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The Final Push Against the TPP

Ari Rabin-Havt, The Agenda-SiriusXM Progress 127/The Benghazi Hoax, joins Thom. SHAFTA as I call it - appear to be coming to a close. Negotiators appear to be pushing to finish talks during this round - before the election cycle begins in 2016 in both the United States and Canada. According to sources - there are several key sticking points for different countries. Among them are the terms of Investor-State Dispute Settlement clauses in the SHAFTA deal and in existing trade agreements. Another key sticking point is how the medical patents will be handled - the current proposal would give a single company a monopoly on developing treatments for certain types of cancers and diseases. Which means that the competition in the market that drives innovation would be eliminated as a single company would have over a decade of non-competitive research. Beyond that - this deal appears to treat powerful industrial countries with the same rules as developing countries like Brunei or Malaysia - a fact that will harm both sets of countries in the name of multinational corporate interests.

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The GOP Plan To Privatize Medicare

Dr. David Hogberg PhD, National Center for Public Policy, joins Thom. Medicare - which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this week - is one of the most successful government programs in history. So why do Republicans like Jeb Bush want to destroy it?

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The Good, The Bad & The Very, Very, Ancipitally Ugly!

The Bad! Michael Savage! The host of one of America's most listened to hate-radio call-in shows has an interesting take on reparations: he'll go down fighting against it. Seriously take a look...

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Who Does Our Economy Serve?

America's biggest companies are raking in the big bucks - so why aren't they investing in innovation and paying their workers more?

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Feds Monitoring Black Lives Matter...Why?

Kymone Freeman, Black Lives Matter DC/We Act Radio/#FTP, joins Thom. Back in the 1950s and 1960s - J Edgar Hoover's FBI famously spied on and harrassed Civil Rights leaders like Martin Luther King, Jr. This was one of the most shameful moment's in our nation's history - so why is the Department of Homeland Security following in J Edgar Hoover's footsteps when it comes to the Black Lives Matter movement?

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Is runaway global warming already happening?

Professor Jeff Severinghaus, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego, joins Thom. A new report has found that 2014 was a record-breaking year for the climate in all the wrong ways.

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Full Show 7/27/15: Feds Monitoring Black Lives Matter Movement

Thom celebrates the 50th birthday of Medicare with The Agenda Project’s Erica Payne, discusses the final push to stop the TPP with radio host Ari Rabin-Havt, and how the federal government has been monitoring the Black Lives Matter movement since Ferguson with activist Kymone Freeman. In tonight’s Daily Take Thom discusses how the economy used to serve the people.

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Rumble - Jeb Bush Wants To Push Granny Off the Cliff

Hughey Newsome, Project 21/Move-On-Up & Sam Sacks, The District Sentinel & Patrick Hedger, American Encore all join Thom. Jeb Bush doesn't want America to believe it. But every time he opens his mouth - he sounds a little more like his brother. We’ll be talking about Jeb's latest unpopular policy proposal. Jeb Bush "Phase Out Medicare!"

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Rumble - Where Were The “Good Guys w/Guns" To Stop Houser?

Hughey Newsome, Project 21/Move-On-Up & Sam Sacks, The District Sentinel & Patrick Hedger, American Encore all join Thom. Why was this "drifter" - with a criminal record and a history of mental health issues - able to get a gun? And since Louisiana has the most lax gun laws in the country - where were all the "good guys with guns" to stop Houser?

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Panel on Cuba P2 - What We Could Learn

Netfa Freeman, Campaign for a Just Policy Towards Cuba-Institute for Policy Studies & James C. Early, Smithsonian Center for Folklife & Cultural Heritage (Retired)/U.S.-Cuba Cultural Exchange both join Thom. The US and Cuba have now officially normalized relations after more than 54 years. This is a big step forward - but how much can things really improve between the two countries when one is still trying to undermine the government of the other?

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