The "Asbestos Transparency Act" makes it harder for victims of asbestos to get compensation; the H0PE Act makes it harder for people to get food stamps. Over 10,000 pieces of highly deceptive legislation like these have been introduced in state houses over the last eight years, according to a new investigation by USA Today, and over 2000 of them have become law.

They are all written by corporations and given to Republican state legislators by the American Legislative Exchange Council or ALEC. This is called corruption, and its why Americans have lost faith in politics. Fossil fuel billionaires like the Kochs and others have bought our political process since the Supreme Court legalize this in 1976.

It's time to pass a constitutional amendment to get money out of politics.

-Thom

Thursday's Daily Stack

Quote: "Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health is the most shocking and inhuman" -- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Hour One: Revealed: Connection Between Bill Barr, MLK's Murder & Coverup
- Political Commentator/JFK Historian Lamar Waldron, author of The Hidden History of the JFK Assassination and Watergate: The Hidden History: Nixon, The Mafia, and The CIA, and co-author with Thom of "Ultimate Sacrifice" and "Legacy of Secrecy: The Long Shadow of the JFK Assassination"

Article: "Trump lashes out over claims Mueller report is more damaging than Barr suggested – live" by Adam Gabbatt.

Article: "GOP Sen. Kennedy: 'Yeah, I Would Like To See' Trump's Tax Returns" by Nicole Lafond.

Article: "Mitch McConnell undid 213 years of Senate history in 33 minutes" by Dana Milbank.

Article: "Bavaria to pass 'save the bees' petition into law in landmark move" by AFP.

Article: "House Committee Uses Century-Old Provision in the Tax Code to Demand Trump's Taxes From IRS" by Elliot Hannon.

Article: "Teapot Dome scandal" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Albert B. Fall" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Thursday marks 51st anniversary of MLK assassination" by Kyle Simon.

Video: Threat in Miami : The Milteer Tape.

Book: Killing King: Racial Terrorists, James Earl Ray, and the Plot to Assassinate Martin Luther King Jr. by Stuart Wexler, Larry Hancock.

Bill: "S.3191 - Civil Rights Cold Case Records Collection Act of 2018" by Sen. Jones, Doug [D-AL].

Bill: "H.R.1272 - Cold Case Record Collections Act of 2017" by Rep. Rush, Bobby L. [D-IL-1] .

Law: "President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992".

Article: "Understanding the Iran-Contra Affairs" by Brown University.

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

Article: "Read Attorney General William Barr's Summary of the Mueller Report".

Book: "October Surprise: America's Hostages in Iran and the Election of Ronald Reagan" by Gary Sick.

Article: "Edwin Meese" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Iraqgate" by Encyclopaedia Britannica.

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

Article: "Essay; The Patsy Prosecutor" by William Safire.

Article: "Lawrence Walsh" by Wikipedia.

Book: Firewall: The Iran-Contra Conspiracy and Cover-up by Lawrence E. Walsh.

Article: "READ: Bill Barr's 19-Page Memo Ripping Mueller Probe" by Ellis Kim.

Hour Two: Why Aren't Interest Rates Going Up In a World of Massive Debt
- Economist Dr. Richard Wolff, Democracy At Work/Capitalism's Crisis Deepens Essays on the Global Economic Meltdown

Article: "Extreme debt is rewriting the rules of economics" by Dion Rabouin.

Article: "Council of Economic Advisers" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Financial crisis of 2007–2008" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Wall Street Crash of 1929" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Brexit" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Yellow vests movement" by Wikipedia.

Tweet: "Core capex orders dipped 0.1% in February and have declined now in three of the past four months. Over that time, they have contracted at a 3.5% annual rate. Nothing I see tells me Q1 weakness was transitory." by David Rosenberg.

Article: "Capital expenditure (capex)" by Wikipedia.

Book: An Act of State: The Execution of Martin Luther King by William F. Pepper.

Article: "William Francis Pepper" by Wikipedia.

Book: Understanding special operations and their impact on the Vietnam War era: 1989 interview with L. Fletcher Prouty Colonel USAF (Retired) by David T. Ratcliffe.

Site: TrumpIsNotAboveTheLaw.org.

Event: 4 April 2019: "Progressive groups plan nationwide protests over Mueller report release" by Heidi Przybyla and Josh Lederman.

Article: "The Oppression of the Supermajority" by Tim Wu.

Case: "Plessy v. Ferguson", 1896 (separate but equal).

Article: "Roe v. Wade" by History Channel.

Article: "Shooting of Kate Steinle" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Hundreds allege Donald Trump doesn't pay his bills" by Steve Reilly.

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: "Congress has the power to obtain and release Trump's tax returns" by George K. Yin.

Article: "Some on Mueller's Team Say Report Was More Damaging Than Barr Revealed" by Nicholas Fandos, Michael S. Schmidt and Mark Mazzetti.

Article: "Leave Yemen, Congress says, as it invokes the War Powers Act for the first time" by Tom Squitieri.

Hour Three: CO2 Higher Than in the Past 3 Million Years.....
- Dr. Michael Mann, Professor of Meteorology & Director, Earth System Science Center-Penn State University AND recipient of this year's 'Nobel Prize for the Environment', the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement / author of The Madhouse Effect: How Climate Change Denial Is Threatening Our Planet, Destroying Our Politics, and Driving Us Crazy

Article: "More CO2 than ever before in 3 million years, shows unprecedented computer simulation" by Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK).

Article: "Cyclone Idai: 'Massive disaster' in Mozambique and Zimbabwe" by BBC.

Article: "Explosive cyclogenesis" (weather bomb, bomb cyclone) by Wikipedia.

Article: "The bomb cyclone spawned something even more interesting Tuesday - a 'sting jet'" by Matthew Cappucci.

Article: "The Sting Jet" by Met Office.

Article: "A natural solution to the climate disaster" by Greta Thunberger et al.

Site: MoveOn.org

Site: Free Speech TV

Book: The Hidden History of Guns and the Second Amendment by Thom Hartmann.

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

Article: "Lee Harvey Oswald" by Wikipedia.

Article: "William Barr" by Wikipedia.

Article: "How Beijing used rockets to keep opening ceremony dry" by Clifford Coonan.

Article: "Environmental Modification Convention", 1977 by Wikipedia.

Article: "No, 30,000 scientists have not said climate change is a hoax" by Jon Greenberg.

Book: The Limits to growth: A report for the Club of Rome's Project on the Predicament of Mankind by Donella H. Meadows, 1974.

Article: "Don't Believe the Hysteria Over Carbon Dioxide" by Rep. Lamar Smith.

Article: "Ask the Experts: Does Rising CO2 Benefit Plants?" by Annie Sneed.

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