Thom Hartmann Program - 1 Hour Edition - 10/10/2018 - Typical Wednesday headlines in 2018: The latest category 5 hurricane, voter suppression news, Saudi corruption & murder, Syria, Trump's latest lie, Ron Paul... and way too much more.
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 10 October 2018
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Thom explains the impact of the new ICCP report, climate change, Hurricane Michael and the possibilities of a carbon tax. ---- Greg Palast is always excited to talk about the vast ballot purge the Republicans are rolling out across the country. ---- Then Thom reads from Medea Benjamin's 'Kingdom of the Unjust- Behind the US-Saudi Connection'. . ---- Next- after the likely murder of US resident and US-Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi embassy in Turkey, Thom speaks with a Code Pink activist Paki Weiland fresh from a large protest outside the Saudi embassy in Washington. . ---- Callers on many issues. . ---- And Ellen Rattner of Talk Media News again dishes the scuttlebutt on today's headlines. . ---- And finally, Bill in Kansas and Thom on the cult of personality built around Trump.
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| 0:00.0 | Oh my goodness there is so much going on that I want to get to. I mean there's this |
| 0:06.2 | giant hurricane, Hurricane Michael bearing down on the Florida Panhandle. This is climate change on steroids. Exxon Mobile who knew back in |
| 0:20.6 | the 1980s, maybe the 1970s, that this exact scenario or something very close |
| 0:28.4 | to it would play out if they and their compatriots in the fossil fuel industry continued to market and |
| 0:34.8 | promote the use of fossil fuels and we all continue to burn them. |
| 0:38.6 | They knew this was coming. |
| 0:40.4 | And in fact for a few years in the 80s they tried to do something about it. |
| 0:44.0 | And then they got shut down or at least then they had a strategy change. |
| 0:49.0 | And then Mr. Tillerson steered the ship of state. |
| 0:52.9 | Well, actually, about a decade ago, Rex Tillerson, |
| 0:55.7 | when he was CEO of ExxonMobil, said, |
| 0:57.4 | yeah, we're concerned about the climate. |
| 0:59.5 | We're in favor of a carbon tax. |
| 1:02.2 | But were they really? No lobbying effort, no PR effort. No, it was just a statement |
| 1:07.8 | to take the sting out of things. Well, now we've got the situation where, and I'd love to hear your thoughts on this, I'm going to present a choice to you. |
| 1:17.0 | Here we have the situation where the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the IPCC, has come out and explicitly said |
| 1:25.8 | that we basically have 10 to 12 years left to cut our carbon usage by about |
| 1:31.9 | half and take our electricity use. Well here's the |
| 1:36.7 | actual numbers let me just give it to you. Greenhouse gases need to be cut in |
| 1:40.8 | half by 2013 for 2010 levels. A renewable energy must go |
| 1:45.4 | from 20% of our electricity mix worldwide to 67% and the use of coal needs to be |
| 1:51.8 | phased out. |
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