Donald Trump announced recently that he will do away with the EPA - to help out family farms, of course!

But the truth is - abolishing the EPA would only help big polluters like the Koch Brothers.

And right now - even with the EPA still in place - Republican leaders like Governor Rick Scott have been working to help big polluters bypass any effective environmental regulations.

Ron Littlepage recently wrote an op-ed for the Florida Times-Union titled "Has Gov. Scott ever met a polluter he didn't want to help?" - and based on Scott's record - the answer is no - he will always put polluters over the people of Florida.

Right now - Rick Scott is waiting to hear back from the EPA about a proposed increase to the allowable limits of several cancer-causing chemicals in Florida's waterways.

No one in their right mind would say that they want MORE cancerous chemicals in their waterways - but the change in regulations would directly help Georgia-Pacific around the state - which just so happens to be owned by the Koch brothers.

-Thom

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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 10pm... Nationwide Prison Strike to 'End Slavery' Begins... (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT or Free Speech TV, and catch past shows on Youtube)

Friday's Daily Stack 

In for Thom today, Richard Eskow, The Zero Hour/Campaign for America's Future    

Hour One: Trump Astonishes Former Intel Officials... and Not in a Good Way!
- Aaron Rupar, Think Progress    

Article: "Mercenaries Just Attacked Dakota Pipeline Protesters with Dogs & Pepper Spray (VIDEO)" September 3, 2016.

Article: "Trump's Comments On Intelligence Briefings 'Astonish' Former Intel Officials" by Aaron Rupar.

Article: "Read Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump's Remarks at a Military Forum" by Ryan Teague Beckwith.

Article: "Donald Trump Calls on Russia to Find Hillary Clinton's Missing Emails" by Ashley Parker and David E. Sanger.

Article: "David McCullough" by Wikipedia.

Book: Truman by David McCullough.

Book: John Adams by David McCullough.

Article: "Henry A. Wallace" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Esquire Fires Up The Time Machine To Go Back To 2004 And Fact-Check Trump" by Esme Cribb.

Article: "Donald Trump: How I'd Run the Country (Better)" by Donald J. Trump, August 2004 (with editor's note Sep 8, 2016).

Article: "Norway's PM attacks Facebook 'censorship' over Vietnam photo" by Terje Solsvik.

Article: "Facebook U-turn over 'Napalm girl' photograph" by BBC.

Hour Two: Congressional Update: Zika Funding, Planned Parenthood & More
- Congressman Mark Pocan (D-WI, 2nd District)    

Transcript: "CNN Newsroom Aired September 7, 2016" (Speaker Ryan: "give me a break on this").

Article: "House Passes Bill to Curb Private-Equity Rules" by Andrew Ackerman.

Article: "Congress remains deadlocked over $1.1bn Zika bill after seven-week break" by Sabrina Siddiqui.

Article: "Gerrymandering" by Wikipedia.

Article: "House Republicans Weigh Impeaching IRS Commissioner John Koskinen" by Richard Rubin.

 

Article: "Overton window" by Wikipedia.

Article: "In 2002, Donald Trump Said He Supported Invading Iraq" by Andrew Kaczynski, Nathan McDermott.

Article: "Matt Lauer totally blew it on Trump's blatant lying about Iraq and Libya" by Matthew Yglesias, September 7, 2016.

Video: Donald Trump Hillary Clinton Commander in Chief Forum 9/7/16 NBC September 7 2016.

 

Talk Media News Segment:
- Victoria Jones 

Article: "U.S. Supreme Court green lights straight-party voting in Michigan" by Paul Egan and Todd Spangler.

Article: "Standing Rock protest grows with thousands opposing North Dakota pipeline" by Tim Fontaine.

Article: "Sanders offers amendment to require environmental statement for DAPL" by Jenny Schlecht.

Article: "CDC 'essentially out of money' to fight Zika, director warns" by Andrew Taylor.

Article: "Zika May Cause Brain Damage in Adults, Too" by Amrith Ramkumar.

Article: "House passes bill to allow 9/11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia" by TMN.

Site: "Goats for the old Goat".

Site: Governor Free Don Siegelman 

Hour Three: You Won't Believe What's Happening With Voting Rights This Week...
- Ian Millhiser, Think Progress Justice    

Article: "North Carolina Tempts The Wrath Of An Angry Court With Its Latest Round Of Voter Suppression" by Ian Millhiser.

Article: "Jim Crow laws" by Wikipedia.

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

Article: "DOJ Catches Texas Violating The Court Order Against Its Voter Suppression Law" by Ian Millhiser.

 

Article: "Hiring slows: America gains 151,000 jobs in August" by Patrick Gillespie.

Video: Trump Refuse To Name One Of The "Hundreds Of Friends" Lost During 9/11.

Article: "A Brief History of Donald Trump's 9/11 Controversies" by Max J. Rosenthal.

Article: "Giuliani: Donald Trump Has a 'Big Heart'" by Andrew Rafferty.

Article: "Rudy Giuliani during the September 11 attacks" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Equal Rights Amendment" by Wikipedia.

Site: Institute for American Democracy and Election Integrity (ADEI).

Video: "Ronald Reagan States' Rights Speech in Philadelphia, MS", August 3, 1980.

Article: "Mississippi civil rights workers' murders" by Wikipedia.

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