Our nation’s drone warfare program continues to inflame anti-American sentiments across the world – particularly in volatile nations like Pakistan. And we ignore this semi-covert drone war at our own peril, because in the near future, those same drones will be flying over U.S. skies, too. In fact, they already are – assisting in law enforcement and anti-immigration missions. And this week, the Department of Homeland Security announced it plans to double its fleet of Predator drones flying inside the United States.

Already, DHS has spent $250 million on a fleet of ten surveillance drones to fly U.S. skies – but according to the group California Watch, DHS signed a contract worth nearly $500 million to purchase an additional 14 drones to spy on us. DHS is also encouraging local police forces to purchase their own drones – and has dished out $4 million to local agencies to “accelerate” the purchase of unmanned surveillance drones.

According to estimates from the FAA, we might have as many as 30,000 drones patrolling American skies by the end of the decade. If the countless dead civilians from our drone strikes abroad don’t affect you, then the complete disappearance of your privacy rights at home will.

-Thom

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Tuesday's Daily Stack

Hour One: Brunch With Bernie (special edition!) - 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: "Warmer still: Extreme climate predictions appear most accurate, report says" by Brian Vastag.

Article: "A Petition to Support the Saving American Democracy Amendment" by Sen. Bernie Sanders.

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

Quote: "Well handled sir, well handled" by president Obama".

Hour Two: It's not a fiscal cliff...it's a jobs cliff
- Senator Sherrod Brown, U.S. Senator (D-OH)

Article: "13th Amendment "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."

Case: "Bush v. Gore", 2000.

Article: "Anonymous, Karl Rove and 2012 Election Fix?" by Thom Hartmann and Sam Sacks.

Article: "Why Anonymous’ Claims about Election-Rigging Can’t Be Ignored" by Thom Hartmann and Sam Sacks.

Letter: "to Edgar Newton Eisenhower, November 8, 1954" by Dwight Eisenhower. "Their number is negligible and they are stupid."

Article: "Admissions on Nixon’s ‘Treason’" by Robert Parry.

Clip: Phone conversation between President Lyndon Johnson and Sen. Everett Dirksen (R) Illinois, November 2, 1968.

Video: "LBJ accused Nixon of treason".

Book: "October Surprise" by Barbara Honegger.

Book: "October Surprise" by Gary Sick.

Article: "Statement of Gary G. Sick, November 22, 1991" by FAS.

Article: "Florida’s flawed “voter-cleansing” program" by Gregory Palast, Dec 4, 2000.

Article: "New York Times Perpetuates the Myth that George Bush Won the 2000 Election" by Larry Beinhart.

Article: "Study of Disputed Florida Ballots Finds Justices Did Not Cast the Deciding Vote" by Ford Fessenden and John M. Broder, November 12, 2001.

Article: "United States presidential election, 1968" by Wikipedia.

Movie: "The Trials of Henry Kissinger".

Law: "Patriot Act", 2001.

Article: "2001 anthrax attacks" by Wikipedia.

Talk Radio News Segment:
- Ellen Ratner, Bureau Chief

Site: Governor Free Don Siegelman.

Book: "The Much Too Promised Land: America's Elusive Search for Arab-Israeli Peace" by Aaron David Miller.

Article: "Clinton Travels To Middle East" by Zach Schwartz.

Article: "Five myths about Middle East peace" by Aaron David Miller.

Article: "Survey Finds Dangerous Toys on Store Shelves" by U.S. PIRG.

Article: "Toxic Threads: The big fashion stitch-up" by Greenpeace.

Article: "Will Breezy Point’s Firefighters Who Lost Their Homes to Fire During Superstorm Sandy Have Their Fire Insurance Claims Denied?" by Consumer Federation of America (CFA).

Hour Three: The progressive response to the so called "fiscal cliff"
- Tim Carpenter, Progressive Democrats of America.

Article: "Quakers go to Washington to call for cuts in our bloated military budget, more funds for social needs" by LA Quaker.

Book: "The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism" by Naomi Klein.

Article: "Mark Warner won’t run for Virginia governor, will stay in Senate" by Ben Pershing.

Site: "Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth".

Book: "Memoirs" by David Rockefeller.

Movie: "Hacking Democracy".

The good: "Cory Booker To Live On Food Stamps After Making Twitter Challenge" by Melissa Jeltsen.

The bad: "Marco Rubio Flirts With Creationism, Says He’s Unsure How Old The Earth Is" by Zack Beauchamp.

The very, very ugly: "Limbaugh's "Natural Reaction" To Lobbying Efforts On Extending Unemployment Benefits: Singing "Here Comes Santa Claus"" by Media Matters.

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

Video: "CNN-Tom Ridge was pressured to raise threat level despite evidence".

Article: "Democrats Unlikely to Regain House in 2014" by Nate Silver.

Article: Six Waltons Have More Wealth Than the Bottom 30 % of Americans by Tim Worstall.

Book: "Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House" by Seymour M. Hersh.

Article: "Members of Congress Implore Feds To Back Down On Marijuana Prosecution" by Nicole Flatow.

Article: "Keystone pipeline protesters arrested in Texas" by Alan Duke.

Article: "Republican Allen West FINALLY concedes two weeks after the election and still says that there are 'inaccuracies in the results'" by AP.

Article: "Former aide Barber wins Giffords' Arizona seat" by CNN.

Article: "Sore Loser Scott Walker's Next Trick: Limit Same Day Voter Registration" by eXtina.

Article: "France ends combat mission in Afghanistan" by Joris Fioriti.

Article: "San Francisco votes to ban public nudity" by Eoin Reynolds.

Hour Two: Why the wealthy think you should work longer...
- TJ McCormack, Conservative Commentator

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