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Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Joseph Stiglitz: Trump Tax Plan to Worsen Inequality, Expand Loopholes

Published on Nov 30, 2017 by Democracy Now! [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzuqE7-t13O4NIDYJfakrhw / https://www.youtube.com/user/democracynow , https://www.youtube.com/user/democracynow/videos ]

Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz joins us to critique the Republican tax plan that could face a vote as early as Friday. The sweeping legislation would overhaul the tax code in order to shower billions of dollars in tax cuts upon the richest Americans, including President Trump’s own family, and repeal the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate. Stiglitz is a Columbia University professor, and chief economist for the Roosevelt Institute. He served as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Bill Clinton.
https://www.democracynow.org/2017/11/30/nobel_prize_winning_economist_joseph_stiglitz [with embedded video, and transcript]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0yS57R6c8s [with comments]


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Anti-Globalization in the Era of Trump: Joseph Stiglitz on Shared Prosperity Without Protectionism

Published on Nov 30, 2017 by Democracy Now!

In the updated edition of Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz’s new book, “Globalization and Its Discontents Revisited: Anti-Globalization in the Era of Trump,” he argues that when Trump became president, he “threw a hand grenade into the global economic order.” We speak with Stiglitz about the impact of free trade agreements that Trump has criticized.
https://www.democracynow.org/2017/11/30/anti_globalization_in_the_era_of [with embedded video, and transcript]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWVf7dkys4g [with comments]


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Full Show - EXPOSED: Fake Benghazi Trial, Fake MSM Pervs - 11/30/2017

Published on Nov 30, 2017 by Real News with David Knight [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCC1L9FOMSaPgMyoLSnps47g , https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCC1L9FOMSaPgMyoLSnps47g/videos ]

Full Broadcast 30Nov17 Real News with David Knight
GUESTS:
• Kris “Tanto” Paronto — One of the Benghazi heroes who put their lives on the line to protect others is rightfully outraged at the outcome of the Obama administration’s show trial. One of the captured terrorists was given a criminal trial in the US that just ended without a conviction for murder.
• Hugo de Garis — AI expert on the accelerating clash between AI & humans
TOPICS:
• Matt Later was apparently at the center of the Access Hollywood tape that was leaked to take down Trump & he grilled Bill O’Reilly on allegations of sexual harassment that O’Reilly vigorously denied. But there’s no denying the hypocrisy & depravity of Matt Lauer.
• Major turning point in the Bundy Trial as the judge, who in previous trials was extremely biased in favor of prosecutors, grants bail after 2 years after massive government lies were exposed.

[from Alex Jones and his merry band of batshit bullshitters]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmwpUS7X6Qk [with comments] [also at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxJ2tRN9J-A (with comments)]


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The real reason American health care is so expensive

Published on Nov 30, 2017 by Vox [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLXo7UDZvByw2ixzpQCufnA / https://www.youtube.com/user/voxdotcom , https://www.youtube.com/user/voxdotcom/videos ]

Hint: single-payer won’t fix America’s health care spending.

Americans don't drive up the price by consuming more health care. They don't visit the doctor more than other developed countries:
http://international.commonwealthfund.org/stats/annual_physician_visits/

But the price we pay for that visit - for a procedure - it costs way more:
http://static1.squarespace.com/static/518a3cfee4b0a77d03a62c98/t/57d3ca9529687f1a257e9e26/1473497751062/2015+Comparative+Price+Report+09.09.16.pdf

The price you pay for the same procedure, at the same hospital, may vary enormously depending on what kind of health insurance you have in the US.

That's because of bargaining power. Government programs, like Medicare and Medicaid, can ask for a lower price from health service providers because they have the numbers: the hospital has to comply or else risk losing the business of millions of Americans.

There are dozens of private health insurance providers in the United States and they each need to bargain for prices with hospitals and doctors. The numbers of people private insurances represent are much less than the government programs. That means a higher price when you go to the doctor or fill a prescription.

Uninsured individuals have the least bargaining power. Without any insurance, you will pay the highest price.

For more health care policy content, check out The Impact, a podcast about the human consequences of policy-making.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-impact/id1294325824?mt=2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNla9nyRMmQ [with (over 6,000) comments]


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WATCH: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell news briefing on tax reform

Streamed live on Nov 30, 2017 by PBS NewsHour [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6ZFN9Tx6xh-skXCuRHCDpQ / https://www.youtube.com/user/PBSNewsHour , https://www.youtube.com/user/PBSNewsHour/videos ]

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Sens. John Thune, Roy Blunt and Shelley Moore Capito join small business leaders in news briefing about the importance of tax reform.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKKLu--6a-o [comments disabled]


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WATCH: Nancy Pelosi holds weekly news briefing

Streamed live on Nov 30, 2017 by PBS NewsHour

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi holds her weekly news briefing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yi_EOrsB9Yg [comments disabled]


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WATCH: Paul Ryan holds weekly news briefing

Streamed live on Nov 30, 2017 by PBS NewsHour

Speaker of the House Paul Ryan holds his weekly news briefing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5o8J7voF08 [comments disabled]


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President Trump Meets with the Crown Prince of Bahrain

Published on Nov 30, 2017 by The White House [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYxRlFDqcWM4y7FfpiAN3KQ / https://www.youtube.com/user/whitehouse , https://www.youtube.com/user/whitehouse/videos ]

