Friday, May 05, 2017 1:31:46 PM
Full Show - $1.1T Spending Bill Passed - 05/02/2017
Published on May 2, 2017 by The Alex Jones Channel [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvsye7V9psc-APX6wV1twLg / https://www.youtube.com/user/TheAlexJonesChannel , https://www.youtube.com/user/TheAlexJonesChannel/videos ]
Tuesday, May 2nd 2017: A controversial $1 trillion spending package is approved by Congress, with meager wins for Republicans: no cuts to Planned Parenthood, Sanctuary cities or funding for the border wall. Meanwhile, North Korea warns of the "final doom of the US" as Trump sends bombers over the Korean peninsula. Millie Weaver joins the show to discuss Monday's May Day events and protests around the Texas capital, as well as a mass stabbing at the University of Texas at Austin. Journalist Mike Cernovich also breaks down the progress in Trump's first 100 days and what still needs to be accomplished.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpj6HmUGVa4 [with comments]
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Clinton reflects on election loss (Full event)
Published on May 2, 2017 by CNN [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCupvZG-5ko_eiXAupbDfxWw / https://www.youtube.com/user/CNN , https://www.youtube.com/user/CNN/videos ]
Former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton talks to CNN's Christiane Amanpour at a Women for Women International event about her 2016 election loss and fighting to advance women's issues around the globe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6RPkqwFmME [with comments]
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Infowars 3-5 - Soulmates: Ivanka, Hillary & Eleanor Roosevelt - 05/02/2017
Streamed live on May 2, 2017 by The Alex Jones Channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8859223CEEk [with comments]
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Trump is Panicking About Russia | The Resistance with Keith Olbermann | GQ
Published on May 2, 2017 by GQ [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsEukrAd64fqA7FjwkmZ_Dw / https://www.youtube.com/user/GQVideos , https://www.youtube.com/user/GQVideos/videos , https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0hKMB1-xkc-XWNf9VL-LxVYysdHpjyMF ]
And he wants us not to notice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYBtS1eKO94 [with comments]
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Infowars Nightly News - Trump's George Soros Problem - 05/02/2017
Streamed live on May 2, 2017 by The Alex Jones Channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVRCRLhSyPE [with comments]
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The GOP has a pre-existing condition
All In with Chris Hayes
5/2/17
Republicans made health care promises that are impossible to keep. And now they're coming back to haunt them. Duration: 5:56
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/the-gop-has-a-pre-existing-condition-935028291665 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KcFCSf_rIw [with comments]
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Trump 'rolled' on budget deal
All In with Chris Hayes
5/2/17
The Trump administration's budget director Mick Mulvaney defended the negotiating prowess of his boss today after both Democrats and Republicans seemed to agree the Trump administration got rolled. Duration: 2:29
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-rolled-on-budget-deal-935041091576
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What's on Steve Bannon's whiteboard?
All In with Chris Hayes
5/2/17
Thanks to photos posted on social media by self-proclaimed 'America's Rabbi' Shmuley Boteach, we got a look at what the president's chief strategist has written on his office walls. Duration: 1:31
What's Your Favorite Part of Steve Bannon's Whiteboard?
[ https://twitter.com/RabbiShmuley/status/859514352755453954 (with comments)]
[ https://twitter.com/KFILE/status/859537037959073792 (with comments)]
"Cancel all federal funding to sanctuary cities" or "build the border wall and eventually make Mexico..."?
May 2, 2017
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/news/a54855/steve-bannon-white-board/
Stephen Bannon’s to-do list, annotated
May 3, 2017
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/05/03/steve-bannons-to-do-list-annotated/ [with embedded video, and comments]
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/what-s-on-steve-bannon-s-whiteboard-935028803961 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7uqfUyfBcY [with comments]
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Trump administration makes mess spinning spending bill
The Rachel Maddow Show
5/2/17
Rachel Maddow shows the Trump administration attempting to spin the new spending bill news into a positive light for themselves but falling short with the means of communicating that spin, including a disastrous conference call with reporters. Duration: 14:34
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-administration-makes-mess-spinning-spending-bill-935073859865 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3xUR5Z_FNc [with comments]
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Yates expected to refute White House story in upcoming testimony
The Rachel Maddow Show
5/2/17
Rachel Maddow reports on upcoming testimony in the Trump Russia case before several Congressional committees, including that of former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates, who is expected to challenge the White House characterization of her warning to them ... more Duration: 10:53
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/yates-expected-to-refute-white-house-story-in-upcoming-testimony-935112771758
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Programming note! Rachel Maddow with Seth Meyers tonight!
The Rachel Maddow Show
5/2/17
Rachel Maddow alerts viewers that she will be a guest on Late Night with Seth Meyers tonight. Duration: 2:09
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/programming-note-rachel-maddow-with-seth-meyers-tonight-935100483891
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Trump risks emboldening despots with praise
The Rachel Maddow Show
5/2/17
Michael Beschloss, NBC News presidential historian, talks with Rachel Maddow about how an American administration that does not communicate a clear insistence on human rights and democratic values risks sending a wrong signal to leaders who do not share those values. Duration: 6:09
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-risks-emboldening-despots-with-praise-935146563990
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Jimmy Kimmel's heart and the GOP's health care history
The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell
5/2/17
Lawrence O'Donnell puts Jimmy Kimmel's powerful plea for a key provision of Obamacare, based on the story of his newborn son's emergency heart surgery, in context of the current health care fight – and the one that's been happening for nearly half a century. Duration: 9:33
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/jimmy-kimmel-s-heart-and-the-gop-s-health-care-history-935118915659 [and see also in particular (linked in) http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=131021144 and preceding and following]
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'How Donald Trump Could Get Fired': The 25th Amendment
The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell
5/2/17
The New Yorker's Evan Osnos joins Lawrence O'Donnell to discuss his new article "How Donald Trump Could Get Fired" and the conversation happening in this country about Trump's ability to do the job of President. Duration: 7:15
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/-how-donald-trump-could-get-fired-the-25th-amendment-935111235525 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdn_XvJWaw0 [with comments] [the YouTube also at/see also in particular (linked in) http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=131021209 and preceding (and any future following)]
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Trump & Putin share call ahead of Russia testimony on the Hill
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
5/2/17
MSNBC's Brian Williams and his panel preview upcoming testimony from James Comey & Sally Yates on Russia, plus look at what we know about the phone call Pres. Trump had with Vladimir Putin. Duration: 14:33
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/trump-putin-share-call-ahead-of-russia-testimony-on-the-hill-935120963997
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Fmr. ambassador blasts Trump for doubting Russia election hacks
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
5/2/17
Former U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul on why it makes him nervous that Trump again cast doubt on whether Russia interfered in the 2016 election. Duration: 0:52
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/fmr-ambassador-blasts-trump-for-doubting-russia-election-hacks-935125571949 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWF1nrpPrPY [with comments]
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NYTimes details Ivanka Trump's agenda & influence on her father
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
5/2/17
Now that she's working in the Trump White House, what is Ivanka Trump's role, what does she believe in, and what will be her influence over her father? MSNBC's Brian Williams talks to his panel. Duration: 5:18
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/nytimes-details-ivanka-trump-s-agenda-influence-on-her-father-935128131915
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Why does Hillary Clinton think she lost the 2016 election?
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
5/2/17
Speaking out in a rare public appearance, Hillary Clinton discusses the variety of reasons she thinks the 2016 election did not go her way. MSNBC's Brian Williams discusses with his panel. Duration: 5:52
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/why-does-hillary-clinton-think-she-lost-the-2016-election-935134787595 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CR4ZmA92dY0 [with comments]
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Hillary Clinton: The One That Got Away: The Daily Show
Published on May 2, 2017 by The Daily Show with Trevor Noah [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwWhs_6x42TyRM4Wstoq8HA , https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwWhs_6x42TyRM4Wstoq8HA/videos ]
In one of her first interviews since the 2016 election, Hillary Clinton throws shade at President Trump and reminds America what competency sounds like.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WiyVKuuWWU [with (approaching 4,000) comments]
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Real Talk From Out-Of-Context Trump
Published on May 3, 2017 by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMtFAi84ehTSYSE9XoHefig , https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMtFAi84ehTSYSE9XoHefig/videos ]
Take him out of context and the President starts to make a lot more sense.
[originally aired May 2, 2017]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3x5NnCB1NE [with comments]
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Hillary Comes Out Of The Woods And Wonders 'What If?'
Published on May 3, 2017 by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Much like the President, Hillary Clinton hasn't been able to forget the 2016 election results.
[originally aired May 2, 2017]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBvnBynpz_Q [with comments]
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The New U.S. Constitution As Written By Trump
Published on May 3, 2017 by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
It didn't take Trump long to turn the Bill of Rights into the Bill of Alt-Rights.
[originally aired May 2, 2017]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqfclf_3IXI [with comments]
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The Check In: Airline Deregulation
Published on May 2, 2017 by Late Night with Seth Meyers [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVTyTA7-g9nopHeHbeuvpRA / https://www.youtube.com/user/LateNightSeth , https://www.youtube.com/user/LateNightSeth/videos ]
Seth checks in on how nearly 40 years of government deregulation led to the horrific incidents and poor service of airlines today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6BaG02oid4 [with comments]
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Rachel Maddow Recounts Her Phone Call with Donald Trump
Published on May 3, 2017 by Late Night with Seth Meyers
Rachel Maddow talks to Seth about the impact the Trump administration has had on the news cycle and recalls an unrecorded conversation with Donald Trump during Republican primaries.
[originally aired May 2, 2017 (U.S. central time)]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FETM4wGBK4 [with comments]
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Rachel Maddow on the Helpfulness of President Trump's Ignorance
Published on May 3, 2017 by Late Night with Seth Meyers
Rachel Maddow breaks down the benefits and drawbacks to Donald Trump not knowing how policy and government work and who the Democratic Party needs to follow to future victory.
[originally aired May 2, 2017 (U.S. central time)]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vURbsgxcN4 [with comments]
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WATCH LIVE: FBI Director James Comey testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee
Streamed live on May 3, 2017 by PBS NewsHour [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6ZFN9Tx6xh-skXCuRHCDpQ / https://www.youtube.com/user/PBSNewsHour , https://www.youtube.com/user/PBSNewsHour/videos ]
The Kremlin Playbook
Understanding Russian Influence in Central and Eastern Europe
October 13, 2016
intro: https://www.csis.org/analysis/kremlin-playbook
full text (90 pp.): http://www.csd.bg/fileadmin/user_upload/160928_Conley_KremlinPlaybook_Web.pdf
The Kremlin Playbook: Understanding Russian Influence in Central and Eastern Europe
The CSIS Europe Program, in partnership with Sofia-based Center for the Study of Democracy (CSD), recently concluded a sixteen-month study on Russian economic and political influence in Central and Eastern Europe. The study's leading authors will present the key findings from the report, which illuminate the linkages between Russia's growing economic and investment presence in Central and Eastern Europe and the region's general decline in political stability, diminishment of democratic institutions, and erosion of governance standards in five case study countries. Described as an "unvirtuous circle" of Russian Influence, the report traces the work of Russian cultivated networks of patronage across the region that it actively uses to influence and direct decision-making that is in line with the Kremlin's interests.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTEhGK-05hE [with comments]
The Comey Letter Probably Cost Clinton The Election
So why won’t the media admit as much?
By Nate Silver
May 3, 2017
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-comey-letter-probably-cost-clinton-the-election/ [with comments]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jz8ug1UY-2k [comments disabled]
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President Trump Gives A Joint Statement With Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas | TIME
Streamed live on May 3, 2017 by TIME [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8Su5vZCXWRag13H53zWVwA / https://www.youtube.com/user/TimeMagazine , https://www.youtube.com/user/TimeMagazine/videos ]
US President Donald Trump will host Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas at the White House on Wednesday to discuss the path forward in the long-running Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
Remarks by President Trump and President Abbas of the Palestinian Authority in Joint Statement
Roosevelt Room
May 03, 2017
https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/05/03/remarks-president-trump-and-president-abbas-palestinian-authority-joint [official transcript]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVNyB3-O_JM [with comments] [also at e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mg-o2am_zmE (comments disabled)] [no official upload yet at https://www.youtube.com/user/whitehouse/videos ]
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Full Show - Hillary Clinton Blames Everyone Else But Herself For Losing - 05/03/2017
Published on May 3, 2017 by The Alex Jones Channel
Wednesday, May 3rd 2017: A historic 30-hour broadcast in defense of free speech starting at 11am! We are under an unprecedented attack by the globalists using lawsuits and other means to shut down the spread of truth and information which threatens their power grab. But their attacks only make us more determined! Guests include Dr. Ron Paul, Ben Garrison, Roger Stone, and more!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aA9BpTN9-Mk [with comments]
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Barack And Michelle Obama Unveil Model Of Presidential Library | TIME
Streamed live on May 3, 2017 by TIME
Former President Barack Obama and Former First Lady Michelle Obama unveil a model of the presidential library in Chicago.
Obama unveils design, vision for future presidential library
The Obama Foundation on Wednesday released renderings of the future presidential library and museum in Chicago.
May 3, 2017 Updated May 3, 2017
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/05/03/president-obama-michelle-obama-unveils-design-future-presidential-library/101238328/ [with embedded video, and comments]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojnryDc8ND0 [with comments]
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Why Won’t the Press Ask Trump Anything? | The Resistance with Keith Olbermann | GQ
Published on May 3, 2017 by GQ
American reporters are too afraid to demand answers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRU51OvhSyw [with comments]
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Infowars In Defense Of Free Speech - Pt.2
Streamed live on May 3, 2017 by The Alex Jones Channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PU3dTe1dc0A [with comments]
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SBA 2017 Gala - Vice President Mike Pence Keynote Address
Published on May 4, 2017 by Susan B. Anthony List [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCweaynfcfOijvB8icPqU3sQ / https://www.youtube.com/user/sbalist , https://www.youtube.com/user/sbalist/videos ]
May 3, 2017 - 10th Annual Susan B. Anthony List Campaign for Life Gala featuring a keynote address by Vice President Mike Pence.
More information:
https://www.sba-list.org/gala
https://www.sba-list.org/newsroom/press-releases/vice-president-mike-pence-keynote-susan-b-anthony-lists-10th-annual-gala
Remarks by Vice President Pence at Susan B. Anthony List Campaign for Life Gala
Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium
Washington, D.C.
May 03, 2017
https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/05/04/remarks-vice-president-pence-susan-b-anthony-list-campaign-life-gala [official transcript]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2uiHdcgWus [with comment]
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Rep. Mike Pence @ Susan B. Anthony Gala 2011
Uploaded on Feb 23, 2011 by Susan B. Anthony List
Rep. Mike Pence from Indiana was the keynote speaker for the Susan B. Anthony List's fourth annual Campaign for Life Gala this February 16th 2011 at Willard Intercontinental Hotel, in Washington, D.C. Mike Pence is the leader of "Title X Abortion Provider Prohibition Act". He also recently proposed an amendment to the H.R. 1 Continuing Resolution budget bill that denies federal funding to Planned Parenthood and its affiliates through the end of the fiscal year. The amendment passed with House voting 240-185 on Feb. 18th.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0501L_2Tmc0 [with comments]
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Booker: GOP health care bill a 'death knell'
All In with Chris Hayes
5/3/17
Sen. Cory Booker says the House Republican health care bill 'will cost American lives' if it becomes law. Duration: 4:02
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/booker-gop-health-care-bill-a-death-knell-935927875752 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIHOq0Y-634 [with comments]
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1M in NYC could lose insurance under GOP plan
All In with Chris Hayes
5/3/17
One million New Yorkers would stand to lose their health insurance under the current Republican plan, says New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio. Duration: 5:19
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/1m-in-nyc-could-lose-insurance-under-gop-plan-935931971612 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGOV_zaUW2o [with comments]
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Spicer tries to sell border fence as wall
All In with Chris Hayes
5/3/17
Sean Spicer showed up in the briefing room with some visual aides...but still had a hard time selling the fence as a wall. Duration: 2:20
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/spicer-tries-to-sell-border-fence-as-wall-935931459983
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New GOP defense tactic targets Trump Russia dossier
The Rachel Maddow Show
5/3/17
Rachel Maddow points out how the Republican Party has switched to full push-back mode on the Trump Russia dossier and the overall investigation into ties between the Donald Trump campaign and Russian interference in the 2016 election. Duration: 18:30
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/new-gop-defense-tactic-targets-trump-russia-dossier-936009795668
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Ivanka Trump's influence in White House difficult to discern
The Rachel Maddow Show
5/3/17
Jodi Kantor, reporter for The New York Times, talks with Rachel Maddow about Ivanka Trump's relationship with her father and the nature of her role in the White House. Duration: 10:56
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/ivanka-trump-s-influence-in-white-house-difficult-to-discern-936016963858 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18wjE9T9Aj4 [with comments]
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Trump judgment on second pick for Army secretary questioned
The Rachel Maddow Show
5/3/17
Rachel Maddow reports on mounting criticism of Mark Green, Donald Trump's second try at picking an Army secretary, whose anti-LGBTQ views and peculiar understanding of evolution have come under fire. Duration: 2:13
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-judgment-on-second-pick-for-army-secretary-questioned-936024132002
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Lawrence: Comey's false choice on Clinton email probe
The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell
5/3/17
FBI Director James Comey defended his handling of the Clinton email investigation by saying it wasn't politically motivated, but Lawrence O'Donnell argues that every decision Comey made involved politics. Duration: 8:36
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/lawrence-comey-s-false-choice-on-clinton-email-probe-936009795621 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhwIlcoEXl0 [with comments]
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Wall Street: Don't listen to Donald Trump!
The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell
5/3/17
Early in Donald Trump's presidency, the stock markets would react to even a single tweet. Already, Wall Street is warning it doesn't take Trump literally anymore and is dismissing what he says and tweets. Lawrence O'Donnell discusses with MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle. Duration: 6:45
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/wall-street-don-t-listen-to-donald-trump-936009283709 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3h6SZs9okmI [with comments]
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An urgent message about the latest GOP health bill
The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell
5/3/17
On the eve of the House vote on the latest repeal and replace bill, Robert Greenstein, president of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, tells Lawrence O’Donnell how the late changes to pick up GOP votes has made "an appalling bill significantly worse." Duration: 6:15
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/an-urgent-message-about-the-latest-gop-health-bill-935994947957
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Trump: Middle East peace 'maybe not as difficult' as people think
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
5/3/17
Meeting with Palestinian leader Abbas, Trump sounded really confident about a peace deal. But it's not the first time we've heard this confidence from Trump as both candidate & president. Duration: 2:39
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/trump-middle-east-peace-maybe-not-as-difficult-as-people-think-936020035629 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0vr5BUkq2s [with comments]
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FBI boss Comey: Russia the 'greatest threat' to U.S. democracy
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
5/3/17
How did the White House respond after FBI Director Comey called Russia the greatest threat to American democracy? MSNBC's Brian Williams talks to Glenn Thrush, Ashley Parker, & Jonathan Lemire. Duration: 10:57
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/fbi-boss-comey-russia-the-greatest-threat-to-u-s-democracy-936016963897
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FBI Director Comey: WikiLeaks is just about 'intelligence porn'
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
5/3/17
What did we learn from Comey's Capitol Hill testimony when it comes to the intelligence community and the threat from Russia? MSNBC's Brian Williams talks to Jeremy Bash & Michael Crowley. Duration: 7:45
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/fbi-director-comey-wikileaks-is-just-about-intelligence-porn-936024131905 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSuj5rUMX2A [with comments]
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GOP Rep. Burgess says pre-existing conditions won't cost more
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
5/3/17
MSNBC's Brian Williams talks to Rep. Michael Burgess (R-TX) about the upcoming vote on the Republican health care plan and what exactly is in the bill. Duration: 2:01
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/gop-rep-burgess-says-pre-existing-conditions-won-t-cost-more-936030275850 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJuiuZgmC1I [with comments]
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Why does Trump use a different microphone than past presidents?
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
5/3/17
MSNBC's Brian Williams talks to veteran DC advance man Josh King about the aesthetic changes Donald Trump has made since coming to office - and more importantly, why Trump might have made them. Duration: 4:01
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/why-does-trump-use-a-different-microphone-than-past-presidents-936034371829 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2EBxt0ELW0 [with comments]
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Infowars In Defense Of Free Speech - Pt.3
Streamed live on May 3, 2017 by The Alex Jones Channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cB0eQjae5Uo [with comments]
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How to Make Trump Care About Global Warming: The Daily Show
Published on May 3, 2017 by The Daily Show with Trevor Noah
After demonstrators protest the Trump administration's anti-environmental stance, Trevor explains why it's in the president's best interest to care about global warming.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7msRhXgKXk [with comments]
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Night Of The Living Bill: The Undead Health Care Plan
Published on May 4, 2017 by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Introducing the cast from the scariest thing you've ever seen: the GOP's attempt to pass a health care bill.
[originally aired May 3, 2017]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HmA6zQQ380 [with comments]
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James Comey's Testimony Summed Up In A Word: 'Lordy!'
Published on May 4, 2017 by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
FBI Director James Comey says the thought that his actions may have impacted the 2016 election makes him 'nauseous.' Talk about relatable!
[originally aired May 3, 2017]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwR_yS_c1Ls [with comments]
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Comey Testifies and GOP Tries Again on Health Care: A Closer Look
Published on May 3, 2017 by Late Night with Seth Meyers
Seth takes a closer look at FBI Director James Comey's defense of his last-minute election revelations and the latest on the Republicans' disastrous health care bill.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIpCCmI4l14 [with comments]
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Infowars In Defense Of Free Speech - Pt.4
Streamed live on May 3, 2017 by The Alex Jones Channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycX0r_yJdUA [with comments]
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Infowars In Defense Of Free Speech - Pt.5
Streamed live on May 4, 2017 by The Alex Jones Channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHn9z5L4DWs [with comments]
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Infowars In Defense Of Free Speech - Pt.6
Streamed live on May 4, 2017 by The Alex Jones Channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6ZZK8Bk_pQ [with comments]
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LIVE: President Donald Trump participates in the National Day of Prayer event in the Rose Garden
Streamed live on May 4, 2017 by ABC15 Arizona [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIVk1L1-JmpdiGuZcVjImtA / https://www.youtube.com/user/abc15com , https://www.youtube.com/user/abc15com/videos ]
[no official transcript(s) yet at https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-and-remarks ]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkOYOF4zUsY [full event; Pence's piously disingenuous and idiotic Christo-fascist spew begins at c. the 17:50 mark; Trump's even more piously disingenuous and idiotic Christo-fascist spew begins at c. the 20:15 mark; with comments] [and see also in particular e.g. (linked in) http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=3967329 and preceding and following, http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=54833454 and preceding and following]
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Full Show - Obamacare Repeal Round Two: GOP Victorious In The House And Senate - 05/04/2017
Published on May 4, 2017 by The Alex Jones Channel
Thursday, May 4th 2017: The last day of ourhistoric 30-hour broadcast in defense of free speech! We are under an unprecedented attack by the globalists who are using lawsuits and other means to shut down the spread of truth and information which threatens their power and control. But their attacks only make us more determined!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y48uoDw3pFY [with comments] [also at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=si5p9sYfhMc (text adapted from; with comments)]
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FULL: President Trump reacts to successful health care push
Published on May 4, 2017 by ABC15 Arizona
Remarks by President Trump on Healthcare Vote in the House of Representatives
Rose Garden
May 04, 2017
https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/05/04/remarks-president-trump-healthcare-vote-house-representatives [official transcript]
House Advances American Health Care Act
“I want to have a great healthcare bill and plan – and we will. It will happen.”
- President Donald J. Trump
May 04, 2017
https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/05/04/house-advances-american-health-care-act [official statement]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUdUR-F08mU [full event; Trump at the start and the end with other speakers in-between; with comments] [official White House upload at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SS2Acsokec8 (with comments)]
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The Shame and Cruelty of the GOP | The Resistance with Keith Olbermann | GQ
Published on May 4, 2017 by GQ
A bill to rob Americans of health care is barbaric and intolerable.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAChqYKslGs [with comments]
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Infowars In Defense Of Free Speech - Pt.8
Streamed live on May 4, 2017 by The Alex Jones Channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EriQoLkXDs [with comments]
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INFOWARS Nightly News: Owen Shroyer Thursday 5/4/17: Plus Special Reports
Published on May 4, 2017 by Ron Gibson [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYv-5LsUyc_P8KMo7YGPFPA / https://www.youtube.com/user/RonGibsonCF , https://www.youtube.com/user/RonGibsonCF/videos ]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9DvinL1txo [with comments]
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President Trump Meets with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull of Australia
Published on May 4, 2017 by The White House [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYxRlFDqcWM4y7FfpiAN3KQ / https://www.youtube.com/user/whitehouse , https://www.youtube.com/user/whitehouse/videos ]
The White House.
[no official transcript yet at https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-and-remarks ]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icNweI92bKg [with comments]
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GOP Rep. Cole: Still a 'very long way to go' on health care
All In with Chris Hayes
5/4/17
Republican Congressman Tom Cole of Oklahoma says repealing and replacing Obamacare is a 'process,' and the House vote today on the AHCA was only the first step. Duration: 13:26
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/gop-rep-cole-still-a-very-long-way-to-go-on-health-care-936718403764
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Sanders: House health care bill is an insult
All In with Chris Hayes
5/4/17
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders says the House bill to repeal Obamacare is really just a massive tax cut for the rich. Duration: 7:03
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/sanders-house-health-care-bill-is-an-insult-936782915711
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'This isn't the America I love'
All In with Chris Hayes
5/4/17
'I don't understand how our lawmakers...can be so lacking in empathy,' says Xeni Jardin, breast cancer survivor and co-editor of Boing Boing, on the House passing the AHCA. [Dan Savage also appears.] Duration: 5:34
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-this-isn-t-the-america-i-love-936797251755 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePnX4v2Orig [with comments]
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A tale of two pre-existing conditions
All In with Chris Hayes
5/4/17
A 7-year-old British girl returned to school today with a new medical device paid for by the National Health Service. Meanwhile, in the U.S., Republican Rep. Jason Chaffetz returned to the House after an insured surgery to vote on repealing health coverage. Duration: 2:08
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/a-tale-of-two-pre-existing-conditions-936787011688
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WATCH LIVE: President Donald J. Trump makes remarks from the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum
Streamed live on May 4, 2017 by Golden State Times [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWXPkK02j6MHW-4xCJzgMuw , https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWXPkK02j6MHW-4xCJzgMuw/videos ]
WATCH LIVE: President Donald J. Trump makes remarks from the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum commemorating the 75th Anniversary of the Battle of the Coral Sea.
[no official transcript yet at https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-and-remarks ]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuWkb1_Ra44 [full event; Turnbull's remarks begin at c. the 2:05:50 mark; Trump's performance begins at c. the 2:19:20 mark; with comments] [also at e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCM42cJw0cs (title and text taken from; no comments yet)] [the official White House upload, Trump's performance only, at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMqYCnUjuFg (with comments)]
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Americans face health care consequences of new Republican bill
The Rachel Maddow Show
5/4/17
David Emerson, a constituent of Rep. McClintock, and Andrea Mitchell, a constituent of Rep. Faso, talk with Rachel Maddow about what the Republican removal of Obamacare protections means to their lives and their regard for their congressional representation. Duration: 23:40
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/americans-face-health-care-consequences-of-new-republican-bill-936856643906 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLILp0Iyuhc [with comments]
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The seven key consequences of the new GOP health care bill
The Rachel Maddow Show
5/4/17
Rachel Maddow reviews what it would mean if the new House Republican health care bill were to become law. Duration: 8:30
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/the-seven-key-consequences-of-the-new-gop-health-care-bill-936857667647
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GOP uses health care as means to tax cuts for the wealthy
The Rachel Maddow Show
5/4/17
Jonathan Gruber, professor of economics at M.I.T. and an architect of the Affordable Care Act, talks with Rachel Maddow about how Republicans are using cuts in Medicaid as a stepping stone to make their upcoming tax plan easier to pass. Duration: 5:17
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/gop-uses-health-care-as-means-to-tax-cuts-for-the-wealthy-936879171512 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3BPi1gklOA [with comments]
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GOP prioritizing of tax cuts over health care seen in new bill
The Rachel Maddow Show
5/4/17
Congressman Adam Schiff talks with Rachel Maddow about the Republican perspective that values tax cuts for the wealthy over more people having health care and the likely backlash Republicans will face in 2018 for gutting Obamacare. Duration: 4:11
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/gop-prioritizing-of-tax-cuts-over-health-care-seen-in-new-bill-936880707949
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Schiff: House Intel Trump Russia investigation back on track
The Rachel Maddow Show
5/4/17
Congressman Adam Schiff, ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, talks with Rachel Maddow about progress on the Trump Russia investigation and the schedule ahead of more public hearings, including testimony from Sally Yates. Duration: 4:20
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/schiff-house-intel-trump-russia-investigation-back-on-track-936890947629
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Trump's 'Mission Accomplished' moment on health care
The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell
5/4/17
House Republicans prematurely celebrated passing Trumpcare by one vote in the House, while Senate Republicans said they wouldn't take up the House bill. Lawrence O'Donnell discusses with Dr. Nitin Domlee, John Heilemann, and Charlie Sykes. Duration: 16:50
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/trump-s-mission-accomplished-moment-on-health-care-936878659908 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFf63Q9j1L4 [with comments]
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George Will: Trump has a 'dangerous disability'
The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell
5/4/17
Conservative Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist George F. Will joins Lawrence O'Donnell to discuss Donald Trump's "dangerous" inability "to think and speak clearly" and what Americans must do about it. Duration: 6:56
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/george-will-trump-has-a-dangerous-disability-936881731734 [and see also in particular (linked in) http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=131078954 and preceding and following]
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GOP & Democrats deeply divided on Trump-Ryan health care bill
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
5/4/17
The Republican health care plan has cleared the House. While Republicans and the president celebrated at the White House, Democrats blasted the bill calling it 'disastrous' & 'shameful.' Duration: 2:39
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/gop-democrats-deeply-divided-on-trump-ryan-health-care-bill-936916547890 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AT4BrtMvO8I [with comments]
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GOP celebrates even though health care bill faces many hurdles
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
5/4/17
MSNBC's Steve Kornacki joins the show to look at the many hurdles still facing the Republican health care plan and discusses with Nicolle Wallace and our political panel. Duration: 6:09
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/gop-celebrates-even-though-health-care-bill-faces-many-hurdles-936911939529
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Trump's first overseas trip: Saudi Arabia, Israel, & the Vatican
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
5/4/17
What does the list of countries on Trump's first overseas trip as president tell us? Sitting in for Brian Williams, MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace talks to our political panel. Duration: 5:54
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/trump-s-first-overseas-trip-saudi-arabia-israel-the-vatican-936904771993
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Trump jokes about fiery phone call with Australian PM
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
5/4/17
During his first trip back to New York City as president, Trump attended an event with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and joked about their terse phone call in February. Duration: 1:46
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/trump-jokes-about-fiery-february-phone-call-with-australian-pm-936910915695 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6adTjJ_3HWw [with comments]
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White House reporter: Trump has no inner monologue
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
5/4/17
The president has been talking a lot lately about his life before president making Associated Press reporter Julie pace suggest that Trump simply has no inner monologue. Duration: 1:17
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/white-house-reporter-trump-does-not-have-an-inner-monologue-936897091974 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1G-KyflIzo [with comments]
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F**king Unbelievable: The GOP Shoves Health Care Through the House: The Daily Show
Published on May 4, 2017 by The Daily Show with Trevor Noah
Despite opposition from almost every major health organization, the GOP pushes an Affordable Care Act replacement bill through the House of Representatives.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frglD9wF6J0 [with comments]
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The White House Throws A Cinco De Mayo Party
Published on May 5, 2017 by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Nothing says Mexican heritage like the administration that has said nothing nice about Mexican heritage.
Remarks by Vice President Pence at Cinco de Mayo Reception
Indian Treaty Room
May 04, 2017
https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/05/05/remarks-vice-president-pence-cinco-de-mayo-reception [official transcript]
[originally aired May 4, 2017]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ednz1a7ryw0 [with comments]
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The GOP Celebrates Its One-Third Of A Healthcare Victory
Published on May 5, 2017 by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The GOP held a 'massive beer bash' to celebrate something that's only partially accomplished.
[originally aired May 4, 2017]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJlR21e6mhE [with comments]
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God Weighs In On Trump's Religious Liberty Executive Order
Published on May 5, 2017 by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Stephen gets some analysis on Trump's latest presidential decree from the inventor of the executive order.
[originally aired May 4, 2017]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJIuPhTjE38 [with comments]
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House Republicans Pass Trumpcare: A Closer Look
Published on May 4, 2017 by Late Night with Seth Meyers
Seth takes a closer look at the House Republicans rushing a bill, that will strip health insurance from millions of Americans, without knowing what's in it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mtZ60AvDQY [with comments]
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Is a Grand Jury Now Looking into Trump? | The Resistance with Keith Olbermann | GQ
Published on May 5, 2017 by GQ
Sure seems like it, based on what we learned this week.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pS92ONVte8 [with comments]
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my current notes/tally of sources; much more very good/significant/relevant beyond the foregoing included/linked:
After a Hundred Days, Trump Is Trump Is Trump
http://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/after-a-hundred-days-trump-is-trump-is-trump
Heritage Foundation board ousts president Jim DeMint - Gorka next, as has been rumored, after pending departure from White House?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/heritage-foundation-board-ousts-president-jim-demint/2017/05/02/b53a706a-2f63-11e7-9534-00e4656c22aa_story.html
Defense Secretary Expresses Concern Over Russian Support For Taliban - tie Carter/Zbig Afghanistan 1979 posts
March 31, 2017
http://www.npr.org/2017/03/31/522232584/defense-secretary-expresses-concern-over-russian-support-for-taliban
Russia Opens New Front in U.S. Rivalry With Taliban Support
April 10, 2017 Updated April 11, 2017
https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-04-10/russia-opens-new-front-in-rivalry-with-u-s-with-taliban-support
Why Russia might be working with its Cold War enemy, the Taliban
April 10, 2017
http://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-afghanistan-russia-taliban-2017-story.html
US general in Afghanistan suggests Russia arming the Taliban - AP
Apr 24, 2017
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/us-defense-secy-mattis-afghanistan-discuss-war-46978063
original https://apnews.com/dbc0ed6fc2184dc59eabae5cc9adc357/US-general-in-Afghanistan-suggests-Russia-arming-the-Taliban
Russia is sending weapons to Taliban, top U.S. general confirms
April 24, 2017
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2017/04/24/russia-is-sending-weapons-to-taliban-top-u-s-general-confirms/
US general in Afghanistan says there is no doubt Russia is providing weapons to Taliban
24 April 2017
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/04/24/usgeneral-afghanistan-says-no-doubt-russia-providing-weapons/
US officials in Afghanistan suggest Russia arms Taliban
Top US military officials allude to increasing concerns over Moscow's role in Afghanistan.
25 April 2017
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/04/officials-afghanistan-suggest-russia-arms-taliban-170424204006251.html
Russia is Arming the Taliban
1 May 2017
http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/blog/michael-j-totten/russia-arming-taliban
The mystery behind a Flynn associate’s quiet work for the Trump campaign
Jon Iadonisi, a friend and business associate of former national security adviser Michael Flynn, had two under-the-radar projects underway in the fall of 2016.
One of his companies was helping Flynn with an investigative effort [INTO GULEN] for an ally of the Turkish government — details of which Flynn revealed only after he was forced to step down from his White House post.
At the same time, Iadonisi was also doing work for the Trump campaign, although his role was not publicly reported, according to people familiar with his involvement.
The project Iadonisi was engaged in for Trump’s campaign focused on social media, according to a person with knowledge of the arrangement. What that work consisted of — and why his company was not disclosed as a vendor in campaign finance reports — remains a mystery.
