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welcome back to the big picture i'm sam sacks in for tom hartman coming up in this half hour is raising taxes for a group of americans struggling to survive really the best idea they were anything so is letting the rich get richer a winning strategy for winning the white house mitt romney thinks so in just a moment in just a moment why what mitt romney thinks is bad for all of us and with the role that wall street plays in politics today it's hard to believe that it one point bank stirs weren't allowed to run roughshod over the country how do we bring this america back to those days and reclaim our democracy from predatory banks stars. so when you hear republicans yell about how president obama is expanding the size of government they're either lying or they're uninformed and you should tell them as much chording to new numbers released by the labor department government employment is now in its lowest level since nineteen sixty eight now the words government is smaller than it's ever been in nearly a half century has a lot to do with republicans pushing austerity up at the state and fe

and welcome back to the big picture i'm sam sacks in for tom hartman coming up in this half hour where you weeks released another bombshell recently a series of e-mails as seem to suggest that every american is being watched by the government what exactly did the emails reveal and if true what does this latest revelation say about our freedoms or lack thereof then believe it or not in some countries when corporations screw up their executives are held accountable but not in america why do we always like corporations get off scot free no matter how much damage they do to our lives and our society we'll explain in tonight's daily take. with you leaks founder julian assange has been holed up in the ecuadorian embassy in london since june nineteenth trying to avoid extradition to sweden and possibly even the united states where he could face espionage charges but this week he may finally learn his fate ecuadorian president rafael correa announced monday night that he hopes to have a decision this week on whether or not his nation will grant political asylum and put an end to his songes exi

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and welcome back to the big picture i'm sam sacks in for tom hartman in washington d.c. coming up in this half hour thanks to new york city mayor michael bloomberg it's gotten a lot harder to find large sugary drinks in the big apple and now it's about to get a lot harder to find baby formula there too the mayor justified in locking down baby baby formula in city hospitals or is this a classic example of the nanny state overreaching and according do bigots across america in today's tech play appreciation day later in the show we'll get to the bottom of what this chick play uproar is really all about here's a hint it has something to do with a little known supreme court decision more than one hundred years ago we'll find out more in tonight's daily ted. libertarians and haters of so-called big government have a new public enemy number one and that is new york city mayor michael bloomberg first mayor bloomberg put in place a citywide ban on the sale of sugary soft drinks in cups that are larger than sixteen ounces. i mean if you're really really thirsty and you want to hig

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and welcome back to the big picture i'm sam sacks in for tom hartman coming up in this half hour besides the vast health and safety concerns surrounding nuclear power one of the other major concerns is where and how to store the nuclear waste isn't time we gave up on nuclear power altogether so trying to hide nuclear waste wouldn't be an issue at all. and republicans have taken billions of dollars away from state local governments instead choosing to siphon that money to the wealthy elite how much destruction have republicans caused to states and towns across america. sixty seven years ago today a nuclear bomb was dropped on nagasaki japan a lesson learned after that and the bombing of hiroshima a few days earlier was that nuclear weapons are apocalyptic and should never be used again and for the most part they haven't been used to it yet japan is still reeling from a nother nuclear crisis this one self inflicted more than five hundred days after an earthquake and tsunami crippled the fukushima nuclear power plant which as we've now learned was woefully unprepared to handle such a disast

welcome back to the big picture i'm tom hartman coming up in this half hour four members of the military have been arrested for murder and are being accused of attempting to overthrow our government is the u.s. government doing enough to prevent best experiment from all possible sources also as european nations continue to struggle through the economic turmoil of austerity citizens are turning to alternative forms of economies to survive are these alternative solutions that could help the american economy too and incentives daily take republicans say they're willing to make difficult decisions the really just the party of no. in the best of the rest of the news while congress the new york police department and our security state are focused on the threats of islamic terror the united states narrowly averted another domestic terror attack for u.s. army soldiers who were arrested on charges of murder are also being accused of plotting to assassinate president obama and overthrow the government soldiers belong to a militia group in georgia known as forever enduring always ready or fear it a

