• "Brunch with Bernie" with Senator Bernie Sanders, Independent of Vermont.
• Guest: Medea Benjamin, Code Pink, just back from Jordan and Syria where she spoke with Iraqi mothers.
• Farm subsidies. "Columbia Dies over Texas". The goddess Columbia".
• Guest: U.S. Congressman Rush Holt (D-NJ, 12th District). His recent trip to Iraq.

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Hour One - David Sirota www.davidsirota.com Topic: Can Barack Obama win the presidency?

Hour Two - Carrie Lukas www.iwf.org Topic: Why are Republicans in favor of throwing people out of their homes?

Hour Three - Have we passed the point where humanity is doomed?

Guest: Karen Ackerman, Political Director, AFL-CIO www.aflcio.org Topic: AFL-CIO launches major new push to expose Sen. John McCain's economic record and disastrous health care proposals

Thom's Travel & Events This week …

May 16th Chicago - 7pm - Frugal Muse Books & WCPT 820AM present a booksigning and talk with Thom Hartmann - Cracking the Code www.frugalmusebooks.com

May 17th - Chicago Green Festival - Thom will be speaking on main stage Saturday - 1pm - Navy Pier, 600 E Grand Avenue, Chicago

• Hillary Clinton's appeal.
• Slavery rant.
• Upcoming Event: May 16, Darien, Chicago, Il. 7pm. Talk and booksigning at Frugal Muse bookstore.
• Upcoming Event: May 17, Chicago, Il. Chicago Green Festival. Talk at 1pm. WCPT Booth from 11am.
• Racism, classism, other isms.
• Guest: Former Alabama governor Don Siegelman. Another hour long interview including an update on the situation and listeners' calls. Transcript.
• US Income Distribution, "The L-Curve".
• Guest: Christy Harvey, Center for American Progress, MicCheckradio.org. "News Under the Radar".
• Guest: Dr. Mark Espinoza, Central Dental Care, Phoenix, who advertises on 1480 KPHX.

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• Happy birthday, Thom!
• Did Rush win Indiana for Hillary?
• Is Obama sure to be the nominee?
• What is the working class?
• Guest: CNS Editor-in-Chief Terence Jeffrey.
• Everything You Know Is Wrong: Guest: Barry Reid, Eden Press. "How to Disappear in America".
• Guest: Congressman Peter DeFazio. Economy, gas tax.

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"Anything Goes Friday"

Hour One: Guest: U.S. Senator (I-VT) Bernie Sanders www.sanders.senate.gov

Hour Two - Code Pink Medea Benjamin (plus Iraqi refugee who's husband and 4 yr old daughter were killed by militia because he was an interpreter for the U.S.) www.codepinkalert.org Topic: Just back from Jordan and Syria where she spoke with Iraqi mothers

Hour Three - U.S. Congressman (D-NJ, 12th District) Congressman Rush Holt www.holt.house.gov  Topic: His recent trip to Iraq

Former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman returned for a further hour to give us an update and to answer listener's calls.

Hour One - Is racism so ingrained in America - we can't get rid of it?

Hour Two - Former Gov. Don Siegelman www.donsiegelman.org Topic: Updates on his case & will take listener calls - This is the case that could land Karl Rove in jail!

Hour Three - www.lcurve.org for an economic perspective; Christy Harvey www.americanprogress.org Topic: News Under the Radar

• Indiana and North Carolina are going to the polls today.
• Guest: Bev Harris, Black Box Voting. 1.1m voter registrations "cancelled" in Indiana.
• Guest: Dan Gainor, Director of the Business & Media Institute. The government's role in the ethanol-driven global food crisis.
• Guest: John Stauber, Executive Director, Center for Media and Democracy. The Pentagon pundits.
• Guest: Caroline Frederickson, American Civil Liberties Union. Don't let the Democrats cave in on FISA.
• The difference between neoconservative and neoliberal:

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY THOM!

Hour One - Topics: Election Results, Missing White House e-mails, housing rescue bill, Fox News’ wealthy white males getting their chuckles from discussing ‘downscale voters,’and more

Hour Two - Terry Jeffrey www.cnsnews.com Topic: Election results, ethanol debate, food crisis conspiracy theory

Hour Three - "Everything You Know Is Wrong" Barry Reid www.edenpress.com Topic: How to Disappear in America

Proof that they are really robots!!!

Hour One - Guest: Bev Harris www.blackboxvoting.org Topic: Voter issues...fraud, cancelled registrations, etc...

Hour Two - Guest: Dan Gainor www.businessandmedia.org Topic: Thom and Dan debate the Govt's role in the ethanol-driven global food crisis

Hour Three - Guest: John Stauber www.prwatch.org Topic: What the Pentagon Pundits were selling on the side

CNBC Airport Stores sell Hillary Nutcrackers

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Contact and let them know what you think...

http://www.theparadiesshops.com/store.asp?ID=113

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• How polarized people are becoming. The need to heal.
• The gas tax holiday proposal.
• Guest: David Horowitz, author, "Party of Defeat: How Democrats and Radicals Undermined America's War on Terror Before and After 9-11".
• Guest: Larisa Alexandrova, Raw Story. Updates on Siegelman and Minor. Multiple burglaries, arson against people involved in cases.
• Guest: Nora Ferm, International Labor Rights Forum. Flower workers' rights. Ask for Fair Trade flowers.

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• "Brunch with Bernie" with Senator Bernie Sanders, Independent of Vermont.
• Guest: Ravi Batra, professor of economics at Southern Methodist University, Dallas. Are we still in a recession?
• "Anything goes" Friday.
• Overview of public corporate charter history, which Thom wrote a whole book about, Unequal Protection.

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Hour One - Election, Gas Bags and Pentagon news

Hour Two - David Horowitz www.horowitzfreedomcenter.org  Topic: Why are you using the demogogic language of the McCarthy & Stalin against people who love this country?

Hour Three - Larisa Alexandrovna www.rawstory.com  Topic: Updates on Siegelman and Minor

Guest: Nora Ferm www.laborrights.org Topic: ILRF's Fairness in Flowers Campaign

• Guest: Carrie Lukas, Independent Women's Forum. Should women rule the world?
• Hillary Clinton was on Bill O'Reilly's show.
• "Day in the Life of Joe Middle-Class Republican", John Gray.
• Guest: Former U.S. Border Patrol Officer Zack Taylor, National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers.
• Should we use the 5th anniversary of "Mission Accomplished" to investigate the Bush Administration war crimes?
• Guest: Christy Harvey, Center for American Progress, "News Under the Radar".

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• Guest: Pastor Thomas Robb, National Director, The Klu Klux Klan. What are they afraid of?
• Race.
• Guest: Marjorie Cohn, president of the National Lawyers Guild. Since the Bush Administration won't enforce the law, what can congress do?
• Guest: Nick Rosen, Off-grid. How hard is it to live off the grid?
• Guest: Larry Scott, founder and Editor of VA Watch Dog. APA convention, report.

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