The Trump campaign did not report any payments to Iadonisi or his firms. However, Federal Election Commission reports show that the Trump campaign paid $200,000 on Dec. 5 for “data management services” to Colt Ventures, a Dallas-based venture-capital firm that is an investor in VizSense, a social-media company co-founded by Iadonisi.
The Washington Post made repeated inquiries to Iadonisi and other VizSense officials, but none responded to requests for comment.
[...]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/the-mystery-behind-a-flynn-associates-quiet-work-for-the-trump-campaign/2017/05/04/fc86980e-3044-11e7-9534-00e4656c22aa_story.html
Sources: Former Acting AG Yates to contradict administration about Flynn at hearing - Maddow open 5-2-17
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/02/politics/sally-yates-michael-flynn-testimony-contradict/
Comey Is Expected to Face Tough Questioning at Senate Hearing
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/03/us/politics/james-comey-fbi-senate-hearing.html
GET THE HEARING 5-3-17
The Comey Letter Probably Cost Clinton The Election
So why won’t the media admit as much?
By Nate Silver
May 3, 2017
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-comey-letter-probably-cost-clinton-the-election/
The Kremlin Playbook - referenced by Franken in questioning Comey 5-3-17
Understanding Russian Influence in Central and Eastern Europe
October 13, 2016
intro https://www.csis.org/analysis/kremlin-playbook
full text (90 pp.) http://www.csd.bg/fileadmin/user_upload/160928_Conley_KremlinPlaybook_Web.pdf
The Kremlin Playbook: Understanding Russian Influence in Central and Eastern Europe
Center for Strategic & International Studies
Streamed live on Oct 13, 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTEhGK-05hE
5 Highlights From James Comey’s Hearing
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/03/us/politics/james-comey-hearing-takeaways.html
FBI director says he feels ‘mildly nauseous’ about possibility he affected election, but has no regrets
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/fbi-director-james-comey-begins-testimony-to-congress/2017/05/03/9e3244bc-3006-11e7-9534-00e4656c22aa_story.html
James Comey ‘Mildly Nauseous’ Over Idea He Swayed the Election
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/03/us/politics/james-comey-fbi-senate-hearing.html
FBI Director Has No Regrets About His Fateful 2016 Decision
Testifying before the Senate, James Comey said he did not regret his late October announcement that the investigation into Hillary Clinton had been reopened.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/05/fbi-director-james-comey-returns-to-capitol-hill/525210/
Mysterious rash of Russian deaths casts suspicion on Vladimir Putin - Maddow segment 5-2-17
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2017/05/02/dozens-russian-deaths-cast-suspicion-vladimir-putin/100480734/
Russia never interferes in others’ internal politics, yet feels such attempts from outside – Putin
https://www.rt.com/news/386812-putin-merkel-talks-sochi/
Clinton, Denouncing Trump, Calls Herself ‘Part of the Resistance’
Hillary Clinton denounced President Trump’s conduct in office during an interview with the CNN correspondent Christiane Amanpour in Midtown Manhattan. - GET THE INTERVIEW
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/02/us/clinton-trump-interview.html
Clinton reflects on election loss (Full event) - CNN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6RPkqwFmME
Why Hillary Clinton Thinks She Lost the Election
In an interview on Tuesday, the former Democratic presidential candidate pointed to foreign interference and action taken by FBI Director James Comey to explain her defeat.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/05/hillary-clinton-election-trump-fbi-russia-hacking/525183/
‘I would be your president’: Clinton blames Russia, FBI chief for 2016 election loss
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/hillary-clinton-blames-russian-hackers-and-comey-for-2016-election-loss/2017/05/02/e62fef72-2f60-11e7-8674-437ddb6e813e_story.html
Clinton: 'I was on the way to winning' until Comey, Russia intervened
'I take absolute personal responsibility,' Clinton said, though she made no mention of any specific flaws in her campaign.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/02/hillary-clinton-why-i-lost-2016-election-237885
Hillary Clinton: Tweets Won’t Solve Threat From North Korea
http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/hillary-clinton-tweets-won-t-solve-threat-north-korea-n753951
‘Comey best thing that ever happened to Hillary Clinton,’ Trump tweets
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/05/03/comey-best-thing-that-ever-happened-to-hillary-clinton-trump-tweets/
Donald Trump hits back on Twitter after Hillary Clinton lays out reasons for defeat in 2016 presidential election
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05/02/hillary-clinton-says-fbi-russian-interference-misogyny-caused/
Sean Spicer thinks it's 'somewhat sad' people are still talking about the election. President Trump has mentioned it every day for the last week.
http://theweek.com/speedreads/696399/sean-spicer-thinks-somewhat-sad-people-are-still-talking-about-election-president-trump-mentioned-every-day-last-week
He ‘Wants to Kill Us’: Rachel Maddow Describes Her Bizarre Phone Call With Donald Trump - during primaries - prep for interview that never happened - Late Night Seth 5-2-17
http://www.mediaite.com/online/he-wants-to-kill-us-rachel-maddow-describes-her-bizarre-phone-call-with-donald-trump/
First on CNN: Rice declines Senate request to testify on Russian hacking - not a bipartisan request, from Graham only - Whitehouse refused to join the request, supports Rice's declination
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/03/politics/susan-rice-refuses-graham-russia-hearing/
Susan Rice declines to testify before Senate subcommittee
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/03/susan-rice-testify-237947
Former Obama security adviser Susan Rice declines invite to testify - AP
http://www.militarytimes.com/articles/former-obama-security-adviser-declines-invite-to-testify
original https://www.apnews.com/2f4507388d69475da76fdd8dfc52012a/Former-Obama-security-adviser-declines-invite-to-testify
Le Pen and Macron prepare for showdown TV debate - AP
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/le-pen-and-macron-square-off-tonight-in-showdown-tv-debate/2017/05/03/b4baab74-2fd5-11e7-a335-fa0ae1940305_story.html
original https://www.apnews.com/a6a7d571004a4043b01906e070fdfc9f/Le-Pen-and-Macron-prepare-for-showdown-TV-debate
Inside Béziers, France’s Far-Right Laboratory
“This town is like a testing ground for what the policies of the National Front would be if Marine Le Pen were elected.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/05/beziers-france-menard-le-pen/524931/
France’s critical election happens in June, not on Sunday - national assembly
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/05/03/frances-critical-election-happens-in-june-not-in-may/
Marine Le Pen declares she is the best candidate to face the 'new world' of Trump and Putin and work with a post-Brexit Britain ahead of French election debate
Le Pen says she is better placed than her rival to work with post-Brexit Britain
Emmanuel Macron and the National Front leader to go head to head in TV debate
Quarter of voters planning to abstain from 'choice between plague and cholera'
Liberal young leaders around Europe are rallying behind the 'French Kennedy'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4467276/Frances-Le-Pen-says-best-placed-face-new-world-Trump-Putin.html
Plagiarising speeches: Marine Le Pen is in august company
Politicians speak a lot and raise many issues -- but what happens when these words and themes are taken from somebody else's speeches.
http://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/web-edits/plagiarising-speeches-marine-le-pen-is-in-august-company/
Where is France's famed ‘Republican Front’ in 2017?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/where-is-frances-famed-republican-front-in-2017/2017/05/02/3a9b15fa-f764-4bec-9526-9292712fdd6e_story.html
Le Pen and Macron Spar in Final Debate
The candidates traded blows over the economy and terrorism four days ahead of the presidential runoff.
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/05/macron-and-le-pen-spar-in-final-debate/525297/
‘Fake news’ is briefly focus of French presidential campaign - AP
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The provenance of the latest conspiracy theory isn’t clear, but there are hints tying the faked documents to far-right circles in California.
One of the documents, for example, purports to have been drawn up under the laws of Nevis but actually draws some of its language from a guide to forming limited liability companies in California. The documents first appeared on Mixtape, a relatively new northern California-based file sharing service. And the Macron campaign identified the first tweet referring to the documents as coming from the Twitter account of Nathan Damigo, a far-right activist and convicted felon also based out of northern California.
Damigo recently won a measure of social media notoriety for punching a female anti-fascist militant in the face at a protest in Berkeley and had recently promoted French far-right content online.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/le-pen-and-macron-clash-in-no-holds-barred-debate-in-france/2017/05/03/1af1d2a4-3063-11e7-a335-fa0ae1940305_story.html
original https://www.apnews.com/432611e4b064473eadb5995ed9214db0/'Fake-news'-is-briefly-focus-of-French-presidential-campaign
Trump's call with Vladimir Putin suggests some progress on Syria
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/05/02/trumps-call-vladimir-putin-suggests-some-progress-syria/101210384/
Putin's Disappointing Phone Call With Trump
Reports of a planned meeting were less than met the eye.
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/05/putin-trump-meeting/525174/
North Korean media issues rare criticism of China over nuclear warnings
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-china-idUSKBN17Z1TA
N. Korea issues direct criticism of China amid nuke dispute - AP
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/n-korea-issues-direct-criticism-on-china-amid-nuke-dispute/2017/05/03/62db141a-3075-11e7-a335-fa0ae1940305_story.html
original https://www.apnews.com/c62f0e55b80c49ef92924fffbf0cc2ee/N.-Korea-issues-direct-criticism-of-China-amid-nuke-dispute
South Korea’s likely next president asks the U.S. to respect its democracy
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/south-koreas-likely-next-president-warns-the-us-not-to-meddle-in-its-democracy/2017/05/02/2295255e-29c1-11e7-9081-f5405f56d3e4_story.html
It’s not just North Korea. Trump has a South Korea problem, too.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/05/03/its-not-just-north-korea-trump-has-a-south-korea-problem-too/
While in White House, Trumps remained selling points for ‘very special’ Philippines project
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/while-in-white-house-trumps-remained-selling-points-for-very-special-philippines-project/2017/05/02/09ee6164-2e99-11e7-9dec-764dc781686f_story.html
How Trump's Property in Manila Looms Over His Interactions With Duterte
The president’s decision to invite the leader of the Philippines to the White House is another example of a gesture complicated by his business interests.
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/05/trump-duterte-conflict-of-interest/525084/
Trump Follows Instincts, Not Establishment, With Overtures to Kim and Duterte
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/01/world/asia/trump-north-korea-kim-jong-un.html
Duterte may be too "tied up" to accept Trump's invite
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/rodrigo-duterte-trump-philippines-invite-may-be-too-tied-up/
What Trump Sees in Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte
http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/what-trump-sees-in-philippine-president-rodrigo-duterte
The Thug Appeal of Rodrigo Duterte
Making sense of Trump’s White House invitation to the Philippine president
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/05/rodrigo-duterte-donald-trump/525072/
Rodrigo Duterte: What You Need to Know About Controversial Philippine President
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/rodrigo-duterte-what-you-need-know-about-controversial-philippine-president-n753901
Trump’s warm words for strongmen set off alarms
The deal-making president appears to be buttering up totalitarian leaders with long records of human rights abuses.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/01/trump-duterte-dictators-white-house-237848
Birds of a Feather
What Lies Beneath Trump’s Fixation With Strongmen Like Duterte
From Erdogan to Putin to even Kim, President Trump has plenty of kind words for authoritarians—and their shared narcissism has a lot to do with it.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/05/02/what-lies-beneath-trump-s-fixation-with-strongmen-like-duterte
Trump keeps praising international strongmen, alarming human rights advocates
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-keeps-praising-international-strongmen-alarming-human-rights-advocates/2017/05/01/6848d018-2e81-11e7-9dec-764dc781686f_story.html
Trump’s Soft Spot for Strongmen Harms U.S. Image, Say Critics
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-s-soft-spot-strong-men-harms-u-s-image-n754036
One day, Trump is a tough hombre. The next, he’s purring like a kitten.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/one-day-trump-is-a-tough-hombre-the-next-hes-purring-like-a-kitten/2017/05/02/f298fa7a-2f78-11e7-9534-00e4656c22aa_story.html
Trump is spontaneously re-writing America's foreign policy playbook
http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-outreach-autocrats-authoritarians-duterte-2017-5
Trump Meets Palestinian Leader Abbas and Wants Mideast Peace Deal
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/trump-meet-palestinian-leader-abbas-wants-mideast-peace-deal-n753806
GET TRUMP-ABBAS JOINT PRESSER 5-3-17
Hamas to drop call for Israel's destruction in new policy document
The terrorist organisation says it will agree to a Palestinian state along borders agreed in 1967
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/hamas-drop-call-israel-destruction-disassociate-muslim-brotherhood-new-document-palestine-a7712076.html
Just in time for his meeting with Trump, Abbas gets a gift from Hamas
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-opinions/wp/2017/05/02/just-in-time-for-his-meeting-with-trump-abbas-gets-a-gift-from-hamas/
As Abbas Meets Trump, Hamas Does a Flip, But Don’t Expect Peace in Our Time
Hamas recognizing the 1967 borders with Israel seems like a stunning new development. But it’s not the Israelis that Hamas means to impress.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/05/03/as-abbas-meets-trump-hamas-does-a-flip-but-don-t-expect-peace-in-our-time
Confident Trump says he wants to ‘prove them wrong’ and get a Mideast peace deal
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/confident-trump-says-he-wants-to-prove-them-wrong-and-get-a-mideast-peace-deal/2017/05/03/f8ac2abe-3035-11e7-8674-437ddb6e813e_story.html
Trump expresses confidence in chances of an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal but says U.S. can’t force it
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/05/03/trump-welcomes-palestinian-leader-abbas-to-white-house/
Trump, Bullish on Mideast Peace, Will Need More Than Confidence
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/03/world/middleeast/mahmoud-abbas-trump-white-house.html
Hollywood Fears The Worst Of Donald Trump Is Still To Come
“We rely on freedom of the press to get away with things we get away with on the show,” Samantha Bee told BuzzFeed News. “We need to do what we can to preserve those freedoms.”
https://www.buzzfeed.com/krystieyandoli/100-days-into-trumps-presidency-hollywood-still-fears-the
A Code Pink Protester Laughs Over a Trump Nominee and Is Convicted
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/03/us/code-pink-sessions-laughter-trial.html
Trump, in Wake of Deal to Avoid a Shutdown Now, Calls for One Later
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/02/us/politics/good-shutdown-congress-trump.html
GOP senators reject Trump's call to end the filibuster
‘Our country needs a good “shutdown” in September to fix mess!’ Trump tweets.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/02/trump-tweet-government-shutdown-237870
Senior Hunger Hits Historic Highs As Trump Threatens To Cut Services - e.g. in particular Meals on Wheels
Currently, one in 11 seniors face hunger. Over the next decade, that figure is projected to double.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/senior-hunger-hits-historic-highs-as-trump-threatens-to-cut-services_us_5908ede7e4b02655f841a4fc
Outlook for Obamacare repeal turns bleak
House Republicans are increasingly pessimistic they can pass any bill.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/02/republicans-obamacare-repeal-votes-237871
House Republicans Say They're Ready to Repeal Obamacare
Party leaders have set a vote for Thursday on the American Health Care Act, insisting they finally have the votes to pass it.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/05/house-republicans-will-try-again-to-repeal-obamacare/525339/
Is Trump right that pre-existing conditions are covered in the GOP health care bill? - uh, no
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/is-trump-right-that-pre-existing-conditions-are-covered-in-the-gop-health-care-bill/
House Republicans to Vote on Health Care Thursday
http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/house-republicans-vote-health-care-thursday-n754601
Republicans plan health-care vote on Thursday, capping weeks of fits and starts
https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/republicans-push-new-health-care-tweak-to-protect-preexisting-conditions--and-garner-votes/2017/05/03/41b4fca8-300a-11e7-9dec-764dc781686f_story.html
Patient Groups Reiterate Opposition To GOP Obamacare Repeal Bill
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The patient groups signing on to the statement were the American Cancer Society, the Cancer Action Network, the American Diabetes Association, the American Heart Association, the American Lung Association, the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, JDRF, March of Dimes, the National Organization for Rare Disorders, the National MS Society and WomenHeart: The National Coalition for Women with Heart Disease.
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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/patient-groups-oppose-obamacare-repeal-changes
Republicans just hatched a last-ditch strategy to destroy Obamacare. It’s a total scam.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2017/05/03/republicans-just-hatched-a-last-ditch-strategy-to-destroy-obamacare-its-a-total-scam/
G.O.P. Eyes $8 Billion Addition to Win a Crucial Vote to the Latest Health Bill
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/02/us/politics/health-care-paul-ryan-fred-upton-congress.html
GOP Sets Health Bill Vote Thursday Amid Doubts About Count
New amendment won support of several moderate holdouts
Leaders say they have the votes though some moderates opposed
https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-05-03/key-gop-holdout-embraces-health-bill-raising-hopes-for-a-vote
Extra cash in health bill gets votes — but not coverage
The GOP touts the repeal bill's patient protections — but many experts say it just won't cover sick people with big medical bills.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/03/obamacare-repeal-health-coverage-237954
Here’s what you need to know about preexisting conditions in the GOP health plan
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/05/04/heres-what-you-need-to-know-about-pre-existing-conditions-in-the-gop-health-plan/
FCC Chief: Net Neutrality Rules Treating Internet As Utility Stifle Growth
http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2017/05/05/526916610/fcc-chief-net-neutrality-rules-treating-internet-as-utility-stifle-growth
Senate confirms Wall Street lawyer Jay Clayton to lead SEC
The Senate on Tuesday confirmed the nomination of Jay Clayton, a Wall Street lawyer with decades of experience helping companies to weather regulatory scrutiny, to lead the Securities and Exchange Commission.
As chairman of the SEC, Clayton will police many of the same large banks that he has spent decades representing, including Goldman Sachs and Barclays. He also would play a key role in President Trump's efforts to roll back the 2010 financial reform legislation known as the Dodd-Frank Act.
He was approved by the Senate along largely partisan lines, 61 to 37.
Clayton’s nomination continues Trump's track record of nominating Wall Street insiders for high-level positions, despite Trump's criticism of the industry during the presidential campaign.
As a partner at the New York law firm Sullivan & Cromwell, Clayton helped online retailer Alibaba stage the largest initial public offering in history, assisted in the sale of the National Basketball Association's Atlanta Hawks and worked closely with hedge fund tycoons such as Bill Ackman of Pershing Square Capital Management and Paul Tudor Jones.
Clayton, who made more than $7 million last year, is also among six people with ties to Goldman Sachs chosen by Trump to serve in his administration. Clayton's 15-year relationship with the bank includes advising Goldman during some of its most troubled moments. (He is also married to a Goldman Sachs wealth manager.)
Republicans have praised Clayton's financial industry experience, arguing that it makes him well-suited for the position.
"Jay's broad experience and his keen understanding of capital markets and securities regulation will serve all market participants well as the SEC works to ensure that safe, strong securities markets remain a cornerstone of the U.S. economy. I look forward to working with him in his new role, " said Robert Cook, president of Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, the industry's self-regulating organization.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/05/02/senate-confirms-wall-street-lawyer-jay-clayton-to-lead-sec/
The Daily 202: Why the markets shrugged off Trump’s threat to break up the big banks
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2017/05/02/daily-202-why-the-markets-shrugged-off-trump-s-threat-to-break-up-the-big-banks/5907d78de9b69b3a72331f11/
U.S. Auto Boom Seems to Be History, Just as Trump Counted on Jobs
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/02/business/auto-sales-decline.html
Sean Spicer Runs Away from Press Briefing Without Answering Questions
"Seaaaaaan!!" and an empty podium is today's profile in courage.
http://www.motherjones.com/media/2017/05/sean-spicer-runs-away-press-briefing
The Danger of Trump’s Civil War Ignorance
Those who don’t understand history are doomed to repeat it.
Contrary to Donald Trump’s view, Andrew Jackson wouldn’t have said “what is the reason for this?”
By Jamelle Bouie
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2017/05/trump_s_belief_that_a_deal_could_have_prevented_the_civil_war_is_as_dangerous.html
Racists, slavery apologists, and white nationalists knew exactly what Trump was saying about the Civil War
By questioning the cause of the Civil War, Trump was blowing a dog whistle to white nationalists & neo-confederates
http://www.salon.com/2017/05/04/racists-slavery-apologists-and-white-nationalists-knew-exactly-what-trump-was-saying-about-the-civil-war_partner/
original https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2017/05/02/racists-slavery-apologists-and-white-nationalists-knew-exactly-what-trump-was-saying-about-civil-war/216241
Donald Trump says he’s a big fan of history. But he doesn’t seem to trust historians.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/05/04/donald-trump-says-hes-a-fan-of-history-but-he-doesnt-seem-to-trust-historians/
The Shooting of Jordan Edwards
Police initially said they killed a 15-year-old after the car he was in reversed toward officers—but after reviewing body-cam footage, fired the officer involved.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/05/the-shooting-of-jordan-edwards/525141/
Police Officer Who Fatally Shot 15-Year-Old Texas Boy Is Fired
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/02/us/dallas-police-teen-shooting-jordan-edwards.html
Balch Springs police fire Officer Roy Oliver, who fatally shot Jordan Edwards with rifle
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/dallas/2017/05/02/balch-springs-police-fires-officer-fatally-shot-15-year-old-rifle
'Great kid' killed in officer-involved shooting in Balch Springs
http://www.wfaa.com/news/local/15-year-old-boy-killed-in-officer-involved-shooting-in-balch-springs/435409090
Who was Jordan Edwards? Teen killed by police called a good student, athlete
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/02/us/jordan-edwards-shooting-trnd/
15-year-old's brothers watched him die after Balch Springs police shooting, family says
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/dallas/2017/04/30/officer-fatally-shoots-15-year-old-balch-springs
Another black boy was killed by police. It’s time for more than hashtags.
Editorial
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/another-black-boy-was-killed-by-police-its-time-for-more-than-hashtags/2017/05/02/03ced94e-2f66-11e7-9534-00e4656c22aa_story.html
If the U.S. government won't fight to end police shootings, who will?
Editorial
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-police-shooting-dallas-jordan-edwards-20170503-story.html
Alton Sterling shooting death: Reports suggest no federal charges
Reports: No federal charges in Alton Sterling shooting death
Sterling was selling CDs outside a Baton Rouge convenience store
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/02/us/alton-sterling-shooting-death/
Justice Department will not charge Baton Rouge officers in fatal shooting of Alton Sterling
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/justice-department-will-not-charge-baton-rouge-officers-in-fatal-shooting-of-alton-sterling/2017/05/02/ac962e66-2ea7-11e7-9534-00e4656c22aa_story.html
Officers Won’t Be Charged in Black Man’s Shooting Death in Louisiana
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/02/us/alton-sterling-justice-department.html
Ex-officer Michael Slager pleads guilty in shooting death of Walter Scott
As part of a plea deal, two other federal charges and state charges will be dropped
Slager killed 50-year-old Walter Scott as Scott was running away
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/02/us/michael-slager-federal-plea/
Ex-Officer Who Shot Walter Scott Pleads Guilty in Charleston
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/02/us/michael-slager-walter-scott-north-charleston-shooting.html
Michael Slager, Ex-Cop Who Shot Walter Scott, Pleads Guilty in Civil Rights Case
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/walter-scott-shooting/michael-slager-ex-cop-who-shot-walter-scott-plead-guilty-n753786
Walter Scott's Killer Pleads Guilty. Jeff Sessions Can't Even Mention Scott's Name.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/05/02/michael_slager_pleads_guilty_for_shooting_walter_scott_jeff_sessions_can.html
F.B.I. Helping American University Investigate Bananas Found Hanging From Nooses
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/03/us/bananas-hang-from-black-nooses-and-a-campus-erupts-in-protest.html
Georgia Wonders: Will Newcomers Dye the Suburbs Blue?
JOHNS CREEK, Ga. — At first blush, this bedroom city of 83,000 a half-hour north of Atlanta might be mistaken for the perfect example of a white-flight Sun Belt suburb.
It sits squarely in the congressional district once represented by Newt Gingrich, with excellent public schools and master-planned communities so pristine they could have been built by a model train aficionado. In 2015, the all-white City Council rejected the idea of expanding public transit out from majority-black Atlanta on the grounds that it “would increase high-density housing.”
But something has been happening in Johns Creek — and, indeed, across much of the vast archipelago of cul-de-sac communities north of Atlanta that served as the launchpad for Mr. Gingrich’s 1994 Republican revolution. The promise of a suburban idyll has been increasingly attracting all kinds of people — many of whom are not white, and not Republican.
Today, 24 percent of people in Johns Creek are of Asian heritage. Indian-Americans shop for saris at the Medlock Crossing strip mall and flock to the latest Bollywood hits at the multiplex. Chinese-Americans and food lovers of all stripes head to the Sichuan House, near the Target and Home Depot stores, for sliced pork ears in chili sauce and “tearfully spicy” mung bean noodles.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/03/us/politics/ossoff-handel-georgia-sixth-district.html
Ivanka Trump’s New Book Exploits and Cheapens Feminism
In her world, the possibilities for working women are endless—so long as they have full-time household help.
By Michelle Goldberg
http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2017/05/ivanka_trump_s_new_book_women_who_work_exploits_and_cheapens_feminism.html
Having Trouble Having It All? Ivanka Alone Can Fix It - book review
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/02/books/review-ivanka-trump-women-who-work.html
Ivanka Trump doesn’t understand how reproductive health care works
This is not the advocate you’re looking for.
https://thinkprogress.org/ivanka-trump-doesnt-understand-how-reproductive-health-care-works-cdab743f60fe
Woman featured in Ivanka Trump’s new book reacts: ‘Don’t use my story’
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/05/03/women-featured-in-ivanka-trumps-new-book-react-dont-use-my-story/
Ivanka Trump Wrote a Painfully Oblivious Book for Basically No One
http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/ivanka-trump-wrote-a-painfully-oblivious-book-for-basically-no-one
Ivanka Trump Has the President’s Ear. Here’s Her Agenda.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/02/us/politics/ivanka-trump.html
Melania Trump's Twitter Just Liked a Tweet About How Much She Hates Her Husband
http://gizmodo.com/melania-trumps-twitter-just-liked-a-tweet-about-how-muc-1794864072
Why the Phrase 'Late Capitalism' Is Suddenly Everywhere
An investigation into a term that seems to perfectly capture the indignities and absurdities of the modern economy
A job advertisement celebrating sleep deprivation? That’s late capitalism. Free-wheeling Coachella outfits that somehow all look the same and cost thousands of dollars? Also late capitalism. Same goes for this wifi-connected $400 juicer that does no better than human hands, Pepsi’s advertisement featuring Kendall Jenner, United Airlines’ forcible removal of a seated passenger who just wanted to go home, and the glorious debacle that was the Fyre Festival. The phrase—ominous, academic, despairing, sarcastic—has suddenly started showing up everywhere.
This publication has used “late capitalism” roughly two dozen times in recent years, describing everything from freakishly oversized turkeys to double-decker armrests for steerage-class plane seats. The New Yorker is likewise enamored of it, invoking it in discussions of Bernie Sanders and fancy lettuces, among other things. There is a wildly popular, year-old Reddit community devoted to it, as well as a Facebook page, a Tumblr, and a lively Twitter hashtag. Google search interest in its has more than doubled in the past year.
“Late capitalism,” in its current usage, is a catchall phrase for the indignities and absurdities of our contemporary economy, with its yawning inequality and super-powered corporations and shrinking middle class. But what is “late capitalism,” really? Where did the phrase come from, and why did so many people start using it all of a sudden?
For my own part, I vaguely remembered it coming from the writings of Karl Marx—the decadence that precedes the revolution? I polled a few friends, and they all sort of remembered the same thing, something to do with 19th-century Europeans and the inherent instability of the capitalist system. This collective half-remembering turned out to be not quite right. “It’s not Marx’s term,” William Clare Roberts, a political scientist at McGill University, told me.
Rather, it was Marxist thinkers that came up with it to describe the industrialized economies they saw around them. A German economist named Werner Sombart seems to have been the first to use it around the turn of the 20th century, with a Marxist theorist and activist named Ernest Mandel popularizing it a half-century later. For Mandel, “late capitalism” denoted the economic period that started with the end of World War II and ended in the early 1970s, a time that saw the rise of multinational corporations, mass communication, and international finance. Roberts said that the term’s current usage departs somewhat from its original meaning. “It’s not this sense that things are getting so bad that the revolution is going to come,” he told me, “but rather that we see the ligaments of the international system that socialists will be able to seize and use.”
Mandel did warn about the forces of automation, globalization, and wage stagnation, and feared that they would tear at the social fabric by making workers miserable. Still, during the period that he defined as “late capitalism,” the American middle class was flourishing and Europe was healing. “There is an irony to it being [originally] used to refer to the one time things were going well for a while,” Richard Yeselson, a contributing editor at Dissent and an expert on the labor movement, told me, riffing on the term.
“Late capitalism” took on a darker connotation in the works of the 20th-century critical theorists, who borrowed from and critiqued and built on Marx and the Marxists. Members of the Frankfurt School, reeling from the horrors of World War II, saw in it excessive social control on the part of big government and big business. Theodor Adorno argued that “late capitalism” might lead not to socialism, but away from it, by blunting the proletariat’s potential for revolution. “The economic process continues to perpetuate domination over human beings,” he said in a speech on late capitalism in 1968. (If only he could have seen the Jenner-Pepsi ad.)
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https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/05/late-capitalism/524943/
White House aims for Thursday signing of religious liberty executive order
President Donald Trump has invited conservative leaders to the White House on Thursday for what they expect will be the ceremonial signing of a long-awaited—and highly controversial—executive order on religious liberty, according to multiple people familiar with the situation.
Two senior administration officials confirmed the plan, though one cautioned that it hasn’t yet been finalized, and noted that lawyers are currently reviewing and fine-tuning the draft language. Thursday is the National Day of Prayer, and the White House was already planning to celebrate the occasion with faith leaders.
The signing would represent a major triumph for Vice President Mike Pence—whose push for religious-freedom legislation backfired mightily when he served as governor of Indiana—and his allies in the conservative movement.
The original draft order, which would have established broad exemptions for people and groups to claim religious objections under virtually any circumstance, was leaked to The Nation [ https://www.thenation.com/article/leaked-draft-of-trumps-religious-freedom-order-reveals-sweeping-plans-to-legalize-discrimination/ ] on Feb. 1—the handiwork, many conservatives believed, of Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, who have sought to project themselves as friendly to the LGBT community. Liberals blasted the draft order as government-licensed discrimination, and the White House distanced itself from the leaked document in a public statement.
Pence and a small team of conservative allies quickly began working behind the scenes to revise the language, and in recent weeks have ratcheted up the pressure on Trump to sign it. The new draft is being tightly held, but one influential conservative who saw the text said it hasn’t been dialed back much—if at all—since the February leak. “The language is very, very strong,” the source said.
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http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/02/donald-trump-religious-liberty-executive-order-237888
Trump to sign executive order making it easier for churches to support political candidates
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-to-sign-executive-order-making-it-easier-for-churches-to-support-political-candidates/2017/05/03/a30294dc-3052-11e7-9dec-764dc781686f_story.html
‘Their dream president’: Trump just gave white evangelicals a big boost
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2017/05/04/their-dream-president-trump-just-gave-white-evangelicals-a-big-boost/
Trump Is Expected to Relax Tax Rules on Churches Endorsing Political Candidates
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/03/us/politics/trump-religion-executive-order-gay-rights.html
More Than 1,000 Faith Leaders Say No Thanks To Trump’s Planned ‘Religious Liberty’ Order
“This is neither what religious freedom means in the eyes of the law, nor what religion itself means to millions of Americans of faith,” the leaders wrote.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/faith-leaders-trump-religious-liberty-order_us_590a36fee4b02655f843d04a
Trump to sign executive order to 'protect and vigorously promote religious liberty'
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/05/03/civil-liberties-groups-pledge-fight-expected-trump-order-religious-freedom/101258922/
As Trump prepares to sign executive order, here's a history of 'religious freedom' laws
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/05/03/trump-prepares-sign-executive-order-heres-history-religious-freedom-laws/101250064/
Civil Rights Groups Are Ready To Sue Trump If He Signs A Broad Religious Freedom Order
“We will fight this with everything we have.”
https://www.buzzfeed.com/dominicholden/religious-freedom-order-possible-lawsuits
Trump Reportedly Will Issue 'License to Discriminate' Order Thursday
http://www.advocate.com/politics/2017/5/02/trump-reportedly-will-issue-license-discriminate-order-thursday
The next 100 days will be even worse: Right-wing bigots urge Trump to sign anti-LGBT order allowing broad discrimination
Conservatives have been pressuring Trump to take even more action targeting the LGBT community for months.
http://www.salon.com/2017/05/02/the-next-100-days-will-be-even-worse-right-wing-bigots-urge-trump-to-sign-anti-lgbt-order-allowing-broad-discrimination/
Many religious freedom advocates are actually disappointed with Trump’s executive order
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The American Civil Liberties Union, which many might expect would oppose the executive order, said Thursday that it had no plans to file a lawsuit. The ACLU’s executive director, Anthony Romero, said in a statement that the order was “an elaborate photo-op with no discernible policy outcome.”
[...]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2017/05/05/many-religious-freedom-advocates-are-disappointed-with-trumps-executive-order/
Kansas City [KS] Archdiocese Cutting Ties With Girl Scouts Over 'Troubling Trends' - tie KCK archdiocese child sex abuse posts
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/05/02/526570123/kansas-city-archdiocese-cutting-ties-with-girl-scouts-over-troubling-trends
Kansas archdiocese severs ties with Girl Scouts and urges end to cookie sales
http://www.kansascity.com/living/religion/article147857619.html
Why avoiding the Girl Scouts is a ‘sane, balanced’ move - Cstholic site Crux
Archbishop Joseph Naumann of Kansas City has reached a sane, balanced conclusion in deciding to transition his diocese away from the Girl Scouts. Available evidence shows women are much better off if they take sex seriously, understand its natural links with marriage and kids, delay sex at best until marriage, practice a faith, and avoid nonmarital parenting, abortion, and divorce.
https://cruxnow.com/commentary/2017/05/03/avoiding-girl-scouts-sane-balanced-move/
This Girl Scout Smiling In The Face Of A Neo-Nazi Is A Total Hero - Czech Republic
May we all be as cool, calm and collected in the face of hate.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/this-girl-scout-smiling-in-the-face-of-a-neo-nazi-is-a-total-hero_us_5909d970e4b05c397684c40e
What's Your Favorite Part of Steve Bannon's Whiteboard?
"Cancel all federal funding to sanctuary cities" or "build the border wall and eventually make Mexico..."?
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/news/a54855/steve-bannon-white-board/
What’s on Steve Bannon’s policy white board? Now we know
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/whats-steve-bannons-policy-white-board-now-know/
Now We Finally Know What’s On Steve Bannon’s Whiteboard
"Build the wall and eventually make Mexico...."
https://www.buzzfeed.com/gracewyler/now-we-finally-know-whats-on-steve-bannons-whiteboard
Stephen Bannon’s to-do list, annotated
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/05/03/steve-bannons-to-do-list-annotated/
Steve Bannon's White House whiteboard revealed
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/03/politics/steve-bannons-white-house-whiteboard/
Steve Bannon's secret planning whiteboard accidentally revealed
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05/03/steve-bannons-secret-war-room-whiteboard-accidentally-revealed/
What Else [Rabbi] Shmuley Boteach Revealed On Stephen Bannon’s White Board
http://forward.com/fast-forward/370795/shmuley-boteach-reveals-stephen-bannon-s-wall-of-promises/
Breitbart’s frustration with President Trump just boiled over
Breitbart News cheered Donald Trump to victory in November but has been frustrated by some of Trump’s moves in office. Most notably, the hard-right site has been disappointed by the president’s failure to secure funding for the Southern border wall he promised during the campaign in a budget deal Republicans and Democrats recently struck.
At Wednesday’s White House press briefing, Breitbart reporter Charlie Spiering got into a tense exchange with White House press secretary Sean Spicer. We have annotated the back-and-forth, using Genius. To see an annotation, click the yellow, highlighted text. To add your own, sign up for an account.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/05/03/breitbarts-frustration-with-president-trump-just-boiled-over/
Alex Jones Will Never Stop Being Alex Jones
After two decades toiling at the fringes of politics, Alex Jones and his Infowars media empire have architected the current moment and helped usher a president into office. Now, the only person standing in Jones' way is Jones.
