Wednesday 11 April '12 show notes

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Wednesday 11 April '12 show notes

Apr. 15, 2012 6:56 am

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The Republicans are lying again...
Alan Korwin, Bloomfield Press. Debate-Castle Doctrine & Stand Your Ground Laws.
Dr. Irva Hertz Picciotto, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of California, Davis. Is there a link between obesity and autism?
Bumper Music:
- Crazy, Crazy, Crazy, Michael Franti and Spearhead.
- Isadore, Incubus.
- Cough Syrup, Young the Giant.
- You Lie, The Band Perry.
- Take a Minute, K'Naan.
- The Thing That Helps Me Get Through, Michael Franti and Spearhead.
- Grand Canyon, Dmitriy Lukyanov (you need to search for it) (with additional sounds by Jacob).
- Democracy, Leonard Cohen.

Thom's blog

The banksters are at it again – screwing over the poor

As banks have once again returned to making pre-recession profits – thanks mostly to their taxpayer bailout – they’re once again preying on the poor with subprime lending. A new report by Experian shows that credit cards lender handed out 1.1 million new credit cards to people with damaged credit in December of last year. That’s 12% jump from just one year ago.

The banks prefer those with low credit because they can jack up interest rates as high 29% - and charge endless over-the-limit and late fees. Every year – banks make tens of billions of dollars on just fees – not interest payments. Targeting the poor to maximize fee income is not responsible banking – it’s predatory banking.

And today, banking makes up nearly a quarter of our entire economy. That means an entire quarter of our economy now depends on screwing over poor Americans. We need to break up the power on Wall Street – and create an economy with a strong manufacturing base that can once again support a middle class.

-Thom

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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 9pm and 11pm... 99% Spring has bloomed... (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT, and catch past shows on Youtube)

Need to Know: 99% Spring has bloomed...
- Justin Ruben, MoveOn

Lone Liberal Rumble:
- Adam Bitely, NetRightDaily.com

- Lachlan Markay, Heritage Foundation

The Best of the Rest of the News...

The state of labor in the U.S.
- Ken Hall, International Brotherhood of Teamsters

Can North Carolina annul gay marriages?
- Dr. Paul Cameron, Chairman, Family Research Institute.

Daily Take: The Republicans are lying again...

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

Hour One: The Republicans are lying again...

Hour Two: Debate-Castle Doctrine & Stand Your Ground Laws
- Alan Korwin, Bloomfield Press.

Hour Three: Is there a link between obesity and autism?
- Dr. Irva Hertz Picciotto, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of California, Davis

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Tuesday's Daily Stack

Quote: "It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong." -- Thomas Jefferson.

Hour One: Zimmerman had the rules of engagement wrong

Article: "Rick Santorum ends bid for GOP nomination" by Brian Montopoli.

Article: "George Zimmerman Had More Legal Authority To Shoot And Kill Than Our Troops Do At War" by Jon Soltz.

Site: "VoteVets.org".

Article: "Justifiable homicides: the story behind the data and our findings" by Harry J Enten.

Article: "Despite dropping crime, police homicides on the rise" by Michael S. Schmidt and Joseph Goldstein.

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

Article: "Fox Orlando Affiliate Calls Neo-Nazis ‘A Civil Rights Group’" by Judd Legum.

Article: "Trayvon Martin case: George Zimmerman website solicits donations" by Richard Fausset.

Article: "Christie Wrong on Federal Estimate for N.J. Tunnel, GAO Says" by Elise Young and Esmé E. Deprez.

Article: "Fukushima Radiation Found in California Kelp" by Common Dreams.

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

Article: "George W. Bush: I Wish They Weren't Called The Bush Tax Cuts" by Steve Schaefer.

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

Hour Two: Will the Courts declare DOMA unconstitutional?
- Maggie Gallagher, National Organization for Marriage

Article: "New Study: Many Homophobes are Self-Loathing Gays" by John M. Becker.

Article: "Beyond Gay Marriage: North Carolina Amendment Carries Massive Implications" by Tom Kludt.

Article: "Appeals Court Hears Arguments on Gay Marriage Law" by Abby Goodnough.

Talk Radio News Segment:
- Victoria Jones, White House Correspondent

Article: "the Buffett Rule" by The White house.

Article: "Santorum Suspends Campaign, Race Now Likely Over" by Geoff Holtzman.

Article: "Obama Going All In On Buffett Rule" by Geoff Holtzman.

Article: "Newt Gingrich to Rick Santorum supporters: vote for me" by Ewen MacAskill.

Article: "Obama in Florida pressing for ‘Buffett rule’" by Ken Thomas.

Article: "Mitt Romney Paid A 13.9% Effective Tax Rate In 2010" by Pema Levy.

Article: "Obama campaign slams Romney for not paying 'fair share' of taxes" by Steve Holland.

Article: "Consumer bureau plans overhaul of mortgage industry" by Peter Schroeder.

Hour Three: Should corporations be allowed to buy other planets?
- Rand Simberg, Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI)

Article: "Homesteading the Final Frontier" by Rand Simberg.

Article: "Loophole Could Allow Private Land Claims on Other Worlds" by Rand Simberg.

Article: "Billionaires should be allowed to BUY up planets and rip up an out-of-date space treaty, claims expert " by Rob Waugh.

Article: "Initial Media Reactions to CEI’s Space Property Rights Paper" by Rand Simberg.

Article: "The Federalist Papers".

Site: "The James Madison Papers".

The good: Judge Elizabeth Magner: "Judge Blasts Wells Fargo’s ‘Reprehensible’ Actions, Awards Homeowner $3 Million" by Pat Garofalo.

The bad: Jacqueline Cassell: "Group: Mich. teacher fired for Trayvon fundraiser" by David N. Goodman.

The very, very ugly: "Herman Cain Explains The Gender Gap: ‘Men Are Much More Familiar’ With Policy Than ‘Other People’" by Alex Seitz-Wald.

Article: "George Zimmerman’s lawyers withdraw from case, lose contact with Trayvon-case shooter" by Frances Robles.

Book: "Trilby" by George Du Maurier.

Book: "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe.

Article: "Freud’s Love Letters Reveal Jealous Fits, Cocaine Experiments" by Catherine Hickley.

Book: " Walking Your Blues Away: How to Heal the Mind and Create Emotional Well-Being" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Breaking: Bill Gates’ Foundation Withdraws Support For ALEC" by Lee Fang.

Article: "U.S. Experiences Hottest March; 15,000+ Temperature Records Broken" by ENS.

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