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Monday 29 October '12 show notes

Aug. 26, 2013 4:40 am

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Today's show was a best-of because of hurricane Sandy

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Why do corporations get whatever they want?

It’s because the money they used to spend paying taxes is now spent on lobbying Congress. Case in point, oil giant ConocoPhillips. On Thursday, ConocoPhillips announced earnings of $1.8 billion in the third-quarter of this year – bringing total profits to $7 billion this year so far. It’s the ninth largest company in the world.

But here’s the kicker – ConocoPhillips receives on average $600 million in tax breaks ever single year – allowing the oil giant to spend more than $20 million lobbying Congress since 2011.

This is the problem with America today – as corporations live in a completely different world than the rest of us. A world where they don’t have to pay taxes, where they have their own bought-off lawmakers, and where they can pay their CEOs tens of millions of dollars while wages for working people plummet. Meanwhile the rest of us are screwed by an economic depression.

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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 9pm... Today's show is a best-of because of hurricane Sandy. (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT, and catch past shows on Youtube)

Due to the weather conditions in Washington D.C., the show will not be live today.

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The Daily Stack

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...
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Article: "Chevron Donates $2.5 Million To GOP Super PAC In Single Largest Corporate Donation Post-Citizens United" by Rebecca Leber.

Documentary: "FRONTLINE: Climate of Doubt".

Book: "Cracking the Code: How to Win Hearts, Change Minds, and Restore America's Original Vision" by Thom Hartmann.

Book: "Outsider in the House" by Bernie Sanders and Huck Gutman.

Article: "GOP must end obstruction and delay" by Sen. Harry Reid.

Hour Two: Anything goes on Townhall Friday

Article: "10 Big Surprises in Store For Tea Partiers Fleeing to Canada if Obama Wins" by Joshua Holland.

Article: "As ‘Frankenstorm’ Barrels Towards East Coast, Newspaper Coverage Ignores Connection To Climate Change" by Rebecca Leber.

Article: "Pennsylvania Bill Would Reduce Welfare Benefits For Women Who Cannot Prove They Were Raped" by Tara Culp-Ressler.

Article: "Romney Campaign Chair: Colin Powell Endorsed Obama Because He Is Black" by Ian Millhiser.

Article: "Obama: Ayn Rand for 'misunderstood' teens" by Byron Tau.

Article: "Tagg Romney Invested in Ohio Electronic Voting Machines" by politicol.

Law: "Help America Vote Act" (HAVA), 2002.

Article: "€54m voting machines scrapped for €9 each" by Paul Melia and Luke Byrne.

Article: "Geraldo Pleads With Fox News: ‘Stop This Politicizing’ Of Libya" by Hayes Brown.

Movie: "Clash of the Titans (2010 film)".

Article: "The Jefferson Bible" by Thomas Jefferson.

Article: "NSA Analyst Proves GOP Is Stealing Elections" by Denis G. Campbell and Charley James .

Article: "Bad news for election's e-voters, experts say some machines can be hacked" by Mark Clayton.

Video: "Thom Hartmann Speaks to DuPage Democrats".

Law: "The National Labor Relations Act (The Wagner Act)", 1935.

Law: "Taft-Hartley Labor Act", 1947.

Case: "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" (2010).

Talk Radio News Segment:
- Victoria Jones, White House Correspondent

Site: Governor Free Don Siegelman.

Site: Governor Don Siegelman.

Petition: "President Obama: Please restore justice and pardon my dad!" by Dana Siegelman.

Article: "Massive Hurricane Sandy takes aim at East Coast" by Gene Cherry.

Article: "5 Reasons Sandy Will Be Epic " by AP.

Article: "Obama team: Up ‘double digits’ among women in battlegrounds" by Glenn Thrush.

Hour Three: 11 days to election day...why this election is so important to women
- former Gov. Kathleen Sebelius (Gov. Sebelius is currently serving as the Secretary of Health & Human Services)

Article: "Indiana Senate Candidate Richard Mourdock: Pregnancy From Rape ‘Something God Intended’" by Chris Good.

Article: "DNC: Romney's Sole TV Endorsement for Senate Is "Divine Rape" Candidate Mourdock" by Mark Karlin.

Article: "New Obama book has 2nd-term plan" by Mike Allen.

Article: "The New Economic Patriotism: A Plan For Jobs & Middle-Class Security" by President Barack Obama.

Article: "Republican Party Platform 2012".

Article: "Mitt Romney's Bailout Bonanza" by Greg Palast.

Article: "Let Detroit Go Bankrupt" by Mitt Romney, November 18, 2008.

Clip: "Paul Weyrich - "I don't want everybody to vote" (Goo Goo)".

Article: "Mike White, Rite-Hite CEO, Warns Employees Of 'Personal Consequences' If Obama Reelected" by Jillian Berman.

Site: Move to Amend

Article: "ConocoPhillips By The Numbers: Earns $1.8 Billion Profit, Gets $600 Million In Annual Tax Breaks" by Jackie Weidman and Noreen Nielsen.

Article: "Officers take 16 into custody this morning at Hancock Field drone protest" by Charley Hannagan.

Article: "Fukushima Nuclear Disaster: Plant's Contaminated Water Storage Running Out Of Space" by Mari Yamaguchi.

Article: "Berlusconi sentenced to prison for tax fraud" by AFP.

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The Supreme Court and the Death of Progress

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Big Picture Rumble - Is overt racism the new norm for the GOP?

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Big Picture Rumble - Another CEO warning his workers to vote for Romney...

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Conversations with Great Minds - Frederick Kaufman - How Food Stopped Being Food, P1

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In tonight's "Conversations with Great Minds" Thom talks with Frederick Kaufman, author and Contributing Editor to Harper's Magazine. Tonight's "Big Picture Rumble" panel discusses Romney Campaign Co-Chair John Sununu's racist comments on Colin Powell, how just living near foreclosed homes have cost families trillions and will Hurricane Sandy prevent the oligarchs from stealing the election. In tonight's "Daily Take" Thom looks at what's really at stake on election day (The Supreme Court).

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