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Thom Hartmann shares a story about the Federal Emergency Management Agency denying funds to states that don't plan for climate change.

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01:00 - “Corporations Stealing From U.S. Troops.” David Haynes explains how binding arbitration agreements directed at soldiers are leaving our veterans without homes when they return from overseas combat. #ArbitrationTrap

09:24 - “Still No Action on Police Brutality.” Howard Nations explains why almost nothing has been done since the death of Michael Brown to reign in abusive police officers. #HandsUpDontShoot

18:28 - “Arsenic Found In Wines.” Michael Burg will tell us about the lawsuit taking place against California wineries, where it has been revealed they are pumping high levels of arsenic into cheap wines. #ArsenicWine

26:59 - “Wisconsin’s Right To Work…For Less.” Brendan Fischer, general counsel for the Center for Media and Democracy in Madison, Wisconsin, will explain Wisconsin’s new Right To Work law. #StandWithLabor

44:49 - “The Backstory.” News with Mike Papantonio and Sam Seder. #BehindTheHeadlines

As the Pacific Island nation of Vanuatu is devastated by Cyclone Pam, 350.org co-founder Bill McKibben links the storm to global warming and responds to the new decision by the the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to back the fast-growing divestment campaign to persuade investors to sell off their fossil fuel assets. This comes as University of Oxford alumni, donors and students are watching a vote set for today on whether the school will divest its endowment from the top 200 companies involved in exploring or extracting fossil fuels. McKibben also discusses news from NASA that California’s water supply could be exhausted by next year. Meanwhile, the environmentalist and former Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed has been sentenced to 13 years in prison after he was found guilty of ordering the arrest of a judge while in office. Nasheed became famous in 2009 for holding a cabinet meeting underwater to show the threat of climate change to his island nation.

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The author, filmmaker and media reform activist Danny Schechter has died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 72. Danny Schechter rose to prominence as the "The News Dissector" on Boston’s WBCN radio in the 1970s. He went on to work as a television producer at ABC’s 20/20, where he won two Emmy Awards, and at the newly launched CNN. But he left corporate media to lead MediaChannel.org and Global Vision. Schechter wrote 12 books, including "The More You Watch, the Less You Know," and was a leading activist and journalist against apartheid in South Africa, making six nonfiction films about Nelson Mandela. He was a frequent guest on Democracy Now! over the years. The last time he was on the program, he discussed the life and legacy of Nelson Mandela.

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Dozens of people have been wounded in clashes surrounding Wednesday’s massive protest against austerity in Frankfurt, Germany. A crowd of around 10,000 people marched outside the new headquarters of the European Central Bank to oppose economic policies that force deep cuts to public spending and worsen unemployment. Around 14 officers and 21 protesters were injured after breakaway marchers clashed with police.

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01:00 - “Ferguson PD Worse Than We Thought.” Chauncey DeVega gives us the latest out of Ferguson, which includes a DOJ report that shows how racism was rampant among Ferguson PD. #HandsUpDontShoot

09:10 - “Your Employer Doesn’t Have Your Back.” Michael Burg will discuss the assault on workers compensation that is leaving injured workers with no recourse. #LaborLaws

19:02 - “UBS Just Blew Your Retirement Fund.” Peter Mougey will give us the latest details on criminal banking activity, specifically the UBS Puerto Rico con game. #TooBigToJail

30:41 - “Corporations Spending More; Workers Get Less.” Bryce Covert in Washington, D.C. will tell us why corporations are spending more on buying back their own stocks than they are on the workers that keep their companies running. #InvestInWorkers

39:16 - “The Republican Fear Con.” Howard Nations will explain how fear is used by the Republican leadership to manipulate voters. #FearSells

Today marks the 1,000th day WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has spent in political asylum inside Ecuador’s London embassy. For the first time, Swedish prosecutors have opened the door to Assange’s departure with a request to question him in London. Assange has never been charged over allegations of sexual assault, but has been holed up in the embassy since 2012, fearing a Swedish arrest warrant could lead to his extradition to the United States.

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