The Death of the Internet

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Published on Feb 24, 2014

Thom Hartmann says the end of net neutrality will kill the internet as we know it.

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Mr. President, Please Put a Cost on Carbon

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Published on Feb 24, 2014

Thom Hartmann says its time for President Obama to use the executive pen to regulate and reduce carbon emissions.

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Can the EPA Regulate Greenhouse Gas?

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Published on Feb 24, 2014

Thom Hartmann talks with Shane Farnan, Supreme Court Reporter for Talk Radio News Service about oral arguments before the high court about whether the EPA can regulate greenhouse gas emissions through a permit process.

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The Shadow Lobbying Complex: How Corporations Are Hiding Vast Influence, Peddling Efforts

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Published on Feb 21, 2014

http://www.democracynow.org – A new exposé in The Nation magazine reveals that much of the lobbying money spent on shaping policy in Washington is going unreported. For the third straight year, the official amount spent by lobbyists has declined, and the number of registered lobbyists is the lowest its been in more than a decade. But these numbers are misleading, says reporter Lee Fang, author of the “The Shadow Lobbying Complex: On paper, influence peddling has declined. In reality, it has gone underground.”

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Full Show 2/24/14: The Final Death Blow to Net Neutrality

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Published on Feb 24, 2014

Thom discusses how the Comcast/Time Warner merger was the final death blow to net neutrality with Free Press’ Craig Aaron, the EPA Supreme Court case with Talk Radio News Service’s Shane Farnan and animal abuse with Mercy for Animals’ Vandhana Bala. In tonight’s “Daily Take” Thom details how we may be approaching the next extinction event.

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Tyrone Hayes on Being Targeted By Herbicide Firm Syngenta

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Published on Feb 21, 2014

Tyrone Hayes of the University of California, Berkeley, discovered a widely used herbicide may have harmful effects on the endocrine system. But when he tried to publish the results, the chemical’s manufacturer launched a campaign to discredit his work. Hayes was first hired in 1997 by a company, which later became agribusiness giant Syngenta, to study their product, atrazine, a pesticide that is applied to more than half the corn crops in the United States, and widely used on golf courses and Christmas tree farms. When Hayes found results Syngenta did not expect — that atrazine causes sexual abnormalities in frogs, and could cause the same problems for humans — it refused to allow him to publish his findings. A new article in The New Yorker magazine uses court documents from a class action lawsuit against Syngenta to show how it sought to smear Hayes’ reputation and prevent the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from banning the profitable chemical, which is already banned by the European Union.

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Radiation Disinformation at Fukushima | Interview with Mimi German

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Published on Jan 10, 2014

Abby Martin speaks to Mimi German of Radcast.org about the potential scope of Fukushima’s nuclear effect on the US Pacific coast and the disinformation campaign coming out of Japan regarding the levels of radiation.

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What We Know About the TPP and Don’t Like – Lori Wallach

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Published on Feb 20, 2014

Bill Press talks with Lori Wallach about some of the potentially harmful details of the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

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FCC Action Will Not Protect Free Speech Online

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Published on Feb 24, 2014

Thom Hartmann discusses an FCC announcement regarding net neutrality with Craig Aaron, President and CEO-Free Press Website: www.freepress.net/

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New Mexico admits nuclear plant leaking radiation

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Published on Feb 24, 2014

Federal officials confirmed a local nuclear plant in southern New Mexico is leaking waste and releasing radiation into the surrounding area. The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in Carlsbad was leaking for days before state officials were notified. While health officials insist there is no risk to the public, it could take weeks before crews can reach the leak to figure out how it happened. The plant is the first underground nuclear repository in the US. In the meantime, Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster is back in the news: The country is planning to lift part of the nearly three-year-old evacuation order around the damaged nuclear plant, even as a new radioactive leak was discovered there. RT’s Meghan Lopez discusses all things nuclear with Paul Gunter, director of Beyond Nuclear’s Reactor Oversight Project.

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