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Tuesday 10 April '12 show notes

Apr. 15, 2012 4:39 am

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Zimmerman had the rules of engagement wrong.
Maggie Gallagher, National Organization for Marriage. Will the Courts declare DOMA unconstitutional?
Rand Simberg, Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI). Should corporations be allowed to buy other planets?
Bumper Music:
- Crying Shame, Jack Johnson.
- Cold Shot, Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble.
- Lookaround, Red Hot Chili Peppers.
- Probably Gay, the Homophobia Song, Katie Goodman's Broad Comedy.
- Closer To The Heart, Rush.
- Levels, Avicii.
- Man On The Moon, R.E.M.
- Grand Canyon, Dmitriy Lukyanov (you need to search for it) (with additional sounds by Jacob).
- Democracy, Leonard Cohen.
Clip: Franklin D. Roosevelt, 27 June 1936, "A Rendezvous With Destiny" Speech to the Democratic National Convention, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

"These economic royalists complain that we seek to overthrow the institutions of America. What they really complain of is that we seek to take away their power. Our allegiance to American institutions requires the overthrow of this kind of power. In vain they seek to hide behind the flag and the Constitution. But in their blindness they forget what the flag and the Constitution stand for. Now, as always, they stand for democracy, not tyranny; for freedom, not subjection; and against a dictatorship by mob rule and the over-privileged alike.

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What are the Rules of Engagement on the streets of America?

Had George Zimmerman shot and killed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin on a battlefield in Iraq – he would have been punished. But on the streets of Florida – Zimmerman walks free. The organization VoteVets.org points out today that Florida’s Stand Your Ground law gives more leeway to shooters on the streets of America than our armed forces have to deal with hostile insurgents in Iraq.

According to the Rules of Engagement - which all our soldiers must follow – when confronted with a threat – the soldier is required to shout a verbal warning first, then show their weapon, then try to physically restrain the threat, then fire a warning shot, and then – if nothing else works – they are allowed to shoot to kill. But according to Florida’s Shoot First law – which was written by Wal Mart and the NRA with the help of the American Legislative Exchange Council – a person only needs to feel threatened and then they can jump right to shooting people.

More than 20 states have passed similar ALEC-written shoot first laws since 2005 – leading to a 25% increase in justifiable homicides across the nation. When on the rules of engagement on the streets of America are more lenient than on the streets of Baghdad – then something is rotten in America.

-Thom

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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 9pm and 11pm... Zimmerman had the rules of engagement wrong (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT, and catch past shows on Youtube)

Need to Know: Zimmerman had the rules of engagement wrong
- Mike Papantonio, Attorney/Host-Ring of Fire Radio

Screwed: Is the Kochtopus really Dr. Evil in disguise
- Zaid Jilani, Republic Report, United Republic

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Another nuclear crisis arrives...
- Paul Gunter, Beyond Nuclear

Are earthquakes man-made by fracking?
- Dr. Tony Ingraffea, Dwight C. Baum Professor of Engineering-Cornell University

Daily Take: 1%'s war on the middle class

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Hour One: Zimmerman had the rules of engagement wrong

Hour Two: Will the Courts declare DOMA unconstitutional?
- Maggie Gallagher, National Organization for Marriage

Hour Three: Should corporations be allowed to buy other planets?
- Rand Simberg, Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI)

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Monday's Daily Stack

Quote: "There was never a good war or a bad peace." -- Benjamin Franklin.

Hour One: The tipping point that could unite both parties

Article: "DC festival continues through April 27 marking 100th anniversary of cherry tree gift" by AP.

Case: "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" (2010).

Article: "One Dollar In, Fifty-Nine Out" by Steve Kretzmann.

Article: "Bankers Form SuperPac for 'Surgical' Strike at Industry's Enemies" by Barbara A. Rehm.

Site: Move to Amend

The Big Picture
- Sam Sacks, The Big Picture producer, progressive commentator

Article: "Last Three Years Were Worst On Record For Public Sector Job Losses" by Travis Waldron.

