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The banksters and technocrats, pushing austerity in Greece, now have blood on their hands 
  
On Wednesday – a 77-year-old retired pharmacist walked up to the Greek Parliament building and shot himself in the head to protest the crippling austerity measures that are ripping apart that nation. The man – whose name has not been released – left behind a note reading, “I have no other way to react apart from finding a dignified end before I start sifting through garbage for food.” 
  
His suicide prompted thousands of Greeks to take to the streets in central Athens in fresh new protests against trickle-down austerity. Since trickle-down austerity began in Greece – suicide rates have jumped up 40%. Not only is trickle-down austerity bad economically – it’s bad morally as well. Yet it’s just the thing that the Republican budget written by multi-millionaire Congressman Paul Ryan would bring to the United States. 
  
-Thom 
  
(What do you think it will take for austerity to be abandoned? Tell us  here.)  
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 9pm and 11pm...  Is the Greek suicide the beginning of Europe's Arab Spring? (check your local listings for stations or stream at  RT, and catch past shows on  Youtube)  
  
Need to Know: Is the Greek suicide the beginning of Europe's Arab Spring?-  Chuck Collins, Institute for Policy Studies      
  
Screwed: Exposed: Execs looted Hostess, demanded "shared sacrifice" from workers-  David Cay Johnston, Reuters      
  
  
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The only way Republicans win in Nov is to lie... It's TRUE that the only way Republicans can win in November is to lie - and they've already started!-  Neal Asbury, host-“Truth for America”    
  
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Hour One: A well oiled machine that doesn't depend on facts... 
  
Hour Two: Cop in Chamberlain shooting sued in '08 racism case-  Kenneth Chamberlain, Jr. and his attorney  Randolph McLaughlin.  
  
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Wednesday's Daily Stack   
Quote: "True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring." -- Martin Luther King Jr. 
  
Hour One: how do we fight back? 
  
The Big Picture-  Sam Sacks, The Big Picture producer, progressive commentator    
  
Letter: " Thomas Jefferson to Spencer Roane", 6 Sept. 1819 " The constitution, on this hypothesis, is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist, and shape into any form they please."  
Article: " Constitution of the United States", article 3 section 2. "... the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make..."  
 
Hour Two: Drug test America's biggest welfare queens...banksters & oil barons-  Jamie Weinstein, The Daily Caller      
  
  
  
Article: "In this world you will have trouble."  John 16:33.  
 
Hour Three: Did the Klan murder MLK?-  Stuart Wexler, investigative researcher / co-author (w/Larry Hancock)-The Awful Grace of God    
Quote: "John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it!"  Andrew Jackson".  
  
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 Thom asks why the partisan Supreme Court has the final say on the laws that govern us. Tonight's "Lone Liberal Rumble" panel discusses who Romney will be when the general election gets going, how a long overdue increase in minimum wage would immediately stimulate the economy and what happens if the Supreme Court strikes down Obamacare. In tonight's "Daily Take" Thom looks at how the occupy movement is treated compared with the tea party. 
  
 
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