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"

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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:
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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



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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

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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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Tuesday, June 27, 2017

WHAT HAPPENED

SOMETHING’S HAPPENING!


Monday Night, June 26






12-1 Caroline Miller Adams, “Getting Grit”


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1:00-2: Linda Graham: “Cultivating Response Flexibility: Neuroscience in Psychotherapy”


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2-3 "From the Vault," "1984" by George Orwell Part 10 of 13


From Pacifica Radio Archives, 1 (800) 735-0230, http://www.pacificaradioarchives.org






3-3:30 The Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature


“City of Joy: From Pain to Power” From the Bioneers, 1 (877) bioneer, http://www.bioneers.org










3:30-5:55 The Thom Hartmann Program






Anything Goes Friday


Article: "Harsh Tradeoff at Core of GOP Health Bill: Keep Medicaid Expansion or Cut Taxes for Wealthy?" by Brandon Debot.


Article: "June 20, 1947 - Truman Vetoes Taft-Hartley" by Gordonskene.


Article: "June 23, 1972: Nixon Orders CIA to Stop FBI Watergate Investigation" by History Commons.


Site: Trumpcare Toolkit.


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


Article: "Obamacare v Republican plan compared" by Anthony Zurcher.


Article: "D.C. cops used 'rape as punishment' after Inauguration Day mass arrests, lawsuit says" by Alan Pyke.






Fight back on Trumpcare w/This Toolkit
- Igor Volsky,
TrumpcareToolkit.org/CAP & CAP Action Fund


Site: Trumpcare Toolkit.


Article: "217,000 Additional People Could Die Under Trumpcare" by Michele L. Jawando and Igor Volsky.


Article: "GOP senators confronted at DC airport by spontaneous health care protest" by Kaili Joy Gray.






Healthcare, Trump & Resistance Summer!
- Congressman Keith Ellison (D-MN, 5th District), DNC



Article: "Trump admits: 'I did not make, and do not have' tapes of Comey conversations" by Jamiles Lartey and David Smith.


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.


Site: Resistance Summer.






The New GOP Age Tax
- Ben Wikler, MoveOn.org



Article: "'This Is Not a Drill': Less Than One Week to Defeat 'Barbaric' Trumpcare Bill" by Common Dreams.


Event: Jun 27 2pm, Capitol, DC: "The People's Filibuster to Stop Trumpcare: Day One".


Event: Jun 28 8am, Capitol, DC: "The People's Filibuster to Stop Trumpcare: Day Two".


Event: Jun 28 5pm, Capitol, DC: "Linking Together to Save our Care".


Event: Jun 28 3pm, Capitol, DC: "The People's Filibuster to Stop Trumpcare: Day Three".


Article: "CBO: Republican health care bill raises premiums for older, poor Americans by more than 750%" by German Lopez.


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


Article: "Obamacare v Republican plan compared" by Anthony Zurcher.


Article: "Murphy Calls On Cbo To Analyze Removal Of Individual Mandate & Devastating Cuts To Medicaid Coverage Beyond 10-year Budget Window" by Senator Chris Murphy.


Site: Planned Parenthood.


Site: Indivisible.


Site: Our Revolution


How Republicans Are Born...


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


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


Tweet: "How Republicans are born... Daughter, 8, has been savings up to buy her first Guitar. Found it for $35. She had 35 exact. Then...sales tax" by Grover Norquist.


Article: "Black St Louis police officer shot by white colleague 'fearing for his safety'" by AP.





Talk Media News Segment:
- Victoria Jones



Article: "President Trump Meets Indian Prime Minister Modi" by Pranay Gupte.


Article: "Supreme Court allows travel ban to be reinstated - with limitations" by Gary Gately.


Article: "Supreme Court rules in favor of Missouri church denied state funds for playground" by Gary Gately.


Article: "Senate changes healthcare bill to include penalty for not having continuous coverage" by Robert King.


Article: "Privately, health plan worries Senate bill would "cause most small employers' premiums to go up"" by Sarah Kliff.


Site: "Goats for the old Goat".


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






Is the stock market really as healthy as it seems? Or is it due for a crash?


Article: "Time to brace for 'market turmoil', warns JPMorgan" by Adam Samson and Joe Rennison.


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


Law: "Commodity Futures Modernization Act", 2000.


Article: "Investor nervousness rises as yield curve flattens" by Robin Wigglesworth.


Site: Aden Forecast


Article: "Trump allies push White House to consider regime change in Tehran" by Michael Crowley.


Article: "Why big business keeps winning at the Supreme Court" by Adam Winkler.


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


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


Book: Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right by Jane Mayer






The Big Picture: Killing People For Tax Cuts
Big Picture Interview: Reinventing the Economy to End Oppression
- Peter Joseph, The New Human Rights Movement: Reinventing the Economy to End Oppression
Big Picture Panel: DC Cops Using Rape As Punishment?
- Phillip Stucky, The Daily Caller News Foundation
- Alex Lawson, Social Security Works




The Big Picture: Who Will Win the Coming Democratic Civil War?

Big Picture Interview: The "Morally Bankrupt" GOP
- Morris Pearl, Patriotic Millionaires

Big Picture Panel: Which Way Will the Democratic Party Go?
- Richard Eskow, Campaign for America's Future/The Zero Hour
- Michael Czin, Democratic Strategist



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