Sunday, May 21, 2017 7:25:36 PM
President Trump Full Interview with Judge Jeanine Pirro 5/13/17
Published on May 13, 2017 by Based Patriot [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcSqNP7X0DMOI8X3yRPvcbw , https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcSqNP7X0DMOI8X3yRPvcbw/videos ]
President Trump talks James Comey, the Russia investigation, North Korea, and potentially ending the White House daily press conferences in this interview with Judge Jeanine Pirro.
FOX NEWS EXCLUSIVE: Trump talks about obstructions, from the media to Democrats, with Judge Jeanine Pirro
May 13, 2017
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/05/13/fox-news-exclusive-trump-talk-about-obstructions-from-media-to-democrats-with-judge-jeanine-pirro.html [with embedded video, and comments]
Trump to Pirro: I'm 'Surprised' At 'Hypocrite' Dems For Blasting Comey Firing
May 14, 2017
http://insider.foxnews.com/2017/05/13/donald-trump-judge-jeanine-pirro-interview-james-comey-firing-sean-spicer-chuck-schumer [with embedded videos, and comments]
[for the moment at least at] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdIzp4IXsN0 [with comments] [also for the moment at least at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChpzvUye8uU (with comments), and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxMIBMSjjlM (with comments)]
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Does Trump have his own White House tapes?
AM Joy
5/14/17
Rep. Elijah Cummings joins Joy Reid on Donald Trump threatening James Comey with possible ‘tapes’ amid other scandalous developments in the FBI Russia probe. Her panel joins to discuss. Duration: 14:18
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/does-trump-have-his-own-white-house-tapes-943615555520 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7JJWsY52mE [with comments]
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Waters to Trump: Cooperate with the investigation
AM Joy
5/14/17
Rep. Maxine Waters joins Joy Reid calling for the president to stop calling the Russia investigation a witch hunt, allowing it to continue unimpeded, so Congress can determine whether Donald Trump should be impeached. Duration: 7:51
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/waters-to-trump-cooperate-with-the-investigation-943621188000 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_Biw9LaRds [with comments]
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Cleaver: We need an independent commission on Russia
AM Joy
5/14/17
Rep. Emanuel Cleaver joins Joy Reid on how he sees his Republican colleagues in the House blocking the proper measures needed to provide checks and balances on Donald Trump. Her panel joins to discuss. Duration: 11:36
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/cleaver-we-need-an-independent-commission-on-russia-943632963579
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Black voter turnout fell for first time in 20 years
AM Joy
5/14/17
Joy Reid and her panel of experts discuss the many reasons – including new voting restrictions in 14 states and a purging of over one million people from voter rolls – that drove down the critical African-American vote in 2016, particularly in critical swing states. Duration: 15:51
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/black-voter-turnout-fell-for-first-time-in-20-years-943635523506 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSEtG5w2CBo [with comments]
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Harvard’s Laurence Tribe: Impeach Trump now
AM Joy
5/14/17
Constitutional law professor Laurence Tribe tells Joy Reid why it is critically important to put the impeachment process in motion now, before it is too late. Duration: 5:24
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/harvard-s-laurence-tribe-impeach-trump-now-943633987952 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KNj7G1D76o [with comments]
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Democrats strategize to win back the House
AM Joy
5/14/17
In the first installment of our new series, ‘Flip this House,’ Joy Reid speaks to Democratic New Jersey Congressional candidate Linda Weber about whether she can win a seat currently held by a Republican, helping shift the majority in the House. Duration: 6:03
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/democrats-strategize-to-win-back-the-house-943640131767
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Emergency Message To MSM: Don't Lose Your Humanity
Published on May 14, 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 ]
Alex Jones reaches out to the Mainstream Media and encourages them to not lose their humanity and sell out America.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43lt6mGRzfw [with comments]
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Trump Announces New FBI Director / Left Calls For Ban On Mother's Day - Full Show
Published on May 14, 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 ]
Sunday, May 14th 2017[, with an appearance by Mike Cernovich]: Trump to Purge Staff - The mainstream media is reporting on something Infowars broke days ago: President Trump plans a massive shakeup inside the White House intended to dump staff members who are undermining him. Trump insider Roger Stone is in studio to explain what's going on. We also look into how the president is encouraging Americans to NOT worship government.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3ZEGifKwSY [with comments] [the somewhat edited Alex Jones original at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSm7Z5Qphio (title taken/text adapted from; with comments)]
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Net Neutrality Update: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (Web Exclusive)
Published on May 14, 2017 by LastWeekTonight [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3XTzVzaHQEd30rQbuvCtTQ / https://www.youtube.com/user/LastWeekTonight , https://www.youtube.com/user/LastWeekTonight/videos ]
John Oliver discusses the recent flood of comments posted on the FCC's website.
[the original segment. "Net Neutrality II: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)", https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92vuuZt7wak (with {over 8,000} comments), included at/see (linked in) http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=131201693 and preceding and following (two posts back))
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qI5y-_sqJT0 [with comments]
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Dialysis: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
Published on May 14, 2017 by LastWeekTonight
For-profit dialysis companies often maximize their profits at the expense of their patients. John Oliver explores why a medical clinic is nothing like a Taco Bell.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yw_nqzVfxFQ [with (over 4,000) comments]
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THE RUSSIAN CONNECTION - Randy Rainbow Song Parody
Published on May 15, 2017 by Randy Rainbow [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC07F26kHKkpW_qqvXzEGALA / https://www.youtube.com/user/Tday4U , https://www.youtube.com/user/Tday4U/videos ]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2OuJYaz_oE [with comments]
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Full Show - Trump Has Reached The Crossroads: Roger Stone And Mike Cernovich Analysis - 05/15/2017
Published on May 15, 2017 by The Alex Jones Channel
Monday, May 15th 2017: Battle for the Republic - Trump faces a rash of new leaks after eliminating FBI head James Comey, and a major hack attack compromises numerous systems worldwide. Also, Ann Coulter worries Trump supporters may have been duped. On today's show, Trump insider Roger Stone breaks down rumors of an impending shake-up in Trump's cabinet. And journalist Mike Cernovich details why patriots will be happy with what Trump is about to do.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYtmtQ4nUmE [with comments]
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Will Ferrell’s Full Speech As George W. Bush At #NotTheWHCD | Full Frontal on TBS
Published on May 15, 2017 by Full Frontal with Samantha Bee [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC18vz5hUUqxbGvym9ghtX_w , https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC18vz5hUUqxbGvym9ghtX_w/videos ]
For the description: Here’s what you missed if you weren’t in the audience for Full Frontal’s Not The White House Correspondents' Dinner.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ7S-ymyaZ4 [with comments] [the balance of the Not The White House Correspondents' Dinner at/see (linked in) http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=130938670 amd preceding and following (earlier this string)]
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Here’s How Trump Could Already Be Prosecuted | The Resistance with Keith Olbermann | GQ
Published on May 15, 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 ]
A case can now be made based on what Donald Trump did last week.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfyVsjQRMaM [with comments]
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Infowars Nightly News - IRS & NSA Come Out Of The Closet As Political Weapons
Streamed live on May 15, 2017 by The Alex Jones Channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oevY9SxVLCM [with comments]
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LIVE: McMasters Fingered As Leak In Faux WaPo Russian Story
Published on May 15, 2017 by The Alex Jones Channel
via YouTube Capture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hd8eCe5SNe0 [with comments]
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BREAKING: McMasters Exposed As White House Leaker
Published on May 15, 2017 by The Alex Jones Channel
via YouTube Capture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_W38W2vn2g [with comments]
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BREAKING: Roger Stone Exposes Plan To Overthrow Trump
Published on May 15, 2017 by The Alex Jones Channel
via YouTube Capture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXwRo110tyY [with comments]
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Swalwell: Trump can't be allowed to risk lives
All In with Chris Hayes
5/15/17
The congressman, who is seeking a special prosecutor, reacts to reports that Trump gave classified information to the Russians in the Oval Office. Duration: 3:58
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/swalwell-trump-can-t-be-allowed-to-risk-lives-944597571994 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohY7uY7l7uI [with comments]
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Trump EPA rejects ban on dangerous pesticide
All In with Chris Hayes
5/15/17
Dow Chemical, which donated $1M to Donald Trump’s inauguration, was the big winner when the EPA’s new chief rejected the agency's own scientific findings and decided not to ban an insecticide that uses a poisonous chemical. Duration: 2:23
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-epa-rejects-ban-on-dangerous-pesticide-944595011951 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GW--sIY08U [with comments]
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The president's peculiar beliefs about exercise
All In with Chris Hayes
5/15/17
His doctor once said he'd be the healthiest president in history, but the president doesn't exercise, citing the belief that the people - like batteries - have a finite amount of energy. Duration: 1:10
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/the-president-s-peculiar-beliefs-about-exercise-944599619708
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WaPo: Trump shares highly classified info with Russian officials
The Rachel Maddow Show
5/15/17
Greg Jaffe, one of the Washington Post reporters who broke the news of Donald Trump sharing highly classified information with Russian officials while they visited the Oval Office, talks with Rachel Maddow about how the story came together. Duration: 20:22
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/wapo-trump-shares-highly-classified-info-with-russian-officials-944662083572 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftYrqSigfRk [with comments]
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Trump's abrupt firing of US attorneys remains unexplained
The Rachel Maddow Show
5/15/17
Rachel Maddow reports on the Obama administration's recommendation to the incoming Trump transition not to fire all of the U.S. attorneys at once without replacements - advice that the Trump team agreed to until they suddenly, inexplicably reversed that plan. Duration: 7:54
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-s-abrupt-firing-of-us-attorneys-remains-unexplained-944666691642 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iD7vD_n1IvI [with comments]
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Senate Intel accessing financial data in Trump-Russia probe: WSJ
The Rachel Maddow Show
5/15/17
Shane Harris, national security senior writer for the Wall Street Journal, about how the Trump-Russia investigation has turned to look at Trump's finances, with new assistance from the Treasury Department's FinCEN unit. Duration: 4:29
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/senate-intel-accessing-financial-data-in-trump-russia-probe-wsj-944678467825
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Scarce precedent for Trump's reported leak to Russians
The Rachel Maddow Show
5/15/17
David Priess, former CIA analyst and presidential daily intelligence briefer, talks with Rachel Maddow about past examples of presidents sharing classified information with other leaders, but under vastly different circumstances from Trump's reported leaks to Russian officials. Duration: 6:19
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/scarce-precedent-for-trump-s-reported-leak-to-russians-944684611765
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Trump betrays crucial intelligence sharing relationship
The Rachel Maddow Show
5/15/17
Ned Price, former spokesman and senior analyst for the CIA, talks with Rachel Maddow about the vital intelligence sharing relationship that Donald Trump has potentially put in jeopardy with his reported revelation of highly classified information. Duration: 3:58
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-betrays-crucial-intelligences-sharing-realationship-944697411876
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White House defends Trump after leak bombshell
The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell
5/15/17
McMaster called it "false," but the Washington Post stands by its story Trump gave the Russians highly classified intel when they met last week in the Oval Office, which U.S. press was barred from covering. Evelyn Farkas, David Cohen & Eli Stokols join Ari Melber. Duration: 14:31
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/white-house-defends-trump-after-leak-bombshell-944683075790
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Washington Post report fuels chaos in White House
The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell
5/15/17
Donald Trump's White House was thrown into further disarray with a new report that he shared classified information with Russian diplomats. Former Press Secretary Josh Earnest and former Clinton aide Neera Tanden join Ari Melber to discuss the fallout. Duration: 8:49
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/bombshell-wash-post-report-fuels-chaos-in-white-house-944675907914 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_LxE2Gc1-U [with comments]
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After firing Comey, Trump reportedly shared secrets with Russians
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
5/15/17
Just one day after he fired FBI Director James Comey, Trump reportedly shared highly classified information with two Russian officials in the Oval Office. Our expert panel breaks it down. Duration: 14:55
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/after-firing-comey-trump-reportedly-shared-secrets-with-russians-944708675654
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Candidate Trump bashed Clinton's handing of classified info
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
5/15/17
Over & over again, Trump went after Hillary Clinton during the 2016 for her handling of classified information. So how do we view that in light of reports he allegedly share info with Russians? Duration: 5:45
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/candidate-trump-bashed-clinton-s-handing-of-classified-info-944696387641
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FLASHBACK: Candidate Trump blasted Clinton over classified info
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
5/15/17
Repeatedly during the 2016 campaign, candidate Donald Trump took Hillary Clinton to task over how she handled classified information. Duration: 1:10
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/flashback-candidate-trump-blasted-clinton-over-classified-info-944723523958 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0x1LNe6FcE [with comments]
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No answers from Spicer about Trump's tweet on Comey & 'tapes'
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
5/15/17
MSNBC's Brian Williams discusses the day's other big news - the White House's refusal to answer any questions about Trump's threat to James Comey about the possible existence of 'tapes.' Duration: 5:01
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/no-answers-from-spicer-about-trump-s-tweet-on-comey-tapes-944719427976
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Fmr. Ambassador McFaul: It appears Trump 'wanted to show off'
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
5/15/17
Joining MSNBC's Brian Williams, former U.S. Ambassador to Russia, Michael McFaul, reacts to the reports that Donald Trump shared highly classified information with Russian officials. Duration: 5:18
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/fmr-ambassador-mcfaul-it-appears-trump-wanted-to-show-off-944715331791
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Declassified: Did Trump Share Intel with Russian Officials?: The Daily Show
Published on May 15, 2017 by The Daily Show with Trevor Noah [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwWhs_6x42TyRM4Wstoq8HA , https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwWhs_6x42TyRM4Wstoq8HA/videos ]
President Trump is accused of sharing classified information with Russian officials during a meeting in the White House.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrAjJ2NFWUA [with comments]
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Stephen's Monologue Gets Declassified
Published on May 16, 2017 by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMtFAi84ehTSYSE9XoHefig , https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMtFAi84ehTSYSE9XoHefig/videos ]
The good news: Trump is finally telling the truth. The bad news: it's only to high-ranking Russian officials.
[originally aired May 15, 2017]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJC2CMvNgaA [with comments]
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Stephen's Plea: 'Please Don't Take Sean Spicer From Us'
Published on May 16, 2017 by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Stephen is afraid it will be as hard for him to say 'goodbye' as it is for the Press Secretary to say 'the truth.'
[originally aired May 15, 2017]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15wtWkcv3VU [with comments]
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Trump Uses A Commencement Speech To Congratulate... Himself!
Published on May 16, 2017 by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The best part of Trump's commencement speech at Liberty University was, well, when it commenced.
[originally aired May 15, 2017]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2c_nei61mQQ [with comments]
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Trump Threatens Comey, Gives Russia Classified Info: A Closer Look
Published on May 15, 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 takes a closer look at reports that Trump revealed classified information to Russian diplomats and his increasingly authoritarian-like abuses of power.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dpO--t1xCg [with comments]
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Full Show - Washington Post Ignores New Explosive Details On Seth Rich Murder - 05/16/2017
Published on May 16, 2017 by The Alex Jones Channel
Tuesday, May 16th 2017[, with Jon Rappoport hosting the fourth hour]: Seth Rich DNC Leaker? - Multiple sources claim former DNC staffer Seth Rich was the source of thousands of emails given to Wikileaks. Also, sources tell Infowars McMaster may be responsible for the latest leak out of Washington. Dr. Edward Group of the Global Healing Center will reveal the hidden, everyday chemicals you may be exposed to. Roger Stone will also join today's broadcast to discuss the latest leaks coming out of The White House.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xt-g6JbABNY [with comments] [also at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exKGWB8A4ns (text adaptd from; with comments)] [and see also in particular (linked in) http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=131520771 and preceding and following]
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What’s Happening in Donald Trump’s Head? | The Resistance with Keith Olbermann | GQ
Published on May 16, 2017 by GQ
After he hands secrets to the Russians, a simple question: What's happening in Donald Trump’s head?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14HiLa02E3k [with comments] [also at/see (linked in) http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=131413110 (and any future following) (a reply to this post)]
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FNN: President Trump and Turkish President Erdogan Deliver Joint Statement at White House (FULL)
Published on May 16, 2017 by FOX 10 Phoenix [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJg9wBPyKMNA5sRDnvzmkdg , https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJg9wBPyKMNA5sRDnvzmkdg/videos ]
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump will hold his first face-to-face meeting with Turkey's president Tuesday amid accusations that Trump gave Russian officials classified intelligence from a foreign ally. Trump and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan are expected to address the Syrian civil war, refugee crisis and the fight against the Islamic State group, including the U.S. decision to arm Syrian Kurdish fighters despite Turkey's vehement objections. But the meeting will take place with a White House still responding to what a senior U.S. official said was disclosure of classified information about an Islamic State terror threat involving laptop computers on aircraft. Trump shared the threat in a meeting with Russia's foreign minister and U.S. ambassador in the Oval Office last week, according to the official, who wasn't authorized to speak publicly on the matter and demanded anonymity. The matter could emerge in Trump's meeting with Erdogan. The U.S. is relying on regional allies including Turkey for intelligence-sharing and military assistance as it crafts a Syria policy, particularly as Iran and Russia work to bolster Syrian President Bashar Assad's government. Trump launched cruise missiles last month at a Syrian air base after accusing Assad of using chemical weapons. But the president hasn't outlined a strategy to quell the six-year civil war or usher Assad out of power, which his administration says will be needed to stabilize the Arab country. Tension was expected already for the Erdogan talks, after the U.S. announced last week that it would arm Kurdish Syrian militants to help them fight IS. Turkey has been pressuring the U.S. to drop support for the militants and doesn't want them spearheading an operation to retake IS' self-declared capital of Raqqa. Turkey believes the Kurds in Syria are linked to a Turkish Kurdish group, known as the PKK, which the U.S., the European Union and Turkey all consider a terrorist organization. The U.S. sees the Syrian Kurds as their best battlefield partner on the ground in northern Syria.
Remarks by President Trump and President Erdogan of Turkey in Joint Statement
Roosevelt Room
May 16, 2017
https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/05/16/remarks-president-trump-and-president-erdogan-turkey-joint-statement [official transcript]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXo9g4ofw-8 [with comments] [official White House upload at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUKKtP64SZ4 (with comments)]
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Creating Saturday Night Live: Sean Spicer Returns Outtakes
Published on May 16, 2017 by Saturday Night Live [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqFzWxSCi39LnW1JKFR3efg / https://www.youtube.com/user/SaturdayNightLive , https://www.youtube.com/user/SaturdayNightLive/videos ]
Go behind the scenes with Melissa McCarthy on the set of “Sean Spicer Returns.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tYwSEU-aLY [with comments]
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Confirmed: Federal Investigator Seth Rich Leaked 44k To Wikileaks
Streamed live on May 16, 2017 by The Alex Jones Channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0OF05j6ewU [with comments] [and again, see also in particular (linked in) http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=131520771 and preceding and following]
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InfoWars Nightly News LIVE: CrowdSource, The Other Part Of The Russian Conspiracy Collapses
Streamed live on May 16, 2017 by The Alex Jones Channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbH7TRpAIbQ [with comments]
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Castro: If NYT report true, likely Congress will move to impeach
All In with Chris Hayes
5/16/17
Rep. Joaquin Castro tells Chris Hayes of the New York Times report on the Comey memo: 'If the evidence bears out that there was obstruction of justice, I think you likely will see Congress go down the road of impeachment.' Duration: 4:11
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/castro-if-nyt-report-true-likely-congress-will-move-to-impeach-945659459857 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QYiFJTmHkM [with comments]
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Nine days in May
All In with Chris Hayes
5/16/17
Even by the standards of the chaos and drama of the Trump presidency, it has been a remarkable nine days. Duration: 2:46
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/nine-days-in-may-945653315570
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Exclusive: New subpoena issued in Trump associate investigation
The Rachel Maddow Show
5/16/17
Rachel Maddow breaks exclusive news that a federal subpoena has been issued in the investigation of former Donald Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort. Duration: 2:06
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/exclusive-new-federal-subpoena-in-trump-russia-investigation-945657923697
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Comey memo: Trump asked for end of Flynn investigation: NYT
The Rachel Maddow Show
5/16/17
Mike Schmidt, reporter for the New York Times, talks with Rachel Maddow about his scoop that James Comey's notes from a meeting with Donald Trump include a description of Trump asking Comey to end the investigation into disgraced Trump NSA Mike Flynn. Duration: 11:36
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/comey-memo-trump-asked-for-end-of-flynn-investigation-nyt-945682499958 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wzhx0D6b3o [with comments]
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Comey memo habit raises Trump obstruction questions: NYT
The Rachel Maddow Show
5/16/17
Matthew Miller, former Justice Department spokesperson, talks with Rachel Maddow about former FBI Director James Comey's habit of documenting things with notes and memos, and the legal issues surrounding Donald Trump's reported request that Comey end the investigation into Mike Flynn. Duration: 6:50
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/comey-memo-habit-raises-trump-obstruction-questions-nyt-945706563631
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Exclusive: Subpoena issued regarding fmr Trump staffer Manafort
The Rachel Maddow Show
5/16/17
Rachel Maddow reports exclusive breaking news that NBC News has learned that federal investigators have subpoenaed records related to a $3.5 million dollar loan taken out by former Donald Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort last year. Duration: 10:02
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/exclusive-subpoena-issued-regarding-fmr-trump-staffer-manafort-945693251611 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1s04VIoMjw [with comments]
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Republicans not moved to action on Trump
The Rachel Maddow Show
5/16/17
Congressman Jim Himes, member of the House Intelligence Committee, talks with Rachel Maddow about the significance of the news that Donald Trump may have tried to pressure James Comey into ending the investigation into Mike Flynn. Duration: 9:46
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/republicans-not-moved-to-action-on-trump-945769539777
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Key FBI tool under Comey: note taking
The Rachel Maddow Show
5/16/17
Frank Montoya, former FBI special agent, talks with Rachel Maddow about former FBI Director James Comey's habit of keeping notes on events he experiences, and the importance of note taking to the work of the FBI. Duration: 3:48
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/key-fbi-tool-under-comey-note-taking-945752131989
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Trump leak to Russians violates protocol
The Rachel Maddow Show
5/16/17
Andrea Mitchell, NBC News chief foreign affairs correspondent, talks with Rachel Maddow about how Republicans are processing the news of Donald Trump's assorted violations, and how classified information is supposed to be handled with Russians. Duration: 2:35
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-leak-to-russians-violates-protocol-945757251962
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Rachel Maddow and Lawrence on extraordinary 7 days
The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell
5/16/17
Lawrence O'Donnell reminds Rachel Maddow it has only been 7 days since Trump fired FBI Director James Comey. We now know Trump tried to stop the investigation into Michael Flynn's ties to Russia—and Rachel shares new reporting about a new subpoena in Trump ... more Duration: 5:15
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/rachel-maddow-and-lawrence-on-extraordinary-7-days-945750595784
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What Donald Trump doesn't know about the Comey memo
The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell
5/16/17
Lawrence O'Donnell explains the thing everyone working in government knows – but Donald Trump doesn't. That's the real story of the James Comey memo about his conversation with President Trump. Duration: 6:20
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/what-donald-trump-doesn-t-know-about-the-comey-memo-945749571638 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQ48xaw-NzU [with comments]
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Lawrence PSA to Trump WH staff: 'Lawyer up'
The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell
5/16/17
Donald Trump fired James Comey after asking him to drop the FBI investigation of Michael Flynn raises the spectre of obstruction of justice. Lawrence O'Donnell discusses with former federal prosecutor Samuel Buell, Tim Weiner, and Joy Reid. Duration: 12:57
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/lawrence-psa-to-trump-wh-staff-lawyer-up-945752643964 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ipbR_dqu5s [with comments]
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Lawmakers on Comey memo: Trump may have obstructed justice
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
5/16/17
Democrats are demanding answers. Republicans are dodging reporters, while others seem to change their tune on Trump. MSNBC's Brian Williams talks to the reporter who broke the Comey memo story. Duration: 12:48
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/lawmakers-on-comey-memo-trump-may-have-obstructed-justice-945756227790
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Watergate prosecutor: Well on our way to Trump impeachment
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
5/16/17
Jill Wine-Banks, Assistant Watergate Special Prosecutor, and former U.S. prosecutor Paul Butler discuss the revelations that have come to light from the Comey memo. Duration: 8:11
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/watergate-prosecutor-well-on-our-way-to-trump-impeachment-945755715978 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVMzg_VNPZY [with comments]
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Sen. Manchin on Comey memo: Senators all take the same oath
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
5/16/17
Stressing that he still needs more facts about Pres. Trump and the Comey memo, Democratic Senator Joe Manchin says he and his colleagues have an obligation to put country first. Duration: 4:32
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/sen-manchin-on-comey-memo-senators-all-take-the-same-oath-945774659909
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Rep. Jackie Speier: If there's obstruction, impeachment follows
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
5/16/17
While stressing she doesn't know if we're there yet, House Intelligence Cmte. Democrat Rep. Jackie Speier won't rule out impeachment proceedings for Pres. Trump. Duration: 3:31
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/rep-jackie-speier-if-there-s-obstruction-impeachment-follows-945766467814 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aslm_eBMTAQ [with comments]
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Moscow in the Meddle - President Trump Can't Be Trusted with Secrets: The Daily Show
Published on May 16, 2017 by The Daily Show with Trevor Noah
Trevor breaks down how President Trump has put national security in jeopardy by relaying classified foreign intelligence to Russian officials.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EDP12VmqvM [with comments]
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The Other Classified Secrets Trump Bragged About
Published on May 17, 2017 by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Top-secret intelligence regarding ISIS is only the beginning of what the President spilled to Russia.
[originally aired May 16, 2017]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82h71ko0PDE [with comments]
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Stephen Finally Agrees With Donald Trump On Something
Published on May 17, 2017 by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The President and Stephen don't usually see eye-to-eye on things. Remember this day.
[originally aired May 16, 2017]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNVqbcrWFII [with (nearly 4,000) comments]
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White House Staffers Have Gone Into Hiding
Published on May 17, 2017 by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Trump staffer Liz Wallace describes the current mood at the White House... reluctantly.
[originally aired May 16, 2017]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHyXV6l9ZK4 [with comments]
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Trump Asked Comey to End Flynn Probe, Gave Russians Intel: A Closer Look
Published on May 16, 2017 by Late Night with Seth Meyers
Seth takes a closer look at the White House playing damage control after bombshell reports about President Trump sharing classified info with Russia and asking the FBI to drop investigations into his former National Security Advisor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EU3VpwV4-nk [with comments]
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Democrats Give News Conference On Trump Administration's Relations With Russia & More | TIME
Streamed live on May 17, 2017 by TIME [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8Su5vZCXWRag13H53zWVwA / https://www.youtube.com/user/TimeMagazine , https://www.youtube.com/user/TimeMagazine/videos ]
House of Representatives Democratic Caucus leaders hold a press conference regarding President Donald Trump and Russia after a caucus meeting Wednesday.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWt06rRObH0 [with comments]
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President Trump Delivers Commencement Address At The U.S. Coast Guard Academy | TIME
Streamed live on May 17, 2017 by TIME
US President Donald Trump delivers commencement address at the US Coast Guard Academy in Connecticut.
[(linked in) http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=119942168 and preceding (and any future following)]
Remarks by President Trump at United States Coast Guard Academy Commencement Ceremony
Coast Guard Academy
New London, Connecticut
May 17, 2017
https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/05/17/remarks-president-trump-united-states-coast-guard-academy-commencement [official transcript]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2DQ7s53ZYA [Trump's sans-pacifier performance begins at c. the 34:40 mark; with comments] [official White House upload, Trump's sans-pacifier performance only, at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FK9fWb2d9y0 (with comments)]
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Full Show - Emergency Broadcast: Deep State Launches Coup Against Trump / Markets Tank - 05/17/2017
Published on May 17, 2017 by Ron Gibson
Wednesday, May 17th 2017[, with appearances by Mike Cernovich (who also hosts the fourth hour) and Jerome Corsi]: Desperate Push Against Trump - The DC elites are trying to overthrow President Trump amid new evidence revealing that the late DNC insider Seth Rich leaked DNC emails to Wikileaks. The anti-Trump forces are rapidly losing the narratives so they are pushing ahead. Geopolitical insider Joel Skousen reveals how this influences current world events.
Joel Skousen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Skousen
W. Cleon Skousen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Cleon_Skousen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTgSrEbcf-0 [with comments] [the somewhat edited Alex Jones original at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEcsj-f-oIg (title taken from; with comments)] [and again, see also in particular (linked in) http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=131520771 and preceding and following] [a must-watch]
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Enhancement Drug - SNL
Published on May 20, 2017 by Saturday Night Live [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqFzWxSCi39LnW1JKFR3efg / https://www.youtube.com/user/SaturdayNightLive , https://www.youtube.com/user/SaturdayNightLive/videos ]
Threaten your doctor or ask your ketamine guy about Xentrex today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IZrYeUX3MI [with comments]
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Statment About Chobani
Published on May 17, 2017 by The Alex Jones Channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hm_Gm1_a9bU [comments disabled]
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Mike Hot-Pence Is Here to Do God's Work | GQ
Published on May 17, 2017 by GQ
For GQ's Comedy Issue, Mike Pence In Hot Pants impersonator Glen Pannell shows us a day in the life of the man who hopes to one day succeed Donald Trump.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OadCvcY0oFA [with comments]
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Breaking: Special Prosecutor Appointed To Russia Probe
Published on May 17, 2017 by The Alex Jones Channel
Robert Mueller, who was at the FBI for a week before the terrorist attacks on September 11th, 2001, has just been appointed as the Special Prosecutor into the Trump and Russia probe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQbPEOMkbTA [with comments]
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The Impeachment Of Donald Trump
Published on May 17, 2017 by The Alex Jones Channel
The push to impeach Trump could lead to riots and war.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnwLX8JA-jA [with comments]
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Trump Insider Reveals Why A Special Prosecutor Is The Right Move
Published on May 17, 2017 by The Alex Jones Channel
Trump insider and long time friend Roger Stone reveals why he thinks Donald made the right choice to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the tired Trump/Russia collusion connection.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeMZCX8XwHQ [with comments]
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Infowars Nightly News - Deep State Plots Revenge Against Donald Trump
Streamed live on May 17, 2017 by The Alex Jones Channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sf-QcwEW63k [with comments]
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Sen. Wyden: 'This is a pretty grim situation'
All In with Chris Hayes
5/17/17
The Democratic senator reacts to the appointment of a special counsel to investigate potential links between President Trump's campaign and Russia. Duration: 4:24
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/sen-wyden-this-is-a-pretty-grim-situation-946645571672
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Maxine Waters: All Trump probes must continue
All In with Chris Hayes
5/17/17
The Democratic representative welcomes the appointment of a special counsel, but she says that alone might not get to the truth. Duration: 6:44
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/maxine-waters-all-trump-probes-must-continue-946643523805 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-lbFiUPI5w [with comments]
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GOP Rep. Lance: I can be a check on Trump
All In with Chris Hayes
5/17/17
Republican Rep. Leonard Lance says we need to get to the truth about the Trump campaign and Russia - whatever it may be. Duration: 4:59
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/gop-rep-lance-i-can-be-a-check-on-trump-946646083635 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Js7scq5Mgg4 [with comments]
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Mueller to oversee Trump-Russia investigation as special counsel
The Rachel Maddow Show
5/17/17
Rachel Maddow reports on the history of the special counsel rule and the appointment today of former FBI Director Robert Mueller to be special counsel for the Trump-Russia investigation. Duration: 14:08
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/mueller-to-oversee-trump-russia-investigation-as-special-counsel-946790467922
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Five key questions about the Trump-Russia special counsel
The Rachel Maddow Show
[Posted] 5/18/17 [from this point in the May 17, 2017 show]
Sari Horwitz, Justice Department reporter for The Washington Post, talks with Rachel Maddow about new questions raised by the appointment of Robert Mueller as special counsel to the Trump-Russia investigation. Duration: 9:43
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/five-key-questions-about-the-trump-russia-special-counsel-946781763771 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fB5IYKow0TU [with comments]
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Rep Schiff confident in Mueller as Trump-Russia special counsel
The Rachel Maddow Show
5/17/17
Congressman Adam Schiff, ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, talks with Rachel Maddow about how he feels about Robert Mueller as special counsel in the Trump-Russia investigation and what will happen to the Trump investigations in Congress. Duration: 6:09
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/rep-schiff-confident-in-mueller-as-trump-russia-special-counsel-946747459777
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Mueller brings legacy of integrity to Trump-Russia investigation
The Rachel Maddow Show
5/17/17
Tim Weiner, author of "Enemies, A History of the FBI," talks with Rachel Maddow about Robert Mueller's reputation and legacy as Director of the FBI, and the integrity he brings to the Trump-Russia investigation as special counsel. Duration: 6:35
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/mueller-brings-legacy-of-integrity-to-trump-russia-investigation-946712643966
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Trump-Russia probe well suited to special counsel regulations
The Rachel Maddow Show
5/17/17
Neal Katyal, former U.S. Acting Solicitor General who helped draft the special counsel regulations, talks with Rachel Maddow about the parameters of Robert Mueller's role as special counsel to the Trump-Russia investigation. Duration: 5:35
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-russia-probe-well-suited-to-special-counsel-regulations-946722371988 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOqaFP64Sww [with comments]
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Trump team knew of Flynn investigation before naming him NSA: NYT
The Rachel Maddow Show
5/17/17
Dan Rather, host of The Big Interview with Dan Rather on AXS TV, talks with Rachel Maddow about the investigations into Donald Trump and his associates and the breaking news that the Trump team knew that Mike Flynn was being investigated and appointed him anyway. Duration: 8:31
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-team-knew-of-flynn-investigation-before-naming-him-nsa-nyt-946735683543
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Top GOPer caught on tape speculating about Putin paying Trump
The Rachel Maddow Show
5/17/17
Rachel Maddow shares a late breaking Washington Post story about House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy telling colleagues he thinks Russian President Vladimir Putin is paying Donald Trump. Duration: 2:43
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/top-goper-caught-on-tape-speculating-about-putin-paying-trump-946750531877
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NYT: Trump knew Flynn was under investigation, still hired him
The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell
5/17/17
Lawrence O'Donnell and Rachel Maddow react to the New York Times report that the Trump transition team knew Michael Flynn was under investigation on January 4th, but hired him to be National Security Adviser anyway. Duration: 3:06
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/nyt-trump-knew-flynn-was-under-investigation-still-hired-him-946728003544
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Secret GOP audio in 2016: 'I think Putin pays' Trump
The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell
5/17/17
The Washington Post obtains secret audio of House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy saying to Paul Ryan and other Republican leaders in private, "I think Putin pays" Donald Trump. Lawrence O'Donnell discusses with Evan Osnos and David Corn. Duration: 7:56
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/secret-gop-audio-in-2016-i-think-putin-pays-trump-946733123798 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azLu98RtnGw [with comments]
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FBI vet: Mueller is 'America first' unlike Trump WH
The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell
5/17/17
Lawrence O'Donnell talks to former assistant Watergate special prosecutor Jill Wine-Banks and former FBI agent Clint Watts, who served under fmr. FBI Dir. Robert Mueller, about what's next for the Russia probe now that Mueller has been appointed special counsel. Duration: 7:27
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/fbi-vet-mueller-is-america-first-unlike-trump-wh-946737731973 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UO3Lo88xBA [with comments]
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What will Russia probe Special Counsel mean for Trump?
