156 - Supreme Court May Toss Out Laws Limiting Corporate Campaign Contributions / Jack Discusses Health Care On Air America / Honduran Coup Update

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Jack Clark

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🗓️ 24 September 2009

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Today, you'll hear:--how an all-important Supreme Court case could vastly expand the ability of corporations to determine election results--a clip of me on Air America denouncing our super-expensive yet poorly performing health care system--how there are disturbing historical parallels to the present-day right-wing coup in HondurasWhat do all these stories have in common? Hint: it's a five letter

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0:00.0	Greetings, y'all listening to Podcast No. 156 of Blast the Right.
0:23.8	I'm your host Jack Clark, great to have you on board.
0:27.0	Today, you'll hear, first, how an all-important Supreme Court case could vastly expand corporate
0:33.7	power.
0:34.7	Next, a clip of me on Air America denouncing our super-expensive, yet poorly-performing healthcare
0:41.1	system.
0:42.1	Lastly, how there are disturbing historical parallels to the present-day right-wing coup
0:47.7	in Honduras.
0:49.5	What do all these stories have in common?
0:52.0	Hint.
0:53.0	It's a five-letter word.
0:55.0	Let's get right into it.
0:56.9	For sources for this segment include The New York Times, Common Dreams.org, The Edmund
1:02.7	Burke Institute, BrainEquoke.com, and TanksFoundation.org.
1:08.9	I want to start off by letting you consider these three quotes from American presidents
1:13.9	widely separated in time, but not sentiment.
1:17.6	Here's Founding Father Thomas Jefferson, who wrote that he hoped to quote,
1:21.9	crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations, which dare already to challenge
1:28.9	our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country, close
1:34.6	quote.
1:35.6	Jefferson spoke for many of our Founding fathers.
1:38.7	Next, Abraham Lincoln in his first annual message to Congress, quote, labor is prior to
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