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Monday July 31, 2017

It'd Be Pretty Easy For Trump To Pardon His Family Members. He Could Even Tweet It.
HP | Ryan J. Reilly | 07/31/17

There's a normal process for your average federal convict seeking a presidential pardon. There are petitions to prepare, letters to solicit, character affidavits to notarize, background checks to be conducted and federal prosecutors to be consulted. The whole process, controlled by the Justice Department's Office of the Pardon Attorney, can take years, and there's a very slim chance the president will ultimately grant a pardon.

However, if your dad is the president and you're hoping to head off a potential indictment, you could just ask him to send a tweet.

President Donald Trump has, via Twitter, floated the possibility that he'll use pardons as a means of shutting down indictments that may grow out of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into the Trump campaign and Russian interference with the 2016 election. ... Read more

After debating into early hours of the morning, Senator McCain shocked his colleagues by voting "no" on the "skinny repeal" of Obamacare.
19 seconds of drama: Reaction to McCain's vote | CNN | 07/28/17 | 1:18

Can General Kelly Stop the Chaos Inside Trump's West Wing?
TheAtlantic | David A. Graham | 07/28/17

President Trump replaced his chief of staff, Reince Priebus, with the current secretary of Homeland Security, a retired Marine general.

For once, the rumors of Reince Priebus's demise were not exaggerated. President Trump announced late Friday afternoon that he had named John Kelly as chief of staff, replacing Priebus. Priebus had been the subject to whispers of imminent dismissal more or less since he took the job, but the arrival of communications director Anthony Scaramucci last week, over Priebus's objection, seems to have sped up his departure. ... Read more

At Our Own Peril: DoD Risk Assessment in a Post-Primacy World

'At Our Own Peril' is the product of a year-long U.S. Army War College (USAWC) research effort. The report was sponsored by Army G-3/5 (Strategy, Plans, and Policy Directorate), the Joint Staff, J-5 (Strategy Development Division), and the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy and Force Development. The work is intended to add to the inevitable debates on risk and risk assessment accompanying forthcoming defense strategy development. The report endeavors to inform the defense strategy discussion by evaluating the components, high-level assessment, and articulation of risk by the Department of Defense (DoD) at the strategic and military levels of analysis, as well as across the operational and future challenges time horizon. Moreover, in doing so, it answers a single simple question: How should DoD adapt its current risk identification and assessment conventions to accommodate an environment defined by persistent, disruptive change? To arrive at actionable findings and recommendations, the USAWC study team examined DoD's risk assessment challenge in four principal areas of inquiry: describing risk, identifying risk, assessing risk, and effectively communicating risk. The study team found three clear vulnerabilities or shortcomings in current risk convention. First, it is excessively focused on near-term military threats. Second, it lacks a meaningful connection back to concrete defense objectives. Finally, third, it has proven to be an insufficient catalyst for essential post-primacy defense innovation and adaptation. These are reflected in a general dissatisfaction among many DoD stakeholders on the state of risk as it relates to corporate-level strategy.
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Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Monday, July 31 [13:32]
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  2. Retired Police Detective: Trump's Comments Endorsing Police Brutality are "Treasonous"
  3. "Billion-Dollar Mistake": Democrats Neglect People of Color While Failing to Woo White Trump Voters
  4. Is Trump Trying to Sabotage the Nuclear Deal to Lay Groundwork for War With Iran?
**Col. Lawrence Wilkerson says -> Pentagon: US Empire 'Collapsing,' So Give Us More Money | TRNN | 07/29/17 | 23:15
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The world is not asking the US to be the Sheriff of the World. It can't police the whole planet forever for its own misplaced phobia of other countries thinking the whole world is trying to destroy the US. It's actually the other way around the US needs to pull all of its 100+ military bases all around the world and stop meddling with other countries affairs.
*Bill Black -> Roll-Back of Financial Regulations Has Nothing to do with Complexity or Boosting the Economy | TRNN | older, 06/13/17 | 14:26
*Bill Black -> Subprime Auto Loan Defaults on the Rise | TRNN | 07/31/17 | 13:34
*Michael Arria, labor reporter says -> Trump Stacking The National Labor Relations Board to Favor Corporations | TRNN | 07/31/17 | 11:24
*Ana Kasparian and Ann Coulter At Politicon: On Trump | TYT | 07/27/17 | 7:31
Scaramucci's Wife Files For Divorce | TYT | 07/28/17 | 7:17
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Lawrence: What John McCain's Health Care Vote Really Means | MSNBC Last Word | older, 07/25/17 | 8:16
Military Budgets
Note: the $611,000,000,000.00 is just the start. The nukes are in the Department of Energy. There are BILLIONS apon BILLIONS in Homeland Security. And this doesn't even account for all the Black programs. A lot of people think we spend between 1.2 to 1.4 TRILLION dollars on on military programs.
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Mika: What Will This Week Have In Store? | MSNBC Morning Joe | 07/31/17 | 21:07
How To Fix WH? A 'Hard-Nosed' Chain Of Command | MSNBC Morning Joe | 07/31/17 | 11:26
Lawrence: Reince Priebus Exit Ends President Donald Trump's Worst Week Yet | MSNBC Last Word | 07/28/17 | 16:47
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Alex Jones | John Oliver | 07/30/17 | 22:21
John Oliver - Anthony Scaramucci | John Oliver | 07/30/17 | 4:40
John Oliver - McCain Stopped Obamacare Repeal | John Oliver | 07/30/17 | 4:53

07.31.2017. 11:18

Friday July 28, 2017

Obamacare Repeal Flames Out In The Republican Senate
HP | Jeffrey Young , Matt Fuller | 07/28/17

... The Republican majority in Congress has voted dozens of times since 2011 to repeal all or part of the Affordable Care Act, and a central element of the GOP's pitch to voters during last year's election was that giving Donald Trump the keys to the White House and leaving Congress in the Republican Party's hands was all that was needed to bring an end to Obamacare.

But when presented with their first genuine opportunity to do so ? and to have to answer for the consequences ? enough Republican senators flinched that the effort failed, despite pressure from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and President Trump. Voting to dramatically increase the number of uninsured Americans is easier when you know it can't happen than when you know it will.

The final vote for the Health Care Freedom Act, designed to eliminate core components of the Affordable Care Act, went down on a 49-51 vote, with Republican Sens. Susan Collins of Maine, John McCain of Arizona and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska joining with all 46 of the chamber's Democrats and both of its independents to defeat the measure. ... Read more

So far, Trump's golf trips has cost US tax payers $20,000,000.00 dollars.

**Anthony Scaramucci Called Me to Unload About White House Leakers, Reince Priebus, and Steve Bannon
NewYorker.com | Ryan Lizza | 07/27/17

He started by threatening to fire the entire White House communications staff. It escalated from there.

On Wednesday night, I received a phone call from Anthony Scaramucci, the new White House communications director. He wasn't happy. Earlier in the night, I'd tweeted, citing a "senior White House official," that Scaramucci was having dinner at the White House with President Trump, the First Lady, Sean Hannity, and the former Fox News executive Bill Shine. It was an interesting group, and raised some questions. Was Trump getting strategic advice from Hannity? Was he considering hiring Shine? But Scaramucci had his own question--for me.

"Who leaked that to you?" he asked. I said I couldn't give him that information. He responded by threatening to fire the entire White House communications staff. "What I'm going to do is, I will eliminate everyone in the comms team and we'll start over," he said. I laughed, not sure if he really believed that such a threat would convince a journalist to reveal a source. He continued to press me and complain about the staff he's inherited in his new job. "I ask these guys not to leak anything and they can't help themselves," he said. "You're an American citizen, this is a major catastrophe for the American country. So I'm asking you as an American patriot to give me a sense of who leaked it." ... Read more
**Scaramucci Imploding Before Our Eyes | TYT | 07/27/17 | 10:00

Scaramucci's CATASTROPHIC CNN Interview | TYT | 07/27/17 | 11:11
Trump supporter threatens Muslim women at Walmart: "We're going to kill every one of you f***ing Muslims"
"Why are you in our country anyway," a North Dakota woman grilled three young Somali women.

Trump's hitman melts down: But is there method to Anthony Scaramucci's madness?
Salon | Heather Digby Parton | 04/28/17

I'm not sure how many more days like Thursday this country can take. The most important event was the defeat of the "skinny repeal" bill in the Senate -- which actually happened in the wee hours of Friday morning -- with Sen. John McCain casting a dramatic "no" vote to scuttle Republican efforts to repeal Obamacare one more time. Perhaps President Trump has learned that openly insulting people you need to support you isn't really such a great political tactic. (Nah.)

That brings us to the other big Trump administration story, revolving around new communications director Anthony Scaramucci, who imploded on CNN after having first exploded at New Yorker reporter Ryan Lizza. The whole thing started with a tweet on Wednesday in which Scaramucci claimed he had gone to the FBI because someone had leaked his financial disclosure forms and strongly suggested that someone was White House chief of staff Reince Priebus. ... Read more

The Timeline In the Case Against Trump | Keith Obermann (#101) | 07/28/17 | 6:21
Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Friday | DN | 07/28/17 | 14:05
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  2. "Far from Over": Senate Narrowly Defeats Obamacare Repeal, But More Attacks on Healthcare Loom
  3. Meet the Two Catholic Workers Who Secretly Sabotaged the Dakota Access Pipeline to Halt Construction
  4. As Trump Targets Teenagers for Deportation, Immigrants Push Back with Direct Action
Newly Declassified Documents Confirm U.S. Backed 1953 Coup in Iran Over Oil Contracts | DN | 07/28/17 | 5:47
Newly declassified State Department documents show oil contracts played a key role in the U.S.-backed 1953 coup in Iran that led to the overthrow of the democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh. "What the documents show is actually the importance of oil in the coup," says Professor Ervand Abrahamian. "The conventional wisdom is, oh, it was all the Cold War scare, communism. But here you see, actually, very occasionally, when Eisenhower intervenes in a discussion, it's about question of oil contracts and so on and how nationalization would disrupt the whole international framework and would be a threat to U.S. interests, oil interests, elsewhere."
**Trump's 'Fantasy' Military Budget Hides the Real Cost | TRNN | 07/28/17 | 13:31
Why The Military Spends So Much On Viagra | TYT | 07/27/17 | 7:31
Al Gore on The Young Turks: Interview with Cenk Uygur | TYT | 07/27/17 | 31:28
Prof. Richard Wolff On the "Better Deal" Platform | ThomHartmann | 07/25/17 | 12:23
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Friday News - Domestic | 1a.org | 07/28/17 | 1hr
After purportedly consulting with generals and military experts, the president issued a ban on transgender troops. Then, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said his generals won't act on the president's tweets.

After voting to debate repeal and replace, Senate Republicans are now eyeing a slimmed down scaling back of the Affordable Care Act.

And after a week on the job, new White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci has jumped in to attack leakers and the Russia investigation.
Friday News - International | 1a.org | 07/28/17 | 1hr
The U.S. slaps sanctions on Venezuela officials as opposition leaders organize another strike against the government. Speaking of U.S. sanctions, new ones have been imposed on Russia. Plus, tensions ease in a standoff over one the world's holiest sites and the latest on Qatar's PR offensive to counter a regional feud.
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A 'Historic, Unprecedented' Failure For President Donald Trump | MSNBC Morning Joe | 07/28/17 | 18:18
Donald Trump Reportedly Okayed Scaramucci's Attacks On Reince Priebus | MSNBC 11th Hour | 07/28/17 | 14:35
Leon Panetta: President Donald Trump Is Weakening His Position As Commander-in-Chief | MSNBC | 07/28/17 | 7:34
Anthony Scaramucci Rails Against Priebus, Bannon In Profanity-Laced Tirade | CNN | 07/28/17 | 3:34
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Stephen Takes A Front-Stab At Scaramucci's Phone Interview | Stephen Colbert | 07/28/17 | 14:30
The Daily Show with Trevor Noah
The GOP Fails to Repeal Obamacare (Again) & Trump Targets Trans Soldiers | TheDaily Show | 07/26/17 | 7:11
Turmoil in the Trump Administration | TheDaily Show | 07/27/17 | 8:19
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Scaramucci Lashes Out, GOP Scrambles on Health Care | Seth Meyers | 07/27/17 | 12:56
Off The Rails
Note: I don't watch Alex Jones, and I think that he has gone off the rails in the last couple of years, but it is always interesting to see what is happening & being said by the other side.
Roger Stone HOT!: Alex Jones Infowars | InfoWars | 07/28/17 | 41:53

07.28.2017. 16:15

Thursday July 27, 2017

Anthony Scaramucci Suggests Reince Priebus Is Leaking Info To The Press
HP | Alana Horowitz Satlin | 07/27/17

White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci on Thursday suggested that White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus is sharing confidential information to the press

n the middle of CNN's "New Day" segment in which he also compared his relationship with Priebus to Cain and Abel, Scaramucci said that he and President Donald Trump have a "very good idea" of who the leakers are and that "if Reince wants to explain that he's not a leaker, let him do that." ... Read more

Jeff Bezos Surpasses Bill Gates - Becomes World's Richest Man

What Does Russiagate Look Like to Russians?
RollingStone | Matt Taibbi | 07/21/17

Russia isn't as strong as we think, but they do have nukes -- which is why beating the war drum is a mistake

"We were and are under attack by a hostile foreign power," he said. "We should be debating how many sanctions we should place on Russia, or whether we should blow up the KGB."

