Trump continues what Reagan started- dismantling the systems that kept our economy intact and promoted equality. As he moves to weaken the Endangered Species Act, sells off federal land, and monkey-wrenches social security in a fresh new way (as we hear from Alex Lawson), is the economic unraveling the natural outcome of pro-billionaire policies?
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Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 14 August 2019
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Donald Trump and his billionaire, oil drilling buddies are trying to get rid of the Endangered Species Act. Biodiversity is the foundation on which all life depends, including human life. Now, with Trump’s attack on the Endangered Species Act, the web of life is more at risk than ever before. And, does the Statue of Liberty only hold her light up for white people? And could the reason the economy is weak have something to do with paying the bottom half of the population less and less money? ~~~ Alex Lawson of Social Security Works on the latest backdoor attack on Social Security- now they are going after the unions so they can get rid of the most capable people within the system to weaken the system from inside. ~~~ Progressive Congressman Mark Pocan takes calls from Thom's listeners. ~~~ Thom will be performing as a Depression era radio announcer this weekend with Opera Theater Oregon for a special stage performance of "This Land Sings" inspired by the enduring folk melodies of musician and activist, Woody Guthrie. Thom speaks with Justin Ralls, the artistic co-director for the upcoming performance. ~~~ Bob Ney with Talk Media News on the price of tuition, updating the Statue of Liberty, and keeping out non-white college students is becoming our immigration policy.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:15.0 | The Donald Trump is gutting the web of life in the name of profits. |
| 0:21.0 | And I would remind you that we are part, |
| 0:25.1 | you know humans, we are animals on this planet. |
| 0:27.6 | We are part of the web of life. |
| 0:30.6 | The Endangered Species Act was signed by Richard Nixon in 1973. |
| 0:34.0 | It's been one of the most successful defenses of the Great Web of Life in the history of American legislation. |
| 0:40.0 | It has prevented extinction, this% of species under its protection. It has prevented |
| 0:46.2 | extinction for 99% of species under its protection. It has accomplished a 90% recovery rate for more than 100 species throughout the United States. |
| 0:57.0 | As the Center for Biological Diversity notes, the Act has allowed the designation of millions of acres of critical habitat |
| 1:05.2 | crucial to species survival and recovery |
| 1:09.2 | and that's exactly in my opinion that's exactly why Donald Trump and why his billionaire developer |
| 1:14.1 | drilling and mining buddies want to gut the Enated Species Act. |
| 1:17.3 | Louise and I you know we were on this cruise to Alaska a couple weeks ago which is going to be hard to beat. Next year we're going to |
| 1:24.3 | Bermuda if you'd like to hang out the information's up at the top of our website. But in any |
| 1:29.8 | case we went to Alaska a couple of weeks ago and we saw well over a hundred bald |
| 1:34.4 | eagles I mean they're all over the place they was ketchup can they said we call |
| 1:37.8 | them ketchup can pigeons but the bald eagles were actually on the brink of |
| 1:41.9 | extinction in 1973. |
| 1:44.5 | And the reason why was DDT. |
| 1:46.0 | DDT, in addition to killing insects, when birds are exposed to it, it causes them not to |
| 1:51.7 | form strong eggshell. And so the birds would lay |
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