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This week, I will discuss the DeSmog coverage of corporate greenwashing. In short, greenwashing IS premeditated fraud. Some may call it 'misinformation', which is the essential feature of fraud. Premeditated fraud is and has always been a criminal act, yet corporations are permitted a blank check on this act. This must stop. 

In our environmental heroes, zeroes and villains, I will discuss the sentencing of Steven Donziger--for actually doing his job as an attorney. 

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Jeanine

This week on Progressive News Network, Jeanine will discuss the gross miscarriage of justice taking place in Missouri right now. Death Row inmate Ernest Johnson is scheduled to be executed this Tuesday by lethal injection. He was convicted of three grisly murders, yet the evidence also implicates an accomplice who was at the scene as well. That accomplice took a deal with the prosecutor to testify against Ernest Johnson in return for being spared the death penalty. 

What has concerned a multitude of advocacy groups is the plain fact that Ernest Johnson is IDD (Intellectually & Developmentally Disabled). Some disability experts estimate his communication skills at the level of a 5-year-old child. The Supreme Court ruled those persons with intellectual disabilities are to be spared the death penalty, yet the Missouri Supreme Court, the prosecutors in the case, and the community at large don't care. 

One last thing--Ernest Johnson is a black man and the murder victims were white. Add to this toxic stew that this took place in rural Missouri---and you have a perfect storm for a lynch mob mentality. 

Governor Mike Parson has the power to set aside the execution and relinquish Ernest to life in prison, and members of the Baptist Church, (of which Parson is a member) are pleading for compassion. Governor Parson has not responded to date. 

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Brook Hines examines "How Democracy Ends." Go on over to The Lefty Lounge on Anchor for the rest of the story. 

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Dr. Vinay Prasad on 'How Democracy Ends" 

Video version of essay

News broke in The Intercept that Senator Joe Manchin, (Big Fossil Fuel's Best Friend)--will craft the climate bill. Why?! Manchin has been the poster boy for political corruption as recently outed by an EXXON LOBBYIST--so Why is he given this task? 

I will discuss Joe Manchin's history and his conflict-of-interest in this political arena. Unlike the mainstream media, I will not label Manchin a 'moderate.' There is nothing 'moderated about him. He has been taking bribes LEGALLY for many years from big fossil fuel. The fact that political bribery is technically legal in the USA is bad enough---but the fact that the mainstream media won't challenge such systemic corruption is worse. 

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Jeanine

Police brutality is alive and well in the US--STILL. Apparently removing Trump from office didn't bring about police accountability AT ALL. Here in Woodson Terrace, Missouri we have video of white police officers using a K9 attack dog on a black man accused of trespassing. The video was so reminiscent of Bull Connor and other Klan members sicking dogs on black citizens, that it received enough media attention to trigger an FBI investigation of that police department. 

Besides talking about the facts of the case, Jeanine will discuss the original 1989 Supreme Court Case known as Graham v. Connor, which granted police, not only a license to brutalize, but a--license to kill. Jeanine will also question a democratically controlled Congress and a Democratic president too cowardly to revoke the damage done by the Graham standard. 

Though the Graham standard disproportionally hurts communities of color--granting police a license to kill hurts us all. It sets the stage for a police state. 

Jeanine will also feature the Political Heros, Zeros, or Villains this week as well. 

Come join us at 6pm Eastern or anytime using the archived collection!

This week on the Environmental Justice Report, I will discuss the recent coverage by DeSmog on Climate-Conflicted Bank Directors. Frankly, that's civil speak for bank officers funding Ecocide. DeSmog names names and discusses the money trail which funds the fossil fuel industry. 

With the COP26 conference looming, the discussion of big money must come into play. Does anyone actually believe that any meaningful goals to save the planet will be actualized if big banks are allowed to continue funding our mutual destruction? 

We have no more time for empty promises of politicians beholden to the Banking Industry. We have no more time for vapid photo ops--as Big Banks are allowed to profit from our looming climate destruction. Big Banks have developed an insatiable appetite for MORE wealth---just as an OPOID ADDICT CRAVES THE NEXT FIX. We can't allow these WEALTH ADDICTS to run the planet any longer. 

