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What do you do with the land that's been destroyed by the fossil fuel industry? Well, turn it in to a solar farm of course! The Maywood Solar Farm in Indiana is 43 acres, and it's made up of 36,000 solar panels. And, it sits on the site of a former coal tar refinery plant, which was designated as a Superfund site by the EPA. Back in the 1980s, environmental regulatory officials found that the groundwater beneath that plant was contaminated with dangerous chemicals, and ruled that the property could no longer be used.
 
However, thanks to the EPA's new Superfund Redevelopment Project, that land is now one of 85 renewable energy projects that together produce 507 megawatts of clean, renewable power. And, toxic sites in Georgia, North Carolina, and Massachusetts could soon be doing the same. It's nearly impossible to undo the damage that chemical plants and fossil fuel development does to our environment, but this is a great way to make use of the land that they've destroyed. We should be expanding this program all over the country and breathing new life into devastated land by building solar and wind plants in every area that these industries have destroyed.
 
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Need to Know: Sweatshop Capitalism...who are the fattest cats in America?
- Les Leopold, the Labor Institute / "How to Make a Million Dollars an Hour: Why Hedge Funds Get Away with Siphoning Off America's Wealth  Twitter
 
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Hour One: It's Wednesday, and it's "Brunch With Bernie"... the honorable Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) joins Thom with all the news from our nation's capitol and as always he'll be spending the hour taking your calls and answering your questions too...
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Article: "The Week in Review Friday, April 25, 2014" by Sen. Bernie Sanders.
Article: "On the Road" by Sen. Bernie Sanders.
Article: "Republicans Block Minimum Wage Increase" by Sen. Bernie Sanders.
Article: "Sanders Statement on Senate Vote on Minimum Wage" by Sen. Bernie Sanders.
Article: "Senate Panel Examines Alternatives to Pain Drugs" by United States Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

 

Quote: "Ideally, you'd have every plant you own on a barge to move with currencies and changes in the economy." -- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO of General Electric.
Article: "Supreme Court Ends Individual Aggregate Campaign Contribution Limits" by Shane Farnan. (McCutcheon v. FEC)

Hour Two: Anything goes!
Article: "Kalamazoo River oil spill" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Francine Shapiro" by Wikipedia.

 

PLUS, the Picketty Phenomenon
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Book: Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty.
Video: We Can't Make It Here Anymore by James Mcmurtry.
Case: "Buckley v. Valeo", 1976.

 

 

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Article: "TRNS News Notes - 4/30/14" by Victoria Jones.
Article: "TRNS News Notes - 5/1/14" by Victoria Jones.

Hour Three: America's 'cold war' against Russia
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Article: "Cold War Against Russia-Without Debate" by Katrina vanden Heuvel and Stephen F. Cohen.
Quote: "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win". attributed to Gandhi.
Article: "NYT Retracts Russian-Photo Scoop" by Robert Parry.

 

Update on South Sudan...The Honorable Tong Deng Aner, South Sudan Minister of Health, and Dr. Mayer Machut Ahiek, University of Juba, South Sudan join Thom in the studio

 

Article: "2nd Amendment". A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
Article: "Arms" by Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language 1755.
Article: "Sherman Antitrust Act", 1890.

 


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