Monday, January 30, 2017 3:35:01 PM
Carl Bernstein: 'There Is Open Discussion' Among GOP Officials That Trump Is Mentally Unstable
Published on Jan 26, 2017 by The Majority Report with Sam Seder [ http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-3jIAlnQmbbVMV6gR7K8aQ / http://www.youtube.com/user/SamSeder , http://www.youtube.com/user/SamSeder/videos ]
In this Majority Report clip, Sam Seder describes the anecdote that Trump told lawmakers which prompted him to become re-obsessed with voter fraud, and it is basically completely insane. Then we watch Carl Bernstein appear on CNN and say that in his 50 years of reporting, he's never experienced such a flood of discussion from lawmakers in a president's own party regarding the psychological fitness of the president.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNsIFhaVz_s [with comments]
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Trump's Interests vs. America's, Expansion Edition
Mere days after his inauguration, the president's company announced its intention to expand into more cities.
Jan 27, 2017
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/01/donald-trump-conflicts-of-interests/508382/ [with comments]
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Mike Pence Claiming He Cares About The Most Vulnerable Is Irony At Its Finest
Does he even know who America’s most vulnerable are?
01/27/2017 Updated January 28, 2017
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/mike-pence-march-for-life_us_588b91d8e4b08a14f7e5acc4?73ho3dyzhmmquxr [with embedded video, and comments]
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Berlin mayor tells Donald Trump: 'Don't build this wall!'
Thousands of people braved death to attempt to cross the border, which stood as a symbol for the Iron Curtain
Berlin's mayor Michael Müller has turned Reagan's famous Cold War plea to Gorbachev to tear the wall down into a plea for Trump not to build one. A proposed wall along the US-Mexico border has strained bilateral relations.
28.01.2017
http://www.dw.com/en/berlin-mayor-michael-m%C3%BCller-tells-donald-trump-dont-build-this-wall/a-37311389
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Israel’s Netanyahu applauds Trump’s plan for wall; Mexico not pleased
Benjamin Netanyahu
@Netanyahu
President Trump is right. I built a wall along Israel's southern border. It stopped all illegal immigration. Great success. Great idea
10:55 AM - 28 Jan 2017
[ https://twitter.com/netanyahu/status/825371795972825089 (with {over 19,000} comments)]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and then-presidential candidate Donald Trump meet in New York in 2016.
January 29, 2017
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/01/29/israels-netanyahu-applauds-trumps-plan-for-wall-mexico-not-pleased/ [with comments]
Mexican Jews alarmed by Netanyahu tweet on Trump’s wall
A WORKER STANDS next to a newly built section of the US border fence at Sunland Park, New Mexico, opposite the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez, on Wednesday. Picture taken from the Mexico side of the border.
Donors suspend contributions to Keren Hayesod; Foreign Ministry clarifies stance.
29 January 2017
http://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Mexican-Jews-alarmed-by-Netanyahu-tweet-on-Trumps-wall-479964
Benjamin Netanyahu tweet praising Trump's plan for Mexico wall prompts international backlash
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting at his office in Jerusalem 29 January, 2017.
The message was retweeted more than 40,000 times
29 January 2017
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/donald-trump-mexico-wall-benjamin-netanyahu-israel-tweet-praising-backlash-a7552216.html [with comments]
Netanyahu in hot water over praise of Trump's wall
FILE PHOTO: A labourer works on the border fence between Israel and Egypt near the Israeli village of Be'er Milcha September 6, 2012.
FILE PHOTO: African would-be immigrants stand near the border fence between Israel and Egypt near the Israeli village of Be'er Milcha September 6, 2012.
Jan 29, 2017
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-trump-mexico-idUSKBN15D0KV
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One Certainty of Trump’s Wall: Big Money
In the past week, the Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, said Congress would move ahead with plans to build the wall, estimating that it would cost $12 billion to $15 billion. Researchers at M.I.T. said last year that a 1,000-mile, 50-foot-high steel-and-concrete wall would run taxpayers about $40 billion.
JAN. 28, 2017
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/28/business/mexico-border-wall-trump.html
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Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
The failing @nytimes has been wrong about me from the very beginning. Said I would lose the primaries, then the general election. FAKE NEWS!
8:04 AM - 28 Jan 2017
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/825328817833123840 [with (over 31,000) comments]
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
Thr coverage about me in the @nytimes and the @washingtonpost gas been so false and angry that the times actually apologized to its.....
8:08 AM - 28 Jan 2017
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/825329757646618624 [with (over 22,000) comments]
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
...dwindling subscribers and readers.They got me wrong right from the beginning and still have not changed course, and never will. DISHONEST
8:16 AM - 28 Jan 2017
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/825331665509691393 [with (over 36,000) comments]
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NYTCo Communications
@NYTimesComm
.@realDonaldTrump Fact check: @nytimes subscribers & audience at all-time highs. Supporting independent journalism matters.
8:57 AM - 28 Jan 2017
https://twitter.com/NYTimesComm/status/825341956616310787 [with comments]
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Margaret Sullivan
@Sulliview
Margaret Sullivan Retweeted NYTCo Communications [just above]
Subscriptions also spiking at now-profitable @washingtonpost, where the audience is bigger than ever (and the facts aren't alternative).
1:51 PM - 28 Jan 2017
https://twitter.com/Sulliview/status/825416110417797120 [with comments]
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Wild Child Takes Charge
President Trump struggling to pull the cap off a pen as he signed an executive action to order the construction of a wall at the border with Mexico.
Doug Mills/The New York Times
By Maureen Dowd
JAN. 28, 2017
WASHINGTON — So now we’re getting the crazy straight up.
The Doomsday Clock is ticking faster, the resistance is growing, and teetotaler Donald Trump already seems drunk with power.
He’s got the role of his life and he’s casting his show: Steve Bannon is his Roy Cohn, the combative hammer and agitprop genius; Theresa May is Maggie to his Ronnie; Ivanka and Jared are his consiglieri, family to help him figure out who stays and who gets iced; Vladimir Putin echoes the role of Trump’s dad, Fred, who was supremely aggressive and calculating, cool where Donald was hot, someone who believed the world was divided into killers and losers. (But in Putin’s case, it’s literal.)
It took us years to find out that Richard Nixon was swilling Scotch, eating dog biscuits, talking to the White House portraits and blowing up the Vietnam peace talks in 1968 to help his election bid. It took us years to find out that, despite that deep, reassuring voice, Dick Cheney was a demented megalomaniac.
But with President Trump, it’s all right out there — the tantrums, the delusions, the deceptions, the self-doubts and overcompensation.
If the last president was too above the fray, this one is the fray. We’ve gone from no drama to all drama, a high ethical standard to no ethical standard.
Those who go into the Oval Office with chips on their shoulders and deep wells of insecurity, like Nixon, W. and Donald Trump, are not going to suddenly glow with self-assurance. The White House tends to bring out paranoia and insecurity.
Still, it was stunning how fast it got weird. To Trump biographer Tim O’Brien, the new president conjured the image of “a guy on a pogo stick in the Rose Garden bouncing around with a TV remote control in his hand trying to decide what to respond to in the next 30 seconds on Twitter.”
The White House “is distilling Donald to his essence,” says another biographer, Michael D’Antonio. “If he could have commanded the attention of the world media every day of his life in the past he would have. The fact that the press corps is captive in the White House and can be dragged into these executive order signings is, for him, like mainlining heroin.
“He has hit his stride and is thrilled with this. The only thing that torments him is the disapproval of The New York Times. Every story that is critical of him hurts.”
The former reality star who now denies reality rode the resentment of the aggrieved white working class to the Oval Office and bashes the press but, as D’Antonio says, “he wants the elites’ approval and is always enraged when he doesn’t get it.”
Instead of basking in the most unlikely victory in modern history, President Trump spiraled into a bizarre, Freudian obsession about whether the crowd on the Mall for his inaugural speech was as big as President Obama’s in 2009.
When the National Park Service retweeted a picture comparing the crowds of the two presidents, showing unoccupied swaths at Trump’s, the Trump administration punished the trolling resisters at the park service by shutting down their Twitter account for the night.
On Saturday, the skyscraper czar who pledged to do big things used his first full day as president to again go small. According to The Washington Post, Trump called the acting director [ https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-pressured-park-service-to-back-up-his-claims-about-inauguration-crowd/2017/01/26/12a38cb8-e3fc-11e6-ba11-63c4b4fb5a63_story.html ] of the park service to berate him about the retweet and order him to provide different photos that depicted the crowd that churned through the windmills of his mind.
Then President Trump went to the C.I.A. and, instead of apologizing for comparing the intelligence community to Nazi Germany, continued to whinge about the “dishonest” media’s coverage of his crowd size.
