Friday, June 30, 2017

WHAT HAPPENED

SOMETHING’S HAPPENING!

Thursday Night, June 29



12-1 Alan Watts, “Philosophy of War” Part 1 of 4

All info: http://www.alanwatts.org



1-2:00 Jack Gariss, "Bio-Meditation"

“Spectrum of Relaxation” Part 1 of 3



2:00-3:00 Caroline Casey, "Visionary Activist Show:"

We are playing a portion of Caroline Casey and Amikaeyla Gaston’s High John Eve presentation at Commonweal in Bolinas! From KPFA. All info on Caroline's Website: http://www.coyotenetworknews.com



3-3:30 X Minus One, ‘Chain of Command’ by Stephen R.

Originally broadcast on NBC, Nov. 21, 1956.



3:30 - 5:55 The Thom Hartmann Program



Trump's 'facelift' tweets

Tweet: "I heard poorly rated @Morning_Joe speaks badly of me (don't watch anymore). Then how come low I.Q. Crazy Mika, along with Psycho Joe, came.." by Donald J. Trump.

Tweet: "...to Mar-a-Lago 3 nights in a row around New Year's Eve, and insisted on joining me. She was bleeding badly from a face-lift. I said no!" by Donald J. Trump.

Article: "'A real man would have called an ambulance': Internet recoils in horror at Trump 'facelift' tweets" by David Ferguson.

Article: "Tapper: So how is Melania's anti-cyberbullying campaign going?" by Rebecca Savransky.

Article: "Sarah Sanders whines that Trump is the real victim: 'Facelift' tweets were 'fighting fire with fire'" by David Ferguson.

Article: "Trump: Debate Moderator Had 'Blood Coming Out of Her Wherever" (Megyn Kelly) by Ryan Teague Beckwith.

Article: "25th Amendment" "Section 4.: Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President."

Book: P. T. Barnum - The Art of Money Getting, or Golden Rules for Making Money by P. T. Barnum.

Article: "Alex Bennett (broadcaster)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The Howard Stern Show" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Jill Stein denies being a puppet of Russia, blames Democrats for scapegoating election loss" by Taylor Link.

Bible: "Revelation 7: 144,000 Sealed".



Trump's Media Malpractice Watch...
- Katrina vanden Heuvel, The Nation Magazine/Washington Post

Article: "Trump's chaos is covering for stealth escalation overseas" by Katrina vanden Heuvel.

Article: "On Trump, the media's malpractice continues" by Katrina vanden Heuvel.

Tweet: "Media Malpractice Watch/ Trump has nominated Brendan Carr to fill the final Republican slot at the FCC https://www.recode.net/2017/6/28/15889538/trump-nominate-brendan-carr-fcc-republican-commissioner" by Katrina vandenHeuvel.

Article: "President Trump has nominated Brendan Carr to fill the final Republican slot at the FCC" by Tony Romm.

Book: No Is Not Enough by Naomi Klein.

Article: "Zbigniew

Brzezinski, national security adviser to President Carter, dies at 89

" by AP.

Article: "Fairness Doctrine" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trump, EPA Move to Rescind Obama Administration's Clean Water Rule" by Eli Stokols.

Article: "Grenfell Tower blaze shows we tinker with rules at our peril" by Edwin Heathcote.

Quote: "It violates the essence of what made America a great country in its political system. Now it's just an oligarchy with unlimited political bribery being at the essence of getting the nominations for president or elected president. And the same thing applies to governors and U.S. senators and Congress members. So now we've just seen a complete subversion of our political system as a payoff to major contributors who want and expect and sometimes get favors for themselves after the election's over'." - President Jimmy Carter on unlimited money in politics on the Thom Hartmann Program, 28 July 2015.

Article: "America is an oligarchy, not a democracy or republic, university study finds" by Cheryl K. Chumley.

Medicaid cuts could cause abuse in nursing homes to return
- Julio Rivera, Reactionary Times/Newsmax/Right Wing News/Politichicks


Article: "Trumpcare Could Bring Back an Epidemic of Abuse" by Gabriel Winant.

Article: "GOP healthcare bill may send pregnant women back to days without coverage" by Molly Redden.

Article: "Plague Is Found in New Mexico. Again." by Liam Stack.

Article: "List of countries by quality of healthcare" by Wikipedia.

Article: "List of countries by life expectancy" by Wikipedia.

Article: "OECD Health Statistics 2016".



Article: "Number of the Beast" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trump travel ban: new visa criteria set to come into effect" by Jamiles Lartey and Oliver Laughland.

