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Friday, February 10, 2017


PROGRAMMING MAY BE CHANGED FOR FUND DRIVE






3-4 Alan Watts


“Lecture on G.K. Chesterton”


From http://www.otrcat.com All info: http://www.alanwatts.org


+ G. K. Chesterton “The Spice of Life” (short excerpt of talk from 1930’s)


(Caroline Casey will return after the fund drive)










4 – 5:55 The Thom Hartmann Program






What Will You Do When the Police Ask for Your Phone & Password?


Article: "I tried to help black people vote. Jeff Sessions tried to put me in jail: Voices" by Evelyn Turner.


Article: "Senate Republicans silence Elizabeth Warren over letter on Jeff Sessions" (includes 1986 letter by Coretta Scott King) by David Smith.


Article: "With One Tweet, Trump Just Used His Office To Help Ivanka's Business" by Natalie Dickinson.


Tweet: "My daughter Ivanka has been treated so unfairly by @Nordstrom. She is a great person -- always pushing me to do the right thing! Terrible!" by Donald J. Trump.


Article: "Did Kellyanne Conway's Ivanka Trump Fashion Line Plug Violate Ethics Rules?" by Jon Schuppe and Mark Murray.


Article: "Jeff Sessions confirmed as attorney general despite controversies" by Ben Jacobs.


Article: "Supreme Court nominee Gorsuch calls Trump's tweets 'disheartening'" by Ashley Killough.


Article: "Trump contradicts Gorsuch spokesman, accuses Blumenthal of misrepresenting comments" by Rebecca Savransky.


Tweet: "Sen.Richard






Blumenthal, who never fought in Vietnam when he said for years he had (major lie),now misrepresents what Judge Gorsuch told him?


" by Donald J. Trump.


Article: "Trump gets laughs when he offers to 'destroy' a Texas state senator's career" by Jacob Pramuk.


Article: "U.S. Visitors May Have to Hand Over Social Media Passwords: DHS" by Alexander Smith.


Book: "Nineteen Eighty-Four" by George Orwell.


Book: Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.


Article: "It Can't Happen Here" by Sinclair Lewis.


Article: "The Powell Memo or Powell Manifesto".


Article: "Canadian woman denied entry to U.S. after Muslim prayers found on her phone" by CBC.


Article: "Here's Another Retrograde Disaster" by Charles P. Pierce.


Will the GOP Totally Destroy the Separation of Church & State?
- Rev. Barry W. Lynn, Americans United for Separation of Church and State


Article: "Neil Gorsuch: Wrong For The Supreme Court" by Americans United.


Article: "Lois Lerner" by Wikipedia.


Site: Project Fair Play.


Article: "The Church Audit Procedures Act - The Basics" by John Stancil.


Article: "Trump's plan to "totally destroy" the Johnson Amendment creates a huge campaign finance loophole for churches to exploit" by Sophia Tesfaye.


Article: "Trump Panders To Evangelical Base, Will 'Totally Destroy' Johnson Amendment" by Karoli Kuns.


Article: "The Johnson Amendment In 5 Questions And Answers" by Tom Gjelten.


Article: "Most People - And Perhaps Most Clergy - Don't Want Political Endorsements In Church" by Andrew R. Lewis and Paul A. Djupe.


Article: "Pastor Accused of Ousting Kerry Supporters Resigns" by AP, May 11, 2005.


Article: "United States Senate inquiry into the tax-exempt status of religious organizations" by Wikipedia.


Article: "Betsy DeVos Confirmed as Education Secretary; Pence Breaks Tie" by Emmarie Huetteman.


Article: "Tens of thousands of protest calls didn't stop DeVos. But they're not in vain." by Francine Kiefer.


The #NODAPL Last Stand at Standing Rock...
- Kandi Mossett, Indigenous Environmental Network (I.E.N.)


Article: "Activists Plan Emergency Actions Across The Country To Protest Approval Of Dakota Access Pipeline" by Alleen Brown.


Article: "The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe's Litigation on the Dakota Access Pipeline" by .


Article: "Army cuts environmental review short to green-light DAPL easemen" by Nat Stein.


Site: #DefundDAPL.


Article: "This Is The #nodapl Last Stand" by .


Article: "Tribes file for injunction to stop DAPL construction" by KFYR.


