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Thom's blog
Without the government protecting us from industry....
The largest online protest in the history of the Internet may have derailed SOPA and PIPA earlier this year – but major entertainment corporations like the Recording Industry Association of America and the Motion Picture Association of America are still coming after you. With the help of Internet Service Providers like Comcast, Verizon, and AT&T – tabs are being kept right now on people who are sharing copyrighted material online.
And on July 12th, Internet providers will begin putting in a place a new anti-piracy plan – warning internet users that they could face penalties of up to $150,000 if they continue to file-share. Providers will begin cutting down – or eliminating altogether – bandwidth for so-called offenders – until said offender agree to take an education course on piracy. Providers may also restrict access to only major websites like Google and Facebook. And most disturbingly – providers may share your information with other Internet providers to effectively create a blacklist of people who won’t be allowed to sign online.
This is the corporate lock-down of the Internet that we’ve feared – and it’s the reason why Libertarians and Free Marketeers are wrong. Without the government protecting us from industry – be it Wall Street, dangers in the workplace, or the Internet – corporate power always creeps in to strangle consumers.
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 9pm and 11pm... Dr. Michael Mann, Climate Scientist / Professor & Director-Penn State Earth System Science Center / Author-"Dire Predictions" and "The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars" (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT, and catch past shows on Youtube)
Conversations with Great Minds - Dr. Michael Mann, Climate Scientist / Professor & Director-Penn State Earth System Science Center / Author-"Dire Predictions" and "The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars" 
Daily Take: How Scott Brown really got his mojo back
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Friday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
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.
Hour Two: Rising gas prices & oil speculators- Congressman Peter Welch (D-VT).
Hour Three: "Anything Goes on Townhall Friday"
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"...TAG, YOU'RE IT!!!!!!!!! (OCCUPY SOMETHING!!!!!)
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Highlights Of The Upcoming Week ... March 19 - 23, 2012
Monday
Hour Two: Patriot Act-how it's being used to spy on you
Hour Three: What the GOP presidential campaign is really about- George Lakoff, Linguistics Professor UC Berkeley/Author
Tuesday
Hour Two: Raising the restaurant minimum wage- Trey Kovacs, Competitive Enterprise Institute
Wednesday
Hour Three: Obamacare debate- Sally Pipes, Pacific Research Institute
Thursday
Hour Two: Geeky Science Rocks- can red meat shorten your life?
Friday
Hour One: "Brunch With Bernie". Senator Bernie Sanders, (I-VT) spends the hour with Thom discussing the issues and answering listener questions.
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Thursday's Daily Stack 
Hour One: Are pharmaceutical patents killing people?- John Manuelian, Attorney.
Article: " Constitution of the United States" Article 1, section 8: ...To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries...
Hour Two: The Divided Republican Party...Eisenhower Republicans, take back your party
Article: " Declaration of Independence". ... the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them...
Geeky Science rocks! Can Carbon Dioxide make you fat?
Hour Three: Vibrating atoms, more important than you know- Dr. Cosmin Blaga, Ohio State University Department of Physics
Essay: " Nature" by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Clip: " Iraq sits on top of 10 percent of the world’s oil reserves, very significant reserves, second only to Saudi Arabia." Vice President Dick Cheney, Meet the Press, September 14, 2003.
Rare Earth Mineral Hoarding... Hurting Ohio Manufacturers- Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH)
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Thom's Poll
Last month the US DOJ indicted Switzerland’s oldest private bank: Wegelin & Co. Will this reduce tax evasion by the wealthy?
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Watch & Listen to Thom
Somewhere Grover Norquist is freaking out!
"The Rent is Too Damn High" For the Middle Class!
Time to pull a Saigon & get the hell out of Afghanistan?
Crazy Alert! Don't Text a Cop!
The 'Tell Your Boss Why You're On The Pill' Bill
Attack Dogs used on a High School Walkout in MD
Wonder why you wake up in the middle of the night?
The Good, The Bad and the The Very Very Ranthropicously Ugly
Thom Teaches Economics 101 to Fox-so-called-News
Or watch the Full "Big Picture" Show...
Full Show 3/15/12: Thom calls on Republicans to take back their party
Thom looks to President Eisenhower's accomplishments and calls on Republicans to take back their party. Also discussed: Arizona's latest proposed law against women, an occupy high school story out of Hyattsville, MD and why we should get out of Afghanistan now. And in tonight's "Daily Take" Thom calls out Fox "so-called" News for their latest rant of misinformation.
Thom Hartmann on the News - March 15, 2012
Vibrating atoms...more important than you know
US Senator Sherrod Brown: Rare Earth Mineral Hoarding...Hurting Ohio Manufacturers
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