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If you aid and abet terrorists...
You’ll end up dead in a drone strike or indefinitely detained in Gitmo. But, if you’re a big Wall Street bank and you finance terrorist activities, then guess what? You get a slap on the wrist fine and then…well…that’s it. This week – HSBC settled to pay $1.92 billion in criminal fines, for laundering money on behalf of Mexican drug cartels, and working with banks in the Middle East that are closely affiliated with terrorist organizations. The Chairman of the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Senator Carl Levin, described HSBC’s culture as “pervasively polluted for a long time.”
So why aren’t any executives going to Gitmo? And why hasn't the bank become a pile of smoldering rubble from a drone strike? Because HSBC is too big to fail, and to quote one government source close to the investigation, bringing formal charges against HSBC would be a “death sentence” for the bank and the rest of the financial system. Given Wall Street’s rap sheet of crashing the economy, defrauding investors and homeowners, stealing trillions from taxpayers, ripping off markets by manipulating interest rates, and now assisting drug cartels and terrorist organizations – I’d say a corporate death sentence is long overdue for these bankster institutions.
Maybe with Senator-elect Elizabeth Warren nabbing a spot on the Senate Banking Committee, we’ll finally see some action.
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 9pm... Everybody wants to be a star... (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT, and catch past shows on Youtube)
Need to Know: Everybody wants to be a star...- Mark Ames, The eXiled 
Why are our conversations being recorded on public transportation?- Amie Stepanovich, Associate Litigation Counsel-Electronic Privacy Information Center (E.P.I.C.)
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YOUR TAKE / MY TAKE LIVE
Geeky Science - How do we warn future earthlings...?
Daily Take: Even the GOP hates the GOP
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Wednesday's Daily Stack 
Quote: "We must close union offices, confiscate their money and put their leaders in prison. We must reduce workers salaries and take away their right to strike" -- May 2, 1933 Adolf Hitler.
Hour One: AFP fake attacks their own tent at right to work rally
- Tom Duckworth, Union member & witness to AFP fake attack in Lansing yesterday.
Hour Two: Who is really behind the latest Ground Zero Mosque Islamophobia?- Rev. Bill Keller
Hour Three: Medicare...could this be a Todd Aiken moment for Obama?
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Thursday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
Hour One: Even the GOP hates the GOP
Geeky Science Rocks - How do we warn future earthlings?
Exposing GOP's REAL motives for cutting social security- Peter Ferrara, Policy Director-Carleson Center for Public Policy / Attorney & Author "America's Ticking Bankruptcy Bomb".
Hour Three: Everybody wants to be a star...
And, the best of the rest of the news and your calls right here on...
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Friday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
It's Friday and that means it's "Brunch With Bernie"...America's Senator...Senator Bernie Sanders will be here talking about all the important issues of the week and he'll be taking your calls too...
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Thom's Poll
If Sandy hit a red state would Republicans block relief money?
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Watch & Listen to Thom
Conversations w/ Great Minds - Bruce Bartlett, "GOP is Full of Crazy Ignorant Tea Partiers" P1
Conversations w/ Great Minds - Bruce Bartlett, "Republicans Hate Democracy"P2
Crazy Alert! Dogs are now driving
Lone Liberal Rumble - National voting standards?
Lone Liberal Rumble - MI Right to Work for less law
AFP Faked Attack On Tent Witnessed!
Or watch the Full "Big Picture" Show...
Full Show 12/12/12: Right-To-Work's Fascist Roots
Tonight's "Lone Liberal Rumble" panel discusses the right-to-work protests in Lansing, MI, China's rapid takeover of U.S. businesses and how to make sure every vote counts in this country. In tonight's special edition of "Conversations with Great Minds" Thom talks with former Reagan Domestic Policy Advisor Bruce Bartlett.
Thom Hartmann on the News - December 12, 2012
Rev. Bill Keller - The Ground Zero Mosque is a scam!
Thom - Obama needs to avoid his own Todd Aiken moment
Was the AFP tent attack faked?
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