Sue's Daily Stack, Tuesday, 27 February, 2024
Your daily homework - links to everything discussed on today's show
Tuesday's Daily Stack
Hour One: Have We Reached the Point Where Corporatism is Triumphing Over Democracy?
Article: "Have We Reached the Point Where Corporatism is Triumphing Over Democracy?" by Thom Hartmann.
Book: "Unequal Protection: How Corporations Became "People" - And How You Can Fight Back" by Thom Hartmann.
Case: "Santa Clara County vs. Southern Pacific Railroad", 1886.
Case: "Buckley v. Valeo", 1976.
Case: "First National Bank Of Boston V. Bellotti", 1978.
Case: "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" (2010).
Article: "Constitution of the United States", article 3 section 2. "... In all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party, the supreme Court shall have original Jurisdiction. In all the other Cases before mentioned, the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make...."
Person: Alex Lawson, Executive Director - Social Security Works.
Article: "Rape-Related Pregnancies in the 14 US States With Total Abortion Bans" by Samuel L. Dickman, Kari White, David U. Himmelstein.
News...what to watch for in Michigan, Is Nato considering sending troops to Ukraine? and Pharmacare is coming to Canada....
Article: "4 things to watch in Michigan's presidential primary" by Kyle Davidson.
Article: "Nato and EU states 'considering sending troops to Ukraine'" by Joe Barnes.
Article: "Macron doesn't rule out sending Western troops to Ukraine" by Clea Caulcutt, Laura Kayali and Veronika Melkozerova.
Article: "Canadians Cheer 'Big Deal' Plan for Single-Payer Pharmacare " by Jessica Corbett.
Article: "12th Amendment".
Article: "Malcolm X's daughter to sue CIA, FBI, New York police over assassination" by Jonathan Allen and Brendan O'Brien.
Article: "Alabama Says Embryos in a Lab Are Children. What Are the Implications?" by Jan Hoffman.
Article: "14th Amendment section 1". "All persons born or naturalized in the United States..."
Article: "The New "Over the Top" Secret Plan on How Fascists Could Win in 2024" by Thom Hartmann.
Site: Move to Amend.
Quote: "I'll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one." - Bill Moyers.
Book: Sam Walton: Made In America by Sam Walton with John Huey.
Article: "Biden, Hill leaders show optimism on shutdown, but have 'intense' talk on Ukraine" by Alexandra Hutzler and Justin Gomez.
Article: "How does U.S. life expectancy compare to other countries?" by Shameek Rakshit, Matthew McGough, and Krutika Amin.
Hour Two: Why Trump won't call out Putin....
- Dean Obeidallah, Host of Dean Obeidallah show weekdays 6-9PMET @SXMProgress Radio Ch127 / Columnist - CNN.com / Contributor - The New Republic @DeanObeidallah @SXMProgress @MSNBC
Site: The Dean's Report by Dean Obeidallah.
Article: "No, Trump was not silent on the murder of Navalny—he has long defended Putin killing journalists and critics" by Dean Obeidallah.
Article: "Putin is again helping Trump in 2024 as he did in 2020 and 2016—that's why Trump won't criticize Putin." by Dean Obeidallah.
Article: "Trump reminds us he's a white supremacist with his latest comments about Black Americans" by Dean Obeidallah.
Article: "Comer takes aim at FBI after informant's arrest: 'Very suspicious'" by Tara Suter.
Article: "Why isn't the Supreme Court moving faster on Trump's immunity challenge?" by John Fritze.
Article: "Harlan Crow" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Chief Justice John Roberts' Wife Made Over $10 Million As Legal Consultant, Report Says" by Nicholas Reimann.
Article: "'No Vacancies' for Blacks: How Donald Trump Got His Start, and Was First Accused of Bias" by Jonathan Mahler and Steve Eder.
Article: "Michiganders voting "uncommitted" in the Democratic primary are sending a message Biden needs to hear" by Dean Obeidallah.
Article: "Document spells out allegations against 12 UN employees Israel says participated in Hamas attack" by Tia Goldenberg, Najib Jobain and Jack Jeffery.
Article: "Itamar Ben-Gvir" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Biden makes appearance on 'Late Night with Seth Meyers' for interview" by Tara Prindiville and Zoë Richards.
Article: "Senate Democrat accuses Israel of 'textbook war crime' in Gaza" by Tara Suter.
Quote: "As a matter of fact, in interviews in 1999 with respected journalist, and long time Bush family friend, David Herskowitz, then Governor George Bush stated: 'One of the keys to being seen as a great leader is to be seen as a commander-in-chief. My father had all this political capital built up when he drove the Iraqis out of Kuwait and he wasted it. If I have a chance to invade... if I had that much capital, I'm not going to waste it. I'm going to get everything passed that I want to get passed and I'm going to have a successful presidency." - My Testimony for the Downing Street Memo Hearings" by Cindy Sheehan, June 16 2005.
