Trump's new Chairman of the FCC, Ajit Pai, recently co-authored what is either an intentionally or naively deceptive op-ed in The Washington Post.

Pai suggested that when Republicans in the House and Senate - without a single Democratic vote in either body - voted to legalize your Internet Service Provider - your ISP - to sell your personal (and you-thought-private) browsing information and the content of your emails and video-viewing to anybody they choose, they were actually working to "protect" your privacy. He knew this, he wrote, because critics of the GOP policy "don't understand how advertising works."

That claim is unadulterated BS.

He starts out saying that an ISP would never sell your private browsing\emailing\viewing history because it "would violate ISP's privacy promises." True enough, at this moment - because those privacy policies reflect the law that banned such behavior.

But anybody who's ever bothered to read online Terms Of Service knows that such policies can, quite literally, be changed in less than a day, to accommodate new legal opportunities. To think they won't is either naďve or profoundly disingenuous.

Read more here.

-Thom

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Monday's Daily Stack 

Site: Roatán.

Article: "Video Shows Man Forcibly Removed From Overbooked United Flight" by Jennifer Calfas.

Article: "Tomahawk maker's stock up after U.S. launch on Syria" by Paul R. La Monica.

Article: "Falklands War" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Jared Kushner did not disclose Russian meetings in security clearance application" by Christopher Brennan.

Article: "After Xi Leaves U.S., Chinese Media Assail Strike on Syria" by Jane Perlez.

Article: "Russia decries cancelled Boris Johnson visit and warns on further Syria attacks" by Peter Walker and Shaun Walker.

Article: "Tillerson faces tough talks in Moscow amid increased tensions" by Lesley Wroughton and Yeganeh Torbati.

Article: "Why Trump's Syria Strike Will Not End Well" by Trita Parsi.

Site: Michael Hudson.

Law: "Sherman Antitrust Act", 1890.

Article: "Travis McGee Novels".

Book: "The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: Revised and Updated: The Fate of the World and What We Can Do Before It's Too Late" by Thom Hartmann

Article: "'The dead were wherever you looked': inside Syrian town after gas attack" by Kareem Shaheen.

Article: "The Powell Memo or Powell Manifesto".

Quote: "It violates the essence of what made America a great country in its political system. Now it's just an oligarchy with unlimited political bribery being at the essence of getting the nominations for president or elected president. And the same thing applies to governors and U.S. senators and Congress members. So now we've just seen a complete subversion of our political system as a payoff to major contributors who want and expect and sometimes get favors for themselves after the election's over'." - President Jimmy Carter on unlimited money in politics on the Thom Hartmann Program, 28 July 2015.

Article: "Milton Friedman" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Ludwig von Mises" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Friedrich Hayek" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Why Britain's Trains Don't Run on Time: Capitalism" by Owen Jones.

Tweet: "The American Health Care Act: - Drive down costs - Encourage competition - Expand access to care http://spkrryan.us/2lUBH6x #RepealAndReplace" by Paul Ryan.

Article: "This Could Happen to You: Revenue-Hungry Cities Mess With Traffic Lights to Write More Tickets and Make Driving More Dangerous" by Sarah Lazare.

Article: "Neil Gorsuch and the "Frozen Trucker"" by Jed Handelsman Shugerman.

Article: "Oil Leak From Keystone Pipeline 89 Times Worse Than Originally Thought" by Alejandro Dávila Fragoso.

Speech: "Crisis of Confidence" by Jimmy Carter, July 15, 1979.

Book: Theory of Moral Sentiments, Adam Smith, 1759.

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..."

 

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Article: "Gorsuch sworn in as Supreme Court justice" by Gary Gately.

Article: "Supreme Court to Hear Oral Argument in Missouri Playground Case" by John Litzler.

Article: "G7 ministers look to persuade Russia to abandon Syria's Assad" by Crispian Balmer and Steve Scherer.

Article: "Boris Johnson asks G7 to consider fresh sanctions against Russia and Syria" by Heather Stewart.

Article: "G7 climate change delay blamed on US" by James Politi.

Article: "US scuppers G7 joint statement on climate change" by James Politi, Pilita Clark.

Site: "Goats for the old Goat".

Book: Loving What You Do: The Elements of a Great Working Life by Ellen Ratner.

Hour Three: Who Are the Disposable Americans?
- Paul Buchheit, Disposable Americans: Extreme Capitalism and the Case for a Guaranteed Income  

Article: "U.S. Health Care System Is Condemning Thousands of Americans to an Early Death" by Paul Buchheit.

Article: "Mnuchin said robots replacing jobs is 'not even on my radar screen' - here's why it should be" by Harriet Taylor.

Article: "The Money-Empathy Gap" by Lisa Miller.

Article: "Laffer Curve".

 

Article: "Tomahawk maker's stock up after U.S. launch on Syria" by Paul R. La Monica.

Article: "Seven House Republicans face TV ad attacks over health care" by Mike DeBonis.

 

Article: "A Brain-Invading Parasite Is Believed to Be Spreading Because of Humans" by Rhett Jones.

Site: Seagrape Plantation Resort.

Site: The Lily Pond House Hotel.

Article: "Chase Iron Eyes" by Wikipedia.

Site: Lakota People's Law Project.

Article: "Senators Ask Army Corps for Documentation on Dakota Access Pipeline Environmental Reviews" by Yessenia Funes.

Video: Gorsuch Nomination Hearing -- Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse opening statement.

Article: "Whitehouse Remarks At Gorsuch Confirmation Hearing" by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse.

Article: "Pentagon Pictures Detail The Results Of Trump's Devastating Attack On Syria's Airbase" by Russ Read.

Article: "The Secret Service requested $60 million of additional funding to protect the Trump family" by Mark Abadi.

Article: "Kennedy enters 2018 Illinois governor's race ripping Rauner for causing 'economic chaos'" by Rick Pearson.

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