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CNN | Bernie Sanders warns Republicans worried about protests: You haven't 'seen anything yet' (02/23/17) [9:04]

TRUMP STUMPED: 'Nobody Knew' That Health Care Could Be So Hard
HP | Jeffrey Young , Jonathan Cohn | 02/27/17

"Nobody knew health care could be so complicated." That was President Donald Trump speaking at the White House Monday, and if anything can encapsulate the dilemma facing Republicans as they haltingly try to keep their campaign promises to repeal and "replace" the Affordable Care Act -- aka Obamacare -- it's that.

The idea that "nobody" knew health care is complicated is, of course, nonsense ? as literally anyone who's ever visited a doctor or used health insurance could tell you. But the realization seems to have come belatedly to Trump. ... Read more

House Republicans Are Helping Donald Trump Keep His Tax Returns Secret
HP | Alana Horowitz Satlin | 02/28/17

Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-N.J.) on Monday proposed a resolution to invoke an obscure law allowing the Internal Revenue Service to turn over the president's tax returns to the House Ways and Means Committee for review. But the House voted 229-185, almost exclusively on party lines, to reject the effort.

Pascrell first raised the idea of using the law again earlier this month, but was shot down by the Ways and Means committee chair, Rep. Kevin Brady (R-Texas.) ... Read more

White House Petition Demanding Trump Release Tax Returns Gets Over 1 Million Signatures
It's unclear if the White House will respond.
  1. **J. Michael Springmann -> How The CIA Lets In The Terrorists (02/17/17) [40:24]
  2. **What No One Is Telling You About Flynn's Resignation (02/16/17) [16:27]
  3. ***India Kicks Out Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (02/19/17) [12:54] 3*
  4. ******Nomi Prins -> The Past, Present and Future of Goldman Sachs (#21718) (02/06/17) [32:15]
  5. ****Michael Krieger -> How Trump Filled The Swamp with Steven Mnuchin (02/03/17) [1:00:00]
  6. ***How Government $ach$ Won The Election (02/01/17) [13:45]
  7. Goldman-Sachs Hacked Election (article)
  8. *****Trump Admin Raising Phoenix Program From the Ashes (01/30/17) [51:05]
  9. The Phoenix Program by Douglas Valentine (article)
  10. iPOD Answers | Why Would People Lie About Climate Change? (12/16/16) [44:50]
  11. ****Michael Krieger -> Trump Fills the Swamp wit Steven Mnuchin (12/07/16) [19:10]
  12. There will be Swamp by Michael Krieger (11/30/16) (article)
  13. ****Nomi Prins -> The Central Bankers' Game of Thrones (11/22/16) [17:34]
  14. ****What You Are Not Being Told About the Afghanistan War (10/11/16) [19:39]
  15. Bilderberg 2016: What's On The Agenda? (06/08/16) [16:19]
  16. ***Why is the MSM (Finally) Reporting on the Petrodollar? (06/01/16) [17:09]
  17. ***Joe Plummer Teaches Tragedy and Hope 101 (04/11/16) [31:54]
  18. **Meet the Billionaire Pedophile Pal of Trump, Clinton, Prince Andrew (02/26/16) [21:56]
  19. TheLipTV | Trump's Child Prostitute Connection to Bill Clinton Mentioned in Lawsuit (06/22/16) [7:22]
  20. ****How Big Oil Conquered the World (12/25/15) [1:11:26]
  21. ****9/11 Trillions: Follow The Money (09/11/15) [59:34]
  22. ***Who Is REALLY Behind ISIS? (09/26/14) [1:04:32]
  23. ****What is the Federal Reserve? (07/06/14) [1:30:11]
  24. ****The New Phoenix Program (??) [1:05:22]
  25. ****Meet Allen Dulles: Fascist Spymaster (#307) (08/30/15) [53:01]
  26. ***The Secret Life of Timothy McVeigh () [58:17]

Trump: 'Nobody knew that healthcare could be so complicated'
thehill.com | Jessie Hellmann | 02/27/17

President Trump said Monday that "nobody knew that healthcare could be so complicated," as Republicans have been slow to unite around a replacement plan for ObamaCare.

"I have to tell you, it's an unbelievably complex subject," Trump said after a meeting with conservative governors at the White House.

The GOP governors were in town this weekend for their annual conference and met with Trump to talk about a variety of things, but it's likely the conversation largely focused on healthcare. ... Read more

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Pentagon Reporter: I Don't Know Any Military Commander Who Thinks Trump's Plan Is Going to Work
AlterNet | Sara K. Barris/Raw Story | 02/27/17

His military vision is dangerous and outdated, a better fit for the 1950s than 2017

On the heels of President Donald Trump's declaration that the United States must "start winning wars again," CNN's Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr revealed military leaders have a different opinion.

