Julia Whitty spoke of the state of the oceans worldwide, and how attacking them on all sides: fishing, dead zones, fish farming, chemical contamination, the political will.

Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney had just read Thom's article "Rumsfeld and Cheney Revive Their 70's Terror Playbook" on the floor of the House and was called out of order; she was told she couldn't say that the Vice President lied. Thom told her about a related article called "Hyping Terror For Fun and Profit" and the BBC documentary called "The Power of Nightmares". They discussed Operation Able Danger and the trillions that the Pentagon has lost.

The story of how Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney came to be on the show today.

Dr. Pieter Tans of the Global Monitoring Division of NOAA told Thom about the spiking of carbon dioxide and methane levels in the atmosphere, global warming, and the possible consequences.

Congressman John Conyers was on the show to talk about his hearings into activities that could rise to the level of high crimes and misdemeanors, including the Downing Street memos and warrantless wiretaps. He recently issued a report called "The Constitution in Crisis".

Thom and Governor Howard Dean talked about corruption in Washington D.C., campaign money, public financing of elections, the Abramoff case, warrantless wiretaps, pharmaceuticals, investigations, impeachment, privatization of the vote, and why you should vote for a Democrat.

His Water Bill, funding for the Columbia River channel. Taking away the tax breaks for the oil companies. Habeas Corpus rights for the detainees at Guantanamo Bay. The Supreme Court, Alito.

Guantanamo Bay, Tony Blair and the Iraq war, election fraud, vote by mail, the dangers of privatization, his testimony before the Senate, and loss of civil liberties.

Thom's online class in NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming).

Week 11: Branding. Features without a larger context are irrelevant. Benefits statements without features lack credibility. Identity. Democrats need sense of tribe. LBJ, Martin Luther King, Franklin Roosevelt, Teddy Roosevelt, Thomas Jefferson understood branding.

Thom's online class in NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming).

Week 10: President Bush drops the word 'crisis' to characterize Social Security. Branding, logo, identity. What's in it for you or for me? Who am I? Features and benefits. Features without benefits lack relevance, benefits without features lack credibility. Democratic Party identity.

Thom's online class in NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming).

Week 9: We are all made up of multiple persons. Each part of us brings the resources along with it that it has the best access to. There are many parts that we all have in common. If you identify the part that you are speaking to and you identify the message that you're delivering and make them congruent then your message will have much more impact.

Thom's online class in NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming).

Week 8: Embedding ideas or information into people's unconscious. Conscious mind has filter, knows context - unconscious doesn't (e.g. "I, like you..."). Arc of competence (conscious & unconscious). Stories framed in second person ("I told him, 'you...'"). Embedding pictures. Future and the previous pacing (e.g. people wondering about cigars). Double negatives. 'Know' can be interpreted like 'no'. Strong active verbs.

Thom's online class in NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming).

Week 7: Framing. Anchoring. How we store information in the brain. Submodalities. Changing the meaning of events in the mind.

New Year's Eve program with the independent Congressman from Vermont.

Thom's online class in NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming).

Week 6: Comfort Zones. If you always do what you've always done, you will always get what you've always gotten. Expanding your comfort zone: 1: experience (pushing though) 2: coaching, 3: passion and vision. Creativity, brainstorming. What to do when what you are doing gets larger than you can handle.