Leaving millions to starve & freeze to death is nothing less than complicity in the genocidal war crime Russia is currently committing - hopefully President Biden has the courage President Truman did. This is not the first time Russia has tried freezing and starving people to death to get them to submit. They've done it at least twice before, once successfully in 1932 and once unsuccessfully in 1949.

Although I wouldn't be born for another two years, I "remember" the Berlin Airlift of 1948/1949. It was part of the story of my growing up: my mother's first fiancée was killed fighting the Germans and my father volunteered for the war as soon as he got out of high school, returning from Japan, I believe, in 1948.

My parents felt so strongly that their kids should understand the hell their generation had lived through that today I have what seem like memories of those planes landing, one after another, at Berlin's Tempelhof airport. They were probably formed by documentaries and conversations with my parents when I was a child.

Much like Vladimir Putin is doing now to Ukraine, in 1948/1949 the Russian soviets tried to starve and then freeze to death the residents of West Berlin.

The blockade of West Berlin was to be, essentially, a repeat of the Holodomor ("death by hunger" in Ukrainian) that Russia inflicted on Ukraine during the winter of 1932 when they blockaded that nation for demanding its independence, leading to the starvation of an estimated 3.2 million people.

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-Thom

Wednesday's Daily Stack

Hour One: National Progressive Townhall Meeting
- Representative Mark Pocan (D-WI, 2nd District) / Member & Former Co-Chair-Congressional Progressive Caucus / (Committees: Appropriations / Also, Education & Labor)

Article: "4 takeaways after Georgia's Senate runoff: What Warnock's win means" by Tal Axelrod.

Article: "Kevin McCarthy's speaker bid is rapidly accelerating toward chaos" by Eric Ting.

Article: "As the old order steps aside, Hakeem Jeffries plots return to majority for House Democrats in 2024" by Edward-Isaac Dovere.

Site: ProgressivePunch.

Article: "Democrats ditch Manchin's ‘dirty deal' after opposition from climate activists" by Nina Lakhani.

Article: "NYC loses appeal in Medicare Advantage battle with retirees".

Bill: "H.R.9187 - Save Medicare Act" by Rep. Pocan, Mark [D-WI-2].

Article: "Pocan, Khanna Introduce Bill to Strengthen Medicare, Define Alternative Plans" by Mark Pocan.

Article: "Sen. Ron Johnson acknowledges texting with Trump attorney on Jan 6" by Natasha Korecki.

Book: "Rebooting the American Dream: 11 Ways to Rebuild Our Country" by Thom Hartmann (read online).

Article: "1902 eruption of Mount Pelée" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The Republican Party Platform, 2020" by Ballotpedia.

Law: "Controlled Substances Act".

Article: "War on Drugs" by Wikipedia.

Article: "U.S. Senate again rejects cannabis banking bill as proponents look for another way to pass it" by Jonathan D. Salant.

Article: "What's in the House-passed Build Back Better bill? Paid leave, universal pre-K and more" by Joey Garrison and Ledyard King.

Article: "Ron Johnson to oppose U.S. attorney nominee, calling her a 'political partisan'" by Alexander Shur.

Article: "Louis DeJoy" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Board of Governors of the United States Postal Service" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Amid homeless crisis, New York to step up forced hospitalization of mentally ill" by Gabriella Borter.

Article: "Maxine Waters" by Wikipedia.

Article: "How Medicare Advantage Scams Seniors" by Rep. Jan Schakowsky and Wendell Potter.

Book: Branding Democrats: A Top-to-Bottom Reimagining of Campaign Strategies by Ken Weber and Daryl Weber.

Article: "The Air Force admits the F-35 fighter jet costs too much. So it wants to spend even more." by Sébastien Roblin.

Article: "Reps. Lee, Pocan Announce Defense Spending Reduction Caucus" by Barbara Lee.

Article: "Marine Corps general says amphibious vehicle accident that killed nine was 'preventable'" by Ellie Kaufman.

Article: "New US Navy aircraft carrier toilet flaw costs $400,000 a flush" by Bloomberg.

Article: "Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen" by Wikipedia.

