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June 22, 2017

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–On the Show:

–Omer Moav, Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick and the Interdisciplinary Center in Israel, joins David to discuss technology as a rising source of inequality

–The US has shot down three warplanes supporting Bashar al-Assad regime’s so far in June, fueling speculation that the US is headed for war with the Syrian government

–President Trump blames Democrats for obstructing the Republican health care plan during a speech in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, yet the thirteen GOP Senators writing the bill have not shown it to anyone

–Donald Trump is allegedly tied to a fraud and money laundering scheme valued at $40 million and connected to Italian-American and Russian-American mobsters

–St. Anthony, Minnesota police officer Jeronimo Yanez is acquitted of manslaughter for the fatal shooting of 32-year-old black cafeteria worker Philando Castile; although Castile was legally armed with a gun and informed the officer he had a weapon before being shot and killed, the National Rifle Association has kept silent

–Amazon buys Whole Foods for $13.7 billion, instantly making them the largest American player in the grocery industry

–Secretary of Energy Rick Perry is developing a plan to stifle federal funding of wind and solar energy in the latest chapter of the Trump administration’s efforts to save the coal industry at all costs

–Six of the twenty-one members of President Trump’s special HIV/AIDS Advisory Council resign because they say that Trump just “doesn’t care” about the cause

–Voicemail wonders if Sean Spicer is depressed and distressed over his “promotion” from White House Press Secretary to Communications Director

–On the Bonus Show: Supreme Court rules people can’t be banned from the internet, Stephen Hawking urges space colonization, Pennsylvania makes police dash camera videos public, and much more…

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