Article: "Army Corps of Engineers issues final closing date for DAPL protest camp on Corps land" (February 22).


Article: "2 Cities To Pull More Than $3 Billion From Wells Fargo Over Dakota Access Pipeline" (Seattle, WA & Davis, CA) by Bill Chappell.


Site: Dakota Access Pipeline - U.S. Army Corps of Engineers - comment line (202) 761-8700.


Event: DC, March 10: "Biggest march planned in Washington D.C. for Standing Rock on March 10th".


Site: Indigenous Environmental Network (I.E.N.).


Article: "#NoDAPL Last Stand Call to Action!".


Site: Water Protectors Legal Defense Fund.


Article: "Kelcy Warren" (Energy Transfer Partners CEO) by Wikipedia.


Article: "The Keystone pipeline will create just 35 permanent jobs. Don't believe the lies" by Raúl M Grijalva.






The Big Picture: Would You Give Your Cellphone & Password to The Police?
Big Picture Interview: Should Progressives Be Furious?
- Mike Papantonio, America's Lawyer/Ring of Fire Radio/Law and Disorder
Big Picture Panel: There Are No Jobs On A Dying Planet
- Sam Sacks, The District Sentinel
- Brian Darling, Conservative Review/(formerly) Office of Senator Rand Paul
Big Picture Fact: This Mammal Is Facing Extinction Now


Video: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheBigPictureRT


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Thursday, February 09, 2017



****DAVE SPEAKS IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA (revised schedule)



FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17

"Donald Trump, Julian Assange, Glenn Greenwald and Edward Snowden: Don't Think Twice, It's Alt-Right" Admission $10.00.

Time to be announced. 7pm

LOCATION:

(very small room)

Dem Passwords

649 N Spring St (btw Cesar Chavez and Ord) Los Angeles, CA 90012





SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18

Dave will be doing THREE, count 'em THREE lectures. They will start promptly. The lectures will be at the Pasadena Women's Club.

The talks will begin promptly. At 1pm, Dave will do a lecture "Saint Bernard: The Dark Side of the Bernie Sanders Phenomenon."

At approximately 2:15, he will do "Eddie The Friendly Spook and the High-Profile Hacks." At approximately 3:15, he will repeat "Donald Trump, Julian Assange, Glenn Greenwald, and Edward Snowden: Don't Think Twice, It's Alt-Right."



The fee for the Saturday talks, all three, will be $15.00 per person.

LOCATION:

The address of the South Pasadena Women's Club is: 1424 Fremont Avenue; South Pasadena, CA 91030.



Dave will have a few flash drives with his entire life’s work on them for a cut rate price of $50 – purchasers will also gain admission to the talks for no extra charge.







3-4 Dave Emory, "For the Record #936 The Making of Donald Trump (Top Banana Republic), Part 5”



Detailed, annotated written description for this program available at:

http://spitfirelist.com/for-the-record/ftr-936-the-making-of-donald-trump-top-banana-republic-part-5/



Dave's website: http://www.spitfirelist.com



. Comments Line: comments that come in -- are a major and continuously updated source of information. Only a tiny fraction of this will ever make it into the program--it is simply too voluminous. http://feeds.feedburner.com/SpitfireListComments





4—5:55 The Thom Hartmann Program



Just Like Reagan - Protests May Not Work Against Trump.....

Article: "I tried to help black people vote. Jeff Sessions tried to put me in jail: Voices" by Evelyn Turner.

Article: "Senate Republicans silence Elizabeth Warren over letter on Jeff Sessions" (includes 1986 letter by Coretta Scott King) by David Smith.

Article: "Transcript: Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, Feb 16 2006: Background" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Transcript: Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, Feb 16 2006" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Rumsfeld and Cheney Revive Their 70's Terror Playbook" by Feb. 13, 2006.

Article: "Republican Senators Vote to Formally Silence Elizabeth Warren" by Matt Flegenheimer.

Article: "Protests didn't hurt Reagan, and they're not going to stop Trump" by Julian Zelizer.

Article: "'Leftist Fight Club' trains UCF students to fight Republicans" by Lauren Cooley.

Article: "Republicans fear for their safety as Obamacare protests grow" by Rachael Bade.

