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Thursday, March 02, 2017

FUND DRIVE

12-3 Thom Hartmann Program Rebroadcast

(one time only in this time slot due to special Pacifica programming at 3am)



Trump's Speech to Congress, Issues of the Day & Your Calls
- Congressman Mark Pocan (D-WI, 2nd District),

Article: "Father Of Navy SEAL Killed In Yemen Raid Has Harsh Words For Trump" by Bill Chappell.

Article: "Transcript: President Trump's speech to Congress, annotated by Vox staff" (28 Feb 2017) by Vox.

Article: "Trump's guests for his congressional address: Americans with family members killed by immigrants" by Tara Golshan.

Article: "If Trump's guests to his speech tonight are anything to go by, he's deeply committed to school choice" by Amy X. Wang.

Article: "Trump to reporters: 'Nobody knew that healthcare could be so complicated'" by Tom Cahill.

Article: "The Only Concrete Takeaway From Trump's Speech: Medicaid Is Doomed" by Jon Schwarz.

Article: "House GOP's 'Better Way' Tax Plan A Much Better Way For Richest 1 Percent" by Matt Fuller.

Article: "Federal Energy Regulatory Commission" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Gerrymandering" by Wikipedia.

Article: "H.R.610 - To distribute Federal funds for elementary and secondary education in the form of vouchers for eligible students and to repeal a certain rule relating to nutrition standards in schools" by Rep. King, Steve [R-IA-4].

Article: "Republican success opens door to amending U.S. Constitution".

Article: "Filial responsibility laws" by Wikipedia.

Article: "In first address to Congress, Trump promises a mightier military, more money for vets" by Leo Shane III.

Article: "Tom Perez Beats Out Keith Ellison in DNC Chair Race" by Feb 27, 2017.

Article: "New DNC chair Perez will attend Trump's speech as former rival's guest" by Lisa Hagen.

Article: "Details about new DNC chair Tom Perez; appoints Keith Ellison deputy" by Yvette Caslin.

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

Article: "Prosperity theology" (prosperity gospel, health and wealth gospel) by Wikipedia.

Law: "American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956" by Wikipedia.

Law: "G.I. Bill" (Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944) by Wikipedia.

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: "Friedman analysis of HR 676: Medicare for All would save billions" by Don McCanne MD.

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



Did Trump Send a Tingle Up Libertarians' Legs???
- Charles Sauer, The Market Institute

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

Article: "Schengen" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Polish Plumber" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Laffer Curve

".



The Oompa Loompa Speaks to Congress
- Mike Malloy, The Mike Malloy Show

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



Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 10:30pm... Trump Repeats Neo-Nazi Talking Points Again... (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT or Free Speech TV, and catch past shows on Youtube)


The Big Picture: Trump Repeats Neo-Nazi Talking Points Again...

Big Picture Interview: Will Trump's $1 Trillion Infrastructure Package Work?
- Edward Wytkind, Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO/USDOT Advisory Committee on Transportation Automation

Big Picture Panel: How Trump Is Inspiring Discrimination
- George Landrith, Frontiers of Freedom
- Charles Sauer, The Market Institute

Big Picture Fact: 92% Are Not Safe



3-6 Special Pacifica All-Station Fundraiser to 10pm.

WHAT HAPPENED

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Wednesday, March 1


Fund Drive


12-3:30 Ralph Nader Special - "Empowering People in the Trump Era"
and “Destination Freedom”


3:30-6 The Thom Hartmann Program Rebroadcast



A Sermon To White America...
- Dr. Michael Eric Dyson, Tears We Cannot Stop

Article: "Sisyphus" by Wikipedia.

Book: Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J. D. Vance.

Book: White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America by Nancy Isenberg.

Book: "The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: Revised and Updated: The Fate of the World and What We Can Do Before It's Too Late" by Thom Hartmann

Article: "2016 shooting of Dallas police officers" by Wikipedia.

Article: "White and Black Police Officers Are Sharply Divided About Race, Pew Finds" by Jonah Engel Bromwich.

