national paranoia killed trayvon martin
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how many more kids - particularly minority kids - will be murdered by frightened men like zimmerman before these quotstand your groundquot laws that give killers immunity are dismantled

the good the bad and the very very valetudinariously ugly
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the good senate democrats senate democrats are again trying to repeal the tax incentives given to big oil the bad rick santorum campaigning in illinois yesterday - santorum told this to a crowd of supporters that he doesn039t quotcarequot about unemployment and the very very ugly chicago police two members of a chicago television station were told by an irritable cop sunday that quotyour first amendment rights can be terminated if you039re creating a scene or whateverquot

full show 32012: why does paul ryan hate the middle class
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thom discusses paul ryan039s 2013 budget and why it would further hurt the middle class and working americans also discussed: what one congressman is doing to help college graduates with their ever increasing college loan debt and thom gives his take on the shooting murder of trayvon martin in tonight039s quotdaily takequot thom looks at how germany is making history with their revolutionary alternative energy plan

germany to make history with alternative energy
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here039s a quottale of two citiesquot - or two countries actually germany and the united states one country is preparing for a future in which their children will breathe clean air and lead the worlds economy - and the other is preparing for a future in which their children will choke on polluted air - and fall behind the rest of the world in the global economy can you guess which is which germany just announced a 260 billion investment in new energy - that039s 8 of their gdp - with a goal of getting 80 of their nation039s energy from wind and solar this is the largest investment in energy that germany has made since world war 2 - and they039re even making this investment right in the middle of the financial crisis sweeping europe - because germany quotgets itquot no nation in the history of the world has ever cut its way to prosperity - just look at greece so germany knows that the only way to get out of this crisis - is to grow their way out of it - to come out in the end of it a better stronger and wealthier nation - through government investments in the future germany is going to build offshore wind farms - covering an area six-times larger than the size of new york city they039re going to put up thousands and thousands of miles in new power lines to modernize their energy grid - enough new smartgrid power lines that if they were stretched out in a single line would reach from london all the way to baghdad and prompted by the fukushima disaster in japan last year - germany is shutting down 17 nuclear reactors supplying about a fifth of all the electricity in their nation - and replacing those reactors with the wind farms and solar panels they039re now building

hartmann - the latest slap in the face to 911 first responders
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john devlin ampamp ken george 911 first responders next month - our nation will honor the tenth anniversary of the 911 terrorist attacks like previous years - there will be a special ceremony at ground zero in new york city - but this time - some people are not invited - the 911 first responders this week - mayor michael bloomberg039s office confirmed that 911 first responders are not invited to the ceremony - and that the ceremony is specifically for the families of victims of 911 the statement from the mayor039s office read quotwhile we are again focused on accommodating victims039 family members given the space constraints we039re working to find ways to recognize and honor first responders and other groups at different places and timesquot john feal - the founder of an advocacy group for 911 first responders reacted to the mayor039s statement saying quotthe best of the best that this country offered 10 years ago are being neglected and denied their rightful placequot of course - this is just the latest slap in the face to 911 first responders at the end of last year - republicans finally dropped their filibuster against the james zadroga act which gave medical care 911 first responders who are now dying from the toxic debris they inhaled while working for months at ground zero recovering bodies at the site yet - just last month - the responders discovered a catch in the bill - that disqualifies them from receiving any medical care assistance for cancer cases - since according to the world trade center health program - there is no scientific link between ground zero debris and cancer tell that to the countless firefighters and policemen who worked at ground zero and now have throat and lung cancer so why are we turning our backs on the first responders - some of the bravest men and women in the nation

thom hartmann: secrets the rich don039t want you to know
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it039s a secret that every republican president since ronald reagan didn039t want us to know

why does scotus have power to strike down passed laws signed by the prez
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congressman dennis kucinich d-oh 10th district joins thom hartmann the supreme court began hearing arguments today to determine the constitutionality of obamacare how does the most corrupt supreme court in history have the power to decide what healthcare americans can get all eyes are on the supreme court - as today kicked off three straight days of oral arguments to determine the constitutionality of obamacare the issue at hand is whether or not the quotindividual mandatequot - also the core of quotromneycarequot - is constitutional

conservatives are destroying ben franklin039s best invention - the post office
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fred rolando national association of letter carriers nalc joins thom hartmann the postal service has been a part of american society for hundreds of years - and it039s been getting screwed for just as long are we really ready to let it fall victim to the republicans039 war on labor the united states postal service was created by benjamin franklin in 1775 and we shouldnt have to erase american history just because conservatives are afraid of unions and workers039 rights

can jim yong kim reinvent the world bank
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deborah james center for economic and policy research joins thom hartmann president obama nominated his choice to lead the world bank does the nomination of jim yong kim signal a new direction for the world bank - and the global economy

fatima al-awadi amp trayvon martin - we are all terrorists now
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faiz shakir center for american progress joins thom hartmann a woman was brutally murdered in california over the weekend in an apparent hate crime are hate crimes the consequences of fear-mongers spreading hatred and ignorance across cable news and radio airwaves in america has a decade of war and a fear campaign started by bush and cheney led to our nation going unhinged

ugandan child soldiers wmary louise parker
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actress mary louise parker hope north donor ampamp okello sam hope north join thom hartmann until the release of the now viral kony 2012 video two weeks ago - very few people in the world understood what was happening in uganda for over two decades - the nation has been in a constant state of civil war - but the world has let it go largely unnoticed however - there are some groups like hope north that have been in uganda for years - seeking to help those affected most by the violence

crazy alert that039s not my anthem
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that039s not my anthem

your takemy take - cavit from s korea - a booming country with medical for all
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cavit from s korea - a booming country with medical for all

zombie reagan amp zombie thatcher feasting on the middle class
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zombie reagan and zombie thatcher are on the hunt - biting into the wallets of the middle-class how do we protect ourselves from these money-hungry monsters

the good the bad and the very very somniloquaciously ugly
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the good the jiangsu xin chang jiang group the group - one of china039s top 20 private enterprises - handed out 300 kilograms of gold and 300 kilograms of silver last weekend to the nearly 3000 residents of changjiang village the bad karl rove last week - rove039s crossroads gps superpac spent a whopping 650000 dollars on a television ad that claimed president obama is responsible for the rising cost of gasoline and the very very ugly rick santorum santorum039s campaign released an ad over the weekend that briefly replaces a picture of iranian president mahmoud ahmedinejad with a picture of president obama