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Time to wake up - A World Wildlife Fund Report
Evidence is mounting that humans are having a profound effect on the health of our planet. A World Wildlife Fund report points out that the world's population - particularly in the industrialized West - is using more resources than our planet can sustain -- 1 ½ times more. And it's getting worse; consumption has doubled in the last 40 years leading to declining animal populations around the globe and a 60% decline in the tropics. As WWF’s director, Jim Leape points out, “This is like spending the savings: we're spending the natural capital we have on this planet. That's an economic crisis in the making." And global climate change - a result of our overconsumption of fossil fuels - also appears to be turning the world’s fertile crescent into a barren desert. In Syria, four years of drought in the region have decimated ancient irrigation systems, dried up water resources, and rendered farmlands dead. As the late George Carlin once noted, our problem isn't so much that we'll kill the earth - it's been here six billion years and will do just fine without us - but that we're changing the planet to the point where it will kill us. Time to wake up.
-Thom
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 "If you're looking for something that connects the dots between the BP oil disaster, the harm it's done to the Gulf of Mexico and the people paying the price, this book is it. In a clear and compelling voice, it explains the worst environmental catastrophe of our time, then shows the way forward to protect this national treasure, safeguard our future and break our destructive addiction to oil." |
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Highlights Of The Upcoming Week ...
Monday
Hour One: Labor Segment - How are Unions helping to keep kids engaged in the classroom? Thom talks with Dennis Van Roekel, President of the National Education Association.
Hour Two: Why are more people dying from inquality in America than in other industrialized nations? Thom talks with journalist T.R. Reid, author of the newly revised edition of "The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper and Fairer Health Care".
Plus, equality vs. inequality...free market health care or European style socialized medicine...which saves more lives? Thom challenges Sally Pipes, President/CEO of the Pacific Research Institute and author of the new book "The Truth About Obamacare".
Tuesday
Hour Three: Why do conservatives want to stamp out the United States Postal Service? Who else can get a letter across the country for under a buck? Thom challenges Ted DeHaven of the CATO Institute about why we need to preserve the Commons...
Wednesday
Hour Two: Wear a condom...save the planet?! Thom has a rumble with Dan Gainor, Vice President & T. Boone Pickens Free Market Fellow at the Business and Media Institute.
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Thursday
Hour Two: Geeky Science - Think you know your partner? If you've been together for decades, chance are you don't! Find out why...
Friday
Hour One: "Brunch With Bernie". Senator Bernie Sanders, (I-VT) spends the hour with Thom discussing the issues and answering listener questions.
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Thom and Louise Hartmann founded the New England Salem Children's Village in New Hampshire in 1979. With states delaying payment for the children they entrust to the village, they need help with cash flow urgently. Please help if you can. |
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The Daily Stack 
Quote: About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends. -- Herbert Hoover (1874 - 1964).
Carl Wolfson of the KPOJ morning show and Adam Klugman are in for Thom who is in New York for a gig today (see the "On the Road" section on the right). Stream Carl's show for the 3 hours before Thom is live. Adam's show is Mad as Hell in America.
Hour One: "Anything Goes On Townhall Friday!"
Hour Two: ICE Operates Secret Detention and Courts With Dr. Peter Phillips and Mickey Huff, Directors, Project Censored and co-authors of the new book "Censored 2011".
Hour Three: "A Renegade History of the United States" with Thaddeus Russell, author of "A Renegade History of the United States"...Professor of history and cultural studies at Occidental College.
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On the Road Again
TONIGHT!
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Medicare “part E” - For Everybody
"Medicare “Part E” - For Everybody" would be totally consistent with what President Lyndon B. Johnson and the folks in his administration and Congress had in mind when they created Medicare in July of 1965.
Medicare got passed because old people were not profitable for the health insurance companies, so they were happy to get them off their rolls’ and onto the government’s. “[The elderly] used, on average, more than twice as many hospital days as younger persons used but had, on average, only about half as much income. Private insurers, who set premiums to cover current costs, had to charge the elderly much more, and the elderly could not afford the charges,” wrote Robert M. Ball, who was the Commissioner of Social Security at the time.
It’s been over 45 years since Medicare was legislated into existence, and it was established with the idea that one day it would be just slightly tweaked to become the national single-payer health insurance program for the United States of America. Let’s fulfill the intended promise of Medicare now!
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Watch & Listen to Thom
Robert Reich - Wasn't the real death panel the 40 year Republican Strategy for the Middle Class?
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