Monday 23 October '17 show notes

Oct. 24, 2017 8:13 am

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Tim Walker, Moving Scam: Thom: "I Was Scammed by De-Regulation..."
Climate Change on the Chopping Block?
Wendell Potter, Deadly Spin/Nation on the Take/Tarbell.org: The Uninsured...We Are Going the Wrong Way

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Podcast - I was Scammed By De-Regulation

In today's podcast:

I was Scammed By De-Regulation. Climate Change on the Chopping Block? The Uninsured....We Are Going the Wrong Way

-Thom

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Monday's Daily Stack

Hour One: Thom: "I Was Scammed by De-Regulation..."

- Tim Walker, Moving Scam.

Article: "Interstate Commerce Commission" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The Carmack Amendment: A Uniform System Of Liability For Interstate Transportation Carriers" by FindLaw.

Article: "Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration" by Wikipedia.

Hour Two: Climate Change on the Chopping Block?

Article: "Trump tweet about UK crime and Muslims mirrors segment from conspiracy-mongering network OANN" by Media Matters.

Article: "Trump Isn’t Hitler. But the Lying …" by Charles M. Blow.

Video: FDR - Lesson on the Use of Propaganda (big lie).

Article: "Why Has the E.P.A. Shifted on Toxic Chemicals? An Industry Insider Helps Call the Shots" by Eric Lipton.

Tweet: "51 GOP Sens. voted to slash Medicaid by $1T, Medicare by $500B, & other working family priorities just so the 1% can get BIG tax cuts. SHAME" by Americans For Tax Fairness.

Article: "How the oligarchy wins: lessons from ancient Greece" by Ganesh Sitaraman.

Law: "Sherman Antitrust Act", 1890.

Article: "Three-card Monte" (Three-card Molly) by Wikipedia.

Case: "Buckley v. Valeo", 1976

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

Article: "If You’re Boycotting Israel in This Texas Town, Then No Hurricane Relief for You" by Brian Hauss.

Article: "Pentagon Paid Up To $6.8 Million Of Taxpayer Money To Pro Sports Teams For Military Tributes" by Laura Barrón-López, Travis Waldron.

Bible: "1 Timothy 6:10: For the love of money is the root of all evil".

Video: Greed Is Good by Gordon Gekko in "Wall Street".

Quote: "Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other." - James Madison.

Article: "My Testimony for the Downing Street Memo Hearings" by Cindy Sheehan, June 16 2005. then Governor George Bush stated, "One of the keys to being seen as a great leader is to be seen as commander in chief. My father had all this political capital built up when he drove the Iraqis out of Kuwait and he wasted it. If I have a chance to invade, if I had that much capital, I'm not going to waste it. I'm going to get everything passed that I want to get passed and I'm going to have a successful presidency."

Article: "Trump signs executive order to draft retired pilots back into military service" by Keith A. Spencer.

Article: "Air Force denies report that it is preparing to put B-52 bombers on high alert" by David Reid, Tucker Higgins.

Article: "Iran Just Officially Ditched The Dollar" by Tyler Durden, Feb 2, 2017.

Movie: "Charlie Wilson's War".

Book: Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of How the Wildest Man in Congress and a Rogue CIA Agent Changed the History of Our Times by George Crile.

Talk Media News Segment:
- Victoria Jones

Article: "Kelly: I'm "stunned" that Rep. Wilson listened to Trump's call" by Axios.

Article: "Trump contradicts Johnson’s widow over phone call" by Justin Duckham.

Article: "Frederica Wilson escalates feud with John Kelly: This White House is 'full of white supremacists'" by Diana Stancy Correll.

Article: "Lawyers For Bowe Bergdahl Say He Can't Get A Fair Trial After Trump Criticisms" by Rebecca Hersher.

Article: "The Judge in the Bowe Bergdahl Case Is Concerned About Trump's Impact on the Case" by Jonathan Drew / AP.

Site: "Goats for the old Goat".

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

Hour Three: The Uninsured...We Are Going the Wrong Way

- Wendell Potter, Deadly Spin/Nation on the Take/Tarbell.org

Article: "Americans Without Insurance Increase Under Trump" by Alexa Lardieri.

Law: "Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act" (PLCAA) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Tell Congress: No legal immunity for the gun industry" by Credo Action.

Article: "Dead Center: How Political Polarization Divided America and What We Can Do about It" by Jason Altmire.

Article: "John McCain mocks Donald Trump’s deferment ‘bone spurs’ (without naming him)" by EJ Montini.

Article: "How one reporter covered the attacks in Nice and Munich with a mobile phone" by Caroline Scott.

Article: "ISIS Fighters Regret Attacking Israel And Have 'apologized', Former Defense Minister Says" by Tom O'Connor.

Article: "El Paso County Judge Veronica Escobar begins campaign for Congress" by Patrick Svitek.

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