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Tea Party Ruse? Big Picture 01/09/12
Thom Hartmann explains the ruse of the Tea Party movement which tricked many middle-class americans into thinking that it was the movement for the 99 percent. A clip is shown of Rick Santelli ranting on the trading floor of a CME group in Chicago about not wanting to pay taxes for people that can't pay for their mortgages. Tea Party Patriots thank Santelli for igniting the movement with this rant. Thom says, once tea-partier's realized that the movement was by and for millionaires and billionaires, and the populist rage was still out there, the real 99 percent movement began.
Email this page"Democracy Now!": Wed. Feb. 24 2010
In a historic vote, Vermont is poised to shut down its lone nuclear reactor. We speak to nuclear engineer and former industry executive Arnie Gundersen, who first sounded the bell on the Vermont Yankee. Anti-nuclear activists mobilize to oppose the Obama-funded construction of Georgia nuclear plants. We speak to Nuclear Watch South coordinator Glenn Carroll, who has been leading efforts against the construction of the new plants. An investigation exposes many undisclosed corporate ties of network political pundits. We speak to journalist Sebastian Jones, who carried out the investigation for the Nation magazine. "Democracy Now!" co-host and Daily News columnist Juan Gonzalez received the 2010 Justice in Action Award from the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund last week. We play an excerpt of his acceptance speech. "Democracy Now!" is a daily independent newshour.
GRITtv: The F Word: Media Monsters Threaten Net Freedom
Comcast, the nation's biggest cable and broadband Internet company, has plans to take over NBC Universal. The result would be a new kind of media monster that would not only produce some of America's most popular entertainment but also control viewers' access to it. Comcast would control the joint venture's day-to-day operations but Pentagon contractor GE would retain a 49 percent stake. The likely impact on consumer choices? Well you tell me: the Washington Post reports that all in all, the joint venture would control more than one out of every five television-viewing hours. With almost one in four cable subscribers in the U.S. a Comcast customer and NBC Universal owning not only NBC but also dozens of cable channels, including Telemundo, MSNBC, CNBC and Bravo as well as theme parks, TV stations such as Washington's WRC (Channel 4), and Universal movie studios, the NBC Comcast deal is a biggie. In the meantime, it's time to cherish ever more all that remains in the way of independent media. And yes, that's our self interest speaking. -- Laura Flanders
