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Tuesday, December 16, 2014

WHY IS THIS OUR REALITY?

Why is this our reality? I think we all know why ...

- Mark

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MEDIA INTERVIEWS

C-SPAN Interview: I introduce some of the stories and concepts from my book The Myth of the Free Market during this 2013 C-SPAN interview.

KGET 17 News (NBC) Political Analyst: As a 17 News' political analyst, I have done numerous news segments discussing our political scene over the years.

Book Promo Interview: I discuss my book just after it was released in 2009.

NPR / San Joaquin Valley: NPR / Quality of Life host Terry Phillips and I discuss my book, 2009.

Speaking / Lecture: Contact me via e-mail (mmartinez@csub.edu) or at my university office (661-654-2352) if you would like me to speak at your event.

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THIS IS WHAT WE'RE DEALING WITH ... AND, YEAH, YOU CAN'T MAKE THIS STUFF UP
THE FUTURE OF CARS, AND TRANSPORTATION
OIL INDUSTRY AVOIDS TAXES, REAPS BILLIONS IN SUBSIDIES
WALL STREET'S GET OUT OF JAIL FREE CARD ... "INTENT"
WALL STREET'S TRILLION DOLLAR MONEY FLOOD
A WORD FROM THE IOWA CAUCUSES
TEA BAG TEMPER TANTRUM
CALIFORNIA LAKES ... BEFORE AND AFTER PICTURES
THIS IS HOW WE DEFEAT THE PARIS HILTON PRINCIPLE
THE McCARTHY-PHILLIPS DEBATE

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BARACK OBAMA

" ... The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of middle-class security all bear the union label."

HARRY S. TRUMAN

"I never did give them hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell."

WOODROW WILSON

"I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something."

JOHN F. KENNEDY

"The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived, and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic."

THOMAS JEFFERSON

"He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors."

FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

"I ask you to judge me by the enemies I've made."

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" ... while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings."

JOHN M. KEYNES

"I do not know which makes a man more conservative--to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past."

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