AUSTIN - It was the winter of 1997 and Alex Jones couldn’t stop getting punched in the face.
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https://www.buzzfeed.com/charliewarzel/alex-jones-will-never-stop-being-alex-jones
In Minnesota's worst measles outbreak, a battle of beliefs over vaccines
An evolving community in the big city of Minneapolis is fighting a dangerous virus -- and a battle of beliefs.
The largest measles outbreak in the Minnesota city in 25 years, this April, affected 34 people primarily between the ages of 0 to 5, according to the Minnesota Department of Health. Eleven have been hospitalized.
The majority, 29, of the measles cases were among Somali Minnesotans, according to the state health department, which has been working to improve vaccination rates in their community.
State and local officials have been searching for any other people exposed to the virus –- potentially 3,000 more -- who may be unvaccinated and vulnerable, to try and stop the spread of the disease.
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http://abcnews.go.com/Health/minnesotas-worst-measles-outbreak-battle-beliefs-vaccines/story?id=47155531
Rogue FBI translator, Clemson grad, married ISIS terrorist
http://www.wsoctv.com/news/local/rogue-fbi-translator-clemson-grad-married-isis-terrorist/518804946
An FBI translator married the ISIS fighter she was supposed to be investigating
https://news.vice.com/story/fbi-translator-daniela-greene-married-the-isis-fighter-she-was-supposed-to-be-investigating
FBI agent married Isis fighter before realising her mistake and fleeing Syria
Daniela Greene returned to the US just a month after trying the knot with Denis Cupert
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/fbi-agent-married-isis-fighter-regrets-syria-returns-cnn-interview-a7712436.html
Stephen Colbert in Hot Water Over ‘Homophobic’ Donald Trump Joke - 5-1-17 - included at http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=130988360
http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/late-show-stephen-colbert-homophobic-donald-trump-1202406991/
YouTube star Daddyofive loses custody of two children featured in 'prank' video, mother says ( https://youtu.be/fvoLmsXKkYM )
The family were accused of abusing the children featured in the controversial videos, which have proved wildly popular
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/youtube-daddyofive-cody-videos-watch-children-custody-latest-prank-parents-a7713376.html
The President’s Secret Air Force
Air Force One is just the public face of a fleet that keeps the president safe and secure.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/05/02/the-presidents-secret-air-force-215091
(mostly) carried over from http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=130988360 [and, for my personal reference, http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_pmsg.aspx?message_id=130985194 ]:
The Digital Transition: How the Presidential Transition Works in the Social Media Age
Summary: Take a look at how we plan to preserve and pass on the digital history of the Obama administration.
October 31, 2016
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2016/10/31/digital-transition-how-presidential-transition-works-social-media-age
The White House
President Barack Obama
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/
Obama White House
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDGknzyQfNiThyt4vg4MlTQ , https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDGknzyQfNiThyt4vg4MlTQ/videos
Reconstruction Is Finally Getting The Historical Recognition It Deserves
Robert Smalls was among the greatest Americans. His story is finally being told. - 'Robert Smalls' further to http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=64333015 , http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=75581937
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/reconstruction-historical-recognition-monument-beaufort-south-carolina_us_58792908e4b09281d0eabb96
This 1967 speech may have helped put a target on Martin Luther King's back ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJhgXKGldUk , http://kingencyclopedia.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/documentsentry/doc_beyond_vietnam/ ) - "Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break The Silence"
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/01/13/martin-luther-king-jr-beyond-vietnam-speech/96501636/
The MLK History Forgot
During his last three years on Earth, Martin Luther King went through hell.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/01/martin-luther-king-struggle-history-forgot-214637
Listen To Legendary Black History Figures Talk About Life, Activism
Listen up!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/listen-to-legendary-black-history-figures-talk-about-life-activism_us_589def0ce4b094a129ea9320
5th-Grader 'Sold' In Mock Slave Auction At New Jersey School
"There was a sale of a black child by white children in the classroom," a parent says. "I'm disgusted."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/mock-slave-auction-new-jersey_us_58d1d687e4b02d33b746c2cf
This WHITE Teen Admitted She Made Up Claims She Was Abducted And Raped By "Three Black Males" - Denison, Texas
Local police called the hoax “offensive to the African-American community.” The false accusations were also used by white nationalists to push their agenda online.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/tanyachen/teen-claims-she-was-raped-by-three-black-males-hoax
White Woman Jailed After Lying About Being Raped and Kidnapped by 3 Black Men: Police
http://www.theroot.com/texas-white-woman-jailed-after-lying-about-being-raped-1793558681
Attacker in Midtown stabbing death admits he wanted to kill black men - further to/related story at http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=129786549
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/manhattan/suspect-midtown-knife-killing-surrenders-cops-article-1.3005263
more: https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=James+Jackson
Whistleblower Forced Out After Leaking Complaints Against Cop Who Killed Eric Garner
Officer Daniel Pantaleo has a longer history with wrongdoing than we knew.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/whistleblower-eric-garner-officer-leaks_us_58d52b3de4b03692bea4d696
Georgia Lawmaker’s Proposal For ‘Confederate History Month’ Doesn’t Mention Slavery
What a time
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/tommy-benton-confederate-history-month_us_58d53acce4b03787d357b11c
Arkansas Replaces Voter ID Law Struck Down By State Supreme Court With Basically The Same Thing
They also have a backup plan if the new law doesn’t survive a legal challenge.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/arkansas-voter-id-law_us_58d6b12ce4b02a2eaab49b5b
Black Americans Are Working More—With Little to Show for It
Despite working more every year, earnings gaps aren’t improving.
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/03/black-wages-labor/521172/
Sessions orders Justice Dept. to end forensic science commission, suspend review policy
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/sessions-orders-justice-dept-to-end-forensic-science-commission-suspend-review-policy/2017/04/10/2dada0ca-1c96-11e7-9887-1a5314b56a08_story.html
Really? CNN Commentator Can’t Tell April Ryan And Ana Navarro Apart - ex-GOP Rep Jack Kingston
“Not all colored girls are the same, Jack,” Navarro reminded him.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/cnn-commentator-cant-tell-april-ryan-and-ana-navaro-apart_us_58f0e15ae4b0b9e9848b4687
Video shows an officer [WHITE] slamming, then pummeling a black man accused of jaywalking - Sacramento
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/04/12/video-shows-an-officer-slamming-then-pummeling-a-black-man-accused-of-jaywalking/
YTs via https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=sacramento+jaywalking :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOgx6I14sRI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrfNwsolZDY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yolU3rsmn14
Sacramento Mayor Speaks Out Against Man’s Violent Jaywalking Arrest
http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2017/04/12/sacramento-mayor-speaks-out-against-mans-violent-jaywalking-arrest/
Video shows cop pummeling alleged jaywalker; criminal investigation underway
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-sacramento-officer-video-punch-jaywalker-20170412-story.html
WHITE Georgia Officers are Fired After Kicking BLACK Man at Traffic Stop ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTdOi8I5Wi4 )
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/14/us/georgia-police-officer-fired.html
Second Gwinnett officer fired after new traffic stop video surfaces
http://www.ajc.com/news/local/second-gwinnett-officer-fired-after-new-traffic-stop-video-surfaces/GsCfBeNhcjAXkTw7f2cPxL/
DeVos’ Pick to Head Civil Rights Office Once Said She Faced Discrimination for Being White
Candice Jackson’s intellectual journey raises questions about how actively she will investigate allegations of unfair treatment of minorities and women.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/education-civil-rights_us_58f10593e4b0b9e9848b8d7e
original https://www.propublica.org/article/devos-candice-jackson-civil-rights-office-education-department
WHITE Man accused of assaulting BLACK woman at Trump rally says president to blame - this and next further to http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=130113547
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/04/17/man-accused-assaulting-woman-at-trump-rally-says-president-to-blame.html
WHITE Man accused of attacking BLACK rally protester says Trump inspired him
http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/15/politics/donald-trump-rally-lawsuit/
Video Shows White Supremacist Punching WHITE Female Anti-Trump Protester ( https://youtu.be/c8GVtXfATtI ) - Berkeley 4-15-17
http://lawnewz.com/crazy/white-supremacist-allegedly-punched-female-anti-trump-protester-video/
White nationalist claims Trump directed rally violence
Trump supporter asks a federal court to hold the president liable for any damages stemming from a lawsuit filed by protesters who attended a Kentucky campaign stop.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/04/donald-trump-rally-violence-237302
Trump claims he can’t be sued for inciting rally violence
The president’s lawyers claim immunity from a lawsuit brought by protesters hurt at 2016 rally.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/04/trump-inciting-violence-protest-rally-lawsuit-237249
court filing http://www.politico.com/f/?id=0000015b-6ee7-db04-ad5b-7fef52a70002
Trump lawyer: ‘No right’ to protest at rallies
The president’s lawyers file a motion to derail a lawsuit brought by protesters
President Donald Trump’s lawyers argued in a Thursday court filing that protesters “have no right” to “express dissenting views” at his campaign rallies because such protests infringed on his First Amendment rights.
The filing comes in a case brought by three protesters who allege they were roughed up and ejected from a March 2016 Trump campaign rally in Louisville, Kentucky, by Trump supporters who were incited by the then-candidate’s calls from the stage to “get 'em out of here!”
Lawyers for Trump’s campaign have argued that his calls to remove the protesters were protected by the First Amendment. But the federal district court judge hearing the case issued a ruling late last month questioning that argument, as well as the claim that Trump didn’t intend for his supporters to use force.
The ruling cleared the case to proceed into discovery and towards a trial.
Thursday’s filing by Trump’s campaign lawyers asks the judge to pause the proceedings and allow Trump’s legal team to appeal the ruling to a higher court “before subjecting the President to ‘unique’ and extraordinary burdens of litigation.”
Specifically, Trump’s lawyers want the appeals court to reconsider whether Trump’s calls to remove the protesters were protected speech under the First Amendment and whether it’s reasonable to construe the calls as an incitement to violence.
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http://www.politico.com/story/2017/04/20/donald-trump-protest-rallies-speech-237431
Trump lawyers seek a quick end to rally violence lawsuits - and they might get it
Do protesters really “have no right” to dissent at Trump rallies?
President Donald Trump’s lawyers want judges to dismiss a lawsuit over violence at his campaign rallies because protesters don’t actually have the right to dissent inside his speaking halls.
People can “express dissenting views” but “have no right to do so as part of the campaign rally of the political candidates they oppose,” Trump’s team argued in a Thursday court filing.
The case involves the avowed white nationalist Matthew Heimbach, who physically assailed a black woman named Kashiya Nwanguma as she protested inside a Trump rally in Kentucky in 2016. Heimbach, Trump, and the Trump campaign are co-defendants. Heimbach recently argued to the court that Trump and his campaign are the only people who should be liable for what rally attendees did or didn’t do to Nwanguma that day.
Fellow Trump supporter Alvin Bamberger helped Heimbach and is also named in the suit. His lawyers argue, as Heimbach does, that their client would never have done anything to Nwanguma if Trump hadn’t told him to. “To the extent that Bamberger acted, he did so in response to - and inspired by - Trump and/or the Trump Campaign’s urging to remove the protesters,” they wrote in a recent filing.
The supporters’ arguments and Trump’s own thus appear to be at odds. But Trump’s lawyers aren’t denying that supporters acted in response to what he said - they’re saying he was within his rights to try to remove protesters, with physical force, and is not culpable if the force they actually used went beyond what was necessary to get protesters out of the building.
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https://thinkprogress.org/trump-rally-violence-lawsuit-25f8f1f79b81
Trump Praises The Jews While Looking Like A POW Hostage In Latest Weekly Address (this one https://youtu.be/5-HAAlJebkY , earlier one https://youtu.be/Am1DfjmGcvc ) - at/from Elroy Jetson, http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=130767032
http://forum.infostormer.com/t/trump-praises-the-jews-while-looking-like-a-pow-hostage-in-latest-weekly-address/2029
Former Neo-Nazi Says It’s On White People To Fight White Supremacy - Christian Picciolini
“White people need to solve the problem of white supremacy.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/life-after-hate-christian-picciolini-white-supremacist-exit-skinhead_us_58fa36cee4b018a9ce5ace1a
Trump Calls for Investigation Into Tax Day Protesters, Tweets ‘Election Is Over!’
http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-calls-investigation-tax-day-protesters-tweets-election-over-n747101
Trump administration still considering how to make it easier to sue the media, Priebus says
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/04/30/trump-administration-still-considering-how-to-make-it-easier-to-sue-the-media-priebus-says/
Priebus: Trump Considering Amending or Abolishing 1st Amendment
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/priebus-trump-considering-amending-or-abolishing-1st-amendment
Reince Priebus Says White House Has ‘Looked at’ Changing Libel Laws
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/04/priebus-says-white-house-has-looked-at-changing-libel-laws.html
Lawmakers slam Priebus for libel law comments
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/331325-lawmakers-slam-priebus-for-libel-law-comments
White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus speaks out in favor of banning flag-burning
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2017/05/01/white-house-chief-of-staff-reince-priebus-speaks-out-in-favor-of-banning-flag-burning/
Hollywood Fears The Worst Of Donald Trump Is Still To Come
“We rely on freedom of the press to get away with things we get away with on the show,” Samantha Bee told BuzzFeed News. “We need to do what we can to preserve those freedoms.”
https://www.buzzfeed.com/krystieyandoli/100-days-into-trumps-presidency-hollywood-still-fears-the
A Code Pink Protester Laughs Over a Trump Nominee and Is Convicted
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/03/us/code-pink-sessions-laughter-trial.html
Vacation’s Over: Obama Returns to Public Life Next Week
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/21/us/politics/barack-obama-post-presidential-events.html
Obama to make first post-presidency public appearance in Chicago next week
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/04/21/obama-to-make-first-post-presidency-public-appearance-in-chicago-next-week/
The curious political effect of men losing their breadwinner role
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/on-leadership/wp/2017/04/21/the-curious-political-effect-of-men-losing-their-breadwinners-role/
study (still under peer review) https://hbr.org/2017/04/earning-less-than-their-wives-makes-u-s-men-more-partisan
Georgia Is Trying To Block Newly Registered Voters From Taking Part In Fierce Runoff Election - Jon Ossoff
This is just typical, said the Georgia NAACP chief, who is suing the state.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/georgia-voter-registration-runoff-ossoff_us_58f90c7ce4b06b9cb91505f8
REPUBLICAN Florida State Senator Resigns After Using Racial Slur in Tirade - State Senator Frank Artiles, a Republican from Miami-Dade County
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/21/us/florida-senator-frank-artiles-resigns-racist-rant.html
Jaywalker Beaten In Street By Cop Claims Abuse Continued In Jail - Sacramento, CA
Nandi Cain is suing authorities in California for what he calls “racially biased” attacks.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jaywalker-beaten-police-lawsuit_us_58fe5ffbe4b06b9cb9195a97
Man Who Died Of Thirst In Sheriff David Clarke [HUGE Trump supporter]’s Jail Had Water Cut Off For A Week
A group of jurors are weighing criminal charges against Terrill Thomas’ jailors.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/david-clarke-jail-dehydration-death-terrill-thomas_us_58fe47d4e4b06b9cb9192d13
Serena Williams’ Response To Racist Comments: ‘Does My Sassiness Upset You?’
The tennis star quoted Maya Angelou after Ilie Nastase’s alleged comments about Williams’ unborn child.
Serena Williams responded Monday to Ilie Nastase’s alleged racist comments about her unborn child.
Nastase was allegedly heard saying, “Let’s see what color it has. Chocolate with milk?” in Romanian when one of his players was discussing Williams’ pregnancy during a press conference. The former singles champion has a reputation for bad behavior and is nicknamed “Nasty.”
His comments were made in reference to Williams’ fiancé, Alexis Ohanian, who is white. Williams - who announced her 20-week pregnancy last week - addressed Nastase’s remark in a text post on Instagram.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/serena-williams-responds-to-ilie-nastases-racist-comments_us_58fe5b6ae4b018a9ce5dc6df
The debacle in Arkansas reaffirms that the death penalty is arbitrary, unchecked and unfair - and racist
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2017/04/21/the-debacle-in-arkansas-reaffirms-that-the-death-penalty-is-arbitrary-unchecked-and-unfair/
The Banal Horror of Arkansas’s Executions
With the state’s supply of the sedative midazolam due to expire, the proposed schedule came to resemble a lethal clearance sale.
By Jelani Cobb
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/05/08/the-banal-horror-of-arkansas-executions
A black teen died following an encounter with police near Dallas. His death has just been ruled a homicide. - shot in head by police rifle - outrageous case
Police have retracted earlier accounts that a vehicle was reversing toward officers in an “aggressive manner” when one of the officers opened fire, striking and killing 15-year-old Jordan Edwards in a Dallas-area suburb Saturday night.
In a news conference Monday, Balch Springs Police Chief Jonathan Haber said that he initially “misspoke” and that the vehicle had begun to drive away at the time the officer opened fire. He questioned whether the shooting was necessary.
“I unintentionally (was) incorrect when I said the vehicle was backing down the road … in fact I can tell you that I do have questions in relation to my observation (of) the video,” Haber said. “After reviewing the video, I don’t believe that (the shooting) met our core values.”
Haber, who declined to release the video footage of the shooting as well as the name of the officer involved, said that evidence will be presented to a grand jury.
Jordan is the youngest of the more than 330 people who have been shot and killed by police in 2017, according to a Washington Post database tracking such shootings. About 25 percent of those fatally shot by police this year have been black, and about 7 percent of those killed have been unarmed at the time they were shot. At least 10 people shot and killed by police this year were under 18.
[...]
Lee Merritt, an attorney for Edwards’s family, said at a news conference Monday that the family is calling on the police department to release the name of the officer as well as audio and video footage of the incident.
“We are declaring war on bad policing. This has happened far too often,” he said. “We are tired of making the same rhetorical demands, of having the same hashtags; our community is fed up with the same tired excuses, once again offered by Balch Springs Police Department yesterday, that this was somehow the fault of the victims — teenage kids with no criminal records, with no motive to attempt to hurt anyone, with no evidence that they ever attempted to hurt anyone.”
“Another family ripped apart by police brutality,” he wrote Sunday on Twitter. “There was absolutely no justification for this murder. We demand justice!”
In a phone interview with The Post on Sunday night, Merritt said that Jordan, his 16-year-old brother and three other teenage boys were at a party on Baron Drive when they learned that police were on the way.
They went to the car parked outside, saw flashlights and heard gunshots, Merritt said. As they climbed into the car, the teens apparently heard somebody yell profanities. Then they were being fired upon.
They fled for about a block, Merritt said, before they noticed that there was smoke coming from Jordan’s head. The driver of the car, the boy’s older brother, stopped the car, and they flagged down an approaching police cruiser for help.
Several of the teens played on the football team together. Jordan was going through spring training for next year’s season.
“They’re never going to be the same,” Merritt said. “These kids are never going to be the same.”
Merritt said that three bullets were fired into the car. They came through the driver’s side window, he said.
Jordan and the four teens with him had not been drinking, according to Merritt. They were not cited for underage drinking and have not been charged with any crimes, he said.
[...]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/05/01/officer-fatally-shoots-15-year-old-boy-in-dallas-suburb/
Texas Police Shoot and Kill Student, 15
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/01/us/dallas-police-teen-shooting.html
more: https://news.google.com/news/rtc?ncl=dAFE9KBUUd1tftMEWBSULjJmAJjeM&authuser=0&topic=w&ar=1493672715
The Shooting of Jordan Edwards
Police initially said they killed a 15-year-old after the car he was in reversed toward officers—but after reviewing body-cam footage, fired the officer involved.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/05/the-shooting-of-jordan-edwards/525141/
Police Officer Who Fatally Shot 15-Year-Old Texas Boy Is Fired
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/02/us/dallas-police-teen-shooting-jordan-edwards.html
Balch Springs police fire Officer Roy Oliver, who fatally shot Jordan Edwards with rifle
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/dallas/2017/05/02/balch-springs-police-fires-officer-fatally-shot-15-year-old-rifle
'Great kid' killed in officer-involved shooting in Balch Springs
http://www.wfaa.com/news/local/15-year-old-boy-killed-in-officer-involved-shooting-in-balch-springs/435409090
Who was Jordan Edwards? Teen killed by police called a good student, athlete
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/02/us/jordan-edwards-shooting-trnd/
15-year-old's brothers watched him die after Balch Springs police shooting, family says
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/dallas/2017/04/30/officer-fatally-shoots-15-year-old-balch-springs
Another black boy was killed by police. It’s time for more than hashtags.
Editorial
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/another-black-boy-was-killed-by-police-its-time-for-more-than-hashtags/2017/05/02/03ced94e-2f66-11e7-9534-00e4656c22aa_story.html
If the U.S. government won't fight to end police shootings, who will?
Editorial
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-police-shooting-dallas-jordan-edwards-20170503-story.html
Alton Sterling shooting death: Reports suggest no federal charges
Reports: No federal charges in Alton Sterling shooting death
Sterling was selling CDs outside a Baton Rouge convenience store
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/02/us/alton-sterling-shooting-death/
Justice Department will not charge Baton Rouge officers in fatal shooting of Alton Sterling
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/justice-department-will-not-charge-baton-rouge-officers-in-fatal-shooting-of-alton-sterling/2017/05/02/ac962e66-2ea7-11e7-9534-00e4656c22aa_story.html
Officers Won’t Be Charged in Black Man’s Shooting Death in Louisiana
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/02/us/alton-sterling-justice-department.html
Ex-officer Michael Slager pleads guilty in shooting death of Walter Scott
As part of a plea deal, two other federal charges and state charges will be dropped
Slager killed 50-year-old Walter Scott as Scott was running away
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/02/us/michael-slager-federal-plea/
Ex-Officer Who Shot Walter Scott Pleads Guilty in Charleston
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/02/us/michael-slager-walter-scott-north-charleston-shooting.html
Michael Slager, Ex-Cop Who Shot Walter Scott, Pleads Guilty in Civil Rights Case
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/walter-scott-shooting/michael-slager-ex-cop-who-shot-walter-scott-plead-guilty-n753786
Walter Scott's Killer Pleads Guilty. Jeff Sessions Can't Even Mention Scott's Name.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/05/02/michael_slager_pleads_guilty_for_shooting_walter_scott_jeff_sessions_can.html
Georgia Wonders: Will Newcomers Dye the Suburbs Blue?
JOHNS CREEK, Ga. — At first blush, this bedroom city of 83,000 a half-hour north of Atlanta might be mistaken for the perfect example of a white-flight Sun Belt suburb.
It sits squarely in the congressional district once represented by Newt Gingrich, with excellent public schools and master-planned communities so pristine they could have been built by a model train aficionado. In 2015, the all-white City Council rejected the idea of expanding public transit out from majority-black Atlanta on the grounds that it “would increase high-density housing.”
But something has been happening in Johns Creek — and, indeed, across much of the vast archipelago of cul-de-sac communities north of Atlanta that served as the launchpad for Mr. Gingrich’s 1994 Republican revolution. The promise of a suburban idyll has been increasingly attracting all kinds of people — many of whom are not white, and not Republican.
Today, 24 percent of people in Johns Creek are of Asian heritage. Indian-Americans shop for saris at the Medlock Crossing strip mall and flock to the latest Bollywood hits at the multiplex. Chinese-Americans and food lovers of all stripes head to the Sichuan House, near the Target and Home Depot stores, for sliced pork ears in chili sauce and “tearfully spicy” mung bean noodles.
[...]
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/03/us/politics/ossoff-handel-georgia-sixth-district.html
Trump's wacky history lessons continue
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/01/politics/donald-trump-andrew-jackson-us-history/
Trump questions why the Civil War could 'not have been worked out'
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-latest-interviews-reveal-relationship-obama-views-civil/story?id=47128589
Donald Trump just gave two incredibly bizarre (and fact-free) interviews
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/01/politics/donald-trump-andrew-jackson-wiretapping/
Trump on the Civil War: ‘Why Could That One Not Have Been Worked Out?’ - this and next one Last Word open 5-1-17 - including re admiring Andrew Jackson as v. Abraham Lincoln
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/01/us/politics/trump-andrew-jackson-fact-check.html
Why There Was a Civil War
Some issues aren’t amenable to deal-making; some principles don’t lend themselves to compromise.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/05/why-there-was-a-civil-war/524925/
Trump’s totally bizarre claim about avoiding the Civil War
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/05/01/trumps-totally-bizarre-claim-about-avoiding-the-civil-war/
The Danger of Trump’s Civil War Ignorance
Those who don’t understand history are doomed to repeat it.
Contrary to Donald Trump’s view, Andrew Jackson wouldn’t have said “what is the reason for this?”
By Jamelle Bouie
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2017/05/trump_s_belief_that_a_deal_could_have_prevented_the_civil_war_is_as_dangerous.html
Racists, slavery apologists, and white nationalists knew exactly what Trump was saying about the Civil War
By questioning the cause of the Civil War, Trump was blowing a dog whistle to white nationalists & neo-confederates
http://www.salon.com/2017/05/04/racists-slavery-apologists-and-white-nationalists-knew-exactly-what-trump-was-saying-about-the-civil-war_partner/
original https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2017/05/02/racists-slavery-apologists-and-white-nationalists-knew-exactly-what-trump-was-saying-about-civil-war/216241
Donald Trump says he’s a big fan of history. But he doesn’t seem to trust historians.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/05/04/donald-trump-says-hes-a-fan-of-history-but-he-doesnt-seem-to-trust-historians/
F.B.I. Helping American University Investigate Bananas Found Hanging From Nooses
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/03/us/bananas-hang-from-black-nooses-and-a-campus-erupts-in-protest.html
Neil Gorsuch’s very first decision on the Supreme Court was to let a [BLACK] man be killed - more re Gorsuch in re church-state playground case below
Donald Trump’s kind of justice.
https://thinkprogress.org/neil-gorsuchs-very-first-decision-on-the-supreme-court-was-to-let-a-man-be-killed-67aedf3a6d93
Neil Gorsuch’s First Critical Vote Allowed A Man To Be Executed
It looks like the Supreme Court is back to where it was on the death penalty when Justice Antonin Scalia was alive.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/neil-gorsuch-death-penalty-supreme-court_us_58fa193ae4b018a9ce5a99a9
Gorsuch's First Big Supreme Court Vote Allows Arkansas Execution
Justices vote 5-4 to let state start lethal injections
Convicted murderer Ledell Lee subsequently put to death
https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-04-21/gorsuch-s-first-big-high-court-vote-allows-arkansas-execution
Gorsuch casts death-penalty vote in one of his first Supreme Court cases
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/gorsuch-casts-death-penalty-vote-in-one-of-his-first-supreme-court-cases/2017/04/21/2d9bc5dc-26a8-11e7-a1b3-faff0034e2de_story.html
Donald Trump - Twitter
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Gallup Daily: Trump Job Approval
http://www.gallup.com/poll/201617/gallup-daily-trump-job-approval.aspx
Daily Presidential Tracking Poll
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/trump_administration/prez_track_mar2
President Trump Job Approval
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president_trump_job_approval-6179.html
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http://cookpolitical.com/story/10174
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Michael Flynn
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/michael-flynn/
Kris Kobach
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/kris-kobach/
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http://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/steve-bannon/
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http://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/john-bolton/
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http://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/david-duke/
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Colin Kahl - Biden's National Security Advisor - good source
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In Travis County custody case, jury will search for real Alex Jones - this and next two at http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=130629223
Alex Jones and his ex-wife, Kelly, will be locked in a child custody trial the next two weeks in Austin.
Alex Jones’ lawyers will make the case that their client should not be judged by his on-air persona.
Lawyers for Kelly Jones will maintain that Jones’ public outbursts suggest he is not a fit parent.
April 16, 2017
At a recent pretrial hearing, attorney Randall Wilhite told state District Judge Orlinda Naranjo that using his client Alex Jones’ on-air Infowars persona to evaluate Alex Jones as a father would be like judging Jack Nicholson in a custody dispute based on his performance as the Joker in “Batman.”
“He’s playing a character,” Wilhite said of Jones. “He is a performance artist.”
But in emotional testimony at the hearing, Kelly Jones, who is seeking to gain sole or joint custody of her three children with Alex Jones, portrayed the volcanic public figure as the real Alex Jones.
“He’s not a stable person,” she said of the man with whom her 14-year-old son and 9- and 12-year-old daughters have lived since her 2015 divorce. “He says he wants to break Alec Baldwin’s neck. He wants J-Lo to get raped.
“I’m concerned that he is engaged in felonious behavior, threatening a member of Congress,” she said, referring to his recent comments about California Democrat Adam Schiff. “He broadcasts from home. The children are there, watching him broadcast.”
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http://www.mystatesman.com/news/state--regional-govt--politics/travis-county-custody-case-jury-will-search-for-real-alex-jones/rnbWzMHnFCd5SOPgP3A34J/
Alex Jones’ Defense in Upcoming Custody Battle Is That He’s a Fake ( https://youtu.be/2FBmprSH0Ws ) - references item above
http://fusion.net/alex-jones-defense-in-upcoming-custody-battle-is-that-1794370575
InfoWars’ Alex Jones Is a ‘Performance Artist,’ His Lawyer Says in Divorce Hearing
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/not-fake-news-infowars-alex-jones-performance-artist-n747491
Alex Jones’ Defense
His lawyer: He’s not a deranged crackpot, he just plays one on the radio.
http://billmoyers.com/story/alex-jones-defense/
Alex Jones is a narcissist, a witness testifies. And he’s undermining his own attorneys.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/04/20/alex-jones-is-a-narcissist-a-witness-says-and-possibly-the-worst-client-ever/
‘Infowars’ host Jones says his on-air persona not a ‘trick’ - AP
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/infowars-host-jones-says-his-on-air-persona-not-a-trick/2017/04/20/0738141a-262e-11e7-928e-3624539060e8_story.html
original http://bigstory.ap.org/article/f8ea611ce31b4bb2923c17b531425a77/infowars-host-jones-says-his-air-persona-not-trick
Alex Jones Takes the Stand in Custody Battle, Admits to Cheating on Wife
The InfoWars founder was cross-examined by his ex-wife’s attorney in court Thursday.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/04/20/alex-jones-takes-the-stand-in-custody-battle-admits-to-cheating-on-wife.html
Alex Jones Finally Lost It On The Witness Stand
The conservative radio star faced aggressive questioning from his ex-wife’s attorneys Thursday about his family life and character.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/alex-jones-weed_us_58f9134ae4b00fa7de128eed
Alex Jones Shows A Sensitive Side On The Witness Stand
At his child custody trial Wednesday, he didn’t yell once. But he got reprimanded again for making faces.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/alex-jones-shows-a-sensitive-side-on-the-witness-stand_us_58f81338e4b0cb086d7df213
Alex Jones tells jury his marijuana has gotten too strong — and says George Soros is to blame
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/04/alex-jones-tells-jury-his-marijuana-has-gotten-too-strong-and-says-george-soros-is-to-blame/
Alex Jones celebrates 4/20 by accusing global elite of making weed too dank
http://www.avclub.com/article/alex-jones-celebrates-420-accusing-george-soros-ma-254048
Alex Jones Says He’s A Performance Artist. Surprisingly, Actual Performance Artists Agree.
In light of the InfoWars host’s bizarre assertion, the most interesting question is: what happens next?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/alex-jones_us_58f60e61e4b0da2ff8632204
Alex Jones requests the same respectful, dignified media coverage he’s granted so many
http://www.avclub.com/article/alex-jones-requests-same-respectful-dignified-medi-254122
Alex Jones Sued By Chobani After Yogurt Maker Says Radio Host Posted Fake Stories - AP
BOISE, Idaho - Greek yogurt giant Chobani filed a lawsuit Monday against right-wing radio host Alex Jones, accusing the conspiracy theorist of publishing false information about the company.
Chobani says that Jones and his Infowars website posted fabricated stories earlier this month that linked Chobani owner Hamdi Ulukaya and the company to a sexual assault case involving refugee children. The company filed the lawsuit in Idaho District Court in Twin Falls, where it operates the largest yogurt plant in the world.
[...]
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/alex-jones-sued-chobani-after-yogurt-maker-says-radio-host-n750566
original http://bigstory.ap.org/article/4437a341bd44458b9bb1982b58b59e54/chobani-yogurt-company-sues-right-wing-radio-host-alex
Austin’s Alex Jones sued by Greek yogurt giant Chobani
http://www.statesman.com/business/austin-alex-jones-sued-greek-yogurt-giant-chobani/Y8dES5PyXlXZhkwEJXYu3K/
Kelly Jones’ lawyer depicts Alex Jones as 'master manipulator'
http://www.mystatesman.com/news/state--regional-govt--politics/kelly-jones-lawyer-depicts-alex-jones-master-manipulator/ZUf5KSxF8l80yjTq7GR0gM/
4 Psychology Experts on Why Alex Jones Is Always Taking His Shirt Off
http://nymag.com/thecut/2017/04/4-psychology-experts-on-alex-jones-taking-his-shirt-off.html
Alex Jones brags about his sexual prowess, presents chart on how to be a “real man”
http://www.avclub.com/article/alex-jones-brags-about-his-sexual-prowess-presents-254226
In midst of custody battle, Alex Jones reveals that at 16, 'I'd already had over 150 women.'
http://politics.blog.mystatesman.com/2017/04/24/in-midst-of-custody-battle-alex-jones-reveals-that-at-16-id-already-had-over-150-women/
For the second time, Judge Naranjo denies Alex Jones’ bid for mistrial
http://www.statesman.com/news/state--regional-govt--politics/for-the-second-time-judge-naranjo-denies-alex-jones-bid-for-mistrial/VvCVrz1OMhRX6IhEYGm9tN/
Alex Jones and His Pill-Pushing Chiropractor [Edward Group] Are Here to Save Your Colon From the Globalists
http://jezebel.com/alex-jones-and-his-pill-pushing-chiropractor-are-here-t-1794383993
Alex Jones Will Never Stop Being Alex Jones
After two decades toiling at the fringes of politics, Alex Jones and his Infowars media empire have architected the current moment and helped usher a president into office. Now, the only person standing in Jones' way is Jones.
AUSTIN - It was the winter of 1997 and Alex Jones couldn’t stop getting punched in the face.
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https://www.buzzfeed.com/charliewarzel/alex-jones-will-never-stop-being-alex-jones
Breitbart’s frustration with President Trump just boiled over
Breitbart News cheered Donald Trump to victory in November but has been frustrated by some of Trump’s moves in office. Most notably, the hard-right site has been disappointed by the president’s failure to secure funding for the Southern border wall he promised during the campaign in a budget deal Republicans and Democrats recently struck.
At Wednesday’s White House press briefing, Breitbart reporter Charlie Spiering got into a tense exchange with White House press secretary Sean Spicer. We have annotated the back-and-forth, using Genius. To see an annotation, click the yellow, highlighted text. To add your own, sign up for an account.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/05/03/breitbarts-frustration-with-president-trump-just-boiled-over/
In Minnesota's worst measles outbreak, a battle of beliefs over vaccines
An evolving community in the big city of Minneapolis is fighting a dangerous virus -- and a battle of beliefs.
The largest measles outbreak in the Minnesota city in 25 years, this April, affected 34 people primarily between the ages of 0 to 5, according to the Minnesota Department of Health. Eleven have been hospitalized.
The majority, 29, of the measles cases were among Somali Minnesotans, according to the state health department, which has been working to improve vaccination rates in their community.
State and local officials have been searching for any other people exposed to the virus –- potentially 3,000 more -- who may be unvaccinated and vulnerable, to try and stop the spread of the disease.
[...]