Tweet: "They won't let us leave the door open to let fresh air. #HotInHere @SenCoryGardner #ColoradoSprings #HandmaidsTale #NoAHCA @COSpringsCAN" by Jessica Lawyer.

Article: "Sen. Cory Gardner's staff may have tried to "heat out" protesters" by Nat Stein.

Site: Common Dreams

Site: Alternet

Site: TruthOut

Law: "H.R.3590 - Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act" (111-148) by Rep. Rangel, Charles B. [D-NY-15].

Article: "The GOP's Stealth War Against Voters" (Interstate Crosscheck) by Greg Palast, August 24, 2016.

Bill: "H.R.3091 - To amend the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to limit the authority of State election officials to remove registrants from the official list of eligible voters in elections for Federal office in the State on the basis of interstate cross-checks, and for other purposes." by Rep. Pocan, Mark [D-WI-2].



Talk Media News Segment:
- Victoria Jones


Article: "Healthcare wish lists: What moderates, conservatives want" by Nathaniel Weixel.

Article: "GOP infighting erupts over healthcare bill" by Alexander Bolton And Peter Sullivan.

Article: "Sununu is the latest GOP governor to oppose the Senate health bill" by Robert King.

Article: "President of the United States shames Brzezinski for alleged cosmetic surgery" by Justin Duckham.

Article: "'Inappropriate. Undignified. Unpresidential': Republicans slam Trump over 'facelift' outburst against MSNBC host" by AFP.

Article: "Trump 'will punch back 10 times harder' if 'attacked': Melania Trump defends vicious 'facelift' tweets" by David Ferguson.

Video: "'Bizarre moment' President Trump calls RTE's Caitriona Perry over during call to Varadkar".

Article: "Merkel Slams Trump: 'We Can't Wait For The Last Man On Earth To Be Convinced By Climate Change'" by Jason Le Miere.

Tweet: "A room full of "wow"s after @HouseAppropsGOP adopted this AUMF repeal amendment by @RepBarbaraLee" by Jennifer Scholtes.

Site: "Goats for the old Goat".

Book: Loving What You Do: The Elements of a Great Working Life by Ellen Ratner.



CIA Torture conversation: "You Guys Are Pussies (If you don't keep torturing)"...

Article: "The Torturers Speak" by NY Times.

Article: "Interrogation, Torture and Personal Responsibility" by Sheri Fink.

Book: "A Charge to Keep: My Journey to the White House" by George W. Bush, Mickey Herskowitz.

Article: "My Testimony for the Downing Street Memo Hearings" by Cindy Sheehan, June 16 2005.

Article: "New study finds 45,000 deaths annually linked to lack of health coverage" by David Cecere, September 17, 2009.

Article: "Marco Rubio Quietly Undermines Affordable Care Act" by Robert Pear.

Article: "Explaining 'Risk Corridors,' The Next Obamacare Issue" by Louise Radnofsky and Jennifer Corbett Dooren, Jan 22, 2014.

Article: "Dachau concentration camp" by Wikipedia.

The Big Picture: Trump Exposes His Inner-Bully

Big Picture Interview: No More Protections From Drinking Water
- Patty Lovera, Food & Water Watch

Big Picture Panel: Trump's Obsession of Women & Bleeding
- Shelby Emmett, Project 21
- Isaiah Poole, People's Action/Campaign for America's Future


Big Picture Videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheBigPictureRT

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



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Thursday, June 29, 2017

WHAT HAPPENED

SOMETHING’S HAPPENING!

Wednesday Night, June 28

12-1 Dave Emory, "For the Record #959: Update on the New Cold War and the Nazification of Ukraine"

For a detailed, annotated description of this program go to:
http://spitfirelist.com/for-the-record/ftr-959-update-on-the-new-cold-war-and-the-nazification-of-ukraine/

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Dave Emory's entire life­time of work is avail­able on a flash drive. The new drive is a 32-gigabyte drive that is current as of the programs and articles posted by early 2016. Link: http://www.kfjc.org/donate/index.php

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



1-2 The Ralph Nader Radio Hour
'Hitler's American Model' & 'Pluralist Commonwealth'
Guests: James Q. Whitman and Gar Alperovitz
Originally heard on KPFK Saturdays, 10am
ALL INFO:
http://www.ralphnaderradiohour.com

2-3 Richard Grossman - "Dismantling Corporations"
(Parts 1 and 2)
From TUC Radio, http://www.tucradio.org 1 (707) 463-2654

3-3:30 Michael Parenti: "Capitalism's Apocalypse"
'Why the rich can't save anybody - not even themselves'
www.michaelparenti.org
From TUC Radio, http://www.tucradio.org 1 (707) 463-2654

3:30-5:55 The Thom Hartmann Program



Ending Interstate Crosscheck & What's Next for Trumpcare
- Congressman Mark Pocan (D-WI, 2nd District)

Article: "The GOP's Stealth War Against Voters" (Interstate Crosscheck) by Greg Palast, August 24, 2016.

