By SueN
- Guests:
- Webster Tarpley, Author, historian, journalist, lecturer, and critic of Anglo-American hegemony.
- Stewart Acuff Chief of Staff and Assistant to the President of the Utility Workers Union of America.
- Ben Jealous, President and CEO of the NAACP.
- conservative talk show host and Chair of the Tea Party Express Mark Williams.
- Topics:
- Is the entire world about to slide into another great depression?
- What's it going to take to get America back to work?
- Should there be a resolution condemning racism in the tea party movement?
- How can we all save conservatives from "white tax" tanning beds?
- Bumper Music:
- Are the Good Times Really Over for Good Wynonna Judd.
- Right To Complain, Trombone Shorty.
- The Mail Must Go Through, Larry Groce & The Disneyland Children's Sing Along Chorus.
- Let's Work Together, Canned Heat.
- Never Smile at a Crocodile, Fred Penner ( video).
- Because I Got High, Afroman.
- Give It To Me, 3 Doors Down.
- Diamonds And Coal, Incubus.
- Crazy, Gnarls Barkley.
- Working On My Tan, Tim Curry.
- 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: "I wouldn't go to war again as I have done to protect some lousy investment of the bankers. There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. War for any other reason is simply a racket." -- Major General Smedley Darlington Butler.
- Member of the day was sugarchai, who won a copy of "Unequal Protection: How Corporations Became "People" - And How You Can Fight Back" for posting "Didn't Mark Williams say that ..." on the message board.
