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The Latest For-Profit "Advantage" Assault on Medicare Exposed
 Apparently, Medicare now needs the money to pay the Advantage scammers, who continue to pour millions into TV advertising to sucker in new rubes…er…customers. The latest grim news from the for-profit "Advantage" assault on Medicare is two-fold. First, the private "Advantage" plans continue to rip us all off; there's a new round of busts of companies caught defrauding our government and every worker in America who's paying into Medicare through their FICA payroll taxes. Second, the "Real Medicare" price hike of a few months ago (originally rationalized by the price of the new Alzheimer's drug) will stay in place, even though that drug won't generally be available. Apparently, Medicare now needs the money to pay the Advantage scammers, who continue to pour millions into TV advertising to sucker in new rubes…er…customers. The most frustrating part of this entire crisis is that most Americans — not having taken Civics in school since the Reagan Revolution — don't understand the difference between "public" and "private."Read more at HartmannReport.com. -Thom |
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Unequal Protection: Corporate Control of Politics
How Corporations Became 'People' - and How You Can Fight Back. During the bruising primary election season of 2008, a right-wing group put together a ninety-minute hit-job on Hillary Clinton and wanted to run it on TV stations in strategic states. The Federal Election Commission (FEC) ruled that advertisements for the "documentary" were actually "campaign ads" and thus fell under the restrictions on campaign spending of the McCain-Feingold Act and thus stopped them from airing. (Corporate contributions to campaigns have been banned repeatedly and in various ways since 1907 when Republican President Teddy Roosevelt pushed through the Tillman Act.) Citizens United, the right-wing group, sued to the Supreme Court, with right-wing hit man and former Reagan solicitor general Ted Olson—the man who argued Bush's side of Bush v. Gore—as their lead lawyer. This new case, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, presented the best opportunity for the Roberts Court to use its five-vote majority to totally rewrite the face of politics in America, rolling us back to the pre-1907 Era of the Robber Barons. And if there was a man to do it, it was John Roberts. Read more at HartmannReport.com. -Thom |
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Just a quick weekend note
This morning I sent our "Saturday Report" to our paid subscribers — including a rather freaky Geeky Science about a new Artificial Intelligence (AI) program that, without being told to do so by its programmers, has invented its own internal language with which it talks to itself! And we just wrapped up a great Zoom meeting with some really fascinating questions and thoughts, including issues like "Star Voting," whether Democrats should campaign on issues or values, how to build movements, and the future of progressivism in America. Read more at HartmannReport.com. -Thom |
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Saturday Report 6/4/22 - Should we be concerned that an artificial intelligence (AI) program has invented its own language and is talking to itself with it?
The Best of the Rest of the News. - Trump trade advisor and January 6th co-conspirator Peter Navarro was busted yesterday for refusing to release documents to, and meet with, the House committee investigating that act of sedition. - Was Chuck Grassley in on the coup? - ‘It's going to be an army': Tapes reveal GOP plan to contest elections. - Is Tucker Carlson playing the dictator's game? - What could possibly go wrong with DeSantis assembling his own private militia paid for with state funds? - The Supreme Court has put on hold an attempt by Texas to use the force of law to require Facebook and other social media groups to carry openly Nazi and racist hate speech without moderation. - Geeky Science! The climate is changing faster than we'd anticipated, and scientists are scrambling to understand what's happening. - Geeky Science #2! Should we be concerned that an artificial intelligence (AI) program has invented its own language and is talking to itself with it? - Crazy Alert! Fox's Ingraham says our epidemic of gun deaths aren't so much caused by guns as by legal marijuana. Read more at HartmannReport.com. -Thom |
Monday's Daily Stack 
Hour One: The Latest For-Profit “Advantage†assault on Medicare Exposed
Quote: " Each time a man stands up for an ideal...he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy, and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance." - Robert F. Kennedy.
How Do you Respond to GOPers Saying the Price For Freedom Is to Live with Mass Shooting?
Is Trump the First Seditious President Ever?
Quote: " The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help." - Ronald Reagan. Quote: " The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away." - Ronald Reagan.
Hour Two: Was the Uvalde Shooter a Male Supremacist?- Alex DiBranco, Executive Director - Institute for Research on Male Supremacism (IRMS) / Ph.D. candidate, Yale Sociology; Research right-wing and misogynist movements 
Article: " Incel" by Wikipedia. Article: " QAnon" by Wikipedia.
Leaked GOP Memos Are Instructing Lawmakers To Blow Off Uvalde Massacre - "This Will Pass" They Say...
Why Did Raffensperger and Others Cover Up the GA Voting System Was Tampered With?
Law: " 2nd Amendment". A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.. Law: " 7th Amendment" " In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved...". Law: " 14th Amendment, July 9, 1868 (citizenship, representatives, public debt, Equal Protection Clause). Article: " Court" (of law) by Wikipedia.
Hour Three: Amy Coney Barrett's Christian Sect, that Exerts Total Control over Women & Girls, Shows How radical She is - She Does Not Belong On the Supreme Court
Is America Ending School Lunches & Creating a New Hunger Crisis?
Russia's War On the World's Food Supply Is Ramping Up
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