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Free & Equal Elections Foundation Announces Political Correspondents and Media for November 5 Presidential Debate

November 2, 2012 by 13 Comments

Free and Equal Elections Foundation today announced the political correspondents and media covering the November 5 Presidential debate. The debate will be held from 9:00 PM to 10:30 PM EST at RT America Studios in Washington, DC, broadcast live worldwide. Political correspondent coverage will occur from 8:00 to 9:00 pm.

Confirmed political correspondents include:

  • Thom Hartmann – NY Times bestselling author, entrepreneur, political commentator, and host of The Big Picture
  • Sam Seder – comedian, writer, actor, director, producer and talk radio host
  • Amber Lyon – Emmy Award-winning investigative journalist and whistleblower
  • Maytha Alhassen – journalist, writer, editor and University of Southern California Provost Ph.D. Fellow in American Studies and Ethnicity
  • Matt Welch – editor in chief of Reason magazine

Additional correspondents and moderator will be announced shortly.

Several American media outlets will stream the debate live including Free & Equal, Free Speech TV, Stitcher, Orion Radio Network,Yes Magazine, NextNewsNetwork, RT America’s YouTube channel, American Free Press, as well as UK-based Reciva Internet Radio. RT America will open its studio and offer a live, neutral feed via satellite to interested media.

International media will cover the debate in countries including Switzerland, Sweden, Russia, China, Spain and the UK.

The debate will feature Libertarian Party candidate Gary Johnson and Green Party candidate Jill Stein, a line-up decided by voters last week after the first debate moderated by Larry King between Johnson, Stein, Constitution Party candidate Virgil Goode, and Justice Party candidate Rocky Anderson. The first debate was one of the top trends on Twitter, and an even bigger social media buzz is expected for this second debate.

In the US, RT is available on Dish Networks, channel 280, and on cable in the metro areas of Washington DC, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Diego as well as in North and South Carolina, and Philadelphia. For more information go to http://rt.com/usa/where-to-watch/.

About Free & Equal

Free & Equal Elections Foundation is a non-partisan, 501(c)(3) public policy advocacy organization dedicated to reforming the electoral system throughout the United States.

For the 2012 debate season, Free & Equal has assembled a diverse group of ballot-qualified candidates, political parties, media, businesses, musicians, radio personalities, organizations, and individuals across the political spectrum to support an open, honest, unscripted, multi-partisan debate for American voters and the international community.

www.freeandequal.org

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  • Max

    Can people see this event in person? Are there tickets available?

    • Pete

      Yes Max tickets are available – or at least were available! You had to be in the know to go! I’ll be there, but unless you are a somebody or know a somebody I’m afraid you will just have to watch it via the internet. That’s democracy unfortunately!

      • http://twitter.com/BongBong BongBong

        No, that’s capitalism at work, which is the best form of “democracy”.

  • TheSecretOfOz

    Primary ways to help fix the world economy and foreign relations as a whole are:

    1) End all fractional reserve lending by private banks. (This will greatly improve the balance of political and financial power in our country and the world. The private banks
    would lose almost all their control of the main stream media and politicians.)

    2) Only fully government agencies can issue money (Eliminate private shareholders of the Fed. We pay the Fed’s private shareholders a 6% dividend for no legitimate reason. The
    Fed should be fully under the government umbrella with only all the U.S. Citizens as owners or their charter should not be renewed).

    3) Implement only one 15% Inflation Tax (see excellent documentary series “Money as Debt parts I, II, and III” and “The Secret of Oz”)

    4) Issue electronic rebate checks back to those with low net worth to compensate for the regressive nature of an Inflation Tax.

    5) Eliminate the IRS and the Income Tax (we waste close to $500 billion per year on Income Tax compliance, 6.1 billion labor hours wasted per year on compliance due to the extreme complexity of determining net income. Most of the complexity is on the business side).

    6) We should enact a 100% Estate Tax & Gift Tax for ALL money to Heirs exceeding $1 Billion Dollars (including their bogus ‘Foundation’ fronts) to help end Plutocracy. ALL the extra money should go directly to fund Education, Training, and Green jobs throughout the United States. Consider that Germany already gets over 20% of its energy from renewables and many countries far out-perform us in education and training.

