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
Bookmarked 711 weeks ago
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
Bookmarked 711 weeks ago
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
Bookmarked 697 weeks ago
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 750 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

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

full show - 101211 latest on occupy wall street
Bookmarked 735 weeks ago
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