Begala's is the latest in a string of comments from prominent pols and pundits suggesting we are (or should be) in a state of war with nuclear-armed Russia. ... Read more

The Plot to Scapegoat Russia: How the CIA and the Deep State Have Conspired to Vilify Putin by Kovalik Dan

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.

Kristin Beck, transgender Navy SEAL hero: 'Let's meet face to face and you tell me I'm not worthy'
BusinessInsider | Paul Szoldra | 07/27/17

A retired Navy SEAL Team 6 hero who is transgender had a message for President Donald Trump after he announced the US military would bar transgender people from serving.

"Let's meet face to face and you tell me I'm not worthy," Kristin Beck, a 20-year veteran of the Navy SEALs, told Business Insider on Wednesday. "Transgender doesn't matter. Do your service." ... Read more

Lady Valor (Trailer) | TYT | older | 1:52
sIn Lady Valor: The Kristin Beck Story, former U.S. Navy SEAL Christopher Beck embarks on a new mission as Kristin Beck. Kristin's journey in search of the American ideals that she protected have a whole new meaning as she lives her life truthfully as a transgender woman.

Kristin served for over 20 years as a member of the elite special forces Navy SEALs on SEAL Team 1 as well as the United States Special Warfare Development Group what many in the public refer to as SEAL Team 6. She retired in 2011 with the rank of Senior Chief and continued high-level clearance work for the United States government and the Pentagon.

But Kristin hid her true identity throughout and after her service knowing she would lose it all if anyone were to know her secret. In 2013, a year and a half after retirement, Kristin came out publicly first on LinkedIn and on CNNs Anderson Cooper 360 soon thereafter. Many friends, colleagues and family were taken by surprise.

This film brings exclusive interviews from Kristins family and friends about her service, as well as their reactions to her coming out. It also includes exclusive footage of Chris Beck in training and combat. The documentary was filmed only a few months after the AC360 piece had aired, and the truth is still fresh and emotional for those closest to her. While many people have been supportive, some in the public have expressed more bigotry than she ever expected. After a lifetime of service, Kristin has learned that her fight for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness did not end on the battlefield.

Amazon | Lady Valor Kristin Beck Story (to-rent)

$350 Trillion In Securities In Limbo: LIBOR To Be Phased Out By 2021
ZeroHedge | author | 07/27/17

Unofficially, Libor died some time in 2012 when what until then was a giant conspiracy theory, namely that the world's most important reference index had been rigged for years, was confirmed. Officially, Libor died earlier today when the top U.K. regulator, the FCA announced that Libor would be phased out by the end of 2021. ... Read more

Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Thursday | DN | 07/27/17 | 11:22
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  2. The First Openly Transgender Infantry Soldier in U.S. Army Speaks Out on Trump's New Military Ban
  3. What Role Should the Military Play in the Fight for Transgender Rights?
  4. The Rolling Resistance: Meet Three Disability Rights Activists Fighting to Save Healthcare
Matt Taibbi -> Russiagate: Kooky Characters, Cold War Liberals | TRNN | 07/20/17 | 28:21
Real News Roundtable: The RussiaGate Distraction & Trump's Free-For-All Capitalism | TRNN | 06/29/17 | 17:09
Bill Black -> Trump vs. Sessions: A One-Sided Twitter War | TRNN | 07/27/17 | 14:10
Congress Unites on Russia Sanctions, But at What Cost? | TRNN | 07/27/17 | 20:05
Trans Navy SEAL To Trump: 'Let's Meet Face To Face' | TYT | 07/26/17 | 8:58
Keiser Report: MAGAnomics (E1102) | RT | 07/27/17 | 25:48
Max and Stacy talk to JP Sottile of Newsvandal.com about whether or not MAGAnomics will help make America Great Again. They discuss trade deals and automation: which has played more in making American jobs not so great. They also look at the role of opioid addiction and whether or not a universal basic income might help the likes of Mark Zuckerberg maintain monopoly-style control over the internet.
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China in debt
The end of the Chinese miracle | FT | old, 03/09/16 | 15:18
China in debt | Aljazeera: Counting the Cost | old, 09/24/16 | 26:00
President Donald Trump's 'Bad Policy' Made For A Political Reason | MSNBC Morning Joe | 07/27/17 | 9:36
Anthony Scaramucci Walks Back Reince Priebus Tweet Claim | MSNBC Morning Joe | 07/27/17 | 7:12
How Donald Trump Finally Went Too Far, Even For GOP Senators | MSNBC Last Word | 07/27/17 | 7:20
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Stephen Makes A Change To Trump's 'Trans Ban' Tweet | Stephen Colbert | 07/27/17 | 7:49
Stephen Helps 'The Mooch' Scaramucci Find 'The Leaks' | Stephen Colbert | 07/27/17 | 4:59
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
The Mooch Will Set Trump Free | Samantha Bee | 07/26/17 | 7:12
Trump's Spreading Taint | Samantha Bee | 07/26/17 | 6:28
Alex Jones | Roger Stone | InfoWars | Prison Planet
Note: I don't watch Alex Jones, and I think that he has gone off the rails in the last couple of years, but it is always interesting to see what is happening/being said by the other side.
Get Me Roger Stone | NetFlix | current | 1:41:00
Joshua Green on the "Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump & the Storming of the Presidency" | PrisonPlanet | 07/26/17 | 13:05
Roger Stone on FIRE! Alex Jones Infowars | InfoWars | 07/25/17 | 44:34
Roger Stone on AG Sessions FIRING #Trump Insider | PrisonPlanet | 07/25/17 | 14:58
Roger Stone Reacts To Sean Spicer Resignation | PrisonPlanet | 07/21/17 | 11:09
Roger Stone Exposes Treason in Whitehouse | PrisonPlanet | 07/05/17 | 12:55
Roger Stone: Trump's Albino Assassin | Real Time with Bill Maher | 03/31/17 | 13:44
Roger Stone: They Made A Mistake, They Pushed Trump Too Hard | infoWars | 05/16/17 | 11:10

07.27.2017. 11:13

Wednesday July 26, 2017
Joshua Green on the "Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump & the Storming of the Presidency" | DN | 07/26/17 | 13:05
A Look at How a Racial Theorist Tied to Mussolini & Hitler Influenced Steve Bannon | DN | 07/26/17 | 14:29
Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency by Joshua Green

From the reporter who was there at the very beginning comes the revealing inside story of the partnership between Steve Bannon and Donald Trump--the key to understanding the rise of the alt-right, the fall of Hillary Clinton, and the hidden forces that drove the greatest upset in American political history.

Based on dozens of interviews conducted over six years, Green spins the master narrative of the 2016 campaign from its origins in the far fringes of right-wing politics and reality television to its culmination inside Trump's penthouse on election night.

The shocking elevation of Bannon to head Trump's flagging presidential campaign on August 17, 2016, hit political Washington like a thunderclap and seemed to signal the meltdown of the Republican Party. Bannon was a bomb-throwing pugilist who'd never run a campaign and was despised by Democrats and Republicans alike.

Yet Bannon's hard-edged ethno-nationalism and his elaborate, years-long plot to destroy Hillary Clinton paved the way for Trump's unlikely victory. Trump became the avatar of a dark but powerful worldview that dominated the airwaves and spoke to voters whom others couldn't see. Trump's campaign was the final phase of a populist insurgency that had been building up in America for years, and Bannon, its inscrutable mastermind, believed it was the culmination of a hard-right global uprising that would change the world.

Any study of Trump's rise to the presidency is unavoidably a study of Bannon. Devil's Bargain is a tour-de-force telling of the remarkable confluence of circumstances that decided the election, many of them orchestrated by Bannon and his allies, who really did plot a vast, right-wing conspiracy to stop Clinton. To understand Trump's extraordinary rise and Clinton's fall, you have to weave Trump's story together with Bannon's, or else it doesn't make sense.

John McCain Is Returning to the Senate for the Health-Care Vote
TheAtlantic | Aria Bendix | 07/24/17

The Arizona lawmaker, who was recently diagnosed with brain cancer, will serve as a critical participant in Tuesday's procedural vote.

... McCain's presence at the vote is critical, given that the GOP needs 50 senators to agree to begin formal debate on health care, in what's called a motion to proceed. McCain has told reporters he supports the legislative momentum to repeal Obamacare, but is unsure whether he will approve the final product. Last week, his office released a statement warning Congress not to "repeat the original mistakes that led to Obamacare's failure"--namely, "that it was written on a strict party-line basis and driven through Congress without a single Republican vote." Still, he's largely expected to vote "yes" along with most of the GOP conference. ... Read more
John McCain Makes Epic "No" Trumpcare Speech, Votes Yes | TYT | 07/25/17 | 13:37

Cruz being considered to replace Sessions: report
TheHill | Jacqueline Thomsen | 07/24/17

Will Lyin Ted finally get his chance for revenge?

President Trump and his advisers are floating possible replacements for Attorney General Jeff Sessions -- and the list includes Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), The Washington Post reports.

Cruz and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R) are reportedly among the candidates Trump's team is considering to replace Sessions, though Giuliani said earlier in the day that he's not being considered.

Trump has repeatedly said that he is disappointed by Sessions's decision to recuse himself from the probe into ties between the Trump administration and Russia, saying in an interview last week that he would have never hired Sessions if he knew he would recuse himself.
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Who Will Trump Replace Jeff Sessions With? | TYT | 07/25/17 | 4:55
The Republicans Are Bailing on Trump (#100) | Keith Olbermann | 07/25/17 | 7:09
Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Wednesday | DN | 07/26/17 | 12:59
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  2. In "Dangerous" Move, Republicans Push to Strip Healthcare from Millions Without Holding Any Hearings
  3. Is Trump's Base Turning on the President over His Humiliation of Attorney General Jeff Sessions?
  4. Joshua Green on the "Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump & the Storming of the Presidency"
  5. A Look at How a Racial Theorist Tied to Mussolini & Hitler Influenced Steve Bannon
  6. Joshua Green on How Bannon's Experience with Video Gamers Gave Rise to the Alt-Right
Randall Cerveny -> Is Extreme Heat the New Normal? | TRNN | 07/26/17 | 7:42
Abby Martin of Empire Files -> Silencing Palestine - Prison & Repression | TRNN | 07/26/17 | 22:42
Breitbart Is Turning On Trump | TYT | 07/25/17 | 3:53
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Do The President's Attacks Hurt His Party More Than His Foes? | 1a.org | 07/26/17 | 1hr
President Trump won the election eight months ago. So why is he still on the attack -- not only against the person he defeated, but against his own appointees. On Tuesday, President Trump said he was "very disappointed" in Attorney General Jeff Sessions for recusing himself from the Russia probe and that "time will tell" his fate. This wasn't the first criticism of the AG.
The GOP Tries Again On Health Care | 1a.org | 07/26/17 | 1hr
The Republican healthcare plan is back. The Senate GOP has passed a procedural vote to move forward on debating legislation designed to repeal and replace Obamacare. But as Senator Bob Corker of Tennessee put it, what happens next is "wild west" territory.
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What's Dangerous About A Compromised Person In Public Office | MSNBC Rachel Maddow | 07/25/17 | 14:53
President Donald Trump Targets AG Jeff Sessions In Early Morning Tweets | MSNBC Morning Joe | 07/26/17 | 13:56
What President Donald Trump Risks If He Fires Jeff Sessions | MSNBC Morning Joe | 07/26/17 | 17:42
President Donald Trump Blocks Transgender People From Serving in Military | MSNBC | 07/26/17 | 3:58
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Cookie Jeff Sessions Fires Back At President Trump | Stephen Colbert | 07/26/17 | 4:16
The Daily Show with Trevor Noah
The GOP Brings the Dead Health Care Bill Back to Life | TheDaily Show | 07/25/17 | 4:48

07.26.2017. 10:38

Tuesday July 25, 2017

Trump's Russian Laundromat
NewRepublic | Craig Unger | 07/13/17

How to use Trump Tower and other luxury high-rises to clean dirty money, run an international crime syndicate, and propel a failed real estate developer into the White House.

Russian mobsters needed a lot of property from a sleazy businessman who never asks questions.

