Here’s how...

The Country of Origin Labeling (COOL) law was shot down by the WTO because they say COOL is a non-tariff barrier to free trade and it treats Canadian and Mexico’s products “unfair.”

Subsequently, due to the WTO ruling, our US cattle producers are forced to pay $3.6 billion in retaliatory tariffs by Mexico and Canada - unless COOL is repealed.

The COOL laws protect Americans by letting them know where the meat was born, raised, and slaughtered.

If COOL isn’t repealed, not only are our cattle producers facing major fines, but our consumers won’t know where the meat they are buying is coming from!

Wow.

Do we seriously need a group of secret people telling us what to do or what not to do.

In a poll conducted by Consumer Reports National Research Center, the results showed the 93 percent of American consumers want to have COOL laws in place.

The WTO should not be telling us what to do.

-Thom

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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 10pm... The GOP Wants To Break Up the Banks? (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT or Free Speech TV, and catch past shows on Youtube)

Thursday's Daily Stack

Hour One: What You Need To Know About Mike Pence & the FAR Religious Right...
- Frank Schaeffer, Crazy for God: How I Grew Up as One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right, and Lived to Take All (or Almost All) of It Back

Article: "All About FAR RELIGIOUS RIGHT Evangelical Mike Pence (a follower of my dad’s work) : Trump’s VP Pick" by Frank Schaeffer.

Article: "US election: Ted Cruz booed for failing to back Donald Trump" by BBC.

Article: "What Team Trump was prepared to offer John Kasich" by Steve Benen.

Article: "Rousas Rushdoony" by Wikipedia.

Case: "Burwell v. Hobby Lobby", 2014.

Article: "Wheaton College ends coverage amid fight against birth control mandate" by Manya Brachear Pashman.

Article: "Book of Esther".

Article: "Mason–Dixon line" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Michael Moore: Trump is going to win" by Joe Concha.

Article: "Read the Speech Ted Cruz Gave When He Wouldn’t Endorse Donald Trump" by Julia Zorthian.

Article: "The Powell Memo or Powell Manifesto".

Case: "Buckley v. Valeo", 1976.

Book: "Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand.

Article: "50 Shockingly Extreme Right Wing Proposals in the 2016 Republican Party Platform" by Steven Rosenfeld.

Speech: "A Rendezvous With Destiny", 27 June 1936 acceptance speech by Franklin D. Roosevelt. "An old English judge once said: "Necessitous men are not free men.""

Speech: "Address Announcing the Second New Deal" by Franklin D. Roosevelt, October 31, 1936. "Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob."

Article: "Donald Trump, Jeb Bush clash over Iraq War, 9/11 in SC debate".

Article: "Preamble to the Constitution of the United States".

Article: "Constitution of the United States" Article 1 section 8.

Article: "Veto Act on Incorporating the Alexandria Protestant Episcopal Church (February 21, 1811)" by James Madison.

Article: "Sturmabteilung" (Brownshirts) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Shooting of Trayvon Martin" by Wikipedia.

Article: "2016 shooting of Baton Rouge police officers" by Wikipedia.

Article: "2016 shooting of Dallas police officers" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Dan Savage" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Dan Savage Has Had Enough Of ‘Pasty White’ Jill Stein Supporters" by Daniel Marans.

Article: "Trump University" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Judge delays Trump University trial" by Josh Gerstein.

Article: "Trump alleges bias in Trump University suit due to judge’s ‘Mexican heritage’" by Nick Salazar.

Article: "Donald Trump and WWE: How the Road to the White House Began at 'WrestleMania'" by Aaron Oster.

Hour Two: The GOP's 'Banana Republic' Convention
- Senator Al Franken (D-MN)

Article: "North American Free Trade Agreement" (NAFTA) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement" (TPP) by EFF.

Article: "Cornel West: Why I Endorse the Green Party’s Jill Stein Over ‘Neoliberal Disaster’ Hillary Clinton".

Site: Progressive Democrats of America

Video: "Ronald Reagan States' Rights Speech in Philadelphia, MS", August 3, 1980.

