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Friday 17 February '12 show notes

Feb. 19, 2012 12:57 pm

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Show live from WCPT in Chicago.
Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT). "Brunch With Bernie".
Anything Goes on Townhall Friday!
Mark Taylor-Canfield, Occupy Seattle. Report from Occupy Seattle.
Bumper Music:
- Takin' Care of Business, Bachman-Turner Overdrive.
- Miss You, Rolling Stones.
- Lazy Eye, Silversun pickups.
- Anything Goes, Tony Bennett.
- Holiday Road, Lindsey Buckingham.
- On The Road Again, Willie Nelson.
- Shapes, The Long Winters.
- Trashcan, Delta Spirit.
- Democracy, Leonard Cohen.

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The foreclosure fraud scandal may be worse than we all think

You need to know this. The foreclosure fraud scandal may be worse than we all think.

An audit of 400 foreclosures in San Francisco found that 99% of them had “legal problems or suspicious documents.” This new finding comes after the recent $26 billion mortgage settlement between 48 states and the 5 biggest mortgage lenders on Wall Street.

Many argue that $26 billion is not nearly enough to compensate for the damage these banks did to millions of families through fraudulent foreclose practices – and this recent study out of San Francisco appears to back that claim up.

-Thom

(Do you think there is worse to come? Tell us here.)

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

BEST OF GREAT MINDS TONIGHT

Conversations with Great Minds - Jeff Clements, Free Speech for People

Conversations with Great Minds - Corey Robin, author, "The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism From Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin"

Take Back the American Dream

Please join us Tuesday evening February 21st as we present a very special edition of The Big Picture - "Teach-In to Take Back the American Dream" sponsored by the Campaign for America's Future and Free Speech TV. Guests include: Former U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich, Robert Borosage w/Campaign for America's Future, "Patriotic Millionaire" Leo Hindery of Intermedia Partners, Heather McGhee of Demos, and Natalie Foster from Rebuild the Dream. Check your local listings...9pm ET and 11pm ET on FSTV and RT.

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The Daily Stack

Show live from WCPT in Chicago.

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: "Bernie Sanders: I’m more of a deficit hawk than many Republicans" by Eric W. Dolan.

Article: "U.S. Senate approves payroll tax cut measure" by Ian Duncan.

Article: "Saving the Postal Service" by Bernie Sanders.

Article: "Sanders Statement on Women’s Health Care".

Article: "A Petition to Support the Saving American Democracy Amendment" by Sen. Bernie Sanders.

Article: "Democratic Women Boycott House Contraception Hearing After Republicans Prevent Women From Testifying" by Igor Volsky.

Article: "Sen. Patty Murray: Republican male birth control fight is ‘astonishing’".

Book: "The Speech: A Historic Filibuster on Corporate Greed and the Decline of Our Middle Class" by Bernie Sanders.

Hour Two: Anything Goes on Townhall Friday!

Site: "Beyond Nuclear".

Article: "Rising temperatures at Fukushima raise questions over stability of nuclear plant" by Justin McCurry.

Article: "Fukushima's No. 2 reactor may be reheating" by AFP.

Site: "Institute for Responsible Technology".

Article: "How parts of payroll tax cut package are paid for" by AP.

Article: "Arraignment for Bradley Manning set for Feb. 23" by AP.

Site: "bradleymanning.org".

Site: "Courage to Resist".

Article: "Congress deals major blow to wind power industry" by Julie Wernau.

Site: "Panetta Institute for Public Policy".

Event: "Meet Thom Hartmann! Saturday, February 18, 2012, Drury Lane, Oakbrook Terrace, IL.

Movie: "Gun Fight" by Barbara Kopple (features Thom Hartmann).

Talk Radio News Segment:
- Ellen Ratner, Bureau Chief

Site: "Big Sky Documentary Film Festival".

Documentary: "A Force of Nature " by Barbara Kopple.

Article: "Congress Approves Payroll Tax Extension" by Victoria Jones.

Article: "AFL-CIO opposes payroll tax cut deal" by Kevin Bogardus.

Article: "Payroll Plan Includes $50 Billion In Offsets" by TRNS.

Article: "Payroll Tax Cut Extension: House, Senate Pass Compromise Measure" by Michael McAuliff.

Article: "RNC launches Web campaign to knock Obama on third anniversary of stimulus" by Justin Sink.

Article: "Obama Touts Export Plan At Boeing Factory" by Geoff Holtzman.

Article: "Export-Import Bank of the United States" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Furman confirmed as Manhattan federal judge" by Joseph Ax.

Book: "Self Empowerment: Nine Things the 19th Century Can Teach us About Living in the 21st " by B. Anne Gehman and Ellen Ratner.

Hour Three: Anything Goes on Townhall Friday!

Article: "Carbon trade war edges nearer" by Pilita Clark.

Book: "The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism" by Naomi Klein.

Article: "Greek PM denies plans to sell off national treasures" by Helena Smith.

Article: "Va. bill could require 'transvaginal ultrasound' before abortions" by Max Smith and Paul D. Shinkman.

Article: "Occupy Calls for a Global General Strike on May 1, International Workers' Day" by jpmassar.

Article: "Right to Work for Less" by AFL-CIO.

Report from Occupy Seattle
- Mark Taylor-Canfield, Occupy Seattle

Article: "The first Occupy candidate: Nate Kleinman" by Dylan Byers.

Site: "Occupy Solidarity Social Forum".

Article: "Audit Of San Francisco Foreclosures Finds That Nearly All Have Legal Issues" by Pat Garofalo.

Article: "CHART: Obama’s Latest Budget Would Create 1.5 Million New Jobs In 2012" by Jeff Spross.

Article: "Obama January 29.1 million over $140 million" by AP.

Article: "Occupy Wall Street Now Has a Super PAC" by John Hudson.

Article: "Another Mitt Romney win could be undone in Maine caucuses" by Michael A. Memoli.

Article: "N.J. lawmakers OK gay marriage; veto expected" by Jason Method.

Article: "Greek bailout deal targeted for Monday - euro zone officials" by Jan Strupczewski.

Article: "Share of Workers in Scientific Fields Shrinks" by Conor Dougherty and Rob Barry.

Article: "Nigerian underwear bomber gets life in prison" by AP.

Article: "Anthony Shadid, Reporter in the Middle East, Dies at 43" by Margalit Fox.

Article: "The pilot who should have known better than to invade the airspace of Obama's helicopter - when he was smuggling 40 pounds of marijuana" by Graham Smith.

Coming up Monday on The Thom Hartmann Program

Hour Two: Oil prices skyrocket...the speculators are back (Oil Prices Are Rising Despite Lowest Demand Since 1997)
- Ronald "Ron" Bailey, Reason magazine & Reason.com

Hour Three: Private prisons...unsafe, unaccountable and costly
- Carolyn Isaacs, American Friends Service Committee’s Arizona program

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