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Crazy Alert! Stone a liberal journalist to death?
Crazy Alert! A British Politician was arrested yesterday after taking to twitter and asking someone to stone a liberal journalist to death. Gareth Compton – a member of the Conservative Party - tweeted that he, “shan’t tell Amnesty if you don’t, it would be a blessing really,” if Yasmin Alibhai-Brown was stoned to death. It seems Mr. Compton does not know how to use twitter as effectively as certain American politicians. The key is not to outright call for someone’s death that you disagree with – but instead hint that your political enemy may be planning to kill – say…the elderly all over the country with something like…death panels. Way more effective – and also not a crime.
-Thom
(What do you think the reaction would have been if a Republican or Democrat had tweeted like that? Tell us here.) |
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Tonight on The Big Picture Crazy Alert: Stone a liberal journalist to death? Watch on RT TV at 9pm and 11pm (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT, and catch past shows on Youtube)
Ever since George W. Bush admitted to authorizing the use of waterboarding – or torture - in his new book, “Decision Points” – there has been growing pressure on the Obama Administration to launch an investigation.
Who's screwed? Reasonable people. While the Tea Party made a profound impact on the national elections last week – it looks like they are really flexing their muscles in local governments. And, The GOP may be on the verge of implosion...tea party in fighting with Laura Flanders, host and founder of GRITtv
How to we chop the head off the Chamber "beast"? with Christy Setzer, Communications Director.
The business of sports... how politics/business are ruining the games we love with Dave Zirin, sports writer for The Nation Magazine
The fight to save Social Security: Hands Off Social Security with Terrance Heath, Campaign for America's Future
Crazy Alert! Stone a liberal journalist to death?
The Good, The Bad, and the Very Very Ugly....
Daily Take: The shrinking free press...
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Highlights Of The Upcoming Week ... Nov 15th - 19th, 2010
Monday
Hour One: Labor News - the great wage theft caper - Kim Bobo, Executive Director of Interfaith Worker Justice, will be here.
Hour Two: Family of Secrets... the real story of George W. Bush and the Bush Dynasty - Journalist/Author Russ Baker will be here.
Hour Three: "Acid Christ: Ken Kesey, LSD and the Politics of Ecstasy" - Author Mark Christensen will be here.
Tuesday
Hour One: The politics of illegal drugs, racism and incarceration - NYU Professor of Clinical Law and former public defender Anthony Thompson will be here.
Hour Two: "Decision Points" by George W. Bush - Former FEMA Director Michael Brown talks about the book and his old boss.
Hour Three: What the *$@*?! Too much profanity in prime time? - Hollywood Reporter columnist Lindsay Powers will be here.
Wednesday
Hour Two: The High Cost of Low Prices - Journalist/teacher Ellen Ruppel Shell, author of "Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture", will be here.
Hour Three: Fast food, fat kids...the not so happy meals - A new report on marketing to kids www.yaleruddcenter.org.
Thursday
Hour Two: Geeky Science Rocks - What do flies, mice and humans all have in common?
Hour Three: Could the Twinkie police be coming for your next?! Thom has a rumble with Dan Gainor of the Business and Media Institute.
Friday
"Brunch With Bernie". Senator Bernie Sanders, (I-VT) spends the hour with Thom discussing the issues and answering listener questions.
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Read Thom's Book for Free!
Now you can read all of Thom Hartmann's "Rebooting the American Dream: 11 Ways to Rebuild Our Country" for free online. Truthout is publishing weekly installments over the next 12 weeks.
The introduction is already up, and each week we will be publishing another of the proven 11 steps to restoring America. |
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The Daily Stack 
Quote: "The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all." -- John F. Kennedy.
If it's Friday, it's "Brunch With Bernie"... the honorable Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) joins Thom with all the news from our nation's capitol and as always he spends the hour taking your calls and answering your questions too...
Hour Two: "Anything Goes on Townhall Fridays"
Hour Three: "Anything Goes on Townhall Fridays"
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Conversations with great minds
Ralph Nader: Corporate takeover of America. Pt. 1
Ralph Nader: Corporate takeover of America. Pt. 2
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Reign In Corporate Control of Government
It wasn't always this way. Consider this old Wisconsin law, broadly representative of laws virtually every state had up until the rise of the Robber Barons - railroad magnates and other businessmen who became wealthy using anti-competitive and unfair business practices - in the 1880s:
Political contributions by corporations.
No corporation doing business in this state
shall pay or contribute, or offer consent or agree to pay or contribute, directly or indirectly,
any
money, property, free service of its officers or employees or thing of value to
any
political party, organization, committee or individual for
any
political purpose whatsoever, or for the purpose of influencing legislation of
any
kind, or to promote or defeat the candidacy of
any
person for nomination, appointment or election to
any
political office.
What we have lost is the moral and ethical view of our civic life and replaced it with a story that says that anything is acceptable as long as it is legally permitted. In the UK such behavior is frowned upon as sleaze and politicians and former politicians can be suspended for taking contributions in return for using their influence. The US differs from most developed countries in its tolerance of bribery because of the US Supreme Court's interpretation of the "rights" of corporations and its interpretation of our First Amendment, which forbids the government from limiting "free speech," particularly interpreted to mean political free speech. Laws aimed at curbing it have been watered down.
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Thom and Louise Hartmann founded the New England Salem Children's Village in New Hampshire in 1979. With states delaying payment for the children they entrust to the village, they need help with cash flow urgently. Please help if you can. |
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