Article: "VIDEO: Conservative Senator Jim DeMint Acknowledges Lobbying is the Root of the Problem" by Lee Fang.

Article: "White House abandons push for federal contractors to disclose political giving" by Mike Lillis.

Article: "Judge tells GOP to honor requests for roll call votes in Legislature" by Chad Livengood.

Video: "Michigan GOP circumvents democracy with shady vote corner-cutting" by Rachel Maddow.

Article: "Scott Walker Quietly Signs Anti-Abortion Measures, Repeals Equal Pay Act, Ahead of Easter Weekend" by Ashley Portero.

Article: "NEW VIDEO: President Reagan Backs The Buffett Rule" by Josh Dorner.

Article: "Warren Buffett’s Secretary to Attend State of the Union" by Jared A. Favole.

Article: "Trayvon Martin Prosecutor Won't Use Grand Jury" by Andrew Chow, JD.

Article: "Fox Orlando Affiliate Calls Neo-Nazis ‘A Civil Rights Group’" by Judd Legum.

Site: "Candidate Project".

Article: "Germany Set to Invest $260 Billion in a Renewable Revolution" by Dr. Kent Moors.

Hour Two: Do we need an anti-nuke fundamentalist?
- Dr. Robert Zubrin, The New Atlantis

Book: "Merchants of Despair: Radical Environmentalists, Criminal Pseudo-Scientists, and the Fatal Cult of Antihumanism" by Robert Zubrin.

Article: "Are Whites Really Physically Afraid of Black Men? By Bijan C. Bayne" by Bijan C. Bayne.

Site: "Who is Art Robinson".

Article: "USGS Measures Fallout from Fukushima in US NADP Precipitation Samples".

Article: "Price Anderson Nuclear Industries Indemnity Act".

Article: "Robinson vs. Robinson? DeFazio’s primary challenger is a stalking horse".

Site: "Solar Roadways".

Article: "Solar shingles" by Wikipedia.

Talk Radio News Segment:
- Victoria Jones, White House Correspondent

Site: "Goats for the old Goat".

Article: "Media groups file challenge to keep Guantanamo court open" by Jane Sutton.

Article: "The unclassified Zelikow torture memo as evidence of crimes" by Michael Collins.

Article: "Syria not to withdraw troops without ‘guarantees’ from rebels" by Al Arabiya with Agencies.

Article: "Syrian forces wound refugees fleeing to Turkey; cameraman killed in Lebanon" by Selcan Hacaoglu.

Hour Three: Why Europe thinks Americans are nuts

Article: "Federal Funds to Train the Jobless Are Drying Up" by Motoko Rich.

Article: "Let Detroit Go Bankrupt" by Mitt Romney, November 18, 2008.

Video: "Mitch McConnell: Top Priority, Make Obama a One Term President".

Article: "McConnell: Stopping Obama’s re-election still ‘single most important’ goal" by David Edwards.

Article: "Two Santa Clauses or How The Republican Party Has Conned America for Thirty Years" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Columbia River Threatened by Radioactive Waste from Hanford" by Brian Kelly.

Article: "Columbia River" by Kim Stringfellow.

The good: The Sacramento Area League of Associated Muslims: "Easter At The Mosque: Sacramento Muslims Lend Space To Churchless Christian Congregation (VIDEO)".

The bad: "GOP Rep. Vicky Hartzler: ‘I Have Doubts That It Is Really His Real Birth Certificate’" by Adam Peck.

The very, very ugly: "Fox’s Steve Doocy: Democrats ‘Invented’ War On Women Because Stimulus ‘Didn’t Work Out So Well’" by Meenal Vamburkar.

Article: "Tax brackets in the United States" by Wikipedia.

Book: "Screwed: The Undeclared War Against The Middle Class" by Thom Hartmann. Get "Screwed" by Thom Hartmann!

Book: "Rebooting the American Dream: 11 Ways to Rebuild Our Country" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Bloom Energy Server" by Wikipedia.

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