By SueN
- Guests:
- Geologist/Environmentalist Chris Landau.
- Film maker Josh Fox talks to Thom about his new movie "Gasland". Founder and Artistic Director of the film & theater company "International WOW Company"; writer/director of the new documentary "Gasland".
- Environmentalist Van Jones, Senior Fellow and leader of the Green Opportunity Initiative at the Center for American Progress; author of "The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems".
- Topics:
- Have B.P, Halliburton and Transocean have unleashed Armageddon? And, is there no stopping it?
- Why we're really in Afghanistan.
- How Dick Cheney destroyed the lives and water supplies of millions of Americans!
- How can we turn the BP disaster into an opportunity for our nation?
- Bumper Music:
- It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine), REM.
- Church On Sunday, Green Day.
- The Mail Must Go Through, Larry Groce & The Disneyland Children's Sing Along Chorus.
- Until The End of the World, U2.
- All 'Bout The Money, Meja.
- What's Going On, Marvin Gaye.
- Around The World Red Hot Chili Peppers.
- Do You Want To Know a Secret, The Beatles.
- Grand Canyon, Dmitriy Lukyanov (you need to search for it) (with additional sounds by Jacob).
- 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: "The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased, and not impaired, in value." -- Theodore Roosevelt.
- Madison Square Garden Speech, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, October 31, 1936.
"We have not come this far without a struggle and I assure you we cannot go further without a struggle.
"For twelve years this Nation was afflicted with hear-nothing, see-nothing, do-nothing Government. The Nation looked to Government but the Government looked away. Nine mocking years with the golden calf and three long years of the scourge! Nine crazy years at the ticker and three long years in the breadlines! Nine mad years of mirage and three long years of despair! Powerful influences strive today to restore that kind of government with its doctrine that that Government is best which is most indifferent.
"For nearly four years you have had an Administration which instead of twirling its thumbs has rolled up its sleeves. We will keep our sleeves rolled up.
"We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace - business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering.
"They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob.
"Never before in all our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today. They are unanimous in their hate for me and I welcome their hatred.
"I should like to have it said of my first Administration that in it the forces of selfishness and of lust for power met their match. I should like to have it said of my second Administration that in it these forces met their master."