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
5/17/17
Deputy Atty. General Rod Rosenstein named revered fmr. FBI Director Robert Mueller to head the FBI investigation into Russia and the Trump campaign. Our expert panel joins MSNBC's Brian Williams. Duration: 11:35
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/what-will-russia-probe-special-counsel-mean-for-trump-946742851769
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Jeremy Bash: Mueller is now U.S. atty. for the district of Trump
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
5/17/17
MSNBC's Brian Williams speaks with former CIA Chief of Staff Jeremy Bash about how much leeway newly appointed Special Counsel Robert Mueller will have as the head of the FBI's Russia probe. Duration: 0:41
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/jeremy-bash-mueller-is-now-u-s-atty-for-the-district-of-trump-946746435863 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilXFD1zLgQ8 [with comments]
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Does Comey have more to tell us about his talks with Trump?
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
5/17/17
MSNBC's Brian Williams talks to fmr. Justice Dept. spokesman Matthew Miller and New York Times reporter Charlie Savage about the role James Comey still has to play in the Russia investigation. Duration: 7:40
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/does-comey-have-more-to-tell-us-about-his-talks-with-trump-946768963793 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfBfCyPjUOo [with comments]
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Fmr. GOP Rep. David Jolly: 'Donald Trump is done'
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
5/17/17
Calling what we've seen from the Trump presidency so far 'historic,' former Republican Congressman David Jolly says 'there's no question' that Donald Trump is done. Duration: 1:43
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/fmr-gop-rep-david-jolly-donald-trump-is-done-946751555537 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZR5eQ7gX7ZE [with comments]
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Fmr. Dem Congresswoman: Republicans' work is not done
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
5/17/17
Calling for a special commission, former Democratic Rep. Donna Edwards of Maryland says Republicans and Democrats in Congress still have a responsibility with their Russia investigations. Duration: 2:19
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/fmr-dem-congresswoman-republicans-work-is-not-done-946750531892
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A Special Prosecutor Steps In & Fox News Doesn't Get the Comey Memo: The Daily Show
Published on May 17, 2017 by The Daily Show with Trevor Noah
The Trump-Russia probe gets a special prosecutor, and Fox News downplays a purported memo from James Comey suggesting Donald Trump may have committed obstruction of justice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2bg-YK8xXc [with (over 4,000) comments]
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Stephen Isn't Ready To 'Let It Go'
Published on May 18, 2017 by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Stephen uses the top of his monologue to address the latest controversy out of Trump's administration. No, the other one.
[originally aired May 17, 2017]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGnLKsSDOdg [with comments]
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How To Childproof Your Home Before A Visit From Trump
Published on May 18, 2017 by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
With the NATO summit in Brussels coming up soon, world leaders are making sure there aren't any sharp corners or bottles of bleach within reach.
[originally aired May 17, 2017]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_I_8mxDS08 [with comments]
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Trump To Resign On Monday?
Published on May 17, 2017 by The Alex Jones Channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxJprrnsxPo [with comments]
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Trump and Republicans React to Comey Memo Bombshell: A Closer Look
Published on May 17, 2017 by Late Night with Seth Meyers
Seth takes a closer look at new bombshell allegations that President Trump tried to obstruct the FBI investigation of former NSA head Michael Flynn.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5yD_CeC5z8 [with comments]
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Full Show - Comeygate: FBI Director Caught Lying To Congress - 05/18/2017
Published on May 18, 2017 by The Alex Jones Channel
Thursday, May 18th 2017: Former Fox News CEO Roger Ailes has passed away at the age of 77. Dr. Jerome Corsi joins today's broadcast to discuss the deep state coup against Trump and hacking expert John Draper explains the recent global ransomware attack. Also, D.C. insider Doug Hagmann gives his take on Trump's decision to appoint Robert Mueller to oversee the investigation into Russia's influence in the 2016 U.S. election.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEyYu4aJgiY [with comments]
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Liberal Redneck - What's It Gonna Take Yall
Published on May 18, 2017 by Trae Crowder [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTHsQd-vRXK1bp4vpifl6yA , https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTHsQd-vRXK1bp4vpifl6yA/videos ]
It's a new scandal seemingly every damn day and a lot of people are just sorta fine with that and I'm losing my god damn mind.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbMzHnMqotw [with comments]
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President Trump & Colombian President Santos Joint Presser | TIME
Streamed live on May 18, 2017 by TIME
President Donald Trump give a Joint Presser with Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos.
Remarks by President Trump and President Santos of Colombia in Joint Press Conference
East Room
May 18, 2017
https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/05/18/remarks-president-trump-and-president-santos-colombia-joint-press [official transcript]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwolP5y9lhc [with comment] [official White House upload at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSjGtZaNQrg (with comments)]
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Infowars Nightly News - Roger Ailes Passes, Democrats Dance On His Grave - 05/18/2017
Published on May 18, 2017 by Ron Gibson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvVQCo8eFd8 [with comment] [the edited Alex Jones original at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JQGOxo8MUQ (title taken from; with comments)]
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Trump changes story on Comey firing
All In with Chris Hayes
5/18/17
President Trump seemed to change his story again today on the firing of FBI Director James Comey. Senator Bernie Sanders reacts. Duration: 9:55
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-changes-story-on-comey-firing-947668547523
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Why can't Trump quit Mike Flynn?
All In with Chris Hayes
5/18/17
Flynn could bring down the Trump administration. Why is Trump messaging him to 'stay strong'? Duration: 6:43
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/why-can-t-trump-quit-mike-flynn-947667011887
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What did Pence Know About Flynn?
All In with Chris Hayes
5/18/17
The New York Times is reporting that the Trump transition team knew Michael Flynn was under investigation. Mike Pence was the head of the transition team, but denies knowing Flynn was under investigation. Duration: 7:30
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc-news/watch/what-did-pence-know-about-flynn-947713091635
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Trump’s bodyguard reveals Mattis’ phone number
All In with Chris Hayes
5/18/17
Lost in the stunning White House revelations over the past week was another embarrassing White House disclosure. Duration: 2:10
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-s-bodyguard-reveals-mattis-phone-number-947664451762
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Comey recounted inappropriate pressure from Trump: NYT
The Rachel Maddow Show
5/18/17
Michael Schmidt, reporter for The New York Times, talks with Rachel Maddow about his reporting on new details of the Trump administration putting inappropriate pressure on James Comey over investigations into the Trump campaign's ties to Russia. Duration: 10:19
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/comey-recounted-inappropriate-pressure-from-trump-nyt-947699267743 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aUGRJHOKZ8 [with comments]
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Reported Trump pressure on Comey to deny investigation improper
The Rachel Maddow Show
5/18/17
Matt Miller, former Department of Justice spokesperson, talks with Rachel Maddow about the rules surrounding the kind of pressure Donald Trump is reported to have put on James Comey and the responsibility Comey had to report it. Duration: 4:48
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/reported-trump-pressure-on-comey-to-deny-investigation-improper-947720771734
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False denials from Mike Pence continue to stack up
The Rachel Maddow Show
5/18/17
Rachel Maddow looks at the many times Mike Pence has denied something about the Donald Trump team only to be proven wrong by further reporting, leaving Pence with a lot of explaining to do. Duration: 18:29
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/false-denials-from-mike-pence-continue-to-stack-up-947736643714 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpDw8fswwRM [with comments]
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Trump camp had at least 18 contacts with Russians: Reuters
The Rachel Maddow Show
5/18/17
Jonathan Landay, D.C. national security correspondent for Reuters, talks with Rachel Maddow about his new reporting into at least 18 contacts between members of the Trump campaign and Russians. Duration: 6:28
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-camp-had-at-least-18-contacts-with-russians-reuters-947747395739 [and see also in particular (linked in) http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=131458404 and preceding and following]
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Trump mass firing of attorneys contrary to transition assurances
The Rachel Maddow Show
5/18/17
Rachel Maddow reviews all of the reports and outward indications that the Donald Trump adminitration intended to keep existing attorneys general, at least temporarily, only to end up abruptly firing them all at once. Duration: 2:59
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-mass-firing-of-attorneys-contrary-to-transition-assurances-947752515849
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Trump baffles U.S. attorneys with sudden mass firing
The Rachel Maddow Show
5/18/17
Paul Fishman, former U.S. attorney, talks with Rachel Maddow about the unexpectedly abrupt nature of the Donald Trump administration's firing of all of the U.S. attorneys. Duration: 4:20
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-baffles-u-s-attorneys-with-sudden-mass-firing-947765827950
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Was Trump team building a backchannel with Putin?
The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell
5/18/17
Reuters reports that Trump campaign advisers had at least 18 previously undisclosed calls and emails with Russians during the campaign and sought a back channel with Vladimir Putin. Ned Price and Steve Clemons join Lawrence O'Donnell. Duration: 7:20
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/was-trump-team-building-a-backchannel-with-putin-947755587606
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Why Trump keeps contact with investigation targets
The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell
5/18/17
Fmr. Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and fired National Security Advisor Michael Flynn are reportedly targets of the Russia investigation – so why does Trump want to maintain contact with them both? Indira Lakshmanan and Ken Vogel join Lawrence O'Donnell. Duration: 7:45
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/why-trump-keeps-contact-with-investigation-targets-947753539977 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maxmPpQx9NA [with comments]
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Report: More memos detail Comey's unease with Pres. Trump
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
5/18/17
The New York Times confirms the existence of multiple memos written by fired FBI boss James Comey as the president calls the Russia investigation a 'witch hunt.' Our political panel reacts. Duration: 11:07
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/report-more-memos-detail-comey-s-unease-with-pres-trump-947762243726
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Report: Comey tried to blend in with W.H. curtains to avoid Trump
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
5/18/17
A New York Times report about Comey's unease with Pres. Trump states that Comey tried to use a blue suit and stand in front of the curtains in the Blue Room to avoid Trump in January. Duration: 1:02
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/report-comey-tried-to-blend-in-with-w-h-curtains-to-avoid-trump-947777091707 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fy4rZxPjxhs [with comments]
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Is it time for Donald Trump to lawyer up?
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
5/18/17
With a special counsel now over the FBI's Russia probe, is it time for the president to turn to his own lawyers? Fmr. Clinton attorney Bob Bennett & fmr. DOJ Spokesman Matt Miller react. Duration: 9:09
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/is-it-time-for-donald-trump-to-lawyer-up-947772995626
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Trump reportedly wants Mike Flynn back in the White House
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
5/18/17
Spicer is out? Trump wants Flynn back? Mike Pence is being kept out of the loop? MSNBC's Brian Williams looks a the flurry of White House reports with Ali Velshi & Matthew Nussbaum. Duration: 4:59
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/trump-reportedly-wants-mike-flynn-back-in-the-white-house-947783235503 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KT8UmWolgZY [with comments]
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So Much News, So Little Time - Protester Attacks & Trump-Russia Bombshells: The Daily Show
Published on May 18, 2017 by The Daily Show with Trevor Noah
Turkish guards beat up protesters in Washington D.C., Robert Mueller is named special prosecutor in the Russia probe, and President Trump plays the victim on Twitter.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=598zN40zTpU [with comments]
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Breaking: Trump And Bannon's High-Speed Getaway
Published on May 19, 2017 by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
From the White House to the White SUV, President Trump will do anything to escape the newly appointed special counsel.
[originally aired May 18, 2017]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmd6Le63W3k [with comments]
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Trump's Special Counsel Is The Most Special
Published on May 19, 2017 by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
A special counsel has been appointed to investigate Trump's campaign ties to Russia.
[originally aired May 18, 2017]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8LoVSRPDs [with comments]
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Comey And Trump Had A Heart-To-No-Heart
Published on May 19, 2017 by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
[originally aired May 18, 2017]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM6Xp2i7hE8 [with comments]
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Donald Trump Warned Us About Himself: A Closer Look
Published on May 18, 2017 by Late Night with Seth Meyers
Seth takes a closer look at Donald Trump kicking off his first foreign trip as president under a cloud of suspicion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fG1LqU8Nq1A [with comments]
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Full Show - Democrats Call for Overturn of 2016 Election - 05/19/2017
Published on May 19, 2017 by The Alex Jones Channel
Friday, May 19th 2017[, with appearances by Tommy Robinson and Andrew Torba]: Trump On Diplomacy Tour - President Trump is protecting American interests as he takes a 15,600 mile diplomacy tour across the Middle East. Best-selling author David Horowitz joins the broadcast to share his take on the increasingly hostile tension between the left and right in the U.S. and Dr. Steve Pieczenik discusses the deep state coup against Trump; Alex Jones, David Horowitz, and Roger Stone [who hosts the fourth hour] break down the left's current initiative to impeach President Trump and challenge the results of the 2016 Presidential Election.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcESsWZLRtU [with comments] [also, somewhat edited, at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05odSd8YKc8 (additional text adapted from; with comments)] [and again, see also in particular (linked in) http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=131520771 and preceding and following]
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Shocked by all the scandals of the Trump presidency? We were warned.
Published on May 19, 2017 by ThinkProgress [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYdasX3ym3E5r1iozVllmzA , https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYdasX3ym3E5r1iozVllmzA/videos ]
Before Trump was elected, Hillary Clinton warned us that his presidency would be a danger for our troops, our alliances, and our democracy. Read the full transcript below. Photo by AP Photo/John Locher.
TRANSCRIPT:
HILLARY CLINTON, Nov. 3, 2016: My opponent has already revealed who he is.
TEXT: We were warned about a Trump presidency.
CLINTON, Oct. 19, 2016: The United States has kept the peace through our alliances. Donald wants to tear up our alliances.
CNN, Four months later: Trump was badgering the Australian prime minister...
PBS NEWSHOUR, Five months later: Merkel offering to shake hands, but getting no response.
FOX BUSINESS, Three months later: A million people have signed it. The petition asks the Queen of England to withdraw her scheduled state meeting with President Trump.
CLINTON, Oct. 19, 2016: He would rather believe Vladimir Putin than the military and civilian intelligence professionals who are sworn to protect us.
CBS, Seven months later: President Trump shared highly classified information with the Russian foreign minister and ambassador.
CLINTON, June 2, 2016: A President has a sacred responsibility to send our troops into battle only if we absolutely must, and only with a clear and well-thought-out strategy. Our troops give their all. They deserve a commander-in-chief who knows that.
ABC, Eight months later: The U.S. Military now launching investigation into the civilian casualties in that deadly terror raid in Yemen. Navy Seal Ryan Owens was killed in action.
TIM KAINE, Sept. 5, 2016: We who like Donald Trump encouraged crooks to undertake espionage against the DNC in a presidential year to gain an edge in an election and that led to the impeachment and resignation of that presidential candidate, President Nixon
PBS NEWSHOUR, Eight months later: The disclosure that President Trump allegedly asked Jim Comey to drop an FBI investigation has raised the question of whether this may constitute obstruction of justice.
CBS, Eight months later: Obstruction of justice was the main charge against President Bill Clinton when he was impeached in 1998. President Richard Nixon faced the same accusation before he resigned in 1974.
TEXT: It's unprecedented but we shouldn't be shocked.
ZACK GALIFIANAKIS: When he’s elected president and Kid Rock becomes secretary of state are you going to move to Canada? Or one of the Arctics?
CLINTON: I will stay in the United States.
GALIFIANAKIS: And what would you try to --
CLINTON: -- try to prevent him from destroying the United States.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuT4Xc4qiE4 [no comments yet]
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Infowars Nightly News - Breaking: The White House Leaker Has Been Revealed - 05/19/2017
Streamed live on May 19, 2017 by The Alex Jones Channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nr7oGg60O_Y [with comments]
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Rep. Ted Lieu: Trump obstructed justice
All In with Chris Hayes
5/19/17
'We no longer just have smoke. We have a raging, ten alarm fire at the White House,' said the congressman from California. Duration: 3:38
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/rep-ted-lieu-trump-obstructed-justice-948710979536
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Sen. Warner: 'Outrageous' that Trump called Comey a 'nut job'
All In with Chris Hayes
5/19/17
The ranking member of the Senate Intelligence Committee called it wildly inappropriate for the president to discuss firing James Comey with Russian officials. Duration: 4:37
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/sen-warner-outrageous-that-trump-called-comey-a-nut-job-948711491601
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Hillary practiced how to avoid Trump hug
All In with Chris Hayes
5/19/17
Video evidence emerged today of Hillary Clinton practicing how to avoid an unwanted hug from Donald Trump in front of the cameras at their first debate. Duration: 1:35
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/hillary-practiced-how-to-avoid-trump-hug-948713027512
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Trump-Russia probe turns to White House adviser as it speeds up
The Rachel Maddow Show
5/19/17
Devlin Barrett, national security reporter for The Washington Post, talks with Rachel Maddow on another busy news day about new reporting that the Trump-Russia investigation has moved to a White House adviser close to Donald Trump. Duration: 19:13
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-russia-probe-turns-to-white-house-adviser-as-it-speeds-up-948767300000
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How might Donald Trump try to end the special investigation?
The Rachel Maddow Show
5/19/17
Rachel Maddow looks at some ways by which Donald Trump could try to get in the way of the Trump-Russia special investigation or eliminate it entirely. Duration: 7:01
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/how-might-donald-trump-try-to-end-the-special-investigation-948751427997 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9mrcUV6_-U [with comments]
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Can the Trump-Russia special counsel be undermined by Trump?
The Rachel Maddow Show
5/19/17
Neal Katyal, former US acting solicitor general who helped draft the special counsel regulations, talks with Rachel Maddow about the ways in which Donald Trump might seek to undermine or eliminate the Trump-Russia special investigation. Duration: 6:13
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/can-the-trump-russia-special-counsel-be-undermined-by-trump-948759107764 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SumqujeiAM [with comments]
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Espionage prosecutor leads Mike Flynn grand jury inquiry for DOJ
The Rachel Maddow Show
5/19/17
Rachel Maddow looks at some of the background of Brandon Van Grak, the veteran Justice Department prosecutor who specializes in espionage and now reportedly leads the grand jury inquiry into disgraced Trump NSA Michael Flynn. Duration: 2:38
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/espionage-prosecutor-leads-mike-flynn-grand-jury-inquiry-for-doj-948771907747
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Flynn inquiry calls for espionage expertise
The Rachel Maddow Show
5/19/17
Barbara McQuade, former U.S. attorney, talks with Rachel Maddow about what is means to be an espionage prosecutor and why one might be assigned to the the case of disgraced Donald Trump NSA Mike Flynn. Duration: 4:00
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/flynn-inquiry-calls-for-espionage-expertise-948780099949
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Comey firing story contains giant contradiction
The Rachel Maddow Show
5/19/17
Rachel Maddow shows how a request for more resources preceding James Comey's firing was widely reported in the media but is adamantly denied by the Department of Justice - an irreconcilable contradiction. Duration: 5:14
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/comey-firing-story-contains-giant-contradiction-948782659852
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Watergate lawyer: Obstruction of justice evidence 'overwhelming'
The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell
5/19/17
James Comey will testify before the Senate Intel Committee after Memorial Day. And a W.H. official is a "significant person of interest" in the Russia probe. Nicholas Kristof, Michael Isikoff, and Jill Wine-Banks join Lawrence O'Donnell. Duration: 16:09
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/watergate-lawyer-obstruction-of-justice-evidence-overwhelming-948779587730 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkpYeV3UxiY [with comments]
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In intervention, Trump told tweets could pose legal problem
The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell
5/19/17
The Wall Street Journal reports WH staff had an "intervention" with Donald Trump about his tweets weeks ago. WSJ reporter Eli Stokols joins Lawrence O'Donnell. Ana Marie Cox and Josh Barro react. Duration: 11:35
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/in-intervention-trump-told-tweets-could-pose-legal-problem-948772419940
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NYT: Trump told Russians stress off after firing 'nut job' Comey
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
5/19/17
The White House isn't denying a New York Times report that Trump told the Russians the pressure was off from the Russia probe after firing 'crazy, nut job' James Comey. Our panel reacts. Duration: 9:19
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/nyt-trump-told-russians-stress-off-after-firing-nut-job-comey-948794947767
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Leaks in the Trump White House 'go to the very top'
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
5/19/17
MSNBC's Brian Williams discusses incredibly sensitive nature of the leaks we're now reading in reports about the inner workings of the Trump White House with our political panel. Duration: 8:00
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/leaks-in-the-trump-white-house-go-to-the-very-top-948804163900 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xi8JKpVy3Ks [with comments]
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Eli Stokols: Trump is facing something like a soft coup d'état
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
5/19/17
Given the volume and substance of the leaks coming from the Trump White House, Wall Street Journal reporter Eli Stokols explains the checks these leaks have on Trump's presidential power. Duration: 2:41
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/eli-stokols-trump-is-facing-something-like-a-soft-coup-d-etat-948805187594 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x89qLotg6h0 [with comments]
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Fmr DOJ Prosecutor: FBI suspects a criminal in Trump White House
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
5/19/17
What kinds of legal troubles could the Trump White House have to face in the wake of the growing FBI Russia investigation? Two former DOJ lawyers, Paul Butler & Carrie Cordero, join to discuss. Duration: 6:16
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/fmr-doj-prosecutor-fbi-suspects-a-criminal-in-trump-white-house-948790851573 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERAzhYjoP0I [with comments]
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President Batshit At It Again | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)
Published on May 19, 2017 by Real Time with Bill Maher [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCy6kyFxaMqGtpE3pQTflK8A / https://www.youtube.com/user/RealTime , https://www.youtube.com/user/RealTime/videos ]
Bill Maher recaps another week of bombshell revelations surrounding the Trump presidency in his Real Time monologue from May 19, 2017.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-bDYC9QAZY [with comments]
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Boris Epshteyn Interview | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)
Published on May 19, 2017 by Real Time with Bill Maher
Boris Epshteyn – Sinclair Broadcast Group Chief Political Analyst and former Special Assistant to President Trump – joins Bill to discuss President Trump's political future.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6sZ4whQfZs [with comments]
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I Don't Know if For a Fact | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)
Published on May 19, 2017 by Real Time with Bill Maher
Long before Donald Trump was "hearing things," Bill Maher was making baseless assertions in a segment called "I Don't Know It For a Fact...I Just Know It's True.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Siftu72DfJI [with comments]
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Bill Maher gets into epic shouting match with Cornel West over Hillary versus Trump
Published on May 20, 2017 by Politics Video Channel [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCx-sp8R4QLvJ8hqu8pQaJQ , https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCx-sp8R4QLvJ8hqu8pQaJQ/videos ]
Bill Maher went toe-to-toe with professor and social activist Cornel West over the 2016 election, with Maher confronting West for calling Hillary Clinton and President Donald Trump “equally awful.”
West, a prominent backer of Sen. Bernie Sanders, insisted that the Vermont independent could have won the election, and took a shot at Clinton after Maher pointed out that one of the former Secretary of State’s first speeches as a candidate was about mass incarceration that disproportionately affects young black men.
“Hillary gave speeches about a whole lot of stuff,” West shot back,” but it didn’t have a whole lot of integrity in it, brother.”
“That is such bullshit,” Maher parried.
After West went off on a tirade insisting that Sanders would have won, he admitted that Clinton is “better than Trump,” at which point Maher yelled back, “A lot better than Trump.”
“That doesn’t take too much, who isn’t better than Trump?” West replied.
“That isn’t an answer. It’s glib, it’s beneath you.” Maher lectured. “For someone who’s such an intellectual, that answer is beneath you.”
It actually grew more rancorous after that.
[originally aired May 19, 2017]
[for the moment at least at] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIlp-HNYEvs [with comments] [another, embedded at https://www.rawstory.com/2017/05/watch-hbos-bill-maher-gets-into-epic-shouting-match-with-cornel-west-over-hillary-versus-trump/ (the source of the above text; with comments), for the moment at least at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mF4eUS5-RCo (with comments); others may remain available via e.g. https://www.youtube.com/results?sp=CAI%253D&q=maher+west ] [no official upload, at least not yet, available at/via https://www.youtube.com/user/RealTime/videos ]
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New Rule: Orange Sphincter to the Rescue | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)
Published on May 19, 2017 by Real Time with Bill Maher
Bill chastises Hollywood for its fascination with superheroes, and warns against pinning all your hopes for salvation on one savior.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cD1e0BNNifk [with comments]
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Trump Packs A Suitcase For His First Foreign Trip
Published on May 20, 2017 by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
MAGA hat, golf balls, the President is only bringing the essentials for his big trip overseas...
[originally aired May 19, 2017]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSvq6NYomms [with comments]
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Trump's Gone... Party At The White House!
Published on May 20, 2017 by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Escaping his plummeting approval rating at home, President Trump is heading across the pond to some other countries that view him unfavorably.
[originally aired May 19, 2017]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3mDMTFyB6g [with comments]
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The GOP Congressman Waging A War On Ducklings
Published on May 20, 2017 by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
N.C. Congressman Mark Walker decided to take a harsh stance against waterfowl.
[originally aired May 19, 2017]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnepE8yoKsw [with comments]
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Tuck Buckford Willingly Issues A Forced Apology
Published on May 20, 2017 by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Finding himself in the same boat as InfoWar's Alex Jones, Stephen's right-wing satirical character Tuck Buckford has to apologize for some recent slanderous claims.
[originally aired May 19, 2017]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMHW6XEO1ms [with comments]
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Nance: Trump and U.S. seen as clown show
AM Joy
5/20/17
Joy Reid and her panel[, (obviously) including Malcolm Nance,] discuss Donald Trump’s first foreign trip, and how many world leaders view his White House as full of ‘chaos’ and ‘mayhem.’ Duration: 12:51
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/nance-trump-and-u-s-seen-as-clown-show-949105219557
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Watergate prosecutor on Russia probe parallels
AM Joy
5/20/17
Watergate prosecutor Jill Wine-Banks joins Joy Reid on what she says seems to be an apparent ‘accumulation of episodes that are clear obstruction of justice’ on the part of Trump’s camp. Duration: 7:20
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/watergate-prosecutor-on-russia-probe-parallels-949121091533
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Trump’s intelligence breach endangers America
AM Joy
5/20/17
Donald Trump may have jeopardized America’s ability to recruit intelligence gatherers by sharing Israeli intelligence with Russian officials. Joy and her panel discuss. Duration: 8:22
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/trump-s-intelligence-breach-endangers-america-949127747724
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Rep. Al Green: Not even president is above the law
AM Joy
5/20/17
Democratic Congressman Al Green of Texas tells Joy Reid that he has received death threats since calling for Donald Trump’s impeachment from the House floor. Joy Reid and he panel discuss what it would take to remove Trump. Duration: 15:48
Callers threaten Texas lawmaker who seeks Trump impeachment
In this Monday, May 15, 2017 photo, Congressman Al Green speaks to media during a press conference in which he called for the impeachment of President Donald Trump at the Houston Congressional District Office in Houston. The black Texas congressman said Saturday, May 20, that he’s been threatened with lynching by callers infuriated over him seeking impeachment of President Trump.
May 20, 2017
https://www.apnews.com/aa756e87539c4a48b7101433ee791e60/Callers-threaten-Texas-lawmaker-who-seeks-Trump-impeachment
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/rep-al-green-not-even-president-is-above-the-law-949108291991
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Dworkin’s prediction: Flynn is going to prison
AM Joy
5/20/17
Joy Reid and her panel discuss how, now that a special prosecutor is investigating their Russian ties, facts could come to light implicating a large radius of Trump’s associates – and relatives. Duration: 7:48
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/dworkin-s-prediction-flynn-is-going-to-prison-949141571717
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Kathy Griffin on GOP ‘joke’ excuse
AM Joy
5/20/17
Republicans have excused recent gaffes from their party as mere ‘jokes,’ so Joy Reid brought in an expert – comedian Kathy Griffin – for her take on their explanations. Duration: 6:17
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/kathy-griffin-on-gop-joke-excuse-949137475590
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Stephen Colbert, Tuck Buckford and Alex Jones Talk Chobani Lawsuit
Published on May 20, 2017 by The Alex Jones Channel
Alex Jones takes on Steven Colbert and Tuck Buckford in an epic battle of truth.
[(linked in) http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=119942168 and preceding (and any future following)]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPlESK64SW4 [with comments]
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Weekend Update on Comey's Investigation into Trump - SNL
Published on May 20, 2017 by Saturday Night Live
Weekend Update anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che tackle the week's biggest news, including President Donald Trump asking James Comey when he would announce Trump is not under investigation. Dawn Lazarus (Vanessa Bayer) stops by with the weather.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rdskdey9uns [with comments]
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Hallelujah Cold Open - SNL
Published on May 20, 2017 by Saturday Night Live
Donald Trump (Alec Baldwin), Kellyanne Conway (Kate McKinnon), Mike Pence (Beck Bennett), Eric Trump (Alex Moffat), Donald Trump Jr. (Mikey Day), Sarah Huckabee Sanders (Aidy Bryant), Melania Trump (Cecily Strong) and Ivanka Trump (Scarlett Johansson) perform "Hallelujah."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70i8gTb3fZQ [with comments]
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my current notes/tally of sources; much more very good/significant/relevant beyond the foregoing included/linked:
Trump revealed highly classified information to Russian foreign minister and ambassador
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-revealed-highly-classified-information-to-russian-foreign-minister-and-ambassador/2017/05/15/530c172a-3960-11e7-9e48-c4f199710b69_story.html
Trump Revealed Highly Classified Intelligence to Russia, in Break With Ally, Officials Say
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/15/us/politics/trump-russia-classified-information-isis.html
Trump Revealed Highly Classified Information To Russians During White House Visit
The president disclosed classified intelligence with the Russian ambassador and foreign minister last week, two US officials confirmed to BuzzFeed News.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/jimdalrympleii/trump-highly-classified-information-russians
The Terrible Cost of Trump's Disclosures
The consequences of the president’s reported divulgence of top-secret codeword information to the Russians are only beginning
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/05/the-terrible-cost-of-trumps-disclosures/526818/
Trump sharing highly classified information with Russia shows his extreme hubris
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/05/15/trumps-extreme-hubris-just-made-his-russia-problem-much-worse/
The White House isn’t denying that Trump gave Russia classified information — not really
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/05/15/the-white-house-isnt-denying-that-trump-gave-russia-classified-information-not-really/
This is why Trump’s loose tongue has compromised U.S. security
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/05/16/this-is-why-trumps-loose-tongue-has-compromised-u-s-security/
Former U.S. Ambassador To Russia Calls Trump Intel Spill Report A ‘Disaster’
It “undermine” America’s credibility in working with key intelligence agencies, Michael McFaul says.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/russian-ambassador-donald-trump_us_591a94dae4b07d5f6ba58ce4
Screaming overheard in Cabinet Room meeting between Spicer, Bannon and Sanders after Russia intel revelation
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/05/screaming-overheard-in-cabinet-room-meeting-between-spicer-bannon-and-sanders-after-russia-intel-revelation/
WH comms staffers just put the TVs on super loud after we could hear yelling coming from room w/ Bannon, Spicer, Sanders
https://twitter.com/Carrasquillo/status/864262056849092608
At a Besieged White House, Tempers Flare and Confusion Swirls
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/16/us/white-house-staff.html
Donald Trump Says He Has The Right To Share Info With The Russians
Who cares if the information is classified?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-washington-post-report_us_591a393be4b05dd15f0aa0e6
Trump Defends Sharing Information on ISIS Threat With Russia
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/16/us/politics/trump-intelligence-russia-classified.html
Trump defends his 'absolute right' to share information with Russians
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-tweets-idUSKCN18C19Y
Despite Campaign Boasts, Trump Has No Idea How To Handle Classified Material
Trump often went after Hillary Clinton for being “extremely careless” with classified information.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-classified-material_us_591a4602e4b07d5f6ba57a06
On the campaign trail, Trump was very worried about revealing America’s secrets
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/05/15/on-the-campaign-trail-trump-was-very-worried-about-revealing-americas-secrets/
Paul Ryan might regret having said this about Hillary Clinton
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/05/15/paul-ryan-might-regret-having-said-this-about-hillary-clinton/
Read this massive tweet thread by 'The Daily Show' if you want to get really frustrated with the GOP
http://mashable.com/2017/05/16/daily-show-thread-gop-classified-hypocrisy/
Israel Said to Be Source of Secret Intelligence Trump Disclosed to Russians
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/16/world/middleeast/israel-trump-classified-intelligence-russia.html
Israel Was Source of Intelligence Trump Shared With Russia: Sources
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/israel-was-source-intelligence-trump-shared-russia-sources-n760301
Former Mossad chief: Alleged Trump slip to Russia could be 'grave violation'
Danny Yatom, the former director of Israel's spy agency, cautions of the impact of revealing classified information after reports of Trump sharing intel with Russia.
http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Former-Mossad-chief-warns-Trump-of-dangers-of-loose-lips-490882
Analysis // Trump's Russian Intel Leak Is the Last Thing Netanyahu Needs
Trump's negligent revelation of an ally's intelligence on ISIS to Russia raises concern about three kinds of damage
http://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-1.789513
U.S. Officials ‘Warned Israel’ Not to Share Sensitive Intel With Trump
http://www.newsweek.com/us-officials-warned-israel-not-share-sensitive-intel-trump-609782
They [Israel] Were Warned
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/they-were-warned
Israeli Official: Trump Sharing Intelligence With Russia Is "Worst Fears Confirmed"
Two Israeli officials tell BuzzFeed News that the intelligence shared by Trump "syncs up" with intelligence Israel shared with its US counterparts.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/sheerafrenkel/israeli-official-trump-sharing-intelligence-with-russia-is
Trump's disclosure endangered spy placed inside ISIS by Israel, officials say
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/trumps-disclosure-endangered-spy-inside-isis-israel-officials/story?id=47449304
Former top Israeli officials break with government line and call Trump leak very troubling
http://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-israel-trump-russia-20170517-story.html
How Trump Hurts the Spying Business
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/16/opinion/how-trump-hurts-the-spying-business.html
Commentary: How Trump's Information-Sharing Hurts The Intelligence Community
http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2017/05/17/528609228/commentary-how-trumps-information-sharing-hurts-the-intelligence-community
Translating McMaster’s rhetoric on the Russia-leak story
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/05/16/translating-mcmasters-rhetoric-on-the-russia-leak-story/
Putin offers to provide Congress with details of Trump disclosures to Russian envoys - this and next item further to http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=131438463
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/putin-offers-to-provide-congress-with-details-of-trump-disclosures-to-russian-envoys/2017/05/17/80485ffe-3af6-11e7-a058-ddbb23c75d82_story.html
Putin Offers to Provide a ‘Record’ of Trump’s Disclosures to Russian Envoys
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/17/world/europe/trump-putin-russia.html
Yates Sees 'Serious Questions' in Timing of Comey's Firing
Former acting attorney general was fired by Trump in January
Yates disputes White House statement on potential legal issues
https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-05-17/yates-sees-serious-questions-in-timing-of-comey-s-firing
Preserving the Russia Investigation: A Preview of Our Interview with Sally Yates - coming within the next week - GET
May 16, 2017
http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/preserving-the-russia-investigation-a-preview-of-our-interview-with-sally-yates
Sally Yates: Russia had 'real leverage' over Flynn - on CNN/Anderson Cooper eve 5-16-17 - GET
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/16/sally-yates-cnn-interview-michael-flynn-238432
Sally Yates on Flynn warning: 'There was nothing casual about this'
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/16/politics/sally-yates-anderson-cooper-cnntv/index.html
Sally Yates Outclasses the President in CNN Interview
The former acting attorney general elegantly picked apart Trump’s biggest falsehoods in an interview with Anderson Cooper on Tuesday—and called James Comey a ‘straight shooter.’
