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Thom's blog
Growing economic stress & inequality brings an increase in violence
Twelve people are dead and nearly 40 wounded after a gunman opened fire in a crowded movie theatre in Colorado late Thursday night. Moviegoers were attending the premiere of the new Batman movie, when 24-year-old James Holmes walked in with tear gas, a rifle, a shotgun, and two hand guns, and opened fire. Holmes is in police custody.
This is the largest mass shooting since 32 people were killed during the Virginia Tech massacre. According to the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence – there have been hundreds of mass shootings in the U.S. since 2005 – averaging roughly 20 every year. And yet, there’s absolutely no talk of gun control in America.
The irony of all ironies – Republicans are making it harder for Americans to vote with new voter ID laws to fight voter fraud, which happens less often than lightning striking people. Yet, Republicans won’t budge on making it just a little harder for Americans to buy guns, despite dozens of mass shootings every year.
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 9pm and 11pm... Jeffrey Smith, Institute for Responsible Technology, leading spokesperson and author on the health dangers of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT, and catch past shows on Youtube)
Mass shootings...is gun control the answer?- Mike Glaze, Mayors Against Illegal Guns 
Conversations with Great Minds - Jeffrey Smith, Executive Director-Institute for Responsible Technology, leading spokesperson on the health dangers of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs), author of the books " Seeds of Deception: Exposing Industry and Government Lies about the Safety of the Genetically Engineered Foods You’re Eating" and " Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods"
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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) 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: Tragedy in Denver- Jeff Fard aka "Brother Jeff"
Hour Three: Anything Goes on Townhall Friday
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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Thursday's Daily Stack 
Quote: "The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism – ownership of government by an individual, by a group." -- Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Hour One: We're #1...NOT!- Logan Clements, Filmmaker & CEO-Freestar Media / Objectivist
The Big Picture- Sam Sacks, The Big Picture producer, progressive commentator
Quote: "The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness." by John Kenneth Galbraith.
Hour Two: Business, you can't do it alone...- Mark Williams, Conservative Commentator & Author / Former Chair-Tea Party Express
Speech: " Inaugural Address", January 20, 1981 by Ronald Reagan. " Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem". Speech: " Farewell Address" by George Washington (1796) (avoid foreign entanglements).
Hour Three: Talking back to Antonin Scalia...
Letter: " Thomas Jefferson to Spencer Roane", 6 Sept. 1819 " The constitution, on this hypothesis, is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist, and shape into any form they please."
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Monday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
We'll have the latest information on the aftermath of the tragic shootings in Denver...
Plus, the latest on Romney's tax returns...will he cave in to pressure from his fellow Republicans?
And, the best of the rest of the news and your calls right here on...
The Thom Hartmann Program, Occupying The Media 3 hours a day 5 days a week" for "we the people"...TAG, YOU'RE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (GET OUT THERE, GET ACTIVE AND OCCUPY SOMETHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
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Thom's Poll
With wealth inequality reaching new heights, will we become a neo-feudalistic nation of masters & serfs?
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Watch & Listen to Thom
We're #1 in Billionaires but not in Top 10 for Median Wealth
The Bain Connection to Death Squads...
Crazy Alert! Urban Pole Dancing
Geeky Science! Do Humans have a built in GPS?
GOP forced to choose - Raising Taxes or Cut Defense?
The Good, The Bad and the Very Very Lotophagously Ugly!
Just How Bad is the Largest Drought in Decades?
Justice Scalia tells America to, "Get Over It"
Watch the Full Show
Full Show 7/19/12: Romney, Bain, Death Squads
Thom details how Romney may have started Bain Capital with El Salvadoran blood money. Also discussed: whether Republicans will choose raising taxes over cutting the defense budget, how the severe heat and drought are affecting food prices and in tonight's "Daily Take" Thom discusses Justice Scalia's recent interview on CNN's "Piers Morgan Tonight."
Thom Hartmann on the News - July 19, 2012
Caller shares her Anti-Obama robo call experience
Thom Vs. Logan Clements-The decline of America's Middle Class
Business, You can't do it alone
The Middle Class Decline - It all began with Reagan
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