Twenty one Tories have now left Boris Johnson and his Conservative party to join the Liberal Democrats and other parties in the UK in stopping Boris Johnson from a hard Brexit. In other words, they took a position in the best interest of their constituents, and were willing to buck their party and take a political chance to do the right thing.

Meanwhile, here in the US, Republicans cower in terror before their billionaire overlords and even ridiculously continue to insist that guns don't kill people and fossil fuels don't cause climate change. The difference? The United Kingdom has relatively strong election and political ethics laws which prevent billionaires and corporations from entirely owning politicians; here in the United States, the Supreme Court has rewritten our laws so that it is very easy for politicians to be owned by corporations and billionaires. Until America changes its election laws, as Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders are calling for, we will continue to see the pathetic spectacle of Republicans denying climate change to keep in the good graces of Koch Industries and ExxonMobil, and corporate Democrats booked into high dollar fundraisers hosted by fossil fuel company founders right after they participate in discussions of global climate change.

America is now officially the most politically corrupt develop nation in the world. If we are to return to a functioning democracy, that has to change.

-Thom

While many Americans are having a good laugh at Donald Trump's modification of a weather map with a sharpie, the grim reality is that this man's mental illness is so severe that he will go to almost any length to prove himself right, even when he knows, beyond any possibility of a doubt, that he is wrong. Adding a bump to a weather map is relatively benign, but he is also now trying to provoke a war with Iran by paying for captured Iranian oil vessels, something that could provoke World War III.

Americans need to realize the serious danger of having a mentally ill man in the White House.

-Thom

Thursday's Daily Stack

Article: "6 winners and 3 losers from CNN's climate town hall" by Umair Irfan, David Roberts, Eliza Barclay, Ella Nilsen, and Tara Golshan.

Article: "CNN's Climate Town Hall: Who presented the most compelling vision to address this critical issue?" by Barbara Morrill.

Article: "Elizabeth Warren on 'light bulb' trolling in the face of climate change: 'Give me a break'" by Hunter.

Article: "Elizabeth Warren blasts the plastic straw debate as a fossil fuel industry distraction tactic" by Li Zhou.

Article: "Winston Churchill's Grandson Exits Politics and Chides Boris Johnson" by Ceylan Yeginsu.

Article: "The Story Behind the Most Heated Moment of CNN's Climate Crisis Town Hall" (Joe Biden, LNG fundraiser) by Brian Kahn.

Article: "Fake News: CNN's Anderson Cooper Makes False Electric Car Claims" by Tom Moloughney.

Article: ""Give Me A Break": Elizabeth Warren Just Cut Through the Dumbest Climate Argument" (lightbulbs) by Rebecca Leber.

Article: "Twenty-one Tory rebels lose party whip after backing bid to block no-deal Brexit" by Anahita Hossein-Pour.

Article: "These Republican senators' states to lose money after they backed Trump's wall" by Laura Clawson.

Video: Colbert Questions Biden About Being a "Gaffe Machine".

Article: "Obama for Single-Payer Before He Was Against It" by David Sirota.

Article: "Pentagon approves military construction cash for Trump's border wall" by France 24.

What Just Happened in the U.K., Pt. 2
- Victoria Jones, Executive Director - DC Radio Company LLC

Article: "Flake, Corker can't break the GOP fever" by Stephen Collinson.

Article: "Justin Amash was part of the conservative in-crowd. Now he's trying to figure out who his real friends are." by Ben Terris.

Article: "Brexit showdown: Who were Tory rebels who defied Boris Johnson?" by BBC.

Article: "Rising Tory anger at Cummings' role in 'purge' of Brexit rebels" by Matthew Weaver.

Article: "Loch Ness Monster may be a giant eel, say scientists" by BBC.

Article: "PM's brother quits as Tory MP and minister" by BBC.

Article: "VP Mike Pence to meet with Boris Johnson as Brexit chaos, snap election loom in London" by Christopher Mohr.

Article: "Trump offers full support for Johnson as Pence prepares to visit London amid Brexit chaos" by Anne Gearan and Robert Costa.

Article: "MPs to vote again on early election motion next week" by BBC.

Article: "Brexit: John Bercow rules out third meaningful vote on same deal" by Jessica Elgot, March 2019.

Article: "Brexit: Split at top of Labour as key figures urge Jeremy Corbyn to slam brakes on early election" by Rob Merrick.

Article: "Britain's Conservatives Erupt Into Civil War as Unlikely Rebels Defy Boris Johnson" by Benjamin Mueller.

Article: "TUC head warns MPs of 'serious risk of civil unrest' in event of no-deal Brexit" by Anna Menin.

Article: "The moment Tory MP Phillip Lee defects to Lib Dems" by BBC.

Article: "The Tories 'Would Lose Six Seats' If PM Calls Snap Election, New Poll Analysis Suggests" by Paul Waugh.

Article: "Brexit: Bill designed to stop no-deal 'will clear Lords'" by BBC.

Article: "Boris Johnson says he would rather 'be dead in a ditch' than delay Brexit, in rambling speech - live news" by Kevin Rawlinson, Andrew Sparrow, Matthew Weaver and Kate Lyons.

Article: "Sir John Major launches attack on 'political anarchist' Dominic Cummings" by Emily Mee.

Hour Two: "Elaine Parker vs. Thom: Your Neo-Liberal Ideas Have Destroyed Labor & the Planet..."
- Elaine Parker, President - Job Creators Network Foundation

Article: "This Labor Day, Threats to the American Worker Lurk Behind Every Corner" by Elaine Parker.