Article: "Justice Dept. Drops a Key Objection to a Texas Voter ID Law" by Manny Fernandez and Eric Lichtblau.

Article: "Imperialist Nostalgia" by Renato Rosaldo, 1989.

Book: Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.



College Students Carrying Guns...What Could Go Wrong
- Noel Flasterstein, Second Amendment & Gun Rights Attorney

Article: "Guns On Campus: Overview" by NCSL.

Article: "Montana House rejects bill to allow guns in schools" by Matt Volz.

Article: "Guns in the House: Bill 1249 met with staggering opposition" (Arkansas House Bill 1249) by Elizabeth Lau.

Article: "Virginia Tech massacre" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting", December 14, 2012 by Wikipedia.

Article: "Washington Navy Yard shooting" by Wikipedia.

Article: "2011 Tucson shooting" (incl. Gabby Giffords) by Wikipedia.



“The Absolutely Angry Black Woman”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEDjZyQWshM



Is the Death Sentence Making a Comeback?
- Jessica Jackson Sloan, #Cut50

Site: National Day Of Empathy - March 1st.

Book: "Walking Your Blues Away: How to Heal the Mind and Create Emotional Well-Being" by Thom Hartmann

Article: "Trump national security adviser wants to avoid term 'radical Islamic terrorism', sources say" by Spencer Ackerman.

Article: "2012 Aurora shooting" by Wikipedia.

Documentary: The Brainwashing Of My Dad.

Article: "More bomb threats target Jewish community. Trump finally responds" by Daniel Burke.

Article: "Guns & Suicide: The Hidden Toll" by Madeline Drexler.

Article: "Olathe, Kansas, shooting suspect 'said he killed Iranians'" by BBC.

Article: "2014 Fort Hood shooting" by Wikipedia.


The Big Picture: The Age Of Trump Is the Age Of Disaster Capitalism

Big Picture Interview: Trump's Disaster Capitalism Explained
- Antony Lowenstein, Guardian/Disaster Capitalism: Making a Killing Out of Catastrophe

Big Picture Panel: Breaking! Proof Oil Giant Shell Knew...
- Vien Truong, Green for All/Dream Corps
- Bryan Pruitt, RedState

Big Picture Fact: The Percentage of Human Sparked Wildfires

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


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

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Tuesday, February 28, 2017

Fund Drive Continues



12-3 Grand Re-opening

Guests Robert Farrell, Dr. Nita Valens, Elliot Mintz ( www.elliotmintz.com ).

“Destination Freedom” episodes ‘The Man Who Owned Chicago’ and “The Boy Who Was Traded for a Horse’ (George Washington Carver)



3-4 3-4 Alice Walker, "Led by Spirit"
From Sounds True, 1 (800) 333-9185, http://www.soundstrue.com
Free download of this program: http://www.soundstrue.com/store/weeklywisdom?page=single&category=IATE&episode=11203


4:00-6 The Thom Hartmann Program Rebroadcast

+ Ralph Nader Talk



Big Picture Interview: White House Blocks The Press
- Richard Eskow, The Zero Hour/Campaign for America's Future





Latest on the New Cold War
- Professor Stephen Cohen, The Nation/Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives

Article: "Détente" by Eric Foner and John A. Garraty.

Article: "Trump tried to downplay his pro-Russian tilt in the last debate. Then he proved it." by Zack Beauchamp.

Article: "McCarthyism" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Why We Must Oppose the Kremlin-Baiting Against Trump" by Stephen F. Cohen.

Article: "Michael Flynn resigns: Trump's national security adviser quits over Russia links - as it happened" by Claire Phipps.

Article: "The Silence of the Hacks" by Paul Krugman.

Article: "What Did Trump Know, and When Did He Know It?" by Nicholas Kristof. "The bigger issue here is why Trump and people around him take such a radically different view of Russia than has been the case for decades. We don't know the answer to that."

Book: Failed Crusade: America and the Tragedy of Post-Communist Russia by Stephen F. Cohen.

