Down To Earth With Harriet Cammock
Down To Earth With Harriet Cammock discusses current events ranging from politics to education reform to homelessness and sex trafficking. Ms. Cammock also conducts exciting guest interviews featuring recording artists, community leaders, and political movers & shakers are Down To Earth airs live Monday -- Friday at 10:00 AM Eastern Standard Time on BlogTalkradio.com. You can also find Down To Earth on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, and more. As a listener-supported podcast, your contribution helps make Down To Earth possible. Visit Ms. Cammock's website at www.harrietcammock.com/podcast to find out how you can support for as little as $0.99/month. Ms. Cammock is a three-time published author, public speaker, and advocate for an end to violence against women. Visit her website at www.harrietcammock.com to find out more.
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March 21, 2021 • 46 mins
The Atlanta Spa Shootings, this past week has brought national attention to the problem of racism in America.
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March 7, 2021 • 42 mins
The Republican Party is still reeling fom election losses in 2020 and their point man, aka rock star, Donald Trump, is unlikely to win another national election. In an effort to affect the outcome of future elections, the GOP through their control of state legislatures, by gerry-mandering, is enacting voter suppression legislation similar to Jim Crow laws.
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February 28, 2021 • 4 secs
Romans 8:28, says all things work together for our good. Comforting words in times of trial, when nothing seems to be working, when the thing you need thw most, is not happening, but your are still alive and breathing. Somehow.
Our comfort and assurance comes from this Scripture.
Our comfort and assurance comes from this Scripture.
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February 21, 2021 • 48 mins
Texas is still recovering from the snowstorm that caused the state’s power grid to collapse and left millions without electricity during freezing weather. For days, millions of Texans lived without power, sufficient warmth, accessible roads or empathy from certain elected officials.
While millions of residents starved, froze, and went hungry, their elected officials flew to Cancun and Florida to soak up some sun. With one of the hal...
While millions of residents starved, froze, and went hungry, their elected officials flew to Cancun and Florida to soak up some sun. With one of the hal...
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February 14, 2021 • 34 mins
The Republican Party has become the party of the far right. The Extreme far right, we have seen where conspiracy theories abound and sustained by their former president , that fuled a riot at the Capitl on Jan 6. What are they afraid of about that day that if Americans learn the truth, would jeopardise their chances in #2022 and #2024?
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February 7, 2021 • 48 mins
The Qanon Conspiracy theory has at it's base a theory that the governemnt is being run by deep state satanists that supports child sex trafficking. Funnty thing about thais is their preferred leader is Donald Trump a man who has been accused of having sex with a 12 yr old child and who was friends with sex trafficker, Jeffrey Epstein.
The Qanon conspiracy followers played a prominent role at the U.S. Capitol Riot on jan. 6, a mob i...
The Qanon conspiracy followers played a prominent role at the U.S. Capitol Riot on jan. 6, a mob i...
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January 31, 2021 • 55 mins
A failed president in an attempt to overturn an election, incited a mob to run up on elected representatives, while the leislature was in session. This action whether he thought about it or not, brought America to civil war, not fought with guns, but a war nontheles of ideas and ideals, on how we govern, how we rule each other, how we distribute the wealth of the country and how we vote.
America at a crossroads. Do we continue to...
America at a crossroads. Do we continue to...
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January 18, 2021 • 54 mins
The Republican Party, whose leader is Donald Trump, incited a riot on the US Capitol in Washington, DC on January 6th,2021. Trump, who lost the election refused to accept the results, and mounted challenges in battleground states at every judicial level. Through social media, he radicalized fringe elements of thw Republican Party and invicted them to Washington to fight for him to get the results overturned.
All the while The Reubli...
All the while The Reubli...
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January 17, 2021 • 49 mins
With domestic terroists threatening all 50 State Capitols and the inauguration of the 46th president, what indeed will happen?
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January 10, 2021 • 48 mins
Wednesday January 6th, 2021, will go down in Infamy. It was the day trump supporters who had just left a rally organized and supported by trumpand his allies, incited a mob to stage a take-over of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC.
