Gabe Elsner, Checks and Balances joins Thom Hartmann. Big oil is sabotaging our clean energy future. The organization "Checks and Balances" recently uncovered a treasure trove of documents outlining a strategy against President Obama's clean energy agenda - in particular - wind power. And behind this strategy are some very familiar names. Here to tell us who they are - and how they're trying to subvert clean energy in America - is Gabe Elsner, co-director of Checks and Balances.

Chris Hedges, Truthdig / Author, "The World As It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress." Right now the tip of the spear fighting back against austerity here in the United States is the Occupy Movement. So what will victory look like - and how will it finally be achieved?

Thom talks with journalist and author Chris Hedges on why the Occupy Movement frightens the corporate elite. Also discussed: the upcoming NATO Summit in Chicago, the failure of the "Americans Elect" experiment and the economic impacts of gay marriage. In tonight's "Daily Take" Thom looks at the "greed is good" mentality coming from the right over Facebook Co-Founder's plan to avoid paying US taxes.

The New York Times is out with a new story today on WPP - a London-based corporation that is buying up most of the big lobbying shops here in Washington, DC. The Times refers to the company as a "consolidating force at work in the influence-peddling industry." WPP is a $72 billion dollar foreign corporation - running more than 150 public relations, advertising, and lobbying companies employing nearly 160000 people. And K. Street is getting devoured by WPP - as more and more lobbying boutiques join up with the massive one-stop shop of influence. As the Times writes, "WPP has become, in effect, a special interest mega-firm, with offerings for conservatives and liberals, environmentalists and polluters, gun lovers and gun haters, Tea Party die-hards and public sector unions, old guard media and their high tech competitors - the entire gamut from left to right, top to bottom." So if you're a Texas energy baron - and you want to blow up EPA regulations on toxic coal ash - then reach out to WPP - where you'll have... First, access to their public relations team to promote your corporation and give it a good name in the community. Second, access to their advertising team to run smears against the EPA and "job-killing" regulations. And third, access to a lobbyist to whip up support for your anti-EPA agenda on Capitol Hill. Mitt Romney's Bain Capital did just that in 2011 - giving WPP $320000 to monitor "tax reform development." And here's what's most troubling - WPP runs ...