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Tuesday December 04, 2018

REPORT: Mueller Prepping Endgame For Russia Investigation
HP | author | 12/04/18

WASHINGTON -- Special counsel Robert Mueller's prosecutors have told defense lawyers in recent weeks that they are "tying up loose ends" in their investigation, providing the clearest clues yet that the long-running probe into Russia's interference in the 2016 election may be coming to its climax, potentially in the next few weeks, according to multiple sources close to the matter.

The new information about the state of Mueller's investigation comes during a pivotal week when the special counsel's prosecutors are planning to file memos about three of their most high profile defendants -- former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn, former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and former Trump personal lawyer Michael Cohen.

A Flynn sentencing memo is due Tuesday, and memos about Manafort and Cohen are slated for Friday. All three documents are expected to yield significant new details on what cooperation the three of them provided to the Russia investigation. ... Read more

Democratic women are replacing men in leadership positions
Axios | Alexi McCammond | 12/04/18

Democrats are moving women into leadership roles in key party organizations, including the campaign arms for national and state races -- and even in the moderate Blue Dog coalition, which will be led by a woman of color for the first time in its 23-year history.

Why it matters: It's a recognition of the importance of women in the Democratic coalition -- especially the role women voters played in the House midterm election victory -- and a nod to the growing diversity of the party's elected officials. Republicans haven't made similar moves in their leadership ranks. ... Read more

Michelle Obama Talks To Stephen Colbert

Full Interview: Michelle Obama Talks To Stephen Colbert | Stephen Colbert | 12/02/18 | 27:52

If you have the time, this is pretty interesting

Deconstructing a Genius Climate Change Argument | Stephen Colbert | 12/02/18 | 27:52

Some YouTube Commenters

This is brilliant. There should be a channel devoted to this kind of line by line analysis of political pundits and public figures.
Wow. I'm not even an American and this has left me deeply disturbed and sort of anxious. It's amazing what strategies and tricks this woman and her organization use to make the truth seem like lies.
Being a physicist with a PhD and 5+ years of working experience nothing pisses me off than people with zero knowledge about science trying to argue science or discredit scientists. Instead, go and argue with your doctor about your health, or argue with your lawyer about your legal case or at least argue with your plumber and teach him how to plumb.
On the part of that woman: beautiful rhetoric, terrible message. Apparently this is not only about global climate change - it's about perpetuating distrust in reliable news, it's about perpetuating American "greatness" and distrust in foreign nations (Europe) that are currently allied with America. It is about creating divisions. All in a one-minute clip.
What she did has a name, its gishgalloping. Its not just used in debates, it works in these talkshow monologues very well too.

Trump's Iran-centric Syria Policy Takes Shape
TheAtlantic | Samuel Oakford | 12/03/18

This fall, U.S.-led coalition forces escalated attacks in Syria once more, launching more than 1,000 air and artillery strikes, nearly all of them close to the border with Iraq, as Washington seeks to crush the Islamic State's presence in the country before the end of the year. "They're either here to fight to death or they're just going to get killed because they have nowhere to go," the coalition spokesperson Colonel Sean J. Ryan said of the remaining fighters.

After isis is defeated territorially, however--a goal that now looks to be an inevitability--what happens to the roughly 2,000 American soldiers stationed in Syria is murky. Officials have offered new counter-Iranian justifications for maintaining a military presence there, an argument that critics claim lacks legal standing and that leaves open the possibility of a deployment with no end in sight. And with Democrats having recaptured the House in midterm elections, Donald Trump's administration may soon be under pressure to better justify that strategy, something that could prove much harder than expected. ... Read more

Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Tuesday, December 04 [9:46]

Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Tuesday, December 04 (FULL) | 59:02

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Greg Grandin: George H.W. Bush's 1989 Invasion of Panama Set the Stage for U.S. Wars to Come
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights: U.S. Owes Reparations to Panama over Bush's Invasion
How George H.W. Bush's Pardons for Iran-Contra Conspirators Set the Stage for Trump's Impunity
Ariel Dorfman: George H.W. Bush Is Alive in His Many Victims Across the Globe, Including Me
"AMLO Stands Alone in the Hemisphere": Mexico's President Takes Office with Ambitious Leftist Agenda

Colonel Larry Wilkerson discusses: US Sabotages UN Attempt at Yemen Ceasefire, as Opposition to War Grows in Congress | TRNN | 12/04/18 | 10:04

Convert Military to Green Production, or Perish -- Daniel Ellsberg on RAI (Part 13/13) | TRNN | 11/29/18 | 19:16

NEW Innovations In Ending Climate Change | TYT | 12/03/18 | 7:36

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George H.W. Bush, Legislative Leadership And The Americans With Disabilities Act | 1a.org | 12/04/18 | 1hr

The Americans with Disabilities Act passed with one of the largest majorities ever.. George H.W. Bush signed it in 1990. It's one of his most enduring legacies.

