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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 10pm... Ralph Nader, Mike Papantonio, Michael Mann & Matt Taibbi (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT or Free Speech TV, and catch past shows on Youtube)

Be sure to check out our new videos: CARBON, LAST HOURS & GREEN WORLD RISING - narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio

Need to Know: The Unstoppable Ralph Nader
- Ralph Nader, Unstoppable: The Emerging Left-Right Alliance to Dismantle the Corporate State

Screwed: Why the GOP Love Loretta Lynch
- America's Lawyer Mike Papantonio, Ring of Fire Radio

Green report: The Siberian Crater Mystery
- Michael Mann, Penn State University / The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars

Best of the Rest: The $9 Billion Witness
- Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone Magazine / The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap

Community Square

Wednesday's Daily Stack

Article: "Storm brings halt to AirAsia search operation" by Jonathan Kaiman.

Article: "NSA Discloses Trove of Violations in Christmas Eve Document Dump" by Democracy Now!

Article: "Eric Cantor, Paul Ryan & Kevin McCarthy: Plot To Sabotage US Economy with Frank Luntz" by keepemhonest.

Book: "When the Tea Party Came to Town: Inside the U.S. House of Representatives' Most Combative, Dysfunctional, and Infuriating Term in Modern History" by Robert Draper.

Article: "'It's Not My Job' Chuck Todd Admits He Can't Ask Tough Questions" by LeftOfCenter.

Article: "A 2,500 Square-Mile Methane Plume Is Silently Hovering over Western US" by Jon Queally.

Book: How the Irish Became White by Noel Ignatiev.

Article: "Fox & Friends claims federal ‘sprinkle ban’ that doesn’t really exist is proof Obama will ban Christmas cookies" by David Edwards.

Book: The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap by Matt Taibbi.

Article: "Senator Bernie Sanders : Petition: Another Trade Deal 'Disaster'".

The good: Michelle Bachelet: "Chile President Seeks Change in Pinochet-Era Labor Code" by teleSUR.

The bad: King County Metro: "Blind couple denied bus seats" by KCPQ.

The very, very ugly: Stan Solomon: "Popular Right Wing Talk Show Host Says, “At Next Die in, Make Sure They’re Dead”".

Book: "Columbus and Other Cannibals: The Wetiko Disease of Exploitation, Imperialism, and Terrorism" by Jack D. Forbes.

Book: "Ishmael" by Daniel Quinn.

Book: "My Ishmael" by Daniel Quinn.

Book: "The Story of B" by Daniel Quinn.

Article: "Marine veteran freed from Mexican jail" by Sandra Dibble.

Article: "Enbridge wrapping up Kalamazoo River oil spill cleanup and restoration, on target for fall completion" by Rosemary Parker.

Article: "An Economic Agenda for America: 12 Steps Forward" by Sen. Bernie Sanders.

Article: "Tax ‘experiment’ rebounds on Republican in re-election campaign" by Neil Munshi.

Book: "What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America" by Thomas Frank.

Article: "Bilderberg Group" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Police Funeral: Moving Words, and a Call for Respect" by New York Times.

Article: "NYT to NYPD: 1. Don’t violate the Constitution. 2. Don’t kill unarmed people. 3. Do your jobs." by kpete.

Article: "When New York City Police Walk Off the Job" by NY Times.

Article: "Not the Onion: Monsanto Tries Patenting Natural Tomatoes" by n2doc.

Article: "New Level: Monsanto Tries Patenting Natural Tomatoes" by Christina Sarich.

Article: "Republicans Try to Fix Damage Scalise’s 2002 Speech Could Do in 2016" by Jonathan Martin and Jackie Calmes.

Article: "The Media In 2014 By The Numbers" by Hannah Groch-Begley.

Article: "Obama Drops Judicial Nominee Who Touted ‘Conservative Christian Values’" by Josh Israel.

Article: "Maryland Governor Will Commute All Remaining Death Sentences To Life Without Parole" by Josh Israel.

Article: "The Flu Is A National Epidemic And We Aren’t Ready" by Carimah Townes.

Article: "Idaho woman accidentally shot and killed by 2-year-old in Wal-Mart".

Article: "Wolf killed by hunters in Utah may have been famed Grand Canyon wanderer ‘Echo’" by Reuters.

Article: "Fox affiliate fires reporter and cameraman who deceptively edited video of police brutality protesters" by Scott Kaufman.

Tweet: "Fact: Bernie Sanders and Marco Rubio having same 2016 primary polling numbers. so why does press fawn over Rubio, mostly ignore Bernie?" by Eric Boehlert.

Book: "It Can't Happen Here" by Sinclair Lewis.

Book: War is a Racket: The Antiwar Classic by America's Most Decorated Soldier by Smedley D. Butler.

Article: "Church Committee", 1975-6.

Article: "America's 20 Craziest Politicians" by Stephen Sherrill.