Bill: "H.R.5905 - Sgt. Isaac Woodard, Jr. and Sgt. Joseph H. Maddox GI Bill Restoration Act of 2021" by Rep. Moulton, Seth [D-MA-6].

Article: "Is It Time to Revive the Berlin Airlift for Ukraine?" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Holodomor: Memories of Ukraine's silent massacre" by BBC.

Article: "North Atlantic Treaty Organization" by Britannica.

Article: "The Berlin Airlift: What It Was, Its Importance in the Cold War" by Katie Lange.

Article: "It is the west's duty to help Ukraine win this war" by Martin Wolf.

Article: "The West should do whatever it takes to help Ukrainians survive the winter" by William B. Taylor and David J. Kramer.

Video: Background to Berlin [1962 - NATO Information Service].

Article: "Special counsel Jack Smith subpoenas state officials, Jan. 6 committee to issue criminal referrals" by Mark Sumner.

Article: "Make no mistake, the guilty verdicts today hurt Trump badly." by fightforfreedom.

Article: "Germany arrests dozens as QAnon-inspired "Reichsbürger" group accused of plotting to overthrow government" by Anna Noryskiewicz.

Article: "Alvin Bragg" by Wikipedia.

Article: "White House tackles rise in antisemitism at forum led by second gentleman Doug Emhoff" by Maureen Groppe.

Law: "H.R.2469 - Medicare Reform Act of 2003".

Article: "Bush Touts Medicare Expansion" by Dana Milbank.

Article: "Climate Change Helped Spark Syrian War, Study Says" by Craig Welch.

Article: "North Carolina power grid: Tens of thousands still in dark after 'targeted' attacks on substations" by CNNWire.

Site: TRICARE Prime.

Article: "‘The Cash Monster Was Insatiable': How Insurers Exploited Medicare for Billions" by Reed Abelson and Margot Sanger-Katz.

Video: President Franklin D. Roosevelt Declares War on Japan (Full Speech) | War Archives.

Article: "Ukraine to Yemen, UN Seeks Record $51.5 Billion for 'Shockingly High' Aid Needs" by Reuters.

Article: "It's National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day. Look back at the 'date which will live in infamy'" by Marina Pitofsky.

Site: TRICARE For Life.

Article: "Nayirah (incubators testimony)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Bush Rejects Taliban Offer On Bin Laden" by John F. Harris.

Hour Three: Is Twitter normalizing hate?
- Dean Obeidallah, Host of Dean Obeidallah show weekdays 6-9PMET @SXMProgress Radio Ch127 / Columnist - CNN.com / Contributor - The New Republic

Article: "Elon Musk's Twitter is helping to normalize a neo-Nazi" by Dean Obeidallah.

Article: "Andrew Anglin" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The Daily Stormer" by Wikipedia.

Article: "CompuServe" by Wikipedia.

Law: "Telecommunications Act of 1996" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Section 230" by Wikipedia.

Book: The Hidden History of Big Brother in America: How the Death of Privacy and the Rise of Surveillance Threaten Us and Our Democracy by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Hate Speech's Rise on Twitter Is Unprecedented, Researchers Find" by Sheera Frenkel and Kate Conger.

Article: "About Business Enterprise Program" by NRTC.

Law: "Sherman Antitrust Act", 1890.

Article: "Local restaurant refuses service to conservative advocacy group" by WRIC.

Article: "Hot mic catches President say ‘no one f–ks with a Biden' during Florida visit " by Steven Nelson.

Article: "Omar: ‘I unequivocally apologize' after backlash over new Israel tweets " by Kate Sullivan, Eli Watkins and Manu Raju.

Book: "The Hidden History of Guns and the Second Amendment" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Herschel Walker Concession Speech—Full Statement" by Gerrard Kaonga.

Article: "Berchtesgaden" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Mar-a-Lago" by Wikipedia.

Video: The Big Lift.

Video: The Search.

Video: Four in a Jeep.

Article: "Medigap" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Supreme Court seems to side with web designer opposed to same-sex marriage" by Robert Barnes.

Article: "Ukraine: Missile strikes threaten millions facing cold and hungry winter" by UN.

Article: "How to Get a Flex Card on Medicare" by Medigap.com.

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