the florida election fix is in for 2012
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right now - this guy - republican governor rick scott is priming his state for a mitt romney victory in november and he039s doing it the same way republicans have always done it - and that039s by kicking democratic voters off the voting rolls last year - scott told his secretary of state ken browning to begin compiling a list of voters in the state who aren039t legal citizens - so they can have their voting rights revoked browning did what he asked - and came up with 182000 floridians who are possible non-citizens but browning himself admitted that the list was rife with errors - and shouldn039t be taken public - or depended on to kick voters off the rolls governor scott didn039t care though - and after browning resigned in february - scott went ahead doing exactly that - and already more than 2500 voters have been purged according to documents obtained by the center for american progress - of the more than 1600 floridians flagged by scott in miami-dade county - over 350 were wrongfully identified - and are actually us citizens who had to provide proof of citizenship to have their voting rights restored most of the rest of the 1600 people flagged in the country haven039t responded yet - and many likely never will - even if they are citizens - because they have other things to worry about like getting to work driving their kids to school and feeding their family - rather than trying to jump over another hurdle to vote and that039s exactly what the governor wants - fewer people voting but not just fewer people voting - fewer democrats voting a study by the miami herald found that scott039s voter purge is targeted at minority and democratic voters as the newspaper reports quothispanic democratic and independent-minded voters are the most likely to be targeted in a state hunt to remove thousands of noncitizens from florida039s voting rollswhites and republicans are disproportionately the least-likely to face the threat of removalquot florida is guaranteed to be a battleground state this year - and kicking a few thousand democrats off the rolls could flip the election in romney039s favor heck - it worked in 2000 for george w bush - when his brother jeb denied 7000 mostly african american floridians their right to vote in an error-ridden bid to remove tens of thousands of convicted felons from the voting rolls that was just what the bush039s needed to prevent a sizeable gore win in florida - and petition the supreme court to appoint bush as the president of the united states in lieu of florida actually electing him as the new york times reported on november 12th 2001 after it and a consortium of news organizations conducted their own recount in florida - gore actually won the state the times wrote: quotif all the ballots had been reviewed under any of seven single standards and combined with the results of an examination of overvotes mr gore would have wonquot

thom hartmann breaks down joe walsh039s big fat lie
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joe walsh was telling - screaming - the same old lie that the banksters their bought-off republican members of congress and pundits on gop tv - aka fox so-called news - have been telling for years now and that is that wall street wasn039t responsible for the economic crash - that the government - and too much regulation - was responsible - and that poor little wall street is just a victim of misguided government policy it wasn039t regulation that caused this mess - that039s a lie

conversations with great minds with morris berman part 1 why america failed
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morris berman author why america failed: the roots of imperial decline quotwhy america failedquot is the third volume of his trilogy on the decline of the american empire in it - morris berman examines america039s commitment to economic liberalism and free enterprise going as far back as the late sixteenth century and concludes that this ideology combined with technological progress was an inevitable recipe for creating the demise of the american empire as we are experiencing today he served on the faculty of a number of universities in the united states canada and europe and he currently resides in mexico where he writes for a number of publications worldwide

thom hartmann: uncut disrupts service of bank of america
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thom hartmann talks to ryan clayton us uncut http:usuncutorg and johann hari the nation magazine about the us and uk uncut

thom hartmann: must see the true story of the tea party
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thom hartmann039s daily take

untitled bends era radiohead song how do you sit still
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unreleased track by radiohead according to ateasewebcom the official title is actually quotputting ketchup in the fridgequot hope everyone enjoys hit the snowflake button to watch thom attempt to catch snowflakes in his mouthlyrics: haven039t got a hopehaven039t got a prayer to hear mecan039t say that i know whator why am i drifting awayanxious forces from abovekeep on asking mehow do you sit stillhow do you sit stillno more no more no morethere was a time when you shared a hope with meand all these colours must be fadingcause i039m finding it hard to seeso follow me my lovecause i039ve been wonderinghow do you sit stillhow do you sit stilleverybody knowssomeone039s going to fallwell you decide just how badlyi don039t wanna watchturn the other wayit all goes badhow do you sit stillhow do you sit still

