By SueN
- Guests:
- Dahr Jamail, Independent Journalist and author, his most recent book is "The Will to Resist".
- Rep. Earl Blumenauer, U.S. Congressman (D-OR, 3rd district).
- Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi.
- John Dalhusien, Research expert on discrimination in Europe for Amnesty International.
- Topics:
- Is there a conspiracy of Silence in the Gulf?
- Demanding the Pentagon explain war contractor KBR's immunity deal.
- Wall Street reform: is the Senate full of prostitutes or are there any real statesmen left?
- Geeky Science Rocks!
- The burqa - free expression or the ultimate tool for bankrobbers?
- Bumper Music:
- Dirty Little Secret, The All American Rejects.
- Don't Speak, No Doubt.
- The Twilight Zone, Marius Constant.
- Do You Want To Know a Secret, The Beatles.
- George of the Jungle, The TV Theme Players.
- Teach Your Children, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.
- Ghost Chickens in the Sky, Sean Morey.
- Act of God, Prince.
- Crazy, Gnarls Barkley.
- Let Me Be Myself, 3 Doors Down.
- You can leave your hat on, Randy Newman.
- 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 issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs." -- Thomas Jefferson.
- Member of the day was j.sea, who won a copy of "Unequal Protection: How Corporations Became "People" - And How You Can Fight Back" for posting "... was up til 3 last night ..." on the message board.
