The 5 Percent of Patients Who Account for Half the Nation's Health-Care "Super-users" with complex medical needs make up a small fraction of U.S. patients, but they account for half of the nation's overall health-care spending. Now, innovative efforts are providing better care at lower costs. ... After more than a year of emergency and rehabilitative care following a devastating car accident, Rizzuto moved into a YMCA-run housing complex in this gritty New England town. But he still endured constant medical emergencies. "I was back and forth and in and out of the hospitals so much, it was like I didn't know I had an apartment here," the 56-year-old says, sitting in his small studio. His open wound kept getting infected; his diaphragm, weakened by his injury and his inability to quit smoking, left him gasping for breath; his urine-collection bag slipped out; his demons kept getting the better of him. The government eventually covered the cost of his care, but the relentless need for medical attention was exhausting and demeaning. Then he opted into a Massachusetts health-care program called One Care that focuses on people with complex medical needs who are on Medicare. One Care provides 71 hours of aide support a week, a twice-weekly visit from a massage therapist, twice-monthly psychiatric care, a wheelchair support group, and a nurse practitioner who oversees and coordinates Rizzuto's care. If he struggles between visits--or just wants to talk--she's available by phone, even on weekends and after hours. Now, his life has a routine and a discipline that keeps emergencies at bay. "The difference it's made ..." he says, unable to fully express his gratitude. He estimates his hospital visits have dropped at least 75 percent since the One Care program took charge of his health. "I would hate like hell to not have them." ... Read more Donald Trump is not well President Trump launched personal attacks against us Thursday, but our concerns about his unmoored behavior go far beyond the personal. America's leaders and allies are asking themselves yet again whether this man is fit to be president. We have our doubts, but we are both certain that the man is not mentally equipped to continue watching our show, "Morning Joe." The president's unhealthy obsession with our show has been in the public record for months, and we are seldom surprised by his posting nasty tweets about us. During the campaign, the Republican nominee called Mika "neurotic" and promised to attack us personally after the campaign ended. This year, top White House staff members warned that the National Enquirer was planning to publish a negative article about us unless we begged the president to have the story spiked. ...
Read more Trump Mocks Mika Brzezinski; Says She Was 'Bleeding Badly From a Face-Lift' President Trump lashed out Thursday at the appearance and intellect of Mika Brzezinski, a co-host of MSNBC's "Morning Joe," drawing condemnation from his fellow Republicans and reigniting the controversy over his attitudes toward women that nearly derailed his candidacy last year. The president described Ms. Brzezinski as "low I.Q. Crazy Mika" and claimed in a series of Twitter posts that she had been "bleeding badly from a face-lift" during a social gathering at Mr. Trump's resort in Florida around New Year's Eve. The White House did not explain what had prompted the outburst, but a spokeswoman said Ms. Brzezinski deserved a rebuke because of her show's harsh stance on Mr. Trump. ... Read more Cardinal George Pell 'Exposed' Full Story | | 06/28/16 | 31:27The Lies of George Pell: Loss of Faith | 60 Minutes | 03/24/13 | 12:48 The Shocking Truth Why Pope Benedict Resigned | | 12/30/16 | 1:19:27 |
Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Friday, June 30 [12:58]
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Lee Fang on Koch Brothers' Demand For Obamacare Repeal & Lobbyists Flourishing Under Trump, Part 2 | DN | 06/29/17 | 13:07
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Atlantic Magazine Jeffrey Taylor and former White House Clinton counselor Bill Curry debate -> Is Putin a Threat to Democracy? | TRNN | 06/29/17 | 27:17 Navy SEAL Shreds Trump Team For Using Vets As Props | TYT | 06/29/17 | 6:44 High Ranking Vatican Official Facing Multiple Sexual Offenses Charges | TYT | 06/29/17 | 8:08 NPR (National Public Radio) - www.npr.org/
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A curious warning from the White House to Syria about further use of chemical weapons was just one of the big global news stories this week.
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The Supreme Court stirred up headlines this week with the announcements it will hear arguments over the travel ban, political gerrymandering and a controversial cake shop.
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06.30.2017. 13:59
Tillerson blows up at top White House aide The normally laconic Texan unloaded on Johnny DeStefano, the head of the presidential personnel office, for torpedoing proposed nominees to senior State Department posts and for questioning his judgment. Tillerson also complained that the White House was leaking damaging information about him to the news media, according to a person familiar with the meeting. Above all, he made clear that he did not want DeStefano's office to "have any role in staffing" and "expressed frustration that anybody would know better" than he about who should work in his department -- particularly after the president had promised him autonomy to make his own decisions and hires, according to a senior White House aide familiar with the conversation. The episode stunned other White House officials gathered in chief of staff Reince Priebus' office, leaving them silent as Tillerson raised his voice. In the room with Tillerson and DeStefano were Priebus, top Trump aide Jared Kushner and Margaret Peterlin, the secretary of state's chief of staff. ... Read more
Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (2008) by Naomi Klein
Around the world in Britain, the United States, Asia and the Middle East, there are people with power who are cashing in on chaos; exploiting bloodshed and catastrophe to brutally remake our world in their image. They are the shock doctors.Exposing these global profiteers, Naomi Klein discovered information and connections that shocked even her about how comprehensively the shock doctors' beliefs now dominate our world - and how this domination has been achieved. Raking in billions out of the tsunami, plundering Russia, exploiting Iraq - this is the chilling tale of how a few are making a killing while more are getting killed. 'Packed with thinking dynamite ... a book to be read everywhere' John Berger 'If you only read one non-fiction book this year, make it this one' Metro Books of the Year 'There are a few books that really help us understand the present. The Shock Doctrine is one of those books' John Gray, Guardian 'A brilliant book written with a perfectly distilled anger, channelled through hard fact. She has indeed surpassed No Logo' Independent.
No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump's Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need (June 13, 2017) by Naomi Klein
Donald Trump's takeover of the White House is a dangerous escalation in a world of cascading crises. His reckless agenda -- including a corporate coup in government, aggressive scapegoating and warmongering, and sweeping aside climate science to set off a fossil fuel frenzy -- will generate waves of disasters and shocks to the economy, national security, and the environment. Acclaimed journalist, activist, and bestselling author Naomi Klein has spent two decades studying political shocks, climate change, and "brand bullies." From this unique perspective, she argues that Trump is not an aberration but a logical extension of the worst, most dangerous trends of the past half-century -- the very conditions that have unleashed a rising tide of white nationalism the world over. It is not enough, she tells us, to merely resist, to say "no." Our historical moment demands more: a credible and inspiring "yes," a roadmap to reclaiming the populist ground from those who would divide us -- one that sets a bold course for winning the fair and caring world we want and need. This timely, urgent book from one of our most influential thinkers offers a bracing positive shock of its own, helping us understand just how we got here, and how we can, collectively, come together and heal. **T r u m p ' s L i e s Many Americans have become accustomed to President Trump's lies. But as regular as they have become, the country should not allow itself to become numb to them. So we have catalogued nearly every outright lie he has told publicly since taking the oath of office. President Trump's political rise was built on a lie (about Barack Obama's birthplace). His lack of truthfulness has also become central to the Russia investigation, with James Comey, the former director of the F.B.I., testifying under oath about Trump's "lies, plain and simple." There is simply no precedent for an American president to spend so much time telling untruths. Every president has shaded the truth or told occasional whoppers. No other president -- of either party -- has behaved as Trump is behaving. He is trying to create an atmosphere in which reality is irrelevant. ... Read more |
Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Thursday, June 29 [12:14]
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Richard Wolff: "Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism"
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Richard Wolff: "Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism" | Talks at Google | 06/28/17 | 1:25:33 Dean Baker, Co-Director of the Center for Economic and Policy discusses -> Trumpcare Would Make U.S. Healthcare Even More Dysfunctional | TRNN | 06/29/17 | 15:18 The Nina Turner Show: No Is Not Enough with Naomi Klein | TRNN | 06/29/17 | 22:05
Note: Naomi Klein's interview starts at 2 min. At the 2017 People's Summit, Naomi Klein explains why fighting Trump requires political imagination.
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06.29.2017. 10:37
'He kind of looks like a dick': Potential jurors take an immediate dislike to 'pharma bro' Martin Shkreli More than 120 potential jurors were dismissed Monday from the federal court trial in Brooklyn, where Shkreli faces eight counts of securities and wire fraud related to his two hedge funds and the drug company Retrophin, reported the New York Times. Some of the jurors knew about the 34-year-old Shkreli, who became known as "the most hated man on the internet" two years ago after hiking the price of the drug Daraprim overnight from $13.50 per pill to $750 as CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals. "This is the price gouger of drugs," one potential juror said. "My kids are on some of these drugs. This impacts my kids." ...
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In the past 28 years Republican Presidential Administrations have suffered 89 FELONY criminal convictions while Democratic Presidential Administrations have had ---- 1.
Reporter Rips Into Sarah Huckabee Sanders After "Fake News" Tirade The heated exchange came as Sanders was responding to a question regarding a recently retracted CNN story concerning President Donald Trump and Russia that quickly prompted the resignation of three staff journalists the day before. "If we make the slightest mistake, or the slightest word is off, it is just an absolute tirade from a lot of people in this room," Sanders said. "But news outlets get to go on day after day and cite unnamed sources, use stories without sources," she added. "You're inflaming everyone right here right now with those words," Brian Karem of the Sentinel interrupted. "This administration has done that as well. Why in the name of heavens, any one of us are replaceable and any one of us, if we don't get it right, the audience has the opportunity to turn the channel or not read us." "What you just did is inflammatory to people all over the country who look at it and see once again the president's right and everybody else out here is fake media, and everybody in this room is only trying to do their job," he continued. ...