Later in the day, agitated by that and by the remarkable swell of women’s marches with their pink-hat contempt for him — around the world and outside his window — President Trump brushed off the advisers trying to calm him down and sent Sean Spicer rushing out to hotly confront the press and offer his now infamous alternative facts.
The 70-year-old 7-year-old disapproved of Spicer’s erratic delivery and ill-fitting light-colored suit. The Post reported [ https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/the-first-days-inside-trumps-white-house-fury-tumult-and-a-reboot/2017/01/23/7ceef1b0-e191-11e6-ba11-63c4b4fb5a63_story.html ] that Trump didn’t think Spicer was fiery enough as he delivered his defense of Trumpworld, a place where the high chair king’s ego takes primacy over actual facts. The new president doesn’t care about weakening democracy if his delicate ego needs to assert the easily disproved: that he would have won the popular vote if there weren’t massive voter fraud.
Now the president is home alone, signing executive orders banning all Syrians in the middle of their devastating war and others from Muslim countries in a document that will come to be seen as a stain on our country and will only serve as a recruiting tool for jihadis. This, while he’s telling The Times’ Maggie Haberman that he loves the “beautiful phones [ https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/25/us/politics/president-trump-white-house.html ]” in the White House and has limited TV time in the morning because his meetings start at 9.
“He is really a unique creature,” D’Antonio says. “He’s transfixing, riveting, really. It’s hard to take your eyes off him.”
I ask the biographer if he’s as nervous as everyone else, and he says yes.
“Donald’s manic without being depressive,” he muses. “The only thing you can do is keep him distracted for a day and then one more day so that he doesn’t do anything disastrous.”
Just like Obama and May, D’Antonio says, “a lot of people over the years have tried to mollify him and accommodate him day by day. And eventually you get a year behind you. Everybody else wants stability, but he thrives in turmoil.”
© 2017 The New York Times Company
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/28/opinion/sunday/wild-child-takes-charge.html [with comments]
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Gregg Phillips, Discredited Voter Fraud ‘Expert’ Cited By Trump, Has Produced No Evidence
Phillips has been accused of government ethics breaches.
01/28/2017 Updated January 29, 2017
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/gregg-phillips-voter-fraud_us_588c3030e4b08a14f7e60d6e?kb6hjwxdq7ee6zuxr [with embedded video, and comments]
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Trump's Voter-Fraud Source Embarrassed On CNN, Offers NO PROOF OF FRAUD Whatsoever
Published on Jan 29, 2017 by The Majority Report with Sam Seder
In this Majority Report clip, we watch a CNN segment with Chris Cuomo and Gregg Phillips, a guy from Texas who claims—despite all studies and evidence very much to the contrary—that he can prove that there were more than 3 million fraudulent votes cast in the 2016 presidential election. Donald Trump not only aware of this guy, who won't release any findings for months, but he's tweeted about him and is possibly basing his rantings about voter fraud on this guy's claims.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlUVV4prJDA [with comments]
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Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
Somebody with aptitude and conviction should buy the FAKE NEWS and failing @nytimes and either run it correctly or let it fold with dignity!
8:00 AM - 29 Jan 2017
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/825690087857995776 [with (over 35,000) comments]
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God
@TheGoodGodAbove
God Retweeted Donald J. Trump [just above]
I still remember when Hitler had his friends buy all the media outlets so he couldn't be criticized anymore.
3:50 PM - 29 Jan 2017
https://twitter.com/TheGoodGodAbove/status/825808245159817216 [with comments]
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Fake News? Fake President!
[ http://www.startribune.com/sack-cartoon-steve-bannon/412015196/ (with comments)]
January 29, 2017
https://www.laprogressive.com/fake-president/ [no comments yet]
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Kellyanne Conway Defends Trump's Position on Refugee Ban, Mexico, and Media
Published on Jan 29, 2017 by Conservative Views952 [ http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiqwBybPZkLEvNCxzMmRflg , http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiqwBybPZkLEvNCxzMmRflg/videos ]
Kellyanne Conway sits down with FNC's Chris Wallace to discuss the impact of President Trump's refugee ban, and his relationship with the media.
Conway defends Trump immigration ban, ripped press 'a new one' over bias
January 29, 2017
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/01/29/conway-defends-trump-immigration-ban-says-ripped-press-new-one-for-bias-mistakes.html [with embedded video, and comments]
Kellyanne Conway on President Trump's ambitious agenda; Sen. Dick Durbin on opposing President Trump [transcript]
Jan 29, 2017
http://www.foxnews.com/transcript/2017/01/29/kellyanne-conway-on-president-trump-ambitious-agenda-sen-dick-durbin-on/
FOX News Sunday [full episode]
Season 2017
Sun, Jan 29, 2017 (48 mins)
https://www.hulu.com/watch/1029356 [subscription required]
[for the moment at least at] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uT1dO62TxE [with comments] [another for the moment at least at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgZGfjPYNcw (with comments)] [and see also in particular (linked in) http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=128246273 (and any future following)]
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Trump wants to enlist local police in immigration crackdown
FILE - In this July 29, 2010, file photo, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio speaks at a news conference in Phoenix. President Donald Trump plans to revitalize a long-standing program to deputize local police officers to enforce federal immigration law. The program was used in the past by Arpaio, then sheriff of metro Phoenix, to conduct immigration patrols that were later discredited in court.
[ https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/trump-wants-to-enlist-local-police-in-immigration-crackdown/2017/01/29/880e538e-e631-11e6-903d-9b11ed7d8d2a_story.html (with comments)]
Jan. 29, 2017
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/aa172d93370d4cef904417b327ae1638/trump-wants-enlist-local-police-immigration-crackdown [with comments]
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Facing criticism, Trump administration has no regrets about leaving out Jews in Holocaust statement
Visitors walk through a gate with the inscription "Arbeit macht frei" (work sets you free) to enter the grounds of the Sachsenhausen memorial of a former Nazi concentration camp in Oranienburg near Berlin, on Jan. 27 — International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
January 29, 2017
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/facing-criticism-trump-administration-has-no-regrets-about-leaving-out-jews-in-holocaust-statement/2017/01/29/64852c70-e641-11e6-b82f-687d6e6a3e7c_story.html [with embedded video, and comments]
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Trump’s Immigration Ban Is Already Harming American Science
Protesters at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX).
Iranian scientists have been a major boon to everything from Mars exploration to Ebola-fighting to advanced mathematics.
Jan 29, 2017
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/01/trumps-immigration-ban-is-already-harming-americas-scientistsand-its-science/514859/ [with comments] [in full at/see (linked in) http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=128249928 and preceding (and any future following)]
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The Freedom That Refugees Once Found Here
With a ban on refugees and on immigrants from seven Muslim-majority nations, the Trump Administration has announced itself beyond limits, beyond decency, beyond reason.
January 29, 2017
http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-freedom-that-refugees-once-found-here
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U Ko Ni, a Prominent Muslim Lawyer in Myanmar, Is Fatally Shot
Police and security officers guarding the scene where U Ko Ni, a prominent Muslim lawyer and adviser to Myanmar’s leader, was fatally shot on Sunday at Yangon International Airport.
Ko Ni, a prominent member of Myanmar’s Muslim minority and legal adviser for Myanmar’s ruling National League for Democracy, is seen during an interview in Yangon last January.
JAN. 29, 2017
YANGON, Myanmar — U Ko Ni, a prominent human rights lawyer and a legal adviser to Myanmar [ http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/myanmar/index.html ]’s leader, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi [ https://www.nytimes.com/topic/person/daw-aung-san-suu-kyi ], was fatally shot at Yangon International Airport on Sunday.
Mr. Ko Ni, 65, a Muslim and a member of the ruling National League for Democracy, was returning from Indonesia with about 20 other government officials and civic leaders, who had traveled there as part of a government-organized trip to discuss democracy and conflict resolution.
He was shot in the head at close range as he was about to leave the airport in his family car, according to witnesses.
“During the shooting, he was holding his grandchild,” said U Aung Myint Oo, an airport security [ http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/a/airport_security/index.html ] guard. “He fell down bleeding on the ground and died on the spot.”
As the gunman tried to flee, he shot and killed a taxi driver, U Ne Win, who had tried to stop him. Other taxi drivers detained the gunman until the police arrived and arrested him, seizing two handguns. He was identified by police as U Kyi Lin from Mandalay, Myanmar.
According to taxi drivers who witnessed the attack, the gunman shouted, “You can’t act like that,” before opening fire.
The police were seen searching the house of Mr. Kyi Lyn in a neighborhood of Mandalay.
No motive for the killing has been given. Mr. Ko Ni was one of the best-known Muslims in Buddhist-majority Myanmar, serving as a legal adviser to the National League for Democracy. He was the author of six books on human rights issues and democratic elections, and was actively involved in the interfaith peace movement.
