Sue's Daily Stack, Monday, 29 January, 2024
Your daily homework - links to everything discussed on today's show
Monday's Daily Stack
Hour One: How America's Embrace of "Greed is Good" Brings Broken Airplane Doors & Being on Hold for Hours..
Article: "How Reagan's Embrace of "Greed is Good" Brought Us Broken Airplane Doors & Being on Hold for Hours..." by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Was the Southwest Airlines Meltdown Impacted By the "Great Share-Buyback Scam"?" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "The Supreme Court and the Death of Progress" by Thom Hartmann & Sam Sacks.
Book: The Antitrust Paradox: A Policy at War With Itself by Robert H Bork.
Book: The Hidden History of Monopolies: How Big Business Destroyed the American Dream by Thom Hartmann.
Book: "The Hidden History of Neoliberalism: How Reaganism Gutted America and How to Restore Its Greatness" by Thom Hartmann.
Book: The Myth of Capitalism: Monopolies and the Death of Competition by Jonathan Tepper with Denise Hearn.
Book: "The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism" by Naomi Klein.
Article: "America has lost half its public companies since the 1990s. Here's why" by Nicole Goodkind.
Article: " Boeing's bean counter: Embattled aviation giant is slammed for hiring $22m-a-year ACCOUNTANT as its CEO while rival Airbus's boss is aeronautical engineer...as firm's killer 737 Max jet is hit by fresh safety woes" by Isabelle Stanely.
Article: "My credit card wants to charge me $9 to speak with a human!!" by Coventina.
Article: "The Crisis in Antitrust" by Robert H. Bork and Ward S. Bowman, Jr..
Article: "The Trillion-Dollar Debate Over Share Buybacks" by Andrew Ross Sorkin, Ravi Mattu, Bernhard Warner, Sarah Kessler, Michael J. de la Merced, Lauren Hirsch and Ephrat Livni.
Article: "Biden launches assault on monopolies" by Leah Nylen.
Article: "Boeing's Real Problem With the Dreamliner: Bean Counter vs. Engineer" by James Fallows.
Article: "Why is so little known about the 1930s coup attempt against FDR?" by Sally Denton.
Article: "Penalty in Trump's Civil Fraud Trial Coming Shortly" by Taegan Goddard.
Article: "Biden vows response at time 'of our choosing' after three US troops killed in Jordan drone attack" by Patrick Wintour, Richard Luscombe.
Site: Ukraine Defense Support.
US historians sign brief to support Colorado's removal of Trump from ballot
Article: "US historians sign brief to support Colorado's removal of Trump from ballot" by Martin Pengelly.
New "bombshell" report about possible Trump tax evasion...
Article: "'Bombshell' report raises questions about new possible Trump tax evasion: experts " by Tom Boggioni.
Article: "Trump: 100 Percent Chance of 'Major Terror Attacks'" by Jim Thomas.
Article: "October Surprise conspiracy theory" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Tower 22 drone attack" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Bashar al-Assad" (Syria) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Israeli airstrike in Damascus kills high-ranking Iranian general, says Iran" by AP.
Article: "The Official 2024 Presidential Debate Schedule With Times, Locations" by Election Central.
Article: "Chapter VII — Action with respect to Threats to the Peace, Breaches of the Peace, and Acts of Aggression: Article 51" by UN.
Article: "Project 2025" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Trump's Lawyers Invite Biden to Assassinate Him" by Ryan Cooper.
Case: "Buckley v. Valeo", 1976.
Case: "First National Bank Of Boston V. Bellotti", 1978.
Case: "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" (2010).
Quote: "If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State" - Joseph Goebbels.
Site: "National Popular Vote Interstate Compact".
Hour Two: The silent revolution in American economics
Article: "The silent revolution in American economics" by Robert Reich.
Article: "Trump brags about efforts to stymie border talks: 'Please blame it on me'" by Isaac Arnsdorf.
Article: "Trump lawyer angrily attacks court monitor who flagged 'errors' in Trump Org finances" by Brad Reed.
Article: "CHIPS Act Passes: House Approves $280 Billion Bill To Boost Microchip Production And Counter China" by Brian Bushard.
Law: "Inflation Reduction Act of 2022".
Article: "Biden signs $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill into law, unlocking funds for transportation, broadband, utilities" by Jacob Pramuk.
Law: "The National Labor Relations Act (The Wagner Act)", 1935.
Article: "Biden makes history by joining US picket line" by BBC.
Law: "Taft-Hartley Labor Act", 1947.
Putin is enjoying a surge of optimism about its global position as the U.S. wavers on Ukraine aid
Article: "Russia projects confidence as it pursues alliances to undermine West" by Catherine Belton.
Article: "Viktor Orbán" (Hungary) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Giorgia Meloni" (Italy) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Sweden's right-wing announces new government with far-right backing" by Le Monde with AFP.
Article: "Alternative for Germany" (AfD) by Wikipedia.
