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Tuesday 3 June '14 show notes

Jun. 3, 2014 3:10 pm

By SueN

Either security theater ends...or includes the 1%
Jamie Weinstein, The Daily Caller: What's the difference between the rich and poor?
Your calls on the subjects of the day

Thom's blog

The Labor Games: Time for An American Comeback

It’s the bottom of the 9th inning, and corporate America is just one out away from another major victory. According to a new study from the International Trade Union Confederation, corporate America has all but destroyed workers’ rights in our country. The study looked at things like workers’ ability to strike or protest, to engage in collective bargaining, and their basic civil liberties.

A 97-point evaluation of labor-related criteria by the International Trade Union Confederation found that the United States ranks as bad as Pakistan, Indonesia, and Thailand when it comes to workers’ rights. And the only countries that are ranked worse than the U.S. in the study are countries that are experiencing “open violent conflict.” Of course this shouldn’t come as a surprise.

Over the last three years alone, more than a dozen corporate-friendly Republican-controlled states have put limits on collective bargaining for public employees, and 19 other states have pushed for right-to-work-for-less laws that destroy private unions. But the U.S. didn’t always used to be at the bottom of the barrel when it comes to workers’ rights.

For nearly a century, it was unions and strong workers’ rights that made us proud to call America home. And it was thanks to unions that America had a strong and robust middle class. But, over the last three decades or so, corporate America and the wealthy elite have been waging an all-out war on workers, and on the very unions that helped build our country.

Read more here.

-Thom

Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 10pm... Time for a carbon cap reality check? (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT or Free Speech TV, and catch past shows on Youtube)

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."

Congratulations Thom! Thom Hartmann to Receive 2014 Freedom of Speech Award

Need to Know: Time for a carbon cap reality check?
- Dr. Michael Mann, Earth System Science Center-Penn State University / The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars

Big Picture Politics Panel:
- Genevieve Wood, The Daily Signal - Heritage Foundation

- Nate Sweet, Progressive Commentator

- Hughey Newsome, Project 21 / MoveOnUp.org

The Best of the Rest...

Hey Senators...corporations are NOT people!!
- Kaitlin Sopoci-Belknap, Move To Amend

Daily Take: The Labor Games: Time for An American Comeback

Free excerpt, read book for free at Truthout, buy the book!

Tuesday's Daily Stack

Hour One: Either security theater ends...or includes the 1%

Article: "BlackJet: Fly private for less" by Laurie Segall.

Article: "No, Vox, let's not abolish the TSA" by Dante Atkins.

Article: "TSA proposes screening private jet passengers" by Thomas Frank.

Site: Uber.

Site: BlackJet.

Article: "2010 Austin suicide attack" (Joe Stack).

Article: "Supreme Court Declines To Weight In On Journalist Protections" by TRNS.

Article: "America's poor are its most generous givers" by Frank Greve.

Article: "The Return Of Debtor’s Prisons: Thousands Of Americans Jailed For Not Paying Their Bills" by Marie Diamond, December 13, 2011.

Article: "Debt Collectors Have Figured Out A Way To Seize Your Wages And Savings" by Hunter Stuart.

Article: "'Affluenza defence': Rich, privileged and unaccountable" by Anthony Zurcher.

Site: Nouriel Roubini.

Book: "The Crash of 2016: The Plot to Destroy America--and What We Can Do to Stop It" by Thom Hartmann.

Hour Two: Your calls on the subjects of the day

Article: "The Return Of Debtor’s Prisons: Thousands Of Americans Jailed For Not Paying Their Bills" by Marie Diamond, December 13, 2011.

Article: "Debt Collectors Have Figured Out A Way To Seize Your Wages And Savings" by Hunter Stuart.

Article: "'Affluenza defence': Rich, privileged and unaccountable" by Anthony Zurcher.

Site: Nouriel Roubini.

Book: "The Crash of 2016: The Plot to Destroy America--and What We Can Do to Stop It" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Eliminating Ridesharing Insurance Ambiguity" by Nairi.

Site/movie: Last Hours

Article: "99Rise - Keep an eye on these guys" by NCcoast.

Site: 99Rise.

Site: March for Democracy.

Article: "Report: JP Morgan Chase to pay $13 billion to settle residential mortgage bond lawsuits" by George Chidi.

Article: "Credit Suisse Pleads Guilty in Felony Case" by Ben Protess and Jessica Silver-Greenberg.

Book: Unstoppable: The Emerging Left-right Alliance To Dismantle The Corporate State by Ralph Nader.

Article: "Elizabeth Warren: 'The system is rigged' " by Joan McCarter.

Talk Radio News Segment:
- Bob Ney

Book: "Sideswiped: Lessons Learned Courtesy of the Hit Men of Capitol Hill" by Robert Ney.

Site: "Goats for the old Goat".

Article: "TRNS News Notes- 6/3" by Victoria Jones.

Article: "TRNS News Notes- 6/2/14" by Victoria Jones.

Quote: "The people can never understand why the President does not use his powers to make them behave. Well all the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway." - Letter from Harry S. Truman to Mary Jane Truman (14 November 1947).

Article: "Statement by the the President on H.R. 4310" (National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013).

Article: "Boehner: EPA plan ‘nuts’" by Timothy Cama.

Article: "Sen. Bernie Sanders Lays Out New Plan To Overhaul The VA" by Heather.

Article: "Harry Reid: GOP 'double-speak' on veterans" by Burgess Everett.

Article: "Obama taps FEMA to cope with 'influx' of undocumented children" by Erik Wasson.

Hour Three: What's the difference between the rich and poor?
- Jamie Weinstein, The Daily Caller

Article: "Comedian Adam Carolla on rich people: ‘They’re better than poor people. They just are’" by Tom Boggioni.

Site: Patriotic Millionaires.

Book: Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty.

Article: "Tech workers seek to use Steve Jobs evidence in upcoming trial on no-hire accords" by Dan Levine.

Article: "Jubilee (biblical)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Land-grant university" by Wikipedia.