TMI 6/15/2013: Opposite States of America

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We’ve fallen completely down the rabbit hole: Keystone XL activists are being targeted as terrorists, silent protests are being silenced, and government snooping is being run by corporations.

First, we are joined by Steve Horn, investigative reporter for DeSmogBlog.com, who exposes not only the fracking involvement of Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam, but also how federal agencies and private corporations have teamed up to brand peaceful Keystone XL pipeline activists as terrorists.

Then, we’re joined by Wendi, one of the many Wisconsin citizens who sat in the gallery of the state legislature with tape over their mouths as a show of protest over having had their opposition to SB206 (the anti-choice bill you may have heard about) been silenced. You won’t believe what happened then:

That's right. Silence will not be tolerated!

That’s right. Silence will not be tolerated!

Finally – no matter what you think of Edward Snowden, the picture he’s illuminated is not one of Government-as-Big-Brother. It’s one of Government as the handmaiden to the corporations who are gathering our private data involuntarily and using it for their own profit.

All that and more on TMI today at Noon Central on WSUM 91.7FM in Madison, and live via any of the streaming apps and sources on the TMI Listen page. Tune into what’s really going on!

When an Activist Becomes a Terrorist

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Steve Horn joins us tomorrow, and just in time to discuss his latest:

Keystone XL Activists Labeled Possible Eco-Terrorists in Internal TransCanada Documents (via Desmogblog)

Documents recently obtained by Bold Nebraska show that TransCanada – owner of the hotly-contested Keystone XL (KXL) tar sands pipeline – has colluded with an FBI/DHS Fusion Center in Nebraska, labeling non-violent activists as possible candidates for “terrorism” charges and other serious criminal…

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Steve Horn on TN Governor’s Corrupt Fracking Connection

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Steve Horn will join us on Saturday from New York. His latest work, now up on CounterPunch:

8,600 acres of the Cumberland Forest owned by University of Tennessee-Knoxville will be leased off to the oil and gas industry this August in a new form of “frackademia” – and one of the top financial beneficiaries will be the family of Republican Gov. Bill Haslam, who sits on UT-Knoxville’s Board of Trustees.

The Haslam family is an oil and gas family through and through, standing to profit immensely from a fracking boom in Tennessee and nationwide.

In 2012, the Haslam family – owners of Pilot Flying J truck fueling stations, a corporation where Bill Haslem used to serve as president – purchased Western Petroleum and Maxum Petroleum. Both Western and Maxum are major suppliers of fuel and lubricants for fracking operations. Pilot Flying J is the nation’s No. 1 retailer of diesel fuel and is the 6th most profitable corporation in the U.S., earning over $29 billion in 2012.

Pilot Flying J also has 63 of its stations nationwide retrofitted with natural gas pumps for 18-wheelers owned by T. Boone Pickens‘ Clean Energy Fuels Corporation (CEF) as part of CEF’s “America’s Natural Gas Highway.” Some perspective: CEF currently has 67 U.S. fueling stations in total.

Pilot also owns Marathon Petroleum, which it purchased as a wholly-owned subsidiary in Sept. 2008. Marathon owns the Wellsville, Ohio Intermodal Facility, “a terminal capable of loading up to 50,000 [barrels of fracked oil per day via the Utica Shale] onto barges on the Ohio River,” according to the Youngstown Business Journal.

TMI 6/8/2013: How NOT to Say You’re Sorry

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I hope you have never done something so wrong that even apologizing seemed to be insulting to those you’d wronged, but that may be the very situation Australia is facing. Just two weeks ago, the Land Down Under observed this year’s “Sorry Day”; joining us live in studio, Bekah Wheeler will help explain what the day is about and why sorry may not be enough.

Plus, we’ll discuss the NSA situation that has taken up so much of the airwaves and try to clear away some of the confusion, as well as go over some concrete steps we here in America can take if we want to get some of that Icelandic Revolution mojo working for us.

That and much more today on TMI at Noon Central on WSUM 91.7FM in Madison or http://tmitmitmi.com/listen for all online and mobile streaming options!

How NOT to Say You’re Sorry with Bekah Wheeler:

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TMI 6/1/2013: Bull Market Bull and Other Plutocratic Tools

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The common media has a fever, making them deliriously proclaim, “The economy is turning around – look at the bull market! Look at home prices! Look at consumer confidence!” We’ll take a chilling look at what’s actually happening, and help get a healthy appreciation for what we are facing. That and much more today on TMI at Noon Central on WSUM 91.7FM in Madison or http://tmitmitmi.com/listen for all online and mobile streaming options!

TMI 5/25/2013: ALEC’s Fracking Bill Partner (with Steve Horn of DeSmogBlog), and Obama’s Defense Speech (with Peter B. Collins) – with podcasts!

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Steve Horn of DeSmogBlog.com joins us live in studio to discuss how the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC, the major corporate bill-writing clearinghouse) has an unexpected ally for its awful Fracking bill. Then, Peter B. Collins, host of the Peter B. Collins Show has analyzed President Obama’s speech on National Defense and comes on to give us his considered opinion on where we are going with drones, Guantanamo and more. Click below to listen to the podcasts!

Steve Horn on ALEC’s Fracking Bill:
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Peter B. Collins on Obama’s Security Speech:


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Obama Admin’s Interior Dept Clears Way for ALEC Fracking Bill

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From Steve Horn’s latest investigative piece at DeSmogBlog.com:

As part of its 171-page document of rules, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM), part of the U.S. Dept. of Interior (DOI), revealed it will adopt the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) model bill written by ExxonMobil for fracking chemical fluid disclosure on U.S. public lands.

ALEC is a 98-percent corporate-funded bill mill and “dating service” that brings predominantly Republican state legislators and corporate lobbyists together at meetings to craft and vote on “model bills” behind closed doors. Many of these bills end up snaking their way into statehouses and become law in what Bill Moyers referred to as “The United States of ALEC.”

Steve Horn will be joining us this Saturday on TMI. Keep up with him.

TMI 5/18/2013: March Against Monsanto and More!

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On Saturday May 25th at 2PM Eastern (11AM Pacific), the March Against Monsanto will happen! Whether you like it or not, chances are Monsanto contaminated the food you ate today with chemicals and unlabeled GMOs. Monsanto controls much of the world’s food supply at the expense of food democracy worldwide. Joining us today is Tami Canal, organizer of this international protest. Listen in and then get out there on the 25th!