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Lessons from Abroad: Germany's renewable energy program.
Given that Germany is one of the cloudiest countries in Europe, right up there with England – the sun only shines for about a third of the year – it seems crazy that it would have more solar panels per capita than any other country in the world, and that it employs over 40,000 people in the solar power industry. But the Germans made it happen. They figured out a way to use their existing banking and power systems to begin to shift from dependence on coal and nuclear power to solar. And all it took were pretty small tweaks, in the grand scheme of things.
We can and should do the same – begin to invest in solar and other renewable forms of energy in America. For far too long, we have been hooked on oil and we continue to pay a terrible price for it, economically, politically, militarily. We need to wean ourselves from it both for our own future survival and prosperity, and because so often other countries of the world look to us as an example of what they can or should do.
-Thom
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Today on the Big Picture... The challenge has been issued Mr. Boehner... On RT TV at 9pm and 11pm... (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT, and catch past shows on Youtube)
Need to Know: The challenge has been issued Mr. Boehner... - Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky offers a liberal deficit plan.
Screwed: Are we on the brink of another financial crisis?. With Michael Hudson, author of " THE MONSTER: How a Gang of Predatory Lenders and Wall Street Bankers Fleeced America--and Spawned a Global Crisis" and Staff Writer, Business and Financial Investigations -The Center for Public Integrity.
Best of the Rest: Irish financial meltdown spurs fears the crisis will engulf Portugal and Spain unless confidence is restored immediately to eurozone bond markets With Nomi Prins, journalist/senior fellow at Demos... former managing director at Goldman Sachs, prior to that she ran the international analytics group at Bear Stearns in London.
Dizzy yet? George W. Bush Rehabilitation Tour. With Mark Joseph, Producer of Doonby and Publisher of bullypulpit.com.
Green Report: You thought Jaws was bad...wait til you meet "Franken-Salmon!!" With Wenonah Hauter, Executive Director, Food & Water Watch.
Crazy Alert: Scientist's propose one way trip to Mars...really!
Plus...The Good. The Bad. and the Very Very Ugly
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The Daily Stack 
Quote: "In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all." -- Eldridge Cleaver.
Guest hosting today is David Sirota, journalist, nationally syndicated weekly newspaper columnist, host of the David Sirota Show 7-10am weekdays on Colorado's Progressive Talk - AM 760 and bestselling author, currently working on his 3rd book, his most recent "The Uprising".
Hour One: The politics of illegal drugs, racism and incarceration - NYU Professor of Clinical Law and former public defender Anthony "Tony" Thompson joins David.
Hour Two: "Decision Points" by George W. Bush - Former FEMA Director Michael Brown is in the studio talking about the book and his old boss.
Hour Three: What the *$@*?! Too much profanity in prime time? - with Hollywood Reporter columnist Lindsay Powers.
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Coming up Wednesday on The Thom Hartmann Program
Hour Two: Americans love a good sale...anything for a deal or a discount right? But do you really "get what you pay for?" - Journalist/teacher Ellen Ruppel Shell, author of "Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture", will be here.
Plus what will America's latest trade agreements mean for the average Joe or Jane in the unemployment line? Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch weighs in...
And, the best of the rest of the news and your calls right here on...
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Get-Out-of-Jail-Free Card for Corporate Criminals
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