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/minnesotas-worst-measles-outbreak-battle-beliefs-vaccines/story?id=47155531
The Secret To Happiness Revealed - included in 12-28-16 Alex Jones Show
Paul Joseph Watson talks about the death of Carrie Fisher and how now many people are completely unhappy no matter what the accomplish.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Y-f8VLzMdM
How Complaining Rewires Your Brain For Negativity
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-travis-bradberry/how-complaining-rewires-y_b_13634470.html
How American Babies Behave Differently From Infants In Other Cultures - Polish babies crankiest/hardest to console
South Korean babies like to cuddle the most, and Chilean babies are the most active.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/child-psychology-babies-around-world_us_585c0055e4b0d9a5945756d1
study (via https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/12/161220140911.htm ) http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17405629.2016.1236722
following further to http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=127201491 :
Greatest Alex Jones Rants
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fwSlfL9i9k
67 Alex Jones rants - Part 1 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HE0jSr9phrc
Best of Alex Jones Rants - AJ upload
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucSxpLCTdwA
Alex Jones Ranting Compilation!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDP2N5psnQ8
15 MIN OF ALEX JONES MEMES
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ALEX JONES FUNNY MOMENTS VI
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If Muhammad Replaced Trump (. . .)
Jul 24, 2016
If the ideals of Islamism came out of Trump's mouth, how would the Left & Right react? If any Muslims do respond to this cartoon, I have a couple predictions: 1. Some will respond by saying that the verses are out of context (standard response), but notice that none of these verses are actually justified by their context, and 2. Some other verse will be presented that contradicts one of the verses I used, which proves nothing other than the fact that the Islamic texts in question are contradictory.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D1sW7tu6-s
You Can't Escape - Episode 8 of "Power Corrupts" ( https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLv--V1yc2QDJi6hFNhur3iAsyFpXRtB8w - further to http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=123593680 )
Aug 28, 2016
You might be able to escape religion, but you can't escape what caused it in the first place. All you can do is try to be cognizant of it, and try your best to keep it in check.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dspHj0Cj2-g
Always Cry Wolf
Sep 28, 2016
Human beings often unite during tragedies, foregoing our petty differences. Imagine if we didn't require the tragedy.
While "crying wolf" is considered bad, the title of this video refers to what happened at Yellowstone, and in that light, the title's meaning is "always strive for balance". During my 40 years of life, I have learned that attaining balance is the greatest solver of problems. Be neither excessive nor neglectful. I believe that is a good rule for the macro as well, for society, and for our planet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVsVgAqV9WI
Don't Expect A Terrible Hereafter
Oct 25, 2016
I was challenged to make a meaningful animation without speech. Thanks to my friend, known as C0ct0pusPrime here on YouTube, for challenging me to do this a while back. I had a lot of ideas, but this one stuck with me the most. Life is filled with dark irony. The very thing you want the most, might actually end up being the thing you'd least want. If you're not mindful, you might find out too late.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_jijoIUi2A
King Solomon
Nov 28, 2016
Marriage should be between 1 man and 1000 women.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Zjjg7mmDN4
If Hitler Never Existed (. . .)
Dec 21, 2016
This is basically a MUCH better version of "It's a Wonderful Life".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5TtDZlHqao
The Horror of Your Desires
Dec 29, 2016
If you somehow obtained ultimate power, the things you’d choose to do would show us far more clearly who you really are than you could possibly show us with your current limitations. You could choose to bend people to your will, even if only through threats and intimidation, or maybe you could enjoy life with us, help us, and teach us. The bible authors created a character in Yahweh who abuses his limitless power with wanton abandon, reeking of a crude tool of manipulation - not a loving, caring teacher. He is the ultimate bad guy, sold to us as the ultimate good guy - a monumental travesty of history. It certainly is a good thing that Yahweh is a fictional invention of ancient writers.
My next animations will be about the life and times of King David, as found in 1st and 2nd Samuel (and a bit of 1st Kings).
This animation was Episode 9 of my Power Corrupts series. Here’s a link to the full playlist of the Power Corrupts series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pA5PlJiqOnk&list=PLv--V1yc2QDJi6hFNhur3iAsyFpXRtB8w - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLv--V1yc2QDJi6hFNhur3iAsyFpXRtB8w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqJBD5SosZI
King David
Jan 22, 2017
This is the beginning of King David’s story from the Bible, the books of Samuel. I’d like to animate the rest of the books of Samuel, but that would take an enormous amount of work, and not only would your support via Patreon be greatly appreciated, but would also attach your name to the project (DarkMatter Army or above).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdtV9kbs_fo
David, Goliath, and the 200 Cyclops Sleeves
Feb 20, 2017
The Sunday School version of David and Goliath usually ends after David slings his rock, and for good reason; the rest isn’t quite wholesome family entertainment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZPhXoDI3F0
If Muhammad Became the President (. . .)
Mar 17, 2017
If you dislike Trump, then you should probably dislike Muhammad 100x more. Oddly, it seems some people are confused on this issue. That confusion comes from the best of intentions, I'm sure, but it is ultimately self-defeating, and allows for tolerance of the intolerable. Please check the paragraph at the end of this video for elaboration.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yJqWCBq6GI
God Judges The Amazing Atheist
Apr 4, 2017
Finally, The Amazing Atheist meets his maker. Who do you think God should judge next?
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If Your Body Were a Religion
Apr 11, 2017
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Solar storms remove electrons from large portions of Earth's atmosphere
"We have found out that during solar storms, electrons are removed in the ionosphere, which is the opposite of what you intuitively would expect," researcher Tibor Durgonics said.
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2017/03/03/Solar-storms-remove-electrons-from-large-portions-of-Earths-atmosphere/6081488557193/
Solar storms trigger surprising phenomena close to Earth - in high-latitude (Arctic) ionosphere
https://phys.org/news/2017-03-solar-storms-trigger-phenomena-earth.html
study http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2016RS006106/abstract
Indonesia's 'Hobbits' Are Far Older Relatives Than We Originally Thought - Homo floresiensis
An unexpected journey.
http://www.sciencealert.com/indonesia-s-hobbits-are-far-older-than-we-originally-thought
study http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047248417300866
PR https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-04/anu-ooi042017.php
'Hobbit' species did not evolve from ancestor of modern humans, research finds
Bone study shows there is no evidence the 1.1-metre tall Homo floresiensis had any links with the much larger Homo erectus
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/apr/21/hobbit-species-did-not-evolve-from-ancestor-of-modern-humans-research-finds
Origins of Indonesia's Flores 'hobbits' most likely in Africa and not from 'Java man', study claims
http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sci-tech/origins-of-indonesias-flores-hobbits-most-likely-in-africa-and-not-from-java-man-study-claims-20170421-gvptdr.html
‘Hobbits’ didn’t evolve from a direct modern human ancestor. They likely originate from Africa instead
http://www.zmescience.com/science/anthropology/hobbits-ancestors-study/
The Hobbit: A Lineage More Ancient Than Once Thought?
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2017/04/21/the-hobbit-older-lineage/
Scientists discover hobbits are real, but they're not related to us
Flores hobbits are a distant cousin to humans, and not in our lineage.
http://www.catholic.org/news/technology/story.php?id=74625
Incredible discovery places humans in California 130,000 years ago ( https://youtu.be/bNr_JKAmJ-w , https://youtu.be/ysKQ_UrvM7c )
Date is a whopping 115,000 years earlier than previous findings of humans in the Americas.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/04/unknown-humans-were-in-california-130000-years-ago-say-scientists/
study (full access) http://www.nature.com/articles/nature22065.epdf?referrer_access_token=Rs62gdMseMJLxapUac9lmdRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0Odq55Wqltd4FPUqYwCTOB2gBZU31vG0sCW3Ps77Xwu_7i58BFe239QUxJUhsUgFvTOOn9Vd3xVX3SibMm75FwebwrSEFLT53VIO8ypClBlL3B7sKD_McBbzE9jppLHXJktjk_Hl6GIrluqzPKl3twW4rL9vL64plMWCaQxICGcBKIBtOyTHRxSZ82Q6-D5QVg3xMYN-Z8vgq_5Z_fJZyOe0MSI4TbG9nvbdvwNvbRW3-n6FA9CEAQ-uXO1mnwFwCE%3D&tracking_referrer=arstechnica.com / abstract http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v544/n7651/full/nature22065.html
No Bones About It: Scientists Recover Ancient DNA From Cave Dirt
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/27/science/ancient-human-dna-cave-dirt.html
study http://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2017/04/26/science.aam9695
No bones needed: ancient DNA in soil can tell if humans were around
This “game changer” opens up a new world of possibilities.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/04/no-bones-needed-ancient-dna-in-soil-can-tell-if-humans-were-around/
DNA of extinct humans found in caves
The DNA of extinct humans can be retrieved from sediments in caves - even in the absence of skeletal remains.
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-39747326
Scientists Extract DNA From Ancient Humans Out of Cave Dirt
The new technique promises to transform the study of the hominid family tree
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/new-technique-pulls-ancient-human-dna-out-cave-soil-180963084/
DNA from dirt: Tracing ancient humans found in ‘empty’ caves - AP
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/dna-from-dirt-tracing-ancient-humans-found-in-empty-caves/2017/04/27/19788240-2b74-11e7-9081-f5405f56d3e4_story.html
original https://www.apnews.com/30ef9a5e370645f39c0bc84a8d2f4c94/DNA-from-dirt:-Tracing-ancient-humans-found-in-'empty'-caves
Supreme Court, with Gorsuch, set to hear church-state case - AP
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/supreme-court-with-gorsuch-onboard-hears-church-state-case/2017/04/16/7d2682da-229e-11e7-928e-3624539060e8_story.html
original http://www.bigstory.ap.org/article/f0fc69ac9ac846369459f6b4e4c76d1b/supreme-court-gorsuch-onboard-hears-church-state-case
Why Gorsuch May Not Be So Genteel on the Bench
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/17/us/politics/why-gorsuch-may-not-be-so-genteel-on-the-bench.html
Hearing first arguments as member of the Supreme Court, Gorsuch jumps right in
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/hearing-first-arguments-as-member-of-the-supreme-court-gorsuch-jumps-right-in/2017/04/17/96856404-2392-11e7-a1b3-faff0034e2de_story.html
Bitter Fight Behind Him, Justice Gorsuch Starts Day With Relish
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/17/us/politics/justice-neil-gorsuch-supreme-court.html
Supreme Court case could [WILL] pave the way for vouchers for Christian schools — or do just the opposite [NOT A CHANCE] - Gorsuch
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2017/04/19/supreme-court-case-could-pave-the-way-for-vouchers-for-christian-schools-or-do-just-the-opposite/
the case:
Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia, Inc. v. Comer
http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/trinity-lutheran-church-of-columbia-inc-v-pauley/
The Playground of Liberty Transcript (sub req'd)
http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/amicus/2017/04/amicus_on_trinity_lutheran_v_comer_and_religious_liberty.html
Justices express sympathy with Missouri church at Supreme Court hearing
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/justices-express-sympathy-to-missouri-church-at-supreme-court-hearing/2017/04/19/4d3f8be6-2070-11e7-a0a7-8b2a45e3dc84_story.html
Will the Supreme Court give a big boost to the Trump-DeVos ‘school choice’ agenda?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2017/04/19/will-the-supreme-court-give-a-big-boost-to-the-trump-devos-school-choice-agenda/
Church Playground Case Is a Constitutional Seesaw
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-04-20/church-playground-case-is-a-constitutional-seesaw
The Supreme Court jumps into a playground fight over a phony war on religion
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-supreme-court-picks-a-playground-fight-over-a-phony-war-on-religion/2017/04/19/1c63e204-2540-11e7-b503-9d616bd5a305_story.html
Supreme Court Weighs State Aid to Church Programs
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/19/us/politics/supreme-court-church-state.html
Supreme Court appears ready to break down a church-state barrier in certain circumstances
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-court-religion-schools-20170419-story.html
'Freedom of religion' collides with 'freedom from religion' on a Missouri playground
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-scotus-playground-20170420-story.html
The Conservative Agenda for Gorsuch’s First Week
http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-conservative-agenda-for-gorsuchs-first-week
With Trump’s nominee confirmed, the Supreme Court wades into the religion wars
A battle over chopped up tires is now a battle over God.
https://thinkprogress.org/with-trumps-nominee-confirmed-the-supreme-court-wades-into-the-religion-wars-86235a7c522
Supreme Court justices side with church in playground dispute
http://religionnews.com/2017/04/19/supreme-court-justices-side-with-church-in-playground-dispute/
In Church-State Playground Brawl, Justices Lean Toward The Church
http://www.npr.org/2017/04/19/524748818/in-church-state-playground-brawl-justices-lean-toward-the-church
The Roberts Court, 2017 Edition - now with Gorsuch, even more activist, not seeking consensus - in particular, Missouri church-state case
By Linda Greenhouse
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/27/opinion/the-roberts-court-2017-edition.html
Rape Survivor Listens As Judge Praises Former Mormon Bishop Who Abused Her - tie Warren Jeffs
A Utah judge called convicted sexual predator Keith Vallejo “an extraordinarily good man” before sentencing him to prison.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/rape-survivor-utah-judge-lds-bishop_us_58f0f350e4b0da2ff860352e
FEMALE Detroit physician charged with mutilating girls’ genitalia
http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/detroit-city/2017/04/13/doctor-charged-genital-mutilation/100416734/
Michigan Doctor Is Accused of Genital Cutting of 2 Girls
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/13/us/michigan-doctor-fgm-cutting.html
2nd doctor, wife arraigned in [female] genital mutilation case at Livonia clinic
http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/detroit/2017/04/21/genital-mutilation-livonia-clinic/100747468/
Another doctor, wife charged with female genital mutilation in Michigan
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/midwest/ct-detroit-female-genital-mutilation-case-20170421-story.html
Rogue FBI translator, Clemson grad, married ISIS terrorist
http://www.wsoctv.com/news/local/rogue-fbi-translator-clemson-grad-married-isis-terrorist/518804946
An FBI translator married the ISIS fighter she was supposed to be investigating
https://news.vice.com/story/fbi-translator-daniela-greene-married-the-isis-fighter-she-was-supposed-to-be-investigating
FBI agent married Isis fighter before realising her mistake and fleeing Syria
Daniela Greene returned to the US just a month after trying the knot with Denis Cupert
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/fbi-agent-married-isis-fighter-regrets-syria-returns-cnn-interview-a7712436.html
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Trump biography author recalls president's answer to 'Do you believe in God?'
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/04/17/trump-biography-author-recalls-presidents-answer-to-do-you-bel/22042441/
The Mystery of Good Friday: Why is it Good that Jesus is Punished in Our Place?! - by believer
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/justandsinner/mystery-good-friday-good-jesus-punished-place/
Good Friday’s Hardest-Core Crucifixion Re-Enactors (Photos)
http://www.thedailybeast.com/galleries/2017/04/14/good-friday-brings-gory-re-enactments-of-christ-s-crucifixion.html
The foundational beliefs in Christian crosses - by rabbi
http://www.newsday.com/lifestyle/columnists/god-squad/the-foundational-beliefs-in-christian-crosses-1.13459725
Why do Christians keep inviting you to church?
http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/14/living/christians-invite-easter/
Without hope, what is there? - Catholic source
http://www.thetablet.co.uk/editors-desk/1/9797/without-hope-what-is-there-
Some Terrible Things Happened During One Of The Holiest Weeks Of The Year
It isn’t easy being a person of faith in the world today.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/holy-week-terrible-events_us_58f0fb19e4b0bb9638e373fd
White House aims for Thursday signing of religious liberty executive order
President Donald Trump has invited conservative leaders to the White House on Thursday for what they expect will be the ceremonial signing of a long-awaited—and highly controversial—executive order on religious liberty, according to multiple people familiar with the situation.
Two senior administration officials confirmed the plan, though one cautioned that it hasn’t yet been finalized, and noted that lawyers are currently reviewing and fine-tuning the draft language. Thursday is the National Day of Prayer, and the White House was already planning to celebrate the occasion with faith leaders.
The signing would represent a major triumph for Vice President Mike Pence—whose push for religious-freedom legislation backfired mightily when he served as governor of Indiana—and his allies in the conservative movement.
The original draft order, which would have established broad exemptions for people and groups to claim religious objections under virtually any circumstance, was leaked to The Nation [ https://www.thenation.com/article/leaked-draft-of-trumps-religious-freedom-order-reveals-sweeping-plans-to-legalize-discrimination/ ] on Feb. 1—the handiwork, many conservatives believed, of Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, who have sought to project themselves as friendly to the LGBT community. Liberals blasted the draft order as government-licensed discrimination, and the White House distanced itself from the leaked document in a public statement.
Pence and a small team of conservative allies quickly began working behind the scenes to revise the language, and in recent weeks have ratcheted up the pressure on Trump to sign it. The new draft is being tightly held, but one influential conservative who saw the text said it hasn’t been dialed back much—if at all—since the February leak. “The language is very, very strong,” the source said.
[...]
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/02/donald-trump-religious-liberty-executive-order-237888
Trump to sign executive order making it easier for churches to support political candidates
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-to-sign-executive-order-making-it-easier-for-churches-to-support-political-candidates/2017/05/03/a30294dc-3052-11e7-9dec-764dc781686f_story.html
‘Their dream president’: Trump just gave white evangelicals a big boost
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2017/05/04/their-dream-president-trump-just-gave-white-evangelicals-a-big-boost/
Trump Is Expected to Relax Tax Rules on Churches Endorsing Political Candidates
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/03/us/politics/trump-religion-executive-order-gay-rights.html
More Than 1,000 Faith Leaders Say No Thanks To Trump’s Planned ‘Religious Liberty’ Order
“This is neither what religious freedom means in the eyes of the law, nor what religion itself means to millions of Americans of faith,” the leaders wrote.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/faith-leaders-trump-religious-liberty-order_us_590a36fee4b02655f843d04a
Trump to sign executive order to 'protect and vigorously promote religious liberty'
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/05/03/civil-liberties-groups-pledge-fight-expected-trump-order-religious-freedom/101258922/
As Trump prepares to sign executive order, here's a history of 'religious freedom' laws
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/05/03/trump-prepares-sign-executive-order-heres-history-religious-freedom-laws/101250064/
Civil Rights Groups Are Ready To Sue Trump If He Signs A Broad Religious Freedom Order
“We will fight this with everything we have.”
https://www.buzzfeed.com/dominicholden/religious-freedom-order-possible-lawsuits
Trump Reportedly Will Issue 'License to Discriminate' Order Thursday
http://www.advocate.com/politics/2017/5/02/trump-reportedly-will-issue-license-discriminate-order-thursday
The next 100 days will be even worse: Right-wing bigots urge Trump to sign anti-LGBT order allowing broad discrimination
Conservatives have been pressuring Trump to take even more action targeting the LGBT community for months.
http://www.salon.com/2017/05/02/the-next-100-days-will-be-even-worse-right-wing-bigots-urge-trump-to-sign-anti-lgbt-order-allowing-broad-discrimination/
Many religious freedom advocates are actually disappointed with Trump’s executive order
[...]
The American Civil Liberties Union, which many might expect would oppose the executive order, said Thursday that it had no plans to file a lawsuit. The ACLU’s executive director, Anthony Romero, said in a statement that the order was “an elaborate photo-op with no discernible policy outcome.”
[...]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2017/05/05/many-religious-freedom-advocates-are-disappointed-with-trumps-executive-order/
Kansas City [KS] Archdiocese Cutting Ties With Girl Scouts Over 'Troubling Trends' - tie KCK archdiocese child sex abuse posts
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/05/02/526570123/kansas-city-archdiocese-cutting-ties-with-girl-scouts-over-troubling-trends
Kansas archdiocese severs ties with Girl Scouts and urges end to cookie sales
http://www.kansascity.com/living/religion/article147857619.html
Why avoiding the Girl Scouts is a ‘sane, balanced’ move - Cstholic site Crux
Archbishop Joseph Naumann of Kansas City has reached a sane, balanced conclusion in deciding to transition his diocese away from the Girl Scouts. Available evidence shows women are much better off if they take sex seriously, understand its natural links with marriage and kids, delay sex at best until marriage, practice a faith, and avoid nonmarital parenting, abortion, and divorce.
https://cruxnow.com/commentary/2017/05/03/avoiding-girl-scouts-sane-balanced-move/
This Girl Scout Smiling In The Face Of A Neo-Nazi Is A Total Hero - Czech Republic
May we all be as cool, calm and collected in the face of hate.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/this-girl-scout-smiling-in-the-face-of-a-neo-nazi-is-a-total-hero_us_5909d970e4b05c397684c40e
Psychedelic drugs induce 'heightened state of consciousness', brain scans show
Study records what appears to be the first evidence for mind-opening state experienced by users of LSD, ketamine and psilocybin
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/apr/19/brain-scans-reveal-mind-opening-response-to-psychedelic-drug-trip-lsd-ketamine-psilocybin
study (full text) https://www.nature.com/articles/srep46421
Psychedelic drugs push the brain to a state never seen before
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2128192-psychedelic-drugs-push-the-brain-to-a-state-never-seen-before/
What does an LSD-style drug-induced 'higher state of consciousness' feel like?
The effects of psychedelic drugs can lead to colours seeming more vivid and things seeming more beautiful, finds Rosalind Stone
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/apr/20/what-does-an-lsd-style-drug-induced-higher-state-of-consciousness-feel-like
Music helps hallucinogens heal minds, scientist finds - clinical depression therapy
http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Music-helps-hallucinogens-heal-minds-scientist-11084965.php
related talk http://psychedelicscience.org/conference/clinical/the-psychological-and-neurophysiological-effects-of-music-in-combination-with-psychedelics
YT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJkq-2e6qTc
We're Entering A New Golden Age of Psychedelics, and Portland is Leading the Way
“Portland is the psychedelic underbelly of America. It’s underground, but it’s everywhere.”
http://www.wweek.com/culture/2017/04/18/can-lsd-make-you-better-at-your-job-the-guy-in-the-cubicle-next-to-you-might-be-trying-it/
The Exhaustive List Of Everyone Who’s Died Of A Marijuana Overdose
Because cannabis is among the most dangerous drugs, according to the government.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/marijuana-lethal-dose_us_58f4ec07e4b0b9e9848d6297
Human Umbilical Cord Blood Helps Aging Mice Remember, Study Finds
Researchers found that a protein in human umbilical cord blood plasma improved learning and memory in older mice, but there's no indication [at least not yet] it would work in people.
http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/04/19/523975844/human-umbilical-cord-blood-helps-aging-mice-remember-study-finds
study (full access) http://www.nature.com/articles/nature22067.epdf?referrer_access_token=IYg_TU2JlsQDUpNj_9eoENRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0MNHbxq4abz3bnBs4D7TOYsHOw9XxBw2zWU_Y1pp8fUHds8smHaJXYmy0YEimrhynXSrU0FutXKFdxnGLtaV_xGJBW8JG5sIsS4q1uYETQkWAWp3Jcb0LpZnql734Pb0WHMzAjD9aOG2qhOszFn-p0uZQ4Z4lCU4wyV_l8ZdEQ2Q06kZtyW7d1zBFmDegEyO7LXxTtzp9kqUI9NWC7U9y9ewSkUVswhGL5TkOIshqxxNhisKsyVcXKaQyFo8TRhzGU2HXcZ4bVdP8JLRAa8uWLo&tracking_referrer=www.npr.org / (abstract) http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature22067.html
Fountain of Youth? Young Blood Infusions “Rejuvenate” Old Mice
Elderly rodents that received human umbilical cord blood improved significantly in memory tests
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fountain-of-youth-young-blood-infusions-ldquo-rejuvenate-rdquo-old-mice/
The PLasma for Alzheimer SymptoM Amelioration (PLASMA) Study (PLASMA)
This study is ongoing, but not recruiting participants.
Purpose
The PLasma for Alzheimer SymptoM Amelioration (PLASMA) Study: Intravenously-Administered Plasma From Young Donors for Treatment of Mild-To-Moderate Alzheimer's Disease
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02256306
Experts excited by brain 'wonder-drug'
Scientists hope they have found a drug to stop all neurodegenerative brain diseases, including dementia.
http://www.bbc.com/news/health-39641123
related video http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p050lwdn
study (full text) https://academic.oup.com/brain/article/doi/10.1093/brain/awx074/3737867/Repurposed-drugs-targeting-eIF2-P-mediated
earlier:
Alzheimer's breakthrough hailed as 'turning point'
The discovery of the first chemical to prevent the death of brain tissue in a neurodegenerative disease has been hailed as the "turning point" in the fight against Alzheimer's disease.
10 October 2013
http://www.bbc.com/news/health-24462699
‘Wonder drugs’ might prevent all forms of dementia. One of the drugs is already safe for humans
http://www.zmescience.com/medicine/mind-and-brain/wonder-drugs-dementia-4324/
Two existing drugs halt neurodegeneration in mice
Researchers have made a major leap forward in the treatment of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, after identifying two existing drugs that prevented brain cell death in mouse models of neurodegenerative disease.
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/317028.php
Two older drugs could be 'repurposed' to fight dementia
http://www.nhs.uk/news/2017/04April/Pages/Two-older-drugs-could-be-repurposed-to-fight-dementia.aspx
Thousands of tiny satellites are about to go into space and possibly ruin it forever ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zT7typHkpVg , [3D stereoscopic] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzrMHWjQCtc ) - ESA video re space junk
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/04/21/thousands-of-tiny-satellites-are-about-to-go-into-space-and-possibly-ruin-it-forever/
Science in America - Neil deGrasse Tyson - next two items are about this video (originally on Facebook)
Apr 19, 2017
We offer this 4min video on “Science in America”, containing what may be the most important words Neil deGrasse Tyson has ever spoken.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MqTOEospfo
Neil deGrasse Tyson Warns Science Denial Could 'Dismantle' Democracy
http://www.livescience.com/58758-neil-tyson-science-denial-could-dismantle-democracy.html
Neil DeGrasse Tyson says this new video may contain the 'most important words' he's ever spoken
https://www.businessinsider.com.au/neil-degrasse-tyson-most-important-words-video-2017-4
Dartmouth Professor to Speak Out at Concord March For Science
http://nhpr.org/post/dartmouth-professor-speak-out-concord-march-science
People trust science. So why don't they believe it?
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/04/20/science-march-war-truth-political-polarization/100636124/
March for Science or March for Reality?
Hostility toward the former is troublesome, but hostility toward the latter is the underlying issue
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/march-for-science-or-march-for-reality/
Scientists, Stop Thinking Explaining Science Will Fix Things
It won’t. Try this instead. - communicate science strategically
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2017/04/explaining_science_won_t_fix_information_illiteracy.html
Why scientists are marching on Washington and more than 400 other cities
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/04/20/why-scientists-are-marching-on-washington-and-more-than-400-other-cities/
March For Science On Earth Day To Resist Trump’s War On Facts
http://www.nationalmemo.com/march-science-earth-day-resist-trumps-war-facts/
Why We March for Science, by Judith S. Weis
http://easthamptonstar.com/Opinion/2017420/Why-We-March-Science-Judith-S-Weis
March for Science will take scientists’ activism to a new level
https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/science-public/march-science-will-take-scientists-activism-new-level
The Climate Change Deniers in Congress - majority in both chambers
How many are representing your state?
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/a-guide-to-the-climate-change-deniers-in-congress
Climate Change Is Getting Worse And So Is Media's Coverage Of It ( https://youtu.be/h7ZQS6pAoIs )
https://mediamatters.org/blog/2017/04/29/climate-change-getting-worse-and-so-medias-coverage-it/216211
Sowing Climate Doubt Among Schoolteachers
PAUL SMITHS, N.Y. — The Heartland Institute, a conservative think tank known for attacking climate science, has been mailing a slim, glossy book to public school teachers throughout the United States. The institute says it plans to send out as many as 200,000 copies [ http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/climate-change-skeptic-group-seeks-to-influence-200000-teachers/ ], until virtually every science educator in America has one.
The book, “Why Scientists Disagree About Global Warming [ https://www.heartland.org/publications-resources/publications/why-scientists-disagree-about-global-warming ],” presents the false premise that the evidence for human-driven climate change [ http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/science/topics/globalwarming/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier ] is deeply flawed. To understand where the Heartland Institute is coming from, consider a recent comment by its president, Joseph Bast, who called global warming “another fake crisis” for Democrats “to hype to scare voters and raise campaign dollars.”
The book was first published in 2015, to coincide with the Paris climate conference and influence policy makers. The second edition was released this year with an instructional DVD.
Public school teachers are not the only ones on the institute’s mailing list. College educators are getting copies of the book, too. One academic in Albany told me that hers arrived in an envelope bearing the headline of a New York Times article about an investigation into Exxon Mobil for possibly lying about climate change. “I was in a rush, and all I noticed was the word ‘climate’ in a New York Times headline,” she said. “That made me open it rather than throw it out.”
The cover letter inside, however, made the book’s premise clear. “Claims of a ‘scientific consensus’ ” on climate change, it read, “rest on two college student papers, the writings of a wacky Australian blogger, and a non-peer-reviewed essay by a socialist historian.” In fact, multiple surveys of the scientific literature show that well over 90 percent of published climate scientists have concluded that recent global warming is both real and mostly the result of human activity.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/27/opinion/sowing-climate-doubt-among-schoolteachers.html
The right wing is furious about the ‘March for Science’
Climate change deniers have been emboldened by Donald Trump's win, and they're taking to the Internet to express their frustration with scientists' claim that the debate has been settled.
http://www.babwnews.com/2017/04/the-right-wing-is-furious-about-the-march-for-science/
Climate experts: Global warming doubts are 'real science'
There are 'good reasons why scientists disagree about this wickedly complex puzzle'
http://www.wnd.com/2017/04/climate-experts-global-warming-doubts-are-real-science/
Who Is Qualified To Be A Climate Spokesperson?
http://dailycaller.com/2017/04/28/open-letter-from-a-climate-expert-to-president-trump/
EPA removes climate change information from website - further to http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=130928885
http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/29/politics/epa-climate-change-website/
Climate March draws massive crowd to D.C. in sweltering heat
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/climate-march-expected-to-draw-massive-crowd-to-dc-in-sweltering-heat/2017/04/28/1bdf5e66-2c3a-11e7-b605-33413c691853_story.html
Climate marches draw hundreds of thousands on Donald Trump’s 100th day in office
https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/29/climate-marches-draw-hundreds-of-thousands-on-donald-trumps-100th-day-in-office/
Why Muslims are marching for climate
Nana Firman: I am not alone
Muslims -- and indeed the majority of Americans outside the White House -- are united on the urgency of the issue of climate change
http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/28/opinions/muslim-world-climate-march-firman-opinion/
The Climate March's Big Tent Strategy Draws a Big Crowd
But will it make a difference?
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/04/the-people-who-came-to-the-climate-march/524865/
‘It can’t just be a march. It has to be a movement.’ What’s next for climate activists?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/04/30/it-cant-just-be-a-march-it-has-to-be-a-movement-whats-next-for-climate-activists/
Trump Delivers 100 Days of Climate Change Denial
http://www.newsweek.com/trump-delivers-100-days-climate-change-denial-592007
Dems blast Trump's policies at Climate March
http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/331229-dems-blast-trump-environmental-policies-at-climate-march
Thousands March In D.C. To Protest Trump Climate Policies
Thousands of marchers converged in Washington, D.C. for what organizers called the People's Climate March, stopping in front of the White House to boo and yell "shame!"
http://www.npr.org/2017/04/30/526250791/thousands-march-in-d-c-to-protest-trump-climate-policies
Sea of protesters hit streets nationally to protest Trump a Peoples Climate March - Reuters
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/04/sea-of-protesters-hit-streets-nationally-to-protest-trump-a-peoples-climate-march/
original http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-protest-idUSKBN17V0B7 - video http://www.reuters.com/news/picture/protesters-rally-during-climate-march?articleId=USRTS14I33
Russia shows off robotic gunslinger
Commentary: Russia's deputy prime minister, Dmitry Rogozin, proudly tweets video of a Russian Robocop in action.
https://www.cnet.com/news/planning-death-social-media-digital-assets/
SEE IT: Russian deputy prime minister who reportedly shot self in foot insists gun-wielding robot will not become a Terminator
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/russia-insists-gun-wielding-robot-not-terminator-article-1.3064961
Russian YT re this robot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyHcX0Aj300
Russia Trains Robot To Shoot Guns: Can Humans Prevent Rise Of Terminator-Like Killing Machines?
http://www.techtimes.com/articles/205103/20170417/russia-trains-robot-to-shoot-guns-can-humans-prevent-rise-of-terminator-like-killing-machines.htm
"We are not creating a Terminator": Russia denies risk as Putin's 'robot army' is trained to shoot guns
Posting a clip showing armed robot FEDOR in action, Deputy PM insists teaching the androids to shoot will help improve their motor skills and decision-making abilities
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/we-not-creating-terminator-russia-10237755
Russian Terminator Humanoid Robot FEDOR Learns To Shoot With Both Hands
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJn9UgADcPY
Putin's 'robot army' is trained to shoot guns - russian army taifun-m combat robot live fire test
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9Z8xP2khgw
Russian Robot Shooting Gun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fope0HU-6zE
Russian Robot FEDOR Learns To Shoot Glocks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZauGhfv-1w
'Russian Terminator' shows shooting skills
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHSgGmEYsjI
Russia shows off robotic gunslinger
Commentary: Russia's deputy prime minister, Dmitry Rogozin, proudly tweets video of a Russian Robocop in action.
https://www.cnet.com/news/planning-death-social-media-digital-assets/
SEE IT: Russian deputy prime minister who reportedly shot self in foot insists gun-wielding robot will not become a Terminator
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/russia-insists-gun-wielding-robot-not-terminator-article-1.3064961
Russian YT re this robot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyHcX0Aj300
Russia Trains Robot To Shoot Guns: Can Humans Prevent Rise Of Terminator-Like Killing Machines?
http://www.techtimes.com/articles/205103/20170417/russia-trains-robot-to-shoot-guns-can-humans-prevent-rise-of-terminator-like-killing-machines.htm
"We are not creating a Terminator": Russia denies risk as Putin's 'robot army' is trained to shoot guns
Posting a clip showing armed robot FEDOR in action, Deputy PM insists teaching the androids to shoot will help improve their motor skills and decision-making abilities
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/we-not-creating-terminator-russia-10237755
Russian Terminator Humanoid Robot FEDOR Learns To Shoot With Both Hands
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJn9UgADcPY
Putin's 'robot army' is trained to shoot guns - russian army taifun-m combat robot live fire test
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9Z8xP2khgw
Russian Robot Shooting Gun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fope0HU-6zE
Russian Robot FEDOR Learns To Shoot Glocks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZauGhfv-1w
'Russian Terminator' shows shooting skills
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHSgGmEYsjI
New human rights to protect against 'mind hacking' and brain data theft proposed
A response to advances in neurotechnology that can read or alter brain activity, new human rights would protect people from theft, abuse and hacking
New human rights that would protect people from having their thoughts and other brain information stolen, abused or hacked have been proposed by researchers.
The move is a response to the rapid advances being made with technologies that read or alter brain activity and which many expect to bring enormous benefits to people’s lives in the coming years.
Much of the technology has been developed for hospitals to diagnose or treat medical conditions, but some of the tools – such as brainwave monitoring devices that allow people to play video games with their minds, or brain stimulators that claim to boost mental performance – are finding their way into shops.
But these and other advances in neurotechnology raise fresh threats to privacy and personal freedom, according to Marcello Ienca, a neuroethicist at the University of Basel, and Roberto Andorno, a human rights lawyer at the University of Zurich. Writing in the journal Life Sciences, Society and Policy, the pair put forward four new human rights that are intended to preserve the brain as the last refuge for human privacy.
“The question we asked was whether our current human rights framework was well equipped to face this new trend in neurotechnology,” Ienca told the Guardian. Having reviewed the rights in place today, the pair concluded that more must be done to protect people.
“The information in our brains should be entitled to special protections in this era of ever-evolving technology,” Ienca said. “When that goes, everything goes.”
The suggested new rights assert what the researchers call cognitive liberty, mental privacy, mental integrity and psychological continuity. ...
[...]