In 1984, a Russian émigré named David Bogatin went shopping for apartments in New York City. The 38-year-old had arrived in America seven years before, with just $3 in his pocket. But for a former pilot in the Soviet Army -- his specialty had been shooting down Americans over North Vietnam -- he had clearly done quite well for himself. Bogatin wasn't hunting for a place in Brighton Beach, the Brooklyn enclave known as "Little Odessa" for its large population of immigrants from the Soviet Union. Instead, he was fixated on the glitziest apartment building on Fifth Avenue, a gaudy, 58-story edifice with gold-plated fixtures and a pink-marble atrium: Trump Tower. ... Read more
BOMBSHELL: Trump's Been Laundering Russian Mob Money For Decades, Allegedly | TYT | 07/24/17 | 24:32

Ahead Of Senate Healthcare Vote, It's Pure Chaos

A Primer On The "Global Sharing Economy" In 20 Charts
ZeroHedge | author | 07/25/17

This morning, BofA has released a humongous, nearly 200-page "primer" on the global sharing economy which in the eyes of Wall Street and Silicon Valley is the biggest disruptor behind virtually all 21st century business models. Since it is impossible to summarize the report, which will be largely ignored by most of BofA's clients who will instead focus on the hundreds of charts scattered throughout, we will simply summarize the basics as laid out by BofA, and then present some of the more interesting charts, with the remainder to be published in subsequent thematic posts.

  1. The Sharing Economy is an umbrella term which describes a range of market activity transacted over online platforms. Its history is rooted in cooperatives, kibbutz, and jitneys; online classifieds and marketplaces; and peer-to-peer (P2P) platforms. The term encompasses everything from peer-to-peer, democratized-based sharing of access to goods and services to sales transactions via online marketplaces including business-to-business (B2B). We include on-demand (e.g. Uber), gig (e.g. TaskRabbit), access (e.g. Spotify), collaboration (e.g. WeWork), platforms (e.g. Amazon), rentals (e.g. Airbnb) and peer-to-peer (e.g. Lufax) business models under our Sharing Economy umbrella.
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An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power by Al Gore

Vice President Gore, one of our environmental heroes and a leading expert in climate change, brings together cutting-edge research from top scientists around the world; approximately 200 photographs and illustrations to visually articulate the subject matter; and personal anecdotes and observations to document the fast pace and wide scope of global warming. He presents, with alarming clarity and conclusiveness (and with humor, too) that the fact of global climate change is not in question and that its consequences for the world we live in will be assuredly disastrous if left unchecked.

Follow Vice President Gore around the globe as he tells a story of change in the making. He connects the dots of Zika, flooding, and other natural disasters we've lived through in the last 10+ years?and much more.

The book also offers a comprehensive how-to guide on exactly how we can change the course of fate. With concrete, actionable advice on topics ranging from how to run for office to how to talk to your children about climate change, An Inconvenient Sequel will empower you to make a difference?and lets you know how exactly to do it.

Where Gore's first documentary and book took us through the technical aspects of climate change, the second documentary is a gripping, narrative journey that leaves you filled with hope and the urge to take action immediately. This book captures that same essence and is a must-have for everyone who cares deeply about our planet.

An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth To Power (2017) (trailer) | TYT | 03/28/17 | 2:31

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Vijay Prashad: Trump is Setting Up a 'Dangerous Confrontation' With Iran | TRNN | 07/24/17 | 40:25
RussiaGate Hype Drowns Out U.S.-Russia Discord | TRNN | 07/25/17 | 18:52
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A View From A Russian-American In Moscow | 1a.org | 07/25/17 | 1hr
For many who support President Trump, the investigation into Russian meddling in the U.S. election and possible collusion by members of the Trump campaign is little more than a politically motivated witch hunt.
Magnitsky Act Supporter Bill Browder On Russia, Putin And American Security | 1a.org | 07/25/17 | 1hr
Attorney Sergei Magnitsky uncovered widespread corruption in Russia. Then he was arrested.

Magnitsky died under mysterious circumstances in a Russian jail. His employer, Bill Browder, who was previously expelled from Russia, says Magnitsky was beaten to death.

Browder became a lead campaigner behind the Magnitsky Act, which was allegedly the reason for a meeting between Trump campaign staffers and a Kremlin-connected attorney last year.

This week, Browder plans to testify before the Senate, as committees will also meet privately with Donald Trump Jr., the president's son-in-law Jared Kushner and former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort.

"We should be scared of Vladimir Putin we should do everything possible to contain his evil intentions," Browder says.
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New Facts Uncovered About Donald Trump FBI Pick, Confirmation Vote Looms | MSNBC Rachel Maddow | 07/25/17 | 22:52
Jared Kushner Blames Aide For Omissions On Document He Signed 4 Times | MSNBC The Last Word | 07/25/17 | 8:33
McConnell Vs. Shark: A Race To Pass Healthcare | | 07/25/17 | 0:55
Assessing Jared Kushner's Role In The White House | MSNBC Morning Joe | 07/25/17 | 7:49
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Stephen Introduces His Anthony Scaramucci Impression | Stephen Colbert | 07/25/17 | 11:15
Stephen Warns Trump About The Dangers Of Self-Pardoning | Stephen Colbert | 07/25/17 | 4:29
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Profiles in Tremendousness - White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci | Trevor Noah | 07/24/17 | 10:07

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Monday July 24, 2017

Read Jared Kushner's Statement On His Meetings With Russians
HP | Hayley Miller | 07/24/17

"I did not collude," he tells congressional committees.

President Donald Trump's son-in-law and White House adviser Jared Kushner is set to testify before congressional committees this week as part of their investigations into whether Trump associates had ties to the Russian government during the 2016 presidential campaign.

Hours before facing closed-door questioning from the Senate Intelligence Committee on Monday, Kushner's camp released an 11-page written statement outlining four meetings with Russians during the 2016 campaign and transition.

"I did not collude, nor know of anyone else in the campaign who colluded, with any foreign government," Kushner said in the statement. ... Read more

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Trump Team Claims Pardons Aren't Being Discussed Despite The President's Tweet

The Uninhabitable Earth
NYMagazine | David Wallace-Wells | current

I. 'Doomsday'
Peering beyond scientific reticence.
It is, I promise, worse than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible, even within the lifetime of a teenager today. And yet the swelling seas -- and the cities they will drown -- have so dominated the picture of global warming, and so overwhelmed our capacity for climate panic, that they have occluded our perception of other threats, many much closer at hand. Rising oceans are bad, in fact very bad; but fleeing the coastline will not be enough.

Indeed, absent a significant adjustment to how billions of humans conduct their lives, parts of the Earth will likely become close to uninhabitable, and other parts horrifically inhospitable, as soon as the end of this century.

Even when we train our eyes on climate change, we are unable to comprehend its scope. This past winter, a string of days 60 and 70 degrees warmer than normal baked the North Pole, melting the permafrost that encased Norway's Svalbard seed vault -- a global food bank nicknamed "Doomsday," designed to ensure that our agriculture survives any catastrophe, and which appeared to have been flooded by climate change less than ten years after being built. ... Read more

The 10-Book 'Uninhabitable Earth' Reading List
NYMagines | David Wallace-Wills | date

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You may have read -- as we did -- David Wallace-Wells's piece on climate change with a mixture of horror and fascination, and if you're interested in further reading, the annotated version is chockablock with citations and links to additional articles and studies. If, however, you're looking for some books on the subject, we asked our colleague to put together an extended list of titles he would recommend. Below, ten books for your "Uninhabitable Earth" reading list. ... Read more

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Keith Olbermann
The Media Must Fight Back (#98) | Keith Olbermann | 07/19/17 | 7:12
A Timeline of Treason (#97) | Keith Olbermann | 07/18/17 | 9:29
Have We Got Enough to Impeach (#96) | Keith Olbermann | 07/17/17 | 8:07
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  5. "Incoherent Policy": U.S. Imposes Sanctions on Iran Even as Trump Admits Iran Following Nuclear Deal
**As Trump Touts "Made in America" Week, Indonesian Workers Toil Away Making Ivanka Trump Apparel | DN | 07/21/17 | 14:12
Has Jared Kushner's Failed Deal with Qatar Fueled Trump's Stance on Gulf Diplomatic Crisis? | DN | 07/21/17 | 10:03
**David Cay Johnston: Trump is "Appallingly Ignorant" on Healthcare & Puts Greed Above Human Lives | DN | 07/20/17 | 8:40
David Cay Johnston: GOP Budget Redistributes Money to the Rich & Helps Make U.S. a "Police State" | DN | 07/21/17 | 5:56
Michael Mann Responds to 'Uninhabitable Earth' | TRNN | 07/23/17 | 19:00
First Six Months of 2017 Marked By Wildfires and 'Extremely Remarkable' Warmth | TRNN | 07/23/17 | 11:29
Trump Backers Ramp Up Mueller Smear Campaign | TYT | 07/23/17 | 13:05
Trump: Mueller Better Not Be Looking At My Taxes! (He Is) | TYT | 07/23/17 | 9:41
Christian Group Sues For Right To Lie | TYT | 07/23/17 | 9:24
The $hit Millennials Are Blamed For Is So Stupid | TYT | 07/23/17 | 9:20
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Jared Kushner Releases Statement: 'I Did Not Collude' | MSNBC Morning Joe | 07/24/17 | 6:07
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Chris Wallace CONFRONTS & CRUSHES Anthony Scaramucci On Trump's HYPOCRISY | | 07/23/17 | 16:50
Anthony Scaramucci gets GRILLED By Tapper On President Trump (HEATED) | | 07/23/17 | 26:20
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Donald Jr.'s Meeting Looked An Awful Lot Like 'Ocean's Eleven' | Stephen Colbert | 07/22/17 | 2:15
Trump Really Puts The 'Fraud' In Voter Fraud Commission | Stephen Colbert | 07/22/17 | 3:59


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Friday July 21, 2017

How Deranged Are Trump Supporters? New Poll Shows That It's Worse Than You Ever Imagined
AlterNet | News Corpse / DailyKos | 07/20/17

In the Era of Trump, Americans have been subjected to wild diversions from reality. Donald Trump and company have unleashed baseless accusations of "fake news," and the ceaseless dissemination of "alternative facts." They have violated constitutional protections of free speech and abused the media in an unprecedented manner. Trump called the media "the enemy of the American people." And his White House Press Office has discontinued on-camera briefings.

This overt hostility and flagrant assault on transparency has had an impact on a certain sector of the electorate. Trump voters have evolved into a breed of ill-informed, willfully ignorant yokels whose devotion to their Orange Julius Caesar borders on cult worship. This alarming descent into madness is frightfully illustrated in the results of a new survey by Public Policy Polling (PPP). The depth of the delirium of these lost souls is unimaginable. And yet, the data from the PPP pollsters is clear. Here are some examples from the study:

  1. Only 45% of Trump voters believe Donald Trump Jr. had a meeting with Russians about information that might be harmful to Hillary Clinton...even though Trump Jr. admitted it. 32% say the meeting didn't happen and 24% say they're not sure.
  2. 72% of Trump voters consider the Russia story overall to be 'fake news,' only 14% disagree.
  3. Only 24% of Trump voters even want an investigation into whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russia, 64% are opposed to an investigation.
  4. Only 26% of Trump voters admit that Russia wanted Trump to win the election, 44% claim Russia wanted Hillary Clinton to win, and 31% say they're not sure one way or the other.
  5. Even if there was an investigation, and it found that the Trump campaign did collude with Russia to aid his campaign, 77% of his supporters think he should still stay in office to just 16% who believe he should resign.
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The Mega Rich Are Getting Mega Richer: A Former CEO Exposes the Corruption Behind Their Obscene Paychecks
AlterNet | Steven Clifford / Blue Rider Press | 07/20/17

The following is an excerpt from the new book The CEO Pay Machine: How It Trashes America and How to Stop It by Steven Clifford (Blue Rider Press, May 2017), available from Amazon and IndieBound:

In the long term, the indirect effect of the Pay ­Machine--?the increase in income inequality--is economically more injurious than the erosion of company earnings or a stock market downturn.

