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Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT). "Brunch With Bernie".
Fred Schepartz and Sybil Augustine. Walker recall election 2 weeks away / Cheddar Revolution: Songs of Uprising.
Anything Goes on Townhall Friday.
Bumper Music:
- Ring of Fire, Johnny Cash.
- Evil Ways, Santana.
- Give Up The Funk (Tear The Roof Off The Sucker), Parliament.
- Frankenstein, Edgar Winter Group.
- Freedom, Jimi Hendrix.
- Occupy The USA, Emma's Revolution.
- The Boy in the Bubble, Paul Simon.
Speech: Madison Square Garden Speech, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, October 31, 1936.

Of course we will continue to seek to improve working conditions for the workers of America—to reduce hours over-long, to increase wages that spell starvation, to end the labor of children, to wipe out sweatshops. Of course we will continue every effort to end monopoly in business, to support collective bargaining, to stop unfair competition, to abolish dishonorable trade practices. And for all these we have only just begun to fight.

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Still doubt we’re living under an Oligarchy?

Check out a new report by the Associated Press today – showing that average CEO compensation topped $9.6 million in 2011 – the highest mark since the AP started looking at compensation numbers back in 2006. Meanwhile – wages for working people have barely budged – and it would now take the typical American worker 244 years just to make what their CEO makes in one year.

And among Fortune 500 CEOs – it’s even worse - they make 380-times more than their average worker. So are Wall Street banksters, oil barons, and corporate executives really worth that much money? Should they be paid hundreds of times more than doctors, scientists, or even teachers? This is what neo-feudalism in America looks like – and if Paul Ryan and the Republicans who are pushing austerity for working people - and trillions of dollars in tax cuts for corporate CEOs - if they win big in November – it’ll only get worse.

It’s time to rethink corporate capitalism altogether – and find ways to democratize the economy with worker-owned cooperatives, and business models like unions that look out for workers, the community, and the environment.

-Thom

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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 9pm and 11pm... Paul Krugman, Nobel Prize winning economist (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT, and catch past shows on Youtube)

Conversations with Great Minds - Paul Krugman, Nobel Prize winning economist / author / columnist for the NY Times

The Big Picture Rumble:
- Marc Harrold, Libertarian Commentator / Attorney / Author-"Observations of White Noise…an ‘Acid Test’
- Kris Ullman, Conservative Commentator & Activist
- Sam Sacks, Progressive writer/strategist

Daily Take: "The business of government is not business"

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) 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...

Hour Two: Walker recall election 2 weeks away / Cheddar Revolution: Songs of Uprising
- Fred Schepartz and Sybil Augustine, Fred Schepartz and Sybil Augustine

Hour Three: Anything Goes on Townhall Friday

And, the best of the rest of the news and your calls right here on...

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Thursday's Daily Stack

Hour One: Does the internet force you to live in a bubble?

Article: "Europe plans for possible of Greek exit from euro" by Jack Ewing.

Article: "Zillow: More than 30% of home mortgage borrowers still under water" by Les Christie.

Book: "The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding from You" by Eli Pariser.

Video: "Eli Pariser: Beware online "filter bubbles"".

The Big Picture
- Sam Sacks, The Big Picture producer, progressive commentator

Article: "Romney Pledges 6 Percent Unemployment – Exactly What CBO Already Projects" by Benjy Sarlin.

Article: "Pharmaceutical Industry Is Biggest Defrauder of the Federal Government Under the False Claims Act, New Public Citizen Study Finds" by Public Citizen.

Article: "$9 Billion to be Recovered in False Claims Act Cases in 2012" by Taxpayers Against Fraud.

Article: "Romney VP Vetting Questions Leaked" by The Times Not.

Site: "The Times Not".

Site: "Bernie Sanders campaign site".

Hour Two: legalizing medical marijuana

Article: "How about this? POLICE CHANGE SIDES!" by James48.

Article: "Memo To GOP: Marriage Equality Boosts The Economy" by Zachary Bernstein.

Article: "Obama leads on marriage equality, the NAACP and others follow" by Jonathan Capehart.

Article: "Debunking The ‘Marriage Equality Costs Too Much’ Myth" by Igor Volsky.

Article: "Newark Mayor Cory Booker Declares Drug War ‘A Failure,’ Endorses Medical Marijuana" by Judd Legum.

Article: "Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker to win the 5 June 2012 recall election " by InTrade.

Article: "9th Amendment".

Article: "10th Amendment".

Talk Radio News Segment:
- Ellen Ratner, Bureau Chief

Article: "FDA user fee bill: The nay-sayers".

Article: "Senate Rejects Competing Student Loan Bills" by Benny Martinez.

Article: "Auction For Reagan’s Blood Canceled" by Justin Duckham.

Article: "Jobless Claims in U.S. Little Changed at 370,000 Last Week" by Alex Kowalski.

Article: "Remarks on Religious Liberty" by Ken Blackwell.

Article: "Allen Anticipates Much Summer Activity in Afghanistan " by Karen Parrish.

Article: "Romney defends class size stance to teachers" by Kevin Liptak.

Article: "Philly mayor: Mitt Romney doesn't know anything about education" by Aliyah Shahid.

Hour Three: Occupy the PGA and a funeral for democracy
- Rev. D. Alexander Bullock, Detroit Chapter of Rainbow PUSH & Highland Park, MI NAACP

Article: "A Memorial Day “Funeral for Democracy”" by Eclectablog.

Report from Occupy Seattle
- Mark Taylor-Canfield, Occupy Seattle

Article: "Join the people of Greece and France: Stand up and occupy your country" by Mark Taylor-Canfield.

Article: "Mass arrests as Montreal student protest turns ugly" by BBC.

Video: "Guns Drawn on Journalists, Car Raided at NATO".

Article: "Putin pulls out of G8 summit" by Nataliya Vasilyeva.

The good: American Auto Industry: "Autoworkers pushed to limit as many plants max out" by Chris Woodyard.

The bad: Sam Brownback: "Kansas Governor Signs Tax-Cut Bill" by Mark Peters.

The very, very ugly: "Fox News viewers worst-informed, study finds" by Chris Irvine.

Site: "BGH Bulletin" (Jane Akre, Steve Wilson, Fox).

Article: "Fukushima Reactor 4 poses massive global risk" by Andy Johnson.

Article: "Dems Escalate Battle For Women Voters With Equal Pay Bill" by Sahil Kapur.

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