Brick TeeVee salutes Walter Cronkite

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All bets are off as the country embraces Walter Cronkite's passing. But no doubt they'll try. The much more important British Open pushes out This Snufagopolis, so we tune to Face the Bob with CHARLIE "Where's my General" RANGEL and Brick Target MICHAEL STEELE. Meet the David gets Head Obstructionist MITCH McCONNELL and KATHLEEN "force everybody to get swine flu vaccinations" SEBELIUS who sez "I want to be clear: This summit is not about raising alarms or stoking fears. It is about being prepared." Vaccinations against swine flu are likely and probably will begin in mid-October, assuming soon-to-start studies go well. But she says first in line for shots likely will be school-age children, young adults with conditions such as asthma, pregnant women and health workers. Okay then! Shots for everybody! As Gonzo Journalism tells us "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro". Thusly This Fall: Mandatory Swine Flu Vaccines? @ the citizen.com: Health and Human Services Secretary (and Bilderberg member) Kathleen Sebelius told the Associated Press on June 16 that she is urging school superintendents around the country to spend the summer preparing for a massive swine flu vaccine this fall and added that schools are being put on notice that they might be turned into factory assembly line shot clinics. “If you think about vaccinating kids, schools are the logical place,” Sebelius said. On May 6, the Obama administration announced “an unprecedented fall vaccination campaign that could entail giving Americans three flu shots — one to combat annual seasonal influenza and two targeted at the new swine flu virus spreading across the globe,” the Washington Post reported. That's nice! Be sure to have plenty of bricks available for racist Jefferson Beauregard "crack cocaine thang" Sessions the Third taking on MITCH MCCONNELL on State of the John. Beyond that, it's progressive teevee and audio featuring SAM SEDER on Ring of Fire Radio plus author NICOLETTE NIMAN who tells us the true story of what happens to our food before it reaches our tables. Lastly, 60 Minutes pays tribute to Walter Cronkite. The Brick TeeVee crew remembers watching Cronkite inform us of JFK's assassination, the Viet Nam war, Apollo 11's lunar landing and so much more. Cronkite told it "the way it is" for nearly two decades. Cronkite's Journalism is mostly a faded memory or never existed for so much of our populace since news reporting became a "business" when Roon Arlidge took over ABC News. Our Corporate Media controls nearly 90% of U.S. media and doesn't do investigative reporting anymore; rather they are stenographers for their corporate clientelle advertisers who want us to beleive BP, Shell and Exxon are really behind alternative energy or Boeing "keeps democracy safe" or McDonald's and Wendy's and Kraft provide us with healthy meals or there's such a thing as "clean coal". No, Walter's time as a leader of an independent Fourth Estate is long gone (and he'd be the first to tell ya so!). With the passing of Walter Cronkie, let us embrace the Alternate Press we have now with our money and our hearts and minds, in the midst of newspapers all over the country going bankrupt. Let us begin anew an aggressive constitutionally-mandated FREE PRESS that acts like it's supposed to: openly questiioning and investigating our government and the corporate leaches that use and abuse OUR tax dollars. Cronkite would ask no less.

Good-bye Walter Cronkite
"The Most Trusted Man in America"
b. November 4, 1916 d. July 17, 2009

"An informed citizenry is the only true repository of the public will... The People cannot be safe without information. When the press is free, and every man is able to read, all is safe." -Thomas Jefferson

Cronkite in "War Made Easy" trailer
From The Archives: Cronkite, Live Via Satellite on NPR - Cronkite remembering the first live satellite broadcast to Europe via Telstar, 47 years ago July 23.

BRICK TEEVEE ALERTS!

»»» "Journalism and the Crisis of Democracy" WCPN 90.3 Cleveland Stop the presses! Breaking News! Journalism is dying! The terms seismic shifts and tectonic plates moving are overused but they certainly apply to journalism today. The venerable fourth estate is an endangered species. Newspapers, like the Rocky Mountain News in Denver, which was around for 150 years, have closed. Many others are threatened. Foreign reporting, never a strong suit, is getting worse. Bureaus are being cut back or eliminated. The demise of journalism, particularly investigative journalism, would have major implications for the functioning of our increasingly parlous democracy. If politicians and corporations, bankers and financiers know that there is no one looking at and reporting on what they are doing then corruption, which already exists, will increase exponentially. The masters will go unchallenged. Unless a new economic model emerges, print journalism as we’ve known it, will cease to exist. Robert McChesney is co-founder of the Free Press, a non-profit organization working to increase public participation in media policy debates. He is professor of communications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Author of numerous books including “Rich Media, Poor Democracy” and “The Problem of the Media,” his latest is “The Political Economy of Media.” Alternative Radio: Journalism and the Crisis of Democracy @ WCPN. Buy podcast or CD at Alternative Radio HERE.
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»»» Howard Dean on Democracy NOW! WATCH Howard Dean on His Prescription for Real Healthcare Reform
»»» Howard Dean on GRITtv WATCH Howard Dean on Healthcare, Dissecting ‘Bruno’, and Got Docs? Presents ‘The Fire This Time’
»»» Buchanan vs. Maddow WATCH Rachel Maddow SLAMS Pat Buchanan Over Sotomayor Bias
»»» PGA on ABC British Open Final Round LIVE from Turnberry Resort's Ailsa Course in South Ayrshire, Scotland - coverage begins at 9 am et
»»» MLB on TBS Detroit Tigers @ NY Yankees - 1 pm et
»»» Sunday Night Baseball on ESPN NY Mets @ Atlanta Braves - 8 pm et

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You done good! THIS JUST IN via email from Dennis Kucinich: "With your support, your phone calls, your emails, we won a major legislative victory today for a state single payer health care option in the House of Representatives in Washington, DC. The House Education and Labor Committee approved the Kucinich Amendment by a vote of 27-19, with 14 Democrats and 13 Republicans voting yes.
~snip~ "Under the Kucinich Amendment a state's application for a waiver from ERISA (Employee Retirement Income Security Act -Ed.) is granted automatically if the state has signed into law a single payer plan. With the amendment, for the first time, the state single payer health care option is shielded from an ERISA-based legal attack. Now that the underlying bill has been passed, as amended, by the full committee, we must make sure that Congress knows that we want the provision kept in the bill at final passage!
"The state single payer option was one of five major amendments which I obtained support to get included in HR3200. One amendment brings into standard coverage for the first time complementary and alternative medicine, (integrative medicine). Another amendment drives down the cost of prescription drugs by ending pharmaceutical industry's sharp practices manipulating physician prescribing habits. An amendment stops the insurance industry from increasing premiums at the time when people are not permitted to change health plans; and finally an amendment imposing a requirement on insurance companies that they disclose the cost of advertising, marketing and executive compensation expenses (which generally divert money from patient care). Please make sure you post this message on your social networking site, ask all your friends to get involved and encourage everyone you know to sign up at www.Kucinich.us so we can build full momentum behind this movement for real health care. Let's do this! "

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• This Week (ABC)
  • NO SHOW - pre-empted by British Open Final Round coverage

• Face The Nation (CBS)
  • Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah (left)
  • Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y.
  • Michael Steele, RNC Chairman

• 60 Minutes (CBS)
  • CBS pays Tribute to Walter Cronkite
  

• Meet the Press (NBC)
  • KATHLEEN SEBELIUS Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services
  • SEN. MITCH McCONNELL (R-KY) Senate Republican Leader
  • ROUNDTABLE: PAUL GIGOT of The Wall Street Journal; JOHN HARWOOD of CNBC & The New York Times; MICHELE NORRIS of NPR's "All Things Considered"; and RICHARD WOLFFE, author of "Renegade: The Making of a President".
  • ****New MSNBC re-air time: Meet the Press will re-air on MSNBC at 2 p.m. ET Sunday afternoons, in place of our 5 p.m. re-air. We will continue to re-air at 2 a.m. ET and 5 a.m. ET (Monday morning) as well.****

• State of the Union With John King (CNN)
  State of the Union with John King offers a blend of newsmaker interviews, political analysis, national and world affairs and cultural segments, plus an hour of Reliable Sources media analysis, hosted by Howard Kurtz, airing every Sunday from 9 a.m. through 1 p.m. et
  • Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vermont, and
  • Ranking Member Jeff "crack cocaine thang" Sessions, R-Alabama
  • White House Budget Director Peter Orszag
  • Reverend Jesse Jackson
  • Hour 2 - Howard Kurtz & "Reliable Sources", now a part of "State of the Union".
  • more! (Hey we gotta fill up four hours!)

