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Austerity-ravaged Europe is a breeding ground for new, experimental economies
In Spain, where a recession is expected to get even worse after the government passed $80 billion worth of austerity measures, new economies are springing up all around the country that aren’t dependent on the crippled euro. The economies are based on barter and exchange.
For example, “time banks” are popping up around Spain – that allow workers to trade in their services in hours – and receive services in return. Labor and services are thus exchanged through hours – and not through currencies. Tens of thousands of citizens are participating in more than 325 time banks all around Spain – making it one of the largest modern economic experiments in recent history. Similar time banks can be found in Greece and Portugal, too – as alternatives to the corporate free-market, austerity recovery being pushed by banksters and technocrats.
As the Washington Post describes these new economies, “These experiments aim to take communities back to a time when goods and services were bartered, before things such as interest rates, market speculation, and derivatives complicated the financial world.” Clearly, the globalized, free market experiment of the last thirty years has failed us, and it’s time to look for new alternatives.
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 9pm... Nowhere man...Mitt Romney? (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT, and catch past shows on Youtube)
Need to Know: Nowhere man...Mitt Romney?- Alan Colmes, Host-the Alan Colmes Show, Fox News contributor, Author-"THANK THE LIBERALS … FOR SAVING AMERICA (And Why You Should") 
Incarceration vs education...- Marc Harrold, Attorney / Author-"Observations of White Noise…an ‘Acid Test’ for the First Amendment".
The Best of the Rest of the News...
The secret plot to overthrow the U.S. government: - Mark Potok, Southern Poverty Law Center - Mr. Gary Berntsen, Concerned Veterans of America / Retired CIA Clandestine Service and Air Force; led the “Jawbreaker” team into Afghanistan immediately after 9/11.
Europe now looking at alternative economies...- Professor Max Fraad Wolff, Economist/Instructor, New School University, Senior Analyst with Greencrest Capital 
Daily Take: GOP...just say no
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Wednesday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
Latest news plus guests from the RNC Convention in Tampa, FL and your calls!
Hour One: Round up from Romneyville- John Nichols, The Nation Magazine
Hour Two: convention observations- David Shuster, Current TV & talk radio host, "Take Action News with David Shuster"
Live from the RNC conference- Michael Steele, former chairman of the Republican National Committee, columnist, The Root.
Hour Three: Job Creator's Alliance- David Park, Job Creator's Alliance
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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Tuesday's Daily Stack 
Latest news & guests live from the RNC Convention in Tampa, FL.
Hour One: GOP's nightmarish response to MLK's "I Have a Dream" (today is the 49th anniversary of the speech)
Speech: " I Have a Dream" by Martin Luther King, Jr., 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.
The Big Picture- Sam Sacks, The Big Picture producer, progressive commentator
Speech: " Inaugural Address", January 20, 1981 by Ronald Reagan. " Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem".
Quote: "I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub" by Grover Norquist.
Article: " 15th Amendment " The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude". Article: " 14th Amendment - Citizenship, Due Process Clause, Equal Protection. 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." Article: " 19th Amendment " The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex."
No more medicare or obamacare?- Chuck Woolery, Generation America...the conservative alternative to the AARP
Quote: "Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action." by George Washington.
Hour Two: We need a draft- Pete Hegseth, Concerned Veterans for America
Speech: " Farewell Address" by George Washington (1796) (avoid foreign entanglements).
Energy - Yes, Romney Can; No, Obama Can't- Marita Noon, Energy Makes America Great Inc.
Hour Three: Economy- Why can't you guys just tell the truth? (Welfare/workfare - Medicare to vouchers - 3 years of Republicans trying to tank economy? - Glenn Hubbard, Senior Economics Advisor to Mitt Romney
Quote: "The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness." -- John Kenneth Galbraith.
Speech: " A Rendezvous With Destiny", Franklin D. Roosevelt, 27 June 1936 speech to the Democratic National Convention, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Thursday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
More news & info from the big Republican circus tent in Tampa...
Plus, I'll confront conservative commentator/author Dinesh D'Souza about the movie "2016: Obama's America"...the latest GOP smear to hit theaters...
And, 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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Thom's Poll
Is Chris Christie unofficially launching his 2016 bid for the White House at this years RNC?
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Watch & Listen to Thom
GOP's Nightmarish Response to MLK's "I Have a Dream"
Can the GOP Silence Ron Paul?
How much money does it take to buy a seat in Congress?
The Good, The Bad & the Very Very Cacestogenously Ugly!
Beware Pigeons! There's a Pigeon Triangle
The Smoking Gun of Climate Change
Voter caging...should Rep. Tim Griffin be in jail?
Code Pink tries Citizen's arrest of Condi Rice @ GOP Convention
Inside the "War on Women" GOP Convention
Or watch the Full "Big Picture" Show...
Full Show 8/28/12: Ron Paul Goes to the Convention
Thom discusses day two of the RNC Convention with Talk Radio News Service's Ellen Ratner and on what's going on outside the convention with Codepink's Medea Benjamin. Also discussed: Ron Paul's surprise visit at the RNC Convention, Greg Palast on why Rep. Tim Griffin should be in jail instead of speaking at the convention and how much Sheldon Adelson is paying to put his guy in Congress. And in tonight's "Daily Take" - on the 49th anniversary of Dr. King's "I have a dream" speech Thom looks at what the Republicans are doing this week to undo everything King dreamed of.
Thom Hartmann on the News - August 28, 2012
Obama Vs. Romney-The economic future for our youth
The GOP's nightmarish response to MLK's "I Have a Dream"
Romney and Trickle Down Economics
Time to bring back the draft?
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