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Is It Now Game Over For the Planet?
Thom plus logo  Yesterday one of the key members of Donald Trump's transition team broke some potentially major news about climate policy under the new administration.

Speaking to reporters, global warming denier Myron Ebell - the head of the fossil-fuel-industry-backed Competitive Enterprise Institute - said that Donald Trump will withdraw the United States from the Paris Climate accords: "The U.S. will clearly change its course on climate policy." Ebell said, "Trump has made it clear he will withdraw from the Paris Agreement. He could do it by executive order tomorrow or he could do it as part of a larger package."

If Ebell is right and Trump is considering a withdrawal from the Paris Climate accords, that would mark something of a major shift in policy.

Although Trump dropping out of the Paris agreement was something Trump flirted with on the campaign trail, he told the New York Times after his election in November that "he would [at least] keep an open mind about it".

But now it appears as though Trump has already made up his mind that the Paris Climate Accord is toast.

He's playing with fire here - both literally and figuratively.

In just 10 days in office, Donald Trump has inflamed popular opinion like no other president in recent memory.

By some counts there were 145 protests in just the first 100 hours of his presidency alone.

So with activists already gearing up for a major march in protest of the administration's climate policies, how will the destruction of the Paris Climate Agreement be received?

-Thom

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Hour One: Trump's Shock & Awe Campaign...
Article: "MPs to debate Donald Trump state visit petition" (20 February) by BBC.
Speech: "Address "The President and the Press" Before the American Newspaper Publishers Association, New York City", April 27, 1961 by John F. Kennedy. "No President should fear public scrutiny"
Article: "Fairness Doctrine" by Wikipedia.
Book: In Search of History: A Personal Adventure by Theodore Harold White.
Book: Trump: The Art of the Deal by Donald J. Trump with Tony Schwartz.
Article: "6 counts of murder for Quebec mosque attack suspect" by Tracey Lindeman and Rob Gillies.
Article: "Gulf of Tonkin incident" by Wikipedia.
Quote: "It not who votes, but who counts the votes." - attributed to Joseph Stalin.
Quote: "A lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth can get its boots on" - attributed to Mark Twain.
Article: "Big lie" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Sturmabteilung" (Brownshirts).
Article: "Blackshirts" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Kristallnacht" by Wikipedia.

Hour Two: Rising Fascism - At What Point Do You Say No!
- Neil McCabe, Breitbart News  Twitter  Twitter
Article: "Fasces" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Fireside Chat. May 26, 1940" by Franklin D. Roosevelt. "Our present emergency and a common sense of decency make it imperative that no new group of war millionaires shall come into being in this nation as a result of the struggles abroad."
Case: "Buckley v. Valeo", 1976
 
Article: "Who Hasn't Trump Banned? People From Places Where He's Done Business" by Richard W. Painter and Norman L. Eisen.
Article: "Ludwig M�ller" (Reichsbischof) by Wikipedia.
Bible: "Matthew 25".
Bible: "Matthew 25:31-46 (New International Version)". "All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats."
Article: "Sermon on the Mount" by Wikipedia.
 
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Article: "Donald Trump's Muslim ban faces new legal challenges" by Alice Miranda Ollstein.
 
Video: Requiem for the American Dream - Noam Chomsky.
Law: "Telecommunications Act of 1996" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Fred Trump" by Wikipedia.
Case: "Kent v. Dulles" (1958).
Case: "Murdock v. Pennsylvania" (1943).
Article: "5th Amendment" (double jeopardy, witness against self, due process, taking clause, due compensation)
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