TMI with Aldous TylerOn today’s TMI, I’m letting all my guests have the holiday weekend off, and will be reviewing news and subjects in a freeform manner. Tune in, but even more, CALL in at 608-265-9786 (608-265-WSUM) and ask anything you like, make a statement and have a conversation with me on any political or social topic you want. I’m up for it if you are!
That’s TMI for this Memorial Day Saturday, live at noon on WSUM FM (91.7 in Madison, http://wsum.org/ anywhere!
David Barron, one of the chief architects behind the convolutions needed to make drone assassinations seem remotely legal, is being given his just desserts for his murderous actions: he’s being promoted! Disputing the “justice” of it all, Medea Benjamin of CODEPINK wrote a great overview of the history behind this act of twisted inhumanity, and I’m happy to welcome her to TMI at Noon to discuss it and more!
Then, if you think that the requirement that lobbyists be registered is helping with transparency in government, then you haven’t talked to Ed Gillespie recently. He, like many lobbyists, dropped off the rolls of registered influence peddlers… but that didn’t stop him. As reported by Lee Fang, he’s running to be a Senator even though he’s never stopped manipulating Congress for the benefit of the corporate elite. Why should we think he’ll stop if elected?
All that and much more on TMI for Saturday May 17, 2014 live at noon Central on WSUM FM, 91.7 in Madison of http://wsum.org/ everywhere! Tune in for your Cure for the Common Media!
DeSmogBlog’s Research Fellow Steve Horn has been busy as ever reporting on how TransCanada’s Keystone XL is flowing – in the southern end, how Enbridge has more tar sands bitumen pipelines ready to go, and how “Bomb Trains” – that is, trains that carry oil in easily combustible tanker cars – are rolling through many cities near you, including Milwaukee! Think they aren’t that big a deal? Ask the residents of Lynchburg, Virginia, where one caught fire and spilled its flaming contents into the James River!
All that, your calls and much more on TMI! Call in at 608-265-9786 (608-265-WSUM) to join the conversation at Noon Central on WSUM FM (91.7 in Madison or http://wsum.org/ everywhere!
This Thursday, May 1st, has been celebrated since the 1890’s as “International Workers’ Day”, but this year, President Obama came out to celebrate “Loyalty Day” on the first of May, a holiday designation meant to replace a recognition of all that workers do for society with a celebration of “the reaffirmation of loyalty to the United States and for the recognition of the heritage of American freedom”. To discuss this and many other labor-related issues, I invited the man I know who is most loyal to the labor movement, Doug Cunningham of Workers Independent News, to join us and discuss where we are, where we are going, and how celebrating workers is possibly the best way to recognize the heritage of American freedom.
Then, you may agree with Socialism and not even be aware of it. How? Well, for one thing, Socialism isn’t one big monolithic concept – it has many flavors and variations, some of which disagree strongly with the rest. To help illustrate the different types of Socialism, we’ll be joined by the admins of “Taking Back Socialism”, a lively Facebook page devoted to promoting education and discussion about Socialist causes.
All that and much more today on TMI, airing live at noon Central on WSUM FM (91.7 in Madison, http://wsum.org/ everywhere) – make sure to tune in for the Cure for the Common Media.
On TMI, we like to feature the success of good people, and not just the dire things we need to be mindful of. Raven Albrecht is one of the good ones. She started Ravenworks as a web-based business, opening her first brick-and-mortar store in early 2008. Most retail businesses that took that step that year are now gone, but Raven found her special mix of holding community events and continually finding ways to interact with her clientele in store and out allowed Ravenworks to not only survive but thrive! We’ll talk with her about that, and preview the upcoming Stonefield Wild West Steampunk event.
Then: thanks to the nature of GMO foods, there can be no solid basis to say if the practice is good or bad at its core. However, we can safely say that the way giant agricultural corporations like Monsanto are using GMO tech is good for virtually nothing but their profits. We’ll look at how GMO foods are not only being designed for commercial value first and nutritional value second, but how they are allowing these corporations to own the world’s food supply.
Finally, imagine that you’ve worked a steady job for decades, and that instead of getting paid more during that time, you deferred some of that into a pension fund so you would have money when you retire – money you earned. Lately, more and more pressure has been put by big corporations on public employers (cities, states, etc) to raid those pension funds to pay for completely unrelated expenses. While you might look to the judiciary to be unbiased in these cases, big players like Exxon/Mobil, Google and the Koch Brothers are inviting judges, all-expenses-paid, to a conference on how to “reform” these pensions to the benefit of their interests, not the interests of the workers. Weirdly, the secretive way these pensions are written may allow just that.