Event: 9 Feb 9pm ET 6pm PT: "Michael Moore Calling!!" by Progressive Democrats of America.

Article: "We the People Amendment Introduced in 115th Congress" by Move to Amend.

Article: "First Amendment to the United States Constitution"

Article: "What Is Rule 19? Mitch McConnell Uses Arcane Rule From 1902 To Silence Elizabeth Warren On Senate Floor" by Kasia Kovacs. "No Senator in debate shall, directly or indirectly, by any form of words impute to another Senator or to other Senators any conduct or motive unworthy or unbecoming of a Senator."

Article: "Schumer decries 'anti-free speech attitude' after Warren silenced" by Jordain Carney.

Article: "Impeachment in the United States" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Impeachment of Andrew Johnson" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Impeachment process of Richard Nixon" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Impeachment and acquittal of Bill Clinton" by Wikipedia.

Site: Free Speech TV

Article: "Watch Bernie Sanders Read Coretta Scott King's Letter On The Senate Floor" by Cate Carrejo.

Article: "Jeff Merkley reads Coretta Scott King's letter about Jeff Sessions on Senate floor (video)" by Eder Campuzano.

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: "25th Amendment" (presidential succession)

Site: Progressive Democrats of America

Site: Move to Amend



Issues of the Day & Your Calls
- Congressman Mark Pocan (D-WI, 2nd District),

Article: "House Democrats kick off conference with vow to fight Trump" by Seth McLaughlin .

Article: "Elizabeth Warren Gives Progressives In Congress A Rousing Call To Arms Against Trump" by Daniel Marans.

Article: "Democrats End Sit-In After 25 Hours, Drawing Attention to Gun Control", June 23, 2016 by David M. Herszenhorn and Emmarie Huetteman.

Article: "David A. Clarke Jr." by Wikipedia.

Article: "Gerrymandering" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Wisconsin judge orders state GOP to redraw gerrymandered legislative districts" by Matthew Rozsa.

Article: "GOP lawmakers to write blank check to hire lawyers" by Patrick Marley and Jason Stein.

Article: "Why the stall on Andrew Puzder, Trump's labor secretary pick?" by Larry Light.

Article: "Cory Booker Joins Senate Republicans to Kill Measure to Import Cheaper Medicine From Canada" by Zaid Jilani, David Dayen.

Article: "Awkward: Cory Booker Once Gave A Speech At Betsy DeVos' Organization" by Christine Rousselle.

Video: Jason Chaffetz withdrawing HR 621.

Article: "Republican Lawmaker Withdraws Bill to Sell Federal Land After Outcry" by Abigail Abrams.

Article: "Tens of thousands of protest calls didn't stop DeVos. But they're not in vain." by Francine Kiefer.

Bill: "Indiana Senate Bill 309".

Article: "Thousands march near Mar-a-Lago, protest Trump's travel ban" by Terry Spencer.

Article: "GOP Rep's Office Nixes Obamacare Town Hall Because A Reporter Was Present" by Caitlin MacNeal.

Article: "Protesters gather outside GOP meeting attended by Roskam" by Elizabeth Owens-Schiele.

Article: "2011 Wisconsin protests" by Wikipedia.

Tweet: "A moment does not make a movement, #sacrifice does....#blackeagle" by Joe Madison.

Site: The Joe Madison Show.

Article: "Feds to Ohio: Your high-speed rail project is officially dead (and New York thanks you)" by Stephen Koff, December 9, 2010.

Book: Rules for Radicals" by Saul Alinsky.

Article: "Rep. Beto O'Rourke "very likely" to run for Sen. Ted Cruz's seat in 2018" by Abby Livingston.



Thom's Website: http://www.thomhartmann.com

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Wednesday, February 08, 2017



Fund Drive:



3-3:30 Vaccination Update

Articles from Alliance for Natural Health http://www.anh-usa.org

“Mumps Outbreak: The Real Cause”

http://www.anh-usa.org/mumps-outbreak-the-real-cause/

“Forced Vaccination Coming to California”

http://www.anh-usa.org/forced-vaccination-coming-in-california/





CANCER CONTROL SOCIETY CONVENTION 2015 SPEAKERS:



The Cancer Control Society is a non-profit organization, dependent upon donations for its mission: to prevent and control Cancer and Other Diseases through Nutrition and Non-Toxic Therapies. For more information, please call The Cancer Control Society, (323) 663-7801. Website: http://www.cancercontrolsociety.com



3:30-4:30 Doctor's Symposium I, Part 1 (From 2015)

DVDs from Malibu Video, 4607 Lakeview Canyon Road #182 Westlake Village, CA 91361

Phone: (818) 746-6689

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4:00-5:55 The Thom Hartmann Program



The Left Hates You?