The White House

Remarks by President Trump and His Highness Prince Salman bin Hamad bin Isa al Khalifa, Crown Prince of Bahrain Before Bilateral Meeting
Oval Office
November 30, 2017
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-highness-prince-salman-bin-hamad-bin-isa-al-khalifa-crown-prince-bahrain-bilateral-meeting/ [official transcript]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7weaEH_o34 [with comments]


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Full Show - Trump Tweets Violent Muslim Videos / Leftist Media Covers For Islamic Slave Traders - 11/30/2017

Published on Nov 30, 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 ]

Thursday, Nov. 30th 2017: Draining the Swamp - MSNBC host Joe Scarborough is in panic mode after President Trump reminded the world about the dead intern who was mysteriously found in Scarborough's office. We're witnessing the rebirth of humanity as it sheds the phantoms of the past who were pegging people down under a predatory system. Political commentator Lucian Wintrich reveals how the left censored his recent speech - and how this signals the collapse of the establishment power structure that has existed for centuries. Jon Rappoport hosts the final hour.

Alex Jones
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/alex-jones/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMe44HPB2Sc [with comments] [also, edited, at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rB-EojnNZ4o (additional text adapted from; with comments)] [a must-watch]


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Murder at America's Border: The Story of an Anti-Immigration Vigilante - Red Right Hand S1 E2

Published on Nov 30, 2017 by VICE [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCn8zNIfYAQNdrFRrr8oibKw / https://www.youtube.com/user/vice , https://www.youtube.com/user/vice/videos ]

A brutal home invasion shook a dusty border town in Southern Arizona late one summer night in 2009. Three supposed US Border Patrol agents fatally shot a father and his 9-year-old daughter. As it turned out, the double homicide was masterminded by prominent-Minutemen-leader, Shawna Forde. VICE explores the demented rise and fall of Shawna Forde in a story about astonishing distortions of the American Dream and the unintended consequences of false narratives.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRtBtI3lkqc [with comments]


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WATCH: Sarah Sanders holds White House news briefing

Streamed live on Nov 30, 2017 by PBS NewsHour

President Donald Trump's press secretary Sarah Sanders holds a news briefing at the White House.

Press Briefing by Press Secretary Sarah Sanders and Acting Secretary of Health and Human Services Eric Hargan
James S. Brady Press Briefing Room
November 30, 2017
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/press-briefing-press-secretary-sarah-sanders-113017/ [official transcript]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DciVzVpF5i8 [comments disabled] [official White House upload at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIy-0nNwFWs (with comments)]


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Full Show - Texas State University Paper Goes Full Racist - 11/30/2017

Published on Nov 30, 2017 by War Room [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClsn7QZVdszxLlUs-GOG0Sg , https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClsn7QZVdszxLlUs-GOG0Sg/videos ]

Today's War Room will be forever remembered. Owen Shroyer goes Texas State University to address the anti-white article published by the student newspaper. What followed was an epic exchange on the campus. Roger Stone breaks the biggest news developing out of the White House, as we continue to expose the liberal double standards when it comes to policy, race, and sexual assault.

[from Alex Jones and his merry band of batshit bullshitters]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2_s4joa36I [with comments] [also, edited, at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anBbgn3AACg (with comments)]


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WATCH: President Trump hosts annual White House Christmas tree lighting

Streamed live on Nov 30, 2017 by PBS NewsHour

President Donald Trump hosts the annual lighting of the White House Christmas tree.

[no official transcript (yet) at https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/ (the new/newly consolidated landing spot for each/all of the previous https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-and-remarks , https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/press-briefings , and https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-and-releases )]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UujlMWIk7c [comments disabled] [official White House upload at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XguPpSKhvJs (with comments)]


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Mueller Russia investigation hits Trump family

The Beat With Ari Melber
11/30/17

Jared Kushner meets with Mueller team and House investigators will question Donald Trump Jr. next week. Duration: 11:10

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/the-beat-with-ari-melber/watch/mueller-russia-investigation-hits-trump-family-1107213379878


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Extraordinary rebuke to Trump by chorus of British leaders

The Beat With Ari Melber
11/30/17

Theresa May condemned Trump’s retweets of anti-muslim videos from a far-right group as the “wrong thing to do”, as the U.S. State Department warns that Trump’s tweets could endanger U.S. Officials overseas. Duration: 5:30

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/the-beat-with-ari-melber/watch/trump-tweets-spark-global-backlash-1107217475515


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Lawrence O’Donnell: Trump tax plan “Absolute Nonsense”

The Beat With Ari Melber
11/30/17

Lawrence O’Donnell fact checks Trump’s tax plan and why he’s “willing to say absolutely anything to pass this bill.” Duration: 6:40

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/the-beat-with-ari-melber/watch/lawrence-o-donnell-trump-tax-plan-absolute-nonsense-1107217475943


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Jelani Cobb on FBI targeting black activism

The Beat With Ari Melber
11/30/17

The FBI says “black identity extremists” pose a violent threat to police officers. Jelani Cobb breaks down the FBI report, Jeff Sessions’ response and America’s troubling views of African-American activism. Duration: 4:28

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/the-beat-with-ari-melber/watch/jelani-cobb-on-fbi-targeting-black-activism-1107217987870 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cps6k82gvw [with comments]


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Jelani Cobb: Concerns about Trump’s health need “to be taken seriously"