Income inequality in America has risen sharply since 1976. Economists and pundits point to multiple causes--globalization and competition from low-wage? countries; growing educational disparities that particularly affect men and minorities; technological changes that reward the highly skilled; decline of labor unions; changes in corporate culture that place stock price and earnings above employees; free market philosophy and the rise of winner-take-all economics; households with high-income couples; lower rates of marriage and of intact families; high incarceration levels; immigration of low­-skilled individuals; income tax and capital gains tax cuts and other conservative economic and tax policies; deregulation; and decreased welfare and antipoverty spending coupled with redistribution programs that disproportionately benefit the elderly. ... Read more

Elon Musk Says Humans Should Be Very VERY Concerned About Artificial Intelligence | C-Span | 07/20/17 | 59:31
Elon Musk on Regulating Existential Threat of AI Robots, Tesla Stocks Overvaluation and Car Hacking | Artificial Intelligence A.I. | 07/16 | 59:03
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  4. Sen. McConnell Plans Vote on Repealing Obamacare Despite Lacking Enough Support from GOP Senators
  5. As Trump Touts "Made in America" Week, Indonesian Workers Toil Away Making Ivanka Trump Apparel
Research Scientist Twila Moon -> Saying Goodbye to Glaciers': The Impact of Glacier Retreat | TRNN | 07/20/17 | 10:00
Data, Algorithms & Artificial Intelligence: Where is AI Innovation Taking Society? | TRNN | 07/20/17 | 9:19
Martin Shkreli: "I Hope To See You and Your Four Children Homeless" | TYT | 07/20/17 | 6:05
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WaPo: Donald Trump Seeks Advice On Pardoning Himself, Family Members | MSNBC Rachel Maddow | 07/20/17 | 10:42
Lawrence And Maddow On Donald Trump's Probe Of Pardon Powers | MSNBC Last Word | 07/20/17 | 8:03
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Donald Trump Had No Filter In His New York Times Interview | Stephen Colbert | 07/21/17 | 9:54
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President Trump Casually Makes Another Damning Admission | Trevor Noah | 07/20/17 | 8:03
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Trump Turns on Sessions Amid Russia Probe: A Closer Look | Seth Meyers | 07/20/17 | 13:02

07.21.2017. 10:35

Thursday July 20, 2017

Jeff Sessions Brushes Off Resignation Rumors After Scathing Trump Interview
HP | Alana Horowitz Satlin | 07/20/17

Attorney General Jeff Sessions dismissed speculation that he would be resigning from his position following scathing criticism from President Donald Trump. Sessions said it was an "honor" to serve as attorney general and that his team "wholeheartedly" shares the priorities of the Trump administration. "We love this job, we love this department," Sessions said. He added that he would continue to serve as attorney general "so as long as that is appropriate."

Trump told The New York Times on Wednesday that he wouldn't have chosen Sessions for the post if he had known Sessions was going to recuse himself from the FBI's probe into Russian election meddling. ... Read more

Trump goes off-script and fumes about Sessions and Russia probe
Politico | Josh Gerstein , Josh Dawsey | 07/20/17

The president's harsh criticism of his attorney general and the Russia probe came amid a last-ditch effort to salvage health care reform, and startled many in the West Wing.

President Donald Trump impressed senators Wednesday with a cogent, engaged pitch on health care that didn't veer wildly from the script.

Within an hour, without seeking advice from his lawyers or his senior aides, Trump was in the Oval Office telling reporters from the New York Times that he regretted hiring Jeff Sessions as his attorney general and discussing a sensitive investigation his lawyers have told him to keep quiet about -- a performance that once again left his most senior aides startled and scrambling to respond. ... Read more

Climate Change
Chasing Ice
Chasing Ice (trailer) | 2:23
Chasing Ice | Netflix
In the spring of 2005, acclaimed environmental photographer James Balog headed to the Arctic on a tricky assignment for National Geographic: to capture images to help tell the story of the Earth's changing climate. Even with a scientific upbringing, Balog had been a skeptic about climate change. But that first trip north opened his eyes to the biggest story in human history and sparked a challenge within him that would put his career and his very well-being at risk.

Chasing Ice is the story of one man's mission to change the tide of history by gathering undeniable evidence of our changing planet. Within months of that first trip to Iceland, the photographer conceived the boldest expedition of his life: The Extreme Ice Survey. With a band of young adventurers in tow, Balog began deploying revolutionary time-lapse cameras across the brutal Arctic to capture a multi-year record of the world's changing glaciers.

Chasing Ice website
Chasing Coral
Chasing Coral (trailer) | 1:51
Chasing Coral | Netflix
CHASING CORAL is a film directed by Jeff Orlowski and produced by Larissa Rhodes, as an Exposure Labs production. It was filmed over three years, with 650+ hours underwater, includes footage from over 30 countries, and was made with the support of over 500 people around the world.

Chasing Coral website
VICE - Greenland Is Melting
Greenland Is Melting | VICE on HBO | S2, E2 | 01/09/15 | 28:11
In this episode, Shane Smith travels to Greenland with climate scientist Jason Box to investigate why the glaciers are melting, and how the resulting rise in sea level will devastate our world sooner than expected.
VICE - Our Rising Oceans
Our Rising Oceans | VICE on HBO | S3, E1 | 01/11/16 | 42:52
Our oceans are rising. With human use of hydrocarbons skyrocketing, waters around the globe are getting hotter and, now, this warm sub-surface water is washing into Antarctica's massive western glaciers causing the glaciers to retreat and break off. Antarctica holds 90% of the world's ice and 70% of its freshwater, so if even a small fraction of the ice sheet in Antarctica melts, the resulting sea level rise will completely remap the world as we know it -- and it is already happening. In the last decade, some of the most significant glaciers here have tripled their melt rate.

VICE founder Shane Smith travels to the bottom of the world to investigate the instability of the West Antarctic ice sheet and to see first hand how the continent is melting -- and VICE follows the rising oceans to Bangladesh for a glimpse into the world's underwater future. From the UN Climate conference to the People's Climate March to the forces that deny the science of global climate change, this special extended episode covers all sides of the issue and all corners of the globe, ending with a special interview with Vice President Joe Biden.
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  4. Rights Advocates: Trump's Commission on Election Integrity Set Up as a Pretext for Voter Suppression
  5. "Trump and the Russian Money Trail": Trump's Ties to Oligarchs Go Back Decades
  6. Married to the Mob: Investigative Journalist Craig Unger on What Trump Owes the Russian Mafia
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Dean Baker says -> Trump Can't Vote Down Obamacare, so He's Strangling It Instead | TRNN | 07/19/17 | 10:00
Trita Parsi, president of the National Iranian American Council, says -> How Far Will Trump Go to Kill the Iran Nuclear Deal? | TRNN | 07/20/17 | 24:16
Does Trump Even Know What A Pre-Existing Conditions Is?? | TYT | 07/19/17 | 4:10
SAD! Trump Won't Stop Beating A Dead Trumpcare | TYT | 07/19/17 | 9:16
Supreme Court Tweaks Trump's Muslim Ban | TYT | 07/19/17 | 5:35
What do Trump and Putin want from each other? | Aljazeera: Inside Story | 07/20/17 | 24:15
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Resignation Watch: Donald Trump Lashes Jeff Sessions, Justice Officials | MSNBC Rachel Maddow | 07/19/17 | 15:37
Jeff Sessions' Act Of Character Seen As Disqualification | MSNBC Morning Joe | 07/20/17 | 4:35
Shep. Smith and Judge Napolitano Brilliantly Tear into Trump's "Troubling Actions" | FoxNews | 07/20/17 | 4:52
James Clapper: President Donald Trump Is Making Russia Great Again | MSNBC Hardball | 07/20/17 | 11:57
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Was That Tweet From Trump Or Shakespeare? | Stephen Colbert | 07/20/17 | 5:03
The Daily Show with Trevor Noah
Toying with Russia | The Daily Show | 07/19/17 | 5:50
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Team Trump's Absurd Defenses for Don Jr.'s Emails: A Closer Look | Seth Meyers | 07/18/17 | 14:02

07.20.2017. 14:09

Wednesday July 19, 2017

The GOP Health Care Plan Is About To Fail. Republicans Don't Know What To Do Next.
HP | Matt Fuller , Jennifer Bendery | 07/18/17

After seven years of promises, Republicans just can't find the votes to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) appears to have exhausted his options for alternative GOP bills. Early next week, senators are expected to vote down an effort to begin debate on a bill to gut Obamacare without a replacement. The proposal is similar to one Republicans in the House and Senate sent to President Barack Obama's desk in early 2016.

The problems Republicans have decried about the Affordable Care Act, however, while often overstated, will persist. A handful of rural counties still don't have an insurer lined up to offer plans in 2018, and quite a few more counties ? about one-fifth of total exchange enrollment ? have only one option and have seen a spike in premiums in the last year or two. ... Read more

How the Trump administration's secret efforts to ease Russia sanctions fell short
Yahoo News | Michael Isikoff | older 06/02/17

In the early weeks of the Trump administration, former Obama administration officials and State Department staffers fought an intense, behind-the-scenes battle to head off efforts by incoming officials to normalize relations with Russia, according to multiple sources familiar with the events.

Unknown to the public at the time, top Trump administration officials, almost as soon as they took office, tasked State Department staffers with developing proposals for the lifting of economic sanctions, the return of diplomatic compounds and other steps to relieve tensions with Moscow. ... Read more
Trump's Been Trying To Lift Russia Sanctions Since Day One | TYT | 07/18/17 | 7:43

**Inside The 'Shakespearean Irony' Of Trump And Bannon's Relationship
FreshAir.org & NPR.org | author | 07/18/17

In August 2016, three months before the presidential election, Republican nominee Donald Trump was behind in the polls. Instead of staying on message, the candidate was engaged in a politically damaging fight with the parents of an Army captain killed in Iraq.

On Aug. 17, in an effort to change course, the Trump team appointed Steve Bannon, the former executive chairman of the conservative Breitbart News, to lead the campaign. Journalist Joshua Green of Bloomberg Businessweek says the switch would prove to be a turning point.

Green argues that Bannon's experiences with Breitbart gave him a framework for mobilizing disaffected young white male voters who were attracted to Trump. Without such guidance, Green says, "I don't think that Donald Trump would have been elected president." ... Read more
**Inside The 'Shakespearean Irony' Of Trump And Bannon's Relationship | NPR FreshAir.org | | 07/18/17

Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency by Joshua Green

From the reporter who was there at the very beginning comes the revealing inside story of the partnership between Steve Bannon and Donald Trump--the key to understanding the rise of the alt-right, the fall of Hillary Clinton, and the hidden forces that drove the greatest upset in American political history.

Based on dozens of interviews conducted over six years, Green spins the master narrative of the 2016 campaign from its origins in the far fringes of right-wing politics and reality television to its culmination inside Trump's penthouse on election night.

The shocking elevation of Bannon to head Trump's flagging presidential campaign on August 17, 2016, hit political Washington like a thunderclap and seemed to signal the meltdown of the Republican Party. Bannon was a bomb-throwing pugilist who'd never run a campaign and was despised by Democrats and Republicans alike.

Yet Bannon's hard-edged ethno-nationalism and his elaborate, years-long plot to destroy Hillary Clinton paved the way for Trump's unlikely victory. Trump became the avatar of a dark but powerful worldview that dominated the airwaves and spoke to voters whom others couldn't see. Trump's campaign was the final phase of a populist insurgency that had been building up in America for years, and Bannon, its inscrutable mastermind, believed it was the culmination of a hard-right global uprising that would change the world.

Any study of Trump's rise to the presidency is unavoidably a study of Bannon. Devil's Bargain is a tour-de-force telling of the remarkable confluence of circumstances that decided the election, many of them orchestrated by Bannon and his allies, who really did plot a vast, right-wing conspiracy to stop Clinton. To understand Trump's extraordinary rise and Clinton's fall, you have to weave Trump's story together with Bannon's, or else it doesn't make sense.

Trump aides move on after health care loss
Politico | Annie Karni and Eliana Johnson | 07/18/17

As the president's biggest agenda item tanked on the Hill, his senior advisers busied themselves with their pet projects -- and looked ahead to tax reform.

The president's most senior aides appeared eager to move on from the health care loss, busying themselves with their own pet projects. Counselor Kellyanne Conway spent the morning in the Cannon House Office Building, participating in a two-hour-long bipartisan round table on veterans and the opioid crisis.

Ivanka Trump made an appearance at a global robotics competition celebrating girls from Afghanistan pursuing careers in STEM. Meanwhile, her husband, White House adviser Jared Kushner -- who has taken little interest in the health care bill since its early, troubled days in the House, when he went skiing in Aspen with his family -- was busy leading a meeting with his Office of American Innovation.

In the West Wing, chief strategist Steve Bannon took a meeting with Wayne Berman, a Republican operative and board member of the Republican Jewish Coalition whose name has surfaced as a potential future chief of staff. He also met with Kris Kobach, head of Trump's voter fraud commission, and former campaign operatives David Bossie and Corey Lewandowski, among others. But Bannon was conspicuously absent from senior staff meetings on trade and tax reform that brought Cabinet officials into the White House. ... Read more

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  4. Activist & Father of Four Faces Deportation to Devastated Haiti Because of Decades-Old Conviction
Guardian Investigation of Ivanka Trump Factory in Indonesia Reveals Worker Abuse | DN | 07/18/17 | 13:17
Black Agenda Report's Glen Ford says -> Corporate Media Silence Helps Maintain Warfare in Syria | TRNN | 07/19/17 | 7:15
Unable To Kill Obamacare, Republicans Plot To Kill Medicare | TYT | 07/18/17 | 6:13
Trump MELTDOWN: "Am I A F*cking Baby, Paul?" | TYT | 07/18/17 | 3:59
Why Trump Hates Chris Christie Now | TYT | 07/18/17 | 4:31
Republicans Turn On Each Other After Trumpcare Fail | TYT | 07/18/17 | 7:03
Mitch McConnell And The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day | TYT | 07/18/17 | 6:49
9/11 survivors call on May to publish 'suppressed' Saudi terrorist funding report | RT | 07/19/17 | 2:51
America's Inequality Crisis is Exceptional...Trump is Making it Worse... | ThomHartmann | 07/18/17 | 27:50
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Guardians Of The Gridlock | 1a.org | 07/19/17 | 1hr
The legislative logjam known as the GOP health care bill is stunning, considering Republicans are in power in the House, Senate and White House. If today's lawmakers can't work together to move ahead on health care, what can they do?