    “A meaningful estate tax is needed to prevent our democracy from becoming a dynastic plutocracy.” -Warren Buffett

    Ask yourself what Hillary Clinton once asked: Do we want a Plutocracy or Meritocracy? (paraphrased)

    7) Implement a government/state/public-owned banking system in every state, such as the one in North Dakota (Bank of North Dakota). They should be the only ones that should use fractional reserve lending because they are owned by us (the public): http://banknd.nd.gov/

    Google “Bank of North Dakota” for more information.

    8) Eliminate the National Debt (Private bankers currently create money out of thin air, then loan it to us at interest. We can simply print our own money and not give private bankers huge amounts of undeserved/unearned interest.)

    9) The new Federal Reserve banking system would be the 100% publicly-owned. Fed in the center and the new member banks would only be 100% publicly-owned State banks. The private banks would have to fend for themselves, only loaning money they actually have. I’m only a fan of government doing what is truly a public service. Creating currency is clearly a unique public service – and should not be a way to line the pockets of any private bankers.

    The International Monetary Fund (IMF) recently released a report called “The Chicago Plan Revisited” in August 2012, supporting the notion of money being created
    directly from the government, eliminating the private banks CURRENT ability to charge
    interest on money they created out of thin-air. They could only charge interest on money they actually have. Enacting the “Chicago Plan” world-wide would help correct the balance of power and quickly grow the economy.

    “First, in our calibration the Chicago Plan generates longer-term output gains approaching 10 percent.” http://www.imf.org/external/pu…

    Google “The Chicago Plan Revisited” for more information.

    Everyone has my permission to copy, paste, forward, and reuse any or all of this.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1402936706 Donald W Rutledge

    i will promote

  • http://globalpoliticalawakening.blogspot.com Global Political Awakening

    Wow, Christina! You and the Free and Equal Team members have assembled an all star cast of media and political correspondents for the upcoming debate. I am so proud of all you are doing for the cause of Liberty! http://www.bethe5percent.com

  • leeks

    I cannot understand why your second debate has been narrowed to only 2 candidates. This seems to support the idea that voters are best informed if they hear only 2 perspectives, that political ideas must all fall into either a right or a left side. Isn’t that what your organization is fighting against?

    • http://twitter.com/BongBong BongBong

      Because just like in the majors, a winner will eventually be chosen after determining which candidates are more popular. Narrowing the field to Stein and Johnson allows them to deliver a focused message in the days and hours before the vote.

  • bill

    please only have 1 moderator this time

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  • Max

    Any chance C-Span will cover this debate again?

  • Ed

    As for the issue of nuclear power and its dangers, referred to by
    Jill Stein, breeder reactors don’t have the same waste issues
    (<<<<<<1% of the waste of most of what is currently
    being produced), are less susceptible to drought problems, can be run
    off of thorium rather than uranium, and can be also used as burner
    reactors to get rid of extant nasty nuclear waste. Downside = more
    expensive. Pebble bed reactors can provide safe nuclear power by making
    any meltdown take a week or more, assuming no action by the staff to
    scram it (requires pressing 2 buttons typically). In the case of burner
    reactors at the very least, I think nuclear power should have a long
    future, at least to eliminate the long-lived terrible radioactive waste
    we have laying around now.

    In addition, and on a somewhat
    separate topic, greenhouse gas emissions. No doubt they are bad, but how
    do our emissions hold a candle to the fact that we have deforested half
    the planet and denuded upper layer nutrient levels in the ocean,
    significantly reducing the levels of phytoplankton in it. Plants are
    God's answer to the carbon sequestration problem; the take in CO2 and
    emit 02. Volcanoes emit more CO2 every year than humanity does, reducing
    our carbon emissions (also, water vapor is a greenhouse gas, what about
    that?) by anything other than completely, would have negligible long
    term effects on global warming (although it would massively reduce other
    pollutants). Wouldn't it be better if we pursue a policy of planting
    more trees and adding iron (in *small* increments over a *long* time) to
    the dead zones of the ocean.