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/apr/26/new-human-rights-to-protect-against-mind-hacking-and-brain-data-theft-proposed
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Published on May 2, 2017 by The Alex Jones Channel [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvsye7V9psc-APX6wV1twLg / https://www.youtube.com/user/TheAlexJonesChannel , https://www.youtube.com/user/TheAlexJonesChannel/videos ]
Tuesday, May 2nd 2017: A controversial $1 trillion spending package is approved by Congress, with meager wins for Republicans: no cuts to Planned Parenthood, Sanctuary cities or funding for the border wall. Meanwhile, North Korea warns of the "final doom of the US" as Trump sends bombers over the Korean peninsula. Millie Weaver joins the show to discuss Monday's May Day events and protests around the Texas capital, as well as a mass stabbing at the University of Texas at Austin. Journalist Mike Cernovich also breaks down the progress in Trump's first 100 days and what still needs to be accomplished.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpj6HmUGVa4 [with comments]
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Clinton reflects on election loss (Full event)
Published on May 2, 2017 by CNN [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCupvZG-5ko_eiXAupbDfxWw / https://www.youtube.com/user/CNN , https://www.youtube.com/user/CNN/videos ]
Former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton talks to CNN's Christiane Amanpour at a Women for Women International event about her 2016 election loss and fighting to advance women's issues around the globe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6RPkqwFmME [with comments]
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Infowars 3-5 - Soulmates: Ivanka, Hillary & Eleanor Roosevelt - 05/02/2017
Streamed live on May 2, 2017 by The Alex Jones Channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8859223CEEk [with comments]
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Trump is Panicking About Russia | The Resistance with Keith Olbermann | GQ
Published on May 2, 2017 by GQ [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsEukrAd64fqA7FjwkmZ_Dw / https://www.youtube.com/user/GQVideos , https://www.youtube.com/user/GQVideos/videos , https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0hKMB1-xkc-XWNf9VL-LxVYysdHpjyMF ]
And he wants us not to notice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYBtS1eKO94 [with comments]
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Infowars Nightly News - Trump's George Soros Problem - 05/02/2017
Streamed live on May 2, 2017 by The Alex Jones Channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVRCRLhSyPE [with comments]
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The GOP has a pre-existing condition
All In with Chris Hayes
5/2/17
Republicans made health care promises that are impossible to keep. And now they're coming back to haunt them. Duration: 5:56
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/the-gop-has-a-pre-existing-condition-935028291665 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KcFCSf_rIw [with comments]
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Trump 'rolled' on budget deal
All In with Chris Hayes
5/2/17
The Trump administration's budget director Mick Mulvaney defended the negotiating prowess of his boss today after both Democrats and Republicans seemed to agree the Trump administration got rolled. Duration: 2:29
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-rolled-on-budget-deal-935041091576
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What's on Steve Bannon's whiteboard?
All In with Chris Hayes
5/2/17
Thanks to photos posted on social media by self-proclaimed 'America's Rabbi' Shmuley Boteach, we got a look at what the president's chief strategist has written on his office walls. Duration: 1:31
What's Your Favorite Part of Steve Bannon's Whiteboard?
[ https://twitter.com/RabbiShmuley/status/859514352755453954 (with comments)]
[ https://twitter.com/KFILE/status/859537037959073792 (with comments)]
"Cancel all federal funding to sanctuary cities" or "build the border wall and eventually make Mexico..."?
May 2, 2017
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/news/a54855/steve-bannon-white-board/
Stephen Bannon’s to-do list, annotated
May 3, 2017
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/05/03/steve-bannons-to-do-list-annotated/ [with embedded video, and comments]
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/what-s-on-steve-bannon-s-whiteboard-935028803961 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7uqfUyfBcY [with comments]
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Trump administration makes mess spinning spending bill
The Rachel Maddow Show
5/2/17
Rachel Maddow shows the Trump administration attempting to spin the new spending bill news into a positive light for themselves but falling short with the means of communicating that spin, including a disastrous conference call with reporters. Duration: 14:34
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-administration-makes-mess-spinning-spending-bill-935073859865 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3xUR5Z_FNc [with comments]
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Yates expected to refute White House story in upcoming testimony
The Rachel Maddow Show
5/2/17
Rachel Maddow reports on upcoming testimony in the Trump Russia case before several Congressional committees, including that of former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates, who is expected to challenge the White House characterization of her warning to them ... more Duration: 10:53
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/yates-expected-to-refute-white-house-story-in-upcoming-testimony-935112771758
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Programming note! Rachel Maddow with Seth Meyers tonight!
The Rachel Maddow Show
5/2/17
Rachel Maddow alerts viewers that she will be a guest on Late Night with Seth Meyers tonight. Duration: 2:09
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/programming-note-rachel-maddow-with-seth-meyers-tonight-935100483891
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Trump risks emboldening despots with praise
The Rachel Maddow Show
5/2/17
Michael Beschloss, NBC News presidential historian, talks with Rachel Maddow about how an American administration that does not communicate a clear insistence on human rights and democratic values risks sending a wrong signal to leaders who do not share those values. Duration: 6:09
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-risks-emboldening-despots-with-praise-935146563990
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Jimmy Kimmel's heart and the GOP's health care history
The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell
5/2/17
Lawrence O'Donnell puts Jimmy Kimmel's powerful plea for a key provision of Obamacare, based on the story of his newborn son's emergency heart surgery, in context of the current health care fight – and the one that's been happening for nearly half a century. Duration: 9:33
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/jimmy-kimmel-s-heart-and-the-gop-s-health-care-history-935118915659 [and see also in particular (linked in) http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=131021144 and preceding and following]
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'How Donald Trump Could Get Fired': The 25th Amendment
The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell
5/2/17
The New Yorker's Evan Osnos joins Lawrence O'Donnell to discuss his new article "How Donald Trump Could Get Fired" and the conversation happening in this country about Trump's ability to do the job of President. Duration: 7:15
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/-how-donald-trump-could-get-fired-the-25th-amendment-935111235525 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdn_XvJWaw0 [with comments] [the YouTube also at/see also in particular (linked in) http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=131021209 and preceding (and any future following)]
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Trump & Putin share call ahead of Russia testimony on the Hill
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
5/2/17
MSNBC's Brian Williams and his panel preview upcoming testimony from James Comey & Sally Yates on Russia, plus look at what we know about the phone call Pres. Trump had with Vladimir Putin. Duration: 14:33
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/trump-putin-share-call-ahead-of-russia-testimony-on-the-hill-935120963997
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Fmr. ambassador blasts Trump for doubting Russia election hacks
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
5/2/17
Former U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul on why it makes him nervous that Trump again cast doubt on whether Russia interfered in the 2016 election. Duration: 0:52
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/fmr-ambassador-blasts-trump-for-doubting-russia-election-hacks-935125571949 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWF1nrpPrPY [with comments]
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NYTimes details Ivanka Trump's agenda & influence on her father
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
5/2/17
Now that she's working in the Trump White House, what is Ivanka Trump's role, what does she believe in, and what will be her influence over her father? MSNBC's Brian Williams talks to his panel. Duration: 5:18
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/nytimes-details-ivanka-trump-s-agenda-influence-on-her-father-935128131915
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Why does Hillary Clinton think she lost the 2016 election?
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
5/2/17
Speaking out in a rare public appearance, Hillary Clinton discusses the variety of reasons she thinks the 2016 election did not go her way. MSNBC's Brian Williams discusses with his panel. Duration: 5:52
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/why-does-hillary-clinton-think-she-lost-the-2016-election-935134787595 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CR4ZmA92dY0 [with comments]
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Hillary Clinton: The One That Got Away: The Daily Show
Published on May 2, 2017 by The Daily Show with Trevor Noah [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwWhs_6x42TyRM4Wstoq8HA , https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwWhs_6x42TyRM4Wstoq8HA/videos ]
In one of her first interviews since the 2016 election, Hillary Clinton throws shade at President Trump and reminds America what competency sounds like.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WiyVKuuWWU [with (approaching 4,000) comments]
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Real Talk From Out-Of-Context Trump
Published on May 3, 2017 by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMtFAi84ehTSYSE9XoHefig , https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMtFAi84ehTSYSE9XoHefig/videos ]
Take him out of context and the President starts to make a lot more sense.
[originally aired May 2, 2017]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3x5NnCB1NE [with comments]
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Hillary Comes Out Of The Woods And Wonders 'What If?'
Published on May 3, 2017 by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Much like the President, Hillary Clinton hasn't been able to forget the 2016 election results.
[originally aired May 2, 2017]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBvnBynpz_Q [with comments]
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The New U.S. Constitution As Written By Trump
Published on May 3, 2017 by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
It didn't take Trump long to turn the Bill of Rights into the Bill of Alt-Rights.
[originally aired May 2, 2017]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqfclf_3IXI [with comments]
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The Check In: Airline Deregulation
Published on May 2, 2017 by Late Night with Seth Meyers [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVTyTA7-g9nopHeHbeuvpRA / https://www.youtube.com/user/LateNightSeth , https://www.youtube.com/user/LateNightSeth/videos ]
Seth checks in on how nearly 40 years of government deregulation led to the horrific incidents and poor service of airlines today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6BaG02oid4 [with comments]
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Rachel Maddow Recounts Her Phone Call with Donald Trump
Published on May 3, 2017 by Late Night with Seth Meyers
Rachel Maddow talks to Seth about the impact the Trump administration has had on the news cycle and recalls an unrecorded conversation with Donald Trump during Republican primaries.
[originally aired May 2, 2017 (U.S. central time)]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FETM4wGBK4 [with comments]
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Rachel Maddow on the Helpfulness of President Trump's Ignorance
Published on May 3, 2017 by Late Night with Seth Meyers
Rachel Maddow breaks down the benefits and drawbacks to Donald Trump not knowing how policy and government work and who the Democratic Party needs to follow to future victory.
[originally aired May 2, 2017 (U.S. central time)]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vURbsgxcN4 [with comments]
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WATCH LIVE: FBI Director James Comey testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee
Streamed live on May 3, 2017 by PBS NewsHour [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6ZFN9Tx6xh-skXCuRHCDpQ / https://www.youtube.com/user/PBSNewsHour , https://www.youtube.com/user/PBSNewsHour/videos ]
The Kremlin Playbook
Understanding Russian Influence in Central and Eastern Europe
October 13, 2016
intro: https://www.csis.org/analysis/kremlin-playbook
full text (90 pp.): http://www.csd.bg/fileadmin/user_upload/160928_Conley_KremlinPlaybook_Web.pdf
The Kremlin Playbook: Understanding Russian Influence in Central and Eastern Europe
Streamed live on Oct 13, 2016 by Center for Strategic & International Studies [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCr5jq6MC_VCe1c5ciIZtk_w / https://www.youtube.com/user/csisdc , https://www.youtube.com/user/csisdc/videos ]
The CSIS Europe Program, in partnership with Sofia-based Center for the Study of Democracy (CSD), recently concluded a sixteen-month study on Russian economic and political influence in Central and Eastern Europe. The study's leading authors will present the key findings from the report, which illuminate the linkages between Russia's growing economic and investment presence in Central and Eastern Europe and the region's general decline in political stability, diminishment of democratic institutions, and erosion of governance standards in five case study countries. Described as an "unvirtuous circle" of Russian Influence, the report traces the work of Russian cultivated networks of patronage across the region that it actively uses to influence and direct decision-making that is in line with the Kremlin's interests.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTEhGK-05hE [with comments]
The Comey Letter Probably Cost Clinton The Election
So why won’t the media admit as much?
By Nate Silver
May 3, 2017
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-comey-letter-probably-cost-clinton-the-election/ [with comments]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jz8ug1UY-2k [comments disabled]
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President Trump Gives A Joint Statement With Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas | TIME
Streamed live on May 3, 2017 by TIME [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8Su5vZCXWRag13H53zWVwA / https://www.youtube.com/user/TimeMagazine , https://www.youtube.com/user/TimeMagazine/videos ]
US President Donald Trump will host Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas at the White House on Wednesday to discuss the path forward in the long-running Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
Remarks by President Trump and President Abbas of the Palestinian Authority in Joint Statement
Roosevelt Room
May 03, 2017
https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/05/03/remarks-president-trump-and-president-abbas-palestinian-authority-joint [official transcript]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVNyB3-O_JM [with comments] [also at e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mg-o2am_zmE (comments disabled)] [no official upload yet at https://www.youtube.com/user/whitehouse/videos ]
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Full Show - Hillary Clinton Blames Everyone Else But Herself For Losing - 05/03/2017
Published on May 3, 2017 by The Alex Jones Channel
Wednesday, May 3rd 2017: A historic 30-hour broadcast in defense of free speech starting at 11am! We are under an unprecedented attack by the globalists using lawsuits and other means to shut down the spread of truth and information which threatens their power grab. But their attacks only make us more determined! Guests include Dr. Ron Paul, Ben Garrison, Roger Stone, and more!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aA9BpTN9-Mk [with comments]
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Barack And Michelle Obama Unveil Model Of Presidential Library | TIME
Streamed live on May 3, 2017 by TIME
Former President Barack Obama and Former First Lady Michelle Obama unveil a model of the presidential library in Chicago.
Obama unveils design, vision for future presidential library
The Obama Foundation on Wednesday released renderings of the future presidential library and museum in Chicago.
May 3, 2017 Updated May 3, 2017
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/05/03/president-obama-michelle-obama-unveils-design-future-presidential-library/101238328/ [with embedded video, and comments]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojnryDc8ND0 [with comments]
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Why Won’t the Press Ask Trump Anything? | The Resistance with Keith Olbermann | GQ
Published on May 3, 2017 by GQ
American reporters are too afraid to demand answers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRU51OvhSyw [with comments]
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Infowars In Defense Of Free Speech - Pt.2
Streamed live on May 3, 2017 by The Alex Jones Channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PU3dTe1dc0A [with comments]
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SBA 2017 Gala - Vice President Mike Pence Keynote Address
Published on May 4, 2017 by Susan B. Anthony List [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCweaynfcfOijvB8icPqU3sQ / https://www.youtube.com/user/sbalist , https://www.youtube.com/user/sbalist/videos ]
May 3, 2017 - 10th Annual Susan B. Anthony List Campaign for Life Gala featuring a keynote address by Vice President Mike Pence.
More information:
https://www.sba-list.org/gala
https://www.sba-list.org/newsroom/press-releases/vice-president-mike-pence-keynote-susan-b-anthony-lists-10th-annual-gala
Remarks by Vice President Pence at Susan B. Anthony List Campaign for Life Gala
Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium
Washington, D.C.
May 03, 2017
https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/05/04/remarks-vice-president-pence-susan-b-anthony-list-campaign-life-gala [official transcript]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2uiHdcgWus [with comment]
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Rep. Mike Pence @ Susan B. Anthony Gala 2011
Uploaded on Feb 23, 2011 by Susan B. Anthony List
Rep. Mike Pence from Indiana was the keynote speaker for the Susan B. Anthony List's fourth annual Campaign for Life Gala this February 16th 2011 at Willard Intercontinental Hotel, in Washington, D.C. Mike Pence is the leader of "Title X Abortion Provider Prohibition Act". He also recently proposed an amendment to the H.R. 1 Continuing Resolution budget bill that denies federal funding to Planned Parenthood and its affiliates through the end of the fiscal year. The amendment passed with House voting 240-185 on Feb. 18th.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0501L_2Tmc0 [with comments]
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Booker: GOP health care bill a 'death knell'
All In with Chris Hayes
5/3/17
Sen. Cory Booker says the House Republican health care bill 'will cost American lives' if it becomes law. Duration: 4:02
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/booker-gop-health-care-bill-a-death-knell-935927875752 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIHOq0Y-634 [with comments]
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1M in NYC could lose insurance under GOP plan
All In with Chris Hayes
5/3/17
One million New Yorkers would stand to lose their health insurance under the current Republican plan, says New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio. Duration: 5:19
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/1m-in-nyc-could-lose-insurance-under-gop-plan-935931971612 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGOV_zaUW2o [with comments]
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Spicer tries to sell border fence as wall
All In with Chris Hayes
5/3/17
Sean Spicer showed up in the briefing room with some visual aides...but still had a hard time selling the fence as a wall. Duration: 2:20
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/spicer-tries-to-sell-border-fence-as-wall-935931459983
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New GOP defense tactic targets Trump Russia dossier
The Rachel Maddow Show
5/3/17
Rachel Maddow points out how the Republican Party has switched to full push-back mode on the Trump Russia dossier and the overall investigation into ties between the Donald Trump campaign and Russian interference in the 2016 election. Duration: 18:30
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/new-gop-defense-tactic-targets-trump-russia-dossier-936009795668
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Ivanka Trump's influence in White House difficult to discern
The Rachel Maddow Show
5/3/17
Jodi Kantor, reporter for The New York Times, talks with Rachel Maddow about Ivanka Trump's relationship with her father and the nature of her role in the White House. Duration: 10:56
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/ivanka-trump-s-influence-in-white-house-difficult-to-discern-936016963858 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18wjE9T9Aj4 [with comments]
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Trump judgment on second pick for Army secretary questioned
The Rachel Maddow Show
5/3/17
Rachel Maddow reports on mounting criticism of Mark Green, Donald Trump's second try at picking an Army secretary, whose anti-LGBTQ views and peculiar understanding of evolution have come under fire. Duration: 2:13
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-judgment-on-second-pick-for-army-secretary-questioned-936024132002
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Lawrence: Comey's false choice on Clinton email probe
The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell
5/3/17
FBI Director James Comey defended his handling of the Clinton email investigation by saying it wasn't politically motivated, but Lawrence O'Donnell argues that every decision Comey made involved politics. Duration: 8:36
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/lawrence-comey-s-false-choice-on-clinton-email-probe-936009795621 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhwIlcoEXl0 [with comments]
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Wall Street: Don't listen to Donald Trump!
The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell
5/3/17
Early in Donald Trump's presidency, the stock markets would react to even a single tweet. Already, Wall Street is warning it doesn't take Trump literally anymore and is dismissing what he says and tweets. Lawrence O'Donnell discusses with MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle. Duration: 6:45
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/wall-street-don-t-listen-to-donald-trump-936009283709 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3h6SZs9okmI [with comments]
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An urgent message about the latest GOP health bill
The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell
5/3/17
On the eve of the House vote on the latest repeal and replace bill, Robert Greenstein, president of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, tells Lawrence O’Donnell how the late changes to pick up GOP votes has made "an appalling bill significantly worse." Duration: 6:15
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/an-urgent-message-about-the-latest-gop-health-bill-935994947957
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Trump: Middle East peace 'maybe not as difficult' as people think
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
5/3/17
Meeting with Palestinian leader Abbas, Trump sounded really confident about a peace deal. But it's not the first time we've heard this confidence from Trump as both candidate & president. Duration: 2:39
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/trump-middle-east-peace-maybe-not-as-difficult-as-people-think-936020035629 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0vr5BUkq2s [with comments]
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FBI boss Comey: Russia the 'greatest threat' to U.S. democracy
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
5/3/17
How did the White House respond after FBI Director Comey called Russia the greatest threat to American democracy? MSNBC's Brian Williams talks to Glenn Thrush, Ashley Parker, & Jonathan Lemire. Duration: 10:57
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/fbi-boss-comey-russia-the-greatest-threat-to-u-s-democracy-936016963897
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FBI Director Comey: WikiLeaks is just about 'intelligence porn'
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
5/3/17
What did we learn from Comey's Capitol Hill testimony when it comes to the intelligence community and the threat from Russia? MSNBC's Brian Williams talks to Jeremy Bash & Michael Crowley. Duration: 7:45
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/fbi-director-comey-wikileaks-is-just-about-intelligence-porn-936024131905 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSuj5rUMX2A [with comments]
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GOP Rep. Burgess says pre-existing conditions won't cost more
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
5/3/17
MSNBC's Brian Williams talks to Rep. Michael Burgess (R-TX) about the upcoming vote on the Republican health care plan and what exactly is in the bill. Duration: 2:01
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/gop-rep-burgess-says-pre-existing-conditions-won-t-cost-more-936030275850 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJuiuZgmC1I [with comments]
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Why does Trump use a different microphone than past presidents?
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
5/3/17
MSNBC's Brian Williams talks to veteran DC advance man Josh King about the aesthetic changes Donald Trump has made since coming to office - and more importantly, why Trump might have made them. Duration: 4:01
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/why-does-trump-use-a-different-microphone-than-past-presidents-936034371829 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2EBxt0ELW0 [with comments]
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Infowars In Defense Of Free Speech - Pt.3
Streamed live on May 3, 2017 by The Alex Jones Channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cB0eQjae5Uo [with comments]
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How to Make Trump Care About Global Warming: The Daily Show
Published on May 3, 2017 by The Daily Show with Trevor Noah
After demonstrators protest the Trump administration's anti-environmental stance, Trevor explains why it's in the president's best interest to care about global warming.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7msRhXgKXk [with comments]
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Night Of The Living Bill: The Undead Health Care Plan
Published on May 4, 2017 by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Introducing the cast from the scariest thing you've ever seen: the GOP's attempt to pass a health care bill.
[originally aired May 3, 2017]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HmA6zQQ380 [with comments]
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James Comey's Testimony Summed Up In A Word: 'Lordy!'
Published on May 4, 2017 by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
FBI Director James Comey says the thought that his actions may have impacted the 2016 election makes him 'nauseous.' Talk about relatable!
[originally aired May 3, 2017]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwR_yS_c1Ls [with comments]
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Comey Testifies and GOP Tries Again on Health Care: A Closer Look
Published on May 3, 2017 by Late Night with Seth Meyers
Seth takes a closer look at FBI Director James Comey's defense of his last-minute election revelations and the latest on the Republicans' disastrous health care bill.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIpCCmI4l14 [with comments]
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Infowars In Defense Of Free Speech - Pt.4
Streamed live on May 3, 2017 by The Alex Jones Channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycX0r_yJdUA [with comments]
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Infowars In Defense Of Free Speech - Pt.5
Streamed live on May 4, 2017 by The Alex Jones Channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHn9z5L4DWs [with comments]
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Infowars In Defense Of Free Speech - Pt.6
Streamed live on May 4, 2017 by The Alex Jones Channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6ZZK8Bk_pQ [with comments]
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LIVE: President Donald Trump participates in the National Day of Prayer event in the Rose Garden
Streamed live on May 4, 2017 by ABC15 Arizona [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIVk1L1-JmpdiGuZcVjImtA / https://www.youtube.com/user/abc15com , https://www.youtube.com/user/abc15com/videos ]
[no official transcript(s) yet at https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-and-remarks ]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkOYOF4zUsY [full event; Pence's piously disingenuous and idiotic Christo-fascist spew begins at c. the 17:50 mark; Trump's even more piously disingenuous and idiotic Christo-fascist spew begins at c. the 20:15 mark; with comments] [and see also in particular e.g. (linked in) http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=3967329 and preceding and following, http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=54833454 and preceding and following]
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Full Show - Obamacare Repeal Round Two: GOP Victorious In The House And Senate - 05/04/2017
Published on May 4, 2017 by The Alex Jones Channel
Thursday, May 4th 2017: The last day of ourhistoric 30-hour broadcast in defense of free speech! We are under an unprecedented attack by the globalists who are using lawsuits and other means to shut down the spread of truth and information which threatens their power and control. But their attacks only make us more determined!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y48uoDw3pFY [with comments] [also at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=si5p9sYfhMc (text adapted from; with comments)]
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FULL: President Trump reacts to successful health care push
Published on May 4, 2017 by ABC15 Arizona
Remarks by President Trump on Healthcare Vote in the House of Representatives
Rose Garden
May 04, 2017
https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/05/04/remarks-president-trump-healthcare-vote-house-representatives [official transcript]
House Advances American Health Care Act
“I want to have a great healthcare bill and plan – and we will. It will happen.”
- President Donald J. Trump
May 04, 2017
https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/05/04/house-advances-american-health-care-act [official statement]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUdUR-F08mU [full event; Trump at the start and the end with other speakers in-between; with comments] [official White House upload at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SS2Acsokec8 (with comments)]
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The Shame and Cruelty of the GOP | The Resistance with Keith Olbermann | GQ
Published on May 4, 2017 by GQ
A bill to rob Americans of health care is barbaric and intolerable.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAChqYKslGs [with comments]
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Infowars In Defense Of Free Speech - Pt.8
Streamed live on May 4, 2017 by The Alex Jones Channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EriQoLkXDs [with comments]
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INFOWARS Nightly News: Owen Shroyer Thursday 5/4/17: Plus Special Reports
Published on May 4, 2017 by Ron Gibson [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYv-5LsUyc_P8KMo7YGPFPA / https://www.youtube.com/user/RonGibsonCF , https://www.youtube.com/user/RonGibsonCF/videos ]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9DvinL1txo [with comments]
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President Trump Meets with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull of Australia
Published on May 4, 2017 by The White House [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYxRlFDqcWM4y7FfpiAN3KQ / https://www.youtube.com/user/whitehouse , https://www.youtube.com/user/whitehouse/videos ]
The White House.
[no official transcript yet at https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-and-remarks ]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icNweI92bKg [with comments]
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GOP Rep. Cole: Still a 'very long way to go' on health care
All In with Chris Hayes
5/4/17
Republican Congressman Tom Cole of Oklahoma says repealing and replacing Obamacare is a 'process,' and the House vote today on the AHCA was only the first step. Duration: 13:26
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/gop-rep-cole-still-a-very-long-way-to-go-on-health-care-936718403764
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Sanders: House health care bill is an insult
All In with Chris Hayes
5/4/17
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders says the House bill to repeal Obamacare is really just a massive tax cut for the rich. Duration: 7:03
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/sanders-house-health-care-bill-is-an-insult-936782915711
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'This isn't the America I love'
All In with Chris Hayes
5/4/17
'I don't understand how our lawmakers...can be so lacking in empathy,' says Xeni Jardin, breast cancer survivor and co-editor of Boing Boing, on the House passing the AHCA. [Dan Savage also appears.] Duration: 5:34
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-this-isn-t-the-america-i-love-936797251755 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePnX4v2Orig [with comments]
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A tale of two pre-existing conditions
All In with Chris Hayes
5/4/17
A 7-year-old British girl returned to school today with a new medical device paid for by the National Health Service. Meanwhile, in the U.S., Republican Rep. Jason Chaffetz returned to the House after an insured surgery to vote on repealing health coverage. Duration: 2:08
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/a-tale-of-two-pre-existing-conditions-936787011688
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WATCH LIVE: President Donald J. Trump makes remarks from the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum
Streamed live on May 4, 2017 by Golden State Times [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWXPkK02j6MHW-4xCJzgMuw , https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWXPkK02j6MHW-4xCJzgMuw/videos ]
WATCH LIVE: President Donald J. Trump makes remarks from the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum commemorating the 75th Anniversary of the Battle of the Coral Sea.
[no official transcript yet at https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-and-remarks ]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuWkb1_Ra44 [full event; Turnbull's remarks begin at c. the 2:05:50 mark; Trump's performance begins at c. the 2:19:20 mark; with comments] [also at e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCM42cJw0cs (title and text taken from; no comments yet)] [the official White House upload, Trump's performance only, at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMqYCnUjuFg (with comments)]
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Americans face health care consequences of new Republican bill
The Rachel Maddow Show
5/4/17
David Emerson, a constituent of Rep. McClintock, and Andrea Mitchell, a constituent of Rep. Faso, talk with Rachel Maddow about what the Republican removal of Obamacare protections means to their lives and their regard for their congressional representation. Duration: 23:40
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/americans-face-health-care-consequences-of-new-republican-bill-936856643906 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLILp0Iyuhc [with comments]
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The seven key consequences of the new GOP health care bill
The Rachel Maddow Show
5/4/17
Rachel Maddow reviews what it would mean if the new House Republican health care bill were to become law. Duration: 8:30
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/the-seven-key-consequences-of-the-new-gop-health-care-bill-936857667647
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GOP uses health care as means to tax cuts for the wealthy
The Rachel Maddow Show
5/4/17
Jonathan Gruber, professor of economics at M.I.T. and an architect of the Affordable Care Act, talks with Rachel Maddow about how Republicans are using cuts in Medicaid as a stepping stone to make their upcoming tax plan easier to pass. Duration: 5:17
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/gop-uses-health-care-as-means-to-tax-cuts-for-the-wealthy-936879171512 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3BPi1gklOA [with comments]
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GOP prioritizing of tax cuts over health care seen in new bill
The Rachel Maddow Show
5/4/17
Congressman Adam Schiff talks with Rachel Maddow about the Republican perspective that values tax cuts for the wealthy over more people having health care and the likely backlash Republicans will face in 2018 for gutting Obamacare. Duration: 4:11
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/gop-prioritizing-of-tax-cuts-over-health-care-seen-in-new-bill-936880707949
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Schiff: House Intel Trump Russia investigation back on track
The Rachel Maddow Show
5/4/17
Congressman Adam Schiff, ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, talks with Rachel Maddow about progress on the Trump Russia investigation and the schedule ahead of more public hearings, including testimony from Sally Yates. Duration: 4:20
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/schiff-house-intel-trump-russia-investigation-back-on-track-936890947629
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Trump's 'Mission Accomplished' moment on health care
The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell
5/4/17
House Republicans prematurely celebrated passing Trumpcare by one vote in the House, while Senate Republicans said they wouldn't take up the House bill. Lawrence O'Donnell discusses with Dr. Nitin Domlee, John Heilemann, and Charlie Sykes. Duration: 16:50
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/trump-s-mission-accomplished-moment-on-health-care-936878659908 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFf63Q9j1L4 [with comments]
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George Will: Trump has a 'dangerous disability'
The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell
5/4/17
Conservative Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist George F. Will joins Lawrence O'Donnell to discuss Donald Trump's "dangerous" inability "to think and speak clearly" and what Americans must do about it. Duration: 6:56
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/george-will-trump-has-a-dangerous-disability-936881731734 [and see also in particular (linked in) http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=131078954 and preceding and following]
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GOP & Democrats deeply divided on Trump-Ryan health care bill
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
5/4/17
The Republican health care plan has cleared the House. While Republicans and the president celebrated at the White House, Democrats blasted the bill calling it 'disastrous' & 'shameful.' Duration: 2:39
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/gop-democrats-deeply-divided-on-trump-ryan-health-care-bill-936916547890 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AT4BrtMvO8I [with comments]
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GOP celebrates even though health care bill faces many hurdles
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
5/4/17
MSNBC's Steve Kornacki joins the show to look at the many hurdles still facing the Republican health care plan and discusses with Nicolle Wallace and our political panel. Duration: 6:09
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/gop-celebrates-even-though-health-care-bill-faces-many-hurdles-936911939529
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Trump's first overseas trip: Saudi Arabia, Israel, & the Vatican
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
5/4/17
What does the list of countries on Trump's first overseas trip as president tell us? Sitting in for Brian Williams, MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace talks to our political panel. Duration: 5:54
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/trump-s-first-overseas-trip-saudi-arabia-israel-the-vatican-936904771993
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Trump jokes about fiery phone call with Australian PM
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
5/4/17
During his first trip back to New York City as president, Trump attended an event with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and joked about their terse phone call in February. Duration: 1:46
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/trump-jokes-about-fiery-february-phone-call-with-australian-pm-936910915695 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6adTjJ_3HWw [with comments]
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White House reporter: Trump has no inner monologue
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
5/4/17
The president has been talking a lot lately about his life before president making Associated Press reporter Julie pace suggest that Trump simply has no inner monologue. Duration: 1:17
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/white-house-reporter-trump-does-not-have-an-inner-monologue-936897091974 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1G-KyflIzo [with comments]
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F**king Unbelievable: The GOP Shoves Health Care Through the House: The Daily Show
Published on May 4, 2017 by The Daily Show with Trevor Noah
Despite opposition from almost every major health organization, the GOP pushes an Affordable Care Act replacement bill through the House of Representatives.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frglD9wF6J0 [with comments]
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The White House Throws A Cinco De Mayo Party
Published on May 5, 2017 by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Nothing says Mexican heritage like the administration that has said nothing nice about Mexican heritage.
Remarks by Vice President Pence at Cinco de Mayo Reception
Indian Treaty Room
May 04, 2017
https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/05/05/remarks-vice-president-pence-cinco-de-mayo-reception [official transcript]
[originally aired May 4, 2017]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ednz1a7ryw0 [with comments]
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The GOP Celebrates Its One-Third Of A Healthcare Victory
Published on May 5, 2017 by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The GOP held a 'massive beer bash' to celebrate something that's only partially accomplished.
[originally aired May 4, 2017]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJlR21e6mhE [with comments]
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God Weighs In On Trump's Religious Liberty Executive Order
Published on May 5, 2017 by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Stephen gets some analysis on Trump's latest presidential decree from the inventor of the executive order.
[originally aired May 4, 2017]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJIuPhTjE38 [with comments]
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House Republicans Pass Trumpcare: A Closer Look
Published on May 4, 2017 by Late Night with Seth Meyers
Seth takes a closer look at the House Republicans rushing a bill, that will strip health insurance from millions of Americans, without knowing what's in it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mtZ60AvDQY [with comments]
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Is a Grand Jury Now Looking into Trump? | The Resistance with Keith Olbermann | GQ
Published on May 5, 2017 by GQ
Sure seems like it, based on what we learned this week.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pS92ONVte8 [with comments]
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my current notes/tally of sources; much more very good/significant/relevant beyond the foregoing included/linked:
After a Hundred Days, Trump Is Trump Is Trump
http://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/after-a-hundred-days-trump-is-trump-is-trump
Heritage Foundation board ousts president Jim DeMint - Gorka next, as has been rumored, after pending departure from White House?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/heritage-foundation-board-ousts-president-jim-demint/2017/05/02/b53a706a-2f63-11e7-9534-00e4656c22aa_story.html
Defense Secretary Expresses Concern Over Russian Support For Taliban - tie Carter/Zbig Afghanistan 1979 posts
March 31, 2017
http://www.npr.org/2017/03/31/522232584/defense-secretary-expresses-concern-over-russian-support-for-taliban
Russia Opens New Front in U.S. Rivalry With Taliban Support
April 10, 2017 Updated April 11, 2017
https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-04-10/russia-opens-new-front-in-rivalry-with-u-s-with-taliban-support
Why Russia might be working with its Cold War enemy, the Taliban
April 10, 2017
http://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-afghanistan-russia-taliban-2017-story.html
US general in Afghanistan suggests Russia arming the Taliban - AP
Apr 24, 2017
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/us-defense-secy-mattis-afghanistan-discuss-war-46978063
original https://apnews.com/dbc0ed6fc2184dc59eabae5cc9adc357/US-general-in-Afghanistan-suggests-Russia-arming-the-Taliban
Russia is sending weapons to Taliban, top U.S. general confirms
April 24, 2017
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2017/04/24/russia-is-sending-weapons-to-taliban-top-u-s-general-confirms/
US general in Afghanistan says there is no doubt Russia is providing weapons to Taliban
24 April 2017
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/04/24/usgeneral-afghanistan-says-no-doubt-russia-providing-weapons/
US officials in Afghanistan suggest Russia arms Taliban
Top US military officials allude to increasing concerns over Moscow's role in Afghanistan.
25 April 2017
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/04/officials-afghanistan-suggest-russia-arms-taliban-170424204006251.html
Russia is Arming the Taliban
1 May 2017
http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/blog/michael-j-totten/russia-arming-taliban
The mystery behind a Flynn associate’s quiet work for the Trump campaign
Jon Iadonisi, a friend and business associate of former national security adviser Michael Flynn, had two under-the-radar projects underway in the fall of 2016.
One of his companies was helping Flynn with an investigative effort [INTO GULEN] for an ally of the Turkish government — details of which Flynn revealed only after he was forced to step down from his White House post.
At the same time, Iadonisi was also doing work for the Trump campaign, although his role was not publicly reported, according to people familiar with his involvement.
The project Iadonisi was engaged in for Trump’s campaign focused on social media, according to a person with knowledge of the arrangement. What that work consisted of — and why his company was not disclosed as a vendor in campaign finance reports — remains a mystery.
