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TMI 04/16/2021 – BEST OF TMI – Socialism and the Coming Great Crisis w/ John Beacham, Pandemic Reopening and COVID’s Return, France Outlaws Accent Discrimination

TODAY IS A BEST OF TMI EPISODE, ORIGINALLY BROADCAST FRIDAY, APRIL 09, 2021:

Then, we explore the various reopening plans being implemented by those who call the shots as they get impatient with the restrictions of the pandemic, and examine who will face the consequences of their short attention span. Finally, we go to France, where in an attempt to reduce racism and discrimination, they have banned judging other French-speakers by their accents. All this and more on this BEST OF TMI for Friday April 16, 2021 – listen in for YOUR Cure for the Common Media!

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TMI 04/09/2021 – Socialism and the Coming Great Crisis w/ John Beacham, Pandemic Reopening and COVID’s Return, France Outlaws Accent Discrimination

Then, we explore the various reopening plans being implemented by those who call the shots as they get impatient with the restrictions of the pandemic, and examine who will face the consequences of their short attention span. Finally, we go to France, where in an attempt to reduce racism and discrimination, they have banned judging other French-speakers by their accents. All this and more on TMI for Friday April 9, 2021 – listen in for YOUR Cure for the Common Media!

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TMI 03/26/2021 – Music Makers are Being Swept Downstream (full episode analysis)

Once upon a time in Melodia, one would dream of putting together a band, playing somewhere that would get you noticed by someone who would call up someone else to come see you play elsewhere, and suddenly you had a contract with a record label, a musical industry conglomerate who would promise you fame and fortune. Maybe something would come of the radio airplay you gained from it, or the tours you would go on, or your second or third album, but eventually you’d be known from London to Topeka, Tokyo to Sydney, or so the dream went. The labels were happy to sop up as much of that money as their deceptive contracts allowed them to, of course, and if you never got signed, you likely wound up working in an office somewhere while your guitar made friends with the spiders in the attic. Things often didn’t end up rosy.

Now, you don’t have to rely on the labels! You can make your music at home and stream it on Spotify, create a little YouTube video to go with it and get the ad revenue from the views – an exciting prospect to be sure. That is, until you find out how many thousands or even millions of times your music can be heard/seen without you seeing any notable income at all! We examine the history of the music industry, its transformation into the streaming era, and how many new musicians are feeling swept… downstream! All this and more on TMI for Friday March 26, 2021 – listen in for YOUR Cure for the Common Media!

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TMI 03/12/2021 – Trump’s Traps to Trip Biden, Corporate Anti-Climate Spending Exposed, Billionaires Capture the Wealth We Need

Donald Trump promised to “drain the swamp” but conversely filled Washington DC with people loyal not to doing their job the best they can or to a sense of service to the Constitution, but to him and him alone. Finding these people and replacing them has become a major chore for the Biden administration, and we’ll discuss how.

Then: recent investigations into the tax filings of corporations, many of whom TALK about wanting to be greener, show that they give plenty of money to foundations, PACs and politicians whose aims are completely the opposite. Finally, we go over how billionaires could all STILL remain billionaires while having enough money put back into society to fund everything we need: infrastructure renewal, universal health care, ALL of it. They just DON’T WANT TO. All this and more on TMI for Friday, March 12, 2021! Listen in for YOUR Cure for the Common Media!

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TMI 03/05/2021 – Trump Fractures the GOP, Neera Tanden Faces Consequences, Volvo and Others All-Electric in 2030, and the Defeat of the Flu

Donald Trump is out of office, no matter what Q Anon wants to claim, but his influence over the GOP remains strong… though not strong enough to have it entirely under his thumb. The tension is tearing the once-might GOP apart, and we discuss how.

Then, Neera Tanden, vocal opponent of the GOP and vicious enemy of the progressive movement in the USA is facing consequences for making very few friends outside of centrist President Joe Biden, her nominator. Next, we talk about how the auto industry is finally seeing the end of the line for the internal combustion engine, with companies like Volvo leading the… well, charge forward. Finally, thanks in no small part to how we’ve been social distancing and masking up to avoid COVID-19, it seems the 2020-2021 flu season was vanquished. All this and more on TMI for Friday, March 5, 2021! Listen in for YOUR Cure for the Common Media!

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TMI 02/26/2021 – The Damage of Limbaugh w/ Peter B. Collins, Pop Culture’s War on Peace

For decades, a fellow from Missouri named Rush Hudson Limbaugh III dragged media standards away from objective reporting of factual events, past the realm of opinion and into the depths of slander and service to the darkest impulses of humanity’s prejudices. But how did it all get that way? Joining us is equally-veteran in the radio industry Peter B. Collins, who will outline precisely how Rush came to prominence and even go over his own experience meeting Mr. Limbaugh early on in Rush’s career.