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/05/17/sally-yates-outclasses-the-president-in-cnn-interview
As investigators circled Flynn, he got a message from Trump: Stay strong - STILL IN TOUCH
https://www.yahoo.com/news/investigators-circled-flynn-got-message-trump-stay-strong-145442727.html
Trump meets with crown prince of Abu Dhabi as he looks to Muslim world - 5-15-17 - GET - ties to Maddow open 5-15-17 - Flynn Seychelles
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/05/15/trump-meets-crown-prince-abu-dhabi-he-looks-muslim-world/101721138/
Trump meets with UAE crown prince ahead of overseas trip
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/trump-meets-uae-crown-prince-ahead-overseas-trip-47422146
The Senate Starts to Look at Trump’s Businesses
http://www.newyorker.com/business/adam-davidson/the-senate-starts-to-look-at-trumps-businesses
further to http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=131345768 :
ZEMBLA - The dubious friends of Donald Trump: Part 1: the Russians
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bEdMuKq30I
ZEMBLA - The dubious friends of Donald trump: Part 2: King of Diamonds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvd7PqI_Lx0
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMo9uZjfZuvVRxKDgaTBOyQ/videos
Comey, Unsettled by Trump, Is Said to Have Wanted Him Kept at a Distance - Comey memos (re interactions with Trump/Trump admin representatives), plural - Maddow open 5-18-17
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/18/us/politics/james-comey-memo-fbi-trump.html
Comey prepared extensively for his conversations with Trump
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/comey-prepared-extensively-for-his-conversations-with-trump/2017/05/18/e53b1734-3bf1-11e7-a058-ddbb23c75d82_story.html
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein knew before he wrote his controversial memo that Comey would be fired
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/deputy-attorney-general-rod-rosenstein-will-brief-the-full-senate-in-a-closed-session/2017/05/18/41de8548-3bd4-11e7-8854-21f359183e8c_story.html
Firing Comey Was a Grave Abuse of Power
In 1974, Republicans put country before Party and told Nixon it was time to go. Today’s G.O.P. seems unlikely to live up to its predecessor’s example.
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/05/22/firing-comey-was-a-grave-abuse-of-power
Trump must be impeached. Here’s why.
By Laurence H. Tribe
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-must-be-impeached-heres-why/2017/05/13/82ce2ea4-374d-11e7-b4ee-434b6d506b37_story.html
Poll: 48 percent want Trump impeached
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/333589-poll-42-percent-of-voters-support-impeaching-trump
poll: http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/pdf/2017/PPP_Release_National_51617.pdf
Preet Bharara: Are there still public servants who will say no to the president?
By Preet Bharara
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/preet-bharara-are-there-still-public-servants-who-will-say-no-to-the-president/2017/05/14/8df915de-38d6-11e7-9e48-c4f199710b69_story.html
Republicans who are complicit in Trump’s abuse of power will soon have a big problem
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2017/05/15/republicans-who-are-complicit-in-trumps-abuse-of-power-will-soon-have-a-big-problem/
Clapper says Trump weakening U.S. institutions
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/clapper-says-trump-weakening-us-government/2017/05/14/05956f92-38ba-11e7-9e48-c4f199710b69_story.html
Clapper: Comey firing 'another victory' for Russia
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/14/clapper-trump-comey-firing-238374
James Clapper: Defending democracy from Trump
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/15/opinions/clapper-wins-week-opinion-kayyem/
Clapper: US institutions 'under assault' from Trump
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/14/politics/james-clapper-russia-collusion/
Clapper notes 'curious pattern' of Russian deaths
http://thehill.com/homenews/sunday-talk-shows/333362-clapper-curious-pattern-of-russian-deaths
America's political chaos under Trump is a return on Putin's investment
Washington spies believe Vladimir Putin harbours 'longstanding desire to undermine the US-led liberal democratic order' and is enjoying his front row seat as turmoil continues
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/russia-trump-hacking-success-chaos-of-white-house-putin-a7736726.html
Putin offers to provide Congress with details of Trump disclosures to Russian envoys - this and next item further to http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=131438463
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/putin-offers-to-provide-congress-with-details-of-trump-disclosures-to-russian-envoys/2017/05/17/80485ffe-3af6-11e7-a058-ddbb23c75d82_story.html
Putin Offers to Provide a ‘Record’ of Trump’s Disclosures to Russian Envoys
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/17/world/europe/trump-putin-russia.html
House majority leader to colleagues in 2016: ‘I think Putin pays’ Trump
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/house-majority-leader-to-colleagues-in-2016-i-think-putin-pays-trump/2017/05/17/515f6f8a-3aff-11e7-8854-21f359183e8c_story.html
GOP leaders laughed about Trump colluding with Russia long before WikiLeaks
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/05/17/gop-leaders-laughed-about-trump-colluding-with-russia-long-before-wikileaks/
Republicans get radio silence from Trump amid growing crisis
The White House has done little damage control, leaving GOP lawmakers with no way to defend the president.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/17/donald-trump-damage-control-238521
Trump turns to ex-campaign aides as scandals pile up
He has brought Corey Lewandowski, Jason Miller and David Bossie back into his orbit.
Former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski was spotted in the West Wing lobby on Tuesday, according to two White House officials.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/17/trump-scandals-miller-bossie-lewandowski-238520
Republicans’ extreme frustration with Trump, in one congressman’s middle finger
This post has been updated with Rep. Darrell Issa's response. He denies flipping off a reporter.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/05/16/republicans-extreme-frustration-with-trump-in-one-congressmans-middle-finger/
The guy who predicted Comey’s memos thinks Comey may be trying to take down Trump - Matthew Miller
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/05/17/the-guy-who-predicted-comeys-memos-thinks-comey-may-be-trying-to-take-down-president-trump/
Robert Mueller, Former F.B.I. Director, Is Named Special Counsel for Russia Investigation
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/17/us/politics/robert-mueller-special-counsel-russia-investigation.html
Deputy attorney general appoints special counsel to oversee probe of Russian interference in election - (earlier version) at http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=131447622
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/deputy-attorney-general-appoints-special-counsel-to-oversee-probe-of-russian-interference-in-election/2017/05/17/302c1774-3b49-11e7-8854-21f359183e8c_story.html
Justice Dept. names Mueller special counsel for Russia probe
Former FBI Director Robert Mueller will oversee the probe into Russia's alleged involvement in the 2016 presidential election.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/17/justice-dept-to-appoint-special-prosecutor-for-russia-probe-238524
Former FBI chief Mueller appointed to probe Trump-Russia ties
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-idUSKCN18D1XT
Why It’s Hard to Have an Independent Russia Investigation
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/05/17/us/politics/why-its-so-hard-to-have-an-independent-russia-investigation.html
Robert Mueller Takes the Case
The former FBI director will take over the investigation of any coordination between President Trump’s campaign and Russia.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/05/robert-mueller-will-serve-as-special-prosecutor-on-russia/527121/
A special counsel is essential. But Congress isn’t off the hook.
Editorial
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-special-counsel-is-essential-but-congress-isnt-off-the-hook/2017/05/17/23c8baa8-3b4b-11e7-9e48-c4f199710b69_story.html
Republicans just got what they didn’t want: A special counsel
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/05/17/republicans-just-got-what-they-didnt-want-a-special-counsel/
Rod Rosenstein saves the Republican Party from itself
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/rosenstein-comes-to-the-rescue-of-the-cowardly-republicans/2017/05/17/07f5e2c6-3b44-11e7-9e48-c4f199710b69_story.html
Jeffrey Toobin on Mueller: ‘An absolutely brilliant choice’
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2017/live-updates/trump-white-house/trump-comey-and-russia-how-key-washington-players-are-reacting/jeffrey-toobin-on-mueller-an-absolutely-brilliant-choice/
‘Brothers in arms’: The long friendship between Mueller and Comey
They’ve been described as law enforcement twins and “brothers in arms.”
Once again, James Comey and Robert Mueller — two respected FBI veterans — have found themselves sharing the same high-profile headlines.
The two men’s working relationship can be traced back to at least December of 2003, when Comey joined Mueller in Washington after he became John Ashcroft’s deputy attorney general, according to a 2013 Washingtonian article about the two men’s long0standing relationship.
“He and Mueller spent many hours together, developing a close partnership — and watching together the disarray in the government over how to respond to the unfolding war on terror,” Washingtonian notes. “They shared a horror at the poor quality information infiltrating the upper reaches of government.”
The article goes on to point to personal similarities as well as professional. Both men were educated at Virginia universities — Mueller at the University of Virginia, Comey at William & Mary.
“Just years apart in the 1990s, they both gave up their top-tier private law firm jobs to return to the trenches of prosecuting criminals — Mueller as a junior prosecutor in Washington, DC, and Comey in Richmond, Virginia,” Washingtonian reports. “Both men were rising stars mentored and guided by Eric Holder in the 1990s during Holder’s time in the Justice Department under the Clinton administration.”
Their relationship was made stronger during an incident in 2004. At the time, the Los Angeles Times reported, Comey, Mueller and a number of other law enforcement officials were on the verge of resigning in opposition to a Bush administration plan to reauthorize a domestic surveillance program that was launched after the terror attacks of 9/11. President Bush eventually agreed to modify the secret program after both men jointly intervened — an experience that is suspected to have drawn them even closer.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2017/live-updates/trump-white-house/trump-comey-and-russia-how-key-washington-players-are-reacting/brothers-in-arms-the-long-friendship-between-mueller-and-comey/
With Mueller as the special prosecutor, the White House has every reason to panic
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2017/05/17/with-mueller-as-the-special-prosecutor-the-white-house-has-every-reason-to-panic/
Rosenstein’s appointment of special counsel serves as olive branch on eve of Senate appearance
https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/rosensteins-senate-appearance-thursday-will-be-a-big-moment-for-him--and-for-trump/2017/05/17/eb182dc8-3b23-11e7-8854-21f359183e8c_story.html
Lawmakers’ Russia probes to continue despite appointment of special counsel
https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/hill-republicans-show-growing-concern-over-trump-controversies/2017/05/16/57dd4f14-3aad-11e7-9e48-c4f199710b69_story.html
Feds Subpoena Records for $3.5M Mystery Mortgage on Manafort’s Home
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/feds-subpoena-records-3-5m-mortgage-manaforts-home-n759866
Paul Manafort got a $3.5 million tax-free payback-free 'loan' from unnamed sources
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/5/16/1662804/-Paul-Manafort-got-a-3-5-million-tax-free-payback-free-loan-from-unnamed-sources
Flynn, Manafort Are Key Figures in Russia Probe Mueller Will Lead
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/flynn-manafort-are-key-figures-russia-probe-mueller-will-lead-n761256
Trump Team Knew Flynn Was Under Investigation Before He Came to White House - blurbed/linked at http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=131453989
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/17/us/politics/michael-flynn-donald-trump-national-security-adviser.html
As investigators circled Flynn, he got a message from Trump: Stay strong - STILL IN TOUCH
https://www.yahoo.com/news/investigators-circled-flynn-got-message-trump-stay-strong-145442727.html
Donald Trump Talked Michael Flynn Into White House Job—and Wants Him Back in the Administration
The retired general was under investigation. The incoming president was determined to have him as national security adviser anyway.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/05/18/donald-trump-talked-michael-flynn-into-white-house-job
Senate chairman: Flynn has not responded to subpoena - AP
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/senate-panel-chairman-flynn-wont-honor-subpoena/2017/05/18/81973c7a-3be3-11e7-a59b-26e0451a96fd_story.html
original https://www.apnews.com/4850b42bea154052b463830e90d5824a/Senate-chairman:-Flynn-has-not-responded-to-subpoena
GOP senator: Flynn 'not cooperating' in Russia probe
http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/334049-gop-senator-flynn-wont-comply-with-committees-subpoena
A Russian state bank reportedly financed an $850 million deal with a Trump business partner
Trump International Hotel in Toronto may have been built with the help of Russian funds.
https://thinkprogress.org/russian-bank-involved-with-trump-business-partner-ac1393e9d95c
citing:
Russian State-Run Bank Financed Deal Involving Trump Hotel Partner
Russian-Canadian developer put money into Toronto project after receiving hundreds of millions from deal involving VEB
VEB, a Russian state-run bank under scrutiny by U.S. investigators, financed a deal involving Donald Trump’s onetime partner in a Toronto hotel tower at a key moment for the project, according to people familiar with the transaction.
Alexander Shnaider, a Russian-Canadian developer who built the 65-story Trump International Hotel and Tower, put money into the project after receiving hundreds of millions of dollars from a ...
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https://www.wsj.com/articles/russian-state-run-bank-financed-deal-involving-trump-hotel-partner-1495031708
Trump Hotel Project Reportedly Benefited from Russian State-Run Bank
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/05/17/trump_toronto_hotel_reportedly_got_some_help_from_a_big_russian_bank.html
Russian government bank financed asset sale with Trump partner: report
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/333835-russian-bank-financed-asset-sale-involving-former-trump-hotel
Trump can’t stop talking about the Russia probe — even if continuing might hurt him
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-cant-stop-talking-about-the-russia-investigation--even-if-it-might-hurt-him/2017/05/18/0964ce2e-3be9-11e7-9e48-c4f199710b69_story.html
Is Donald Trump a witch?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/compost/wp/2017/05/18/is-donald-trump-a-witch/
a riff on/further to:
This is the single greatest witch hunt of a politician in American history!
6:52 AM - 18 May 2017
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/865173176854204416
Trump meets with lawyers at the White House
President Donald Trump convened his legal team on Thursday to discuss the escalating investigation into whether his campaign colluded with Russia during the 2016 election.
The huddle, according to four people briefed, took place the day after it was announced that former FBI Director Robert Mueller would serve as the investigation’s special counsel.
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http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/18/trump-lawyers-white-house-238579
The White House’s absolutely brutal night, in 6 headlines
• “Justice Department to appoint special counsel to oversee probe of Russian meddling in 2016 election”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/deputy-attorney-general-appoints-special-counsel-to-oversee-probe-of-russian-interference-in-election/2017/05/17/302c1774-3b49-11e7-8854-21f359183e8c_story.html
• “House majority leader told colleagues last year: ‘I think Putin pays’ Trump”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/house-majority-leader-to-colleagues-in-2016-i-think-putin-pays-trump/2017/05/17/515f6f8a-3aff-11e7-8854-21f359183e8c_story.html
• “Flynn stopped military plan Turkey opposed — after being paid as its agent”
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/white-house/article151149647.html
• “Trump Team Knew Flynn Was Under Investigation Before He Came to White House”
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/17/us/politics/michael-flynn-donald-trump-national-security-adviser.html
• “Israeli Source Seen as Key to Countering Islamic State Threat”
https://www.wsj.com/articles/israeli-source-seen-as-key-to-countering-islamic-state-threat-1495068912
• “Trump campaign had at least 18 undisclosed contacts with Russians — sources” - at http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=131458404
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-contacts-idUSKCN18E106
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/05/18/the-white-houses-absolutely-brutal-night-in-6-headlines/
Fact Check: Trump Is Contradictory on Comey and Misleading on Russia - 5-18-17 presser
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/18/us/politics/fact-check-donald-trump-james-comey-russia-border-wall-tax-cut.html
Trump, Citing ‘a Witch Hunt,’ Denies Any Collusion With Russia
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/18/us/politics/trump-back-on-twitter-complains-of-witch-hunt.html
Stocks Surged As Trading Floors Watched 'Breaking' InfoWars Video. It Was Two Weeks Old, and Wrong.
Traders and analysts are wondering if “Infowars [is] a site I have to start reading now” to gauge what the average person believes is true in the middle of a “propaganda war.”
As a video circulated that appeared to partially absolve President Donald Trump in the administration’s Russian meddling scandal on trading floors on Thursday, stocks surged for the first time in days on the apparent breaking news.
The video, it turns out, was actually two weeks old, misleadingly edited with the intention of falsely accusing former FBI director James Comey of perjury—and was initially aired by conspiracy website InfoWars on Thursday around noon.
Trump wasn’t cleared. In fact, since the video had been around since May 3rd, nothing had changed at all. But by the time traders found out, the dollar index had spiked anyway.
The fallout of the story is leaving analysts wondering how to absorb information in a market that is suddenly waiting on bated breath for the latest rumors to come out of the White House—even when those rumors are intentionally misleading or untrue.
“The market is used to trading on rumors. There are always rumors of takeovers or bankruptcies. In those situations, when you bet on a rumor, you lose big time,” Adam Button, the chief currency analyst at ForexLive, told The Daily Beast.
“With political rumors, they don’t have to be true.”
In other words, the news can be fake, but the rally it creates in the stock market is very real.
Button was one of the first to trace the bump in the American dollar back to InfoWars on Thursday.
“It’s an unprecedented time. The market is getting a taste of what the post-truth world looks like,“ said Button.
An InfoWars segment and article posted around noon titled “Breaking! Comey Caught Committing Perjury to Congress” shows Comey saying “he has not been pressured to close an investigation."
The clip on InfoWars omits that the question, asked by Hawaii Senator Mazie Hirono, specifically asks Comey if the attorney general or Department of Justice has asked him to close the investigation, and doesn’t mention President Trump.
The InfoWars story ends with the sentence “This story is developing,” even though Comey’s testimony had occurred 15 days ago. No further updates arrived.
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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/05/18/stocks-surged-as-trading-floors-watched-breaking-infowars-video-it-was-two-weeks-old-and-wrong
the video:
Comey Caught Committing Perjury To Congress? - and 5-18-17 full show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEyYu4aJgiY
This video proves that James Comey perjured himself to Congress claiming that no one had asked him to halt the investigation into the Trump/Russia connection.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OgDai05bkU
Joe Lieberman Is a Leading Contender for FBI Director
The former Connecticut senator would be a highly unusual pick to lead the nation’s top law-enforcement agency.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/05/joe-lieberman-is-a-leading-contender-for-fbi-director/527304/
Trump-Russia is now a criminal matter, senators say after ‘sobering’ briefing - blurbed/linked at http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=131488237
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/congress/article151417302.html
Conservatives begin to whisper: President Pence
With Trump swamped by self-inflicted scandals, Republicans find solace in the man waiting in the wings.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/17/mike-pence-president-trump-238525
VP Mike Pence Was Never Informed About Flynn: Source
Vice President Mike Pence has been kept in the dark about former National Security Adviser Mike Flynn's alleged wrongdoing, according to a source close to the administration, who cited a potential "pattern" of not informing the vice president and calling it "malpractice or intentional, and either are unacceptable."
A White House spokesman called The Times' report "flat wrong" on Thursday, but the latest revelations, including a report that Flynn called off a military mission in Raqqa after working as a foreign agent for Turkey, only broadened the scope of questions around Flynn's time as an adviser to the Trump campaign and the eventual National Security Adviser.
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http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/aide-claims-pattern-keep-vice-president-pence-out-loop-n761916
Check this out—House Democrats told VP Mike Pence about Flynn and they kept the receipts to prove it
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/5/19/1664009/-Check-this-out-House-Democrats-told-VP-Mike-Pence-about-Flynn-and-they-kept-the-receipts-to-prove-it
Elijah Cummings warned Mike Pence that Flynn was a foreign agent all the way back in November
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/5/19/1664050/-Elijah-Cummings-warned-Mike-Pence-that-Flynn-was-a-foreign-agent-all-the-way-back-in-November
Trump Told Russians That Firing ‘Nut Job’ Comey Eased Pressure From Investigation - White House not disputing (per MSNBC) - during Oval Office meeting when he gave them the code-word intel - NYT apparently(?) has a transcript
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/19/us/politics/trump-russia-comey.html
Russia probe reaches current White House official, people familiar with the case say
The law enforcement investigation into possible coordination between Russia and the Trump campaign has identified a current White House official as a significant person of interest, showing that the probe is reaching into the highest levels of government, according to people familiar with the matter.
The senior White House adviser under scrutiny by investigators is someone close to the president, according to these people, who would not further identify the official.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/russia-probe-reaches-current-white-house-official-people-familiar-with-the-case-say/2017/05/19/7685adba-3c99-11e7-9e48-c4f199710b69_story.html
Russia Probe Looking at Official in Trump White House
http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/report-russia-probe-looking-official-trump-white-house-n762331
Trump-Russia probe now includes possible cover-up, Congress is told
WASHINGTON - Investigators into Russian meddling in the U.S. presidential elections are now also probing whether White House officials have engaged in a cover-up, according to members of Congress who were briefed Friday by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.
That avenue of investigation was added in recent weeks after assertions by former FBI Director James Comey that President Donald Trump had tried to dissuade him from pressing an investigation into the actions of Trump’s first national security adviser, retired Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, members of Congress said, though it was not clear whom that part of the probe might target.
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http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/congress/article151565947.html
365 days of Trump’s claims
The Fact Checker’s ongoing database of President Trump’s 586 false and misleading claims since January 20th
Repeated 28 times:
Feb 9 Feb 10 Feb 16 Feb 17 Feb 18 Feb 24 Feb 28 Feb 28 Mar 6 Mar 13 Mar 15 Mar 17 Mar 21 Mar 23 Mar 24 Mar 24 Mar 28 Mar 28 Mar 29 Mar 31 Apr 2 Apr 4 Apr 11 Apr 21 Apr 29 May 1 May 17 May 18
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/trump-claims-database/
James Comey Will Testify Publicly Before Congress
The ousted FBI director will discuss the political firestorm surrounding his dismissal in an upcoming Senate Intelligence Committee hearing, senators announced Friday.
James Comey, the former FBI director whose sudden firing last week by President Trump sparked a massive political firestorm that has yet to abate, will testify in an open hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee.
Senators Richard Burr and Mark Warner, the committee’s Republican chair and Democratic vice chair, said Comey would speak some time after Memorial Day on May 29.
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https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/05/comey-congress-testify/527523/
Former FBI director Comey to testify publicly
https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/former-fbi-director-comey-to-testify-publicly/2017/05/19/745a285c-3ce6-11e7-a058-ddbb23c75d82_story.html
Trump's aides hosted an 'intervention' to try to tone down his Twitter use
Aides warned Trump his tweets could "paint him into a corner" potentially compromising him both politically and legally.
http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-twitter-intervention-2017-5
citing:
Fired FBI Director James Comey to Testify in Public
Aides to President Donald Trump brace for new environment after the appointment of a special counsel
WASHINGTON - Former FBI Director James Comey has agreed to testify publicly in Congress, capping a week that may shape President Donald Trump’s administration for months, or even years, and prompting White House aides to rethink how they operate in this new political and legal environment.
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https://www.wsj.com/articles/fired-fbi-director-james-comey-to-testify-in-public-1495242168
Is Mike Pence distancing himself from Trump?
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39979279
A Conservative Christian College Protest of Mike Pence
GROVE CITY, Pa. — On Saturday, Vice President Mike Pence will give the commencement address at Grove City College, the small Christian institution in Western Pennsylvania where I am a junior. A few years ago, Mr. Pence would have been a noncontroversial choice. Other prominent Republicans, including Ben Carson, Jeb Bush and Laura Bush, have spoken here, and the school is known for its conservative values. Indeed, the phrase “conservative values” is in the Grove City mission statement.
But the announcement that Mr. Pence would be commencement speaker this year drew considerable backlash. Alumni and students flooded administrators’ inboxes with emails protesting the decision, and faculty members have called for boycotts. Many who oppose the decision say that hosting Mr. Pence will serve as an endorsement of the current president.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/19/opinion/mike-pence-college-protest.html
First on CNN: Russian officials bragged they could use Flynn to influence Trump, sources say - some in intel community limited disclosures to Flynn on their own - excerpted/linked at https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=131520542
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/19/politics/michael-flynn-donald-trump-russia-influence/
First on CNN: Comey now believes Trump was trying to influence him, source says
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/19/politics/james-comey-trump-influence/index.html
Trump told aides firing Flynn was a mistake
The president has grown obsessed with defending the tough-talking 58-year-old general, repeatedly telling aides and associates in private that Flynn was a 'good man.'
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/19/trump-michael-flynn-firing-mistake-aides-238618
Trump’s loyalty to Michael Flynn is destroying his presidency
https://www.vox.com/world/2017/5/18/15649910/trump-flynn-loyalty
Michael Flynn's Contradictory Line On Russia
http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2017/05/19/529148729/michael-flynns-contradictory-line-on-russia
How could Trump, Pence not have known Flynn was lobbying for Turkey?
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article151421902.html
original http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/white-house/article151421102.html
Trump or Congress can still block Robert Mueller. I know. I wrote the rules.
How politics could trip up the new special counsel
By Neal Katyal
https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2017/05/19/politics-could-still-block-muellers-investigation-i-know-i-wrote-the-rules/
White House looking at ethics rule to weaken special investigation: sources
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-mueller-idUSKCN18F2KK
Report: White House may be looking to undermine special counsel’s investigation
https://www.vox.com/2017/5/19/15668168/report-white-house-undermine-special-counsel
Recapping a stunningly bad two weeks for the Trump White House
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/05/19/recapping-a-stunningly-bad-two-weeks-for-the-trump-white-house/
The Trump presidency doesn’t seem sustainable
By Ruth Marcus
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-trump-presidency-doesnt-seem-sustainable/2017/05/19/cae244bc-3cc2-11e7-9e48-c4f199710b69_story.html
Trump turmoil is spreading far beyond Washington to state and local races
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-turmoil-is-spreading-far-beyond-washington-to-state-and-local-races/2017/05/19/c3727064-3bcb-11e7-9e48-c4f199710b69_story.html
Here comes the GOP bloodbath
By Erick Erickson
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/here-comes-the-gop-bloodbath/2017/05/19/8e27eb58-3c18-11e7-8854-21f359183e8c_story.html
Former Trump campaign aide seeks legal help -- from Trump
The former volunteer is racking up legal fees after hiring a lawyer to respond to the Russia probe
"My heart aches," a former campaign official said of ex-staffers who might be caught up in the investigation
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/20/politics/trump-aide-legal-funds/
AP Explains: End-game scenarios for the storm over Trump
https://www.apnews.com/16e52de6b86f4324acb74b932ba14660/AP-Explains:-End-game-scenarios-for-the-storm-over-Trump
Trump to meet Turkish leader amid storm over shared intel - 5-16-17 - GET
https://www.apnews.com/307acded7abd4b87bf9137e0f8f0491d/Trump-to-meet-Turkish-leader-amid-storm-over-shared-intel
Trump's Passion for Dictators
With Turkey's leader visiting Washington, the president needs to ditch his love of autocrats.
https://www.usnews.com/opinion/world-report/articles/2017-05-16/trump-should-ditch-his-dictator-love-in-meeting-with-turkeys-president
Trump's trampling of political norms spurs strongman comparisons
As Trump meets Turkey's Erdogan, critics say he gives ammunition to repressive leaders worldwide.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/16/trump-strongman-erdogan-238418
Erdogan meets Trump: 3 key issues topping the agenda
1. US arming Kurdish fighters
2. Turkey's relationship with Russia over Syria
3. Extradition of Erdogan's rival Gulen
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/16/politics/erdogan-trump-turkey-us-meeting/
Commentary: How Trump's moves in Syria threaten U.S.-Turkey alliance
http://in.reuters.com/article/us-trump-erdogan-commentary-idINKCN18C02B
Trump to meet Turkey's president amid sharp differences and new tensions
http://abcnews.go.com/International/trump-meet-turkeys-president-amid-sharp-differences-tensions/story?id=47431917
Will Erdogan’s Thugs Face No Consequences For Attacking Us On U.S. Soil?
They acted like mafia henchmen, and yet it’s nothing compared to what happens daily in Turkey.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/turkish-bodyguards-attack-peaceful-demonstrators-on_us_591c88e0e4b07617ae4cb8a1
How the U.S. can hold Erdogan’s brawling guards accountable — and keep it from happening again
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/05/17/how-the-u-s-can-hold-erdogans-brawling-guards-accountable-and-keep-it-from-happening-again/
Plenty of tough talk for Erdogan guards, but action is unlikely, experts say
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/plenty-of-tough-talk-for-erdogan-guards-but-action-is-unlikely-experts-say/2017/05/19/69c90dce-3c80-11e7-8854-21f359183e8c_story.html
First, Erdogan’s goons attack protesters. Then, the embassy blames the victims.
Editorial
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/first-erdogans-goons-attack-protesters-then-the-embassy-blames-the-victims/2017/05/19/be3eacbe-3c04-11e7-9e48-c4f199710b69_story.html
Turkish government goons beat peaceful protesters on American soil. And not a word from the White House
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-turkey-erdogan-trump-protest-20170519-story.html
Erdogan Watching His Supporters Fight Protesters in Turkish Embassy in Washington, US
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIpPsyAVCY4
Audio Analysis Reveals Erdogan Gave Oder to "Attack" Protesters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVq3absG7XU
Trump Reneges on Promise to Move Embassy to Jerusalem on Eve of Middle East Trip
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/05/trump-reneges-on-jerusalem-embassy-before-middle-east-trip.html
Nikki Haley Says What White House Won’t: The Western Wall Is in Israel
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/nikki-haley-says-what-white-house-won-t-western-wall-n761071
Iran Nuclear Deal Will Remain for Now, White House Signals
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/17/us/politics/trump-iran-nuclear-deal.html
U.S. Announces New Iran Sanctions, But Keeps Waiving Sanctions
http://www.nbcnews.com/card/u-s-announces-new-iran-sanctions-keeps-waiving-sanctions-n761191
Iranians demanding change deliver emphatic victory for Rouhani
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-election-idUSKCN18E2Y8
Rouhani’s victory is good news for Iran, but bad news for Trump and his Sunni allies
The Saudis will be appalled that a (comparatively) reasonable Iranian has won a (comparatively) free election that almost none of the 50 dictators gathering to meet Trump in Riyadh would ever dare to hold
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/iran-election-rouhani-saudi-arabia-trump-bad-news-a7746146.html
Tillerson hails 'historic moment' in U.S.-Saudi relations
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/20/rex-tillerson-saudi-arabia-arms-deal-investment-historic-moment-238637
To Trump, Human Rights Concerns Are Often a Barrier to Trade
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson had some advice on Saturday for Iran’s newly re-elected president. The Trump administration, he said, hopes Tehran “restores the rights of Iranians to freedom of speech, to freedom of organization, so that Iranians can live the life that they deserve.”
As he said that at a news conference, Mr. Tillerson was standing next to the Saudi foreign minister, Adel al-Jubeir, who represents a government that does not guarantee free speech or many other rights. When Mr. Tillerson turned to leave, a reporter asked if he had anything to say about human rights in Saudi Arabia. The secretary departed without answering.
President Trump’s visit to Saudi Arabia [ https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/20/world/middleeast/donald-trump-saudi-arabia.html ] underscored the calculation he and his foreign policy advisers have made when it comes to questions of human rights around the world.
Mr. Trump and his team made clear they are willing to publicly overlook repression in places like Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states whose leaders are meeting here this weekend — as long as they are allies in areas the president considers more important, namely security and economics.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/20/world/middleeast/rex-w-tillerson-saudi-arabia-human-rights.html
Trump’s first foreign trip a test of what he’s learned, or not, about national security
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trumps-first-foreign-trip-a-test-of-what-hes-learned-or-not-about-national-security/2017/05/18/4f309bea-3b12-11e7-8854-21f359183e8c_story.html
Embroiled in controversies, Trump seeks boost on foreign trip
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'DON'T THINK HE UNDERSTANDS IT'
Some doubt whether Trump, a businessman-turned politician who never held elective office before becoming president in January, is ready for a smooth presidential debut abroad.
One Republican official, who requested anonymity in order to speak freely, said after meeting Trump recently he did not think the president had a firm enough grasp on the nuances of the long-running Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
"I don't think he understands it," said the official, adding that Trump needed more detailed briefings before leaving on Friday. "I think it's a very difficult challenge and I hope he's going to talk to a lot of smart people."
White House advisers insisted Trump was up to speed on the Middle East, having already hosted Arab, Israeli and Palestinian leaders at the White House.
“His way of doing diplomacy, which really contrasts with President Obama's approach, is to ... prioritize the personal relationship," said Michael Singh, a foreign policy adviser to former Republican President George W. Bush.
To prepare for his trip, Trump has been meeting with briefers including Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis, White House national security adviser H.R. McMaster, deputy national security adviser Dina Powell and senior adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner.
Conversations with some officials who have briefed Trump and others who are aware of how he absorbs information portray a president with a short attention span.
He likes single-page memos and visual aids like maps, charts, graphs and photos.
National Security Council officials have strategically included Trump's name in "as many paragraphs as we can because he keeps reading if he's mentioned," according to one source, who relayed conversations he had with NSC officials.
Trump likes to look at a map of the country involved when he learns about a topic.
"He likes to visualize things," said a senior administration official. "The guy's a builder. He has spent his whole life looking at architectural renderings and floor plans."
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http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-trip-idUSKCN18D0C7
Trump campaigned against Muslims, but will preach tolerance in Saudi speech
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-campaigned-against-muslims-but-will-preach-tolerance-in-saudi-speech/2017/05/19/6357c60c-3ca7-11e7-9e48-c4f199710b69_story.html
Look Back at Trump's Remarks on Muslims, Saudi Arabia - video
From involvement in the Sept. 11th attacks to surveillance of certain mosques, Donald Trump has made controversial remarks about Muslims and Saudi Arabia. Here's a look back at those comments.
http://www.nbcnews.com/video/trump-on-saudi-arabia-muslims-and-islam-948679747977
‘People Here Think Trump Is a Laughingstock’
On the president’s ill-timed world tour.
"Chaos.”
“Circus.”
“Laughingstock.”
Those were just a few of the comments I heard in Berlin this week from senior European officials trying to make sense of the meltdown in Washington at just the moment when a politically imploding President Trump embarks on what he called “my big foreign trip” in this morning’s kickoff tweet.
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http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/05/19/trump-first-foreign-trip-europe-215163
Russia and Syria Denounce U.S. Airstrike on Pro-Assad Militia
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/19/world/middleeast/syria-russia-us-convoy.html
White House Reveals Details on Military and Wall Ahead of Budget Proposal
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/18/us/politics/budget-trump-white-house.html
The Trump Administration Says It's Ready to 'Modernize' NAFTA
The White House sent a letter to Congress Thursday morning officially kicking off the renegotiation process.