Read more People Outside a Trump Rally Told us Why They Hate the Media | VICE | 06/23/17 | 4:15 U.S. Troops in Romania & Saudi Arabia's Comic Con | VICE | older, 06/05/17 | 29:17 |
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Adam Weinstein of the National Iranian American Council says -> Trump's Only Iran Policy is Confrontation | TRNN | 06/28/17 | 19:45
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Fake Donald Trump Time Magazine Cover Hangs At Mar-A-Lago | MSNBC All-In | 06/28/17 | 1:28Paul Manafort Files Retroactively As Foreign Agent | MSNBC Rachel Maddow | 06/28/17 | 14:06 |
06.28.2017. 10:36
Republican Health Bill Would Leave 22 Million More People Without Insurance, CBO Projects The stats on the Senate health care bill are in: The Republicans' new plan to repeal Obamacare would leave 22 million more people uninsured in 2026 than under current law. That's according to a new analysis by the Congressional Budget Office, the official scorekeeper for Congress, which also predicts that the federal government would spend $772 billion less on Medicaid over the next decade. Senate Republicans kept the bill secret until last Thursday, but they are nonetheless rushing forward with a plan to vote on it by the end of this week so they can wrap things up before they head home for the Fourth of July. In a nearly unprecedented move, the entire drafting of the bill happened behind closed doors, with zero public hearings. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) hopes that the accelerated schedule will help his members pass the controversial legislation before they are confronted by angry voters in their home states over the holiday recess ... Read more Koch Group Says Republican Health Plan Doesn't Go Far Enough Leaders from the influential Koch political network expressed concern about the Senate Republican plan to reshape the nation's health system, saying as they met with donors at a Colorado resort that the measure isn't sufficiently conservative. "We've been disappointed that movement has not been more dramatic toward a full repeal or a broader rollback of this law, Obamacare," Tim Phillips, the president of the Koch-affiliated political advocacy group, Americans for Prosperity, told reporters. ... Read more Kochfest 2017 Billionaires: Time To Get What We Paid For! | TYT | 06/26/17 | 9:04The Exasperating Difficulty of Trying to Understand Trump's Finances On December 6th, then-President-elect Donald Trump was angry at the airplane manufacturer Boeing. The company, he felt, was overcharging for its newest version of Air Force One, leading him to tweet, "Cancel order!" Some were quick to point out that the situation seemed to present a conflict of interest: According to the disclosure forms he filed with the Federal Election Commission in May 2016, Trump owned stock in Boeing and had a personal financial stake in the company's performance (although why he would publicly disparage a company in which he owned stock was anybody's guess). In response, Trump's spokesman at the time, Jason Miller, informed reporters that Trump had sold not only his stock in Boeing but also all of his other stocks that June, although neither Trump nor Miller provided any proof. On June 16, the Office of Government Ethics (OGE) published Trump's latest disclosure paperwork, offering the first glimpse into his finances since he took office--and the first chance to hold Miller's statement to the level of scrutiny an official spokesperson for any president-elect warrants. Alongside pages that show, for example, that Mar-a-Lago, which Trump calls his "Winter White House" and has visited numerous times this year, saw a $7 million uptick in revenue, the document's "Other Assets" section lists his stock and bond holdings. Did this section perhaps provide an opportunity to verify Miller's claim? ... Read more The Amazing New Trump Defense | Keith Olberman | 06/26/17 | 24:40 |
Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Tuesday, June 27 [10:37]
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Hersh: Trump Ignored Intel Before Bombing Syria | TRNN | 06/27/17 | 20:38
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In an exclusive interview, veteran investigative reporter Seymour Hersh discusses his new report that President Trump bombed a Syrian military airfield in April despite warnings that U.S. intelligence had found no evidence that the Assad regime used a chemical weapon.
CBO: Trumpcare Would Kick 22 MILLION Off Healthcare | TYT | 06/26/17 | 7:43China's old Silk Road revival: hi-speed trains, massive skyscrapers and free-trade zones | RT | 06/26/17 | 24:27 **Antarctica on the edge | Aljazeera | 06/27/17 | 24:40 *Dispatches - Behind Enemy Lines | Dispatches | older, 07/08/16 | 49:01 The Trump Card: All that happened at the Trump-Modi meeting | WION | 06/27/17 | 24:05 NPR (National Public Radio) - www.npr.org/
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**T r u m p ' s L i e s Many Americans have become accustomed to President Trump's lies. But as regular as they have become, the country should not allow itself to become numb to them. So we have catalogued nearly every outright lie he has told publicly since taking the oath of office. President Trump's political rise was built on a lie (about Barack Obama's birthplace). His lack of truthfulness has also become central to the Russia investigation, with James Comey, the former director of the F.B.I., testifying under oath about Trump's "lies, plain and simple." There is simply no precedent for an American president to spend so much time telling untruths. Every president has shaded the truth or told occasional whoppers. No other president -- of either party -- has behaved as Trump is behaving. He is trying to create an atmosphere in which reality is irrelevant. ... Read more Donald Trump Confirms He Called House GOP Health Care Bill 'Mean' The bill was the same one he celebrated at the White House Rose Garden. President Donald Trump confirmed that he privately called the House Republicans' health care bill "mean," the same legislation he publicly celebrated with a ceremony in the White House Rose Garden. Asked about former President Barack Obama's response to the Senate version of the bill, unveiled Thursday, Trump said that his predecessor, who blasted the legislation's "fundamental meanness," had appropriated "my term." "He used my term: 'mean,'" Trump told "Fox and Friends" in an interview that aired Sunday. "That was my term, because I want to see -- and I speak from the heart -- that's what I want to see. I want to see a bill with heart." Based on unnamed congressional sources, it had been reported earlier this month that Trump told GOP senators during a private meeting that the House bill was "mean," and the Senate version should be "more generous." ... Read more What if Trump Actually Fires Mueller? | Keith Olbermann | 06/23/17 | 5:26Martha The Mastiff, 'World's Ugliest Dog,' Is Droopy, Gassy And Gorgeous The 125-pound Neapolitan mastiff snoozed and snored as the judges crowned her the winner of the annual contest (PHOTOS). ... Read more |
Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Monday, June 26 [11:18]
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**Peter Sinclair examines -> Estimates of Sea Level Rise by 2100 Have Tripled in the Past Few Years | TRNN | 06/26/17 | 17:09
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**National Security Archives Malcolm Byrne -> 64 Years Later, CIA Details Long-Hidden Role in Iran Coup | TRNN | 06/25/17 | 23:24 *Fmr. Iranian Diplomat: ISIS Attack on Tehran 'Managed by Saudi Arabia' | TRNN | older, 06/08/17 | 19:24 Trump Accuses Qatar Of Terrorism, IMMEDIATELY Sells Them Weapons | TYT | 06/25/17 | 2:52 Betsy DeVos Picks Student Loan CEO To Run Student Loan System | TYT | 06/25/17 | 4:13 Global Opium Epidemic: Killing Industry of Afghanistan | RT | 06/25/17 | 4:13 NPR (National Public Radio) - www.npr.org/
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06.26.2017. 10:46
Donald Trump Offers Nearly Incomprehensible Explanation For James Comey Tapes Claims President Donald Trump admitted this week that he did not tape his conversations with former FBI Director James Comey despite his earlier tweets suggesting he had. When asked why he did this in an interview that aired Friday, he offered the following perplexing explanation: "When he found out that there may be tapes out there, whether it's governmental tapes or anything else, I think his story may have changed," Trump said in an interview alongside first lady Melania. "I mean, you'll have to take a look at that, because then he has to tell what actually took place at the events." ... Read more Read the Senate Republican health care bill (full text) The closely guarded Senate health care bill written entirely behind closed doors is finally public on Thursday in a do-or-die moment for the Republican Party's winding efforts to repeal Obamacare. ... Read more No Wonder Republicans Were Hiding Trumpcare... | TYT | 06/22/17 | 16:44Paris Air Show: Flying Cars, Supersonic Jets and One Big Rivalry Boeing and Airbus are battling for aircraft orders at the International Paris Air Show, the biggest aviation gathering in the world this year. Low fuel prices, a lack of new planes and aggressive ordering in past years means deal flow could be light. Boeing has drawn in some buyers with new 737 Max 10, which is being positioned to rival the hot-selling Airbus A321neo. Meanwhile, there's also a range of far-out concepts on display like supersonic jets and flying cars. Over 350,000 visitors attended the biennial event in 2015, which this year is open to the public from June 23-25. ... Read more I Found Trump's Diary--Hiding in Plain Sight Legally risky, undiplomatic and sometimes wrong, Trump's Twitter feed is a document for the ages. And historians don't want to lose it. Lots of people want President Trump to stop tweeting. Mitch McConnell wants him to stop tweeting. Carly Fiorina wants him to stop tweeting. Lindsey Graham and Susan Collins and other Republican members of Congress and some Democrats in Congress and Jeb Bush and many of Trump's advisers and attorneys and even some of his supporters (although not all of his supporters) want him to stop tweeting. His wife wants him to stop. A majority of business leaders want him to stop, and a majority of millennials, and a majority of voters, period. His tweeting, they all believe, is unseemly and incendiary, legally risky and chaotic, undiplomatic, demoralizing, destructive, and distracting, too--for everybody, but especially for Trump. ... Read more |
Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Friday, June 23 [12:48]
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Nina Turner talks -> to organizers from West Virginia and Ohio about the challenges of living and affecting change in rural America | TRNN | 06/22/17 | 14:58
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Friday News - International | 1a.org | 06/04/17 | 1hr
America's relationship with North Korea worsens after 22-year-old Otto Warmbier's return home in a coma. He died shortly after. The President has called Warmbier's death "a disgrace." What now? Also, the latest attack on London and Saudi Arabia's King rewrites the rules on succession.
