The mainstream media is failing us when it comes to covering the story of the century - man-made climate change. And, as Media Matters has reported, there's no better example of this failure than the decline of climate coverage at Reuters since that news organization hired Paul Ingrassia as deputy editor-in-chief. Ingrassia, who is now a managing editor at Reuters, is a self-described "climate skeptic," and questions whether or not climate change is man-made.

 

Denying climate is absolutely insane. The UN's Intergovernmental Report on Climate Change is a consensus document, meaning that 100 percent of the people who worked on it agreed with its findings. The IPCC's authors are the top climate scientists on earth, and they say that burning fossil fuels causes climate change.

 

In light of this sort of scientific consensus, denying climate change is about sensible as believing that a shape-shifting reptile Illuminati controls the world. In fact, in terms of pure percentages, there are more who people believe in a shape-shifting reptile Illuminati than there are scientists who deny climate change.

 

-Thom

 

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Lone Liberal Rumble:
- Cameron Seward, The Heritage Foundation    
- Andrew Kloster, The Heritage Foundation    

 

 

ALEC...accessory to murder?
- Diallo Brooks, People For the American Way (PFAW)  

 

Is there any "REAL" news left?
- Jeff Cohen, Park Center for Independent Media-Ithaca College    

 

       

Community Square  

 "Clemency to Jeff Mizanskey: Life without parole for marijuana"  

 

Tuesday's Daily Stack 

Hour One: Can you carry a gun into the bank now?
- Noel Flasterstein, Gun Rights For You

Article: "Florida bank manager fired for bringing gun to work suing Wells Fargo" by Alex Greig.

Article: "Bay area woman sues Wells Fargo over gun issue" by Lauren Mayk.

Article: "2nd Amendment".

Article: "Article 1 Section 8, FLorida Constitution".

 

The Big Picture
- Nate Sweet, The Big Picture producer

Article: "Pentagon blueprint would cut Army size as military adjusts to leaner budgets" by Ernesto Londo�o.

Article: "Dick Cheney rips Obama for defense cuts: Spend on military, not food stamps" by David Edwards.

Article: "The Steyer brothers: 'We're fearless'" by Stephanie Simon and Caitlin Emma.

Article: "Awesome New GOP Strategy: Shut Down State Govts Over Obamacare" by Dylan Scott.

Article: "Arizona Business Community Abandons GOP On Anti-LGBT Bill" by Dylan Scott.

Article: "Kentucky's Keystone XL" by Cole Stangler.

 

Article: "Is It Time for a New Church Committee?" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "How Covert Agents Infiltrate the Internet to Manipulate, Deceive, and Destroy Reputations" by Glenn Greenwald.

Article: "Richard M. Nixon - Dirty tricks".

Article: "List of White House 'Enemies' and Memo Submitted by Dean to the Ervin Committee".

Book: Nixon's Darkest Secrets: The Inside Story of America's Most Troubled President by Don Fulsom.

Article: "White House Plumbers" by Wikipedia.

Article: "January 27, 1975 Church Committee Created".

Article: "Church Committee" by Wikipedia. "I don't want to see this country ever go across the bridge. I know the capacity that is there to make tyranny total in America, and we must see to it that this agency and all agencies that possess this technology operate within the law and under proper supervision so that we never cross over that abyss. That is the abyss from which there is no return"

Article: "COINTELPRO" by Wikipedia.

 

Article: "Supreme Court sides with LAPD in warrantless house search" by David G. Savage.

Article: "Obama prepared to leave no troops in Afghanistan after 2014" by Steve Holland and Phil Stewart.

Article: "If someone says "Benghazi," here's what you say" by aquart.

Law: "US Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948" (Smith-Mundt Act, 1948, propaganda).

Article: "US ends ban on 'domestic propaganda'" by RT.

Article: "Unveiling the Surveillance State" by Sen. Ron Wyden.

Book: Unstoppable: The Emerging Left-Right Alliance to Dismantle the Corporate State by Ralph Nader.

Article: "Firearm microstamping" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Smith & Wesson officially becomes the second gun company to pull out of California over microstamping" by Bob Owens.

Article: "McCutcheon v FEC: Undermining representative democracy" by Stephen Spaulding.

Article: "Minimum Give the Maximum: Supreme Court could unleash mega-donors with McCutcheon ruling" by National Institute on Money in State Politics.

Book: "The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: Revised and Updated: The Fate of the World and What We Can Do Before It's Too Late" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox goes dark in blow to virtual currency" by Ruairidh Villar, Sophie Knight and Brett Wolf.

Article: "Bitcoin exchange fears $400m theft" by Ben McLannahan, Stephen Foley and Kara Scannell.

Site: Seti@home.

Article: "New Zealand Central Bank Joins Others in Warning on Bitcoins " by Rebecca Howard.

