Pat Thurston
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Rape in the Military
Sexual assault in the military is dangerous to our national security, President Barack Obama declared Thursday.
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Another IRS scandal?
David Cay Johnston on dark money political groups seeking tax exemption.
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Did the Justice Dept. go overboard?
The Associated Press doesn't question the Justice Department's right to have seized two months' worth of its phone records, the organization's president Gary Pruitt said Sunday. It was the methodology - "so sweeping, so secretively, so abusively and harassingly overboard," he said - that breached the Constitution.
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Police and Hospitals: going too far?
Why did the Cotati police do this? Loan sharks at your hospital? Guest Deborah Burger is an R N and co-president of National Nurses United.
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Angelina Jolie
Why Angelina Jolie had the surgeries.
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Montsano wins and more about Cotati
Montsano won one this week. Also more about the tasing of a man in Cotati.
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Is the American Dream dead?
Listen to this, and read this.
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Could the bureaucrats be lying?
An update about the Drakes Bay Oyster Company.
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Moms in the Movies
With Tim Sika from celluloiddreams.net.
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Humorous food tips with Marcy Smothers
Snacks: Adventures in Food, Aisle by Aisle>Snacks is more than a guided tour through the grocery store; it's an epicurean adventure, with original recipes, color photographs, helpful tips, and culinary secrets that you won't find anywhere else.
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Impeachment? Joe Conason guests.
Joe Conason is the editor-in-chief of The National Memo. He is also the author of two New York Times bestselling books, The Hunting of the President and Big Lies: The Right-Wing Propaganda Machine and How It Distorts the Truth.
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Cheap clothing at what cost, with Charles Kernaghan
Over 500 people dead in garment factory collapse in Bangladesh, and 1,000 missing. More here. Charles Kernaghan is director of the Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights.
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Drakes Bay Oyster Company, with Dr. Corey Goodman
What does the NPS have against the Drakes Bay Oyster Company?
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JPMorgan screws California again!
JPMorgan is accused of causing mayhem in the California energy market. Tyson Slocum is director of Public Citizen's Energy Program, covering climate change, coal, oil, fracking, nuclear energy, renewables and commodity market oversight. Also, would this woman be a good Secretary of Commerce?
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Has Obama been a good president?
Their friend was accused of bombing the Boston Marathon so they tried to cover his tracks? Also, do you think Obama has been a good president?
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Collapse of Dignity author Napoleon Gomez
Collapse of Dignity author Naploleon Gomez joins Pat to discuss the industrial homicide in Mexico.
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Is SF Pride selling out to corporate sleaze?
Bradley Manning is off limits at SF Gay Pride parade, but corporate sleaze is embraced. Pat discusses.
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April 28 4pm
Pat chats with in-studio guest, Kevin Epps. Kevin Epps is a documentary filmmaker best known for films "Straight Outta Hunters Point," "The Black Rock," and "Rap Dreams." Pat and Kevin discuss ongoing struggles in Hunters Point that are often familiar to other Bay Area inner cities as well. Information on and films by Kevin can be found here.
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April 28 5pm
Jeff Burger is the editor of Springsteen on Springsteen: Interviews, Speeches, and Encounters and Pats guest this hour. The book is amazing!!
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April 28 6pm
Samuel Avery, is the author of "The Pipeline and the Paradigm: Keystone XL, Tar Sands, and the Battle to Defuse the Carbon Bomb." Mr. Avery traveled the route of the Keystone XL pipeline from Alberta to Texas, interviewing opponents and supporters, and is the first author to delve deeply into the controversy over the Keystone XL and place it in the context of global warming and the economic mindset.
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April 27 6pm
Did you know that you can still buy a gun, even if you are on the No-fly List?
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April 27 7pm
Were learning more about the Boston bombers. Apparently the Russian authorities warned the FBI about the brothers in 2011. Why were they not on the No-fly List? Given what we know now, did we drop the ball?
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April 27 8pm
Matt interviews Senator Bill Monning about his proposed penny-per-ounce tax, that would add 12-cents to every can of soda and other sugary beverages including sweet teas and energy drinks. What do you think?
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April 21, 4pm
Greg Palast joins Pat briefly to speak about the third anniversary of Deepwater Horizon disaster in the gulf.
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April 21, 5pm
Carole Bartolotto, a member of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, is a dietician who'd been working on crafting the group's GMO policy. She claims she was pushed aside for pointing out her colleagues' links to Monsanto, and joins Pat to discuss this. Heres Caroles blog. Katelyn Campbell, a high school student in West Virginia, is seeking an injunction against her principal for allegedly threatening to retaliate against her for speaking out about a school assembly featuring Pam Stenzel,...
