Mitt Romney told 31 lies and half-truths during just 41 minutes of speaking time...a new record. Romney managed to beat his previous mark of telling 27 lies and half-truths during the first debate - and some of last night's lies were even bigger than those from the previous debate!The only difference this time, though...was that President Obama called out some of those lies.

Thom discusses last night's presidential debate with our "Big Picture Politics Panel," takes your calls in "Your Take, My Take Live" and speaks with journalist Lee Fang about Tagg Romney's shady private equity firm Solamere. In tonight's "Daily Take" Thom discusses how we're all about to die yet no one is talking about it.

There's some breaking news from labor reporter Mike Elk with In These Times magazine...We've seen several CEOs send letters out to their employees urging them to vote for Mitt Romney or else they may lose their jobs during a second Obama term. Now we might know where these threats started...Mitt Romney! In June 6th 2012 conference call with the NFIB (National Federation of Independent Businesses) - Mitt Romney urged employers with the NFIB to make it clear to their employees who they should vote for.

You know there's a big problem when foreign investors are buying up schools here in America so they - instead of We The People - can educate our young people. Yet - that's exactly what's happening. As Alyssa Figueroa reports over at AlterNet - wealthy foreign investors are taking advantage of our immigration laws by investing millions in charter schools. You see - there's this thing called the Immigrant Investor Program - which gives green cards to foreign investors as long as they invest at least a million dollars in the US economy - and create at least 10 full-time jobs. So - the business of choice to invest in is...private, for-profit charter schools. So far - just Chinese investors have spent $30 million buying charter schools in Florida alone. And according to a new report from Miami Today - they plan to invest nearly $100 million next year. Think about that - foreign investors buying the rights to teach American students, with guaranteed profits from our tax dollars. This is because we buy more from the rest of the world than we sell to them - the predicted consequence of our bizarre free trade policies - that leads to a trade deficit of 800 billion dollars every year. That's 800 billion dollars more that ends up in the hands of foreign investors who have to spend that money somehow - so they spend it buying up our commons...like our schools.

Dr. Jerome Corsi, Senior Staff Writer-World Net Daily joins Thom Hartmann. So if you thought the birthers - and those who believe President Obama is a secret Muslim were going away anytime soon - then everything you know is wrong.

Josh Eidelson, Labor Journalist / Contributing Writer-Salon & Neal Asbury, Truth for America join Thom Hartmann. In recent weeks we've seen unprecedented labor strikes against the world's largest private retailer - Walmart. It started with a walkout among Walmart supply chain workers - and turned into a strike by Walmart's retail workers in a dozen cities across the nation last week. Workers threatened to hold actions on Black Friday at the end of November if Walmart doesn't agree to stop retaliating against employees who speak out abour poor working conditions. And now we know that this strike has the attention of Walmart executives. According to a leaked corporate memo obtained by the Huffington Post that was sent around to Walmart's salaried employees only - managers are instructed to act with caution when confronting striking workers. For fifty years - Walmart has stifled any sort of union activity - but this latest memo is unusually cautious - telling managers not to violate their workers' right to organize - and not to discipline employees who engage in walk-outs are sit-ins. The memo also cautions managers from threatening, intimidating, or spying on workers who are trying to organize. It does however instruct managers to give workers facts, opinions, and personal experiences with labor organizaing in an effort to discourage union activity. So given the strikes in the recent week - and now this leaked corporate memo - who has the upper-hand in the fledgling labor ...

The Good! *The American People* On Saturday - around 1000 Americans laid down on a beach in San Francisco - and spelled out the words "Dump Citizens United" The spectacular protest was just the latest in a long line of protests across America ever since the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision in 2010. Brad Newsham - a San Francisco cabbie who organized the protest - told reporters, "The 2010 Supreme Court ruling on Citizens United trampled on America's founding principles, swamped our democracy in corporate cash and needs to be over turned." Mr. Newsham and the protestors who showed up on Saturday know that corporations are not people - and money is not speech. It's time we overturned Citizens United - and got our voices back. Go to MoveToAmend.org

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Mike Elk, Staff Writer-"In These Times" joins Thom Hartmann. The Kochs have promised to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to defeat President Obama and progressives this election. But that's not enough. Find out what America's most notorious oligarchs are doing to their employees now to ensure that Mitt Romney wins the White House in November.

Gary Johnson, Libertarian Party Presidential candidate / Former Governor of New Mexico joins Thom Hartmann. Mitt Romney got what he wanted - it's now a close race between him and the President. But now - Romney may have a whole new problem on his hands - his name is Gary Johnson.

Libya Wilson, 19 year old mother of two from Pittsburg, PA - works for Bain owned Dunkin' Donuts & Richard Hooten, from Houston, TX - works for Bain owned Burlington Coat Factory join Thom Hartmann. Workers at the factory have been begging Mitt Romney to intervene to save their jobs - but he won't. He - and the other corporate outsourcers - are committed to getting all the short-term profits they can, even though it means the long-term death of the American economy.

Slowly but surely - the United States of America is being eaten alive by foreign transnational corporations. Today - news broke that telecom giant Sprint is being bought by the foreign Japanese corporation Softbank for more than $20 billion. According to the deal - which is the largest American acquisition by a Japanese company in history - 70% of Sprint will now be owned by overseas investors. The deal will likely be approved next year - making Softbank Sprint the third largest mobile phone company in the world. Not only that - this deal will suck billions in future revenue and profits out of the American economy - and into the Japanese economy. That's already the case with the nation's fourth largest mobile phone company - T-Mobile - which is owned by the German company Deutsche Telekom AG. In fact - there are so few American telecom companies and manufacturers - that our nation will likely have to rely on foreign telecoms like China's Wa-Wei to build the next generation of telecom infrastructure in the United States. That's how bad things have gotten for American industries. Every single second in America, over $4000 worth of our own industry is sold off to foreign investors.

Thanks to Citizens United the Koch Brothers are free to tell their employees how to vote-Thom discusses with Labor Journalist Mike Elk who uncovered the story. Also discussed: Thom speaks with Libertarian Presidential Candidate Gary Johnson, the latest from the Walmart strike and new evidence that Obama's Muslim. In tonight's "Daily Take" Thom looks at how foreign companies are buying our nation's education system to obtain green cards.

In tonight's special edition of "Conversations with Great Minds" Thom talks with former George W. Bush speechwriter and CNN Contributor David Frum, author of the new book "Patriots." Thom also speaks with veteran journalist Kurt Eichenwald, author of the new book "500 Days: Secrets and Lies in the Terror Wars."

Guest host Sam Sacks fills in for Thom Hartmann and discusses yesterday's Supreme Court arguments on affirmative action. Also discussed: a preview of tonight's Vice Presidential Debate, how Romney thinks there's not a health care crisis in the US and in tonight's "Daily Take" Thom looks at how privacy may just be a thing of the past.