• BREAKROOM LIVE
  Marc Maron and Sam Seder LIVE STREAM Weekdays at 3 pm et!
  
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• Ring of Fire Radio
  Find us at http://ringoffireradio.com and http://goleft.tv/
  • This week on Ring of Fire, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse will be here to tell us about the urgent need for healthcare reform in the US, and what he’s doing to make that reform a reality.
  • We’ll also be talking with author and Middle East expert Reza Aslan about the recent presidential elections in Iran, and he’ll tell us why he thinks the stolen election is the beginning of a military coup in the country.
  • We’ve also got author Nicolette Niman who will tell us the true story of what happens to our food before it reaches our tables.
  • And Air America’s own Sam Seder will stop by to run through some of the biggest news stories of the past week that you might not have heard about.
  • Join our blog at http://www.ringoffireradio.com/
  Ring of Fire Radio hosted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Mike Papantonio: Saturdays at 3 o’clock Eastern, rebroadcasts Sunday nights at 8 pm Eastern featuring The PAP Attack! "We’ll bring you the stories that the mainstream media didn’t feel like reporting this week."

• On the Edge with Max Keiser Podcasts and more @ MaxKeiser.com!
  WHO IS MAX KEISER? Max Keiser is a financial expert, Prediction Markets analyst, inventor and filmmaker. He is the creator of the Hollywood Stock Exchange (HSX) the first Prediction Market. Max Keiser co-hosts “The Truth About Markets” on ResonanceFM 104.4 in London. He also produces and presents documentary films covering markets and finance for Al Jazeera’s “People & Power” series. Max Keiser started his career on Wall Street in 1983. He is the creator of KarmaBanque a site that enables activists to challenge corporate power.
  • Hank “Sacks of Gold” Paulson admits to threatening Ken Lewis. Stacy Summary: A little artwork from @Rasta! Very funny. And I have given Hank Paulson his very own gangsta name. I wasn’t happy with “pretty face” as I believe Marketwatch called him. Anyone able to do a mockup of Ken Lewis finding a horse’s head in his bed? READ: Hank ‘Sacks of Gold” Paulson admits to threatening Ken Lewis @ politico
  • Stacy Summary: Max and Stacy for Resonance 104.4 FM in London. A compilation of some of the best Max material and interviews. Thanks for a great week and helping Max’s France 24 appearance go viral! It’s on the top of the list for News & Politics - even beating Michael Jackson’s head on fire! Download show HERE (mp3)

• ANTIWAR RADIO with Scott Horton & Charles Goyette LIVE (9-11am Pacific, 12pm - 2pm Eastern) Plenty of archives too!
  Listen at Antiwar Radio
  • Scott Horton is on vacation. This interview is from the Antiwar Radio archives and was originally broadcast on July 23, 2008. Scott Horton interviews Pat Buchanan (mp3). Pat Buchanan, political analyst, columnist and author of "Churchill, Hitler and the Unnecessary War: How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World", discusses the British politicians’ colossal blunders that led them into World War I and II and the collapse of their empire, the consequences of American intervention in WWI and imposition of the Versailles Treaty, Hitler’s motive to regain the lands lost in the east and willingness to forsake former German provinces in the west out of his desire to avoid war with England and France, what really happened at Munich, the folly of the British war guarantee to Poland during their dispute with Hitler over Danzig and the real lessons of the second World War.

• fauxnews
  • Peter Orszag, Director, White House Office of Management and Budget
  • Sen. Judd Gregg, (R) New Hampshire / Ranking Member, Budget Cmte.
  • Buzz Aldrin, Apollo 11 Astronaut

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As the Battle for Health Care "Reform" heats up, match-ups, face-offs, show-downs and a hoedown greet us this Sunday morning. This Snufagpololis has a match-up with DICK DURBIN and JON KYL, while Face the Bob gets the PAT LEAHY vs. JEFF SESSIONS face-off. Meet the David features a show-down between JOHN MCCAIN and CHUCK SHUMER while Fake Snooze has a not-so-much show-down between Blue Dog DIANE FEINSTEIN and JOHN CORNYN. Tune into State of the King where John tries to lead the hoedown with dance partners Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius, Dem Senators Debbie Stabenow & Kent Conrad and GOPher Senators Judd Gregg & Lamar Alexander. Make sure you count how many times the new GOP Talking Point Keyword 'Individual Mandate' gets used! (Read that link! -Ed.) Don't miss the Brick TeeVee alerts with an interview with John Pilger and a health care costs debate on GritTV PLUS the rebroadcast of Ring of Fire where Marc Maron and Sam Seder sit in for Mike and Bobby. Matt Taibbi's The Great American Bubble Machine @ Rolling Stone about Goldman Sachs has created quite a stir. See Max Keiser and Sam's interview with Matt below. Then read Taibbi’s Scream: Stop the political system that lets Goldman Sachs and others run roughshod over society at new deal 2.0. Plus here's an Exclusive Interview: Rolling Stone Journalist Matt Taibbi at Wall St. Cheat Sheet. The Brick TeeVee crew is relaxing as the summer heats up. They've already bought all the fixins for the MLB All-Star Game, Home Run Derby and the Legends Softball game (our favorite!). Enjoy!

BRICK TEEVEE ALERTS!

»On the Death of McNamara on Democracy NOW! Former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara has died at the age of 93. McNamara was one of the key architects of the Vietnam war, which killed at least three million Vietnamese, around one million Cambodians and Laotians, and 58,000 American soldiers. We take a look at McNamara’s legacy with two pre-eminent historians: Howard Zinn and Marilyn Young. We also speak with Jonathan Schell, who covered Vietnam as a reporter in 1967 and met with McNamara in a secret Pentagon meeting. WATCH Vietnam War Architect Robert McNamara Dies at 93: A Look at His Legacy With Howard Zinn, Marilyn Young & Jonathan Schell
»Honduras' Manuel Zelaya on Democracy NOW! Talks between the ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya and the leaders of last week’s military coup begin today in Costa Rica. Shortly before leaving Washington DC for Costa Rica, Zelaya sat down with us for a rare U.S. television interview. He discusses how military coup forces forced him out, the upcoming talks in Costa Rica, his domestic policies in Honduras, the role of the United States and more.WATCH In Rare U.S. Broadcast, Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya Discusses Coup, Costa Rica Talks, U.S. Role and More
»John Pilger FULL INTERVIEW on Democracy NOW! Award-winning investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker, John Pilger, joins us for a wide-ranging conversation on on Honduras, Iran, Gaza, the media, health care, and Obama’s wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Pilger has has written close to a dozen books and made over 50 documentaries on a range of subjects including struggles around the world for a more just and peaceful society and against Western military and economic intervention. WATCH John Pilger on Honduras, Iran, Gaza, the Corporate Media, Obama’s Wars and Resisting the American Empire
»Health Care Reform on GRITtv The cost of healthcare in this country is unsustainable. There's no way around it. Some projections estimate that healthcare costs will equal 20 percent of Gross Domestic Product in the next decade. What are the economics of healthcare reform? Is a public option the answer? And is congress willing to make the necessary changes to overhaul the system? Dean Baker of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, Reed Abelson who covers healthcare for the NYT, and Teresa Ghilarducci, director of the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy at the New School on the real cost of healthcare reform. WATCH The Real Cost of Healthcare Reform
»Marcy Winograd on GRITtv School?s out, but state programs, many that impact teenagers, have been slashed throughout the country from NY to California. 80 percent of state parks in California could be closed and an estimated one million children will be without healthcare if the governor doesn?t sign a budget. At the same time the number of homeless families is rising. It is looking like a long, hot summer. How will America?s youth spend their time? Christian DiPalermo, Executive Director of New Yorkers for Parks, Marcy Winograd, a high school teacher in South Los Angeles and a co-founder of Progressive Democrats of Los Angeles, and Community activist and attorney Kafahni Nkrumah on the impact of the financial crisis on social programs and parks in America?s cities. WATCH GRITtv: Summertime Blues: How Are We Being Affected By Service Cuts?
»INDYCAR on ABC The Honda Indy from Toronto, Canada. Coverage begins at 1 p.m. et
»MLB on TBS LA Dodgers @ Milwaukee Brewers - 2 pm et
»Sunday Night Baseball on ESPN St. Louis Cardinals @ Chicago Cubs - 8 pm et
»MLB All-Star Game Festivities! It's The Mid-Summer Classic from Busch Stadium in St Louis! Check out the Home Run Derby on Monday on ESPN at 8 pm followed by the Legends Soft-Ball Game. The 2009 All-Star game is Tuesday night at 8 pm et on FOX and ESPN Radio.

