For the moment, the only defense women have against these noble liars is knowledge of what they are and how they work. Pass it on.

Plato (in The Republic) was the father of the "noble lie," a tale told to people "for their own good and that of society" even though it was utterly untrue. Almost twenty-five-hundred years later, the noble lie lives on in some Crisis Pregnancy Centers (CPCs).

A clear description of CPCs came from the Neeva.com AI-driven search engine:

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Thursday's Daily Stack

Article: "The "Noble Lie" Lives On In Crisis Pregnancy Centers As They Rake In Millions" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Abortion in the Surveillance State" by Kylie Cheung.

Article: "Going Undercover at a Crisis Pregnancy Center" by Olivia Raisner.

Site: "Neeva.com".

Article: "Common Fake Clinic Misinformation" by Pro-Choice North Carolina.

Site: "Reproaction".

Article: "Facebook and Anti-Abortion Clinics Are Collecting Highly Sensitive Info on Would-Be Patients" by Grace Oldham and Dhruv Mehrotra.

Book: The Republic by Plato.

Book: The Turnaway Study: Ten Years, a Thousand Women, and the Consequences of Having—or Being Denied—an Abortion by Diana Greene Foster.

Article: "The Turnaway Study" by ANSIRI.

Article: "Abortion" by APA.

Article: "On the 20th Anniversary of Medication Abortion, Antiabortion Politicians Are Trying to Ban It" by Megan K. Donovan, Lauren Cross.

Article: "Kentucky Nurse Volunteered At Anti-Abortion Pregnancy Center, Discovered Infection Control Problems" by Laura Morel.

Site: "Mayday".

Article: "In Texas, state-funded crisis pregnancy centers gave medical misinformation to NBC News producers seeking counseling" by Cynthia McFadden, Maite Amorebieta and Didi Martinez.

Article: "The Threat of Crisis Pregnancy Centers to the Future of Abortion Access" by National Center for Responsive Philanthropy.

Article: "Why are Crisis Pregnancy Centers Dangerous?" by Planned Parenthood Advocates of Iowa.

Article: "Google Helps ‘Fake Abortion Clinics' Target Low-Income Women" by Tech Transparency Project.

Article: "Google targets low-income US women with ads for anti-abortion pregnancy centers, study shows" by Poppy Noor.

Article: "Tennessee Gov. Lee Proposes $100M for Anti-Abortion Centers" by AP.

Article: "How IRMAA is Calculated and How IRMAA Affects the Total Medicare Premium " by SSA.

Book: "The Alphabet Versus the Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image" by Leonard Shlain (Thom's review).

Article: "Lord's Prayer" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Montana Republican introduces new bill banning 'scientific theory' from being taught in schools" by Hunter.

Article: "Church of England to consider use of gender-neutral terms for God" by PA Media.

Article: "Where is Al Gore's Lock Box?" by NTU.

Article: "US Blew Up Nordstream, Biden Lied" by Seymour Hirsch.

Article: "White House denies report that US blew up Nord Stream pipelines" by Breanne Deppisch.

Case: "Buckley v. Valeo", 1976.

Case: "First National Bank Of Boston V. Bellotti", 1978.

Article: "President Biden's 2023 State of the Union address" by Elise Hammond, Maureen Chowdhury, Tori B. Powell, Amir Vera, Melissa Macaya and Seán Federico O'Murchú.

Article: "Full text: President Joe Biden's 2023 State of the Union address" by UPI.

Video: President Biden's State of the Union Address (2023).

Article: "President Joe Biden takes his economic message to union workers at a DeForest training center during Wisconsin visit" by Molly Beck.

Article: "Too old to run for US president again? Joe Biden's ‘watch me' reply" by Mallika Soni.

Book: Children Who Remember Previous Lives: A Question of Reincarnation, rev. ed. by Ian Stevenson M.D.

Article: "Killing of Tyre Nichols" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Ishtar" by Britannica.

Article: "" by .

TV: "Lucifer".