The Beat With Ari Melber
11/30/17

Trump's "Art of The Deal" co-author, Tony Schwartz alleges White House staffers are “deeply concerned” about Trump's mental health. Duration: 0:47

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/the-beat-with-ari-melber/watch/jelani-cobb-concerns-about-trump-s-health-need-to-be-taken-seriously-1107221059956


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GOP nearing vote on tax bill nobody has read

All In with Chris Hayes
11/30/17

Republican senators are once again racing to pass a bill before anyone gets a chance to figure out what exactly it does or who it hurts. Duration: 3:39

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/gop-nearing-vote-on-tax-bill-nobody-has-read-1107270211559


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Roger Stone's link to Wikileaks and Julian Assange uncovered

All In with Chris Hayes
11/30/17

We now know who the go-between for Stone and Assange was - and he's been subpoenaed by the House Intelligence Committee. Duration: 2:22

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/roger-stone-s-link-to-wikileaks-and-julian-assange-uncovered-1107283011699


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Vote to impeach Trump will happen next week: Rep. Green

All In with Chris Hayes
11/30/17

“Impeachment was designed for times such as this and presidents such as Trump,” says Congressman Al Green, who plans to bring impeachment up for a vote next week. Duration: 5:35

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/vote-to-impeach-trump-will-happen-next-week-rep-green-1107269187601 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZbLAB4r810 [with comments]


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Graham fed up with same comments about Trump he made

All In with Chris Hayes
11/30/17

Lindsey Graham doesn’t like it when people say Trump is unfit for office. But Lindsey Graham himself said Trump is unfit for office. Duration: 1:36

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/graham-fed-up-with-same-comments-about-trump-he-made-1107291203724 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyoCJXJ-UbM [with comments]


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Why James O'Keefe isn't going away

All In with Chris Hayes
11/30/17

He is widely seen as a ridiculous doofus. But he hits his target enough for his wealthy donors who want to destroy journalism. Duration: 7:29

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/why-james-o-keefe-isn-t-going-away-1107296323567


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Wray surprises with mention of 'foreign influence' task force

The Rachel Maddow Show
11/30/17

Rachel Maddow reports on the latest developments in the investigation into Russia's attack on the 2016 U.S. election, including FBI Director Wray announcing a previously unheard of task force to counter foreign influence in elections. Duration: 6:41

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/wray-surprises-with-mention-of-foreign-influence-task-force-1107337283773


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That's 'Steven' Mnuchin, please

The Rachel Maddow Show
11/30/17

Rachel Maddow helps acquaint viewers with Donald Trump Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin. Duration: 3:06

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/that-s-steven-mnuchin-please-1107371075641


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Treasury Secretary Mnuchin fails to deliver promised tax report

The Rachel Maddow Show
11/30/17

Rachel Maddow shows Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin's repeated claims that he had a hundred experts working on an assessment of the Republican tax bill, only to deliver nothing in time for the vote because reportedly there is nothing to deliver, no report was done. Duration: 14:24

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/treasury-secretary-mnuchin-fails-to-deliver-promised-tax-report-1107338819941 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvOe2-LOtm0 [with commens]


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Trump pushed top GOP senators to end Russia probe: NYT

The Rachel Maddow Show
11/30/17

Joyce Vance, former U.S. attorney, talks with Rachel Maddow about Donald Trump's potential legal jeopardy for obstruction of justice in light of new breaking news from the New York Times that Trump pressured senators over the summer to end the probe. Duration: 7:00

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-pushed-top-gop-senators-to-end-russia-probe-nyt-1107346499529


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Sessions refuses to answer Schiff on Trump Russia probe pressure

The Rachel Maddow Show
11/30/17

Rachel Maddow shares video of Rep. Adam Schiff expressing his concern that Jeff Sessions refused to answer under oath to the House Intelligence Committee whether Donald Trump asked him to hinder the Russia investigation. Duration: 2:34

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/sessions-refuses-to-answer-schiff-on-trump-russia-probe-pressure-1107379267621


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Trump obstruction eyed in Sessions avoidance of pressure question

The Rachel Maddow Show
11/30/17

Rep. Jim Himes of the House Intelligence Committee, talks with Rachel Maddow about new Trump obstruction questions after Jeff Sessions refused to tell Rep. Schiff in testimony before the committee whether Donald Trump pushed him to hinder the Russia investigation. Duration: 5:18

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-obstruction-eyed-in-sessions-avoidance-of-pressure-question-1107350595538


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Rosenstein to testify in Congress December 13

The Rachel Maddow Show
11/30/17

Rachel Maddow alerts viewers that Rod Rosenstein will testify in an open session before the House Judiciary Committee on December 13th. Duration: 3:14

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/rosenstein-to-testify-in-congress-december-13-1107382851593


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Analysis: Middle class gets average 1% tax cut with GOP bill

The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell
11/30/17

The Republican tax cut plan in the Senate hit another snag because every analysis shows the bill adds a trillion dollars to the debt and only gives a small cut to the middle class. This move gives some hope to opponents of the bill. Lawrence O'Donnell examines. Duration: 8:53

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/analysis-middle-class-gets-average-1-tax-cut-with-gop-bill-1107347011759 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9ydV5IbQDY [with comments]


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Fmr. GOP Treasury official: Tax cut bill makes no sense

The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell
11/30/17

Bruce Bartlett, who worked in the Reagan Treasury Dept., says Republicans are cutting taxes as if it's a game of golf: just trying to get to the lowest number possible without thinking of the impact on the deficit or the middle class. John Heilemann also joins. Duration: 8:46