Friday News - Domestic | 1a.org | 06/04/17 | 1hr
We'll discuss why gun owners in particular have concerns surrounding the death of Philando Castile and why some want the NRA to speak out. Plus, back room dealing on healthcare, and is the President's front man moving on?
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US Officials Still Assessing Russia 2016 Hack | MSNBC Rachel Maddow | 06/22/17 | 25:09 |
06.25.2017. 10:50
Trump Says He Doesn't Want Poor People In Charge Of The Economy President Donald Trump, addressing criticism that Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and others in his Cabinet are too rich, said at an Iowa rally Wednesday that he doesn't want poor people in charge of the economy. "These are people that are great, brilliant business minds, and that's what we need, that's what we have to have so the world doesn't take advantages of us," Trump, told a crowd of about 6,000 in Cedar Rapids. "We can't have the world taking advantage of us anymore. And I love all people, rich or poor, but in those particular positions I just don't want a poor person. Does that make sense? Does that make sense? ... Read more Special counsel Mueller also investigating possible 'money laundering by Trump associates' In addition to investigating whether or not Donald Trump committed obstruction of justice by firing former FBI Director James Comey, special counsel Robert Mueller is also reportedly investigating "money laundering by Trump associates," the New York Times reports. The Times report corroborates a separate bombshell Washington Post article, published Wednesday, that said in addition to possible obstruction, investigators are also "looking for any evidence of possible financial crimes among Trump associates." "A former senior official said Mr. Mueller's investigation was looking at money laundering by Trump associates," a source told the Times. "The suspicion is that any cooperation with Russian officials would most likely have been done in exchange for some kind of financial payoff, and that there would have been an effort to hide the payoffs, most likely by routing them through offshore banking centers. Read more Counsel Investigating Trump For Money Laundering | TYT | 06/21/17 | 5:20Oliver Stone on how the US misunderstands Putin | Financial Times | 06/15/17 | 8:06 Ivanka and Donald Trump Jr. emerge as possible targets in Mueller probe of Russian money laundering Trump biographer Tim O'Brien published a detailed report Wednesday on Bloomberg examining the president's ties to suspected money launderers through the Bayrock Group -- often through real estate deals negotiated by his children. Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump Jr. come up several times in the piece, particularly in relationship with former Bayrock employee Felix Sater, a mob informant and felon who claims ties to Russian intelligence. Bayrock partnered with Trump and his two eldest children on a series of real estate transactions between 2002 and 2011, according to Bloomberg, including the troubled Trump Soho hotel and condominium. ... Read more |
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Bill Black -> Barclays and Its Executives Are Charged With Conspiracy to Commit Fraud | TRNN | 06/21/17 | 16:03
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Ben Norton of Alternet's Grayzone Project -> Trump Risks War with Russia and Iran in Syria | TRNN | 06/21/17 | 16:16 Steven Donziger, the lawyer representing affected indigenous communities in Ecuador -> US Supreme Court Declines to Hear Chevron Pollution Case | TRNN | 06/22/17 | 12:08 How "Blue Dog" Democrats Are Helping Trump | TYT | 06/21/17 | 6:58 Philando Castile Dash Cam Footage Released (VIDEO) | TYT | 06/21/17 | 12:55 NPR (National Public Radio) - www.npr.org/
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06.22.2017. 11:24
Bernie Sanders And Elizabeth Warren DESTROY "Cowardly" Republican Health Care Bill | C-Span | 06/19/17 | 33:10 Ford To Move Focus Production From Michigan To China Under pressure from Donald Trump, Ford scrapped its plans to build a $1 billion plant in Mexico that would've produced its Focus compact car. But in a move that's likely to vex the president, the automaker has decided to relocate its production to China in 2019. ... On Tuesday, Ford announced it will shift its Michigan production of the Focus to China. According to Bloomberg, the automaker plans to then sell those made-in-China vehicles to the U.S. market. Once this transition is completed, the Focus will reportedly be the biggest automotive export ever from China to the U.S. ... Read more Alex Jones Of 'Infowars,' Conspiracy Theories, And Trump Campaign (Full) | NBC Megyn Kelly | 06/20/17 | 17:35GOP sneak attack on health care nears a critical moment -- and it's a total monstrosity A few days ago a Republican Senate aide was asked by a reporter why the GOP leadership felt the need to keep all the discussions for the health care bill completely under wraps and he replied, "We're not stupid." Leading Republicans know that what they're planning is so poisonous to the voters that if they let anyone see the monstrosity they're constructing before the bill is hurriedly voted on and signed into law by President Donald Trump, it could well cause riots. After all, according to recent polling, only 17 percent of the American people surveyed said they approved of the bill as it currently stands. The fact is that Republicans are willing to destroy the health and financial security of millions of Americans so they can give massive tax cuts to Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner and others like them who are lucky enough to be vastly wealthy. This is their first real chance to enact permanent tax cuts since 1986. (This Vox article explains why that is.) Republicans have been chasing this dream a very long time. It is their white whale, so important that even the prospect of millions of people suffering and going bankrupt is not enough to make them think better of it. They are willing to hold hands, jump over a cliff and commit political suicide for it. ... Read more Why Republicans are still desperate to pass a health bill absurdly quickly Their complex legislative strategy falls apart if health reform doesn't pass very soon. This behavior might come off as odd. The original Obamacare bill, after all, took more than a year to pass, but it did pass in the end. So why not take it slow, legislate, build support, and make compromises over the following months in a process like the one Democrats used, rather than continuing on this mad dash? Republicans do have a rationale. Months ago, they agreed on a legislative strategy designed to game Senate rules so they could pass two major bills -- Obamacare repeal and tax reform -- with just 51 votes, ensuring that the filibuster would be bypassed and Democratic support wouldn't be necessary. Furthermore, the GOP agreed to put health care first, which would have the happy side benefit of allowing them to pass a bigger total permanent tax cut, for other complex Senate rules--related reasons. ... Read more Keith OlbermannSo, Does Trump Have Tapes of Comey? (#88) | Keith Olbermann | 06/20/17 | 6:16 Trump Appears to Be Self-Destructing (#87) | Keith Olbermann | 06/19/17 | 7:00 |
Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Wednesday, June 21 [13:02] Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Tuesday, June 20 [12:26]
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Michael Lighty of National Nurses United says -> The Fight Within the Democratic Party Over California Universal Health Insurance Plan | TRNN | 06/19/17 | 12:29
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The1a.org Only One Bank Faced Criminal Charges For The Mortgage Crisis. Bet You've Never Heard Of It. | The1a.org | 06/21/17 | 1hr
The documentary, "Abacus: Small Enough To Jail," tells the story of a family-owned bank in New York's Chinatown -- the only U.S. institution to face criminal fraud charges in the wake of the subprime mortgage crisis.
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Robert Mueller Team Paints Picture Of Donald Trump Russia Investigation | MSNBC Rachel Maddow | 06/20/17 | 4:20 |
06.21.2017. 12:08
Trump's Poll Numbers Crater Even Further As GOP Support Slips Lost amid all the dramatics of Jeff Sessions' testimony,Trump's ranting and ravings, and his reported desire to fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller, (which we all know he will eventually do), was an AP poll that confirmed Nate Silver's earlier analysis that Trump's support among Republicans is beginning to not only slip, but to slip badly. Silver has pointed out that the level of strong support for Trump has slipped by almost one-third since his inauguration. And now the most recent AP-NORC poll shows that Trump's approval rating has dropped to 35% and over half of the country strongly disapproves of the job he is doing. But here is the real kicker from the AP poll: "Nearly a third of Republicans and independents who lean toward the Republican party think Trump has little to no respect for the country's democratic institutions, and a quarter disapprove of the job he's doing as president." ... Read more Megyn Kelly Grills Alex Jones In Controversial Interview Megyn Kelly challenged Alex Jones' most inflammatory conspiracy theories in a much-anticipated interview that aired Sunday night on her new NBC News show, but Jones ducked her toughest questions. The 17-minute long interview had prompted a public furore when it was first announced last week, with critics accusing Sunday Night with Megyn Kelly of lending credence to the right-wing radio personality's views by giving him a mainstream platform. Jones has in the past called the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting a "hoax" and claimed that former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton was linked to a child sex ring. ... Read more Why banks love public debt | Aljazeera | 06/18/17 | 2:03Israel Has Been Secretly Funding Syrian Rebels For Years Israel has been secretly supplying Syrian rebels near its border with cash as well as food, fuel and medical supplies for years, a "secret engagement in the enemy country's civil war" aimed at carving out a buffer zone populated by friendly forces, the WSJ reported. ... Read more NPR 1aSo...How's The Resistance? | The1a.org | 06/19/17 | 1hr Stephen Bannon's War | PBS Frontline | 05/29/17 | 51:58 Empire Files: Abby Martin Exposes Steve Bannon | teleSUR English | older, 03/13/17 | 26:02 |
Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Monday, June 19 [12:18]
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James Early -> Trump Cuba Plan at Odds with 75% of Americans | TRNN | 06/16/17 | 13:38
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Phyllis Bennis -> US White Phosphorus Bombs Won't Eradicate Terrorism In Syria | TRNN | 06/16/17 | 14:19 Trump Keeps Stacking EPA With Fossil Fuel Stooges | TYT | 06/18/17 | 5:25 Fox News vs Harvard On ISIS Turns Into Embarrassing Ignorance Fest | TYT | older | 5:02 Why the Air Is About to Come Out of America's Bubble Economy - Peter Schiff | Cambridge House | 06/09/17 | 32:22
The June 1967 Arab-Israeli war lasted only six days but its consequences are still felt across the Middle East today. On June 5th, 1967, just three weeks after it marked the 19th anniversary of its founding, the state of Israel went to war with the armies of neighbouring Egypt, Syria and Jordan. What would come to be known to Israelis as the Six-Day War and to Arabs as the June War, saw the defeat of three of the mightiest armies in the region, in a total victory for Israel.