Come tune in this Thursday evening at 7pm Central time. 

Jeanine

This week on PNN, we will cover the Justice 4 J6 Rally in Washington, D.C.  Besides providing some information on the day's events, we will discuss the white supremacists/neo nazis in attendance, in addtion to any comments coming from the Trump 'peanut gallery' at Mar-A-Lago. 

Secondly, we will discuss how private insurers are allowed to negotiate drug prices for their enrollees, but public insurers such as Medicare and Medicaid are not allowed the same right. Make no mistake this is a civil rights issue.

And finally we come to the main event--The Justice Report. This week we will discuss the continuing fraudulent legal and scientific claims made by GOP governors and Attorney Generals regarding mask mandates--especially in our public schools. This comes in light of an enormous study published by the Stanford and Yale medical schools which clearly states that--yes--masking does prevent Covid transmission. In short, this is proof that the GOP anti-maskers are endangering our most precious resource--our children--and for no other reason than their own political gain! 

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Jeanine

This week on our Sunday show, Brook contributes to our onogoing coverage of the COVID crisis, while the Justice Report deals with the stealth danger to our consitutiional rights that the Texas abortion law poses. Edwin Chermerinsky, Dean of the UC Berkeley Law School wrote on this dangerous legislative trend championed by a GOP determined to destroy the BIll of RIghts. 

Additionally, I will preview the looming march on DC by white supremacist groups next Saturday. Make no mistake, January 6the was not the end of this. Groups marching include the Proud Boys and White Lives Matter--both white supremacist/neo Nazi groups. 

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Jeanine

This week, during the Days of Awe, namely the week in between Rosh Hashanah and the Day of Atonement, I chose to focus on the looming global climate crisis as a life-threatening crisis for the world's children. Both the UN and Unicef have created reports documenting this global disgrace. Not only is the planet reeling to the edge of extinction, but with it--children from impoverished nations. What the mainstream media does not want the public to realize is that environmental injustice stems from economic injustice. You cannot separate the two issues, and the one group helpless to stem the tide--are the children. 

So, I will discuss these reports and possible solutions. I will also discuss the role of mainstream aka CORPORATE media as they continue to push the 'false equivalence' fallacy in their 'reporting' which is little more than expensive stenography. 

I will not mince words. There is no room for ambiguity here. Either you work for economic and social equity for all--especially the world's poor--or you cannot call yourself a 'moral' person, 

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Jeanine

This week we will cover two topics of interest. First, we will talk about the Texas law essentially outlawing abortion rights, and the Florida GOP plan to do the same. The irony is too strong to ignore. While states like Texas and Florida scream 'right to life' for an undeveloped zygote--both states have feverishly worked to deny that same 'right to life' to those wanting reasonable mitigation precautions during COVID. Both states ironically have DENIED that 'right to life' to actual children by fighting mask and vaccine mandates in the middle of this deadly pandemic. 

The second story will cover the actual authors of these anti-mask, anti-vaccine mandates, namely a 'bill mill' known by the acronym ALEC. If you notice an eerie similarity between all these COVID DENIALIST and CLIMATE CHANGE DENIAL BILLS--it's no coincidence. The genesis of these anti-science bills--is ALEC. 

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Jeanine

We are continuing coverage on the planned negligence being orchestrated by the GOP when it comes to COVID. This week, Jeanine will speak to, yet another frivolous lawsuit filed by the Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt. AG Schmidt filed a lawsuit seeking to ban mask mandates---in Missouri's public schools. Sound familiar?! In this lawsuit Schmidt claims that the 'science' is on his side. (Newsflash--it isn't). But Eric Schmidt has another goal in mind--his upcoming campaign for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Roy Blunt. Essentially, Schmitt is USING this lawsuit to gain publicity for his candidacy--and our children are the pawns he is using so cynically. 

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