Book: When God Was a Woman by Merlin Stone.

Bible: "There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus" - Galatians 3:28.

Hour Two: on the ground in Lviv, Ukraine
- Phil Ittner, Veteran War Correspondent in Kiev, Ukraine Youtube

Article: "SpaceX admits blocking Ukrainian troops from using satellite technology" by Alex Marquardt and Kristin Fisher.

Site: Ukraine Children's Action Project.

Article: "Irwin Redlener" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Russia planning major offensive to mark first anniversary of war: Ukraine defence minister" by Jonathan Yerushalmy.

Article: "USA sends 60 Bradley Fighting Vehicles to Ukraine – Transportation Command" by Interfax-Ukraine.

Article: "Russia ‘massing 1,800 tanks, 700 aircraft & 500k men for new Ukraine assault in 10 DAYS' after Zelensky begs UK for jets" by Henry Holloway.

Article: "Ukraine war: After speech in London and dinner in Paris, Zelenskyy to make third stop on surprise trip" by Faye Brown.

Article: "Ukraine's Zelenskyy makes emotional appeal for EU membership" by Raf Casert, Samuel Petrequin.

Article: "Congressional Progressive Caucus" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Donald Trump Built a National Debt So Big (Even Before the Pandemic) That It'll Weigh Down the Economy for Years" by Allan Sloan, Cezary Podkul.

Article: "What's the new Republican "FAIR" TAX? Or is it really the Billionaire (WEL)FAIR TAX? Follow the money!" by DemLabs.

Article: "Catechism Of The Catholic Church paragraph #370" - "In no way is God in man's image. He is neither man nor woman. God is pure spirit in which there is no place for the difference between the sexes. But the respective "perfections" of man and woman reflect something of the infinite perfection of God: those of a mother and those of a father and husband."

Site: ABortion, every day - Jessica Valenti.

Article: "Securities turnover excise tax" (STET tax) by Wikipedia.

Tweet: "listen up, stupids: black history *is* American history. full stop. so sorry if that makes you 'uncomfortable,' snowflake. grow the fuck up" by Jeff Tiedrich.

Article: "Gov. Ron DeSantis Doesn't Want You To Learn About Real Black History" by Nathalie Baptiste.

Article: "DeSantis introduces 'Stop WOKE Act' to ban critical race theory from schools, workplaces" by Callie Patteson.

Article: "Call the "woke busters": Ron DeSantis sends volunteer army to snatch books from students' hands" by Amanda Marcotte.

Article: "Missouri House votes against limits on kids carrying guns".

Article: "The Relationship Between Jesus & the Essenes" by Benna Crawford.

Article: "Essene Gospels Of Peace" by Edmond Bordeaux Szekely.

Tweet: "Santos: We have had two years of one party rule.. In those two very short years, we have watched our economy steer in the opposite direction [video]" by Acyn.

Article: "Holocene extinction" (6th extinction) by Wikipedia.

Article: "George Harrison's Wife Said George ‘Lit the Room' When He Died" by Hannah Wigandt.

Article: "Video: China buying US farmland near military bases" by American Military News.

Article: "Chinese Surveillance Balloon Tracker Map: What Was Its Path?" by Jessica McBride.

Movie: "Inherit the Wind".

Article: "Old-Growth Trees in Tongass National Forest" by National Audubon Society.

Article: "Joe Miller (Alaska politician)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Red brain, blue brain: Republicans and Democrats process risk differently, research finds" by University of Exeter.

Article: "From Top to Bottom, Chimpanzee Social Hierarchy is Amazing!" by Brittany Cohen-Brown.

Article: "Democrats tease Hillary Clinton 2024 presidential run in op-ed" by Mark Moore.

Article: "God in Judaism" by Wikipedia.

Bible: "He created them male and female and blessed them. And he named them "Mankind" when they were created." - Genesis 5:2.

Article: "What science tells us about false and repressed memories" by Henry Otgaar, Mark L Howe, Lawrence Patihis.

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