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Bernie Sanders reads from "Rebooting" on the Senate floor!
Senator Bernie Sanders, (I-VT) is on the Senate floor mounting a historic filibuster against the tax cut proposal, which viewers of the Thom Hartmann Program were able to watch, and he read an excerpt from " Rebooting the American Dream". |
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Thom's blog
House Democrats reject President Obama’s tax cut
You need to know this. President Obama’s tax cut compromise was rejected by House Democrats in a near unanimous caucus vote yesterday. Without significant changes to the bill – it’s likely Speaker Pelosi will not bring the package to the floor anytime soon. Reacting to the rejection in the House – the Senate is preparing to take the first steps and schedule a vote as early as Monday. To gain more support among Democratic Senators – additional tax provisions were added to the legislation targeting clean energy investments like hybrid automobiles - energy efficient homes - and biodiesel fuel. But the measures likely won’t sway angry Democrats in the House who still want to see changes made in the proposed new estate tax - which amounts to $66 billion giveaway to millionaires and billionaires. Regardless of whether or not the bill passes – major Democratic donors have already lost faith in their President. And they plan on expressing their discontent by holding out on campaign funds in 2012. As big Republican donors plan on flooding super PACs with millions in special interest money for the next election – Democrats could face a real uphill battle if their wealthy supporters sit on the sidelines in two years.
-Thom
(What do you think will happen to the tax cut deal now? Tell us here.) |
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 "Mass Deception" exposes the new George W. Bush memoirMass Deception, the bold and critically acclaimed new book by criminologist Scott Bonn, reveals that the Bush administration lied about the threat from Iraq and committed war crimes throughout the invasion and occupation. Order it today on amazon.com. Visit and "like" the Mass Deception fan page on facebook. |
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 9pm and 11pm...Katrina Vanden Heuvel will be here. (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT, and catch past shows on Youtube)
"Conversations With Great Minds." Tonight's very special guest is Katrina Vanden Heuvel, Editor/Publisher of The Nation Magazine
The Big Picture Rumble....Weekly Roundup...Wikileaks, Tax Deal, Dream Act, Kyoto and more.... -- Conservative Julie Mason, White House Correspondent at the Washington Examiner -- Conservative Princella Smith, conservative consultant.
-- Progressive Joe Madison, Host - The Black Eagle, national talk show on Sirius XM Satellite Radio. |
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Highlights Of The Upcoming Week ... Dec 13-17, 2010
Monday
Hour Three: Obamanomics vs. Reaganomics...which one is really "public policy malpractice" - Thom has a debate with Peter Ferrara of the American Civil Rights union.
Tuesday
Hour Three: "The Conservative Case for WikiLeaks" - Jack Hunter, columnist for The American Conservative Magazine, will be here.
Wednesday
Hour Two: The battle to control the Internet...NBC/Comcast - Thom has a rumble with Seton Motley, President of Less Government.
Thursday
Hour Two: "America on the Brink: The Next Added 100 Million Americans" Thom confronts author/anti-immigration activist Frosty Wooldridge about his new book.
Hour Three: Geeky Science - Can you eat less by pretending to eat more?! Scientists say...maybe!
Friday
Hour One: "Brunch With Bernie" - Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) spends the hour with Thom discussing the issues and answering listener questions www.sanders.senate.gov
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The Daily Stack 
Quote: "Which is the best government? That which teaches us to govern ourselves." -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
Today is International Human Rights Day.
"Brunch With Bernie". Senator Bernie Sanders, (I-VT) was on the Senate floor mounting a historic filibuster against the tax cut proposal, and provided a direct stream to the show for viewers to watch.
Site: " Bernie Sanders" campaign site. Watch him filibuster and send him some support.
Hour Two: Anything goes Friday!
Hour Three: Wikileaks revenge: operation payback an anonymous guest from the "Anonymous" group who are attacking organizations that are censoring Wikileaks.
Star Trek: The Next Generation's Captain Picard actor Sir Patrick Stewart, spokesperson for Amnesty International joins Thom, along with Dr. Saad Ibrahim, a prominent Egyptian scholar, human rights and pro-democracy activist who was jailed in Egypt three times for his pro-democracy activities. It is Human Rights day and Amnesty International's 50th anniversary.
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If the US supports Assange being extradited then will we extradite Cheney to Nigeria
Dan Pfeiffer, White House Communications Director
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“We the people” v. corporate personhood
In the Santa Clara County case in 1886, the Clerk of the Supreme Court proclaimed in a “headnote” – a summary or statement added at the top of the court decision, which is separate from the decision and has no legal force whatsoever – that the word “person” in law and, particularly in the Constitution, meant both “humans” and “corporations.”
Thus began in a big way (it actually started a half-century earlier in a much smaller way with a case involving Dartmouth University) the corruption of American democracy and the shift, over the 125 years since then, to our modern corporate oligarchy.
Most recently, in a January, 2010 ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, the Supreme Court, under Chief Justice John G. Roberts, took the radical step of overturning more than a hundred years of laws passed by elected legislatures and signed by elected presidents, and declared that not only are corporations “persons,” but that they have constitutional rights such as the First Amendment right to free speech.
This decision is clear evidence of how far we have drifted away as a nation from our foundational principles and values.
The Citizens United decision, which empowers and elevates corporations above citizens, is not just a symbolic but a real threat to our democracy, and only the will of “we the people,” exercised through a Constitutional amendment to deny personhood to corporations, can slay the dragon the Court has unleashed.
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 Would you like to help give a child with a very troubled background this feeling of peace? Thom and Louise Hartmann founded the New England Salem Children's Village (NESCV) in New Hampshire in 1979. With states delaying payment for the children they entrust to the village, they need help with cash flow. Can you help? |
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