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Bundy’s Friends Have Become the Kochs’ "Useful Idiots"
If you want to understand the modern American right, just head on out to Bunkerville, Nevada and visit the Bundy Ranch. The mainstream media may have backed off talking about them ever since The New York Times published Cliven Bundy’s racist rant, but, believe it or not, militia groups are still hanging around the Bundy Ranch and they’re really starting to annoy everyone else who lives in the area. It’s gotten so bad that Congressman Steven Horsford, who represents the area around the Bundy Ranch, actually wrote a letter to Clark County’s sheriff complaining that militia members have set up roadblocks and checkpoints on local highways.
For most Americans, the idea of armed gunmen checking drivers’ licenses and blocking off highways conjures up some pretty scary images. After all, this is America, not Somalia, and there’s no reason in a supposedly developed country like ours that anyone should be acting like a warlord. But there’s more to this situation than meets the eye, and if you actually take the time to listen to what militia members are saying about why they’ve decided to take a stand at the Bundy Ranch, you’d be surprised at how similar it sounds to some of the things we talk about on this program.
A few weeks ago, for example, right when this whole controversy started, I had Sheriff Richard Mack of the Oath Keepers on my radio show to talk about why he and his group supported Cliven Bundy. Sheriff Mack believes in some pretty non-mainstream stuff and there are a lot of areas where I disagree with him, but we both agree that corporate interests have taken over our government and that the American people have been sold down the river.
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 9pm... Another botched execution...end the death penalty now? (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT or Free Speech TV, 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: Another botched execution...end the death penalty now?
Lone Liberal Rumble:- Kris Ullman, Conservative Commentator/Activist. - Andrew Kloster, Heritage Foundation 
The Best of the Rest...
Are rail inspectors in bed with Big Oil?- Cole Stangler, In These Times
Daily Take: Bundy's friends have become the Kochs' 'useful idiots'
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Tuesday's Daily Stack 
In for Thom for the first few minutes, Shane Farnan & Danielle Guilday, hosts - Talking Left Radio
Hour One: How do we get an economy that works for all of us?- Dr. Stephanie Kelton, University of Missouri-Kansas City
Articles: Ricardo's "On labor" 1814, "On profits" 1816.
Hour Two: America...no longer a democracy?- Dr. Martin Gilens, Princeton University
Quote: "You know, if you let me write $200 billion worth of hot checks every year, I could give you an illusion of prosperity, too" - Lloyd Bentsen.
Hour Three: Activism started with Tim Carpenter...and now it's your turn- John Nichols, The Nation Magazine
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On the Road Again
Tomorrow
May 1 - Seattle, WA 730pm: Crash of 2016 booksigning, Seattle Town Hall. details
May 2 - Portland, OR 7pm: Crash of 2016 booksigning, First Unitarian Church. details
May 3 - Portland, OR:
Thom’s TEDX talk - SOLD OUT.
May 10 - Northampton, MA 7pm: Crash of 2016 booksigning, The Parlor Room. Free, but sign up at whmp.com
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Wednesday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
Hour One: Brunch With Bernie- Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) takes your calls
Hour Two: Bundy's friends have become the Kochs' 'useful idiots'
Hour Three: America's 'cold war' agains Russiat- Professor Stephen Cohen, The Nation Magazine
Update on South Sudan...The Honorable Tong Deng Aneri, South Sudan Minister of Health, and Dr. Mayer Machut Ahiek, University of Juba, South Sudan join Thom in the studio
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"...
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Thursday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
We'll have the best of the rest of the news...all the news and information you won't be hearing from the corporate owned news media...
Plus...morality in banking?! Really?! We'll tell you how one bank is deciding whose money is acceptable and whose isn't...
And, it's May Day...in a victory for the working class, one state has decided to raise the minimum wage without waiting for Congress...
All this and your calls too...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...
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Thom's Poll
Is it time to outlaw the death penalty?
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Watch & Listen to Thom
Tim Carpenter Fought Hard for Social Justice - Now It's Our Turn
The Crime of Peaceful Protest
How George W. Bush screwed college students...
Cheap fashion kills people...
Why the Koch brothers are behind Cliven Bundy
We are not living in a post racial world
Or watch the Full "Big Picture" Show...
Full Show 4/29/14: Elizabeth Warren 2016!
Tonight's "Politics Panel" discusses whether police should have access to our cell phones without a warrant, a new study revealing how 4% of people on death row are innocent and whether Rand Paul or Elizabeth Warren will run in 2016. Thom talks with Journalist & Author Chris Hedges on how our judicial system is torturing peaceful Occupy Wall Street participants and in tonight's "Daily Take" Thom remembers the life of Tim Carpenter, the Co-Founder of the Progressive Democrats of America.
Thom Hartmann on Science & Green News - April 28, 2013
The Thom Hartmann Program - April 29, 2014
Just How do you Punish a Billionaire?
Is Democracy Only Available to the Elite?
New Economic Perspectives
Activism Started with Tim Carpenter...and now it's Your Turn
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