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Planet Earth is Turning on Us
Planet Earth is turning on us. Yesterday – violent storms lashed the southern United States – spinning off tornadoes – and killing more than 190 people. 128 people were killed in the state of Alabama alone yesterday – prompting Alabama authorities to declare a state of emergency. Arkansas and Tennessee have also declared states of emergency. Three nuclear reactors at Browns Ferry nuclear power plant were knocked off power in the storms – luckily the NRC confirmed that back up generators came on properly to just barely avert a Fukushima like disaster in America.
So how much more evidence do climate deniers need to understand that our planet is entering dangerous times as a result of our pollution? And by climate change deniers – I’m talking about EVERY newly-elected Republican in the United States House of Representatives who are self-proclaimed deniers of man-made global warming. That’s what millions in big oil campaign contributions get us - industry-owned politicians.
It’s becoming painfully – very painfully – clear what’s going on here – and soon it will be too late to reverse the damage we’re doing to our planet.
-Thom
(Are you convinced that there is global warming? Tell us here.) |
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 9pm and 11pm... Monster storms & global warming (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT, and catch past shows on Youtube)
Need to Know: Monster storms & global warming.
And now for the big wedding news...no, not that one! With William Yeatman, Assistant Director, Center for Energy and Environment - Competitive Enterprise Institute. 
Vote with your (empty) pocket book... With Max Fraad Wolff, Financial Economist & Professor of Economics Graduate Program in International Affairs.
Screwed: GOP throw seniors to the wolves... With Mark Weisbrot, economist / co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, who writes a weekly column or the Guardian U.K.
The Best of the Rest of the News...
Republican Hypocrisy? 247 people on the so-called "terrorist watch list" ok'd to buy guns?? With Noel Flasterstein, Constitutional Attorney/Gun Rights Activist.
Daily Take: Keep the faith...screw the middle class
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The Daily Stack 
Quote: "The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy" -- Montesquieu.
Hour One: Planet Earth is turning on us.
Latest on the war on democracy...WI voter ID hearing with David Vines, Student - University of Wisconsin political science major / contributor-Huffington Post / founding member-Autonomous Solidarity Organization
Hour Two: Conservatives continue to complain about the high cost of regulation...but where would we be without them? Thom will challenge Michael Swartz of Pajamas Media...
Quote: "It's hard to get a man to understand something if his paycheck depends upon him not understanding it." - Upton Sinclair
Hour Three: Record oil profits...do we really need to keep subsidizing Big Oil? Thom will confront Myron Ebell, Director, Energy & Global Warming Policy-Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI).
Geeky Science alert: - Sugarcane Cools Climate
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Coming up Friday on The Thom Hartmann Program
Hour One: If it's Friday, it's "Brunch With Bernie"... the honorable Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) will be here with all the news from our nation's capitol and as always he'll be spending the hour taking your calls and answering your questions too...
Plus, it's "Anything Goes on Townhall Friday" with the best of the rest of the news and your calls right here on...
The Thom Hartmann Program... your media support group for we the people.
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Thom's Poll
Are the violent tornadoes enough evidence for climate deniers to understand that our planet is entering dangerous times?
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Watch & Listen to Thom
Thom Hartmann: The Lone Liberal Rumble
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Watch the whole show of last night's "The Big Picture".
Full Show - 4/27/11. Vermont Prepares for Single Payer Health System
Thom talks about Vermont adopting a single payer health system, which a single public insurer provides health insurance to all state residents, similar to the Medicare system for American seniors. Later in the show, Thom is joined by Dr. Orly Taitz to discuss the public reveal of President Obama's birth certificate.
Thom Hartmann on the News - April 28, 2011
Thom Hartmann: The Hidden Tax: Regulation
Thom Hartmann: Do we really need to keep subsidizing Big Oil?
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