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Thom's blog
More Than Seven Million Americans Are Without Power...
The streets of lower Manhattan are underwater, and there are 16 reported deaths after Hurricane Sandy pummeled the Northeastern United States. Bloomberg is estimating that the storm damage could top $20 billion. Before making landfall – Sandy recorded the lowest barometric pressure of any Atlantic storm to hit the area in history. This suggests that just like all the other freak weather we’ve seen in recent years – this, too, is climate change related - now that there’s 5% more moisture in the atmosphere than at any other time in human history.
Storms will only get bigger, wetter, and windier moving forward – which makes how we, as a nation, respond to these disasters all the more important. Over the last few years, had Mitt Romney and Republicans been successful in what they wanted to do to federal disaster relief programs like FEMA, which is to privatize or drastically cut them, then the citizens of New York and New Jersey and other areas affected by Sandy would be all on their own today to clean up.
We are a “we” society, not a “me” society – and that’s all the more important during times of crisis like today.
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 9pm... Chris Hayes and Tom Shadyac (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT, and catch past shows on Youtube)
Due to damage caused by Superstorm Sandy, the show will not be live today.
Conversations with Great Minds - Chris Hayes, Author-“Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy" / Host-Up w/ Chris Hayes on MSNBC, Weekends at 8am / Editor at Large-The Nation 
Conversations with Great Minds - Tom Shadyac - comedian / director / screenwriter / producer "I Am".
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Tuesday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
Hour One: Privatize FEMA - heckuva job, Romney!- David Selig, Conservative Commentator & Pro-Business Advocate.
Hour Two: Romney's Lax Regulation May Have Fueled Meningitis Outbreak- Craig Unger, Author-Boss Rove: Inside Karl Rove's Secret Kingdom of Power
Hour Three: Time to do away with the electoral college?- Tara Ross
And, 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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Wednesday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm
It's Halloween...watch out, conservatives are full of tricks!! As for treats? Not so much...take Paul Ryan's latest plan for the poor...I'll challenge the Daily Caller's Jamie Weinstein, author of "The Lizard King"...
Plus, the best of the rest of the news along with your calls right here on...
The Thom Hartmann Program, Occupying The Media 3 hours a day 5 days a week" for "we the people"...Democracy is NOT a spectator sport...it begins with you...
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Thom's Poll
Will Super Storm Sandy force candidates to discuss climate change?
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