[Fuusm-l] Today's Issues Discussion this Sunday, 6/26/2022 The Birchers and the Trumpers

[Ted Goertzel]

The Today's Issues group meets at 9:30 on Sunday mornings in person in the
parlor of the Religious Education buildings next to the church and on Zoom
at:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/8583258484?pwd=RFdJUGZOZkU4THArWFpnVkllZzh1dz0
<https://us02web.zoom.us/j/8583258484?pwd=RFdJUGZOZkU4THArWFpnVkllZzh1dz09>


For Sunday, June 26 we will discuss the essay “The Birchers and the Trumpers
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ab7fJnyPkbHzv5c8ITSDX3GL_9DIzYaGf4mZ33XZ6U4/edit?usp=sharing>,”
from the June 23 issue of the New York Review of Books.  A new biography of
Robert Welch traces the origins and history of the conspiracy-obsessed
anti-Communist John Birch Society and, in the process, provides historical
perspective on the far-right populism of the Trump era.

This relates to the ongoing January 6 riot hearing.


We will also resume our discussion of  the issue of fracking and injection
wells.  This is of particular concern in Washington County, and several
church members have been involved in local hearings on the issue.  Our
first reading, Washington County Injection Well News
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aQTlWSJfLxklfLx7gmjmGEFO954_DPeuY1BeQ_WAA7o/edit?usp=sharing>,
is from the Marietta Times.

Readings which go into the geology and economics of fracking are:

>From the Allegheny Front WHY FRACK WASTEWATER INJECTED UNDERGROUND DOESN’T
ALWAYS STAY THERE
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RAxb9HNTXXxIGa8xVEZPBwfX-4a1JzF--SerCt4xQbk/edit?usp=sharing>

JULIE GRANTMARCH 19, 2021    To see this on the original source, click here
<https://www.alleghenyfront.org/why-frack-wastewater-injected-underground-doesnt-always-stay-there/>
.

>From the Brooking News, Fred Drews, The Economic Benefits of Fracking.
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1p6lYYEFBN9LyoLJQnOxsfy-XDE_6bMDxbIPdo-rcfZY/edit?usp=sharing>
March 23, 2015   To see this article on the original source with all the
links click here
<https://www.brookings.edu/blog/brookings-now/2015/03/23/the-economic-benefits-of-fracking/>
.

Another article that has been suggested can be for this week or the
following week:  Jack Goldsmith, Prosecute Trump? Put Yourself in Merrick
Garland’s Shoes
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xOjR9hedkZHhZC4-eNYEm5SQJkxSjpIZyX5T5ws9aio/edit?usp=sharing>,”
from the NY Times. June 20

Opinion | Are Large Corporate Profit Margins Causing Inflation? - The New
York Times (nytimes.com)
<https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/22/opinion/inflation-corporate-profits.html>
is one we might consider.
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