Article: "Is Détente Really Dead?" by Stephen F. Cohen.

Article: "Neo-McCarthyite furor around Russia is counterproductive" by Katrina vanden Heuvel.



Bill Ayres, Former Weather Underground

Demand the Impossible!: A Radical ManifestoSep 20, 2016

by Bill Ayers
Thom's Website: http://www.thomhartmann.com

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Friday, February 24, 2017

Fund Drive Continues



3-4 Alan Watts, "Zen and the Art of Controlled Accidents" Part 2 of 4

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



4-6 The Thom Hartmann Program

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

WHAT HAPPENED

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Thursday, February 23, 2017

Fund Drive Continues



3-4 Dave Emory, "For the Record #938 -- The Trumpenkampfverbande, Part 12: Settling In, Part 2 (The Underground Reich Comes Into Plain View, Part 5)"



Detailed, annotated written description for this program available at:

http://spitfirelist.com/for-the-record/ftr-938-the-trumpenkampfverbande-part-12-settling-in-part-2-the-underground-reich-comes-into-plain-view-part-5/



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



ALSO: 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



Fundraising: L. Fletcher Prouty reading and fundraising. (Books all taken)



4-6 The Thom Hartmann Program



Hour One: When Do White Employers Go To Jail?
- Tom Tancredo, Former U.S. Congressman (R-CO, 6th District)

Article: "Tyranny of the Minority" by Rebecca Solnit.

Quote: "The central question that emerges-and it is not a parliamentary question or a question that is answered by merely consulting a catalog of the rights of American citizens, born Equal-is whether the White community in the South is entitled to take such measures as are necessary to prevail, politically and culturally, in areas in which it does not predominate numerically? The sobering answer is Yes-the White community is so entitled because, for the time being, it is the advanced race." - William F. Buckley, Jr..

Article: "Voter Fraud in New Hampshire? Trump Has No Proof and Many Skeptics" by Katharine Q. Seelye.

Article: "Dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy" by Wikipedia.

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

Article: "Steve Bannon: 'Maybe that's not such a bad thing' if only property owners can vote" by Hunter.

Article: "E-Verify" by USCIS.

Article: "Trump admin sets stage for mass deportations" by Tal Kopan.

Article: "AG Sessions Basically Endorsed the Worst of DHS' Harsh New Deportation Plan" by Lauren McCauley.



Article: "Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986" (Reagan amnesty)

Article: "Department of Homeland Security officially spreading lies about immigrant crime" by Aaron Rupar.

Article: "James G. Watt" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Thomas Swann" (Oyster Code) by Wikipedia.

Law: Posse Comitatus Act (1878).



Who has a compelling plan to boost economic growth? The GOP are incapable of 3% growth...
- Charles Sauer, The Market Institute

Article: "Trump administration forecasts rosier growth than CBO" by Nick Timiraos.

Article: "This Century Is Broken" by David Brooks.

Article: "Our Miserable 21st Century" by Nicholas N. Eberstadt.

Site: National Center for Policy Analysis.

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

Article: "Ocean Acidification: The Other Carbon Dioxide Problem" by NOAA.





Hour Three: Is New Cellphone Technology A boon or Cancer?
- Kevin Mottus, Environmental Health Advocate
- Dr. David Carpenter, Public Health Physician

Article: "5G Cellphone Technology Dangerous To Health? Possible Risks Explained" by Susmita Baral.

Article: "Is 5G technology dangerous? Early data shows a slight increase of tumors in male rats exposed to cellphone radiation" by Jim Puzzanghera.

Article: "Major Cell Phone Radiation Study Reignites Cancer Questions" by Dina Fine Maron.

Bill: "S.19 - MOBILE NOW Act" by Sen. Thune, John [R-SD].

Bill: "S.88 - DIGIT Act" by Sen. Fischer, Deb [R-NE].

Law: "Telecommunications Act of 1996" by Wikipedia.

Law: "Telecommunications Act of 1996" (Sec. 704. Facilities siting; radio frequency emission standards.).