"There are a lot of questions about what the president means," Starr told Wolf Blitzer. "He said he was taking this from watching the military during his days back in high school and college in his words when perhaps it was a much more clear time for military victories." ... Read more

The floats at Karneval parades across southern and western Germany are known for their biting satire. As The Local reports, this year the main target of their derision was only ever going to be one man.
**Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Tuesday, February 28 (FULL) [59:02]
Note: on the full 59:02 video look for small white circles on the Progressbar they denote the different news stories. You can move the pointer on the Progressbar to jump to each story, and around the video.
*DN | As Trump Pushes for Historic $54B Military Spending Hike, Which Programs Will He Cut to Pay for War? (02/28/17) [12:36]
President Trump is heading to Capitol Hill tonight and is expected to outline part of his budget plan before a joint session of Congress. On Monday, Trump proposed increasing the military budget to just over $600 billion -- a 10 percent increase -- while deeply slashing the budgets of other agencies, likely including the Environmental Protection Agency and the State Department. Trump said he wanted a historic increase in military spending. Democratic Congressmember Barbara Lee of California responded on Twitter by writing, "[President] Trump's morally bankrupt budget will funnel more money to the Pentagon at the expense of the poor [and] our planet. This is an awful idea." We speak to Neta Crawford, co-director of the Costs of War Project and a professor of political science at Boston University. In September, she released a report that found the United States has spent nearly $5 trillion since the September 11, 2001, attacks on homeland security and the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria and Pakistan.
*DN | "Decade of Betrayal": How the U.S. Expelled Over a Half Million U.S. Citizens to Mexico in 1930s (02/28/17) [19:08]
President Donald Trump is slated to give his first presidential address to Congress today. Democratic lawmakers have begun giving their tickets away to immigrants as a protest against Trump's push to increase deportations and to block residents from some Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States. Well, this is not the first time people of Mexican descent have been demonized, accused of stealing jobs, and forced to leave the country. During the Great Depression of the 1930s, more than a million people residing in the United States were deported to Mexico--about 60 percent of them were U.S. citizens of Mexican descent. We speak to the preeminent scholar on this often overlooked chapter of American history: Francisco Balderrama, professor of American history and Chicano studies at California State University, Los Angeles. He is co-author of "Decade of Betrayal: Mexican Repatriation in the 1930s."
DN | From Standing Rock to the Red Power Movement: New Series "RISE" Focuses on Indigenous Resistance (02/28/17) [33:11]
Some Humor
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Stephen Colbert | Cartoon Donald Trump Dreads The White House Correspondents' Dinner (02/28/17) [3:28]
Stephen Colbert | Jon Stewart To The Media: It's Time To Get Your Groove Back. (02/27/17) [10:29]
Keith Olbermann
Keith Olbermann | Donald Trump Must Go (#39) (02/23/17) [3:51]
**TRNN | Col. Wilkerson -> Trump's Proposed $54 Billion Increase in the Military Budget Not for National Security (02/28/17) [10:31]
*TRNN | Nnimmo Bassey (born 1958) is a Nigerian architect, environmentalist activist, author and poet -> Armed Conflict, Global Warming Intensify Mass Famines (02/28/17) [10:14]
*TYT | Trump: Nobody Knew Healthcare Could Be So Complicated! (02/27/17) [7:12]
*TYT | Trump Calls For HISTORIC Increase In Military Spending (02/27/17) [8:14]
*TYT | Trump's "No More Leaks!" Meeting IMMEDIATELY Leaked (02/27/17) [5:43]
RT | Keiser Report: Breakdown in Liberal Ideology (E1038) (02/28/17) [25:47]
Max and Stacy discuss Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac plunging and college endowments losing billions to hedge funds. Max interviews former banker Michael Krieger of LibertyBlitzkrieg.com about how the breakdown in liberal ideology gave us Trump.
Thom Hartmann - www.thomhartmann.com/
NPR (National Public Radio) - www.npr.org/
PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) - pbs.org/
MSNBC - Maddow/Hayes - www.msnbc.com/
Main Stream Media
MSNBC Morning Joe | President Trump Promises To Boost Military Spending To $54 Billion (02/28/17) [15:19]
MSNBC Last Word | Clouds Of Scandal And Rank Incompetence At White House (02/28/17) [12:14]

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