the doj vs sheriff joe039s racist abuse
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the justice department is suing infamous arizona sheriff joe arpaio - accusing him of civil rights violations will republicans continue to stand by their man - and continue being the party of hatred and bigotry

the big picture rumble - romney the bully
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sam sacks progressive writerstrategist ampamp brian darling heritage foundation ampamp caroline may the daily caller all join thom hartmann has mitt romney bullied his way into power all of his life - and shouldn039t losing 2 billion dollars be a red flag that more financial regulations are needed in america

full show 51112: conversations with great minds - anya kamenetz
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for our friday conversations with great minds thom spoke to anya kamenetz she039s got a new book out titled quotdiy u: edupunks edupreneurs and the coming transformation of higher educationquot the two discussed college debt student loans and occupy wall street thom also welcomed sam sacks brian darling and caroline may for the friday rumble during the rumble they discussed marriage equality the presidential race unemployment and jp morgan chase039s loses

corporate america has us hooked on meth
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right now - in small towns across america - the working poor who039ve been hit hardest by the second republican great depression - are turning to meth to get by either by manufacturing and selling it - or just by using it to escape it039s as though recessions are the harbinger of meth as soon as an economic downturn hits - meth comes along right behind it in his recent book - quotmethland: the death and life of an american small townquot - author nick reding goes to an iowa town of about 6000 people - to document how the economic downturn wiped out the local economy - and how meth eventually crept in to finish everyone off he didn039t go to iowa to talk about meth as a singular problem affecting small towns - across america instead - he went there to show how meth is a consequence - or a symptom - of an economic breakdown in which the middle class is disappearing and more and more americans are unable to find economic success after the banksters blew up our economy - and corporate america - companies like apple or hp or amway - decided to stash their profits away or invest elsewhere rather than help put americans back to work - small towns went into a death spiralsmall businesses couldn039t get loans - so they had to lay off workers or close down altogether now out of a job - people didn039t have money to spend - so other businesses went under since no one is making money - local governments weren039t collecting as much revenue - so they had to cut back on social services - like making sure there are enough cops to crack down on meth dealers - or making sure there were enough social workers and counselors to help those who were getting hooked on meth so small towns across america became the perfect breeding ground for crank and it039s at this point that big companies are making the problem much much worse

the real beginning of the end of carbonnuclear power
Bookmarked 738 weeks ago
dr jill stein green party candidate for president 2012 joins thom hartmann our nation needs a bold new plan for the future - but republicans and democrats can039t seem to make one is anyone willing to create an fdr style new green deal - and if so - what would it entail

is conservatism america039s default ideology
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a new study shows that when americans don039t have enough time or energy to give thought to a particular political issue - they tend to accept the conservative argument more often but what exactly is the conservative argument nowadays in america

crazy alert proof - easier to be hit by lightning or win the lottery
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proof - easier to be hit by lightning or win the lottery

so walker039s wildly unpopular war vs unionsall for naught
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graeme zielinksi democratic party of wisconsin joins thom hartmann governor scott walker created a firestorm in wisconsin with his anti-union law known today as act 10 it subsequently led to over a million signatures being turned in to have governor walker recalled from office but now it turns out that act 10 is unconstitutional plus - what039s up with the recall

us corps are no longer businessesthey039re extraction machines
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lynn parramore contributing editor-alternet joins thom hartmann corporations in america used to care about the best interests of their communities and country - but their role in society has changed how have corporations become a predatory monster - preying on americans and their wallets

what039s romney going to run on
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thom hartmann challenges conservative talk show host mike slater what kind of conservtaive platform will mitt romney run on don039t conservatives pride themselves on preserving the status-quo - what works - and if so why are they completely upending what was known to work for 40 yearsthe new deal reagan raised taxes eisenhower supported the new deal nixon created the epa - what happened to the republican party

time to acknowledge the american fear machine
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on sunday night - a homemade explosive device was detonated outside a window of a planned parenthood office in wisconsin - but you haven039t heard a peep about it from mainstream media the fear machine is tearing apart american society how can we turn it off and return america to the land of the free and the home of the brave

