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  • Will Peak Oil Threaten the Survival of Democracy?

    Submitted by louisehartmann on 3. September 2010 - 9:42

    Der Spiegel is reporting that a secret Germany military report that was leaked online claims peak oil has happened or will happen this year, and this could threaten the continued survival of democratic governments. The report from a German Military think-tank cautions that disappearing global oil supplies will endanger the world's economic foundations and possibly lead to mass-scale upheaval over the next 15 to 30 years.

  • Daily Topics - Friday September 3rd, 2010

    Submitted by shawnt56 on 3. September 2010 - 8:35

    Quote of the Day:  All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.  ~François Fénelon

    "Anything Goes on Townhall Friday!"

    Hour One: "Brunch With Bernie" -  Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) spends the hour with Thom discussing the issues and answering listener questions www.sanders.senate.gov

    Hour Two: "Taking Our Country Back" - Sitka, AK Mayor Scott McAdams will be here www.scottmcadams.org

  • Why is Koch Industries and the Chamber Getting Entitlements?

    Submitted by louisehartmann on 2. September 2010 - 9:55

    Yesterday it was in the news that Koch Industries, who spent millions of dollars opposing health care reform, applied for federal health care dollars to bolster its early retiree program. Today Healthwatch lists more than a dozen members of the board of directors of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce have also applied for these hated federal funds including Pfizer, PepsiCo, New York Life Insurance Company, Eastman Kodak, IBM, Rolls-Royce North America.

  • Daily Topics - Thursday September 2nd, 2010

    Submitted by shawnt56 on 2. September 2010 - 8:16

    Quote of the Day: "Let the workers organize. Let the toilers assemble. Let their crystallized voice proclaim their injustices and demand their privileges. Let all thoughtful citizens sustain them, for the future of Labor is the future of America."  -- John L. Lewis

  • Daily Topics - Wednesday September 1st, 2010

    Submitted by shawnt56 on 1. September 2010 - 7:56

    Quote of the Day:  "We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles."  -- Jimmy Carter

    Please welcome KPOJ hosts Carl Wolfson and Adam Klugman in for Thom today...

    Hour One: Reaction to the draw down in Iraq and the President's speech

    Hour Two: The well may be capped, but is life getting back to normal in the Gulf? The latest from Dr. Riki Ott www.rikiott.com

  • Is Newt Gingrich Giving Aid and Comfort to the Enemy?

    Submitted by louisehartmann on 31. August 2010 - 8:53

    For months, far right-wing conservatives have led a hateful campaign against the proposed Park 51 Islamic community center near Ground Zero in New York City. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is even claiming it will be a launching pad for “Sharia law” in America.

  • Daily Topics - Tuesday August 31st, 2010

    Submitted by shawnt56 on 31. August 2010 - 8:52

    Quote of the Day: “Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.”  Jane Austen

    Hour One: Hell no, WTO!!  Putin's talking tariffs, why won't Obama? 

  • Daily Topics - Monday August 30th, 2010

    Submitted by shawnt56 on 30. August 2010 - 8:59

    Quote of the Day: Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.  ~Abraham Joshua Heschel

    Hour One: What is Christianity...was MLK's version closer to the truth than Glenn Beck's? - Demos Scholar Rich Benjamin will be here www.richbenjamin.com; Plus, Martin Luther King and liberation theology...how did Glen Beck get it so wrong? - Joe Madison, host of Madison The Black Eagle weekdays on XM's The Power, channel 169

  • Multi-Millionaire Glenn Beck is the Anti-Christ

    Submitted by louisehartmann on 30. August 2010 - 8:47

    Yesterday, far right wing Faux News Performer & Multi-Millionaire Glenn Beck preached to a reported 87,000 supporters at his “Restoring Honor” rally and then later appeared on Faux News Sunday with Chris Wallace.  When Wallace noted that Multi-Millionaire Beck called President Obama’s faith “a perversion of the gospel of Jesus Christ” and Wallace wondered who made Multi-Millionaire Beck “the God Squad,” Multi-Millionaire Beck called the President “de

  • Daily Topics - Friday August 27th, 2010

    Submitted by shawnt56 on 27. August 2010 - 8:47

    Quote of the Day: Without free speech no search for truth is possible; without free speech, no discovery of truth is useful.  -- Charles Bradlaugh

    "ANYTHING GOES ON TOWNHALL FRIDAY"

    Glen Beck is Not Martin Luther King Jr - sign the Petition..

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