and welcome back to the big picture i'm same sex scene for tom hartman coming up in this half hour. if reincarnation is real then trust me you don't want to come back as mitt romney's pet dog so do we really want to present the united states who thought it was perfectly fine to strap a dog to the roof of his car for ten hours well if the band devo has anything to say about it americans will think mitt romney is barking mad and keep him out of the white house and mitt romney and paul ryan have both complained over and over again about how expensive in costly medicare is yet when president obama tries to cut costs and appease them romney and ryan call him a thief will this newest set of lies from the right help them win in november. mitt romney has a lot of things haunting his campaign first there's the offshore tax havens and his refusal to release more than just two years of tax returns that doesn't seem to be going away anytime soon then there's his record at bain offshoring thousands of american jobs a claim he tried to address by saying he retroactively retired from bain before a

hartman welcome to the big picture. here is mitt romney trying to figure out when they thing that the i'm a. far left doesn't want the usa to defeat terrorism. itself neighborhood. be a liberal and a cause. along. the coast because you know the corporate media distracts us from what you and i should care about because they're profit driven industry that sells a sensational stick garbage and calls it breaking news i'm having martin and we're going to break that. here's a warning to all you meat eaters out there and it's not because i have been a vegetarian since i was sixteen that's but you may be forced to completely change your diet in the near future. citing population trends that show that there will be two billion more people on the planet by two thousand and fifty and dwindling water resources a team of scientists with the stockholm international water institute warned that in the next forty years the world's population will be forced to radically change their diet going out most completely vegetarian currently hum

welcome back to the big picture i'm sam sacks in for tom hartman coming up in this half hour the occupy encampments in new york city to the streets of anaheim police brutality has been rampant all over the past several months what's gone wrong with police in this country and what can be done to ensure that they truly protect and serve americans and earlier this week harry reid accused mitt romney of not paying taxes for a decade and romney isn't willing to release his tax returns to prove reid wrong story really one of the men who hides his money in offshore accounts and who is the ultimate pirate capitalist to be our next president more on that in tonight's daily take. twenty one year old in jonesboro arkansas was that it appears mysteriously shot in the head while handcuffed in the back of a police car chavis carter was arrested on saturday for possession of marijuana according to police while they were searching carter's car they heard a gunshot and found carter dead in their squad car the odd thing is the odd thing here is that police reports indicate that two searches of carter nev

and welcome back to the big picture i'm sam sacks in for tom hartman coming up in this half hour ever since it was created seventy seven years ago yesterday social security has been a much needed lifeline helping millions of americans survive if this is the case in knowing that so many americans rely on social security to live why do conservatives want to eliminate it and what's the easiest way to make sure every vote counts and to prevent massive vote counting errors from ever happening again well tom will tell you in tonight's daily take. the case so it's pretty well known that paul ryan wants to end medicare as we know it he literally wrote the law to do just that there's no one in congress more actively trying to kill medicare than paul ryan so that's a known fact a lesser known fact is that paul ryan also wants to end social security as we know it see back in two thousand and ten ryan proposed a new program that would shift social security funds out of the coffers of government and into the hands of wall street he also had plans to reduce benefits and raise the retirement age loo

well i'm tom hartman in washington d.c. and here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture last day chris christie only mentioned mitt romney eight times in his entire speech what we see tonight speakers doing the same thing box news contributor alan colmes was also along with climate change and education one of the things you won't hear republicans talking about this week is america's failed drug war is the time we finally brought it to an end and put the money funding it to better uses and paul ryan is getting ready to address the r n c tonight what he possibly say considering that he's trying to destroy the american middle class well as congressman chris van hollen. you need to know this it's day two of the republican national convention and we'll see if tonight's speakers got the message mitt romney is actually the guy running for president as that is keynote address to the or unseen jersey governor chris christie seemed to be confused about why he was there giving a speech the more resembled an unofficial launch of

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i'm tom hartman welcome to the big picture. plums. oh oh . q. eloi. at the going down of the sun and good morning we will remember them we will do. that. a group linked to the syrian armed opposition in washington wants the u.s. to push through and the no fly zone over a country that moves has always been contested by russia and china the rebels are looking to take advantage of ongoing he'll storm reports claiming an increase of government atrocities and pulling air raids and artillery shelling. looking east egypt's new president mohamed morsi heads to china hoping to bag billions in economic deals after decades of the country being america's loyal ally the gyptian leader seeking a more balanced foreign policy. originally gratian system is under fire after more than one hundred fifty thousand illegal immigrants become accounted for after arriving in the car because the home office is now promising a major review of its policies what's seen as a leaky ship. all wrong. stand a very intriguing piece of information let's clear this up maria sharapova is c