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/fmr-gop-treasury-official-tax-cut-bill-makes-no-sense-1107349571869


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Ezra Klein: Why we should "normalize" impeachment

The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell
11/30/17

Ezra Klein explains why impeaching Donald Trump doesn't require him having committed a crime. Lawrence O’Donnell says ‘high crimes and misdemeanors’ means whatever the Senate says it does. Duration: 6:46

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/ezra-klein-why-we-should-normalize-impeachment-1107351107897 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8h8tjCjBjc [with comments]


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NYTimes: Trump pressed GOP senators to end Russia probe

The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
12/1/17

Multiple GOP senators, including the head of the Senate Intelligence Committee, tell The New York Times that over the summer Trump called them to say he wanted them to end their Russia investigation. Our panel reacts. Duration: 8:42

©2017 NBCNews.com

[originally aired November 30, 2017]

http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/nytimes-trump-pressed-gop-senators-to-end-russia-probe-1107379267873 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bos2XULnDJg [with comments]


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Trump considers replacing Secy. of State Rex Tillerson

The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
12/1/17

NBC News reports that the Trump administration is mulling over another Cabinet shakeup that would see Rex Tillerson out as Secretary of State. Our expert panel reacts. Duration: 7:04

©2017 NBCNews.com

[originally aired November 30, 2017]

http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/trump-considers-replacing-secy-of-state-rex-tillerson-1107391043971


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UK MPs: Trump anti-Muslim retweets are stupid & racist

The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
12/1/17

British lawmakers are calling on Prime Minister Theresa May to rescind an invitation for Trump to visit the UK after he retweeted a fringe UK group's unverified anti-Muslim videos. Jeremy Bash reacts. Duration: 4:22

©2017 NBCNews.com

[originally aired November 30, 2017]

http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/uk-mps-trump-anti-muslim-retweets-are-stupid-racist-1107384899805 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0eogDzDhEw [with comments]


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Trump rally just outside Alabama could help Roy Moore

The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
12/1/17

After the White House said Trump wouldn't campaign for Roy Moore, The Washington Post reports Trump will hold a rally in Pensacola, FL which shares a media market with Mobile, AL just days before the AL special election. Duration: 1:33

©2017 NBCNews.com

[originally aired November 30, 2017]

http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/trump-rally-just-outside-alabama-could-help-roy-moore-1107394115693


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The FCC Wants The Future Of Net Neutrality To Not Include Net Neutrality

Published on Nov 30, 2017 by VICE News [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZaT_X_mc0BI-djXOlfhqWQ / https://www.youtube.com/user/vicenews , https://www.youtube.com/user/vicenews/videos ]

On December 14, the FCC will consider and vote on Chairman Ajit Pai’s “Restoring Internet Freedom” proposal, which would reclassify internet service — now considered a Title II “utility” — as an “information service.” The proposal, which is expected to pass on a party-line 3-2 vote, would end a 2015 policy known as “net neutrality,” and give internet service providers significantly more power over what their customers do on the internet and how they access it.

Pai, his Republican allies, and the telecom industry promise that this will allow the internet to flourish and stimulate investment in broadband internet infrastructure. Critics and experts argue, however, that this policy change will simply remove the FCC-imposed barriers that prevent telecoms from abusing their power over the content and services delivered over their networks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LLNdvMmXYY [with comments]


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Trump Is Getting A Big Holiday Gift From The GOP Tax Plan (HBO)

Published on Nov 30, 2017 by VICE News

Yesterday, President Donald Trump went to Missouri to talk up his tax plan, and to dismiss any thoughts that the GOP tax plan might benefit him personally.

“This is going to cost me a fortune, this thing, believe me…This is not good for me,” the president said.

That’s a stretch, to say the least. While there are some elements in the plan that won’t benefit Trump that much, there are a lot of things he and his accountant should be able to take advantage of. One big help will be the change in how so-called pass-through businesses are taxed. Under the current law, pass-throughs are companies that don’t pay corporate income taxes, but instead pay at the individual income tax rate of the owner or owners of the company.

Both the Senate and House tax reform packages lower the current tax rate these businesses are taxed at. Well, at least some of those businesses.

If you are a small Main Street, mom-and-pop shop you might get a break under the GOP plan. But there’s a good chance it won’t make any difference at all. According to the Tax Policy Center, “Nearly 90 percent of pass-through owners already pay a tax rate of 25 percent or less (under current law). Thus, the 25 percent income tax rate cap on pass-through income would not benefit them at all.”

People who own pass-through businesses like hedge funds, or real-estate development and property-management entities, though, will almost certainly benefit a lot, since the GOP plan will sharply cut the tax rate they have to pay. Which means that despite Trump’s protestations, this tax plan will likely be very good for him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXAv7m-kVQE [with comments]


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From the Tax Plan to Libya, Everything Goes Back to Trump: The Daily Show

Published on Nov 30, 2017 by The Daily Show with Trevor Noah [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwWhs_6x42TyRM4Wstoq8HA , https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwWhs_6x42TyRM4Wstoq8HA/videos ]

Donald Trump boasts about the GOP tax bill at a campaign rally, and Trevor explains how the president's attacks on journalism have had an impact on slavery in Libya.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCctj8j7jFw [with comments]


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Between the Scenes - Al Franken's Inexcusable Excuse: The Daily Show

