If anyone does not believe that we did not land on the moon, tell them to watch the Mythbusters episode on Moon Myths. In this episode they examined many of the things that people say are evidence that it was faked and all were busted. A caller mentioned a second light source and that was disproven by recreating a model of the moon landing using material that is said to have the same refletivity of the moon surface and the doll was just as lit up as in the moon landing photo. It was a facinating show and really proved to me that we DID land on the moon.

Wow... Joe the Plumber talks to God and God talks back. What a way to make a big decision.

The way to make a major decision is to throw the I Ching. The I Ching talks back too. Isn't that what you do Thom?

Well... I have to go out and before I do, I want to talk to one of my plants. I have a Spanish olive tree.

Hola amigos. Cómo estás. Pareces hermoso hoy. Aprecio todos lo que lo haces. Gracias.

¿Escuchas Thom Hartmann?

VIDEO ...HOW THE DOW RALLY IS TOTALLY FAKE AND SPECULATORS RAISE THE VOLUME OF STOCKS BEING TRADED ARTIFICIALLY

this guy talks about how speculating houses are falsely raising volume and how the DOW rally is totally fake.

he goes into some idiot libertarian rant after that.....but, like every libertarian, their recognition of the problem is bang on, but their solution is completely crazy.

libertarians are habitually 50% wrong....repuglicans 100%

http://maxkeiser.com/2009/07/01/principal-program-trading-is-a-way-to-ge...

Helen Thomas hits White House for lack of transparency

http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/07/01/helen-thomas-hits-white-house-for...

So much for change... I am beginning to think that we all got bamboozled.

BLAH, BLAH, BLAH -

White House economic advisor Christine Romer on today's worse-than-expected jobs report:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/31709041#31707853

I feel like Fox Mulder: I want to believe.

Re: How to invest & win...

Market Predictions from the Foundation for the Study of Cycles

The Foundation for the Study of Cycles was formed during the Great Depression to try to figure out why it happened. It was staffed and funded by leading intellectuals and business men of the day.

Right (they claim to have a very impressive predictive track record) or wrong (the Foundation was convened by Herbert Hoover before his bid for re-election, so he obviously didn't want the Foundation to look at problems his administration caused), the Foundation claims that market cycles could have predicted the Depression, as well as subsequent bull and bear markets.

Richard Mogey - current Research Director at the Foundation - has just publicly announced the following predictions:

Because of a convergence of numerous cycles all at once, the stock market may go up for a little while, but will crash in 2010 and reach all-time lows late 2012. Mogey says that the 2008 crash was nothing compared to the coming crash
Gold may correct in 2009, but will go up in 2010 and peak in 2011
Silver may experience a short-term correction like gold, but will go up and top in 2012
Oil may experience a short-term correction, but will form a major top in 2011
The dollar will decline until at least 2012, although there might be short-term bear market rallies
Interest rates on high-grade paper will decline later this year and continue declining until 2012
Interest rates on low-grade paper could move higher for a while
Mogey argues that using the Foundation's cycles, investors can also make profitable intermediate-term trades based on shorter-term trends, and recommends using a 2% back stop (with the stop only pegged to the close of daily trading).

The Foundation claims that it has charted the cycles of individual companies' performance for 44 years, and says that it recommends shorter-term trades only on those companies that have the most consistent cycles.

Weiss Research, Inc. just announced that it has purchased the exclusive rights to the Foundation's data on individual companies, ETF performance and other metrics and has formed a joint venture called the "Foundation Alliance" to provide information and investment recommendations.

This could be the ultimate goldmine of investment insight, or a huge scam.

Note: I am not an investment advisor and this should not be taken as investment advice

http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com/

Possible cause of the bizarre increase in human obesity: Factory Farm animals are given GROWTH HORMONES to make them grow faster so that the animals are ready for market earlier -- for the ourpose of providing more PROFITS for the factory farmers. Americans who eat the animals' flesh are eating those increased levels of GROWTH HORMONES in that meat. How does the obesity problem correlate with the use of these GROWTH HORMONES used in animal husbandry?

QUESTION on THOM's ARCHIVES--

Is there somewhere to hear past shows? (I don't have an iPod, so that's out.)

We only get two hours of the show on the radio now, and sure would like to hear the hour I missed!

Any suggestions? Thanks.

This Myron Ebell is one of those people who wants global warming to go away because his mind is distracted by the complicated science of global warming, and tries to make it simple for simpletons. Is global warming “bad”? Well, maybe for people living on the coast, but it is “good” for people living in the frigid interior, which will experience warmer temperatures, but then again “bad” because they will have to leave their air conditioners on longer. The over-all thrust of the anti-global warming crowd is that it is too expensive to combat global warming even if it is bad; we can’t afford not to continue using fossil fuels at the same rate—even if it means running out eventually without a back-up plan. Of course, the eventual result of global warming is an ice age, caused by the stoppage of ocean currents like the Gulf Stream. For people like Ebell, The Answer is technology—that is if you can afford it, or it’s not too late.

Anyways, after decades of trying, the city of Seattle and federal prosecutors finally “nailed” Frank Colacurcio, a 92-year-old strip club operator—indicting him on several charges related to alleged prostitution business. But this should be viewed as part of the “nannytown” effort to “cleanse” the city of nightlife activities that are “offensive” to the “family-friendly” agenda of Mayor Greg Nickels and his constituency. Seattle, you see, has no place to expand, and there are people who still have this odd-ball idea that the city is “progressive” and “fun.” When I moved to Seattle in 1991, even the Space Needle seemed so pedestrian that I couldn’t be bothered with taking a ride up it until my visiting brother made me do it ten years later.

But with no place to expand, and property values high in white North Seattle, where are housing developers to go to make money? The Central District? Too “dangerous.” But what about South Seattle, with its mix of various minority and low-income folk? Once, whites fled from South Seattle before the onslaught of the “those people”; now, they see low (relatively) property prices just waiting to be snatched-up by bargain hunters. Just wave a few dollar bills in their faces, and the locals will sell-out. Thus begins the gentrification process; although developers are required to build—along with expensive single family homes and condos—“affordable” rental units, this latter requirement is only honored in the breech. Affordable to whom? Certainly not for the people displaced, making $8 an hour.

In “progressive” Seattle, “family-friendly” also means moving the “others” out so that the white folks don’t have to be inconvenienced by living amongst them. Progressive? More like narcissistic.

B Roll,

I went out of my way to go to Franken's events, talk with him, etc. I really wanted to support him whole heartedly. I gave him some money but didn't work on his campaign.

B Roll,

LOL! I'll pat your back while you pat mine!

I really wish I didn't agree with you on the Franken thing. Better candidates just didn't have the name or the money...