Then, we will discuss how the very idea of war is deeply and persistently ingrained into USA’s pop culture, and how this makes any push for peace far more difficult than it needs to be. All this and more on TMI for Friday, February 26, 2021! Listen in for YOUR Cure for the Common Media!

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TMI 02/19/2021 – Fossil Fuels’ Failure in the TX Freeze, Cities Underreport Carbon Footprints, NYC Surveillance, Diagnosing You Under Your Skin

When Texas suffered catastrophic freezing, cutting power to much of the state, right wing media (followed all-too-predictably by mainstream sources) blamed the wind turbines that had locked up in the cold as being the reason why people were suffering and dying. But wind turbines function in much harsher cold than Texas offered just fine, pointing to a problem in cheaping out on their maintenance, and deeper infrastructural issues in the fossil fuel pumps that failed in much greater abundance there.

Then, we discuss how many cities throughout the USA are, intentionally or not, notably underreporting the impact they are having on the environment, and what needs to happen to correct this. Also, we touch on the overwhelming surveillance apparatus that the most populous city in America has built – is it worth it? Finally, we tell you about new medical techniques that are being developed to use the layer just under your skin to diagnose you with potentially greater accuracy and with far less invasiveness than current practices. All this and more on TMI for Friday, February 19, 2021! Listen in for YOUR Cure for the Common Media!

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TMI 02/05/2021 – Go Big with Carl Gibson, Ho-hum COVID disaster, ICE has gone rogue

Friend of the program Carl Gibson of https://www.classwardaily.com/​ joins us to discuss how the Democratic Congress and Presidency have an enormous opportunity to make a real difference… or, history shows, be destroyed. Also, Carl tells us how his recent stock purchase is going.

Next, we compare the horrific daily death totals for COVID-19 aren’t making us bat an eye, even as they stack up against and tower over other individual disastrous days in the history of America. We discuss why.

Finally, we review how ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) seems to be operating against orders at virtually every turn since Joe Biden took office, and what effect that is having on innocent lives. All that and more on TMI for Friday, February 5, 2021 – listen in for YOUR Cure for the Common Media!

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TMI 01/29/2021 – Deb Haaland vs. Big Oil, Big Ag vs. Democratic Victory, Trump’s Pentagon Withheld the Guard, and Undercounting COVID

Native American tribes have been brutalized, subjugated, cheated and mistreated by the Federal Government of the United States since the very beginning. With the nomination of Rep. Deb Haaland (D – NM), an enrolled member of the Laguna Pueblo tribe, to the office of Secretary of the Interior things could be looking up for tribal peoples of USA, and looking dicey for their latest abuser, Big Oil. We discuss.

Then, we explore how it is that agricultural states like Wisconsin used to be reliably Democratic in their voting patterns, but have since found their rural areas turning solidly Republican – and what the Democratic Party has the unique opportunity to do RIGHT NOW to get them back into the fold.

Next, we examine new evidence that shows that the DC National Guard was withheld from protecting the Capitol Building on January 6th from the highest levels, DAYS in advance of the event! Finally, we look at the startling under-counting of COVID-19 deaths in America, and show where in America this phenomenon is at its worst. All that and more more on TMI for Friday, January 29, 2021 – listen in for YOUR Cure for the Common Media!

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TMI 01/15/2021 – The Press Must Remain Free, COVID Goes Ape, Gov. Snyder May Face Justice

While people quake in fear of Senator Hawley’s lost book deal and President Trump’s banishment from many social media platforms, they often cite the First Amendment’s guarantee to Freedom of Speech. Ironically, they forget the rest of the First Amendment’s guarantees, including the part that protects Twitter, Simon & Schuster, Facebook and even TMItmiTMI.com from having to publish ANYTHING they don’t want to be associated with. We’ll discuss.

Then, a pod of gorillas in San Diego have become the first great apes (aside, arguably, from humans) to have contacted COVID-19. We’ll look into what this means for Silverbacks and us humans.

Finally, former Governor Rick Snyder of Michigan may be one of many facing new charges stemming from the murderous mismanagement of Flint’s water in 2014-2015. The residents of Flint, Michigan may finally be seeing justice for the water crisis that put lead in their drinking water. All that and more on TMI for Friday, January 15, 2021! Listen in for YOUR Cure for the Common Media!