The oligarchs are meeting this weekend to plot how they’re going to buy the elections this year. First, Mitt Romney will be hosting a three-day retreat in Utah over the weekend with about 600 hundreds of his biggest fundraisers. Romney is coming off a good fundraising month in May where his camp outraised the Obama camp $78 million to $60 million. But the real plans to buy the election are being made in California – not Utah. In San Diego this weekend, the Koch brothers are hosing their annual political convention aimed at raising nearly a half billion dollars this election to elect corporate Republicans and defeat Progressives.

That means – between now and November – over a billion dollars in negative ads attacking President Obama and Progressives will flood the airwaves – making corporate media outlets very rich, and poisoning public debate across America. We’re entering a whole new era in American politics thanks to the Supreme Court.

-Thom

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Thursday's Daily Stack

Quote: The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision-making from the public arena to unaccountable institutions: kings and princes, priestly castes, military juntas, party dictatorships, or modern corporations. -- Noam Chomsky.

Article: "Karl Rove, Crimea, Condi, Randy Scheunemann, Georgia" by Karen Hedwig Backman.

Article: "Rove in Yalta" by NotionsCapital.

Article: "Did Karl Rove Chat to Saakashvili about South Ossetia Too?" by emptywheel.

Article: "White House Unveils $1 Billion Georgia Aid Plan" by STEVEN LEE MYERS, .

Article: "McCain Criticizes Obama’s Response to Russia" by Michael Cooper.

Article: "Pelosi Slams Contempt Hearings: ‘I Could Have Arrested Karl Rove On Any Given Day’" by Noah Rothman.

Article: "Eric Holder's Contempt of Congress Charge Political?" by Andrew Chow, JD.

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

Article: "Julian Assange's right to asylum" by Glenn Greenwald.

Article: "Britain and Ecuador at Standoff Over Assange’s Bid for Asylum" by Ravi Somaiya.

Article: "Prison Rape Regulations to Cost $7 Billion" by Daniel Halper.

Article: "Right Wing Group: Protections To Prevent Prison Rape Are Too ‘Costly’ And ‘Heavy-Handed’" by Scott Keyes.

Article: "Romney To Republican Governor: Discussing The Economic Recovery Will Hurt My Election Chances" by Tara Culp-Ressler.

Article: "Scott Walker: Swing-State Job Growth Is A Real Problem For Romney" by Benjy Sarlin.

Quote: "I don't give them Hell. I just tell the truth about them and they think it's Hell." - Harry S. Truman.

Speech: "Madison Square Garden Speech", President Franklin D. Roosevelt, October 31, 1936.

Speech: "A Rendezvous With Destiny", Franklin D. Roosevelt, 27 June 1936 speech to the Democratic National Convention, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Clip: Phone conversation between President Lyndon Johnson and Sen. Everett Dirksen (R) Illinois, November 2, 1968.

Site: "Progressive Bumper Stickers".

Article: "Lisa Brown: Silenced for saying (shock!) 'vagina'" by Lisa Brown.

Video: "Rep. Wayne Schmidt Speaks His Mind".

Article: "Republican Women vs. Democrat Women" by Psycheout.

Article: "Women in national parliaments" by IPU.

Article: "Women’s political participation must be accelerated through quotas – UN official" by UN.

Article: "Women and climate change" by Monica Contestabile.

Article: "Are Women Really the "Fairer" Sex? Corruption and Women in Government" by David Dollar, Raymond Fisman, Roberta Gatti.

Letter: "Securing the Friendship of the Indians" Benjamin Franklin to James Parker, March 20, 1751.

Site: "Yes We Can Democratic Club".

Book: "Studies On Hysteria" by Joseph Breuer and Sigmund Freud.

Site: "Tammy Baldwin for Senate".

Book: "What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America" by Thomas Frank.

Video: "Thom Hartmann: Conversations with Great Minds with Thomas Frank, Part 1".

Video: "Thom Hartmann: Conversations with Great Minds with Thomas Frank, Part 2".

Book: "Pity the Billionaire: The Hard-Times Swindle and the Unlikely Comeback of the Right" by Thomas Frank.

Book: "Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House" by Seymour M. Hersh.

Movie: "The Trials of Henry Kissinger".

Geeky Science rocks! - Scared grasshoppers show a world more complicated

Geeky Science alert: "Scared grasshoppers leave their mark in the Earth" by AFP.

Talk Radio News Segment:
- Bob Ney

Article: "Supreme Court: SEIU needed nonmembers' permission to collect extra dues" by Kathy Robertson.

Article: "Supreme Court issues narrow ruling on broadcast indecency" by Michael Doyle.

Article: "Boehner to House on healthcare ruling: don't gloat" by Reuters.

Article: "Transportation Department Announces $500 Million In Construction Grants" by TRNS.

Article: "Commerce secretary resigns after car crashes" by Doug Palmer.

Hour Three: Obamacare...how much does it cost to bring down a president?
- Congressman Alan Grayson

Article: "Supreme Court could reveal healthcare ruling Thursday" by Timothy M. Phelps.

Article: "A Tsunami of Dirty Money" by Alan Grayson.

Article: "Raker Act" by Wikipedia.

The good: Rep. David McKinley (R-WV): "GOP Congressman Says Ryan’s Medicare Plan Would Hurt Seniors" by Amanda Peterson Beadle.

The bad: "We can't let Iran have an iPad! Georgia Apple stores refuse to sell Farsi-speaking Americans their products".

The very, very ugly: "Is Karl Rove breaking the law?" by Hunter.

Article: "Two Santa Clauses or How The Republican Party Has Conned America for Thirty Years" by Thom Hartmann.

Site: Move to Amend

Site: "Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund".

Book: "The Presidents Club: Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity" by Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy.

Book: "A Texan Looks at Lyndon: A Study in Illegitimate Power" by J. Evetts Haley.

Article: "Euro Zone's Fiscal Crisis Widens Consumption Gap" by Paul Hannon.

Article: "US electricity demand could be 80% supplied by renewable sources by 2050" by IEEE.

Article: "Lindsey Graham Intros Bill For New Offshore Drilling, 3 Days Later Gas Lobbyists Attend Fundraiser With Him" by Zaid Jilani.

Article: "Romney Campaign Said to Ask Scott to Downplay Job Gains" by Michael C. Bender.

Hour Two: Right wingers say Protections To Prevent Prison Rape Are Too ‘Costly’ And ‘Heavy-Handed’...
- Daniel Halper, Weekly Standard

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