Article: "More than 100,000 protest across Germany over far-right AfD's mass deportation meetings" by The Guardian.
Article: "AfD plans to turn Germany into authoritarian state, vice-chancellor warns" by Kate Connolly.
Article: "Putin's alleged war crimes: who are the Ukrainian children being taken by Russia?" by Isobel Koshiw.
Article: "Rape has reportedly become a weapon in Ukraine. Finding justice may be difficult" by Laurel Wamsley.
Article: "A key ally of Putin said he wants to invade Poland next, ignoring Russia's inability to capture Ukraine" by Sinéad Baker.
Article: "BRICS" by Wikipedia.
Show: "Live from the Heartland".
Joe Manchin has fired a warning shot - saying he can see himself as prez & claims Biden is dominated by "far, far-left liberals"
Article: "Joe Manchin Fires a Warning Shot, Says He Can 'Absolutely' See Himself as President: Biden WH Dominated By 'Far, Far-Left Liberals'" by Joe DePaolo.
Article: "How Joe Manchin Aided Coal, and Earned Millions" by Christopher Flavelle and Julie Tate.
Movie: "Judgment at Nuremberg".
Movie: "Filmmakers for the Prosecution".
Article: "Food is Medicine: A Project to Unify and Advance Collective Action" by HHS.
Article: "Justice delayed is justice denied" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Starbucks Tells Union It Wants to Resume Contract Talks" by J. Edward Moreno.
Article: "Donald Trump has the mental competency, energy to win 2024: Sen. JD Vance" by FOX News Videos.
Article: "International recognition of Israel" by Wikipedia.
Article: "The forgotten story of Jimmy Carter's White House solar panels" by John Wihbey.
Article: "Gouverneur Morris" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Madison's notes on the Constitutional Convention of 1787: July 20, 1787" by James Madison.
Book: Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism by Rachel Maddow.
Article: "U.S. says Russia was given Trump campaign polling data in 2016" by Eric Tucker.
Article: "CIA reportedly removed top spy from Russia over fear of retaliation — and maybe Trump" by Alex Ward.
Article: "What stochastic terrorism is and why the US may see more of it" by Mihai Andrei.
Article: "Trump's Appalling Paul Pelosi Dig Gets Laughs From California GOP Crowd" by Ben Blanchet.
Hour Three: Are the traditional republicans just now figuring out the new far right are overlords are too radical?
- David "Dave" Neiwert, Investigative Journalist / Staff Writer - Daily Kos / Author - numerous books, his latest is 'The Age of Insurrection: The Radical Right's Assault on American Democracy @DavidNeiwert @DailyKos
Article: "Idaho's traditional Republicans realizing their new far-right transplant overlords are radicals" by David Neiwert.
Article: "Aryan Nations" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Richard Butler (white supremacist)" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Unite the Right rally" (Charlottesville rally) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Charlottesville car attack" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Nick Fuentes" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Aryan Nations would not qualify as 'domestic terrorism' under this new Idaho bill" by Ian Max Stevenson.
Article: "Alan Berg" by Wikipedia.
Article: "The Order (white supremacist group)" by Wikipedia.
Article: "In Kyiv, Italy's prime minister condemns Russia and pledges further support to Ukraine." by Elisabetta Povoledo.
Article: "Putin Is Doing to Aleppo What He Did to Grozny: Flatten the Place" by Brian Glyn Williams.
Site: "Geneva Conventions and their additional protocols".
Wisdom School Alert! NeuroLinguistic Programming (NLP): Cracking the Modal Code
Article: "NeuroLinguistic Programming (NLP): Cracking the Modal Code" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Cannabis in Oklahoma" by Wikipedia.
Book: The Emperor Wears No Clothes: A History of Cannabis/Hemp/Marijuana by Jack Herer.
Article: "Statement from President Biden on Marijuana Reform" by White House.
Article: "A Massive Win, and What It Means" by Bill McKibben.
Article: "Willow Project: US government approves Alaska oil and gas development" by Sam Cabral.
Article: "2022 Nord Stream pipeline sabotage" by Wikipedia.
Article: "A border deal to nowhere? House GOP ready to reject Senate compromise on immigration" by Manu Raju, Melanie Zanona and Lauren Fox.
Article: "How unpopular is Joe Biden" by 538.
Article: "The Rise & Fall of the Second Trump Reich: Tick Tock…" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Trump hails Hungarian PM Orban as 'great leader' and 'strong man'" by The New Voice of Ukraine.
Article: "Donald Trump must pay an additional $83.3 million to E. Jean Carroll in defamation case, jury says" by Jake Offenhartz, Larry Neumeister, Jennifer Peltz.
Article: "Judge Aileen Cannon's Reign of Madness Is Over" by Mark Joseph Stern.
Article: "US judge blocks JetBlue from $3.8bn Spirit Airlines takeover" by Callum Jones.
Article: "Kroger, Albertsons push back expected closing date for merger" by Henry Mathieu.