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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 10pm... The Global Economy & the Crash of 2016 (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT or Free Speech TV, and catch past shows on Youtube)

Thursday's Daily Stack 

 

Article: "The Omnibus prevents the SEC from requiring corporate disclosures of political spending" by Ari Rabin-Havt.

Article: "5th Republican debate transcript, annotated: Who said what and what it meant" by Team Fix.

Site: Where is Mary Jo White?

Case: "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" (2010).

Article: "Merkley upset by 'big oil windfall' in budget deal" by KTVZ.

Article: "Trade" by Rep. Sandy Levin.

Article: "CNN Debate Moderator Hugh Hewitt Attacks Obama When Asking A Question During GOP Undercard Debate" by Media Matters.

Quote: "Let me just say a few words to my friends in the Republican Party about extremism. When you deny the right of workers to come together in collective bargaining that's extremism..." - Sen. Bernie Sanders.

Article: "Only three states score higher than D+ in State Integrity Investigation; 11 flunk" by Nicholas Kusnetz.

Article: "Sanders gets the most Twitter engagement in GOP debate" by Jesse Byrnes.

Quote: "We believe that the time has come when people in Wisconsin, Vermont and all over this country create a political movement which says to the billionaire class: You can't have it all." - Sen. Bernie Sanders.

Article: "What Republican presidential hopefuls said about China at the 5th GOP debate" by Mary DeMay.

Article: "Rand Paul Got It Right: Trump 'Would Defy Every Norm That Is America'" by John Nichols.

Quote: "This campaign is not about Bernie Sanders. It is not about Hillary Clinton. It is about you." - Sen. Bernie Sanders.

Article: "10 Biggest Lies and Distortions From the GOP Debate" by Adam Johnson.

Article: "Donald Trump's Brilliant Plan to Defeat ISIS: Break the Internet" by Tina Nguyen.

Quote: "When pollsters go out and ask Americans what they are worried about the answer is a 4 letter word called jobs. J O B S. Now is the time for a federal jobs program to create millions of decent paying jobs." - Sen. Bernie Sanders.

Movie: "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest".

Article: "Chilling Video Terrifies Nation" by Andy Borowitz.

Article: "Preamble to the Constitution of the United States".

Article: "Kasich: Punch Russians in the Nose; Christie: Shoot Down Russian Warplanes; Paul: Hello to WWIII" by Susan Jones.

Event: Montgomery, AL: December 17: Montgomery Area Bernie Sanders Meetup!.

Video: CNN's commercial for the Republican Debate, Dec 15.

Hour Two: Rand Paul and the Future of the GOP
- Brian Darling, Third Dimension Strategies/Conservative Review  

Site: ObamaTrade.

Article: "North Carolina Republican Calls It Quits With GOP, Joins Democratic Party" by Stephen D. Foster Jr.

Article: "Ben Bernanke: I Felt The Republican Party 'Left Me'" by CBSDC/AP.

Book: The Courage to Act: A Memoir of a Crisis and Its Aftermath by Ben S. Bernanke.

 

Article: "Marco Rubio Pushes to Block Low-Cost, High-Speed Broadband" by Lee Fang.

Article: "Jeb Interrupts Trump: 'Am I Talking or Are You Talking'" by Pam Key.

Quote: "This grotesque level of inequality is immoral. It is bad economics. It is unsustainable. This type of rigged economy is not what America is supposed to be about..." - Sen. Bernie Sanders.

Article: "Jeb Bush said Donald Trump can't insult his way to the presidency. So Trump insulted him." by German Lopez.

Quote: "Many of my Republican colleagues who come through New Hampshire and Iowa and so forth, they often talk about family values. They just LOVE families. But all of you know what they mean by family values. And what they mean by family values is that the women of this country should not have the right to control their own bodies. I disagree!" - Sen. Bernie Sanders.

Quote: "... our views are a little different than those of our Republican friends. When we talk about family values. what we mean is the United States should end the international embarrassment of being the only major country on Earth that does not guarantee family and medical leave to all of our families." - Sen. Bernie Sanders.

Article: "Permanent Internet Tax Freedom Act" by Wikipedia.

Article: "GOP May Tax Internet Sales in Omnibus" by Mike Flynn.

Article: "5th Amendment" (double jeopardy, witness against self, due process, taking clause, due compensation).

 

Talk Media News Segment:
- Ellen Ratner, Bureau Chief 

Site: "Goats for the old Goat".

Site: Governor Free Don Siegelman.

Article: "U.S., Russia to Offer U.N. Resolution Seeking to Cut off Islamic State Funding" by Jay Solomon.

Video: Kris Kristofferson - Jesus Was a Capricorn.

Article: "Philip Hammond: 'Syria talks in New York could lead to UN resolution' " by Patrick Wintour.

Article: "Democrats Score Major Win For Obama Nominees While Passing Government Funding Bill, 56-40" by Jason Easley.

Article: "After 'year of breakthrough and horror,' Ban urges greater collaborative action to tackle crises in 2016" by UN.

Article: "All Los Angeles schools closed over terror threat; prelim assessment is "hoax" - US rep " by RT.

Article: "Saudi Arabia announces Muslim nation coalition to counter terrorism" by Loree Lewis.

Article: "Audience Boos as Ben Carson Asked About Bombing Children" by Tessa Berenson.

Article: "Ted Cruz misfires on definition of 'carpet bombing' in GOP debate" by Louis Jacobson.

Quote: "You are looking at a senator and former congressman who voted against NAFTA, against CAFTA, against permanent normal trade relations and I will do everything that I can to defeat this disastrous TPP!" - Sen. Bernie Sanders.

Article: "Rand Paul warns against toppling Syrian president" .

Article: "Rand Paul Didn't Win, But He Raised the Most Important Questions of the Debate" by Charles P. Pierce.

Article: "GOP debates Syria, Assad: Moderate rebels 'like a purple unicorn, they never exist'" by RT.

Quote: "We've introduced legislation which I will push through as President. Number one, I will make every public college and university in America tuition free..." - Sen. Bernie Sanders.

Law: "Telecommunications Act of 1996" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Twitter Is Brainstorming Other B-Words for Carly Fiorina" by Charlotte Alter.

Quote: "When we talk about rebuilding the middle class we talk about rebuilding the trade union movement..." - Sen. Bernie Sanders.

Article: "Card check" by Wikipedia.

Case: "Buckley v. Valeo", 1976.

Site: Move to Amend

Article: "Carly Fiorina And Ted Cruz May Have Revealed Classified Information During GOP Debate" by David Badash.

Site: Gun Rundown.

Quote: "Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster... for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche.

Video: Dr. Strangelove: Major Kong Rides The Bomb.

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

Article: "4th Amendment". "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.".

Article: "Carly Fiorina Is Incredibly Relatable, Eats a Dog Treat to Prove It" by Ellie Shechet.

 

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Friday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 12-3pm ET 

 

Happy New Year's Day 2016 From Everyone At The Thom Hartmann Program

 

Hour One: Thom's Review of the Last Democratic Debate

 

Hour Two: Thom Shares His Thoughts on the State of the Democratic Party

 

Hour Three: The Last Word on the Final Democratic Debate of 2015

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