Article: "For years, Netanyahu propped up Hamas. Now it's blown up in our faces" by Tal Schneider.
Trump's alarming fundraising scam
Article: "'Infuriates me': County GOP head sounds alarm over troubling Trump fundraising tactic" by Brad Reed.
Crazy Alert! Maybe she has a brain tumor or is nuts, but not a single Republican has called this GOP candidate for wanting to exile Jews....Seriously?
Article: "Hitler-praising Massachusetts GOP candidate pledges to 'exile all Jews'" by Matthew Chapman.
Site: Center for Genetics and Society.
Article: "'Last Week Tonight': John Oliver Returns To HBO & Offers To Pay Clarence Thomas $1M A Year To "Get The F*** Off The Supreme Court"" by Armando Tinoco.
Article: "When Japan Had a Third Gender" by Susan Chira.
Article: "Russian General Admits Ukraine Just a 'Stepping Stone' to Invade Europe" by Jason Lemon.
Video: Russian president says U.S. using Ukraine as a battering ram against Moscow.
Article: "The President Should Approve this last weapon system and it will help win the war: M26/M26A1 HIMARS Rockets" by Dan Rice.
Article: "US and Germany 'plan to force Zelenskyy to negotiate' through choking off arms supplies – BILD" by Julian Röpcke.
Article: "Neuer Geheimplan für die Ukraine" by Julian Röpcke.
Article: "Why an ex-congressman is living in a 'safe house' from Trump"(Jim McDermott in France) by Elizabeth Becker.
Article: "FDA Approves First State Program to Import Rx Drugs From Canada" (Florida) by Emily Harris.
Article: "'The Cash Monster Was Insatiable': How Insurers Exploited Medicare for Billions" by Reed Abelson and Margot Sanger-Katz.
Article: "Medicare Advantage Plans Often Deny Needed Care, Federal Report Finds" by Reed Abelson.
Article: "Israel's PM Netanyahu lays out Gaza plan for after the war" by Jenny Hill.
Article: "IDF estimates 3,000 Hamas terrorists invaded Israel in Oct. 7 onslaught" by Emanuel Fabian, Gianluca Pacchiani.
Hour Three: Gavin Newsom's Jaw-Dropping New Ad Goes Viral In Red States
Article: "Gavin Newsom's Jaw-Dropping New Ad Goes Viral In Red States" by Tom of Temecula.
Geeky Science! Oh my...Microplastics found in every human placenta tested in study
Article: "Microplastics found in every human placenta tested in study" by Damian Carrington.
Article: "Microplastics, like Asbestos, Can Kill" by Thom Hartmann.
ADD: How to Train Your Attention Span with Meditation
Article: "ADHD: How to Train Your Attention Span with Meditation" by Thom Hartmann.
Law: "22 U.S. Code § 2778 - Control of arms exports and imports".
Book: White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy by Tom Schaller, Paul Waldman.
Article: "The Economic Bill of Rights" by Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Article: "House Republicans Refused To Quickly Seat Tom Suozzi" by Jason Easley.
Article: "Israeli–Palestinian conflict" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Purvi Patel has 20-year sentence for inducing own abortion reduced" by 22 Jul 2016.
Article: "Trump slammed for 'unbelievably racist' claim that Black people like him because of mug shot" by Katie Hawkinson.
Article: "Merrick Garland" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Special counsel says Biden is 'elderly man with poor memory' and can't recall when his son died" by Ariana Baio.
Article: "Render unto Caesar" by Wikipedia.
Book: The Five Gospels: What Did Jesus Really Say? The Search for the Authentic Words of Jesus by Robert W. Funk, Roy W. Hoover and the Jesus Seminar.
Article: "Biden and Trump both plan trips to the Mexico border Thursday, dueling for advantage on immigration" by Seung Min Kim, Colleen Long, Zeke Miller, Jill Colvin.
Article: "One of the world's biggest cities may be just months away from running out of water" (Mexico City) by Laura Paddison, Jack Guy and Fidel Gutiérrez.
Article: "The world's 'sinking' city that's going 30cm deeper into the ground every single year" (Mexico City) by Alessandra Scotto di Santolo, Maria Ortega.
Article: "Lots of cash. First in the polls. California's Senate race is Adam Schiff's to lose" by Andrew Gumbel.
Article: "Federal government to begin formal process of preparing for partial shutdown ahead of March deadline" by Betsy Klein and Tami Luhby.