Video: The Best Democracy Money Can Buy.

Site: The Best Democracy Money Can Buy.

Article: "Senate healthcare bill would cut insurance for 22 million Americans, CBO says" by Ben Jacobs and Sabrina Siddiqui.

Article: "NBC News/WSJ Poll: Public Overwhelmingly Disapproves of House Health Care Bill" by Mark Murray.

Article: "Fewer than one in five Americans approves of Trumpcare, poll finds" by Laura Clawson.

Article: "Republicans Die A Death of 1,000 Obamacare Lies As Just 12% Support GOP Healthcare Bill" by Jason Easley.

Article: "Sen. Susan Collins Comes Out Against Health Care Bill" by Nick Visser.

Article: "US Backed YPG Kurds Are Ethnically Cleansing Arabs From Raqqa, and the World Is Silent" by Andrew Korybko.

Article: "White Helmets member caught on camera disposing of Syrian soldiers' mutilated bodies (GRAPHIC VIDEO)".

Article: "Fact Sheet: Title IV-E Child Welfare Training Program" by NASW.

Article: "Four GOP senators oppose Senate health-care measure in its current form" by Sean Sullivan, Juliet Eilperin and Kelsey Snell.

Article: "Farm family leaves for Mexico amid questions over immigration crackdown" by Alexandra Hall.

Article: "Congressman Launches Petition To Stop Deportation Of 9/11 Cleanup Worker" by Igor Bobic.

Article: "Wisconsin Assembly joins calls for constitutional convention to tackle debt" by Fredreka Schouten.

Article: "Right-Wing Billionaires Have a Project to Rewrite Our Constitution, and They Are Shockingly Close to Pulling It Off" by Thom Hartmann.

Book: The Strip & Flip Disaster of America's Stolen Elections: Updated "Trump" Edition of Strip & Flip Selection of 2016 by Robert J. Fitrakis, Harvey Wasserman.

Article: "Comprehensive Legislation Would Safeguard Future Elections from Cyber-Attacks" by Reps. Mark Pocan, Keith Ellison, and Hank Johnson. Securing America's Future Elections (SAFE) Act.

Article: "HR 676 press conf: Conyers announces Medicare for all has 111 co-sponsors, 58% of Democratic caucus." by subir.

Bill: "H.R.676 - Expanded & Improved Medicare For All Act" by John Conyers.

Article: "The Do's and Don'ts of Rental Application Fees".

Article: "Stonewall riots", June 28, 1969 by Wikipedia.

Law: "Voting Rights Act of 1965".

Article: "Supreme Court Invalidates Key Part of Voting Rights Act" by Adam Liptak, June 25, 2013.



Talk Media News Segment:
- Bob Ney

Article: "Portman, Capito Announce Opposition to Current Senate Health Draft" by Senator Rob Portman.

Law: "Help America Vote Act" (2002).

Article: "Sarah Huckabee Sanders Escalates White House War on CNN".

Article: "Flabbergasted anchor points out to commerce secretary why there wasn't a 'single hint of a protester' in Saudi Arabia" by Natasha Bertrand.

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

Site: "Goats for the old Goat".

Book: Loving What You Do: The Elements of a Great Working Life by Ellen Ratner.



Water & Safety Should Never Be Privatized
- Charles Sauer, The Market Institute

Article: "After Grenfell Tower Fire, U.K. Asks: Has Deregulation Gone Too Far?" by Steven Erlanger.

Article: "EPA seeks to scrap rule protecting drinking water for third of Americans" by Oliver Milman.

Article: "The Waters of the United States (WOTUS) Rule: What It Is and Why It's Important" by Meghan Bartels.

Article: "Redlining" by Wikipedia.



Article: "Current US Inflation Rates: 2006-2017".

Event: June 28, Milwaukee, WI: "Die-In and Eulogy: Senate Healthcare Bill Protest".

Article: "A 'very credible' new study on Seattle's $15 minimum wage has bad news for liberals" by Max Ehrenfreund.

Article: "Seattle's higher minimum wage is actually working just fine" by Ben Spielberg.

Article: "Dueling Studies Come To Opposite Conclusions Regarding Seattle's $15 Minimum Wage" by Ronald Holden .

