If our media and body politic are infected with a cancer it's time to isolate it so it can't further harm our democracy and, by extension, the democracies of the world.

What country in its right mind would allow a foreign entity to come into their country, set up a major propaganda operation, and then use it to so polarize that nation that its very government suffers a violent assault and its democracy finds itself at a crossroads?

Apparently, the United States. And we're not the first, according to former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd.

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-Thom

Wednesday's Daily Stack

Hour One: National Progressive Townhall Meeting
- Representative Mark Pocan (D-WI, 2nd District)

Article: "German police raid homes of anti-vaxxers who plotted to kill state leader" by Yaron Steinbuch.

Article: "White House not married to Christmas deadline for Build Back Better" by Christian Datoc.

Article: "Last Child Tax Credit check set to go out. That could push millions of kids into poverty." by Aimee Picchi.

Article: "Senate Democrats raise debt ceiling after filibuster deal".

Article: "U.S. Supreme Court lets Wisconsin redistricting case continue, giving Democrats an avenue to challenge maps" by Patrick Marley.

Article: "An Obscure Agency Is Threatening to Hand Medicare Over to Wall Street" by Ana Malinow.

Article: "Direct Contracting Model: Professional and Global Options Medicaid Managed Care Organization (MCO)-based Direct Contracting Entity (DCE) Fact Sheet" by CMS.

Article: "Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Lloyd Doggett" by Wikipedia.

Book: The Hidden History of American Healthcare: Why Sickness Bankrupts You and Makes Others Insanely Rich by Thom Hartmann.

Video: The Plot To Destroy Medicare - Conversations With Great Minds - Dr. Ana Malinow.

Article: "Medicare Privatization Scheme Faced Legal Questions About Profiteering" by Ryan Grim, Austin Ahlman.

Article: "What's in the House-passed Build Back Better bill? Paid leave, universal pre-K and more" by Joey Garrison and Ledyard King.

Article: "Senate Republicans block Joe Manchin's voting rights bill" by Peter Weber.

Article: "John Lewis Voting Rights Bill Passes House With Zero Republican Votes" by Sharon Zhang.

Article: "Fireside chats" by Wikipedia.

Article: "G7: Rich nations back deal to tax multinationals" by BBC.

Video: Are We The United States Of War? (w/ David Vine).

Book: The United States of War: A Global History of America's Endless Conflicts, from Columbus to the Islamic State by David Vine.

Article: "Ginni Thomas, Wife of Clarence, Cheered On the Rally That Turned Into the Capitol Riot" by Mark Joseph Stern.

Article: "Ukraine" by Wikipedia.

Article: "'Need to end this call': January 6 committee reveals new text messages to Meadows on House floor" by Jeremy Herb and Ryan Nobles.

Article: "Mark Meadows" by Wikipedia.

Article: "US Lawmakers Call on White House to Expedite Weapon Deliveries to Ukraine" by Jeff Seldin.

Article: "Putin and Biden end high-stakes call as US poised to send fighter jets to Russian border" by Katie Harris.

Article: "14th Amendment section 3, July 9, 1868 "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."

Article: "Sen. Raphael Warnock takes Manchin, Sinema to task over immoral conservatism" by Ja'han Jones.

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: "Memorandum: Proposals to Divest the Supreme Court of Appellate Jurisdiction: An Analysis in Light of Recent Developments" by John Roberts.

Book: "The Hidden History of the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of America" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Cruz offers to swap Nord Stream 2 sanctions vote for ambassador nominees" by Jordain Carney.

Article: "Freedom Caucus" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Wisconsin will soon receive nearly $143 million for water infrastructure to address lead, 'forever chemicals' in drinking water" by Laura Schulte.

Hour Two: Hunger Strike for voting rights (Day #38)
- Joe Madison, The Black Eagle, Host-The Joe Madison Show (weekdays 6-10am on SiriusXM ch. 126 Urban View) @MadisonSiriusXM

Article: "Acclaimed Talk Show Host and Human Rights Activist, Joe Madison, "Starving for Voting Rights"" by Joe Madison.

Article: "NAACP head to push senators, White House for action on voting rights" by Morgan Chalfant.

Article: "Fact-check: Have there been about 160 carve-outs to the filibuster?" by Louis Jacobson.

Article: "Senate Democrats raise debt ceiling after filibuster deal".

Article: "Civil Rights Scorecard" by NAACP.

Article: "Is Fox News "The Greatest Cancer on American Democracy"?" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Keep Fox News off of Military Televisions" by Beverley Hughes.

Article: "Chris Wallace helped Fox News claim it engaged in "journalism"" by Michelangelo Signorile.

Article: "Pic Of The Moment: Fox News Anchors Privately Begged WH Chief Of Staff To Make Trump Stop Riot" by EarlG.

Article: "2 Fox News employees resigned over Tucker Carlson's January 6 documentary, citing concerns it may incite violence" by Morgan Keith.

Article: "A Government Official Said The Trump Administration Ordered All Their Agency's TVs To Display Fox News" by Julia Reinstein.

Article: "Calls for Fox News to be turned off on military bases after Tucker Carlson attack on women soldiers" by Gino Spocchia.