“It seems the gunman knew the exact time of his arrival and was waiting to shoot him,” said a member of the team who traveled with Mr. Ko Ni to Indonesia, and who spoke on the condition of anonymity over concern for his safety. “I was shocked and scared. It is unsafe here.”
A spokesman for the National League for Democracy, U Win Htein, said during a telephone interview from Naypyidaw, Myanmar’s capital, that Mr. Ko Ni was a key adviser in recent years to Ms. Suu Kyi, the former opposition leader turned leader of Myanmar [ https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/14/world/asia/myanmar-aung-san-suu-kyi-sanctions.html ], on constitutional amendments.
“His assassination was a big blow to the National League for Democracy, and it would be very difficult for us to replace him,” Mr. Win Htein said. “We lost a hero. It is a bad situation here.”
Amnesty International, which worked with Mr. Ko Ni on human rights issues in Myanmar, called for an independent investigation into his death.
“The killing of prominent lawyer U Ko Ni in Yangon today is an appalling act that has all the hallmarks of an assassination,” Josef Benedict, the organization’s deputy campaigns director for Southeast Asia and the Pacific, said in a statement.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/29/world/asia/myanmar-u-ko-ni-yangon-assassination-daw-aung-san-suu-kyi.html
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With National Security Council Shakeup, Steve Bannon Gets A Seat At The Table
From left, White House Senior Advisers Jared Kushner, Steve Bannon and National Security Adviser Michael Flynn are seen in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on Friday, Jan. 27.
January 29, 2017
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/01/29/512295108/with-national-security-council-shakeup-steve-bannon-gets-a-seat-at-the-table
How Steve Bannon Took Charge Of The Trump Administration
A weekend of chaos reveals who’s in charge.
Jan. 29, 2017
https://www.buzzfeed.com/adriancarrasquillo/how-steve-bannon-took-charge-of-the-trump-administration [with comments]
Trump Gives Steve Bannon, Champion of White Nationalism, Key National Security Seat
Steve Bannon attends the swearing-in ceremony for Nikki Haley as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations on Wednesday.
Jan. 29 2017
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/01/29/trump_gives_steve_bannon_champion_of_white_nationalism_key_seat_on_national.html [with comments]
The danger of Steve Bannon on the National Security Council
By David J. Rothkopf
January 29, 2017
While demonstrators poured into airports [ https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/social-issues/refugees-detained-at-us-airports-challenge-trumps-executive-order/2017/01/28/e69501a2-e562-11e6-a547-5fb9411d332c_story.html ] to protest the Trump administration’s draconian immigration policies, another presidential memorandum signed this weekend may have even more lasting, wide-ranging and dangerous consequences. The document sounds like a simple bureaucratic shuffle, outlining the shape the National Security Council will take under President Trump. Instead, it is deeply worrisome.
The idea of the National Security Council (NSC), established in 1947, is to ensure that the president has the best possible advice from his Cabinet, the military and the intelligence community before making consequential decisions, and to ensure that, once those decisions are made, a centralized mechanism exists to guarantee their effective implementation. The NSC is effectively the central nervous system of the U.S. foreign policy and national security apparatus.
Trump’s memorandum [ https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/01/28/presidential-memorandum-organization-national-security-council-and ] described the structure of his NSC — not unusual given that the exact composition shifts in modest ways from administration to administration. The problem lies in the changes that he made.
First, he essentially demoted the highest-ranking military officer in the United States, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the highest-ranking intelligence officer in the United States, the director of national intelligence. In previous administrations, those positions or their equivalent (before the creation of the director of national intelligence, the CIA director occupied that role) held permanent positions on the NSC.
Now, those key officials will be invited only when their specific expertise is seen to be required. Hard as it is to imagine any situation in which their views would not add value, this demotion is even harder to countenance given the threats the United States currently faces and the frayed state of the president’s relations with the intelligence community. A president who has no national security experience and can use all the advice he can get has decided to limit the input he receives from two of the most important advisers any president could have.
The president compounded this error of structure with an error of judgment that should send shivers down the spine of every American and our allies worldwide. Even as he pushed away professional security advice, Trump decided to make [ https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-holds-calls-with-putin-leaders-from-europe-and-asia/2017/01/28/42728948-e574-11e6-a547-5fb9411d332c_story.html ] his top political advisor, Stephen K. Bannon, a permanent member of the NSC. Although the White House chief of staff is typically a participant in NSC deliberations, I do not know of another situation in which a political adviser has been a formal permanent member of the council.
Further, Bannon is the precisely wrong person for this wrong role. His national security experience consists of a graduate degree and seven years in the Navy. More troubling, Bannon’s role as chairman of Breitbart.com, with its racist, misogynist and Islamophobic perspectives, and his avowed desire to blow up our system of government, suggests this is someone who not only has no business being a permanent member of the most powerful consultative body in the world — he has no business being in a position of responsibility in any government.
Worse still, it is a sign of other problems to come. Organizing the NSC this way does not reflect well on national security advisor Michael Flynn — whether the bad decision is a result of his lack of understanding of what the NSC should do or because he is giving in to pressure from his boss.
Moreover, elevating Bannon is a sign that there will be more than one senior official in Trump’s inner circle with top-level national security responsibility, an arrangement nearly certain to create confusion going forward.
Indeed, rumors are already circulating that Bannon and senior adviser Jared Kushner are the go-to people on national security issues for the administration, again despite the lack of experience, temperament or institutional support for either. Kushner has been given key roles on Israel, Mexico and China already. History suggests all this will not end well, with rivalries emerging with State, Defense, the Trade Representative and other agencies.
Combine all this with the president’s own shoot-from-the-lip impulses, his flair for improvisation and his well-known thin skin. You end up with a bad NSC structure being compromised by a kitchen cabinet-type superstructure and the whole thing likely being made even more dysfunctional by a president who, according to multiple reports, does not welcome advice in the first place — especially when it contradicts his own views.
The executive order on immigration and refugees was un-American, counterproductive and possibly illegal. The restructuring of the NSC, and the way in which this White House is threatening to operate outside the formal NSC structure, all but guarantees that it will not be the last bad decision to emerge from the Trump administration.
David J. Rothkopf is chief executive and editor of the FP Group, which publishes Foreign Policy magazine. He has written two histories of the NSC, “Running the World [ https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1586484230 ]” and last year’s “National Insecurity [ https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1610396332 ].”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-danger-of-steve-bannon-on-the-national-security-council/2017/01/29/ba3982a2-e663-11e6-bf6f-301b6b443624_story.html [with embedded videos, and comments]
Steve Bannon personally overruled DHS decision not to include green card holders in travel ban: CNN
The mayhem could have easily been avoided.
29 Jan 2017
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/01/steve-bannon-personally-overruled-dhs-decision-not-to-include-green-card-holders-in-travel-ban-cnn/ [with comments] [also at http://www.alternet.org/right-wing/steve-bannon-personally-overruled-dhs-decision-not-include-green-card-holders-travel-ban (subtitle taken from; with comments)]
The man behind Trump? Still Steve Bannon
Says one insider of Steve Bannon: “He’s telling Trump that he can do everything he said he would do on the campaign trail."
In the 10 days since the inauguration, Bannon has rapidly amassed power in the West Wing.
01/29/17 Updated 01/30/17
As protests erupted around the country late Saturday in response to President Donald Trump’s executive order on immigration, many of his key White House staff left for the black-tie Alfalfa Club dinner—but not his top adviser, Stephen Bannon, who stayed behind at the White House with the president, according to a senior White House official.
In the 10 days since Trump’s inauguration, Bannon — the former head of Breitbart News — has rapidly amassed power in the West Wing, eclipsing chief of staff Reince Priebus, who was among those at the Alfalfa Club event. Along with charting the early direction of the Trump administration, he’s been named to a seat on the National Security Council, giving him a part in the nation’s most sensitive intelligence operations.
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http://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/donald-trump-steve-bannon-234347 [with comments]
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Breaking: Democrats Admit to Using 3 Million Illegals to Steal Election
Published on Jan 29, 2017 by The Alex Jones Channel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-t7aRTUQGB8 [with comments]
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Trump Delivers, Keeps Promise To American People: 1/29/17 Full Show
Published on Jan 29, 2017 by The Alex Jones Channel [ http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvsye7V9psc-APX6wV1twLg / http://www.youtube.com/user/TheAlexJonesChannel , http://www.youtube.com/user/TheAlexJonesChannel/videos ]
On this LIVE Sunday, Jan. 29 edition of the Alex Jones Show, we discuss Trump’s temporary immigration ban, the freakout over it by the far left, and how it’s not much different than a similar ban former President Obama enacted before. We also look into how it’s not a Muslim ban at all considering that the majority of Muslim countries in the world are unaffected by it. And we loo into the sanctuary city showdown between Austin, Texas, and Gov. Greg Abbott. http://www.infowars.com/trump-sets-5-year-and-lifetime-lobbying-ban-for-officials/
One of the best things is the fact that we can now say “President Trump.”
