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Net Neutrality Attack!
You need to know this. We are now seeing the second attack on net neutrality from the same company - Comcast. Level 3 Communications – an Internet company that carries Netflix’s streaming movie service - was hit with what it called an unfair fee by Comcast for sending data across the Internet. Thomas Stortz – Level 3’s chief legal officer said - "Comcast is effectively putting up a toll booth at the borders of its broadband Internet access network." If so - this would go directly against the FCC’s rule preventing Internet Service Providers from deciding on which type of web traffic they want to administer. It would also prove the lie of those who say the Internet is still free and wide-open and therefore legislation and government oversight is not needed. With Comcast on the verge of receiving federal approval to buyout NBC – we could see an avalanche of restrictions placed on Internet data by Comcast. If Comcast isn't stopped soon and suddenly by Congress or the Obama Administration, free and open Internet may be a thing of the past.
-Thom
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Today on the Big Picture... Should Julian Assange be labeled a terrorist and charged with treason? On RT TV at 9pm and 11pm... (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT, and catch past shows on Youtube)
Need to Know: First attack on net neutrality? With Aparna Sridhar, Policy Counsel with Free Press.
Screwed: Two year wage freeze for federal employees...another concession to Republicans? Obama announces 2-year pay freeze for federal workers. With Andrew Langer, President, Institute for Liberty.
More and more millionaires standing up to pay their fair share... Patriotic Millionaires Against Tax Cuts Double Over Holiday Wknd... Close to 100 Millionaires Demand End to Tax Cuts. With Dr. Rob Johnson, former Soros currency trader and an economist and the former Chief Economist for the Senate Banking committee.
Best of the Rest:
Should Julian Assange be labeled a terrorist and charged with treason? What?! Bush Speechwriter Marc Thiessen Suggests Invading U.S.-Allied Nations To Capture WikiLeaks. With Seton Motley, President - Less Government.
Crazy Alert: Broke Mexicana stewardesses launch racy calendar Sexy air crew calendar takes off. Female flight attendants from the ailing airline Mexicana launch a racy calendar in an attempt to ease their financial worries
The Good, The Bad, The Ugly… there is far less of a hangover after the Teapot Party.
Daily Take: START TREATY - Republicans still stalling on ratification
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The Daily Stack 
Quote: "The world wants disarmament, the world needs disarmament. We have it in our power to help fashion future history." -- Arthur Henderson (1863-1935) British Union Leader, Politician, Disarmament Advocate, 1934 Nobel Peace Prize Winner.
Hour One: The new START treaty has been sitting untouched waiting for ratification since April...what's the hold-up? Former U.S. Senator Gary Hart (D-CO), Chairman of the American Security Project, joins Thom in the studio...
Plus, START Treaty...also, Iran/N.Korea, etc... Dr. David Kay, Consultant with the American Security Project; former IAEA/UNSCOM Chief Nuclear Weapons Inspector, joins Thom in the studio.
Hour Two: Separation of Church & State? Catholic League's campaign to intimidate public officials into displaying Nativity scenes on state property. Thom is joined by Jeff Field, Communications Director, Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights.
Quote: "If the only prayer we ever said was 'Thank you' that would be sufficient." by Meister Eckhart.
Full Monty alert: "" by .
Elaine Pagels.
Hour Three: it's a national day of action to help save Medicare and Social Security... Tim Carpenter of Progressive Democrats of America will be here...
Quote: "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtfully committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." -- Margaret Mead.
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Coming up Wednesday on The Thom Hartmann Program
Hour Two: Conservative media is reporting the world will end if the Bush Tax Cuts expire...good news! It won't! I'll have a rumble with Dan Gainor of the Business and Media Institute...
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"Conversation with Great Minds" with Richard Trumka, Part 1
"Conversation with Great Minds" with Richard Trumka, Part 2
Thom Hartmann has an in depth conversation with President of the AFL-CIO, Richard Trumka about wealth, wages, unemployment, deficits, progressives, Democrats, Republican and the the White House messaging
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Downsize the Pentagon.
On April 15, 2010, Glenn Beck did a rather remarkable thing on his Fox “News” TV show. He pointed out that our military is stretched all over the world, that the US spends 47 percent of the military spending of the entire world, and called for cutting in half our annual $700-plus billion military budget. We don’t need a military with outposts in Germany and Japan and pretty much everywhere else – the military of an empire – because, Beck said, “We are not an empire, we are a republic.”
As well as “hawks” who want a “strong national defense,” and “doves” (aka “hippies”) who want “peace” and therefore don’t want much military at all, we now have, with the continuing infiltration of libertarian and classical conservative ideas into the Republican Party, a new breed of right-wing populist emerging who sees our bloated defense budget as wasteful and unnecessary.
Just during the eight years of the Bush-Cheney administration – while they were doubling the national debt from around $5 trillion to around $12 trillion – annual defense spending just about doubled, with the majority of that extra spending going to “contractors”.
The problem with spending money on a bomb is that when that bomb is dropped on somebody (or retired to the scrap heap), the money vanishes. But if the same money is spent on high-speed rail or schools or other physical or intellectual infrastructure (research, for example), it comes back to society and the government over and over again in the form of a more vibrant economy and a more well-paid (and thus higher tax-paying) workforce.
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