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C'mon America...let's keep the lights on
It's time for America to leave the 19th century behind, and keep the lights on. Last night, the U.S. Capitol building and other Washington, D.C. landmarks went dark, as powerful wind gusts of up to 55 MPH knocked out power for thousands of people in the D.C. area. In fact, as of 10 PM last night, around 5,000 people were in the dark in the D.C. metropolitan area, for what was a very, very cold night.
While mass power outages in and around our nation's capital are unusual, they're becoming more frequent, and they're a sign of this nation's aging electrical infrastructure, which is stuck in the 19th century. We're still using the model of giant, centralized power stations that then distribute electricity over long distances to areas as large as states and blocks of states. This is bad for a number of reasons.
First, it makes us very vulnerable to the sort of cyberattack that we perpetrated on Iran when malware we developed with Israel took down their nuclear centrifuges. Second, it's incredibly inefficient.
-Thom
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Daily Take: C'mon America...let's keep the lights on!
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Wednesday's Daily Stack 
Hour One: It's Time to End All Drug Testing
Article: " 4th Amendment". " The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.".
Hour Two: It's Time to End All Drug Testing
Hour Three: It's Time to End All Drug Testing |
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Thursday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
Hour One: C'mon America...let's keep the lights on!
Hour Three: How to avoid the Obamacare fine- Igor Volsky, Think Progress
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Time to End ALL Drug Testing
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Caller: Drug Testing is Very Important
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