Fawning media pundits and those armies of liberals who worship propriety will use the term “president” to address his predecessor; however, he is just “Obama,” plain and simple. It’s good to be rid of him. Now the real work can be done.
The primary focus of the American people from a perspective of priorities should be to convince the president to rally the Congress on one hand, and to use executive orders on the other to reverse the damage done by Obama over the past eight years. This is where it will take the American citizens to get the ball rolling on this. For those who may think it cannot be done, look at Prohibition. That heinous law was repealed, and in this light so can the evils pushed through Congress when the Democrats controlled it and the bureaucratic and executive fiats ramrodded upon us also may be negated. http://www.infowars.com/trump-cant-do-it-all-alone-six-things-americans-must-do-to-make-real-change-happen/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gfik98hG2uM [additional text taken from included segment "Trump Is Fighing For The Heart And Soul Of America", since retitled "Breaking: Catholics Turn Against Satanic Pope Francis", http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iinaZyIvWy8 (with comments); with comments]
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Organized religion and Pullman's Scoundrel Christ
In Philip Pullman's iconoclastic book The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ [ https://www.amazon.com/Good-Man-Jesus-Scoundrel-Christ/dp/1491503998 ], every word is important
Jan 28 2017
http://www.livemint.com/Sundayapp/MYvaof2M22F80tGwFXU2xH/Organized-religion-and-Pullmans-Scoundrel-Christ.html
PAPER PULPIT: The Bible: The Only Source of Christian Faith
Jan 28, 2017
http://www.houmatoday.com/news/20170128/paper-pulpit-bible-only-source-of-christian-faith [no comments yet]
Become familiar with the Bible and open your life to Jesus
Jan 29, 2017
http://goldenisles.news/opinion/advice_columns/become-familiar-with-the-bible-and-open-your-life-to/article_73fe14ce-666b-5ab2-9b12-372e3535e157.html [no comments yet]
Reflections on the Word: God’s word spread by people sharing Gospel
January 29, 2017
http://www.recordcourier.com/news/local/reflections-on-the-word-gods-word-spread-by-people-sharing-gospel/ [no comments yet]
REFLECTING ON RELIGION: Epipha-what?
Jan 29, 2017
http://www.mineralwellsindex.com/news/reflecting-on-religion-epipha-what/article_0b312c34-e4a5-11e6-b7d9-bb82f22ae76c.html [with comment]
Find your ‘Happy Place’ in the person of Christ
January 28, 2017
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/living/religion/spiritual-life/article129292699.html [no comments yet]
How can I have effective prayers?
Prayer is something that every Christian knows they need to do but very few Christians have successful prayer lives and so they have to depend on the man of God or other believers.
January 29, 2017
https://www.thestandard.co.zw/2017/01/29/can-effective-prayers/ [no comments yet]
Fasting and Prayer; key to a breakthrough
January 28, 2017
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/01/fasting-prayer-key-breakthrough/ [with comments]
Do you really know Jesus?
January 28, 2017
http://kdhnews.com/living/religion/do-you-really-know-jesus/article_07885e38-e50c-11e6-a8fc-17f678b4186c.html [with comment]
Who is blessed?
January 29, 2017
http://opinion.inquirer.net/101209/who-is-blessed-2 [with comments]
Letter: God decides who's in power
Jan 28, 2017
http://www.indeonline.com/opinion/20170128/letter-god-decides-whos-in-power [no comments yet]
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WHY THE DEVIL HATES US
Published on Jan 26, 2016 by The Alex Jones Channel
Alex Jones breaks down why the devil truly hates Man.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlM8OQfUlIU [with comments]
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GET BEHIND ME SATAN!
Published on Mar 12, 2014 by The Alex Jones Channel
Alex Rants on the meaning of evil and true presence of the devil in our society.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doeD1pu8XT4 [with comments] [also included (with additional such) at/and see also in particular (linked in) http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=117063870 and preceding and following]
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Billionaire Republican donor Charles Koch likens Donald Trump's Muslim ban to Adolf Hitler's policies in Nazi Germany
Influential industrialist says travel restrictions 'wrong approach' for 'free and open societies'
30 January 2017
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-muslim-travel-ban-billionaire-republican-donor-charles-koch-likens-policy-to-adolf-a7552531.html [with embedded videos, and comments] [and see also in particular (linked in) http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=120074878 and preceding and following]
Tensions flare as Koch promises to hold Trump accountable
Jan. 30, 2017
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/f548cc23360542578829834b9cc015c8/tensions-flare-koch-promises-hold-trump-accountable
Koch network could serve as potent resistance in Trump era
Charles Koch welcomes donors to a weekend seminar in Indian Wells, Ca., on Saturday.
January 30, 2017
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/koch-network-poised-for-new-role--as-the-conservative-resistance-to-trump/2017/01/30/7750ef02-e67c-11e6-bf6f-301b6b443624_story.html [with embedded video, and comments]
Koch brothers network aims to raise $300M to $400M for conservative causes
Jan. 28, 2017 Updated Jan. 29, 2017
INDIAN WELLS, Calif. — The leaders of the powerful network aligned with billionaires Charles and David Koch aim to raise and spend between $300 million and $400 million over the next two years to advance their free-market policy and political agenda, officials said Saturday.
The target, announced at the opening of the network’s annual winter gathering for donors, marks a substantial increase from the $250 million the network spent to influence political battles in the 2016 election and help Republicans retain their grip on the Senate.
Although Charles Koch refused to throw his political might behind President Trump’s candidacy, his top political operatives on Saturday signaled support for some of Trump’s actions during the first week of his presidency and a willingness to collaborate with his administration on other top Koch priorities, such as repealing the 2010 Affordable Care Act
“There’s been some good things, for sure,” top Koch official Mark Holden said of Trump’s early actions, singling out the new president’s move to cut federal regulation and revive the stalled Keystone XL Pipeline, designed to take oil from Canada to the Gulf Coast.
“A focus on less government ... is the way to go,” Holden said. “So, hopefully, the regulatory environment will improve.”
The early signs of optimism from the Koch camp about Trump’s presidency are a sharp departure from the tone that Charles Koch struck during the early days of the presidential campaign. Koch, an industrialist who is one of the world’s richest men, sharply criticized some of Trump’s rhetoric and policies during the election. At one point, he described Trump’s proposed Muslim registry as “reminiscent of Nazi Germany.”
On Saturday, Koch aides reserved early judgment about Trump’s move Friday to temporarily bar entry to visitors from several predominantly Muslim countries.
In a statement, Brian Hooks, who oversees the network's seminar with Holden, said the "rhetoric is extremely troubling," but said it would take some to evaluate Trump's executive order to deliver a "thoughtful response."
Koch officials also pointed to an area of potential contention: Trump’s apparent embrace this week of a 20% tax on imported goods. Trump aides said he was considering the border tax, first proposed by House Republicans, as one of several options to finance his pledge to build wall along the southern border with Mexico.
Americans for Prosperity officials slammed the border tax Friday in a letter to the leaders of the House tax-writing committee, saying it would drive up the cost of consumer goods.
The Kochs' fundraising announcement came as the Koch brothers and more than 550 ultra-wealthy donors in their network gathered for their first summit since the election to hash through their priorities. The network is one of the most powerful forces in conservative politics with an annual budget and staff that rivals the Republican Party's — and has its own for-profit data and marketing branches to identify voters and spread the Kochs’ libertarian-influenced brand of free-market conservatism.
Although the Kochs did not engage in the presidential campaign, the network spent heavily to help the Republican Party retain its control of the Senate and to shape state and local races across the country. Seven of the eight Senate candidates the Kochs backed won.
"We've had, by far, the most productive year in the history of this network," Koch told the donors early Saturday evening, as they sipped cocktails in a palm-fringed courtyard at the Renaissance Resort and Spa. He urged them to do more to achieve the network's vision of "advancing the country toward a brighter future now, while the opportunity is available."
"We may not have an opportunity again like we have today," he added.
Organizers say the gathering is the largest since the network began holding seminars in 2003. Seminar attendees must commit to giving at least $100,000 annually to the network to support the array of groups that promote their agenda
Network spokesman James Davis said 200 of those assembled were first-time attendees. The three-day gathering, organized under the theme “A Time to Lead” will emphasize some of the network’s top priorities, including promoting what officials call “free-speech” on college campuses and projects aimed at supporting anti-poverty, up-by-the-bootstraps programs.