Article: "The Truth Behind The Lies Of The Original 'Welfare Queen'" by Gene Demby.

Article: "Elizabeth Warren Warns Exxon: 'You Picked A Fight with the Wrong State'" by Deirdre Fulton.

Article: "Unarmed Black Man Lying In The Street With Hands Up Gets Shot By Police In North Miami" by Ed Mazza.

Article: "Tim Kaine Calls To Deregulate Banks As He Campaigns To Be Clinton’s VP" by Zach Carter.

Article: "Hillary Clinton VP Rumors: Clinton Expected to Announce Pick in Florida on Friday" by Natasha Noman.

Article: "Connect the dots: Hillary Clinton and Elizabeth Warren will both be in central Florida this weekend" by Bill Palmer.

Site: Gay and Lesbian Pages.

Quote: "There is no such thing as bad publicity" - attributed to Phineas T. Barnum.

Article: "Hillary Clinton's New Ad Paints Donald Trump as a Bad Role Model for Kids".

Article: "Yes, Melania Speech Fall Woman Meredith McIver Is Real. Here’s Proof." by Jeremy Stahl.

Talk Media News Segment:
- Victoria Jones

Article: "White House weighs in on Pokémon Go: Use some common sense" by Kyle Balluck.

Article: "Pokemon Go prompts Saudi Arabian clerics to renew fatwa against franchise" by Rahil Bhagat.

Article: "NATO head rebukes Trump: 'We defend one another’" by Mark Hensch.

Article: "NATO Chief Hits Back After Trump Says He Wouldn’t Automatically Defend Member Countries" by Alberto Nardelli, Rose Troup Buchanan.

Article: "Florida policeman shoots autistic man's unarmed black therapist in Miami" by BBC.

Article: "Clinton expected to announce VP in Florida" by Justin Duckham.

Article: "Whom Will She Choose? Hillary Clinton's VP Shortlist" by Monica Alba.

Site: "Goats for the old Goat".

Site: Governor Free Don Siegelman

Article: "Quick Morning News - Donald Trump crowned GOP nominee - July 20, 2016" by Victoria Jones.

Article: "Donald Trump's New York Times interview reveals a dangerously lazy mind at work" by Matthew Yglesias.

Book: "The Crash of 2016: The Plot to Destroy America--and What We Can Do to Stop It" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Godwin's law" by Wikipedia.

Law: "Voting Rights Act of 1965".

Law: "Civil Rights Act of 1964" by Wikipedia.

Case: "Buckley v. Valeo", 1976.

Site: Kshama Sawant.

Article: "Ann Kirkpatrick Is on the Hunt For John McCain — Well, His U.S. Senate Seat, At Least" by Miriam Wasser.

Article: "Russ Feingold continues to outraise Ron Johnson in Senate race" by AP.

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

Article: "Last year, I predicted the GOP would nominate Trump — here is what will happen next" by Chauncey DeVega.

Article: "Dickey Amendment (1996)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Twitter Bars Milo Yiannopoulos in Wake of Leslie Jones’s Reports of Abuse" by Mike Isaac.

Article: "FCC Proposes to Penalize California Licensee $25,000 for Causing Intentional Interference" by ARRL, the national association for Amateur Radio.

Article: "Secret Service Investigating Trump Adviser Who Said Hillary Clinton Should Be Executed" by Katie Reilly.

Article: "'Mommy! It hurt' Tragic last words of Down syndrome man, 26, who died in handcuffs on the floor after he refused to leave a movie theater".

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

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Who Would Be Hurt The Most By A Trump Presidency?

What Ted Cruz Doesn't Get About 'Freedom'...

Caller: 'Republicans Have Moved The Mason-Dixon Line To The Canadian Border.'

The Love Affair Between Mike Pence & The FAR Religious Right (w/Guest: Frank Schaeffer)

What Did Jefferson Say About The Separation of Church & State?

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Steve King & The GOP Hate Machine... (w/Guest: Ben Dixon)