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Goldman Sachs domination...Global Coup d'etat?
On Monday, the Bank of England named former Goldman Sachs investment banker Mark Carney as its new chief – adding to the long list of former Goldman Sachs bankers who've seized positions of immense power all around Europe and the rest of the world. As Europe descends into an austerity-induced economic crisis, Goldman Sachs is making sure it gets all of its failed investments back. As the British newspaper The Independent reported earlier this year, the Conservative technocrats steering fiscal policy in the Greece, Germany, Italy, Belgium, France, and now the UK, all hail from Goldman Sachs.
In fact, the head of the European Central Bank itself, Mario Draghi, was the former managing director of Goldman Sachs. It’s widely known that Goldman Sachs made the euro problem worse when it helped Greece hide their debt back in 2002. As the DailyKos describes the scheme Goldman is playing, “The normal scenario usually involves helping a nation hide a problem and sell its debt until the problem blows up into a bubble that bursts in a spectacular way…Goldman Sachs then puts their ‘man’ into a position of power to direct the bailouts so that Goldman gets all its money back and more, while the nation's economy gets gutted.”
The same thing has happened in the United States, as the last two Treasury Secretaries came from Goldman Sachs, and Goldman made out like a bandit in the 2008 Wall Street bailouts. Plain and simple, when a bank the size of Goldman can run the world, democracy is dying.
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 9pm... We no longer look into the eyes of our slaves (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT, and catch past shows on Youtube)
Need to Know: We no longer look into the eyes of our slaves- Scott Nova, Workers Rights Consortium
Screwed: Former FL GOP leader exposes voter suppression- Deirdre Macnab, League of Women Voters of Florida 
The Best of the Rest of the News...
Will religion kill Obamacare?- Ethan Rome, Healthcare for America Now
Daily Take: Goldman Sachs domination...global coup d'etat?
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Monday's Daily Stack 
Hour One: Who won the Black Friday Hunger Games?
Site: " Hustler" ("Who Shot Santa" article by Thom Hartmann and Sam Sacks in latest issue).
The Big Picture- Sam Sacks, The Big Picture producer, progressive commentator
Hour Two: Did the Grinch steal Christmas in Santa Monica?- Damon Vix, atheist
Movie: " Lincoln" by Steven Spielberg.
Goats, Survival Kits and hearts- Pastor Heidi McGinnis, Christian Solidarity International
Article: " Thom" - includes photos of Thom in Sudan.
Hour Three: Is Grover Norquist an enemy of the state?
Article: " Article 6 of the Constitution" - "The Senators and Representatives … shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution Article: " Constitution of the United States" Article 1, section 8". "The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States;"
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Tuesday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
Hour One: Goldman Sachs domination...global coup d'etat?
Hour Two: "Tiny tots with their machine guns all aglow"- Noel Flasterstein, Attorney & host-The Gun Show.
Hour Three: Will religion kill Obamacare?- Ethan Rome, Health Care for America Now (HCAN)
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Watch & Listen to Thom
Who Won the Black Friday Hunger Games?
The Good, The Bad and the Very Very Ingluviously Ugly!
Why You Should Get Naked in Public
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Is Grover Norquist an Enemy of the State?
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Full Show 11/26/12: The Walmart Hunger Games
Thom talks with author and former George W. Bush Speechwriter David Frum about Grover Norquist's anti-tax pledge and why Romney lost the election. Also discussed: the increasing drone war across the middle east, how the government may gain new access to read your emails and how Republicans in Florida are finally admitting to their plan to suppress the vote. In tonight's "Daily Take" Thom discusses why Black Friday should be renamed the Walmart Hunger Games.
Thom Hartmann on the News - November 26, 2012
Caller - Atheism is not a religion
When is Atheism a Religion?
Did the Grinch steal Christmas in Santa Monica?
Walmart's Hunger Games
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