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http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/01/28/charles-koch-donor-summit/97185948/ [with comments]
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Published on Jan 26, 2017 by The Majority Report with Sam Seder [ http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-3jIAlnQmbbVMV6gR7K8aQ / http://www.youtube.com/user/SamSeder , http://www.youtube.com/user/SamSeder/videos ]
In this Majority Report clip, Sam Seder describes the anecdote that Trump told lawmakers which prompted him to become re-obsessed with voter fraud, and it is basically completely insane. Then we watch Carl Bernstein appear on CNN and say that in his 50 years of reporting, he's never experienced such a flood of discussion from lawmakers in a president's own party regarding the psychological fitness of the president.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNsIFhaVz_s [with comments]
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Trump's Interests vs. America's, Expansion Edition
Mere days after his inauguration, the president's company announced its intention to expand into more cities.
Jan 27, 2017
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/01/donald-trump-conflicts-of-interests/508382/ [with comments]
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Mike Pence Claiming He Cares About The Most Vulnerable Is Irony At Its Finest
Does he even know who America’s most vulnerable are?
01/27/2017 Updated January 28, 2017
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/mike-pence-march-for-life_us_588b91d8e4b08a14f7e5acc4?73ho3dyzhmmquxr [with embedded video, and comments]
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Berlin mayor tells Donald Trump: 'Don't build this wall!'
Thousands of people braved death to attempt to cross the border, which stood as a symbol for the Iron Curtain
Berlin's mayor Michael Müller has turned Reagan's famous Cold War plea to Gorbachev to tear the wall down into a plea for Trump not to build one. A proposed wall along the US-Mexico border has strained bilateral relations.
28.01.2017
http://www.dw.com/en/berlin-mayor-michael-m%C3%BCller-tells-donald-trump-dont-build-this-wall/a-37311389
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Israel’s Netanyahu applauds Trump’s plan for wall; Mexico not pleased
Benjamin Netanyahu
@Netanyahu
President Trump is right. I built a wall along Israel's southern border. It stopped all illegal immigration. Great success. Great idea
10:55 AM - 28 Jan 2017
[ https://twitter.com/netanyahu/status/825371795972825089 (with {over 19,000} comments)]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and then-presidential candidate Donald Trump meet in New York in 2016.
January 29, 2017
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/01/29/israels-netanyahu-applauds-trumps-plan-for-wall-mexico-not-pleased/ [with comments]
Mexican Jews alarmed by Netanyahu tweet on Trump’s wall
A WORKER STANDS next to a newly built section of the US border fence at Sunland Park, New Mexico, opposite the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez, on Wednesday. Picture taken from the Mexico side of the border.
Donors suspend contributions to Keren Hayesod; Foreign Ministry clarifies stance.
29 January 2017
http://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Mexican-Jews-alarmed-by-Netanyahu-tweet-on-Trumps-wall-479964
Benjamin Netanyahu tweet praising Trump's plan for Mexico wall prompts international backlash
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting at his office in Jerusalem 29 January, 2017.
The message was retweeted more than 40,000 times
29 January 2017
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/donald-trump-mexico-wall-benjamin-netanyahu-israel-tweet-praising-backlash-a7552216.html [with comments]
Netanyahu in hot water over praise of Trump's wall
FILE PHOTO: A labourer works on the border fence between Israel and Egypt near the Israeli village of Be'er Milcha September 6, 2012.
FILE PHOTO: African would-be immigrants stand near the border fence between Israel and Egypt near the Israeli village of Be'er Milcha September 6, 2012.
Jan 29, 2017
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-trump-mexico-idUSKBN15D0KV
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One Certainty of Trump’s Wall: Big Money
In the past week, the Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, said Congress would move ahead with plans to build the wall, estimating that it would cost $12 billion to $15 billion. Researchers at M.I.T. said last year that a 1,000-mile, 50-foot-high steel-and-concrete wall would run taxpayers about $40 billion.
JAN. 28, 2017
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/28/business/mexico-border-wall-trump.html
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Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
The failing @nytimes has been wrong about me from the very beginning. Said I would lose the primaries, then the general election. FAKE NEWS!
8:04 AM - 28 Jan 2017
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/825328817833123840 [with (over 31,000) comments]
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
Thr coverage about me in the @nytimes and the @washingtonpost gas been so false and angry that the times actually apologized to its.....
8:08 AM - 28 Jan 2017
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/825329757646618624 [with (over 22,000) comments]
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
...dwindling subscribers and readers.They got me wrong right from the beginning and still have not changed course, and never will. DISHONEST
8:16 AM - 28 Jan 2017
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/825331665509691393 [with (over 36,000) comments]
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NYTCo Communications
@NYTimesComm
.@realDonaldTrump Fact check: @nytimes subscribers & audience at all-time highs. Supporting independent journalism matters.
8:57 AM - 28 Jan 2017
https://twitter.com/NYTimesComm/status/825341956616310787 [with comments]
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Margaret Sullivan
@Sulliview
Margaret Sullivan Retweeted NYTCo Communications [just above]
Subscriptions also spiking at now-profitable @washingtonpost, where the audience is bigger than ever (and the facts aren't alternative).
1:51 PM - 28 Jan 2017
https://twitter.com/Sulliview/status/825416110417797120 [with comments]
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Wild Child Takes Charge
President Trump struggling to pull the cap off a pen as he signed an executive action to order the construction of a wall at the border with Mexico.
Doug Mills/The New York Times
By Maureen Dowd
JAN. 28, 2017
WASHINGTON — So now we’re getting the crazy straight up.
The Doomsday Clock is ticking faster, the resistance is growing, and teetotaler Donald Trump already seems drunk with power.
He’s got the role of his life and he’s casting his show: Steve Bannon is his Roy Cohn, the combative hammer and agitprop genius; Theresa May is Maggie to his Ronnie; Ivanka and Jared are his consiglieri, family to help him figure out who stays and who gets iced; Vladimir Putin echoes the role of Trump’s dad, Fred, who was supremely aggressive and calculating, cool where Donald was hot, someone who believed the world was divided into killers and losers. (But in Putin’s case, it’s literal.)
It took us years to find out that Richard Nixon was swilling Scotch, eating dog biscuits, talking to the White House portraits and blowing up the Vietnam peace talks in 1968 to help his election bid. It took us years to find out that, despite that deep, reassuring voice, Dick Cheney was a demented megalomaniac.
But with President Trump, it’s all right out there — the tantrums, the delusions, the deceptions, the self-doubts and overcompensation.
If the last president was too above the fray, this one is the fray. We’ve gone from no drama to all drama, a high ethical standard to no ethical standard.
Those who go into the Oval Office with chips on their shoulders and deep wells of insecurity, like Nixon, W. and Donald Trump, are not going to suddenly glow with self-assurance. The White House tends to bring out paranoia and insecurity.
Still, it was stunning how fast it got weird. To Trump biographer Tim O’Brien, the new president conjured the image of “a guy on a pogo stick in the Rose Garden bouncing around with a TV remote control in his hand trying to decide what to respond to in the next 30 seconds on Twitter.”
The White House “is distilling Donald to his essence,” says another biographer, Michael D’Antonio. “If he could have commanded the attention of the world media every day of his life in the past he would have. The fact that the press corps is captive in the White House and can be dragged into these executive order signings is, for him, like mainlining heroin.
“He has hit his stride and is thrilled with this. The only thing that torments him is the disapproval of The New York Times. Every story that is critical of him hurts.”
The former reality star who now denies reality rode the resentment of the aggrieved white working class to the Oval Office and bashes the press but, as D’Antonio says, “he wants the elites’ approval and is always enraged when he doesn’t get it.”
Instead of basking in the most unlikely victory in modern history, President Trump spiraled into a bizarre, Freudian obsession about whether the crowd on the Mall for his inaugural speech was as big as President Obama’s in 2009.
When the National Park Service retweeted a picture comparing the crowds of the two presidents, showing unoccupied swaths at Trump’s, the Trump administration punished the trolling resisters at the park service by shutting down their Twitter account for the night.
On Saturday, the skyscraper czar who pledged to do big things used his first full day as president to again go small. According to The Washington Post, Trump called the acting director [ https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-pressured-park-service-to-back-up-his-claims-about-inauguration-crowd/2017/01/26/12a38cb8-e3fc-11e6-ba11-63c4b4fb5a63_story.html ] of the park service to berate him about the retweet and order him to provide different photos that depicted the crowd that churned through the windmills of his mind.
Then President Trump went to the C.I.A. and, instead of apologizing for comparing the intelligence community to Nazi Germany, continued to whinge about the “dishonest” media’s coverage of his crowd size.
