Thom Hartmann on The News - January 20, 2012

don arken here on the news you need to know thus today in over one hundred cities across america demonstrators a rally in front of federal courthouses and are being from the supreme court here in washington d_c_ in protest of the two year anniversary of citizens united decision which is tomorrow grassroots organization move to a men dot org spearheading state action to raise awareness and courage and encourage people to fight back against that radical ruling of the supreme court to declare the corporations are people in money his speech and put our democracy up for sale for the highest bidder this week portland maine became the latest city in america to pass a resolution calling on congress to amend the constitution to overturn citizens united an declare the corporations are not people we saw the effects a citizen i did in the twenty ten midterms went over a three hundred million dollars in secret corporate cash was dumped into our elections that's four times more money that was spent in the last midterms in two thousand six and and that's why the wave of multimillionaire corporate shells who say they represent the tea party were elected to the house of representatives if we don't do something about this twenty twelve will be even worse to get out there get active and occupy the courts to move to a man dot org for more information another day another republican debate last night c_n_n_ hosting debate in south carolina giving the republican candidates one last chance to appeal to voters before saturday's primary but the most contentious part of the debate did not involve any of the candidates attacking each other but instead newt gingrich attacking the media on the same night a_b_c_ aired an interview with his ex-wife allegedly gingrich doesn't have a character to be president and that he had wanted open marriage asked about this gingrich unloaded on c_n_n_ debate moderator john king in the rest of the media calling them destructive and vicious went on to flatly denied the allegations made by his ex-wife marianne gingrich meanwhile mit romney continues to struggle down the stretch in the palmetto state frontrunner was booed by the audience when he walked will begin on whether or not he's going to release his tax returns and ronnie's gaps this week it left the door open for a possible surprise gingrich victory in south carolina stay tuned in the best of the rest of the is one day after the largest online protest in the history of the internet on the largest file-sharing sites on the web megaupload it was shot down by the justice department seven people were charged with illegally sharing over a half billion dollars in copyrighted material the justice department and other government to try to recover over a hundred and seventy five million dollars banks aka bank accounts of the people owned at the megaupload website as well as a two thousand time as positron t at least one mansion in new zealand twenty are two dozen eight rolls royce and number of mercedes-benz is missus industrial strength piracy involving theft in redistribution of massive amounts of copyrighted material anti-u_s_ and several other governments including new zealand china brought it down it proves that the laws on copywriter strong enough right now and there's no need to rediculous overkill like soap but and hypo perry redone ounce this morning by the way that the senate will not be voting on hyper victory for internet activism is more evidence today the president obama's auto bailout was a success just three years removed from the near bankruptcy of general motors employees once again to be the top car seller in the world selling more than nine million cars time to remember the republicans including presidential front-runner vomit wondering just what the u_s_ auto industry go bankrupt between president obama didn't listen to them george w_ bush is war crimes now have the attention of the united nations the center for constitutional rights here in the united states in the european center for constitutional in human rights in germany well the complete this week with the u_n_ alleging that the government of the united states and spain colluding together to block an international investigation into people within the bush administration who condoned or authorized torture any complaint is based on information uncovered and fourteen state department cables that were leaked by wiki leaks and the center for constitutional rights says wiki leaks cables revealed that the united states will go to extreme measures to ensure the u_s_ officials are not called before a quart of walk dance of the torture allegations against the unquote claims of torture will continue to dog the united states indefinitely angelos like rumsfeld bushing chini who committed these war crimes are held accountable thrown in jail last year was a tragic here for our soldiers not just on the battlefield but here at home too according to a new report from the army suicides among active-duty soldiers hit a record high of twenty eleven i laid out there was a near thirty percent increase in violent sex crimes reported last year as well we're sending our young men and women often died in the middle east in a remnant of george bush is desired to be a wartime president war requiring them to serve tour after tour with little regard to the mental told it takes on them this is a tragedy and another strong recently and our wars more good news for elizabeth warrant senate campaign in massachusetts wall streeter former untuk advocate for the middle class raised more than a million bucks in just one day on thursday promising to take the people's seat back from wall street huge all bio warren came on the two year anniversary of opponents scott brown winning a special election to claim ted kennedy's deleted kennedy seat in the senate two years later though pity party go on and i nine percent movement in full force the mood is different in america people want someone to take on wall street rather than terry wall street's water there's still an uphill battle for warren though scott brown still holds a two-to-one advantage in money raised with huge donations from the bank strips let's help warren send a message to wall street collector for the united states uh... and that's the way it is today january twentieth twenty twelve i'm john hartman