This is one way to reveal how shallow and rotten so much of our lawmaking and business activity is today: put every decision to this test -- How will it affect the grandchildren of our children?

Juice Media, one of the groups I support on Patreon, has a new video out (with a cameo at the end by Greta Thunberg) that puts the failures of the COP26 meeting in perspective. In summary, they say we are…well…to keep this family-friendly (in print at least), let's just say "we're screwed."

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Tuesday's Daily Stack

Article: "Seventh Generation Amendment: The Blah-Blah-Blah Has to End!" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "A microenvironmental study of an archaeological site, Arizona BB: 10:3, Whiptail Ruin" by Jamie Laverne Lytle.

Article: "Humans Had Significant Role in the Extinction of the Woolly Mammoth" by University of Adelaide.

Book: The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber, David Wengrow.

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

Book: "The Prophet's Way" by Thom Hartmann

Book: The Sixth Extinction: Patterns of Life and the Future of Humankind by Richard E. Leakey, Roger Lewin

Article: "Policies" by Haudenosaunee Confederacy of Chiefs Council.

Article: "What is the Seventh Generation Principle?" by Indigenous Corporate Training.

Article: "Franklin and the Iroquois Foundations of the Constitution" by Cynthia Feathers and Susan Feathers.

Article: "The Atrahasis Epic: The Great Flood & the Meaning of Suffering" by Joshua J. Mark.

Article: "Deliberations begin in Rittenhouse trial after 7 women, 5 men picked for jury" by CBSNews.

Book: Bullshit Jobs: A Theory by David Graeber.

Article: "Nancy Pelosi says the 'climate crisis is a national security matter' to defend Pentagon budget increase" by Sophie Mellor.

Article: "Sweden prosecuting oil executives for complicity in war crimes - the first time since Nuremberg" by Pakalolo.

Article: "Sweden charges 2 oil executives for war crimes in Sudan" by Jan M. Olsen.

Tweet: "While we pay the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs and 1 out of 4 Americans can't afford the medicine they need, the top 15 pharmaceutical executives pulled in more than $470 million in salaries and bonuses last year. Greed. Greed. Greed. [link]" by Bernie Sanders.

Article: "GOP, Big Pharma Plotting to Convince Senate Parliamentarian to Help Kill Drug Price Reforms" by Jake Johnson.

Article: "Here Are Steve Bannon's Last Words Before Surrendering To Custody" by Daily Caller.

Article: "Virginia Exit Poll: Youngkin Wins Big with Hispanic Voters" by Katherine Hamilton.

Article: "Did Youngkin Really Win a Stunning Majority of Latino Voters in Virginia?" by Rick Moran.

Article: "María Teresa Kumar" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Chile" by Wikipedia.

Book: The Hidden History of American Oligarchy: Reclaiming Our Democracy from the Ruling Class by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Oligarchy" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Neoliberalism" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Smedley Butler" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Business Plot" (1933, Smedley Butler) by Wikipedia.

Book: War is a Racket: The Antiwar Classic by America's Most Decorated Soldier by Smedley D. Butler.

Article: "The Civilian Climate Corps (CCC), Explained" by Ellen Sciales.

Article: "Eugene V. Debs" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Alien and Sedition Acts of the United States". "old, querulous, Bald, blind, crippled, Toothless Adams."

Article: "The Pentagon Just Added "Climate Change" to Its Official Dictionary" by Bryan Schatz.

Article: "Bill Gates-backed ESS — which makes giant batteries out of iron, salt and water — starts trading" by Catherine Clifford.

Video: Is the World Locking Down Again on the New Covid Wave? (w/ Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding).

Article: "In Israel, Being Fully Vaccinated Now Means Three Shots" by Dov Lieber.

Article: "No 10 plans booster jab requirement for people to obtain Covid pass" by Jessica Elgot.

Article: "Manchin opposes $4,500 'not-American' federal grant for union-made electric vehicles: Throws Biden's $1.7T Build Back Better agenda into doubt with just a week until Dems want it passed" by Geoff Earle.

Article: "Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) - August 1981 strike" by Wikipedia.

Article: "'Inexcusable': Manchin Leads Charge Against Biden's Pro-Union Electric Vehicle Tax Credit" by Julia Conley.

Article: "Trump ally Michael Flynn condemned over call for 'one religion' in US" by Martin Pengelly.

Article: "Lee Atwater" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Keeping old cars longer can help the environment MORE than buying new electric cars" by Chris Melore.

Article: "Homicide is a top cause of maternal death in the United States" by Nidhi Subbaraman.

Article: "Why hundreds of scientists are weighing in on a high-stakes US abortion case" by Amy Maxmen.

Documentary: Who Killed the Electric Car?.

Article: "Los Angeles Railway" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Final Version of the Report on the Subject of Manufactures, [5 December 1791]" by Alexander Hamilton.

Book: "Rebooting the American Dream: 11 Ways to Rebuild Our Country" by Thom Hartmann

Article: "China overtakes US as richest country in the world".

Hour Three: Conversations With Great Minds: What is the Psychology Behind Creating Fear Around "Critical Race Theory" & How Do You Purge Racism From a Society?
- Psychoanalyst Dr. Justin Frank MD, Psychoanalyst & Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Science - George Washington University / Author - Trump on the Couch (Previous books include Bush on the Couch & Obama on the Couch) @JustinFrankMD

Article: "Republicans, the press, and the "education" charade" by Eric Boehlert.

Article: "Nearly half of Republicans polled say schools shouldn't teach history of racism" by Brooke Migdon.

Article: "5 Books About The Black American Experience That Conservatives Want Banned" by Bilal G. Morris.

Article: "Why the Right Hates Public Education" by Barbara Miner.

Book: "Conservatives Without Conscience" by John W. Dean.

Book: "The Authoritarians" by Robert Altemeyer.

Book: Authoritarian Nightmare: Trump and His Followers by John W. Dean, Bob Altemeyer.

Article: "Adolf Hitler" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Benito Mussolini" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Tony Soprano" by Wikipedia.

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

Article: "The Hayes-Tilden Electoral Commission" by James Monroe.

Wednesday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 12-3pm ET

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