Perhaps they can take notes on how major federal legislation of Washington past -- like the Voting Rights Act of 1965 or the Affordable Care Act -- made it through controversy and Congress and landed on the President's desk.
Getting Really Smart About Artificial Intelligence | 1a.org | 07/19/17 | 1hr
We constantly hear that we're on the verge of an AI revolution, but the technology is already everywhere. And Coursera co-founder Andrew Ng predicts that smart technology will help humans do even more. It will drive our cars, read our X-rays and affect pretty much every job and industry. And this will happen soon.

As AI rises, concerns grow about the future of humans. So how can we make sure our economy and our society are ready for a technology that could soon dominate our lives?
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Book Details 'Strange Motivations' Of Donald Trump Aide Steve Bannon | MSNBC 11th Hour | 07/18/17 | 5:08
Cooper-Panel ANGRY Reaction To Trump Admin. Latest Lies | CNN | 07/19/17 | 13:04
Anderson Cooper calls out Trump Press Secretary Sean Spicer | CNN | 07/19/17 | 4:40
Has Jared Kushner Delivered On Any Of The To-Do List Donald Trump Gave Him? | CNN | 07/19/17 | 4:40
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Repeal Now, Replace Later, Reelect Never | Stephen Colbert | 07/19/17 | 7:00
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How the Republican Health Care Bill Came and Went | The Daily Show | 07/18/17 | 6:21

07.19.2017. 12:31

Tuesday July 18, 2017

A new round of polls shows that 6 months in to his term, Trump is the most unpopular president in the modern era
BusinessInsider | Maxwell Tani | 07/18/17

Six months into his presidency, Donald Trump remains as unpopular as ever, setting a course to become the most unpopular president at this point in his administration since the dawn of modern polling.

According to a Washington Post/ABC poll released on Sunday, the president's approval rating has dropped to 36%, while his disapproval rating rose to 58%. ... Read more
Trump Polling Worse Than Any US President EVER. | TYT | 07/17/17 | 15:19
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  1. Poll finds Trump's standing weakened since springtime | WashingtonPost | Scott Clement | 07/16/17 | article
  2. Americans Feel Good About the Economy, Not So Good About Trump | Bloomberg | 07/17/16 | article
  3. Trump Rating Holds Steady Despite Campaign's 2016 Russia Meeting, 4-in-10 support impeachment, higher than for Nixon at start of Watergate | Monmouth University | 07/17/17 | article
  4. Yada, yada, yada

Report: Number Of Civilian Deaths In Trump's Air Strikes Will Soon Exceed Obama's Entire Presidency
airwars.org | author | current

Trump moves quickly when it comes to killing civilians. "A new investigation by Airwars for The Daily Beast has logged a massive escalation in civilian deaths caused by coalition air strikes in Iraq and Syria against ISIS, as led by President Donald Trump's White House.

At least 2,200 civilians are estimated to have been killed up until July 13. That's over 360 a month since Trump's inauguration, or around 12 every day. By contrast, the Obama administration oversaw 2,300 civilian deaths in total over eight years.

(He was hardly a dovish president however -- Obama's legacy includes vastly expanding the military's use of drones which, in 2016, dropped some of an estimated 26,171 bombs on targets in majority-Muslim countries around the world.)" Read more
Trump About To Surpass Obama's EIGHT YEAR Civilian Death Toll | TYT | 07/17/17 | 13:23
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Trump's 'Made In America' Week Is Already Backfiring Spectacularly
HP | Ed Mazza | 07/17/17

President Donald Trump is set to declare this week "Made In America" week to help promote products manufactured in the United States, according to The Hill. But he's already coming under fire for the move, given that Trump-branded products are often manufactured overseas.

Many of Trump's clothing items have been made in Mexico and China. During the campaign last year, his use of steel and aluminum from China became a campaign issue.

And just last week, The Washington Post reported on the fashion line of first daughter and White House aide Ivanka Trump, finding that much of it is made by low-wage workers in countries such as Bangladesh, Indonesia and China. ... Read more
Trump's 'Made In America Week' Backfires BIGLY | TYT | 07/17/17 | 4:00

Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Tuesday, July 18 [9:02]
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  2. The Ultimate Hypocrisy? Trump Plan to Renegotiate NAFTA Resembles TPP Deal He Withdrew From
  3. Amnesty Accuses U.S. Coalition of War Crimes in Mosul: Scale of Death Much Higher Than Acknowledged
  4. Still Not Free: New Documentary "Life on Parole" Follows Former Prisoners Navigating Early Release
Vijay Prashad and Trita Parsi join Paul Jay to discuss -> the New York Times article, 'Iran Dominates in Iraq After U.S. 'Handed the Country Over'' | TRNN | 07/18/17 | 18:31
Prof. Sabah Alnasseri and Paul Jay discuss -> New York Times Joins Trump and Saudi Arabia in Targeting Iran | TRNN | 07/18/17 | 15:47
Keiser Report: Gutting of America's Wealth Creation Machine (E1097) | RT | 07/15/17 | 25:58
Max and Stacy discuss the economic problems looking for solutions. In the first half they discuss how to Make America Great Again is a 'solution' to the problem of the gutting of America's wealth creation machine and how this slogan as a solution caused the meltdown of the entire Democratic party. In the second half Max talks to Chris Whalen, author of Ford Men, about whether or not it is possible to make America great again for the blue collar worker.
Why Does Trump Prioritize Petro Billionaires Over Humanity? | ThomHartmann | 07/14/17 | 27:56
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Who Will Decide Health Care's Future? | 1a.org | 07/18/17 | 1hr
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Energy, Oil, and Oil Sands
Utah/Colorado Have 25X More Tar Sands Than Canada (Documentary) | | 09/19/15 | 28:03
Oil Pipeline, Long Submerged in Michigan's Deep Waters, Fuels Public Concern | CircleOfBlue.org | 07/10/13 | article
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NY Subpoenas Records On Huge Manafort Loans From Small Bank: WSJ | 07/18/17 | 6:32
Donald Trump: Last Night's Failure An Ominous Sign For White House | 07/18/17 | 22:00
Donald Trump Jr.: Is There A Chance Mueller Will Be Fired? | MSNBC Morning Joe | 07/18/17 | 11:26
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The Opening Monologue Of 'Russia Week' | Stephen Colbert | 07/18/17 | 6:22
Have We Got Enough to Impeach Trump Already? (#96) | Keith Olbermann | 07/17/17 | 8:06

07.18.2017. 11:54

Monday July 17, 2017

New U.S. Subprime Boom, Same Old Sins: Auto Defaults Are Soaring
Bloomberg | Gabrielle Coppola | 07/17/17

It's classic subprime: hasty loans, rapid defaults, and, at times, outright fraud. Only this isn't the U.S. housing market circa 2007. It's the U.S. auto industry circa 2017

A decade after the mortgage debacle, the financial industry has embraced another type of subprime debt: auto loans. And, like last time, the risks are spreading as they're bundled into securities for investors worldwide.

Subprime car loans have been around for ages, and no one is suggesting they'll unleash the next crisis. But since the Great Recession, business has exploded. In 2009, $2.5 billion of new subprime auto bonds were sold. In 2016, $26 billion were, topping average pre-crisis levels, according to Wells Fargo & Co. ... Read more

New U.S. Subprime Boom, Same Old Sins: Auto Defaults Are Soaring | Bloomberg | 07/17/17 | 3:14

Larry Fink Says Dark Clouds for U.S. Economy Aren't Waning
Bloomberg| Sabrina Willmer | 07/17/17

Laurence D. Fink, chief executive officer of BlackRock Inc., said the U.S. economy is growing slower than expected and will expand modestly at 2.4 percent in the second quarter.

"There are still dark clouds we have to face," said Fink, in an interview with Bloomberg News on Monday. While corporate earnings have been good, "we aren't seeing that rise in personal income we would have thought," he said.

Fink reiterated his concern that a risk to the market is the White House's ability to quickly pass key reforms. "Are we going to see tax reform in the U.S.?" said Fink. ... Read more

How the White House and Republicans underestimated Obamacare repeal
Politico | Nancy Cook | 07/17/17

The Trump team thought Congress would scrap the health law by late February. Nobody expected the effort to drag into the summer months.

The longer Republican efforts to repeal Obamacare flounder, the clearer it becomes that President Donald Trump's team and many in Congress dramatically underestimated the challenge of rolling back former President Barack Obama's signature achievement.

The Trump transition team and other Republican leaders presumed that Congress would scrap Obamacare by President's Day weekend in late February, according to three former Republican congressional aides and two current ones familiar with the administration's efforts.

Few in the administration or Republican leadership expected the effort to stretch into the summer months, with another delay announced this weekend, eating into valuable time for lawmakers to tackle tax reform, nominations or spending bills. ... Read more

Stockman On Peak Bull: Fake Economy And Fake News
ZeroHedge | author | 07/17/17

The American economy has been mangled by decades of assault on capitalist prosperity. Growth is now dying because the Federal Reserve's hit on corporate America that has strip-mined its balance sheets to feed the halls of Wall Street. Trillions of dollars have been thrown into financial engineering (stock buybacks, M&A deals and leveraged recaps) while neglecting real investment and productivity in Flyover America. ... Read more

Blade Runner 2049
BLADE RUNNER 2049 - Official Trailer | Warner Bros | 05/08/17 | 2:21
Best Upcoming SCI-FI Movies -Trailers 2017 | 06/28/17 | 14:21
Baraka - 1992 | Documentary | 1992 | 1:37:49
Baraka is a 1992 non-narrative film directed by Ron Fricke. The title Baraka means "blessing" in a multitude of languages.
Chronos | Documentary | 1992 | 42:48
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  2. Outrage Mounts as Saudi Arabia Plans Imminent Executions for 14 Accused Pro-Democracy Protesters
  3. How Education Secretary Betsy DeVos Undermines Civil Rights & Favors Predatory Lenders Over Students
  4. In Precedent-Setting Trial, Lawyers Say Arizona's Ethnic Studies Ban is Discriminatory & Illegal
  5. From Pence to Price: How Big Tobacco Gained Massive Influence Under Trump, Plans to Expand in Africa
Gerald Epstein, co-director of Political Economy Research Institute says - > If Yellen is Out, What's Next for the Fed? | TRNN | 07/15/17 | 10:09
NATO-Russia Tensions Rise, Arms Makers Benefit | TRNN | 07/17/17 | 19:40
Alternet reporter Ben Norton -> How US-Russia Ceasefire in Syria Impacts Iran | TRNN | 07/16/17 | 15:48
Thought Trump's Doctor Was Crazy? Meet His Lawyer... | TYT | 07/16/17 | 9:15
Trump Explains Chinese And North Korean History | TYT | 07/16/17 | 5:35
Trump Has Spent Close To 25% Of His Presidency Playing Golf | TYT | 07/17/17 | 4:39
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Donald Trump Jr Russian Meeting Story Unpacking Like A Nesting Doll | MSNBC Rachel Maddow | 07/14/17 | 19:39
"Trump's Lies Are INSANE!" Chris Wallace & Shep. Smith Is Fed Up With Trump | FoxNews | 07/14/17 | 7:15
HEATED: Anderson Cooper almost Loses His Cool When Trump Lawyer Jay Sekulow Tries To Defend Trump | CNN | 07/15/17 | 16:20
MEGA-Conservative Richard Painter Blasts Trump & Don Jr, "These Two Will Lie To ANYBODY" | CNN | 07/14/17 | 7:30
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One Week Older, July 16 | Stephen Colbert | 07/15/17 | 3:57
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Sad!: A Retrospective | The Daily Show | 07/17/17 | 2:16
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HEATED: Anderson Cooper almost Loses His Cool When Trump Lawyer Jay Sekulow Tries To Defend Trump | CNN | 07/15/17 | 16:20
Bill Clinton and George W. Bush BRILLIANTLY Destroys & Makes Fun Of Trump in An Long Interview | ABC | 07/14/17 | 47:56

07.17.2017. 15:57

Friday July 14, 2017

New Health Care Bill Proves GOP Promises On Pre-Existing Conditions Were Never Serious
HP | Jonathan Cohn | 07/13/17

The big change in the new Senate Republican health care proposal is, as expected, an amendment that has the potential to undermine current protections for pre-existing conditions. Yes, that's despite the promises Republican leaders have made, over and over, to treat those protections as sacrosanct.