Site: "Media Matters for America".

Article: "Steve Schmidt shreds 'cancerous' Fox News after their Jan 6 lies are exposed: 'They despise their audience'" by Travis Gettys.

Article: "Cancer eating the heart of Australian democracy" by Kevin Rudd.

Article: "'Won't Be Any Surprises': Jan. 6 Committee Chair Thompson Teases Out Which Lawmakers Sent Texts to Meadows" by David Badash.

Article: "Compulsive Liar Rand Paul Denies Opposing Disaster Relief For Any States..... Ever" by 634-5789.

Article: "Lock Down the Unvaccinated So America Can Get Back To Normal!" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Nixon's Southern strategy" by James Boyd.

Article: "Fox News sued by Dominion Voting Systems over election fraud claims" by Kevin Collier.

Article: "Constitution of the United States", article 4 section 4. "The United States shall guarantee to every state in this union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion; and on application of the legislature, or of the executive (when the legislature cannot be convened) against domestic violence."

Case: "Roe v. Wade" (1973).

Quote: "It violates the essence of what made America a great country in its political system. Now it's just an oligarchy with unlimited political bribery being at the essence of getting the nominations for president or elected president. And the same thing applies to governors and U.S. senators and Congress members. So now we've just seen a complete subversion of our political system as a payoff to major contributors who want and expect and sometimes get favors for themselves after the election's over'." - President Jimmy Carter on unlimited money in politics on the Thom Hartmann Program, 28 July 2015.

Quote: "History Does Not Repeat Itself, But It Rhymes" - attributed to Mark Twain.

Article: "George Washington and the First Mass Military Inoculation" by Amy Lynn Filsinger & Raymond Dwek.

Case: "Jacobson v Massachusetts" (1905, the authority of states to enforce compulsory vaccination laws).

Article: "Air Force reaches 97% COVID-19 vaccination rate. Number of discharged refusers: 27" by Hunter.

Movie: "Invasion of the Body Snatchers".

Article: "American Schools Are More Segregated Now Than They Were In 1968, And The Supreme Court Doesn't Care" by Ian Millhiser.

Bill: "H.R.1 - For the People Act of 2021" by Rep. Sarbanes, John P. [D-MD-3].

Bill: "S.1 - For the People Act of 2021" by Sen. Merkley, Jeff [D-OR].

Article: "'Enraged' homeowners calling cops on Trump supporters as they go door to door looking for voter fraud " by Tom Boggioni.

Hour Three: How to Talk to a Science Denier or an Anti-Vaxxer Assassin?
- Lee McIntyre, Research Fellow at the Center for Philosophy and History of Science at Boston University and an Instructor in Ethics at Harvard Extension School / Formerly Executive Director of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University / Author of 11 books including his latest, How to Talk to a Science Denier: Conversations with Flat Earthers, Climate Deniers, and Others Who Defy Reason

Article: "Olaf Scholz appointed as Germany's new chancellor, replacing Angela Merkel after 16 years" by Ivana Kottasová.

Article: "Murder plots and threats from anti-vaxxers pose challenge for Germany's new chancellor" by Frederik Pleitgen, Claudia Otto and Joshua Berlinger.

Article: "HIV/AIDS denialism in South Africa" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Climate change denial" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Turkey pulls evolution from its high school curriculum" by John Timmer.

Article: "Bill Gates, Vaccinations, Microchips, And Patent 060606" by Leonid SAVIN.

Article: "U.S. says Russian-backed outlets are spreading Covid vaccine 'disinformation'" by Reuters.

Book: The Browning of America and the Evasion of Social Justice by Ronald R. Sundstrom.

Article: "Bernie Moreno's policy on immigrant assimilation" by iSideWith.

Article: "Vaccines Do Not Cause Erectile Dysfunction and Male Infertility – But COVID-19 Could" by Ranjith Ramasamy.

Article: "A third of COVID-19 survivors are diagnosed with conditions like stroke, dementia, and psychosis" by Anna Medaris Miller.

Book: People of the Lie: The Hope for Healing Human Evil by M. Scott Peck.

Book: The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace by M. Scott Peck.

Article: "Capitol rioters say Trump told them to do it, which some legal experts say could open him to criminal charges" by Thomas Colson.

Book: "Screwed: The Undeclared War Against The Middle Class" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Thomas Hobbes" by Wikipedia.

Article: "John Locke" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Kroger adds monthly surcharge for unvaccinated workers, cuts their COVID-19 sick leave" by Alexander Coolidge.

Article: "Tennessee's new COVID-19 law is back in court. Here's how the arguments unfolded." by Mariah Timms.

Article: "Supreme Court declines religious challenge to N.Y. vaccine mandate for health care workers" by Pete Williams.

Article: "Gone Too Far: The Capitol riot happened because President Donald Trump simply lied, and lied, and lied" by Michael Brendan Dougherty.

Article: "I'm Begging Trump Not to Run in '24" by Michael Reagan with Michael R. Shannon.

Article: "Tucker: Liz Cheney is lying to you about Jan. 6" by Tucker Carlson.

Article: "Dick Morris: Tucker Carlson's Putin Play Mirrors Hitler Appeasement" by Dick Morris.

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