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Pruitt Doesn't Know Carbon Dioxide Causes Climate Change!
Thom plus logo  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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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: "Explaining 'Risk Corridors,' The Next Obamacare Issue" by Louise Radnofsky and Jennifer Corbett Dooren, Jan 22, 2014.
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.
Event: Seattle, April 21: Save Our Planet!
Article: "House OKs $578B military spending bill" by Richard Lardner.
Book: "The Fourth Turning" by William Strauss, Neil Howe.
Book: Let's Cook It Right by Adelle Davis.
Book: Let's Eat Right To Keep Fit by Adelle Davis.
Article: "The Truth About the WikiLeaks C.I.A. Cache" by Zeynep Tufekci.
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  Twitter
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.
Documentary: Chernobyl Heart.
 
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..."
Book: "Legacy of Secrecy" by Lamar Waldron with Thom Hartmann
Book: "Ultimate Sacrifice" by Lamar Waldron with Thom Hartmann
Article: "Paul Manafort" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Delano grape strike" by Wikipedia.
 
Talk Media News Segment:
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Article: "After Halting Start, Trump Plunges Into Effort to Repeal Health Law" by Maggie Haberman and Robert Pear.

Hour Three: How Big Oil & Gas Fracked Up Oklahoma
- Dr. Anthony Ingraffea Ph.D. P.E., Cornell University  Twitter
Site: "Earthquakes in Oklahoma" by Office Of The Secretary Of Energy & Environment, OK.
Article: "Scott Pruitt" (former Attorney General of Oklahoma, now EPA head) by Wikipedia.
 
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.
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".
Article: "Our Slate" by Warren Taxpayers United.
Article: "Bears Ears National Monument" by Wikipedia.
Site: co2.earth.
Article: "Kalamazoo River oil spill" by Wikipedia.
Article: "U.S. Is Sending 400 More Troops to Syria" by Michael R. Gordon.
Article: "Ineligibility Clause" (Emoluments Clause).
Event: March 11th: "Blue State Ball 2017" by Minneapolis, MN.
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If the Rich Keep Stealing the American Dream, the Poor Will Rise Up Against Them
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