, depending on how the fee is levied and how often, they could refuse to pay it, seek a reduced fee [the brand they bought is damaged]. Maybe arrange a bootleg delivery of gas from a competitor [Citgo], and see if there are open slots in another franchise brand's market saturation and switch. Courts could challenge the tactics, and the franchisee could put up their own sign of where their product comes from.
They might be able to switch to one of the brands that BP bought, SOHIO was one- Standard Oil of Ohio- which also might be one the reasons for minority leader Boneheader's recent actions.
Presidents are Simply Figureheads
When did the Presidents of the United States stop being our Commander in chiefs and become the figureheads they are today? Obama is simply a figurehead while it is the Corporations that actually run our government.
What these two cases show is further control of our political system and the selection of our leaders by the wealthy, and the corporation's (both domestic and foreign). It also makes the case for the further erosion of the ability of "we the people" to elect individuals that will represent our interests.
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After hearing about the documentary "The 11th Hour" on your show, I watched it. One part that stuck with me (of course other than all the appearances by Thom Hartmann) was when Tom Linzey, the executive director of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund was saying that in order to move toward a more sustainable way of living on the planet, we need to find harmony between people and nature, and that Nature has rights too.
Sadly, we are seeing that now with the disaster in the gulf. The seabirds, fish, dolphins, whales, sea turtles, marshlands and beaches of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida have rights too, but nobody is standing up for them.
Wouldn't it have been nice if the Supreme Court had ruled that Nature had the rights of personhood, instead of corporations like BP, Halliburton and Transocean?
Excerpts from President Obama’s Upcoming Bash BP Speech:
“Hello, my name is Barack (Hello Barack) and I have an oil snide.”
“Gosh golly, BP has been bad . . .”
“How about them pelicans?”
“Golly, President Reagan did a good thing by pulling down those solar collectors . . . “
"Nucular" fuel is gowdawful expensive to produce. Another externality paid for with hidden money from taxpayers.
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The real reason for any war is control of resources. Afghanistan originally was about protecting oil pipelines. The next wars will be over water.
Funny about the Not So Funny:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/13/anti-bp-art-the-best-visu_n_609660.html
Why the Afghanistan War will Never End:
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2010/06/eureka.php
There's GOLD In That War!
Pentagon Highlights 'Vast Riches Of Minerals' Discovered In Afghanistan
Tell me again; what is the REAL reason the US government is in Afghanistan.
The GOP Pretends to Police Their Own VS Scratch a Republican . . . Find a Bigot:
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/06/sc_county_gop_calls_on_knotts_to_resign_over_raghe.php
Thom,
I recently had surgery to repair a torn rotator cuff. I had a most unpleasant month, but four month post-op I have 100% range of motion and no pain. I did physical therapy for about six months before I finally gave in and had the surgery and three days a week after one month post-op. Now, I tore my rotator cuff when I was playing college baseball,many years ago, so there was no doubt in my mind that I had a muscle injury that needed surgery to repair. Sitting in a chair typing day after day became torture for me. It is my experience that only an operation can alleviate the discomfort of a torn shoulder muscle. If you had an MRI, you should have been able to see the tear, if it exists. I believe you would have to take about two weeks off, mostly because it is so difficult to get comfortable at night. Now, I am glad I had the surgery, two months ago, I wasn't so sure. I am 70 years ode, but I am in very good shape, so I heal rather quickly. I believe you would also heal well in a relatively short time. I concur that surgeons are an odd bunch. They underestimate recovery time and seem oblivious to patient levels of pain and discomfort, but the best of them do extraordinary work.
Best of luck. I do research in aging and can be reached at doctorgeorgeshannon@gmail.com, if you would like to discuss this further.
George Shannon, MSG, PhD