Later in the day, agitated by that and by the remarkable swell of women’s marches with their pink-hat contempt for him — around the world and outside his window — President Trump brushed off the advisers trying to calm him down and sent Sean Spicer rushing out to hotly confront the press and offer his now infamous alternative facts.
The 70-year-old 7-year-old disapproved of Spicer’s erratic delivery and ill-fitting light-colored suit. The Post reported [ https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/the-first-days-inside-trumps-white-house-fury-tumult-and-a-reboot/2017/01/23/7ceef1b0-e191-11e6-ba11-63c4b4fb5a63_story.html ] that Trump didn’t think Spicer was fiery enough as he delivered his defense of Trumpworld, a place where the high chair king’s ego takes primacy over actual facts. The new president doesn’t care about weakening democracy if his delicate ego needs to assert the easily disproved: that he would have won the popular vote if there weren’t massive voter fraud.
Now the president is home alone, signing executive orders banning all Syrians in the middle of their devastating war and others from Muslim countries in a document that will come to be seen as a stain on our country and will only serve as a recruiting tool for jihadis. This, while he’s telling The Times’ Maggie Haberman that he loves the “beautiful phones [ https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/25/us/politics/president-trump-white-house.html ]” in the White House and has limited TV time in the morning because his meetings start at 9.
“He is really a unique creature,” D’Antonio says. “He’s transfixing, riveting, really. It’s hard to take your eyes off him.”
I ask the biographer if he’s as nervous as everyone else, and he says yes.
“Donald’s manic without being depressive,” he muses. “The only thing you can do is keep him distracted for a day and then one more day so that he doesn’t do anything disastrous.”
Just like Obama and May, D’Antonio says, “a lot of people over the years have tried to mollify him and accommodate him day by day. And eventually you get a year behind you. Everybody else wants stability, but he thrives in turmoil.”
© 2017 The New York Times Company
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/28/opinion/sunday/wild-child-takes-charge.html [with comments]
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Gregg Phillips, Discredited Voter Fraud ‘Expert’ Cited By Trump, Has Produced No Evidence
Phillips has been accused of government ethics breaches.
01/28/2017 Updated January 29, 2017
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/gregg-phillips-voter-fraud_us_588c3030e4b08a14f7e60d6e?kb6hjwxdq7ee6zuxr [with embedded video, and comments]
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Trump's Voter-Fraud Source Embarrassed On CNN, Offers NO PROOF OF FRAUD Whatsoever
Published on Jan 29, 2017 by The Majority Report with Sam Seder
In this Majority Report clip, we watch a CNN segment with Chris Cuomo and Gregg Phillips, a guy from Texas who claims—despite all studies and evidence very much to the contrary—that he can prove that there were more than 3 million fraudulent votes cast in the 2016 presidential election. Donald Trump not only aware of this guy, who won't release any findings for months, but he's tweeted about him and is possibly basing his rantings about voter fraud on this guy's claims.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlUVV4prJDA [with comments]
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Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
Somebody with aptitude and conviction should buy the FAKE NEWS and failing @nytimes and either run it correctly or let it fold with dignity!
8:00 AM - 29 Jan 2017
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/825690087857995776 [with (over 35,000) comments]
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God
@TheGoodGodAbove
God Retweeted Donald J. Trump [just above]
I still remember when Hitler had his friends buy all the media outlets so he couldn't be criticized anymore.
3:50 PM - 29 Jan 2017
https://twitter.com/TheGoodGodAbove/status/825808245159817216 [with comments]
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Fake News? Fake President!
[ http://www.startribune.com/sack-cartoon-steve-bannon/412015196/ (with comments)]
January 29, 2017
https://www.laprogressive.com/fake-president/ [no comments yet]
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Kellyanne Conway Defends Trump's Position on Refugee Ban, Mexico, and Media
Published on Jan 29, 2017 by Conservative Views952 [ http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiqwBybPZkLEvNCxzMmRflg , http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiqwBybPZkLEvNCxzMmRflg/videos ]
Kellyanne Conway sits down with FNC's Chris Wallace to discuss the impact of President Trump's refugee ban, and his relationship with the media.
Conway defends Trump immigration ban, ripped press 'a new one' over bias
January 29, 2017
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/01/29/conway-defends-trump-immigration-ban-says-ripped-press-new-one-for-bias-mistakes.html [with embedded video, and comments]
Kellyanne Conway on President Trump's ambitious agenda; Sen. Dick Durbin on opposing President Trump [transcript]
Jan 29, 2017
http://www.foxnews.com/transcript/2017/01/29/kellyanne-conway-on-president-trump-ambitious-agenda-sen-dick-durbin-on/
FOX News Sunday [full episode]
Season 2017
Sun, Jan 29, 2017 (48 mins)
https://www.hulu.com/watch/1029356 [subscription required]
[for the moment at least at] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uT1dO62TxE [with comments] [another for the moment at least at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgZGfjPYNcw (with comments)] [and see also in particular (linked in) http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=128246273 (and any future following)]
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Trump wants to enlist local police in immigration crackdown
FILE - In this July 29, 2010, file photo, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio speaks at a news conference in Phoenix. President Donald Trump plans to revitalize a long-standing program to deputize local police officers to enforce federal immigration law. The program was used in the past by Arpaio, then sheriff of metro Phoenix, to conduct immigration patrols that were later discredited in court.
[ https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/trump-wants-to-enlist-local-police-in-immigration-crackdown/2017/01/29/880e538e-e631-11e6-903d-9b11ed7d8d2a_story.html (with comments)]
Jan. 29, 2017
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/aa172d93370d4cef904417b327ae1638/trump-wants-enlist-local-police-immigration-crackdown [with comments]
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Facing criticism, Trump administration has no regrets about leaving out Jews in Holocaust statement
Visitors walk through a gate with the inscription "Arbeit macht frei" (work sets you free) to enter the grounds of the Sachsenhausen memorial of a former Nazi concentration camp in Oranienburg near Berlin, on Jan. 27 — International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
January 29, 2017
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/facing-criticism-trump-administration-has-no-regrets-about-leaving-out-jews-in-holocaust-statement/2017/01/29/64852c70-e641-11e6-b82f-687d6e6a3e7c_story.html [with embedded video, and comments]
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Trump’s Immigration Ban Is Already Harming American Science
Protesters at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX).
Iranian scientists have been a major boon to everything from Mars exploration to Ebola-fighting to advanced mathematics.
Jan 29, 2017
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/01/trumps-immigration-ban-is-already-harming-americas-scientistsand-its-science/514859/ [with comments] [in full at/see (linked in) http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=128249928 and preceding (and any future following)]
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The Freedom That Refugees Once Found Here
With a ban on refugees and on immigrants from seven Muslim-majority nations, the Trump Administration has announced itself beyond limits, beyond decency, beyond reason.
January 29, 2017
http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-freedom-that-refugees-once-found-here
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U Ko Ni, a Prominent Muslim Lawyer in Myanmar, Is Fatally Shot
Police and security officers guarding the scene where U Ko Ni, a prominent Muslim lawyer and adviser to Myanmar’s leader, was fatally shot on Sunday at Yangon International Airport.
Ko Ni, a prominent member of Myanmar’s Muslim minority and legal adviser for Myanmar’s ruling National League for Democracy, is seen during an interview in Yangon last January.
JAN. 29, 2017
YANGON, Myanmar — U Ko Ni, a prominent human rights lawyer and a legal adviser to Myanmar [ http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/myanmar/index.html ]’s leader, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi [ https://www.nytimes.com/topic/person/daw-aung-san-suu-kyi ], was fatally shot at Yangon International Airport on Sunday.
Mr. Ko Ni, 65, a Muslim and a member of the ruling National League for Democracy, was returning from Indonesia with about 20 other government officials and civic leaders, who had traveled there as part of a government-organized trip to discuss democracy and conflict resolution.
He was shot in the head at close range as he was about to leave the airport in his family car, according to witnesses.
“During the shooting, he was holding his grandchild,” said U Aung Myint Oo, an airport security [ http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/a/airport_security/index.html ] guard. “He fell down bleeding on the ground and died on the spot.”
As the gunman tried to flee, he shot and killed a taxi driver, U Ne Win, who had tried to stop him. Other taxi drivers detained the gunman until the police arrived and arrested him, seizing two handguns. He was identified by police as U Kyi Lin from Mandalay, Myanmar.
According to taxi drivers who witnessed the attack, the gunman shouted, “You can’t act like that,” before opening fire.
The police were seen searching the house of Mr. Kyi Lyn in a neighborhood of Mandalay.
No motive for the killing has been given. Mr. Ko Ni was one of the best-known Muslims in Buddhist-majority Myanmar, serving as a legal adviser to the National League for Democracy. He was the author of six books on human rights issues and democratic elections, and was actively involved in the interfaith peace movement.
