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Do You Wonder....
How a man who’s been lying to the American people for over a year – has offshore bank accounts – and pays a lower tax rate on his hundreds of millions of dollars than most working Americans – is somehow neck and neck in the polls to be President of the United States? The answer…a lot of corporate money. If Mitt Romney wins the presidency next week – he’ll have a lot of investors to thank for it. New data from the Federal Elections Commission shows that massive amounts of SuperPAC money, made possible by the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision, is flowing into the Romney campaign.
More than $840 million has been spent so far on this election by SuperPACs and other political creatures – and the vast majority of that spending has benefited Republicans. About $577 million has been spent by Conservatives – which is 69% of the total outside money spent. With spending expected to accelerate in this final week – total outside spending will top a billion dollars for the first time in our nation’s history.
What’s worse is we have no idea who these secret oligarchs are that are investing huge amounts of money in helping Mitt Romney get elected. While SuperPACs do have to disclose their donors, many non-profit groups don’t. And those non-profits that favor Republicans have outspent Democratic nonprofits 8-to-1 this election. If it all pays off for the oligarchs, then they’ll have one of their own in the White House – a pirate equity guy who has made his living devouring the American economy for his own personal gain.
This is a freak show election – and should wake us all up to the dangers of too much money in politics. Go to MoveToAmend.org.
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 9pm... Ralph Nader on Bold Ideas for the Future (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT, and catch past shows on Youtube)
Need to Know: Ralph Nader on Bold Ideas for the Future- Ralph Nader, Consumer Advocate / Attorney / 5 time candidate for U.S. President / Author "The Seventeen Solutions" / Moderator-3rd Party Debate (11/4) 
Screwed: Pity the Billionaires...- Thomas Frank, author, journalist and columnist for Harper's Magazine - latest book "Pity the Billionaire".
The Best of the Rest of the News...
Your Take / My Take LIVE
CEO's force workers to take GOP civics course- Adele Stan, Alternet 
Daily Take: Election fraud gets easier and easier...
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Wednesday's Daily Stack 
Quote: "There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls" -- George Carlin (Happy Halloween ;-))
Hour One: Get out the vote - CA- A.G. Kamela Harris, Obama 2012, Attorney General-State of California
The Big Picture- Sam Sacks, The Big Picture producer, progressive commentator
Have you ever seen anything as brazen and cynical as the Romney/Ryan "gather food" things? Or the lies about Chrysler?
Hour Two: Romney lies about GM...- Seton Motley, Less Government
GM...Romney neverending lies...election- James P. Hoffa, Attorney / International Brotherhood of Teamsters
Hour Three: The origins of trick or treat- Dr. Stephen Larsen, Center for Symbolic Studies, Psychologist / Professor Emeritus-State University of New York (SUNY) / Author of numerous books including "The Shaman's Doorway"
Quote: "We may go through life without suspecting their existence; but apply the requisite stimulus, and at a touch they are there in all their completeness" by William James".
Quote: "Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind." -- Albert Einstein.
Bible: Ecclesiastes 9:5 "For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing; they have no further reward, and even the memory of them is forgotten". Bible: Ecclesiastes 9:6 "Their love, their hate and their jealousy have long since vanished; never again will they have a part in anything that happens under the sun". Bible: John 3:16 "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.". Quote: "I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality" by George Washington.
Taking Our Country Back- Kathy Boockvar, Congressional Candidate (D-PA, 8th District). In a tight race against incumbent Republican Mike Fitzpatrick
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Thursday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
Hour One: Express lanes...for the billionaires only?- Randal O'Toole, CATO Institute / Author "The Vanishing Automobile and Other Urban Myths"
Hour Two: The Feudal Lords are Back- Peter Ferrara, Policy Director-Carleson Center for Public Policy / Attorney & Author "America's Ticking Bankruptcy Bomb".
Hour Three: Proof that Taxes Don't Drive Out the Rich
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"...
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Friday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
Hour One: Get your questions ready...it's "Brunch With Bernie"... ..America's Senator... Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) will be talking about all the important issues of the week and he'll be taking your calls too!
Plus, it's Anything Goes on Townhall Friday...what do you want to talk about?
And, we'll have the best of the rest of the news along with your calls right here on...
The Thom Hartmann Program, Occupying The Media 3 hours a day 5 days a week" for "we the people"...Democracy is NOT a spectator sport...it begins with you...
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Thom's Poll
Will Ohio determine the election?
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Watch & Listen to Thom
Our Electoral College is Protecting Slave Labor
The Good, The Bad and the Very Very Pianticously Ugly!
The Origins of Trick & Treat
Did Romney cause the meningitis outbreak?
Lone Liberal Rumble - Worst political stunt ever?
Lone Liberal Rumble - Should natural disasters be left to churches and CEOs?
Hurricane Sandy...Romney vs Gore
Or watch the Full "Big Picture" Show...
Full Show 10/31/12: Romney Exploits Sandy
Thom looks at why government is so crucial during times of crisis, like now during the aftermath of Super Storm Sandy. Tonight's "Lone Liberal Rumble" panel discusses Romney's call to privatize the role of FEMA, how he staged a storm relief event in Ohio, and his lies on shipping Chrysler/Jeep jobs to China and how Obama gutted the work requirement for welfare. In tonight's "Daily Take" Thom looks at how the electoral college doesn't just pick our president it protects slave labor.
Thom Hartmann on the News - October 31, 2012
Thom vs. Seton Motley - How can we support a serial liar for President?
Can we really trust the polls?
Taking Our Country Back - Kathy Boockvar
The Origins of Halloween
James P. Hoffa - Romney and his never-ending lies!
Every vote counts in this election!
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Thom and Louise Hartmann founded the New England Salem Children's Village (NESCV) in New Hampshire in 1979. With states delaying payment for the children they entrust to the village, they need help with cash flow. Can you help? Now on Facebook. |
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