Published on Nov 30, 2017 by The Daily Show with Trevor Noah

Trevor is disappointed in Senator Al Franken for giving a ridiculous reason for his sexual misconduct.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxlBguKPnJ4 [with comments]


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The Globalist Attack on Christmas - The Opposition w/ Jordan Klepper

Published on Nov 30, 2017 by Comedy Central [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUsN5ZwHx2kILm84-jPDeXw / https://www.youtube.com/user/comedycentral , https://www.youtube.com/user/comedycentral/videos , https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD7nPL1U-R5r5XD8saDuOBVj1z69Y_4iK ]

President Trump may have brought holiday cheer back to the White House, but Citizen Journalists Josh Sharp and Aaron Jackson know that the war on Christmas isn't over.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WWF7PmxRkY [with comments]


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Yet Another Morning Show Ridden With Sexual Misconduct

Published on Dec 1, 2017 by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMtFAi84ehTSYSE9XoHefig , https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMtFAi84ehTSYSE9XoHefig/videos ]

Don't talk to me until I've had my morning cup of a TV personality apologizing for sexual misconduct.

[originally aired November 30, 2017]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nt3k_5PNhwc [with comments]


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Rex Tillerson Is Rumored To Have Upset The Moron

Published on Dec 1, 2017 by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

The small-but-not-mighty U.S. State Department might be in for a shake-up with rumors of Rex Tillerson's firing.

[originally aired November 30, 2017]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okoy7uu44wA [with comments]


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Trump's Tax Bill Helps One Man In Particular

Published on Dec 1, 2017 by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

The President's new tax bill appears to favor the average golf course-owning, private plane-flying millionaire. Sound like anyone we know?

[originally aired November 30, 2017]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duAv7Sc8jwk [with comments]


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Melania Trump Is Dreaming Of A Dark Christmas

Published on Dec 1, 2017 by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

First Lady Melania Trump (Laura Benanti) is only planning the White House's Christmas festivities and definitely not her getaway.

[originally aired November 30, 2017]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gob0unzEdRw [with (over 5,000) comments]


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The President and the Press Need Each Other (Feat. Bebe Neuwirth) - The President Show

Published on Nov 30, 2017 by Comedy Central [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUsN5ZwHx2kILm84-jPDeXw / https://www.youtube.com/user/comedycentral , https://www.youtube.com/user/comedycentral/videos , https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD7nPL1U-R5o-p0I_6RGUR2MZus6O8cpX ]

Though their relationship is fraught, the president and reporter Bebe Neuwirth can't help doing the same old song and dance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFLPyUlwzy0 [with comments]


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Farewell Address - It's Not Going to Stop - The President Show

Published on Dec 1, 2017 by Comedy Central

The president isn't here to save the American people and no Christmas miracle is going to change that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkdPCHMLGNM [with comments]


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I Came Up with Christmas - A President Show Christmas
The President Show
November 30, 2017
The president celebrates the first-ever Christmas (which he created) by becoming a mall Santa, performing in a Nativity play and dodging reporter Bebe Neuwirth's questions.
http://www.cc.com/episodes/qwqbek/the-president-show-i-came-up-with-christmas---a-president-show-christmas-season-1-ep-121

I Came Up With Christmas: A President Show Christmas
Published on Dec 1, 2017 by [full-episode for-pay channel] The President Show [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCd6Lx8sVPAFvqLXeGdy8Kxg , https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCd6Lx8sVPAFvqLXeGdy8Kxg/videos ]
Celebrate Christmas with the man who invented it: the president (Anthony Atamanuik)! Together with his loyal vice president (Peter Grosz), our fearless leader pays tribute to this holiest of holidays with a night of comedy, friends and music.
Provider Viacom
Partner rating TV-14
Release date 11/30/17
Running time 42:10
Language English
Show The President Show
Season 1
Episode 21
Category Comedy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16jRKl6mBXA [for-pay; no comments yet]


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Matt Lauer Sexual Harassment Allegations; Trump's Unhinged Tweets: A Closer Look

Published on Nov 30, 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 how the national reckoning over sexual harassment continued yesterday with the firing of TODAY show host Matt Lauer and how President Trump is becoming increasingly unmoored from reality.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WnizmrnJlk [with (approaching 4,000) comments]


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John Oliver Does Not Care About the Royal Engagement

Published on Nov 30, 2017 by Late Night with Seth Meyers

John Oliver reacts to being featured in People magazine's Sexiest Man Alive issue and rants about how much he doesn't care about the royal engagement.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASXutG8RjrE [with comments]


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John Oliver Is Going to Voice Zazu in the Live Action Lion King

Published on Nov 30, 2017 by Late Night with Seth Meyers

John Oliver explains why he has never met a member of the royal family and why he's perfect for the role of Zazu in Lion King.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0IUPwXSQqg [with comments]


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John Oliver Is Trying to Educate Trump Through Commercials on Fox News

Published on Nov 30, 2017 by Late Night with Seth Meyers

John Oliver explains why he hates when people ask if President Trump makes his job easier, why he's sure he'll never meet his Lion King co-star Beyonce and reveals his plan to sneak information to Trump through ads on Fox News.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nlRqJqA1B0 [with comments]


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"Day 315" Donald Trump Zionist Regime.., "Survival" !!!

