Tuesday 25 May '10 show notes
May. 26, 2010 7:11 amBy SueN- Guests:
- Mike Papantonio, co-host of The Ring of Fire Radio Program with Robert Kennedy, Jr.
- Fellow talk show host and author Bill Press.
- Nancy Altman, author of "The Battle for Social Security: From FDR’s Vision to Bush’s Gamble" and co-director of Social Security Works.
- Guests:
BP in Charge of our Environment & Wall Street Banksters in Charge of our Economy.
May. 25, 2010 7:47 amBy louisehartmannThe Washington Post is reporting that the federal agency in charge of regulating offshore oil drilling repeatedly ignored warnings from government scientists about risks to the environment in a push to quickly approve energy exploration activities.
Also, an inspector general report discovered that during the Bush administration, regulators allowed industry officials to fill out their own inspection reports in pencil and the regulators themselves then traced over the pencil writing in pen and signed off on the reports.Daily Topics - Tuesday - May 25th 2010
May. 25, 2010 7:37 amBy louisehartmannQuote: “History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling money and its issuance.” – James Madison
Monday 24 May '10 show notes
May. 25, 2010 6:39 amBy SueN- Guests:
- Attorney Jonathan Saenz, Director of Legislative Affairs at the Liberty Institute.
- Right wing economist Floyd Brown.
- Libertarian economics professor Dr. Walter Block of Loyola University and the Ludwig Von Mises Institute.
- Topics:
- Isn't the Texas school board reinventing America as the Puritan nation of the Salem witch trials?
- Guests:
Daily Topics - Monday May 23 2010
May. 24, 2010 7:20 amBy louisehartmannHour One - Isn't the Texas school board reinventing America as the Puritan nation of the Salem witch trials? Jonathan Saenz www.libertylegal.org
Plus - The Oil Spill: Has the privatization of Government failed Obama and us?
Hour Two - Has the economic disaster reached the point where corporate monopolies and rich guys are starting to worry? Economist Floyd Brown www.floydbrown.com
Transcript: Thom Hartmann asks Stiv Wilson, will our oceans survive? 13 May '10.
May. 24, 2010 4:52 amBy SueNThom Hartmann: Will our oceans survive? Are we doomed? The oceans are the principle source of oxygen for this planet. Stiv Wilson is with us. He’s with the five, is it pronounced Gyres, Stiv?
Stiv Wilson: Depends on where you are.
Thom Hartmann: Or Gyres?
Stiv Wilson: Gyre or Gyre will work.
Thom Hartmann: Which is English and which is American English?
Stiv Wilson: American is Gyre for sure.
Transcript: Thom Hartmann asks Brian Sussman, how extensive is right wing and fossil fuel industry infiltration of the global warming debate? 13 May '10.
May. 24, 2010 4:50 amBy SueNThom Hartmann: And welcome back Thom Hartmann here with you. Brian Sussman is on the line with us. He’s the author of, he’s a veteran meteorologist, as in weather man, and the author of a new book, “Climategate.” The subtitle, “A Veteran Meteorologist Exposes the Global Warming Scam.” DebateMeAlGore.com Brian’s website. Brian welcome to the show.
Transcript: Thom Hartmann asks Peter Pitts, where are all the dead Canadians and why does Big Pharma want more seniors to have to choose between dog food and pills? 13 May '10.
May. 24, 2010 4:48 amBy SueNThom Hartmann: Peter Pitts on the line with us, he is the former associate commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration in the Bush administration and currently a director with Porter Novelli, a PR firm and president and co-founder of the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest , which had its origins as a project of the Pacific Research Institute, a San Francisco think tank with ties to Phillip Morris. Peter, welcome to the program.
Transcript: Thom Hartmann asks Matt Welch, why won't American companies lobby for better education for American workers instead of importing them? 13 May '10.
May. 24, 2010 4:46 amBy SueNThom Hartmann: Our quote for the day from Franklin D. Roosevelt: “The school is the last expenditure upon which Americans should be willing to economize.”
And apropos of that, Matt Welch is here with us. He’s the editor in chief of Reason Magazine, Reason.com the website. And Matt, first of all, welcome to the program.
Matt Welch: Thank you very much.