Thursday 11 January '18 show notes

Jan. 19, 2018 4:34 pm

By SueN

Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH): The Ohio case that could change voter purges
Dr. Trita Parsi, National Iranian American Council (NIAC): Will Trump kill the nuclear deal right away & increase the threat of war?
Economist Dr. Richard Wolff, Democracy At Work/Capitalism's Crisis Deepens Essays on the Global Economic Meltdown: The Debt Crisis of US House Builders...
Lisa Rosenberg, Open the Government: The NSA surveillance bill passed by Congress today...

Thursday's Daily Stack

Hour One: The Ohio case that could change voter purges
- Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH)

Book: P. T. Barnum - The Art of Money Getting, or Golden Rules for Making Money by P. T. Barnum.

Article: "This Ohio Case Could Change Who Gets Purged From The Voter Rolls" by Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux.

Case: "Husted v. A. Philip Randolph Institute".

Tweet: "Making it harder to vote is a direct attack on democracy. Speaking out today about why it’s so important for the Supreme Court to uphold the Sixth Circuit’s decision that purging voters is against the law - follow along at https://www.snapchat.com/add/sensherrodbrown" by Sherrod Brown, 10 Jan 2018.

Petition: "Ohio should be making it easier for Americans to exercise the right to vote, not harder." by Sherrod Brown.

Clip: "Paul Weyrich - "I don't want everybody to vote" (Goo Goo)".

Article: "Product Instability Or Tip-over Injuries And Fatalities Associated With Television, Furniture And Appliances: 2016 Report" (2013 - 2015 incomplete) by US CPSC.

Article: "There have been just four documented cases of voter fraud in the 2016 election" by Philip Bump.

Article: "The Top 10 Most Dangerous Jobs in America" by David Johnson.

Quote: "It not who votes, but who counts the votes." - attributed to Joseph Stalin.

Law: "Help America Vote Act" (2002).

Quote: "I am committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year" - Walden W. O'Dell, chief executive of Diebold Inc., 2003.

Article: "Benjamin Franklin And the Birth of a Paper Money Economy" by Farley Grubb.

Article: "Bank of North Dakota" by Wikipedia.

Article: "In a sneak attack on Social Security, Senate Republicans are proposing cuts to the Social Security Administration." by Michael Phelan, Social Security Works.

Site: Social Security Works.

Article: "Study: Flu Virus Hates Moist Air" by AP.

Article: "We’re Not Ready for a Flu Pandemic" by Michael T. Osterholm And Mark Olshaker.

Article: "Trump’s Threat to Democracy" by Nicholas Kristof.

Book: How Democracies Die by Steven Levitsky And Daniel Ziblatt.

Article: "Trump pushes for new federal libel laws after Michael Wolff tell-all" by Gregory Korte and David Jackson.

Will Trump kill the nuclear deal right away & increase the threat of war?
- Dr. Trita Parsi, National Iranian American Council (NIAC)

Article: "America’s Relationship With Europe: Collateral Damage if Trump Kills the Iran Deal" by Trita Parsi.

Article: "Will Trump Kill the Iran Nuclear Deal This Week? If So, Threat of War Grows" by Trita Parsi.

Article: "Iran nuclear deal: Key details" by BBC.

Article: "America First Committee" by Wikipedia.

Article: "1918 flu pandemic" by Wikipedia.

Site: France 24.

Site: Deutsche Welle.

Site: RT.

Site: BBC.

Site: PBS News Hour.

Article: "'A good day': Obama hails Iran's release of journalist and other Americans" by Martin Pengelly and Lauren Gambino.

Hour Two: The Debt Crisis of US House Builders...
- Economist Dr. Richard Wolff, Democracy At Work/Capitalism's Crisis Deepens Essays on the Global Economic Meltdown

Article: "Trump Administration Waives Punishment For Convicted Banks, Including Deutsche — Which Trump Owes Millions" by David Sirota And Josh Keefe.

Article: "Libor scandal" by Wikipedia.

Article: "US government bond sell-off triggers warnings" by Eric Platt and Robin Wigglesworth.