Article: "Seattle's Minimum Wage Experience 2015-16" by Michael Reich, Sylvia A. Allegretto and Anna Godoey.

Site: Center for Economic and Policy Research (C.E.P.R.).

Video: Kris Kristofferson - Jesus Was a Capricorn.

Article: "The Context Behind Nancy Pelosi's Famous 'We Have to Pass the Bill' Quote" by Tommy Christopher.

Article: "Marco Rubio Quietly Undermines Affordable Care Act" by Robert Pear.

Article: "Explaining 'Risk Corridors,' The Next Obamacare Issue" by Louise Radnofsky and Jennifer Corbett Dooren, Jan 22, 2014.

Article: "The GOP Complained About How Obamacare Was Passed. Now They're Rushing Their Own Bill" by Emma Talkoff.


The Big Picture: Supreme Court Decimates Separation of Church & State

Big Picture Interview: The Supreme Court's Holy Trinity Wrong Doing
- Rev. Barry W. Lynn, Americans United for Separation of Church & State

Big Picture Panel: The New Privatization Nightmare For You
- Charles Sauer, The Market Institute
- Horace Cooper, National Center for Public Policy Research



“Big Picture” Videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheBigPictureRT

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

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Wednesday, June 28, 2017

WHAT HAPPENED

SOMETHING’S HAPPENING!

Tuesday Night, June 27



12-12:30 Vaccine Update: ‘EU Court Rules in Favor of Vaccine Injury Based on Evidence”

Article & Video: http://vaccineimpact.com/2017/eu-court-rules-in-favor-of-vaccine-injury-based-on-evidence/



12:30-3:30 Jeanne Achterberg & Frank Lawlis,, “Imagery in Healing Workshop”

This audio is no longer available, but Jeanne Achterberg has a presentation on “Intentional Healing” at

http://www.soundstrue.com/store/intentional-healing-694.html



MUSIC SEGUE: Enya, ‘If I Could Be Where You Are’ from “Amarantine” CD
COMEDY SEGUE: ‘Interrupted Hour’ from “Mike Nichols & Elaine May Examine Doctors”





3:30-5:55 The Thom Hartmann Program



GOP Has Their Panties in A Wad Over Planned Parenthood
- Austin Petersen, Former Libertarian Candidate for President

Article: "What a SCOTUS decision over a church playground means for religious freedom in America" by Tara Isabella Burton.

Article: "GOP Donors Threaten Congress: No Tax Cuts, No Money" by Red Painter.

Article: "Supreme Court Weakens Wall Between Church and State" by Noah Feldman.

Article: "14th Amendment, July 9, 1868 (citizenship, representatives, public debt)

Article: "First Amendment to the United States Constitution"

Law: "Civil Rights Act of 1964" by Wikipedia.



Site: Trumpcare Toolkit.

Article: "Senate healthcare bill would cut insurance for 22 million Americans, CBO says" by Ben Jacobs and Sabrina Siddiqui.

Report: "H.R. 1628, Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017" by CBO.

Tweet: "WOW. CBO: Premiums for a 64-year old with middle income go from $6,800 under ACA to $20,500 under BCRA!" by Topher Spiro.

Article: "Kellyanne



Conway says people who lose Medicaid should just find better jobs

" by Aaron Rupar.

Article: "Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Veterans of Foreign Wars" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Sen. Johnson: Health Care Freedom Saved My Daughter's Life - Obamacare Will 'Lead to Rationing'" by Matt Cover, March 28, 2012.

Book: Democracy In Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America by Nancy MacLean.

Video: President Obama Roasts Donald Trump At White House Correspondents' Dinner! (2011).

Article: "Democratic Platform 2016".

Case: "Brown v. Board Of Education", 1954 (Segregation in public schools) (overturned Plessy v. Ferguson).

Article: "America is an oligarchy, not a democracy or republic, university study finds" by Cheryl K. Chumley.

GOP & SCOTUS Eroding Separation of Church & State
- Rev. Barry W. Lynn, Americans United for Separation of Church & State


Article: "The Supreme Court Took Three Important Actions Today. Here's What They Mean For Church-State Separation." by Barry W. Lynn.

Article: "Americans United Dismayed By U.S. Supreme Court's Decision in Trinity Lutheran Church v. Comer".

Article: "Supreme Court Should Use Masterpiece Cakeshop To Assert That Religious Freedom Is Not The Right To Discriminate" by Americans United.

Article: "Americans United: U.S. Supreme Court Should Rule Against President Trump's Unconstitutional Muslim Ban".

Article: "Supreme Court rules for Missouri church in dispute over public funding access" by Barnini Chakraborty.

