Fascinating mix of subjects from satirical progressive music through New Zealand news and Russia in 1918, down to 410 parts per million reached this week.
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 April 2019
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Thom's pick of Friday's interesting headlines, Progressive musical satirist Roy Zimmerman, foreign correspondent Luke Vargas take on New Zealand's soul-seeking regarding unrestricted social media, the heroes of America's 1918 invasion of Russia, Roger Thiel with a comic take on dieting, and Dr. Michael Mann on climate change as we pass carbon dioxide levels of 410 parts per million this week..
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:15.0 | And greetings my friends, patriots, lovers of democracy, truth and justice, |
| 0:21.0 | believers in peace, freedom freedom and the American way. |
| 0:24.5 | There are a bunch of news stories here that I want to just tick through fairly rapidly, but |
| 0:29.5 | 157 Republicans just opposed renewing the Violence Against Women Act. |
| 0:35.0 | Why? Because there was a piece in there that said that people should not be sold guns |
| 0:40.4 | if they have in the past been convicted of engaging in violence |
| 0:44.8 | against women. 157 Republicans, I'm guessing probably all of the men, said no we're not going to go along with that. It's kind of |
| 0:56.7 | breathtaking you know when you think about it. Meanwhile Trump heads to the border to |
| 1:01.6 | visit a section of repaired fencing and to see his |
| 1:06.1 | new plaque, the new commemorative plaque that he commissioned for himself, praising |
| 1:12.4 | himself for building a wall. |
| 1:14.0 | Turns out that the plaque, which has at the very top, it doesn't say the United States of America, |
| 1:19.0 | it says Donald J. Trump, in big letters, and then underneath the smaller type |
| 1:22.9 | president of and then underneath that and small type |
| 1:25.8 | the United States of America |
| 1:27.8 | has commissioned and did a wonderful job and all this kind of |
| 1:30.0 | but it turns out that it's not hanging on a wall |
| 1:32.2 | it's hanging on a fence and it's not hanging on a wall it's hanging on a fence and it's not |
| 1:33.5 | hanging on a fence that is part of Trump's new border wall it's just this little |
| 1:37.7 | piece that's being repaired. But it's shiny and it's pretty and Donald Trump had the government pay for it |
| 1:44.2 | that's got his name and big letters so he's going to spend millions of year tax |
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