How what started out as a pleasant view of Aunt Sally's summer vacation ends up with a bloody police officer on the floor of the US Capitol and a democracy in flames.

The difference between cocaine and crack cocaine is almost entirely one of pH, the relative scale of acidity or alkalinity. Regular cocaine in its original plant form, coca leaf, is commonly consumed by people across the mountainous parts of South America and has been for millennia, much as caffeine has been used through drinking tea in parts of Asia. It causes little to no harm; people can drink coca tea with no more impact than the caffeine from a soft drink.

But when you concentrate and tweak the compound just slightly to make it more alkaline (called "base" in chemistry), that increases its "stickiness," the speed and tenacity with which it binds to blood and brain tissue (which is slightly more acidic), increasing the speed with which it's transported to the nervous system and thus "hits" the user producing the cocaine "high."

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-Thom

Tuesday's Daily Stack

Article: "World Teachers' Day" (5 October) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Facebook whistleblower hearing: Frances Haugen calls for more regulation of tech giant – live updates" by Kari Paul.

Article: "Weather Underground" by Wikipedia.

Article: "It's the Algorithm, Stupid!" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Why are Cigarettes More Addictive Nowadays?" by Dr. Avi Saig.

Article: "Cook Cocaine With Baking Soda".

Article: "Acids, bases and cocaine addicts" by Pharmacology Education Partnership.

Article: "Reducing sugar in packaged foods can prevent disease in millions" by Massachusetts General Hospital.

Site: Coca Tea.

Article: "New Report Details How Tobacco Companies Have Made Cigarettes More Addictive, More Attractive to Kids and More Deadly" by Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids.

Article: "Purdue Pharma Is Dissolved and Sacklers Pay $4.5 Billion to Settle Opioid Claims" by Jan Hoffman.

Book: Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence by Dr. Anna Lembke.

Article: "Facebook whistleblower hearing: Frances Haugen calls for more regulation of tech giant – live updates" by Kari Paul.

Site: LinkedIn.

Site: Next Door.

Article: "Ethiopia civil war: Thousands of troops assemble on highway to front line in bloody conflict" by John Sparks.

Article: "Myanmar: Facebook promotes content urging violence against coup protesters – study" by Rebecca Ratcliffe.

Article: "Whistle-Blower to Accuse Facebook of Contributing to Jan. 6 Riot, Memo Says" by Mike Isaac.

Article: "US senator lashes out over 'unlawful' bathroom protest " by AFP.

Article: "Dreamer Confronts Kyrsten Sinema on Plane: 'This Is My Life and the Life of Millions'" by Aila Slisco.

Article: "Biden says activists went too far in confronting Sinema and Manchin, 'but it happens to everybody'" by Alexander Nazaryan.

Article: "Facebook Knew It Was Fueling QAnon" by David Gilbert.

Article: "" (Daystar Television) by Timothy Johnson.

Movie: "The Social Network".

Article: "Facebook" by Mark Hall.

Article: "Facebook CEO Admits To Calling Users 'Dumb Fucks'" by Ryan Tate.

Book: "I Have Nothing to Hide": And 20 Other Myths About Surveillance and Privacy by Heidi Boghosian.

Book: The Hidden History of Big Brother in America: How the Death of Privacy and the Rise of Surveillance Threaten Us and Our Democracy by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Cambridge Analytica" by Wikipedia.

Tweet: "MUST WATCH: Project Alamo uses Cambridge Analytica data for Trump: "Without Facebook, we wouldn't have won." [link]" by Amee Vanderpool.

Book: The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshana Zuboff.

Article: "Myspace" by Wikipedia.

Site: Daily Kos

Site: Democratic Underground

Hour Two: How Do We Target the "Villains" of Covid Misinformation
- Jake Weigler, Director - Our Shot Oregon / Partner - Praxis Political

Article: "Oregon group targets local politicians for COVID-19 misinformation, calls them 'villains'" by Fedor Zarkhin.