The amendment, based on a proposal that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) has been promoting and tweaking for weeks, would undermine the rules on what and who insurers cover in order to make insurance cheaper. These rules, which include prohibitions on charging higher premiums to people with severe medical problems, are a cornerstone of the Affordable Care Act. ... Read more

Biggest Cities in the World? New York is 10th

The Trump Family's Explanations Are Straining Credulity to Its Breaking Point
TheAtlantic | David Graham | 07/14/17

The story that Donald Trump Jr., his father, and their aides told about a June 9 meeting with a Russian lawyer made little sense--even before the latest revelations.

The account that the Trumps are offering is implausible on three counts. First, it is challenging to believe on its face, as I wrote earlier this week, that Trump Sr. would never have been told about the meeting. Second, the continued flow of new revelations itself suggests that whatever story the principals are peddling should be considered incomplete by default. Finally, the specifics of the string of new revelations about who attended the meeting and when it came to light make the story seem increasingly improbable.

Start with the original story--or rather, the story that Trump Jr. and others landed on on Tuesday, after he released emails about the June 9, 2016, meeting, in an attempt to get ahead of a New York Times story. (That in itself was already at least the fourth separate account Trump Jr. had offered.) Trump Jr. wanted the public to believe that he had a meeting with someone he believed to be a Russian government lawyer, offering information damaging to Hillary Clinton, because the government of Russia wished to aid his father; that he brought two other people heavily involved in the campaign to the meeting, Kushner and campaign chairman Paul Manafort; and that although his father was at Trump Tower, the site of the meeting that day, and although the family trumpets its closeness, no one told Donald Trump until he found out in recent days. Trump, through both his personal lawyers and White House staff, has said he only found recently. ... Read more

What's Actually Wrong With the U.S. Health System
TheAtlantic | Olga Khazan | 07/14/17

On the heels of the Senate's latest attempt at replacing the Affordable Care Act, the Commonwealth Fund has released its latest evaluation of what, exactly, ails the U.S. health-care system. Once again, the think tank found the U.S. medical system performed the worst among 11 similar countries, all while spending more.

The United States fared especially badly on measures of affordability, access, health outcomes, and equality between the rich and poor. The United Kingdom ranked first, and the other countries in the comparison were Australia, Switzerland, Sweden, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Germany, Canada, and France. ... Read more

The nation's cartoonists on the week in politics
Every week political cartoonists throughout the country and across the political spectrum apply their ink-stained skills to capture the foibles, memes, hypocrisies and other head-slapping events in the world of politics. The fruits of these labors are hundreds of cartoons that entertain and enrage readers of all political stripes. Here's an offering of the best of this week's crop, picked fresh off the Toonosphere. Edited by Matt Wuerker.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon Says Being an American Abroad Is 'Almost an Embarrassment'
Bloomberg | Hugh Son | 07/14/17

JPMorgan Chase & Co. Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon, fresh from a work trip overseas, unloaded on everything that's holding back U.S. businesses.

"It's almost an embarrassment being an American traveling around the world," Dimon, 61, said on a conference call with analysts. He doesn't like listening to the "stupid shit" Americans have to deal with, expressing frustration over the nation's inability to invest in infrastructure and overhaul the tax code. "There would be much stronger growth if there were more intelligent decisions and less gridlock." ... Read more

Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Friday, July 14 [13:11]
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  3. Justice Neil Gorsuch Ends First SCOTUS Term Voting Consistently on Court's "Most Conservative Side"
  4. "Care in Chaos": New Documentary Uncovers Rising Tide of Attacks on Abortion Clinics Under Trump
  5. Rep. Keith Ellison on GOP Healthcare Plan, Bill Targeting Muslims & Philando Castile Settlement
  6. Oscar-Nominated Actor James Cromwell Speaks Out Before Jail Time for Peaceful Anti-Fracking Protest
Michael Lighty of the National Nurses United says -> 'No Compromise on Health Care' | TRNN | 07/13/17 | 6:47
Bill Black says -> New Rules for Banks: "Honest Bankers Please Step Forward" | TRNN | 07/14/17 | 7:38
Alternet reporter Ben Norton says -> War & Cholera Decimate Yemen, But Saudi Bombing Gets More US Help | TRNN | 07/14/17 | 17:29
Islamophobe Breaks Down In Tears | TYT | 07/13/17 | 3:59
Paul Ryan: Dress Respectfully While We Rob You Blind | TYT | 07/13/17 | 5:32
Keiser Report: Lifetime of Financial Crises (E1096) | RT | 07/13/17 | 26:22
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Friday News - International | 1a.org | 07/14/17 | 1hr
Iraq marks a major moment, Brazil sends its former president to prison and President Trump looks for an alternative agreement -- in Paris.
Friday News - Domestic | 1a.org | 07/14/17 | 1hr
It's been a week with a high Russian character count.
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Donald Trump Lawyer E-mail Meltdown Raises Questions Of Competence | MSNBC Rachel Maddow | 07/14/17 | 18:03
Latest Time Cover On Donald Trump Jr.: 'Red handed' | MSNBC Morning Joe | 07/14/17 | 8:24
President Donald Trump 'Has To Be Exposed For The Fraud He Is' | MSNBC Morning Joe | 07/14/17 | 9:56
Sheldon Whitehouse: White House Won't Address Kushner's Security Clearance | MSNBC Morning Joe | 07/14/17 | 10:43
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Trump Said More Than 'Bonjour' To France's First Lady' | Stephen Colbert | 07/14/17 | 5:58
Stephen Recreates Kellyanne Conway's 'Fun With Words' | Stephen Colbert | 07/14/17 | 3:28
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The Translators - Interpreting Donald Trump | The Daily Show | 07/13/17 | 7:04

07.14.2017. 12:32

Thursday July 13, 2017

Republicans Stare Down Failure On Health Care With No Real Plan B
HP | Matt Fuller | 07/12/17

Another map won't help if you don't know where you're headed.

Senate Republicans are still moving ahead with a vote on their health care bill next week, but barring some sudden changes of hearts, it looks like they will fall short of the votes ? and no one seems to have a real idea of what to do then.

Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is expected to release the text of a revised bill Thursday, along with an amendment drafted by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) that would dramatically undermine protections for people with pre-existing conditions in the name of lowering costs for healthy people. On Wednesday afternoon, Cruz suggested, but did not directly state, that he would vote against the motion to proceed on the bill if his amendment was not attached. ... ... Read more

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said:
"I ran on repealing Obamacare," Paul told reporters Wednesday. "It doesn't repeal Obamacare. It creates a giant Obamacare superfund. I can't be for that."

Trump's lawyers try to control unruly White House
Politico | Josh Dawsey | 07/13/17

They are trying to remind the president and his aides that small indiscretions can spell big trouble.

The lawyers, people familiar with the internal discussions say, are reminding White House aides and the president that the stakes are higher now that a special counsel and Congress are scrutinizing their every move, that small indiscretions could turn into bigger issues, and that they have to follow rules they don't like.

Trump's legal team is attempting to separate the president from Donald Trump Jr. and the son's legal team on Russia matters, as well from Jared Kushner and his legal team, over concerns that the blurred lines could create unnecessary problems, according to these sources. They have tried to block Trump's warring band of aides from joining meetings with his lawyers, warning that they could become witnesses or be forced to hire lawyers if they attend. ... Read more

U.S. Stocks Mixed Near Records as Dollar Weakens: Markets Wrap
U.S. stock futures fluctuated near all-time highs, while the dollar slipped as Janet Yellen prepared to testify a second day after stoking expectations the Fed won't rush to end the era of cheap money. | Bloomberg | Eddie Van Der Walt | 07/13/17 | article
If Janet Yellen Is Headed for the Exit, Who's Next Leading Fed?
Gary Cohn, Trump's senior economic adviser, has garnered the most recent attention after Politico reported Tuesday that he's the leading candidate. |Bloomberg | Christopher Condon | 07/13/17 | article

A New Sign of Fear for U.S. Drillers
Bloomberg | Ryan Collins | 07/13/17

... Earlier this year, while equity investors were killing them, the companies could bask in the warm glow of bondholders' confidence. Then the U.S. price of oil tumbled below $50 a barrel and kept sinking. Natural gas took a dive, too. That's when the warm glow turned cold.

Energy junk bonds have been hit especially hard. They slipped more than 2 percent in June, according to a Bloomberg index, after increasing 38 percent in 2016 -- a year when 89 energy companies filed for bankruptcy. Meanwhile, the S&P 500 Energy Sector Index has slumped 16 percent since Jan. 3, while the S&P 500 is up nearly 8 percent in the same period. ... Read more

Visa Begins Bribing Merchants To Stop Taking Cash
ZeroHedge | author | 07/13/17

The war on cash is escalating. A big driver isn't central banks who want to be able to inflict negative interest rates on savers, or Treasuries who see cash transactions as hiding revenues from their tax collectors, but the payment networks that want to kill cash (and checks!) as competitors to their oh so terrific (and fee-gouging) credit and debit cards. ... Read more

40% Of The Fed's Interest On Excess Reserves Is Paid To Foreign Banks
ZeroHedge | author | 07/13/17

Now that Congress is finally scrutinizing the $4.5 trillion elephant in the room, it may be interested to know that approximately 40%, or $838 billion in reserves parked at the Fed belong to foreign banks. This means that the Fed is giving a $10 billion (and rising) annualized subsidy to non-US banks every year. ... Read more

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  4. Whistleblowers Shouldn't Be Prosecuted Like Spies: Greenwald on Alleged NSA Leaker Reality Winner
Dr. Twila Moon, a glacial expert with the National Snow and Ice Data Center -> Massive Iceberg Breaks Free in Antarctica: How Worried Should We Be? | TRNN | 07/13/17 | 6:43
Hannity's Lobbing Softballs But Don Jr. Still Strikes Out | TYT | 07/12/17 | 10:29
Antarctica Just Got A Lot Smaller... | TYT | 07/12/17 | 6:53
Proof Mexico Isn't Paying For That Wall | TYT | 07/12/17 | 5:14
Back to Ruins: Mosul residents fear returning to demolished homes in devastated city | RT | 07/12/17 | 9:51
Thanks to Wall Street, Average Joe Can Now Bet Against America | ThomHartmann | 07/12/17 | 27:59
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Donald Trump Jr. Scandal Sends GOP Seeking New Story | MSNBC Rachel Maddow | 07/12/17 | 21:01
Why Donald Trump Jr.'s emails change everything | Vox | 07/12/17 | 6:07
Why Donald Trump Jr.'s emails change everythingDonald Trump: Claims Of Collusion 'Dumbest Thing I've Ever Heard' | msnbc 11th Hour | 07/12/17 | 9:06
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Donald Jr.'s Best Defense? That He's An Idiot | Stephen Colbert | 07/13/17 | 9:34
John Oliver: The Don Jr. Scandal Is Something (If Something Means Anything) | Stephen Colbert | 07/13/17 | 7:53
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Doncathlon - Fox News Defends the Indefensible Donald Trump Jr | The Daily Show | 07/12/17 | 6:49

07.13.2017. 11:21

Wednesday July 12, 2017

Scientists Say Massive Iceberg Has Broken Off in Antarctica
Bloomberg | Climate Changed | 07/12/17

A vast iceberg with twice the volume of Lake Erie has broken off from a key floating ice shelf in Antarctica, scientists said Wednesday.

The iceberg broke off from the Larsen C ice shelf, scientists at the University of Swansea in Britain said. The iceberg is described as weighing 1 trillion tons (1.12 trillion U.S. tons).

The process, known as calving, occurred in the last few days, when a 5,800-square-kilometer (2,240-square-mile) section broke away. ... Read more

Climate Change Dilemma for Coastal America: How Much Flooding Is Too Much?
Bloomberg | Christopher Flavelle and Daniel Levitt | 07/12/17

... Local governments around the coastal U.S. will face variations on that dilemma, perhaps sooner than they realize. In a report released Wednesday, the Union of Concerned Scientists used federal data to project the year communities will become what it calls "chronically inundated." The group, which urges Congress to take action to address climate change, defined that threshold as any community that faced flooding an average of every two weeks across at least 10 percent of its area.

It's not just small towns along the beach. By 2100, a third of Savannah, Georgia could be flooded twice a month, including more densely populated parts of the city's historic downtown. ... Read more

The Everybody-Does-It Defense of Collusion
TheAtlantic | Mckay Coppins | 07/11/17

After months of vehement denials, Trump supporters and surrogates are trying a new tack: If collusion occurred, it was no big deal.

As evidence continues to mount suggesting the Trump campaign worked with Russia to influence the 2016 election, the president's allies have shifted to a new defense. As former House Speaker Newt Gingrich put it: "You could argue it's dumb, but it's not illegal."

