Secret Penalty Could Punish States For Voter Disenfranchisement
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Voter disenfranchisement, voter purges and even election fraud are becoming common tools of the Republican party, but this little known article in the 14th Amendment could punish states that kick eligible voters off the roll...
The 14th Amendment allows states to be punished for purging voters, and if used it could have changed the result of many elections. Do you think states should be punished for election fraud?
How can we protect the right to vote?
Global Warming Thaws Ancient Viruses From Permafrost
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Global warming on its own is frightening but wait until you find out what is thawing in ancient ice...
The melting ice could unleash a serious new problem for the United States.
Trump Could Make Therapy Lead To Deportation Or Prison
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In Donald Trump's America, seeing a therapist can now be grounds for deportation and it could set the precedent for political prosecution. Thom explains.
Therapy is supposed to be confidential but ICE is using the private notes from therapists as justification to deport people and go after their families.
And if ICE and the Trump administration can go after therapy notes, then it is possible for them to do the same to lock up political opponents, dissidents and more.
How far will Trump go and what can we do to stop him and ICE?
Trump Does Not Believe in America (w/ Dr. Justin A. Frank)
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Does Trump believe in America at all? It seems not.
Dr. Justin A. Frank, clinical professor, joined Thom.
Donald Trump Once A Bully Always A Bully
Are All Electric Cars The Future? Or Not? (w/ David Reichmuth)
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Are all-electric cars, gasoline cars or hybrid cars best? Are any one of them good for the planet? How are CO2 emissions going to affect us as time moves on?
Dr. David Reichmuth joined Thom to discuss what type of car we should be driving.
Bernie Sanders' Medical Records Revealed!
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Bernie Sanders' medical records revealed that the 2020 presidential hopeful from Vermont is in amazing health, but why is the media coming after Sanders for his age and health?
Your Personal Debt Is Going To End Badly (w/ Richard Wolff)
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Debts in the economy and personal debts are going to end badly. That there is so much government and corporate debt, plus family debt, means that if the Fed were to raise interest rates – nobody would be able to afford repayments.
Economist Dr. Richard Wolff joined Thom to discuss how badly everyone is in debt and whether there is a way out.
Are you in debt and worried about it?
Should Undocumented People Get Medicare For All? (w/ Julio Rivera)
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Is Medicare For All really for everyone? What about undocumented people, should they receive Medicare, or be denied access?
Why shouldn't life-saving access to healthcare be available merely because of a lack of documentation?
Thom debates Julio Rivera on who should really receive medicare for all?
Could Bloomberg Bots Change 2020 Election Results?
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What effect will paid trolls and artificial intelligence bots promoting candidates have on our democracy?
Mike Bloomberg is paying people to promote his campaign on social media and might be paying bots too? Have you encountered bots promoting politicians for office and how do you react to this in a democracy?
Are these bots tied to the Bloomberg campaign or are they coming from another source?
Thom Hartmann reveals the strange, obscure world of bots promoting political candidates.
Does Saving The Planet Means Banning Humans From Large Parts Of It?
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Do we need to shut out humans and human activity from large parts of the planet to protect biodiversity? Thom Hartmann explains!
Biodiversity is the measure of how diverse an ecosystem is and the more diverse, the stronger it is. Human activity has limited biodiversity and some have a plan to fix it. Simply ban human activity from large parts of the earth. No cars, construction, planes, powerlines and no people.
What do you think? Can closing off humans from parts of the planet save us?
Why Only One Bank Will Loan Money to Trump! (w/ David Enrich)
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Why does Russia support Donald Trump? How deep in debt is Trump and his business organizations to foreign banks and lenders in countries run by dictatorships? Deutsche Bank is one of the only banks who loan money to Trump, when others have refused.
David Enrich, author of Dark Towers: Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump and an epic trail of destruction, joined Thom Hartmann to discuss Donald Trump, his relationship with Deutsche Bank and whether Trump actually has a negative net worth.
Deutsche Banks Dark Connection To Donald Trump
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Why will only this one bank loan to Donald Trump? What are its connections to Russian oligarchs?
Thom Hartmann reads from.... Dark Towers: Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump and an Epic Trail of Destruction by David Enrich.