The Trump campaign did not report any payments to Iadonisi or his firms. However, Federal Election Commission reports show that the Trump campaign paid $200,000 on Dec. 5 for “data management services” to Colt Ventures, a Dallas-based venture-capital firm that is an investor in VizSense, a social-media company co-founded by Iadonisi.
The Washington Post made repeated inquiries to Iadonisi and other VizSense officials, but none responded to requests for comment.
[...]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/the-mystery-behind-a-flynn-associates-quiet-work-for-the-trump-campaign/2017/05/04/fc86980e-3044-11e7-9534-00e4656c22aa_story.html
Sources: Former Acting AG Yates to contradict administration about Flynn at hearing - Maddow open 5-2-17
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/02/politics/sally-yates-michael-flynn-testimony-contradict/
Comey Is Expected to Face Tough Questioning at Senate Hearing
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/03/us/politics/james-comey-fbi-senate-hearing.html
GET THE HEARING 5-3-17
The Comey Letter Probably Cost Clinton The Election
So why won’t the media admit as much?
By Nate Silver
May 3, 2017
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-comey-letter-probably-cost-clinton-the-election/
The Kremlin Playbook - referenced by Franken in questioning Comey 5-3-17
Understanding Russian Influence in Central and Eastern Europe
October 13, 2016
intro https://www.csis.org/analysis/kremlin-playbook
full text (90 pp.) http://www.csd.bg/fileadmin/user_upload/160928_Conley_KremlinPlaybook_Web.pdf
The Kremlin Playbook: Understanding Russian Influence in Central and Eastern Europe
Center for Strategic & International Studies
Streamed live on Oct 13, 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTEhGK-05hE
5 Highlights From James Comey’s Hearing
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/03/us/politics/james-comey-hearing-takeaways.html
FBI director says he feels ‘mildly nauseous’ about possibility he affected election, but has no regrets
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/fbi-director-james-comey-begins-testimony-to-congress/2017/05/03/9e3244bc-3006-11e7-9534-00e4656c22aa_story.html
James Comey ‘Mildly Nauseous’ Over Idea He Swayed the Election
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/03/us/politics/james-comey-fbi-senate-hearing.html
FBI Director Has No Regrets About His Fateful 2016 Decision
Testifying before the Senate, James Comey said he did not regret his late October announcement that the investigation into Hillary Clinton had been reopened.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/05/fbi-director-james-comey-returns-to-capitol-hill/525210/
Mysterious rash of Russian deaths casts suspicion on Vladimir Putin - Maddow segment 5-2-17
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2017/05/02/dozens-russian-deaths-cast-suspicion-vladimir-putin/100480734/
Russia never interferes in others’ internal politics, yet feels such attempts from outside – Putin
https://www.rt.com/news/386812-putin-merkel-talks-sochi/
Clinton, Denouncing Trump, Calls Herself ‘Part of the Resistance’
Hillary Clinton denounced President Trump’s conduct in office during an interview with the CNN correspondent Christiane Amanpour in Midtown Manhattan. - GET THE INTERVIEW
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/02/us/clinton-trump-interview.html
Clinton reflects on election loss (Full event) - CNN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6RPkqwFmME
Why Hillary Clinton Thinks She Lost the Election
In an interview on Tuesday, the former Democratic presidential candidate pointed to foreign interference and action taken by FBI Director James Comey to explain her defeat.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/05/hillary-clinton-election-trump-fbi-russia-hacking/525183/
‘I would be your president’: Clinton blames Russia, FBI chief for 2016 election loss
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/hillary-clinton-blames-russian-hackers-and-comey-for-2016-election-loss/2017/05/02/e62fef72-2f60-11e7-8674-437ddb6e813e_story.html
Clinton: 'I was on the way to winning' until Comey, Russia intervened
'I take absolute personal responsibility,' Clinton said, though she made no mention of any specific flaws in her campaign.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/02/hillary-clinton-why-i-lost-2016-election-237885
Hillary Clinton: Tweets Won’t Solve Threat From North Korea
http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/hillary-clinton-tweets-won-t-solve-threat-north-korea-n753951
‘Comey best thing that ever happened to Hillary Clinton,’ Trump tweets
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/05/03/comey-best-thing-that-ever-happened-to-hillary-clinton-trump-tweets/
Donald Trump hits back on Twitter after Hillary Clinton lays out reasons for defeat in 2016 presidential election
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05/02/hillary-clinton-says-fbi-russian-interference-misogyny-caused/
Sean Spicer thinks it's 'somewhat sad' people are still talking about the election. President Trump has mentioned it every day for the last week.
http://theweek.com/speedreads/696399/sean-spicer-thinks-somewhat-sad-people-are-still-talking-about-election-president-trump-mentioned-every-day-last-week
He ‘Wants to Kill Us’: Rachel Maddow Describes Her Bizarre Phone Call With Donald Trump - during primaries - prep for interview that never happened - Late Night Seth 5-2-17
http://www.mediaite.com/online/he-wants-to-kill-us-rachel-maddow-describes-her-bizarre-phone-call-with-donald-trump/
First on CNN: Rice declines Senate request to testify on Russian hacking - not a bipartisan request, from Graham only - Whitehouse refused to join the request, supports Rice's declination
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/03/politics/susan-rice-refuses-graham-russia-hearing/
Susan Rice declines to testify before Senate subcommittee
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/03/susan-rice-testify-237947
Former Obama security adviser Susan Rice declines invite to testify - AP
http://www.militarytimes.com/articles/former-obama-security-adviser-declines-invite-to-testify
original https://www.apnews.com/2f4507388d69475da76fdd8dfc52012a/Former-Obama-security-adviser-declines-invite-to-testify
Le Pen and Macron prepare for showdown TV debate - AP
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/le-pen-and-macron-square-off-tonight-in-showdown-tv-debate/2017/05/03/b4baab74-2fd5-11e7-a335-fa0ae1940305_story.html
original https://www.apnews.com/a6a7d571004a4043b01906e070fdfc9f/Le-Pen-and-Macron-prepare-for-showdown-TV-debate
Inside Béziers, France’s Far-Right Laboratory
“This town is like a testing ground for what the policies of the National Front would be if Marine Le Pen were elected.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/05/beziers-france-menard-le-pen/524931/
France’s critical election happens in June, not on Sunday - national assembly
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/05/03/frances-critical-election-happens-in-june-not-in-may/
Marine Le Pen declares she is the best candidate to face the 'new world' of Trump and Putin and work with a post-Brexit Britain ahead of French election debate
Le Pen says she is better placed than her rival to work with post-Brexit Britain
Emmanuel Macron and the National Front leader to go head to head in TV debate
Quarter of voters planning to abstain from 'choice between plague and cholera'
Liberal young leaders around Europe are rallying behind the 'French Kennedy'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4467276/Frances-Le-Pen-says-best-placed-face-new-world-Trump-Putin.html
Plagiarising speeches: Marine Le Pen is in august company
Politicians speak a lot and raise many issues -- but what happens when these words and themes are taken from somebody else's speeches.
http://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/web-edits/plagiarising-speeches-marine-le-pen-is-in-august-company/
Where is France's famed ‘Republican Front’ in 2017?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/where-is-frances-famed-republican-front-in-2017/2017/05/02/3a9b15fa-f764-4bec-9526-9292712fdd6e_story.html
Le Pen and Macron Spar in Final Debate
The candidates traded blows over the economy and terrorism four days ahead of the presidential runoff.
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/05/macron-and-le-pen-spar-in-final-debate/525297/
‘Fake news’ is briefly focus of French presidential campaign - AP
[...]
The provenance of the latest conspiracy theory isn’t clear, but there are hints tying the faked documents to far-right circles in California.
One of the documents, for example, purports to have been drawn up under the laws of Nevis but actually draws some of its language from a guide to forming limited liability companies in California. The documents first appeared on Mixtape, a relatively new northern California-based file sharing service. And the Macron campaign identified the first tweet referring to the documents as coming from the Twitter account of Nathan Damigo, a far-right activist and convicted felon also based out of northern California.
Damigo recently won a measure of social media notoriety for punching a female anti-fascist militant in the face at a protest in Berkeley and had recently promoted French far-right content online.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/le-pen-and-macron-clash-in-no-holds-barred-debate-in-france/2017/05/03/1af1d2a4-3063-11e7-a335-fa0ae1940305_story.html
original https://www.apnews.com/432611e4b064473eadb5995ed9214db0/'Fake-news'-is-briefly-focus-of-French-presidential-campaign
Trump's call with Vladimir Putin suggests some progress on Syria
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/05/02/trumps-call-vladimir-putin-suggests-some-progress-syria/101210384/
Putin's Disappointing Phone Call With Trump
Reports of a planned meeting were less than met the eye.
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/05/putin-trump-meeting/525174/
North Korean media issues rare criticism of China over nuclear warnings
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-china-idUSKBN17Z1TA
N. Korea issues direct criticism of China amid nuke dispute - AP
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/n-korea-issues-direct-criticism-on-china-amid-nuke-dispute/2017/05/03/62db141a-3075-11e7-a335-fa0ae1940305_story.html
original https://www.apnews.com/c62f0e55b80c49ef92924fffbf0cc2ee/N.-Korea-issues-direct-criticism-of-China-amid-nuke-dispute
South Korea’s likely next president asks the U.S. to respect its democracy
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/south-koreas-likely-next-president-warns-the-us-not-to-meddle-in-its-democracy/2017/05/02/2295255e-29c1-11e7-9081-f5405f56d3e4_story.html
It’s not just North Korea. Trump has a South Korea problem, too.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/05/03/its-not-just-north-korea-trump-has-a-south-korea-problem-too/
While in White House, Trumps remained selling points for ‘very special’ Philippines project
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/while-in-white-house-trumps-remained-selling-points-for-very-special-philippines-project/2017/05/02/09ee6164-2e99-11e7-9dec-764dc781686f_story.html
How Trump's Property in Manila Looms Over His Interactions With Duterte
The president’s decision to invite the leader of the Philippines to the White House is another example of a gesture complicated by his business interests.
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/05/trump-duterte-conflict-of-interest/525084/
Trump Follows Instincts, Not Establishment, With Overtures to Kim and Duterte
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/01/world/asia/trump-north-korea-kim-jong-un.html
Duterte may be too "tied up" to accept Trump's invite
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/rodrigo-duterte-trump-philippines-invite-may-be-too-tied-up/
What Trump Sees in Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte
http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/what-trump-sees-in-philippine-president-rodrigo-duterte
The Thug Appeal of Rodrigo Duterte
Making sense of Trump’s White House invitation to the Philippine president
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/05/rodrigo-duterte-donald-trump/525072/
Rodrigo Duterte: What You Need to Know About Controversial Philippine President
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/rodrigo-duterte-what-you-need-know-about-controversial-philippine-president-n753901
Trump’s warm words for strongmen set off alarms
The deal-making president appears to be buttering up totalitarian leaders with long records of human rights abuses.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/01/trump-duterte-dictators-white-house-237848
Birds of a Feather
What Lies Beneath Trump’s Fixation With Strongmen Like Duterte
From Erdogan to Putin to even Kim, President Trump has plenty of kind words for authoritarians—and their shared narcissism has a lot to do with it.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/05/02/what-lies-beneath-trump-s-fixation-with-strongmen-like-duterte
Trump keeps praising international strongmen, alarming human rights advocates
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-keeps-praising-international-strongmen-alarming-human-rights-advocates/2017/05/01/6848d018-2e81-11e7-9dec-764dc781686f_story.html
Trump’s Soft Spot for Strongmen Harms U.S. Image, Say Critics
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-s-soft-spot-strong-men-harms-u-s-image-n754036
One day, Trump is a tough hombre. The next, he’s purring like a kitten.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/one-day-trump-is-a-tough-hombre-the-next-hes-purring-like-a-kitten/2017/05/02/f298fa7a-2f78-11e7-9534-00e4656c22aa_story.html
Trump is spontaneously re-writing America's foreign policy playbook
http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-outreach-autocrats-authoritarians-duterte-2017-5
Trump Meets Palestinian Leader Abbas and Wants Mideast Peace Deal
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/trump-meet-palestinian-leader-abbas-wants-mideast-peace-deal-n753806
GET TRUMP-ABBAS JOINT PRESSER 5-3-17
Hamas to drop call for Israel's destruction in new policy document
The terrorist organisation says it will agree to a Palestinian state along borders agreed in 1967
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/hamas-drop-call-israel-destruction-disassociate-muslim-brotherhood-new-document-palestine-a7712076.html
Just in time for his meeting with Trump, Abbas gets a gift from Hamas
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-opinions/wp/2017/05/02/just-in-time-for-his-meeting-with-trump-abbas-gets-a-gift-from-hamas/
As Abbas Meets Trump, Hamas Does a Flip, But Don’t Expect Peace in Our Time
Hamas recognizing the 1967 borders with Israel seems like a stunning new development. But it’s not the Israelis that Hamas means to impress.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/05/03/as-abbas-meets-trump-hamas-does-a-flip-but-don-t-expect-peace-in-our-time
Confident Trump says he wants to ‘prove them wrong’ and get a Mideast peace deal
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/confident-trump-says-he-wants-to-prove-them-wrong-and-get-a-mideast-peace-deal/2017/05/03/f8ac2abe-3035-11e7-8674-437ddb6e813e_story.html
Trump expresses confidence in chances of an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal but says U.S. can’t force it
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/05/03/trump-welcomes-palestinian-leader-abbas-to-white-house/
Trump, Bullish on Mideast Peace, Will Need More Than Confidence
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/03/world/middleeast/mahmoud-abbas-trump-white-house.html
Hollywood Fears The Worst Of Donald Trump Is Still To Come
“We rely on freedom of the press to get away with things we get away with on the show,” Samantha Bee told BuzzFeed News. “We need to do what we can to preserve those freedoms.”
https://www.buzzfeed.com/krystieyandoli/100-days-into-trumps-presidency-hollywood-still-fears-the
A Code Pink Protester Laughs Over a Trump Nominee and Is Convicted
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/03/us/code-pink-sessions-laughter-trial.html
Trump, in Wake of Deal to Avoid a Shutdown Now, Calls for One Later
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/02/us/politics/good-shutdown-congress-trump.html
GOP senators reject Trump's call to end the filibuster
‘Our country needs a good “shutdown” in September to fix mess!’ Trump tweets.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/02/trump-tweet-government-shutdown-237870
Senior Hunger Hits Historic Highs As Trump Threatens To Cut Services - e.g. in particular Meals on Wheels
Currently, one in 11 seniors face hunger. Over the next decade, that figure is projected to double.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/senior-hunger-hits-historic-highs-as-trump-threatens-to-cut-services_us_5908ede7e4b02655f841a4fc
Outlook for Obamacare repeal turns bleak
House Republicans are increasingly pessimistic they can pass any bill.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/02/republicans-obamacare-repeal-votes-237871
House Republicans Say They're Ready to Repeal Obamacare
Party leaders have set a vote for Thursday on the American Health Care Act, insisting they finally have the votes to pass it.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/05/house-republicans-will-try-again-to-repeal-obamacare/525339/
Is Trump right that pre-existing conditions are covered in the GOP health care bill? - uh, no
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/is-trump-right-that-pre-existing-conditions-are-covered-in-the-gop-health-care-bill/
House Republicans to Vote on Health Care Thursday
http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/house-republicans-vote-health-care-thursday-n754601
Republicans plan health-care vote on Thursday, capping weeks of fits and starts
https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/republicans-push-new-health-care-tweak-to-protect-preexisting-conditions--and-garner-votes/2017/05/03/41b4fca8-300a-11e7-9dec-764dc781686f_story.html
Patient Groups Reiterate Opposition To GOP Obamacare Repeal Bill
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The patient groups signing on to the statement were the American Cancer Society, the Cancer Action Network, the American Diabetes Association, the American Heart Association, the American Lung Association, the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, JDRF, March of Dimes, the National Organization for Rare Disorders, the National MS Society and WomenHeart: The National Coalition for Women with Heart Disease.
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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/patient-groups-oppose-obamacare-repeal-changes
Republicans just hatched a last-ditch strategy to destroy Obamacare. It’s a total scam.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2017/05/03/republicans-just-hatched-a-last-ditch-strategy-to-destroy-obamacare-its-a-total-scam/
G.O.P. Eyes $8 Billion Addition to Win a Crucial Vote to the Latest Health Bill
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/02/us/politics/health-care-paul-ryan-fred-upton-congress.html
GOP Sets Health Bill Vote Thursday Amid Doubts About Count
New amendment won support of several moderate holdouts
Leaders say they have the votes though some moderates opposed
https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-05-03/key-gop-holdout-embraces-health-bill-raising-hopes-for-a-vote
Extra cash in health bill gets votes — but not coverage
The GOP touts the repeal bill's patient protections — but many experts say it just won't cover sick people with big medical bills.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/03/obamacare-repeal-health-coverage-237954
Here’s what you need to know about preexisting conditions in the GOP health plan
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/05/04/heres-what-you-need-to-know-about-pre-existing-conditions-in-the-gop-health-plan/
FCC Chief: Net Neutrality Rules Treating Internet As Utility Stifle Growth
http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2017/05/05/526916610/fcc-chief-net-neutrality-rules-treating-internet-as-utility-stifle-growth
Senate confirms Wall Street lawyer Jay Clayton to lead SEC
The Senate on Tuesday confirmed the nomination of Jay Clayton, a Wall Street lawyer with decades of experience helping companies to weather regulatory scrutiny, to lead the Securities and Exchange Commission.
As chairman of the SEC, Clayton will police many of the same large banks that he has spent decades representing, including Goldman Sachs and Barclays. He also would play a key role in President Trump's efforts to roll back the 2010 financial reform legislation known as the Dodd-Frank Act.
He was approved by the Senate along largely partisan lines, 61 to 37.
Clayton’s nomination continues Trump's track record of nominating Wall Street insiders for high-level positions, despite Trump's criticism of the industry during the presidential campaign.
As a partner at the New York law firm Sullivan & Cromwell, Clayton helped online retailer Alibaba stage the largest initial public offering in history, assisted in the sale of the National Basketball Association's Atlanta Hawks and worked closely with hedge fund tycoons such as Bill Ackman of Pershing Square Capital Management and Paul Tudor Jones.
Clayton, who made more than $7 million last year, is also among six people with ties to Goldman Sachs chosen by Trump to serve in his administration. Clayton's 15-year relationship with the bank includes advising Goldman during some of its most troubled moments. (He is also married to a Goldman Sachs wealth manager.)
Republicans have praised Clayton's financial industry experience, arguing that it makes him well-suited for the position.
"Jay's broad experience and his keen understanding of capital markets and securities regulation will serve all market participants well as the SEC works to ensure that safe, strong securities markets remain a cornerstone of the U.S. economy. I look forward to working with him in his new role, " said Robert Cook, president of Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, the industry's self-regulating organization.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/05/02/senate-confirms-wall-street-lawyer-jay-clayton-to-lead-sec/
The Daily 202: Why the markets shrugged off Trump’s threat to break up the big banks
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2017/05/02/daily-202-why-the-markets-shrugged-off-trump-s-threat-to-break-up-the-big-banks/5907d78de9b69b3a72331f11/
U.S. Auto Boom Seems to Be History, Just as Trump Counted on Jobs
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/02/business/auto-sales-decline.html
Sean Spicer Runs Away from Press Briefing Without Answering Questions
"Seaaaaaan!!" and an empty podium is today's profile in courage.
http://www.motherjones.com/media/2017/05/sean-spicer-runs-away-press-briefing
The Danger of Trump’s Civil War Ignorance
Those who don’t understand history are doomed to repeat it.
Contrary to Donald Trump’s view, Andrew Jackson wouldn’t have said “what is the reason for this?”
By Jamelle Bouie
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2017/05/trump_s_belief_that_a_deal_could_have_prevented_the_civil_war_is_as_dangerous.html
Racists, slavery apologists, and white nationalists knew exactly what Trump was saying about the Civil War
By questioning the cause of the Civil War, Trump was blowing a dog whistle to white nationalists & neo-confederates
http://www.salon.com/2017/05/04/racists-slavery-apologists-and-white-nationalists-knew-exactly-what-trump-was-saying-about-the-civil-war_partner/
original https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2017/05/02/racists-slavery-apologists-and-white-nationalists-knew-exactly-what-trump-was-saying-about-civil-war/216241
Donald Trump says he’s a big fan of history. But he doesn’t seem to trust historians.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/05/04/donald-trump-says-hes-a-fan-of-history-but-he-doesnt-seem-to-trust-historians/
The Shooting of Jordan Edwards
Police initially said they killed a 15-year-old after the car he was in reversed toward officers—but after reviewing body-cam footage, fired the officer involved.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/05/the-shooting-of-jordan-edwards/525141/
Police Officer Who Fatally Shot 15-Year-Old Texas Boy Is Fired
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/02/us/dallas-police-teen-shooting-jordan-edwards.html
Balch Springs police fire Officer Roy Oliver, who fatally shot Jordan Edwards with rifle
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/dallas/2017/05/02/balch-springs-police-fires-officer-fatally-shot-15-year-old-rifle
'Great kid' killed in officer-involved shooting in Balch Springs
http://www.wfaa.com/news/local/15-year-old-boy-killed-in-officer-involved-shooting-in-balch-springs/435409090
Who was Jordan Edwards? Teen killed by police called a good student, athlete
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/02/us/jordan-edwards-shooting-trnd/
15-year-old's brothers watched him die after Balch Springs police shooting, family says
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/dallas/2017/04/30/officer-fatally-shoots-15-year-old-balch-springs
Another black boy was killed by police. It’s time for more than hashtags.
Editorial
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/another-black-boy-was-killed-by-police-its-time-for-more-than-hashtags/2017/05/02/03ced94e-2f66-11e7-9534-00e4656c22aa_story.html
If the U.S. government won't fight to end police shootings, who will?
Editorial
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-police-shooting-dallas-jordan-edwards-20170503-story.html
Alton Sterling shooting death: Reports suggest no federal charges
Reports: No federal charges in Alton Sterling shooting death
Sterling was selling CDs outside a Baton Rouge convenience store
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/02/us/alton-sterling-shooting-death/
Justice Department will not charge Baton Rouge officers in fatal shooting of Alton Sterling
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/justice-department-will-not-charge-baton-rouge-officers-in-fatal-shooting-of-alton-sterling/2017/05/02/ac962e66-2ea7-11e7-9534-00e4656c22aa_story.html
Officers Won’t Be Charged in Black Man’s Shooting Death in Louisiana
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/02/us/alton-sterling-justice-department.html
Ex-officer Michael Slager pleads guilty in shooting death of Walter Scott
As part of a plea deal, two other federal charges and state charges will be dropped
Slager killed 50-year-old Walter Scott as Scott was running away
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/02/us/michael-slager-federal-plea/
Ex-Officer Who Shot Walter Scott Pleads Guilty in Charleston
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/02/us/michael-slager-walter-scott-north-charleston-shooting.html
Michael Slager, Ex-Cop Who Shot Walter Scott, Pleads Guilty in Civil Rights Case
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/walter-scott-shooting/michael-slager-ex-cop-who-shot-walter-scott-plead-guilty-n753786
Walter Scott's Killer Pleads Guilty. Jeff Sessions Can't Even Mention Scott's Name.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/05/02/michael_slager_pleads_guilty_for_shooting_walter_scott_jeff_sessions_can.html
F.B.I. Helping American University Investigate Bananas Found Hanging From Nooses
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/03/us/bananas-hang-from-black-nooses-and-a-campus-erupts-in-protest.html
Georgia Wonders: Will Newcomers Dye the Suburbs Blue?
JOHNS CREEK, Ga. — At first blush, this bedroom city of 83,000 a half-hour north of Atlanta might be mistaken for the perfect example of a white-flight Sun Belt suburb.
It sits squarely in the congressional district once represented by Newt Gingrich, with excellent public schools and master-planned communities so pristine they could have been built by a model train aficionado. In 2015, the all-white City Council rejected the idea of expanding public transit out from majority-black Atlanta on the grounds that it “would increase high-density housing.”
But something has been happening in Johns Creek — and, indeed, across much of the vast archipelago of cul-de-sac communities north of Atlanta that served as the launchpad for Mr. Gingrich’s 1994 Republican revolution. The promise of a suburban idyll has been increasingly attracting all kinds of people — many of whom are not white, and not Republican.
Today, 24 percent of people in Johns Creek are of Asian heritage. Indian-Americans shop for saris at the Medlock Crossing strip mall and flock to the latest Bollywood hits at the multiplex. Chinese-Americans and food lovers of all stripes head to the Sichuan House, near the Target and Home Depot stores, for sliced pork ears in chili sauce and “tearfully spicy” mung bean noodles.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/03/us/politics/ossoff-handel-georgia-sixth-district.html
Ivanka Trump’s New Book Exploits and Cheapens Feminism
In her world, the possibilities for working women are endless—so long as they have full-time household help.
By Michelle Goldberg
http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2017/05/ivanka_trump_s_new_book_women_who_work_exploits_and_cheapens_feminism.html
Having Trouble Having It All? Ivanka Alone Can Fix It - book review
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/02/books/review-ivanka-trump-women-who-work.html
Ivanka Trump doesn’t understand how reproductive health care works
This is not the advocate you’re looking for.
https://thinkprogress.org/ivanka-trump-doesnt-understand-how-reproductive-health-care-works-cdab743f60fe
Woman featured in Ivanka Trump’s new book reacts: ‘Don’t use my story’
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/05/03/women-featured-in-ivanka-trumps-new-book-react-dont-use-my-story/
Ivanka Trump Wrote a Painfully Oblivious Book for Basically No One
http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/ivanka-trump-wrote-a-painfully-oblivious-book-for-basically-no-one
Ivanka Trump Has the President’s Ear. Here’s Her Agenda.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/02/us/politics/ivanka-trump.html
Melania Trump's Twitter Just Liked a Tweet About How Much She Hates Her Husband
http://gizmodo.com/melania-trumps-twitter-just-liked-a-tweet-about-how-muc-1794864072
Why the Phrase 'Late Capitalism' Is Suddenly Everywhere
An investigation into a term that seems to perfectly capture the indignities and absurdities of the modern economy
A job advertisement celebrating sleep deprivation? That’s late capitalism. Free-wheeling Coachella outfits that somehow all look the same and cost thousands of dollars? Also late capitalism. Same goes for this wifi-connected $400 juicer that does no better than human hands, Pepsi’s advertisement featuring Kendall Jenner, United Airlines’ forcible removal of a seated passenger who just wanted to go home, and the glorious debacle that was the Fyre Festival. The phrase—ominous, academic, despairing, sarcastic—has suddenly started showing up everywhere.
This publication has used “late capitalism” roughly two dozen times in recent years, describing everything from freakishly oversized turkeys to double-decker armrests for steerage-class plane seats. The New Yorker is likewise enamored of it, invoking it in discussions of Bernie Sanders and fancy lettuces, among other things. There is a wildly popular, year-old Reddit community devoted to it, as well as a Facebook page, a Tumblr, and a lively Twitter hashtag. Google search interest in its has more than doubled in the past year.
“Late capitalism,” in its current usage, is a catchall phrase for the indignities and absurdities of our contemporary economy, with its yawning inequality and super-powered corporations and shrinking middle class. But what is “late capitalism,” really? Where did the phrase come from, and why did so many people start using it all of a sudden?
For my own part, I vaguely remembered it coming from the writings of Karl Marx—the decadence that precedes the revolution? I polled a few friends, and they all sort of remembered the same thing, something to do with 19th-century Europeans and the inherent instability of the capitalist system. This collective half-remembering turned out to be not quite right. “It’s not Marx’s term,” William Clare Roberts, a political scientist at McGill University, told me.
Rather, it was Marxist thinkers that came up with it to describe the industrialized economies they saw around them. A German economist named Werner Sombart seems to have been the first to use it around the turn of the 20th century, with a Marxist theorist and activist named Ernest Mandel popularizing it a half-century later. For Mandel, “late capitalism” denoted the economic period that started with the end of World War II and ended in the early 1970s, a time that saw the rise of multinational corporations, mass communication, and international finance. Roberts said that the term’s current usage departs somewhat from its original meaning. “It’s not this sense that things are getting so bad that the revolution is going to come,” he told me, “but rather that we see the ligaments of the international system that socialists will be able to seize and use.”
Mandel did warn about the forces of automation, globalization, and wage stagnation, and feared that they would tear at the social fabric by making workers miserable. Still, during the period that he defined as “late capitalism,” the American middle class was flourishing and Europe was healing. “There is an irony to it being [originally] used to refer to the one time things were going well for a while,” Richard Yeselson, a contributing editor at Dissent and an expert on the labor movement, told me, riffing on the term.
“Late capitalism” took on a darker connotation in the works of the 20th-century critical theorists, who borrowed from and critiqued and built on Marx and the Marxists. Members of the Frankfurt School, reeling from the horrors of World War II, saw in it excessive social control on the part of big government and big business. Theodor Adorno argued that “late capitalism” might lead not to socialism, but away from it, by blunting the proletariat’s potential for revolution. “The economic process continues to perpetuate domination over human beings,” he said in a speech on late capitalism in 1968. (If only he could have seen the Jenner-Pepsi ad.)
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https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/05/late-capitalism/524943/
White House aims for Thursday signing of religious liberty executive order
President Donald Trump has invited conservative leaders to the White House on Thursday for what they expect will be the ceremonial signing of a long-awaited—and highly controversial—executive order on religious liberty, according to multiple people familiar with the situation.
Two senior administration officials confirmed the plan, though one cautioned that it hasn’t yet been finalized, and noted that lawyers are currently reviewing and fine-tuning the draft language. Thursday is the National Day of Prayer, and the White House was already planning to celebrate the occasion with faith leaders.
The signing would represent a major triumph for Vice President Mike Pence—whose push for religious-freedom legislation backfired mightily when he served as governor of Indiana—and his allies in the conservative movement.
The original draft order, which would have established broad exemptions for people and groups to claim religious objections under virtually any circumstance, was leaked to The Nation [ https://www.thenation.com/article/leaked-draft-of-trumps-religious-freedom-order-reveals-sweeping-plans-to-legalize-discrimination/ ] on Feb. 1—the handiwork, many conservatives believed, of Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, who have sought to project themselves as friendly to the LGBT community. Liberals blasted the draft order as government-licensed discrimination, and the White House distanced itself from the leaked document in a public statement.
Pence and a small team of conservative allies quickly began working behind the scenes to revise the language, and in recent weeks have ratcheted up the pressure on Trump to sign it. The new draft is being tightly held, but one influential conservative who saw the text said it hasn’t been dialed back much—if at all—since the February leak. “The language is very, very strong,” the source said.
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http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/02/donald-trump-religious-liberty-executive-order-237888
Trump to sign executive order making it easier for churches to support political candidates
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-to-sign-executive-order-making-it-easier-for-churches-to-support-political-candidates/2017/05/03/a30294dc-3052-11e7-9dec-764dc781686f_story.html
‘Their dream president’: Trump just gave white evangelicals a big boost
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2017/05/04/their-dream-president-trump-just-gave-white-evangelicals-a-big-boost/
Trump Is Expected to Relax Tax Rules on Churches Endorsing Political Candidates
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/03/us/politics/trump-religion-executive-order-gay-rights.html
More Than 1,000 Faith Leaders Say No Thanks To Trump’s Planned ‘Religious Liberty’ Order
“This is neither what religious freedom means in the eyes of the law, nor what religion itself means to millions of Americans of faith,” the leaders wrote.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/faith-leaders-trump-religious-liberty-order_us_590a36fee4b02655f843d04a
Trump to sign executive order to 'protect and vigorously promote religious liberty'
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/05/03/civil-liberties-groups-pledge-fight-expected-trump-order-religious-freedom/101258922/
As Trump prepares to sign executive order, here's a history of 'religious freedom' laws
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/05/03/trump-prepares-sign-executive-order-heres-history-religious-freedom-laws/101250064/
Civil Rights Groups Are Ready To Sue Trump If He Signs A Broad Religious Freedom Order
“We will fight this with everything we have.”
https://www.buzzfeed.com/dominicholden/religious-freedom-order-possible-lawsuits
Trump Reportedly Will Issue 'License to Discriminate' Order Thursday
http://www.advocate.com/politics/2017/5/02/trump-reportedly-will-issue-license-discriminate-order-thursday
The next 100 days will be even worse: Right-wing bigots urge Trump to sign anti-LGBT order allowing broad discrimination
Conservatives have been pressuring Trump to take even more action targeting the LGBT community for months.
http://www.salon.com/2017/05/02/the-next-100-days-will-be-even-worse-right-wing-bigots-urge-trump-to-sign-anti-lgbt-order-allowing-broad-discrimination/
Many religious freedom advocates are actually disappointed with Trump’s executive order
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The American Civil Liberties Union, which many might expect would oppose the executive order, said Thursday that it had no plans to file a lawsuit. The ACLU’s executive director, Anthony Romero, said in a statement that the order was “an elaborate photo-op with no discernible policy outcome.”
[...]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2017/05/05/many-religious-freedom-advocates-are-disappointed-with-trumps-executive-order/
Kansas City [KS] Archdiocese Cutting Ties With Girl Scouts Over 'Troubling Trends' - tie KCK archdiocese child sex abuse posts
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/05/02/526570123/kansas-city-archdiocese-cutting-ties-with-girl-scouts-over-troubling-trends
Kansas archdiocese severs ties with Girl Scouts and urges end to cookie sales
http://www.kansascity.com/living/religion/article147857619.html
Why avoiding the Girl Scouts is a ‘sane, balanced’ move - Cstholic site Crux
Archbishop Joseph Naumann of Kansas City has reached a sane, balanced conclusion in deciding to transition his diocese away from the Girl Scouts. Available evidence shows women are much better off if they take sex seriously, understand its natural links with marriage and kids, delay sex at best until marriage, practice a faith, and avoid nonmarital parenting, abortion, and divorce.
https://cruxnow.com/commentary/2017/05/03/avoiding-girl-scouts-sane-balanced-move/
This Girl Scout Smiling In The Face Of A Neo-Nazi Is A Total Hero - Czech Republic
May we all be as cool, calm and collected in the face of hate.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/this-girl-scout-smiling-in-the-face-of-a-neo-nazi-is-a-total-hero_us_5909d970e4b05c397684c40e
What's Your Favorite Part of Steve Bannon's Whiteboard?
"Cancel all federal funding to sanctuary cities" or "build the border wall and eventually make Mexico..."?
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/news/a54855/steve-bannon-white-board/
What’s on Steve Bannon’s policy white board? Now we know
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/whats-steve-bannons-policy-white-board-now-know/
Now We Finally Know What’s On Steve Bannon’s Whiteboard
"Build the wall and eventually make Mexico...."
https://www.buzzfeed.com/gracewyler/now-we-finally-know-whats-on-steve-bannons-whiteboard
Stephen Bannon’s to-do list, annotated
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/05/03/steve-bannons-to-do-list-annotated/
Steve Bannon's White House whiteboard revealed
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/03/politics/steve-bannons-white-house-whiteboard/
Steve Bannon's secret planning whiteboard accidentally revealed
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05/03/steve-bannons-secret-war-room-whiteboard-accidentally-revealed/
What Else [Rabbi] Shmuley Boteach Revealed On Stephen Bannon’s White Board
http://forward.com/fast-forward/370795/shmuley-boteach-reveals-stephen-bannon-s-wall-of-promises/
Breitbart’s frustration with President Trump just boiled over
Breitbart News cheered Donald Trump to victory in November but has been frustrated by some of Trump’s moves in office. Most notably, the hard-right site has been disappointed by the president’s failure to secure funding for the Southern border wall he promised during the campaign in a budget deal Republicans and Democrats recently struck.
At Wednesday’s White House press briefing, Breitbart reporter Charlie Spiering got into a tense exchange with White House press secretary Sean Spicer. We have annotated the back-and-forth, using Genius. To see an annotation, click the yellow, highlighted text. To add your own, sign up for an account.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/05/03/breitbarts-frustration-with-president-trump-just-boiled-over/
Alex Jones Will Never Stop Being Alex Jones
After two decades toiling at the fringes of politics, Alex Jones and his Infowars media empire have architected the current moment and helped usher a president into office. Now, the only person standing in Jones' way is Jones.
