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Thursday 19 April '12 show notes

Apr. 29, 2012 6:59 am

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John Gehring, Faith in Public Life. GOP vs. God.
Greg Palast, "Vulture's Picnic". The shocking truth behind BP settlement.
David Cobb, Democracy Unlimited & Move to Amend. Vermont votes against corporate personhood.
Bumper Music:
- Jesus Is Just Alright Doobie Brothers.
- God Told Me To, Paul Kelly.
- Act of God, Prince.
- I Walk the Line, Johnny Cash.
- Long Time Gone, Crosby Stills and Nash.
- Dirty Laundry, Don Henley.
- Drill, Baby . . . Still, Deborah Levoy & AshEL Seasunz.
- Grand Canyon, Dmitriy Lukyanov (you need to search for it) (with additional sounds by Jacob).
- Democracy, Leonard Cohen.

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Children are the biggest victims of the current housing crisis

In 2008 - Wall Street got bailed out – and homeowners got sold out. And now – it’s the children who are the biggest victims of the ongoing housing crisis. According to a new report from First Focus and the Brookings Institute – more than 8.3 million children are facing the direct consequences of home foreclosures.

Already – more than two million children have seen their homes foreclosed on since 2008, and another six million children are at risk of being foreclosed on. In California alone – more than a half-million children have gone through the foreclosure process – seeing firsthand what it’s like to have their home taken away from them.

Families that are foreclosed on have a higher risk of living in poverty – and children growing up in poverty – as nearly 16 million currently are in the United States – are more likely to drop out of school and commit crime. Not only did Wall Street steal $7 trillion worth of wealth from the middle class – but they also stole a generation of young people too.

And yet still – not a single bankster is in jail.

-Thom

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Need to Know: Get ready for the government shutdown this fall...
- John Nichols, The Nation Magazine

Screwed: Gulf 2- years later, scientists alarmed
- Miles Grant, National Wildlife Federation

The Best of the Rest of the News...

Murder, suicide and financial ruin
- Mark Ames, The eXile

Geeky Science: How Music 'Awakens' Alzheimer's Patients

Daily Take: Democratic Party doesn't need phony democrats

Thursday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET

Hour One: GOP vs. God
- John Gehring, Faith in Public Life

Hour Two: Geeky Science - How music awakens Alzheimer's patients

Hour Three: The shocking truth behind BP settlement
- Greg Palast, Investigative Reporter-BBC / Author of several books, latest "Vulture's Picnic"

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Wednesday's Daily Stack

Quote: "Unless you become more watchful in your states and check the spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges you will in the end find that…the control over your dearest interests has passed into the hands of these corporations." -- President Andrew Jackson.

Hour One: Voter Fraud uncovered...guess who?

Article: "Policy Brief on the Truth About “Voter Fraud”" by Brennan Center for Justice.

Article: "Did Mitt Romney Commit Voter Fraud?" by Stephanie Mencimer.

Article: "A Reversal in Progress: Restricting Voting Rights for Electoral Gain" by Voting Rights Institute.

Article: "OC’s Fred Karger Accuses Mitt Romney of Committing Voter Fraud" by Dan Chmielewski.

Article: "Stephen Jay Gould" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Legacy Of BP Oil Spill: Eyeless Shrimp And Fish With Lesions" by Annie-Rose Strasser.

The Big Picture
- Sam Sacks, The Big Picture producer, progressive commentator

Article: "Catholic group criticizes Paul Ryan" by Tim Mak.

Article: "House votes to 'deem' Ryan budget as being passed by Congress" by Pete Kasperowicz.

Article: "Fukushima Daiichi Site: Cesium-137 is 85 times greater than at Chernobyl Accident" by Akio Matsumura.

Article: "Ted Nugent to be interviewed by Secret Service" by CNN.

Article: "Ted Nugent – Compared Obama And Democrats To A Coyote That Needs To Be Shot" by LYBIO.net.

