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Thom's blog
Who’s screwed? All of us who don’t want to be poisoned!
Who’s screwed? All of us who don’t want to be poisoned! Republicans are trying to defund an online database set to launch in a few weeks that would make public safety complains against companies available for the public to view. Republicans argue the database will lead to companies having to pay to fight lawsuits. Currently – complaints are kept secret. On top of that – Republicans are working to stamp out new safety regulations that stop toxic products from being brought in from overseas – claiming these new regulations cut into the profits for their CEO buddies.
Do these guys have amnesia?
Remember the more than 80 American who died from the blood thinner Heparin – which was manufactured in a pig farm in China and contained lethal chemicals? Or the 3,600 dogs and cats that died because their pet food – also made in China - contained the poisonous chemical melamine. Or the 25 million children’s toys found in American stores that were laced with illegally high levels of lead. Toys that were manufactured in…you guessed it…China! Or how about the 450,000 faulty tires we bought FROM CHINA that could have killed American drivers? The lessons are pretty obvious here – maybe we should stop buying from China and start building stuff in America again.
Is that too much to ask from our bought-and-paid-for politicians and greedy CEOs?? Apparently?
-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
BREAKING: Wisconsin Voters Launch Recall Campaign Against Eight GOP State Senators
Guest: Mike Tait - Chair, Wisconsin Democratic Party
As Union Membership Has Declined, Income Equality Has Skyrocketed in the U.S.
Guest: Zaid Jilani - Reporter/Blogger - Think Progress.org
Screwed:
Republicans Looking to Block Consumer Safety Law
Guest: Seton Motley, President - Less Government
The Best of the Rest of the News...
Bill Would Make Some Airport Screening Sexual Assault
...Those COnvicted Would be Tier III Offenders
Guest: Sharon Cissna - Alasks State Representative
Will TSA Unionization Jeopardize Air Safety?
Guest: Matt Patterson - Contributor, Pajamas Media
Birther Bill Pop Up in Numerous States Ahead of 2012
Guest: Philip J. Berg, birther/attorney
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The Daily Stack 
Quote: "In all wars the object is to protect or to seize money, property and power, and there will always be wars so long as Capital rules and oppresses people." -- Ernst Friedrich, War Against War (1924).
Hour One: Latest from the trenches...Wisconsin's war on Labor with John Nichols, Washington Correspondent - The Nation Magazine; Associate Editor-Capital Times; author/co-author of several books, latest (with Robert McChesney) "The Death and Life of American Journalism".
Why do conservatives think that bombs are the answer to everything? Thom confronts Michael Ledeen of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
War on Labor...Ohio union busting with Susan Taylor, president, Ohio Federation of Teachers, AFT, AFL-CIO.
Hour Two: Should bigots be able to become foster parents? with Bryan Fischer, director of Issue Analysis for Government and Public Policy at American Family Association.
BREAKING: Wisconsin Voters Launch Recall Campaign Against Eight GOP State Senators with Graeme Zielinski, Communications Director, Democratic Party of Wisconsin.
Hour Three: Breaking news from Wisconsin's war on Labor with John Nichols, Washington Correspondent - The Nation Magazine; Associate Editor-Capital Times; author/co-author of several books.
The very, very ugly:" And the very, very ugly…Glenn Beck. On his radio show today – Beck said it’s just a matter of time before the labor protests around the nation will “rear its ugly head” of anti-Semitism. Beck claimed, “I would bet you that 50% of [union organizers] are anti-[semitic]” Right…this coming from the guy whose “list of American enemies” is comprised nearly entirely of Jewish people. Seeking out anti-Semitism, Glenn? – Look in the mirror! That’s very, very ugly."
From Today Show: Miss Colorado is homeless, Blaire Griffith stunned mother
Huckabee on Charlie Rose, run for president retire at 75
Crazy Alert: Pizzaria Philadelphia Verona? Competitior Galiatsos walks in bathroom finds bag mice on shelf
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Coming up Friday on The Thom Hartmann Program
Hour One: If it's Friday, it's "Brunch With Bernie"... the honorable Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) will be here with all the news from our nation's capitol and as always he'll be spending the hour taking your calls and answering your questions too...
Plus, It's Anything Goes on Townhall Friday...you choose the topics and we'll talk...
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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Thom's Poll
81% of Americans polled support higher taxes on millionaires to reduce the deficit. Will the Republicans listen to Americans?
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Watch & Listen to Thom
Thom Hartmann & Teamster's James Hoffa: What is the future for labor?
Thom Hartmann: Fox News...Unfair and Completely Unbalanced?
Thom Hartmann: Should foster care children be placed with bigots?
Thom Hartmann: Are American CEOs traitors to the middle class?
Or watch the whole show...
Wisconsin and Ohio, FOX News, Drill baby drill
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