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Big Brother Alert! Issa wants the the identities of Americans who file a Freedom of Information Act request
Republican Darrell Issa - a former small-time criminal and now the richest man in the House of Representatives - is at it again. Using his post as the Chairman of the House Government Oversight Committee – Issa is asking the federal government to hand over the identities of every single American who has filed a Freedom of Information Act request. Issa claims he just wants the information to make sure the government is handling FOIA requests in a timely fashion. But considering the guy has already cozied up with big corporations – asking for their help in outlining what federal regulations he should attack – it should be troubling that he also wants the names of whistleblowers who may have targeted these same corporations in the past. Hundreds of thousands of journalists, former business executives, and regular citizens have filed Freedom of Information requests to uncover everything from the expanded influence of the military industrial complex to the delayed prosecution of rampant polluters of our environment. And now Issa – and his corporate buddies – want their names. This guy is on a mission to not only destroy the White House – but to also ensure that nobody stands in the way of corporations that want to continue violating pollution laws and taking advantage of their workers.
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture 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: Inside look at the Mid-East youth revolution - The Arab World's Youth Army...the chronically unemployed twenty-somethings fueling social and political upheaval across the Middle East With... - Jason Brownlee, Fellow-Woodrow Wilson Center; Associate Professor, Government and Middle Eastern Studies-University of Texas/Austin; author of "Authoritarianism in an Age of Democratization," - Alex Ortiz, student American University in Cairo, circumvented the government media block in Egypt, streaming live protest coverage this week from the streets - Amin Mahmoud, Egyptian Association for Change - USA.
How The U.S. Chamber Of Commerce’s Egyptian Affiliate Went To Bat For The Egyptian Dictatorship and Opposition Leader ElBaradei: Threat of Muslim Brotherhood Is A ‘Myth’ Lacking ‘One Iota Of Reality’ and One U.S. Corporation's Role in Egypt's Brutal Crackdown With... - Zaid Jilani, Rpeorter/Blogger-Think Progress.org - Tim Karr, Campaign Director-Free Press and SavetheInternet.com.
The Best of the Rest of the News...
Roger Stockham Arrested With Explosives Outside Major U.S. Mosque With Dawud Walid, Director-CAIR Michigan.
Screwed: Issa wants names of everyone who's ever requested info under the Freedom of Information Act With Russ Baker, investigative reporter/founder & editor in chief of "WhoWhatWhy" and author, "Family of Secrets".
Crazy Alert:Experiments are underway at Medical University of South Carolina to grow meat in a laboratory.
The Good, The Bad, The Ugly
Daily Take: Teddy Roosevelt speech of 1912...Glenn Beck rhetoric. Does violent behavior follow violent rhetoric?
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The Daily Stack 
Quote: "You must work, we must all work, to make the world worthy of its children." -- Pablo Casals.
Hour One: A look inside the youth revolution in Egypt with Professor Stephen Zunes, Professor of Politics & International Studies/Chair, Middle Eastern Studies Program-University of San Francisco; contributor to Foreign Policy in Focus.
Hour Two: Should children get life in prison for murder? Thom asks Robin Bond, Legal expert & former Prosecutor.
Plus, Mayors Against Illegal Guns - fix background check loopholes with Mayor Rick Gray, Mayor, City of Lancaster, PA.
Tweet: "US Egypt policy translated: keep army from using violence + get transition to a post-Mubarak real democracy, but not sure how" by abuaardvark" (Marc Lynch).
Hour Three: A look inside the youth revolution in the Middle East with Professor Jason Brownlee, Fellow-Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, DC; Associate Professor, Government and Middle Eastern Studies-University of Texas/Austin; author of "Authoritarianism in an Age of Democratization".
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Thom's Poll
A “mega protest” is expected tomorrow of one million people in Egypt’s capital - is this the end of the US supporting Dictators?
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