Scott Pruitt is turning the EPA into a propaganda arm of the fossil fuel industry.

He's already staffed the agency with climate change deniers - and now he's started repeating Big Oil's lies live on television.

Yesterday, for example, he told CNBC that he doesn't believe that carbon dioxide causes climate change.

"Human activity on the climate is something very challenging to do and there's tremendous disagreement about the degree of impact, so no, I would not agree that it's a primary contributor to the global warming that we see."

This is exactly what Henry Wallace was talking about in 1944 when he wrote an editorial in the New York Times about American Fascists. He described these American fascists as people who are

"... spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest... [whose] final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection."

Isn't that exactly what we're seeing here with the Trump administration, in particular the EPA?

-Thom

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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 10:30pm... What The Wikileaks Dump Tells Us (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT or Free Speech TV, and catch past shows on Youtube)

Friday's Daily Stack 

Article: "Little-noticed House Republican bill would let employers demand workers' genetic test results" by Sharon Begley.

Article: "How Many People Are Affected by Obamacare Premium Increases? (Hint, It's Fewer Than You Think)" by Troy Griggs, Karen Yourish and Margot Sanger-Katz.

Article: "Watch: Trump talks healthcare in weekly address" by UPI.

Article: "Marco Rubio Quietly Undermines Affordable Care Act" by Robert Pear.

Article: "Explaining 'Risk Corridors,' The Next Obamacare Issue" by Louise Radnofsky and Jennifer Corbett Dooren, Jan 22, 2014.

Article: "China: U.S., North Korea on collision course" by Ed Adamczyk.

Article: "South Korea president Park Geun-Hye ousted by court" by BBC.

Article: "U.S. starts deploying anti-missile system in South Korea after defiant North's latest test" by James Pearson and Ju-Min Park.

Article: "Korea, US kickoff annual exercise" by Yi Whan-Woo.

Article: "Meet the Hundreds of Officials Trump Has Quietly Installed Across the Government" by Justin Elliott, Derek Kravitz and Al Shaw.

Article: "Insurance Companies Just Accidentally Made The Case For Medicare For All" by Daniel Marans.

Article: "U.S. deployment of missile system in South Korea riles China" by Ryan Connelly Holmes.

Site: Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action.

Site: Physicians for Social Responsibility.

Site: Fellowship of Reconciliation.

Event: Seattle, April 21: Save Our Planet!

Article: "House OKs $578B military spending bill" by Richard Lardner.

Article: "Lawmakers Introduce Bill Restricting First Use of Nuclear Weapons" by Emily Tamkin.

Book: "The Fourth Turning" by William Strauss, Neil Howe.

Article: "If There's No Presidential Vote Recount, What Happens To The Money Jill Stein Raised?" by Kelly Phillips Erb.

Article: "Trump Vowed to Protect the Safety Net. What if His Appointees Disagree?" by Yamiche Alcindor.

Book: Let's Cook It Right by Adelle Davis.

Book: Let's Eat Right To Keep Fit by Adelle Davis.

Book: Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and Diet Dictocrats by Sally Fallon with Mary G. Enig.

Article: "The Truth About the WikiLeaks C.I.A. Cache" by Zeynep Tufekci.

Article: "Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Ex-CIA chief Hayden says WikiLeaks is acting as an agent of the Russian Federation" by Carlos Garcia.

Article: "Chelsea Manning" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Edward Snowden" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Want a Friend in Washington, Get a Dog" - attributed to Harry S. Truman.

Hour Two: Fukushima: 6 Years Later & Still Not Over
- Kevin Kamps, Beyond Nuclear  

Article: "Six years after Fukushima began, "normalizing" radiation exposure risks the health of women and children" by Cindy Folkers.

Article: "People will return to towns surrounding Fukushima this month - six years after evacuating due to nuclear disaster" by Kiyoshi Takenaka, Teppei Kasai.

Article: "Dying robots and failing hope: Fukushima clean-up falters six years after tsunami" by Justin McCurry.

Article: "Fukushima Catastrophe at 6: Normalizing Radiation Exposure Demeans Women and Kids and Risks Their Health" by Cindy Folkers.

Article: "Nuclear Information and Resource Service" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Chernobyl disaster", 26 April 1986 by Wikipedia.

Article: "Bluefin tuna record Fukushima radioactivity" by Jonathan Amos, 29 May 2012.

