Wednesday 3 August '11 show notes

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Wednesday 3 August '11 show notes

Aug. 3, 2011 6:36 pm

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Revealed...The Tea Party take over you didn't know about!
Professor Richard Wolff, Economist/Professor. The debt deal and the economy...what's next?
Max Blumenthal, Journalist / Author. Meet the Right-Wing Hatemongers Who Inspired the Norway Killer.
WI State Rep. Fred Clark, (D-WI, District 14). "Taking Our Country Back".
Bumper Music:
- Tea Party Recruitment Song, Orange Pekoe Tea Bag Band.
- It's Time To Party, Brion Butterbaugh.
- Jai Ho, A.R. Rahman, Slumdog Millionaire Soundtrack.
- Judgement Day Eric Clapton.
- Wavin' Flag, K'naan.
- Magic, B.o.B [Feat. Rivers Cuomo] (video).
- Livin' on the Edge, Aerosmith.
- Grand Canyon, Dmitriy Lukyanov (you need to search for it) (with additional sounds by Jacob).
- I'm taking my country back, Tony Stampley, Honky Tonkers for Truth (video) (lyrics).

Thom's blog

Republicans are filibustering while they're sitting by the pool with their billionaire donors...

Like the House – the Senate is now on vacation too – but not before Republicans could latch on to a procedural gimmick to keep President Obama from making a recess appointment of Richard Cordray to head up the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Over the next month – a series of “pro forma” sessions will be held that technically keep the Senate in session even though no Senators are in town and no business is being done – just so Republicans can keep up their opposition to the new consumer rights agency that would stop big banks from screwing over the rest of us.

Leave it up to Republicans to figure out a way to filibuster while they're sitting by the pool with their billionaire donors.

-Thom

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

Need to Know: The politics of the debt deal... - Congresswoman Donna Edwards

Lone Liberal Rumble:
- Daniel Halper, Weekly Standard

- Heather Cirmo, Conservative Strategist

WWFDRD...Doing Debt Ceiling Battle the FDR Way - Sam Pizzigati, Associate Fellow Inequality and the Common Good - Institute for Policy Studies

Life behind the polygamy curtain... - Sanjiv Bhattacharya, writer/journalist/editor / US correspondent for Esquire UK

Daily Take: The Progressives' New Mission - infiltrate the Democratic Party

Community Square

"Tea Party Awareness"

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Read the Chapter 11: Corporate Control of Politics today.

The Daily Stack

Quote: "You cannot negotiate with people who say ‘what’s mine is mine, and what’s yours is negotiable." -- President John Fitzgerald Kennedy.

Hour One: Revealed...The Tea Party take over you didn't know about!

Article: "Everybody who wants a big leftward shift in the Dem Party, please read this link" by Waiting For Everyman.

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

Video: "Thom Hartmann & Alan Grayson: Elections haven't worked?!?!".

Because I got high alert: "Stoned wallabies blamed for crop circles in Australia" by CNN.

Article: "The Strike That Busted Unions" by Joseph A. McCartin.

Video: "Ronald Reagan: "Where Free Unions and Collective Bargaining are Forbidden, Freedom is Lost".

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

Article: "Two Santa Clauses or How The Republican Party Has Conned America for Thirty Years" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Palin flick defeated at the box office" by Maggie Haberman.

Site: "Progressive Democrats of America".

Hour Two: The debt deal and the economy...what's next? Professor Richard Wolff, Economist/Professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Book: "Capitalism Hits the Fan: The Global Economic Meltdown and What to Do About It" by Richard D. Wolff.

Site: "Morning Joe".

Article: "Greenspan - I was wrong about the economy. Sort of" by Andrew Clark in New York and Jill Treanor.

Talk Radio News Segment: Victoria Jones, White House Correspondent

Article: "LaHood Demands Congress Return To Washington, Reauthorize FAA" by Benny Martinez.

Article: "While on Summer Recess, Congress Blocks Recess Appointments" by Marian Wang.

Article: "Trial Begins For Egypt's Mubarak" by Victoria Jones.

Article: "Next Debt Test: Panel Picking" by Meredith Shiner and Jessica Brady.

Hour Three: Meet the Right-Wing Hatemongers Who Inspired the Norway Killer Max Blumenthal, Journalist / Author

Book: "Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement that Shattered the Party" by Max Blumenthal.

Article: "Meet the Right-Wing Hatemongers Who Inspired the Norway Killer" by Max Blumenthal.

Article: "America’s Breivik Complex: How state terror electrifies the Islamophobic right" by Max Blumenthal.

Article: "James Madison's Notes On the Constitutional Convention of 1787".

Cheesy News alert: "Biden Compares Tea Party to Terrorists; Al-Qaeda Demands Apology" by Andy Borowitz.

The good: "Pelosi: My Deficit Committee Members Will Oppose All Entitlement Benefit Cuts" by Brian Beutler.

The bad: Gretchen Carlson: "SpongeBob SquarePants Makes An Enemy" by Media Matters.

The very, very ugly: "Herman Cain Defends Manufacturing Campaign T-Shirts In Honduras: ‘I Don’t See A Reason’ To Change" by Scott Keyes.

"Taking Our Country Back" WI State Rep. Fred Clark, (D-WI, District 14)

Article: "Olsen vs. Clark: A look at the issues in State Senate District 14...Political direction in the district is uncertain" by Mike Lowe.

Article: "Election activists putting out some wrong numbers " by Tim Damos.

Article: "Expiring gas tax may be next battle on the Hill" by Byron Tau & Ben Smith.

Article: "Moody's confirms U.S. rating at Aaa, outlook negative" by Walter Brandimarte and Daniel Bases.

Article: "BREAKING: 142,000 Signatures In Favor of Initiative 25" by Colorado Pols.

Article: "Myriad can patent breast cancer genes: court" by Julie Steenhuysen.

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Thom Hartmann: What's the next hostage scenario?

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Thom Hartmann: Is this debt deal the Herbert Hoover approach?

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Thom Hartmann: Has AFP election fraud been exposed in WI?

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Hartmann: The Good. The Bad. And the Very, Very Ignivomously Ugly

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Thom Hartmann: Fukushima...what you haven't been hearing and why

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Your Take/My Take - Get out the KY Jelly

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Thom Hartmann: Is it safe to fly with Boehner & Republicans in charge?

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Full Show - 8/2/11. Deal is Sealed...So What's Next?

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Thom speaks with renowned economist and author, Richard Wolff about the economic effects from the debt deal reached between the House and the Senate. Later in the show, Kevin Kamps discusses the latest detection of the highest levels of radiation at the Fukushima plant in Japan.

Thom Hartmann on the News: August 3, 2011

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Thom Hartmann & Prof. Richard Wolff: Debt Ceiling Deal Going Forward

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Thom Hartmann and the Tea Party take over you didn't know about

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Thom Hartmann & Rep. Charles Rangel: Debt deal moving forward

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