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Thursday's Daily Stack

Hour One: Macron vs. Le Pen: Who Will Win the Yellow Vest Votes?
- Cole Stangler, Paris-based Journalist/Contributor-The Nation & Jacobin (among others)

Article: "IG: Trump administration took thousands more migrant children from parents" by Amy Goldstein.

Article: "With 2,300-word letter, Macron launches debate to quell 'yellow vest' unrest" by Reuters.

Article: "President Macron's letter in full".

Article: "Macron and Le Pen compete for 'yellow vest' votes" by Andrew Rettman.

Article: "Yellow Vests: Why Macron's concessions aren't enough for some" by BBC.

Article: "Number of 'yellow vest' protesters surges but violence down" by AFP.

Article: "France’s ‘Yellow Vest’ Movement Rolls On" by Cole Stangler.

Article: "Bannon's Europe plan: a look at the law in his 13 targeted countries" by Jennifer Rankin, Paul Lewis.

Article: "Occupy Wall Street" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Keynesian economics" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Boston Tea Party" by Wikipedia.

Article: "'Where's Mitch?': Ocasio-Cortez and Fellow Democrats Search High and Low to Demand McConnell Hold Vote to End Shutdown" by Jake Johnson.

Article: "I’m A Senior Trump Official, And I Hope A Long Shutdown Smokes Out The Resistance" by Senior Trump Official.

Tweet: "We should use this government shutdown as a chance to shrink government permanently. Privatize the TSA. Privatize the FAA air traffic controllers. Abolish the IRS Remove “non essential” workers. If workers aren’t essential they shouldn’t be working in government in the first place" by Charlie Kirk.

Tweet: "The Republicans who hate the idea of America - a country where We The People run things - are positively giddy about the idea that the oligarchs might take over everything and bend us all to their will." by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Ann Coulter justifies shutdown: A wall is worth more than ‘the Yosemite gift shop being open’" by Michael Brice-Saddler.

Article: "Cohen Hired IT Firm to Rig Early CNBC, Drudge Polls to Favor Trump" by Michael Rothfeld, Rob Barry and Joe Palazzolo.

Article: "Jerry Falwell Jr. And A Young Pool Attendant Launched A Business That Sparked A Bitter Dispute" by Aram Roston.

Article: "Government watchdog: Trump admin stole thousands more kids at border than previously reported" by Gabe Ortiz.

Tweet: "As for the @WSJ article on poll rigging, what I did was at the direction of and for the sole benefit of @realDonaldTrump @POTUS. I truly regret my blind loyalty to a man who doesn’t deserve it." by Michael Cohen.

Video: Hardcore History 63 - Supernova in the East II - Dan Carlin.

Article: "New Deal" by Wikipedia.

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

Article: "American Legislative Exchange Council" (ALEC) by SourceWatch.

Article: "The Powell Memo or Powell Manifesto".

Article: "Pelosi asks Trump to reschedule SOTU because of the shutdown" by Heather Caygle and Rachael Bade.

Article: "Has the Trump administration spent only 6 percent of border money?" by Louis Jacobson.

Article: "Comcast" by Wikipedia.

Hour Two: The Government Shutdown Expands the Ranks of 'Underwater Nation'
- Economist Dr. Richard Wolff, Democracy At Work/Capitalism's Crisis Deepens Essays on the Global Economic Meltdown

Article: "I’m A Senior Trump Official, And I Hope A Long Shutdown Smokes Out The Resistance" by Senior Trump Official.

Article: "The Los Angeles teachers' strike keeps growing as the standoff 'feels like ... playing chicken'" by Holly Yan.

Article: "How Germany abolished tuition fees" by Sean Coughlan.

Article: "China opens a new university every week" by Andreas Schleicher.

Article: "The Government Shutdown Expands the Ranks of 'Underwater Nation'" by Chuck Collins.

Article: "SNAP recipients get February benefits early because of government shutdown" by Kaylyn Hlavaty.

Article: "Congress approves back pay for workers affected by current shutdown, future ones" by Niv Elis.

Article: "AI expert warns automation could take 40% of jobs by 2035".

Video: 60 Minutes: Facial and emotional recognition; how one man is advancing artificial intelligence.

Video: Ann Coulter is "not going to complain" Trump shut down the government over immigration.

Article: "Food stamp benefits are guaranteed through February despite shutdown, USDA says" by Marilyn Haigh.

Geeky Science: "Food in the Anthropocene: the EAT–Lancet Commission on healthy diets from sustainable food systems" by Prof Walter Willett, MD; Prof Johan Rockström, PhD; Brent Loken, PhD; Marco Springmann, PhD; Prof Tim Lang, PhD; Sonja Vermeulen, PhD et al..

Site: MoveOn.org

Site: Move to Amend

Site: Progressive Democrats of America

Article: "Republicans Break Ranks Over Move to Lift Sanctions on Russian Oligarch’s Firms" by Kenneth P. Vogel.

Article: "House votes 362-53 to disapprove Trump lifting of sanctions on Russian companies" by Juliegrace Brufke.

Law: "Taft-Hartley Labor Act", 1947.

Law: "The National Labor Relations Act (The Wagner Act)", 1935.

Article: "Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) - August 1981 strike" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Senate Passes Stopgap Spending Bill That Would Avert Shutdown" (December 19 2018) by Emily Cochrane.

Talk Media News Segment:
- Bob Ney

Site: "Goats for the old Goat".

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

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

Article: "House voice vote to end government shutdown sows confusion, anger and eventually reconciliation" by Jason Dick.

Article: "State of the Union" by Wikipedia.

Hour Three: Confessions of A Rogue Nuclear Regulator
- Dr. Greg Jaczko, Confessions of a Rogue Nuclear Regulator

Article: "Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Missouri River soaks Nebraska nuclear plant, but it's no Fukushima" by Pete Spotts.

Article: "Three Mile Island accident" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Price Anderson Nuclear Industries Indemnity Act".

Book: Listen Liberal by Thomas Frank.

Video: Thom Hartmann: Conversations with Great Minds with Thomas Frank, Part 1.

Video: Thom Hartmann: Conversations with Great Minds with Thomas Frank, Part 2.

Book: The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government by David Talbot.

Article: "Elaine Chao" by Wikipedia.

Movie: "The Arrow of Time".

Article: "When can you fire a government worker? ...After 30 days of govt shutdown." by WVU82.

Article: "Trump's shutdown trap?" by Thomas Lifson.

Tweet: "Today at Pentagon in front of top commanders Trump blamed what he called Democratic "fringe" and "radical" left. and Speaker Pelosi for not acting on his border plans. Entire room stayed silent and did not applaud partisan remarks." by Barbara Starr.

Article: "Nixon White House tapes" by Wikipedia.

Article: "We will bury you" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Bannon vows a daily fight for ‘deconstruction of the administrative state’" by Philip Rucker and Robert Costa.

Article: "William Barr’s shady track record of covering up the crimes of a Republican president" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Bush Pardons 6 in Iran Affair, Aborting a Weinberger Trial; Prosecutor Assails 'Cover-up'" by David Johnston.

Article: "2 years ago, a pair of killers made a prison break straight out of 'Shawshank Redemption'" by Emily Shapiro.

Article: "Trump postpones Pelosi's trip 'due to shutdown' after she called for State of the Union delay" by John Parkinson.

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