AUSTIN - It was the winter of 1997 and Alex Jones couldn’t stop getting punched in the face.
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https://www.buzzfeed.com/charliewarzel/alex-jones-will-never-stop-being-alex-jones
In Minnesota's worst measles outbreak, a battle of beliefs over vaccines
An evolving community in the big city of Minneapolis is fighting a dangerous virus -- and a battle of beliefs.
The largest measles outbreak in the Minnesota city in 25 years, this April, affected 34 people primarily between the ages of 0 to 5, according to the Minnesota Department of Health. Eleven have been hospitalized.
The majority, 29, of the measles cases were among Somali Minnesotans, according to the state health department, which has been working to improve vaccination rates in their community.
State and local officials have been searching for any other people exposed to the virus –- potentially 3,000 more -- who may be unvaccinated and vulnerable, to try and stop the spread of the disease.
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http://abcnews.go.com/Health/minnesotas-worst-measles-outbreak-battle-beliefs-vaccines/story?id=47155531
Rogue FBI translator, Clemson grad, married ISIS terrorist
http://www.wsoctv.com/news/local/rogue-fbi-translator-clemson-grad-married-isis-terrorist/518804946
An FBI translator married the ISIS fighter she was supposed to be investigating
https://news.vice.com/story/fbi-translator-daniela-greene-married-the-isis-fighter-she-was-supposed-to-be-investigating
FBI agent married Isis fighter before realising her mistake and fleeing Syria
Daniela Greene returned to the US just a month after trying the knot with Denis Cupert
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/fbi-agent-married-isis-fighter-regrets-syria-returns-cnn-interview-a7712436.html
Stephen Colbert in Hot Water Over ‘Homophobic’ Donald Trump Joke - 5-1-17 - included at http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=130988360
http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/late-show-stephen-colbert-homophobic-donald-trump-1202406991/
YouTube star Daddyofive loses custody of two children featured in 'prank' video, mother says ( https://youtu.be/fvoLmsXKkYM )
The family were accused of abusing the children featured in the controversial videos, which have proved wildly popular
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/youtube-daddyofive-cody-videos-watch-children-custody-latest-prank-parents-a7713376.html
The President’s Secret Air Force
Air Force One is just the public face of a fleet that keeps the president safe and secure.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/05/02/the-presidents-secret-air-force-215091
(mostly) carried over from http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=130988360 [and, for my personal reference, http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_pmsg.aspx?message_id=130985194 ]:
The Digital Transition: How the Presidential Transition Works in the Social Media Age
Summary: Take a look at how we plan to preserve and pass on the digital history of the Obama administration.
October 31, 2016
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2016/10/31/digital-transition-how-presidential-transition-works-social-media-age
The White House
President Barack Obama
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/
Obama White House
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDGknzyQfNiThyt4vg4MlTQ , https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDGknzyQfNiThyt4vg4MlTQ/videos
Reconstruction Is Finally Getting The Historical Recognition It Deserves
Robert Smalls was among the greatest Americans. His story is finally being told. - 'Robert Smalls' further to http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=64333015 , http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=75581937
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/reconstruction-historical-recognition-monument-beaufort-south-carolina_us_58792908e4b09281d0eabb96
This 1967 speech may have helped put a target on Martin Luther King's back ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJhgXKGldUk , http://kingencyclopedia.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/documentsentry/doc_beyond_vietnam/ ) - "Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break The Silence"
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/01/13/martin-luther-king-jr-beyond-vietnam-speech/96501636/
The MLK History Forgot
During his last three years on Earth, Martin Luther King went through hell.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/01/martin-luther-king-struggle-history-forgot-214637
Listen To Legendary Black History Figures Talk About Life, Activism
Listen up!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/listen-to-legendary-black-history-figures-talk-about-life-activism_us_589def0ce4b094a129ea9320
5th-Grader 'Sold' In Mock Slave Auction At New Jersey School
"There was a sale of a black child by white children in the classroom," a parent says. "I'm disgusted."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/mock-slave-auction-new-jersey_us_58d1d687e4b02d33b746c2cf
This WHITE Teen Admitted She Made Up Claims She Was Abducted And Raped By "Three Black Males" - Denison, Texas
Local police called the hoax “offensive to the African-American community.” The false accusations were also used by white nationalists to push their agenda online.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/tanyachen/teen-claims-she-was-raped-by-three-black-males-hoax
White Woman Jailed After Lying About Being Raped and Kidnapped by 3 Black Men: Police
http://www.theroot.com/texas-white-woman-jailed-after-lying-about-being-raped-1793558681
Attacker in Midtown stabbing death admits he wanted to kill black men - further to/related story at http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=129786549
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/manhattan/suspect-midtown-knife-killing-surrenders-cops-article-1.3005263
more: https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=James+Jackson
Whistleblower Forced Out After Leaking Complaints Against Cop Who Killed Eric Garner
Officer Daniel Pantaleo has a longer history with wrongdoing than we knew.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/whistleblower-eric-garner-officer-leaks_us_58d52b3de4b03692bea4d696
Georgia Lawmaker’s Proposal For ‘Confederate History Month’ Doesn’t Mention Slavery
What a time
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/tommy-benton-confederate-history-month_us_58d53acce4b03787d357b11c
Arkansas Replaces Voter ID Law Struck Down By State Supreme Court With Basically The Same Thing
They also have a backup plan if the new law doesn’t survive a legal challenge.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/arkansas-voter-id-law_us_58d6b12ce4b02a2eaab49b5b
Black Americans Are Working More—With Little to Show for It
Despite working more every year, earnings gaps aren’t improving.
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/03/black-wages-labor/521172/
Sessions orders Justice Dept. to end forensic science commission, suspend review policy
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/sessions-orders-justice-dept-to-end-forensic-science-commission-suspend-review-policy/2017/04/10/2dada0ca-1c96-11e7-9887-1a5314b56a08_story.html
Really? CNN Commentator Can’t Tell April Ryan And Ana Navarro Apart - ex-GOP Rep Jack Kingston
“Not all colored girls are the same, Jack,” Navarro reminded him.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/cnn-commentator-cant-tell-april-ryan-and-ana-navaro-apart_us_58f0e15ae4b0b9e9848b4687
Video shows an officer [WHITE] slamming, then pummeling a black man accused of jaywalking - Sacramento
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/04/12/video-shows-an-officer-slamming-then-pummeling-a-black-man-accused-of-jaywalking/
YTs via https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=sacramento+jaywalking :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOgx6I14sRI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrfNwsolZDY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yolU3rsmn14
Sacramento Mayor Speaks Out Against Man’s Violent Jaywalking Arrest
http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2017/04/12/sacramento-mayor-speaks-out-against-mans-violent-jaywalking-arrest/
Video shows cop pummeling alleged jaywalker; criminal investigation underway
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-sacramento-officer-video-punch-jaywalker-20170412-story.html
WHITE Georgia Officers are Fired After Kicking BLACK Man at Traffic Stop ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTdOi8I5Wi4 )
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/14/us/georgia-police-officer-fired.html
Second Gwinnett officer fired after new traffic stop video surfaces
http://www.ajc.com/news/local/second-gwinnett-officer-fired-after-new-traffic-stop-video-surfaces/GsCfBeNhcjAXkTw7f2cPxL/
DeVos’ Pick to Head Civil Rights Office Once Said She Faced Discrimination for Being White
Candice Jackson’s intellectual journey raises questions about how actively she will investigate allegations of unfair treatment of minorities and women.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/education-civil-rights_us_58f10593e4b0b9e9848b8d7e
original https://www.propublica.org/article/devos-candice-jackson-civil-rights-office-education-department
WHITE Man accused of assaulting BLACK woman at Trump rally says president to blame - this and next further to http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=130113547
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/04/17/man-accused-assaulting-woman-at-trump-rally-says-president-to-blame.html
WHITE Man accused of attacking BLACK rally protester says Trump inspired him
http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/15/politics/donald-trump-rally-lawsuit/
Video Shows White Supremacist Punching WHITE Female Anti-Trump Protester ( https://youtu.be/c8GVtXfATtI ) - Berkeley 4-15-17
http://lawnewz.com/crazy/white-supremacist-allegedly-punched-female-anti-trump-protester-video/
White nationalist claims Trump directed rally violence
Trump supporter asks a federal court to hold the president liable for any damages stemming from a lawsuit filed by protesters who attended a Kentucky campaign stop.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/04/donald-trump-rally-violence-237302
Trump claims he can’t be sued for inciting rally violence
The president’s lawyers claim immunity from a lawsuit brought by protesters hurt at 2016 rally.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/04/trump-inciting-violence-protest-rally-lawsuit-237249
court filing http://www.politico.com/f/?id=0000015b-6ee7-db04-ad5b-7fef52a70002
Trump lawyer: ‘No right’ to protest at rallies
The president’s lawyers file a motion to derail a lawsuit brought by protesters
President Donald Trump’s lawyers argued in a Thursday court filing that protesters “have no right” to “express dissenting views” at his campaign rallies because such protests infringed on his First Amendment rights.
The filing comes in a case brought by three protesters who allege they were roughed up and ejected from a March 2016 Trump campaign rally in Louisville, Kentucky, by Trump supporters who were incited by the then-candidate’s calls from the stage to “get 'em out of here!”
Lawyers for Trump’s campaign have argued that his calls to remove the protesters were protected by the First Amendment. But the federal district court judge hearing the case issued a ruling late last month questioning that argument, as well as the claim that Trump didn’t intend for his supporters to use force.
The ruling cleared the case to proceed into discovery and towards a trial.
Thursday’s filing by Trump’s campaign lawyers asks the judge to pause the proceedings and allow Trump’s legal team to appeal the ruling to a higher court “before subjecting the President to ‘unique’ and extraordinary burdens of litigation.”
Specifically, Trump’s lawyers want the appeals court to reconsider whether Trump’s calls to remove the protesters were protected speech under the First Amendment and whether it’s reasonable to construe the calls as an incitement to violence.
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http://www.politico.com/story/2017/04/20/donald-trump-protest-rallies-speech-237431
Trump lawyers seek a quick end to rally violence lawsuits - and they might get it
Do protesters really “have no right” to dissent at Trump rallies?
President Donald Trump’s lawyers want judges to dismiss a lawsuit over violence at his campaign rallies because protesters don’t actually have the right to dissent inside his speaking halls.
People can “express dissenting views” but “have no right to do so as part of the campaign rally of the political candidates they oppose,” Trump’s team argued in a Thursday court filing.
The case involves the avowed white nationalist Matthew Heimbach, who physically assailed a black woman named Kashiya Nwanguma as she protested inside a Trump rally in Kentucky in 2016. Heimbach, Trump, and the Trump campaign are co-defendants. Heimbach recently argued to the court that Trump and his campaign are the only people who should be liable for what rally attendees did or didn’t do to Nwanguma that day.
Fellow Trump supporter Alvin Bamberger helped Heimbach and is also named in the suit. His lawyers argue, as Heimbach does, that their client would never have done anything to Nwanguma if Trump hadn’t told him to. “To the extent that Bamberger acted, he did so in response to - and inspired by - Trump and/or the Trump Campaign’s urging to remove the protesters,” they wrote in a recent filing.
The supporters’ arguments and Trump’s own thus appear to be at odds. But Trump’s lawyers aren’t denying that supporters acted in response to what he said - they’re saying he was within his rights to try to remove protesters, with physical force, and is not culpable if the force they actually used went beyond what was necessary to get protesters out of the building.
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https://thinkprogress.org/trump-rally-violence-lawsuit-25f8f1f79b81
Trump Praises The Jews While Looking Like A POW Hostage In Latest Weekly Address (this one https://youtu.be/5-HAAlJebkY , earlier one https://youtu.be/Am1DfjmGcvc ) - at/from Elroy Jetson, http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=130767032
http://forum.infostormer.com/t/trump-praises-the-jews-while-looking-like-a-pow-hostage-in-latest-weekly-address/2029
Former Neo-Nazi Says It’s On White People To Fight White Supremacy - Christian Picciolini
“White people need to solve the problem of white supremacy.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/life-after-hate-christian-picciolini-white-supremacist-exit-skinhead_us_58fa36cee4b018a9ce5ace1a
Trump Calls for Investigation Into Tax Day Protesters, Tweets ‘Election Is Over!’
http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-calls-investigation-tax-day-protesters-tweets-election-over-n747101
Trump administration still considering how to make it easier to sue the media, Priebus says
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/04/30/trump-administration-still-considering-how-to-make-it-easier-to-sue-the-media-priebus-says/
Priebus: Trump Considering Amending or Abolishing 1st Amendment
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/priebus-trump-considering-amending-or-abolishing-1st-amendment
Reince Priebus Says White House Has ‘Looked at’ Changing Libel Laws
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/04/priebus-says-white-house-has-looked-at-changing-libel-laws.html
Lawmakers slam Priebus for libel law comments
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/331325-lawmakers-slam-priebus-for-libel-law-comments
White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus speaks out in favor of banning flag-burning
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2017/05/01/white-house-chief-of-staff-reince-priebus-speaks-out-in-favor-of-banning-flag-burning/
Hollywood Fears The Worst Of Donald Trump Is Still To Come
“We rely on freedom of the press to get away with things we get away with on the show,” Samantha Bee told BuzzFeed News. “We need to do what we can to preserve those freedoms.”
https://www.buzzfeed.com/krystieyandoli/100-days-into-trumps-presidency-hollywood-still-fears-the
A Code Pink Protester Laughs Over a Trump Nominee and Is Convicted
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/03/us/code-pink-sessions-laughter-trial.html
Vacation’s Over: Obama Returns to Public Life Next Week
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/21/us/politics/barack-obama-post-presidential-events.html
Obama to make first post-presidency public appearance in Chicago next week
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/04/21/obama-to-make-first-post-presidency-public-appearance-in-chicago-next-week/
The curious political effect of men losing their breadwinner role
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/on-leadership/wp/2017/04/21/the-curious-political-effect-of-men-losing-their-breadwinners-role/
study (still under peer review) https://hbr.org/2017/04/earning-less-than-their-wives-makes-u-s-men-more-partisan
Georgia Is Trying To Block Newly Registered Voters From Taking Part In Fierce Runoff Election - Jon Ossoff
This is just typical, said the Georgia NAACP chief, who is suing the state.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/georgia-voter-registration-runoff-ossoff_us_58f90c7ce4b06b9cb91505f8
REPUBLICAN Florida State Senator Resigns After Using Racial Slur in Tirade - State Senator Frank Artiles, a Republican from Miami-Dade County
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/21/us/florida-senator-frank-artiles-resigns-racist-rant.html
Jaywalker Beaten In Street By Cop Claims Abuse Continued In Jail - Sacramento, CA
Nandi Cain is suing authorities in California for what he calls “racially biased” attacks.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jaywalker-beaten-police-lawsuit_us_58fe5ffbe4b06b9cb9195a97
Man Who Died Of Thirst In Sheriff David Clarke [HUGE Trump supporter]’s Jail Had Water Cut Off For A Week
A group of jurors are weighing criminal charges against Terrill Thomas’ jailors.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/david-clarke-jail-dehydration-death-terrill-thomas_us_58fe47d4e4b06b9cb9192d13
Serena Williams’ Response To Racist Comments: ‘Does My Sassiness Upset You?’
The tennis star quoted Maya Angelou after Ilie Nastase’s alleged comments about Williams’ unborn child.
Serena Williams responded Monday to Ilie Nastase’s alleged racist comments about her unborn child.
Nastase was allegedly heard saying, “Let’s see what color it has. Chocolate with milk?” in Romanian when one of his players was discussing Williams’ pregnancy during a press conference. The former singles champion has a reputation for bad behavior and is nicknamed “Nasty.”
His comments were made in reference to Williams’ fiancé, Alexis Ohanian, who is white. Williams - who announced her 20-week pregnancy last week - addressed Nastase’s remark in a text post on Instagram.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/serena-williams-responds-to-ilie-nastases-racist-comments_us_58fe5b6ae4b018a9ce5dc6df
The debacle in Arkansas reaffirms that the death penalty is arbitrary, unchecked and unfair - and racist
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2017/04/21/the-debacle-in-arkansas-reaffirms-that-the-death-penalty-is-arbitrary-unchecked-and-unfair/
The Banal Horror of Arkansas’s Executions
With the state’s supply of the sedative midazolam due to expire, the proposed schedule came to resemble a lethal clearance sale.
By Jelani Cobb
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/05/08/the-banal-horror-of-arkansas-executions
A black teen died following an encounter with police near Dallas. His death has just been ruled a homicide. - shot in head by police rifle - outrageous case
Police have retracted earlier accounts that a vehicle was reversing toward officers in an “aggressive manner” when one of the officers opened fire, striking and killing 15-year-old Jordan Edwards in a Dallas-area suburb Saturday night.
In a news conference Monday, Balch Springs Police Chief Jonathan Haber said that he initially “misspoke” and that the vehicle had begun to drive away at the time the officer opened fire. He questioned whether the shooting was necessary.
“I unintentionally (was) incorrect when I said the vehicle was backing down the road … in fact I can tell you that I do have questions in relation to my observation (of) the video,” Haber said. “After reviewing the video, I don’t believe that (the shooting) met our core values.”
Haber, who declined to release the video footage of the shooting as well as the name of the officer involved, said that evidence will be presented to a grand jury.
Jordan is the youngest of the more than 330 people who have been shot and killed by police in 2017, according to a Washington Post database tracking such shootings. About 25 percent of those fatally shot by police this year have been black, and about 7 percent of those killed have been unarmed at the time they were shot. At least 10 people shot and killed by police this year were under 18.
[...]
Lee Merritt, an attorney for Edwards’s family, said at a news conference Monday that the family is calling on the police department to release the name of the officer as well as audio and video footage of the incident.
“We are declaring war on bad policing. This has happened far too often,” he said. “We are tired of making the same rhetorical demands, of having the same hashtags; our community is fed up with the same tired excuses, once again offered by Balch Springs Police Department yesterday, that this was somehow the fault of the victims — teenage kids with no criminal records, with no motive to attempt to hurt anyone, with no evidence that they ever attempted to hurt anyone.”
“Another family ripped apart by police brutality,” he wrote Sunday on Twitter. “There was absolutely no justification for this murder. We demand justice!”
In a phone interview with The Post on Sunday night, Merritt said that Jordan, his 16-year-old brother and three other teenage boys were at a party on Baron Drive when they learned that police were on the way.
They went to the car parked outside, saw flashlights and heard gunshots, Merritt said. As they climbed into the car, the teens apparently heard somebody yell profanities. Then they were being fired upon.
They fled for about a block, Merritt said, before they noticed that there was smoke coming from Jordan’s head. The driver of the car, the boy’s older brother, stopped the car, and they flagged down an approaching police cruiser for help.
Several of the teens played on the football team together. Jordan was going through spring training for next year’s season.
“They’re never going to be the same,” Merritt said. “These kids are never going to be the same.”
Merritt said that three bullets were fired into the car. They came through the driver’s side window, he said.
Jordan and the four teens with him had not been drinking, according to Merritt. They were not cited for underage drinking and have not been charged with any crimes, he said.
[...]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/05/01/officer-fatally-shoots-15-year-old-boy-in-dallas-suburb/
Texas Police Shoot and Kill Student, 15
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/01/us/dallas-police-teen-shooting.html
more: https://news.google.com/news/rtc?ncl=dAFE9KBUUd1tftMEWBSULjJmAJjeM&authuser=0&topic=w&ar=1493672715
The Shooting of Jordan Edwards
Police initially said they killed a 15-year-old after the car he was in reversed toward officers—but after reviewing body-cam footage, fired the officer involved.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/05/the-shooting-of-jordan-edwards/525141/
Police Officer Who Fatally Shot 15-Year-Old Texas Boy Is Fired
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/02/us/dallas-police-teen-shooting-jordan-edwards.html
Balch Springs police fire Officer Roy Oliver, who fatally shot Jordan Edwards with rifle
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/dallas/2017/05/02/balch-springs-police-fires-officer-fatally-shot-15-year-old-rifle
'Great kid' killed in officer-involved shooting in Balch Springs
http://www.wfaa.com/news/local/15-year-old-boy-killed-in-officer-involved-shooting-in-balch-springs/435409090
Who was Jordan Edwards? Teen killed by police called a good student, athlete
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/02/us/jordan-edwards-shooting-trnd/
15-year-old's brothers watched him die after Balch Springs police shooting, family says
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/dallas/2017/04/30/officer-fatally-shoots-15-year-old-balch-springs
Another black boy was killed by police. It’s time for more than hashtags.
Editorial
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/another-black-boy-was-killed-by-police-its-time-for-more-than-hashtags/2017/05/02/03ced94e-2f66-11e7-9534-00e4656c22aa_story.html
If the U.S. government won't fight to end police shootings, who will?
Editorial
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-police-shooting-dallas-jordan-edwards-20170503-story.html
Alton Sterling shooting death: Reports suggest no federal charges
Reports: No federal charges in Alton Sterling shooting death
Sterling was selling CDs outside a Baton Rouge convenience store
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/02/us/alton-sterling-shooting-death/
Justice Department will not charge Baton Rouge officers in fatal shooting of Alton Sterling
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/justice-department-will-not-charge-baton-rouge-officers-in-fatal-shooting-of-alton-sterling/2017/05/02/ac962e66-2ea7-11e7-9534-00e4656c22aa_story.html
Officers Won’t Be Charged in Black Man’s Shooting Death in Louisiana
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/02/us/alton-sterling-justice-department.html
Ex-officer Michael Slager pleads guilty in shooting death of Walter Scott
As part of a plea deal, two other federal charges and state charges will be dropped
Slager killed 50-year-old Walter Scott as Scott was running away
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/02/us/michael-slager-federal-plea/
Ex-Officer Who Shot Walter Scott Pleads Guilty in Charleston
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/02/us/michael-slager-walter-scott-north-charleston-shooting.html
Michael Slager, Ex-Cop Who Shot Walter Scott, Pleads Guilty in Civil Rights Case
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/walter-scott-shooting/michael-slager-ex-cop-who-shot-walter-scott-plead-guilty-n753786
Walter Scott's Killer Pleads Guilty. Jeff Sessions Can't Even Mention Scott's Name.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/05/02/michael_slager_pleads_guilty_for_shooting_walter_scott_jeff_sessions_can.html
Georgia Wonders: Will Newcomers Dye the Suburbs Blue?
JOHNS CREEK, Ga. — At first blush, this bedroom city of 83,000 a half-hour north of Atlanta might be mistaken for the perfect example of a white-flight Sun Belt suburb.
It sits squarely in the congressional district once represented by Newt Gingrich, with excellent public schools and master-planned communities so pristine they could have been built by a model train aficionado. In 2015, the all-white City Council rejected the idea of expanding public transit out from majority-black Atlanta on the grounds that it “would increase high-density housing.”
But something has been happening in Johns Creek — and, indeed, across much of the vast archipelago of cul-de-sac communities north of Atlanta that served as the launchpad for Mr. Gingrich’s 1994 Republican revolution. The promise of a suburban idyll has been increasingly attracting all kinds of people — many of whom are not white, and not Republican.
Today, 24 percent of people in Johns Creek are of Asian heritage. Indian-Americans shop for saris at the Medlock Crossing strip mall and flock to the latest Bollywood hits at the multiplex. Chinese-Americans and food lovers of all stripes head to the Sichuan House, near the Target and Home Depot stores, for sliced pork ears in chili sauce and “tearfully spicy” mung bean noodles.
[...]
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/03/us/politics/ossoff-handel-georgia-sixth-district.html
Trump's wacky history lessons continue
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/01/politics/donald-trump-andrew-jackson-us-history/
Trump questions why the Civil War could 'not have been worked out'
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-latest-interviews-reveal-relationship-obama-views-civil/story?id=47128589
Donald Trump just gave two incredibly bizarre (and fact-free) interviews
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/01/politics/donald-trump-andrew-jackson-wiretapping/
Trump on the Civil War: ‘Why Could That One Not Have Been Worked Out?’ - this and next one Last Word open 5-1-17 - including re admiring Andrew Jackson as v. Abraham Lincoln
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/01/us/politics/trump-andrew-jackson-fact-check.html
Why There Was a Civil War
Some issues aren’t amenable to deal-making; some principles don’t lend themselves to compromise.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/05/why-there-was-a-civil-war/524925/
Trump’s totally bizarre claim about avoiding the Civil War
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/05/01/trumps-totally-bizarre-claim-about-avoiding-the-civil-war/
The Danger of Trump’s Civil War Ignorance
Those who don’t understand history are doomed to repeat it.
Contrary to Donald Trump’s view, Andrew Jackson wouldn’t have said “what is the reason for this?”
By Jamelle Bouie
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2017/05/trump_s_belief_that_a_deal_could_have_prevented_the_civil_war_is_as_dangerous.html
Racists, slavery apologists, and white nationalists knew exactly what Trump was saying about the Civil War
By questioning the cause of the Civil War, Trump was blowing a dog whistle to white nationalists & neo-confederates
http://www.salon.com/2017/05/04/racists-slavery-apologists-and-white-nationalists-knew-exactly-what-trump-was-saying-about-the-civil-war_partner/
original https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2017/05/02/racists-slavery-apologists-and-white-nationalists-knew-exactly-what-trump-was-saying-about-civil-war/216241
Donald Trump says he’s a big fan of history. But he doesn’t seem to trust historians.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/05/04/donald-trump-says-hes-a-fan-of-history-but-he-doesnt-seem-to-trust-historians/
F.B.I. Helping American University Investigate Bananas Found Hanging From Nooses
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/03/us/bananas-hang-from-black-nooses-and-a-campus-erupts-in-protest.html
Neil Gorsuch’s very first decision on the Supreme Court was to let a [BLACK] man be killed - more re Gorsuch in re church-state playground case below
Donald Trump’s kind of justice.
https://thinkprogress.org/neil-gorsuchs-very-first-decision-on-the-supreme-court-was-to-let-a-man-be-killed-67aedf3a6d93
Neil Gorsuch’s First Critical Vote Allowed A Man To Be Executed
It looks like the Supreme Court is back to where it was on the death penalty when Justice Antonin Scalia was alive.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/neil-gorsuch-death-penalty-supreme-court_us_58fa193ae4b018a9ce5a99a9
Gorsuch's First Big Supreme Court Vote Allows Arkansas Execution
Justices vote 5-4 to let state start lethal injections
Convicted murderer Ledell Lee subsequently put to death
https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-04-21/gorsuch-s-first-big-high-court-vote-allows-arkansas-execution
Gorsuch casts death-penalty vote in one of his first Supreme Court cases
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/gorsuch-casts-death-penalty-vote-in-one-of-his-first-supreme-court-cases/2017/04/21/2d9bc5dc-26a8-11e7-a1b3-faff0034e2de_story.html
Donald Trump - Twitter
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Gallup Daily: Trump Job Approval
http://www.gallup.com/poll/201617/gallup-daily-trump-job-approval.aspx
Daily Presidential Tracking Poll
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/trump_administration/prez_track_mar2
President Trump Job Approval
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president_trump_job_approval-6179.html
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http://cookpolitical.com/story/10174
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Michael Flynn
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/michael-flynn/
Kris Kobach
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/kris-kobach/
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http://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/steve-bannon/
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http://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/john-bolton/
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http://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/david-duke/
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Colin Kahl - Biden's National Security Advisor - good source
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In Travis County custody case, jury will search for real Alex Jones - this and next two at http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=130629223
Alex Jones and his ex-wife, Kelly, will be locked in a child custody trial the next two weeks in Austin.
Alex Jones’ lawyers will make the case that their client should not be judged by his on-air persona.
Lawyers for Kelly Jones will maintain that Jones’ public outbursts suggest he is not a fit parent.
April 16, 2017
At a recent pretrial hearing, attorney Randall Wilhite told state District Judge Orlinda Naranjo that using his client Alex Jones’ on-air Infowars persona to evaluate Alex Jones as a father would be like judging Jack Nicholson in a custody dispute based on his performance as the Joker in “Batman.”
“He’s playing a character,” Wilhite said of Jones. “He is a performance artist.”
But in emotional testimony at the hearing, Kelly Jones, who is seeking to gain sole or joint custody of her three children with Alex Jones, portrayed the volcanic public figure as the real Alex Jones.
“He’s not a stable person,” she said of the man with whom her 14-year-old son and 9- and 12-year-old daughters have lived since her 2015 divorce. “He says he wants to break Alec Baldwin’s neck. He wants J-Lo to get raped.
“I’m concerned that he is engaged in felonious behavior, threatening a member of Congress,” she said, referring to his recent comments about California Democrat Adam Schiff. “He broadcasts from home. The children are there, watching him broadcast.”
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http://www.mystatesman.com/news/state--regional-govt--politics/travis-county-custody-case-jury-will-search-for-real-alex-jones/rnbWzMHnFCd5SOPgP3A34J/
Alex Jones’ Defense in Upcoming Custody Battle Is That He’s a Fake ( https://youtu.be/2FBmprSH0Ws ) - references item above
http://fusion.net/alex-jones-defense-in-upcoming-custody-battle-is-that-1794370575
InfoWars’ Alex Jones Is a ‘Performance Artist,’ His Lawyer Says in Divorce Hearing
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/not-fake-news-infowars-alex-jones-performance-artist-n747491
Alex Jones’ Defense
His lawyer: He’s not a deranged crackpot, he just plays one on the radio.
http://billmoyers.com/story/alex-jones-defense/
Alex Jones is a narcissist, a witness testifies. And he’s undermining his own attorneys.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/04/20/alex-jones-is-a-narcissist-a-witness-says-and-possibly-the-worst-client-ever/
‘Infowars’ host Jones says his on-air persona not a ‘trick’ - AP
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/infowars-host-jones-says-his-on-air-persona-not-a-trick/2017/04/20/0738141a-262e-11e7-928e-3624539060e8_story.html
original http://bigstory.ap.org/article/f8ea611ce31b4bb2923c17b531425a77/infowars-host-jones-says-his-air-persona-not-trick
Alex Jones Takes the Stand in Custody Battle, Admits to Cheating on Wife
The InfoWars founder was cross-examined by his ex-wife’s attorney in court Thursday.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/04/20/alex-jones-takes-the-stand-in-custody-battle-admits-to-cheating-on-wife.html
Alex Jones Finally Lost It On The Witness Stand
The conservative radio star faced aggressive questioning from his ex-wife’s attorneys Thursday about his family life and character.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/alex-jones-weed_us_58f9134ae4b00fa7de128eed
Alex Jones Shows A Sensitive Side On The Witness Stand
At his child custody trial Wednesday, he didn’t yell once. But he got reprimanded again for making faces.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/alex-jones-shows-a-sensitive-side-on-the-witness-stand_us_58f81338e4b0cb086d7df213
Alex Jones tells jury his marijuana has gotten too strong — and says George Soros is to blame
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/04/alex-jones-tells-jury-his-marijuana-has-gotten-too-strong-and-says-george-soros-is-to-blame/
Alex Jones celebrates 4/20 by accusing global elite of making weed too dank
http://www.avclub.com/article/alex-jones-celebrates-420-accusing-george-soros-ma-254048
Alex Jones Says He’s A Performance Artist. Surprisingly, Actual Performance Artists Agree.
In light of the InfoWars host’s bizarre assertion, the most interesting question is: what happens next?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/alex-jones_us_58f60e61e4b0da2ff8632204
Alex Jones requests the same respectful, dignified media coverage he’s granted so many
http://www.avclub.com/article/alex-jones-requests-same-respectful-dignified-medi-254122
Alex Jones Sued By Chobani After Yogurt Maker Says Radio Host Posted Fake Stories - AP
BOISE, Idaho - Greek yogurt giant Chobani filed a lawsuit Monday against right-wing radio host Alex Jones, accusing the conspiracy theorist of publishing false information about the company.
Chobani says that Jones and his Infowars website posted fabricated stories earlier this month that linked Chobani owner Hamdi Ulukaya and the company to a sexual assault case involving refugee children. The company filed the lawsuit in Idaho District Court in Twin Falls, where it operates the largest yogurt plant in the world.
[...]
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/alex-jones-sued-chobani-after-yogurt-maker-says-radio-host-n750566
original http://bigstory.ap.org/article/4437a341bd44458b9bb1982b58b59e54/chobani-yogurt-company-sues-right-wing-radio-host-alex
Austin’s Alex Jones sued by Greek yogurt giant Chobani
http://www.statesman.com/business/austin-alex-jones-sued-greek-yogurt-giant-chobani/Y8dES5PyXlXZhkwEJXYu3K/
Kelly Jones’ lawyer depicts Alex Jones as 'master manipulator'
http://www.mystatesman.com/news/state--regional-govt--politics/kelly-jones-lawyer-depicts-alex-jones-master-manipulator/ZUf5KSxF8l80yjTq7GR0gM/
4 Psychology Experts on Why Alex Jones Is Always Taking His Shirt Off
http://nymag.com/thecut/2017/04/4-psychology-experts-on-alex-jones-taking-his-shirt-off.html
Alex Jones brags about his sexual prowess, presents chart on how to be a “real man”
http://www.avclub.com/article/alex-jones-brags-about-his-sexual-prowess-presents-254226
In midst of custody battle, Alex Jones reveals that at 16, 'I'd already had over 150 women.'
http://politics.blog.mystatesman.com/2017/04/24/in-midst-of-custody-battle-alex-jones-reveals-that-at-16-id-already-had-over-150-women/
For the second time, Judge Naranjo denies Alex Jones’ bid for mistrial
http://www.statesman.com/news/state--regional-govt--politics/for-the-second-time-judge-naranjo-denies-alex-jones-bid-for-mistrial/VvCVrz1OMhRX6IhEYGm9tN/
Alex Jones and His Pill-Pushing Chiropractor [Edward Group] Are Here to Save Your Colon From the Globalists
http://jezebel.com/alex-jones-and-his-pill-pushing-chiropractor-are-here-t-1794383993
Alex Jones Will Never Stop Being Alex Jones
After two decades toiling at the fringes of politics, Alex Jones and his Infowars media empire have architected the current moment and helped usher a president into office. Now, the only person standing in Jones' way is Jones.
AUSTIN - It was the winter of 1997 and Alex Jones couldn’t stop getting punched in the face.
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https://www.buzzfeed.com/charliewarzel/alex-jones-will-never-stop-being-alex-jones
Breitbart’s frustration with President Trump just boiled over
Breitbart News cheered Donald Trump to victory in November but has been frustrated by some of Trump’s moves in office. Most notably, the hard-right site has been disappointed by the president’s failure to secure funding for the Southern border wall he promised during the campaign in a budget deal Republicans and Democrats recently struck.
At Wednesday’s White House press briefing, Breitbart reporter Charlie Spiering got into a tense exchange with White House press secretary Sean Spicer. We have annotated the back-and-forth, using Genius. To see an annotation, click the yellow, highlighted text. To add your own, sign up for an account.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/05/03/breitbarts-frustration-with-president-trump-just-boiled-over/
In Minnesota's worst measles outbreak, a battle of beliefs over vaccines
An evolving community in the big city of Minneapolis is fighting a dangerous virus -- and a battle of beliefs.
The largest measles outbreak in the Minnesota city in 25 years, this April, affected 34 people primarily between the ages of 0 to 5, according to the Minnesota Department of Health. Eleven have been hospitalized.
The majority, 29, of the measles cases were among Somali Minnesotans, according to the state health department, which has been working to improve vaccination rates in their community.
State and local officials have been searching for any other people exposed to the virus –- potentially 3,000 more -- who may be unvaccinated and vulnerable, to try and stop the spread of the disease.
[...]