Article: "The Terror Trial We're Really Ignoring" by Dean Obeidallah.

Article: "The Left Hates You. Act Accordingly." by Kurt Schlichter.

Book: "Mein Kampf" by Adolf Hitler.

Book: "They Thought They Were Free" by Milton Mayer.

Book: The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt.

Article: "Stabenow Introduces "Bring Jobs Home Act" to Cut Taxes for Companies that Move Jobs Back to America" by Sen. Debbie Stabenow.

Bill: "S.247 - Bring Jobs Home Act" by Sen. Debbie Stabenow.

Article: "Weather Underground" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Black bloc" by Wikipedia.

Book: "The Crash of 2016: The Plot to Destroy America--and What We Can Do to Stop It" by Thom Hartmann

Article: "The Powell Memo or Powell Manifesto".

Article: "Net neutrality" by Wikipedia.

Book: Demand the Impossible!: A Radical Manifestoby Bill Ayers.

Article: "Watch: Robert Reich blames Berkeley riot on right-wing 'outside agitators'" by Sarah K. Burris.

Book: Dangerous by Milo Yiannopoulos.

Article: "Number of U.S. Hate Groups Is Rising, Report Says" by Kim Severson, March 7, 2012.

Article: "Donald Trump fails to mention white man who killed six Muslims in Quebec mosque" by Rachael Revesz.

Site: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Article: "The 14 Characteristics of Fascism" by Dr. Lawrence Britt.

Article: "Trump's List of Attacks Were Covered Extensively by the Media He Says Ignored Them" by Hrafnkell Haraldsson.

Article: "Trump's FCC Blocks ISPs from Giving Low-Income Families Web Access" by Nadia Prupis.

Article: "Ignoring Spell Check and Muslim Victims, White House Produces List of Terror Attacks" by Lauren McCauley.

Book: "Conservatives Without Conscience" by John W. Dean.

Book: The Authoritarians by Robert Altemeyer (free online).



FCC Is Blocking and Destroying Internet Access
- Tim Karr, Free Press

Article: "Trump's F.C.C. Pick Quickly Targets Net Neutrality Rules" by Cecilia Kang.

Article: "Trump's FCC Blocks ISPs from Giving Low-Income Families Web Access" by Nadia Prupis.

Article: "What Your Internet Plan Will Look Like Without Net Neutrality" by Will Chatham.

Article: "47 CFR 20.15 - Requirements under Title II of the Communications Act".

Book: The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt.



ObamaCare Should Be Repealed....Or not?
- Alye Senger, Heritage Foundation

Article: "Obama says Heritage Foundation is source of health exchange idea" by Louis Jacobson.

Article: "Repeal and replace? All Americans could lose Obamacare protections" by Tracy Seipel.

Article: "Trump: Health care replacement could take until 2018" by Eric Bradner.

Article: "New Data Show Obamacare Insures Less Than 20 Million, Most on Medicaid" by Alyene Senger.

Article: "8 Reasons Why Obamacare Should Be Repealed" by Alyene Senger.

Article: "Tommy Douglas" (father of Canadian Healthcare) by Wikipedia.


The Big Picture: Get Ready for an Internet That's Closer to China Than Europe...

Big Picture Interview: About Those Iran Sanctions...
- Jamal Abdi, National Iranian American Council (NIAC)/NIACAction

Big Picture Panel: Is Steve Bannon the Wrecking Ball?
- Bryan Pruitt, RedState
- Kymone Freeman, We Act Radio/Black Lives Matter DC

Big Picture Fact: How Big Pharma Convinces You To Be Sick...

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheBigPictureRT





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Tuesday, February 07, 2017


3-4 Reverend angel Kyodo williams: “Warrior Spirit”
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4:00-6 The Thom Hartmann Program



Hitler Only Needed 5 Months To Seize Complete Control

Article: "As Senate offices are overwhelmed with calls against DeVos, supporters resort to shady tactics" by Casey Quinlan.

