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This is the Tom Hartman program.

Welcome back. I want to share with you a little bit from the hidden history of big brother in

America in just a second, just a couple of headlines though of at the top of the hour here of

what's going on in the world. China is echoing the lies that you're seeing on Fox News right now

and the Putin is telling, which is that Ukraine has bio weapons labs and that's why Putin had to go in

there, you know, what they have are public health labs, just like Multnomah County here in Oregon,

you know, where they keep samples of all the viruses and bacteria that are floating around in

Portland to track for contagious diseases. The Emmett Till anti-lynching bill passed the Senate

unanimously. This is astonishing, well, it's not astonishing, it's like, you know, finally,

but, you know, we've been trying to outlaw, we, you know, progressives in the United States have

been trying to outlaw lynching for over a hundred years. Since the end of the Civil War,

they have been trying to outlaw lynching, make it a hate crime, and finally it got done.

And I think, you know, frankly, the Republican has just got shamed in the saying, okay, okay,

you can't lynch people. And finally, Guy Reffit, he is the guy, I think he's from Southern California

or Texas. Anyway, he traveled to the Capitol building with his AR-15s and all kinds of weapons,

and you know, was seen just pummeling police officers. He was, you know, one of the energizer

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