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Former FL GOP leader admits voter suppression

Deirdre Macnab, League of Women Voters of Florida, joins Thom Hartmann. Even though we already knew it - Republicans in Florida have admitted trying to suppress Democratic voters in the Sunshine State. What does this admission mean for voter suppression efforts nationwide - and will anything change for future elections?

Isn't it time America owned up to it's slave labor?

Scott Nova, Workers Rights Consortium, joins Thom Hartmann. Last week - factory fires claimed the lives of 112 Bengladeshi workers - who were making clothing for WalMart and other American retail stores. And - while these fires were tragedies - the mainstream media has barely said a peep about them. Isn't it time America owned up to it's support of slave labor practices?

Full Show 11/27/12: The Goldman Sachs Coup D'etat

Thom discusses how we're still a slave nation (we just don't have to look our slaves in the eyes anymore). Also discussed: why infrastructure spending needs to be included in the "fiscal cliff" deal, how Republicans in Florida are finally admitting to their plan to suppress the vote and how the Supreme Court may once again decide the fate of Obamacare. In tonight's "Daily Take" Thom discusses how Goldman Sachs is taking over the world.

Who Won the Black Friday Hunger Games?

Every year after Thanksgiving, the nation's wealthy elite, still fat-bellied from turkey and cornbread stuffing, tune in to their local news outlets and observe what has become an annual tradition of bloodletting and frenzied consumerism. We call it "Black Friday." But to those like the Walmart heirs who together own more wealth than the bottom 40% of the nation combined, it might as well be called their very own "Hunger Games." It's their stores, after all, that play host to this one-day battle - waged by poor and working class people - to get discounted appliances, clothes, and toys for their kids. Like Suzanne Collins' dystopic future portrayed in The Hunger Games, in which impoverished teenagers battle each other to the death once a year for the amusement of Panem's wealth elite, Black Friday "Battle Royales" often end in death as well. In just the last few years, we've seen shoppers and retail workers shot to death, trampled to death, pepper-sprayed, bitten, punched, and kicked, all in their pursuit for Black Friday shopping deals.

The Good, The Bad and the Very Very Ingluviously Ugly!

The Good! *Christiana Figueres* In an interview with Yale Environment 360 - Figueres - the top UN diplomat for international climate negotiations - said that Superstorm Sandy serves as "yet another wake-up call" for the US to cut carbon pollution. She also asked why the United States was willing to let other countries pursure clean-energy technologies at the expense of American jobs and economic growth. Figueres also predicted increased frustration with the United States if lawmakers in Washington fail to participate in the global fight to curb climate change over the next four years. Superstorm Sandy should be a wake-up call to everyone in this country - but let's see if politicians on Capitol Hill get that message - and finally do something to curb climate change.

Why You Should Get Naked in Public

Victoria Bikiempis, Bitch Magazine, joins Thom Hartmann. The traditional stigma of nudism in America revolves around retirees with bad tan lines and foppy skin letting it all hang out for the world to see. But is nudism in America undergoing a revolution - and moving away from that all too disturbing image?

How your privacy & emails may take a major hit this week

Amie Stepanovich, Electronic Privacy Information Center, joins Thom Hartmann. If the head of the CIA can't hide his emails from the federal government - what chance do you and I have of keeping e-mails private? Well if Congress has it's way - you and I don't stand a chance at all.

Robert Greenwald on Pakistan, Drones & War Crimes...

Robert Greenwald, Filmmaker/Producer & Founder-Brave New Films, joins Thom Hartmann. The US government says that drone attacks in the Middle East are targeted - and don't put innocent civilians in harm's way. Yet - our drones have killed hundreds of innocent men, women and children. When do we say enough is enough with drone warfare?

Is the GOP ready to put the interests of America ahead of Norquist?

David Frum, The Daily Beast, Newsweek & Author of Why Romney Lost joins Thom Hartmann. After their fairly dismal showing in the election earlier this month - high ranking Republicans came out and said that the party needs to change - and stop catering to the interests of the far right. But is that easier said then done for the Grand Old Party?

Is Grover Norquist an Enemy of the State?

Is it possible that Grover Norquist, the multi-millionaire K-Street lobbyist long funded by billionaires, is an enemy of the state? Pretty strong language, but consider that he has connived over the years to get hundreds of members of Congress to violate their own oath of office by pledging a higher oath to keep billionaires taxes low than their pledge to the Constitution itself.

Full Show 11/26/12: The Walmart Hunger Games

Thom talks with author and former George W. Bush Speechwriter David Frum about Grover Norquist's anti-tax pledge and why Romney lost the election. Also discussed: the increasing drone war across the middle east, how the government may gain new access to read your emails and how Republicans in Florida are finally admitting to their plan to suppress the vote. In tonight's "Daily Take" Thom discusses why Black Friday should be renamed the Walmart Hunger Games.

Full Show 11/23/12: The Bigger Picture: Health Care and Climate Change

Tonight's special edition of "The Big Picture" looks at two important issues facing the nation: Health Care and Climate Change. A panel of experts join Thom in two recent "Bigger Picture" discussions.

Agenda 21 & the Republican Fear Machine

When the Corporate Elite tells us we need to be afraid of something, they almost always expect to make some money off our fear. From the same people who brought us the "Ground Zero Victory Mosque," FEMA concentration camps, and every single George Soros conspiracy theory, comes a brand new hyper-paranoid threat-to-America's-sovereignty that, they say, should scare the hell out of all of us. It goes by the name of Agenda 21, which just so happens to be the title of Glenn Beck's new dystopic novel. Billed as, "more frightening than anything Orwell could have envisioned," Beck's Agenda 21 paints a disturbing picture of America following the implementation of the United Nation's Agenda 21, which is actually a real life UN initiative, though not nearly as nefarious as Beck would have us all believe. The book's tagline reads: "This used to be called America. Now it is just 'the Republic.' There is no president. No congress. No freedom." Over at GlennBeck.com you can watch a movie trailer made specifically for the book featuring grizzled Americans lined up on the streets in a post-Soviet winter landscape reeking of desperation, waiting for tiny morsels of food to be parceled out by "the authorities." Reminiscent of both Nazi concentration camps and the Book of Revelation, everyone's foreheads are tattooed with identification numbers - and in homage to Sarah Palin's "death panels," one scene in the trailer depicts an emaciated, scraggly-haired old man loaded on to a conveyor belt ...

Behind closed doors - What Wal-Mart is really saying about strikers

Josh Eidelson, The Nation, joins Thom Hartmann. Black Friday is looming - and so is a potential Walmart workers strike. What are the latest tactics the retail giant is using to keep it's streak of 50-plus years without labor unions intact?

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