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Political Ad Uses Scalise Shooting As Its Subject | MSNBC Morning Joe | 06/19/17 | 6:22 |
06.19.2017. 13:22
The American Dream Is Fading Everywhere, But Almost Nowhere Faster Than Michigan In 1977, Bryan Kaminski walked out of high school and into an Ypsilanti factory. By 19, the General Motors employee, making what amounted to $26 an hour in today's dollars, had enough money to buy a house. In 2012, son Kyle Kaminski walked out of high school and onto the campus of Central Michigan University. Five years later, armed with a bachelor's degree, he earns $16 an hour as a reporter, the equivalent of 60 percent of what his father made straight out of high school. He rents a small Traverse City apartment he can only afford because his girlfriend splits the rent. He drives a 12-year-old car with 185,000 miles on it that he doesn't know how he'll ever be able to afford to replace. ... Read more New Commerce Secretary Was No Friend to Russians at Cyprus Bank When Wilbur L. Ross, a billionaire American investor, bought shares in the Bank of Cyprus three years ago, he found himself part owner of a big but failing bank with a vice chairman who used to work with Vladimir V. Putin in the Leningrad K.G.B. and five other Russians on its board. ... ... "Wilbur Ross was kind of a savior," said Andreas Neocleous, the founder and chairman of the biggest law firm in Cyprus, which bears his name and has many Russian clients. They have included Dmitri Rybolovlev, a Russian billionaire who paid $95 million in 2008 to buy a Florida mansion from Mr. Trump, who had purchased it for less than half that just a few years earlier. ... Read more
Alex Jones
Alex Jones Megyn Kelly Full Interview Leaked | Alex Jones | 06/15/17 | 30:05Note: I don't look at Alex Jones any more because I think he has gone off the deep end. However, I do think he has good points when he talked about the government doing things that are not in the best interest of the people. For an example, all the times the United State has interfered in the domestic business of other countries and have helped rig their elections, while we now cry foul because of the supposed interference in our own elections. And media giants cooperating with the government to deflect from what is really going on behind the scenes (look at the third video).
Alex Jones has released recordings made during a pre-interview between himself and Megyn Kelly to set the record straight after the release of the highly edited promo for the NBC hosts upcoming hit piece. Alex Jones has released recordings made during a pre-interview between himself and Megyn Kelly to set the record straight after the release of the highly edited promo for the NBC hosts upcoming hit piece.
Megyn Kelly faces backlash over interview with Alex Jones | ABC News | 06/15/17 | 5:40Why People Think Sandy Hook is A Hoax | The Alex Jones Channel | older 01/27/13 | 17:30 |
Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Friday, June 16 [10:08]
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Trump Infrastructure Plan Lays the Foundation to Build Corporate Corruption and Greed | TRNN | 06/16/17 | 11:02
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Ignoring Humanitarian Pleas, Senate OKs Saudi Weapons Sale | TRNN | 06/16/17 | 18:02 Trump Goes Back On Christian Promise | TYT | 06/15/17 | 5:04 NPR (National Public Radio) - www.npr.org/
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Mike Pence Hires Lawyer With Relevant Experience; Robert Mueller Builds Team | MSNBC Rachel Maddow | 06/15/17 | 22:07 |
06.16.2017. 12:19
Donald Trump: Obstruction Of Justice Allegations Part Of 'Witch Hunt' The president is accused of interfering in the FBI's Russia investigation. President Donald Trump responded on Thursday to a new report indicating he is under investigation for obstruction of justice. The FBI's special counsel, Robert Mueller, is looking into whether Trump tried to quell the bureau's investigation into his presidential campaign's ties to Russia, according to The Washington Post. Trump called the report "phony" and said the allegations amounted to "the single greatest witch hunt in American political history." ... Read more
Jeff Sessions Said "I Don't Remember" or "I Don't Recall" 26 Times During Senate Intel
Death Toll From London Apartment Complex Fire Climbs To 17
I know this is inappropriate, but the first thought that came to mind was, "If this building was in New York city it would have fallen down within hours of the start of the fire. England must have shitty electrical codes, but great building codes".
British Prime Minister Theresa May on Thursday promised a public inquiry into a fire that gutted a 24-story apartment block killing at least 17 people, as the government faced questions about how such a devastating blaze could have occurred. Fire engulfed the social housing block, where as many as 600 people lived in more than 120 apartments, in the early hours of Wednesday, turning it into a flaming torch in minutes. ... Read more
Wells Fargo Is Accused of Making Improper Changes to Mortgages | NYTimes | Gretchen Morgenson | 06/14/17
Here's the GOP's attempt at damage control over Mueller investigation report The GOP simultaneously insists that the leaks prove nothing and that the leakers should be thrown in jail In the aftermath of a report that special counsel Robert Mueller has expanded his investigation into potential obstruction of justice by President Donald Trump, Republicans and have instructed surrogates how to hit back. Republican talking points include claiming there is no case for obstruction of justice, shifting attention to claims that former attorney general Loretta Lynch is the one who should be investigated for obstruction and insisting that the leakers are the real criminals here, according to a report by Philip Rucker of The Washington Post. ... Read more How Democrats Would Fix Obamacare They've said if Republicans dropped their repeal demand, they'd be willing to help repair the law. Here are some of their ideas. As Republicans have been casting about for legislation to eviscerate the Affordable Care Act, Democrats have offered a consistent message in public: If the GOP drops its demand for repeal, we'll work with them to improve, or fix, the current law. Exactly how Democrats would change the bill they enacted seven years ago is less clear. Lawmakers have floated a range of options, from tackling the cost of prescription drugs, to setting up a reinsurance program to shore up Obamacare's flagging exchanges, to reviving the idea of a "public option" that would compete with private carriers and drive down prices. ... Read more ???Hannity | Fox News | 06/14/17 | 7:09 |
Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Thursday, June 15 [13:08]
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Oliver Stone Interviews Putin on U.S.-Russia Relations, 2016 Election, Snowden & NATO, Part 1 | DN | 06/14/17 | 23:00,
Part 2 | DN | 10:03
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Full Interview: Naomi Klein on "No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump's Shock Politics" | DN | 06/13/17 | 44:17 EITC (Earned Income Tax Credit) Not Only Reduces Poverty, But Improves Health of Communities | TRNN | 06/15/17 | 10:34
While Trump seeks to dramatically reduce federal spending for the poor, study shows that the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) benefits not only the lives of those who receive it, but also of entire communities, Jeanette Wicks-Lim and Peter Arno of PERI explain.
