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Thom's blog
Our Fossil Fuel Addiction is leading to "Bomb Cyclones" & Famines
 This week's wild weather is a glimpse of what's to come if we don't get our carbon omissions under control. Famine, already stalking humans across the globe, could soon appear right here at home and in Europe, and this week's wild weather is a small taste of how it would play out. It all tracks back to our fossil fuel addiction, which has been warming our atmosphere since the 1860s, and is now messing with atmospheric and oceanic rivers of warm and cold water and air. This week North America experienced the results of a " bomb cyclone," a phenomenon that happens when Arctic air spills out of the Arctic and drools down over North America. Normally that air is kept bottled up in the Arctic by a rigid, fast-moving river of air that circles the north pole called the Jet Stream. Read more here. -Thom
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Thom's blog
Full-Blown Fascism: Is America Teetering on the Brink?
You can only see fascism in the rear-view mirror and then it's too late… History shows that most democratic nations don't realize how serious their fascism problem is until it overtakes them altogether. We saw it in the 1930s in Italy, Germany, Spain and Japan; today it's happened in Hungary, Turkey, Egypt, Russia, The Philippines and Brazil, and is well underway in Poland, India and multiple smaller countries. Here in America, the GOP today has a serious fascism problem, and it's endangering all of us. It's closer than most of us realize. Read more here. -Thom
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Tuesday's Daily Stack 
Hour One: Our Fossil Fuel Addiction is leading to "Bomb Cyclones" & Famines - This week's wild weather is a forecast of what's to come, if we don't get our carbon omissions under control
"No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability."
Hour Two: Full-Blown Fascism: Is America Teetering on the Brink? You can only see fascism in the rear-view mirror and then it's too late…
Hour Three: Wild Weather, Trump Acquittal...What's On Your Mind? Thom Takes Your Calls...
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Wednesday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 12-3pm ET
I'll be talking with Markos Moulitsas, Founder - Daily Kos and co-founder of the polling firm Civiqs / Co-host- The Brief, a Daily Kos political show
And, the best of the rest of the news along with your calls right here on...
The Thom Hartmann Program, Occupying The Media 3 hours a day 5 days a week for "we the people"
And don't forget...Democracy is NOT a spectator sport...it begins with you...
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Watch & Listen to Thom
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When Trump Lied To Children On Freedom
The Constitution's Most Important Invention Abused!
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