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TMI 3/01/2014: The XL Factor, TPP Fiction vs. Fact, SCOTUS Interruptus and More!

The public comment period on the approval of the Keystone XL tar sands bitumen pipeline ends in under a week – March 7th! We’ll give a deep look at the current state of affairs surrounding this showdown between those who care about the earth and those for whom the almighty dollar is king.

Then: the trouble with the secret Trans-Pacific Partnership is that it is SECRET, meaning that those who want to make it happen have so few ways to be fact-checked. However, thanks to leaked documents, we can see that some of the most soothing claims mad in favor of it are completely and utterly false.

Finally: It’s very rare to hear that the Supreme Court has been interrupted by someone sitting in the chamber, but that’s just what happened this week: we’ll discuss why. All that and more live at noon Central on TMI for Saturday, March 1st, 2014, broadcast in Madison on WSUM 91.7FM and streamed live via http://wsum.org/ and http://tmitmitmi.com/listen – tune in!

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TMI 9/7/2013: Not Allowing Syria to Dominate the Media (with Steve Horn)

Syria. Our potentially launching a missile campaign against Assad there has put a stranglehold on the media conversation this week, and one cannot argue that it doesn’t deserve the attention… but there are other things that also deserve the spotlight. Joining us live in-studio for the hour is friend-of-the-show Steve Horn of DeSmogBlog and MintPress News with critical updates on the Keystone XL Pipeline, the domestic fracking situation and how all of that ties back to the American/Russian geopolitical struggle that put and keep Snowden and Syria in the headlines. BONUS: Here’s the article we previewed on this episode – read it now! Listen to the whole episode, or in the original three segments, below:

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TMI 7/20/2013: Gen. Petraeus’ Fracking Connections, ERM and More!

Did you know that refining tar sands actually cleans the air? Glad you said “no”, because it doesn’t, but Environmental Resources Management, who conducted the Keystone XL environmental impact statement wants you to think so! And this is the contractor group the Obama Administration is replying on to say if the Keystone XL pipeline is safe? Steve Horn joined us to discuss his piece on that as well as on how General David Petraeus has a seminar coming to CUNY this fall that uses loads of industry-spun data on fracking. Then, Al Suarez joined us to discuss the Edward Snowden Venezuela connections. All that and much more happened. Check out the podcasts below and get The Cure for the Common Media!

Tar Sands’ Clean AIr & Gen. Petraeus’ Fracking with Steve Horn
Edward Snowden’s Venezuelan Connections with Al Suarez
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Steve Horn on TN Governor’s Corrupt Fracking Connection

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.

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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!

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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Steve Horn… at the movies? Gasland 2.

This Saturday’s guest on TMI, Steve Horn of DeSmogBlog.com has gone to the movies. Check out THIS review:

“Gasland 2” screened yesterday in Normal, IL and DeSmogBlog was there to gain a sneak peak of the documentary set for a July 8 HBO national premiere.

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

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.