“It seems the gunman knew the exact time of his arrival and was waiting to shoot him,” said a member of the team who traveled with Mr. Ko Ni to Indonesia, and who spoke on the condition of anonymity over concern for his safety. “I was shocked and scared. It is unsafe here.”
A spokesman for the National League for Democracy, U Win Htein, said during a telephone interview from Naypyidaw, Myanmar’s capital, that Mr. Ko Ni was a key adviser in recent years to Ms. Suu Kyi, the former opposition leader turned leader of Myanmar [ https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/14/world/asia/myanmar-aung-san-suu-kyi-sanctions.html ], on constitutional amendments.
“His assassination was a big blow to the National League for Democracy, and it would be very difficult for us to replace him,” Mr. Win Htein said. “We lost a hero. It is a bad situation here.”
Amnesty International, which worked with Mr. Ko Ni on human rights issues in Myanmar, called for an independent investigation into his death.
“The killing of prominent lawyer U Ko Ni in Yangon today is an appalling act that has all the hallmarks of an assassination,” Josef Benedict, the organization’s deputy campaigns director for Southeast Asia and the Pacific, said in a statement.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/29/world/asia/myanmar-u-ko-ni-yangon-assassination-daw-aung-san-suu-kyi.html
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With National Security Council Shakeup, Steve Bannon Gets A Seat At The Table
From left, White House Senior Advisers Jared Kushner, Steve Bannon and National Security Adviser Michael Flynn are seen in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on Friday, Jan. 27.
January 29, 2017
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/01/29/512295108/with-national-security-council-shakeup-steve-bannon-gets-a-seat-at-the-table
How Steve Bannon Took Charge Of The Trump Administration
A weekend of chaos reveals who’s in charge.
Jan. 29, 2017
https://www.buzzfeed.com/adriancarrasquillo/how-steve-bannon-took-charge-of-the-trump-administration [with comments]
Trump Gives Steve Bannon, Champion of White Nationalism, Key National Security Seat
Steve Bannon attends the swearing-in ceremony for Nikki Haley as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations on Wednesday.
Jan. 29 2017
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/01/29/trump_gives_steve_bannon_champion_of_white_nationalism_key_seat_on_national.html [with comments]
The danger of Steve Bannon on the National Security Council
By David J. Rothkopf
January 29, 2017
While demonstrators poured into airports [ https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/social-issues/refugees-detained-at-us-airports-challenge-trumps-executive-order/2017/01/28/e69501a2-e562-11e6-a547-5fb9411d332c_story.html ] to protest the Trump administration’s draconian immigration policies, another presidential memorandum signed this weekend may have even more lasting, wide-ranging and dangerous consequences. The document sounds like a simple bureaucratic shuffle, outlining the shape the National Security Council will take under President Trump. Instead, it is deeply worrisome.
The idea of the National Security Council (NSC), established in 1947, is to ensure that the president has the best possible advice from his Cabinet, the military and the intelligence community before making consequential decisions, and to ensure that, once those decisions are made, a centralized mechanism exists to guarantee their effective implementation. The NSC is effectively the central nervous system of the U.S. foreign policy and national security apparatus.
Trump’s memorandum [ https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/01/28/presidential-memorandum-organization-national-security-council-and ] described the structure of his NSC — not unusual given that the exact composition shifts in modest ways from administration to administration. The problem lies in the changes that he made.
First, he essentially demoted the highest-ranking military officer in the United States, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the highest-ranking intelligence officer in the United States, the director of national intelligence. In previous administrations, those positions or their equivalent (before the creation of the director of national intelligence, the CIA director occupied that role) held permanent positions on the NSC.
Now, those key officials will be invited only when their specific expertise is seen to be required. Hard as it is to imagine any situation in which their views would not add value, this demotion is even harder to countenance given the threats the United States currently faces and the frayed state of the president’s relations with the intelligence community. A president who has no national security experience and can use all the advice he can get has decided to limit the input he receives from two of the most important advisers any president could have.
The president compounded this error of structure with an error of judgment that should send shivers down the spine of every American and our allies worldwide. Even as he pushed away professional security advice, Trump decided to make [ https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-holds-calls-with-putin-leaders-from-europe-and-asia/2017/01/28/42728948-e574-11e6-a547-5fb9411d332c_story.html ] his top political advisor, Stephen K. Bannon, a permanent member of the NSC. Although the White House chief of staff is typically a participant in NSC deliberations, I do not know of another situation in which a political adviser has been a formal permanent member of the council.
Further, Bannon is the precisely wrong person for this wrong role. His national security experience consists of a graduate degree and seven years in the Navy. More troubling, Bannon’s role as chairman of Breitbart.com, with its racist, misogynist and Islamophobic perspectives, and his avowed desire to blow up our system of government, suggests this is someone who not only has no business being a permanent member of the most powerful consultative body in the world — he has no business being in a position of responsibility in any government.
Worse still, it is a sign of other problems to come. Organizing the NSC this way does not reflect well on national security advisor Michael Flynn — whether the bad decision is a result of his lack of understanding of what the NSC should do or because he is giving in to pressure from his boss.
Moreover, elevating Bannon is a sign that there will be more than one senior official in Trump’s inner circle with top-level national security responsibility, an arrangement nearly certain to create confusion going forward.
Indeed, rumors are already circulating that Bannon and senior adviser Jared Kushner are the go-to people on national security issues for the administration, again despite the lack of experience, temperament or institutional support for either. Kushner has been given key roles on Israel, Mexico and China already. History suggests all this will not end well, with rivalries emerging with State, Defense, the Trade Representative and other agencies.
Combine all this with the president’s own shoot-from-the-lip impulses, his flair for improvisation and his well-known thin skin. You end up with a bad NSC structure being compromised by a kitchen cabinet-type superstructure and the whole thing likely being made even more dysfunctional by a president who, according to multiple reports, does not welcome advice in the first place — especially when it contradicts his own views.
The executive order on immigration and refugees was un-American, counterproductive and possibly illegal. The restructuring of the NSC, and the way in which this White House is threatening to operate outside the formal NSC structure, all but guarantees that it will not be the last bad decision to emerge from the Trump administration.
David J. Rothkopf is chief executive and editor of the FP Group, which publishes Foreign Policy magazine. He has written two histories of the NSC, “Running the World [ https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1586484230 ]” and last year’s “National Insecurity [ https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1610396332 ].”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-danger-of-steve-bannon-on-the-national-security-council/2017/01/29/ba3982a2-e663-11e6-bf6f-301b6b443624_story.html [with embedded videos, and comments]
Steve Bannon personally overruled DHS decision not to include green card holders in travel ban: CNN
The mayhem could have easily been avoided.
29 Jan 2017
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/01/steve-bannon-personally-overruled-dhs-decision-not-to-include-green-card-holders-in-travel-ban-cnn/ [with comments] [also at http://www.alternet.org/right-wing/steve-bannon-personally-overruled-dhs-decision-not-include-green-card-holders-travel-ban (subtitle taken from; with comments)]
The man behind Trump? Still Steve Bannon
Says one insider of Steve Bannon: “He’s telling Trump that he can do everything he said he would do on the campaign trail."
In the 10 days since the inauguration, Bannon has rapidly amassed power in the West Wing.
01/29/17 Updated 01/30/17
As protests erupted around the country late Saturday in response to President Donald Trump’s executive order on immigration, many of his key White House staff left for the black-tie Alfalfa Club dinner—but not his top adviser, Stephen Bannon, who stayed behind at the White House with the president, according to a senior White House official.
In the 10 days since Trump’s inauguration, Bannon — the former head of Breitbart News — has rapidly amassed power in the West Wing, eclipsing chief of staff Reince Priebus, who was among those at the Alfalfa Club event. Along with charting the early direction of the Trump administration, he’s been named to a seat on the National Security Council, giving him a part in the nation’s most sensitive intelligence operations.
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http://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/donald-trump-steve-bannon-234347 [with comments]
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Breaking: Democrats Admit to Using 3 Million Illegals to Steal Election
Published on Jan 29, 2017 by The Alex Jones Channel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-t7aRTUQGB8 [with comments]
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Trump Delivers, Keeps Promise To American People: 1/29/17 Full Show
Published on Jan 29, 2017 by The Alex Jones Channel [ http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvsye7V9psc-APX6wV1twLg / http://www.youtube.com/user/TheAlexJonesChannel , http://www.youtube.com/user/TheAlexJonesChannel/videos ]
On this LIVE Sunday, Jan. 29 edition of the Alex Jones Show, we discuss Trump’s temporary immigration ban, the freakout over it by the far left, and how it’s not much different than a similar ban former President Obama enacted before. We also look into how it’s not a Muslim ban at all considering that the majority of Muslim countries in the world are unaffected by it. And we loo into the sanctuary city showdown between Austin, Texas, and Gov. Greg Abbott. http://www.infowars.com/trump-sets-5-year-and-lifetime-lobbying-ban-for-officials/
One of the best things is the fact that we can now say “President Trump.”
