| |
|
Thom's blog
TSA now stands for The Snooping Agency!
In many states around our nation, you don't need a background check to buy a gun. But, if you have travel plans, be prepared for the authorities to do a little digging. The TSA has expanding passenger screenings, and they're checking a wide array of government databases before you even arrive at the airport. In addition to checking for your name on the “No-Fly” list, the Transportation Security Administration may be checking your car registration, past travel itineraries, property records, police records, or even your employment information. And, just to add insult to injury, the TSA may share what they find with “a debt collection agency for the purpose of debt collection.”
Similar programs have been used for some time to evaluate travelers coming in to the United States, but now they'll be used for domestic travel under the guise of identifying “low-risk” travelers for faster screening at the airport. If the TSA determines you fit into that category, you can sail through security with your shoes on, and laptops still in your carry-on. However, if the agency decides you pose any risk, you could be subjected to repeated searches.
And, if you feel you've been incorrectly profiled for the enhanced screenings, you're forced to appeal to the Department of Homeland Security. As of last March, 13,000 people had asked for a review, but civil liberty groups and travelers say that their requests simply disappear into a “black hole.” Somehow, despite Americans protesting government spying, we're being subjected to more of it – not less. Our government is committing an outright assault on our privacy, and Americans are fed up. Our forefathers wrote the Forth Amendment to protect us, and it's about time that our government start respecting it.
-Thom
(What do you think? Tell us here.) |
|
|
|
Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 9pm... Darrell Issa...modern day McCarthy (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT, and catch past shows on Youtube)
Watch the video 'Last Hours' narrated by Thom Hartmann about the "time bomb" that is ticking underground, underwater and under ice… frozen methane that is now escaping and could trigger runaway climate change. www.lasthours.org
Have a question or comment for Thom? Grab your phone, hit record and send your video to YourTakeMyTake@gmail.com and we may air it on "The Big Picture."
Need to Know: Darrell Issa...modern day McCarthy
Lone Liberal Rumble:- Kris Ullman, Conservative Commentator / Activist. - Neil McCabe, Guns & Patriots Newsletter 
The Best of the Rest...
Larry Flynt: Don't execute the man who paralyzed me- Larry Flynt, HUSTLER Magazine
Plus, How does John McAfee help Obamacare?- John McAfee, whoismcafee.com
Daily Take: Stop treating Capitalists as if they're gods...
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Tuesday's Daily Stack 
Hour One: Government...SIZE doesn't matter, COST does
The Big Picture- Nate Sweet, The Big Picture producer
Quote: "I guess the question I'm asked the most often is: "When you were sitting in that capsule listening to the count-down, how did you feel?" Well, the answer to that one is easy. I felt exactly how you would feel if you were getting ready to launch and knew you were sitting on top of two million parts -- all built by the lowest bidder on a government contract." John Glenn.
Hour Two: Does the study of economics make you greedy?- Professor Adam Grant, Give and Take
Plus, How the Koch Brothers Fleeced America
Rep. DeFazio on Social Security- Congressman Peter DeFazio (D-OR, 4th District) / Plus, the REAL lessons of 9/11...
Article: " Constitution of the United States" Article 2 section 1. " No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.".
|
|
|
Wednesday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
Hour One: Is the Tea Party like the KKK...or not?- Jennifer Burke, The Tea Party.net
Plus, Find out what the Fukushima fallout is on the West Coast- Miriam German, No Nukes NW
Hour Two: The cult of the Tea Party- former Speaker Newt Gingrich
Hour Three: Stop treating Capitalists as if they're gods
Plus, The on-going threat from Fukushima to the West Coast- John Bertucci, Fukushima Response.
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"...
|
|
|
Thursday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
More secession talk out of California as another county joins the movement to form the new state of Jefferson...I'll talk with Geri Byrne, Chair of the Modoc County Board of Supervisors...
Plus, the best of the rest of the news along with your calls right here on...
The Thom Hartmann Program, Occupying The Media 3 hours a day 5 days a week" for "we the people"
And remember...Democracy is NOT a spectator sport...it begins with you...
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Thom's Poll
Is Darrell Issa the modern day Joseph McCarthy?
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Watch & Listen to Thom
Are the Koch Brothers the New "Copper Kings"
The Benghazi Hoax & the Hoaxsters
Politics Panel - Has the US Committed War Crimes?
Politics Panel - The War on Government Employees
Politically Corrected! Ann Coulter Couldn't Be More Wrong
Moms were right about guns
Or watch the Full "Big Picture" Show...
Full Show 10/22/13: Are the Koch Brothers the New "Copper Kings?"
Tonight's "Big Picture Politics Panel" discusses the messy roll out of Obamacare and who's to blame for it, a new study revealing how the U.S. drone program is violating international law and the GOP's continued civil war. Thom talks with Media Matters' Ari Rabin Havt about the GOP's Benghazi hoax, and in tonight's "Daily Take" Thom discusses how the Koch Brothers are trying to expand their stranglehold on our democracy and political system with the Keystone XL Pipeline.
Thom Hartmann on the News: October 22, 2013
The Benghazi Hoax
Dear Senator Durbin: Social Security is Solvent!
How the Koch Brothers Fleeced America
Does Studying Economics Make you Greedy?
There Are Some Things Government Can Do Better
|
|
| |
|
Show Info
Call Thom on the show at 1-866-987-THOM (8466) (0870 974 9686 from the UK, +1 503 796 2324 from outside the US or UK).
Sign up for Thom's podcasts.
Come on over to the free chat room, where Thom hangs out during the show.
Join in the discussions on Thom's free message board.
Blog or upload videos or audios at Thom's community.
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
| |
| |
Thom and Louise Hartmann founded the New England Salem Children's Village (NESCV) in New Hampshire in 1979. With states delaying payment for the children they entrust to the village, they need help with cash flow. Can you help? Now on Facebook. |
|
|