Article: "COVID-19 vaccine misinformation is rife, including among highly educated: Harvard study" by Douglas Perry.

Article: "Vaccinated against COVID-19? 48% of Oregon lawmakers say they are but many Republicans won't answer" by Aimee Green.

Article: "On Fox News, Clackamas County's Tootie Smith doubles down on defiance of Oregon COVID-19 restrictions" by Jayati Ramakrishnan.

Article: "Inoculating against misinformation: Finland's efforts to bring media literacy to the classroom" by Nada Zohdy.

Article: "Edward Bernays" by Wikipedia.

Article: " Bill would charge Idaho public officials with crime for aiding Biden vaccine mandate" by Hayat Norimine.

Article: "Marcus Lamb" by Wikipedia.

Event: October 2, 2021: Women's March.

Book: "The Alphabet Versus the Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image" by Leonard Shlain (Thom's review).

Video: The Alphabet vs. The Goddess Lecture by Dr. Leonard Shlain.

Article: "Leonard Shlain" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Johannes Gutenberg" by Wikipedia.

Book: Orality and Literacy by Walter J. Ong.

Article: "Tipper Gore to be Inducted into Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame" by Kevin Egan.

Article: "CompuServe" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs" by Saul McLeod.

Site: Free Speech TV

Article: "Population inversion" by Wikipedia.

Hour Three: Conversations with Great Minds:
- Frances Moore Lappé, Activist / Author or co-author of over 20 books including Diet for a Small Planet (50th anniversary edition) / Frances has been a visiting scholar at UC Berkley, M.I.T. and Suffolk University in Boston to name just a few and is the recipient of 19 honorary degrees

Book: "Unsafe at Any Speed" by Ralph Nader.

Book: "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson.

Article: "How much of the world's land would we need in order to feed the global population with the average diet of a given country?" by Hannah Ritchie.

Article: "Seventh-day Adventists advocate a vegetarian diet — but it's not because of animal ethics" by Siobhan Hegarty.

Article: "Are you getting too much protein?" by Micah Dorfner.

Article: "Meat Madness" by Frances Moore Lappe and Joseph Collins.

Article: "WHO report says eating processed meat is carcinogenic: Understanding the findings" by Harvard.

Article: "What is Agroforestry? 5 Ways Trees and Agriculture Work Together" by One Tree Planted.

Article: "Biden EPA To Ban Chlorpyrifos, A Pesticide Linked To Brain Damage In Children" by Chris D'Angelo.

Article: "Long-term Trends in Diabetes" by CDC.

Article: "Holocene extinction" (6th extinction) by Wikipedia.

Article: "10 ways vegetarianism can help save the planet" by John Vidal.

Article: "US meat exports reach new heights" by euromeat.

Article: "Global insect decline may see 'plague of pests'" by Matt McGrath.

Article: "About half of retiring senators and a third of retiring House members register as lobbyists" by Lee Drutman.

Article: "7 Other Nations That Prove Just How Absurd U.S. Elections Really Are" by Zeeshan Aleem.

Article: "North American Vegetarian Society" by Wikipedia.

Site: Democracy Movement U.S..

Quote: "Hunger is not caused by a scarcity of food but a scarcity of democracy" - Frances Moore Lappé.

Article: "'Electoral Integrity Project' Report Ranks U.S. 26th Amongst World Democracies" by Brad Friedman.

Case: "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" (2010)

Article: "Katie Fahey" by Wikipedia.

Documentary: Slay the Dragon.

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

Representative Mark Pocan (D-WI, 2nd District) will be calling in to talk about the issues of the day and take your calls.

Plus, Conversation with Great Minds: Professor Anita Hill, Professor of Social Policy, Law, and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Brandeis University / Author of the new book, BELIEVING: Our Thirty-Year Journey to End Gender Violence

And, Chuck Collins, Senior Scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies, Director of the Institute for Policy Studies' Program on Inequality and the Common Good and the Co-Editor of Inequality.org / Author of the new book, The Wealth Hoarders, on the Pandora Papers

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