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Friday 5 August '11 show notes

Aug. 6, 2011 8:41 am

By SueN

Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT). "Brunch With Bernie".
Rep. Mark Pocan, State Rep (D-WI, 78th District). ALEC Exposed in New Orleans.
Shelly Moore, English Teacher and a board member of the Wisconsin Education Association Council. "Taking Our Country Back".
Graeme Zielinksi, Communications Director, The Democratic Party of Wisconsin. Wisconsin Recall Elections...secret dirty right wing tricks revealed!
Bumper Music:
- Believe, The Bravery.
- Everything You Want, Vertical Horizon.
- You Get What You Give, New Radicals.
- I'm taking my country back, Tony Stampley, Honky Tonkers for Truth (video) (lyrics).
- Anything Goes, Tony Bennett.
- Thank God It's Friday, Love and Kisses (video).
- Anything Goes (Chinese), from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.
- Grand Canyon, Dmitriy Lukyanov (you need to search for it) (with additional sounds by Jacob).
- What a Wonderful World, Louis Armstrong.
Speech: A Rendezvous With Destiny", Franklin D. Roosevelt, 27 June 1936 speech to the Democratic National Convention, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

These economic royalists complain that we seek to overthrow the institutions of America. What they really complain of is that we seek to take away their power. Our allegiance to American institutions requires the overthrow of this kind of power.
Speech: Franklin Roosevelt's Address Announcing the Second New Deal, October 31, 1936.

Never before in all our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today. They are unanimous in their hate for me--and I welcome their hatred.
Speech: Madison Square Garden Speech, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, October 31, 1936.

"We have not come this far without a struggle and I assure you we cannot go further without a struggle.

"I should like to have it said of my first Administration that in it the forces of selfishness and of lust for power met their match. I should like to have it said of my second Administration that in it these forces met their master."

Thom's blog

Constitution doesn’t say, “We the millionaires…”

It’s good to be a millionaire in America. A new report from the Center for American progress shows that millionaires are paying – as a share of their income – 25% less in taxes than they were in the mid 1990’s – 25% less! But that’s not all – according to data from the IRS – in 2009 – 1,400 millionaires paid absolutely no taxes at all. So just like some of the biggest transnational corporations in the world like GE and Exxon Mobile – 1,400 millionaires were off the hook and didn’t have to pitch in one penny to Uncle Sam.

In fact – the average federal income tax rate for millionaires in America is around 22% - far less than what your typical schoolteacher in Wisconsin is paying. And despite the fact that a majority of Americans support tax hikes on millionaires – our millionaires – as well as billionaires – and transnational corporations – once again escaped without having to make one sacrifice in the name of deficit reduction like the rest of us.

Last time I checked – the Constitution doesn’t say, “We the millionaires…”

-Thom

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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 9pm and 11pm... Bob Edgar (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT, and catch past shows on Youtube)

Conversations with Great Minds - Bob Edgar, President & CEO-Common Cause

The Big Picture Rumble:
- Brian Darling, Human Events

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- Joe Madison, The Joe Madison Show

- Heather Cirmo, Conservative Strategist

Daily Take: A $1 Million Mystery surrounding Romney

Highlights Of The Upcoming Week ... August 8 - 12, 2011

Monday

Hour One: "Taking Our Country Back - Wisconsin Recall election tomorrow!" Mike Tate, Democratic Party of Wisconsin

Hour Two: Where are the jobs and who are the real job creators? Ryan Streeter

Hour Three: How "movement politics" can help us take back America Jim Dean, Democracy for America

Tuesday

Hour Three: Free Trade...who wins, who loses? Bryan Riley, Heritage Foundation

Wednesday

Hour Two: Why are conservatives attacking the National Institutes of Health? Andrea Lafferty, Traditional Values Coalition

Hour Three: What is authentic conservatism and why did the Republican Party abandon it? Tom Pauken

Thursday

Hour Two: How do we get the economy back on track? Peter Ferrara

Hour Three: Geeky Science Rocks - Is Mars weeping salty tears?

Friday

"Brunch With Bernie". Senator Bernie Sanders, (I-VT) takes listener calls

Read Thom's Book for Free!

Now you can read all of Thom Hartmann's "Unequal Protection: How Corporations Became 'People' and How You Can Fight Back" for free online. Truthout is publishing weekly installments over the coming weeks.

Read the Chapter 11: Corporate Control of Politics today.

The Daily Stack

Quote: "A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities." -- Charles de Gaulle.

Hour One: If it's Friday, it's "Brunch With Bernie"... the honorable Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) joins Thom with all the news from our nation's capitol and as always he'll be spending the hour taking your calls and answering your questions too...
Follow Bernie:

campaign site.