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• This Week (ABC)
  • Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill.
  • Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz.
  • Roundtable: George Will, Donna Brazile, Cokie Roberts, Sam Donaldson and the Washington Post's Bob Woodward.

• Face The Nation (CBS)
  • Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt. (left)
  • Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala.

• 60 Minutes (CBS) Summer Re-broadcasts
  • KILL BIN LADEN - The officer who led the army’s Delta Force mission to kill Osama bin Laden after 9/11 reveals what really happened in Tora Bora, Afghanistan, when the al-Qaeda leader narrowly escaped. Scott Pelley reports. Shawn Efran is the producer.
  • EYEWITNESS - Lesley Stahl reports on flaws in eyewitness testimony that are at the heart of the DNA exonerations of falsely convicted people like Ronald Cotton, who has forgiven his accuser, Jennifer Thompson. Shari Finkelstein is the producer. THIS IS A DOUBLE-LENGTH SEGMENT.

• Meet the Press (NBC)
  • SEN. JOHN McCAIN (R-AZ)
  • SEN. CHUCK SCHUMER (D-NY)
  • ROUNDTABLE: Republican Strategist and former adviser to Pres. George W. Bush, KAREN HUGHES; Democratic Strategist, BOB SHRUM; NBC News' Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent, ANDREA MITCHELL; and Politico's Chief Political Columnist, ROGER SIMON.
  • ****New MSNBC re-air time: Starting this week, Meet the Press will re-air on MSNBC at 2 p.m. ET Sunday afternoons, in place of our 5 p.m. re-air. We will continue to re-air at 2 a.m. ET and 5 a.m. ET (Monday morning) as well.****

• State of the Union With John King (CNN)
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  • Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius
  • Debbie Stabenow, D-Michigan
  • Judd Gregg, R-Hew Hampshire
  • Lamar Alexander, R-Tennessee
  • Kent Conrad, D-North Dakota
  • Hour 2 - Howard Kurtz & "Reliable Sources", now a part of "State of the Union".
  • more! (Hey we gotta fill up four hours!)

• BREAKROOM LIVE
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• Ring of Fire Radio
  Find us at http://ringoffireradio.com and http://goleft.tv/
  • This week on Ring of Fire, Sam Seder and Marc Maron from Air America’s Break Room Live will be taking over the studio while Bobby and Mike are out of town.
  • Author and health journalist Maggie Mahar about the ongoing battle over healthcare reform, and how the big money interests of the insurance industry keep trumping the healthcare needs of US citizens.
  • We’ll talk with author Ryan Grim about the failures of the so-called war on drugs which he details in his new book “This Is Your Country on Drugs: The Secret History of Getting High in America.”
  • We’ve also got congressman Earl Blumenauer with us today to talk about the recently passed Clean Energy and Security Act, and we’ll find out if this piece of legislation does enough to protect our environment.
  • And we’ll be talking with Phil Angelides, Chairman of the Apollo Alliance, who’ll tell us what exactly a green economy would consist of, and what we can do to help make it a reality.
  • Join our blog at http://www.ringoffireradio.com/
  Ring of Fire Radio hosted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Mike Papantonio: Saturdays at 3 o’clock Eastern, rebroadcasts Sunday nights at 8 pm Eastern featuring The PAP Attack! "We’ll bring you the stories that the mainstream media didn’t feel like reporting this week."

• On the Edge with Max Keiser Podcasts and more @ MaxKeiser.com!
  WHO IS MAX KEISER? Max Keiser is a financial expert, Prediction Markets analyst, inventor and filmmaker. He is the creator of the Hollywood Stock Exchange (HSX) the first Prediction Market. Max Keiser co-hosts “The Truth About Markets” on ResonanceFM 104.4 in London. He also produces and presents documentary films covering markets and finance for Al Jazeera’s “People & Power” series. Max Keiser started his career on Wall Street in 1983. He is the creator of KarmaBanque a site that enables activists to challenge corporate power.
  • Goldman Rules: Fed issues threat to destabilize markets if Congress gets oversight. Stacy Summary: Huge tip of the hat to Mike2liverpool for this!!! Seems the Fed has learned a valuable lesson from Paulson . . . your thoughts!? READ: Fed warns oversight will destabilise markets and threaten future generations @ Financial Times.
  • WATCH [Video] Bloomberg on Goldman’s market manipulation code

• ANTIWAR RADIO with Scott Horton & Charles Goyette LIVE (9-11am Pacific, 12pm - 2pm Eastern) Plenty of archives too!
  Listen at Antiwar Radio
  • From June 29th, 2009 Scott Horton Interviews Gareth Porter (mp3) Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for Inter Press Service, discusses his 5-part series (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) examining the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing, the near certainty al-Qaeda and not Iran was responsible for the bombing, the existence of an Iran-backed Saudi Arabia Hezbollah, former FBI Director Louis Freeh’s overly cozy relationship with Saudi Prince Bandar and Bill Clinton’s disastrous foreign policy that helped instigate 9-11. Gareth Porter is an independent historian and journalist. His articles appear on the Huffington Post, Inter Press Service News Agency and on Antiwar.com.

• fauxnews
  • Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.
  • Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas
  • House Minority Whip Rep. Eric Cantor, R-Va.

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Independence Day Weekend with Brick TeeVee!

Your Guest List for Sunday's Talking Head News Shows beamed across America by Corporate Media plus some good progressive radio. If you have other Sunday Talkie shows' guest lists we don't have please share below. DEBUNK HERE! Throw Bricks!
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For this Independence Day weekend the big interview will be VICE PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN on This Snufagopolis, followed by a sour-faced CHUCK GRASSLEY, who double dips on Face the Bob. It wouldn't be an Independence Day without some military brass, so Admiral MIKE MULLEN gets the call on Face the Bob and Faux News and General COLIN POWELL (ret.) flag-waves on State of the King. Throw bricks at JOHN "Crybaby" BOEHNER, also on Faux News, who most recently tried to read the entire "cap-n-trade" bill on the floor of the house, calling it a "Pile of Shit" (video at HuffPo to prove it - Where's the outrage???). Be sure to check our alerts and donate to GRITtv with Laura Flanders before Midnight tonight! See SAM SEDER on Laura's Rountable! Jessie Ventura and Bernie Sanders are featured on a "best of" Ring of Fire Radio, Max Keiser talks with PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS (see The U.S. Regime-Change Recipe for Iran at counterpunch) and AntiWarRadio has an interview with MICHAEL SCHEUER you must listen to closely. We hope your holiday weekend has been fun and safe so far. Please check out Mountaintop Independence Day. As Laura Flanders sez, Celebrate Independent Media this Independence Day!!!

