Alternate Focus: A Visit To Palestine (1 of 3)

The sleepy town of Woods Harbor, Nova Scotia explodes when six "handline" fishermen seize a Federal building and barricade themselves inside to fight government regulations which are destroying the environment.

Hsu talks about the core messages from his book; A Carbon Tax is Transparent, a carbon tax more than any other policy recruits the power of the "little guy". Climate change is about small innovations. A carbon tax is easy and is a policy that could be ready with positive influences within a couple of months.

Journalist, Jesse Eisenger, from ProPublica talks on Democracy Now! about an article he wrote that appeared in NPR News about Freddie Mac betting on struggling homeowners. They would lose money if a lot of people were able to get refinances. At the same time, they made it harder for people to get those refinances because they are key gatekeepers of who gets loans, even though they are suppose to exist to help people get loans. He comments on Newt Gingrich, although he does not appear in the article, saying that he has run into political trouble because his involvement with Freddie Mac appears like lobbying.

Occupy the Courts - A Conversation with Lawrence Lessing

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Occupy the Courts delivers 28th Amendment Delivered to Steps

Brower, author of Seven-Year Investigation into Warren Jeffs and the Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Saints, talks about being in modern Utah and his encounter with polygamists. He goes into detail about his investigation into polygamy, the culture of Mormon polygamists, how money is involved, and how depravity is rewarded.

Adbusters has called on 50,000 people from around the planet to occupy a summit by the G8 and NATO. Adbusters put a list of demands in their call to occupy the summit. Some occupy protesters didn't take well to the news that Adbusters spoke for the movement. They also blame Adbusters for taking credit for the occupation, even though it has already been in the works. Some occupiers hold to a commitment for the movement to remain leaderless and fear that Adbusters infringed on that.

Craig Aaron, the president and CEO of freepress.net appeared on The Big Picture to talk about how much money broadcasters are getting to air political ads. The reliable estimate is that $3 billion will be spent on political ads and be paid to broadcasters on this election. Aaron talks about how these ads are misleading, and how the broadcasters don't spend the money to make the election make sense to the American people, but instead get rich by perpetuating a misinformed electorate.

Juan Gonzalez from Democracy Now! discusses his article that appeared in the New York Daily News on Friday about the Treasury Deptartment approving large paydays for executives who work for the firms that received tarp bailout money. Despite the $500K limit that was suppose to be in place by the Treasury Dept., executives at as many as fort-nine of these firms demanded and received salaries from $5 million and up. Gonzalez quoted the CEO of Allied Financial, who said that one of his executives would have been made cash poor by taking a salary cut from $1 million to $500K, and not be able to pay his monthly bills.

US Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt) joins Thom Hartmann for their weekly town hall meeting.

Ellen Brown (President of the Public Banking Institute) is introduced after a short talk about the occupy movement and reform. Ellen talks about a public option for banking in detail, talks about past models of banking. After she is done speaking, Bob Hasegawa (State Representative) starts speaking about banking, and how public should create their own institution so they can benefit instead of Bank of America.

Dr. Bezruchka (Nostalgia for the Future: Rethinking today’s society so Americans have healthier lives”) has practiced as an Emergency Room physician for the past 30 years and is recognized as a National figure on the state of health here in the United States. His talk involves the topic of Steve Jobs' death, and goes into the idea of "vital signs"- compares the vital signs of a nation, to the vital signs of people. Bezruchka also talks about being poor in the US, you are less likely to have a long life, and how inequalities are at record highs. We are in the midst of a political revolution, due to these unequal structures of society.

This documentary explores the history and changing racial attitudes of Neshoba County, Mississippi four decades after the murders of three civil rights activists. The film captures the complex and controversial trial of a former KKK member, Edgar Ray Killen.

Meet The Farmer covers the 2nd Virginia Food Security Summit.