Article: "Fukushima radiation nears California coast, judged harmless" by Courtney Sherwood, Nov. 11, 2014.

Article: "Bioaccumulation" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Gaps in US radiation monitoring system revealed" by Garance Burke And Noaki Schwartz.

Article: "Revision to the PAG Manual: Protective Action Guide (PAG) for Drinking Water After a Radiological Incident" by EPA, 01/19/2017.

Site: Nuclear Information and Resource Service.

Documentary: Chernobyl Heart.

 

Site: Move to Amend

Article: "WATCH: N.J.'s Pallone calls Republican Obamacare replacement 'a disgrace'" by Jonathan D. Salant.

Article: "Preamble to the Constitution of the United States".

Article: "Constitution of the United States" Article 1 section 8 (Powers of Congress). "The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States..."

Article: "25th JFK Assassination Secrets Scheduled for 2017 Release" by Josh Sanburn.

Book: "Legacy of Secrecy" by Lamar Waldron with Thom Hartmann

Book: "Ultimate Sacrifice" by Lamar Waldron with Thom Hartmann

Site: The Hidden History of the JFK Assassination.

Article: "Steve Bannon Says Trump's Cabinet Picks Are Intended to 'Deconstruct' Regulation and Agencies" by David Z. Morris.

Article: "Paul Manafort" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Delano grape strike" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Alabama Democrats' problem isn't Trump or Hillary. It's Joe Reed and Nancy Worley" by Kyle Whitmire.

Article: "Top Democrat, former secretary of state fails to pay court fees" by Cat Reid.

Article: "'Bell Curve' author attacked by protesters at Middlebury College" by Laura Krantz.

 

Talk Media News Segment:
- Patrick Gavin 

Article: "The GOP Obamacare replacement still has to pass a huge test - and it already looks like it might be a disaster" by Bob Bryan.

Article: "Pre-emptive strike: White House slams CBO in before American Health Care Act score is released" by Matthew Rozsa.

Article: "After Halting Start, Trump Plunges Into Effort to Repeal Health Law" by Maggie Haberman and Robert Pear.

Article: "Trump predicts passage of GOP health care bill" by David Jackson.

Site: "Goats for the old Goat".

Hour Three: How Big Oil & Gas Fracked Up Oklahoma
- Dr. Anthony Ingraffea Ph.D. P.E., Cornell University  

Site: "Recent Earthquakes Near Oklahoma, United States".

Site: "Earthquakes in Oklahoma" by Office Of The Secretary Of Energy & Environment, OK.

Article: "Pawnee Nation Sues Oklahoma Oil Companies in Tribal Court Over Earthquake Damage" by AP.

Article: "How The Oil And Gas Industry Awakened Oklahoma's Sleeping Fault Lines" by Maggie Koerth-Baker.

Article: "Scott Pruitt" (former Attorney General of Oklahoma, now EPA head) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Oklahoma US Sen. Inhofe says wildfire damage 'unprecedented'" by AP.

Article: "Gov. Mary Fallin declares state of emergency for 22 counties due to wildfires"(Oklahoma) by KOCO.

Article: "EPA chief says carbon dioxide not 'primary contributor' to climate change" by Kevin Bogardus.

 

Bible: "While people are saying, "Peace and safety," destruction will come on them suddenly, as labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape." 1 Thessalonians 5:3.

Site: The Convention of States (COS) Project.

Article: "Internment of Japanese Americans" by Wikipedia.

Case: "Brown v. Board Of Education", 1954 (Segregation in public schools) (overturned Plessy v. Ferguson).

Article: "Citizens for Self-Governance" by SourceWatch.

Event: 4 April, Warren County Illinois: "Election".

Site: Warren Taxpayers United.

Article: "Our Slate" by Warren Taxpayers United.

Article: "Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Bears Ears National Monument" by Wikipedia.

Article: "'Defunding' Planned Parenthood Would Really Screw Paul Ryan's District" by Laura Bassett.

Site: co2.earth.

Article: "Kalamazoo River oil spill" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The Powell Memo or Powell Manifesto".

Video: Bill McKibben: Fighting Back on Climate Change | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO).

Article: "U.S. Is Sending 400 More Troops to Syria" by Michael R. Gordon.

Article: "Ineligibility Clause" (Emoluments Clause).

Video: Donald Trump: "I love WikiLeaks!" [10/10/16].

Event: March 11th: "Blue State Ball 2017" by Minneapolis, MN.

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