Article: "Donald Trump administration 'wants to cut white supremacism from counter-extremism programme'" by Lizzie Dearden.

Article: "Trump Posted A False News Report To His Facebook Page And Got Thousands Of Shares" by David Mack.

Article: "Smart! 'Kuwait issues its own Trump-esque visa ban for five Muslim-majority countries | Al Bawaba'" by Donald J. Trump.

Article: "Kuwait denies imposing 'smart' travel ban praised by Trump on Facebook" by Noah Browning.

Article: ""Wait Calmly"" (Adolf Hitler) by Volker Ullrich.

Article: "Reichstag fire", 27 February 1933 by Wikipedia.

Book: "Threshold: The Progressive Plan to Pull America Back from the Brink" by Thom Hartmann

Book: "Rebooting the American Dream: 11 Ways to Rebuild Our Country" by Thom Hartmann (read online)

Book: "Rebooting the American Dream: 11 Ways to Rebuild Our Country" by Thom Hartmann

Serious Repression Begins With No Mention in the MSM.....

Article: "Lawmaker Wants Women To Spend Sundays Making Husbands Breakfast In Bed" by Jenavieve Hatch.

Article: "Democrats plan all-night protest ahead of DeVos vote" by Jordain Carney.

Article: "Trump Says Banking Rules Must Change Because His Friends "Just Can't Get Any Money"" by Matthew Zeitlin.

Site: Patriotic Millionaires.

Article: "Donald Trump's politically risky tilt at the fiduciary rule" by FT.

Article: "Obama Admin: Trump Lying About Raid That Killed Navy Seal".

Article: "Police Raid Standing Rock Last Child Camp, Arrest 76".

Site: Lakota People's Law Project.

Movie: "Watching Hitler's Back: Hitler's Bodyguard".

Article: "Trump's F.C.C. Pick Quickly Targets Net Neutrality Rules" by Cecilia Kang.

Article: "Trump has been great for the cable news business" by Claire Atkinson.

Article: "TV networks hiking ad rates for shows Trump watches" by Daniel Lippman and Anna Palmer.

Article: "Jim Mattis Seeks to Soothe Tensions in Japan and South Korea" by Michael R. Gordon and Choe Sang-hun.

Tweet: "@Thom_Hartmann update phone lines are busy and voice message full. So tweet or Facebook your Senator" by Mark White.



Extreme Vetting For People But Not For Banks....
- Professor William Black, University of Missouri at Kansas City/The Best Way to Rob a Bank is to Own One

Article: "Trump Set to Rollback Financial Regulation Passed After the 2008 Crisis" by Bill Black.

Article: "Republicans Plan to "De-Supervise" the Consumer Financial Protection Board" by Bill Black.

Article: "Private Sector Will Make a Killing Off of Infrastructure Bank" by Bill Black.

Quote: "Less government in business and more business in government" - Warren Harding.

Law: "Glass-Steagall Act", 1933.

Law: Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (1999) (Financial Services Modernization Act Of 1999).

Law: "Commodity Futures Modernization Act", 2000.

Article: "Enron scandal" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Brooksley Born" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Brexit" by Wikipedia.

Article: "C4ISR - Command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance".

Site: Act Out!



The Big Picture: Trump's "Monday Night Massacre" - The real Victims

Big Picture Interview: The MSM Still Loves Trump - Here's How they Show It...
- Zaid Jilani, The Intercept
- Dave McCulloch, Capitol Media Partners

Big Picture Panel: How Protesters Are Being Criminalized & What To Do?
- Robert Borosage, Campaign for America's Future/National People's Action/The Nation Magazine

Big Picture Fact: A Global Mass Die Off Is Happening Now
The Big Picture: Has Trump Set the Table for the Reichstag Fire?

Big Picture Interview: How Trump is Blowing Up the Separation of Church & State
- Rev. Barry W. Lynn, Americans United for Separation of Church & State

Big Picture Panel: Trump's Most Outrageous Tweet Yet
- Sarah Badawi, Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC)
- Nuchhi Currier, Women's National Democratic Club

Big Picture Fact: How We Could End World Hunger...



VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheBigPictureRT


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