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/05/trump-modernize-nafta/527271/
Trump’s NAFTA Letter Echoes Obama Administration’s Language On TPP
Well, this is awkward.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-nafta-obama-tpp_us_591de665e4b094cdba523d00
Homeland Security Chief Tells Trump He Can Use Saber ‘On The Press’ - Trump at Coast Guard Academy 5-17-17 - GET
John Kelly was caught on a hot mic joking about how the president could deal with the media.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/homeland-security-chief-tells-trump-to-use-saber-on-press_us_591ca09ce4b034684b0904a4
Kelly jokes to Trump: Use saber on the press [CNN]
During an event with the US Coast Guard, Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly and President Trump were caught on a hot microphone joking about the President using a ceremonial saber on the press.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YzSQprQt6I
Trump claims ‘no politician in history’ has been ‘treated worse or more unfairly’
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-claims-no-politician-in-history-has-been-treated-worse-or-more-unfairly/2017/05/17/f9c59056-3b1c-11e7-9e48-c4f199710b69_story.html
Trump’s ‘huuuuuge’ Caribbean estate is on the market for $28 million, prompting questions
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-huuuuuge-caribbean-estate-is-on-the-market-for-28-million-prompting-questions/2017/05/17/cf3f99c0-372b-11e7-b373-418f6849a004_story.html
How to Woo Chinese Investors: With Visa Offers and the Trump Name
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/19/business/kushner-trump-china-green-cards.html
Bipartisan group of senators push back on Sessions’s order to pursue most severe penalties
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/bipartisan-group-of-senators-push-back-on-sessionss-order-to-pursue-most-severe-penalties/2017/05/17/753b946c-3b25-11e7-8854-21f359183e8c_story.html
Trump's Justice Department is trying to unravel the past 10 years of criminal justice reform
“We’re leading in the direction of instigating a new drug war.”
https://www.vox.com/2017/5/17/15641856/jeff-sessions-donald-trump-drug-war-criminal-justice
Controversial Milwaukee sheriff David Clarke says he’ll be appointed to high-ranking DHS post, but agency has not confirmed
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/05/17/controversial-milwaukee-sheriff-david-clarke-says-hell-be-appointed-to-high-ranking-dhs-post-but-agency-has-not-confirmed/
Polarizing Sheriff David Clarke Says He’ll Take a Top Homeland Security Job
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/17/us/politics/sheriff-david-clarke-homeland-security-job.html
Sheriff David Clarke plagiarized portions of his master's thesis on homeland security
http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2017/05/politics/sheriff-clarke-plagiarism/
CNN report says Sheriff David Clarke plagiarized parts of his thesis on homeland security
http://www.jsonline.com/story/news/local/milwaukee/2017/05/21/cnn-report-says-sheriff-david-clarke-plagiarized-parts-his-thesis-homeland-security/334747001/
Sheriff David Clarke's thesis deleted from school's website after plagiarism accusation
Sheriff David Clarke’s master’s thesis has been removed from the Naval Postgraduate School website after reports that he plagiarized sections of his thesis on homeland security.
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https://origin-nyi.thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/334423-sheriff-david-clarkes-thesis-deleted-from-schools-website-after
Trump tells advisers he wants to end key Obamacare subsidies
Many senior aides oppose the move for fear it will backfire politically.
President Donald Trump has told advisers he wants to end payments of key Obamacare subsidies, a move that could send the health law's insurance markets into a tailspin, according to several sources familiar with the conversations.
Many advisers oppose the move because they worry it would backfire politically if people lose their insurance or see huge premium spikes and blame the White House, the sources said. Trump has said that the bold move could force Congressional Democrats to the table to negotiate an Obamacare replacement.
Lawyers and other administration officials are trying to thread the needle.
Trump told aides in a Tuesday Oval Office meeting that he wants to end the payments to insurers because he doesn't gain anything by continuing them, according to a senior White House adviser. "Why the hell would we?" he asked about continuing the payments, according to the adviser. Trump added that if Congress wants the subsidies, lawmakers would find a way to pay for them, the adviser said.
Trump has previously expressed conflicting opinions on the issue. Insurers have been pressing for certainty as they plan for next year.
The payments, estimated at $7 billion for this year, go to insurance companies to reduce deductibles and other out-of-pocket costs for low-income consumers — an estimated 7 million people in 2017. Insurers are on the hook under the health law to keep paying even if the federal money stops.
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http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/19/donald-trump-end-payments-obamacare-subsidies-238616
States get involved in lawsuit to shield Obamacare, saying Trump can’t be trusted
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/05/18/states-get-involved-in-lawsuit-to-shield-obamacare-saying-trump-cant-be-trusted/
Obamacare subsidies at stake in Monday court hearing
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/05/19/obamacare-subsidies-stake-monday-court-hearing/101828786/
Trumpcare Is Already Hurting Trump Country
Editorial
The mere threat that Obamacare will be dismantled or radically changed — either by Congress or by President Trump himself — has persuaded several big insurance companies to stop selling policies or significantly raise premiums. The practical effect is that some lower-income and middle-class families may have no good options for insurance and will have to spend more on health care.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/19/opinion/trumpcare-health-care-bill.html
Democrats accuse White House of causing ACA tremors, then shifting blame
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2017/05/19/democrats-accuse-white-house-of-causing-aca-tremors-then-shifting-blame/
Trump and DeVos plan to reshape higher education finance. Here’s what it might mean for you.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2017/05/17/trump-and-devos-plan-to-reshape-higher-education-finance-heres-what-it-might-mean-for-you/
400,000 were promised student loan forgiveness. Now they are panicking
More than 400,000 student loan borrowers may have placed their faith in a government program with an uncertain future.
http://money.cnn.com/2017/05/18/pf/college/betsy-devos-public-service-loan-forgiveness/
Betsy DeVos Wants to Kill a Major Student Loan Forgiveness Program
http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2017/05/17/the_trump_administration_wants_to_end_the_public_service_loan_forgiveness.html
Betsy DeVos hits hard reset on student loan servicing contracts
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2017/05/19/betsy-devos-hits-hard-reset-on-student-loan-servicing-contracts/
Trump administration wants to overhaul the way you repay student loans
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/trump-administration-wants-to-overhaul-the-way-you-repay-student-loans-2017-05-19
Income-Driven Repayment Isn’t Enough to Prevent Default
https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/education/news/2017/05/19/432751/income-driven-repayment-isnt-enough-prevent-default/
James Donovan Backs Out as Nominee for No. 2 Treasury Job
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/19/business/dealbook/james-donovan-nominee-treasury-backs-out.html
Donovan dropping out as Trump's nominee for deputy Treasury secretary
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/19/jim-donovan-trump-deputy-treasury-secretary-238611
Elizabeth Warren Slams ‘Bizarre’ Glass-Steagall Statements From Trump’s Treasury Secretary
“This is like something straight out of George Orwell.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/elizabeth-warren-slams-bizarre-glass-steagall-statements-from-trumps-treasury-secretary_us_591f307ee4b03b485cb155cc
Senators Demand Answers After Reporter Is ‘Manhandled’ At FCC Hearing
It’s part of administration’s pattern of “press hostility,” the Democratic senators say.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/reporter-manhandled-fcc-hearing_us_591fe356e4b094cdba545572
Approval of President Trump drops to lowest since inauguration: Reuters/Ipsos poll
Public approval of President Donald Trump has dropped to its lowest level since his inauguration, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Friday, after Trump was accused of mishandling classified information and meddling with an FBI investigation.
The May 14-18 opinion poll found that 38 percent of adults approved of Trump while 56 percent disapproved. The remaining 6 percent had "mixed feelings."
[...]
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-poll-idUSKCN18F2AH
Steve Bannon Pulls Out Of Speech At Top Washington Think Tank
The invitation rankled some scholars at the Brookings Institution.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/steve-bannon-brookings_us_591c71c8e4b0a7458fa4e694
'Such Bullshit' Watch Bill Maher and Cornel West Explode Over Whether Hillary's as Bad as Trump (unofficial YT) - 5-19-17 show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mF4eUS5-RCo
Seth Meyers on His Simple Trick for Interviewing Kellyanne Conway
http://time.com/4785882/seth-meyers-on-kellyanne-conway-interview/
referencing:
Seth Meyers Is the Most Patriotic Man in America
No one has gone after Trump harder than the ‘Late Night’ host. We asked Meyers what it means to be the true patriot of late night.
http://www.gq.com/story/seth-meyers-is-the-most-patriotic-man-in-america
Seth Meyers On Tracking Trumpocalypse
http://deadline.com/2017/05/seth-meyers-donald-trump-closer-look-late-night-1202098535/
Will Ferrell’s Full Speech As George W. Bush At #NotTheWHCD | Full Frontal on TBS - further to http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=130938670
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ7S-ymyaZ4
Follow the data: does a legal document link Brexit campaigns to US billionaire?
We reveal how a confidential legal agreement is at the heart of a web connecting Robert Mercer to Britain’s EU referendum
On 18 November 2015, the British press gathered in a hall in Westminster to witness the official launch of Leave.EU. Nigel Farage, the campaign’s figurehead, was banished to the back of the room and instead an American political strategist, Gerry Gunster, took centre stage and explained its strategy. “The one thing that I know is data,” he said. “Numbers do not lie. I’m going to follow the data.”
Eighteen months on, it’s this same insight – to follow the data – that is the key to unlocking what really happened behind the scenes of the Leave campaign. On the surface, the two main campaigns, Leave.EU and Vote Leave, hated one other. Their leading lights, Farage and Boris Johnson, were sworn enemies for the duration of the referendum. The two campaigns bitterly refused even to share a platform.
But the Observer has seen a confidential document that provides clear evidence of a link between the two campaigns. More precisely, evidence of a close working relationship between the two data analytics firms employed by the campaigns – AggregateIQ, which Vote Leave hired, and Cambridge Analytica, retained by Leave.EU.
British electoral law is founded on the principle of a level playing field and controlling campaign spending is the key plank of that. The law states that different campaigns must not work together unless they declare their expenditure jointly. This controls spending limits so that no side can effectively “buy” an election.
But this signed legal document – a document that was never meant to be made public and was leaked by a concerned source – connects both Vote Leave and Leave.EU’s data firms directly to Robert Mercer, the American billionaire who bankrolled Donald Trump.
[...]
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/14/robert-mercer-cambridge-analytica-leave-eu-referendum-brexit-campaigns
Data Firm Funded By Backer Of Donald Trump And Breitbart Threatens To Sue The Guardian
The British news organization had been investigating links between conservative billionaire Robert Mercer and the Brexit vote.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/robert-mercer-guardian-lawsuit-threat_us_591c5a95e4b041db8965d6b7
The Daily 202: Loyalty is a one-way street for Donald Trump
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2017/05/15/daily-202-05152017-daily202/5918fcc3e9b69b209cf2b82c/
A shake-up may [in Trump's advisors] make things worse
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2017/05/15/a-shake-up-may-make-things-worse/
‘Morning Joe’ Hosts: Conway Said She Needed a Shower After Speaking for Trump - during campaign - apparently OK with it now
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/15/business/media/mika-joe-kellyanne-conway.html
‘I need to take a shower,’ Kellyanne Conway said after defending candidate Trump, according to ‘Morning Joe’
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/05/15/i-need-to-take-a-shower-kellyanne-conway-said-after-defending-candidate-trump-according-to-morning-joe/
Kellyanne Conway blames negative coverage on ‘sexist’ and ‘Trumpist’ media
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/05/14/kellyanne-conway-blames-negative-coverage-on-sexist-and-trumpist-media/
Conway responds to 'Morning Joe' claim she slammed Trump off-camera
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/333635-conway-responds-to-claims-she-is-disgusted-by-trump-off-camera
The Widening Blast Radius of the Fox News Scandal
The metastasizing Ailes affair is spilling over into the politics of New York, Virginia and the White House.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/05/14/fox-news-scandal-impact-politics-215135
Fox News undermines a free, independent press
By Jennifer Rubin
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2017/05/15/fox-news-undermines-a-free-independent-press/
This is what it looks like when the media gives Trump exactly what he wants - Trump on Pirro 5-13-17 - GET
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/act-four/wp/2017/05/15/this-is-what-it-looks-like-when-the-media-gives-trump-exactly-what-he-wants/
Outraged Sean Hannity Wants White House To Seize More Control Over Media
Reporters would have to submit questions in writing on pre-selected topics.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/sean-hannity-white-house-press_us_591a79a6e4b0809be15796f9
Trump to Nominate Callista Gingrich as Vatican Ambassador
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/14/world/europe/callista-gingrich-vatican-ambassador-pope-francis.html
Trump to Sharply Expand Ban on Funding to Groups That Discuss Abortion
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/15/us/politics/trump-gag-rule-abortion.html
A congressman said making a man get maternity insurance was ‘crazy.’ A woman’s reply went viral.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/05/15/a-congressman-said-making-a-man-get-maternity-insurance-was-crazy-a-womans-reply-went-viral/
Ann Coulter Calls ‘Grotesque’ Donald Trump A Disappointment
“The Trump-haters were right ... it’s a nightmare,” she tells The Daily Caller.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/coulter-disappointment-donald-trump_us_591a4014e4b07d5f6ba578e4
White nationalist Richard Spencer leads torch-bearing protesters defending Lee statue
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/alt-rights-richard-spencer-leads-torch-bearing-protesters-defending-lee-statue/2017/05/14/766aaa56-38ac-11e7-9e48-c4f199710b69_story.html
Va. mayor slammed with anti-Semitic tweets after criticizing alt-right rally
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/va-mayor-slammed-with-anti-semitic-tweets-after-criticizing-alt-right-rally/2017/05/15/96eb95b8-3980-11e7-8854-21f359183e8c_story.html
Protestors chant Nazi phrases, wield torches near Confederate statue in Charlottesville, Va.
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/05/14/protestors-nazi-charlottesville-jackson-lee-white-supremacist-rally/22085869/
This is what emboldened white supremacists look like
With Donald Trump and his ‘America first’ rhetoric, these groups are seeing a dramatic surge. It’s up to us to stop them.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/15/emboldened-white-supremacists-charlottesville
From Lofty Perch, New Orleans [Lee] Monument to Confederacy Comes Down
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/19/us/confederate-monument-new-orleans-lee.html
‘They were not patriots’: New Orleans removes monument to Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/new-orleans-begins-removing-monument-to-confederate-gen-robert-e-lee/2017/05/19/c4ed94f6-364d-11e7-99b0-dd6e94e786e5_story.html
In New Orleans, Confederate monuments are gone — Lee last - AP
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/in-new-orleans-confederate-monuments-are-gone--lee-last/2017/05/19/5236dac0-3cf2-11e7-a59b-26e0451a96fd_story.html
original https://www.apnews.com/fd346290ef384f97906ca8de9d07197e/In-New-Orleans,-Confederate-monuments-are-gone-_-Lee-last
Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee statue removed in New Orleans
http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2017/05/confederate_gen_robert_e_lee_s_1.html
Mayor Mitch Landrieu on Confederate monuments: 'We cannot be afraid of the truth'
http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2017/05/mayor_mitch_landrieu_conferate.html
A book, an interview, an old fact, and a chart show the ongoing challenge of institutionalized racism
https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2017/05/15/a-book-an-interview-an-old-fact-and-a-chart-show-the-ongoing-challenge-of-institutionalized-racism/
Strict North Carolina Voter ID Law Thwarted [for the moment] After Supreme Court Rejects Case
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/15/us/politics/voter-id-laws-supreme-court-north-carolina.html
Sorry, a TIME Magazine Cover Did Not Predict a Coming Ice Age
A doctored TIME magazine cover warns of a coming ice age. But the reality remains that the world is warming, thanks chiefly to human action
http://science.time.com/2013/06/06/sorry-a-time-magazine-cover-did-not-predict-a-coming-ice-age/
‘Fake but accurate’: Another reason to worry about decision-making at the White House
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/05/15/fake-but-accurate-a-whole-new-reason-to-worry-about-decision-making-at-the-white-house/
How Trump gets his fake news
The president rarely surfs the web on his own, but his staff have made a habit of slipping news stories on to his desk—including the occasional internet hoax.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/15/donald-trump-fake-news-238379
‘The Internet Is Broken’: @ev Is Trying to Salvage It
SAN FRANCISCO — Evan Williams is the guy who opened up Pandora’s box. Until he came along, people had few places to go with their overflowing emotions and wild opinions, other than writing a letter to the newspaper or haranguing the neighbors.
Mr. Williams — a Twitter founder, a co-creator of Blogger — set everyone free, providing tools to address the world. In the history of communications technology, it was a development with echoes of Gutenberg.
And so here we are in 2017. How’s it going, Mr. Williams?
“I think the internet is broken,” he says. He has believed this for a few years, actually. But things are getting worse. “And it’s a lot more obvious to a lot of people that it’s broken.”
People are using Facebook to showcase suicides, beatings and murder, in real time. Twitter is a hive of trolling and abuse that it seems unable to stop. Fake news, whether created for ideology or profit, runs rampant. Four out of 10 adult internet users said in a Pew survey that they had been harassed online. And that was before the presidential campaign heated up last year.
“I thought once everybody could speak freely and exchange information and ideas, the world is automatically going to be a better place,” Mr. Williams says. “I was wrong about that.”
The Silicon Valley entrepreneur first drew notice during the dot-com boom, for developing software that allowed users to easily set up a website for broadcasting their thoughts: blogging. By the time Google bought the company in 2003, more than a million people were using it.
Then came Twitter, which wasn’t his idea but was his company. He remains the largest individual shareholder and a board member.
After fame and fortune come regrets. Mr. Williams is trying to fix some things. So, in different ways, are Google and Facebook, and even Twitter. This is a moment for patches and promises.
The trouble with the internet, Mr. Williams says, is that it rewards extremes. Say you’re driving down the road and see a car crash. Of course you look. Everyone looks. The internet interprets behavior like this to mean everyone is asking for car crashes, so it tries to supply them.
His goal is to break this pattern. “If I learn that every time I drive down this road I’m going to see more and more car crashes,” he says, “I’m going to take a different road.”
But a new road may have other problems. It may, for instance, be a dead end.
Mr. Williams isn’t the only one trying to fix this mess, of course. If he and others can’t find a path forward, if they can’t solve what he calls “the architecture of content creation, distribution and monetization on the internet,” there are unsettling implications for the future of news and ideas. Maybe it will be all car crashes, all the time. Twitter already feels like that.
For five years, Mr. Williams has been refining a communications platform called Medium. Its ambition: define a new model for media in a world struggling under the weight of fake or worthless content. Medium is supposed to be social and collaborative without rewarding the smash-ups. It is supposed to be a force for good.
“A beautiful space for reading and writing — and little else,” Mr. Williams called Medium at its public debut in 2012. “The words are central.”
[...]
A few years ago, Twitter was viewed as a tool of liberation. It enabled, some believed, the Arab Spring uprisings in the Middle East. Twitter, like the internet itself, was putting tyranny on a short leash.
Then the narrative turned darker, with the rise of trolling on the platform.
President Trump has said he believes Twitter put him in the White House. Recently, Mr. Williams heard the claim for the first time. He mulled it over for a bit, sitting in his Medium office, which is noteworthy only for not having a desk.
“It’s a very bad thing, Twitter’s role in that,” he said finally. “If it’s true that he wouldn’t be president if it weren’t for Twitter, then yeah, I’m sorry.”
The White House did not respond to a request for comment on Mr. Williams’s remarks.
[...]
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/20/technology/evan-williams-medium-twitter-internet.html
https://www.youtube.com/user/TheAlexJonesChannel/videos
Emergency Message To MSM: Don't Lose Your Humanity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43lt6mGRzfw
Alex Jones Settles With Chobani, Retracts False Claims
http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2017/05/17/alex-jones-settles-with-chobani-retracts-false-claims
Alex Jones ‘Resolves’ Lawsuit With Chobani Yogurt, Issues Retraction ( https://youtu.be/Hm_Gm1_a9bU )
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/alex-jones-resolves-lawsuit-chobani-yogurt-issues-retraction-n761261
Stephen Colbert tried to out-crazy Alex Jones’ recent yogurt humiliation ( https://youtu.be/GMHW6XEO1ms )
http://www.avclub.com/article/stephen-colbert-tried-out-crazy-alex-jones-recent--255675
Stocks Surged As Trading Floors Watched 'Breaking' InfoWars Video. It Was Two Weeks Old, and Wrong.
Traders and analysts are wondering if “Infowars [is] a site I have to start reading now” to gauge what the average person believes is true in the middle of a “propaganda war.”
As a video circulated that appeared to partially absolve President Donald Trump in the administration’s Russian meddling scandal on trading floors on Thursday, stocks surged for the first time in days on the apparent breaking news.
The video, it turns out, was actually two weeks old, misleadingly edited with the intention of falsely accusing former FBI director James Comey of perjury—and was initially aired by conspiracy website InfoWars on Thursday around noon.
Trump wasn’t cleared. In fact, since the video had been around since May 3rd, nothing had changed at all. But by the time traders found out, the dollar index had spiked anyway.
The fallout of the story is leaving analysts wondering how to absorb information in a market that is suddenly waiting on bated breath for the latest rumors to come out of the White House—even when those rumors are intentionally misleading or untrue.
“The market is used to trading on rumors. There are always rumors of takeovers or bankruptcies. In those situations, when you bet on a rumor, you lose big time,” Adam Button, the chief currency analyst at ForexLive, told The Daily Beast.
“With political rumors, they don’t have to be true.”
In other words, the news can be fake, but the rally it creates in the stock market is very real.
Button was one of the first to trace the bump in the American dollar back to InfoWars on Thursday.
“It’s an unprecedented time. The market is getting a taste of what the post-truth world looks like,“ said Button.
An InfoWars segment and article posted around noon titled “Breaking! Comey Caught Committing Perjury to Congress” shows Comey saying “he has not been pressured to close an investigation."
The clip on InfoWars omits that the question, asked by Hawaii Senator Mazie Hirono, specifically asks Comey if the attorney general or Department of Justice has asked him to close the investigation, and doesn’t mention President Trump.
The InfoWars story ends with the sentence “This story is developing,” even though Comey’s testimony had occurred 15 days ago. No further updates arrived.
[...]
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/05/18/stocks-surged-as-trading-floors-watched-breaking-infowars-video-it-was-two-weeks-old-and-wrong
the video:
Comey Caught Committing Perjury To Congress? - and 5-18-17 full show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEyYu4aJgiY
This video proves that James Comey perjured himself to Congress claiming that no one had asked him to halt the investigation into the Trump/Russia connection.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OgDai05bkU
Slain DNC Staffer’s Family Orders Blabbing Detective to ‘Cease and Desist’ - at https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=131520771
The family of slain Democratic staffer Seth Rich [ http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/dnc-staffer-s-murder-draws-fresh-conspiracy-theories-n760186 ] is threatening legal action against a private investigator after his "outrageous behavior" has given fuel to right-wing conspiracy theories about the unsolved murder of their son.
An attorney representing the family of Rich, who was 27 when he was killed last July, sent a cease and desist letter Friday to Rod Wheeler, a Fox News contributor and former Washington, D.C., homicide detective who was employed by the family and earlier this week told a Fox affiliate that he believed police were covering up details about the crime.
[...]
Wheeler's contract with the Rich family prohibited him from speaking to the press without prior approval from the family, a clause he apparently violated when he spoke to Fox 5 D.C. Monday for a story that quickly went viral on the right.
Rich's family also has demanded a retraction and apology from Fox 5 D.C. for the story, but has so far not received one.
Wheeler has since completely recanted his story, both in the press and in a private message to Rich's family.
The private investigator told other outlets the Fox reporter essentially put words in his mouth by giving him information that he then repeated in an on-camera interview. "That story on Fox 5 last night was inaccurate," he told BuzzFeed [ https://www.buzzfeed.com/claudiakoerner/the-private-detective-who-ignited-a-clinton-conspiracy ].
[...]
http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/slain-dnc-staffer-s-family-orders-blabbing-detective-cease-desist-n762211
Extinction risk for many species vastly underestimated, study suggests
A new study indicates that the number of plant and animal species at risk of extinction may be considerably higher than previously thought. A team of researchers, however, believe they've come up with a formula that will help paint a more accurate picture.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/04/170425140222.htm
original PR http://news.columbia.edu/content/Extinction-Risk-for-Many-Species-Vastly-Underestimated-Study-Suggests
study http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006320716310588
(mostly) carried over from http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=131110508 [and, for my personal reference, http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_pmsg.aspx?message_id=131101288 ]:
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.
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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.
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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.
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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
White nationalist Richard Spencer leads torch-bearing protesters defending Lee statue
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/alt-rights-richard-spencer-leads-torch-bearing-protesters-defending-lee-statue/2017/05/14/766aaa56-38ac-11e7-9e48-c4f199710b69_story.html
Va. mayor slammed with anti-Semitic tweets after criticizing alt-right rally
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/va-mayor-slammed-with-anti-semitic-tweets-after-criticizing-alt-right-rally/2017/05/15/96eb95b8-3980-11e7-8854-21f359183e8c_story.html
Protestors chant Nazi phrases, wield torches near Confederate statue in Charlottesville, Va.
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/05/14/protestors-nazi-charlottesville-jackson-lee-white-supremacist-rally/22085869/
This is what emboldened white supremacists look like
With Donald Trump and his ‘America first’ rhetoric, these groups are seeing a dramatic surge. It’s up to us to stop them.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/15/emboldened-white-supremacists-charlottesville
From Lofty Perch, New Orleans [Lee] Monument to Confederacy Comes Down
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/19/us/confederate-monument-new-orleans-lee.html
‘They were not patriots’: New Orleans removes monument to Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/new-orleans-begins-removing-monument-to-confederate-gen-robert-e-lee/2017/05/19/c4ed94f6-364d-11e7-99b0-dd6e94e786e5_story.html
In New Orleans, Confederate monuments are gone — Lee last - AP
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/in-new-orleans-confederate-monuments-are-gone--lee-last/2017/05/19/5236dac0-3cf2-11e7-a59b-26e0451a96fd_story.html
original https://www.apnews.com/fd346290ef384f97906ca8de9d07197e/In-New-Orleans,-Confederate-monuments-are-gone-_-Lee-last
Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee statue removed in New Orleans
http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2017/05/confederate_gen_robert_e_lee_s_1.html
Mayor Mitch Landrieu on Confederate monuments: 'We cannot be afraid of the truth'
http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2017/05/mayor_mitch_landrieu_conferate.html
A book, an interview, an old fact, and a chart show the ongoing challenge of institutionalized racism
https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2017/05/15/a-book-an-interview-an-old-fact-and-a-chart-show-the-ongoing-challenge-of-institutionalized-racism/
Bipartisan group of senators push back on Sessions’s order to pursue most severe penalties
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/bipartisan-group-of-senators-push-back-on-sessionss-order-to-pursue-most-severe-penalties/2017/05/17/753b946c-3b25-11e7-8854-21f359183e8c_story.html
Trump's Justice Department is trying to unravel the past 10 years of criminal justice reform
“We’re leading in the direction of instigating a new drug war.”
https://www.vox.com/2017/5/17/15641856/jeff-sessions-donald-trump-drug-war-criminal-justice
Controversial Milwaukee sheriff David Clarke says he’ll be appointed to high-ranking DHS post, but agency has not confirmed
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/05/17/controversial-milwaukee-sheriff-david-clarke-says-hell-be-appointed-to-high-ranking-dhs-post-but-agency-has-not-confirmed/
Polarizing Sheriff David Clarke Says He’ll Take a Top Homeland Security Job
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/17/us/politics/sheriff-david-clarke-homeland-security-job.html
Sheriff David Clarke plagiarized portions of his master's thesis on homeland security
http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2017/05/politics/sheriff-clarke-plagiarism/
CNN report says Sheriff David Clarke plagiarized parts of his thesis on homeland security
http://www.jsonline.com/story/news/local/milwaukee/2017/05/21/cnn-report-says-sheriff-david-clarke-plagiarized-parts-his-thesis-homeland-security/334747001/
Sheriff David Clarke's thesis deleted from school's website after plagiarism accusation
Sheriff David Clarke’s master’s thesis has been removed from the Naval Postgraduate School website after reports that he plagiarized sections of his thesis on homeland security.
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https://origin-nyi.thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/334423-sheriff-david-clarkes-thesis-deleted-from-schools-website-after
Strict North Carolina Voter ID Law Thwarted [for the moment] After Supreme Court Rejects Case
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/15/us/politics/voter-id-laws-supreme-court-north-carolina.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
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump
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
2016 National Popular Vote Tracker
http://cookpolitical.com/story/10174
Princeton Election Consortium
A first draft of electoral history. Since 2004
http://election.princeton.edu/
FiveThirtyEight
https://fivethirtyeight.com/
Rudy Giuliani
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/rudy-giuliani/
Michael Flynn
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/michael-flynn/
Kris Kobach
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/kris-kobach/
Steve Bannon
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/steve-bannon/
Donald Trump
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/donald-trump/
John Bolton
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/john-bolton/
Clare Lopez
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/clare-lopez/
Sarah Palin
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/sarah-palin/
Ann Coulter
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/ann-coulter/
Sean Hannity
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/sean-hannity/
Andrew Napolitano
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/andrew-napolitano/
Alex Jones
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/alex-jones/
Newt Gingrich
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/newt-gingrich/
David Duke
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/david-duke/
Jeff Sessions
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/jeff-sessions/
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http://www.msnbc.com/deadline-white-house
MTP Daily
http://www.msnbc.com/mtp-daily
For the Record with Greta
http://www.msnbc.com/for-the-record-with-greta
Hardball with Chris Matthews
http://www.msnbc.com/hardball
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http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show
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http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word
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http://www.msnbc.com/11th-hour-with-Brian-Williams
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Colin Kahl - Biden's National Security Advisor - good source
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AP News
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http://www.cbsnews.com/
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http://www.cnn.com/
https://www.youtube.com/user/CNN/videos
http://www.foxnews.com/
https://www.youtube.com/user/FoxNewsChannel/videos
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/
https://www.youtube.com/user/McClatchyDC/videos
http://www.nbcnews.com/
https://www.youtube.com/user/NBCNews/videos
http://www.npr.org/
https://www.youtube.com/user/npr/videos
http://www.pbs.org/
https://www.youtube.com/user/PBS/videos
https://www.youtube.com/user/PBSNewsHour/videos
http://www.reuters.com/
https://www.youtube.com/user/ReutersVideo/videos
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/
http://www.factcheck.org/
http://www.politifact.com/
http://www.snopes.com/
ThinkProgress
https://thinkprogress.org/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYdasX3ym3E5r1iozVllmzA/videos
Center for American Progress Action Fund
https://www.americanprogressaction.org/
Center for American Progress
https://www.americanprogress.org/
Right Wing Watch
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/
https://www.youtube.com/user/RightWingWatchdotorg/videos
People For the American Way
http://www.pfaw.org/
Fake News, Misinformation, and Propaganda
http://guides.library.harvard.edu/fake
the FAKE NEWS CODEX
http://www.fakenewscodex.com/
Media Bias/Fact Check
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/
The Majority Report with Sam Seder
https://www.youtube.com/user/SamSeder/videos
Reich-Wing Watch
https://www.youtube.com/user/Vote3rdParty/videos
The Alex Jones Channel
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Ron Gibson
https://www.youtube.com/user/RonGibsonCF/videos
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.
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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
Alex Jones Settles With Chobani, Retracts False Claims
http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2017/05/17/alex-jones-settles-with-chobani-retracts-false-claims
Alex Jones ‘Resolves’ Lawsuit With Chobani Yogurt, Issues Retraction ( https://youtu.be/Hm_Gm1_a9bU )
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/alex-jones-resolves-lawsuit-chobani-yogurt-issues-retraction-n761261
Stocks Surged As Trading Floors Watched 'Breaking' InfoWars Video. It Was Two Weeks Old, and Wrong.
Traders and analysts are wondering if “Infowars [is] a site I have to start reading now” to gauge what the average person believes is true in the middle of a “propaganda war.”
As a video circulated that appeared to partially absolve President Donald Trump in the administration’s Russian meddling scandal on trading floors on Thursday, stocks surged for the first time in days on the apparent breaking news.
The video, it turns out, was actually two weeks old, misleadingly edited with the intention of falsely accusing former FBI director James Comey of perjury—and was initially aired by conspiracy website InfoWars on Thursday around noon.
Trump wasn’t cleared. In fact, since the video had been around since May 3rd, nothing had changed at all. But by the time traders found out, the dollar index had spiked anyway.
The fallout of the story is leaving analysts wondering how to absorb information in a market that is suddenly waiting on bated breath for the latest rumors to come out of the White House—even when those rumors are intentionally misleading or untrue.
“The market is used to trading on rumors. There are always rumors of takeovers or bankruptcies. In those situations, when you bet on a rumor, you lose big time,” Adam Button, the chief currency analyst at ForexLive, told The Daily Beast.
“With political rumors, they don’t have to be true.”
In other words, the news can be fake, but the rally it creates in the stock market is very real.
Button was one of the first to trace the bump in the American dollar back to InfoWars on Thursday.
“It’s an unprecedented time. The market is getting a taste of what the post-truth world looks like,“ said Button.
An InfoWars segment and article posted around noon titled “Breaking! Comey Caught Committing Perjury to Congress” shows Comey saying “he has not been pressured to close an investigation."
The clip on InfoWars omits that the question, asked by Hawaii Senator Mazie Hirono, specifically asks Comey if the attorney general or Department of Justice has asked him to close the investigation, and doesn’t mention President Trump.
The InfoWars story ends with the sentence “This story is developing,” even though Comey’s testimony had occurred 15 days ago. No further updates arrived.
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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/05/18/stocks-surged-as-trading-floors-watched-breaking-infowars-video-it-was-two-weeks-old-and-wrong
the video:
Comey Caught Committing Perjury To Congress? - and 5-18-17 full show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEyYu4aJgiY
This video proves that James Comey perjured himself to Congress claiming that no one had asked him to halt the investigation into the Trump/Russia connection.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OgDai05bkU
Slain DNC Staffer’s Family Orders Blabbing Detective to ‘Cease and Desist’ - at https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=131520771
The family of slain Democratic staffer Seth Rich [ http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/dnc-staffer-s-murder-draws-fresh-conspiracy-theories-n760186 ] is threatening legal action against a private investigator after his "outrageous behavior" has given fuel to right-wing conspiracy theories about the unsolved murder of their son.
An attorney representing the family of Rich, who was 27 when he was killed last July, sent a cease and desist letter Friday to Rod Wheeler, a Fox News contributor and former Washington, D.C., homicide detective who was employed by the family and earlier this week told a Fox affiliate that he believed police were covering up details about the crime.
[...]
Wheeler's contract with the Rich family prohibited him from speaking to the press without prior approval from the family, a clause he apparently violated when he spoke to Fox 5 D.C. Monday for a story that quickly went viral on the right.
Rich's family also has demanded a retraction and apology from Fox 5 D.C. for the story, but has so far not received one.
Wheeler has since completely recanted his story, both in the press and in a private message to Rich's family.
The private investigator told other outlets the Fox reporter essentially put words in his mouth by giving him information that he then repeated in an on-camera interview. "That story on Fox 5 last night was inaccurate," he told BuzzFeed [ https://www.buzzfeed.com/claudiakoerner/the-private-detective-who-ignited-a-clinton-conspiracy ].