Article: "The strange case of Carlos the Spanish air controller." by Miquel Puertas.

Article: "Ukraine signs $10 billion shale gas deal with Chevron" by Pavel Polityuk and Richard Balmforth.

Article: "House Majority Whip Calls for Clearer Labelling of White Supremacists" by Andy Borowitz.

Book: Entangled Minds: Extrasensory Experiences in a Quantum Reality by Dean Radin Ph.D.

Site: "Hardball" (Michael Steele gust hosts 12/30/14 edition).

Article: "Protect and serve: Nations must keep expanding conservation efforts to avoid a biodiversity crisis" by Nature.

Article: "Northern white rhino’s death leaves just five in the world" by Amy Hubbard and Tony Perry.

Article: "What Would Happen If All The Earth's Microbes Suddenly Disappeared?" by George Dvorsky.

Article: "Migrating Monarch Butterflies in "Grave Danger," Hit New Low" by Christine Dell'Amore.

Article: "Composting toilet" by Wikipedia.

Article: "€54m voting machines scrapped for €9 each" by Paul Melia and Luke Byrne.

Article: "Economist Apologizes For ‘Insulting’ Comments On Passage Of ACA" by Loretta Lewis.

Talk Radio News Segment:
- Bob Ney

Case: "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" (2010).

Article: "Minimum wage to rise in 21 states this week" by Paul Davidson.

Article: "U.S.: No alternate leads in Sony hack" by Tal Kopan.

Article: "Activist vows to float balloons carrying DVDs of The Interview over North Korea" by AP.

Article: "State Dept. Raises Possibility North Korea Used Outside Assets For Sony Hack" by James Cullum.

Article: "Our Predictions For 2015" by Ellen Ratner.

Article: "Curiosity rover's discovery of methane ‘spikes’ fuels speculation of life on Mars " by Ian Sample.

Site: Governor Free Don Siegelman.

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

Site: "Goats for the old Goat".

Hour Three: Why is autism on the rise?
- Dr. Stephanie Seneff, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.)

Article: "Half of All Children Will Be Autistic by 2025, Warns Senior Research Scientist at MIT" by ANH-USA.

Article: "MIT Researcher’s New Warning: At Today’s Rate, Half Of All U.S. Children Will Be Autistic By 2025" by Nick Meyer.

Article: "Glyphosate’s Suppression of Cytochrome P450 Enzymes and Amino Acid Biosynthesis by the Gut Microbiome: Pathways to Modern Diseases" by Anthony Samsel and Stephanie Seneff.

Article: "interdisciplinary Glyphosate, pathways to modern diseases II: Celiac sprue and gluten intolerance" by Anthony Samsel and Stephanie Seneff.

Article: "Impaired Sulfate Metabolism and Epigenetics: Is There a Link in Autism?" by Samantha Hartzell and Stephanie Seneff.

Article: "Stephanie Seneff".

Article: "CDC: Flu vaccine is proving to be only 50% effective" by Jim Bergamo.

Case: "Plessy v. Ferguson", 1896 (separate but equal).

Case: "Brown v. Board Of Education", 1954 (Segregation in public schools) (overturned Plessy v. Ferguson).

Case: "Loving v. Virginia", 1967 (miscegenation).

Case: "Griswold v. Connecticut", 1965.

Case: "Roe v. Wade", 1973.

Case: "Buckley v. Valeo", 1976.

Case: "Marbury v. Madison", 1803 (judicial review).

Case: "Dred Scott v. Sandford", 1857.

Book: The Case Against the Supreme Court by Erwin Chemerinsky.

Article: "Breaking: #Ferguson Protesters CUFFED & MACED After Storming St. Louis Police Headquarters" by Jim Hoft.

Article: "Up a Notch: St. Louis Police Station Occupied" by jpmassar.

Article: "US and Israeli intervention led UN to reject Palestinian resolution" by Peter Beaumont.

Article: "Palestinian president signs up to join international criminal court" by Peter Beaumont.

Article: "Palestine Joins Hague Criminal Court, Risking U.S. Sanctions" by Jodi Rudoren.

Article: "Vermont Yankee powers down for good" by John Herrick.

Site: "Who is Art Robinson?".

Article: "Goodbye nuclear power: Germany's renewable energy revolution" by Tim Smedley.

Article: "High environmental price of a very merry Christmas" by Michael McCarthy.

Article: "MSNBC chief eyes changes to fix ratings" by Richard Morgan.

Article: "Constitution of the United States" Article 6 section 3. "The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States."

Article: "Preamble to the Constitution of the United States".

Article: "Report on the Subject of Manufactures" by Alexander Hamilton.

Book: Cannery Row by John Steinbeck.

Article: "Pacific Sardine" by FishWatch.

Article: "American Legislative Exchange Council" (ALEC) by SourceWatch.

Article: "U.S. Financial Aid To Israel: Figures, Facts, and Impact" by WMREA.

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