Trump has put a climate change denier who compares scientists studying carbon pollution to Nazis attacking Jews in charge of his science panel. The fossil fuel industry, like the tobacco industry before it, is making billionaires on the deaths of people.

Except that fossil fuels are killing the entire planet, rather than just causing lung cancer and heart disease. And, like the tobacco industry - which funded Mike Pence so well that in 2000 Pence wrote an op-ed denying the seriousness of the link between tobacco and cancer - the fossil fuel industry is funding politicians and think tanks to push their lies and sustain their profits.

Now Trump is putting a climate change denier in charge of his science panel, and senators who take the most money from big oil and fossil fuel billionaires like the Kochs are most likely to join in denying climate change.

-Thom

Thursday's Daily Stack

Hour One: Should Trump & Pence Be Arrested for Child Kidnapping & Abuse?
- Julio Rivera, Reactionary Times/Newsmax/Right Wing News/Politichicks

Article: "Mom says daughter can no longer fall asleep unless she holds her following separation at border" by Gabe Ortiz.

Article: "Report: Video Shows Migrant Children Physically Abused By Staffers At Arizona Shelter" by Janice Williams.

Article: "More Canadians in U.S. overstayed visas than any other foreigners last year: report" by CTVNews.ca.

Article: "Kirstjen Nielsen Lied to Congress About Trump's War on Migrant Children" by John Nichols.

Article: "John Kelly: It's not 'cruel' to separate families at the border — children will be 'put into foster care or whatever'" by Michelle Mark.

Article: "What Immigration Crisis? The U.S. Isn't Being Swamped" by Noah Smith.

Site: Thom Hartmann Program.

Article: "Contractors get $750 per child per day to detain migrants. Something's wrong here." by Nancy L. Navarro.

Site: Thom Hartmann Program.

Article: "Contractors get $750 per child per day to detain migrants. Something's wrong here." by Nancy L. Navarro.

Article: "Judge Bars Migrant Family Separations, Orders Return Of Children Within 30 Days" by Scott Neuman.

Hour Two: How hyperinflation happens and how it happened in Venezuela
- Economist Dr. Richard Wolff, Democracy At Work/Capitalism's Crisis Deepens Essays on the Global Economic Meltdown

Article: "Crisis in Venezuela: Inflation" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Hyperinflation" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The Venezuela Myth Keeping Us From Transforming Our Economy" by Ellen Brown.

Article: "1973 oil crisis" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The Green New Deal offers radical environmental and economic change" by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

Article: "Everything you need to know about the Green New Deal" by Ula Chrobak.

Article: "New Deal" by Wikipedia.

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

Article: "GI Bill of Rights: A Profitable Investment for the United States" by Debs-Jones-Douglass Institute.

Article: "'Easy to Pay for Something That Costs Less': New Study Shows Medicare for All Would Save US $5.1 Trillion Over Ten Years" by Jake Johnson.

Article: "The Interstate Highway System" by History.com.

Article: "Hoover Dam - One of the Greatest Investments in U.S. History" by Street Authority.

Article: "In Venezuela, White Supremacy is a Key to Trump's Coup" by Greg Palast.

Law: "Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act", 1970 (RICO).

Law: "Mann Act" (White-Slave Traffic Act, 1910).

Article: "Internment of Japanese Americans" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The Trail of Tears " by PBS.

Book: Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now by Douglas Rushkoff.

Article: "Coast Guard Officer Accused of Racist Mass-Murder Plot, Kept ‘Hit List' of Democrats and MSNBC Hosts" by Spencer Ackerman.

Tweet: "On this day in 1939, over 20,000 Americans assembled in Madison Square Garden to give the stiff-arm white supremacy salute Hitler's Nazi flag. Yesterday, a white supremacist was arrested plotting to kill "liberals." Share this 7-min clip and awaken. https://anightatthegarden.com/" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Jussie Smollett charged with filing a false report - police" by BBC.

Article: "Shooting of Tamir Rice", 2014 by Wikipedia.

Site: OpEdNews

Article: "5th Amendment" (double jeopardy, witness against self, due process, taking clause, due compensation)

Article: "Statue of Liberty" by Wikipedia. "Give me your tired, your poor / Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free"

Article: "Curtains for nude statue of justice" by Toby Harnden.

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: "Bernie Sanders raised 5.9 mil in 24 hours total" by BoxJohnson.

Article: "Filthy rich, owing no taxes" by Steve LeVine.

Case: "Buckley v. Valeo", 1976

Case: "First National Bank Of Boston V. Bellotti", 1978

Article: "Senate investigators pursue Moscow-based former Trump associate" by Nina dos Santos.

Hour Three: Conversations With Great Minds: How Do We Convince People & Companies Who Own our Politicians To Support a Green New Deal?
- Dr. Douglas Rushkoff, Founder-Laboratory of Digital Humanism and Professor of Media Theory & Digital Economics-CUNY / Queens Research Fellow-Institute for the Future / Author of 20 books, including his latest just released, Team Human

Book: Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity by Douglas Rushkoff.

Event: 21 Feb: Powells: 7:00 PM: "Team Human boooksigning" by Douglas Rushkoff.

Event: 22 Feb: Powells: 8:30 PM: "Team Human Live at BunkBar" by Douglas Rushkoff.

Article: "British East India Company" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Boston Tea Party" by Wikipedia.

Book: Theory of Moral Sentiments, Adam Smith, 1759.

Law: "Sherman Antitrust Act", 1890.

Article: "'Antitrust was defined by Robert Bork. I cannot overstate his influence.'" by Dylan Matthews.

Book: "The Fourth Turning" by William Strauss, Neil Howe.

Book: Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community by Robert D. Putnam.

Article: "CompuServe" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Consequences of the Black Death" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trump's Pick To Lead Climate Panel Once Compared CO2 To Jews In Nazi Germany" by Ed Mazza.

Article: "Could New White House Climate Panel ‘Shut the National Security Community Up on Climate Change'?" by Olivia Rosane.

Article: "Senators Not Backing Green New Deal Received On Average 7 Times As Much Fossil Fuel Cash" by Alexander C. Kaufman.

Article: "13th Amendment", December 6, 1865. "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."

Article: "All of Robert Mueller's indictments and plea deals in the Russia investigation so far" by Andrew Prokop.

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

Article: "Andrew McCabe claims Trump wanted war in Venezuela because “they have all that oil”" by Alex Ward.

Article: "Here's the real and terrifying reason Trump is pushing for a coup in Venezuela" by Michael Fox.

Article: "Ocasio-Cortez Hits Back After Right-Wingers Drop Big Cash on 'Wack' Times Square Billboard Blaming Her for Amazon Taking Its Ball and Going Home" by Jon Queally.

Tweet: "Few things effectively communicate the power we've built in fighting dark money & anti-worker policies like billionaire-funded groups blowing tons of cash on wack billboards (this one is funded by the Mercers).

(PS fact that it's in Times Sq tells you this isn't for/by NYers.)" by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

Article: "What is the polar vortex – and how is it linked to climate change?" by Oliver Milman.

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