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The Evil Reason the GOP Will Exploit Every Crisis The World Is Facing
Why Are the GOP Pretending Everything Is Fine When Trump Is Guilty as Hell?
Crazy Alert! In a Few Years Will You Travel to the First Space Hotel Instead of Mexico?
Will the Russia Ruble Oil Scheme Work? - Economist Dr. Richard Wolff, Democracy At Work / Author of numerous books - his latest is The Sickness is the System (now also available as an e-book)
Koch and Trump Refuse to Stop Doing "Business" in Russia
Geeky Science! The Green Crypto Currency Fossil Fuel Bull Pucky Exposed
Manchin Opposing Biden's Plan to Tax US Billionaires - Will Manchin Hurt Democrats in the Coming Election?
SHOULD Congress Revisit Trump's "Perfect" Phone Call To Zelinsky? Why Is Trump Getting Away With Sabotaging Ukraine?

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The Evil Reason the GOP Will Exploit Every Crisis The World Is Facing

Worldwide, Democracy is under threat - not just as a result of Putin's murderous war against Ukraine, but brewing since the 1980s and Reagan's neoliberal revolution.

Putin's attack on Ukraine is producing a series of crises which are going to, in all probability, bring a period of great pain and instability to the world and to America in the near future.

Republicans are already working to exploit it.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Wednesday's Daily Stack

Hour One: The Evil Reason the GOP Will Exploit Every Crisis The World Is Facing

Article: "The Evil Reason the GOP Will Exploit Every Crisis The World Is Facing" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Poland Demonized Refugees. Now It's Struggling to Integrate Them" by Mateusz Mazzini.

Article: "As the Fourth Great Turning Unwinds, Ukraine has become the George Floyd of the World" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Migrants may bring epidemics, warns Polish president" by AFP.

Article: "Ukraine, Russia, and crop production" by Nick Paulson, Joe Janzen, Krista Swanson, Gary Schnitkey and Carl Zulauf.

Article: "Warning: The Fed is aiming a battering ram at the American economy" by Robert Reich.

Article: "Fact check: Viral post overstates increase in crude oil prices" by McKenzie Sadeghi.

Article: "Bolsonaro Proposes Amazon Mining Over Fertilizer Shortages" by AFP.

Article: "Zarzၝzanie strachem. Jak prawica wygrywa debatę publiczną w Polsce" by Paweł Cywiński, Filip Katner, Jarosᐪw ZiÓłkowski. (Managing fear. How the right wing wins the public debate in Poland)

Article: "The Fed Has Made a U.S. Recession Inevitable" by Bill Dudley.

Article: "China locks down Shanghai, its biggest city, as Omicron fuels record surge in COVID cases" by Lucy Craft.

Article: "Help to refugees arriving in Moldova and Poland aims to alleviate pressures on neighbours" by Rebekah Daunt.

Article: "UK households face Â£38bn hit from rising energy bills" by Jim Pickard.

Article: "Traders warn of looming global diesel shortage" by Neil Hume, Harry Dempsey, Eva Szalay.

Article: "Ukraine war risks destabilising the west" by Gideon Rachman.

Article: "Poland's Most Powerful Man Isn't Well. Questions Are Swirling" by Marc Santora and Joanna Berendt.

Article: "Keep Your Eye on the Three F's" by Paul Krugman.

Article: "Trump touts 'great' Saudi-Russia oil deal to halt price rout, but details unclear" by Rania El Gamal, Vladimir Soldatkin, Jeff Mason.

Article: "Average UK energy bills could hit Â£3,000 a year, consumers warned" by Miles Brignall and Jenn Selby.

Article: "Saudi Arabia and UAE leaders 'decline calls with Biden' amid fears of oil price spike" by Edward Helmore.

Article: "Battle of Aleppo (2012–2016)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "'Drug dealers, criminals, rapists': What Trump thinks of Mexicans" by BBC.

Article: "No, Biden Hasn't Introduced 'Open Borders,' Despite Surge In Migrants" by Joe Walsh.

Article: "Peddler's martyrdom launched Tunisia's revolution" by Lin Noueihed.

Article: "Arab Spring" by Encyclopaedia Britannica.

Article: "Blasé Biden's inflation will doom Democrats this November" by Rich Lowry.

Article: "Biden Is Unfit to Lead in This Perilous Moment" by Nicholas L. Waddy.

Article: "The Biden Crime Family Has Been Exposed: What Is To Be Done?" by James Howard Kunstler.

Article: "Chile's Economic Destruction is a Preview of what's in Store for Biden's America" by Dr. Jay Lehr and Tom Harris.

Article: "World War II" (1939 - 1945) by Wikipedia.

Article: "1967 Oil Embargo" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Iranian Revolution" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Shanghai begins locking down millions as China's Covid cases surge" by Vincent Ni.

Why Are the GOP Pretending Everything Is Fine When Trump Is Guilty as Hell?

Article: "That seven and a half-hour gap when the Capitol was under attack shows Trump is guilty as hell" by Dartagnan.

Article: "Trump lies about not knowing what a burner phone is. His ex-national security adviser calls B.S." by Aldous J Pennyfarthing.

Article: "'Possible Coverup': White House Logs Show 7-Hour Gap in Trump's Calls on Jan. 6" by Ryan Bort.

Article: "Rose Mary Woods" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trump's unorthodox phone habits complicate January 6 investigation" by Gloria Borger, Jamie Gangel and Ashley Semler.

Article: "Trump said he doesn't know what a 'burner phone' is. John Bolton says he does." by Grayson Quay.

Crazy Alert! In a Few Years Will You Travel to the First Space Hotel Instead of Mexico?

Article: "World's first space hotel to open in 2027 with 'activities you can't do on Earth'" by Christine Younan.

