Isue 103 Contraception, Breitbart, Tea Party & Occupy and me

Posted by Jim Smith on February 17, 2012 No comments

(1/16/2012)
This week I take a look at the amendment to the much-needed Highway Bill that Senator Roy Blunt added to allow all employers to deny anything in their healthcare plan that they didn’t like.
Delaware’s Medical Marijuana bill can be shot down by the feds despite it being medically necessary for a lot of sick people.
How Andrew Breitbart got his ass handed to him by Keith Olbermann after Breitbart posted a story that said 17 rapes occurred at Occupy sites and the perpetrators were Occupiers themselves.  Olbermann show how every ONE of those charges were lies.
Also, Tea Party members, Militiamen and CPAC attendees AND Occupiers have a few beers down the street from the CPAC convention and they all find common purpose and agreement.
Plus, my guest appearance on Occupation Station, the Occupy Movement’s call-in talk show in Delaware.
And this week’s Good Guy is John and Laura Arnold, the 1%-ers who pledged to give away half their fortune.

The Delaware News Journal’s account of how the feds can overrule state law about medical marijuana
Keith Olbermann debunks Andrew Breitbart about rapes at Occupy sites.
The “Beer Summit” where Occupiers, Militiamen, Tea Party members and CPAC attendees have a beer and find they agree on a lot of things
The Laura and John Arnold Foundation
My guest appearance on the Occupation Station talk show

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Issue 102 GOP Attack Ads, Occupy and Moonbase Newt

Posted by Jim Smith on February 5, 2012 No comments

(2/5/2012)

This week I talk about the unintended consequences of all the GOP Primary attack ads and how they may hurt whoever the nominee is.  Also, I try to make some sense of Newt Gingrich’s outrageous promise to put 13,000 people on the Moon.
Plus, the government’s continuing efforts to destroy the Occupy Movement and a little about Occupy Delaware’s new talk show.

And, this week’s Good Guy is Annie Leonard, host of The Story of Stuff and other stories.

Dismantling Occupy DC – Gingrich’s Moonbase ideas – The Story of Stuff
The Story of Citizens United vs. the FEC – Story of Stuff Project

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Issue 101 Sopa, NDAA, Enemy Expatriation & loud free speech

Posted by Jim Smith on January 25, 2012 No comments

(1/25/2012)
This week (after an emergency equipment upgrade) I review a little more about NDAA and it’s companion bill, the Enemy Expatriation Act, the bill that would strip Americans of their citizenship and allow them to be held forever without trial under the NDAA.  Of course the government wouldn’t admit one bill helps the other one give them unprecedented power to remove people they don’t like without a trial.
And a little about SOPA and how The Gut Reaction Journal went dark 1/18 along with Reddit, Wikipedia and possibly tens of thousands of other Internet Websites to protest SOPA.
And we look at ACTA, an even more onerous bill that spans half the world and goes even further than SOPA and because it’s a treaty, trumps all conflicting US law.
We also look at “money as speech” and how it may not remove the free speech of everyone else, it just drowns out everyone else’s voice.
And this week’s look at the Occupy Movement goes closer to home.  There is a very thoughtful article on the Occupy Delaware website that puts Occupy’s goals in a slightly different light.  Also, Occupy Delaware has a new show on Blog Talk Radio and one of their guests was featured here on the Journal back in Issue 93.
And finally, this week’s Good Guy begins a new series on, of all people, the 1%.  It’s not what you might think.

A list of OTHER presidential candidates – Forbes Magazine on ACTA
Darryl Issa on SOPA – Enemy Expatriation Act - Article on Occupy DE site
Occupy DE talk show (Blog Talk Radio) – Our 1% Good Guy (1)
Our 1% Good Guy (2)

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Issue 100 Be afraid…be very afraid!

Posted by Jim Smith on January 10, 2012 2 comments

(1/10/2012)

This week I look at a few outrageous assaults on our freedom, or speech and our very citizenship.  A new bill will allow the government to strip the very citizenship from Americans, all in the name of “protecting” us from terrorism with the “enemy expatriation act.
The State of Montana might be facing a Supreme Court assault on a 100 year old law that stops corporations from shoveling money into political campaigns.
And a judge rules that the US Government can snoop into your Twitter account, as well as look at everyone you’ve ever contacted online.