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BRICK TEEVEE ALERTS!

»Jeremy Scahill on Democracy NOW! In Iraq, a deadly car bomb in the northern city of Kirkuk has killed up to forty people and injured another 100. Tuesday’s bombing came hours after US troops withdrew from major Iraqi towns and cities, marring celebrations on a day that is now officially declared as “National Sovereignty Day,” a public holiday. We go to Iraq to speak with Sahar Issa, an Iraqi reporter working with the Baghdad Bureau of McClatchy Newspapers. We also speak with investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill about his article, “Iraq’s ‘National Sovereignty Day’ is US-Style Hallmark Hype.” WATCH How Can We Have Sovereignty When We Don’t Have Electricity or Water to Bathe? Iraqi Reporter on US Troop Pullback
»Honduras Military Coup leaders are SOA Grads on Democracy NOW! Romeo Vasquez, a general who led the military coup in Honduras against President Manuel Zelaya, received training at the US School of the Americas. The SOA has trained more than 60,000 soldiers, many of whom have returned home and committed human rights abuses, torture, extrajudicial execution and massacres. According to School of the Americas Watch, Vasquez attended the SOA in 1976 and 1984. The head of the Air Force, Gen. Luis Javier Prince Suazo, also studied there in 1996. We speak with Father Roy Bourgeois, founder of the School of the Americas Watch. WATCH Generals Who Led Honduras Military Coup Trained at the School of the Americas
»John Pilger on Democracy NOW! We play an excerpt of an extended interview with Australian investigative journalist, John Pilger. Speaking about the US healthcare system, Pilger says, “What is it about US legislators that they appear to be so in bed with such powerful interests, such as the insurance companies, that they can’t represent their own people’s needs, their own people’s basic human rights.” WATCH John Pilger Calls UK National Health Service a Treasure, Blasts US Lawmakers for Being “in Bed with Powerful Interests” and Neglecting “Their Own People’s Basic Human Rights”
»GRITtv Media Round Table In world events this week: popular unrest in Iran grew, the Honduran President was the victim of a military coup and US troops withdrew from Iraqi cities. On the news this week: obituary-porn following Michael Jackson's death and the Sanford affair gabfest. Did media coverage hit a new low point this week? We'll talk about that and the arrival of Senator Al Franken. Beneath the spin and beyond the hype, we welcome to our GRITtv Media Round Table: Bob Moser, Editor of the Texas Observer and author of Blue Dixie: Awakening the South's Democratic Majority, Jill Nelson, Author, Let's Get It On: A Novel and finally, Sam Seder, Host of Breakroom Live. And more! WATCH Obituary Porn: New Media Low? “Sex is Not Static, It’s Fluid,” F Word: Senators Reflect, and Animal Rights Activities=Terrorists?
»WIMBLEDON on NBC Andy Roddick will face off against Roger Federer in the Men's Finals at Centre Court. Coverage begins at 9 am
»MLB on TBS 2009 All-Star Game Selection Show! - 1 pm et
»Sunday Night Baseball on ESPN Tampa Bay @ Texas - 8 pm et

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IRAQ: 4,321 Military Dead as of July 3, 2009
AFGHANISTAN: 719 Military Dead as of July 3, 2009
2,258 days since "Mission Accomplished"
The Obameter: Tracking Obama's Campaign Promises

• This Week (ABC)
  • Vice President Joe Biden
  • Republican Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa.
  • Roundtable: George Will, Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s Cynthia Tucker, the Washington Times' Tony Blankley, Vanity Fair's Todd Purdum, and former Bush-Cheney strategist and ABC News contributor Matthew Dowd

• Face The Nation (CBS)
  • Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs Of Staff
  • Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa
  • Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y.

• 60 Minutes (CBS) Summer Re-broadcasts
  • SAVING FLIGHT 1549 - Hero pilot Capt. Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger and his flight crew together reveal for the first time the sights, sounds and physical sensations they experienced as they pulled off an incredible water landing last month, saving the lives of all 155 people aboard US Airways Flight 1549. Katie Couric reports. Michael Radutzky, Tanya Simon and Lori Beecher are the producers. THIS IS A EXTRA-LENGTH STORY
  • BON JOVI - Jon Bon Jovi and his band are still filling arenas and producing hit albums 26 years after breaking out of the local New Jersey music scene. Steve Kroft reports. John Hamlin is the producer.

• Meet the Press (NBC)
  • Meet the Press will not air Sunday, July 5 due to NBC's coverage of the Wimbledon tennis finals. We will return at our regular time on July 12.

• State of the Union With John King (CNN)
  State of the Union with John King offers a blend of newsmaker interviews, political analysis, national and world affairs and cultural segments, plus an hour of Reliable Sources media analysis, hosted by Howard Kurtz, airing every Sunday from 9 a.m. through 1 p.m. et
  • former Secretary of State Colin Powell
  • Her Majesty Queen Noor
  • Hour 2 - Howard Kurtz & "Reliable Sources", now a part of "State of the Union".
  • more! (Hey we gotta fill up four hours!)

• BREAKROOM LIVE
  Mark Maron and Sam Seder LIVE STREAM Weekdays at 3 pm et!
  
  amazing graphic & logo by nicole s.
  See/hear the show at any time of the day. Get Podcasts, video, audio streams and watch show live at Breakroom LIVE! Very cool! Also available weekday MIDNIGHTS at Ohio Majority Radio Check out SEDER on RING OF FIRE BELOW!

• Ring of Fire Radio
  Find us at http://ringoffireradio.com and http://goleft.tv/
  • Former Minnesota governor Jesse Ventura will be here to give us his thoughts on the Bush administration, including how he thinks we need to be handling the former officials that are responsible for allowing torture.
  • GQ correspondent Robert Draper will be joining us to tell us why history won’t be as kind to former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld as the former administration official would like to believe.
  • Senator Bernie Sanders will be with us today to talk about his efforts to pass legislation that would create a better healthcare system in America, and provide coverage for the millions of Americans who are currently lacking any form of health insurance.
  • We’ve also got Representative Carolyn Maloney who’ll give us the facts about the recently passed Credit Card Holders’ Bill of Rights, which will prevent credit card companies from ripping off consumers, and help keep countless of Americans from going into bankruptcy.
  • And author Geoffrey Nunberg will be here to tell us how the GOP’s grip on the electorate has diminished as their ability to manipulate voters with their language has also declined.
  • Join our blog at http://www.ringoffireradio.com/
  Ring of Fire Radio hosted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Mike Papantonio: Saturdays at 3 o’clock Eastern, rebroadcasts Sunday nights at 8 pm Eastern featuring The PAP Attack! "We’ll bring you the stories that the mainstream media didn’t feel like reporting this week."