Article: "Ted Nugent to meet with Secret Service" by MSNBC.

Article: "Mark 10:45 (King James Version)" - "For even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many."

Article: "Fischer: 'Capitalism is Built on the Teaching of Jesus Himself'" by Kyle Mantyla.

Article: "Bishop Says Obama on Hitlerian Path" by Cliff Kincaid.

Article: "Palin: ‘Frack, baby, frack’ a ‘very important’ policy" by David Edwards.

Article: "Biden challenges GOP over Violence Against Women Act" by Carrie Budoff Brown.

Article: "Romney supporter Ted Nugent? Pedophile and draft dodger? His own words!" by Bill Schmalfeldt.

Article: "Lawsuit: Former Bain execs fired employees for not being Mormon" by David Edwards.

Hour Two: Has "thought crime" become a reality for TSA?
- Alexander Furnas, Internet researcher & open Internet advocate / Contributor-The Atlantic

Article: "Homeland Security's 'Pre-Crime' Screening Will Never Work" by Alexander Furnas.

Article: "Dog-Eat-Dog Politics: Obama Ate Dog Meat, Critics Say" by Reut Cohen.

Article: "Ted Nugent defends remarks: ‘I’m a black Jew at a Nazi-Klan rally’" by David Edwards.

Site: "Dogs Against Romney".

Video: "Michigan GOP circumvents democracy with shady vote corner-cutting" by Rachel Maddow.

Talk Radio News Segment:
- Ellen Ratner, Bureau Chief

Site: "Goats for the old Goat".

Article: "Boehner: Obama ‘lost his courage,’ has already 'checked out'" by Meghashyam Mali.

Article: "Speaker Boehner says AWOL Obama 'shrinking from his responsibility to lead'" by Russell Berman.

Article: "DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz Blasts John Boehner’s False Attacks and Failed Leadership as Speaker" by DNC.

Article: "Leahy, Franken, Bingaman, Whitehouse, Brown, Coons, Blumenthal Introduce Bill To Protect Consumers Using Generic Drugs" by Patrick Leahy.

Hour Three: Progressive victory on ALEC and guns
- Lee Fang, RepublicReport.org

Article: "9th And 10th Companies Drop ALEC" by Faiz Shakir.

Article: "Needing Last Minute Political Support, Rep. Tim Holden Introduces Bill To Allow Pollution Into Chesapeake Bay, Collects Big Ag Cash" by Lee Fang.

Crazy alert: "Austrian village F---ing to vote on name change" by Matthew Day.

Citizens United & Buffet Rule
- Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH)

Case: "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" (2010).

Article: "Sherrod Brown Campaign In Ohio Faces $5 Million Ad Barrage Without Help" by Sam Stein, Amanda Terkel.

Petition: "OVERTURN CITIZENS UNITED: A Constitutional Amendment" by Sherrod Brown.

Article: "Warren Buffett: 'My Class Has Won' And 'It's Been A Rout' " by Harry Bradford.

Article: "The Rich Get Even Richer" by Steven Rattner.

Site: "Tammy Baldwin for Senate".

Site: "Elizabeth Warren".

Article: "Sherman Antitrust Act".

Book: "Tear Down This Myth: The Right-Wing Distortion of the Reagan Legacy" by Will Bunch.

Site: "Bernie Sanders campaign site".

Article: "Food stamps, federal pensions face GOP cuts" by Andrew Taylor.

Article: "New EPA rules target fracking site pollution" by Neela Banerjee.

Article: "No Savings Are Found From Welfare Drug Tests" by Lizette Alvarez.

Article: "U.S. troops posed with body parts of Afghan bombers" by David Zucchino.

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Your Take/My Take - Impeaching a Supreme Court Justice?

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The Good, The Bad and the Very Very Quaquaversalously Ugly!

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Voter Fraudster finally found...Guess Who?

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