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Yours sincerely,

Thom Hartmann

The Thom Hartmann Program

Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 10pm... FBI Unveils New Strategy to Track Police Killings... Is It Enough? (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT or Free Speech TV, and catch past shows on Youtube)

Wednesday's Daily Stack

In for Thom today... Progressive Talkers Danielle & Shane-O.

Article: "Obama Slavery Speech 2015: The President's Remarks On 'Nation's Original Sin' On 150th Anniversary Of The 13th Amendment" by Bruce Wright.

Article: "13th Amendment",December 6, 1865 (end slavery)

Article: "14th Amendment, July 9, 1868 (citizenship, representatives, public debt)

Article: "15th Amendment" (right to vote), February 3, 1870

Article: "This Week Is The Superbowl For America’s Leading White Rights Activist" by Ian Millhiser.

Site: Council On American Islamic Relations (C.A.I.R).

Article: "Activists Track Down Racist Trolls Who Thought They Were Anonymous and Brilliantly Embarrass Them" by Kali Holloway.

Article: "‘Darth Trump’ is the Best Donald Trump Spoof Yet" by TexasTowelie.

Article: "Michigan could soon part ways with straight-ticket voting" by Rebecca Himmelstein.

Law: "Voting Rights Act of 1965".

Article: "TIME Person of the Year 2015: Angela Merkel" by Karl Vick, Simon Shuster.

Article: "Bernie Sanders Wins Readers’ Poll for TIME Person of the Year" by Sam Frizell.

Article: "Here’s Why It’s Been 29 Years Since a Woman Was Person of the Year" by Radhika Jones.

Article: "Selling Guns on a 24-Hour TV Network" by Mike McPhate.

Article: "Severed pig’s head thrown at Philly mosque, FBI investigates" by Reuters.

Article: "Many New Mexicans rush to get passports in wake of new ID law" by Mike Springer.

Case: "Landon v. Kroll".

Article: "FBI forensic lab misconduct could affect 2,600 convictions, 45 death row cases" by RT.

Site: Democracy Now!

Article: "Naomi Klein Decries Climate Deal as Extraordinarily Dangerous; Backs Defiance of French Protest Ban" by Democracy Now!.

Article: "GOP Wants to Block $3 Billion Global Climate Aid" by Timothy Cama.

Article: "Dozens killed in ongoing Taliban attack on Afghan airport" by Mirwais Khan and Rahim Faiez.

Article: "Islamophobic Organization's Misleading Poll Used To Justify Donald Trump's Call To Ban Muslims From America " by Zachary Pleat.

Article: "Episodes (TV series)" by Wikipedia.

Hour Two: Is the "War on Terror"... Fueling Terror?
- Arun Kundnani PhD, The Muslims are Coming! Islamophobia, Extremism, and the Domestic War on Terror

Article: "CNN Panel Erupts When Guest Blames American Gun Culture For Homegrown Muslim Terrorism" by Andrew Husband.

Article: "New York Drops Unit That Spied on Muslims" by Matt Apuzzo and Joseph Goldstein.

Article: "Terror Watch List Counter: A Million Plus" by .

Article: "Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment(TIDE)" by National Counter Terrorism Center.

SCOTUS may take another swing at Civil Rights
- Danielle Blevins, Supreme Court Reporter - Talk Media News

Article: "Fisher 2.0: The Affirmative Action Case That May Break It" by Nick Salazar.

Article: "Argument Transcript: Fisher v. University of Tex. at Austin", 9 December 2015.

Article: "Supreme Court Revisits Case That May Alter Affirmative Action" by Adam Liptak.

Case: "Grutter v. Bollinger", June 23, 2003 (affirmative action admissions policy of the University of Michigan Law School).

Article: "Eric Cantor, Paul Ryan & Kevin McCarthy: Plot To Sabotage US Economy with Frank Luntz" by keepemhonest.

Talk Media News Segment:
- Bob Ney

Article: "Trump Camp Contradicts Itself On Whether Muslim Ban Covers US Citizens" by Caitlin Cruz.

Article: "Israeli PM to meet Donald Trump despite outcry over call for Muslim ban" by Peter Beaumont.

Article: "Donald Trump: The world's reaction to his latest comment suggesting American bans Muslims entering the US" by Annie Gowen.

Article: "Poll: 68% of Trump’s supporters would vote for him if he bolts the GOP" by Susan Page.

Article: "Cheney: Barring All Muslims ‘Mistaken,’ ‘Goes Against Everything We Stand For and Believe In’" by Ian Hanchett.

Article: "GOP 2016 Candidates Respond to Trump’s Call for Muslim Ban" by Loree Lewis .

Article: "House seeks to break stalemate over long-term federal funding" by Mike Lillis and Cristina Marcos.

Book: "Sideswiped: Lessons Learned Courtesy of the Hit Men of Capitol Hill" by Robert Ney.

Site: "Goats for the old Goat".

Site: Governor Free Don Siegelman.

Hour Three: Why is Google Spying on School Kids?
- Sophia Cope, Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)

Article: "Google Spying on 40 Million K-12 Students, Privacy Advocates Call for Federal Sanctions" by Steven Rosenfeld.

Article: "Spying on Students: School-Issued Devices and Student Privacy" by EFF.

Petition: "Tell the Department of Education: Open Licensing Matters" by EFF.

Article: "Scalia: Affirmative Action Sends Blacks To Schools Too Advanced For Them" by Umbreon.

Article: "Watch Trump Supporters Punch, Kick Black Lives Matter Protester at Rally" by Daniel Politi.

Article: "Co-Author of New Immigration Study Says Latinos not as Intelligent" by SPLC.

Article: "WTO Authorizes Over $1 Billion in Sanctions Unless U.S. Guts Popular Country-of-Origin Meat Labels, Disproving Obama Claim That Trade Pacts Can’t Undermine Public Interest Policies" by Public Citizen.

Article: "Daily Show Jokes: ‘Trump Is White ISIS’; Conservatives Should Be Banned from White House" by Curtis Houck.

Article: "Donald Trump thinks he can call Bill Gates to 'close up' the internet" by Nick Statt.

Article: "The TPP State of Play: How We Defeat the Largest Trade Deal in History" by Maira Sutton.

Thursday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 12-3pm ET

Richard Eskow will be here to talk about Extreme Inequality and the Rise of Extremist Groups.

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Full Show 12/8/15: Trump Defends Call to Block Muslims from Entering U.S.

Guest host Mike Papantonio is in for Thom Hartmann tonight and discusses how voter turnout among Democrats has been low since the 2006 elections with The Trial Lawyer Magazine’s Farron Cousins, how companies are making millions off of poor Black Americans with Attorney David Haynes, Trumps call to stop Muslims from entering the U.S. with political essayist Chauncey DeVega, and how Obama’s new DEA head thinks medical marijuana is a joke with CW Botanicals’ Joel Stanley.

Is the War on Terror...Fueling Terror?

The U.S. is a Bankrupt Super Power...

'Time' Snubs Bernie Sanders for 'Person of the Year'!

WTO Threatens Trade Sanctions Against U.S.