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/minnesotas-worst-measles-outbreak-battle-beliefs-vaccines/story?id=47155531
The Secret To Happiness Revealed - included in 12-28-16 Alex Jones Show
Paul Joseph Watson talks about the death of Carrie Fisher and how now many people are completely unhappy no matter what the accomplish.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Y-f8VLzMdM
How Complaining Rewires Your Brain For Negativity
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-travis-bradberry/how-complaining-rewires-y_b_13634470.html
How American Babies Behave Differently From Infants In Other Cultures - Polish babies crankiest/hardest to console
South Korean babies like to cuddle the most, and Chilean babies are the most active.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/child-psychology-babies-around-world_us_585c0055e4b0d9a5945756d1
study (via https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/12/161220140911.htm ) http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17405629.2016.1236722
following further to http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=127201491 :
Greatest Alex Jones Rants
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fwSlfL9i9k
67 Alex Jones rants - Part 1 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HE0jSr9phrc
Best of Alex Jones Rants - AJ upload
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucSxpLCTdwA
Alex Jones Ranting Compilation!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDP2N5psnQ8
15 MIN OF ALEX JONES MEMES
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ALEX JONES FUNNY MOMENTS VI
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If Muhammad Replaced Trump (. . .)
Jul 24, 2016
If the ideals of Islamism came out of Trump's mouth, how would the Left & Right react? If any Muslims do respond to this cartoon, I have a couple predictions: 1. Some will respond by saying that the verses are out of context (standard response), but notice that none of these verses are actually justified by their context, and 2. Some other verse will be presented that contradicts one of the verses I used, which proves nothing other than the fact that the Islamic texts in question are contradictory.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D1sW7tu6-s
You Can't Escape - Episode 8 of "Power Corrupts" ( https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLv--V1yc2QDJi6hFNhur3iAsyFpXRtB8w - further to http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=123593680 )
Aug 28, 2016
You might be able to escape religion, but you can't escape what caused it in the first place. All you can do is try to be cognizant of it, and try your best to keep it in check.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dspHj0Cj2-g
Always Cry Wolf
Sep 28, 2016
Human beings often unite during tragedies, foregoing our petty differences. Imagine if we didn't require the tragedy.
While "crying wolf" is considered bad, the title of this video refers to what happened at Yellowstone, and in that light, the title's meaning is "always strive for balance". During my 40 years of life, I have learned that attaining balance is the greatest solver of problems. Be neither excessive nor neglectful. I believe that is a good rule for the macro as well, for society, and for our planet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVsVgAqV9WI
Don't Expect A Terrible Hereafter
Oct 25, 2016
I was challenged to make a meaningful animation without speech. Thanks to my friend, known as C0ct0pusPrime here on YouTube, for challenging me to do this a while back. I had a lot of ideas, but this one stuck with me the most. Life is filled with dark irony. The very thing you want the most, might actually end up being the thing you'd least want. If you're not mindful, you might find out too late.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_jijoIUi2A
King Solomon
Nov 28, 2016
Marriage should be between 1 man and 1000 women.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Zjjg7mmDN4
If Hitler Never Existed (. . .)
Dec 21, 2016
This is basically a MUCH better version of "It's a Wonderful Life".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5TtDZlHqao
The Horror of Your Desires
Dec 29, 2016
If you somehow obtained ultimate power, the things you’d choose to do would show us far more clearly who you really are than you could possibly show us with your current limitations. You could choose to bend people to your will, even if only through threats and intimidation, or maybe you could enjoy life with us, help us, and teach us. The bible authors created a character in Yahweh who abuses his limitless power with wanton abandon, reeking of a crude tool of manipulation - not a loving, caring teacher. He is the ultimate bad guy, sold to us as the ultimate good guy - a monumental travesty of history. It certainly is a good thing that Yahweh is a fictional invention of ancient writers.
My next animations will be about the life and times of King David, as found in 1st and 2nd Samuel (and a bit of 1st Kings).
This animation was Episode 9 of my Power Corrupts series. Here’s a link to the full playlist of the Power Corrupts series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pA5PlJiqOnk&list=PLv--V1yc2QDJi6hFNhur3iAsyFpXRtB8w - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLv--V1yc2QDJi6hFNhur3iAsyFpXRtB8w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqJBD5SosZI
King David
Jan 22, 2017
This is the beginning of King David’s story from the Bible, the books of Samuel. I’d like to animate the rest of the books of Samuel, but that would take an enormous amount of work, and not only would your support via Patreon be greatly appreciated, but would also attach your name to the project (DarkMatter Army or above).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdtV9kbs_fo
David, Goliath, and the 200 Cyclops Sleeves
Feb 20, 2017
The Sunday School version of David and Goliath usually ends after David slings his rock, and for good reason; the rest isn’t quite wholesome family entertainment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZPhXoDI3F0
If Muhammad Became the President (. . .)
Mar 17, 2017
If you dislike Trump, then you should probably dislike Muhammad 100x more. Oddly, it seems some people are confused on this issue. That confusion comes from the best of intentions, I'm sure, but it is ultimately self-defeating, and allows for tolerance of the intolerable. Please check the paragraph at the end of this video for elaboration.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yJqWCBq6GI
God Judges The Amazing Atheist
Apr 4, 2017
Finally, The Amazing Atheist meets his maker. Who do you think God should judge next?
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If Your Body Were a Religion
Apr 11, 2017
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Solar storms remove electrons from large portions of Earth's atmosphere
"We have found out that during solar storms, electrons are removed in the ionosphere, which is the opposite of what you intuitively would expect," researcher Tibor Durgonics said.
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2017/03/03/Solar-storms-remove-electrons-from-large-portions-of-Earths-atmosphere/6081488557193/
Solar storms trigger surprising phenomena close to Earth - in high-latitude (Arctic) ionosphere
https://phys.org/news/2017-03-solar-storms-trigger-phenomena-earth.html
study http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2016RS006106/abstract
Indonesia's 'Hobbits' Are Far Older Relatives Than We Originally Thought - Homo floresiensis
An unexpected journey.
http://www.sciencealert.com/indonesia-s-hobbits-are-far-older-than-we-originally-thought
study http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047248417300866
PR https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-04/anu-ooi042017.php
'Hobbit' species did not evolve from ancestor of modern humans, research finds
Bone study shows there is no evidence the 1.1-metre tall Homo floresiensis had any links with the much larger Homo erectus
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/apr/21/hobbit-species-did-not-evolve-from-ancestor-of-modern-humans-research-finds
Origins of Indonesia's Flores 'hobbits' most likely in Africa and not from 'Java man', study claims
http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sci-tech/origins-of-indonesias-flores-hobbits-most-likely-in-africa-and-not-from-java-man-study-claims-20170421-gvptdr.html
‘Hobbits’ didn’t evolve from a direct modern human ancestor. They likely originate from Africa instead
http://www.zmescience.com/science/anthropology/hobbits-ancestors-study/
The Hobbit: A Lineage More Ancient Than Once Thought?
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2017/04/21/the-hobbit-older-lineage/
Scientists discover hobbits are real, but they're not related to us
Flores hobbits are a distant cousin to humans, and not in our lineage.
http://www.catholic.org/news/technology/story.php?id=74625
Incredible discovery places humans in California 130,000 years ago ( https://youtu.be/bNr_JKAmJ-w , https://youtu.be/ysKQ_UrvM7c )
Date is a whopping 115,000 years earlier than previous findings of humans in the Americas.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/04/unknown-humans-were-in-california-130000-years-ago-say-scientists/
study (full access) http://www.nature.com/articles/nature22065.epdf?referrer_access_token=Rs62gdMseMJLxapUac9lmdRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0Odq55Wqltd4FPUqYwCTOB2gBZU31vG0sCW3Ps77Xwu_7i58BFe239QUxJUhsUgFvTOOn9Vd3xVX3SibMm75FwebwrSEFLT53VIO8ypClBlL3B7sKD_McBbzE9jppLHXJktjk_Hl6GIrluqzPKl3twW4rL9vL64plMWCaQxICGcBKIBtOyTHRxSZ82Q6-D5QVg3xMYN-Z8vgq_5Z_fJZyOe0MSI4TbG9nvbdvwNvbRW3-n6FA9CEAQ-uXO1mnwFwCE%3D&tracking_referrer=arstechnica.com / abstract http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v544/n7651/full/nature22065.html
No Bones About It: Scientists Recover Ancient DNA From Cave Dirt
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/27/science/ancient-human-dna-cave-dirt.html
study http://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2017/04/26/science.aam9695
No bones needed: ancient DNA in soil can tell if humans were around
This “game changer” opens up a new world of possibilities.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/04/no-bones-needed-ancient-dna-in-soil-can-tell-if-humans-were-around/
DNA of extinct humans found in caves
The DNA of extinct humans can be retrieved from sediments in caves - even in the absence of skeletal remains.
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-39747326
Scientists Extract DNA From Ancient Humans Out of Cave Dirt
The new technique promises to transform the study of the hominid family tree
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/new-technique-pulls-ancient-human-dna-out-cave-soil-180963084/
DNA from dirt: Tracing ancient humans found in ‘empty’ caves - AP
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/dna-from-dirt-tracing-ancient-humans-found-in-empty-caves/2017/04/27/19788240-2b74-11e7-9081-f5405f56d3e4_story.html
original https://www.apnews.com/30ef9a5e370645f39c0bc84a8d2f4c94/DNA-from-dirt:-Tracing-ancient-humans-found-in-'empty'-caves
Supreme Court, with Gorsuch, set to hear church-state case - AP
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/supreme-court-with-gorsuch-onboard-hears-church-state-case/2017/04/16/7d2682da-229e-11e7-928e-3624539060e8_story.html
original http://www.bigstory.ap.org/article/f0fc69ac9ac846369459f6b4e4c76d1b/supreme-court-gorsuch-onboard-hears-church-state-case
Why Gorsuch May Not Be So Genteel on the Bench
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/17/us/politics/why-gorsuch-may-not-be-so-genteel-on-the-bench.html
Hearing first arguments as member of the Supreme Court, Gorsuch jumps right in
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/hearing-first-arguments-as-member-of-the-supreme-court-gorsuch-jumps-right-in/2017/04/17/96856404-2392-11e7-a1b3-faff0034e2de_story.html
Bitter Fight Behind Him, Justice Gorsuch Starts Day With Relish
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/17/us/politics/justice-neil-gorsuch-supreme-court.html
Supreme Court case could [WILL] pave the way for vouchers for Christian schools — or do just the opposite [NOT A CHANCE] - Gorsuch
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2017/04/19/supreme-court-case-could-pave-the-way-for-vouchers-for-christian-schools-or-do-just-the-opposite/
the case:
Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia, Inc. v. Comer
http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/trinity-lutheran-church-of-columbia-inc-v-pauley/
The Playground of Liberty Transcript (sub req'd)
http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/amicus/2017/04/amicus_on_trinity_lutheran_v_comer_and_religious_liberty.html
Justices express sympathy with Missouri church at Supreme Court hearing
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/justices-express-sympathy-to-missouri-church-at-supreme-court-hearing/2017/04/19/4d3f8be6-2070-11e7-a0a7-8b2a45e3dc84_story.html
Will the Supreme Court give a big boost to the Trump-DeVos ‘school choice’ agenda?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2017/04/19/will-the-supreme-court-give-a-big-boost-to-the-trump-devos-school-choice-agenda/
Church Playground Case Is a Constitutional Seesaw
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-04-20/church-playground-case-is-a-constitutional-seesaw
The Supreme Court jumps into a playground fight over a phony war on religion
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-supreme-court-picks-a-playground-fight-over-a-phony-war-on-religion/2017/04/19/1c63e204-2540-11e7-b503-9d616bd5a305_story.html
Supreme Court Weighs State Aid to Church Programs
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/19/us/politics/supreme-court-church-state.html
Supreme Court appears ready to break down a church-state barrier in certain circumstances
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-court-religion-schools-20170419-story.html
'Freedom of religion' collides with 'freedom from religion' on a Missouri playground
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-scotus-playground-20170420-story.html
The Conservative Agenda for Gorsuch’s First Week
http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-conservative-agenda-for-gorsuchs-first-week
With Trump’s nominee confirmed, the Supreme Court wades into the religion wars
A battle over chopped up tires is now a battle over God.
https://thinkprogress.org/with-trumps-nominee-confirmed-the-supreme-court-wades-into-the-religion-wars-86235a7c522
Supreme Court justices side with church in playground dispute
http://religionnews.com/2017/04/19/supreme-court-justices-side-with-church-in-playground-dispute/
In Church-State Playground Brawl, Justices Lean Toward The Church
http://www.npr.org/2017/04/19/524748818/in-church-state-playground-brawl-justices-lean-toward-the-church
The Roberts Court, 2017 Edition - now with Gorsuch, even more activist, not seeking consensus - in particular, Missouri church-state case
By Linda Greenhouse
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/27/opinion/the-roberts-court-2017-edition.html
Rape Survivor Listens As Judge Praises Former Mormon Bishop Who Abused Her - tie Warren Jeffs
A Utah judge called convicted sexual predator Keith Vallejo “an extraordinarily good man” before sentencing him to prison.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/rape-survivor-utah-judge-lds-bishop_us_58f0f350e4b0da2ff860352e
FEMALE Detroit physician charged with mutilating girls’ genitalia
http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/detroit-city/2017/04/13/doctor-charged-genital-mutilation/100416734/
Michigan Doctor Is Accused of Genital Cutting of 2 Girls
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/13/us/michigan-doctor-fgm-cutting.html
2nd doctor, wife arraigned in [female] genital mutilation case at Livonia clinic
http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/detroit/2017/04/21/genital-mutilation-livonia-clinic/100747468/
Another doctor, wife charged with female genital mutilation in Michigan
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/midwest/ct-detroit-female-genital-mutilation-case-20170421-story.html
Rogue FBI translator, Clemson grad, married ISIS terrorist
http://www.wsoctv.com/news/local/rogue-fbi-translator-clemson-grad-married-isis-terrorist/518804946
An FBI translator married the ISIS fighter she was supposed to be investigating
https://news.vice.com/story/fbi-translator-daniela-greene-married-the-isis-fighter-she-was-supposed-to-be-investigating
FBI agent married Isis fighter before realising her mistake and fleeing Syria
Daniela Greene returned to the US just a month after trying the knot with Denis Cupert
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/fbi-agent-married-isis-fighter-regrets-syria-returns-cnn-interview-a7712436.html
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Trump biography author recalls president's answer to 'Do you believe in God?'
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/04/17/trump-biography-author-recalls-presidents-answer-to-do-you-bel/22042441/
The Mystery of Good Friday: Why is it Good that Jesus is Punished in Our Place?! - by believer
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/justandsinner/mystery-good-friday-good-jesus-punished-place/
Good Friday’s Hardest-Core Crucifixion Re-Enactors (Photos)
http://www.thedailybeast.com/galleries/2017/04/14/good-friday-brings-gory-re-enactments-of-christ-s-crucifixion.html
The foundational beliefs in Christian crosses - by rabbi
http://www.newsday.com/lifestyle/columnists/god-squad/the-foundational-beliefs-in-christian-crosses-1.13459725
Why do Christians keep inviting you to church?
http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/14/living/christians-invite-easter/
Without hope, what is there? - Catholic source
http://www.thetablet.co.uk/editors-desk/1/9797/without-hope-what-is-there-
Some Terrible Things Happened During One Of The Holiest Weeks Of The Year
It isn’t easy being a person of faith in the world today.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/holy-week-terrible-events_us_58f0fb19e4b0bb9638e373fd
White House aims for Thursday signing of religious liberty executive order
President Donald Trump has invited conservative leaders to the White House on Thursday for what they expect will be the ceremonial signing of a long-awaited—and highly controversial—executive order on religious liberty, according to multiple people familiar with the situation.
Two senior administration officials confirmed the plan, though one cautioned that it hasn’t yet been finalized, and noted that lawyers are currently reviewing and fine-tuning the draft language. Thursday is the National Day of Prayer, and the White House was already planning to celebrate the occasion with faith leaders.
The signing would represent a major triumph for Vice President Mike Pence—whose push for religious-freedom legislation backfired mightily when he served as governor of Indiana—and his allies in the conservative movement.
The original draft order, which would have established broad exemptions for people and groups to claim religious objections under virtually any circumstance, was leaked to The Nation [ https://www.thenation.com/article/leaked-draft-of-trumps-religious-freedom-order-reveals-sweeping-plans-to-legalize-discrimination/ ] on Feb. 1—the handiwork, many conservatives believed, of Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, who have sought to project themselves as friendly to the LGBT community. Liberals blasted the draft order as government-licensed discrimination, and the White House distanced itself from the leaked document in a public statement.
Pence and a small team of conservative allies quickly began working behind the scenes to revise the language, and in recent weeks have ratcheted up the pressure on Trump to sign it. The new draft is being tightly held, but one influential conservative who saw the text said it hasn’t been dialed back much—if at all—since the February leak. “The language is very, very strong,” the source said.
[...]
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/02/donald-trump-religious-liberty-executive-order-237888
Trump to sign executive order making it easier for churches to support political candidates
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-to-sign-executive-order-making-it-easier-for-churches-to-support-political-candidates/2017/05/03/a30294dc-3052-11e7-9dec-764dc781686f_story.html
‘Their dream president’: Trump just gave white evangelicals a big boost
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2017/05/04/their-dream-president-trump-just-gave-white-evangelicals-a-big-boost/
Trump Is Expected to Relax Tax Rules on Churches Endorsing Political Candidates
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/03/us/politics/trump-religion-executive-order-gay-rights.html
More Than 1,000 Faith Leaders Say No Thanks To Trump’s Planned ‘Religious Liberty’ Order
“This is neither what religious freedom means in the eyes of the law, nor what religion itself means to millions of Americans of faith,” the leaders wrote.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/faith-leaders-trump-religious-liberty-order_us_590a36fee4b02655f843d04a
Trump to sign executive order to 'protect and vigorously promote religious liberty'
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/05/03/civil-liberties-groups-pledge-fight-expected-trump-order-religious-freedom/101258922/
As Trump prepares to sign executive order, here's a history of 'religious freedom' laws
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/05/03/trump-prepares-sign-executive-order-heres-history-religious-freedom-laws/101250064/
Civil Rights Groups Are Ready To Sue Trump If He Signs A Broad Religious Freedom Order
“We will fight this with everything we have.”
https://www.buzzfeed.com/dominicholden/religious-freedom-order-possible-lawsuits
Trump Reportedly Will Issue 'License to Discriminate' Order Thursday
http://www.advocate.com/politics/2017/5/02/trump-reportedly-will-issue-license-discriminate-order-thursday
The next 100 days will be even worse: Right-wing bigots urge Trump to sign anti-LGBT order allowing broad discrimination
Conservatives have been pressuring Trump to take even more action targeting the LGBT community for months.
http://www.salon.com/2017/05/02/the-next-100-days-will-be-even-worse-right-wing-bigots-urge-trump-to-sign-anti-lgbt-order-allowing-broad-discrimination/
Many religious freedom advocates are actually disappointed with Trump’s executive order
[...]
The American Civil Liberties Union, which many might expect would oppose the executive order, said Thursday that it had no plans to file a lawsuit. The ACLU’s executive director, Anthony Romero, said in a statement that the order was “an elaborate photo-op with no discernible policy outcome.”
[...]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2017/05/05/many-religious-freedom-advocates-are-disappointed-with-trumps-executive-order/
Kansas City [KS] Archdiocese Cutting Ties With Girl Scouts Over 'Troubling Trends' - tie KCK archdiocese child sex abuse posts
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/05/02/526570123/kansas-city-archdiocese-cutting-ties-with-girl-scouts-over-troubling-trends
Kansas archdiocese severs ties with Girl Scouts and urges end to cookie sales
http://www.kansascity.com/living/religion/article147857619.html
Why avoiding the Girl Scouts is a ‘sane, balanced’ move - Cstholic site Crux
Archbishop Joseph Naumann of Kansas City has reached a sane, balanced conclusion in deciding to transition his diocese away from the Girl Scouts. Available evidence shows women are much better off if they take sex seriously, understand its natural links with marriage and kids, delay sex at best until marriage, practice a faith, and avoid nonmarital parenting, abortion, and divorce.
https://cruxnow.com/commentary/2017/05/03/avoiding-girl-scouts-sane-balanced-move/
This Girl Scout Smiling In The Face Of A Neo-Nazi Is A Total Hero - Czech Republic
May we all be as cool, calm and collected in the face of hate.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/this-girl-scout-smiling-in-the-face-of-a-neo-nazi-is-a-total-hero_us_5909d970e4b05c397684c40e
Psychedelic drugs induce 'heightened state of consciousness', brain scans show
Study records what appears to be the first evidence for mind-opening state experienced by users of LSD, ketamine and psilocybin
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/apr/19/brain-scans-reveal-mind-opening-response-to-psychedelic-drug-trip-lsd-ketamine-psilocybin
study (full text) https://www.nature.com/articles/srep46421
Psychedelic drugs push the brain to a state never seen before
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2128192-psychedelic-drugs-push-the-brain-to-a-state-never-seen-before/
What does an LSD-style drug-induced 'higher state of consciousness' feel like?
The effects of psychedelic drugs can lead to colours seeming more vivid and things seeming more beautiful, finds Rosalind Stone
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/apr/20/what-does-an-lsd-style-drug-induced-higher-state-of-consciousness-feel-like
Music helps hallucinogens heal minds, scientist finds - clinical depression therapy
http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Music-helps-hallucinogens-heal-minds-scientist-11084965.php
related talk http://psychedelicscience.org/conference/clinical/the-psychological-and-neurophysiological-effects-of-music-in-combination-with-psychedelics
YT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJkq-2e6qTc
We're Entering A New Golden Age of Psychedelics, and Portland is Leading the Way
“Portland is the psychedelic underbelly of America. It’s underground, but it’s everywhere.”
http://www.wweek.com/culture/2017/04/18/can-lsd-make-you-better-at-your-job-the-guy-in-the-cubicle-next-to-you-might-be-trying-it/
The Exhaustive List Of Everyone Who’s Died Of A Marijuana Overdose
Because cannabis is among the most dangerous drugs, according to the government.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/marijuana-lethal-dose_us_58f4ec07e4b0b9e9848d6297
Human Umbilical Cord Blood Helps Aging Mice Remember, Study Finds
Researchers found that a protein in human umbilical cord blood plasma improved learning and memory in older mice, but there's no indication [at least not yet] it would work in people.
http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/04/19/523975844/human-umbilical-cord-blood-helps-aging-mice-remember-study-finds
study (full access) http://www.nature.com/articles/nature22067.epdf?referrer_access_token=IYg_TU2JlsQDUpNj_9eoENRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0MNHbxq4abz3bnBs4D7TOYsHOw9XxBw2zWU_Y1pp8fUHds8smHaJXYmy0YEimrhynXSrU0FutXKFdxnGLtaV_xGJBW8JG5sIsS4q1uYETQkWAWp3Jcb0LpZnql734Pb0WHMzAjD9aOG2qhOszFn-p0uZQ4Z4lCU4wyV_l8ZdEQ2Q06kZtyW7d1zBFmDegEyO7LXxTtzp9kqUI9NWC7U9y9ewSkUVswhGL5TkOIshqxxNhisKsyVcXKaQyFo8TRhzGU2HXcZ4bVdP8JLRAa8uWLo&tracking_referrer=www.npr.org / (abstract) http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature22067.html
Fountain of Youth? Young Blood Infusions “Rejuvenate” Old Mice
Elderly rodents that received human umbilical cord blood improved significantly in memory tests
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fountain-of-youth-young-blood-infusions-ldquo-rejuvenate-rdquo-old-mice/
The PLasma for Alzheimer SymptoM Amelioration (PLASMA) Study (PLASMA)
This study is ongoing, but not recruiting participants.
Purpose
The PLasma for Alzheimer SymptoM Amelioration (PLASMA) Study: Intravenously-Administered Plasma From Young Donors for Treatment of Mild-To-Moderate Alzheimer's Disease
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02256306
Experts excited by brain 'wonder-drug'
Scientists hope they have found a drug to stop all neurodegenerative brain diseases, including dementia.
http://www.bbc.com/news/health-39641123
related video http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p050lwdn
study (full text) https://academic.oup.com/brain/article/doi/10.1093/brain/awx074/3737867/Repurposed-drugs-targeting-eIF2-P-mediated
earlier:
Alzheimer's breakthrough hailed as 'turning point'
The discovery of the first chemical to prevent the death of brain tissue in a neurodegenerative disease has been hailed as the "turning point" in the fight against Alzheimer's disease.
10 October 2013
http://www.bbc.com/news/health-24462699
‘Wonder drugs’ might prevent all forms of dementia. One of the drugs is already safe for humans
http://www.zmescience.com/medicine/mind-and-brain/wonder-drugs-dementia-4324/
Two existing drugs halt neurodegeneration in mice
Researchers have made a major leap forward in the treatment of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, after identifying two existing drugs that prevented brain cell death in mouse models of neurodegenerative disease.
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/317028.php
Two older drugs could be 'repurposed' to fight dementia
http://www.nhs.uk/news/2017/04April/Pages/Two-older-drugs-could-be-repurposed-to-fight-dementia.aspx
Thousands of tiny satellites are about to go into space and possibly ruin it forever ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zT7typHkpVg , [3D stereoscopic] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzrMHWjQCtc ) - ESA video re space junk
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/04/21/thousands-of-tiny-satellites-are-about-to-go-into-space-and-possibly-ruin-it-forever/
Science in America - Neil deGrasse Tyson - next two items are about this video (originally on Facebook)
Apr 19, 2017
We offer this 4min video on “Science in America”, containing what may be the most important words Neil deGrasse Tyson has ever spoken.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MqTOEospfo
Neil deGrasse Tyson Warns Science Denial Could 'Dismantle' Democracy
http://www.livescience.com/58758-neil-tyson-science-denial-could-dismantle-democracy.html
Neil DeGrasse Tyson says this new video may contain the 'most important words' he's ever spoken
https://www.businessinsider.com.au/neil-degrasse-tyson-most-important-words-video-2017-4
Dartmouth Professor to Speak Out at Concord March For Science
http://nhpr.org/post/dartmouth-professor-speak-out-concord-march-science
People trust science. So why don't they believe it?
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/04/20/science-march-war-truth-political-polarization/100636124/
March for Science or March for Reality?
Hostility toward the former is troublesome, but hostility toward the latter is the underlying issue
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/march-for-science-or-march-for-reality/
Scientists, Stop Thinking Explaining Science Will Fix Things
It won’t. Try this instead. - communicate science strategically
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2017/04/explaining_science_won_t_fix_information_illiteracy.html
Why scientists are marching on Washington and more than 400 other cities
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/04/20/why-scientists-are-marching-on-washington-and-more-than-400-other-cities/
March For Science On Earth Day To Resist Trump’s War On Facts
http://www.nationalmemo.com/march-science-earth-day-resist-trumps-war-facts/
Why We March for Science, by Judith S. Weis
http://easthamptonstar.com/Opinion/2017420/Why-We-March-Science-Judith-S-Weis
March for Science will take scientists’ activism to a new level
https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/science-public/march-science-will-take-scientists-activism-new-level
The Climate Change Deniers in Congress - majority in both chambers
How many are representing your state?
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/a-guide-to-the-climate-change-deniers-in-congress
Climate Change Is Getting Worse And So Is Media's Coverage Of It ( https://youtu.be/h7ZQS6pAoIs )
https://mediamatters.org/blog/2017/04/29/climate-change-getting-worse-and-so-medias-coverage-it/216211
Sowing Climate Doubt Among Schoolteachers
PAUL SMITHS, N.Y. — The Heartland Institute, a conservative think tank known for attacking climate science, has been mailing a slim, glossy book to public school teachers throughout the United States. The institute says it plans to send out as many as 200,000 copies [ http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/climate-change-skeptic-group-seeks-to-influence-200000-teachers/ ], until virtually every science educator in America has one.
The book, “Why Scientists Disagree About Global Warming [ https://www.heartland.org/publications-resources/publications/why-scientists-disagree-about-global-warming ],” presents the false premise that the evidence for human-driven climate change [ http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/science/topics/globalwarming/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier ] is deeply flawed. To understand where the Heartland Institute is coming from, consider a recent comment by its president, Joseph Bast, who called global warming “another fake crisis” for Democrats “to hype to scare voters and raise campaign dollars.”
The book was first published in 2015, to coincide with the Paris climate conference and influence policy makers. The second edition was released this year with an instructional DVD.
Public school teachers are not the only ones on the institute’s mailing list. College educators are getting copies of the book, too. One academic in Albany told me that hers arrived in an envelope bearing the headline of a New York Times article about an investigation into Exxon Mobil for possibly lying about climate change. “I was in a rush, and all I noticed was the word ‘climate’ in a New York Times headline,” she said. “That made me open it rather than throw it out.”
The cover letter inside, however, made the book’s premise clear. “Claims of a ‘scientific consensus’ ” on climate change, it read, “rest on two college student papers, the writings of a wacky Australian blogger, and a non-peer-reviewed essay by a socialist historian.” In fact, multiple surveys of the scientific literature show that well over 90 percent of published climate scientists have concluded that recent global warming is both real and mostly the result of human activity.
[...]
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/27/opinion/sowing-climate-doubt-among-schoolteachers.html
The right wing is furious about the ‘March for Science’
Climate change deniers have been emboldened by Donald Trump's win, and they're taking to the Internet to express their frustration with scientists' claim that the debate has been settled.
http://www.babwnews.com/2017/04/the-right-wing-is-furious-about-the-march-for-science/
Climate experts: Global warming doubts are 'real science'
There are 'good reasons why scientists disagree about this wickedly complex puzzle'
http://www.wnd.com/2017/04/climate-experts-global-warming-doubts-are-real-science/
Who Is Qualified To Be A Climate Spokesperson?
http://dailycaller.com/2017/04/28/open-letter-from-a-climate-expert-to-president-trump/
EPA removes climate change information from website - further to http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=130928885
http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/29/politics/epa-climate-change-website/
Climate March draws massive crowd to D.C. in sweltering heat
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/climate-march-expected-to-draw-massive-crowd-to-dc-in-sweltering-heat/2017/04/28/1bdf5e66-2c3a-11e7-b605-33413c691853_story.html
Climate marches draw hundreds of thousands on Donald Trump’s 100th day in office
https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/29/climate-marches-draw-hundreds-of-thousands-on-donald-trumps-100th-day-in-office/
Why Muslims are marching for climate
Nana Firman: I am not alone
Muslims -- and indeed the majority of Americans outside the White House -- are united on the urgency of the issue of climate change
http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/28/opinions/muslim-world-climate-march-firman-opinion/
The Climate March's Big Tent Strategy Draws a Big Crowd
But will it make a difference?
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/04/the-people-who-came-to-the-climate-march/524865/
‘It can’t just be a march. It has to be a movement.’ What’s next for climate activists?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/04/30/it-cant-just-be-a-march-it-has-to-be-a-movement-whats-next-for-climate-activists/
Trump Delivers 100 Days of Climate Change Denial
http://www.newsweek.com/trump-delivers-100-days-climate-change-denial-592007
Dems blast Trump's policies at Climate March
http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/331229-dems-blast-trump-environmental-policies-at-climate-march
Thousands March In D.C. To Protest Trump Climate Policies
Thousands of marchers converged in Washington, D.C. for what organizers called the People's Climate March, stopping in front of the White House to boo and yell "shame!"
http://www.npr.org/2017/04/30/526250791/thousands-march-in-d-c-to-protest-trump-climate-policies
Sea of protesters hit streets nationally to protest Trump a Peoples Climate March - Reuters
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/04/sea-of-protesters-hit-streets-nationally-to-protest-trump-a-peoples-climate-march/
original http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-protest-idUSKBN17V0B7 - video http://www.reuters.com/news/picture/protesters-rally-during-climate-march?articleId=USRTS14I33
Russia shows off robotic gunslinger
Commentary: Russia's deputy prime minister, Dmitry Rogozin, proudly tweets video of a Russian Robocop in action.
https://www.cnet.com/news/planning-death-social-media-digital-assets/
SEE IT: Russian deputy prime minister who reportedly shot self in foot insists gun-wielding robot will not become a Terminator
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/russia-insists-gun-wielding-robot-not-terminator-article-1.3064961
Russian YT re this robot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyHcX0Aj300
Russia Trains Robot To Shoot Guns: Can Humans Prevent Rise Of Terminator-Like Killing Machines?
http://www.techtimes.com/articles/205103/20170417/russia-trains-robot-to-shoot-guns-can-humans-prevent-rise-of-terminator-like-killing-machines.htm
"We are not creating a Terminator": Russia denies risk as Putin's 'robot army' is trained to shoot guns
Posting a clip showing armed robot FEDOR in action, Deputy PM insists teaching the androids to shoot will help improve their motor skills and decision-making abilities
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/we-not-creating-terminator-russia-10237755
Russian Terminator Humanoid Robot FEDOR Learns To Shoot With Both Hands
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJn9UgADcPY
Putin's 'robot army' is trained to shoot guns - russian army taifun-m combat robot live fire test
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9Z8xP2khgw
Russian Robot Shooting Gun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fope0HU-6zE
Russian Robot FEDOR Learns To Shoot Glocks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZauGhfv-1w
'Russian Terminator' shows shooting skills
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHSgGmEYsjI
Russia shows off robotic gunslinger
Commentary: Russia's deputy prime minister, Dmitry Rogozin, proudly tweets video of a Russian Robocop in action.
https://www.cnet.com/news/planning-death-social-media-digital-assets/
SEE IT: Russian deputy prime minister who reportedly shot self in foot insists gun-wielding robot will not become a Terminator
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/russia-insists-gun-wielding-robot-not-terminator-article-1.3064961
Russian YT re this robot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyHcX0Aj300
Russia Trains Robot To Shoot Guns: Can Humans Prevent Rise Of Terminator-Like Killing Machines?
http://www.techtimes.com/articles/205103/20170417/russia-trains-robot-to-shoot-guns-can-humans-prevent-rise-of-terminator-like-killing-machines.htm
"We are not creating a Terminator": Russia denies risk as Putin's 'robot army' is trained to shoot guns
Posting a clip showing armed robot FEDOR in action, Deputy PM insists teaching the androids to shoot will help improve their motor skills and decision-making abilities
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/we-not-creating-terminator-russia-10237755
Russian Terminator Humanoid Robot FEDOR Learns To Shoot With Both Hands
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJn9UgADcPY
Putin's 'robot army' is trained to shoot guns - russian army taifun-m combat robot live fire test
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9Z8xP2khgw
Russian Robot Shooting Gun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fope0HU-6zE
Russian Robot FEDOR Learns To Shoot Glocks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZauGhfv-1w
'Russian Terminator' shows shooting skills
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHSgGmEYsjI
New human rights to protect against 'mind hacking' and brain data theft proposed
A response to advances in neurotechnology that can read or alter brain activity, new human rights would protect people from theft, abuse and hacking
New human rights that would protect people from having their thoughts and other brain information stolen, abused or hacked have been proposed by researchers.
The move is a response to the rapid advances being made with technologies that read or alter brain activity and which many expect to bring enormous benefits to people’s lives in the coming years.
Much of the technology has been developed for hospitals to diagnose or treat medical conditions, but some of the tools – such as brainwave monitoring devices that allow people to play video games with their minds, or brain stimulators that claim to boost mental performance – are finding their way into shops.
But these and other advances in neurotechnology raise fresh threats to privacy and personal freedom, according to Marcello Ienca, a neuroethicist at the University of Basel, and Roberto Andorno, a human rights lawyer at the University of Zurich. Writing in the journal Life Sciences, Society and Policy, the pair put forward four new human rights that are intended to preserve the brain as the last refuge for human privacy.
“The question we asked was whether our current human rights framework was well equipped to face this new trend in neurotechnology,” Ienca told the Guardian. Having reviewed the rights in place today, the pair concluded that more must be done to protect people.
“The information in our brains should be entitled to special protections in this era of ever-evolving technology,” Ienca said. “When that goes, everything goes.”
The suggested new rights assert what the researchers call cognitive liberty, mental privacy, mental integrity and psychological continuity. ...
[...]
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/apr/26/new-human-rights-to-protect-against-mind-hacking-and-brain-data-theft-proposed
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