the good the bad and the very very ulotrichously ugly
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the good aung san suu kyi kyi - the opposition leader in myanmar - won a seat in the country039s parliament following sunday039s elections the bad texas governor rick perry rick perry and texas are full-steam ahead in executing another potentially innocent death row inmate the bad texas governor rick perry rick perry and texas are full-steam ahead in executing another potentially innocent death row inmate and the very very ugly arizona superintendent of schools john huppenthal two years ago - arizona banned the teaching of ethnic studies in k-12 education - and now it039s going after universities too

full show 4212: what is a quotconservativequot
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thom asks if romney039s platform will offer anything besides money and extremism and what constitutes a conservative these days also discussed: why corporations are paying the lowest taxes in 40 years the latest from the recall efforts in wisconsin and in tonight039s quotdaily takequot thom discusses the right-wing fear machine and the effects it has on the country

rwanda has better health care than america
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ben franklin famously said at the end of the constitutional convention in 1787 that quotif we don039t hang together we shall surely hang separatelyquot that lesson of quotwe039re all in it togetherquot wasn039t lost on rwanda rwanda - a small nation in central africa - is one of the poorest and most underdeveloped nations in the world nearly 60 percent of rwandans live below the national poverty line - and in rwanda with an average income of just 560 per year per family - less than 2 a day - being in poverty meant bringing home and living on as little as ten cents a day from 1990 to 1994 - the nation had a civil war - and in april of 1994 - the rwandan genocide began - lasting for 3 months - and taking the lives of nearly 1 million rwandans and yet - despite going through a civil war and a genocide - and being one of the poorest countries in the world - the tiny nation of rwanda has something the united states doesn039t - a healthcare system that works for alltoday - the new talking point coming from the right against obamacare is that it raises taxes yet that039s exactly how rwanda went about creating a healthcare system that works for everybody today - only 4 of the rwandan population is uninsured - compared to more than 16 in the united states so how039d rwanda do it in 1999 - most rwandans never had seen a doctor and even when they were really sick couldn039t get into a hospital - primarily because costs were so high that average citizens simply couldn039t afford it knowing they had to take action - the government039s ministry of health started a pilot project of providing health insurance in three of the country039s districts with success in these districts - the program began to spread across the country in 2004 it ran into some kinks though the main one was that the government set insurance premiums at 2 dollars per year - and that was too much for for most rwandans to affordso - then - the program shifted to a progressive tax system for wealthy rwandans - insurance premiums increased to 8 dollars a year - while premiums for the poor decreased - to zero this is similar to what039s in obamacare - with poor and low-income americans getting free medicaid or tax subsidies to purchase health insurance at no expense today - the results of rwanda039s universal health care system are remarkable now - there is a massive network of community health workers across the country - in both cities and villages 80 percent of aids patients in rwanda are getting the treatments they need - which is really critical in a nation with one of the highest aids infection rates in all of africa just ten years ago - before the insurance program was put in place - life expectancy was a meager 48 years at birth now - its 58 and - in the last 5 years - deaths of children under 5 have dropped by half - and malaria - a once debilitating and highly deadly disease in rwanda - is now diagnosed quicker which means life-saving treatment is provided faster

thom hartmann: republicans have destroyed the american way
Bookmarked 771 weeks ago
the carnage of 911 is also the last remnants of american manufactured steel - a dying industry in our nation today those mangled steels beams sticking out of the pile of rubble that used to be the world trade center were made right here in america at a 100-year-old steel plant in allentown pennsylvania known as allentown metal works today though - ten years after 911 - that steel plant is the poster child of an america in decline it was at that plant back in 2009 - president obama used the plant to tout his economic stimulus program the plant was supposed to be a symbol of the american economy roaring back unfortunately - one year later - allentown metal works shut down and now - it039s being used as a symbol of the failure of president obama039s polices by one of the lead republican candidates for president - mitt romney so what really happened in allentown - why is the american steel manufacturing industry collapsing