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The End of Choice...
NPR and everyone else, please stop lying to us. And please stop reading corporate press releases to us and calling them news. This morning, NPR took a stab at covering the proposed AT&T-DirecTV merger that was officially announced this weekend.
NPR is completely wrong. This has nothing to do with AT&T or DirecTV "surviving." They're both big, profitable companies, and if the industry is changing they can change to adapt to it. Which by the way, both are already doing. What this is REALLY about is monopoly. Just like the Comcast-Time Warner merger, and Sprint's plans to try to take over T-Mobil, this AT&T-DirecTV move is all about MONOPOLY.
These mergers and acquisitions are about corporations getting so large that they dominate an industry, and limit your choices to a very, very small number of companies - which then all suddenly start raising prices and increasing profits. This is about screwing the consumer. And this is all because in 1982 Ronald Reagan stopped enforcing the Sherman Anti-Trust Act.
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 10pm... Stop the greedy clown... (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT or Free Speech TV, and catch past shows on Youtube)
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Need to Know: Stop the greedy clown...- David Laska, New York State Republican Party 
Screwed: What moms need to know about Obamacare...- Karen Davenport, National Women's Law Center (NWLC)
Give dying patients the right to try- Kurt Altman, Goldwater Institute.
The Best of the Rest...
Everything You Know Is Wrong: - David Nabhan, Earthquake Prediction...Answers in Plain Site
Daily Take: The End of Choice...
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Monday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
Hour One: School choice...the new economic segregation- Neal McCluskey, Cato Institute
Hour Two: The End of Choice
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Caller: Nixon Ended the Vietnam War!
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