Author Edward J Watts sees clear warnings in the history of the fall of the Roman Republic as to how we might save our democracy- a fascinating 40 minute deep dive. But first- what is Bolton doing to the people of Venezuela? And the shenanigans of a Russian troll farm detailed in the Mueller report.
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Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 17 May 2019
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Thom reads from the Mueller report, page 32, which covers the activities of the Russian troll farm that helped manipulate the 2016 presidential election. ~~~ Donald Trump, Elliot Abrams, and John Bolton thought that they could overthrow the democratically elected Maduro government of Venezuela. They were wrong. Now they are going after Venezuela with sanctions designed to hurt common people there. Mark Weisbrot, Co-Director of the Center for Economic & Policy Research shares his keen insights on the situation. Can the people of Venezuela withstand sanctions until Donald Trump can be forced out of office?Thom reads from 'Mortal Republic: How Rome Fell into Tyranny' by Edward J. Watts.. ~~~ The fall of the Roman Empire in 476 CE is well known. Less known, is whether the US will fall this century. Edward J Watts' recent book ‘Mortal Republic’ tells the story of Rome's democratic Republican era, and how Rome fell into tyranny. Mr. Watts thinks there are clear warnings for how we might save the American Republic.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman Program. |
| 0:03.0 | We are reading from the Mueller Report, Part 1. |
| 0:07.0 | This is page 32. |
| 0:09.0 | And they're talking about the IRA, the Internet Research Agency, which is the Russian troll farm in |
| 0:14.9 | St. Petersburg. |
| 0:16.2 | In February 2017, the persona Black Fist purporting to want to teach African Americans to |
| 0:21.6 | protect themselves when contacted by law enforcement. |
| 0:24.7 | Hired a self-defense instructor in New York to offer classes sponsored by Black Fist. |
| 0:29.9 | Black Fist was actually from the IRA. |
| 0:32.4 | The IRA also recruited moderators of conservative |
| 0:34.8 | social media groups to promote IRA generated content, as well as recruited individuals |
| 0:40.0 | to perform political acts, such as walking around New York City dressed up as |
| 0:44.0 | Santa Claus with a Trump mask. There's a whole bunch of redacted stuff. |
| 0:48.0 | Redacted as the IRA's online audience became larger, the IRA tracked U.S. persons with whom they |
| 0:54.5 | communicated and had successfully tasked with tasks ranging from organizing rallies to taking |
| 1:00.6 | pictures with certain political messages. |
| 1:03.4 | Page 33, the top half of the page is redacted. |
| 1:08.0 | Number 7, interactions and contacts with the Trump campaign. |
| 1:11.6 | The investigation identified two different forms of |
| 1:13.6 | connections between the IRA and members of the Trump campaign. The investigation |
| 1:17.7 | identified no similar connections between the IRA and the Clinton campaign. |
| 1:21.4 | First on multiple occasions members and surrogates of the |
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