[...]
http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/slain-dnc-staffer-s-family-orders-blabbing-detective-cease-desist-n762211
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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbLIWszVc2Y
ALEX JONES FUNNY MOMENTS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2czPfFe3-U
ALEX JONES FUNNY MOMENTS VI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuqXd7yvEJ8
ALEX JONES FUNNY MOMENTS IV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ab5KrhoIOvo
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Alex Jones Clip Compilation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntWieh7YIgY
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recent not posted yet, chrono as uploaded:
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?
The Amazing Atheist's channel:
https://www.youtube.com/user/TheAmazingAtheist
The Drunken Peasants Podcast:
https://www.youtube.com/user/DrunkenPeasants
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e19DYf2lRIw
If Your Body Were a Religion
Apr 11, 2017
Most of the arguments I see online about this revolve around attacking strawmen with relative privation and tu quoque fallacies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pho9FMuBJgA
A Dangerous Idea - next (last? - "Season Finale") one, #10, in Power Corrupts [ https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLv--V1yc2QDJi6hFNhur3iAsyFpXRtB8w ]
May 15, 2017
Bad ideas need special protections to propagate. Good ideas stand up to criticism. This doesn’t only apply to religion, but also to many other forms of dogma.
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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
re above and following: IS CHRISTIANITY MORAL? ( http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=126021072 , http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=121463619 , http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35_JHx_OzA4 )
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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Published on May 13, 2017 by Based Patriot [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcSqNP7X0DMOI8X3yRPvcbw , https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcSqNP7X0DMOI8X3yRPvcbw/videos ]
President Trump talks James Comey, the Russia investigation, North Korea, and potentially ending the White House daily press conferences in this interview with Judge Jeanine Pirro.
FOX NEWS EXCLUSIVE: Trump talks about obstructions, from the media to Democrats, with Judge Jeanine Pirro
May 13, 2017
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/05/13/fox-news-exclusive-trump-talk-about-obstructions-from-media-to-democrats-with-judge-jeanine-pirro.html [with embedded video, and comments]
Trump to Pirro: I'm 'Surprised' At 'Hypocrite' Dems For Blasting Comey Firing
May 14, 2017
http://insider.foxnews.com/2017/05/13/donald-trump-judge-jeanine-pirro-interview-james-comey-firing-sean-spicer-chuck-schumer [with embedded videos, and comments]
[for the moment at least at] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdIzp4IXsN0 [with comments] [also for the moment at least at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChpzvUye8uU (with comments), and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxMIBMSjjlM (with comments)]
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Does Trump have his own White House tapes?
AM Joy
5/14/17
Rep. Elijah Cummings joins Joy Reid on Donald Trump threatening James Comey with possible ‘tapes’ amid other scandalous developments in the FBI Russia probe. Her panel joins to discuss. Duration: 14:18
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/does-trump-have-his-own-white-house-tapes-943615555520 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7JJWsY52mE [with comments]
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Waters to Trump: Cooperate with the investigation
AM Joy
5/14/17
Rep. Maxine Waters joins Joy Reid calling for the president to stop calling the Russia investigation a witch hunt, allowing it to continue unimpeded, so Congress can determine whether Donald Trump should be impeached. Duration: 7:51
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/waters-to-trump-cooperate-with-the-investigation-943621188000 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_Biw9LaRds [with comments]
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Cleaver: We need an independent commission on Russia
AM Joy
5/14/17
Rep. Emanuel Cleaver joins Joy Reid on how he sees his Republican colleagues in the House blocking the proper measures needed to provide checks and balances on Donald Trump. Her panel joins to discuss. Duration: 11:36
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/cleaver-we-need-an-independent-commission-on-russia-943632963579
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Black voter turnout fell for first time in 20 years
AM Joy
5/14/17
Joy Reid and her panel of experts discuss the many reasons – including new voting restrictions in 14 states and a purging of over one million people from voter rolls – that drove down the critical African-American vote in 2016, particularly in critical swing states. Duration: 15:51
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/black-voter-turnout-fell-for-first-time-in-20-years-943635523506 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSEtG5w2CBo [with comments]
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Harvard’s Laurence Tribe: Impeach Trump now
AM Joy
5/14/17
Constitutional law professor Laurence Tribe tells Joy Reid why it is critically important to put the impeachment process in motion now, before it is too late. Duration: 5:24
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/harvard-s-laurence-tribe-impeach-trump-now-943633987952 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KNj7G1D76o [with comments]
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Democrats strategize to win back the House
AM Joy
5/14/17
In the first installment of our new series, ‘Flip this House,’ Joy Reid speaks to Democratic New Jersey Congressional candidate Linda Weber about whether she can win a seat currently held by a Republican, helping shift the majority in the House. Duration: 6:03
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/democrats-strategize-to-win-back-the-house-943640131767
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Emergency Message To MSM: Don't Lose Your Humanity
Published on May 14, 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 ]
Alex Jones reaches out to the Mainstream Media and encourages them to not lose their humanity and sell out America.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43lt6mGRzfw [with comments]
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Trump Announces New FBI Director / Left Calls For Ban On Mother's Day - Full Show
Published on May 14, 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 ]
Sunday, May 14th 2017[, with an appearance by Mike Cernovich]: Trump to Purge Staff - The mainstream media is reporting on something Infowars broke days ago: President Trump plans a massive shakeup inside the White House intended to dump staff members who are undermining him. Trump insider Roger Stone is in studio to explain what's going on. We also look into how the president is encouraging Americans to NOT worship government.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3ZEGifKwSY [with comments] [the somewhat edited Alex Jones original at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSm7Z5Qphio (title taken/text adapted from; with comments)]
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Net Neutrality Update: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (Web Exclusive)
Published on May 14, 2017 by LastWeekTonight [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3XTzVzaHQEd30rQbuvCtTQ / https://www.youtube.com/user/LastWeekTonight , https://www.youtube.com/user/LastWeekTonight/videos ]
John Oliver discusses the recent flood of comments posted on the FCC's website.
[the original segment. "Net Neutrality II: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)", https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92vuuZt7wak (with {over 8,000} comments), included at/see (linked in) http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=131201693 and preceding and following (two posts back))
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qI5y-_sqJT0 [with comments]
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Dialysis: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
Published on May 14, 2017 by LastWeekTonight
For-profit dialysis companies often maximize their profits at the expense of their patients. John Oliver explores why a medical clinic is nothing like a Taco Bell.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yw_nqzVfxFQ [with (over 4,000) comments]
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THE RUSSIAN CONNECTION - Randy Rainbow Song Parody
Published on May 15, 2017 by Randy Rainbow [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC07F26kHKkpW_qqvXzEGALA / https://www.youtube.com/user/Tday4U , https://www.youtube.com/user/Tday4U/videos ]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2OuJYaz_oE [with comments]
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Full Show - Trump Has Reached The Crossroads: Roger Stone And Mike Cernovich Analysis - 05/15/2017
Published on May 15, 2017 by The Alex Jones Channel
Monday, May 15th 2017: Battle for the Republic - Trump faces a rash of new leaks after eliminating FBI head James Comey, and a major hack attack compromises numerous systems worldwide. Also, Ann Coulter worries Trump supporters may have been duped. On today's show, Trump insider Roger Stone breaks down rumors of an impending shake-up in Trump's cabinet. And journalist Mike Cernovich details why patriots will be happy with what Trump is about to do.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYtmtQ4nUmE [with comments]
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Will Ferrell’s Full Speech As George W. Bush At #NotTheWHCD | Full Frontal on TBS
Published on May 15, 2017 by Full Frontal with Samantha Bee [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC18vz5hUUqxbGvym9ghtX_w , https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC18vz5hUUqxbGvym9ghtX_w/videos ]
For the description: Here’s what you missed if you weren’t in the audience for Full Frontal’s Not The White House Correspondents' Dinner.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ7S-ymyaZ4 [with comments] [the balance of the Not The White House Correspondents' Dinner at/see (linked in) http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=130938670 amd preceding and following (earlier this string)]
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Here’s How Trump Could Already Be Prosecuted | The Resistance with Keith Olbermann | GQ
Published on May 15, 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 ]
A case can now be made based on what Donald Trump did last week.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfyVsjQRMaM [with comments]
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Infowars Nightly News - IRS & NSA Come Out Of The Closet As Political Weapons
Streamed live on May 15, 2017 by The Alex Jones Channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oevY9SxVLCM [with comments]
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LIVE: McMasters Fingered As Leak In Faux WaPo Russian Story
Published on May 15, 2017 by The Alex Jones Channel
via YouTube Capture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hd8eCe5SNe0 [with comments]
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BREAKING: McMasters Exposed As White House Leaker
Published on May 15, 2017 by The Alex Jones Channel
via YouTube Capture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_W38W2vn2g [with comments]
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BREAKING: Roger Stone Exposes Plan To Overthrow Trump
Published on May 15, 2017 by The Alex Jones Channel
via YouTube Capture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXwRo110tyY [with comments]
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Swalwell: Trump can't be allowed to risk lives
All In with Chris Hayes
5/15/17
The congressman, who is seeking a special prosecutor, reacts to reports that Trump gave classified information to the Russians in the Oval Office. Duration: 3:58
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/swalwell-trump-can-t-be-allowed-to-risk-lives-944597571994 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohY7uY7l7uI [with comments]
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Trump EPA rejects ban on dangerous pesticide
All In with Chris Hayes
5/15/17
Dow Chemical, which donated $1M to Donald Trump’s inauguration, was the big winner when the EPA’s new chief rejected the agency's own scientific findings and decided not to ban an insecticide that uses a poisonous chemical. Duration: 2:23
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-epa-rejects-ban-on-dangerous-pesticide-944595011951 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GW--sIY08U [with comments]
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The president's peculiar beliefs about exercise
All In with Chris Hayes
5/15/17
His doctor once said he'd be the healthiest president in history, but the president doesn't exercise, citing the belief that the people - like batteries - have a finite amount of energy. Duration: 1:10
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/the-president-s-peculiar-beliefs-about-exercise-944599619708
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WaPo: Trump shares highly classified info with Russian officials
The Rachel Maddow Show
5/15/17
Greg Jaffe, one of the Washington Post reporters who broke the news of Donald Trump sharing highly classified information with Russian officials while they visited the Oval Office, talks with Rachel Maddow about how the story came together. Duration: 20:22
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/wapo-trump-shares-highly-classified-info-with-russian-officials-944662083572 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftYrqSigfRk [with comments]
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Trump's abrupt firing of US attorneys remains unexplained
The Rachel Maddow Show
5/15/17
Rachel Maddow reports on the Obama administration's recommendation to the incoming Trump transition not to fire all of the U.S. attorneys at once without replacements - advice that the Trump team agreed to until they suddenly, inexplicably reversed that plan. Duration: 7:54
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-s-abrupt-firing-of-us-attorneys-remains-unexplained-944666691642 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iD7vD_n1IvI [with comments]
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Senate Intel accessing financial data in Trump-Russia probe: WSJ
The Rachel Maddow Show
5/15/17
Shane Harris, national security senior writer for the Wall Street Journal, about how the Trump-Russia investigation has turned to look at Trump's finances, with new assistance from the Treasury Department's FinCEN unit. Duration: 4:29
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/senate-intel-accessing-financial-data-in-trump-russia-probe-wsj-944678467825
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Scarce precedent for Trump's reported leak to Russians
The Rachel Maddow Show
5/15/17
David Priess, former CIA analyst and presidential daily intelligence briefer, talks with Rachel Maddow about past examples of presidents sharing classified information with other leaders, but under vastly different circumstances from Trump's reported leaks to Russian officials. Duration: 6:19
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/scarce-precedent-for-trump-s-reported-leak-to-russians-944684611765
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Trump betrays crucial intelligence sharing relationship
The Rachel Maddow Show
5/15/17
Ned Price, former spokesman and senior analyst for the CIA, talks with Rachel Maddow about the vital intelligence sharing relationship that Donald Trump has potentially put in jeopardy with his reported revelation of highly classified information. Duration: 3:58
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-betrays-crucial-intelligences-sharing-realationship-944697411876
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White House defends Trump after leak bombshell
The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell
5/15/17
McMaster called it "false," but the Washington Post stands by its story Trump gave the Russians highly classified intel when they met last week in the Oval Office, which U.S. press was barred from covering. Evelyn Farkas, David Cohen & Eli Stokols join Ari Melber. Duration: 14:31
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/white-house-defends-trump-after-leak-bombshell-944683075790
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Washington Post report fuels chaos in White House
The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell
5/15/17
Donald Trump's White House was thrown into further disarray with a new report that he shared classified information with Russian diplomats. Former Press Secretary Josh Earnest and former Clinton aide Neera Tanden join Ari Melber to discuss the fallout. Duration: 8:49
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/bombshell-wash-post-report-fuels-chaos-in-white-house-944675907914 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_LxE2Gc1-U [with comments]
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After firing Comey, Trump reportedly shared secrets with Russians
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
5/15/17
Just one day after he fired FBI Director James Comey, Trump reportedly shared highly classified information with two Russian officials in the Oval Office. Our expert panel breaks it down. Duration: 14:55
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/after-firing-comey-trump-reportedly-shared-secrets-with-russians-944708675654
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Candidate Trump bashed Clinton's handing of classified info
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
5/15/17
Over & over again, Trump went after Hillary Clinton during the 2016 for her handling of classified information. So how do we view that in light of reports he allegedly share info with Russians? Duration: 5:45
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/candidate-trump-bashed-clinton-s-handing-of-classified-info-944696387641
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FLASHBACK: Candidate Trump blasted Clinton over classified info
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
5/15/17
Repeatedly during the 2016 campaign, candidate Donald Trump took Hillary Clinton to task over how she handled classified information. Duration: 1:10
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/flashback-candidate-trump-blasted-clinton-over-classified-info-944723523958 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0x1LNe6FcE [with comments]
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No answers from Spicer about Trump's tweet on Comey & 'tapes'
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
5/15/17
MSNBC's Brian Williams discusses the day's other big news - the White House's refusal to answer any questions about Trump's threat to James Comey about the possible existence of 'tapes.' Duration: 5:01
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/no-answers-from-spicer-about-trump-s-tweet-on-comey-tapes-944719427976
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Fmr. Ambassador McFaul: It appears Trump 'wanted to show off'
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
5/15/17
Joining MSNBC's Brian Williams, former U.S. Ambassador to Russia, Michael McFaul, reacts to the reports that Donald Trump shared highly classified information with Russian officials. Duration: 5:18
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/fmr-ambassador-mcfaul-it-appears-trump-wanted-to-show-off-944715331791
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Declassified: Did Trump Share Intel with Russian Officials?: The Daily Show
Published on May 15, 2017 by The Daily Show with Trevor Noah [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwWhs_6x42TyRM4Wstoq8HA , https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwWhs_6x42TyRM4Wstoq8HA/videos ]
President Trump is accused of sharing classified information with Russian officials during a meeting in the White House.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrAjJ2NFWUA [with comments]
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Stephen's Monologue Gets Declassified
Published on May 16, 2017 by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMtFAi84ehTSYSE9XoHefig , https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMtFAi84ehTSYSE9XoHefig/videos ]
The good news: Trump is finally telling the truth. The bad news: it's only to high-ranking Russian officials.
[originally aired May 15, 2017]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJC2CMvNgaA [with comments]
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Stephen's Plea: 'Please Don't Take Sean Spicer From Us'
Published on May 16, 2017 by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Stephen is afraid it will be as hard for him to say 'goodbye' as it is for the Press Secretary to say 'the truth.'
[originally aired May 15, 2017]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15wtWkcv3VU [with comments]
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Trump Uses A Commencement Speech To Congratulate... Himself!
Published on May 16, 2017 by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The best part of Trump's commencement speech at Liberty University was, well, when it commenced.
[originally aired May 15, 2017]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2c_nei61mQQ [with comments]
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Trump Threatens Comey, Gives Russia Classified Info: A Closer Look
Published on May 15, 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 takes a closer look at reports that Trump revealed classified information to Russian diplomats and his increasingly authoritarian-like abuses of power.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dpO--t1xCg [with comments]
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Full Show - Washington Post Ignores New Explosive Details On Seth Rich Murder - 05/16/2017
Published on May 16, 2017 by The Alex Jones Channel
Tuesday, May 16th 2017[, with Jon Rappoport hosting the fourth hour]: Seth Rich DNC Leaker? - Multiple sources claim former DNC staffer Seth Rich was the source of thousands of emails given to Wikileaks. Also, sources tell Infowars McMaster may be responsible for the latest leak out of Washington. Dr. Edward Group of the Global Healing Center will reveal the hidden, everyday chemicals you may be exposed to. Roger Stone will also join today's broadcast to discuss the latest leaks coming out of The White House.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xt-g6JbABNY [with comments] [also at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exKGWB8A4ns (text adaptd from; with comments)] [and see also in particular (linked in) http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=131520771 and preceding and following]
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What’s Happening in Donald Trump’s Head? | The Resistance with Keith Olbermann | GQ
Published on May 16, 2017 by GQ
After he hands secrets to the Russians, a simple question: What's happening in Donald Trump’s head?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14HiLa02E3k [with comments] [also at/see (linked in) http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=131413110 (and any future following) (a reply to this post)]
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FNN: President Trump and Turkish President Erdogan Deliver Joint Statement at White House (FULL)
Published on May 16, 2017 by FOX 10 Phoenix [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJg9wBPyKMNA5sRDnvzmkdg , https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJg9wBPyKMNA5sRDnvzmkdg/videos ]
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump will hold his first face-to-face meeting with Turkey's president Tuesday amid accusations that Trump gave Russian officials classified intelligence from a foreign ally. Trump and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan are expected to address the Syrian civil war, refugee crisis and the fight against the Islamic State group, including the U.S. decision to arm Syrian Kurdish fighters despite Turkey's vehement objections. But the meeting will take place with a White House still responding to what a senior U.S. official said was disclosure of classified information about an Islamic State terror threat involving laptop computers on aircraft. Trump shared the threat in a meeting with Russia's foreign minister and U.S. ambassador in the Oval Office last week, according to the official, who wasn't authorized to speak publicly on the matter and demanded anonymity. The matter could emerge in Trump's meeting with Erdogan. The U.S. is relying on regional allies including Turkey for intelligence-sharing and military assistance as it crafts a Syria policy, particularly as Iran and Russia work to bolster Syrian President Bashar Assad's government. Trump launched cruise missiles last month at a Syrian air base after accusing Assad of using chemical weapons. But the president hasn't outlined a strategy to quell the six-year civil war or usher Assad out of power, which his administration says will be needed to stabilize the Arab country. Tension was expected already for the Erdogan talks, after the U.S. announced last week that it would arm Kurdish Syrian militants to help them fight IS. Turkey has been pressuring the U.S. to drop support for the militants and doesn't want them spearheading an operation to retake IS' self-declared capital of Raqqa. Turkey believes the Kurds in Syria are linked to a Turkish Kurdish group, known as the PKK, which the U.S., the European Union and Turkey all consider a terrorist organization. The U.S. sees the Syrian Kurds as their best battlefield partner on the ground in northern Syria.
Remarks by President Trump and President Erdogan of Turkey in Joint Statement
Roosevelt Room
May 16, 2017
https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/05/16/remarks-president-trump-and-president-erdogan-turkey-joint-statement [official transcript]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXo9g4ofw-8 [with comments] [official White House upload at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUKKtP64SZ4 (with comments)]
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Creating Saturday Night Live: Sean Spicer Returns Outtakes
Published on May 16, 2017 by Saturday Night Live [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqFzWxSCi39LnW1JKFR3efg / https://www.youtube.com/user/SaturdayNightLive , https://www.youtube.com/user/SaturdayNightLive/videos ]
Go behind the scenes with Melissa McCarthy on the set of “Sean Spicer Returns.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tYwSEU-aLY [with comments]
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Confirmed: Federal Investigator Seth Rich Leaked 44k To Wikileaks
Streamed live on May 16, 2017 by The Alex Jones Channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0OF05j6ewU [with comments] [and again, see also in particular (linked in) http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=131520771 and preceding and following]
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InfoWars Nightly News LIVE: CrowdSource, The Other Part Of The Russian Conspiracy Collapses
Streamed live on May 16, 2017 by The Alex Jones Channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbH7TRpAIbQ [with comments]
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Castro: If NYT report true, likely Congress will move to impeach
All In with Chris Hayes
5/16/17
Rep. Joaquin Castro tells Chris Hayes of the New York Times report on the Comey memo: 'If the evidence bears out that there was obstruction of justice, I think you likely will see Congress go down the road of impeachment.' Duration: 4:11
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/castro-if-nyt-report-true-likely-congress-will-move-to-impeach-945659459857 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QYiFJTmHkM [with comments]
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Nine days in May
All In with Chris Hayes
5/16/17
Even by the standards of the chaos and drama of the Trump presidency, it has been a remarkable nine days. Duration: 2:46
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/nine-days-in-may-945653315570
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Exclusive: New subpoena issued in Trump associate investigation
The Rachel Maddow Show
5/16/17
Rachel Maddow breaks exclusive news that a federal subpoena has been issued in the investigation of former Donald Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort. Duration: 2:06
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/exclusive-new-federal-subpoena-in-trump-russia-investigation-945657923697
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Comey memo: Trump asked for end of Flynn investigation: NYT
The Rachel Maddow Show
5/16/17
Mike Schmidt, reporter for the New York Times, talks with Rachel Maddow about his scoop that James Comey's notes from a meeting with Donald Trump include a description of Trump asking Comey to end the investigation into disgraced Trump NSA Mike Flynn. Duration: 11:36
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/comey-memo-trump-asked-for-end-of-flynn-investigation-nyt-945682499958 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wzhx0D6b3o [with comments]
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Comey memo habit raises Trump obstruction questions: NYT
The Rachel Maddow Show
5/16/17
Matthew Miller, former Justice Department spokesperson, talks with Rachel Maddow about former FBI Director James Comey's habit of documenting things with notes and memos, and the legal issues surrounding Donald Trump's reported request that Comey end the investigation into Mike Flynn. Duration: 6:50
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/comey-memo-habit-raises-trump-obstruction-questions-nyt-945706563631
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Exclusive: Subpoena issued regarding fmr Trump staffer Manafort
The Rachel Maddow Show
5/16/17
Rachel Maddow reports exclusive breaking news that NBC News has learned that federal investigators have subpoenaed records related to a $3.5 million dollar loan taken out by former Donald Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort last year. Duration: 10:02
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/exclusive-subpoena-issued-regarding-fmr-trump-staffer-manafort-945693251611 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1s04VIoMjw [with comments]
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Republicans not moved to action on Trump
The Rachel Maddow Show
5/16/17
Congressman Jim Himes, member of the House Intelligence Committee, talks with Rachel Maddow about the significance of the news that Donald Trump may have tried to pressure James Comey into ending the investigation into Mike Flynn. Duration: 9:46
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/republicans-not-moved-to-action-on-trump-945769539777
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Key FBI tool under Comey: note taking
The Rachel Maddow Show
5/16/17
Frank Montoya, former FBI special agent, talks with Rachel Maddow about former FBI Director James Comey's habit of keeping notes on events he experiences, and the importance of note taking to the work of the FBI. Duration: 3:48
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/key-fbi-tool-under-comey-note-taking-945752131989
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Trump leak to Russians violates protocol
The Rachel Maddow Show
5/16/17
Andrea Mitchell, NBC News chief foreign affairs correspondent, talks with Rachel Maddow about how Republicans are processing the news of Donald Trump's assorted violations, and how classified information is supposed to be handled with Russians. Duration: 2:35
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-leak-to-russians-violates-protocol-945757251962
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Rachel Maddow and Lawrence on extraordinary 7 days
The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell
5/16/17
Lawrence O'Donnell reminds Rachel Maddow it has only been 7 days since Trump fired FBI Director James Comey. We now know Trump tried to stop the investigation into Michael Flynn's ties to Russia—and Rachel shares new reporting about a new subpoena in Trump ... more Duration: 5:15
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/rachel-maddow-and-lawrence-on-extraordinary-7-days-945750595784
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What Donald Trump doesn't know about the Comey memo
The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell
5/16/17
Lawrence O'Donnell explains the thing everyone working in government knows – but Donald Trump doesn't. That's the real story of the James Comey memo about his conversation with President Trump. Duration: 6:20
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/what-donald-trump-doesn-t-know-about-the-comey-memo-945749571638 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQ48xaw-NzU [with comments]
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Lawrence PSA to Trump WH staff: 'Lawyer up'
The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell
5/16/17
Donald Trump fired James Comey after asking him to drop the FBI investigation of Michael Flynn raises the spectre of obstruction of justice. Lawrence O'Donnell discusses with former federal prosecutor Samuel Buell, Tim Weiner, and Joy Reid. Duration: 12:57
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/lawrence-psa-to-trump-wh-staff-lawyer-up-945752643964 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ipbR_dqu5s [with comments]
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Lawmakers on Comey memo: Trump may have obstructed justice
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
5/16/17
Democrats are demanding answers. Republicans are dodging reporters, while others seem to change their tune on Trump. MSNBC's Brian Williams talks to the reporter who broke the Comey memo story. Duration: 12:48
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/lawmakers-on-comey-memo-trump-may-have-obstructed-justice-945756227790
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Watergate prosecutor: Well on our way to Trump impeachment
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
5/16/17
Jill Wine-Banks, Assistant Watergate Special Prosecutor, and former U.S. prosecutor Paul Butler discuss the revelations that have come to light from the Comey memo. Duration: 8:11
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/watergate-prosecutor-well-on-our-way-to-trump-impeachment-945755715978 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVMzg_VNPZY [with comments]
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Sen. Manchin on Comey memo: Senators all take the same oath
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
5/16/17
Stressing that he still needs more facts about Pres. Trump and the Comey memo, Democratic Senator Joe Manchin says he and his colleagues have an obligation to put country first. Duration: 4:32
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/sen-manchin-on-comey-memo-senators-all-take-the-same-oath-945774659909
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Rep. Jackie Speier: If there's obstruction, impeachment follows
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
5/16/17
While stressing she doesn't know if we're there yet, House Intelligence Cmte. Democrat Rep. Jackie Speier won't rule out impeachment proceedings for Pres. Trump. Duration: 3:31
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/rep-jackie-speier-if-there-s-obstruction-impeachment-follows-945766467814 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aslm_eBMTAQ [with comments]
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Moscow in the Meddle - President Trump Can't Be Trusted with Secrets: The Daily Show
Published on May 16, 2017 by The Daily Show with Trevor Noah
Trevor breaks down how President Trump has put national security in jeopardy by relaying classified foreign intelligence to Russian officials.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EDP12VmqvM [with comments]
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The Other Classified Secrets Trump Bragged About
Published on May 17, 2017 by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Top-secret intelligence regarding ISIS is only the beginning of what the President spilled to Russia.
[originally aired May 16, 2017]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82h71ko0PDE [with comments]
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Stephen Finally Agrees With Donald Trump On Something
Published on May 17, 2017 by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The President and Stephen don't usually see eye-to-eye on things. Remember this day.
[originally aired May 16, 2017]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNVqbcrWFII [with (nearly 4,000) comments]
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White House Staffers Have Gone Into Hiding
Published on May 17, 2017 by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Trump staffer Liz Wallace describes the current mood at the White House... reluctantly.
[originally aired May 16, 2017]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHyXV6l9ZK4 [with comments]
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Trump Asked Comey to End Flynn Probe, Gave Russians Intel: A Closer Look
Published on May 16, 2017 by Late Night with Seth Meyers
Seth takes a closer look at the White House playing damage control after bombshell reports about President Trump sharing classified info with Russia and asking the FBI to drop investigations into his former National Security Advisor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EU3VpwV4-nk [with comments]
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Democrats Give News Conference On Trump Administration's Relations With Russia & More | TIME
Streamed live on May 17, 2017 by TIME [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8Su5vZCXWRag13H53zWVwA / https://www.youtube.com/user/TimeMagazine , https://www.youtube.com/user/TimeMagazine/videos ]
House of Representatives Democratic Caucus leaders hold a press conference regarding President Donald Trump and Russia after a caucus meeting Wednesday.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWt06rRObH0 [with comments]
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President Trump Delivers Commencement Address At The U.S. Coast Guard Academy | TIME
Streamed live on May 17, 2017 by TIME
US President Donald Trump delivers commencement address at the US Coast Guard Academy in Connecticut.
[(linked in) http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=119942168 and preceding (and any future following)]
Remarks by President Trump at United States Coast Guard Academy Commencement Ceremony
Coast Guard Academy
New London, Connecticut
May 17, 2017
https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/05/17/remarks-president-trump-united-states-coast-guard-academy-commencement [official transcript]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2DQ7s53ZYA [Trump's sans-pacifier performance begins at c. the 34:40 mark; with comments] [official White House upload, Trump's sans-pacifier performance only, at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FK9fWb2d9y0 (with comments)]
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Full Show - Emergency Broadcast: Deep State Launches Coup Against Trump / Markets Tank - 05/17/2017
Published on May 17, 2017 by Ron Gibson
Wednesday, May 17th 2017[, with appearances by Mike Cernovich (who also hosts the fourth hour) and Jerome Corsi]: Desperate Push Against Trump - The DC elites are trying to overthrow President Trump amid new evidence revealing that the late DNC insider Seth Rich leaked DNC emails to Wikileaks. The anti-Trump forces are rapidly losing the narratives so they are pushing ahead. Geopolitical insider Joel Skousen reveals how this influences current world events.
Joel Skousen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Skousen
W. Cleon Skousen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Cleon_Skousen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTgSrEbcf-0 [with comments] [the somewhat edited Alex Jones original at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEcsj-f-oIg (title taken from; with comments)] [and again, see also in particular (linked in) http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=131520771 and preceding and following] [a must-watch]
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Enhancement Drug - SNL
Published on May 20, 2017 by Saturday Night Live [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqFzWxSCi39LnW1JKFR3efg / https://www.youtube.com/user/SaturdayNightLive , https://www.youtube.com/user/SaturdayNightLive/videos ]
Threaten your doctor or ask your ketamine guy about Xentrex today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IZrYeUX3MI [with comments]
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Statment About Chobani
Published on May 17, 2017 by The Alex Jones Channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hm_Gm1_a9bU [comments disabled]
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Mike Hot-Pence Is Here to Do God's Work | GQ
Published on May 17, 2017 by GQ
For GQ's Comedy Issue, Mike Pence In Hot Pants impersonator Glen Pannell shows us a day in the life of the man who hopes to one day succeed Donald Trump.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OadCvcY0oFA [with comments]
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Breaking: Special Prosecutor Appointed To Russia Probe
Published on May 17, 2017 by The Alex Jones Channel
Robert Mueller, who was at the FBI for a week before the terrorist attacks on September 11th, 2001, has just been appointed as the Special Prosecutor into the Trump and Russia probe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQbPEOMkbTA [with comments]
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The Impeachment Of Donald Trump
Published on May 17, 2017 by The Alex Jones Channel
The push to impeach Trump could lead to riots and war.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnwLX8JA-jA [with comments]
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Trump Insider Reveals Why A Special Prosecutor Is The Right Move
Published on May 17, 2017 by The Alex Jones Channel
Trump insider and long time friend Roger Stone reveals why he thinks Donald made the right choice to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the tired Trump/Russia collusion connection.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeMZCX8XwHQ [with comments]
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Infowars Nightly News - Deep State Plots Revenge Against Donald Trump
Streamed live on May 17, 2017 by The Alex Jones Channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sf-QcwEW63k [with comments]
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Sen. Wyden: 'This is a pretty grim situation'
All In with Chris Hayes
5/17/17
The Democratic senator reacts to the appointment of a special counsel to investigate potential links between President Trump's campaign and Russia. Duration: 4:24
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/sen-wyden-this-is-a-pretty-grim-situation-946645571672
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Maxine Waters: All Trump probes must continue
All In with Chris Hayes
5/17/17
The Democratic representative welcomes the appointment of a special counsel, but she says that alone might not get to the truth. Duration: 6:44
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/maxine-waters-all-trump-probes-must-continue-946643523805 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-lbFiUPI5w [with comments]
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GOP Rep. Lance: I can be a check on Trump
All In with Chris Hayes
5/17/17
Republican Rep. Leonard Lance says we need to get to the truth about the Trump campaign and Russia - whatever it may be. Duration: 4:59
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/gop-rep-lance-i-can-be-a-check-on-trump-946646083635 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Js7scq5Mgg4 [with comments]
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Mueller to oversee Trump-Russia investigation as special counsel
The Rachel Maddow Show
5/17/17
Rachel Maddow reports on the history of the special counsel rule and the appointment today of former FBI Director Robert Mueller to be special counsel for the Trump-Russia investigation. Duration: 14:08
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/mueller-to-oversee-trump-russia-investigation-as-special-counsel-946790467922
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Five key questions about the Trump-Russia special counsel
The Rachel Maddow Show
[Posted] 5/18/17 [from this point in the May 17, 2017 show]
Sari Horwitz, Justice Department reporter for The Washington Post, talks with Rachel Maddow about new questions raised by the appointment of Robert Mueller as special counsel to the Trump-Russia investigation. Duration: 9:43
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/five-key-questions-about-the-trump-russia-special-counsel-946781763771 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fB5IYKow0TU [with comments]
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Rep Schiff confident in Mueller as Trump-Russia special counsel
The Rachel Maddow Show
5/17/17
Congressman Adam Schiff, ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, talks with Rachel Maddow about how he feels about Robert Mueller as special counsel in the Trump-Russia investigation and what will happen to the Trump investigations in Congress. Duration: 6:09
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/rep-schiff-confident-in-mueller-as-trump-russia-special-counsel-946747459777
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Mueller brings legacy of integrity to Trump-Russia investigation
The Rachel Maddow Show
5/17/17
Tim Weiner, author of "Enemies, A History of the FBI," talks with Rachel Maddow about Robert Mueller's reputation and legacy as Director of the FBI, and the integrity he brings to the Trump-Russia investigation as special counsel. Duration: 6:35
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/mueller-brings-legacy-of-integrity-to-trump-russia-investigation-946712643966
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Trump-Russia probe well suited to special counsel regulations
The Rachel Maddow Show
5/17/17
Neal Katyal, former U.S. Acting Solicitor General who helped draft the special counsel regulations, talks with Rachel Maddow about the parameters of Robert Mueller's role as special counsel to the Trump-Russia investigation. Duration: 5:35
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-russia-probe-well-suited-to-special-counsel-regulations-946722371988 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOqaFP64Sww [with comments]
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Trump team knew of Flynn investigation before naming him NSA: NYT
The Rachel Maddow Show
5/17/17
Dan Rather, host of The Big Interview with Dan Rather on AXS TV, talks with Rachel Maddow about the investigations into Donald Trump and his associates and the breaking news that the Trump team knew that Mike Flynn was being investigated and appointed him anyway. Duration: 8:31
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-team-knew-of-flynn-investigation-before-naming-him-nsa-nyt-946735683543
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Top GOPer caught on tape speculating about Putin paying Trump
The Rachel Maddow Show
5/17/17
Rachel Maddow shares a late breaking Washington Post story about House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy telling colleagues he thinks Russian President Vladimir Putin is paying Donald Trump. Duration: 2:43
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/top-goper-caught-on-tape-speculating-about-putin-paying-trump-946750531877
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NYT: Trump knew Flynn was under investigation, still hired him
The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell
5/17/17
Lawrence O'Donnell and Rachel Maddow react to the New York Times report that the Trump transition team knew Michael Flynn was under investigation on January 4th, but hired him to be National Security Adviser anyway. Duration: 3:06
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/nyt-trump-knew-flynn-was-under-investigation-still-hired-him-946728003544
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Secret GOP audio in 2016: 'I think Putin pays' Trump
The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell
5/17/17
The Washington Post obtains secret audio of House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy saying to Paul Ryan and other Republican leaders in private, "I think Putin pays" Donald Trump. Lawrence O'Donnell discusses with Evan Osnos and David Corn. Duration: 7:56
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/secret-gop-audio-in-2016-i-think-putin-pays-trump-946733123798 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azLu98RtnGw [with comments]
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FBI vet: Mueller is 'America first' unlike Trump WH
The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell
5/17/17
Lawrence O'Donnell talks to former assistant Watergate special prosecutor Jill Wine-Banks and former FBI agent Clint Watts, who served under fmr. FBI Dir. Robert Mueller, about what's next for the Russia probe now that Mueller has been appointed special counsel. Duration: 7:27
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/fbi-vet-mueller-is-america-first-unlike-trump-wh-946737731973 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UO3Lo88xBA [with comments]
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What will Russia probe Special Counsel mean for Trump?
