full show 21612: montana exempt from citizens united decision
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a montana supreme court law passed in 1912 may exempt the state from the citizens united decision also discussed: virginia039s efforts to ban abortion the continued high price of oil despite historically low levels of demand roseanne barr039s displeasure with last night039s quick fire segment and thom039s quotdaily takequot on the increased efforts in the war on labor

leicester039s community media initiatives
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citizen journalism activists john coster and simon parker talk about community media initiates in and around leicesterfor more information on these initiatives please visit http:citizenseyeorg

the 2nd leicester community media week
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citizens039 eye editor john coster talks about the activities that have been lined up for this year039s community media week which will run from june 1 to june 7 2011for more information visit http:wwwcitizenseyeorgcitizen-journalism

is the endgame for greece the same for the us
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european austerity continues to takes its toll on tuesday - greece issued a warning to all the banksters who039ve invested in about 260 billion worth of greek debt - telling them they039d better take a new deal accepting about half the value of their investments - or risk getting nothing at all greece is hoping that about 90 of its investors will take the haircut - giving greece a chance to restructure its debt in a way that039s more manageable and investors have until thursday to decide if they039ll take the deal - but if they choose not to - then once again a greek default becomes a very real possibility of course asking investors to take a haircut is nothing compared to what the greek people have had to sacrifice under years of austerity - with massive layoffs - cuts to social services - and wage decreases all of which have led to unrest in the streets - hostility with neighboring nations like germany - and even the ousting of democratically-elected leaders greece right now is the epicenter of the crisis of corporate capitalism that is engulfing the world today and the question isn039t how will things work out in greece - but instead how long until what we039re seeing in greece comes to the united states richard wolff joins thom now - he is an economist and visiting professor with the graduate program in international affairs at new school university in new york city and author of the book quotcapitalism hits the fanquot

why politicians are trying to scare and alarm americans
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only mitt romney can save us from danger you hear the same talking points when the subject comes up of cutting the defense budget - which has tripled since 1997 - and accounts for more than half of the world039s total spending on weapons we can039t cut the pentagon039s budgetor else we039ll be vulnerable to attack but the odd thing about these frightful talking points - is that they are just talking points - and not true at all the truth is - americans have never been safer in history than they are today - and the number of violent conflicts around the world is at an all-time low really - despite the warnings and so-called threats - how many times has al qaeda attacked the united states since 911 zero so - if we039re not really in danger - then why are politicians in washington and members of the media trying to scare and alarm americans we039re the land of the free and the home of the brave - not the cowardly and frightened time to stop listening to the fear mongers and war profiteers who make millions off scaring us into a neverending war on terror and an intrusive security state joining thom to discuss this is michael cohen - columnist with foreign policy and a fellow with the century foundation and author of the book quotlive from the campaign trailquot

the good the bad and the very very poikilothermalously ugly
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the good citizens of vermont as i mentioned yesterday - communities across vermont were voting on whether or not to tell congress to amend the us constitution to keep money out of politics the bad the georgia state senate the georgia state senate voted yesterday to ban undocumented immigrants from attending any of georgia039s public colleges and the very very ugly rep cory gardner despite only being in his first term as a congressman - gardner is doing all he can to line his pockets with money from big oil

why primaries force politicians to tell the truth
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as the primary season drags on - republican candidates continue to emerge bruised - battled and beaten why do republican primaries hurt their candidates while democratic primaries help democratic candidates

the rise and fall of ucb ny bad memory box - youtube
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i made a facebook group for all the bad memories at the theater i used to do comedy at - and now that group is my bad memory

the us supreme koch
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on the anniversary of the citizens united ruling a bunch of protesters gathered at the supreme court with a quotus supreme kochquot banner - this is what happened next

citizens speak-out on trayvon martin case
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a rally march speak-out ampamp vigil was held on monday march 26 2012 in down town baltimore md demanding justice in the matter of trayvon martin at mckeldin square inner harbor this reporter interviewed four citizens about their views on the controversial case

rachel maddow - scotus spares minors 039cruel039 life terms secures corporate speech
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june 25 2012dahlia lithwick legal correspondent and senior editor for slate talks with rachel maddow about the rulings by the supreme court on sentencing minors to prison for life without possibility for parole and the rights of states to keep corporate money out of elections

the word - with great power comes no responsibility - the colbert report - 2011-01-08 - video clip comedy central
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with the proposed super congress only 12 lawmakers will have to make unpopular recommendations and the rest of congress can avoid blame

justice clarence thomas and citizens united: a conflict of interest - protectourelectionsorg
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clarence thomas has been caught up in a swirl of controversy surrounding his 20 years of falsifying financial disclosure statements including those during his nomination process and using his judicial decisions to enrich his wifevirginia thomas has launched two organizations --liberty central and liberty consulting -- to take advantage of last years citizens united decision and raised hundreds of thousands in secret money to fund them and help conservative candidates common cause has filed a conflict of interest complaint with the department of justice asking that it vacate the citizens united ruling because of justice thomas039 conflicts of interest well protect our elections has discovered another even more shocking conflict of interestcitizens united actually supported clarence thomas during his nomination process and spent over 100000 dollars running ads attacking senators who opposed thomas controversial ads that generated millions of dollars of free publicity from the news flaplast june the us supreme court was faced with an eerily similar conflict of interest case involving massey energy which helped fund the candidacy of justice brent benjamin to the wv sup ct eventuallymassey energy was sued and the case was heard by the wv supreme court the man suing massey energy hugh caperton moved to recuse justice benjamin on the basis of his previous support from massey the motion was denied and justice benjamin cast the deciding vote in favor of massey energy caperton appealed to the us supreme court it ruled last june that justice benjamin labored under a financial conflict of interest that denied caperton due process and they reversed the case justice clarence thomas dissentedapplying the caperton case to the facts of justice thomas039 participation in citizens unitedit is clear that he denied the appellants due process because he labored under a conflict of interest -- he owed them a payback and they would benefit handsomely by a ruling in their favorfor more information and to get involved and sign our petitions demanding investigations into these and other allegations surrounding justice thomas please visit protectourelectionsorg

sovereign citizens or domestic terrorist
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march 08 2012 abc news http:moxnewscom

iranian revolutionary guard spokesman weeps over soleimani039s death on state tv
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president donald trump ordered a us airstrike that killed one of irans most powerful generals and sent global markets reeling in response to the threat of an imminent attack secretary of state michael pompeo said fridaypompeo would not provide details about the threat other than to say it was confined to the middle east and that it justified the airstrike irans supreme leader quickly threatened severe retaliation in response the us state department has issued a directive urging american citizens to leave iraq immediately due to the tensionsoil futures in london and new york at one point surged by more than 4 gold hit the highest in four months 10-year treasury yields headed for the biggest drop in three weeks and stocks and us equity futures slidqassem soleimani who led proxy militias that extended irans power across the middle east was killed in a strike in baghdad authorized by trump the defense department said in a statement late thursday trump who is staying