• On the Edge with Max Keiser Podcasts and more @ MaxKeiser.com!
  WHO IS MAX KEISER? Max Keiser is a financial expert, Prediction Markets analyst, inventor and filmmaker. He is the creator of the Hollywood Stock Exchange (HSX) the first Prediction Market. Max Keiser co-hosts “The Truth About Markets” on ResonanceFM 104.4 in London. He also produces and presents documentary films covering markets and finance for Al Jazeera’s “People & Power” series. Max Keiser started his career on Wall Street in 1983. He is the creator of KarmaBanque a site that enables activists to challenge corporate power.
  • At BLIPtv... On the Edge with Max Keiser - 03 July 2009. Max interviews Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, former U.S. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury

• ANTIWAR RADIO with Scott Horton & Charles Goyette LIVE (9-11am Pacific, 12pm - 2pm Eastern) Plenty of archives too!
  Listen at Antiwar Radio
  • From July 3, 2009 Scott Horton Interviews Michael Scheuer (mp3) Michael Scheuer, former chief of the CIA’s bin Laden unit and author of Marching Toward Hell: America and Islam After Iraq, discusses the government’s reliance on CIA covert action instead of conventional military force to protect the U.S., how the Congress and President fail to take meaningful action because they seek the adulation of the media and Europe, the wisdom in leaving Afghanistan ASAP and how Americans won’t realize their government isn’t protecting them until Osama bin Laden attacks again. LISTEN CLOSELY at about 0:14 in. Michael Scheuer is a 22-year veteran of the CIA and the author of Through Our Enemies Eyes: Osama bin Laden, Radical Islam, and the Future of America, Marching Toward Hell: America and Islam After Iraq and Imperial Hubris: Why the West Is Losing the War on Terror.

• fauxnews
  • Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
  • Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Maryland, House majority leader
  • Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio, House Minority Leader

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Brick TeeVee Mixed Bag Sunday!

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This week's WH Limo ride goes to DAVID AXLEROD on Meet the David and This Snufagopolis, where the roundtable has PAUL KRUGMAN AND MICHAEL ERIC DYSON (no George Will! YAY!). RAY "Boots on the Ground" ODIERNO gets live coverage from Iraq on Fake Snooze and State of the John, where King also goes with Ohio GOP has-beens and T. BOONE PICKENS, who will tell us how he'll make his next $billions$ selling us Natural Gas. Throw bricks at Minnesota Guv TIM PAWLENTY shilling for Loser Norm Coleman who was "Ordered To Pay Al Franken $95K By Minnesota Court to cover court costs for his appeal of Minnesota Senate election results". Face the Bob goes with DR. SUSAN RICE, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and GOVERNOR HALEY BARBOUR. Also on Fake Snooze will be Health and Human Services secretary KATHLEEN SEBELIUS to tell us how great the Health Insurance "debate" is going. On the Health Insurance "debate" fraud, LAMBERT @ corrente explains in Why the public option is a FAIL in the making and no progressive should support it, "The public option is not some sort of compromise. It is not some kind of gentle glidepath to single payer, since the legislation will be designed to make the transition to single payer FAIL, as Kathleen Sibelius admits. And as the public option FAIL takes 10 years or so to play out, it will suck all the oxygen out of real policy change and discredit government involvement in health care into the bargain, as Medicare Part D is doing -- making the transition to single payer even less likely. Meanwhile, Versailles, having guaranteed a market to the insurance companies by mandating participation, will chip away at the subsidies that make it possible for the 50 million uninsured to participate in that market, screwing them even further. And as the FAIL plays out, many hundreds of thousands will continue to be denied care, and thousands of them will die. How can any progressive support the public option with a straight face?" Make sure you catch GRAHAM NASH on Ring of Fire Radio, Max Kieser with a post at DU and our Brick TeeVee alerts from Democracy NOW and GritTV. The Brick TeeVee Crew has been enjoying MLB Interleague play and took in PNC Park, where the Pirates beat the Tribe 3-2. The Crew has been deperately trying to keep fauna out of the garden where bean and pepper plants have been ravaged, rigging up a motion detector and spotlights to scare 'em away. Enjoy your Sunday!

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»WVA Mountantop Removal Protesters on Democracy NOW! More than thirty people were arrested on Tuesday, including NASA climate scientist James Hansen and actress Daryl Hannah, protesting mountaintop removal in West Virginia. The protesters were charged with obstructing officers and impeding traffic after they sat down in the middle of the road outside of the facility run by Massey Energy. It was the latest protest in a growing civil disobedience campaign against mountaintop removal. We speak with actress Daryl Hannah and community activist Bo Webb. WATCH Actress Daryl Hannah, Climate Scientist James Hansen Among 30+ Arrested Protesting Mountaintop Removal in West Virginia
»History of Afghanistan on GRITtv Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould have traveled to and from Afghanistan for the past 30 years. They were the first American journalists to acquire permission to enter Afghanistan behind Soviet lines in 1981 for CBS News and produced a documentary, "Afghanistan Between Three World," for PBS. For twenty years they have continued to follow events in Afghanistan and write about it's history and US involvement. They are out with a new book, Invisible History: Afghanistan's Untold Story. WATCH Challenge Yourself: How much do you know about Afghanistan?
»NASCAR on TNT It's the Lenox Industrial Tools 301 from the 1-mile New Hampshire Motor Speedway in Loudon. Coverage begins at 1:30 pm et
»MLB on TBS Boston Red Sox @ Atlanta Braves - 1:30 pm et
»Sunday Night Baseball on ESPN Subway Series! Yankees @ Mets - 8 pm et

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The essential guide for watching government propaganda
IRAQ: 4,316 Military Dead as of June 26, 2009
AFGHANISTAN: 713 Military Dead as of June 26, 2009
2,251 days since "Mission Accomplished"
The Obameter: Tracking Obama's Campaign Promises

• This Week (ABC)
  • White House adviser David Axelrod
  • Republican Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa.
  • Roundtable: Paul Krugman, Peggy Noonan, Michael Eric Dyson and Kathleen Parker.

• Face The Nation (CBS)
  • DR. SUSAN RICE, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations
  • GOVERNOR HALEY BARBOUR, R-Miss. Chairman, Republican Governors Association

• 60 Minutes (CBS) Summer Re-broadcasts
  • THE CHEATERS - 60 MINUTES and The Washington Post reveal how online poker players suspecting cheating were forced to successfully ferret out the cheaters themselves. That's because managers of the mostly-unregulated $18 billion Internet gambling industry failed to respond to their complaints. Steve Kroft and The Washington Post's Gilbert Gaul report. Ira Rosen is the producer.
  • MIND READING - Neuroscience has learned so much about how we think and the brain activity linked to certain thoughts that it is now possible - on a very basic scale - to read a person’s mind. Lesley Stahl reports. Shari Finkelstein is the producer.
  • GORONGOSA - American Greg Carr is using his great wealth to try to help some of the poorest people in Africa by attracting more tourists to their neighborhood - the beautiful national park of Gorongosa in Mozambique. Scott Pelley reports. Rebecca Peterson and Henry Schuster are the producers.

• Meet the Press (NBC)
  • Senior Obama Adviser DAVID AXELROD
  • Sen. LINDSEY GRAHAM (R-SC)
  • 2008 GOP Presidential Candidate, Fmr. Gov. MITT ROMNEY (R-MA).
  • ROUNDTABLE: New York Times columnist DAVID BROOKS; Washington Post columnist E.J. DIONNE; Republican Strategist MIKE MURPHY; and former White House press secretary for President Clinton, now a Contributing Editor at Vanity Fair, DEE DEE MYERS.

• State of the Union With John King (CNN)
  State of the Union with John King offers a blend of newsmaker interviews, political analysis, national and world affairs and cultural segments, plus an hour of Reliable Sources media analysis, hosted by Howard Kurtz, airing every Sunday from 9 a.m. through 1 p.m. et
  • General Raymond Odierno
  • Governor Tim Pawlenty, R-Minnesota
  • OH GOP Senatorial candidate Rob Portman
  • OH GOP gubernatorial candidate John Kasich
  • T. Boone Pickens
  • Hour 2 - Howard Kurtz & "Reliable Sources", now a part of "State of the Union".
  • more! (Hey we gotta fill up four hours!)

• BREAKROOM LIVE
  Mark Maron and Sam Seder LIVE STREAM Weekdays at 3 pm et!
  
