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Time to Hold the Climate Change Perpetrators To Account & Make Them Pay
 If an arsonist lit your house on fire, in addition to sending him to jail you could also sue his estate for damages - Isn't lighting the planet on fire worse? Most recently, 100 mph winds swept grass-fires through Colorado, leaving thousands homeless. It was 116 degrees here in Portland last summer, as wildfires and drought ravage the West. The Gulf Coast, South and Eastern Seaboard are now annually torn apart by superstorms, while the Midwest faces mile-wide tornadoes never before seen with this ferocity and frequency. Climate change has gone from the theoretical to slapping us in the face. Read more at HartmannReport.com. -Thom |
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Do Americans Have the Will to Battle a Wealthy Rightwing Authoritarian Movement?
The GOP has put fascism on the ballot in 2022 and 2024: will democracy survive? When fascism reared its ugly head in Europe and Japan in the 1920s, it signaled a coming war. As a newer and slicker form of that despotism rises here in America, it may well bring the same type of crisis. We stand on the threshold of momentous change in this nation. While it's rarely discussed in this frame, the next two elections will almost certainly determine what form of government we'll have for at least a generation.Read more at HartmannReport.com. -Thom |
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America Must Awaken From the Big Lie of "Rugged Individualism"
Hunger in the USA — which stalks the lives of 1 in 5 American children — could end with just $25 billion a year, while this year Congress gave the Pentagon $25 billion more than they requested. Why? It's the time of year that we're all inundated, from email to postal mail to ads on TV, to give to charity. Christmas puts us into a giving spirit, and for those who itemize their taxes the 2021 deductions vanish on December 31st. Yet I keep finding myself talking back to the TV and crushed by the mail appeals. Why is a children's hospital on TV asking for money when every other developed country in the world finances pediatric research and pays the full cost of kids who need medical care?Read more at HartmannReport.com. -Thom |
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What You May Have Missed
Sunday Excerpt: The Hidden History of Big Brother in America - How the Death of Privacy and the Rise of Surveillance Threaten Us and Our DemocracyAn early look at the next Hidden History book (out in March) which explores how Big Data has not only invaded our privacy but also left us vulnerable to domestic predators & foreign threats Read More ... Will America Be Torn Apart Again By Wealthy White Men?Or will we avoid the horrors of Americans killing each other in another futile effort to protect wealth gained by evil and destructive business practices, this time in service of fossil fuels? Read More ... Neoliberal Parasites Now Want Public Libraries as Profit Centers for Wall StreetPrivatization is a YUGE con perpetrated on the American people, run not by "the best minds" but by the greediest -- Now threatening to turn Ben Franklin's libraries into corporate profit centers. Read More ... They Don't Want Us Looking Up...But there's never been a more important time to look up, wake up, and get active. Read More ... Sunday Book Excerpt: The Hidden History of the War on VotingThe book that lays bare a 50-year conspiracy by a small but fabulously wealthy group of mostly white men to seize control of the American political system and turn it exclusively to their own profit. Read More ... Geeky Science: The Hidden History of Santa ClausDuring these dark days and short nights let's hold to this ancient knowledge that illumination always follows darkness, and that we will re-light our nation and lives. Read More ... DC Press Corps & Sunday Show Hosts: Do Your Damn Job!We deserve to know where Republicans stand, since any one or two of them could swing everything in the direction overwhelmingly supported by American public opinion. Read More ... Were They Traitors or Saviors?America must get to the bottom of this before these "traitors or saviors" let it happen again, perhaps as soon as next November. Read More ... -Thom
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Monday's Daily Stack 
Hour One: Do Americans Have the Will to Battle a Wealthy Rightwing Authoritarian Movement?
Article: " Fasces" by Britannica.
When Is It Time to Take Down the Christmas Tree? Louise & I are our war on Christmas....<s>
How Do We Memorialize Jan 6th?
Article: " Preamble to the Constitution of the United States". " We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." Article: " Declaration of Independence: A Transcription" " And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.".
Quote: "I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub" by Grover Norquist.
Time to Hold the Climate Change Perpetrators To Account & Make Them Pay
Quote: " I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat." - Will Rogers.
Hour Three: America Must Awaken From the Big Lie of "Rugged Individualism"
Quote: " There's no such thing as society. There are individual men and women and there are families." - Maggie Thatcher.
Quote: " Governments can err, presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that Divine justice weighs the sins of the cold-blooded and the sins of the warm-hearted on different scales. Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference." - Franklin D. Roosevelt. Bible: " "I said, 'You are "gods"; you are all sons of the Most High.' - Psalm 82:6". |
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