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Is it good to be rich?
When a poor guy robs a rich guy, he goes to prison. But when the mostly-white rich guys screw over poor minorities – no one goes to jail. Bailed out Bank of America will pay a $335 million "settlement" to the federal government – after it was found that a subsidiary of the bank – Countrywide Financial, “systemically discriminated against minority home-buyers at the peak of the U.S. Housing bubble.” The banksters charged Blacks and Latinos much higher interest rates on homes than they did to whites of similar financial backgrounds. The investigation found that minorities were far more often conned into subprime exploding home mortgages – the stuff responsible for the Housing bubble and crash, and the foreclosure crisis. So now Bank of America will dish out a couple hundred million dollars to make the crime go away – and not one executive will go to jail for robbing poor people. It’s good to be rich in America.
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 9pm and 11pm... Professor Gar Alperovitz (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT, and catch past shows on Youtube)
Conversations with Great Minds - Professor Gar Alperovitz, Historian/Political Economist/Activist and Author "America Beyond Capitalism: Reclaiming Our Wealth, Our Liberty, and Our Democracy" 
Daily Take: Why the 1% are less empathetic to the poor
Tomorrow night on The Big Picture on RT TV at 9pm and 11pm... Axel Caballero and Richard Dawkins
Conversations with Great Minds - Axel Woolfolk Caballero, Founder/Producer-Cuéntame (a Brave New Foundation Campaign)
Conversations with Great Minds - Professor Richard Dawkins, British ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author
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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 27: Restoring Government, of, by, and for the People today. |
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The Daily Stack 
Hour One: A special edition of "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.
Hour Two: How Zuccotti Park changed his life...- (Retired) Bishop George Packard, Arrested at Duarte Park (Trinity Church property).
Latest on the growing support for Occupy the Courts- Steve Justino, Colorado Move to Amend
Hour Three: Is it good to be rich?
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..."
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Coming up on The Thom Hartmann Program
Friday and Monday
Happy holidays! No live show
Tuesday
Hour One: the latest from Iowa- John Nichols, The Nation Magazine
Hour Three: Voter ID discriminates against...voters
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
At this Christmas are we on the verge of turning hard right or left & if so which way will it turn?
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Watch & Listen to Thom
Big Picture Rumble - Poison Pills, Tax Cuts & Fact Checking Politifact
Occupy Bishop arrested, wife beaten...
The Good, The Bad, and the Very Very Carnificially Ugly
Peer Reviewed Study Shows 14,000 U.S. Deaths from Fukushima
Do anti-terrorism laws protect the public or protect corporate profits?
The Good, The Bad, and the Very, Very Diversivolently Ugly
What are the poison pills & is this a tipping point for Republicans?
Watch the Full "Big Picture" Show...
Full Show 12/21/11 Will Republicans Cave on Payroll Tax Cuts?
Democratic Strategist, Karen Finney and Thom discuss the payroll tax cut fight on Capitol Hill and if an agreement will be reached before the close of the year.
Thom Hartmann on the News - December 22, 2011
Brunch with Bernie - December 22, 2011
The Hunter School
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