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Harvey Wasserman embraces your views with a Solartopian vision of the people’s politics, ecology, holistic health and much more.
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Mar 22, 2019
Mar 22, 2019
55 min
Protecting the 2020 Election
We are Joined by election protection heroes John Brakey and Bob Fitrakis. they tell us how we must protect the upcoming apocalyptic election of 2020.
There are great solutions including ballot imaging and hand cast paper ballots
Learn all about it with these two spectacular experts and then see how you can make the difference

Mar 15, 2019
Mar 15, 2019
58 min
How Fast Will Nuke Power Collapse?
Atomic experts Jim Green, Paul Gunter and Kevin Kamps explain how a dying reactor industry is clamping on to bought state legislatures for gargantuan handouts
Jim reports from Australia that renewables are digging deep into the sick dependence on coal down there and that small reactors are all but dead.
Kevin reports on a wind power revolution in Iowa.
Paul tells of the nuke bailouts in New Hampshire
These three great experts are not to be missed if you’re concerned about our nukes future
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Mar 8, 2019
Mar 8, 2019
55 min
WILL THE 2020 ELECTIONS BE RIGGED?
We joined by world-class election experts BOB FITRAKIS and STEVE ROSENFELD to discuss the mechanics of the upcoming election, both the primaries and the general.
Steve tells us that the Democrats are planning some really bizarre procedures for their election process, including voting by mail and by cell phone.
Bob points out that Ohio is planning to run its elections on machines that may or may not have ballot imaging devices, which are essential to a fair vote count. And that in some cases, county elections boards simply will not turn on the ballot imaging devices.
The whole issue has taken on Alice-in-Wonderland dimensions that in some cases are positively surreal.
But if you are prepared for another lifetime with Donald Trump, don’t waste your time with this astounding discussion.

Mar 1, 2019
Mar 1, 2019
55 min
VENEZUELA! NICARAGUA! CUBA! BRAZIL! MICHAEL COHEN! & THE END OF EMPIRE!!!!

Feb 22, 2019
Feb 22, 2019
56 min
ABOLISH MEDICAL DEBT!
Our nation is drowning in horribly destructive debt from medical treatments, ruining lives and forcing our citizenry to choose between bankruptcy and dying for lack of health care.
Author JERRY ASHTON and publisher JUDAH FREED come to Solartopia to tell us about their amazing book END MEDICAL DEBT, which explains in riveting detail how our broken health care system is destroying the fabric of our society with over $1.5 trillion in accumulated unpaid bills.
They also lay out the realities of their amazing charity RIP Medical Debt which takes donations and turns them into liberation from the crushing horrors of massive financial liability stemming from simply trying to stay alive.
This is an incredibly powerful and important aspect to modern life….and the one you save, could be your own. If you ever have to see a doctor, go to the hospital or buy a pharmaceutical, don’t miss this show.

Feb 18, 2019
Feb 18, 2019
54 min
TRUMP’S INSANE EMERGENCY, THE GREEN NEW DEAL & HOMELESSNESS, DEALING WITH THE DIABLO NUKE
We start in Solartopia today with the great activists JOEL SEGAL and JAMES FAKUDA dealing with the Mobster-in-Chief’s insane emergency, his desperate dodge to avoid criminal prosecution and high-profile Congressional hearings.
We hear from these two great guests how our nation, in saner times, can abolish homelessness and remake our stricken society in ways that make human sense.
We then talk with atomic experts MYLA RESON and MICHAEL KEEGAN about the devastating details of the deadly realities at Diablo Canyon and other dying atomic power plants.
Embrittlement, cracking, deferred maintenance, earthquakes, waste, incompetence and no need for power—these are the seven deadly sins of atomic energy that could kill us all.
We must not let it happen!

Feb 8, 2019
Feb 8, 2019
55 min
CALIFORNIA’S DIABLO CANYON NUKE ON THE BRINK
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> The huge Diablo Unit One is shut for refueling. Its owner, Pacific Gas & Electric, is bankrupt.
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> Massive public pressure wants the new governor, Gavin Newsom, to test the plant for seven key factors before it refuels:
> embrittlement, cracking, deferred maintenance, earthquake vulnerability, waste management, managerial competence and need for power.
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> We discuss this all with nuclear expert/activists PAUL GUNTER and LINDA SEELEY.
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> We’re also joined by BOB FITRAKIS, who brings in an Ohio dimension.
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> This essential discussion covers the bases in America’s most critical nuclear power debate. If you’re concerned about the next atomic apocalypse, don’t miss this show.

Feb 1, 2019
Feb 1, 2019
55 min
WILL THEY STEAL THE 2020 ELECTION?
Election Protection experts BOB FITRAKIS and STEVE ROSENFELD explain how our electoral process is being contested in Ohio, California and throughout the US.
Bob and Steve explain the latest nuances in gerrymandering, electronic machines, registration stripping, vote count flipping and much more.
If you’re worried about how our democracy will play out by next November, don’t miss this show.
We also hear from Harvey, at the opener, about the amazing fight now raging over California’s Diablo nuclear plant, with its owner, Pacific Gas & Electric, now in bankruptcy.

Jan 28, 2019
Jan 28, 2019
57 min
SHALL SALLY HEMINGS BE RECOGNIZED AS OUR 3d FIRST LADY?
Sally Hemings was the legendary African-American co-parent with our third president, Thomas Jefferson.
His life partner for nearly forty years, she bore him as many as eight children, at least four of whom lived to full adulthood.
The White House official record lists Jefferson’s first (white) wife, Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson, as his First Lady. But she died some twenty years before he entered the White House.
Instead, Martha’s half-sister, Sally Hemings, occupied the room next to Tom's study at Monticello, and bore him three children while he was president, all of whom lived to bear families and lead powerful, productive lives. In their wake have come scores of descendants scattered throughout the United States.
We are joined to talk about this with Tom & Sally’s brilliant descendent, EVELIA JONES, and by critic ED RAMPELL and political scientist BOB FITRAKIS.
Should Sally at last be recognized as a true First Lady? Should there be statues raised to her—including one at the Jefferson Memorial in DC? What is her rightful place at Monticello….and in our hearts?
Don’t miss this amazing discussion with a true descendent of one of America’s most important people.

Jan 18, 2019
Jan 18, 2019
57 min
WILL PACIFIC GAS & ELECTRIC’S BANKRUPTCY SHUT THE DIABLO CANYON NUKES?
No question of human survival is more urgent than shutting the huge twin reactors surrounded by earthquake faults at Diablo Canyon, California. Perched above the Pacific, 9 miles west of San Luis Obispo, these aging, defective, decrepit atomic behemoths threaten all of California and the United States with radioactive extinction.
We’re joined by long-time utilities attorney JOHN GEESMAN and expert/activist DONNA GILMORE to explore how PG&E’s looming bankruptcy could give the state of California the leverage to force at least three critical inspections at Diablo. The mega-utility in 2010 blew up part of San Bruno, killing eight people. It has been linked to at least 17 of the 2017-8 fires that ravaged northern California, killing scores of people while doing billions in damage and destroying one of the world’s most critical eco-systems.
PG&E must now go to the state for major financial, legal and other assistance. In return, California might well demand a close look at the plant’s potential embrittlement problems, the likelihood that the reactor pressure vessel is cracked, the critical deficiencies in its waste management protocols, and much more.
Diablo Unit One is schedule for a 40-day refueling outage in February. Will the state intervene to demand its safety certification where everyone knows the Nuclear Regulatory Commission will take a pass?
This discussion with Donna and John may set the tone for one of humankind’s most important life-or-death decisions.