From all accounts this was an insurrection and a coup. All 435 members of Congress and 100 Senators, including the vice-president, a trump loyalist, were inside.
Was this mob trying to simulate the Georg...
From all accounts this was an insurrection and a coup. All 435 members of Congress and 100 Senators, including the vice-president, a trump loyalist, were inside.
Was this mob trying to simulate the Georg...
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January 3, 2021 • 50 mins
The Year 2020 has gone downin history as one of the worst years in history, what can we expect of 2021? Does it mean that 2020 was a dress rehersal or that 2020 won?
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December 22, 2020 • 40 mins
Im the age of the Coronavirus, questions surrounding the safety of retuning to office spaces abound. Under new ruling by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, or the EEOC, employers are entitled — and required — to ensure a safe workplace in which "an individual shall not pose a direct threat to the health or safety of individuals in the workplace." SThat can mean a company requiring its workforce to be vaccinated.
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December 21, 2020 • 38 mins
U.S. congressional leaders have reached agreement on a $900 billion package to provide the first new aid in months to an economy hammered by the coronavirus pandemic, the Senate's top Republican and Democrat said on Sunday, but it remained unclear when Congress would vote to seal the deal.
After living in a global pandemic for almost one whole year, people have been evicted, experienced job loss, unspeakable mourning, and the like. ...
After living in a global pandemic for almost one whole year, people have been evicted, experienced job loss, unspeakable mourning, and the like. ...
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December 17, 2020 • 29 mins
The coronavirus pandemic had unleashed a bonanza for untested contractors riding a wave of unprecedented demand and scarcity of everything from hand sanitizer to ICU beds. So far, the administration of President Donald Trump has handed out at least $5.1 billion in no-bid contracts to address the pandemic, federal purchasing data shows. The VA, far more than any other agency, appeared to be awarding large contracts to little-known v...
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December 15, 2020 • 40 mins
Westport, Connecticut is one example of a wealthy suburb that has surrounded itself with invisible walls to block access to affordable housing. The otherwise politically liberal state has kept its low-income housing concentrated in poor cities, an imbalance that hasn't budged in 30 years.
Zoning boards rely on regulations--often containing coded, racist language--to block the construction of privately developed duplexes and apartmen...
Zoning boards rely on regulations--often containing coded, racist language--to block the construction of privately developed duplexes and apartmen...
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December 14, 2020 • 42 mins
In past decades, families have often declined to write in an obituary how their relative died when there was stigma attached to the cause of death--AIDS, opioid overdose, or suicide, for example. But as the public becomes more aware of mental illness, drug addiction, and infectious disease, obituaries now give way to candor.
Such is the case for deaths resulting from coronavirus. Families and friends write in the terrifying final da...
Such is the case for deaths resulting from coronavirus. Families and friends write in the terrifying final da...
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December 13, 2020 • 46 mins
What message does the historical date of 14 July 1789, Paris, France hold for us today? A group of angry people, angry at the establishment, seething with resentment, attacked a state prison on the outskirts of Paris. The thing is the people were not attacking the prison to free the prisoners, there were only seven prisons housed there at the time; the people wanted access to the bullets and ammunition stored inside the prison.
The...
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December 11, 2020 • 35 mins
In a stunning rebuke, MasterCard and Visa have stopped allowing usage of their financial services at hub.
Mastercard said in a statement on Thursday that the investigation “confirmed violations of our standards prohibiting unlawful content on their site,” which prompted the company to terminate the acceptance of its cards on the site.
In a separate statement, Visa said, “We are instructing the financial institutions who serve MindG...
Mastercard said in a statement on Thursday that the investigation “confirmed violations of our standards prohibiting unlawful content on their site,” which prompted the company to terminate the acceptance of its cards on the site.
In a separate statement, Visa said, “We are instructing the financial institutions who serve MindG...
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December 10, 2020 • 39 mins
Visa and Mastercard said they would investigate their financial links to MindGeek, the parent company of the adult website hub, after the New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof reported that the website included videos of child abuse and nonconsensual sexual violence.
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