full show - 101211 latest on occupy wall street
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big picture producer and writer sam sacks fills in for thom hartmann on the big picture during the hour he gets the latest developments from the occupy wall street movement in new york and breaks down the details of the latest gop presidential debate

full show 8812: time for the corporate death penalty
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guest host sam sacks discusses how corporations are defrauding americans and how no one will go to jail over it also discussed: the impact of high frequency traders on our economy a labor strike in houston and in tonight039s quotdaily takequot thom tells us why people should be ashamed to call themselves conservatives

conversations wgreat minds david frum - what was conservative like before fox news p2
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david frum contributing editor at newsweek and the daily beast and a cnn contributor he is the author of seven books including most recently his first novel patriots published in april 2012 in 2001-2002 he served as speechwriter and special assistant to president george w bush what was conservative america like before fox news and rush limbaugh came to town - and how have they helped to create an alternate reality in american politics we039ll pose that question and more to david frum in tonight039s conversations with great minds

conversations wgreat minds david frum - what was conservative like before fox news p1
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david frum contributing editor at newsweek and the daily beast and a cnn contributor he is the author of seven books including most recently his first novel patriots published in april 2012 in 2001-2002 he served as speechwriter and special assistant to president george w bush what was conservative america like before fox news and rush limbaugh came to town - and how have they helped to create an alternate reality in american politics we039ll pose that question and more to david frum in tonight039s conversations with great minds

the big picture rumble - a new deal
Bookmarked 727 weeks ago
rania khalek journalist regular contributor-alternet ampamp dan holler heritage action for america ampamp nicholas ballasy the daily caller all join thom hartmann new jobs numbers outthe unemployment rate dropped to 81 in april as the economy added 115000 jobs last month it039s the 26th straight month of private sector job creation on president obama039s watch - and he039s now recouped all the provate sector jobs lost during his term so farunfortunately - there039re still 125 million americans unemployed don039t we need bold action to get these people back to work - like a new new deal and why are republicans more focused on making presiden obama a one-term president than putting americans back to work

full show 5412: conservative media in us politics
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thom discusses the role of conservative media in american politics with conversations with great minds guest david frum tonight039s quotrumblequot panel debates the latest job numbers negative political ads republican moderates not welcomed by the gop and arming the rnc against ows this summer in florida in tonight039s quotdaily takequot thom compares the 1931 lemon grove incident to today039s radical anti-immigration laws increasing xenophobia across the country

will french socialism be good for the world economy
Bookmarked 727 weeks ago
professor max fraad wolff economistinstructor new school university joins thom hartmann after years of technocrats and banksters having their say on european budgets - democracy finally had its say so what do this weekends039 elections across europe mean for the 1 trickle-down austerity agenda - and the future of the global economy

the secret group that039s about to swift boat barack obama
Bookmarked 727 weeks ago
adam peck think progress joins thom hartmann you might remember back in 2004 - democratic presidential candidate john kerry was dogged by these outrageous and misleading ads those were funded by the group swift boat veteran039s for truth - a right-wing organization that attempted to spin john kerry039s military service against him the ads were so effective they cost kerry that election - and introduced a new word in our american political lexicon - quotswiftboatingquot - meaning to launch unfair or untrue political attacks and now - as we039re heading into the 2012 election - one group is trying to swiftboat president obama with this new ad - trying to spin president obama039s killing of osama bin laden against him the group behind that ad is calling itself quotveterans for a strong americaquot so what more do we need to know about this group - as it begins its ad assault on the president

welcome to america039s biggest spy center
Bookmarked 727 weeks ago
james bamford investigative journalistauthor joins thom hartmann there039s a massive new building under construction in the city of bluffdale utah - population just seven and a half thousand people it039s a two billion dollar project commissioned by the national security agency - complete with heavy fortifications surveillance and top-secret clearance the building - officially being recognized under the innocuous name - the utah data center - is expected to be completed by later summer of 2013 but what exactly is it what will be going on within the top-secret walls of the 2 billion utah data center the answersurveillance - but not just surveillance - we039re talking the biggest spy center this nation has ever seen and if you use the internet talk on the phone or check out books from the library - then you should be very concerned with this so-called data center - or spy center - under construction in utah