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  See/hear the show at any time of the day. Get Podcasts, video, audio streams and watch show live at Breakroom LIVE! Very cool! Also available weekday MIDNIGHTS at Ohio Majority Radio Check out SEDER on RING OF FIRE BELOW!

• Ring of Fire Radio
  Find us at http://ringoffireradio.com and http://goleft.tv/
  • Legendary singer and songwriter Graham Nash will be here to give us his thoughts on the current state of American politics from the war in Iraq, to our economic meltdown. He’ll also give us the inside scoop on the release of his new CD box set, which chronicles his 40 years in the music business.
  • Eric Lotke from the Campaign for America’s Future will stop by to tell us how the [U.S.] Chamber [of Commerce] is fighting to keep the economy in a recession by aggressively lobbying against regulatory reform, healthcare reform, and union organizing. If American workers want it, you’d better believe that the Chamber is fighting against it.
  • We’ll also look at how the Chamber is working to strip citizens of their right to hold corporations accountable when they kill or poison their workers.
  • We’ll also be talking about how the global recession is fueling a rise in human trafficking with author Benjamin Skinner.
  • And Air America’s own Sam Seder will be stopping in to talk about some of the biggest stories of the past week that you might not have heard. He’ll also give us his take on Mark Sanford’s hide-n-seek tour and Argentinean love trip.
  • Join our blog at http://www.ringoffireradio.com/
  Ring of Fire Radio hosted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Mike Papantonio: Saturdays at 3 o’clock Eastern, rebroadcasts Sunday nights at 8 pm Eastern featuring The PAP Attack! "We’ll bring you the stories that the mainstream media didn’t feel like reporting this week."

• On the Edge with Max Keiser Podcasts and more @ MaxKeiser.com!
  WHO IS MAX KEISER? Max Keiser is a financial expert, Prediction Markets analyst, inventor and filmmaker. He is the creator of the Hollywood Stock Exchange (HSX) the first Prediction Market. Max Keiser co-hosts “The Truth About Markets” on ResonanceFM 104.4 in London. He also produces and presents documentary films covering markets and finance for Al Jazeera’s “People & Power” series. Max Keiser started his career on Wall Street in 1983. He is the creator of KarmaBanque a site that enables activists to challenge corporate power.
  • At Democratic Underground... "Goldman Sachs' crash of markets last year was a false flag operation". Max writes,"Hi Du'ers... Keep in mind that my show ON THE EDGE is broadcast out of Tehran on Press TV. I tape the show in Paris and satellite it over to Tehran and than they broadcast it. If you appreciate the information I am covering than send an email to newsroom@presstv.ir and let them know you appreciate my show."

• ANTIWAR RADIO with Scott Horton & Charles Goyette LIVE (9-11am Pacific, 12pm - 2pm Eastern) Plenty of archives too!
  Listen at Antiwar Radio
  • From June 18, 2009 Scott Horton Interviews Thomas E. Woods, Jr. (mp3) Thomas E. Woods, Jr., is the New York Times bestselling author of nine books. A senior fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute, Woods holds a bachelor’s degree in history from Harvard and his master’s, M.Phil., and Ph.D. from Columbia University. Thomas E. Woods, author of Meltdown: A Free-Market Look at Why the Stock Market Collapsed, the Economy Tanked, and Government Bailouts Will Make Things Worse, discusses Seymour Melman’s [.pdf] research into the societal repercussions of a military economy, the diversion of research scientists from the private sector to Cold War military programs, the transformation of the U.S. university system into a DOD jobs program and the corruption of defense contractors into companies that can’t compete in a free market.

• fauxnews
  • Sec. Kathleen Sebelius, Health and Human Services secretary
  • Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, Senate minority leader
  • Gen. Ray Odierno, commanding general Multinational Force — Iraq

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Brick TeeVee Stolen Election Special!

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Sunday news will be all abuzz about the Green Revolution and its Stolen Election in Iran! As Max Keiser puts it "And where, by the way, was our color coded revolution??" in 2000 and 2004???? You know the CIA is involved when there's a color assigned to any POPULAR (aka one The West supports) political uprising, and it's possible this could be another "made for teevee" event orchstrated by the Rendon Group or other some such propaganda arm. See Robert Parry At Consotium News What If Ahmadinejad Really Won? and Brad Friedman at BradBlog Iran's 2009 Election Results Suggest Massive Fraud...Just Like Ohio's in 2004 while Juan Cole points out how impossible the election outcome was.. Check your local listings for has-beens FRED THOMPSON and SAM NUNN on Meet the David, with special guest Israeli Prime Minister BENJAMIN NETANYAHU. Face the Bob gets a one-on-one with JOHN "Crazytrain" MCCAIN, worth at least a few bricks. Then This Snufagupolis hosts a grudge match between CHRIS DODD and LINDSEY GRAHAM, plus ROBERT "I'll be short" REICH tells George Will how wrong Will is about everything. State of the King gets a Senator Sit-in with FEINSTEIN & CASEY vs. LUGAR & GRASSLEY, plus uber-neoliberal ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI. EVAN BAYH gets the call to face off against three GOP on FAKE NEWS SUNDAY. Ring of Fire has Rolling Stone's MATT TAIBBI and AntiWarRadio has an interview with GLENN GREENWALD. In financial news, Jeff Clark writes in Gold isn't going to $2,000 an ounce, "All the Money in the World vs. Gold Reserves: If the public eventually sees the paper game being run by the central banks for what it is, governments will be forced to back their currencies with gold (and perhaps other tangibles like silver). Assuming they had to go into the market and buy the gold needed to restore faith in their currencies, the numbers might look like this: Total central banks reserves (including gold holdings) = $4.8 trillion, divided by 929.6 million ounces total gold reserves held by all official institutions that issue currency = $5,246 gold price." And Chris Hedges warns at TruthDig The American Empire Is Bankrupt, "There are meetings being held Monday and Tuesday in Yekaterinburg, Russia, (formerly Sverdlovsk) among Chinese President Hu Jintao, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and other top officials of the six-nation Shanghai Cooperation Organization. The United States, which asked to attend, was denied admittance. Watch what happens there carefully. The gathering is, in the words of economist Michael Hudson, “the most important meeting of the 21st century so far.” It is the first formal step by our major trading partners to replace the dollar as the world’s reserve currency. If they succeed, the dollar will dramatically plummet in value, the cost of imports, including oil, will skyrocket, interest rates will climb and jobs will hemorrhage at a rate that will make the last few months look like boom times. State and federal services will be reduced or shut down for lack of funds. The United States will begin to resemble the Weimar Republic or Zimbabwe.". We hope your gardens are growing well and you're slowly exiting out of U.S. Securities and moving into Gold and Silver. It's not too late!

