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Welcome to third world America, Germany's cheap labor depot...
Just how bad has it gotten for workers in our country? Imagine foreign nations outsourcing jobs to the US for, you guessed it, cheap labor. German automaker BMW announced they are opening a factory in the US and they need laborers. Answering the call are a crowd of skilled workers with advanced degrees who have now been squeezed out of the American workforce thanks to the Chamber's outsourcing death grip on our economy. BMW is paying these workers $15 an hour. In Germany, the same worker would make twice that. Welcome to third world America, Germany's cheap labor depot.
-Thom
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 "If you're looking for something that connects the dots between the BP oil disaster, the harm it's done to the Gulf of Mexico and the people paying the price, this book is it. In a clear and compelling voice, it explains the worst environmental catastrophe of our time, then shows the way forward to protect this national treasure, safeguard our future and break our destructive addiction to oil." |
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Free Speech TV to Provide Live Coverage of the Midterm Elections from Broadcast Centers in New York, Washington, DC and Denver.
Amy Goodman, Thom Hartmann, Laura Flanders, Marc Steiner and Gloria Neal to Host.
Free Speech TV (FSTV) will broadcast live coverage of the upcoming midterm elections from broadcasting centers in New York, Washington, DC and from their headquarters in Denver. The coverage is scheduled to air on November 2nd, 2010 from 8:00 pm - 2:00 am EST on DISH Network channel 9415, DIRECTV channel 348 and streaming online at FREESPEECH.ORG, featuring Facebook, Twitter, live chat interactive tools, and as well as audience-submitted videos.
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The Daily Stack 
Quote: "Physics is imagination in a straight jacket" -- John Moffat.
Guest hosting today is David Sirota, journalist, nationally syndicated weekly newspaper columnist, host of the David Sirota Show 7-10am weekdays on Colorado's Progressive Talk - AM 760 and bestselling author, currently working on his 3rd book, his most recent "The Uprising".
Hour One: Do Democrats need to take an electoral step back to take two steps forward in the future? With Ari Berman, Contributing writer for The Nation magazine and an Investigative Journalism Fellow at The Nation Institute, author of the new book Herding Donkeys: The Fight to Rebuild the Democratic Party and Reshape American Politics.
Hour Two: First it was violence on tv, then violence in video games...now it's violence in sports....has it gotten out of hand? Nation sports writer Dave Zirin, author of "Bad Sports: How Owners Are Ruining the Games We Love" joins David.
Hour Three: Should colleges dump final exams...education innovation or academic laziness? With Keith O'Brien, freelance writer, former reporter for The Boston Globe.
Military recruits are too fat to serve and soda is getting part of the blame...should the military ban it? NY Times food columnist Mark Bittman is here...
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Coming up Friday on The Thom Hartmann Program
Hour One: Ever wonder if letting your kids watch violence on tv or in video games has any lasting effect? Dr. Jordan Grafman will be here with the results of a new study...
Hour Two: you may already be a green consumer...ever wonder what would make everyone else get on board? Wall Street Journal staff reporter Stephanie Simon will be here with some great ideas...
And, the best of the rest of the news and your calls right here on...
The Thom Hartmann Program... your media support group for we the people.
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Take our media back - Breaking Up the Media Monopolies
Back in the 1930s and 1940s, a few movie studios controlled which stars were shown in their theaters, which was good for profits but not for stars they decided to break or for the movie-going audiences since they controlled which movies were shown in each community. Eventually, in 1948, the Supreme Court ruled that the movie giants could no longer have total control of the vertically integrated system from contracting with movie stars to making movies to showing them in their own local theatres all across the country. They had to choose: either operate in the movie making business, or the movie showing business. They couldn’t do both. This led to a boom in independent filmmakers and new theatres. The industry today is infinitely more diverse and creative as a result of that breakup. Similarly, the Prime Time Access Rule in 1970 opened the door to independent TV production companies. While the rules are no longer enforced, there is still more competition now than before.
But no such rules have been introduced for radio. The powerful stations can choose what is heard, and many choose to carry exclusively conservative programming. One of the largest owners of the biggest (full-power) radio stations in the country also owns the largest syndication service in the nation. When they carry shows their syndication service owns, they make money both from the local station ownership and from the ownership of the syndication service.
A “fairness doctrine” would be difficult to enforce. Instead, we need to return to the notion of “programming in the public interest” making news back into news, and also start enforcing the Sherman Anti-Trust Act and using it to break up the large media monopolies that have re-formed since the Reagan and Clinton eras, thus effectively rolling back media deregulation.
Find out how other countries do it and what more can be done in chapter four, "An Informed and Educated Electorate" Order Rebooting the American Dream now! (On Kindle too) |
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Watch & Listen to Thom
Thom confronts Bryan Fischer who equates Muslims with neo-Nazis
Thom goes after Tea Party activist for destroying the middle class.
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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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