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It's Past Time For Democrats To Defy the Supreme Court
 Congress should stand up for what's right and "legally bribed politicians" isn't that: it's time to end the bribery & get something done for the people, for a change. Our democracy is in a crisis, with many thoughtful and not-prone-to-hysteria commentators are wondering out loud if the Republican embrace of Trumpism has gone so far that it may take the entire country over the edge. A brilliant recent analysis is Thomas Edsall's article in yesterday's New York Times, How to Tell When Your Country Is Past the Point of No Return, bookended by Barton Gellman's shocking piece in The Atlantic, Trump's Next Coup Has Already Begun. Both deal with the immediate crisis brought to us by the six years that Trump has dominated the American political scene and his takeover of the Republican Party. But neither is addressing the core problem America is facing that helped bring us Trump, but goes deeper than him: money. Specifically, money — bribery — in politics that has been legalized and expanded by reactionary "conservatives" on the Supreme Court.Read more at HartmannReport.com. -Thom |
Thursday's Daily Stack 
Hour One: It's Past Time For Democrats To Defy the Supreme Court
Letter: " Thomas Jefferson to Spencer Roane", 6 Sept. 1819 " The constitution, on this hypothesis, is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist, and shape into any form they please." Article: " Constitution of the United States", article 3 section 2. "... In all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party, the supreme Court shall have original Jurisdiction. In all the other Cases before mentioned, the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make...."
Elizabeth Warren Is Calling For Stacking the Supreme Court Because They Are Now Threatening Democracy
Are Sinema & Manchin Going to Cause the GOP Coup? And is Koch Machine Behind It?
We're now hearing that Omicron is 70 times faster in spreading & evades the vaccine - just how dangerous is Omicron? - Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding, Epidemiologist & Health Economist / Adjunct Senior Fellow - Federation of American Scientists 
Tweet: " The #Omicron variant is surging in the US exponentially… CDC data shows that New York / New Jersey region is now over 10% Omicron of all #COVID19 cases. The rest of US is not far behind—likely dominant by Christmas — please be careful during holidays..." by Eric Feigl-Ding.
Hour Two: Are Sinema & Manchin Going to Cause the GOP Coup? And is the Koch Machine Behind It?
Elizabeth Warren Is Calling For Stacking the Supreme Court Because They Are Now Threatening Democracy
Article: " Constitution of the United States", article 3 section 2. "... In all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party, the supreme Court shall have original Jurisdiction. In all the other Cases before mentioned, the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make...." Article: " COVID " by Regulations.
Quote: " Land is the source or matter from which all wealth is drawn; man's labor provides the form for its production, and wealth in itself is nothing but the food, conveniences, and pleasures of life" - Richard Cantillon. Quote: " The annual labour of every nation is the fund which originally supplies it with all the necessaries and conveniencies of life which it annually consumes, and which consist always either in the immediate produce of that labour, or in what is purchased with that produce from other nations." - Adam Smith. Article: " Money matters" (draft 2nd chapter of "The New Economics") by Steve Keen. |
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Watch & Listen to Thom
Will Omicron Overwhelm U.S.? (w/ Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding)
The Secret Cause of Inflation Revealed (w/ Steve Keen)
Covid's "Worst" Symptom May Get Anti-Vaxxers Out Of Bed Into The Pharmacy
Is the Right To Vote Worth Your Life? (w/ Joe Madison)
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