Sue's daily stacks
- What do Augustus of Rome, Alexander the Great and Carly Fiorina have in common?
- Article: China attacks BHP-Rio joint venture By Patti Waldmeir in Shanghai, Sundeep Tucker in Hong Kong and William MacNamara in London.
"A senior Chinese official yesterday attacked the planned iron ore joint venture between Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton, raising expectations that Beijing may use its antitrust law to try to scupper the deal.
- How do we make an economy work? How do we make an democracy work?
- It's the 37th anniversary of the Watergate break-in.
- It is not good to have a large disparity of wealth.
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- On Thom's site there is a free live video stream, a free live audio stream, a free live message board and a free chat room where Thom hangs out during the show.
- The hate wars have begun. The shooting at the Holocaust Memorial. Two assassinations - terrorist acts on American soil. Both the left and the right have their crazies involved in acts of violence. What's the difference? Those on the left have gone off the rails about things that most Americans would agree on, for example SLA for civil rights, or the environment, or Weather Underground for ending the Vietnam war. The ones on the right are about hating people.
- How did the evil empire rise? How did the modern conservative movement come about? Important civics lesson.
- Article: Far right makes inroads based on rising insecurity By Vincent Boland in Milan, Michael Steen in Amsterdam, and Thomas Escritt in Budapest.
"The far right made gains in the elections, with voters in Italy, the UK, Hungary and the Netherlands, among others, supporting candidates who espoused explicitly anti-immigrant, antiIslamic and hardline nationalist platforms.
- Today is the 41st anniversary of Robert F. Kennedy's funeral.
- A guest on the show tomorrow will be Abraham Bolden. Chosen personally by JFK, Bolden was the first African American Secret Service agent assigned to protect the President.