The legislation prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities in public life; from employment to transportation to telecommunications.

The More You Know About Mars... | 1a.org | 12/04/18 | 1hr

Last week, the InSight lander touched down to start studying marsquakes. Marsquakes, as the name implies, are just like earthquakes, but on Mars. And understanding these quakes will help us prepare for future Mars missions.

As Nadia Drake writes in National Geographic: You wouldn't want to build a house in a Martian lava tube and then have that tube collapse on your head in a marsquake, would you? No. But that's a scenario for the future.

For now, knowing how frequently and at what magnitude Mars shakes will not only reveal how tectonically active the planet is, but will also offer clues about how it evolved. As well, marsquakes will allow the team to directly map the planet's insides. As they travel, seismic waves move through materials of differing density and composition, sometimes being bounced off boundaries between layers, and they carry information about what they've moved through before reaching the seismometer.

"Once you are able to locate the event, then you can learn what the structure of the planet is along that wave path," Weber explains. "Really, all we need once we get there is just to record some quakes!"

Michael Cohen Says He Kept 'Client 1' Apprised Of Kremlin Contacts | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC | 12/03/18 | 15:55

Elle Features New Women Elected To The House | Morning Joe | MSNBC | 12/04/18 | 4:55

Tweets Seem To Get Very Close To Witness Tampering | Morning Joe | MSNBC | 12/04/18 | 13:56

Uncertainty Remains Over President Donald Trump's China Agreement | Morning Joe | MSNBC | 12/04/18 | 8:18

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Very Legal, Very Cool, And Very Interesting To Mueller | Stephen Colbert | 11/30/18 | 10:08

The Daily Show with Trevor Noah

Trump's Side Hustle vs. Obama's Side Hustle - Between the Scenes | The Daily | 12/01/18 | 1:40

Late Night with Seth Meyers

Russia Probe Clouds Trump's G20 Summit | Seth Meyers | 12/03/18 | 8:40

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Lindsey Graham Mashups

Lindsey Graham

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said the quiet part aloud on why he’s still so close to former President Donald Trump: because we can use him for our goals. "President Trump has gotten people who wouldn't give me or Romney or anybody else the time of day. They believe he is on their side," the senator told the America First Agenda Summit crowd on Tuesday in Washington, D.C.

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Environment & Climate Change

Environment

The term "climate change" is often used to refer specifically to anthropogenic climate change (also known as global warming). Anthropogenic climate change is caused by human activity, as opposed to changes in climate that may have resulted as part of Earth's natural processes.

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AI - Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning | Deep Learning

AI - Artificial Intelligence

AIArtificial intelligence (AI) is intelligence demonstrated by machines, as opposed to the natural intelligence displayed by animals including humans. AI research has been defined as the field of study of intelligent agents, which refers to any system that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its chance of achieving its goals.

The term "artificial intelligence" had previously been used to describe machines that mimic and display "human" cognitive skills that are associated with the human mind, such as "learning" and "problem-solving". This definition has since been rejected by major AI researchers who now describe AI in terms of rationality and acting rationally, which does not limit how intelligence can be articulated.
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Quantum mechanics | AI - Artificial Intelligence

Quantum mechanics

Quantum mechanics is a fundamental theory in physics that provides a description of the physical properties of nature at the scale of atoms and subatomic particles. It is the foundation of all quantum physics including quantum chemistry, quantum field theory, quantum technology, and quantum information science.
Classical physics, the collection of theories that existed before the advent of quantum mechanics, describes many aspects of nature at an ordinary (macroscopic) scale, but is not sufficient for describing them at small (atomic and subatomic) scales. Most theories in classical physics can be derived from quantum mechanics as an approximation valid at large (macroscopic) scale.
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Economy, Wall Street and Banksters

Wall Street and Banksters

Wall Street is an eight-block-long street running roughly northwest to southeast from Broadway to South Street, at the East River, in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City. Over time, the term has become a metonym for the financial markets of the United States as a whole, the American financial services industry (even if financial firms are not physically located there), or New York-based financial interests.

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Intelligence Agencies/Deep State?

Intelligence Agencies/Deep State?

An intelligence agency is a government agency responsible for the collection, analysis, and exploitation of information in support of law enforcement, national security, military, and foreign policy objectives. Means of information gathering are both overt and covert and may include espionage, communication interception, cryptanalysis,.

