With the protests in honor of the life taken from George Floyd by Minneapolis Police spawning some destruction and violence, Donald Trump knew exactly who to blame for the damage: Antifa! Yours truly wanted to hear from the other side, but the problem is, Antifa isn’t an actual organization… but then I found him! The very man who would know, one “Andy” Antifa of the Facebook page “AntiFa” (https://www.facebook.com/WeAntiFascists/). Don’t miss our discussion of what antifa actually is.
It’s the final broadcast of TMI with Aldous Tyler from WSUM 91.7 FM in Madison. Joining me today will be Steve Horn by phone about the reopening of drilling in the Macondo Well, Carl Gibson in studio on the Draft Elizabeth Warren movement’s future and a signoff by myself featuring John Fugelsang by phone. It’s all live, one last time today at noon – tune in at WSUM or stream it live via wsum.org. TMI won’t completely disappear, but is moving to a podcast-only format on a manageable schedule, so keep an eye on http://tmitmitmi.com/ for new episodes as they are made, and be sure to catch this final broadcast of the Cure for the Common Media today!
Far from being some intrinsic condition to humanity, capitalism is just one narrow way to view how we interact, and the myopic focus on it has had some devastating consequences. We’ll discuss.
Then, it seems that public education has two vying interests: those who want to virtually dismantle it, and those who want that dismantling to go a little more slowly. We’ll look at what a real defense of public education should look like.
Also, Paul Krugman has analyzed the new federal budget proposal, and actually found something new… and distressing. All that and more on TMI for Saturday, March 21, 2015 airing live at noon Central on WSUM 91.7 FM in Madison and streaming at http://wsum.org/ – tune in for your Cure for the Common Media.
TMI has been streaming live for six years and broadcasting on WSUM 91.7 FM for nearly five years. It’s been my duty, honor and pleasure to host the program for that duration. Soon, TMI will go into long-term hiatus, with no immediate date planned for its return. So, please enjoy these (for now) final few episodes of TMI as we wrap up this broadcast season.
As always, these episodes will air live every Saturday at noon on WSUM 91.7FM in Madison and stream live via http://wsum.org/ – tune in for your final doses of the Cure for the Common Media!
For the past 30+ years, we’ve been told that economics are simply common sense, which had a deleterious effect on how much attention we paid to facts that might contradict the sensible-sounding slogans of “Wage hikes cause unemployment. Unions are job killers. Companies are job creators. Tax breaks for the few trickle down to the many as wages. Inequality works, or rather it makes people work harder.” However, we’ll discuss how, if we pay attention to the facts, we might just discover that reliance on “common sense” can be used to sell lies and bilk most of us out of our own ability to thrive.
Also, there’s a tribe out there that actually has brought Big Oil to a standstill on the lands they hold, and in Canada, the courts have said that you can debate climate change all you like, but you cannot make scientists who work hard and have no notable flaws to their methods or their research seem incompetent or deceitful. All that and more on TMI for Valentine’s Day, Saturday, February 14, 2015, airing live on WSUM 91.7FM in Madison or http://wsum.org/ the world over! Tune in for your Cure for the Common Media.
TransCanada’s Keystone XL Pipeline is still in the news: Congress debates it and the President threatens to veto it, all the while Enbridge has not only begun to expand its existing pipelines to carry the Tar Sands across our border at volumes equal to or greater than Keystone XL, but also has received new permitting from the Obama Administration for more! Steve Horn of DeSmogBlog.com joins us to discuss that and how the infamous oil-carrying rail cars that have detonated repeatedly have been allowed to continue rolling. All that and more for TMI Saturday January 31, 2015, airing live at noon Central on WSUM 91.7 FM or via live stream at http://wsum.org/ – tune in for your Cure for the Common Media!
Embridge has a Keystone XL clone; you’ve known that for over a year now, if you’ve been listening to TMI. Pipeline 61 is a leg of it, running right though Dane County, and Embridge wants to triple the load of tar sands bitumen pushed through it. For Dane County Supervisor Patrick Miles, it’s a bit too much of a risk, considering that Dane County has a pumping station for it, so at the next Dane County Supervisory Board meeting, they will be discussing what regulations should be imposed on that facility. Embridge is, of course, upset. Patrick Miles joins us today to discuss the situation.
All that and more on TMI for Saturday, January 24, 2015. Tune into WSUM 91.7FM in Madison or via http://wsum.org/ at noon Central for your Cure for the Common Media.
2014 saw major advances in building the power of a multitude of activist movements. Fracking as an issue has been featured as the topic of a full episode of The Simpsons, more and more communities are raising the minimum wage, and activists who have warned against the ever-increasing militarization of our police found millions of new allies. Looking ahead to this new year, we’ll see how these movements are discovering their interconnectedness, and can find ways to build power for the people by working together. All that and more on TMI for Saturday, January 03, 2015, broadcasting live at noon Central on WSUM 91.7FM in Madison or via wsum.org everywhere – tune in for your New Year’s dose of the Cure for the Common Media!
For those of us who do our best to remain alert to what’s really going on out there, one of the things we watch for every week is called the “Friday night news dump”, a common practice where corporations, agencies and other groups that have news to release that they want minimal coverage of use the time frame of late Friday to break the story. This assures that there will be far less coverage and chatter about whatever unfortunate news they were obligated to share. It’s one prime reason that I make sure TMI is on each Saturday at noon: to have a moment to sift through the Friday releases for information you need to know about.
There are a few times each year that are essentially Friday night news dumps on steroids. These are when you really need to keep a sharp eye out for information that they’d rather you don’t hear about. Christmas Eve is one of those times, and this year’s “Christmas Eve surprise” comes from our very own National Security Agency. The NSA was obligated to respond to a Freedom of Information Act request put in by the ACLU, but being the NSA, they didn’t want you to hear about it. We’ll cover what the release revealed, and compare that with what we’ve learned this year about what the NSA has been up to.
We’ll also discuss how raising the minimum wage, while important, is just one of many reforms needed in order to address the widening inequality gap between the top 1% and the rest of us; another reform, in fact, is one that President Obama *could* put into place at any time, with no input necessary from Congress whatsoever: it is an Executive action alone, and it would possibly boost the economy as much or more as raising the minimum wage to $10.10/hour would.
All that and more on TMI for Saturday December 27, 2014 – the last one of the year – airing live at noon Central on WSUM 91.7 FM in Madison, or simulcast via live stream on wsum.org. Tune in for your Cure for the Common Media!