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Friday August 25, 2017

Another recession is coming, big banks warn
Salon | Michael Glassman | 08/24/17

Is it going to be 2008 all over again?

Stock market indices may be reaching record highs, but according to financiers, the good times may be coming to an end. Workers at major financial firms are predicting that another recession is on the horizon, Bloomberg is reporting:

Analysts at the Wall Street behemoths cite signals including the breakdown of long-standing relationships between stocks, bonds and commodities as well as investors ignoring valuation fundamentals and data. It all means stock and credit markets are at risk of a painful drop.

"Equities have become less correlated with FX [foreign exchange markets], FX has become less correlated with rates, and everything has become less sensitive to oil," Andrew Sheets, Morgan Stanley's chief cross-asset strategist, wrote in a note published Tuesday. ... Read more

Watch These Top Headliners at the Fed's Jackson Hole Conference
Bloomberg | Jeanna Smialek | 08/24/17

  1. Yellen, Draghi and Kuroda all attend for first time since 2014
  2. Top brass from the Fed, Europe, Asia and Latin America listed

Janet Yellen, Mario Draghi and Haruhiko Kuroda will be among the monetary policy superstars donning western wear and puzzling over the global economy this week at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City's annual summit in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

The trio gather together at the remote mountain resort for the first time since 2014, headlining a high-ranking guest list at the world's premier central banking event. It may also be Yellen's final appearance at Jackson Hole as Fed chair, unless President Donald Trump nominates her for a second stint when her current term expires in February. Most observers expect him to pick someone else. ... Read more

Exxon Dared Critics to Prove It Misled the Public. These Researchers Just Called the Company's Bluff.
MotherJones | Rebecca Leber | 08/22/17

Two years ago, Inside Climate News and Los Angeles Times investigations found that while Exxon Mobil internally acknowledged that climate change is man-made and serious, it publicly manufactured doubt about the science. Exxon has been trying unsuccessfully to smother this slow-burning PR crisis ever since, arguing the findings were "deliberately cherry picked statements." But the company's problems have grown to include probes of its business practices by the New York and Massachusetts attorneys general and the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Now, science historian Naomi Oreskes and Harvard researcher Geoffrey Supran have published the first peer-reviewed, comprehensive analysis of Exxon's climate communications that adds more heft to these charges. Exxon dared the public to "read all of these documents and make up your own mind," in a company blog post in 2015. The new paper, "Assessing ExxonMobil's Climate Change Communications," in the journal Environmental Research Letters, takes up the challenge. Oreskes and Supran systematically analyze nearly 40 years of Exxon's scientific research, reports, internal documents, and advertisements, and find a deep disconnect between how the company directly communicated climate change and its internal memos and scientific studies. ... Read more
InsideClimateNews.org website

*What Exxon Knew | YaleClimateConnections | 12/08/15 | 9:24
*Exxon Researched Climate Change in 1977 | PBS FrontLine | 09/16/15 | 3:20
PBS Global Warming The Signs and the Science | PBS FrontLine | 05/17/12 | 55:27
PBS Nova/Frontline Global Warming What's Up With The Weather | PBS Nova/FrontLine | 12/27/16 | 1:53:49
Global Warming, What You Need To Know, with Tom Brokaw | Climate State | 0xx/xx/xx | 1:27:32
**Merchants of Doubt (Stunning film exposes climate sceptics) | PBS FrontLine | 05/17/12 | 55:27
Merchants of Doubt is a 2014 American documentary film directed by Robert Kenner and inspired by the 2010 book of the same name by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway. The film traces the use of public relations tactics that were originally developed by the tobacco industry to protect their business from research indicating health risks from smoking. The most prominent of these tactics is the cultivation of scientists and others who successfully cast doubt on the scientific results.
Climate Expert Jim Hansen explains the Climate Crisis (March 2017) | Climate State | 2017 | 1:12:01

The Foreign Fascination With Trump's White House
TheAtlantic | Yasmeen Serhan | 08/25/17

When news that Steve Bannon had left the White House began circulating online last week, it happened in multiple languages.

"Stephen Bannon, l'éminence grise de Donald Trump, quitte la Maison Blanche," France's daily newspaper Le Monde reported.

In Germay's Die Welt, "Trumps Chefstratege Bannon verlässt offenbar das Weiße Haus."