Published on Nov 30, 2017 by Bravo Alternative Media [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVV0_xnA_z-ALo6kZJz2WXA , https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVV0_xnA_z-ALo6kZJz2WXA/videos ]

"Day 315" The Donald Trump Zionist Regime and our Survival ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OYaoX5vH30 [with comments]


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stashed November 30, 2017:

Donald Trump blasted Theresa May on Twitter. Unfortunately, he got the wrong woman. - further to http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=128193831 (different wrong one this time)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/11/30/donald-trump-blasted-theresa-may-on-twitter-unfortunately-he-got-the-wrong-woman/

Did a 'Muslim Migrant' Beat Up a Dutch Boy on Crutches?
A video of a teenager beating up a person on crutches was shared by President Donald Trump along with the claim that the antagonist was a "Muslim migrant."
FALSE
https://www.snopes.com/video-beating-dutch-boy-crutches/

more: https://news.google.com/news/story/dDmoKSHqhkXbvdM0ZvsY8FSdDqIEM?ned=us&gl=US&hl=en

North Korea has shown us its new missile, and it’s scarier than we thought
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/11/30/north-korea-has-shown-us-its-new-missile-and-its-scarier-than-we-thought/

Washington Eyes a Cold War Strategy Against North Korea
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/29/world/asia/north-korea-nuclear-strategy-deterence.html

more: https://news.google.com/news/story/dsuvQiEZs7jDKvMboALYzMZfLQqzM?ned=us&gl=US&hl=en

Republican Obstruction of Obamacare Helped Put Trump in the White House
A new study finds that GOP efforts to undermine the health-care law gave the party a boost in 2016, despite—or even because of—how those actions made health-care worse for voters.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/11/voters-premiums-insurance-vote-2016-trump/546896/
study https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3075406

The 'Softer' Side of Jihadists
Weeping, reciting poetry, singing hymns—these are all part of jihadi culture. Does appreciating that culture risk downplaying the militants’ barbarity?
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/11/the-soft-face-of-jihad/546926/

Peter Thiel Turns Down a Senior Intelligence Role
The president’s biggest backer in Silicon Valley told the White House he no longer wishes to lead the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/11/peter-thiel-doesnt-want-intelligence-advisory-post/547100/

Moore says lesbians, gays, socialists behind sexual misconduct allegations
http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/362504-moore-says-lesbians-gays-socialists-behind-sexual-misconduct-allegations

'All the girls are lying?' man yells at Roy Moore in church
http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2017/11/roy_moore_speaking_in_theodore.html
Comedian Tony Barbieri crashes Roy Moore rally in south Alabama
AL.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_U4mta_Db8

Textbook co-authored by Roy Moore in 2011 says women shouldn’t run for office
The course is also critical of the women's suffrage movement.
https://thinkprogress.org/moore-study-course-vison-forum-135402ed8816/

more: https://news.google.com/news/story/dBMzYdEOiaZ_2BMTO7pGt_lb1AVwM?ned=us&gl=US&hl=en

Trump says Merry Christmas — and happy holidays, too
The White House is ushering in the holiday season on a slightly smaller scale than the Obamas did in their last years in the White House.
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/11/30/trump-merry-christmas-holidays-270486

more: https://news.google.com/news/story/dh500EllYEev7vMEBulvsnTIBxc6M?ned=us&gl=US&hl=en

Trump’s tweets have consequences — at home and abroad
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/first-read/trump-s-tweets-have-consequences-home-abroad-n825191

