Thursday 20 February '20 show notes

Feb. 21, 2020 7:30 am

By SueN

Democratic Debate... It's Starting to Get Real...
What Will It Take To Break the Dollar? - Economist Dr. Richard Wolff, Democracy At Work / Understanding Marxism / Understanding Socialism
Are Electric Vehicles Really Better for the Climate? YES! And, Here's Why... - Dr. David Reichmuth, Senior Engineer, Clean Vehicles Program - Union of Concerned Scientists

Thursday's Daily Stack

Thom is LIVE From KBCS Radio in Bellevue Today!

Hour One: Democratic Debate... It's Starting to Get Real...

Video: 2020 Democratic Presidential Debate | NBC News (Live Stream Recording).

Video: Watch Bloomberg defend NDAs as debate audience groans.

Article: "Sanders hits Bloomberg with 'grotesque' statistic: Billionaire owns more wealth than bottom 125 million Americans combined" by Jake Johnson.

Article: "Andrés Manuel López Obrador" (AMLO) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Pete Buttigieg Mocks Minnesota: 'President' Walter Mondale" by Joel B. Pollak.

Article: "Bernie Sanders tells big Tacoma Dome crowd the Democratic establishment 'should be getting nervous'" by Jim Brunner and Elise Takahama.

Article: "Elizabeth Warren Eviscerated Mike Bloomberg Over His Treatment of Women at the Latest Democratic Debate" by Abby Gardner.

Article: "Donald Trump Campaign Offered Actors $50 to Cheer for Him at Presidential Announcement" by Aaron Couch, Emmet McDermott.

Video: Tom Steyer 2020 Presidential Run Inspired by Climate Catastrophe.

Article: "Hindenburg disaster" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Mexico presidential front-runner unveils planned cabinet" by Diego Oré.

Article: "New Deal" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Great Society" by Wikipedia.

Hour Two: What Will It Take To Break the Dollar?
- Economist Dr. Richard Wolff, Democracy At Work / Understanding Marxism / Understanding Socialism

Article: "U.S. Recession Trigger Flashes Red - MIT Scientists Give It 6 Months" by Sam Bourgi.

Article: "The Fed may be setting the table for 2020 rate cuts" by Dion Rabouin.

Article: "Dot-com bubble" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Subprime mortgage crisis" by Wikipedia.

Video: Sanders the ONLY Candidate Against Superdelegates Stealing the Nomination.

Article: "Bernie Sanders won't release more medical records after all" by Paul Waldman.

Tweet: "There is a LOT of misinformation regarding doctor's letters in lieu of the ones @BernieSanders released, in no small part because the modern journalist has no idea how to report on science/medicine, so I thought I'd take it upon myself as a physician to break it down" by guek.

Article: "Trump ally Roger Stone gets 40 months in prison after sentencing firestorm" by Lucien Bruggeman, Ali Dukakis, Soo Rin Kim.

Article: "Trump Reportedly Has Tasked Jared Kushner With Handing Out Pardons" by Llowell Williams.

Article: "How conservatives learned to wield power inside Facebook" by Craig Timberg.

Article: "Bloomberg To Spend Ten Billion Dollars To Buy Entirely Different Personality" by Andy Borowitz.

Article: "1972 United States presidential election" by Wikipedia.

Movie: "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest".

Article: "Elizabeth Warren Eviscerated Mike Bloomberg Over His Treatment of Women at the Latest Democratic Debate" by Abby Gardner.

Article: "The Technology 202: Bernie Sanders draws criticism at Nevada debate for behavior of online supporters" by Cat Zakrzewski.

Hour Three: Are Electric Vehicles Really Better for the Climate? YES! And, Here's Why...
- Dr. David Reichmuth, Senior Engineer, Clean Vehicles Program - Union of Concerned Scientists

Article: "Are Electric Vehicles Really Better for the Climate? Yes. Here's Why" by David Reichmuth.

Book: "The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: Revised and Updated: The Fate of the World and What We Can Do Before It's Too Late" by Thom Hartmann

Quote: "Mayor Buttigieg, I want to get you in on this, because, you know, in 2000, you wrote an award-winning essay. You praised Senator Sanders. You specifically praised him for embracing socialism. " - Chuck Todd.

Quote: "It's true that I was into Bernie before it was cool." - Pete Buttigieg.

Article: "Housing Choice Voucher Program Section 8" by HUD.

Article: "Many of Michael Bloomberg's mayoral actions may make him a liability" by Amanda Luz Henning Santiago.

Article: "Andrew McCabe, former FBI deputy director targeted by Trump, was just fired" by Alex Ward, Zack Beauchamp, Jen Kirby, and Emily Stewart.

Article: "Fascism" (a form of far-right, authoritarian ultranationalism) by Wikipedia.

Article: "More Than 17,000 Pack Bernie Sanders' Tacoma, Washington Rally [Crowd Size Photos]" by Stephanie Dube Dwilson.

Article: "Photos: Bernie Sanders rally in East Bay draws more than 10,000 supporters" by Laura Oda.

Article: "Two Santa Clauses or How The Republican Party Has Conned America for Thirty Years" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Taxes and a Two-Santa Theory" by Jude Wanniski.

Article: "Trump promised to eliminate the deficit, it's set to rise to $1 trillion" by Ryan Koronowski.

Article: "U.S. Budget Deficit Widens 11.8% in First Quarter of Fiscal Year" by Katia Dmitrieva.

Article: "In speech, Mulvaney says Republicans are hypocritical on deficits" by Josh Dawsey.

Article: "Study: Medicare for All Would Save $450 Billion and 68,000 Lives" by Michael Rainey.

Article: "Improving the prognosis of health care in the USA" by Alison P Galvani, Alyssa S Parpia, Eric M Foster, Burton H Singer, Meagan C Fitzpatrick.

Article: "FDR and the Dust Bowl" by Paul M. Sparrow.

Book: "All the World's a Stage" by Dennis Weaver.

Article: "Civilian Conservation Corps" (CCC) by Wikipedia.

Article: "The Bernie voters who defected to Trump, explained by a political scientist" by Jeff Stein.

Article: "Lyndon Baines Johnson's Heart Attacks" by Dr. Mirkin.

Book: Leadership: In Turbulent Times by Doris Kearns Goodwin.

Article: "Paralytic illness of Franklin D. Roosevelt" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower" by Wikipedia.

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

I'll be talking with David Enrich, Finance Editor - New York Times & Author of the new book, Dark Towers: Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump, and an Epic Trail of Destruction

And it's Anything Goes Friday!

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On the Road Again

"The War on Voting: Who Stole Your Vote--and How To Get it Back" - Book Tour Is Coming...

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Sun, Mar 1, noon: Frugal Muse Books - Chicago - Call the store to make a reservation..

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