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Friday 2 December '11 show notes

Dec. 3, 2011 5:04 am

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Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT). "Brunch With Bernie".
Jack Abramoff, author, "Capitol Punishment: The Hard Truth About Washington Corruption From America's Most Notorious Lobbyist". Congress is looking at lawmakers insider trading...will banksters be next?
Anything Goes on Townhall Friday!
Bumper Music:
- Who Do You Love? George Thorogood and the Destroyers.
- I'd Love To Change The World, Ten Years After.
- Together, Anything Is Possible, Darius Rucker.
- Anything Goes, Tony Bennett.
- Judgement Day Eric Clapton.
- Warning, Incubus.
- Anything Goes (Chinese), from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.
- Grand Canyon, Dmitriy Lukyanov (you need to search for it) (with additional sounds by Jacob).
- What a Wonderful World, Louis Armstrong.

Thom's blog

Still wondering why there’s a need for the Occupy Wall Street Movement?

The Great Bush Crash of 2008 – resulted in a massive downgrade of the U.S. labor force. According to a new study out of Rutgers – only 7% of the millions and millions of Americans who lost their jobs during this second Republican Great Depression – have found a new job on par or better with the salary they were making before the 2008.

The vast majority of Americans say they are now living diminished lifestyles – with some saying they’ve taken drastic pay cuts that they fear will be permanent. Meanwhile – it took less that two years for Wall Street to return to the same profit levels as before the crash.

Still wondering why there’s a need for the Occupy Wall Street Movement? It’s because the 1% got bailed out – and the 99% got sold out.

-Thom

(Are you one of the 7%? Tell us here.)

Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 9pm and 11pm... Dr. Harriet A. Washington (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT, and catch past shows on Youtube)

The Big Picture Rumble:
- Erikka Knuti, Democratic Strategist

- Vince Coglianese, Daily Caller

- Brian Darling, Human Events

Daily Take: Should Megyn Kelly take a face full of pepper spray?

Conversations with Great Minds - Dr. Harriet A. Washington author-"Deadly Monopolies: The Shocking Corporate Takeover of Life Itself"

Highlights Of The Upcoming Week ... December 5 - 9, 2011

Monday

Hour One: Pay to protest?! WI Governor Walker's latest dirty trick exposed!
- Graeme Zielinksi, Democratic Party of Wisconsin

Hour Two: War on Christmas...who's naughty, who's nice?
- Bryan Fischer, American Family Association

Hour Three: "Personal Prosperity Accounts?" GOP's' latest plan to get your Social Security
- Peter Ferrara, Heartland Institute

Tuesday

Hour Three: Will he be the running man? 2012, Occupy Wall Street and why sued the TSA
- Gov. Jesse Ventura

Wednesday

Hour Three: Bankers pushed minorities into subprime loans...isn't this a crime?
- Stephen Moore, Wall Street Journal

Thursday

Hour Two: Geeky Science Rocks - Scientists discover the power of witch hazel, white tea and rose.

Friday

"Brunch With Bernie". Senator Bernie Sanders, (I-VT) spends the hour with Thom discussing the issues and answering listener questions.

Read Thom's Book for Free!

Now you can read all of Thom Hartmann's "Unequal Protection: How Corporations Became 'People' and How You Can Fight Back" for free online. Truthout is publishing weekly installments over the coming weeks.

Read Chapter 26: A New Democratic Marketplace today.

The Daily Stack

Quote: "If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich" -- John F. Kennedy .

Hour One: If it's Friday, it's "Brunch With Bernie"... the honorable Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) joins Thom 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...
Follow Bernie:

campaign site.

Article: "Making AIDS Treatment Affordable" by Bernie Sanders.

Article: "Republican leaders shifting stance on payroll tax cut" by Tom Cohen.

Article: "Home Heating" by Bernie Sanders.

Article: "The Week in Review" by Bernie Sanders.

Book: "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations", Adam Smith, 1776.

Bill: "Keeping Our Social Security Promises Act" (S 1558).

Article: "50 - Fireside Chat April 14, 1938" by Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Quote: "I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub" by .

Quote: "The very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men." - Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Hour Two: Congress is looking at lawmakers insider trading...will banksters be next?
- Jack Abramoff, author, "Capitol Punishment: The Hard Truth About Washington Corruption From America's Most Notorious Lobbyist"

Book: "Capitol Punishment: The Hard Truth About Washington Corruption From America's Most Notorious Lobbyist" by Jack Abramoff.