It Started as a Tax Cut. Now It Could Change American Life.
The tax plan has been marketed by President Trump and Republican leaders as a straightforward if enormous rebate for the masses, a $1.5 trillion package of cuts to spur hiring and economic growth. But as the bill has been rushed through Congress with scant debate, its far broader ramifications have come into focus, revealing a catchall legislative creation that could reshape major areas of American life, from education to health care.
Some of this re-engineering is straight out of the traditional Republican playbook. Corporate taxes, along with those on wealthy Americans, would be slashed on the presumption that when people in penthouses get relief, the benefits flow down to basement tenements.
Some measures are barely connected to the realm of taxation, such as the lifting of a 1954 ban on political activism by churches and the conferring of a new legal right for fetuses in the House bill — both on the wish list of the evangelical right.
With a potentially far-reaching dimension, elements in both the House and Senate bills could constrain the ability of states and local governments to levy their own taxes, pressuring them to limit spending on health care, education, public transportation and social services. In their longstanding battle to shrink government, Republicans have found in the tax bill a vehicle to broaden the fight beyond Washington.
The result is a behemoth piece of legislation that could widen American economic inequality while diminishing the power of local communities to marshal relief for vulnerable people — especially in high-tax states like California and New York, which, not coincidentally, tend to vote Democratic.
All of this is taking shape at such extraordinary velocity, absent the usual analyses and hearings, that even the most savvy Washington lobbyist cannot be fully certain of the implications.
Mr. Trump and the Republican leadership in Congress — stymied in their efforts to repeal Obamacare, and short of legislative achievements — have signaled absolute resolve to get a tax bill passed by the end of the year. As the sense has taken hold that Washington is now a trading floor where any deal is worth entertaining so long as it brings votes, interest groups have fixed on the tax bill as a unique opportunity to further their agendas.
“There’s a Christmas-tree aspect to the bill,” said C. Eugene Steuerle, a Treasury official during the Reagan administration and now a senior fellow at the Urban Institute. As an example, he cited the provisions in the House bill designed to appeal to the religious right.
“People want to add certain things, and if they don’t cost a lot, it’s a way to buy in agreement,” Mr. Steuerle said.
Economists and tax experts are overwhelmingly skeptical that the bills in the House and Senate can generate meaningful job growth and economic expansion. Many view the legislation not as a product of genuine deliberation, but as a transfer of wealth to corporations and affluent individuals — both generous purveyors of campaign contributions. By 2027, people making $40,000 to $50,000 would pay a combined $5.3 billion more in taxes, while the group earning $1 million or more would get a $5.8 billion cut, according to the Joint Committee on Taxation and the Congressional Budget Office.
“When you put all these pieces together, what you’re left with is we are squandering a giant sum of money,” said Edward D. Kleinbard, a former chief of staff at the Congressional Joint Committee on Taxation who teaches law at the University of Southern California. “It’s not aimed at growth. It is not aimed at the middle class. It is at every turn carefully engineered to deliver a kiss to the donor class.”
In a recent University of Chicago survey of 38 prominent economists across the ideological spectrum, only one said the proposed tax cuts would yield substantial economic growth. Unanimously, the economists said the tax cuts would add to the long-term federal debt burden, now estimated at more than $20 trillion.
If the package does have a guiding philosophy, it is a return to trickle-down economics, an enduring story line in which the wealthy are supposed to spend and invest their tax breaks, creating jobs and commercial opportunities for everyone else.
As President Ronald Reagan slashed taxes in the 1980s, he argued that citizens, not bureaucrats, should decide how to spend their money. President George W. Bush bestowed enormous tax cuts on the affluent.
But the trickle-down story has yet to achieve its promised happy ending. Only the beginning reliably transpires, the part where wealthy people get relief. The spoils of resulting economic growth have largely been monopolized by those with the highest incomes. Pay for most American workers has been stagnant since the mid-1970s, after the rising costs of housing, health care and other basics are factored in.
Nonetheless, Republicans are staging a trickle-down revival.
“Either it’s a religious belief, a belief where no amount of evidence would change that, or they are using the argument cynically and they just want more money for themselves,” the economist Joseph E. Stiglitz, a Nobel laureate, said.
Mr. Stiglitz has long warned of the perils of growing inequality while deriding tax-cutting inclinations. Yet even those who have favored lighter tax burdens are critical of the current proposals.
In the late 1970s, Bruce Bartlett developed what would become the locus of the Reagan tax cuts while working for Representative Jack Kemp, a conservative Republican from New York. Those cuts helped cushion the pain from sharp increases in interest rates by the Federal Reserve, Mr. Bartlett maintains. But Reagan was lowering the highest tax rate on individuals from 70 percent down to 28 percent by 1986.
“What they have here is a big tax cut for the rich paid for with random increases in taxes for various constituencies,” Mr. Bartlett said. “It’s ridiculous. And it’s telling that they are ramming this through without any debate. All of the empirical evidence goes against the tax cut.”
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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/29/business/republican-tax-cut.html

more: https://news.google.com/news/story/dpSO96d0ok89WrM2wawxAP2vZvVLM?ned=us&gl=US&hl=en

Man Who Deactivated Trump's Twitter Account: 'I Didn't Break Any Rules'
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/11/30/567404725/man-who-deactivated-trumps-twitter-account-i-didnt-break-any-rules

more: https://news.google.com/news/story/dgfgzlfBJAJpCPMJVxfRQygHY1rtM?ned=us&gl=US&hl=en

NFL, Players Coalition reach accord to provide nearly $90 million to aid activism; anthem protests unresolved
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/sports/wp/2017/11/29/nfl-and-players-complete-agreement-on-league-support-of-activism/

more: https://news.google.com/news/story/dYT0gK9PFzWFfMMM4PLtupVGi4IzM?ned=us&gl=US&hl=en

Trump Reportedly Once Bragged About ‘First-Rate P***y’
The president, who has been accused by at least 16 women of sexual assault or harassment, has used the vulgar term before.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-pussy-remark_us_5a1f7268e4b0a8581e67e66d
citing:
Trump Bragged: ‘Nothing in the World Like First-Rate P**sy’
Years before the ‘Access Hollywood’ tape, the president crassly bragged about a woman’s private parts during a golf weekend at Mar-a-Lago.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-bragged-nothing-in-the-world-like-first-rate-psy

A Fifth Woman Has Accused Al Franken Of Sexual Misconduct
“He kept his hand all the way over on my breast,” an Army veteran recalled from the 2003 experience.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/a-fifth-woman-has-accused-al-franken-of-sexual-misconduct_us_5a20032be4b0392a4ebb9e74

MSNBC Trolls Trump With An Obama ‘Merry Christmas’ Supercut - All In 11-29-17
Merry Christmas.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-obama-merry-christmas_us_5a1fab04e4b037b8ea1f9958

A Year After Trump’s Carrier Deal, U.S. Companies Still Offshoring Plenty Of Jobs
The president said this kind of thing wouldn’t happen anymore.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-carrier-offshoring-jobs_us_5a1f6f97e4b0a8581e67e62e

Trump Administration Is Illegally Denying Unnamed U.S. ISIS Suspect Access To Lawyers: ACLU
The ACLU will argue that by keeping the suspect’s name a secret, the government is effectively denying him access to justice.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/unnamed-american-isis-suspect-trump-habeas-aclu_us_5a1f4520e4b0a8581e67db48