Article: "US stocks, bonds, dollar lower on China Treasury buying jitters" by Pan Kwan Yuk.

Article: "Quantitative easing" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Spratly Islands dispute" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Iran nuclear deal framework" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Remarks by President Trump on Iran Strategy", October 13, 2017.

Article: "The GOP's Stealth War Against Voters" (Interstate Crosscheck) by Greg Palast, August 24, 2016.

Article: "Walmart to raise its starting wage to $11, give some employees bonuses following tax bill passage" by Lauren Thomas, Courtney Reagan.

Article: "The truth about Walmart’s new bonuses" by Judd Legum.

Article: "Income and Wealth Inequality" by Sen. Bernie Sanders.

Article: "IOWA Now Dead Last In GDP Growth Under All-republican Control" by rick-smith.

Article: "Jerry Brown's Legacy: A $6.1 Billion Budget Surplus in California" by Alejandro Lazo and Nour Malas.

Article: "Jerry Brown’s Legacy: A $6.1 Billion Budget Surplus in California" by Alejandro Lazo and Nour Malas.

Article: "Reserve currency" by Wikipedia.

Article: "California’s lawmakers should have a surplus next year. Will they spend it or save it?" by Adam Ashton.

Video: Watch Virginia’s random drawing for tied House of Delegates race, Jan 04 2018.

Talk Media News Segment:
- Bob Ney

Article: "A Trump tweet briefly threw a congressional vote on surveillance into chaos" by Andrew Prokop.

Article: "House passes FISA reauthorization despite Trump tweet criticizing the program" by Deirdre Walsh and Ashley Killough.

Article: "Rand Paul threatens to filibuster over FISA surveillance program" by Veronica Stracqualursi.

Law: "Patriot Act", 2001.

Article: "Trump's Tuesday surprise: 55 minutes on camera at White House" by Erica Pandey.

Article: "Judge rules DACA legal, blocks Trump’s decision to end program" by Stephen Dinan.

Article: "More Mexicans Leaving Than Coming to the U.S." by Ana Gonzalez-Barrera, November 19, 2015.

Article: "Rise in U.S. Immigrants From El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras Outpaces Growth From Elsewhere" by D’Vera Cohn, Jeffrey S. Passel And Ana Gonzalez-Barrera, December 7, 2017.

Article: "Immigration agents raid 7-Eleven stores nationwide, arrest 21 people in biggest crackdown of Trump era" by Corky Siemaszko.

Book: "Sideswiped: Lessons Learned Courtesy of the Hit Men of Capitol Hill" by Robert Ney.

Site: "Goats for the old Goat".

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

Hour Three: The NSA surveillance bill passed by Congress today...
- Lisa Rosenberg, Open the Government

Article: "NSA Surveillance Bill Would Legalize Loophole That Lets FBI Spy On Americans Without A Warrant" by Alex Emmons.

Article: "OTG Opposes Effort to Reauthorize and Expand Surveillance Law that Weakens Fourth Amendment Protections" by Open the Government.

Article: "4th Amendment". "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."

Article: "Private intelligence agency" by Wikipedia.

Article: "New Census Figures Show That 1 in 5 Californians Struggle to Get By" by Alissa Anderson and Sara Kimberlin.

Article: "Judge ends consent decree limiting RNC 'ballot security' activities" by Josh Gerstein.

Article: "The Great American Passport Myth: Why Just 3.5% Of Us Travel Overseas!" by William D. Chalmers.

Article: "Modern Monetary Theory" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trump administration plans to allow oil and gas drilling off nearly all US coast" by Oliver Milman.

Article: "Donald Trump slashes size of national parks in Utah to allow drilling" by Julie Allen.

Article: "After 40-year ban, U.S. starts exporting crude oil" by Matt Egan.

Article: "Possible Sanctions against Iran Could Impact Crude Oil Prices" by Gordon Kristopher.

Article: "Russia will not support U.S. bid to change Iran nuclear deal: Lavrov" by Reuters.

Article: "‘Stable genius’ Donald Trump doesn’t actually have an MBA from Wharton: report" by Noor Al-Sibai.

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