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April 21, 6pm
Pat speaks to Allan Naim about Guatemala Judicial corruption.
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April 20, 6pm
Expect Vladimir Putin to use the marathon bombing to further rationalize Moscow's brutal rule of Chechnya. Do you know why?
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April 20, 7pm
Its pretty clear that the Boston Marathon bombing was an act of terrorism, with police making arrests and having killed one of the two suspects who had earlier been captured on film and video at the scene of the bombings. The villains in the West Fertilizer Co. explosion can be much more easily identified: the managers and owners of the plant.
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April 20, 8pm
Pat welcomes Lucius Werthmuller, co-author of Mystic Chemist: The Life of Albert Hofmann and His Discovery of LSD. Meet Lucius and co-author Deiter Hagenbach tomorrow at the City Light Bookstore. Theyll be speaking and signing books from 5 7 pm.
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April 14, 4pm
Carnival Corp does not intend to reimburse the U.S. Coast Guard and Navy for assistance in the recent Carnival Triumph accident, the 2010 Carnival Splendor incidents, or any future problem where they require help from the U.S. government to aid a distressed vessel. Guess who pays? The President's policy proposal ( "chained CPI") would re-calculate the cost of living for Social Security beneficiaries. That new number won't keep up with inflation on things like food and health care.
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April 14, 5pm
The demand for respectful silence in the wake of a public figure's death is not just misguided but dangerous. Glenn Greenwald says there is absolutely nothing wrong with loathing Margaret Thatcher or any other person with political influence and power based upon perceived bad acts, and that doesn't change simply because they die. Also, police in New York City leave the items unattended on subway platforms, on park benches, in cars and wait to see if someone grabs them. The NYPD says the...
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April 13, 6pm
Should they be tried as children or adults? Jim Hammer joins Pat to discuss the impending trial of the alleged rapists of Audrey Pott.
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April 13, 7pm
Pat continues to take calls about the rape and suicide of Audrey Pott, the Sarotoga teenager who took her life, possibly as a direct result of the cyber-bullying of her alleged rapists.
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April 13, 8pm
Rape is rape, but the case has yet to be tried. Do you think Audrey's classmates are directly responsible for her death?
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April 7, 4pm
How's the Golden Gate Bridge no toll-taker policy working out for you? Council members in Nelson, a small city 50 miles north of Atlanta, voted unanimously to approve the Family Protection Ordinance, requiring every head of household to own a gun and ammunition to provide for and protect the safety, security and general welfare of the city and its inhabitants. Have you heard about the man from Blairsville, Pennsylvania charged with hunting deer in the parking lot of Walmart?
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April 7, 5pm
Across the U.S., strategies that boost scores without improving learning -- including outright cheating, narrow teaching to the test and pushing out low-scoring students -- are widespread, said FairTest Public Education Director Bob Schaeffer, Pats guest this segment. Fracking isnt new in California. Its been a standard step in oil drilling here for decades. Northern Californias Monterey Shale may be one of the largest oil fields in the country.
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April 6, 6pm
Should NCAA student athletes be compensated? The injury of Kevin Ware, the dismissal of Rutgers coach Mike Rice, and advice to the women of Princeton are discussed this hour.
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April 6, 7pm
Tim Sika and Pat remember Roger Ebert. Eberts favorite movies were: Raging Bull, 2001: a Space Odyssey, Aguirre: the Wrath of God, Apocalypse Now, Citizen Kane, La Dolce Vita, The General - Buster Keaton, Tokyo Story, Tree of Life, and Vertigo.
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April 6, 8pm
Alan Kaufman wrote Drunken Angel, one of the first memoirs by a Second Generation Holocaust writer to address how alcoholism, his Jewish lineage and the Holocaust intersect. He will be appearing April 10, 7:30pm In Conversation at the Albert L Schultz Jewish Community Center, Palo Alto, April 11, 7:30pm at Books Inc., Opera Plaza, San Francisco and April 17, 5:30pm at the Henry Ohlhoff Recovery Center, 201 Mission Street, SF.
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March 31, 4pm
Why are people against gay marriage? David asks if there could be equality if we use a different word for "marriage?"
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March 31, 5pm
Prof. Adam Winkler discusses the current issues regarding marriage before the Supreme Court. Also, David addresses the lack of philanthropy among the newly rich, as discussed in the article, the bacon-wrapped economy.
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March 31, 6pm
Do you know this man? Should massive accumulation of wealth be discouraged?
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