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06.15.2017. 12:17
"I am not stonewalling": Jeff Sessions can't recall meeting with Russian ambassador, refuses to disclose his conversations with Trump In his highly anticipated appearance before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday afternoon, Attorney General Jeff Sessions vehemently denied ever speaking to Russian officials about last year's election. But Sessions refused to disclose any details about his conversations with President Donald Trump related to the investigation of Russian meddling or the firing of former FBI Director James Comey. In more than two and half hours of questioning, Sessions used his first congressional hearing since his confirmation to push back aggressively against the implications of Comey's testimony last week and the swirl of controversy surrounding the Trump administration. Sessions repeatedly came close to invoking executive privilege regarding his conversations with the president, while agreeing he had no authority to do so -- a bewildering dodge that clearly irritated several Democratic senators. ... Read more
Trump takes credit for new coal mine that had nothing to do with him
Trump touts the opening of a new coal mine he had nothing to do with, and which will only create 100 jobs Salon | Nicole Hallett | 06/14/17 The 50 Largest Stashes of Cash Companies Keep Overseas Although it's still short on details, President Trump's tax reform plan would spur companies that have been stockpiling cash overseas -- to avoid paying taxes -- to bring the money home. The tax outline he released in April doesn't specify a rate, but during the campaign Trump proposed a one-time tax of 10 percent on offshore earnings instead of the standard 35 percent corporate rate that would otherwise apply. (House Republicans are even more generous, proposing an 8.75 percent tax on foreign earnings held as cash and a 3.5 percent rate for all other foreign earnings.) The repatriated money could be used on share buybacks, dividends, acquisitions and capital spending. Tech companies would be the biggest beneficiaries: Apple, Microsoft and Cisco Systems alone have a total of $427 billion stored overseas. The 50 top overseas cash holders in the S&P 500 have parked $925 billion of their cash and marketable securities outside the U.S., an increase of $118 billion since their filings one year ago. ... Read more
The Putin Interviews Paperback by Oliver Stone (Author), Robert Scheer (Foreword) (06/16/17)
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Academy Award winner Oliver Stone was able to secure what journalists, news organizations, and even other world leaders have long coveted: extended, unprecedented access to Russian President Vladimir Putin. The Putin Interviews are culled from more than a dozen interviews with Putin over a two-year span?never before has the Russian leader spoken in such depth or at such length with a Western interviewer. No topics are off limits in the interviews, which first occurred during Stone's trips to meet with NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden in Moscow and most recently after the election of President Donald Trump. Prodded by Stone, Putin discusses relations between the United States and Russia, allegations of interference in the US election, and Russia's involvement with conflicts in Syria, Ukraine, and elsewhere across the globe. Putin speaks about his rise to power and details his relationships with Presidents Clinton, George W. Bush, Obama, and Trump. The exchanges are personal, provocative, and at times surreal. At one point, Stone asks, "Why did Russia hack the election?"; at another, Stone introduces him to Stanley Kubrick's 1964 Cold War satire "Dr. Strangelove," which the two watch together. Stone has interviewed controversial world leaders before, including Hugo Chavez, Fidel Castro, and Benjamin Netanyahu. But The Putin Interviews, in its unmediated access to one of the most enigmatic and powerful men in the world, can only be compared to the series of conversations between David Frost and Richard Nixon we now refer to as "The Nixon Interviews" of 1977. The book will also contain references and sources that give readers a deeper understanding of the topics covered in the interviews and make for a more robust reading experience. |
Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Wednesday, June 14 [10:16]
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Kamala Harris Rattles Jeff Sessions | TYT | 06/13/17 | 8:46
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Republicans Tried To Ban Reporters From Senate Hallways | TYT | 06/13/17 | 4:31 Reaganism - 5 Men Now Own 1/2 the World's Wealth | ThomHartmann | 06/13/17 | 27:56 NPR (National Public Radio) - www.npr.org/
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President Trump's Team Desperate To Explain James Comey Firing | MSNBC Rachel Maddow | 06/13/17 | 26:04West London Grenfell Tower fire, multiple casualties confirmed | RT | 06/13/17 | 4:00:00 London fire: at least six dead after Grenfell tower block sets fire on Latimer Road in London | Channel 4 News | 06/14/17 | 27:41 |
06.14.2017. 12:16
J.P. Morgan Chase Reportedly Pulls NBC Ads Over Megyn Kelly's Alex Jones Interview NBC News is reportedly under pressure from at least one major advertiser over the upcoming Megyn Kelly interview with right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. The Wall Street Journal reports that J.P. Morgan Chase has pulled its local TV ads and digital ads from all NBC News programming, including Kelly's show, until after the interview airs Sunday night. ... Read more Trump 'Considering' Firing Special Counsel In Russia Investigation, Friend Says "I think he's considering perhaps terminating the special counsel. I think he's weighing that option," Newsmax CEO Chris Ruddy told PBS NewsHour's Judy Woodruff on Monday. According to Neal Katyal, the former acting U.S. solicitor general, Trump could direct Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who appointed Mueller, to fire the former FBI director. (Rosenstein's boss, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, has recused himself from the Russia investigation.) ... Read more Trump Invites His Employees To Praise Him During Cabinet Meeting | HP | 06/12/17 | 23:01
President Donald Trump invited his top employees to shower him with compliments. They happily obliged, one-by-one, on live television. During a Cabinet meeting at the White House, the president touted the "record-setting pace" of his legislative agenda and claimed "never has there been a president, with few exceptions" who has accomplished more while in office.
Oliver Stone Spent Two Years Interviewing Vladimir Putin | Stephen Colbert & Oliver Stone | 06/13/17 | 7:24
Fresh off of 'The Putin Interviews' in which the documentarian spent an extended period of time with the Russian President, Oliver Stone sits down to defend widespread criticism that he's been too soft on Vladimir Putin.
Jeff Sessions walks the tightrope: Compromised attorney general must try to shield his boss and protect himself People all over the country were riveted by James Comey's testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee last week and it whet their appetites for more revelations. A friend of mine texted me after it was done and asked excitedly, "Who's testifying next week?" As it happens, on Tuesday Attorney General Jeff Sessions will appear before the same committee. It's the first time Sessions has appeared before Congress since his confirmation hearings, and since he's previously cancelled several scheduled appearances to speak about the Justice Department budget (and face unpleasant questions from Sen. Al Franken again) before the Appropriations Committee, it's pretty clear he's been dodging his former colleagues. ... Read more Donald Trump's Odd Obsession with "Hookers" | Keith Olbermann | 06/12/17 | 6:11 |
Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Tuesday, June 13 [10:00]
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Trump's Corporate-Funded Climate Study Gets It Wrong | TRNN | 06/12/17 | 11:36
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Will Trump's Friend Get Building Contract For New FBI Headquarters? | TYT | 06/12/17 | 6:25 Ivanka Calls Her Father's Critics 'Vicious' | TYT | 06/12/17 | 8:31 Keiser Report: Everything in Bubble (E1083) | RT | 06/13/17 | 25:45
Max and Stacy ask whether there's a 'catastrophic storm or economic plunge' happening. And, if so, do we even exist if there's no impact on the market? Max continues his interview with the former chairman of the North Carolina Democratic Party, Randy Voller, about the disastrous state of the Democrats.
What's Really Behind the Rift Between Qatar and Their Middle East Neighbors? (w/Guest David Hearst) | ThomHartmann | 06/07/17 | 11:21NPR (National Public Radio) - www.npr.org/
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How Trump Digs a Deeper Legal Hole When He Tweets Violating the lawyer's rule of thumb that clients remain quiet is rarely a good idea. President Donald Trump can't be stopped from tweeting and otherwise talking about the Russia investigation. But by continuing to expostulate, he risks not only incriminating himself but irritating the prosecutor overseeing the probe. Some observers speculated that the arrival of Trump's personal lawyer, Marc Kasowitz, would spell the end of the president's off-the-cuff comments. Not so. Whatever Kasowitz has told his longtime client, the president is still running his mouth. On Sunday morning, the president tweeted: "I believe the James Comey leaks will be far more prevalent than anyone ever thought possible. Totally illegal? Very 'cowardly!'" ... Read more Report: Uber Board Accept Holder's Recommendations, Discuss CEO Kalanick's Absence The recommendations included imposing new controls on company spending, human resources and other areas where executives had wide discretion. The board, at a meeting on Sunday, adopted a series of recommendations from former U.S Attorney General Eric Holder following a sprawling, multi-month investigation into Uber's cultures and practices. The recommendations will be released to Uber employees on Tuesday, said the representative, who declined to be identified. Holder's recommendations included imposing new controls on company spending, human resources and other areas where executives had wide discretion. ... Read more The US government cannot be trusted so long as Donald Trump runs it | Vox | 06/10/17 | 5:51Jeff Sessions will testify before Senate Intelligence Committee After Attorney General Jeff Sessions surprised members of the Senate Intelligence Committee by offering to testify before them on Tuesday, the committee agreed -- meaning that there will be an open session on Sessions. It is expected that the committee will seek Sessions' version of the story told by former FBI Director James Comey during his testimony last week. According to Comey, Trump asked a number of White House staffers to leave the Oval Office so that he could have a private conversation with Comey, during which Trump is accused of having asked Comey to drop the bureau's investigation into former national security adviser Michael Flynn. ... Read more Trump attorney won't rule out firing Mueller One of President Donald Trump's attorneys on Sunday wouldn't rule out the possibility the president would fire the special counsel appointed to look into his campaign's potential ties to Russia. Robert Mueller was appointed by the Justice Department last month to investigate Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential election. And on Sunday, ABC's George Stephanopoulos asked Trump attorney Jay Sekulow whether the president would pledge not to interfere or order the attorney general to fire Mueller. ... Read more What We Now Know From James Comey (#85) | Keith Olbermann | 06/08/17 | 5:57 |
Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Monday, June 12 [14:51]
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Premiere of the Nina Turner Show with Bernie Sanders | TRNN | 06/11/17 | 19:49
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Wall St. Democrats vs Working Class Democrats | TRNN | 06/12/17 | 18:06 Sea Level Rise due to Global Warming Threatens Vancouver | TRNN | 06/12/17 | 7:04 The Much Anticipated James Comey Hearing | TYT | 06/10/17 | 6:20 Trump Kids Once Again Reveal Too Much | TYT | 06/11/17 | 3:29 Ted Cruz Booted Off Stage Mid-Speech | TYT | 06/11/17 | 7:30 NPR (National Public Radio) - www.npr.org/
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06.12.2017. 10:23
Comey testimony shifts focus to Trump It has been many years since a witness appeared on Capitol Hill and put a president in such potential jeopardy as former FBI director James B. Comey did Thursday. For the first time in the long investigation into Russia's interference in the 2016 election and questions about possible collusion by associates of President Trump's campaign, the focus has moved inside the White House and, specifically, to questions about the president's conduct in office. Allies and adversaries of the president will interpret Comey's accounting of events in different ways, but there is no question that his appearance dramatically reshaped what already has been a debilitating problem for the administration. It will be left to special counsel Robert Mueller to decide what it all means. In the meantime, Comey has made life more uncomfortable for the president. ...
