FBI agents have seized a laptop and documents form the Chicago home of a Hatem Abudayyeh, a well-known anti-war activist and US citizen, in an "attempt to silence his advocacy," said attorney Jim Fennerty, Executive Director of the Arab American Action Network. As many as eight addresses in both Chicago and Minneapolis were searched by the FBI on Friday. Fennerty says, "The government is trying to quiet activists...this case is really scary." Six warrants were served in Minneapolis and two more in Chicago, although the FBI maintains there was no imminent threat to the community and no arrests have been made. If this had been done during the Bush Presidency, Democrats and progressives would be screaming about the creeping imposition of a police state. But how are these any less police state tactics when done by the Obama administration?

-Thom

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The Daily Stack

Quote: "Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself" -- Charles DeGaulle, French general and president, founder of the Fifth Republic (1890-1970).

Hour One: How did the wealthiest Americans get all the money and stick you with the bill? Thom speaks with investigative journalist/author David Cay Johnston.

Article: "So How Did the Bush Tax Cuts Work Out for the Economy?" by David Cay Johnston.

Book: "Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense and Stick You With The Bill" by David Cay Johnston.

Keeping the Bush tax cuts will create jobs...really?! Thom has a rumble with Curtis Dubay of the Heritage Foundation.

Article: "Obama Tax Hikes: The Economic and Fiscal Effects" by William Beach, Rea Hederman, Jr., John Ligon, Guinevere Nell and Karen Campbell, Ph.D.

Site: "U.S. Department of the Treasury".

Site: "Tom Riggs for State Representative".

"Labor Segment": Latest labor news - how is labor fighting Chase Bank to keep embattled homeowners in their homes? With Doug Cunningham, Producer/Reporter-Worker's Independent News.

Article: "UAW, FLOC & Rainbow Push Protest To Pull Hundreds Of Millions Of Dollars From Chase Bank" by Doug Cunningham.

Article: "WIN Report From Paris - Massive Protests & Strikes Against Raising The Retirement Age" by Doug Cunningham.

Article: "United Steel Workers: Oil Industry "Run To Failure" Mentality On Equipment Is Getting Worse" by Doug Cunningham.

Hour Two: "C-Street: The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy" Thom talks with author Jeff Sharlet about his new book. Assistant professor of creative nonfiction at Dartmouth College and a contributing editor at Harper's Magazine and Rolling Stone. Author of "The Family: and now his latest-"C-Street: The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy".

Book: "C-Street: The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy" by Jeff Sharlet.

Article: "Money transfers could face anti-terrorism scrutiny" by Ellen Nakashima.

Article: "Ohio governor defends outsourcing ban in letter" by AP.

Article: "‘Rare earths’ fears spur US review" by Daniel Dombey.

Book: "Rebooting the American Dream: 11 Ways to Rebuild Our Country" by Thom Hartmann, coming out in October.

Article: "The makings of a trade war with China" by Robert J. Samuelson.

Article: "Bill on overseas jobs raises hopes and fears" by James Politi.

Talk Radio News Segment: Victoria Jones, White House Correspondent.

Article: "Obama wants to recruit 10,000 more science, technology, engineering, math (STEM) teachers".

Article: "Obama Wants to Wiretap the Internet" by Fahmida Y. Rashid.

Article: "US asserts state secret in Awlaki targeted killing case" by AFP.

Article: "Miliband declares New Labour dead" by Alex Barke.

Article: "'Pulpit Freedom Sunday': Church Leaders To Defy IRS, Endorse Political Candidates".

The good: "One Nation Working Together" coalition.

The bad: "Raese Blames Volcanoes For Global Warming " by Brad Johnson.

The very, very ugly: "Limbaugh: Obama blamed Wall Street for global recession; "in some parts of the world ... Wall Street is shorthand for the Jews"".

Coming up Tuesday on The Thom Hartmann Program

Hour One: One Nation With Robert Rooks, NAACP Director of Criminal Justice.

Hour Two: right wingers support pouring money into war while ignoring the needs of Americans here at home... Wade Henderson, President and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights (LCCR), will be here to talk about how we move civil and human rights forward...

Hour Three: Most American families have roots in other countries including our President... Irish Journalist/Author Stephen MacDonogh will be here to talk about his brilliant new book "Pioneers: The Frontier Family of Barack Obama" detailing the President's Irish roots...

And, the best of the rest of the news and your calls right here on...

The Thom Hartmann Program... your media support group for we the people.

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If I shop in a downtown area full of small, locally-owned businesses, and at the end of the day the store owners deposit the money in local banks, then those banks can lend the money to local people to create or build more businesses, which will deposit more money in local banks, and so on. By keeping money within the community, the community grows. This is how communities in America and most of the rest of the world have historically grown.

But if my shopping trip had been to a mall full of chain stores or to a national superstore, the money stays in town for only a day at best. Every night, all around America, buttons are pushed that – like vampires draining blood from sleeping people – drain cash away from local communities, most of it never to be seen in town again.

Although the companies pay a small amount of their revenue back in local taxes and payroll and services, most of it is sucked up nightly into each company’s headquarters bank in Chicago or Little Rock or New York or wherever it may be. And most of that money never returns to the local community.

This is how you destroy local communities; it’s the opposite of a healthy economy.

Read more in chapter three, "Stop Them from Eating My Town!" Order Rebooting the American Dream now! (On Kindle too)

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At what point have we lost liberty because we lost privacy?

Should anyone born on US soil automatically have a right to citizenship?

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