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hartman welcome to the big picture. the final hours of joining us on his asylum bid turned into an international showdown with britain threatening to storm ecuador's london embassy and take the whistleblower by force. a powerful saudi based islamic group cancel syria's membership blaming so we damascus for violence adoring the rebels all tried a style terror attacks. heavyweight square up in asia and europe or maps the extent of america's military buildup in the region as china eagerly core its allies of its own. as they outlined brings you the latest for its knees. but of their welcome to the sports update in r.t. thanks for joining us this hour coming up in the program steady start father capello's new look team russia should draw the game under the guidance of the teller and the ivory coast come from behind to secure a one all draw here in moscow. flushing meadows with the range open champ and pulls out of the last grand slam of the season due to a nagging me injury. and golden handshake president vladimir putin gree

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welcome back to the big picture i'm tom hartman coming up in this half hour once upon a time the middle class believed in government and had faith in their elected officials in washington but not anymore how has the middle classes respect and appreciation for government disappeared over the last thirty years and why also just wanting women to have control over their own bodies or decide when and if they want to have children i mean president obama is waging a war on life so people think so and they also think the republican party is the party of life and say you're a strong liberal and your boss at work says you have to go out this weekend and campaign for paul ryan or else you are fired well thanks to a new ruling that's the suddenly that's the new and sudden reality in america i'll explain that i still take. it as the rest of the news as the convention kicks off republicans are desperately trying to downplay fears of a civil war brewing within their own party that's because on sunday the new york times published an interview with ron paul whose frenzied supporters could have barest ro

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i'm sam saxon for tom hartman in washington d.c. and here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture. tonight julian assange remain stuck in the ecuadorian embassy in london with british police guarding against any possible escape how does this on his fight represent a larger struggle underway in america and the entire western world also what was supposed to be an organized strike to protest working conditions for miners in south africa turned into a bloody massacre last week why did police open fire on the miners and what should americans take away from this show of violence against organized labor overseas and seen her padding their leather wallets with your taxpayer money you know why because corporations are running our government it's called fascism and tom will tell you more about it in tonight's daily to. ok so it's now been five days since the government of ecuador granted wiki leaks founder julian assange political asylum yet tonight remain stuck in the ecuadorian embassy in london as british police around the building r

and welcome back to the big picture i'm sam sacks in for tom hartman coming up in this half hour last week the big bad drone industry came together to talk about how cool and deadly their latest killing machines are but was lost in that gathering was a discussion on the consequences of conducting a war by remote control we'll have that discussion in just a moment and what's the one question that no one is asking that could save our nation will tell you in tonight's daily take. every few weeks our news media informs us of a lethal strike our military carried out in afghanistan or pakistan or yemen or some other country that took the life of a suspected terrorist that strike more often than not was carried out by an unmanned drone one of an unknown number of such drones flying all around the world armed with hellfire missiles locked and loaded ready to fire with a push of a button by an operator sitting in front of a computer screen stateside far far away from where the missiles are actually falling while we hear about the high profile drone strikes we rarely hear about the more routine

i'm sam sacks in for tom hartman in washington d.c. and here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture. climate change world hunger civil unrest collapse that appears to be the road that oil barons are taking the planet down in just a moment chris hedges joins me to explain why political solutions are no longer the answer also our nation is about to add another political prisoner to our criminal justice system former alabama governor don siegelman joins me to tell his story and why would happen to him cannot be ignored by the rest of us and finally one democratic member of congress has introduced legislation to force big oil to pay for its billions of pounds of pollution and debate later in the show on why we can't trust oil executives to do what's right and cut down pollution on their own. and we begin tonight with this spot as the world is no longer on the brink of a major food crisis it is in a major food crisis for the first time in recent history humanitarian organizations are responding to three major food crises on the plane

i'm sam sacks in for tom hartman in washington d.c. here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture. another senseless mass shootings left six people dead and three critically wounded in wisconsin so what are investigators saying about the possible cause of this deadly rampage and is this a warning sign that domestic and not islamic terrorism is our nation's biggest threat . also one third of all u.s. executions in america happen in texas and tomorrow they're set to do it again but what's different in particularly deplorable about tomorrow's planned execution and mitt romney says he wants to help the middle class but instead he's raising taxes on the middle class is this really a winning plan for november. right well i wish we could kick things off tonight talking about mars that planet were at one thirty am this morning nasa landed its mars curiosity rover after a several hundred million mile journey that began almost a year ago this is one of the most ambitious missions nasa has taken up since the moon landings and it was executed