Plus:  lousy cold…throat closing like a store next to WalMart, and technical problems forces abrupt end to show.

Wikileaks and Twitter - Montana and “Citizens United” 1 – Montana article2
Citizens United vs. FEC explained – Slate article on Montana
Enemy Expatriation Act – Comedy group-Temple Horses

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Issue 99 My year in review, the NDAA and SOPA

Posted by Jim Smith on January 2, 2012 No comments

(1/02/2012)

This week, as it is the first program of 2012, I do a little 2011 in review, but it isn’t the top news stories of the year but a short list of some of the predictions I made last year.  This isn’t slapping myself on the back, but it’s presented to show that I do put a lot of effort into these shows and to show you that it’s worth 15-20 minutes of your time every week to listen to The Gut Reaction Journal and to recommend the program to your friends.  We believe this show is important for what it tries to do and we want to get as many new listeners in 2012 as we can.  We’re non-profit and non-partisan and we want to show you that it’s worth following.
Also, I talk about the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) and how it gives the president the power to make people disappear.  This president said he didn’t like it, but he signed it anyway and his signing statement “promising” not to USE that power doesn’t impress us.  If he didn’t WANT that power, why would he sign it?
Plus, I talk about the Stop Online Piracy Act and how inherently dangerous it might be if signed into law.

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Obama signs NDAA into law – Rocky Anderson on corrupt government – SOPA
 Senate rejects challenge to FCC Net Neutrality rule – SOPA text

Thomas.gov - Maplight.org – Factcheck.org – Politifact.com - Snopes.com

 

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Issue 98 Iraq, Homeless Kids, Occupy and the NDAA

Posted by Jim Smith on December 23, 2011 No comments

(12/23/2011)
This week we start with a couple of Christmas shoutouts and a look at Iraq after we finally left.  Few of us were saying that Iraq would start to fall apart after we left, and now they are with apparent sectarian violence just less than two weeks after our departure.  I’m thinking they’re gonna need those thousands of soldiers to protect our brand new, biggest in the world embassy over there.
Also, I look at food waste in this country and how so many poor Americans could benefit if we just tightened up on all this spoilage.
And new numbers now show that there are 1.6 MILLION children in American who are homeless.  This national disgrace means that 1 in 45 American children don’t have a home to call their own and to grow up in.  We should be ashamed of ourselves.
Finally, we look at Occupy Wall Street and all the other Occupy groups across the country and I find myself in the recruitment business for Occupy.  We are ALL invested in what Occupy is protesting and it’s time we showed it.

This week’s Good Guy is Brother Ronald Giannone, who started the Ministry of Caring here in Wilmington, Delaware.

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Forbes Magazine article on NDAA — Mother Jones article on NDAA 
BBC article on Iraq violence — Wasted food — Brother Ronald Giannone

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Issue 97 Trust in government, SB1867 and the poor at Christmas

Posted by Jim Smith on December 12, 2011 No comments

(12/11/2011)
This week I look at the low poll numbers and lack of trust in the whole government, from the President, Congress and the government as a whole.  That raises the question, why do we keep voting for these people when we almost universally hate them.  A recent Gallup poll has Congressional approval at the lowest number since Gallup started polling in 1958!
So, why is Congress filled with career politicians?

And we look at the poor, the very poor and the soon to BE poor in America.

Gallup ratings:  Congress   Obama  NY Times poll distrust government
EconomicCollapseBlog article on poverty in America
Charity Navigator: charities that assist the poor

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Issue 96 Insider Trading, Debates and Military Detention

Posted by Jim Smith on December 6, 2011 No comments

(12/6/2011)

This one has just a few of the many things I could talk about this week.  I start with insider trading.  What’s illegal for everyone else is OK for Congress.  100,000 jobs in November and what it really means, a bill in Congress that would allow the military to arrest and detain indefinitely American citizens (and apologies for the angry rant), how the Occupy Movement is the same as corporations, and a very low class way to make a buck off the President of the United States.

The National Defense Act – the National Defense Act pt2 – Unemployment #s
Alzheimer’s Foundation of America

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