For months, the White House has fervently denied allegations of collusion, with President Trump routinely dismissing Russia stories in the press as "fake news," and calling himself the victim of an historically unprecedented "witch hunt." His Republican defenders have largely followed suit, rejecting the entire collusion narrative as a "hoax," or at least a partisan smear. ... Read more

Steve Bannon is back -- and while we're all distracted he wants to outsource the war in Afghanistan
Salon | Heather Digby Parton | 07/12/17

While Don Jr. implodes, Steve Bannon and Erik Prince have hatched a plan to privatize war and pillage Afghanistan

... Ever since President Trump's inauguration there has been a tremendous amount of palace intrigue with factions loyal to Jared Kushner and Steve Bannon fighting for influence alongside whichever policy advisers and cabinet officials happen to be relevant that particular week. The Russia scandal has implicated Kushner in ways that make him especially vulnerable, however, and Bannon appears to be filling the vacuum.

According New York Magazine's Joshua Green, who has been following Bannon for years and has a new book coming out on the subject called "Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency," Bannon is fully back in the fold after a few shaky months and he's advising Trump to fight and win by any means necessary. Green reports that the withdrawal from the Paris climate accord, the recent moves on immigration and Trump's Warsaw speech are all signs that Bannon's influence is once again on the rise. He notes that Bannon, so far, is personally untouched by the Russia scandal: ... Read more

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Trump White House in Crisis as Emails Confirm Campaign Embraced Russian Effort to Defeat Clinton | DN | 07/12/17 | 14:31
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  5. 122 Countries Overcome U.S. Opposition and Pass Landmark U.N. Global Treaty to Ban Nuclear Weapons
Do Trump Jr.'s Russia Emails Live up to the Hype? | TRNN | 07/11/17 | 17:57
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Donald Trump Jr Collusion Admission Leaves Jared Kushner Exposed | MSNBC Rachel Maddow | 07/11/17 | 19:50
United States Secrets (Snowden Leaks) | PBS Frontline | 03/18/17 | 1:56:11
Edward Snowden Exposes Donald Trump FULL Interview 2017 | VarietyVanity | 02/15/17 | 54:46
Joe Scarborough: 'I Think A Lot Of Republicans Feel The Way I Do' | MSNBC Morning Joe | 07/12/17 | 6:22
Donald Trump Jr.: We Now Know For Sure That Russia Was Involved | MSNBC Morning Joe | 07/12/17 | 7:27
Trump supporters defense of Trump Jr.'s Russia meeting makes Anderson Cooper laugh | CNN | 07/11/17 | 9:54
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Donald Trump Jr. Is His Own 'Deepthroat' | Stephen Colbert | 07/12/17 | 10:36
Mika Brzezinski And Joe Scarborough Unpack Donald Trump Jr.'s Emails | Stephen Colbert | 07/12/17 | 7:31
Joe Scarborough Explains Why He's Done With The GOP | Stephen Colbert | 07/12/17 | 4:58
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A Russian, an Email and an Idiot: Did Donald Trump Jr. Incriminate Himself? | The Daily Show | 07/11/17 | 9:25

07.12.2017. 11:11

Tuesday July 11, 2017

Emails reveal Donald Trump Jr. wanted to work with Russia to get Hillary Clinton dirt
Salon | Matthew Rozsa | 07/11/17

Donald Trump Jr. has just released emails on Twitter that may make his case look worse than it did prior to the scathing story by The New York Times over the weekend.

In a series of Twitter posts that he insisted were intended to be "totally transparent," Trump Jr. revealed a series of emails that he exchanged with former tabloid journalist Rob Goldstone. Perhaps the most damning exchange occurs on the fourth page, when Goldstone writes:

"The Crown prosecutor of Russia met with his father Aras this morning and in their meeting offered to provide the Trump campaign with some official documents and information that would Hillary and her dealings with Russia and would be very useful to your father." ... Read more

Sean Hannity blames Democrats for the Donald Trump Jr. problems
Salon | Taylor Link | 07/11/17

The Fox News host pre-taped his show Monday before news broke that there was emails about Russia's involvement

Fox News host Sean Hannity lives in an alternative universe and is begging his audience to join him. The right-wing commentator took his spin to towering new heights on Monday when he blamed everybody except the Trump administration for the growing Russia scandal.

Hannity, a mouthpiece for President Donald Trump, had the audacity to point his fingers at Democrats for the shady meeting that took place in June 2016 involving Donald Trump Jr., Paul Manafort and a Russian attorney. ... Read more
Hannity RIPS Everyone! | Sean Hannity | 07/11/17 | 16:08

Read the Emails in Which Donald Trump Jr. Is Offered Clinton Dirt
MotherJones | James West | 07/11/17

New emails published by the New York Times Tuesday morning reveal that Donald Trump Jr. leapt at the chance to meet with a Russian lawyer who, he was told, was acting as an emissary from the Russian government and offering the Trump campaign negative information on Hillary Clinton.

The emails -- which Trump Jr. tweeted out when he learned the Times was going to reveal them -- show top Trump campaign advisers colluding, or attempting to collude, with Vladimir Putin's regime. This is a dramatic development in the Trump-Russia scandal and undercuts the many claims from the Trump camp that Donald Trump and his associates had no contacts with the Russian government during the campaign. ... Read more
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Trump Jr.'s Emails and a Question of Russian Collusion | Bloomberg | 07/11/17 | 2:27
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Trump & Putin Talk, But US-Russia Confrontation Lingers | TRNN | 07/11/17 | 24:01
UN Adopts Historic Nuclear Weapons Ban over US-Led Opposition | TRNN | 07/11/17 | 19:10
Ivanka Sits In For Trump At G20 | TYT | 07/10/17 | 7:48
Trump Backpedals On Joint "Cyber Security Unit" With Russia | TYT | 07/10/17 | 7:45
Is Donald Trump Jr. Guilty Of Treason? | TYT | 07/10/17 | 6:49
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Mr. President Wasn't Mr. Popular At The G20 Summit | Stephen Colbert | 07/11/17 | 5:02
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Donald Trump Jr. Reminds Everyone How Incompetent His Dad's Administration Is | The Daily Show | 07/10/17 | 4:57

07.11.2017. 12:55

Monday July 10, 2017

Capitalism the Apple Way vs. Capitalism the Google Way
TheAtlantic | Mihir A. Desai | date

While lots of attention is directed toward identifying the next great startup, the defining tech-industry story of the last decade has been the rise of Apple and Google. In terms of wealth creation, there is no comparison. Eight years ago, neither one of them was even in the top 10 most valuable companies in the world, and their combined market value was less than $300 billion. Now, Apple and Alphabet (Google's parent company) have become the two most valuable companies, with a combined market capitalization of over $1.3 trillion. And increasingly, these two behemoths are starting to collide in various markets, from smartphones to home-audio devices to, according to speculation, automobiles.

But the greatest collision between Apple and Google is little noticed. The companies have taken completely different approaches to their shareholders and to the future, one willing to accede to the demands of investors and the other keeping power in the hands of founders and executives. These rival approaches are about something much bigger than just two of the most important companies in the world; they embody two alternative models of capitalism, and the one that wins out will shape the future of the economy. ... Read more

Joan Lee, Wife Of Marvel's Stan Lee, Has Died
The pair had been married 69 years.

Quantum computers compete for "supremacy"
Salon | Neil Savage, Scientific American | date

But to realize those visions, scientists first have to figure out how to actually build a quantum computer that can perform more than the simplest operations. They are now getting closer than ever, with IBM in May announcing its most complex quantum system so far and Google saying it is on track this year to unveil a processor with so-called "quantum supremacy" -- capabilities no conventional computer can match.

Small systems exist, but the next steps in the race to make them bigger will have to determine whether quantum computers can deliver on their potential. Scientists and industry players have focused largely on one of two approaches. One cools loops of wire to near --273.15 degrees Celsius, or absolute zero, turning them into superconductors where current flows with virtually no resistance. The other relies on trapped ions -- charged atoms of the rare earth element ytterbium held in place in a vacuum chamber by laser beams and manipulated by other lasers. The oscillating charges (in both the wires and the trapped ions) function as quantum bits, or "qubits," which can be harnessed to carry out the computer's operations. .. Read more

Our first and last home
Salon | Jesse Soloff | 07/09/17

Five months before my young wife died of cancer, we bought our first home together. We knew it would be her last

We had bought our first home, in the Charlotte, North Carolina, neighborhood of NoDa, five months earlier, in the spring of 2016, knowing that it would likely be our last. Not because we would spend the rest of our lives there, but because that's where Taylor would spend the rest of hers. ... Read more

"I'm Gonna Unchain The Dogs" Bannon Warned Ailes During Trump-Fox Spat
ZeroHedge | author | 07/101/17

Amid the 2016 Presidential campaign, White House chief strategist Steve Bannon reportedly told late Fox News head Roger Ailes to "go fuck yourself" during the Trump campaign's battle with the news network.

New York Magazine reported that Ailes, who died in May, sent his personal lawyer, Peter Johnson Jr., to Breitbart headquarters in D.C. to tell Bannon to stop running stories against then-Fox News host Megan Kelly, who questioned to President Trump during a primary debate about his behavior and language about women.,

As The Hill reports, Bannon reportedly refused to call off the coverage, calling Kelly "pure evil" and saying that she would turn on Ailes one day. ... Read more

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  4. Award-Winning Journalist Amy Wilentz on Just How Little Jared Kushner Knows About Foreign Politics
**Has the Environmental Movement Failed? A Conversation with Dr. David Suzuki | TRNN | 07/10/17 | 20:38
*How G20 Governments are Financing Climate Disaster | TRNN | 07/06/17 | 9:33
Trump's Alt Right Manifesto is War | TYT | 07/09/17 | 4:02
Is Media "Helping To Divide The Nation?" | TYT | 07/09/17 | 8:36
What Really Happened in the Closed Doors Meeting Between Trump and Putin? | TYT | 07/09/17 | 9:17
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Senator Pat Toomey: President Donald Trump's Meeting With Putin A 'Disappointment' | MSNBC Morning Joe | 07/10/17 | 11:13
Did Donald Trump Get Played By Vladimir Putin? | MSNBC Last Word | 07/07/17 | 16:02
This linguist studied the way Trump speaks for two years. Here's what she found. | WashingtonPost | 07/07/17 | 4:20
John Bolton: Putin looked Trump in the eye and lied | Fox News | 07/07/17 | 8:09
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07.10.2017. 12:18

Friday July 07, 2017

More Americans Trust Merkel Than Trump To Handle Foreign Affairs
HP | Ariel Edwards-Levy | 07/06/17

Residents of most G-20 countries ? including the United States ? have more faith in German Chancellor Angela Merkel than in U.S. President Donald Trump to handle world affairs, according to newly released data from Pew Research.

Fifty-six percent of Americans say they have some or a lot of confidence in Merkel to do the right thing regarding foreign affairs, according to the poll published Wednesday. Just 46 percent have a similar level of confidence in Trump. ... Read more
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Rachel Maddow Says Forged NSA Document Being Shopped Around To News Outlets
HP | Rebecca Shapiro | 07/07/17

MSNBC's Rachel Maddow said she had a "strange scoop" to share with audiences Thursday night after receiving what she believes is a meticulously forged document sent over her tip line with the intention to discredit her.

"I feel like I need to send this up like a flare for other news organizations in particular," Maddow said. "That's part of what I'm intending to do here with this story tonight."

Over the next 20 minutes, the MSNBC host discussed how her show received a document, purportedly from the National Security Administration, labeled as classified and filled with such bombshells about Russia that Maddow said if it were authentic, it would be a "gun still firing proverbial bullets." But after careful examination, which she describes in great detail, her show deemed the document a forgery. Read more

Maddow To News Orgs: Beware Of Forged Donald Trump Russia Documents! | MSNBC Rachel Maddow | 07/06/17 | 21:18

Here's How Trump Transferred Wealth to His Son While Avoiding the Usual Taxes
AlterNet | Derek Kravitz / ProPublica | 07/05/17

Donald Trump sold two condos to Eric in April 2016 at a steep discount. But he doesn't appear to be on the hook for gift taxes.

