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• $60: Free Speech TV Calendar
• $120: Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In (book)
• $240: Capitalism: A Six Part Series (3) DVD Set: CAPITALISM is an ambitious and accessible six-part documentary series that looks at both the history of ideas and the social forces that have shaped the capitalist world. Blending interviews with some of the world's great historians, economists, anthropologists, and social critics with on-the-ground footage shot in twenty-two countries, CAPITALISM questions the myth of the unfettered free market, explores the nature of debt and commodities, and retraces some of the great economic debates of the last 200 years.
• $360: Free Speech TV Calendar; Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In (book); Tag You're it Mug; Proud Student of Thom Hartmann University Bag
• $1000: Pizza Party with Thom Hartmann

Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 10:30pm... How This Guided Age Will Be Like the Last One (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT or Free Speech TV, and catch past shows on Youtube)

Tuesday's Daily Stack 

Quote: "Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose."Lyndon B. Johnson.

 

Site: Greg Palast.

Article: "US elections: broken machines could throw Michigan recount into chaos" by Sam Thielman.

Article: "Walter Scott Shooting: Judge Declares Mistrial in Murder Trial of Former Cop Michael Slager" by Daniella Silva.

Site: #HamiltonElectors.

Article: "First Republican 'faithless elector' announces intent to vote against Trump" by Ed Pilkington.

Article: "Veterans at Standing Rock shock tribe members, beg forgiveness for war crimes against tribal nations" by Jen Hayden.

Article: "Trump advisors aim to privatize oil-rich Indian reservations" by Valerie Volcovici.

Article: "Trump Considering Privatizing Oil And Gas On Reservations" by Marcy Kreiter.

Case: "Bush v. Gore", 2000. "The individual citizen has no federal constitutional right to vote for electors for the President of the United States"

Article: "Protester's Arm Nearly 'Blown Off' in Explosion at Dakota Access Pipeline Site" by Melissa Chan.

Article: "Lysine price-fixing conspiracy" (including American company Archer Daniels Midland (ADM)) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trump Chooses Ben Carson to Lead HUD" by Trip Gabriel.

Article: "Gloria Allred To Donald Trump: If You Sue Sex Assault Accusers, We'll Sue You" by Lizzie Crocker.

Article: "Trump sells his stake in Dakota Access Pipeline developer" by Jacob Pramuk, 5 Dec 2016.

Hour Two: Trump On the Couch...
- Psychoanalyst Dr. Justin Frank MD, Bush on the Couch/Obama on the Couch  

Article: "Al Gore has an 'extremely interesting conversation' with Trump" by TMN.

Article: "Geoffrey Zakarian on Why He Backed Out of Donald Trump's DC Hotel" by Chris Fuhrmeister.

Article: "Identification with the aggressor" by Thomson Gale.

Article: "Trump appoints Betsy DeVos as education secretary" by BBC.

Article: "Got Curiosity?" (epistemophilic instinct) by Jennifer Kunst Ph.D.

Article: "Id, ego and super-ego" by Wikipedia.

Article: "NYPD Reports a Spike in Hate Crimes Around the City Since Election Day" by Michael Scotto.

Article: "First Republican 'faithless elector' announces intent to vote against Trump" by Ed Pilkington.

Article: "Why I Will Not Cast My Electoral Vote for Donald Trump" by Christopher Suprun.

Article: "Trump's Threat to the Constitution" by Evan McMullin.

 

Article: "Final Senate Seat to Be Settled in Louisiana Dec. 10 Runoff" by Melinda Deslatte.

Article: "Veterans at Standing Rock Ask Forgiveness for Military's Crimes Against Native Americans" by Democracy Now!

Article: "Historian finds German decree banishing Trump's grandfather" by Kate Connolly.

Article: "Voter Purges Alter U.S. Political Map" by Greg Palast.

Clip: "Paul Weyrich - "I don't want everybody to vote" (Goo Goo)".

Article: "Narcissistic personality disorder" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Land-grant university" by Wikipedia.

Site: RT.

Site: BBC News.

Site: Al Jazeera.

Site: AFP News (Agence France-Presse).

Site: France 24.

Site: CNN International.

 

Talk Media News Segment:
- Bob Ney 

Article: "Al Gore has an 'extremely interesting conversation' with Trump" by TMN.

Article: "Joe Biden Says He May Run For President In 2020 Because 'What The Hell'" by Willa Frej.

Article: "Donald Trump's secretary of state search expands to include new raft of hopefuls" by Jon Huntsman.

Article: "WSJ: Bob Dole Helped Arrange Trump's Call With President Of Taiwan" by Caitlin MacNeal.

Article: "Trump Chooses Ben Carson to Lead HUD" by Trip Gabriel.

Book: "Sideswiped: Lessons Learned Courtesy of the Hit Men of Capitol Hill" by Robert Ney.

Site: "Goats for the old Goat".

Site: Governor Free Don Siegelman 

Hour Three: REVEALED: the Republican Plan to Replace Obamacare
- Dr. Merrill Matthews PhD, Institute for Policy Innovation    

Article: "Now We Know What the Republican Obamacare Replacement Plan Will Look Like" by Merrill Matthews.

Article: "5 Things You Should Know About Refundable Tax Credits" by Intuit.

Article: "Guaranteed issue" by Wikipedia.

Article: "High-Risk Pool Plan (State)" by healthcare.gov.

 

Article: "United States and the International Criminal Court" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Paul Ryan already benefited from the Social Security fund he now wants to gut" by Kase Wickman.

Video: Our Revolution Is Here! (w/Guest: Sen. Bernie Sanders).

Video: Bernie Sanders on if he would have won: 'What good does it do now?'. "The last thing in this world, in this never-ending campaign, we have not even sworn in this president, is to talk about 2020."

Article: "Schumer new leader of Senate Democrats, Sanders & Warren on board" by RT.

Quote: "People will forget what you said. People will forget what you did. But people will never forget how you made them feel." - Maya Angelou.

Article: "Net neutrality" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Donald Trump's Transition Team Wants to End Net Neutrality" by Kelly Weill.

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

 

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