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
5/17/17
Deputy Atty. General Rod Rosenstein named revered fmr. FBI Director Robert Mueller to head the FBI investigation into Russia and the Trump campaign. Our expert panel joins MSNBC's Brian Williams. Duration: 11:35
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/what-will-russia-probe-special-counsel-mean-for-trump-946742851769
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Jeremy Bash: Mueller is now U.S. atty. for the district of Trump
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
5/17/17
MSNBC's Brian Williams speaks with former CIA Chief of Staff Jeremy Bash about how much leeway newly appointed Special Counsel Robert Mueller will have as the head of the FBI's Russia probe. Duration: 0:41
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/jeremy-bash-mueller-is-now-u-s-atty-for-the-district-of-trump-946746435863 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilXFD1zLgQ8 [with comments]
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Does Comey have more to tell us about his talks with Trump?
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
5/17/17
MSNBC's Brian Williams talks to fmr. Justice Dept. spokesman Matthew Miller and New York Times reporter Charlie Savage about the role James Comey still has to play in the Russia investigation. Duration: 7:40
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/does-comey-have-more-to-tell-us-about-his-talks-with-trump-946768963793 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfBfCyPjUOo [with comments]
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Fmr. GOP Rep. David Jolly: 'Donald Trump is done'
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
5/17/17
Calling what we've seen from the Trump presidency so far 'historic,' former Republican Congressman David Jolly says 'there's no question' that Donald Trump is done. Duration: 1:43
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/fmr-gop-rep-david-jolly-donald-trump-is-done-946751555537 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZR5eQ7gX7ZE [with comments]
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Fmr. Dem Congresswoman: Republicans' work is not done
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
5/17/17
Calling for a special commission, former Democratic Rep. Donna Edwards of Maryland says Republicans and Democrats in Congress still have a responsibility with their Russia investigations. Duration: 2:19
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/fmr-dem-congresswoman-republicans-work-is-not-done-946750531892
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A Special Prosecutor Steps In & Fox News Doesn't Get the Comey Memo: The Daily Show
Published on May 17, 2017 by The Daily Show with Trevor Noah
The Trump-Russia probe gets a special prosecutor, and Fox News downplays a purported memo from James Comey suggesting Donald Trump may have committed obstruction of justice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2bg-YK8xXc [with (over 4,000) comments]
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Stephen Isn't Ready To 'Let It Go'
Published on May 18, 2017 by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Stephen uses the top of his monologue to address the latest controversy out of Trump's administration. No, the other one.
[originally aired May 17, 2017]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGnLKsSDOdg [with comments]
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How To Childproof Your Home Before A Visit From Trump
Published on May 18, 2017 by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
With the NATO summit in Brussels coming up soon, world leaders are making sure there aren't any sharp corners or bottles of bleach within reach.
[originally aired May 17, 2017]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_I_8mxDS08 [with comments]
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Trump To Resign On Monday?
Published on May 17, 2017 by The Alex Jones Channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxJprrnsxPo [with comments]
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Trump and Republicans React to Comey Memo Bombshell: A Closer Look
Published on May 17, 2017 by Late Night with Seth Meyers
Seth takes a closer look at new bombshell allegations that President Trump tried to obstruct the FBI investigation of former NSA head Michael Flynn.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5yD_CeC5z8 [with comments]
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Full Show - Comeygate: FBI Director Caught Lying To Congress - 05/18/2017
Published on May 18, 2017 by The Alex Jones Channel
Thursday, May 18th 2017: Former Fox News CEO Roger Ailes has passed away at the age of 77. Dr. Jerome Corsi joins today's broadcast to discuss the deep state coup against Trump and hacking expert John Draper explains the recent global ransomware attack. Also, D.C. insider Doug Hagmann gives his take on Trump's decision to appoint Robert Mueller to oversee the investigation into Russia's influence in the 2016 U.S. election.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEyYu4aJgiY [with comments]
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Liberal Redneck - What's It Gonna Take Yall
Published on May 18, 2017 by Trae Crowder [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTHsQd-vRXK1bp4vpifl6yA , https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTHsQd-vRXK1bp4vpifl6yA/videos ]
It's a new scandal seemingly every damn day and a lot of people are just sorta fine with that and I'm losing my god damn mind.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbMzHnMqotw [with comments]
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President Trump & Colombian President Santos Joint Presser | TIME
Streamed live on May 18, 2017 by TIME
President Donald Trump give a Joint Presser with Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos.
Remarks by President Trump and President Santos of Colombia in Joint Press Conference
East Room
May 18, 2017
https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/05/18/remarks-president-trump-and-president-santos-colombia-joint-press [official transcript]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwolP5y9lhc [with comment] [official White House upload at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSjGtZaNQrg (with comments)]
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Infowars Nightly News - Roger Ailes Passes, Democrats Dance On His Grave - 05/18/2017
Published on May 18, 2017 by Ron Gibson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvVQCo8eFd8 [with comment] [the edited Alex Jones original at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JQGOxo8MUQ (title taken from; with comments)]
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Trump changes story on Comey firing
All In with Chris Hayes
5/18/17
President Trump seemed to change his story again today on the firing of FBI Director James Comey. Senator Bernie Sanders reacts. Duration: 9:55
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-changes-story-on-comey-firing-947668547523
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Why can't Trump quit Mike Flynn?
All In with Chris Hayes
5/18/17
Flynn could bring down the Trump administration. Why is Trump messaging him to 'stay strong'? Duration: 6:43
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/why-can-t-trump-quit-mike-flynn-947667011887
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What did Pence Know About Flynn?
All In with Chris Hayes
5/18/17
The New York Times is reporting that the Trump transition team knew Michael Flynn was under investigation. Mike Pence was the head of the transition team, but denies knowing Flynn was under investigation. Duration: 7:30
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc-news/watch/what-did-pence-know-about-flynn-947713091635
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Trump’s bodyguard reveals Mattis’ phone number
All In with Chris Hayes
5/18/17
Lost in the stunning White House revelations over the past week was another embarrassing White House disclosure. Duration: 2:10
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-s-bodyguard-reveals-mattis-phone-number-947664451762
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Comey recounted inappropriate pressure from Trump: NYT
The Rachel Maddow Show
5/18/17
Michael Schmidt, reporter for The New York Times, talks with Rachel Maddow about his reporting on new details of the Trump administration putting inappropriate pressure on James Comey over investigations into the Trump campaign's ties to Russia. Duration: 10:19
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/comey-recounted-inappropriate-pressure-from-trump-nyt-947699267743 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aUGRJHOKZ8 [with comments]
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Reported Trump pressure on Comey to deny investigation improper
The Rachel Maddow Show
5/18/17
Matt Miller, former Department of Justice spokesperson, talks with Rachel Maddow about the rules surrounding the kind of pressure Donald Trump is reported to have put on James Comey and the responsibility Comey had to report it. Duration: 4:48
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/reported-trump-pressure-on-comey-to-deny-investigation-improper-947720771734
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False denials from Mike Pence continue to stack up
The Rachel Maddow Show
5/18/17
Rachel Maddow looks at the many times Mike Pence has denied something about the Donald Trump team only to be proven wrong by further reporting, leaving Pence with a lot of explaining to do. Duration: 18:29
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/false-denials-from-mike-pence-continue-to-stack-up-947736643714 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpDw8fswwRM [with comments]
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Trump camp had at least 18 contacts with Russians: Reuters
The Rachel Maddow Show
5/18/17
Jonathan Landay, D.C. national security correspondent for Reuters, talks with Rachel Maddow about his new reporting into at least 18 contacts between members of the Trump campaign and Russians. Duration: 6:28
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-camp-had-at-least-18-contacts-with-russians-reuters-947747395739 [and see also in particular (linked in) http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=131458404 and preceding and following]
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Trump mass firing of attorneys contrary to transition assurances
The Rachel Maddow Show
5/18/17
Rachel Maddow reviews all of the reports and outward indications that the Donald Trump adminitration intended to keep existing attorneys general, at least temporarily, only to end up abruptly firing them all at once. Duration: 2:59
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-mass-firing-of-attorneys-contrary-to-transition-assurances-947752515849
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Trump baffles U.S. attorneys with sudden mass firing
The Rachel Maddow Show
5/18/17
Paul Fishman, former U.S. attorney, talks with Rachel Maddow about the unexpectedly abrupt nature of the Donald Trump administration's firing of all of the U.S. attorneys. Duration: 4:20
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-baffles-u-s-attorneys-with-sudden-mass-firing-947765827950
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Was Trump team building a backchannel with Putin?
The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell
5/18/17
Reuters reports that Trump campaign advisers had at least 18 previously undisclosed calls and emails with Russians during the campaign and sought a back channel with Vladimir Putin. Ned Price and Steve Clemons join Lawrence O'Donnell. Duration: 7:20
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/was-trump-team-building-a-backchannel-with-putin-947755587606
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Why Trump keeps contact with investigation targets
The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell
5/18/17
Fmr. Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and fired National Security Advisor Michael Flynn are reportedly targets of the Russia investigation – so why does Trump want to maintain contact with them both? Indira Lakshmanan and Ken Vogel join Lawrence O'Donnell. Duration: 7:45
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/why-trump-keeps-contact-with-investigation-targets-947753539977 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maxmPpQx9NA [with comments]
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Report: More memos detail Comey's unease with Pres. Trump
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
5/18/17
The New York Times confirms the existence of multiple memos written by fired FBI boss James Comey as the president calls the Russia investigation a 'witch hunt.' Our political panel reacts. Duration: 11:07
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/report-more-memos-detail-comey-s-unease-with-pres-trump-947762243726
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Report: Comey tried to blend in with W.H. curtains to avoid Trump
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
5/18/17
A New York Times report about Comey's unease with Pres. Trump states that Comey tried to use a blue suit and stand in front of the curtains in the Blue Room to avoid Trump in January. Duration: 1:02
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/report-comey-tried-to-blend-in-with-w-h-curtains-to-avoid-trump-947777091707 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fy4rZxPjxhs [with comments]
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Is it time for Donald Trump to lawyer up?
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
5/18/17
With a special counsel now over the FBI's Russia probe, is it time for the president to turn to his own lawyers? Fmr. Clinton attorney Bob Bennett & fmr. DOJ Spokesman Matt Miller react. Duration: 9:09
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/is-it-time-for-donald-trump-to-lawyer-up-947772995626
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Trump reportedly wants Mike Flynn back in the White House
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
5/18/17
Spicer is out? Trump wants Flynn back? Mike Pence is being kept out of the loop? MSNBC's Brian Williams looks a the flurry of White House reports with Ali Velshi & Matthew Nussbaum. Duration: 4:59
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/trump-reportedly-wants-mike-flynn-back-in-the-white-house-947783235503 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KT8UmWolgZY [with comments]
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So Much News, So Little Time - Protester Attacks & Trump-Russia Bombshells: The Daily Show
Published on May 18, 2017 by The Daily Show with Trevor Noah
Turkish guards beat up protesters in Washington D.C., Robert Mueller is named special prosecutor in the Russia probe, and President Trump plays the victim on Twitter.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=598zN40zTpU [with comments]
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Breaking: Trump And Bannon's High-Speed Getaway
Published on May 19, 2017 by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
From the White House to the White SUV, President Trump will do anything to escape the newly appointed special counsel.
[originally aired May 18, 2017]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmd6Le63W3k [with comments]
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Trump's Special Counsel Is The Most Special
Published on May 19, 2017 by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
A special counsel has been appointed to investigate Trump's campaign ties to Russia.
[originally aired May 18, 2017]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8LoVSRPDs [with comments]
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Comey And Trump Had A Heart-To-No-Heart
Published on May 19, 2017 by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
[originally aired May 18, 2017]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM6Xp2i7hE8 [with comments]
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Donald Trump Warned Us About Himself: A Closer Look
Published on May 18, 2017 by Late Night with Seth Meyers
Seth takes a closer look at Donald Trump kicking off his first foreign trip as president under a cloud of suspicion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fG1LqU8Nq1A [with comments]
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Full Show - Democrats Call for Overturn of 2016 Election - 05/19/2017
Published on May 19, 2017 by The Alex Jones Channel
Friday, May 19th 2017[, with appearances by Tommy Robinson and Andrew Torba]: Trump On Diplomacy Tour - President Trump is protecting American interests as he takes a 15,600 mile diplomacy tour across the Middle East. Best-selling author David Horowitz joins the broadcast to share his take on the increasingly hostile tension between the left and right in the U.S. and Dr. Steve Pieczenik discusses the deep state coup against Trump; Alex Jones, David Horowitz, and Roger Stone [who hosts the fourth hour] break down the left's current initiative to impeach President Trump and challenge the results of the 2016 Presidential Election.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcESsWZLRtU [with comments] [also, somewhat edited, at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05odSd8YKc8 (additional text adapted from; with comments)] [and again, see also in particular (linked in) http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=131520771 and preceding and following]
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Shocked by all the scandals of the Trump presidency? We were warned.
Published on May 19, 2017 by ThinkProgress [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYdasX3ym3E5r1iozVllmzA , https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYdasX3ym3E5r1iozVllmzA/videos ]
Before Trump was elected, Hillary Clinton warned us that his presidency would be a danger for our troops, our alliances, and our democracy. Read the full transcript below. Photo by AP Photo/John Locher.
TRANSCRIPT:
HILLARY CLINTON, Nov. 3, 2016: My opponent has already revealed who he is.
TEXT: We were warned about a Trump presidency.
CLINTON, Oct. 19, 2016: The United States has kept the peace through our alliances. Donald wants to tear up our alliances.
CNN, Four months later: Trump was badgering the Australian prime minister...
PBS NEWSHOUR, Five months later: Merkel offering to shake hands, but getting no response.
FOX BUSINESS, Three months later: A million people have signed it. The petition asks the Queen of England to withdraw her scheduled state meeting with President Trump.
CLINTON, Oct. 19, 2016: He would rather believe Vladimir Putin than the military and civilian intelligence professionals who are sworn to protect us.
CBS, Seven months later: President Trump shared highly classified information with the Russian foreign minister and ambassador.
CLINTON, June 2, 2016: A President has a sacred responsibility to send our troops into battle only if we absolutely must, and only with a clear and well-thought-out strategy. Our troops give their all. They deserve a commander-in-chief who knows that.
ABC, Eight months later: The U.S. Military now launching investigation into the civilian casualties in that deadly terror raid in Yemen. Navy Seal Ryan Owens was killed in action.
TIM KAINE, Sept. 5, 2016: We who like Donald Trump encouraged crooks to undertake espionage against the DNC in a presidential year to gain an edge in an election and that led to the impeachment and resignation of that presidential candidate, President Nixon
PBS NEWSHOUR, Eight months later: The disclosure that President Trump allegedly asked Jim Comey to drop an FBI investigation has raised the question of whether this may constitute obstruction of justice.
CBS, Eight months later: Obstruction of justice was the main charge against President Bill Clinton when he was impeached in 1998. President Richard Nixon faced the same accusation before he resigned in 1974.
TEXT: It's unprecedented but we shouldn't be shocked.
ZACK GALIFIANAKIS: When he’s elected president and Kid Rock becomes secretary of state are you going to move to Canada? Or one of the Arctics?
CLINTON: I will stay in the United States.
GALIFIANAKIS: And what would you try to --
CLINTON: -- try to prevent him from destroying the United States.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuT4Xc4qiE4 [no comments yet]
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Infowars Nightly News - Breaking: The White House Leaker Has Been Revealed - 05/19/2017
Streamed live on May 19, 2017 by The Alex Jones Channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nr7oGg60O_Y [with comments]
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Rep. Ted Lieu: Trump obstructed justice
All In with Chris Hayes
5/19/17
'We no longer just have smoke. We have a raging, ten alarm fire at the White House,' said the congressman from California. Duration: 3:38
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/rep-ted-lieu-trump-obstructed-justice-948710979536
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Sen. Warner: 'Outrageous' that Trump called Comey a 'nut job'
All In with Chris Hayes
5/19/17
The ranking member of the Senate Intelligence Committee called it wildly inappropriate for the president to discuss firing James Comey with Russian officials. Duration: 4:37
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/sen-warner-outrageous-that-trump-called-comey-a-nut-job-948711491601
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Hillary practiced how to avoid Trump hug
All In with Chris Hayes
5/19/17
Video evidence emerged today of Hillary Clinton practicing how to avoid an unwanted hug from Donald Trump in front of the cameras at their first debate. Duration: 1:35
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/hillary-practiced-how-to-avoid-trump-hug-948713027512
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Trump-Russia probe turns to White House adviser as it speeds up
The Rachel Maddow Show
5/19/17
Devlin Barrett, national security reporter for The Washington Post, talks with Rachel Maddow on another busy news day about new reporting that the Trump-Russia investigation has moved to a White House adviser close to Donald Trump. Duration: 19:13
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-russia-probe-turns-to-white-house-adviser-as-it-speeds-up-948767300000
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How might Donald Trump try to end the special investigation?
The Rachel Maddow Show
5/19/17
Rachel Maddow looks at some ways by which Donald Trump could try to get in the way of the Trump-Russia special investigation or eliminate it entirely. Duration: 7:01
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/how-might-donald-trump-try-to-end-the-special-investigation-948751427997 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9mrcUV6_-U [with comments]
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Can the Trump-Russia special counsel be undermined by Trump?
The Rachel Maddow Show
5/19/17
Neal Katyal, former US acting solicitor general who helped draft the special counsel regulations, talks with Rachel Maddow about the ways in which Donald Trump might seek to undermine or eliminate the Trump-Russia special investigation. Duration: 6:13
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/can-the-trump-russia-special-counsel-be-undermined-by-trump-948759107764 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SumqujeiAM [with comments]
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Espionage prosecutor leads Mike Flynn grand jury inquiry for DOJ
The Rachel Maddow Show
5/19/17
Rachel Maddow looks at some of the background of Brandon Van Grak, the veteran Justice Department prosecutor who specializes in espionage and now reportedly leads the grand jury inquiry into disgraced Trump NSA Michael Flynn. Duration: 2:38
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/espionage-prosecutor-leads-mike-flynn-grand-jury-inquiry-for-doj-948771907747
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Flynn inquiry calls for espionage expertise
The Rachel Maddow Show
5/19/17
Barbara McQuade, former U.S. attorney, talks with Rachel Maddow about what is means to be an espionage prosecutor and why one might be assigned to the the case of disgraced Donald Trump NSA Mike Flynn. Duration: 4:00
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/flynn-inquiry-calls-for-espionage-expertise-948780099949
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Comey firing story contains giant contradiction
The Rachel Maddow Show
5/19/17
Rachel Maddow shows how a request for more resources preceding James Comey's firing was widely reported in the media but is adamantly denied by the Department of Justice - an irreconcilable contradiction. Duration: 5:14
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/comey-firing-story-contains-giant-contradiction-948782659852
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Watergate lawyer: Obstruction of justice evidence 'overwhelming'
The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell
5/19/17
James Comey will testify before the Senate Intel Committee after Memorial Day. And a W.H. official is a "significant person of interest" in the Russia probe. Nicholas Kristof, Michael Isikoff, and Jill Wine-Banks join Lawrence O'Donnell. Duration: 16:09
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/watergate-lawyer-obstruction-of-justice-evidence-overwhelming-948779587730 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkpYeV3UxiY [with comments]
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In intervention, Trump told tweets could pose legal problem
The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell
5/19/17
The Wall Street Journal reports WH staff had an "intervention" with Donald Trump about his tweets weeks ago. WSJ reporter Eli Stokols joins Lawrence O'Donnell. Ana Marie Cox and Josh Barro react. Duration: 11:35
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/in-intervention-trump-told-tweets-could-pose-legal-problem-948772419940
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NYT: Trump told Russians stress off after firing 'nut job' Comey
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
5/19/17
The White House isn't denying a New York Times report that Trump told the Russians the pressure was off from the Russia probe after firing 'crazy, nut job' James Comey. Our panel reacts. Duration: 9:19
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/nyt-trump-told-russians-stress-off-after-firing-nut-job-comey-948794947767
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Leaks in the Trump White House 'go to the very top'
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
5/19/17
MSNBC's Brian Williams discusses incredibly sensitive nature of the leaks we're now reading in reports about the inner workings of the Trump White House with our political panel. Duration: 8:00
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/leaks-in-the-trump-white-house-go-to-the-very-top-948804163900 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xi8JKpVy3Ks [with comments]
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Eli Stokols: Trump is facing something like a soft coup d'état
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
5/19/17
Given the volume and substance of the leaks coming from the Trump White House, Wall Street Journal reporter Eli Stokols explains the checks these leaks have on Trump's presidential power. Duration: 2:41
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/eli-stokols-trump-is-facing-something-like-a-soft-coup-d-etat-948805187594 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x89qLotg6h0 [with comments]
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Fmr DOJ Prosecutor: FBI suspects a criminal in Trump White House
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
5/19/17
What kinds of legal troubles could the Trump White House have to face in the wake of the growing FBI Russia investigation? Two former DOJ lawyers, Paul Butler & Carrie Cordero, join to discuss. Duration: 6:16
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/fmr-doj-prosecutor-fbi-suspects-a-criminal-in-trump-white-house-948790851573 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERAzhYjoP0I [with comments]
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President Batshit At It Again | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)
Published on May 19, 2017 by Real Time with Bill Maher [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCy6kyFxaMqGtpE3pQTflK8A / https://www.youtube.com/user/RealTime , https://www.youtube.com/user/RealTime/videos ]
Bill Maher recaps another week of bombshell revelations surrounding the Trump presidency in his Real Time monologue from May 19, 2017.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-bDYC9QAZY [with comments]
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Boris Epshteyn Interview | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)
Published on May 19, 2017 by Real Time with Bill Maher
Boris Epshteyn – Sinclair Broadcast Group Chief Political Analyst and former Special Assistant to President Trump – joins Bill to discuss President Trump's political future.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6sZ4whQfZs [with comments]
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I Don't Know if For a Fact | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)
Published on May 19, 2017 by Real Time with Bill Maher
Long before Donald Trump was "hearing things," Bill Maher was making baseless assertions in a segment called "I Don't Know It For a Fact...I Just Know It's True.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Siftu72DfJI [with comments]
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Bill Maher gets into epic shouting match with Cornel West over Hillary versus Trump
Published on May 20, 2017 by Politics Video Channel [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCx-sp8R4QLvJ8hqu8pQaJQ , https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCx-sp8R4QLvJ8hqu8pQaJQ/videos ]
Bill Maher went toe-to-toe with professor and social activist Cornel West over the 2016 election, with Maher confronting West for calling Hillary Clinton and President Donald Trump “equally awful.”
West, a prominent backer of Sen. Bernie Sanders, insisted that the Vermont independent could have won the election, and took a shot at Clinton after Maher pointed out that one of the former Secretary of State’s first speeches as a candidate was about mass incarceration that disproportionately affects young black men.
“Hillary gave speeches about a whole lot of stuff,” West shot back,” but it didn’t have a whole lot of integrity in it, brother.”
“That is such bullshit,” Maher parried.
After West went off on a tirade insisting that Sanders would have won, he admitted that Clinton is “better than Trump,” at which point Maher yelled back, “A lot better than Trump.”
“That doesn’t take too much, who isn’t better than Trump?” West replied.
“That isn’t an answer. It’s glib, it’s beneath you.” Maher lectured. “For someone who’s such an intellectual, that answer is beneath you.”
It actually grew more rancorous after that.
[originally aired May 19, 2017]
[for the moment at least at] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIlp-HNYEvs [with comments] [another, embedded at https://www.rawstory.com/2017/05/watch-hbos-bill-maher-gets-into-epic-shouting-match-with-cornel-west-over-hillary-versus-trump/ (the source of the above text; with comments), for the moment at least at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mF4eUS5-RCo (with comments); others may remain available via e.g. https://www.youtube.com/results?sp=CAI%253D&q=maher+west ] [no official upload, at least not yet, available at/via https://www.youtube.com/user/RealTime/videos ]
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New Rule: Orange Sphincter to the Rescue | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)
Published on May 19, 2017 by Real Time with Bill Maher
Bill chastises Hollywood for its fascination with superheroes, and warns against pinning all your hopes for salvation on one savior.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cD1e0BNNifk [with comments]
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Trump Packs A Suitcase For His First Foreign Trip
Published on May 20, 2017 by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
MAGA hat, golf balls, the President is only bringing the essentials for his big trip overseas...
[originally aired May 19, 2017]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSvq6NYomms [with comments]
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Trump's Gone... Party At The White House!
Published on May 20, 2017 by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Escaping his plummeting approval rating at home, President Trump is heading across the pond to some other countries that view him unfavorably.
[originally aired May 19, 2017]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3mDMTFyB6g [with comments]
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The GOP Congressman Waging A War On Ducklings
Published on May 20, 2017 by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
N.C. Congressman Mark Walker decided to take a harsh stance against waterfowl.
[originally aired May 19, 2017]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnepE8yoKsw [with comments]
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Tuck Buckford Willingly Issues A Forced Apology
Published on May 20, 2017 by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Finding himself in the same boat as InfoWar's Alex Jones, Stephen's right-wing satirical character Tuck Buckford has to apologize for some recent slanderous claims.
[originally aired May 19, 2017]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMHW6XEO1ms [with comments]
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Nance: Trump and U.S. seen as clown show
AM Joy
5/20/17
Joy Reid and her panel[, (obviously) including Malcolm Nance,] discuss Donald Trump’s first foreign trip, and how many world leaders view his White House as full of ‘chaos’ and ‘mayhem.’ Duration: 12:51
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/nance-trump-and-u-s-seen-as-clown-show-949105219557
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Watergate prosecutor on Russia probe parallels
AM Joy
5/20/17
Watergate prosecutor Jill Wine-Banks joins Joy Reid on what she says seems to be an apparent ‘accumulation of episodes that are clear obstruction of justice’ on the part of Trump’s camp. Duration: 7:20
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/watergate-prosecutor-on-russia-probe-parallels-949121091533
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Trump’s intelligence breach endangers America
AM Joy
5/20/17
Donald Trump may have jeopardized America’s ability to recruit intelligence gatherers by sharing Israeli intelligence with Russian officials. Joy and her panel discuss. Duration: 8:22
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/trump-s-intelligence-breach-endangers-america-949127747724
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Rep. Al Green: Not even president is above the law
AM Joy
5/20/17
Democratic Congressman Al Green of Texas tells Joy Reid that he has received death threats since calling for Donald Trump’s impeachment from the House floor. Joy Reid and he panel discuss what it would take to remove Trump. Duration: 15:48
Callers threaten Texas lawmaker who seeks Trump impeachment
In this Monday, May 15, 2017 photo, Congressman Al Green speaks to media during a press conference in which he called for the impeachment of President Donald Trump at the Houston Congressional District Office in Houston. The black Texas congressman said Saturday, May 20, that he’s been threatened with lynching by callers infuriated over him seeking impeachment of President Trump.
May 20, 2017
https://www.apnews.com/aa756e87539c4a48b7101433ee791e60/Callers-threaten-Texas-lawmaker-who-seeks-Trump-impeachment
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/rep-al-green-not-even-president-is-above-the-law-949108291991
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Dworkin’s prediction: Flynn is going to prison
AM Joy
5/20/17
Joy Reid and her panel discuss how, now that a special prosecutor is investigating their Russian ties, facts could come to light implicating a large radius of Trump’s associates – and relatives. Duration: 7:48
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/dworkin-s-prediction-flynn-is-going-to-prison-949141571717
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Kathy Griffin on GOP ‘joke’ excuse
AM Joy
5/20/17
Republicans have excused recent gaffes from their party as mere ‘jokes,’ so Joy Reid brought in an expert – comedian Kathy Griffin – for her take on their explanations. Duration: 6:17
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/kathy-griffin-on-gop-joke-excuse-949137475590
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Stephen Colbert, Tuck Buckford and Alex Jones Talk Chobani Lawsuit
Published on May 20, 2017 by The Alex Jones Channel
Alex Jones takes on Steven Colbert and Tuck Buckford in an epic battle of truth.
[(linked in) http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=119942168 and preceding (and any future following)]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPlESK64SW4 [with comments]
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Weekend Update on Comey's Investigation into Trump - SNL
Published on May 20, 2017 by Saturday Night Live
Weekend Update anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che tackle the week's biggest news, including President Donald Trump asking James Comey when he would announce Trump is not under investigation. Dawn Lazarus (Vanessa Bayer) stops by with the weather.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rdskdey9uns [with comments]
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Hallelujah Cold Open - SNL
Published on May 20, 2017 by Saturday Night Live
Donald Trump (Alec Baldwin), Kellyanne Conway (Kate McKinnon), Mike Pence (Beck Bennett), Eric Trump (Alex Moffat), Donald Trump Jr. (Mikey Day), Sarah Huckabee Sanders (Aidy Bryant), Melania Trump (Cecily Strong) and Ivanka Trump (Scarlett Johansson) perform "Hallelujah."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70i8gTb3fZQ [with comments]
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my current notes/tally of sources; much more very good/significant/relevant beyond the foregoing included/linked:
Trump revealed highly classified information to Russian foreign minister and ambassador
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-revealed-highly-classified-information-to-russian-foreign-minister-and-ambassador/2017/05/15/530c172a-3960-11e7-9e48-c4f199710b69_story.html
Trump Revealed Highly Classified Intelligence to Russia, in Break With Ally, Officials Say
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/15/us/politics/trump-russia-classified-information-isis.html
Trump Revealed Highly Classified Information To Russians During White House Visit
The president disclosed classified intelligence with the Russian ambassador and foreign minister last week, two US officials confirmed to BuzzFeed News.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/jimdalrympleii/trump-highly-classified-information-russians
The Terrible Cost of Trump's Disclosures
The consequences of the president’s reported divulgence of top-secret codeword information to the Russians are only beginning
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/05/the-terrible-cost-of-trumps-disclosures/526818/
Trump sharing highly classified information with Russia shows his extreme hubris
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/05/15/trumps-extreme-hubris-just-made-his-russia-problem-much-worse/
The White House isn’t denying that Trump gave Russia classified information — not really
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/05/15/the-white-house-isnt-denying-that-trump-gave-russia-classified-information-not-really/
This is why Trump’s loose tongue has compromised U.S. security
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/05/16/this-is-why-trumps-loose-tongue-has-compromised-u-s-security/
Former U.S. Ambassador To Russia Calls Trump Intel Spill Report A ‘Disaster’
It “undermine” America’s credibility in working with key intelligence agencies, Michael McFaul says.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/russian-ambassador-donald-trump_us_591a94dae4b07d5f6ba58ce4
Screaming overheard in Cabinet Room meeting between Spicer, Bannon and Sanders after Russia intel revelation
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/05/screaming-overheard-in-cabinet-room-meeting-between-spicer-bannon-and-sanders-after-russia-intel-revelation/
WH comms staffers just put the TVs on super loud after we could hear yelling coming from room w/ Bannon, Spicer, Sanders
https://twitter.com/Carrasquillo/status/864262056849092608
At a Besieged White House, Tempers Flare and Confusion Swirls
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/16/us/white-house-staff.html
Donald Trump Says He Has The Right To Share Info With The Russians
Who cares if the information is classified?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-washington-post-report_us_591a393be4b05dd15f0aa0e6
Trump Defends Sharing Information on ISIS Threat With Russia
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/16/us/politics/trump-intelligence-russia-classified.html
Trump defends his 'absolute right' to share information with Russians
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-tweets-idUSKCN18C19Y
Despite Campaign Boasts, Trump Has No Idea How To Handle Classified Material
Trump often went after Hillary Clinton for being “extremely careless” with classified information.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-classified-material_us_591a4602e4b07d5f6ba57a06
On the campaign trail, Trump was very worried about revealing America’s secrets
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/05/15/on-the-campaign-trail-trump-was-very-worried-about-revealing-americas-secrets/
Paul Ryan might regret having said this about Hillary Clinton
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/05/15/paul-ryan-might-regret-having-said-this-about-hillary-clinton/
Read this massive tweet thread by 'The Daily Show' if you want to get really frustrated with the GOP
http://mashable.com/2017/05/16/daily-show-thread-gop-classified-hypocrisy/
Israel Said to Be Source of Secret Intelligence Trump Disclosed to Russians
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/16/world/middleeast/israel-trump-classified-intelligence-russia.html
Israel Was Source of Intelligence Trump Shared With Russia: Sources
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/israel-was-source-intelligence-trump-shared-russia-sources-n760301
Former Mossad chief: Alleged Trump slip to Russia could be 'grave violation'
Danny Yatom, the former director of Israel's spy agency, cautions of the impact of revealing classified information after reports of Trump sharing intel with Russia.
http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Former-Mossad-chief-warns-Trump-of-dangers-of-loose-lips-490882
Analysis // Trump's Russian Intel Leak Is the Last Thing Netanyahu Needs
Trump's negligent revelation of an ally's intelligence on ISIS to Russia raises concern about three kinds of damage
http://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-1.789513
U.S. Officials ‘Warned Israel’ Not to Share Sensitive Intel With Trump
http://www.newsweek.com/us-officials-warned-israel-not-share-sensitive-intel-trump-609782
They [Israel] Were Warned
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/they-were-warned
Israeli Official: Trump Sharing Intelligence With Russia Is "Worst Fears Confirmed"
Two Israeli officials tell BuzzFeed News that the intelligence shared by Trump "syncs up" with intelligence Israel shared with its US counterparts.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/sheerafrenkel/israeli-official-trump-sharing-intelligence-with-russia-is
Trump's disclosure endangered spy placed inside ISIS by Israel, officials say
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/trumps-disclosure-endangered-spy-inside-isis-israel-officials/story?id=47449304
Former top Israeli officials break with government line and call Trump leak very troubling
http://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-israel-trump-russia-20170517-story.html
How Trump Hurts the Spying Business
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/16/opinion/how-trump-hurts-the-spying-business.html
Commentary: How Trump's Information-Sharing Hurts The Intelligence Community
http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2017/05/17/528609228/commentary-how-trumps-information-sharing-hurts-the-intelligence-community
Translating McMaster’s rhetoric on the Russia-leak story
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/05/16/translating-mcmasters-rhetoric-on-the-russia-leak-story/
Putin offers to provide Congress with details of Trump disclosures to Russian envoys - this and next item further to http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=131438463
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/putin-offers-to-provide-congress-with-details-of-trump-disclosures-to-russian-envoys/2017/05/17/80485ffe-3af6-11e7-a058-ddbb23c75d82_story.html
Putin Offers to Provide a ‘Record’ of Trump’s Disclosures to Russian Envoys
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/17/world/europe/trump-putin-russia.html
Yates Sees 'Serious Questions' in Timing of Comey's Firing
Former acting attorney general was fired by Trump in January
Yates disputes White House statement on potential legal issues
https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-05-17/yates-sees-serious-questions-in-timing-of-comey-s-firing
Preserving the Russia Investigation: A Preview of Our Interview with Sally Yates - coming within the next week - GET
May 16, 2017
http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/preserving-the-russia-investigation-a-preview-of-our-interview-with-sally-yates
Sally Yates: Russia had 'real leverage' over Flynn - on CNN/Anderson Cooper eve 5-16-17 - GET
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/16/sally-yates-cnn-interview-michael-flynn-238432
Sally Yates on Flynn warning: 'There was nothing casual about this'
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/16/politics/sally-yates-anderson-cooper-cnntv/index.html
Sally Yates Outclasses the President in CNN Interview
The former acting attorney general elegantly picked apart Trump’s biggest falsehoods in an interview with Anderson Cooper on Tuesday—and called James Comey a ‘straight shooter.’