Article: "Silverite" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Constitution of the United States" Article 1, section 8". "... To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;"

Article: "United States Red Seal Notes" by CoinSite.

Quote: "The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness." -- John Kenneth Galbraith.

 

The good: Gov. John Hickenlooper: "Colorado Becomes The First State To Regulate Methane Emissions From Fracking" by Kiley Kroh.

The bad: "Republican Senate candidate Paul Broun vows to vote only for 'biblical' bills" by Eric W. Dolan.

The very, very ugly: The Red Pepper: "Newspaper Outs 200 'Top' Gays in Uganda" by Maddy Fry.

Article: "Bitcoins Can't Be Used For Campaign Contributions, FEC Says" by Jack Gillum.

 

Talk Radio News Segment:
- Ellen Ratner, Bureau Chief 

Site: "Goats for the old Goat".

Article: "TRNS News Notes - 2/25/14" by Victoria Jones.

Article: "TRNS News Notes - 2/26/14" by Victoria Jones.

Article: "Bill Clinton Campaigns For McConnell's Opponent" by Nicholas Salazar.

Article: "Reid Delays Minimum Wage Vote as Dem Senators Waver" by Sandy Fitzgerald.

Article: "Reports: Iraq signs arms deal with Iran".

Article: "Venezuelans Blocked on Twitter as Opposition Protests Mount" by Patricia Laya, Sarah Frier and Anatoly Kurmanaev.

Article: "Netanyahu tells Merkel Iran is greatest threat to world security" by Reuters.

Article: "10 Weeks Into South Sudan Conflict, UN Still Sheltering 75,000 Civilians" by Luke Vargas.

Article: "Syrian Opposition 'Suspends' Geneva II Peace Talks" by Luke Vargas.

Article: "Debbie Dingell to run for House seat being vacated by John Dingell" by Paul Kane and Sean Sullivan.

Article: "Black pastors want Holder impeached over gay marriage stance" by Tim Devaney and Ben Goad.

Article: "US Could Pull All Troops Out Of Afghanistan" by Geoff Holtzman.

Hour Three: Should we have a constitutional convention?
- David Cobb, Move to Amend 

Article: "Constitution of the United States", article 5 (amendments, convention).

Article: "27th Amendment. "No law, varying the compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives, shall take effect, until an election of representatives shall have intervened."

Article: "26th Amendment". Vote for 18 year olds.

Article: "First Amendment to the United States Constitution".

Article: "14th Amendment

Article: "Constitution of the United States", article 3 section 2. "... 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..."

 

Plus, are the mega donors about to be unleashed?
- Jonah Minkoff-Zern, Democracy is For People  

Article: "Sherman Antitrust Act", 1890.

Case: "Buckley v. Valeo", 1976.

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

Case: "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" (2010).

 

Article: "Favorite Anti-Feminist Theory Debunked By Purdue Researchers" by Amanda Marcotte.

Site: The Mountain Watershed Association.

Facebook: The Mountain Watershed Association.

Article: "Scientists, consumer groups say GE corn for ethanol will contaminate food" by The Organic & Non-GMO Report March 2009.

Article: "Cargill to reject for export crops with new GMO Syngenta corn trait" by Tom Polansek.

Wednesday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET 

 

Read Thom's latest Liberally Yours column online at The Daily Caller..be sure to add your comments & support your local liberal!

 

Hour One: If you watch Glee in AZ...are you gay?
- Derryck Green, Project 21  

 

 

Hour Three: The Crash of 2016
- Dr. L. Randall Wray, University of Missouri at Kansas City.

 

Plus, the Sexy Liberal Comedy Tour
- Stephanie Miller, The Stephanie Miller Show  

 

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Will Gov. Jan Brewer veto Arizona's anti-gay bill?

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Big Picture Rumble - religious freedom OR blatant show of discrimination?

Big Picture Rumble - The Stand Your Ground Shoot First Law

Conversations w/Great Minds p2 - Prof. Anthony Townsend - "Civic Hackers"

Conversations with Great Minds p1 - Prof. Anthony Townsend - The Era of "Smart Cities"

Is it time for a new Church Committee?

No representation without taxation?

The Union Backed Bluegrass Pipeline Problem

Full Show 2/25/14: The End of the Military-Industrial Complex?

Tonight's "Politics Panel" discusses Secretary Hagel's proposed defense budget, whether Medicaid expansion will help Democrats in November and Arizona's anti-gay bill. Thom talks Kentucky's Bluegrass Pipeline with "In These Times" contributor Cole Stangler, and in tonight's "Daily Take" Thom discusses how it's time to look back at the Nixon/Watergate era to solve today's national security nightmare.

The Thom Hartmann Program - February 25, 2014

Are the Mega-Donors About to be Unleashed?

Should we Have a Constitutional Convention?

Is It Time for a New Church Committee?

The Danger of a Bitcoin Economy

Can You Carry a Gun into the Bank Now?

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