Article: "Space tourism: rockets emit 100 times more CO2 per passenger than flights – imagine a whole industry" by Eloise Marais.

Article: "Cassandra" by Wikipedia.

Book: Collapse (How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed) by Jared Diamond.

Article: "Trump alumni launch America First Policy Institute" by Lexi Lonas.

Article: "GOP Sen. Susan Collins says she will vote for Biden Supreme Court pick Ketanji Brown Jackson, giving her likely confirmation bipartisan support" by Kevin Breuninger.

Site: UNHCR.

Article: "Pentagon says Polish proposal to transfer jets to US to give to Ukraine isn't 'tenable'" by Jeremy Herb, Kylie Atwood, Jennifer Hansler and Oren Liebermann.

Article: "Marshall Plan" by Wikipedia.

Article: "How much air pollution do rocket launches cause?" by Breeze Technologies.

Hour Two: Will the Russia Ruble Oil Scheme Work?
- Economist Dr. Richard Wolff, Democracy At Work / Author of numerous books - his latest is The Sickness is the System (now also available as an e-book)

Article: "Here's How Putin's Demand for Ruble Payments for Gas Could Play Out" by Patricia Cohen.

Article: "All Russia's big exports could soon be in roubles, Kremlin signals" by Guy Faulconbridge.

Article: "Petrodollars" by Investopedia.

Article: "Reserve currency" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Bretton Woods system" by Wikipedia.

Article: "John Maynard Keynes" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Harry Dexter White" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Nonwhite Refugees Fleeing Ukraine War Held in Detention Centers in Poland, Estonia, Austria" by Democracy Now!

Article: "Drought Updates" by Coachella Valley Water District.

Article: "How can desert surf parks, lagoon resort be approved amid drought? Here's what law says" by Janet Wilson.

Article: "Holocene extinction" (6th extinction) by Wikipedia.

Koch and Trump Refuse to Stop Doing "Business" in Russia

Article: "Trump, reliving his glory days of relevance, begs Putin for dirt on Hunter Biden" by Kerry Eleveld.

Article: "Koch Industries' valentine to Vladimir Putin" by Dana Milbank.

Article: "500 Companies Have Withdrawn from Russia—But Some Remain" by Jeffrey Sonnenfeld.

Geeky Science! The Green Crypto Currency Fossil Fuel Bull Pucky Exposed

Article: "Crypto mining is the latest fossil fuel scam lining oil investors' pockets" by April Siese.

Article: "The Durham Investigation: What We Know and What It Means" by Jack Goldsmith, Nathaniel Sobel.

Article: "Donald Trump-Russia dossier" (Steele dossier) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Jared and Ivanka made up to $640 million in the White House " by Jordan Libowitz and Caitlin Moniz.

Article: "Can the World Learn from the Failure of the Budapest Accords?" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The Epoch Times" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Biden gets second Covid booster and says US at a 'new moment in this pandemic' – as it happened" by Richard Luscombe.

Article: "'Tear This Deal Up': Outrage as DeJoy Finalizes Plan to Buy Gas-Guzzling Trucks" by Jake Johnson.

Article: "Is Louis DeJoy's Plan for New Gas Post Office Truck Fleet the Last Straw?" by Jalen Small.

Article: "Who Controls The D.C. National Guard? By Delegation, It's The Pentagon" by Josh Kovensky.

Hour Three: Manchin Opposing Biden's Plan to Tax US Billionaires - Will Manchin Hurt Democrats in the Coming Election?

Article: "President Biden pitches minimum tax on billionaires in new budget" by Pete Schroeder.

Article: "Manchin Blasted for Opposing Biden's Plan to Tax US Billionaires" by Jessica Corbett.

Article: "Jeff Bezos's True Tax Rate Is 0.98%" by Jared A. Brock.

Article: "Joe Manchin may be smaller and more corrupt than we even realized" by Laura Clawson.

SHOULD Congress Revisit Trump's "Perfect" Phone Call To Zelinsky? Why Is Trump Getting Away With Sabotaging Ukraine?

Article: "House Republican resolution would erase House impeachment of Trump for Ukraine extortion" by Hunter.

Article: "The 147 Republicans Who Voted to Overturn Election Results" by Karen Yourish, Larry Buchanan and Denise Lu.

Article: "197 House Republicans Reject Impeachment Of Trump, Blaming Democrats For The Chaos" by Paul Blumenthal.

Book: "The Hidden History of Neoliberalism: How Reaganism Gutted America and How to Restore Its Greatness" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Chicago school of economics" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Milton Friedman" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Fact check: Trump's misleading claims on Obama-Biden aid to Ukraine" by Tara Subramaniam. Trump: "They sent blankets. I sent Javelins."

Article: "What happened to the military equipment left in Afghanistan?" by Eleanor Watson.

Article: "The United States has closed at least 10 bases around Afghanistan. But drawdown details remain murky." by Susannah George and Dan Lamothe.

Article: "Alaska Permanent Fund" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Ron DeSantis" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Tom Cotton" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Josh Hawley" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Rick Scott" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Revealed: Trump used White House phone to make call on January 6 that was not on official log" by Hugo Lowell.

Article: "Trump admin broke law with visa delays for Afghans, Iraqis who worked for U.S., judge rules" by Dan De Luce.

Article: "Trump asks Putin to release any info about Hunter Biden" by Zoë Richards.

Article: "'Joe Biden Doesn't Own This Station': Store Manager Begs for an End to 'I Did That' Stickers on His Gas Pumps" by Kipp Jones.

Book: Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Edward S. Herman & Noam Chomsky.

Article: "Screen readers" by AFB.

Site: National Federation of the Blind.

Movie: "The Manchurian Candidate".

Article: "Billionaire Republican Donors Are Now Giving To Manchin And Sinema" by Michela Tindera.

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