How Keystone XL pipeline speeds up climate change

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Published on Feb 4, 2014

Susan Casey-Lefkowitz, National Resources Defense Council (NRDC) joins Thom Hartmann. A new State Department report says that the Keystone XL pipeline would have little impact on global climate change. But can we really trust a report written by contractors affiliated with oil giant TransCanada – the company responsible for the pipeline?

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Keystone to America: Bend Over & Take It

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Published on Feb 7, 2014

Pundits on both the right and the left have started to take the oil industry’s side on approving the Keystone XL pipeline.

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80,000 March in NC…where was the media?

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Published on Feb 12, 2014

Lynn Stuart Parramore, Alternet, joins Thom. A new grassroots movement is emerging in North Carolina – but national news outlets don’t seem to care. More on that movement and what it says about the so-called “liberal media” in just a moment.

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Conversations with Great Minds – 19th-century fossil fuels & climate change

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Published on Feb 18, 2014

Joining Thom for tonight’s Conversations with Great Minds are Evan Weber – Co-Founder of USClimate Plan – and Angela Anderson – Director of the Climate and Energy Program with the Union of Concerned Scientists. While the East Coast is digging out from the latest massive Winter Storm – the West Coast is dealing with a devastating drought. How much more severe weather does America need before lawmakers in Washington get serious about fighting climate change?

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Comcast-Time Warner deal…an affront to public interest?

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Published on Feb 18, 2014

Chance Williams, Free Press & Todd O’Boyle, Common Cause joins Thom Hartmann. Comcast says its planned $45 billion takeover of Time Warner Cable is going to be great for consumers. But should we celebrate or fear the merger of the two biggest cable companies in the country?

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Politics Panel – Big Banks Gifted TPP Trade Officials?

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Published on Feb 19, 2014

Lori Sanders, R Street Institute & Nate Sweet, Progressive Commentator & Hughey Newsome, Project 21 / MoveOnUp.org all join Thom Hartmann.

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What is energy decentralization?

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Published on Feb 19, 2014

John Farrell, Institute for Local Self-Reliance, joins Thom Hartmann. Why decentralizing is the key to climate change.

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Climate Change…A more resilient world

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Published on Feb 19, 2014

Dr. Mark Z. Jacobson, Stanford University, joins Thom Hartmann.

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Geeky Science! If the food doesn’t get you – the packaging might…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSgR9B9CbbM
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Published on Feb 21, 2014

According to the report – there are over 4,000 chemicals used in food and food product packaging that we can potentially come in contact with.

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Comcast Screws Up: Tells Truth About Time Warner Merger. Absurdity Today Episode 50

Absurdity Today

Published on Feb 14, 2014

Comcast’s bid to acquire Time Warner Cable, if allowed to occur, would be the 10th largest corporate merger in American history. The company is seeking approval from the FCC and the Department of Justice, who are charged with making sure the giant corporations aren’t breaking any anti-trust laws. But they are already falling into the realm of anti-trust…as in “We the American people DO NOT TRUST this large corporation, whose main goal is to increase its own profit margin, to have our best interests in mind.”

The media is focused on answering the question of what may happen to a user’s service when they should be focused on what will happen to our rights and our democracy. The First Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits the government from making any law abridging the freedom of speech or infringing on the freedom of the press. If only our forefathers had included a dictum against market or business endeavors that have the secondary outcome of infringing on these areas. Instead, we are letting the loopholes of the ‘free-market’ decide just how much of our constitutional rights we get to maintain.

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Absurdity Today is the award winning, independent news parody series hosted by political satirist Julianna Forlano.

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