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»Obama's Policy of Secrecy on Democracy NOW!In his first several months in office, Obama has embraced Bush administration justifications to keep secret key government information. Most recently, the Secret Service rejected requests from two organizations for public access to White House visitors logs. The logs document the West Wing meetings that have helped shape Obama’s policies on banking regulation, environmental policy, economic recovery and foreign affairs. The group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington filed a lawsuit yesterday against the Obama administration, seeking the release of the visits by coal company executives to the White House. WATCH Despite Campaign Promises, President Obama Adopts President Bush’s Policy of Secrecy
»Wells-Fargo Racial Profiling Sub-Primes discussion on GRITtv The city of Baltimore is suing Wells Fargo for racial profiling while workers in Chicago took to the streets to protest its recent refusal to extend credit for Quad City Die Casting Company. Joining us in studio are Sarah Ludwig, Co-Director of Neighborhood Economic Development Advocacy Project, Kai Wright, who wrote about the 'Subprime Swindle' for The Nation Magazine, Leah Fried, Organizer with the United Electrical Union, and Beth Jacobson, formerly one of the most successful subprime mortgage loan officers for Wells Fargo who became a whistle blower in the Baltimore case and is now offering advice to homeowners facing foreclosure through her agency, Paralegal Services and Consulting. WATCH The People Fight Back Against Wells Fargo
»IndyCar on ABC It's the Iowa Corn 250 from the 7/8 mile asphalt paved tri-oval Iowa Speedway in Newton Iowa, that hotbed of racing!! Coverage begins at 1 pm et (incorrectly listed last week! Oops!)
»NASCAR on TNT It's the Toyota/Save Mart 350 from Infineon Raceway in Sonoma CA. Coverage begins at 4:30 pm et
»Formula One on FOX F1 racing goes to the Silverstone Circuit for the British Grand Prix. Coverage begins at 3:00 pm et
»NASCAR on TNT It's the Toyota/Save Mart 350 from Infineon Raceway in Sonoma CA. Coverage begins at 4:30 pm et
»PGA on NBC U.S. Open live from Bethpage, Farmingdale NY. Coverage begins at 11 am et
»MLB on TBS It's The Atlanta Braves @ Boston Red Sox - 1:30 pm et
»Sunday Night Baseball on ESPN LA Dodgers @ LA Angels - 8 pm et

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The essential guide for watching government propaganda
IRAQ: 4,315 Military Dead as of June 20, 2009
AFGHANISTAN: 709 Military Dead as of June 20, 2009
2,244 days since "Mission Accomplished"
The Obameter: Tracking Obama's Campaign Promises

• This Week (ABC)
  • Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., of the Senate foreign relations, banking and health committees
  • Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C
  • Roundtable: ABC's George Will, Cokie Roberts, Sam Donaldson, former Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich and Bill Keller of The New York Times.

• Face The Nation (CBS)
  • Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.

• 60 Minutes (CBS) Summer Re-broadcasts
  • A CLEAN VERSION OF HELL - Exclusive footage from within and a rare interview with its former warden takes viewers inside the secretive "Supermax" federal prison, where the nation’s most dangerous and infamous criminals -- including terrorists -- are held under the strictest rules. Scott Pelley reports. Henry Schuster is the producer.
  • THE WAR NEXT DOOR - Drug-cartel fueled violence has turned into a war in Mexico, with thousands of deaths and the government battling well-armed gangs whose military-quality weapons come mostly from U.S. dealers. Anderson Cooper reports. Kyra Darnton, Anya Bourg and Ana Real are the producers.
  • LEBRON - Steve Kroft profiles the Cleveland Cavalier's superstar, LeBron James, who at only 24, is already among an elite handful of athletes who command tens of millions a year in playing and marketing fees. Harry Radliffe is the producer.

• Meet the Press (NBC) SPECIAL TIME! Check local listings!
  • Israeli Prime Minister BENJAMIN NETANYAHU
  • FMR. SEN. SAM NUNN (D-GA) Co-Chairman & CEO, Nuclear Threat Initiative
  • FMR. SEN. FRED THOMPSON (R-TN) Fmr. Chair, State Dept.'s International Security Advisory Board & 2008 Republican Presidential Candidate
  • ROUNDTABLE: NBC's CHUCK TODD and Fortune Magazine's NINA EASTON.

• State of the Union With John King (CNN)
  State of the Union with John King offers a blend of newsmaker interviews, political analysis, national and world affairs and cultural segments, plus an hour of Reliable Sources media analysis, hosted by Howard Kurtz, airing every Sunday from 9 a.m. through 1 p.m. et
  • Senator Dianne Feinstein, D-California
  • Senator Richard Lugar, R-Indiana
  • Senator Bob Casey, D-Pennsylvania
  • Senator Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa
  • President Carter's National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Hour 2 - Howard Kurtz & "Reliable Sources", now a part of "State of the Union". Howard Kurtz speaks with ABC News Anchor Diane Sawyer on the network's upcoming primetime health care special with President Obama, plus New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller reflects on his reporting from Iran.
  • more! (Hey we gotta fill up four hours!)

• BREAKROOM LIVE
  Mark Maron and Sam Seder LIVE STREAM Weekdays at 3 pm et!
  
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  See/hear the show at any time of the day. Get Podcasts, video, audio streams and watch show live at Breakroom LIVE! Very cool! Also available weekday MIDNIGHTS at Ohio Majority Radio

• Ring of Fire Radio
  Find us at http://ringoffireradio.com and http://goleft.tv/
  • Rolling Stone reporter Matt Taibbi will be joining us to talk about the financial industry’s takeover of the federal government, which all started when they given billions of dollars of the taxpayer’s money to stay solvent.
  • We’ll be taking a look at what labor unions are doing to fight Wall Street corruption and greed with Richard Trumka, the secretary treasurer of the AFL-CIO.
  • We’ll also be diving head first into the big pool of Republican hate talk with author David Niewert to find out why the GOP is getting angrier and more violent with each passing day.
  • And our good friend and comedian Matt Filipowicz will be joining us later on to give us the lighter side of the news.
  • Join our blog at http://www.ringoffireradio.com/
  Ring of Fire Radio hosted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Mike Papantonio: Saturdays at 3 o’clock Eastern, rebroadcasts Sunday nights at 8 pm Eastern featuring The PAP Attack! "We’ll bring you the stories that the mainstream media didn’t feel like reporting this week."

• On the Edge with Max Keiser Podcasts and more @ MaxKeiser.com!
  WHO IS MAX KEISER? Max Keiser is a financial expert, Prediction Markets analyst, inventor and filmmaker. He is the creator of the Hollywood Stock Exchange (HSX) the first Prediction Market. Max Keiser co-hosts “The Truth About Markets” on ResonanceFM 104.4 in London. He also produces and presents documentary films covering markets and finance for Al Jazeera’s “People & Power” series. Max Keiser started his career on Wall Street in 1983. He is the creator of KarmaBanque a site that enables activists to challenge corporate power.
  • At Huffington Post... In the lead up to the US elections less than a year ago, protesters gathered at the party conventions.Where was the twittered outrage for #ourownbackyard? . I wonder, where was the twitter outrage for stuff happening in our own backyard? More pics here: Stacy blog: Where was the international outrage at #USelection? Where was the international outrage? And where, by the way, was our color coded revolution?? Help support those who were PRE-EMPTIVELY arrested at the 2008 Republican Convention at DEFEND THE RNC8

• ANTIWAR RADIO with Scott Horton & Charles Goyette LIVE (9-11am Pacific, 12pm - 2pm Eastern) Plenty of archives too!
  Listen at Antiwar Radio
  • From June 18, 2009 Scott Horton Interviews Glenn Greenwald (mp3) Glenn Greenwald, former constitutional lawyer and current Salon.com blogger, discusses the firing of Washington Post journalist Dan Froomkin, the dominance of mainstream Democrat vs. Republican talking points in the media, maverick illegal actions of the Bush administration codified into law under Obama and how governmental secrecy enables all other abuses of power.