Read more What We Now Know From James Comey (#85) | Keith Olbermann | 06/08/17 | 5:57 |
Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Friday, June 09 [10:47]
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How Far Will US & Saudis Go to Remake the Middle East? | TRNN | 06/09/17 | 23:41
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Comey Hearing: Little New, More Doubt About 'RussiaGate' | TRNN | 06/09/17 | 28:09 NPR (National Public Radio) - www.npr.org/
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James Comey Testimony Grows President Trump Obstruction Case | MSNBC Rachel Maddow | 06/08/17 | 22:44Donald Trump Lawyer Botches NYTimes James Comey Memo Timeline | MSNBC Rachel Maddow | 06/08/17 | 10:21 |
Stephen Colbert Guess Who's Comey To Dinner? | Stephen Colbert | 06/09/17 | 10:21 Trevor Noah Comey Takes the Stand (But Leaves the Juicy Details Behind) | The Daily Show | 06/08/17 | 10:18 |
06.09.2017. 07:00
The world according to Trump Donald Trump sees the world as a strange binary and may be a sociopath, writes Robert Reich To Donald Trump, the world is made up of only two sorts of people, or nations: strong winners whom others respect and fear, and weak losers whom others exploit and laugh at. There is no other alternative. "At what point does America get demeaned? At what point do they start laughing at us, as a country?" Trump asked Thursday during his major announcement from the White House Rose Garden that the US would be withdrawing from the Paris climate agreement. "We don't want other leaders and other countries laughing at us anymore. And they won't be. They won't be." ... Read more 'Well I do mean it in a contentious way!' Senators hammer Intel director and NSA boss after they say they never felt 'pressured' but refuse to reveal whether Trump asked them to dial back the FBI's Russia probe
Intelligence Officials Won't Discuss Trump Conversations | TYT | 06/07/17 | 11:01
President Vladimir Putin On Russian Election Interference (Full Exclusive) | Megyn Kelly
President Vladimir Putin On Russian Election Interference | NBC News | 06/04/17 | 11:23 Megyn Kelly: Vladimir Putin Was 'Very Personable' When The Cameras Were Off | NBC TODAY | 06/04/17 | 3:54 NATO Would Be Totally Outmatched In A Conventional War With Russia Purposefully or not, President Trump's comments at the recent NATO summit have brought some sobering truths to the fore. Donald Trump's recent whirlwind world tour began with him signing a series of arms sale agreements with the Saudi government totaling some $110 billion, a move interpreted by the American president as proof positive of Riyadh's commitment to fighting terrorism and containing Iran. In short, Saudi Arabia, in Donald Trump's view, put its money where its mouth was. It ended with Trump dedicating a memorial celebrating the transatlantic bonds between Europe and the United States at the new headquarters of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in Brussels. The memorial commemorated the terror attack of 9/11 and NATO's response, manifesting the foundational premise underpinning NATO, set forth in Article 5 of the NATO Charter, that an attack against one member was an attack against all. ... Read more Why the poorest county in West Virginia has faith in Donald Trump | Guardian | older | 10:30 |
Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Thursday, June 08 [11:22]
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How Amazon is in Bed With The Deep State | TYT | 06/07/17 | 3:50
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Keiser Report: 'Liquidity Turbulence' (E1081) | RT | 06/08/17 | 25:47
Max and Stacy discuss 'liquidity turbulence' and ask whether it is the 'credit crunch' of our day. In the second half Max continues his conversation with Jameson Lopp of Bitgo.com about the latest in the bitcoin and cryptocurrencies world.
Could Trump's Tweets Lead to War in the Middle East? (FULL) | ThomHartmann | 06/07/17 | 27:55Max Blumenthal - What's Really Going on In Iran & Qatar? | ThomHartmann | 06/07/17 | 12:13
Big Picture Interview: Max Blumenthal, Senior Editor-AlterNet's Grayzone Project/ Author-The 51 Day War: Ruin and Resistance in Gaza. Iran is blaming Saudi Arabia and by proxy the United States today after ISIS killed 12 people and wounded 42 more in a brazen attack in heart of Tehran. In a statement - Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards drew a direct connection between this morning's slaughter and Donald Trump's recent trip to Saudi Arabia - and said that "the fact that the Islamic State has claimed responsibility proves that they [the Saudis] were involved in the brutal attack." So - were they?
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Lawrence Wilkerson: Donald Trump Admin. 'Like A Mafia Family' | MSNBC All-In | 06/07/17 | 7:09How President Donald Trump Skimmed Money Meant For Sick Kids | MSNBC All-In | 06/07/17 | 7:42 |
06.08.2017. 09:50
Top intelligence official told associates Trump asked him if he could intervene with Comey on FBI Russia probe The nation's top intelligence official told associates in March that President Trump asked him if he could intervene with then-FBI Director James B. Comey to get the bureau to back off its focus on former national security adviser Michael Flynn in its Russia probe, according to officials. On March 22, less than a week after being confirmed by the Senate, Director of National Intelligence Daniel Coats attended a briefing at the White House together with officials from several government agencies. As the briefing was wrapping up, Trump asked everyone to leave the room except for Coats and CIA Director Mike Pompeo. ... Read more
Jeff Sessions offered to resign after tensions grew with Trump | WashingtonPost | | 06/06/17
Donald Trump, furious and frustrated, gears up to punch back at Comey's testimony | WashingtonPost | | 06/06/17
Trump Takes Credit for Saudi Move Against Qatar, a U.S. Military Partner WASHINGTON -- President Trump thrust himself into a bitter Persian Gulf dispute on Tuesday, taking credit for Saudi Arabia's move to isolate its smaller neighbor, Qatar, and rattling his national security staff by upending a critical American strategic relationship. In a series of tweets, Mr. Trump said his call for an end to the financing of radical groups had prompted Saudi Arabia and four other countries to act this week against Qatar, a tiny, energy-rich emirate that is arguably America's most important military outpost in the Middle East. ...
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James Clapper: 'Watergate Pales' In Comparison To Russia Scandal | HP | | 06/07/17
Death Toll In Kabul Blast Surpasses 150, Afghan President Says Afghan President Ashraf Ghani said Tuesday that more than 150 people died in last week's truck bombing in Kabul, raising earlier counts and making it one of the deadliest such attacks since the American-led invasion toppled the Taliban in 2001. "Over 150 entirely innocent Afghan sons and daughters were killed and more than three hundred were brought to hospital with burns, lacerations, and amputations," Afghan news site TOLOnews quoted Ghani as saying. ...
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Warnings: Finding Cassandras to Stop Catastrophes by Richard A. Clarke (05/23/17)
Did Trump Himself Meet With the Russian Ambassador? (#84) | Stephen Colbert | 06/07/17 | 7:20Warnings is the story of the future of national security, threatening technologies, the U.S. economy, and possibly the fate of civilization. In Greek mythology Cassandra foresaw calamities, but was cursed by the gods to be ignored. Modern-day Cassandras clearly predicted the disasters of Katrina, Fukushima, the Great Recession, the rise of ISIS, and many more. Like the mythological Cassandra, they were ignored. There are others right now warning of impending disasters, but how do we know which warnings are likely to be right? Through riveting explorations in a variety of fields, the authors -- both accomplished CEOs and White House National Security Council veterans -- discover a method to separate the accurate Cassandras from the crazy doomsayers. They then investigate the experts who today are warning of future disasters: the threats from artificial intelligence, bio-hacking, mutating viruses, and more, and whose calls are not being heeded. Clarke's and Eddy's penetrating insights are essential for any person, any business, or any government that doesn't want to be a blind victim of tomorrow's catastrophe. |
Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Wednesday, June 07 [13:53]
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Max Blumenthal of Alternet's Grayzone Project says -> Trump, Israel Back Saudi Power Play Against Qatar | TRNN | 06/06/17 | 26:37
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Meet Two Activists Fighting For The Syrian People | TYT | 06/06/17 | 14:28
John Iadarola (Host of ThinkTank), discusses the experience of people living in Syria during the war with Abdalaziz Alhamza (Founder, Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently) and Abdulrahman Almawwas (Vice President, Syrian White Helmets) at the 2017 Oslo Freedom Forum.