Site: BioInitiative.

Site: EMFscientist.org.

Site: Electromagnetic Radiation Safety.


The Big Picture: Is the GOP Trying to Make Elizabeth Warren the New Boogeyman



Big Picture Interview: Testy Town Halls Scare GOP Snowflakes
- Charles Sauer, The Market Institute
- Travis Korson, Madison Strategies



Big Picture Panel: Who's In Charge Of The Death Panels?
- Larry Cohen, Our Revolution/Democracy Initiative



Big Picture Fact: Fracking Spills - More Than You think...

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



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

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Wednesday, February 22, 2017



Fund Drive:


3-5 "Destination Freedom" Special!!
African-American Civil rights dramatic anthology (1948-1950)

(Frederick Douglas, Joe Louis, Louis Armstrong)

4:30-6 The Thom Hartmann Program



"Trump Stress" Is Now Epidemic - How Do You Handle It? Thom Explains How He's Dealing With It....

Article: "New Trump Deportation Rules Allow Far More Expulsions" by Ron Nixon and Michael D. Shear.

Article: "Psychologists Say Stress Caused by Trump Administration Poses Threat to Public Health" by Sarah Lazare.

Site: Indivisible.

Site: Our Revolution

Site: MoveOn.org

Site: Progressive Democrats of America

Article: "Mindfulness" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Pranayama" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Breathe. Exhale. Repeat: The Benefits of Controlled Breathing" by Lesley Alderman.


The Big Picture: Trump Doubles Down on Forever War

Big Picture Panel: Why Pruitt Didn't Mention the Climate or Environment In 1st Talk
- Bryan Pruitt, RedState
- Sarah Badawi, Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC)

Big Picture Interview: Is This The Tipping Point For Single Payer?
- Adam Green, Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC)

Big Picture Fact: Childhood Leukemia & Our Addiction To Oil

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

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

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Friday, February 21
Fund Drive Continues

3-4:30 Continuing African American Teachers:
Mooji: "Vaster Than Sky, Greater Than Space"

From Sounds True 1 (800) 333-9185, http://www.soundstrue.com
Free download: http://www.soundstrue.com/store/weeklywisdom/?page=single&category=IATE&episode=11939

4:30-5 L. Fletcher Prouty excerpts ‘Understanding Special Operations’


5-6 The Thom Hartmann Program



America's LugenPress Problem...

Article: "MPs debate refusing Donald Trump a state visit to Britain - Politics live" by Andrew Sparrow.

Article: "Washington's Birthday / Presidents' Day " by Wikipedia.

Article: "Democratic National Committee chairmanship election, 2017, February 23-26, 2017.

Speech: "Madison Square Garden Speech", President Franklin D. Roosevelt, October 31, 1936. "They are unanimous in their hate for me-and I welcome their hatred"

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

Article: "Deep state in the United States" by Wikipedia.



Hour Two: Is Single Payer Coming to California?
- Wendell Potter, Deadly Spin/Nation on the Take/Tarbell

Article: "California to weigh single-payer, universal health care plan" by Katy Murphy.

Article: "Californians for a Healthy California Act Seeks One Plan, More Choice for Residents" by State Sen. Ricardo Lara.

Bill: "SB-562 Californians For A Healthy California Act." by Senators Lara and Atkins.

Article: "Schwarzenegger vetoes single-payer bill" by Milan Korcok (2006).

Article: "Gov. Schwarzenegger again vetoes single payer bill" by PNHP (2008).

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

Site: Physicians for a National Health Plan (PNHP)

Site: Healthcare-NOW!.

Site: National Nurses United (NNU).


The Big Picture: How Runaway Inequality Can Defeat Trump...

Big Picture Interview: Runaway Inequality Elected & Can take Down Trump
- Les Leopold, The Labor Institute/Runaway Inequality: An Activist's Guide to Economic Justice

Big Picture Panel: It's Fake News But We Want To Regulate It
- David Halperin, Republic Report & Huffington Post
- Eleanor Goldfield, Act Out!-Occupy.com

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