As it becomes increasingly obvious that global warming is entering doomsday scenario territory, the fossil fuel industry is ramping up the propaganda war. Last week, the so-called Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC) released its fifth report "debunking" the findings of the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. According to the NIPCC report, which was published by the conservative think tank the Heartland Institute, global warming is nothing to worry about. It's just a natural process that's happened hundreds of times before. If anything, the report concludes, global warming could be a good thing because extra CO2 in the atmosphere means more air for plants to breath. Seriously.

 

Not surprisingly, Fox So-Called News has picked up on the NIPCC report and is treating it like real science. But if you're wondering why 97 percent of scientists disagree with the NIPCC on global warming, Heartland Institute President Joseph Bast says it's because the entire climate science community has been "corrupted" by environmentalists. In reality, though, it's the NIPCC and the Heartland institute that are corrupt and dishonest.

 

To quote Deepthroat, just follow the money.

 

Read more here.

 

-Thom

       

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Need to Know: What you don't know about Obamacare
- Sarah Studley, The Franklin Forum  
- Richard Kirsch, Roosevelt Institute, Fighting for Our Health: The Epic Battle to Make Health Care a Right in the United States  

 

Lone Liberal Rumble:
- Rusty Humphries, The Rusty Humphries Show  
- Scottie Nell Hughes, Tea Party News Network  

 

 

Community Square  

 "Your teeth made in China may be killing you!"  

  

Tuesday's Daily Stack 

Hour One: Has Flawed US Policy led to a new cold war?
- Professor Stephen Cohen, The Nation Magazine 

Article: "Cold War Again: Who's Responsible?" by Stephen F. Cohen.

Article: "U.S. and NATO Warn Russia to Stay Out of Ukraine" by Andrew Higgins and David M. Herszenhorn.

 

Article: "Martin O'Malley Expected To Sign Marijuana Decriminalization Bill" by Paige Lavender.

Article: "For First Time, Americans Favor Legalizing Marijuana" by Art Swift, October 22, 2013.

Article: "Leonhart to Congress: DEA is "Fighting Back" Against DOJ's Tolerance of Marijuana Legalization" by Marijuana Policy Project.

Video: Polis Questions DEA on Marijuana Policy.

Article: "DEA Chief: Please, Think Of The Dogs Before You Legalize Pot" by Ryan J. Reilly.

 

Event: Sat, May 10, 2014, Northampton, MA: "PDA 10th Anniversary Party".

Petition: "Encourage Senator Bernie Sanders to Run for President in 2016 as a Democrat" by Progressive Democrats of America.

Article: "Global rankings study: America in warp-speed decline" by CJ Werleman.

Article: "Oil, gas pipelines transiting Ukraine" (map) by Platts.

Article: "Ukraine signs $10 billion shale gas deal with Chevron" by Pavel Polityuk and Richard Balmforth.

Book: "The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism" by Naomi Klein.

Book: "Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Experience and American Prospects" by Dmitry Orlov.

Blog: "Dmitry Orlov".

Article: "8 Things Mainstream Media Doesn't Have the Courage to Tell You" by Paul Buchheit.

Site: Hidden Secrets of Money.

Law: "Taft-Hartley Labor Act", 1947.

Law: "The National Labor Relations Act (The Wagner Act)", 1935.

Site: Move to Amend

Book: Under the Juggernaut of History and Religion by Nicholas Kazan.

The good: "Harry Reid: GOP should wear Koch insignia" by Burgess Everett.

The bad: Aaron Miller: "GOP Candidate For Congress Running Because Government Taught Evolution Upsets His Daughter" by David Badash.

The very, very ugly: Breitbart: "Pelosi Twerks, Zuckerberg Has Breasts in Breitbart's 'Edgy' Street Art Campaign" by Luke O'Neil.

 

Talk Radio News Segment:
- Bob Ney 

Site: "Goats for the old Goat".

Article: "TRNS News Notes - 4/9/14" by Victoria Jones.

Article: "TRNS News Notes - 4/8/14" by Victoria Jones.

Book: "Sideswiped: Lessons Learned Courtesy of the Hit Men of Capitol Hill" by Robert Ney.

Article: "Supreme Court Passes on Gay Marriage - Free Speech Case" by Shane Farnan.

Article: "Gohmert Says His Beef With Holder Isn't Personal" by Geoff Holtzman.

Article: "Eric Holder To Louie Gohmert: "You Don't Want To Go There, Buddy"".

Article: "NYC Elected Officials Rally, President Obama Signs Executive Order On National Equal Pay Day" by CBSNewYork/AP.

Article: "Pay Equity Bill Exposes Gender Gap Politics for Senate GOP" by David Hawkings.

Article: "Senate passes extension to unemployment insurance, bill heads to House" by Wesley Lowery.

Article: "Patrick Leahy: Cuban Twitter plan 'dumb'" by Tal Kopan.

Article: "Washington, DC Council Introduces Bill to Expand Qualifying Medical Marijuana Conditions".

Article: "Medical-Marijuana Advocates Descend on Capitol Hill" by Alex Rogers.

Hour Three: Why we should be protecting national parks NOT privatizing them
- Adrian Moore PhD, Reason Foundation 

Book: "Mobility First: A New Vision for Transportation in a Globally Competitive 21st Century" by Sam Staley and Adrian Moore.

Law: "Antiquities Act", 1906.

Article: "Sherman Antitrust Act", 1890.

Book: The Jungle by Upton Sinclair.

Article: "House Passes 'No New Parks' Bill" by EcoWatch.

Article: "Five Reasons We Support the Antiquities Act (And You Should Too)" by Denise Ryan.

Article: "Eric Cantor, Paul Ryan & Kevin McCarthy: Plot To Sabotage US Economy with Frank Luntz" by keepemhonest.

Article: "Unemployment Extension: Senate Passage Puts Bill in Boehner's Court" by Steven Dennis and Daniel Newhauser.

 

Article: "How Vampire Power Works" by Robert Lamb.

Book: "The Prophet's Way" by Thom Hartmann.

 

Article: "Wealth Inequality Is Now As Bad As It Was During The 1920s" by Bryce Covert.

Site: "The No Billionaires Campaign".

Article: "Estimated 25,000 converge on Oklahoma state Capitol for education rally" by Rick Green and Tim Willert.

Article: "Problem of banks seen as 'too big to fail' still unsolved, IMF warns" by Robin Harding and Ralph Atkins.

Article: "It's Harder to Get a Job at Walmart Than It Is to Get Into Harvard" by Samantha Grossman.

Article: "Activists to Call on Congress to Honor Dr. King's Fight for Economic Justice with Tax on Wall Street" by National Nurses United.

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

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Tonight's "Politics Panel" discusses Gov. Martin O'Malley's (D-MD) plan to sign his state's marijuana decriminalization bill, Obama's signing of an executive order aimed at closing the compensation gender gap and whether Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich needed to resign over his stance on gay marriage. Thom talks the success of California's Global Warming Solutions Act with NRDC's Alex Jackson and the dangers permafrost thawing is having on our climate with Dr. Jeff Chanton. In tonight's "Daily Take" Thom discusses why Americans are still struggling with massive poverty and homelessness while our nation's wealthiest are getting wealthier.

Time to Fire the DEA Head!

Why we Should be Protecting National Parks - Not Privatizing Them!

The Collapse of the American Union!

The Thom Hartmann Program - April 8, 2014

Has Flawed US Policy led to a New Cold War?

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