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The Fossil Fuel Industry - Predatory capitalism at its worst
In one day, Big Oil earns $342 million in profit, pays their CEOs $60,000 in salaries, spends more than $160,000 lobbying, and dumps a billion pounds of carbon pollution into our skies. All that in a single day. And what do we get out of it? Rapid climate change that’s threatening to destabilize the entire planet.
According to the US Department of Agriculture – more than half of all the counties in the United States are now primary disaster areas – stricken by one of the worst droughts in our nation’s history. To give relief, the USDA has opened up 3.8 million acres of conservation land for ranchers to use for grazing. It’s the latest effort by the Department to prevent a rapid increase in food prices that could kill our fragile economic recovery, hurt working Americans, and push the developing world into starvation and chaos.
Meanwhile – Big Oil and Big Coal – which have been dumping unimaginable amounts of carbon pollution into the atmosphere for centuries – continues to rake in enormous profits without contributing one cent to fixing the destruction they’re causing around the planet. This is predatory capitalism at its worst, and if continues unchecked, then our future is uncertain.
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 9pm and 11pm... Predator Capitalism...what to do about "Big Oil" (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT, and catch past shows on Youtube)
Need to Know: Predator Capitalism...what to do about "Big Oil"- Greg Palast, Investigative Reporter-BBC / Author of several books, latest "Vulture's Picnic" 
Screwed: Police brutality on the rise...- Connor Kilpatrick, Managing Editor-Jacobin Magazine / Contributor-AlterNet - Austin Petersen, Libertarian / Director of Production for FreedomWorks
The Best of the Rest of the News...
Police brutality on the rise- Sarah Jaffe, AlterNet - Rania Khalek, Independent Journalist / Contributor-AlterNet, Salon & Truthout
Daily Take: Pirate Capitalist Romney vs The Average Joe
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Thursday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
Hour One: Elections 2012- David Bender, Political activist / writer & broadcaster / former senior advisor for Howard Dean's presidential campaign.
Hour Two: Politics & technology - Obama v Romney and DNC vs. RNC online- Nancy Scola, Political Writer-The Atlantic
Politics & Technology - Social Networking- Stu Trevalyan, CEO, President-NGP
Politics & Technology - where we've come since McCain 2000 campaign- Max Fose, President & CEO-IWS (Former McCain political aide)
Hour Three: Hey Mitt, about those jobs...where's the beef?- Jon Ward, Huffington Post
Latest on the Gov's ongoing case- Governor Don Siegelman, Former Governor of Alabama (1999-2003).
Voter fraud & election 2012- Brad Friedman, Founder/Editor-The Brad Blog
Romney’s foreign trip (Kal was in London when Romney embarrassed U.S.)- Kal Penn, Actor (star of the Harold & Kumar movies)/Activist and Campaign Co-Chair, Obama2012
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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Friday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
Randi Weingarten, President of the American Federation of Teachers, will talk about solutions based unionism...
Plus, author Dean Koontz stops by...his latest book "Odd Apocalypse" has just hit the stands...
And, we'll have 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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Wednesday's Daily Stack 
Quote: "As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests." -- Gore Vidal.
Syndicated columnist & Democratic strategist Karl Frisch in for Thom today... 
Hour One: Marriage Equality in at the DNC...- Marc Solomon, Freedom to Marry
Hour Two: The World According to Chick-Fil-A- Jeremy Hooper, Good as You / Author, "If It's A Choice, My Zygote Chose Balls"
Hour Three: ‘Always the Opposite of Obama’ is a Tricky Platform- Tina Dupuy, soapblox.net
Gore Vidal and the Unfinished American Revolution- John Nichols, The Nation Magazine
Quote: "It's not enough to succeed. Others must fail." - Gore Vidal
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Thom's Poll
Can we stop predatory capitalism before it destroys all that sustains human life?
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Watch & Listen to Thom
Watch the Full Big Picture Show
Full Show 8/1/12: Who likes Tea Party?
Guest host Sam Sacks looks at the Tea Party's radical privatization agenda and the effect it's having on our nation. Also discussed: Mayor Bloomberg's pro-breast-feeding agenda and the GOP's mission to end the U.S. Post Office. In tonight's "Daily Take" Thom discusses the Supreme Court discussion that underpins the current Chick-Fil-A controversy.
Thom Hartmann on the News - August 1, 2012
Karl Frisch fills in for Thom commenting on the news for Wednesday, August 1, 2012
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