Month: December 2013

Today on TMI: Utah’s had its Constitutional Amendment against same-sex marriage overturned by a federal judge just yesterday, but if you live in Wisconsin, you know we’ve not been so lucky. More, your state likely has not just a law, but an Amendment against same-sex marriage, making the avenues to getting rid of it very narrow. We’ll discuss.

Then: The longer it goes, the more we see that even what seemed to be the most outlandish of Edward Snowden’s claims are being borne out independently, now that we know what to look for. It seems that only the most truly bent of the paranoids were wrong, and we’ll go through and see where we have left to go in fulfilling the warnings we were given.

Also, in a speech trumpeting the Bill of Rights this week, President Obama missed mentioning one of them. Conspicuous by its absence, the Fourth Amendment seems to be the one that his administration seems to have had the most issues with. We’ll discuss all that and more on TMI for Saturday, Winter Solstice, 12/21/2013, live at noon on 91.7 WSUM FM and live-streaming on TMI’s listen page at http://tmitmitmi.com/listen/ . Tune in!

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TMI Hiatus Homework!

TMI with Aldous Tyler is on hiatus this week, which means you have homework! But don’t despair, you’ll have an extra hour of MisterG’s greenarrowradio to groove with while doing it on 91.7 WSUM FM in Madison or http://wsum.org/. On to the homework!

First, something fun: http://aldoustyler.com/ has a page devoted to saving some poor holiday inflatables (“Flates”) from their cruel and inhumane imprisonment. It’s a cause that’s full of hot air, yet one you’ll want to check out.

Then, there was an illuminating piece in The Atlantic about the NSA spying programs this week that included this clip:
“Once again, the government statement was sufficiently misleading to cause the newspaper to inadvertently misrepresent the truth in its paraphrase: The government didn’t state that location data wasn’t being held, just that it wasn’t being held under Section 215. DOJ was able to sidestep the request in court in part because the Florida lawyer cited the wrong program when asking for the records. And once again, Americans reading about the story and as yet unaware of programs beyond Section 215 thought, maybe our location date is secure after all.” You can read the entire work at http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/12/how-americans-were-deceived-about-cell-phone-location-data/282239/ and I highly encourage you to do so.

Finally, there’s a new analysis of what happened to Easter Island that is in some twisted ways a story of “success”, but it is one that is even more chilling than the story of failure we’ve been told about it for so long. To wit: “On Easter Island, people learned to live with less and forgot what it was like to have more. Maybe that will happen to us. There’s a lesson here. It’s not a happy one. As MacKinnon puts it: ‘If you’re waiting for an ecological crisis to persuade human beings to change their troubled relationship with nature — you could be waiting a long, long time.'” Read the entire piece, and see why we may have to sound the ecological alarm even louder if we want to gain any ground at all: http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2013/12/09/249728994/what-happened-on-easter-island-a-new-even-scarier-scenario

Check out those, and I’ll be back with more TMI next Saturday!

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TMI 12/7/2013: Activism’s Darker Side with Steve Horn and Carl Gibson, The War on non-Christmases and More!

As Steve Horn and Carl Gibson remind us, Serbia’s Srdja Popovic is known by many as a leading architect of regime changes in Eastern Europe and elsewhere since the late-1990s, and as one of the co-founders of Otpor!, the U.S.-funded Serbian activist group which overthrew Slobodan Milošević in 2000. However, this internationally-known activist has ties that will startle many who consider him an ally. Steve and Carl join us live in-studio to discuss. Click this player to listen now:

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Then, “Black Friday”, it is said, is the day when retail establishments finally turn a profit for the year… except that this is simply a falsehood, one of the many lies told us to make us feel sympathy for low-wage employers, and make us think they can’t possibly afford to do business with a higher minimum wage. No, we’ll explore this and show how opening on Thanksgiving did no good and notable harm to the workers, the shoppers and the retailers themselves, and how it represents the war being waged on anything NOT Christmas.

Finally, the threat of the Keystone XL pipeline is looming larger than ever, despite the repeated promises that the re-election of President Obama would allow him the political breathing room needed to nix the “fuse to the biggest carbon bomb on the planet.” All that and more on TMI for Saturday, December 7th, 2013, live at Noon Central in Madison on 91.7 WSUM FM or anywhere at the TMI Listen page at http://tmitmitmi.com/listen – Tune in to get your Cure for the Common Media!