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Thom's blog
The Oligarchs are Plotting the Weekend...
The oligarchs are meeting this weekend to plot how they’re going to buy the elections this year. First, Mitt Romney will be hosting a three-day retreat in Utah over the weekend with about 600 hundreds of his biggest fundraisers. Romney is coming off a good fundraising month in May where his camp outraised the Obama camp $78 million to $60 million. But the real plans to buy the election are being made in California – not Utah. In San Diego this weekend, the Koch brothers are hosing their annual political convention aimed at raising nearly a half billion dollars this election to elect corporate Republicans and defeat Progressives.
That means – between now and November – over a billion dollars in negative ads attacking President Obama and Progressives will flood the airwaves – making corporate media outlets very rich, and poisoning public debate across America. We’re entering a whole new era in American politics thanks to the Supreme Court.
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 9pm and 11pm... Susan Jacoby, Journalist/Author, "Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism," and "Never Say Die: The Myth and Marketing of the New Old Age" (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT, and catch past shows on Youtube)
Conversations with Great Minds - Susan Jacoby, Journalist/Author, "Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism," and most recently, "Never Say Die: The Myth and Marketing of the New Old Age".
Daily Take: How Dick Morris is toe sucking the economy...
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Thursday's Daily Stack 
Quote: The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision-making from the public arena to unaccountable institutions: kings and princes, priestly castes, military juntas, party dictatorships, or modern corporations. -- Noam Chomsky.
Hour One: Holder in contempt...why wasn't Karl Rove arrested?
The Big Picture- Sam Sacks, The Big Picture producer, progressive commentator
Quote: "I don't give them Hell. I just tell the truth about them and they think it's Hell." - Harry S. Truman.
Speech: " A Rendezvous With Destiny", Franklin D. Roosevelt, 27 June 1936 speech to the Democratic National Convention, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Hour Two: The defenders of patriarchy have lashed out again...
Geeky Science rocks! - Scared grasshoppers show a world more complicated
Hour Three: Obamacare...how much does it cost to bring down a president?- Congressman Alan Grayson 
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Monday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
Hour Two: Right wingers say Protections To Prevent Prison Rape Are Too ‘Costly’ And ‘Heavy-Handed’...- Daniel Halper, Weekly Standard
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Thom's Poll
Moody’s just gave a credit downgrade to several big banks on Wall Street. Are the big banks on the verge of collapse?
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Crazy Alert! Miraculous Mushroom or Sultry Sex Toy?
Fast & Furious...Why Didn't Pelosi Arrest Karl Rove?
Obamacare...how much does it cost to bring down a Prez?
Why Assange Spends a 3rd night in the Ecuadorian Embassy
Geeky Science! Scared Grasshoppers Transform the Entire Ecosystem!
Ongoing Fast and Furious Conspiracy Theory
The Good, The Bad & The Very Very Catawamptiously Ugly!
What Do Republicans Love about Rape?
The Defenders of Patriarchy at it again...
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Thom talks with one of Julian Assange's lawyers (Michael Ratner) about his client's possible asylum in Ecuador. Also discussed: the latest from the Republican's plot against Obama and Holder and why one of our country's two political parties aren't interested in ending rape in U.S. prisons. In tonight's "Daily Take" Thom looks at the blatant sexism in politics from the right.
Thom Hartmann on The News - June 21, 2012
Obamacare...how much does it cost to bring down a president?
Caller gets it wrong on ObamaCare!
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Thom Hartmann Program
Good Morning,
I want to ask why (unless I missed it) no one has mentioned what this "sequester" has done to our Military regarding their continuing education? My daughter has been in the Coast Guard 6 years and has been going to school with the help of the Military tuition assistance program and now has been told no one(all branches of the Military) will be getting tuition assistance going forward. Classes they are currently in will be covered but not after.Additionally no one is able to transfer their GI Bill to their kids unless they have 6 years in and after July 1 that option will be gone.
Didn't our government sign a contract including tuition assistance for these brave and hardworking young people? I have been telling her to stay calm and that this is temporary but what if it isn't? This is wrong on so many levels!
Thank you for listening and I hope you bring this up in your show and with Bernie.
Ro