Daily Topics - Wednesday December 21st, 2011
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Daily Topics - Tuesday December 20th, 2011
Dec. 20, 2011 8:52 amBy shawnt56Your Donations Matter! Get a signed copy of The Thom Hartmann Reader for a donation of $250 or more to the Salem Hunter School & help send a child in need to The Hunter School Summer Program. At Hunter children in need discover that they are competent, talented, valued and are important contributors to our world. Your donation will help to ensure that our work at Hunter continues. If you can't afford $250 - anything helps.
Has the Fukushima Meltdown caused 14,000 deaths here in America?
Dec. 20, 2011 7:24 amBy skepticalscottYou need to know this. Just a few days after the Japanese Prime Minister declared the nuclear crisis at Fukushima is over – there’s shocking new evidence that the disaster may have led to the deaths of as many as 14,000 people…in the United States! According to a new peer-reviewed study published in the December edition of the International Journal of Health Services – researchers found that there were 14,000 excess
Will the Iowa Republican Primary get hacked? And by who?
Dec. 19, 2011 9:51 amBy louisehartmannAccording to the latest poll out of Iowa – Ron Paul is the new front-runner in the Iowa Caucus. However – Republican Party officials in Iowa are scrambling to defend the upcoming caucuses against a possible cyber attack by the hack-activist group known as Anonymous. A video message – believed to be from Anonymous – called for a “peaceful shut down” of the January 3rd Iowa Caucuses.
Daily Topics - Monday December 19th, 2011
Dec. 19, 2011 8:34 amBy shawnt56For a contribution of $99, FSTV will send you a variety of books, CDs or DVDs for either your own or a local occupy camp’s library. To show their support, FSTV will be donating part of your contribution to OccupyWallst.org. So take this opportunity to help FSTV and the 99% Movement grow stronger. You can make a secure donation online now at freespeech.org.
Hour One: Young voters are infatuated with Ron Paul...how do we get them back?
OWS Celebrates Its Three Month Anniversary
Dec. 19, 2011 8:03 amBy skepticalscottOver the weekend – the Occupy Wall Street movement recognized its 3-month anniversary. Demonstrators attempted to “re-occupy” another park in New York City – but were prevented from doing so by a Church that owned the land. As expected – the NYPD arrested 50 patriots during the day of action.
Call Sen. Wyden's office & ask him to quit drinking the $300 bottles of wine with Paul Ryan...
Dec. 16, 2011 9:23 amBy louisehartmannOne day after Oregon's Democratic Senator Ron Wyden teamed up with Republican Congressman Paul Ryan to end Medicare as we know it - the Democratic backlash is underway. Several Democratic Members of Congress - and the President - have rejected the Wyden-Ryan plan, which turns Medicare into a public option - giving senior citizens a voucher to buy private health insurance instead of Medicare.
Tuesday 13 December '11 show notes
Dec. 16, 2011 8:25 amBy SueN- Stephen Moore, The Wall Street Journal. Surprise...guess who supports Newt's tax plan?
- Governor Gary Johnson, Former Governor of New Mexico (R). Gingrich ‘proposed the death penalty for marijuana’.
- Wayne Root, Libertarian National Congressional Committee.
Monday 12 December '11 show notes
Dec. 16, 2011 2:26 amBy SueN- Joshua Holland, AlterNet. Covering "Occupy the Ports" day of action.
- Is democracy going right or left?
- Mark Taylor-Canfield, Occupy Seattle. Occupy Seattle update.
- Mark Finkelstein, News Busters. How raising taxes on job creators affects hiring...or does it?
- Darrell Pope, NAACP local chapter, Hutchinson, KS.
Is The Middle Class an Endangered Species Now?
Dec. 15, 2011 9:02 amBy skepticalscottThe middle class is becoming an endangered species in America. According to the latest census data - half of the country is now living in poverty or just scraping by in a low-income lifestyle. And this problem is being made worse as conservative Governors cut funding to critical social welfare programs. A survey of 29 mayors around America found that 1-in-4 Americans in need of food assistance did not receive any help.