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/05/17/sally-yates-outclasses-the-president-in-cnn-interview
As investigators circled Flynn, he got a message from Trump: Stay strong - STILL IN TOUCH
https://www.yahoo.com/news/investigators-circled-flynn-got-message-trump-stay-strong-145442727.html
Trump meets with crown prince of Abu Dhabi as he looks to Muslim world - 5-15-17 - GET - ties to Maddow open 5-15-17 - Flynn Seychelles
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/05/15/trump-meets-crown-prince-abu-dhabi-he-looks-muslim-world/101721138/
Trump meets with UAE crown prince ahead of overseas trip
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/trump-meets-uae-crown-prince-ahead-overseas-trip-47422146
The Senate Starts to Look at Trump’s Businesses
http://www.newyorker.com/business/adam-davidson/the-senate-starts-to-look-at-trumps-businesses
further to http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=131345768 :
ZEMBLA - The dubious friends of Donald Trump: Part 1: the Russians
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bEdMuKq30I
ZEMBLA - The dubious friends of Donald trump: Part 2: King of Diamonds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvd7PqI_Lx0
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMo9uZjfZuvVRxKDgaTBOyQ/videos
Comey, Unsettled by Trump, Is Said to Have Wanted Him Kept at a Distance - Comey memos (re interactions with Trump/Trump admin representatives), plural - Maddow open 5-18-17
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/18/us/politics/james-comey-memo-fbi-trump.html
Comey prepared extensively for his conversations with Trump
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/comey-prepared-extensively-for-his-conversations-with-trump/2017/05/18/e53b1734-3bf1-11e7-a058-ddbb23c75d82_story.html
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein knew before he wrote his controversial memo that Comey would be fired
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/deputy-attorney-general-rod-rosenstein-will-brief-the-full-senate-in-a-closed-session/2017/05/18/41de8548-3bd4-11e7-8854-21f359183e8c_story.html
Firing Comey Was a Grave Abuse of Power
In 1974, Republicans put country before Party and told Nixon it was time to go. Today’s G.O.P. seems unlikely to live up to its predecessor’s example.
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/05/22/firing-comey-was-a-grave-abuse-of-power
Trump must be impeached. Here’s why.
By Laurence H. Tribe
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-must-be-impeached-heres-why/2017/05/13/82ce2ea4-374d-11e7-b4ee-434b6d506b37_story.html
Poll: 48 percent want Trump impeached
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/333589-poll-42-percent-of-voters-support-impeaching-trump
poll: http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/pdf/2017/PPP_Release_National_51617.pdf
Preet Bharara: Are there still public servants who will say no to the president?
By Preet Bharara
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/preet-bharara-are-there-still-public-servants-who-will-say-no-to-the-president/2017/05/14/8df915de-38d6-11e7-9e48-c4f199710b69_story.html
Republicans who are complicit in Trump’s abuse of power will soon have a big problem
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2017/05/15/republicans-who-are-complicit-in-trumps-abuse-of-power-will-soon-have-a-big-problem/
Clapper says Trump weakening U.S. institutions
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/clapper-says-trump-weakening-us-government/2017/05/14/05956f92-38ba-11e7-9e48-c4f199710b69_story.html
Clapper: Comey firing 'another victory' for Russia
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/14/clapper-trump-comey-firing-238374
James Clapper: Defending democracy from Trump
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/15/opinions/clapper-wins-week-opinion-kayyem/
Clapper: US institutions 'under assault' from Trump
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/14/politics/james-clapper-russia-collusion/
Clapper notes 'curious pattern' of Russian deaths
http://thehill.com/homenews/sunday-talk-shows/333362-clapper-curious-pattern-of-russian-deaths
America's political chaos under Trump is a return on Putin's investment
Washington spies believe Vladimir Putin harbours 'longstanding desire to undermine the US-led liberal democratic order' and is enjoying his front row seat as turmoil continues
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/russia-trump-hacking-success-chaos-of-white-house-putin-a7736726.html
Putin offers to provide Congress with details of Trump disclosures to Russian envoys - this and next item further to http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=131438463
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/putin-offers-to-provide-congress-with-details-of-trump-disclosures-to-russian-envoys/2017/05/17/80485ffe-3af6-11e7-a058-ddbb23c75d82_story.html
Putin Offers to Provide a ‘Record’ of Trump’s Disclosures to Russian Envoys
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/17/world/europe/trump-putin-russia.html
House majority leader to colleagues in 2016: ‘I think Putin pays’ Trump
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/house-majority-leader-to-colleagues-in-2016-i-think-putin-pays-trump/2017/05/17/515f6f8a-3aff-11e7-8854-21f359183e8c_story.html
GOP leaders laughed about Trump colluding with Russia long before WikiLeaks
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/05/17/gop-leaders-laughed-about-trump-colluding-with-russia-long-before-wikileaks/
Republicans get radio silence from Trump amid growing crisis
The White House has done little damage control, leaving GOP lawmakers with no way to defend the president.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/17/donald-trump-damage-control-238521
Trump turns to ex-campaign aides as scandals pile up
He has brought Corey Lewandowski, Jason Miller and David Bossie back into his orbit.
Former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski was spotted in the West Wing lobby on Tuesday, according to two White House officials.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/17/trump-scandals-miller-bossie-lewandowski-238520
Republicans’ extreme frustration with Trump, in one congressman’s middle finger
This post has been updated with Rep. Darrell Issa's response. He denies flipping off a reporter.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/05/16/republicans-extreme-frustration-with-trump-in-one-congressmans-middle-finger/
The guy who predicted Comey’s memos thinks Comey may be trying to take down Trump - Matthew Miller
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/05/17/the-guy-who-predicted-comeys-memos-thinks-comey-may-be-trying-to-take-down-president-trump/
Robert Mueller, Former F.B.I. Director, Is Named Special Counsel for Russia Investigation
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/17/us/politics/robert-mueller-special-counsel-russia-investigation.html
Deputy attorney general appoints special counsel to oversee probe of Russian interference in election - (earlier version) at http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=131447622
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/deputy-attorney-general-appoints-special-counsel-to-oversee-probe-of-russian-interference-in-election/2017/05/17/302c1774-3b49-11e7-8854-21f359183e8c_story.html
Justice Dept. names Mueller special counsel for Russia probe
Former FBI Director Robert Mueller will oversee the probe into Russia's alleged involvement in the 2016 presidential election.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/17/justice-dept-to-appoint-special-prosecutor-for-russia-probe-238524
Former FBI chief Mueller appointed to probe Trump-Russia ties
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-idUSKCN18D1XT
Why It’s Hard to Have an Independent Russia Investigation
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/05/17/us/politics/why-its-so-hard-to-have-an-independent-russia-investigation.html
Robert Mueller Takes the Case
The former FBI director will take over the investigation of any coordination between President Trump’s campaign and Russia.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/05/robert-mueller-will-serve-as-special-prosecutor-on-russia/527121/
A special counsel is essential. But Congress isn’t off the hook.
Editorial
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-special-counsel-is-essential-but-congress-isnt-off-the-hook/2017/05/17/23c8baa8-3b4b-11e7-9e48-c4f199710b69_story.html
Republicans just got what they didn’t want: A special counsel
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/05/17/republicans-just-got-what-they-didnt-want-a-special-counsel/
Rod Rosenstein saves the Republican Party from itself
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/rosenstein-comes-to-the-rescue-of-the-cowardly-republicans/2017/05/17/07f5e2c6-3b44-11e7-9e48-c4f199710b69_story.html
Jeffrey Toobin on Mueller: ‘An absolutely brilliant choice’
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2017/live-updates/trump-white-house/trump-comey-and-russia-how-key-washington-players-are-reacting/jeffrey-toobin-on-mueller-an-absolutely-brilliant-choice/
‘Brothers in arms’: The long friendship between Mueller and Comey
They’ve been described as law enforcement twins and “brothers in arms.”
Once again, James Comey and Robert Mueller — two respected FBI veterans — have found themselves sharing the same high-profile headlines.
The two men’s working relationship can be traced back to at least December of 2003, when Comey joined Mueller in Washington after he became John Ashcroft’s deputy attorney general, according to a 2013 Washingtonian article about the two men’s long0standing relationship.
“He and Mueller spent many hours together, developing a close partnership — and watching together the disarray in the government over how to respond to the unfolding war on terror,” Washingtonian notes. “They shared a horror at the poor quality information infiltrating the upper reaches of government.”
The article goes on to point to personal similarities as well as professional. Both men were educated at Virginia universities — Mueller at the University of Virginia, Comey at William & Mary.
“Just years apart in the 1990s, they both gave up their top-tier private law firm jobs to return to the trenches of prosecuting criminals — Mueller as a junior prosecutor in Washington, DC, and Comey in Richmond, Virginia,” Washingtonian reports. “Both men were rising stars mentored and guided by Eric Holder in the 1990s during Holder’s time in the Justice Department under the Clinton administration.”
Their relationship was made stronger during an incident in 2004. At the time, the Los Angeles Times reported, Comey, Mueller and a number of other law enforcement officials were on the verge of resigning in opposition to a Bush administration plan to reauthorize a domestic surveillance program that was launched after the terror attacks of 9/11. President Bush eventually agreed to modify the secret program after both men jointly intervened — an experience that is suspected to have drawn them even closer.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2017/live-updates/trump-white-house/trump-comey-and-russia-how-key-washington-players-are-reacting/brothers-in-arms-the-long-friendship-between-mueller-and-comey/
With Mueller as the special prosecutor, the White House has every reason to panic
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2017/05/17/with-mueller-as-the-special-prosecutor-the-white-house-has-every-reason-to-panic/
Rosenstein’s appointment of special counsel serves as olive branch on eve of Senate appearance
https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/rosensteins-senate-appearance-thursday-will-be-a-big-moment-for-him--and-for-trump/2017/05/17/eb182dc8-3b23-11e7-8854-21f359183e8c_story.html
Lawmakers’ Russia probes to continue despite appointment of special counsel
https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/hill-republicans-show-growing-concern-over-trump-controversies/2017/05/16/57dd4f14-3aad-11e7-9e48-c4f199710b69_story.html
Feds Subpoena Records for $3.5M Mystery Mortgage on Manafort’s Home
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/feds-subpoena-records-3-5m-mortgage-manaforts-home-n759866
Paul Manafort got a $3.5 million tax-free payback-free 'loan' from unnamed sources
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/5/16/1662804/-Paul-Manafort-got-a-3-5-million-tax-free-payback-free-loan-from-unnamed-sources
Flynn, Manafort Are Key Figures in Russia Probe Mueller Will Lead
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/flynn-manafort-are-key-figures-russia-probe-mueller-will-lead-n761256
Trump Team Knew Flynn Was Under Investigation Before He Came to White House - blurbed/linked at http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=131453989
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/17/us/politics/michael-flynn-donald-trump-national-security-adviser.html
As investigators circled Flynn, he got a message from Trump: Stay strong - STILL IN TOUCH
https://www.yahoo.com/news/investigators-circled-flynn-got-message-trump-stay-strong-145442727.html
Donald Trump Talked Michael Flynn Into White House Job—and Wants Him Back in the Administration
The retired general was under investigation. The incoming president was determined to have him as national security adviser anyway.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/05/18/donald-trump-talked-michael-flynn-into-white-house-job
Senate chairman: Flynn has not responded to subpoena - AP
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/senate-panel-chairman-flynn-wont-honor-subpoena/2017/05/18/81973c7a-3be3-11e7-a59b-26e0451a96fd_story.html
original https://www.apnews.com/4850b42bea154052b463830e90d5824a/Senate-chairman:-Flynn-has-not-responded-to-subpoena
GOP senator: Flynn 'not cooperating' in Russia probe
http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/334049-gop-senator-flynn-wont-comply-with-committees-subpoena
A Russian state bank reportedly financed an $850 million deal with a Trump business partner
Trump International Hotel in Toronto may have been built with the help of Russian funds.
https://thinkprogress.org/russian-bank-involved-with-trump-business-partner-ac1393e9d95c
citing:
Russian State-Run Bank Financed Deal Involving Trump Hotel Partner
Russian-Canadian developer put money into Toronto project after receiving hundreds of millions from deal involving VEB
VEB, a Russian state-run bank under scrutiny by U.S. investigators, financed a deal involving Donald Trump’s onetime partner in a Toronto hotel tower at a key moment for the project, according to people familiar with the transaction.
Alexander Shnaider, a Russian-Canadian developer who built the 65-story Trump International Hotel and Tower, put money into the project after receiving hundreds of millions of dollars from a ...
[...]
https://www.wsj.com/articles/russian-state-run-bank-financed-deal-involving-trump-hotel-partner-1495031708
Trump Hotel Project Reportedly Benefited from Russian State-Run Bank
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/05/17/trump_toronto_hotel_reportedly_got_some_help_from_a_big_russian_bank.html
Russian government bank financed asset sale with Trump partner: report
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/333835-russian-bank-financed-asset-sale-involving-former-trump-hotel
Trump can’t stop talking about the Russia probe — even if continuing might hurt him
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-cant-stop-talking-about-the-russia-investigation--even-if-it-might-hurt-him/2017/05/18/0964ce2e-3be9-11e7-9e48-c4f199710b69_story.html
Is Donald Trump a witch?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/compost/wp/2017/05/18/is-donald-trump-a-witch/
a riff on/further to:
This is the single greatest witch hunt of a politician in American history!
6:52 AM - 18 May 2017
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/865173176854204416
Trump meets with lawyers at the White House
President Donald Trump convened his legal team on Thursday to discuss the escalating investigation into whether his campaign colluded with Russia during the 2016 election.
The huddle, according to four people briefed, took place the day after it was announced that former FBI Director Robert Mueller would serve as the investigation’s special counsel.
[...]
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/18/trump-lawyers-white-house-238579
The White House’s absolutely brutal night, in 6 headlines
• “Justice Department to appoint special counsel to oversee probe of Russian meddling in 2016 election”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/deputy-attorney-general-appoints-special-counsel-to-oversee-probe-of-russian-interference-in-election/2017/05/17/302c1774-3b49-11e7-8854-21f359183e8c_story.html
• “House majority leader told colleagues last year: ‘I think Putin pays’ Trump”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/house-majority-leader-to-colleagues-in-2016-i-think-putin-pays-trump/2017/05/17/515f6f8a-3aff-11e7-8854-21f359183e8c_story.html
• “Flynn stopped military plan Turkey opposed — after being paid as its agent”
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/white-house/article151149647.html
• “Trump Team Knew Flynn Was Under Investigation Before He Came to White House”
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/17/us/politics/michael-flynn-donald-trump-national-security-adviser.html
• “Israeli Source Seen as Key to Countering Islamic State Threat”
https://www.wsj.com/articles/israeli-source-seen-as-key-to-countering-islamic-state-threat-1495068912
• “Trump campaign had at least 18 undisclosed contacts with Russians — sources” - at http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=131458404
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-contacts-idUSKCN18E106
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/05/18/the-white-houses-absolutely-brutal-night-in-6-headlines/
Fact Check: Trump Is Contradictory on Comey and Misleading on Russia - 5-18-17 presser
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/18/us/politics/fact-check-donald-trump-james-comey-russia-border-wall-tax-cut.html
Trump, Citing ‘a Witch Hunt,’ Denies Any Collusion With Russia
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/18/us/politics/trump-back-on-twitter-complains-of-witch-hunt.html
Stocks Surged As Trading Floors Watched 'Breaking' InfoWars Video. It Was Two Weeks Old, and Wrong.
Traders and analysts are wondering if “Infowars [is] a site I have to start reading now” to gauge what the average person believes is true in the middle of a “propaganda war.”
As a video circulated that appeared to partially absolve President Donald Trump in the administration’s Russian meddling scandal on trading floors on Thursday, stocks surged for the first time in days on the apparent breaking news.
The video, it turns out, was actually two weeks old, misleadingly edited with the intention of falsely accusing former FBI director James Comey of perjury—and was initially aired by conspiracy website InfoWars on Thursday around noon.
Trump wasn’t cleared. In fact, since the video had been around since May 3rd, nothing had changed at all. But by the time traders found out, the dollar index had spiked anyway.
The fallout of the story is leaving analysts wondering how to absorb information in a market that is suddenly waiting on bated breath for the latest rumors to come out of the White House—even when those rumors are intentionally misleading or untrue.
“The market is used to trading on rumors. There are always rumors of takeovers or bankruptcies. In those situations, when you bet on a rumor, you lose big time,” Adam Button, the chief currency analyst at ForexLive, told The Daily Beast.
“With political rumors, they don’t have to be true.”
In other words, the news can be fake, but the rally it creates in the stock market is very real.
Button was one of the first to trace the bump in the American dollar back to InfoWars on Thursday.
“It’s an unprecedented time. The market is getting a taste of what the post-truth world looks like,“ said Button.
An InfoWars segment and article posted around noon titled “Breaking! Comey Caught Committing Perjury to Congress” shows Comey saying “he has not been pressured to close an investigation."
The clip on InfoWars omits that the question, asked by Hawaii Senator Mazie Hirono, specifically asks Comey if the attorney general or Department of Justice has asked him to close the investigation, and doesn’t mention President Trump.
The InfoWars story ends with the sentence “This story is developing,” even though Comey’s testimony had occurred 15 days ago. No further updates arrived.
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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/05/18/stocks-surged-as-trading-floors-watched-breaking-infowars-video-it-was-two-weeks-old-and-wrong
the video:
Comey Caught Committing Perjury To Congress? - and 5-18-17 full show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEyYu4aJgiY
This video proves that James Comey perjured himself to Congress claiming that no one had asked him to halt the investigation into the Trump/Russia connection.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OgDai05bkU
Joe Lieberman Is a Leading Contender for FBI Director
The former Connecticut senator would be a highly unusual pick to lead the nation’s top law-enforcement agency.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/05/joe-lieberman-is-a-leading-contender-for-fbi-director/527304/
Trump-Russia is now a criminal matter, senators say after ‘sobering’ briefing - blurbed/linked at http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=131488237
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/congress/article151417302.html
Conservatives begin to whisper: President Pence
With Trump swamped by self-inflicted scandals, Republicans find solace in the man waiting in the wings.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/17/mike-pence-president-trump-238525
VP Mike Pence Was Never Informed About Flynn: Source
Vice President Mike Pence has been kept in the dark about former National Security Adviser Mike Flynn's alleged wrongdoing, according to a source close to the administration, who cited a potential "pattern" of not informing the vice president and calling it "malpractice or intentional, and either are unacceptable."
A White House spokesman called The Times' report "flat wrong" on Thursday, but the latest revelations, including a report that Flynn called off a military mission in Raqqa after working as a foreign agent for Turkey, only broadened the scope of questions around Flynn's time as an adviser to the Trump campaign and the eventual National Security Adviser.
[...]
http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/aide-claims-pattern-keep-vice-president-pence-out-loop-n761916
Check this out—House Democrats told VP Mike Pence about Flynn and they kept the receipts to prove it
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/5/19/1664009/-Check-this-out-House-Democrats-told-VP-Mike-Pence-about-Flynn-and-they-kept-the-receipts-to-prove-it
Elijah Cummings warned Mike Pence that Flynn was a foreign agent all the way back in November
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/5/19/1664050/-Elijah-Cummings-warned-Mike-Pence-that-Flynn-was-a-foreign-agent-all-the-way-back-in-November
Trump Told Russians That Firing ‘Nut Job’ Comey Eased Pressure From Investigation - White House not disputing (per MSNBC) - during Oval Office meeting when he gave them the code-word intel - NYT apparently(?) has a transcript
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/19/us/politics/trump-russia-comey.html
Russia probe reaches current White House official, people familiar with the case say
The law enforcement investigation into possible coordination between Russia and the Trump campaign has identified a current White House official as a significant person of interest, showing that the probe is reaching into the highest levels of government, according to people familiar with the matter.
The senior White House adviser under scrutiny by investigators is someone close to the president, according to these people, who would not further identify the official.
[...]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/russia-probe-reaches-current-white-house-official-people-familiar-with-the-case-say/2017/05/19/7685adba-3c99-11e7-9e48-c4f199710b69_story.html
Russia Probe Looking at Official in Trump White House
http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/report-russia-probe-looking-official-trump-white-house-n762331
Trump-Russia probe now includes possible cover-up, Congress is told
WASHINGTON - Investigators into Russian meddling in the U.S. presidential elections are now also probing whether White House officials have engaged in a cover-up, according to members of Congress who were briefed Friday by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.
That avenue of investigation was added in recent weeks after assertions by former FBI Director James Comey that President Donald Trump had tried to dissuade him from pressing an investigation into the actions of Trump’s first national security adviser, retired Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, members of Congress said, though it was not clear whom that part of the probe might target.
[...]
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/congress/article151565947.html
365 days of Trump’s claims
The Fact Checker’s ongoing database of President Trump’s 586 false and misleading claims since January 20th
Repeated 28 times:
Feb 9 Feb 10 Feb 16 Feb 17 Feb 18 Feb 24 Feb 28 Feb 28 Mar 6 Mar 13 Mar 15 Mar 17 Mar 21 Mar 23 Mar 24 Mar 24 Mar 28 Mar 28 Mar 29 Mar 31 Apr 2 Apr 4 Apr 11 Apr 21 Apr 29 May 1 May 17 May 18
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/trump-claims-database/
James Comey Will Testify Publicly Before Congress
The ousted FBI director will discuss the political firestorm surrounding his dismissal in an upcoming Senate Intelligence Committee hearing, senators announced Friday.
James Comey, the former FBI director whose sudden firing last week by President Trump sparked a massive political firestorm that has yet to abate, will testify in an open hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee.
Senators Richard Burr and Mark Warner, the committee’s Republican chair and Democratic vice chair, said Comey would speak some time after Memorial Day on May 29.
[...]
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/05/comey-congress-testify/527523/
Former FBI director Comey to testify publicly
https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/former-fbi-director-comey-to-testify-publicly/2017/05/19/745a285c-3ce6-11e7-a058-ddbb23c75d82_story.html
Trump's aides hosted an 'intervention' to try to tone down his Twitter use
Aides warned Trump his tweets could "paint him into a corner" potentially compromising him both politically and legally.
http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-twitter-intervention-2017-5
citing:
Fired FBI Director James Comey to Testify in Public
Aides to President Donald Trump brace for new environment after the appointment of a special counsel
WASHINGTON - Former FBI Director James Comey has agreed to testify publicly in Congress, capping a week that may shape President Donald Trump’s administration for months, or even years, and prompting White House aides to rethink how they operate in this new political and legal environment.
[...]
https://www.wsj.com/articles/fired-fbi-director-james-comey-to-testify-in-public-1495242168
Is Mike Pence distancing himself from Trump?
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39979279
A Conservative Christian College Protest of Mike Pence
GROVE CITY, Pa. — On Saturday, Vice President Mike Pence will give the commencement address at Grove City College, the small Christian institution in Western Pennsylvania where I am a junior. A few years ago, Mr. Pence would have been a noncontroversial choice. Other prominent Republicans, including Ben Carson, Jeb Bush and Laura Bush, have spoken here, and the school is known for its conservative values. Indeed, the phrase “conservative values” is in the Grove City mission statement.
But the announcement that Mr. Pence would be commencement speaker this year drew considerable backlash. Alumni and students flooded administrators’ inboxes with emails protesting the decision, and faculty members have called for boycotts. Many who oppose the decision say that hosting Mr. Pence will serve as an endorsement of the current president.
[...]
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/19/opinion/mike-pence-college-protest.html
First on CNN: Russian officials bragged they could use Flynn to influence Trump, sources say - some in intel community limited disclosures to Flynn on their own - excerpted/linked at https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=131520542
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/19/politics/michael-flynn-donald-trump-russia-influence/
First on CNN: Comey now believes Trump was trying to influence him, source says
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/19/politics/james-comey-trump-influence/index.html
Trump told aides firing Flynn was a mistake
The president has grown obsessed with defending the tough-talking 58-year-old general, repeatedly telling aides and associates in private that Flynn was a 'good man.'
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/19/trump-michael-flynn-firing-mistake-aides-238618
Trump’s loyalty to Michael Flynn is destroying his presidency
https://www.vox.com/world/2017/5/18/15649910/trump-flynn-loyalty
Michael Flynn's Contradictory Line On Russia
http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2017/05/19/529148729/michael-flynns-contradictory-line-on-russia
How could Trump, Pence not have known Flynn was lobbying for Turkey?
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article151421902.html
original http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/white-house/article151421102.html
Trump or Congress can still block Robert Mueller. I know. I wrote the rules.
How politics could trip up the new special counsel
By Neal Katyal
https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2017/05/19/politics-could-still-block-muellers-investigation-i-know-i-wrote-the-rules/
White House looking at ethics rule to weaken special investigation: sources
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-mueller-idUSKCN18F2KK
Report: White House may be looking to undermine special counsel’s investigation
https://www.vox.com/2017/5/19/15668168/report-white-house-undermine-special-counsel
Recapping a stunningly bad two weeks for the Trump White House
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/05/19/recapping-a-stunningly-bad-two-weeks-for-the-trump-white-house/
The Trump presidency doesn’t seem sustainable
By Ruth Marcus
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-trump-presidency-doesnt-seem-sustainable/2017/05/19/cae244bc-3cc2-11e7-9e48-c4f199710b69_story.html
Trump turmoil is spreading far beyond Washington to state and local races
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-turmoil-is-spreading-far-beyond-washington-to-state-and-local-races/2017/05/19/c3727064-3bcb-11e7-9e48-c4f199710b69_story.html
Here comes the GOP bloodbath
By Erick Erickson
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/here-comes-the-gop-bloodbath/2017/05/19/8e27eb58-3c18-11e7-8854-21f359183e8c_story.html
Former Trump campaign aide seeks legal help -- from Trump
The former volunteer is racking up legal fees after hiring a lawyer to respond to the Russia probe
"My heart aches," a former campaign official said of ex-staffers who might be caught up in the investigation
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/20/politics/trump-aide-legal-funds/
AP Explains: End-game scenarios for the storm over Trump
https://www.apnews.com/16e52de6b86f4324acb74b932ba14660/AP-Explains:-End-game-scenarios-for-the-storm-over-Trump
Trump to meet Turkish leader amid storm over shared intel - 5-16-17 - GET
https://www.apnews.com/307acded7abd4b87bf9137e0f8f0491d/Trump-to-meet-Turkish-leader-amid-storm-over-shared-intel
Trump's Passion for Dictators
With Turkey's leader visiting Washington, the president needs to ditch his love of autocrats.
https://www.usnews.com/opinion/world-report/articles/2017-05-16/trump-should-ditch-his-dictator-love-in-meeting-with-turkeys-president
Trump's trampling of political norms spurs strongman comparisons
As Trump meets Turkey's Erdogan, critics say he gives ammunition to repressive leaders worldwide.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/16/trump-strongman-erdogan-238418
Erdogan meets Trump: 3 key issues topping the agenda
1. US arming Kurdish fighters
2. Turkey's relationship with Russia over Syria
3. Extradition of Erdogan's rival Gulen
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/16/politics/erdogan-trump-turkey-us-meeting/
Commentary: How Trump's moves in Syria threaten U.S.-Turkey alliance
http://in.reuters.com/article/us-trump-erdogan-commentary-idINKCN18C02B
Trump to meet Turkey's president amid sharp differences and new tensions
http://abcnews.go.com/International/trump-meet-turkeys-president-amid-sharp-differences-tensions/story?id=47431917
Will Erdogan’s Thugs Face No Consequences For Attacking Us On U.S. Soil?
They acted like mafia henchmen, and yet it’s nothing compared to what happens daily in Turkey.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/turkish-bodyguards-attack-peaceful-demonstrators-on_us_591c88e0e4b07617ae4cb8a1
How the U.S. can hold Erdogan’s brawling guards accountable — and keep it from happening again
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/05/17/how-the-u-s-can-hold-erdogans-brawling-guards-accountable-and-keep-it-from-happening-again/
Plenty of tough talk for Erdogan guards, but action is unlikely, experts say
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/plenty-of-tough-talk-for-erdogan-guards-but-action-is-unlikely-experts-say/2017/05/19/69c90dce-3c80-11e7-8854-21f359183e8c_story.html
First, Erdogan’s goons attack protesters. Then, the embassy blames the victims.
Editorial
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/first-erdogans-goons-attack-protesters-then-the-embassy-blames-the-victims/2017/05/19/be3eacbe-3c04-11e7-9e48-c4f199710b69_story.html
Turkish government goons beat peaceful protesters on American soil. And not a word from the White House
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-turkey-erdogan-trump-protest-20170519-story.html
Erdogan Watching His Supporters Fight Protesters in Turkish Embassy in Washington, US
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIpPsyAVCY4
Audio Analysis Reveals Erdogan Gave Oder to "Attack" Protesters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVq3absG7XU
Trump Reneges on Promise to Move Embassy to Jerusalem on Eve of Middle East Trip
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/05/trump-reneges-on-jerusalem-embassy-before-middle-east-trip.html
Nikki Haley Says What White House Won’t: The Western Wall Is in Israel
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/nikki-haley-says-what-white-house-won-t-western-wall-n761071
Iran Nuclear Deal Will Remain for Now, White House Signals
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/17/us/politics/trump-iran-nuclear-deal.html
U.S. Announces New Iran Sanctions, But Keeps Waiving Sanctions
http://www.nbcnews.com/card/u-s-announces-new-iran-sanctions-keeps-waiving-sanctions-n761191
Iranians demanding change deliver emphatic victory for Rouhani
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-election-idUSKCN18E2Y8
Rouhani’s victory is good news for Iran, but bad news for Trump and his Sunni allies
The Saudis will be appalled that a (comparatively) reasonable Iranian has won a (comparatively) free election that almost none of the 50 dictators gathering to meet Trump in Riyadh would ever dare to hold
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/iran-election-rouhani-saudi-arabia-trump-bad-news-a7746146.html
Tillerson hails 'historic moment' in U.S.-Saudi relations
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/20/rex-tillerson-saudi-arabia-arms-deal-investment-historic-moment-238637
To Trump, Human Rights Concerns Are Often a Barrier to Trade
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson had some advice on Saturday for Iran’s newly re-elected president. The Trump administration, he said, hopes Tehran “restores the rights of Iranians to freedom of speech, to freedom of organization, so that Iranians can live the life that they deserve.”
As he said that at a news conference, Mr. Tillerson was standing next to the Saudi foreign minister, Adel al-Jubeir, who represents a government that does not guarantee free speech or many other rights. When Mr. Tillerson turned to leave, a reporter asked if he had anything to say about human rights in Saudi Arabia. The secretary departed without answering.
President Trump’s visit to Saudi Arabia [ https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/20/world/middleeast/donald-trump-saudi-arabia.html ] underscored the calculation he and his foreign policy advisers have made when it comes to questions of human rights around the world.
Mr. Trump and his team made clear they are willing to publicly overlook repression in places like Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states whose leaders are meeting here this weekend — as long as they are allies in areas the president considers more important, namely security and economics.
[...]
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/20/world/middleeast/rex-w-tillerson-saudi-arabia-human-rights.html
Trump’s first foreign trip a test of what he’s learned, or not, about national security
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trumps-first-foreign-trip-a-test-of-what-hes-learned-or-not-about-national-security/2017/05/18/4f309bea-3b12-11e7-8854-21f359183e8c_story.html
Embroiled in controversies, Trump seeks boost on foreign trip
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'DON'T THINK HE UNDERSTANDS IT'
Some doubt whether Trump, a businessman-turned politician who never held elective office before becoming president in January, is ready for a smooth presidential debut abroad.
One Republican official, who requested anonymity in order to speak freely, said after meeting Trump recently he did not think the president had a firm enough grasp on the nuances of the long-running Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
"I don't think he understands it," said the official, adding that Trump needed more detailed briefings before leaving on Friday. "I think it's a very difficult challenge and I hope he's going to talk to a lot of smart people."
White House advisers insisted Trump was up to speed on the Middle East, having already hosted Arab, Israeli and Palestinian leaders at the White House.
“His way of doing diplomacy, which really contrasts with President Obama's approach, is to ... prioritize the personal relationship," said Michael Singh, a foreign policy adviser to former Republican President George W. Bush.
To prepare for his trip, Trump has been meeting with briefers including Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis, White House national security adviser H.R. McMaster, deputy national security adviser Dina Powell and senior adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner.
Conversations with some officials who have briefed Trump and others who are aware of how he absorbs information portray a president with a short attention span.
He likes single-page memos and visual aids like maps, charts, graphs and photos.
National Security Council officials have strategically included Trump's name in "as many paragraphs as we can because he keeps reading if he's mentioned," according to one source, who relayed conversations he had with NSC officials.
Trump likes to look at a map of the country involved when he learns about a topic.
"He likes to visualize things," said a senior administration official. "The guy's a builder. He has spent his whole life looking at architectural renderings and floor plans."
[...]