All that and more on today’s TMI, airing live at noon Central on WSUM FM (91.7 in Madison or http://wsum.org/ anywhere) – tune in for your Cure for the Common Media.
There’s been a lot of talk in the news lately of the CIA, and TMI will join in… about a completely different CIA. The Cowboy Indian Alliance, a group of ranchers, farmers and tribal communities from along the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline route, are planning to ride into Washington DC and set up camp near the White House to tell President Obama to reject the pipeline. Joining us to talk about it is Maria Langholz, who is one of a multitude of activists who, on April 26th, will join this new “CIA” for a final message that the Keystone XL pipeline and the tar sands must be rejected to protect this generation, and those yet to come. She’s putting together a bus to take interested activists to DC on a route from Minneapolis through Madison and Chicago – go to http://www.eventbrite.com/e/travel-to-reject-and-protect-with-mn350-tickets-11277909531 for all details on how to get on that bus.
All that and more today at noon Central on TMI with Aldous Tyler, airing live on WSUM 91.7FM in Madison, and streaming live on http://wsum.org/ – don’t miss it!
In this week’s Supreme Court ruling on McCutcheon vs FEC, we saw what many are denouncing as “the end of democracy in America” and “Citizens United on steroids” – it certainly looks bad, but what exactly happened, and what are the most likely repercussions? I’m brushed up on the issue, but I cannot match the years of campaign finance expertise of Mike McCabe, of the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign. He’ll join us to give us a clear view of it all.
Then, as if that wasn’t enough electoral bad news, I’m going to go over a very strange fact: you do not have a Constitutional right to vote in America. If you think that sounds insane, you’re not alone: Congressman Mark Pocan has proposed a Constitutional amendment to explicitly define that right to vote for all. But just in case you think he and I are completely off-base, we’ll review exactly why we make this outrageous claim.
All that and more on TMI for Saturday April 5th, 2014, broadcasting live at noon Central on WSUM 91.7FM and audio-streamed live via http://wsum.org/ ! Don’t miss a thing!
TMI today is on fire! Joining us live in studio are two friends of the program we’re proud to welcome back: John Fugelsang, frequent commentator on life’s absurdities and former host of Current TV’s Viewpoint, and Steve Horn, investigative journalist and research fellow at DeSmogBlog.
John always has great insights into how humanity seems to stumble into itself and even better suggestions on how to keep that from happening, and today we will talk about media and politics: how too often it seems the media seeks to divide and scare us of each other, rather than inform us about what’s happening! John always gives great conversation, so don’t miss it!
Steve will delve into the waters of Lake Michigan near Chicago to show us the latest on what exactly BP spilled there, and how much of it was released, and what kind of danger this may put the Windy City’s drinking supply in. Then, he’ll bring to light the energy export congressional hearings that happened this week, at which discussion of climate change was conspicuously absent.
All that and more today on TMI with Aldous Tyler at noon Central on WSUM 91.7FM in Madison, or streaming live audio via http://wsum.org!
Mike Crute, with his co-host Dom Salvia, run The Devil’s Advocates Radio program on The Mic 92.1 FM here in Madison. It is designed to offer a place for differing points of view, and thanks to that managed to get an exclusive interview with GOP State Senator Dale Schultz, wherein Senator Schultz vehemently decried his own party’s plan to suppress the vote.
But that’s not the only way Dom and Crute have been fighting Scott Walker’s campaign of silencing his opposition: by spontaneously joining in the Solidarity Sing Along once, Mike Crute (as well as Dom Salvia) were arrested. His defense attorney won his case on First Amendment grounds, clearing the way for many other arrested singers… but that story is not over yet. Listen in!
We’ll have that and much more on TMI today at noon Central on WSUM 91.7FM in Madison, or streaming live via http://wsum.org/ and http://tmitmitmi.com/listen – tune in!
Dayna Long of NOW joins us via the phone today to talk about defending the rights of pregnant women, something that NOW is joining up with the ISO to discuss here in Madison on Wed, March 26th.
Then, we’ll delve into how the FBI and other American government entities have been supporting TransCanada in getting the Keystone XL Pipeline. If you think this is a matter of “Canada versus the USA” you’ve got another think coming: most of those benefiting are corporations who know no national allegiance, and have corrupted our governments to use our collective tax dollars for their ends, not ours.
All that and much more on today’s TMI, airing live at noon on WSUM 91.7FM in Madison, WI and live streaming everywhere via https://tmitmitmi.com/listen – tune in and don’t miss it!
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