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Thom's blog
Big Oil Could Have Put A Dent In CO2 Emissions In 1970s — But Did Nothing
 According to new documents from the Center for International Environmental Law, the industry chose to prioritize costs over the planet. The new documents show oil companies chose to invest in climate denying instead of on technologies to reduce emissions. Between the 1950s and 1970s, the industry also financed studies into how petroleum products could be used to control the climate. The research included burning oil to clear areas of fog and smog, and constructing massive “artificial heat mountains” out of asphalt to increase rainfall. As early as the 1980s, oil companies were beginning to invest in taller oil rigs that could withstand rising sea levels. Tom Sanzillo, finance director at the Cleveland-based Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis, told Vice there is a clear potential, perhaps even likelihood, that these documents will result in litigation against oil companies. Sanzillo said, “This looks like it’s pretty serious, and it just seems to get worse.” -Thom (What do you think? Tell us here.) |
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Tuesday's Daily Stack 
Article: " Fireside Chat. May 26, 1940" by Franklin D. Roosevelt. " Our present emergency and a common sense of decency make it imperative that no new group of war millionaires shall come into being in this nation as a result of the struggles abroad." Speech: " Madison Square Garden Speech", President Franklin D. Roosevelt, October 31, 1936. " But while we guard our shores against threats of war, we will continue to remove the causes of unrest and antagonism at home which might make our people easier victims to those for whom foreign war is profitable. You know well that those who stand to profit by war are not on our side in this campaign" Speech: " Address Announcing the Second New Deal" by Franklin D. Roosevelt, October 31, 1936. " We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace--business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering. They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob." Quote: "Less government in business and more business in government" - Warren Harding.
Speech: " First Inaugural Address", Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 4 March 1933. " There must be an end to speculation with other people's money." Article: " Address at Worcester, Mass." by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, October 21, 1936. " But in the barrage that we laid down against the depression we could not stop firing to haggle about the price of every shell"
Hour Two: What Happened to the Democratic Party?- Thomas Frank, Listen Liberal 
Quote: " I think we just delivered the South to the Republican party for a long time to come" - Lyndon B. Johnson.
Article: " Yellow journalism" by Wikipedia. " You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war".
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Watch & Listen to Thom
Great Minds P1: How Poverty Is Created By the Wealthy
Great Minds P2: The Cure For Inequality
The DNC Is REALLY Feeling the Bern Progressive Roundtable
Why Are Blacks Lives Devalued? Progressive Roundtable
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Full Show 5/23/16: Bernie Backs DNC Chair’s Primary Challenger
Tonight’s Progressive Roundtable discusses the ruling in the Freddie Gray case, Bernie’s support of the DNC Chair’s primary challenger Tim Canova, and how Bernie supporters are suing to extend the voter registration deadline in California. In tonight’s Conversations with Great Minds Thom discusses how to combat inequality with Made in USA Foundation’s Joel D. Joseph, author of the new book “Inequality in America: 10 Causes and 10 Cures.”
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