Fawning media pundits and those armies of liberals who worship propriety will use the term “president” to address his predecessor; however, he is just “Obama,” plain and simple. It’s good to be rid of him. Now the real work can be done.
The primary focus of the American people from a perspective of priorities should be to convince the president to rally the Congress on one hand, and to use executive orders on the other to reverse the damage done by Obama over the past eight years. This is where it will take the American citizens to get the ball rolling on this. For those who may think it cannot be done, look at Prohibition. That heinous law was repealed, and in this light so can the evils pushed through Congress when the Democrats controlled it and the bureaucratic and executive fiats ramrodded upon us also may be negated. http://www.infowars.com/trump-cant-do-it-all-alone-six-things-americans-must-do-to-make-real-change-happen/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gfik98hG2uM [additional text taken from included segment "Trump Is Fighing For The Heart And Soul Of America", since retitled "Breaking: Catholics Turn Against Satanic Pope Francis", http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iinaZyIvWy8 (with comments); with comments]
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Organized religion and Pullman's Scoundrel Christ
In Philip Pullman's iconoclastic book The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ [ https://www.amazon.com/Good-Man-Jesus-Scoundrel-Christ/dp/1491503998 ], every word is important
Jan 28 2017
http://www.livemint.com/Sundayapp/MYvaof2M22F80tGwFXU2xH/Organized-religion-and-Pullmans-Scoundrel-Christ.html
PAPER PULPIT: The Bible: The Only Source of Christian Faith
Jan 28, 2017
http://www.houmatoday.com/news/20170128/paper-pulpit-bible-only-source-of-christian-faith [no comments yet]
Become familiar with the Bible and open your life to Jesus
Jan 29, 2017
http://goldenisles.news/opinion/advice_columns/become-familiar-with-the-bible-and-open-your-life-to/article_73fe14ce-666b-5ab2-9b12-372e3535e157.html [no comments yet]
Reflections on the Word: God’s word spread by people sharing Gospel
January 29, 2017
http://www.recordcourier.com/news/local/reflections-on-the-word-gods-word-spread-by-people-sharing-gospel/ [no comments yet]
REFLECTING ON RELIGION: Epipha-what?
Jan 29, 2017
http://www.mineralwellsindex.com/news/reflecting-on-religion-epipha-what/article_0b312c34-e4a5-11e6-b7d9-bb82f22ae76c.html [with comment]
Find your ‘Happy Place’ in the person of Christ
January 28, 2017
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/living/religion/spiritual-life/article129292699.html [no comments yet]
How can I have effective prayers?
Prayer is something that every Christian knows they need to do but very few Christians have successful prayer lives and so they have to depend on the man of God or other believers.
January 29, 2017
https://www.thestandard.co.zw/2017/01/29/can-effective-prayers/ [no comments yet]
Fasting and Prayer; key to a breakthrough
January 28, 2017
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/01/fasting-prayer-key-breakthrough/ [with comments]
Do you really know Jesus?
January 28, 2017
http://kdhnews.com/living/religion/do-you-really-know-jesus/article_07885e38-e50c-11e6-a8fc-17f678b4186c.html [with comment]
Who is blessed?
January 29, 2017
http://opinion.inquirer.net/101209/who-is-blessed-2 [with comments]
Letter: God decides who's in power
Jan 28, 2017
http://www.indeonline.com/opinion/20170128/letter-god-decides-whos-in-power [no comments yet]
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WHY THE DEVIL HATES US
Published on Jan 26, 2016 by The Alex Jones Channel
Alex Jones breaks down why the devil truly hates Man.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlM8OQfUlIU [with comments]
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GET BEHIND ME SATAN!
Published on Mar 12, 2014 by The Alex Jones Channel
Alex Rants on the meaning of evil and true presence of the devil in our society.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doeD1pu8XT4 [with comments] [also included (with additional such) at/and see also in particular (linked in) http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=117063870 and preceding and following]
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Billionaire Republican donor Charles Koch likens Donald Trump's Muslim ban to Adolf Hitler's policies in Nazi Germany
Influential industrialist says travel restrictions 'wrong approach' for 'free and open societies'
30 January 2017
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-muslim-travel-ban-billionaire-republican-donor-charles-koch-likens-policy-to-adolf-a7552531.html [with embedded videos, and comments] [and see also in particular (linked in) http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=120074878 and preceding and following]
Tensions flare as Koch promises to hold Trump accountable
Jan. 30, 2017
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/f548cc23360542578829834b9cc015c8/tensions-flare-koch-promises-hold-trump-accountable
Koch network could serve as potent resistance in Trump era
Charles Koch welcomes donors to a weekend seminar in Indian Wells, Ca., on Saturday.
January 30, 2017
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/koch-network-poised-for-new-role--as-the-conservative-resistance-to-trump/2017/01/30/7750ef02-e67c-11e6-bf6f-301b6b443624_story.html [with embedded video, and comments]
Koch brothers network aims to raise $300M to $400M for conservative causes
Jan. 28, 2017 Updated Jan. 29, 2017
INDIAN WELLS, Calif. — The leaders of the powerful network aligned with billionaires Charles and David Koch aim to raise and spend between $300 million and $400 million over the next two years to advance their free-market policy and political agenda, officials said Saturday.
The target, announced at the opening of the network’s annual winter gathering for donors, marks a substantial increase from the $250 million the network spent to influence political battles in the 2016 election and help Republicans retain their grip on the Senate.
Although Charles Koch refused to throw his political might behind President Trump’s candidacy, his top political operatives on Saturday signaled support for some of Trump’s actions during the first week of his presidency and a willingness to collaborate with his administration on other top Koch priorities, such as repealing the 2010 Affordable Care Act
“There’s been some good things, for sure,” top Koch official Mark Holden said of Trump’s early actions, singling out the new president’s move to cut federal regulation and revive the stalled Keystone XL Pipeline, designed to take oil from Canada to the Gulf Coast.
“A focus on less government ... is the way to go,” Holden said. “So, hopefully, the regulatory environment will improve.”
The early signs of optimism from the Koch camp about Trump’s presidency are a sharp departure from the tone that Charles Koch struck during the early days of the presidential campaign. Koch, an industrialist who is one of the world’s richest men, sharply criticized some of Trump’s rhetoric and policies during the election. At one point, he described Trump’s proposed Muslim registry as “reminiscent of Nazi Germany.”
On Saturday, Koch aides reserved early judgment about Trump’s move Friday to temporarily bar entry to visitors from several predominantly Muslim countries.
In a statement, Brian Hooks, who oversees the network's seminar with Holden, said the "rhetoric is extremely troubling," but said it would take some to evaluate Trump's executive order to deliver a "thoughtful response."
Koch officials also pointed to an area of potential contention: Trump’s apparent embrace this week of a 20% tax on imported goods. Trump aides said he was considering the border tax, first proposed by House Republicans, as one of several options to finance his pledge to build wall along the southern border with Mexico.
Americans for Prosperity officials slammed the border tax Friday in a letter to the leaders of the House tax-writing committee, saying it would drive up the cost of consumer goods.
The Kochs' fundraising announcement came as the Koch brothers and more than 550 ultra-wealthy donors in their network gathered for their first summit since the election to hash through their priorities. The network is one of the most powerful forces in conservative politics with an annual budget and staff that rivals the Republican Party's — and has its own for-profit data and marketing branches to identify voters and spread the Kochs’ libertarian-influenced brand of free-market conservatism.
Although the Kochs did not engage in the presidential campaign, the network spent heavily to help the Republican Party retain its control of the Senate and to shape state and local races across the country. Seven of the eight Senate candidates the Kochs backed won.
"We've had, by far, the most productive year in the history of this network," Koch told the donors early Saturday evening, as they sipped cocktails in a palm-fringed courtyard at the Renaissance Resort and Spa. He urged them to do more to achieve the network's vision of "advancing the country toward a brighter future now, while the opportunity is available."
"We may not have an opportunity again like we have today," he added.
Organizers say the gathering is the largest since the network began holding seminars in 2003. Seminar attendees must commit to giving at least $100,000 annually to the network to support the array of groups that promote their agenda
Network spokesman James Davis said 200 of those assembled were first-time attendees. The three-day gathering, organized under the theme “A Time to Lead” will emphasize some of the network’s top priorities, including promoting what officials call “free-speech” on college campuses and projects aimed at supporting anti-poverty, up-by-the-bootstraps programs.
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http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/01/28/charles-koch-donor-summit/97185948/ [with comments]
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