Article: "Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017" by Wikipedia.

Article: "CEO Compensation in the US Vs. the World" by Steve McDonnell.

Article: "U.S. private sector adds 195,000 jobs in August: ADP" by Reuters.

Article: "Richest one percent now owns two-fifths of America's wealth, new study claims" by Christopher Ingraham.

Article: "Wealth Inequality in the United States since 1913: Evidence from Capitalized Income Tax Data" by Emmanuel Saez, Gabriel Zucman.

Article: "Wealth concentration returning to 'levels last seen during the Roaring Twenties,' according to new research" by Christopher Ingraham.

Article: "Here's what else Donald Trump would change with a Sharpie" by Joe Roberts.

Article: "Poverty in the United States" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Poverty in Norway" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Life expectancy" by World Bank/Google.

Article: Mortality rate, neonatal by World Bank/Google.

Article: "Home-ownership in the United States" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Norway Home Ownership Rate" by Trading Economics.

Article: "U.S. created 501,000 fewer jobs since 2018 than previously reported, new figures show" by Jeffry Bartash.

Video: Ronald Reagan - Medicare Will Bring A Socialist Dictatorship.

Quote: "Behind Every Great Fortune There Is a Crime" - attributed to Honoré de Balzac.

Video: Joe Biden Decided to Run for President After Charlottesville.

Article: "Boulder suffers another legal setback in Xcel municipal utility battle" by Sam Lounsberry.

Article: "Tracking Trump's Campaign Promises" by Politifact.

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: "Trump displays an apparently doctored National Hurricane Center map to encompass Alabama in the zone" by Douglas Christian.

Article: "'Sharpiegate': Trump insists Dorian was forecast to 'hit or graze' Alabama" by Martin Pengelly.

Article: "President Trump has made 12,019 false or misleading claims over 928 days" by Glenn Kessler, Salvador Rizzo and Meg Kelly.

Article: "Trump may have broken federal law by altering Hurricane Dorian's path on a map to validate his false claim that it could hit Alabama" by Sonam Sheth.

Article: "Jason Greenblatt, Architect Of Trump's Peace Plan, Leaving White House" by Omri Nahmias.

Article: "Judge Rules Terrorism Watchlist Violates Constitutional Rights" by Charlie Savage.

Article: "No Fly List" by Wikipedia.

Hour Three: The REAL Story Behind the Sect - The Family
- Jeff Sharlet, Journalist & Author of 6 books including The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power & the follow-up, C Street: The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy / Executive Producer-The Family, a 5 part mini-series for Netflix (available now) / Associate Professor of English-Dartmouth College

Article: "Cyrus the Great in the Bible" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Cyrus the Great" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Showing Faith in Discretion" by Lisa Getter.

Article: "The Family Author Jeff Sharlet on His Time With The Fellowship, and Being Declared 'Evil'" by Gabrielle Bruney.

Article: "First Amendment to the United States Constitution"

Article: "National Prayer Breakfast" by Wikipedia.

Article: "C Street Center" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Christian Group Sent GOP Congressman To Romania To Meet With Holocaust Denier" by Alyssa Fisher.

Article: "Trumpworld Anxiety Grows Over a Rising Elizabeth Warren" by Hanna Trudo, Asawin Suebsaeng.

Article: ""If This Wasn't So Dangerous I'd Be Laughing": Trump Presents Outdated Dorian Forecast Map With Alabama Circled With Sharpie" by Jon Queally.

Article: "Trump administration stripping $400 million from Puerto Rico to pay for border wall" by Laura Clawson.

Article: "Economic Growth Is All on You, Consumer: The Fed" by Harsh Chauhan.

Article: "ECB set to consider damage done by negative rates".

Article: "Epic of Gilgamesh".

Article: "What Do the Koch Brothers Want?" (1980 Libertarian Party platform) by Sen. Bernie Sanders.

Article: "Nelson Rockefeller's Last Stand" by Richard Norton Smith.

Article: "Goldwater's 1964 Acceptance Speech", 1964. "Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice... moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue."

Article: "Goldwater rule" (American Psychiatric Association) by Wikipedia.

Video: Will You Vote for Universal Basic Income in 2020 Election? (w/Andrew Yang).

Article: "Basic income" by Wikipedia.

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."

Speech: "Beyond Vietnam" - Martin Luther King Jr., 4 April 1967.

Article: "New Deal" by Wikipedia.

Article: "William Barber II" by Wikipedia.

Article: "U.S. Nuclear Modernization Programs" by Kingston Reif.

Friday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 12-3pm ET

I'll be talking with Timothy A. Wise, Author: Eating Tomorrow / Director, Land and Food Rights Program - Small Planet Institute, Cambridge MA & Global Development and Environment Institute - Tufts University about how Big Ag is the Biggest Obstacle to Addressing Climate Change

Plus, Markie Miller, Organizer - Toledoans for Safe Water will join me to tell us about the Lake Erie Bill of Rights Citizens Initiative.

And it's Anything Goes Friday!

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Exposing the Secret Christian Group Seeking Political Power (w/ Jeff Sharlet)

Caller Debates Religious Right

Surprise Billing is Bankrupting Americans!

Exposing Why The News Won't Talk About Climate Change

Is Trump Caught In The Russia Trap? (w/ George Beebe)