From the publisher:
""In Dark Towers, David Enrich tells the story of how one of the world's mightiest banks careened off the rails, threatening everything from our financial system to our democracy through its reckless entanglement with Donald Trump. Darkly fascinating and yet all too real, it's a tale that will keep you up at night." [[John Carreyrou, Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times best-selling author of Bad Blood)
A searing exposé of the most scandalous bank in the world, including its shadowy ties to Donald Trump's business empire.
On a rainy Sunday in 2014, a senior executive at Deutsche Bank was found hanging in his London apartment. Bill Broeksmit had helped build the 150-year-old financial institution into a global colossus, and his sudden death was a mystery, made more so by the bank's efforts to deter investigation. Broeksmit, it turned out, was a man who knew too much.
In Dark Towers, award-winning journalist David Enrich reveals the truth about Deutsche Bank and its epic path of devastation. Tracing the bank's history back to its propping up of a default-prone American developer in the 1880s, helping the Nazis build Auschwitz, and wooing Eastern Bloc authoritarians, he shows how in the 1990s, via a succession of hard-charging executives, Deutsche made a fateful decision to pursue Wall Street riches, often at the expense of ethics and the law.
Soon, the bank was manipulating markets, violating international sanctions to aid terrorist regimes, scamming investors, defrauding regulators, and laundering money for Russian oligarchs. Ever desperate for an American foothold, Deutsche also started doing business with a self-promoting real estate magnate nearly every other bank in the world deemed too dangerous to touch: Donald Trump. Over the next 20 years, Deutsche executives loaned billions to Trump, the Kushner family, and an array of scandal-tarred clients, including convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Dark Towers is the never-before-told saga of how Deutsche Bank became the global face of financial recklessness and criminality - the corporate equivalent of a weapon of mass destruction. It is also the story of a man who was consumed by fear of what he'd seen at the bank - and his son's obsessive search for the secrets he kept."
Trump Inspires A New Generation Of Bullies
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Donald Trump is a classic bully and he is now inspiring a whole generation of new little Trumps around the country.
Thom Hartmann With Pramila Jayapal: The Hidden War On Voting
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Donald Trump was elected by only 26 percent of eligible voters. In America today, only a slim majority of people register to vote and a large percentage of registered voters don’t bother to show up at all. And according to progressive radio host Thom Hartmann, this low turnout is unfortunately not a bug in our system—it’s a feature.
Hartmann joins us at Town Hall to demystify strategies and tactics that conservative elites in our country have used to protect their interests by preventing “the wrong people”—such as the poor, women, and people of color—from voting, while making it easier for the wealthy and white. He lays out simple, common sense ways that we the people can fight back and reclaim our right to rule through the ballot box. Take an unblinking look at our country’s voting system, and explore what we can do to ensure everyone has a voice in this democracy.
Thom Hartmann is a progressive national and internationally syndicated talk show host and bestselling author of 24 books, including The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight, The Hidden History of Guns and the Second Amendment, The Last Hours of Humanity: Warming the World to Extinction, and Rebooting the American Dream: 11 Ways to Rebuild Our Country.
Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal is the representative for Washington’s 7th District, which encompasses most of Seattle and surrounding areas. She is the first South Asian American woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives and one of only 14 naturalized citizens currently serving in the United States Congress.
Afghan Papers Prove Bush Lied!
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These papers prove that George Bush lied!
Thom Hartmann reads from the Afghan Papers that expose George Bush's lies and the awful results for the American and Afghani people.
Bernie Wins Nevada But News Acts Like The World Is Ending
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Bernie Sanders won big in Nevada but the news is acting like the world is ending? Why?
Thom breaks down how Bernie's policies are in line with American's favorite and most popular presidents.
Could Trump Steal 2020 Election?
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What can we do if Donald Trump steals the 2020 election?
There is a way that Donald Trump could lose the popular vote and the electoral vote, and still remain in power and this is where democracy comes apart!
Has Bill Barr Changed in 30 Years? (w/ Mark Karlin)
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Thirty years ago, an op-ed called Bill Barr a bully. There was concern that that Barr was not the right person to be part of any government, let alone Attorney General. In 2020, has anything changed?