Dr Richard Wolff - How Privatizing Air Traffic Will End Safe Travel | ThomHartmann | 06/06/17 | 12:11NPR (National Public Radio) - www.npr.org/
Can The Nation's Voting System Be Trusted? | IPR & The1a.org | 06/07/17 | 1hrPBS (Public Broadcasting Service) - pbs.org/
Donald Trump's Deadbeat Past Hurts Him In Search For Scandal Lawyers | MSNBC Rachel Maddow | 06/06/17 | 7:02Robert Mueller Would Gain Resources As Scope Of Donald Trump Probe Widens | MSNBC Rachel Maddow | 06/06/17 | 2:19 |
06.07.2017. 09:24
Trump's America Is Facing a $13 Trillion Consumer Debt Hangover
Americans faced with lackluster income growth have been financing more of their spending with debt instead. There are early signs that loan burdens are growing unsustainably large for borrowers with lower incomes. Household borrowings have surged to a record $12.73 trillion, and the percentage of debt that is overdue has risen for two consecutive quarters. And with economic optimism having lifted borrowing rates since the election and the Federal Reserve expected to hike further, it's getting more expensive for borrowers to refinance. Some companies are growing worried about their customers. Public Storage said in April that more of its self-storage customers now seem to be under stress. Credit card lenders including Synchrony Financial and Capital One Financial Corp. are setting aside more money to cover bad loans. Consumer product makers including Nestle SA posted slower sales growth last quarter, particularly in the U.S. ... Read more
Bill Gates May Soon Lose His Spot As The World's Richest Person, Prime time for Jeff Bezos | HP | Ryan Grenoble | 06/06/17 | article
Comey's YUUUge Day On The Hill Even if he says nothing new, James Comey's testimony is going to put a real focus on Trump's Russia scandal Even as news stories of numerous interactions between Russia and associates of President Donald Trump have continued to break on a frequent basis, congressional Democrats have become more circumspect in their rhetoric about the subject. On Sunday, Virginia Sen. Mark Warner told CNN that while there is "a lot of smoke" in terms of contacts, "we have no smoking gun at this point." In large measure, that is because any legal prosecution or impeachment actions would have to rely upon real documentation or sworn public statements. Thus far, those things do not exist. But fired FBI director James Comey's upcoming public testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee may provide a way of bringing the numerous threads of the Russia scandal together in a way that becomes a historical moment. ... Read more
How Trump is stalling his own nominees
The White House has taken weeks to formally submit nominations to the Senate, even after announcing the picks. | Politico | Seung Min Kim | 06/06/17 | article
Everything we know about the Mueller probe so far Mueller, who brings a wealth of national security experience, is expected to take an expansive view of his role. His first appointments -- tapping longtime law-firm partner James Quarles and Andrew Weissmann, the head of the Justice Department's criminal fraud unit -- were the opening moves in a politically red-hot criminal case that has upended the opening months of the Trump White House. Mueller is expected to take an expansive view of his role. He inherited a spate of existing federal probes covering figures including the president's son-in-law and senior White House adviser, Jared Kushner, and former campaign hands Paul Manafort, Michael Flynn and Carter Page. ... Read more Keith Olbermann Apologizes to UK: 'Trump Is Not Of Sound Mind' A somber Keith Olbermann apologized to Britain for Donald Trump's insensitive comments attacking the competence of London's mayor in the wake of Saturday's attack on London Bridge. "Donald Trump is not of sound mind," explained Olbermann in the latest offering of GQ's "The Resistance." "We are working to correct the problem as soon as possible." ... ... "Amid all that he creates -- mass confusion, charges of corruption, hints at collusion -- there is a stark reality. In almost any other job in this country, assuredly in any other private sector job ... Donald Trump, our national embarrassment, our international disgrace, would have been fired by now," he said. ...
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Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Tuesday, June 06 [8:45]
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**Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson discusses -> From Qatar Rift to Syria Battlefield, Trump & Gulf Allies Target Iran | TRNN | 06/06/17 | 20:44
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Trump Uses London Attack To Make Point On Gun Control | TYT | 06/05/17 | 3:25 Congressman On Muslims: "Kill Them All" | TYT | 06/05/17 | 5:23 Keiser Report: Is There a Tech Bubble? (E1080) | RT | 06/06/17 | 25:48 What's behind the diplomatic breakdown in the Gulf? | Aljazeera: Inside Story | 06/05/10 | 25:01 NPR (National Public Radio) - www.npr.org/
Solar's Future Is So Bright... But Clouds Are In The Forecast | IPR & The1a.org | 06/06/17 | 1hr
A new report suggests solar jobs have grown 17 times faster than the overall U.S. economy. But now that President Trump has decided to withdraw the United States from the Paris climate agreement, what's the future of solar power in America?
Can The Democracy Survive The Internet?: Lessons From 2016 | IPR & The1a.org | 06/06/17 | 1hrCan The Democracy Survive The Internet?: Lessons From 2016 | IPR & The1a.org | 06/06/17 | 1hr PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) - pbs.org/
*What's behind the dramatic diplomatic rift with Qatar? | PBS | 06/05/17 | 6:39 |
06.06.2017. 10:22
Trump's White House needs another special prosecutor Trump and his inner circle cashing in on the White House is its own growing scandal It's been one revelation after the other these days about President Trump's attempts to shut down the FBI's Russiagate investigation. Turn on the news and you're bound to hear comparisons to Nixon's Watergate scandal and phrases like "obstruction of justice," "intimidating a witness" and "cover-up" being hotly debated. And then last Wednesday, the Department of Justice finally bowed to reality and appointed a special prosecutor, former FBI Director Robert Mueller. "Based upon the unique circumstances the public interest requires me to place this investigation under the authority of a person who exercises a degree of independence from the normal chain of command," wrote Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. ... Read more
The Plot to Scapegoat Russia: How the CIA and the Deep State Have Conspired to Vilify Putin by Dan Kovalik (06/06/17)
Since 1945, the US has justified numerous wars, interventions, and military build-ups based on the pretext of the Russian Red Menace, even after the Soviet Union collapsed at the end of 1991 and Russia stopped being Red. In fact, the two biggest post-war American conflicts, the Korean and Vietnam wars, were not, as has been frequently claimed, about stopping Soviet aggression or even influence, but about maintaining old colonial relationships. Similarly, many lesser interventions and conflicts, such as those in Latin America, were also based upon an alleged Soviet threat, which was greatly overblown or nonexistent. And now the specter of a Russian Menace has been raised again in the wake of Donald Trump's election. The Plot to Scapegoat Russia examines the recent proliferation of stories, usually sourced from American state actors, blaming and manipulating the threat of Russia, and the long history of which this episode is but the latest chapter. It will show readers two key things: (1) the ways in which the United States has needlessly provoked Russia, especially after the collapse of the USSR, thereby squandering hopes for peace and cooperation; and (2) how Americans have lost out from this missed opportunity, and from decades of conflicts based upon false premises. These revelations, amongst other, make The Plot to Scapegoat Russia one of the timeliest reads of 2017. The Panic President Rarely does a leader in a liberal democracy embrace, let alone foment, fear. But that's exactly what Donald Trump did in response to attacks in London, as he has often done before. After a terrorist attack, there are two steps nearly every leader takes: first, condemn the violence; second, appeal for calm. London Mayor Sadiq Khan followed that familiar playbook in the wake of Saturday night's attacks. ... ... Early Sunday morning, President Trump logged onto Twitter, offering not condolences to Britain or support in fighting terrorism (though he did do that in a call with Prime Minister Theresa May, according to a White House readout), but instead an angry "I told you so" and an attack on Khan ... Read more
The Times reported earlier this year that British intelligence is watching 23,000 possible jihadists, and more closely watching 3,000 of them.
John Paulson Is Struggling to Hold On to Client Money
A decade after Paulson shot to fame betting on the collapse of the U.S. housing market, the hedge-fund mogul is struggling to persuade investors to stick with him after a string of missteps on everything from gold to European bonds to drug stocks. Since the end of 2015 alone, assets at Paulson & Co. have fallen by $6 billion from losses and client withdrawals. The decline, underscored in the firm's most recent regulatory filing, leaves Paulson and his employees with just $2 billion in client money. Most of the remaining $8 billion is Paulson's own fortune. ... Read more The GOP Must Take Responsibility for Trump (#82) | Keith Olbermann | 06/02/17 | 7:43 |
Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Monday, June 05 [9:47]
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Top Climate Scientist, Journalist & Activists Blast Trump's Withdrawal from Paris Accord | DN | 06/02/17 | 29:15
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*Former Clinton White House Counsellor Bill Curry -> Is Putin the Enemy or a Distraction? | TRNN | 06/05/17 | 21:35 *Kovalik's new book -> Blaming Russia Goes Deeper Than Hillary Clinton & the Democrats | TRNN | 06/05/17 | 16:18 *Prof. Subhankar Banerjee, Editor of "Arctic Voices: Resistance at the Tipping Point," says -> Arctic Climate Warming Twice as Fast As Anywhere Else | TRNN | 06/04/17 | 17:26 US Allies Offer To Pay For Everything If We Overthrow Assad | TYT | 06/04/17 | 5:33 NPR (National Public Radio) - www.npr.org/
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*Donald Trump Attacks Birth Control Amid Scandal Circus Distraction | MSNBC Rachel Maddow | 06/02/17 | 4:07 |
Alec Baldwin Gets Under Trump's Skin Alec baldwin collapses onto his dressing-room couch at Saturday Night Live like a man participating too enthusiastically in a trust fall. He is 58 years old. He has three children under 4. He has been dividing what's left of his time between filming a movie with Emilio Estevez in Cincinnati and answering the call from NBC whenever it comes, which, because of his now-signature portrayal of Donald Trump, has been many weeks this season. His appearances gather eyes like car accidents; some clips have been watched on YouTube more than 20 million times. Those legions of viewers have formed a kind of makeshift resistance, a community of the gaslit, together feeling a little less crazy for knowing that at least Alec Baldwin can see what they are seeing. Turning the president into a running joke might prove the most consequential work of his career. It's at least been the most consuming. ... Read more Stunning Photos of the Arctic Circle As It Literally Melts Away The latest monograph from photographer Diane Tuft provides a little-seen portrait of beauty and loss. Artist and photographer Diane Tuft, whose work is included in the permanent collection of the Whitney Museum, the International Center of Photography in New York City, and the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, New York, has focused her life's work on traveling to remote areas to record environmental changes on the Earth's landscape. Her first monograph, UNSEEN: Beyond the Visible Spectrum, was a collection of 10 years' worth of photographs from the American West, Nepal, North Africa, and Iceland. She spent six weeks on the continent of Antarctica for her second book, Gondwana: Images of an Ancient Land. Her latest, The Arctic Melt: Images of a Disappearing Landscape (Assouline), brings her back to the Arctic Circle, where her unconventional landscape photography turns frozen tundra and ice from the North Pole, Norway, and Greenland into a staggering record of beauty and loss. ... Read more
The Arctic Melt by Diane Tuft
The Arctic Melt: Images of a Disappearing Landscape is a brilliant new monograph by universally acclaimed art and environmental photographer Diane Tuft. Following on the heels of Tuft's previous publication, Gondwana: Images of an Ancient Land, this new book showcases her breathtaking and visually astounding journey to capture the ice in the Arctic Circle before the constant melt renders the once-frozen landscape unrecognizable. The Arctic Melt features photographs of the North Pole, the mountain glaciers of Svalbard, Norway, and the icebergs and ice sheet of Greenland. In a remarkably new take on illustrating the effects of global warming, and with more than fifty stunning photographs, The Arctic Melt chronicles Tuft's passage through the waning tundra as millennia of ice thaw at a faster rate than ever before. |
Top Climate Scientist, Journalist & Activists Blast Trump's Withdrawal from Paris Accord | DN | 06/02/17 | 29:15 **Mike Pence Can't Understand Why People Care About Climate Change | TYT | 06/02/17 | 10:50 The World Is Disappointed With You America | TYT | 06/02/17 | 11:33
The Republican party is the only political party on Earth that still denies global warming. Trump's announcement drew quick criticism from world leaders who called it "disappointing" and "regrettable".
