Our representatives have been shut out of trade negotiation. According to Economy in Crisis, Americans should be concerned about the lack of transparency around the Trans Pacific Partnership. Although some sections of the TPP have been leaked, even our members of Congress have to jump through hoops to get a peak at this massive trade deal. To make matters worse, Economy in Crisis says that the big wigs in the finance industry are "giving huge bonuses to lobbyists involved in the TPP negotiation." You have to ask yourself, what's in it for the banksters that's worth dishing out multi-million dollar bonuses?

 

From the leaked chapters, it's clear that the TPP has been written to benefit corporate interests, not Americans, yet trade officials want Congress to hand over their right to change anything in the deal. So-called "free trade" has destroyed the middle class in our country, and forced too many Americans into "do-you-want-fries-with-that" jobs. This deal is too massive, and too dangerous to proceed without public debate. Tell your lawmakers and tell them to say "no" to Fast-Track, and "no-more" to so-called "free trade."

 

-Thom

 

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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 9pm... Congressman Keith Ellison and Andy Shallal, candidate for Mayor of DC (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT or Free Speech TV, and catch past shows on Youtube)

 

Conversations with Great Minds - Congressman Keith Ellison (D-MN, 5th District) / Author of the new book, My Country 'Tis of Thee: My Faith, My Family, Our Future 

 

Conversations with Great Minds - Andy Shallal, Busboys & Poets / Candidate for Mayor, Washington, DC    

  

Thursday's Daily Stack 

In for Thom today, Leslie Marshall, host of the nationally syndicated Leslie Marshall Show   

Site: Leslie Marshall column on US News and World Report.

 

Hour One: Are guns okay in church now?
- Neil McCabe, Guns & Patriots column 

Article: "2nd Amendment".

Article: "God, Guns and Good Ole Boys: Churches Give Out Guns To Point People To Christ, Who Loves Us and Wants Us To Be Well-Armed" by Abby Zimet.

Article: "Kentucky Churches Giving Away Guns To Help People Discover Jesus" by Rebecca Leber.

Bible: "Matthew 26:52-54".

Bible: "Matthew 5:38-39".

Bible: "Romans 12:19".

 

Article: "TWO Condemns Illinois Bishop For Implying that Catholics Must Vote Republican or Go to Hell" by John Becker.

Article: "'Vote for the Mormon, not the Muslim' sign stirs controversy" by Phil Anaya.

Article: "Evangelist Billy Graham Wants You To Vote Republican" by Hemant Mehta.

Article: "First Amendment to the United States Constitution".

Article: "Assassination of George Tiller" by Wikipedia.

Article: "7 killed, including shooter, at Sikh Temple in Oak Creek" by Rick Romell.

Article: "Knoxville Unitarian Universalist church shooting" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Columbine High School massacre" by Wikipedia.

Site: Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.

Article: "Outrage as father posts Facebook picture of his 6-month old baby girl holding a rifle at gun store just 20 miles from Sandy Hook massacre" by James Nye.

Case: "Roe v. Wade", 1973.

Case: "McDonald v. Chicago", 2010.

Article: "From Cruz to Christie, Grading the Speeches at CPAC" by David Catanese.

Article: "Tea Party Eats Their Own" by David Freedlander.

Article: "Conservative writer upset '12 Years A Slave' doesn't show happy slaves" by Anomaly.

Article: "Propaganda Is Not 'Reality' or 'Truth': 12 Years a Slave deserved better." by James Bowman.

Video: Look for the Union Label 1978 ILGWU ad.

Article: "USDA to Allow Chickens From U.S. to Be Shipped to China for Processing and Back to U.S. for Consumption, Just Like Seafood" by John Deike.

Article: "Gnathostomiasis" by Wikipedia.

Law: "Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act", 2009.

Article: "Snake-Handling Pentecostal Pastor Dies From Snake Bite" by Spencer Wilking and Lauren Effron.

Article: "The Ten Commandments" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Chakra" by Wikipedia.

       

Friday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET 

In for Thom today, please welcome Sam Seder, Majority Report / Ring of Fire Radio   

 

Hour One: How the USPS could save the economy
- David Dayan, Salon.com 

 

Hour Two: Senate rejects civil rights advocate for DOJ Civil Rights Division
- Sergio Munoz, Courts Matter/Media Matters 

 

Hour Three: The Republican War on Civil Rights
- Adam Serwer, MSNBC  

 

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