Article: "Food Stamp Nation: Alabama Helps Push U.S. Program to All-Time High" by Lyneka Little.

Speech: "A Rendezvous With Destiny", Franklin D. Roosevelt, 27 June 1936 speech to the Democratic National Convention, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Speech: "Franklin Roosevelt's Address Announcing the Second New Deal , October 31, 1936.

Site: "The National Committee To Preserve Social Security and Medicare".

Site: "Americans for Retirement Security".

Article: "Questions over impact of trade deals on jobs" by Alan Beattie.

Hour Two: ALEC Exposed in New Orleans Rep. Mark Pocan, State Rep (D-WI, 78th District)

Article: "ALEC Watch: What I did on my Summer Vacation" by Mark Pocan.

Article: "VIDEO: Security Guards At American Legislative Exchange Council Conference Physically Attack ThinkProgress Reporters" by Lee Fang and Scott Keyes.

Clip: "Paul Weyrich - "I don't want everybody to vote" (Goo Goo)".

"Taking Our Country Back" Shelly Moore, English Teacher and a board member of the Wisconsin Education Association Council

Article: "Wisc. Dems accuse AFP of election tampering" by David Catanese.

Article: "Wisconsin GOP state Sen. Sheila Harsdorf battles costly recall effort" by Laura Yuen.

Article: "Where is all the Wisconsin money coming from?" by Natasha Lennard.

Article: "Uh Oh! The Progressives Have Figured Out How The Tea Parties Took Over the GOP…" by LaborUnionReport.

Article: "Dow loses gains for year".

Article: "Bringing on the "Obama Recession" by Forgetting the Lessons of Keynes and FDR" by David Woolner.

Article: "Old Wisconsin statute" quoted in Chapter 6 of "Unequal Protection" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Bill of Rights" Amendment 8: "Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.".

Talk Radio News Segment: Ellen Ratner, Bureau Chief

Article: "Obama Acknowledges Sluggish Pace Of Economic Recovery" by Geoff Holtzman.

Article: "White House: Unemployment Still Too High" by TRNS.

Article: "Senate formally approves FAA bill" by Corbett B. Daly, Stephanie Condon.

Article: "Obama Pitches New Incentives For Putting Vets To Work" by Gabrielle Pfafflin.

Article: "After Bruising Thursday, Dow Finishes The Week Up Slightly" by TRNS.

Article: "Fannie Mae's Loss Widens" by Nick Timiraos.

Site: "Goats for the old Goat".

Hour Three: Wisconsin Recall Elections...secret dirty right wing tricks revealed! Graeme Zielinksi, Communications Director, The Democratic Party of Wisconsin

Article: "Dane County D.A. Seeks Recusal, Special Prosecutor For Alleged Prosser 'Chokehold'" by Eric Kleefeld.

Book: "Mrs. Byrne's Dictionary of Unusual, Obscure, and Preposterous Words: Gathered from Numerous and Diverse Authoritative Sources" by J. H. Byrne.

The good: "Healthcare law has saved seniors $460M on drugs, HHS says" by Sam Baker.

The bad: "Fox Nation: Obama's Hip-Hop BBQ Didn't Create Jobs" by Media Matters.

The very, very ugly: "VIDEO: Security Guards At American Legislative Exchange Council Conference Physically Attack ThinkProgress Reporters" by Lee Fang and Scott Keyes.

Article: "Iceland’s loud No" by Silla Sigurgeirsdóttir and Robert H Wade.

Speech: "Transcript of Ronald Reagan's 1980 Neshoba County Fair speech", August 3, 1980.

Movie: "Mississippi Burning".

Movie: "The Birth of a Nation", D. W. Griffith.

Article: "Constitution of the United States" Article 2, section 3. "... [The President] may, on extraordinary Occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them, and in Case of Disagreement between them, with Respect to the Time of Adjournment, he may adjourn them to such Time as he shall think proper ..."

Site: "Concord Project".

Video: "Concord Project GOTV - the importance of precinct committee members ".

Video: "Concord Project GOTV - how you become a precinct committee member".

Article: "Making More, Contributing Less: Millionaires’ Tax Rates Have Declined While Everyone Else Contributes to Deficit Reduction" by Seth Hanlon.

Article: "American Millionaires: 1,400 Paid No U.S. Income Taxes In 2009".

Article: "Firm gives $1 million to pro-Romney group, then dissolves" by Michael Isikoff.

Article: "Disapproval Rate for Congress at Record 82% After Debt Talks" by Michael Cooper and Megan Thee-Brenan.

Article: "Mars Water? NASA Probe Shows Brown Streaks in Martian Craters" by Ned Potter.

Crazy alert: "'Neighbour from hell' gives local residents the permanent middle finger with offensive sculpture".