Thom Hartmann Program - 1 Hour Edition - 12/21/18 - Geopolitics is in a tizzy as an economic crisis looms, while Trump plays his border-wall fiddle to distract attention from his plan to abandon our Syrian allies over the objections of, well, almost everyone besides Turkey's dictator, Russia, and Iran.
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Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 21 December 2018
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Dr Richard Wolff and Thom think the crash made inevitable by the Great Recession bailout may be upon us. Evidence is given. -------- Turkey's dictator says he will delay his planned slaughter of the Kurds. What does this mean for the region? And as Trump is willing to partially shut down the government, supposedly for his border wall dream- Thom thinks this is all distraction from the way Trump's family will profit from sacrificing the Kurds to Turkey. Thom gives a clarifying short synopsis of the Syrian conflict in response to caller Matt's inquiry. Thom engages callers on how this all relates to geopolitics, the price of oil, the Saudis, and central American immigrants. ---------------- Former Department of Homeland Security Analyst and owner of DT Analytics, Daryl Johnson has studied right-wing terrorism, and he's here to warn us that the federal government is not monitoring them at all. He argues the primary yet unacknowledged terrorist threat to Americans comes from white, right wing extremists. ----------- Thom reads from Edward Nell's book 'Poverty and Progress in Economics'. -------------- After a call from Turkey, Trump fought his own staff to pull out of Syria- what really went down? Luke Vargas, the chief Foreign Correspondent for Talk Media News, has the real story.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:15.0 | Greetings my friends, Patriots, lovers of democracy, truth and justice, believers in peace, freedom, and the American way |
| 0:25.2 | Tom Harbin here with you. |
| 0:27.1 | Trump is meeting with Republican senators at the White House trying to talk them into |
| 0:30.4 | giving him his wall, which will be the largest project ever done by the |
| 0:35.0 | United States if it's accomplished. Anyhow on the line with us right now is |
| 0:39.4 | Dr Richard Wolf. Our old friend he's the economist the co-founder of Democracy at Work, most recently, |
| 0:45.0 | the author of Capitalism's Crisis Deepens, essays on the Global Economic Meltdown, the website Democracy |
| 0:50.6 | at work. info, and RD Wolf with two-edge. Democracy at |
| 0:55.0 | work at work.org, with 2F's.com. You can tweet him at Prof Wolf with 2F's. |
| 0:58.3 | Dr. Wolf, welcome back. |
| 1:00.0 | Thank you, Tom. Glad to be here. |
| 1:02.0 | Thank you. A couple of quick questions here. |
| 1:04.0 | I'll just toss out all three of them to you. |
| 1:06.0 | It looks like this is the worst December since December of 1929 |
| 1:10.0 | with regard to the stock market. |
| 1:12.0 | And we just got a report that wages for this year |
| 1:15.0 | are down three-tenths of a percent for the entire year. The giant tax cut was |
| 1:20.1 | supposed to boost wages, number one. Number two, what is the plunge |
| 1:23.8 | protection team and could they have something to do with preventing you know a |
| 1:28.5 | total meltdown on a Wall Street? And number three, what will happen if Trump actually shuts down the country, |
| 1:34.1 | particularly if he goes to Marlago this afternoon and for the next 16 days nothing |
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