If you'll be in L.A. this weekend (March 28-29) join me at SisterGiant3 presented by Marianne Williamson...I'll be speaking on Saturday together with (former) Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) and Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) - for tickets and information go to http://sistergiant.com

A Revolution of Love | Sister/Brother Giant 2015

-Thom

Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 10pm... DoD says climate change is a national security threat (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

In for Thom tonight...please welcome America's Lawyer, Mike Papantonio, Ring of Fire Radio

Need to Know: DoD says climate change is a national security threat
- Farron Cousins, Trial Lawyer Magazine

Screwed: Why are the banksters still writing their own laws?
- Peter Mougey, Securities Attorney.

Best of the Rest: How the GOP 'thanks' our veterans
- The Cochran Firm

PLUS, It's all about the banksters...
- Nomi Prins, All the Presidents' Bankers: The Hidden Alliances that Drive American Power / Demos

Community Square

"GOP Health Care Plan - Bad Meds"

Wednesday's Daily Stack

In for Thom today, progressive commentators Danielle and Shane-O.

Article: "FCC sued over net neutrality rules" by Mike Snider.

Article: "Here Come the Lawyers: First Net Neutrality Lawsuits Filed" by Candace Clement.

Article: "Indiana Supreme Court: Schools don't have to bus students" by Kris Turner.

Quote: "And say, finally, whether peace is best preserved by giving energy to the government or information to the people. This last is the most certain and the most legitimate engine of government." - Thomas Jefferson" to James Madison, December 20, 1787.

Speech: "The Economic Bill of Rights" by FDR (second bill of rights) (audio).

Article: "Hey Google: 9 in 10 Americans Want the ‘Right to Be Forgotten’" by Patrick Coffee.

Law: "Voting Rights Act of 1965".

Article: "Supreme Court Invalidates Key Part of Voting Rights Act" by Adam Liptak, June 25, 2013.

Article: "Gerrymandering" by Wikipedia.

Did SCOTUS just hand a victory to Alabama voters?
- Michael Li, Brennan Center for Justice

Article: "Supreme Court rules against Alabama plan to redraw legislative districts" by Robert Barnes.

Article: "Supreme Court Rejects Ruling That Upheld Alabama's Gerrymandering" by Krishnadev Calamur.

Article: "Alabama Legislative Black Caucus v. Alabama (Amicus Brief)" by Brennan Center for Justice.

Article: "Obama moots mandatory voting" by Cory Doctorow.

Hour Two: SCOTUS blasts America's abusive corrections system
- Maya Schenwar, Locked Down, Locked Out: Why Prison Doesn't Work and How We Can Do Better / Truthout

Book: Locked Down, Locked Out: Why Prison Doesn't Work and How We Can Do Better

Article: "Supreme Court Justices Blast The Corrections System" by Nicole Flatow.

Article: "13th Amendment",December 6, 1865 (end slavery)

Article: "Belgium is abolishing all prison sentences under one year " by Jon Stone.

Article: "8th Amendment" (cruel and unusual punishment).

Article: "Miranda warning" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Florida Is Muzzling Prison Inspectors As Record Numbers Of Inmates Die" by Kira Lerner.

Article: "Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement" (TPP) by EFF.

Article: "House Democrats angry over Obama’s classified trade meeting" by Kevin Cirilli.

Video: "Giant Sucking Sound - Ross Perot 1992 Presidential Debate".

Article: "Chuck Schumer's Cure for Democrats" by Russell Berman.

Talk Radio News Segment:
- Luke Vargas

Article: "Yemen crisis: President Hadi flees as Houthi rebels advance" by BBC.

Article: "Afghan President to Congress: We Don't Want to Be a Charity Case" by Rebecca Nelson and Marina Koren.

Article: "" by .

Article: "WH: Yemen Still A Counterterrorism Success Story" by William McDonald.

Article: "Yemen crisis: President Hadi flees as Houthi rebels advance" by BBC.

Article: "Yemen's Shi'ite Houthi Rebels Capture Aden Airport" by Edward Yeranian.

Article: "Arab League to discuss Yemen intervention plea on Thursday" by Reuters.

Article: "Russia to build Jordan's first nuclear power plant" by AP.

Site: "Goats for the old Goat".

Site: Governor Free Don Siegelman.

Article: "TRNS News Notes- 3/25" by Victoria Jones.

Article: "TRNS News Notes – 3/24" by Victoria Jones.

Hour Three: Executing the insane is against the law...so why do we keep doing it?
- Stephanie Mencimer, Mother Jones

Article: "Executing the Insane Is Against the Law of the Land. So Why Do We Keep Doing It?" by Stephanie Mencimer.

Article: "13th Amendment",December 6, 1865 (end slavery)

Video: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Municipal Violations (HBO), Mar 22, 2015 (debtors prisons).

Article: "Electoral College" by Wikipedia.

Quote: "I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality" - George Washington .

Article: "Thou shalt not kill" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Ted Cruz going on Obamacare" by Dana Bash and MJ Lee,.

Article: "Ted Cruz Reads ‘Green Eggs and Ham’ on Senate Floor — And That’s Not the Weird Part" by Dan Kedmey.

Book: Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss.

Site: Move to Amend

Bible: "John 1:17" "For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.".

Bible: "John 8:4-11" "Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her.".

Article: "Involuntary treatment" by Wikipedia.

Event: Seattle, Saturday March 28, 2015 2-4 p.m. "Congress Cuts Social Security" by Paul Richardson. Kirkland Library 308 Kirkland Avenue, Kirkland, WA 98033.

Book: Public Opinion by Walter Lippmann.

Book: The Phantom Public by Walter Lippmann.

Thursday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET

Timothy (Tim) Karr of Free Press will tell us what we need to know about the net neutrality lawsuits

Lori Wallach of Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch will be turning up the heat on TPP Fast Track...

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Full Show 3/24/15: #TBT: Utah Brings Back Firing Squads

Guest host Sam Sacks is in for Thom Hartmann tonight and discusses BP’s leaving of ALEC just weeks before the fifth anniversary of the Gulf oil spill with Union of Concerned Scientists’ Peter Frumhoff and Center for Media and Democracy’s Brendan Fischer. Tonight’s “Big Picture Rumble” talks firing squads, whether torture photos from Iraq & Afghanistan should be released, and Justice Kennedy’s criticism of mass incarceration. And in tonight’s “Daily Take” Thom discusses how Republicans want to continue austerity measures like the ones that took down Greece.