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Thom Hartmann: Reversing America’s Financial Crash (Seattle Town Hall, May 21, 2014)

Progressive talk radio host and prolific author Thom Hartmann outlines the structural roots of historic financial crashes and explains why the worst is yet to come.  Tying this to the decline of the middle class and record wealth disparity he makes the connection of why the current national movement for a constitutional amendment to overturn Supreme Court rulings that corporations are persons, entitling them to buy elections and run our government is a necessary step before real economic and political reform can happen.   Washington State is leading the nation with a ballot initiative campaign [I-1329] to direct the state congressional delegation to vote for such an amendment.  Signature gathering is ongoing now and your support is needed.  See: http://www.wamend.org/ Thom Hartmann is the author of 24 books, the latest of which is The Crash of 2016: The Plot to Destroy America–and What We Can Do to Stop It.   Watch Pirate Television in King County channel 29/77  Mondays 8-9pm, Thurs. 1-2pm, & Sun. 1-2am PST or streaming live on Seattle Community Media.  Pirate TV streams several times a week on Puget Sound Access.  Pirate TV also broadcasts on Free Speech TV: Details listed in FStv Schedule.  See also: FStvPirateTV Website,  Pirate TV Archive: www.PirateTVSeattle.com

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Medical Marijuana Forum- Ryan Day clip

The passage of I-502 which decriminalized possession and use of recreational marijuana could threaten access to medicine for Medical Marijuana patients in Washington State if the Legislature implements the state Liquor Control Board’s plan. The father of a 5 yo child who suffers from a rare and catastrophic form of epilepsy which has been found to be miraculously alleviated by the cannabinoid CBD gave this testimony about how proposed changes to Washington’s medical marijuana laws could threaten his son’s treatment and his family’s financial solvency. Recorded at Seattle Town Hall 12/21/13.

Pirate TV recorded all 3 hours of this important Medical Marijuana community form yesterday. This is just one compelling clip. All 3 hours will soon be available on the web. Stay tuned…

Pirate TV: Gary Greenberg with Philip Cushman: An Exposé of Psychiatry’s ‘Bible'

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Gary Greenberg with Philip Cushman: An Exposé of Psychiatry’s ‘Bible’

Also available: , Mon. 6/17 8-9 pm, Thurs. 1pm, Sat. 1am on Seattle Community Media.

The American Psychiatric Association’s “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders” (DSM) is the profession’s bible of diagnosis. Its fifth edition, set for May, radically broadens the understanding of what constitutes abnormal behavior—and already is generating controversy. Gary Greenberg, a practicing psychotherapist and author of The Book of Woe, offers an exposé of DSM-5, revealing what he calls the deeply flawed process by which mental disorders are invented and uninvented and arguing that this new edition will encourage increased diagnosis and increased prescriptions—including medications whose consequences aren’t well-understood. Dr. Greenberg is joined in conversation by Dr. Philip Cushman, a core faculty member in the Psy.D. program at Seattle’s Antioch University.Thanks to Seattle Town Hall and University Book Store.

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Chuck Thompson: Let the South Secede (video)

One can only imagine the humiliation it must be that a black man is in the White House for all those bigoted rubes who were the target of Nixon’s divide and rule “Southern strategy”.  This strategy not only played a big role in getting him elected but has been the central pillar of Republican rule in the South- a key reason for the stalemate in Congress that has forestalled social progress in the US for the last 50 years.    Now with Obama’s re-election, some Southern states are seriously talking secession (a recent Public Policy Poll found that more than 100,000 Americans in Texas and 50,000+ in Georgia have signed secession petitions). Journalist Chuck Thompson author of the new book Better Off Without ‘Em, poses the question: “Why not just let them go?”  He spent two years doing research, interviewing experts, and traveling the not-so-former Confederacy.

However rhetorical the question may be, and however hilarious this discussion may get, it does raise some serious issues because as he illuminates, the South really is essentially a different country.  So might we be better off if the South were to secede?  Let us explore the issue.

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Philip Warburg: Harvest the Wind

Winds sweeping through the Great Plains once robbed the Farm Belt of its future, stripping away overworked topsoil and creating the dreaded Dust Bowl of the 1930s. Today, those winds are bringing new hope to declining rural communities across the American heartland—and nowhere is wind’s promise more palpable than in Cloud County, Kansas, where soaring turbines are boosting farm incomes and creating jobs. Philip Warburg, author of Harvest the Wind, introduces the farmers, factory workers, biologists, and high-tech entrepreneurs behind this green economy-powered resurgence —all players in a transformative industry taking hold across America and around the globe. Denis Hayes, president and CEO of the Bullitt Foundation, former director of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and national coordinator of the first Earth Day, introduces Warburg. Thanks to Elliott Bay Books, The Bullitt Foundation and NW Energy Coalition and Seattle Town Hall Watch Pirate Television in King County channel 29/77  Mondays 8-9pm, Thurs. 1-2pm, & Sat. 1-2am PST or streaming live on Seattle Community Media.  Pirate TV streams several times a week on Puget Sound Access.  Pirate TV also broadcasts on Free Speech TV: Details listed in FStv Schedule.  See also: FStv PirateTV Website,  Pirate TV Archive: www.PirateTVSeattle.com

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Greg Palast – How Billionaires Steal Elections

In this video, Greg Palast talks about his book Billionaires and Ballot Bandits, where he teams with fiery editorial cartoonist Ted Rall to name and shame the billionaires buying up our democracy, and the disenfranchisement of millions through voter-ID laws, list purges, and other assaults to our civil rights.

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Tim Noah: The Great Divergence-Web (May 16, 2012)

For the past three decades, America has steadily become a nation of haves and have-nots, with the top 1% collecting some 21 percent of the nation’s income. Tim Noah, author of The Great Divergence (based on his award-winning series of articles in Slate), calls this potentially the country’s most important change during our lifetimes; he explains how it happened, the threats it poses, and how we can begin to reverse it. Thanks to Seattle Town Hall and Elliott Bay Books

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