• fauxnews
  • Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.
  • Sen. Evan Bayh, D-Ind., Armed Services Committee
  • Rep. Pete Hoekstra, R-Mich., ranking member, Select Committee on Intelligence
  • Karim Sadjadpour, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
  • Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wisc., ranking member, Budget Committee

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National Health Care Reform will be on the lips of everyone this Sunday. Count how many times the new GOP Talking Point Keyword 'Individual Mandate' gets used! (Read that link! -Ed.) Then Throw a BRICK at whomever said it! Arm yourself with Debunking Canadian health care myths. Leading the pack is Health and Human Services Secretary KATHLEEN SEBELIUS taking the WH limo to This Snufagupolis and John of the State. Be sure to tune in Veep JOE BIDEN on Meet the David to see if ole Joe makes another "provocative" statement. Face the Bob features a good cage match with MITCH MCCONNELL taking on DICK DURBIN. For some real "drama" watch CHUCK GRASSLEY accuse CHRIS DODD and the rest of the Democrats for the stinky economy on FAUX OUTRAGE SUNDAY, channelling Tricky Dick "When OUR guy runs up trillions of debt and starts two wars it's okay. Even patriotic! But YOU! YOU SOCIALSTS!" as Grassley's eyes pop out and Durbin deadpans, "Check please." Look for GREG PALAST on Ring of Fire Radio and in the BTV Alerts below and Stacy posted some good stories at Max Keiser. (Seder is still MIA from Breakroom Live.) To help figure out the GREED FACTOR in our health care system, do read The Cost Conundrum at the New Yorker by Atul Gawande. Also check out Glenn Greenwald @ Salon Tribalistic self-absorption and Major new accountability campaign from the ACLU plus UPDATE III: Greg Sargent is reporting that Nancy Pelosi will announce tonight on MSNBC that she formally opposes the Obama-backed Graham/Lieberman amendment . The Brick TeeVee Crew has been relaxing as the lawns are cut and the garden is in. The garden has already been scoped out by the local suburban deer (a young'un came by this afternoon - musta been the salt lick?). They'll be huddled around the tube Sunday night to watch the Tribe on ESPN Sunday Night Baseball. Go Tribe! Enjoy yer Sunday viewing choices!

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BRICK TEEVEE ALERTS!

»Police violence against Peruvian Protesters on Democracy NOW!Dozens of people are estimated to have been killed in clashes between police and indigenous activists protesting oil and mining projects in the northern Peruvian Amazonian province of Bagua. Peruvian authorities have declared a military curfew, and troops are patrolling towns in the Amazon jungle. Authorities say up to twenty-two policemen have been killed, and two remain missing. The indigenous community says at least forty people, including three children, were killed by the police this weekend. WATCH Peruvian Police Accused of Massacring Indigenous Protesters in Amazon Jungle
»Greg Palast on GRITtv To chew out this week's news and those that covered it, we're joined by Andrew Tyndall, Greg Palast and Robin Andersen. Then we play a clip from Greg Palast's new DVD: Palast Investigates. Finally we host a discussion on racial politics and social justice with Prof. Kimberle Crenshaw, Martin Macwan and Dr. Jurema Werneck. WATCH Media Roundtable, Greg Palast, and the African American Policy Forum
»IndyCar on ABC It's the Iowa Corn 250 from the 7/8 mile asphalt paved tri-oval Iowa Speedway in Newton Iowa, that hotbed of racing!! Coverage begins at 1:30 pm et
»NASCAR on TNT The Sprint Cup goes to Michigan! Brian Vickers sits on the pole. Coverage begins at 1:30 pm et
»MLB on TBS It's The Subway Series Mets @ Yankees - 1:30 pm et
»Sunday Night Baseball on ESPN St. Louis Cardinals @ Cleveland Indians - 8 pm et

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The Obameter: Tracking Obama's Campaign Promises

• This Week (ABC)
  • Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius
  • former Republican Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney
  • Roundtable: George Will, Donna Brazile, National Journal's Ron Brownstein and Kimberley Strassel of the Wall Street Journal

• Face The Nation (CBS)
  • SEN. MITCH MCCONNELL, R-KY. Minority Leader
  • SEN. DICK DURBIN, D-ILL. Majority Whip

• 60 Minutes (CBS) Summer Re-broadcasts
  • The Man Who Knew Harry Markopolos repeatedly told the Securities and Exchange Commission that Bernie Madoff's investment fund was a fraud. He was ignored, however, and investors lost billions of dollars. Steve Kroft reports.

• Meet the Press (NBC)
  • Joe Biden Vice President of the United States
  • Mike Murphy Republican Strategist
  • Joe Scarborough Host, MSNBC's "Morning Joe" Former U.S. Representative (R-FL)

• State of the Union With John King (CNN)
  State of the Union with John King offers a blend of newsmaker interviews, political analysis, national and world affairs and cultural segments, plus an hour of Reliable Sources media analysis, hosted by Howard Kurtz, airing every Sunday from 9 a.m. through 1 p.m. et
  • Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius
  • Sen. Ben Nelson: (D) Nebraska
  • Sen. Susan Collins: (R) Maine
  • Sen. Kent Conrad: (D) North Dakota
  • Hour 2 - Howard Kurtz & "Reliable Sources", now a part of "State of the Union". Howard Kurtz interviews ABC News President David Westin about "The New Normal" -- a network-wide series devoted to what life will be like after the recession ends
  • more! (Hey we gotta fill up four hours!)

• BREAKROOM LIVE
  Mark Maron and Sam Seder LIVE STREAM Weekdays at 3 pm et!
  
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  See/hear the show at any time of the day. Get Podcasts, video, audio streams and watch show live at Breakroom LIVE! Very cool! Also available weekday MIDNIGHTS at Ohio Majority Radio

• Ring of Fire Radio
  Find us at http://ringoffireradio.com and http://goleft.tv/
  • Rolling Stone political correspondent Tim Dickinson will be joining us to talk about the jihad occurring in the GOP – where the old party leaders are attempting to purge anyone who isn’t a hard line republican.
  • We’ll also be talking with investigative journalist Greg Palast who’ll give us an update on the lawsuit filed against oil giant Chevron for dumping 18 billion gallons of toxic sludge into the rainforests in Ecuador.
  • Author Frank Schaeffer, the man who helped create the religious right, will tell us how he, and many other members of that movement, helped contribute to the recent murder of Dr. Tiller, and he’ll tell us why this group is becoming more and more dangerous everyday.
  • And James Ridgeway from Mother Jones magazine will be here to give us the real story about what happened to Dick Cheney on 9/11, and why he was locked in a bunker with GOP operatives, rather than military strategists.
  • Join our blog at http://www.ringoffireradio.com/
  Ring of Fire Radio hosted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Mike Papantonio: Saturdays at 3 o’clock Eastern, rebroadcasts Sunday nights at 8 pm Eastern featuring The PAP Attack! "We’ll bring you the stories that the mainstream media didn’t feel like reporting this week."

• On the Edge with Max Keiser Podcasts and more @ MaxKeiser.com!
  WHO IS MAX KEISER? Max Keiser is a financial expert, Prediction Markets analyst, inventor and filmmaker. He is the creator of the Hollywood Stock Exchange (HSX) the first Prediction Market. Max Keiser co-hosts “The Truth About Markets” on ResonanceFM 104.4 in London. He also produces and presents documentary films covering markets and finance for Al Jazeera’s “People & Power” series. Max Keiser started his career on Wall Street in 1983. He is the creator of KarmaBanque a site that enables activists to challenge corporate power.
  • Stacy Summary: Reporting from outside our local Paris cafe, our London Truth About Markets. Download mp3 show here: [1039] The Truth about . . . $134.5 billion in bonds. Also read Soros says credit default swaps should be banned, How is the economy? Depends on how the numbers are rigged and * * * Bill to audit the Fed makes it to House floor * * *

• ANTIWAR RADIO with Scott Horton & Charles Goyette LIVE (9-11am Pacific, 12pm - 2pm Eastern) Plenty of archives too!
  Listen at Antiwar Radio
  • From June 13, 2009 Scott Horton Interviews Winslow T. Wheeler (mp3) Winslow T. Wheeler, Director of the Straus Military Reform Project, discusses the fight between Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and Congress over the Pentagon budget, the neglect of U.S. combat training in favor of expensive weapons systems, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst study of military spending and job creation and how Congress would rather chase Pentagon pork than perform its oversight obligations.

• fauxnews
  • Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., Banking Committee chair
  • Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, Finance Committee ranking member
  • Tom Donohue, U.S. Chamber of Commerce president and CEO

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