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The 111th session of Congress has passed more legislation affecting more people than any other Congress since the 1960’s...
On Capitol Hill - The START nuclear treaty passed a cloture vote yesterday in the Senate. 67 Senators agreed to end debate on the treaty setting up a final vote for passage today. Majority Leader Harry Reid will need all of those 67 votes to hold for the treaty to garner the necessary 2/3 majority for passage – and thus securing an important foreign policy victory for President Obama. And for that matter – the rest of the world that wants to take a tougher stance on reducing loose nuclear materials. Also – the Senate is expected to finally pass the 9/11 first responders health care bill this afternoon - now that changes to the bill have accommodated the Chamber of Commerce’s corporate concerns. And in the White House today – President Obama signed “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” repeal into law – an important milestone for civil rights in our country. All in all – according to Columbia University historian Alan Brinkley – the 111th session of Congress has passed more legislation affecting more people than any other Congress since the 1960’s – unfortunately they weren’t the transformative victories many progressives hoped for 2 years ago. And while more people have received much needed help – the status quo of supply-side economics, free trade, and corporate preference still continues.
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 9pm and 11pm... the rich are continuing to get richer in America – while the poor drop deeper into poverty. (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT, and catch past shows on Youtube)
Need to Know: Obama's Guantanamo Promises Fade Away with Corey Saylor, National Legislative Director-Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).
Screwed! Analysis of census data confirms the rich are continuing to get richer in America – while the poor drop deeper into poverty. with Dr. John Lott, Fox News Contributor and Author of Freedomnomics: Why the Free Market Works and Other Half-Baked Theories Don't (his latest piece for Fox news: Class Warfare May Make Good Politics But Is It Fair to the American Taxpayer?).
The Best of the Rest of the News...
Are the rich that different? with Dr. Dacher Keltner, professor of psychology at University of California, Berkeley/Director for Greater Good Science Center/author of more than 80 scholarly articles and two books and co-author of the study "Social Class, Contextualism, and Empathic Accuracy" published in the journal Psychological Science.
WikiLeaks...journalism or espionage-media can't decide with Dan Gainor, Vice President & T. Boone Pickens Free Market Fellow at the Business and Media Institute.
Accomplishment's of the Obama administration to date...Did he really do that? with Richard Greene, attorney, political and communication strategist/author of "Words That Shook the World: 100 Years of Unforgettable Speeches and Events".
Crazy Alert: TSA Romance novel.
The Good, The Bad, The Ugly.
Daily Take: Busted for two buds in Montana...really?! Montana Jury Stages 'Mutiny' In Marijuana Case.
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The Daily Stack 
Quote: "The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness" -- Eric Sevareid, "The Press and the People," television program, 1959.
Hour One: It's a special Wednesday, holiday edition of "Brunch With Bernie"...America's Senator... Senator Bernie Sanders will be here for the first hour talking about the important issues of the week and taking your calls...
Hour Two: Does watching Fox News make you stupid? Thom has a rumble with Dan Gainor of the Business and Media Institute.
Hour Three: Are the wealthy really that different from you & me...new study says yes Thom asks Yaron Brook, president and executive director-Ayn Rand Institute; regular contributor to Forbes.com.
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Coming up Thursday and Friday on The Thom Hartmann Program
While you're celebrating with family and friends, please enjoy a special edition of Thom Hartmann Recycled featuring great guests and more stimulating conversation...it's viagra for your brain...but does not cause stiff thinking...
And, to you and yours, we wish you the happiest of holidays...
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Watch & Listen to Thom
Conversations with Great Minds with Chris Hedges, Pt 1
Conversations with Great Minds with Chris Hedges, Pt 2
The Science of Surviving Nuclear Attack
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Mondragon Corporation
The Mondragon Corporation in the Basque Country in northern Spain is neither hierarchical nor patriarchal. There’s no king or lord. The corporation is owned by its employees. The most highly paid person earns less than six times the most poorly paid person. Decisions are made by workers on the front lines, and then communicated up to the “managers” for implementation.
And this is no flaky, hippy-dippy, commune-like experiment. It is the world’s largest federation of cooperatives, employing more than 90,000 people in more than 250 companies that focus on four areas: retail, finance, industry, and knowledge. In 2008, Mondragon’s revenue was €16.8 billion ($24.2 billion). All – every last euro cent – of the profits are distributed in one of three ways: reinvested in the business, given to worthy local charities, and paid as dividends to Mondragon’s worker-owners.
What Mondragon has shown, by its sheer size, scope and success, is a new economic model that avoids the pitfalls of both modern capitalism and old-fashioned communism.
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 Would you like to help give a child with a very troubled background this feeling of peace? Thom and Louise Hartmann founded the New England Salem Children's Village (NESCV) in New Hampshire in 1979. With states delaying payment for the children they entrust to the village, they need help with cash flow. Can you help? |
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