Mark Karlin, founder and editor of BuzzFlash joined Thom to discuss William Barr and whether there have been any changes.
Should Democrats Unite Under Bernie Sanders?
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Should the Democratic Party unite under the front runner Bernie Sanders?
After a clear victory in Nevada, Jared asks Thom Hartmann if ....
Does Sanders' Tax Plan Work? We Do The Math!
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Bernie Sanders wants Americans to get free healthcare, college, and more but some pundits and political opponents suggest the math doesn't work. Thom Hartmann does the math and proves that Bernie Sanders' plans work great!
Thom Hartmann proves that Bernie Sanders' plan to revitalize the middle class will work by proving how the Reagan Era tax cuts gutted the American dream. Sanders' plan will bring America closer to pre-Reagan era taxes.
Bernie Sanders' plans are in line with other social democratic nations like Norway and Sweden, all of whom have a higher quality of life than the US, could Bernie Sanders bring that to the United States?
Libertarian Concedes To 'Socialist' Sanders' Economic Plan (w/ Charles Sauer)
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Picking some parts of socialism are good and others are bad, according to Charles Sauer. He wants to rid America of most socialism [[unless it suits him?) and boost capitalism.
Should there be capitalist policies that employers should be forced to follow while doing ‘some’ socialism?
Charles Sauer joined Thom to debate socialism.
Socialism And Communism Poll: At An All Time High? (w/Marion Smith)
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There is an all-time high in socialism and communism in the US, according to a poll. Do you think that is true?
Marion Smith argues with Thom the meaning of socialism and communism. Do they mean the same in different countries?
New Afrikan Revolutionary Writings On Nation, Class And Patriarchy
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What class conflicts exist under national oppression? Thom reads from Sanyika Shakur's Stand Up Struggle Forward, to expose the sometimes obscured conflicts capitalism produces.
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“It was over 20 years ago that the book Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member exploded on the scene and gave us all a front row seat to explore the genocidal brutality of the neo-colonial world of gangbanging. A world that exists at the expense of New Afrikan communities and New Afrikan youth in particular, through our social savage way of attempting to gain power through AK’s, bats and beat downs ... it was in the belly of the beast [[prison) that ‘Monster’ underwent a revolutionary transformation, dissecting and re-building himself from the inside out, slaying the colonial thug ‘Monster’ and emerging through a re-birth as ‘Sanyika Shakur,’ a New Afrikan Revolutionary Nationalist.” -- from the Foreword by Yusef “Bunchy” Shakur
This collection of writings by Sanyika Shakur, formerly known as Monster Kody Scott, includes several essays written from within the infamous Pelican Bay Security Housing Unit in the period around the historic 2011 California prisoners’ hunger strike, as well as two interviews conducted just before and after his release in Black August 2012.
Shakur rejects the easy answers and false solutions of the neocolonial age - integration and racism, the colonial-criminal mentality and subservience to imperialism - as the “oppo-sames” that they are. Firmly rooted in the New Afrikan Communist tradition, he skillfully uses the tools of dialectical materialism to lay bare the deeper connections between racism, sexism, and homophobia and how these mental diseases relate to the ongoing capitalist [[neo-)colonial catastrophe we remain trapped within.
Defending the legacy of New Afrikans’ historic struggle for Land, Independence, and Socialism, Shakur spells out a uniquely liberatory Revolutionary Nationalist vision. Annihilating the “amerikan” mental fog that has new generations continuing to self-defeat rather than coming together against the real enemy, Stand Up, Struggle Forward serves as a battle cry against all forms of oppression.
Stand Up, Struggle Forward also contains a valuable account of political repression in the California prison system, including several of the intelligence memoranda that were used to condemn Shakur to years of solitary confinement in Pelican Bay. These internal prison documents clearly show that this prolonged solitary confinement was a direct result of Shakur’s continuing promotion of New Afrikan Revolutionary Nationalist politics. As such, they provide a clear example of the way in which solitary confinement continues to be used as a tool of political repression against thousands of prisoners in California today.
Can America Rebuild The Middle Class?
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America's middle class has been shrinking but Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren have a plan that could bring back the middle class.
Building up the middle class after Reagan is going to be tough, could Bernie and Warren do it?
How would you build up the middle class?