All across Europe, when weather is severe and absolutely record-breaking, typically news reports point out that this is one of the predicted results of the current level of global warming. That kind of reporting is almost entirely absent here in the United States, because of the power and influence of fossil fuel billionaires on the Republican Party.

Americans need to know that the atmosphere has 6% more moisture in it now than it did just 50 years ago because of global warming, and more moisture means bigger tornadoes, more violent thunderstorms, worse flooding, and epidemics of wildfires.

And all the responsibility for it can be laid at the feet of the fossil fuel industry that is, every day, pumping more millions into the coffers of Republican politicians and the media.

-Thom

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Wednesday's Daily Stack

Hour One: Mid-day with Mark
- Congressman Mark Pocan (D-WI, 2nd District)

Article: "Mueller: 'If we had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so' - live" by Lauren Gambino.

Article: "Mueller Report (Redacted) Searchable Version (PDF)".

Video: Inside The Mueller Investigation Report: Part One - Introduction. Thom Hartmann reads the Mueller Report.

Article: "Watergate scandal" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Impeachment process against Richard Nixon" by Wikipedia.

Video: Complete statement from Special Counsel Robert Mueller (C-SPAN).

Article: "Amash greeted with a standing ovation at Michigan town hall" by Haley Byrd.

Article: "Bannon described Trump Organization as 'criminal enterprise', Michael Wolff book claims" by Edward Helmore.

Article: "Morgan Stanley says economy is on 'recession watch' as bond market flashes warning" by Thomas Franck.

Article: "Is the minimum wage worth less now than 50 years ago?" by Louis Jacobson.

Article: "Despite Attempts to Soften Penalties, Texas Legislature Passes Bill to Charge Pipeline Protesters with Felonies" by Candice Bernd.

Article: "'Ag-gag laws' hide the cruelty of factory farms from the public. Courts are striking them down." by Kelsey Piper.

Article: "Revealed: 21,000 US women order abortion pills online in past year" by Hannah Devlin.

Article: "'Periods for Pence' Campaign Targets Indiana Governor Over Abortion Law" by Mitch Smith.

Article: "Supreme Court won't review abortion law signed by Pence" by Alice Miranda Ollstein and Rachana Pradhan.

Article: "Eugenics" by Wikipedia.

Movie: "The Birth of a Nation (1915)".

Article: "Supreme Court Chips Away at Abortion, This Time With Clarence Thomas Ranting About 'Eugenics'" by Jay Michaelson.

Hour Two: JFK's birthday Anniversary - The Files Barr & Trump Are Hiding
- 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: "Carlos Marcello" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Santo Trafficante Jr." by Wikipedia.

Article: "John Roselli" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Juan Almeida Bosque" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Bernard Barker" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Warren Commission Hearings and Exhibits".

Article: "Church Committee", 1975-6.

Article: "William Barr" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Assassination of Orlando Letelier" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Cubana de Aviación Flight 455" by Wikipedia.

Article: "United States House Select Committee on Assassinations" by Wikipedia.

Article: "George Joannides" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Barr Has A History Of Writing Summaries That Obscure The Truth" by Bess Levin.

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: "Edwin Meese" by Wikipedia.

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

Article: "Lawrence Walsh" by Wikipedia.

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

Article: "JFK (film)" by Wikipedia.

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

Article: "The Complicated Friendship of Robert Mueller and William Barr" by Russell Berman.

Article: "Trump Holds Some JFK Assassination Files Back, Sets New 3-Year Deadline" by Sarah Pruitt.

Article: "Mitch McConnell" by Wikipedia.

Hour Three: The End of Ice
- Dahr Jamail, Independent Journalist & Staff Reporter-Truthout; author, Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq and his new book, The End of Ice: Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption

Event: TONIGHT at 6:30pm PT: "End of Ice: A Conversation on Climate, Population & Consumption" Q Center, 4115 N. Mississippi Avenue, Portland, OR (Join Dahr, Suzanne & Stephanie (w/Thom moderating) tonight).

Event: June 11, 8:00PM ET: "Leonardo DiCaprio Documentary 'Ice on Fire' on HBO June 11" by Michael Malone.

Article: "What Would It Mean to Deeply Accept That We're in Planetary Crisis?" by Dahr Jamail & Barbara Cecil.

Article: "Global Warming Fact: More than Half of All Industrial CO2 Pollution Has Been Emitted Since 1988" by Peter Frumhoff.

Article: "Trump Administration Hardens Its Attack on Climate Science" by Coral Davenport and Mark Landler.

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

Article: "Antarctica's annual ice loss six times greater than 40 years ago, Nasa research shows" by Alex Matthews-King.

Article: "Greenland's ice is melting four times faster than thought—what it means" by Stephen Leahy.

Video: Ice no more? Experts warn European glaciers could melt by 2100.

Article: "Permian-Triassic extinction event" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Storm-ravaged central US braces for more tornadoes, flooding through Tuesday" by Kristina Pydynowski.

Article: "Arab Spring" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Camp Fire (2018)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "List of Florida hurricanes" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Alaska's indigenous people feel the heat of climate change" by Jocelyne Zablit.

Article: "Greta Thunberg tells EU it needs 'cathedral-thinking' on climate change" by Lynn Boylan.

End of Ice: A Conversation on Climate, Population & Consumption
- Suzanne York, Director of Transition Earth, author of Peoples' Rights, Planet's Rights: Holistic Approaches to a Sustainable Population, contributing author to Paradigm Wars: Indigenous Peoples' Resistance to Economic Globalization

Article: "Human overpopulation" by Wikipedia.

Case: "Box v. Planned Parenthoood" (on Order List: 587 U.S.).

End of Ice: A Conversation on Climate, Population & Consumption
- Stephanie Feldstein, Population and Sustainability Director at the Center for Biological Diversity and author of The Animal Lover's Guide to Changing the World.

Article: "UN Report: Nature's Dangerous Decline 'Unprecedented'; Species Extinction Rates 'Accelerating'" by UN.

Article: "A million plant and animal species are going extinct - and capitalism is to blame" by Stephen Leahy.

Article: "How many Earths do we need?" by Charlotte McDonald.

Law: "2018 United States farm bill".

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