In April 2016, as Donald Trump was on the cusp of clinching the Republican nomination for the White House, he sold two luxury condos near Manhattan's Central Park for less than half the price his company had said they were worth. The lucky buyer: Trump's son, Eric

Such family-friendly deals would normally incur hundreds of thousands of dollars in gift taxes. ... Read more

200 Years Of Immigration - Who Came To America, And When?
Here's another look -- this time, it's a data visualization from Insightful Interaction using data from the Yearbook of Immigration Statistics from 1820 to 2015. At first, immigration is coming almost exclusively from Europe. | Metrocosm | 05/04/16 | 1:41
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  5. Berta Cáceres's Daughter Speaks Out After Surviving Assassination Attempt in Honduras
How G20 Governments are Financing Climate Disaster | TRNN | 07/06/17 | 9:33
'Welcome to Hell': 100,000 Protesters Aim to 'Kettle' G20 Over Inequality, War and Climate Change | TRNN | 07/06/17 | 11:11
Nicolai Petro discusses -> Trump Tells Russia to Stop 'Destabilizing' Ukraine, But What's Really Going On? | TRNN | 07/06/17 | 16:45
Republican Regrets Auschwitz Gas Chamber Video | TYT | 07/05/17 | 5:09
Stephen Hawking warns: Trump is Pushing Us to the Apocalypse | ThomHartmann | 07/05/17 | 27:48
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Friday News - International | 1a.org | 07/07/17 | 1hr
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Donald Trump leave for a bilateral meeting on the eve of the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany. Leaders of the world's top economies gather July 7-8; their disagreements range from wars to climate change and global trade.
Friday News - Domestic | 1a.org | 07/07/17 | 1hr
Police search for evidence after a man was shot in Chicago's Little Village neighborhood on July 2nd. Five people were killed and about another 50 wounded in gunfire in Chicago over the holiday weekend. On June 1, a task force was formed by the Chicago police and state and federal law enforcement to combat gun violence in the city.
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'Welcome To Hell' Protest Greets G20 Leaders | MSNBC | 07/06/17 | 2:33

07.07.2017. 09:26

Thursday July 06, 2017
Noam Chomsky July 05, 2017 - Ralph Nader Interviews | | 07/05/17 | 54:35
Noam Chomsky July 2017 - The Emerging World Order | Cognitive Science | 07/02/17 | 1:00:06

What Jared's office actually does
Politico | Nancy Scola | 07/01/17

Its briefing is almost comically broad, but the innovation office run by the presidential son-in-law is starting to take shape. Now can it succeed where others have floundered?

When a dozen and a half CEOs of the world's biggest tech companies descended on the White House last month, it turned a spotlight on one of the bigger mysteries of a mysterious White House: They were convened by the Office of American Innovation, the new operation being run by presidential son-in-law Jared Kushner. Announced with much fanfare by the president in March, the office was set up to bring "new thinking and real change" to the country's toughest problems, according to Trump, in part by drawing on the lessons of the private sector.

Since then, observers have been wondering just what it was, or even if it was. It didn't help that the sweep of its briefing was almost comically broad, from upgrading federal government's $82 billion worth of information technology, to spurring the creation of new jobs, changing how the country thinks about apprenticeships and "unleashing American business." Not to mention working with sometimes-antagonist Chris Christie's commission on tackling the United States' opioid epidemic. (And all this while Kushner is also supposed to be tackling Middle Eastern peace.) ... Read more

Quote of the Day: Who Cares If Trump Is Mentally Fit?

The Flashpoints for World Leaders at the Hamburg G-20
Bloomberg | Alan Crawford and Sam Dodge | 07/06/17

The Group of 20 summit that starts in Hamburg on Thursday is the most anticipated -- and potentially turbulent -- meeting of global leaders in years. An unpredictable U.S. president with a protectionist bent, a Russian leader subject to international sanctions and a Chinese president looking to assert a greater global role are just a few of the factors that might stoke tensions.

Sparks could really fly over the policy agenda of free trade, climate change and migration put forward by the German host. Angela Merkel is determined to avoid a repeat of May's G-7 meeting in Italy, where it was six against one: Donald Trump. Yet she acknowledges that "the discord is obvious" and "it would be dishonest to paper over the confict." ... Read more

Trump's Warsaw, Poland Press Conference in 60 Seconds | Bloomberg | 07/06/17 | 1:00

Yes, the Mainstream Media Does Publish Fake News
A timeline of global warming denial in the media.
MotherJones | Rebecca Leber | 07/05/17

At the briefing, Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt was asked whether Trump thinks humans are warming the planet. After refusing to comment on the president's views, Pruitt said that the "degree of human contribution" to global warming remains uncertain. That uncertainty, Pruitt suggested, makes it difficult to decide how policymakers should respond. ...

... It's hardly surprising that a misleading New York Times column would be promoted by the administration of a president who sees global warming as a Chinese hoax. Skeptics have long sought to validate their views by injecting them into respectable media outlets. And they've frequently been successful. Here's a short history of climate misinformation infiltrating the mainstream news media: ... Read more

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Journalist Tim Shorrock says -> Trump Talks Tough Instead of Talking to North Korea | TRNN | 07/05/17 | 16:10
Journalist Ari Berman of The Nation says -> Trump Panel Demands Private Voter Info, Gets Backlash Instead | TRNN | 07/05/17 | 9:54
Dems Could Have Stopped Saudi Arms Deal If Not For Joe Manchin | TYT | 07/05/17 | 5:28
Keiser Report: Anarchy Currencies (E1093) | RT | 07/06/17 | 25:45
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Are the Saudis funding extremism? | Aljazeera: Inside Story | 07/06/17 | 25:30
Rami Khouri: In Rift with Qatar, Saudi Arabia and UAE Want to Hold Back Waves of Changer | DN | 07/06/17 | 10:49
Why Saudi Arabia Wants Qatar to Shut Al Jazeera | NYTimes | 06/30/17 | 3:58
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07.06.2017. 10:41

Wednesday July 05, 2017
Bernie Sanders at the Peoples Summit
Bernie Sanders on Resisting Trump, Why the Democratic Party is an "Absolute Failure" & More | DN | 07/03/17 | 55:04

8 Years, 2 Presidents, And A Whole Different World
HP | S.V. Date | 07/03/17

It was the cab driver's last trip of the evening, close to midnight, running me from the G-7 summit press filing center to my hotel a few miles away, and as he sped down the deserted streets we made small talk about that day's meetings.

He was an older guy, driving an older minivan, whose English was even more limited than my Italian. I said the day's meetings had gone fine when, placing my accent, he asked me how Signor Trump was doing.

I almost answered automatically -- he was fine -- when on a lark I told him that I'd written a story saying people thought he was "molto pazzo" -- very crazy. That many Italians were saying this.

Which was when he raised a hand: "No. No. Signor Trump non è molto pazzo. Signor Trump è tutto pazzo."

Over the next few minutes I was able to discern some of his other views on Signor Trump. That he was an old man but acted like a "bambino." That there was something not right with his "testa." And how did he possibly get so rich being so dumb?

Hearing this wasn't surprising. I'd already talked to people in Rome, Milan and Genoa, and this seemed to be the consensus view in Italy. (Indeed, a new Pew poll shows that low regard for President Donald Trump is not confined to Italy, but is pretty common around the world.) Trump's recent visit to Rome drew protests, but the mayor's refusal to grant permits kept them relatively modest. ... Read more

CNN Has The 'Trust' Advantage Over President Trump In A New Poll
HP | Carla Herreria | 07/04/17/span>

Even as controversy continues over President Donald Trump's tweet of a video showing him beating up a personified version of CNN, a poll released Tuesday shows the cable news outlet edging him in trust among most Americans. The survey also showed the New York Times, Washington Post and the broadcast television networks faring better than Trump in trustworthiness. But the poll, conducted by Survey Monkey and published by Axios, also illustrates the stark political divide in the U.S. ... Read more

The Qatar Crisis
TRNN | Adam Hanieh | Republished

The June 5 decision by Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain, and Egypt to suspend diplomatic ties with Qatar has sent shockwaves through the Middle East.

The ensuing blockade shut down much of the Gulf's maritime and land trade with Qatar, provoking fears that the tiny state would soon face food shortages. Major air carriers, including Emirates, Gulf Air, flydubai, and Etihad Airways, canceled flights, and Qatari citizens living in the participating nations had just two weeks to return home. Even immigrants with Qatari residency permits would be caught up in the expulsion.

The UAE outlawed any expression of sympathy for Qatar -- including on Twitter -- and threatened offenders with jail terms of up to fifteen years. ... Read more

Trump Wants a Do-Over in Europe
Politico | Thomas Wright | 07/04/17

President Donald Trump is hoping Europe will give him a second chance. This week, he heads to Poland at the invitation of its president and to participate in a regional infrastructure summit and to Hamburg, Germany, for the G-20 summit. The trip offers the chance for redemption after a catastrophic visit to Brussels in May that left the NATO alliance hanging by a thread because of his refusal to endorse Article 5, NATO's mutual defense clause.

G-20 summits are usually sleepy affairs, especially in recent years, but this occasion is replete with geopolitical intrigue. The trip is ambitious and difficult. I spoke with six serving officials, all off the record, and 10 recent officials and senior experts from the United States, Europe and Asia for this article. The overwhelming view is that the trip is finely poised between success and failure, with the outcome depending largely on whether Trump listens to his mainstream advisers or indulges his nationalist and America First impulses. The risks can be cast into three baskets--the Poland visit, the Trump-Putin meeting and the G-20 summit. ... Read more

4 Times Trump Has Inspired Widespread Speculation About His Cognitive Decline
Alternet | Kail Holloway | 07/05/17

Donald Trump has spent more than 20 percent of his presidency on the golf course, and this past weekend was no exception.

After three days of hitting balls around at his club in Bedminster, New Jersey, the president finally decided to return to Washington, D.C. on Monday. Footage of Trump's arrival shows him exiting Air Force One, then descending the stairs leading from the plane to the tarmac, where a limousine festooned with American flag awaits. But instead of climbing inside, Trump wanders off in a different direction, taking several steps off course before a Secret Service agent can corral him. ... Read more

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President Donald Trump Aides Named In Hack Recruiter Docs: WSJ | MSNBC Rachel Maddow | 06/30/17 | 2:52
Adversary In Chief: President Donald Trump's Media Attacks Go Too Far | MSNBC | 07/03/17 | 14:22
President Donald Trump's Twitter Feud Against Media Raises More Concerns | MSNBC AM Joy | 07/03/17 | 11:15
A PSA From Dogs About Fireworks | Stephen Colbert | 07/03/17 | 1:22

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GOP Leaders Notably Silent As Trump Tweet Endorses Violence Against Journalists
HP | Marina Fang | 07/02/17

Following President Donald Trump's latest inflammatory tweet that essentially promoted violence against journalists, top GOP lawmakers so far have responded with silence, perpetuating their pattern of doing little as the nation's chief executive breaks more barriers in his war with the media.

Trump on Sunday tweeted what appeared to be an edited version of a 2007 clip of him beating up WWE founder Vince McMahon, with CNN's logo replacing McMahon's face. It was then retweeted by the president's official White House account, @POTUS, following a week of renewed attacks against CNN and other news outlets, which Trump has branded as "fake news" and "fraudulent."

"What about GOP leaders? What about Republican leaders?" CNN media reporter Brian Stelter asked Sunday about responses to the tweet. "Where's [House Speaker] Paul Ryan? Where's [Senate Majority Leader] Mitch McConnell? Are GOP leaders going to speak up about these attacks against the media?" ... Read more

How a Presidency Ends
New York | Frank Rich | 07/03/17

"Let others wallow in Watergate, we are going to do our job," said Richard Nixon with typical unearned self-righteousness in July 1973. By then, more than a year had passed since a slapstick posse of five had been caught in a bungled burglary at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate complex. It had been nine months since Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein reported in the Washington Post that the break-in was part of a "massive campaign of political spying and sabotage" conducted by all the president's men against most of their political opponents. Now the nation was emerging from two solid months of Senate Watergate hearings, a riveting cavalcade of White House misfits and misdeeds viewed live by 71 percent of the public.

Even so, Nixon had some reason to hope that Americans would heed his admonition to change the channel. That summer, the Times reported that both Democratic and Republican congressmen back home for recess were finding "a certain numbness" about Watergate and no "public mandate for any action as bold as impeachment." ... Read more

Trump Will Not Be Cleared (#92) | Keith Olbermann | 06/30/17 | 6:59
Trump Allegedly Tried To Blackmail Mika And Joe | TYT | 06/30/17 | 15:25
Viral NRA Ad Uses ISIS Tactics To Sell More Guns | TYT | 06/30/17 | 5:56
Freedom's Safest Place: Violence of Lies | NRA | 06/30/17 | 1:05
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Donald Trump Behavior Hurts The Presidency, But He Doesn't Care | MSNBC Rachel Maddow | 06/30/17 | 22:41
Naomi Klein - The Shock Doctrine
Naomi Klein: The Worst Is Yet to Come with Trump, So We Must Be Ready for Shock Politics | DN | 06/30/17 | 23:13
Naomi Klein: How to Resist Trump's Shock Doctrine | Intercept | 06/13/17 | 8:54
The Shock Doctrine (2009) Documentary | Naomi Klein | 2009 | 1:18:43
"This Changes Everything": An Evening with Naomi Klein | Naomi Klein | 2009 | 1:41:09
Donald Trump Maintains Media Attacks Over The Weekend | MSNBC Morning Joe | 07/03/17 | 13:19
Donald Trump Blasts States For Not Turning Over Voter Data | MSNBC Morning Joe | 07/03/17 | 3:55
Donald Trump's Twitter Feud Against Media Raises More Concerns | MSNBC AM Joy | 07/03/17 | 11:15
Kellyanne Conway reacts to Trump's 'Morning Joe' tweets | ABCNews | 07/01/17 | 7:33
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Sinclair Broadcast Group | John Oliver | 07/02/17 | 18:59
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Trump Has United The Planet... Against Him | Stephen Colbert | 07/01/17 | 5:54
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Medicaid's Last Stand | Samantha Bee | 06/30/17 | 5:55

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