Article: "What a SCOTUS decision over a church playground means for religious freedom in America" by Tara Isabella Burton.

Case: "Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia, Inc. v. Comer", 2017.

Opinion: "Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia, Inc. v. Comer", 2017. "3. This case involves express discrimination based on religious identity with respect to playground resurfacing. We do not address religious uses of funding or other forms of discrimination".

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

Case: "Supreme Court Orders New Look At Colorado Voucher Program" by AP.

Article: "New Mexico Association of Nonpublic Schools v. Moses".

Case: "Doyle v. Taxpayers for Public Education".

Article: "Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy Did Not Retire Today" by Ed Kilgore, June 26, 2017.

Article: "Supreme Court to Take on Case of Baker Who Refused to Sell Wedding Cake to Gay Couple" by Andy Towle.

Case: "Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission".



Article: "Trump's Lies" by David Leonhardt, Stuart A. Thompson.

Article: "The GOP's Stealth War Against Voters" (Interstate Crosscheck) by Greg Palast, August 24, 2016.

Article: "How to start a public bank: A Modeled Exercise" by Scott Baker.

Book, site: "Web of Debt", Ellen Brown.

Tweet: "Here's why CBO estimates that 4 million people will lose EMPLOYER-BASED COVERAGE next year." by Joshua Holland.

Article: "Inspector gadget: how smart devices are outsmarting criminals" by Rory Carroll.

Quote: "We will bury you" - Nikita Khrushchev.

Article: "Easter Rising" (April 1916) by Wikipedia.

Book: A Short History of Ireland's Famine by Ruan O'Donnell.



Talk Media News Segment:
- Patrick Gavin


Article: "The really bad in the Trumpcare CBO report? Social Security will save $3 billion because dead people" by Joan McCarter.

Article: "'Trumpcare': dead on arrival?" by Tom McCarthy (house bill, 7 March 2017).

Article: "A Simple Guide To The GOP Health Care Bills" by Alissa Scheller, Jeffrey Young.

Article: "Mitch McConnell issues dire warning: If Trumpcare fails, Republicans might have to talk to Democrats" by Mark Sumner.

Article: "The Senate Republican healthcare bill is collapsing" by Bob Bryan.

Article: "Rand Paul, Trump to meet Tuesday" by Jordain Carney.

Article: "With five holdouts on health-care bill, McConnell is in for a final frenzy of negotiation" by Paul Kane.

Article: "Trump travel ban: US supreme court partially lifts block on order" by Oliver Laughland.

Tweet: "Very grateful for the 9-O decision from the U. S. Supreme Court. We must keep America SAFE!" by Donald J. Trump.

Tweet: "Great day for America's future Security and Safety, courtesy of the U.S. Supreme Court. I will keep fighting for the American people, & WIN!" by Donald J. Trump.

Article: "Constitution of the United States" Article 1.

Article: "Constitution of the United States" Article 3.

Case: "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" (2010)

Article: "Roe v. Wade" by History Channel.

Article: "U.S. Image Suffers as Publics Around World Question Trump's Leadership" by Richard Wike, Bruce Stokes, Jacob Poushter, Janell Fetterolf.

Article: "Poll shows U.S. tumbling in world's regard under Trump" by Isaac Stanley-Becker and Scott Clement.

Site: "Goats for the old Goat".

Book: Loving What You Do: The Elements of a Great Working Life by Ellen Ratner.

If Government Can't Restrain Billionaires - Who Can?
- Richard Manning, Americans for Limited Government


Article: "Americans for Limited Government" by Open Secrets.

Case: "Buckley v. Valeo", 1976

Article: "Jon Ossoff's loss in Georgia came with a hefty price tag" by Matthew Rozsa.



Article: "Earl Nightingale" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Mitch McConnell Delays Vote On GOP Senate Health Care Bill" by Marina Fang.

Site: LegitPAC.

Article: "Fox & Friends mocks Sanders, Pelosi, and Franken for accurately saying people will die under GOP health care bill" by Media Matters.

Article: "The White House is threatening Syria over a possibly made-up chemical weapons issue" by Alex Ward.

Article: "Uyghurs" by Wikipedia.

The Big Picture: Dr. Richard Wolff - America's Economy of Death Exposed...

Big Picture Interview: Dr. Richard Wolff-You Didn't Do This Alone
- Economist Dr. Richard Wolff, Capitalism's Crisis Deepens Essays on the Global Economic Meltdown/Democracy At Work

Big Picture Panel: GOP TrumpCare Will Kill 29,000
- Sam Sacks, The District Sentinel News Co-op
- Bryan Pruitt, RedState


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