By SueN
- Guests:
- Conservative Daniel Pipes, Director of the Middle East Forum and the Taube distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University.
- Dick Kay, political reporter for NBC TV in Chicago for 38 years and host of "Back on the Beat" from 1-4pm on WCPT, Chicago's Progressive Talk.
- Ron Lopez, employed at Toyota (NUMMI) factory for 18 years; his wife for 15 years.
- Mark Karlin, Editor and Publisher of Buzzflash.com.
- Global economist Eamonn Fingleton in Japan.
- Global economist Steve Keen in Australia.
- Topics:
- Why do you think that creating a million more terrorists and inflaming the Islamic world is somehow going to "save" Obama's presidency? Are you suggesting that this will work out for Obama just as that nice little war in Iraq worked out for Bush?
- Are the Democrats getting their mojo back?
- Toyota to close NUMMI plant in Freemont, CA
- Thom is recipient of the Buzzflash "Wings of Justice" award for "Unequal Protection".
- Economic crisis...who's recovering, who's not and why?
- Bumper Music:
- Citizen / Soldier, 3 Doors Down.
- Duck and Run, 3 Doors Down.
- I'm A Nazi, Rush Limbaugh / WNNX-FM (Atlanta, GA) (video).
- 9 to 5, Dolly Parton (video).
- Say Hello, Deep Dish. (video)
- The Revolution Starts Now, Steve Earle (video).
- Pocket Full Of Sunshine, Natasha Bedingfield.
- Rise Up, Yves LaRock.
- Democracy, Leonard Cohen.
- Catch the Reading Bug, Monty Harper.
- Today's newsletter has details of today's guests and links to the major stories and alerts that Thom covered in the show, plus lots more. If you haven't signed up for the free newsletter yet, please do. If you missed today's newsletter, it is in the archive.
- Quote: "Talk about centralisation! The credit system, which has its focus in the so-called national banks and the big money-lenders and usurers surrounding them, constitutes enormous centralisation, and gives this class of parasites the fabulous power, not only to periodically despoil industrial capitalists, but also to interfere in actual production in a most dangerous manner— and this gang knows nothing about production and has nothing to do with it." -- Karl Marx.
- Clip:
"We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob."
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Madison Square Garden (October 31, 1936).
- Member of the day was artguy, who won a copy of "The Edison Gene: ADHD and the Gift of the Hunter Child" for blogging:
I propose that we start using a more accurate term to describe the corporate Republicans: Corporate Royalists. (Unfortunately, this applies as well to many Democrats as well.)
