Episode

5/23 Charles Ferguson, the Hijacking of America

May 23, 2012

Academy Award winning filmmaker, Charles Ferguson on the corruption of American politics, banking and academia.  The origins, the disillusion and the solution.  His book, Predator Nation: Corporate Criminals, Political Corruption and the Hijacking of America.  And, Canadian student protests reach day 100, Bill O’Reilly blows lid off Occupy and 70k extra in your bank account – what to do?  In the better half, Fox & Friends say food stamps are “cool”, ungodly penguins in Spain, bigots in N. Carolina astound and the Hartland Institute one billboard too far. Your calls and IMs.

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