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What if Trump's Conspiracy was Way Bigger than We Know?
 Was there a high-level conspiracy in the Trump administration, done with one or more foreign countries, to end democracy in America? Was their next plan to realign us with Russia & autocratic nations? As the possibility of this traitorous plan becomes increasingly visible, the GOP, after a frantic two weeks of not knowing what to say or do, has finally settled on a response to Trump's theft of classified information: "Hillary did the same thing, and she didn't go to jail!" I heard the comparison made at least a half-dozen times this weekend on various political shows. (For the record, Hillary did nothing whatsoever even remotely close to Trump's theft of classified materials. Among the 50,000+ personal emails on her server, Republicans found three that had markings indicating they were at one time classified, none had to do with espionage or compromised national security in any way, and all three were clearly there because she had replied to somebody using the wrong account in error. But we can expect this to be the distraction line coming from Trump and the GOP all this week.) So, what did Trump do, and why did he do it? And who helped him and why?Read more at HartmannReport.com. -Thom |
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The Purpose of a Free Press
In researching this book, I ran across an astonishing piece of writing from our nation's early years. It's a fitting prologue for this chapter. In May 1831, a young French aristocrat named Alexis de Tocqueville arrived in the young nation of the United States of America. He was here at a pivotal time in American history. In the "Revolution of 1800," Thomas Jefferson had ousted John Adams's minority Federalist Party (largely made up of what Jefferson called "the rich and the well born") and shifted control of the government to the Jeffersonian Democrats. To de Tocqueville (and most Europeans), American democracy was still very much an unproven experiment. De Tocqueville himself was skeptical that the American Experiment would last, as he thought that the "natural" state of man was to live in an aristocracy, but he was fascinated by the idea of an aristocracy made up of the workers. He was both skeptical and hopeful. In 1835, just fifty-two years after the end of the American Revolution and forty-six years after the French Revolution, de Tocqueville closed his book Democracy in America* with a chapter titled "What Sort of Despotism Democratic Nations Have to Fear." Read more at HartmannReport.com. -Thom |
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Saturday Report 8/27/22 - Is the Sun Setting on the Gas-Powered Car?
The Best of the Rest of the News. — Why did he do it? That's the big question about Trump's squirreling away super-top-secret documents that could have included payroll records for our spies in Russia, details on our first-strike and response-strike options for a nuclear war with Russia, and details on Russian involvement with the 2016 election. — The Republican war on women rolls on. In Louisiana a woman with a nonviable fetus was denied an abortion, putting her life at risk, a story that's now been repeated in multiple states
— After spending almost two years lying about the outcome of the 2020 election, Republicans have settled on a new big lie to campaign on.
— After Mitch McConnell started whining about the student debt relief granted this week by President Biden, Senator Elizabeth Warren pointed out that McConnell's tuition, when he went to college before the Reagan Revolution, was $330 a year.
— Investigative reporter Vicky Ward, at her Vicky Ward Reports Substack newsletter, has a slashing new analysis of Jared Kushner's new book.
— Geeky Science: Did California again rescue America from auto exhaust and this time help the planet with climate change?
— In Very Good News: President Biden finally uses the F-Word. While Democrats across the nation have been calling Republican policies fascist for years... President Biden has been more rhetorically restrained. No more.
Read more at HartmannReport.com.
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Monday's Daily Stack 
Hour One: Does Biden Now Have a Narrative To Take to the American People?
What if Trump's Conspiracy was Way Bigger than We Know?
Tweet: " this is a photo of the National Guard stationed in response to a Black Lives Matter protest at the Lincoln Memorial in June [photo]" by manny.
Hour Two: How Big Tech Is Making Big Money from Spying on Students and Teachers- Nolan Higdon, National Judge for Project Censored / Author- Anatomy of Fake News / Lecturer at Merrill College and the Education Department at University of California, Santa Cruz. 
Did Trump Trade In the Mob for the Russians in the 90s? Or Did the Mob Dump Deadbeat Trump so He Went to the Russians?
Tweet: " Sammy "The Bull" Gravano, Mafia underboss who confessed to 19 murders, explains in 1993 how he would "reach" Donald Trump. [video]" by Seth Hettena.
Site: Proof (Seth Abramson).
Tweet: " The beginning of the end [chart: Percent increase, since 1970, in the annual cost to attend the University of Illinois. the Median Household Income in Illinois, and the Minimum Wage in Illinois]" by Amazon Piss Jugs.
Book: " They Thought They Were Free" by Milton Mayer. " First they came for the ... What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise..."
Geeky Science! Are Artificial Sweeteners Dangerous?
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