CIVILIANISM PODCAST

Tea Parties across America occurred on April 15th, and I was there among the crazy people.  Republicans are deranged, racist and anti-government people these days.   Retired people getting Social Security and Medicare protested against taxes on April 15th in cities across the country. Did it make any sense? No. Apparently they think that the social programs they enjoy are funded by magical fairies who drop money on the Treasury department. All taxes are bad to these people, (even as taxes are going down for 95% of most Americans) because they have been brainwashed by the far-right, especially the extremists on FOX News and the fascists like Congresswoman Michele Bachmann.

I pull no punches with these people in this episode. We can’t afford to, because they are dangerous and they are violent. They simply hate Democrats/liberals/socialists. They didn’t even know what they were protesting. Are they misguided? To say the least.

The Tea Party itself was mostly, overall, anti-Obama and seemed to be a bunch of right-wing white supremacists.

I play audio from the Tea Party in my city, and my (mild) heckling of this “event”.

I also play audio from the fascist Rep. Michele Bachmann’s “climate forum” last week, where she was accompanied by her fascist friend Chris Horner of the Competitive Fascists Foundation. (CEI)

It’s so astounding to see these so-called 99% right-wing Christians advise against helping even the most poor and down and out people in this country, and also against doing anything about global warming — even denying it exists. There is no logic to these extremists anymore. We have to stop these uninformed blowhards before they destroy every good thing our government is trying to do, and worse. We need to fund the fight against climate change with a carbon emissions tax soon and they are against that too. They are against every good and progressive thing that the Obama administration needs to get done this year and next.

Apparently, right-wing extremists want civilization itself to fail!

Music by Santigold- “Pretty Green” and Ricki Lee Jones “Have you had enough”?  I have!

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These may be the dying gasps of capitalism — or not. The governments of the world, as shown at the G20, seem determined to preserve a very reckless brand of capitalism all the while infusing trillions of dollars of “stimulus” into banks and institutions, instead of people. When are the people going to get some stimulus?

Well, it might come in the way of green jobs — or not. We need climate change action, and we get super capitalism. We get a lot of promises and nice catchphrases and sound bytes from the “world leaders”, but whether any of this will pan out is anyone’s guess.

This episode talks about the G20, the climate conferences in Bonn, Energy, and news from the Republican Road to Ruin. Also, why T. Boone Pickens and the Republicans are lying to us.

Interested in the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009? Henry Waxman says it will create thousands of green jobs.

Info. on the Bonn climate conference from Greenpeace and from the UNFCCC website about the Bonn conference here.

The Republicans are really distorting reality what Cap and Trade will cost the average family (if such a thing exists anymore)

Final mix cut of Solutions from the podcast Radio Ecoshock. You will enjoy the good news, for a change.

Read the Republican Road to Ruin if you want a good laugh — or cry.

Music clips from the movie Revolutionary Road, (a very sad movie, like the state of the economy and climate right now.)

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