The leaders of Germany, France and Italy issued a joint statement, saying the "Paris Agreement remains a cornerstone in the cooperation" between the three countries. They also dismissed Trump's claim that the agreement could be renegotiated. "We deem the momentum generated in Paris in December 2015 irreversible and we firmly believe that the Paris Agreement cannot be renegotiated, since it is a vital instrument for our planet, societies and economies," their statement added. French President Emmanuel Macron also said in a televised statement that "there is no plan B" on climate because "there is no planet B". NPR (National Public Radio) - www.npr.org/
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**"INSANE" Chris Wallace & Shep. Smith REACTS To Trump's Climate Deal Decision | FoxNews | 06/02/17 | 14:50 |
06.03.2017. 08:58
Senator Elizabeth Warren Interview with Cenk Uygur on The Young Turks | TYT | 05/31/17 | 29:10
Trump's Not Just Ruining The Planet. He's Losing The Goodwill Of Our Biggest Allies. "This will have repercussions for how other countries respond to the U.S., not just on the climate playing field." The agreement to reduce planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions brought together more than 190 nations. In refusing to take part, the United States joins just two others ? Nicaragua and Syria (the former because its leaders didn't think the agreement was strong enough; the latter because it's in the middle of a brutal civil war). Trump said Thursday he would exit the accord, which he insists "punishes the United States", but left open the idea the U.S. could "negotiate our way back in to Paris" or potentially work to reach some other deal entirely. ... Read more How Was A Climate Crisis Denier Elected President of The United States? According to a Yale survey, 70% of Americans believe global warming is real, but only 53% of those people think it is caused by human activity. Only 10% of people were aware that more than 90% of climate scientists are convinced that global warming is human-caused. The vast majority of people that answered the survey did not think the climate crisis would directly affect them or their families. The war on climate science, particularly in the United States, plays a major role in promoting doubt and denialism. Billionaires like David and Charles Koch and Trump's major backer Robert Mercer support right-wing organizations that spend tens of millions of dollars financing witch-hunts that target climate scientists. They fund "research" that's designed to bury the facts. But corporate television news, "the gatekeeper of public consciousness," is arguably more responsible for the gap between public opinion and scientific evidence. By failing to cover the issue with a sense of urgency and depth, corporate media reinforces the climate change deniers' message. A Media Matters report found that in 2015 the four major corporate TV networks only aired a total of 146 minutes of climate change coverage. That includes Fox's criticism of climate science and giving a platform to climate science denial. ABC only aired 13 minutes of coverage. ...
Read more Donald Trump's Conflicts of Interest: a Crib Sheet President Donald Trump still has not taken the necessary steps to distance himself from his businesses while in office. In accordance with a plan that he and one of his lawyers, Sheri Dillon, laid out at a press conference on January 11, Trump has filed paperwork to remove himself from the day-to-day operation of his eponymous organization. However, numerous ethics experts have voiced strenuous objections to the plan, which they say does very little to resolve the issue: As long as Trump continues to profit from his business empire--which he does whether or not he is nominally in charge--they say, the possibility that outside actors will attempt to affect his policies by plumping up his pocketbook will remain very much in play. Several of Trump's critics have moved forward with legal action. The watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, or CREW, filed a lawsuit alleging that Trump's business holdings violate the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution, which makes it illegal for government officials to 'accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State." CREW's bipartisan legal team includes, among others, Norm Eisen and Richard Painter, who served as ethics lawyers under Presidents Obama and George W. Bush, respectively; Laurence Tribe, a constitutional law professor at Harvard University; and Zephyr Teachout, a professor at Fordham University (and former congressional candidate) who is considered an authority on the Emoluments Clause. ... Read more The GOP Must Take Responsibility for Trump (#82) | Keith Olbermann | 06/01/17 | 7:43 |
Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Friday, June 02 [12:36]
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Climate scientist Dana Nuccitelli discusse -> Trump and the Future of the Paris Climate Accord | TRNN | 05/31/17 | 9:58
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Jeff Sessions's Rolling Snowball Of Lies Keeps Growing | TYT | 06/01/17 | 8:17
Investigators in Congress are trying to determine whether Attorney General Jeff Sessions had an additional meeting with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak that he failed to disclose.
Trump Granting Ethics Waivers To Top Staff | TYT | 06/01/17 | 8:51They are specifically looking into an event at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington on April 27, 2016, according to a report by CNN. This was the date of Donald Trump's first major foreign policy speech as a presidential candidate in the 2016 election. Prior to his oration, Sessions -- then a United States Senator from Alabama -- and Kislyak were guests at a small VIP reception. Even if Sessions did meet with Kislyak at this time, that interaction may have been incidental, according to both FBI and Capitol Hill investigators who spoke with CNN. The research into Sessions' possible meetings with Kislyak is part of the much larger counterintelligence investigation into allegations that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election.
President Donald Trump granted ethics waivers to at least 16 White House staffers to allow them to work with subjects they had in the private sector before joining the government, according to records released by the administration on Wednesday.
Trump Pulls Out Of Paris Climate Deal | TYT | 06/01/17 | 10:04The records were released after a public battle with the Office of Government Ethics, which pushed the White House to provide documentation of the waivers it was granting. The data showed that the Trump administration had granted five times as many ethics waivers to employees during its first four months than President Barack Obama's White House did over the same timeframe. Some of those who received waivers included high-profile staffers such as Kellyanne Conway, the White House counselor, and Reince Priebus, Trump's chief of staff. Conway was granted an exemption to "participate in communications and meetings involving former clients which are political, advocacy, trade, or non-profit organizations" for her polling firm, The Polling Company. Priebus' exemption allowed him to "participate in communications and meetings" that involve the Republican National Committee, which he ran before joining the White House.
Multiple news outlets are reporting Wednesday morning that President Donald Trump intends to pull the United States out of the landmark Paris climate accord, citing White House officials. Trump himself continues to tease out the dramatic finish to a decision that he has put off for month.
"Dumbass Party" Defends Trump Breaking Paris Climate Agreement | TYT | 06/01/17 | 8:46What's not quite clear yet is whether Trump intends to pull out of the Paris agreement itself, or the entire treaty underlining all international climate change negotiations, called the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. To pull out of Paris but keep the United States involved in the broader UNFCCC process would take more than three years, but withdrawing from the entire framework would be easier--though the backlash for doing so could be even stronger. Withdrawing from the UNFCCC, formed in 1992, would be a far more extreme move to undermine climate progress. ... NPR (National Public Radio) - www.npr.org/
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06.02.2017. 10:16
Swamp Monsters Instead of 'draning the swamp,' Trump grants ethic WAIVERS to 19 top Staffers President Donald Trump has granted ethics waivers to at least 17 of his top White House aides, including chief strategist Steve Bannon, Chief of Staff Reince Priebus and senior counselor Kellyanne Conway, in addition to four former lobbyists. The waivers, released by the White House late Wednesday but granted on various dates, undermine Trump's campaign pledge to "drain the swamp" in Washington. They also reveal a president who is granting ethics waivers at an unusually rapid pace. The 17 senior White House appointees were all granted waivers in the past four months. His predecessor, Barack Obama, granted that same number of waivers to his top staff over the course of his eight years in office. ... Read more VOXDonald Trump is destroying his own presidency Keith Olbermann Has Michael Flynn Already Flipped on Trump? (#81) | Keith Olbermann | 05/31/17 | 6:45 Shouldn’t Jared Kushner Be Arrested? (#80) | Keith Olbermann | 05/30/17 | 8:16 40 Shady Things We Now Know About Trump and Russia (#79) | Keith Olbermann | 05/29/17 | 8:57 |
Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Thursday, June 01 [11:49] Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Thursday, June 01 (FULL) | 59:02
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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
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
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
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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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?
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
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
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
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 | 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
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
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
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
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
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.
Jessica Leeds (1980s)
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Temple Taggart McDowell (1997)
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