The news of Bannon's departure appeared in headlines in Arabic, Spanish, and Russian, as readers around the world began to learn that President Trump's chief strategist, known for pushing the populist and nationalist agenda that helped earn Trump's electoral victory, would not remain in his role long enough to see that agenda implemented. And perhaps widespread coverage of Bannon's exit was not surprising--it followed the high-profile departures of other well-known Trump allies such as former Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, former Press Secretary Sean Spicer, and former Director of Communications Anthony Scaramucci, the last of whose firing led the BBC homepage when it occurred. But the fact of major international news organizations devoting prime space to such stories does raise the question: Why do people overseas, who might not be able to name a single Obama-era strategy adviser or communications director, suddenly care so much about the internal staff shake-ups at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue? ... Read more

Here's what goes into a president's decision to launch nuclear weapons | PBS | 08/24/17 | 7:02
Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Friday, August 25 [11:25]
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  1. Headlines
  2. Meet the State Dept. Science Envoy Who Spelled Out "Impeach" in His Resignation Letter to Trump
  3. Science Envoy who Resigned in Protest of Trump: Climate Change Makes Storms like Harvey More Severe
  4. Despite Protest from Johnson & Johnson, Florida Executes Man Using Untested Drug Cocktail
  5. New DNA Evidence Cited As Missouri Governor Stays Execution of Prisoner Marcellus Williams
  6. This is Transparent Discrimination: ACLU's Chase Strangio on Trump's Military Trans Ban
Science Envoy who Resigned in Protest of Trump: Climate Change Makes Storms like Harvey More Severe | TRNN | 08/25/17 | 10:39
Col. Lawrence Wilkerson -> Has the Pentagon Taken Over US Foreign Policy in Afghanistan? Part 1 | TRNN | 08/24/17 | 32:54,      Part 2 | 28:08
**Exxon Knew | TYT | 08/25/17 | 11:35
*Trump: I'll Shut Down The Government If I Don't Get My Wall! | TYT | 08/25/17 | 7:02
*Republicans' Staggering Debt Ceiling Hypocrisy | TYT | 08/25/17 | 7:16
Mass Resignations Plague Trump Administration | TYT | 08/25/17 | 5:21
Gary Cohn Drafts Resignation Letter, Throws It Away | TYT | 08/25/17 | 12:50
Trump Live-Tweets Morning Joe, Which He Definitely Never Watches | TYT | 08/25/17 | 7:55

The1a.org
Friday News - Domestic | 1a.org | 08/25/17 | 1hr
President Trump has had his quiet weeks since taking office. This wasn't one of them.

After a televised national address on military strategy in Afghanistan, a controversial rally in Arizona and a speech to veterans in Nevada, the president's appearances eclipsed all else, including the eclipse.

We'll talk about his remarks at each event, plus what it's like to have the man who would be president stand a little too close for comfort and which dearly beloved pop icon is about to make history with a never-before-released concert film.
Friday News - International | 1a.org | 08/25/17 | 1hr
What's President Trump's strategy for winning the war in Afghanistan? A lot of people are still uncertain, even after a lengthy, televised address by the U.S. president on the way forward this week. Plus, White House senior adviser Jared Kushner travels to the Middle East to talk democracy with the Egyptian president and peace between Israel and Palestine. And China tries -- and fails -- to censor an important academic journal. Ready to catch up on some of the biggest international stories this week?

PBS NewsHour full episode August 24, 2017 | PBS | 08/24/17 | 54:35
Thursday on the NewsHour, President Trump continues his attack on Republican leaders in Congress. Also: The Kurds' dual objective to defeat ISIS and gain independence, what it takes to launch a nuclear bomb, rebooting retail to appeal to online shoppers and a Brief but Spectacular take on finding courage after Ferguson.
Trump Pardons Former Sheriff Joe Arpaio - Sebastian Goraka Resigns! | CNN | 08/25/17 | 4:53
President Donald Trump Pardons Sheriff Joe Arpaio | MSNBC All In | 08/25/17 | 4:41
SNL
Alec Baldwin's Donald Trump Says What He Really Thinks Of Jared Kushner On 'Weekend Update' | SNL | 08/24/17 | 5:22
Weekend Update: Tina Fey on Protesting After Charlottesville | SNL | older 08/17/17 | 6:56
The Daily Show with Trevor Noah
Serious Trump vs. Somber Trump vs. Freestyle Trump | TheDaily Show | 08/24/17 | 6:26

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