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Daniel Ellsberg | Pentagon Papers

Daniel Ellsberg

Daniel Ellsberg and Paul Jay explore Ellsberg's latest book, The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner. In the introduction to the book, Ellsberg writes: "No policies in human history have more deserved to be recognized as immoral or insane. The story of how this calamitous predicament came about and how and why it has persisted over a half a century is a chronicle of human madness".

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Nukes

Nukes

Nuclear weapons have come a long way and come in all types of different sizes. Some are relatively small while others are enormous, so big they boggle the mind at what they can be capable of, i.e. the Soviet 'Tsar Bomba' is/was 3,000 times greater than the Hiroshima bomb.

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Rana Foroohar and Fall of American Business

Rana Foroohar

Ms. Foroohar says financialization delivers stagnant wages, inequality and economic crisis; the Financial Times columnist and author of "Makers and Takers" says the financial sector represents only 7 percent of the U.S. economy, but takes around 25 percent of all corporate profit while creating only 4 percent of all jobs.

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The Untold History of the United States by Oliver Stone & Petere Kuznick

The Untold History of the United States by Oliver Stone & Petere Kuznick | 2014 | 10 Episodes

Oliver Stone and American University historian Peter J. Kuznick began working on the project in 2008. Stone, Kuznick and British screenwriter Matt Graham cowrote the script. It covers "the reasons behind the Cold War with the Soviet Union, U.S. President Harry Truman's decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan, and changes in America's global role since the fall of Communism." Stone is the director and narrator of all ten episodes.

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Kuznick Interviews

Kuznick Interviews

Historian Peter Kuznick says Eisenhower called for decreased militarization, then Dulles reversed the policy; the Soviets tried to end the cold war after the death of Stalin; crazy schemes involving nuclear weapons and the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba put the world of the eve of destruction - with host Paul Jay

The Untold History of the United States by Kuznick, Peter.mobi | Book | 6.99 MB

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China Valley of Tunnels

China Valley of Tunnels

A report written by a Georgetown University team led by Phillip Karber conducted a three-year study to map out China’s complex tunnel system, which stretches 5,000 km (3,000 miles). The report determined that the stated Chinese nuclear arsenal is understated and as many as 3,000 nuclear warheads may be stored in the underground tunnel network.

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911

911

On September 11, 2001, 19 terrorists attacked the Unites States. They hijacked four airplanes in mid-flight. The terrorists flew two of the planes into two skyscrapers at the World Trade Center in New York City. The impact caused the buildings to catch fire and collapse. Another plane destroyed part of the Pentagon (the U.S. military headquarters) in Arlington, Virginia. The fourth plane crashed in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Officials believe that the terrorists on that plane intended to destroy either the White House or the U.S. Capitol. Passengers on the plane fought the terrorists and prevented them from reaching their goal. In all, nearly 3,000 people were killed in the 9/11 attacks.

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The Vietnam War

The Vietnam War

Ken Burns and Lynn Novick's ten-part, 18-hour documentary series, THE VIETNAM WAR, tells the epic story of one of the most consequential, divisive, and controversial events in American history as it has never before been told on film. Visceral and immersive, the series explores the human dimensions of the war through revelatory testimony of nearly 80 witnesses from all sides--Americans who fought in the war and others who opposed it, as well as combatants and civilians from North and South Vietnam. Ten years in the making, the series includes rarely seen and digitally re-mastered archival footage from sources around the globe, photographs taken by some of the most celebrated photojournalists of the 20th Century, historic television broadcasts, evocative home movies, and secret audio recordings from inside the Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon administrations.

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Trump's Mashups

Trump's Mashups

Donald Trump talks a lot, but what is he actually saying? VICE News' "Trump Talk" mashup series tries to answer that. And, we're happy to say, it was just nominated for two Webby Awards. Now you can watch all the nominated videos.

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Trump's Sexcapades

Trump's Sexcapades.

Jessica Leeds (1980s)
Kristin Anderson (1990s)
E. Jean Carroll (1995 or 1996)
Lisa Boyne (1996)
Cathy Heller (1997)
Temple Taggart McDowell (1997)
Karena Virginia (1998)
Mindy McGillivray (2003)
Jennifer Murphy (2005)
Rachel Crooks (2005)
Natasha Stoynoff (2005)
Juliet Huddy (2005 or 2006)
Jessica Drake (2006)
Ninni Laaksonen (2006)
Cassandra Searles (2013)
Allegations of pageant dressing room visits(1997)
Mariah Billado,
Victoria Hughes,
and three other Miss Teen USA contestants
Bridget Sullivan (2000)
Tasha Dixon (2001)
Unnamed contestants (2001)
Samantha Holvey (2006)

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Trump's Speeches | Rallys |Interviews

Trump's Speeches | Rallys

Donald Trump talks a lot, but what is he actually saying? Watch Trump at some of his rallys and see what you think.

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