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i'm sam sacks in for tom hartman in washington d.c. and here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture. this year corporations will pay eight billion dollars to the government for defrauding taxpayers and guess how many of these corporate c.e.o.'s will go to jail for literally stealing billions of dollars here's a hint it's less than one also last week wall street trading firm knight capital lost four hundred million dollars in a matter of minutes how did this happen and why is the stability of the entire financial system in danger not because of greedy bankers but because of robots and last night texas executed a mentally disabled man even though that's against the constitution how did they get away with it and why did the supreme court do nothing to stop it. and we begin tonight with a number eight billion that's how many dollars that corporations will have to pay the government this year in settlements for defrauding taxpayers as the new york times reports banks military contractors pharmaceutical companies they're all in track

hartman welcome to the big picture. story. of a meeting. taking place in tehran. president assad's regime. is pushing for something russia and china strongly object to. continue. to drum up business. major. reforms. coming up loved by the people but feared by the banks. but with more. max keiser this is the kaiser report yeah now i know i jamie diamond doesn't come on the show stacey max the first headline might have something to do with that economist appearing on max keiser show forced to resign this is on forbes magazine max and in an email confirming the action sandeep jaitley explained to me apparently they don't want to burn bridges at the gold standard institute and i take this to mean bridges with large benefactors and partners however jaitley is unfazed and values to continue his work including a ph d. acceptance speech on the lewd big split from carl manga and eugene vaughan bone by a work regarding certain aspects of interest rate theory but. you say i figured out that the whole mrs institute was populated wi

well i'm tom hartman in washington d.c. and here's what's coming up tonight the big picture the us is in the midst of a lost decade and one way to help pull the nation out of it is to increase the minimum wage that's easier said than done after a decade of suffering isn't it time the republicans in the rest of congress helped americans out also not all republicans are happy with the republican party's new plan for especially when it comes to the party's attack on same sex couples speak with one organization that is working with the in the party to promote marriage equality for all. you know this is no longer worth speculating whether or not america is in the midst of a lost decade the numbers are in and america is definitely in the midst of a lost decade at least the middle classes according to a new study by the pew research center the for the first time since world war two the median household income in the united states in the middle class dropped in the last decade from nearly seventy three thousand to below seventy tho

i am sam sachs in for tom hartman in washington d.c. and here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture with an economy in turmoil a nation in crisis in years of failed economic policies it's clear we need some new revolutionary ideas to get america back on track we know romney and ryan aren't the people to give us these new ideas but maybe dr jill stein is the green party's candidate for president of the united states joins me in just a moment also paul ryan has close ties to a certain labor union that sounds crazy right well if you know what's going on at this union then it shouldn't be too surprising that story coming up a little later and what would america be like if we held corporations accountable for their actions like the big banks were destroying our economy or big oil for destroying our environment while some countries do punish out of control corporations and the united states should be doing the same thing tom we'll explain in tonight's daily tick. and we begin tonight with the seventy year old idea rewind with me back

i'm sam sacks in for tom hartman in washington d.c. and here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture. this morning ecuador announced that it would grant joining us on political asylum the only problem u.k. won't let him wait but beyond just space what kind of ramifications will this saga have on journalism and whistleblowers in particular around the world also a century ago americans gain the right to directly elect their senators through the seventeenth amendment and set of state legislatures doing the job for them but now republicans want to strip us of that right to what's their grand scheme here and mitt romney has a ton of character flaws but tying a dog to the roof of a car yeah i'd say that tops them all well this insane lapse in judgment by romney hurt him in november and it was one band trying to make sure that happens because saul a of debo joins me later in the show. and we begin tonight with julian assange he was ecuador's foreign minister ricardo patino announcing this morning that his nation will grant a songe polit

i'm tom hartman welcome to the big picture. more news today violence is once again flared up the film these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. china operations are all over the .