Never since the choking hazard posed by a dry bowl of Alpha-Bits Cereal have seemingly-random mixes of letters been so dangerous to the well-being of Americans and others worldwide. We are joined by Alan Grayson, Democratic Representative of Florida’s Ninth Congressional District, to discuss how the NSA has been minding everyone’s Ps and Qs (and every other letter we type into texts and online) and how he is telling them to Mind Your Own Business. While our privacy is being violated, the government is insisting on secrecy surrounding the details surrounding the Trade Treachery of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) – but Rep. Grayson has seen it, and discusses its perils as much as he’s allowed to (without killing us). All that and more, without needing to buy a vowel – listen to the Cure for the Common Media, below!
Month: June 2013
We’ve fallen completely down the rabbit hole: Silent protests are being silenced, Keystone XL activists are being targeted as terrorists, and government snooping is being run by corporations.
First, 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 a trio of horribly anti-women bills silenced. You won’t believe what happened then! Click and listen:
Then, 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. Click and listen:
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 was on TMI 6/15/2013 at Noon Central on WSUM 91.7FM in Madison, and live via any of the streaming apps and sources on the TMI Listen page. Be sure always to tune into what’s really going on!
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…
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.
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:
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!