Article: "Jack Abramoff Doesn’t Care If Reformers Think He’s Sincere" by Ryan J. Reilly.

Article: "Constitution of the United States", article 3 section 2. "... the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make..."

Article: "Into the Fast Lane" by Josh Marshall (‘Murdoch Primary’).

Article: "Egypt’s Election, Take One" by Marina Ottaway.

Article: "Unemployment Slips to 8.6% as Private Sector Adds Jobs" by Josh Mitchell and Jeffrey Sparshott.

Site: callcongress.org.

Article: "Senate passes defense bill with detainee policy compromise" by Ted Barrett.

Article: "Reid Statement On Passage Of Defense Authorization Act" by Harry Reid.

Video: "Conversations with Great Minds with Morris Berman, Part 1. Why America Failed".

Video: "Conversations with Great Minds with Morris Berman, Part 2. Why America Failed".

Book: "Why America Failed: The Roots of Imperial Decline" by Morris Berman.

Book: "Dark Ages America: The Final Phase of Empire" by Morris Berman.

Case: "Marbury v. Madison", 1803.

Case: "Dartmouth College v. Woodward", 1819.

Case: "Santa Clara County vs. Southern Pacific Railroad", 1886.

Case: "Buckley v. Valeo", 1976.

Case: "First National Bank Of Boston V. Bellotti", 1978.

Case: "Dissent, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" by Justice J Stevens, 2009.

Site: "Move to Amend".

Talk Radio News Segment:
- Victoria Jones, White House Correspondent

Book: "Self Empowerment: Nine Things the 19th Century Can Teach us About Living in the 21st " by B. Anne Gehman and Ellen Ratner.

Video: "Thom Hartmann & Victoria Jones: Is 2 million people in the UK streets DAMP SQUIB?".

Article: "Boehner tells GOP he's trying to ‘make chicken salad out of chicken s--t’" by Molly K. Hooper.

Article: "Attempts to Extend Payroll Tax Holiday Fail in Senate" by Humberto Sanchez.

Hour Three: Anything Goes on Townhall Friday!

Article: "Santorum: Insurers Should Discriminate Against People With Pre-Existing Conditions" by Igor Volsky.

Book: "Rules for Radicals" by Saul D. Alinsky.

The good: "Raise Taxes on Rich to Reward True Job Creators: Nick Hanauer" by Nick Hanauer.

The bad: "Carlson: "Some Would Say That It's The Unions That Have Crippled The U.S. Economy And Led To The United States' Debt"" by Media Matters.

The very, very ugly: "Naughty or Nice? AFA's 2011 listing of top retailers and how they recognize Christmas" by AFA.

Site: "Living Downstream".

Site: "Democracy for America".

Article: "59% Want US Troops Home from Afghanistan" by Rasmussen.

Article: "93% of workers who lost jobs in recession suffered lifestyle changes" by Tiffany Hsu.

Article: "Pew: Majority of illegal immigrants have been in the U.S. for more than a decade" by Suzy Khimm.

Crazy alert: "South Africa UFO Convention Theory: ETs Raid Earth For Gold ".

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Hartmann: Is 2 million people in the UK streets DAMP SQUIB?

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Hartmann vs. Selig: Please, Mr. Scrooge, may I have a lump of coal?

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Hartmann: The Good, The Bad, and the Very Very Susulikely Ugly

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Hartmann: Crazy Alert! What do you buy a Senator who has everything?

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Hartmann: Is your cell phone spying on you?

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Hartmann: Are violent video games changing your child's brain?

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Hartmann: The NEW three "R's" - reading, writing and ad revenues

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Hartmann: What happened with the notion of a "The Leisure Society?"

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Or watch the whole of The Big Picture show...

Full Show - 12/1/11. GOP admits they're afraid of OWS

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Thom speaks with Think Progress reporter and blogger, Zaid Jilani about the Republican's increasing apprehension surrounding the nationwide occupy movements. He then debates a conservative commentator about the Republican's push for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program to make spending cuts...jeopardizing millions of low income families.

Thom Hartmann on the News - December 2, 2011

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Why do Republicans think a sexual affair is worse than a sexual assault?

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Hartmann: Brunch with Bernie - December 2, 2011

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Jack Abramoff agrees with Thom Hartmann on ending Corporate Personhood

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