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-trip-idUSKCN18D0C7
Trump campaigned against Muslims, but will preach tolerance in Saudi speech
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-campaigned-against-muslims-but-will-preach-tolerance-in-saudi-speech/2017/05/19/6357c60c-3ca7-11e7-9e48-c4f199710b69_story.html
Look Back at Trump's Remarks on Muslims, Saudi Arabia - video
From involvement in the Sept. 11th attacks to surveillance of certain mosques, Donald Trump has made controversial remarks about Muslims and Saudi Arabia. Here's a look back at those comments.
http://www.nbcnews.com/video/trump-on-saudi-arabia-muslims-and-islam-948679747977
‘People Here Think Trump Is a Laughingstock’
On the president’s ill-timed world tour.
"Chaos.”
“Circus.”
“Laughingstock.”
Those were just a few of the comments I heard in Berlin this week from senior European officials trying to make sense of the meltdown in Washington at just the moment when a politically imploding President Trump embarks on what he called “my big foreign trip” in this morning’s kickoff tweet.
[...]
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/05/19/trump-first-foreign-trip-europe-215163
Russia and Syria Denounce U.S. Airstrike on Pro-Assad Militia
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/19/world/middleeast/syria-russia-us-convoy.html
White House Reveals Details on Military and Wall Ahead of Budget Proposal
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/18/us/politics/budget-trump-white-house.html
The Trump Administration Says It's Ready to 'Modernize' NAFTA
The White House sent a letter to Congress Thursday morning officially kicking off the renegotiation process.
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/05/trump-modernize-nafta/527271/
Trump’s NAFTA Letter Echoes Obama Administration’s Language On TPP
Well, this is awkward.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-nafta-obama-tpp_us_591de665e4b094cdba523d00
Homeland Security Chief Tells Trump He Can Use Saber ‘On The Press’ - Trump at Coast Guard Academy 5-17-17 - GET
John Kelly was caught on a hot mic joking about how the president could deal with the media.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/homeland-security-chief-tells-trump-to-use-saber-on-press_us_591ca09ce4b034684b0904a4
Kelly jokes to Trump: Use saber on the press [CNN]
During an event with the US Coast Guard, Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly and President Trump were caught on a hot microphone joking about the President using a ceremonial saber on the press.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YzSQprQt6I
Trump claims ‘no politician in history’ has been ‘treated worse or more unfairly’
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-claims-no-politician-in-history-has-been-treated-worse-or-more-unfairly/2017/05/17/f9c59056-3b1c-11e7-9e48-c4f199710b69_story.html
Trump’s ‘huuuuuge’ Caribbean estate is on the market for $28 million, prompting questions
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-huuuuuge-caribbean-estate-is-on-the-market-for-28-million-prompting-questions/2017/05/17/cf3f99c0-372b-11e7-b373-418f6849a004_story.html
How to Woo Chinese Investors: With Visa Offers and the Trump Name
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/19/business/kushner-trump-china-green-cards.html
Bipartisan group of senators push back on Sessions’s order to pursue most severe penalties
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/bipartisan-group-of-senators-push-back-on-sessionss-order-to-pursue-most-severe-penalties/2017/05/17/753b946c-3b25-11e7-8854-21f359183e8c_story.html
Trump's Justice Department is trying to unravel the past 10 years of criminal justice reform
“We’re leading in the direction of instigating a new drug war.”
https://www.vox.com/2017/5/17/15641856/jeff-sessions-donald-trump-drug-war-criminal-justice
Controversial Milwaukee sheriff David Clarke says he’ll be appointed to high-ranking DHS post, but agency has not confirmed
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/05/17/controversial-milwaukee-sheriff-david-clarke-says-hell-be-appointed-to-high-ranking-dhs-post-but-agency-has-not-confirmed/
Polarizing Sheriff David Clarke Says He’ll Take a Top Homeland Security Job
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/17/us/politics/sheriff-david-clarke-homeland-security-job.html
Sheriff David Clarke plagiarized portions of his master's thesis on homeland security
http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2017/05/politics/sheriff-clarke-plagiarism/
CNN report says Sheriff David Clarke plagiarized parts of his thesis on homeland security
http://www.jsonline.com/story/news/local/milwaukee/2017/05/21/cnn-report-says-sheriff-david-clarke-plagiarized-parts-his-thesis-homeland-security/334747001/
Sheriff David Clarke's thesis deleted from school's website after plagiarism accusation
Sheriff David Clarke’s master’s thesis has been removed from the Naval Postgraduate School website after reports that he plagiarized sections of his thesis on homeland security.
[...]
https://origin-nyi.thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/334423-sheriff-david-clarkes-thesis-deleted-from-schools-website-after
Trump tells advisers he wants to end key Obamacare subsidies
Many senior aides oppose the move for fear it will backfire politically.
President Donald Trump has told advisers he wants to end payments of key Obamacare subsidies, a move that could send the health law's insurance markets into a tailspin, according to several sources familiar with the conversations.
Many advisers oppose the move because they worry it would backfire politically if people lose their insurance or see huge premium spikes and blame the White House, the sources said. Trump has said that the bold move could force Congressional Democrats to the table to negotiate an Obamacare replacement.
Lawyers and other administration officials are trying to thread the needle.
Trump told aides in a Tuesday Oval Office meeting that he wants to end the payments to insurers because he doesn't gain anything by continuing them, according to a senior White House adviser. "Why the hell would we?" he asked about continuing the payments, according to the adviser. Trump added that if Congress wants the subsidies, lawmakers would find a way to pay for them, the adviser said.
Trump has previously expressed conflicting opinions on the issue. Insurers have been pressing for certainty as they plan for next year.
The payments, estimated at $7 billion for this year, go to insurance companies to reduce deductibles and other out-of-pocket costs for low-income consumers — an estimated 7 million people in 2017. Insurers are on the hook under the health law to keep paying even if the federal money stops.
[...]
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/19/donald-trump-end-payments-obamacare-subsidies-238616
States get involved in lawsuit to shield Obamacare, saying Trump can’t be trusted
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/05/18/states-get-involved-in-lawsuit-to-shield-obamacare-saying-trump-cant-be-trusted/
Obamacare subsidies at stake in Monday court hearing
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/05/19/obamacare-subsidies-stake-monday-court-hearing/101828786/
Trumpcare Is Already Hurting Trump Country
Editorial
The mere threat that Obamacare will be dismantled or radically changed — either by Congress or by President Trump himself — has persuaded several big insurance companies to stop selling policies or significantly raise premiums. The practical effect is that some lower-income and middle-class families may have no good options for insurance and will have to spend more on health care.
[...]
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/19/opinion/trumpcare-health-care-bill.html
Democrats accuse White House of causing ACA tremors, then shifting blame
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2017/05/19/democrats-accuse-white-house-of-causing-aca-tremors-then-shifting-blame/
Trump and DeVos plan to reshape higher education finance. Here’s what it might mean for you.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2017/05/17/trump-and-devos-plan-to-reshape-higher-education-finance-heres-what-it-might-mean-for-you/
400,000 were promised student loan forgiveness. Now they are panicking
More than 400,000 student loan borrowers may have placed their faith in a government program with an uncertain future.
http://money.cnn.com/2017/05/18/pf/college/betsy-devos-public-service-loan-forgiveness/
Betsy DeVos Wants to Kill a Major Student Loan Forgiveness Program
http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2017/05/17/the_trump_administration_wants_to_end_the_public_service_loan_forgiveness.html
Betsy DeVos hits hard reset on student loan servicing contracts
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2017/05/19/betsy-devos-hits-hard-reset-on-student-loan-servicing-contracts/
Trump administration wants to overhaul the way you repay student loans
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/trump-administration-wants-to-overhaul-the-way-you-repay-student-loans-2017-05-19
Income-Driven Repayment Isn’t Enough to Prevent Default
https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/education/news/2017/05/19/432751/income-driven-repayment-isnt-enough-prevent-default/
James Donovan Backs Out as Nominee for No. 2 Treasury Job
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/19/business/dealbook/james-donovan-nominee-treasury-backs-out.html
Donovan dropping out as Trump's nominee for deputy Treasury secretary
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/19/jim-donovan-trump-deputy-treasury-secretary-238611
Elizabeth Warren Slams ‘Bizarre’ Glass-Steagall Statements From Trump’s Treasury Secretary
“This is like something straight out of George Orwell.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/elizabeth-warren-slams-bizarre-glass-steagall-statements-from-trumps-treasury-secretary_us_591f307ee4b03b485cb155cc
Senators Demand Answers After Reporter Is ‘Manhandled’ At FCC Hearing
It’s part of administration’s pattern of “press hostility,” the Democratic senators say.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/reporter-manhandled-fcc-hearing_us_591fe356e4b094cdba545572
Approval of President Trump drops to lowest since inauguration: Reuters/Ipsos poll
Public approval of President Donald Trump has dropped to its lowest level since his inauguration, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Friday, after Trump was accused of mishandling classified information and meddling with an FBI investigation.
The May 14-18 opinion poll found that 38 percent of adults approved of Trump while 56 percent disapproved. The remaining 6 percent had "mixed feelings."
[...]
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-poll-idUSKCN18F2AH
Steve Bannon Pulls Out Of Speech At Top Washington Think Tank
The invitation rankled some scholars at the Brookings Institution.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/steve-bannon-brookings_us_591c71c8e4b0a7458fa4e694
'Such Bullshit' Watch Bill Maher and Cornel West Explode Over Whether Hillary's as Bad as Trump (unofficial YT) - 5-19-17 show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mF4eUS5-RCo
Seth Meyers on His Simple Trick for Interviewing Kellyanne Conway
http://time.com/4785882/seth-meyers-on-kellyanne-conway-interview/
referencing:
Seth Meyers Is the Most Patriotic Man in America
No one has gone after Trump harder than the ‘Late Night’ host. We asked Meyers what it means to be the true patriot of late night.
http://www.gq.com/story/seth-meyers-is-the-most-patriotic-man-in-america
Seth Meyers On Tracking Trumpocalypse
http://deadline.com/2017/05/seth-meyers-donald-trump-closer-look-late-night-1202098535/
Will Ferrell’s Full Speech As George W. Bush At #NotTheWHCD | Full Frontal on TBS - further to http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=130938670
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ7S-ymyaZ4
Follow the data: does a legal document link Brexit campaigns to US billionaire?
We reveal how a confidential legal agreement is at the heart of a web connecting Robert Mercer to Britain’s EU referendum
On 18 November 2015, the British press gathered in a hall in Westminster to witness the official launch of Leave.EU. Nigel Farage, the campaign’s figurehead, was banished to the back of the room and instead an American political strategist, Gerry Gunster, took centre stage and explained its strategy. “The one thing that I know is data,” he said. “Numbers do not lie. I’m going to follow the data.”
Eighteen months on, it’s this same insight – to follow the data – that is the key to unlocking what really happened behind the scenes of the Leave campaign. On the surface, the two main campaigns, Leave.EU and Vote Leave, hated one other. Their leading lights, Farage and Boris Johnson, were sworn enemies for the duration of the referendum. The two campaigns bitterly refused even to share a platform.
But the Observer has seen a confidential document that provides clear evidence of a link between the two campaigns. More precisely, evidence of a close working relationship between the two data analytics firms employed by the campaigns – AggregateIQ, which Vote Leave hired, and Cambridge Analytica, retained by Leave.EU.
British electoral law is founded on the principle of a level playing field and controlling campaign spending is the key plank of that. The law states that different campaigns must not work together unless they declare their expenditure jointly. This controls spending limits so that no side can effectively “buy” an election.
But this signed legal document – a document that was never meant to be made public and was leaked by a concerned source – connects both Vote Leave and Leave.EU’s data firms directly to Robert Mercer, the American billionaire who bankrolled Donald Trump.
[...]
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/14/robert-mercer-cambridge-analytica-leave-eu-referendum-brexit-campaigns
Data Firm Funded By Backer Of Donald Trump And Breitbart Threatens To Sue The Guardian
The British news organization had been investigating links between conservative billionaire Robert Mercer and the Brexit vote.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/robert-mercer-guardian-lawsuit-threat_us_591c5a95e4b041db8965d6b7
The Daily 202: Loyalty is a one-way street for Donald Trump
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2017/05/15/daily-202-05152017-daily202/5918fcc3e9b69b209cf2b82c/
A shake-up may [in Trump's advisors] make things worse
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2017/05/15/a-shake-up-may-make-things-worse/
‘Morning Joe’ Hosts: Conway Said She Needed a Shower After Speaking for Trump - during campaign - apparently OK with it now
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/15/business/media/mika-joe-kellyanne-conway.html
‘I need to take a shower,’ Kellyanne Conway said after defending candidate Trump, according to ‘Morning Joe’
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/05/15/i-need-to-take-a-shower-kellyanne-conway-said-after-defending-candidate-trump-according-to-morning-joe/
Kellyanne Conway blames negative coverage on ‘sexist’ and ‘Trumpist’ media
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/05/14/kellyanne-conway-blames-negative-coverage-on-sexist-and-trumpist-media/
Conway responds to 'Morning Joe' claim she slammed Trump off-camera
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/333635-conway-responds-to-claims-she-is-disgusted-by-trump-off-camera
The Widening Blast Radius of the Fox News Scandal
The metastasizing Ailes affair is spilling over into the politics of New York, Virginia and the White House.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/05/14/fox-news-scandal-impact-politics-215135
Fox News undermines a free, independent press
By Jennifer Rubin
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2017/05/15/fox-news-undermines-a-free-independent-press/
This is what it looks like when the media gives Trump exactly what he wants - Trump on Pirro 5-13-17 - GET
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/act-four/wp/2017/05/15/this-is-what-it-looks-like-when-the-media-gives-trump-exactly-what-he-wants/
Outraged Sean Hannity Wants White House To Seize More Control Over Media
Reporters would have to submit questions in writing on pre-selected topics.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/sean-hannity-white-house-press_us_591a79a6e4b0809be15796f9
Trump to Nominate Callista Gingrich as Vatican Ambassador
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/14/world/europe/callista-gingrich-vatican-ambassador-pope-francis.html
Trump to Sharply Expand Ban on Funding to Groups That Discuss Abortion
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/15/us/politics/trump-gag-rule-abortion.html
A congressman said making a man get maternity insurance was ‘crazy.’ A woman’s reply went viral.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/05/15/a-congressman-said-making-a-man-get-maternity-insurance-was-crazy-a-womans-reply-went-viral/
Ann Coulter Calls ‘Grotesque’ Donald Trump A Disappointment
“The Trump-haters were right ... it’s a nightmare,” she tells The Daily Caller.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/coulter-disappointment-donald-trump_us_591a4014e4b07d5f6ba578e4
White nationalist Richard Spencer leads torch-bearing protesters defending Lee statue
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/alt-rights-richard-spencer-leads-torch-bearing-protesters-defending-lee-statue/2017/05/14/766aaa56-38ac-11e7-9e48-c4f199710b69_story.html
Va. mayor slammed with anti-Semitic tweets after criticizing alt-right rally
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/va-mayor-slammed-with-anti-semitic-tweets-after-criticizing-alt-right-rally/2017/05/15/96eb95b8-3980-11e7-8854-21f359183e8c_story.html
Protestors chant Nazi phrases, wield torches near Confederate statue in Charlottesville, Va.
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/05/14/protestors-nazi-charlottesville-jackson-lee-white-supremacist-rally/22085869/
This is what emboldened white supremacists look like
With Donald Trump and his ‘America first’ rhetoric, these groups are seeing a dramatic surge. It’s up to us to stop them.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/15/emboldened-white-supremacists-charlottesville
From Lofty Perch, New Orleans [Lee] Monument to Confederacy Comes Down
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/19/us/confederate-monument-new-orleans-lee.html
‘They were not patriots’: New Orleans removes monument to Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/new-orleans-begins-removing-monument-to-confederate-gen-robert-e-lee/2017/05/19/c4ed94f6-364d-11e7-99b0-dd6e94e786e5_story.html
In New Orleans, Confederate monuments are gone — Lee last - AP
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/in-new-orleans-confederate-monuments-are-gone--lee-last/2017/05/19/5236dac0-3cf2-11e7-a59b-26e0451a96fd_story.html
original https://www.apnews.com/fd346290ef384f97906ca8de9d07197e/In-New-Orleans,-Confederate-monuments-are-gone-_-Lee-last
Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee statue removed in New Orleans
http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2017/05/confederate_gen_robert_e_lee_s_1.html
Mayor Mitch Landrieu on Confederate monuments: 'We cannot be afraid of the truth'
http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2017/05/mayor_mitch_landrieu_conferate.html
A book, an interview, an old fact, and a chart show the ongoing challenge of institutionalized racism
https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2017/05/15/a-book-an-interview-an-old-fact-and-a-chart-show-the-ongoing-challenge-of-institutionalized-racism/
Strict North Carolina Voter ID Law Thwarted [for the moment] After Supreme Court Rejects Case
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/15/us/politics/voter-id-laws-supreme-court-north-carolina.html
Sorry, a TIME Magazine Cover Did Not Predict a Coming Ice Age
A doctored TIME magazine cover warns of a coming ice age. But the reality remains that the world is warming, thanks chiefly to human action
http://science.time.com/2013/06/06/sorry-a-time-magazine-cover-did-not-predict-a-coming-ice-age/
‘Fake but accurate’: Another reason to worry about decision-making at the White House
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/05/15/fake-but-accurate-a-whole-new-reason-to-worry-about-decision-making-at-the-white-house/
How Trump gets his fake news
The president rarely surfs the web on his own, but his staff have made a habit of slipping news stories on to his desk—including the occasional internet hoax.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/15/donald-trump-fake-news-238379
‘The Internet Is Broken’: @ev Is Trying to Salvage It
SAN FRANCISCO — Evan Williams is the guy who opened up Pandora’s box. Until he came along, people had few places to go with their overflowing emotions and wild opinions, other than writing a letter to the newspaper or haranguing the neighbors.
Mr. Williams — a Twitter founder, a co-creator of Blogger — set everyone free, providing tools to address the world. In the history of communications technology, it was a development with echoes of Gutenberg.
And so here we are in 2017. How’s it going, Mr. Williams?
“I think the internet is broken,” he says. He has believed this for a few years, actually. But things are getting worse. “And it’s a lot more obvious to a lot of people that it’s broken.”
People are using Facebook to showcase suicides, beatings and murder, in real time. Twitter is a hive of trolling and abuse that it seems unable to stop. Fake news, whether created for ideology or profit, runs rampant. Four out of 10 adult internet users said in a Pew survey that they had been harassed online. And that was before the presidential campaign heated up last year.
“I thought once everybody could speak freely and exchange information and ideas, the world is automatically going to be a better place,” Mr. Williams says. “I was wrong about that.”
The Silicon Valley entrepreneur first drew notice during the dot-com boom, for developing software that allowed users to easily set up a website for broadcasting their thoughts: blogging. By the time Google bought the company in 2003, more than a million people were using it.
Then came Twitter, which wasn’t his idea but was his company. He remains the largest individual shareholder and a board member.
After fame and fortune come regrets. Mr. Williams is trying to fix some things. So, in different ways, are Google and Facebook, and even Twitter. This is a moment for patches and promises.
The trouble with the internet, Mr. Williams says, is that it rewards extremes. Say you’re driving down the road and see a car crash. Of course you look. Everyone looks. The internet interprets behavior like this to mean everyone is asking for car crashes, so it tries to supply them.
His goal is to break this pattern. “If I learn that every time I drive down this road I’m going to see more and more car crashes,” he says, “I’m going to take a different road.”
But a new road may have other problems. It may, for instance, be a dead end.
Mr. Williams isn’t the only one trying to fix this mess, of course. If he and others can’t find a path forward, if they can’t solve what he calls “the architecture of content creation, distribution and monetization on the internet,” there are unsettling implications for the future of news and ideas. Maybe it will be all car crashes, all the time. Twitter already feels like that.
For five years, Mr. Williams has been refining a communications platform called Medium. Its ambition: define a new model for media in a world struggling under the weight of fake or worthless content. Medium is supposed to be social and collaborative without rewarding the smash-ups. It is supposed to be a force for good.
“A beautiful space for reading and writing — and little else,” Mr. Williams called Medium at its public debut in 2012. “The words are central.”
[...]
A few years ago, Twitter was viewed as a tool of liberation. It enabled, some believed, the Arab Spring uprisings in the Middle East. Twitter, like the internet itself, was putting tyranny on a short leash.
Then the narrative turned darker, with the rise of trolling on the platform.
President Trump has said he believes Twitter put him in the White House. Recently, Mr. Williams heard the claim for the first time. He mulled it over for a bit, sitting in his Medium office, which is noteworthy only for not having a desk.
“It’s a very bad thing, Twitter’s role in that,” he said finally. “If it’s true that he wouldn’t be president if it weren’t for Twitter, then yeah, I’m sorry.”
The White House did not respond to a request for comment on Mr. Williams’s remarks.
[...]
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/20/technology/evan-williams-medium-twitter-internet.html
https://www.youtube.com/user/TheAlexJonesChannel/videos
Emergency Message To MSM: Don't Lose Your Humanity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43lt6mGRzfw
Alex Jones Settles With Chobani, Retracts False Claims
http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2017/05/17/alex-jones-settles-with-chobani-retracts-false-claims
Alex Jones ‘Resolves’ Lawsuit With Chobani Yogurt, Issues Retraction ( https://youtu.be/Hm_Gm1_a9bU )
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/alex-jones-resolves-lawsuit-chobani-yogurt-issues-retraction-n761261
Stephen Colbert tried to out-crazy Alex Jones’ recent yogurt humiliation ( https://youtu.be/GMHW6XEO1ms )
http://www.avclub.com/article/stephen-colbert-tried-out-crazy-alex-jones-recent--255675
Stocks Surged As Trading Floors Watched 'Breaking' InfoWars Video. It Was Two Weeks Old, and Wrong.
Traders and analysts are wondering if “Infowars [is] a site I have to start reading now” to gauge what the average person believes is true in the middle of a “propaganda war.”
As a video circulated that appeared to partially absolve President Donald Trump in the administration’s Russian meddling scandal on trading floors on Thursday, stocks surged for the first time in days on the apparent breaking news.
The video, it turns out, was actually two weeks old, misleadingly edited with the intention of falsely accusing former FBI director James Comey of perjury—and was initially aired by conspiracy website InfoWars on Thursday around noon.
Trump wasn’t cleared. In fact, since the video had been around since May 3rd, nothing had changed at all. But by the time traders found out, the dollar index had spiked anyway.
The fallout of the story is leaving analysts wondering how to absorb information in a market that is suddenly waiting on bated breath for the latest rumors to come out of the White House—even when those rumors are intentionally misleading or untrue.
“The market is used to trading on rumors. There are always rumors of takeovers or bankruptcies. In those situations, when you bet on a rumor, you lose big time,” Adam Button, the chief currency analyst at ForexLive, told The Daily Beast.
“With political rumors, they don’t have to be true.”
In other words, the news can be fake, but the rally it creates in the stock market is very real.
Button was one of the first to trace the bump in the American dollar back to InfoWars on Thursday.
“It’s an unprecedented time. The market is getting a taste of what the post-truth world looks like,“ said Button.
An InfoWars segment and article posted around noon titled “Breaking! Comey Caught Committing Perjury to Congress” shows Comey saying “he has not been pressured to close an investigation."
The clip on InfoWars omits that the question, asked by Hawaii Senator Mazie Hirono, specifically asks Comey if the attorney general or Department of Justice has asked him to close the investigation, and doesn’t mention President Trump.
The InfoWars story ends with the sentence “This story is developing,” even though Comey’s testimony had occurred 15 days ago. No further updates arrived.
[...]
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/05/18/stocks-surged-as-trading-floors-watched-breaking-infowars-video-it-was-two-weeks-old-and-wrong
the video:
Comey Caught Committing Perjury To Congress? - and 5-18-17 full show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEyYu4aJgiY
This video proves that James Comey perjured himself to Congress claiming that no one had asked him to halt the investigation into the Trump/Russia connection.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OgDai05bkU
Slain DNC Staffer’s Family Orders Blabbing Detective to ‘Cease and Desist’ - at https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=131520771
The family of slain Democratic staffer Seth Rich [ http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/dnc-staffer-s-murder-draws-fresh-conspiracy-theories-n760186 ] is threatening legal action against a private investigator after his "outrageous behavior" has given fuel to right-wing conspiracy theories about the unsolved murder of their son.
An attorney representing the family of Rich, who was 27 when he was killed last July, sent a cease and desist letter Friday to Rod Wheeler, a Fox News contributor and former Washington, D.C., homicide detective who was employed by the family and earlier this week told a Fox affiliate that he believed police were covering up details about the crime.
[...]
Wheeler's contract with the Rich family prohibited him from speaking to the press without prior approval from the family, a clause he apparently violated when he spoke to Fox 5 D.C. Monday for a story that quickly went viral on the right.
Rich's family also has demanded a retraction and apology from Fox 5 D.C. for the story, but has so far not received one.
Wheeler has since completely recanted his story, both in the press and in a private message to Rich's family.
The private investigator told other outlets the Fox reporter essentially put words in his mouth by giving him information that he then repeated in an on-camera interview. "That story on Fox 5 last night was inaccurate," he told BuzzFeed [ https://www.buzzfeed.com/claudiakoerner/the-private-detective-who-ignited-a-clinton-conspiracy ].
[...]
http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/slain-dnc-staffer-s-family-orders-blabbing-detective-cease-desist-n762211
Extinction risk for many species vastly underestimated, study suggests
A new study indicates that the number of plant and animal species at risk of extinction may be considerably higher than previously thought. A team of researchers, however, believe they've come up with a formula that will help paint a more accurate picture.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/04/170425140222.htm
original PR http://news.columbia.edu/content/Extinction-Risk-for-Many-Species-Vastly-Underestimated-Study-Suggests
study http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006320716310588
(mostly) carried over from http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=131110508 [and, for my personal reference, http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_pmsg.aspx?message_id=131101288 ]:
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.
[...]
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.
[...]
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.
[...]
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.
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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
White nationalist Richard Spencer leads torch-bearing protesters defending Lee statue
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/alt-rights-richard-spencer-leads-torch-bearing-protesters-defending-lee-statue/2017/05/14/766aaa56-38ac-11e7-9e48-c4f199710b69_story.html
Va. mayor slammed with anti-Semitic tweets after criticizing alt-right rally
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/va-mayor-slammed-with-anti-semitic-tweets-after-criticizing-alt-right-rally/2017/05/15/96eb95b8-3980-11e7-8854-21f359183e8c_story.html
Protestors chant Nazi phrases, wield torches near Confederate statue in Charlottesville, Va.
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/05/14/protestors-nazi-charlottesville-jackson-lee-white-supremacist-rally/22085869/
This is what emboldened white supremacists look like
With Donald Trump and his ‘America first’ rhetoric, these groups are seeing a dramatic surge. It’s up to us to stop them.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/15/emboldened-white-supremacists-charlottesville
From Lofty Perch, New Orleans [Lee] Monument to Confederacy Comes Down
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/19/us/confederate-monument-new-orleans-lee.html
‘They were not patriots’: New Orleans removes monument to Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/new-orleans-begins-removing-monument-to-confederate-gen-robert-e-lee/2017/05/19/c4ed94f6-364d-11e7-99b0-dd6e94e786e5_story.html
In New Orleans, Confederate monuments are gone — Lee last - AP
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/in-new-orleans-confederate-monuments-are-gone--lee-last/2017/05/19/5236dac0-3cf2-11e7-a59b-26e0451a96fd_story.html
original https://www.apnews.com/fd346290ef384f97906ca8de9d07197e/In-New-Orleans,-Confederate-monuments-are-gone-_-Lee-last
Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee statue removed in New Orleans
http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2017/05/confederate_gen_robert_e_lee_s_1.html
Mayor Mitch Landrieu on Confederate monuments: 'We cannot be afraid of the truth'
http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2017/05/mayor_mitch_landrieu_conferate.html
A book, an interview, an old fact, and a chart show the ongoing challenge of institutionalized racism
https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2017/05/15/a-book-an-interview-an-old-fact-and-a-chart-show-the-ongoing-challenge-of-institutionalized-racism/
Bipartisan group of senators push back on Sessions’s order to pursue most severe penalties
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/bipartisan-group-of-senators-push-back-on-sessionss-order-to-pursue-most-severe-penalties/2017/05/17/753b946c-3b25-11e7-8854-21f359183e8c_story.html
Trump's Justice Department is trying to unravel the past 10 years of criminal justice reform
“We’re leading in the direction of instigating a new drug war.”
https://www.vox.com/2017/5/17/15641856/jeff-sessions-donald-trump-drug-war-criminal-justice
Controversial Milwaukee sheriff David Clarke says he’ll be appointed to high-ranking DHS post, but agency has not confirmed
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/05/17/controversial-milwaukee-sheriff-david-clarke-says-hell-be-appointed-to-high-ranking-dhs-post-but-agency-has-not-confirmed/
Polarizing Sheriff David Clarke Says He’ll Take a Top Homeland Security Job
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/17/us/politics/sheriff-david-clarke-homeland-security-job.html
Sheriff David Clarke plagiarized portions of his master's thesis on homeland security
http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2017/05/politics/sheriff-clarke-plagiarism/
CNN report says Sheriff David Clarke plagiarized parts of his thesis on homeland security
http://www.jsonline.com/story/news/local/milwaukee/2017/05/21/cnn-report-says-sheriff-david-clarke-plagiarized-parts-his-thesis-homeland-security/334747001/
Sheriff David Clarke's thesis deleted from school's website after plagiarism accusation
Sheriff David Clarke’s master’s thesis has been removed from the Naval Postgraduate School website after reports that he plagiarized sections of his thesis on homeland security.
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https://origin-nyi.thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/334423-sheriff-david-clarkes-thesis-deleted-from-schools-website-after
Strict North Carolina Voter ID Law Thwarted [for the moment] After Supreme Court Rejects Case
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/15/us/politics/voter-id-laws-supreme-court-north-carolina.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
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Daily Presidential Tracking Poll
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/trump_administration/prez_track_mar2
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http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president_trump_job_approval-6179.html
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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.
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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.
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http://abcnews.go.com/Health/minnesotas-worst-measles-outbreak-battle-beliefs-vaccines/story?id=47155531
Alex Jones Settles With Chobani, Retracts False Claims
http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2017/05/17/alex-jones-settles-with-chobani-retracts-false-claims
Alex Jones ‘Resolves’ Lawsuit With Chobani Yogurt, Issues Retraction ( https://youtu.be/Hm_Gm1_a9bU )
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/alex-jones-resolves-lawsuit-chobani-yogurt-issues-retraction-n761261
Stocks Surged As Trading Floors Watched 'Breaking' InfoWars Video. It Was Two Weeks Old, and Wrong.
Traders and analysts are wondering if “Infowars [is] a site I have to start reading now” to gauge what the average person believes is true in the middle of a “propaganda war.”
As a video circulated that appeared to partially absolve President Donald Trump in the administration’s Russian meddling scandal on trading floors on Thursday, stocks surged for the first time in days on the apparent breaking news.
The video, it turns out, was actually two weeks old, misleadingly edited with the intention of falsely accusing former FBI director James Comey of perjury—and was initially aired by conspiracy website InfoWars on Thursday around noon.
Trump wasn’t cleared. In fact, since the video had been around since May 3rd, nothing had changed at all. But by the time traders found out, the dollar index had spiked anyway.
The fallout of the story is leaving analysts wondering how to absorb information in a market that is suddenly waiting on bated breath for the latest rumors to come out of the White House—even when those rumors are intentionally misleading or untrue.
“The market is used to trading on rumors. There are always rumors of takeovers or bankruptcies. In those situations, when you bet on a rumor, you lose big time,” Adam Button, the chief currency analyst at ForexLive, told The Daily Beast.
“With political rumors, they don’t have to be true.”
In other words, the news can be fake, but the rally it creates in the stock market is very real.
Button was one of the first to trace the bump in the American dollar back to InfoWars on Thursday.
“It’s an unprecedented time. The market is getting a taste of what the post-truth world looks like,“ said Button.
An InfoWars segment and article posted around noon titled “Breaking! Comey Caught Committing Perjury to Congress” shows Comey saying “he has not been pressured to close an investigation."
The clip on InfoWars omits that the question, asked by Hawaii Senator Mazie Hirono, specifically asks Comey if the attorney general or Department of Justice has asked him to close the investigation, and doesn’t mention President Trump.
The InfoWars story ends with the sentence “This story is developing,” even though Comey’s testimony had occurred 15 days ago. No further updates arrived.
[...]
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/05/18/stocks-surged-as-trading-floors-watched-breaking-infowars-video-it-was-two-weeks-old-and-wrong
the video:
Comey Caught Committing Perjury To Congress? - and 5-18-17 full show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEyYu4aJgiY
This video proves that James Comey perjured himself to Congress claiming that no one had asked him to halt the investigation into the Trump/Russia connection.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OgDai05bkU
Slain DNC Staffer’s Family Orders Blabbing Detective to ‘Cease and Desist’ - at https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=131520771
The family of slain Democratic staffer Seth Rich [ http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/dnc-staffer-s-murder-draws-fresh-conspiracy-theories-n760186 ] is threatening legal action against a private investigator after his "outrageous behavior" has given fuel to right-wing conspiracy theories about the unsolved murder of their son.
An attorney representing the family of Rich, who was 27 when he was killed last July, sent a cease and desist letter Friday to Rod Wheeler, a Fox News contributor and former Washington, D.C., homicide detective who was employed by the family and earlier this week told a Fox affiliate that he believed police were covering up details about the crime.
[...]
Wheeler's contract with the Rich family prohibited him from speaking to the press without prior approval from the family, a clause he apparently violated when he spoke to Fox 5 D.C. Monday for a story that quickly went viral on the right.
Rich's family also has demanded a retraction and apology from Fox 5 D.C. for the story, but has so far not received one.
Wheeler has since completely recanted his story, both in the press and in a private message to Rich's family.
The private investigator told other outlets the Fox reporter essentially put words in his mouth by giving him information that he then repeated in an on-camera interview. "That story on Fox 5 last night was inaccurate," he told BuzzFeed [ https://www.buzzfeed.com/claudiakoerner/the-private-detective-who-ignited-a-clinton-conspiracy ].
[...]
http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/slain-dnc-staffer-s-family-orders-blabbing-detective-cease-desist-n762211
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
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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?
The Amazing Atheist's channel:
https://www.youtube.com/user/TheAmazingAtheist
The Drunken Peasants Podcast:
https://www.youtube.com/user/DrunkenPeasants
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e19DYf2lRIw
If Your Body Were a Religion
Apr 11, 2017
Most of the arguments I see online about this revolve around attacking strawmen with relative privation and tu quoque fallacies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pho9FMuBJgA
A Dangerous Idea - next (last? - "Season Finale") one, #10, in Power Corrupts [ https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLv--V1yc2QDJi6hFNhur3iAsyFpXRtB8w ]
May 15, 2017
Bad ideas need special protections to propagate. Good ideas stand up to criticism. This doesn’t only apply to religion, but also to many other forms of dogma.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2L9RZYguI0Q
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I Asked a Pastor the Same Question that Made his Daughter an Atheist! (Matt Slick vs David Smalley)
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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.
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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.”
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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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Greensburg, KS - 5/4/07
"Eternal vigilance is the price of Liberty."
from John Philpot Curran, Speech
upon the Right of Election, 1790
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