San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz Rips ‘Bully’ And ‘Big Mouth’ Donald Trump ( https://youtu.be/sE1QZYhvqFs - Colbert Trump Attacked Me Twitter Hall of Fame)
“I hope he’s a better golf player than he is a president, because he surely isn’t a good president.”
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/carmen-yul%C3%ADn-cruz-donald-trump-stephen-colbert_us_5a1fc5eae4b0a8581e67fbc5

Woman’s Elaborate Scheme To Discredit Washington Post ‘Dated Back Months’: Report - All In 11-29-17
Jaime Phillips, the false Roy Moore accuser, attended media happy hour events and going-away parties as part of the sting effort.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jaime-phillips-washington-post-project-veritas_us_5a1f9a0fe4b0392a4ebb240c

Michigan Candidate Has An Idea How To End Harassment: Vote For Someone Without A Penis

( https://youtu.be/CQL37wcgI6k )
Democrat Dana Nessel says she won’t show her penis in a professional setting — because she doesn’t have one.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/dana-nessel-campaign-ad_us_5a1f1116e4b0d52b8dc25af9

Dutch Embassy Feels Driven To Fact-Check Trump’s Islamophobic Retweet
Because “facts do matter.”
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/dutch-embassy-trump-tweet_us_5a1f1db0e4b0a8581e6798fe

Holiday Magic Is Made By Women. And It’s Killing Us [women].
The emotional labor women do this time of year threatens our mental health.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/emotional-labor-holidays_us_5a1ec905e4b0d724fed5588a

Liquid Nitrogen Experiment Almost Goes Horribly Wrong On Live TV

( https://youtu.be/FOuqgX6wsZ8 )
That almost ended badly.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/liquid-nitrogen-tv-experiment_us_5a1f8fd0e4b0392a4ebb2335

Russia Claims U.S. Seeks to Provoke North Korea
Foreign Minister Lavrov accused Washington of trying to push North Korea’s leader into “rash action”
https://www.wsj.com/articles/russia-claims-u-s-seeks-to-provoke-north-korea-1512059390

more: https://news.google.com/news/story/dAKYr72o5a5QqZM7qbDeKfOdh78jM?ned=us&gl=US&hl=en

Turkish gold trader describes more bribery at US trial - AP
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/dapper-looking-turncoat-testifies-at-iran-sanctions-trial/2017/11/30/3e05da4a-d5e2-11e7-9ad9-ca0619edfa05_story.html
original https://www.apnews.com/d0d89403ea554e2bbd53f9400a5675c0/Turkish-gold-trader-describes-more-bribery-at-US-trial

Turkey: trial of banker is plot schemed by US-based cleric
https://www.apnews.com/9f769be2562744c0919e6ec80226e5cb/Turkey:-trial-of-banker-is-plot-schemed-by-US-based-cleric

Erdogan Helped Turks Evade Iran Sanctions, Reza Zarrab Says
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/30/world/europe/erdogan-turkey-iran-sanctions.html

Erdogan knew of alleged Iranian scheme to evade sanctions via Turkey, court told
Jurors in New York hear businessman Reza Zarrab describe money laundering network to enable Iran to access global markets
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/30/us-court-alleged-iran-scheme-avoid-sanctions-turkey

more: https://news.google.com/news/story/dVZXXhHgv3s0kcMXzXCYsF81_6LVM?ned=us&gl=US&hl=en

'Nazi next door' says 'New York Times' profile cost him job, home
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2017/11/30/nazi-next-door-says-new-york-times-profile-cost-him-job-home/908317001/

Nazi sympathizer profiled by NYT loses job, asks for donations on racist fundraising site
After his New York Times profile, a white nationalist finds a new means of making money.
https://thinkprogress.org/nazis-are-raising-funds-401a474ab37b/

the NYT piece:
A Voice of Hate in America’s Heartland
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/25/us/ohio-hovater-white-nationalist.html

How to Interview a Nazi
White supremacists should be challenged—not indulged.
https://www.thenation.com/article/how-to-interview-a-nazi/

more: https://news.google.com/news/story/dnfjUqYPznRtXOMYfNiFD-OUKRsTM?ned=us&gl=US&hl=en

Why abortion — not sexual misconduct — is likely to decide the Alabama Senate race
Roy Moore is trying to save himself with a tried and true conservative move: resorting to the politics of abortion.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/made-by-history/wp/2017/11/30/why-abortion-not-sexual-misconduct-is-likely-to-decide-the-alabama-senate-race/

Roy Moore’s Dangerous Christian Context
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/roy-moores-dangerous-christian-context_us_5a205ccbe4b04dacbc9bd514

more: https://news.google.com/news/story/d-pgBXX4Uvfg4qMW3aQSxYrehmnjM?ned=us&gl=US&hl=en

White House readies plan to replace Tillerson with Pompeo at State, install Cotton at CIA
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/11/30/white-house-readies-plan-to-replace-tillerson-with-pompeo-install-cotton-at-cia/

White House Plans Tillerson Ouster From State Dept., to Be Replaced by Pompeo
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/30/us/politics/state-department-tillerson-pompeo-trump.html

more: https://news.google.com/news/story/dEhHYprn-U78gdM4KIXQ5zpddkeUM?ned=us&gl=US&hl=en

Britain furious, Trump unapologetic as fallout swells from anti-Muslim videos
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/britain-furious-trump-defiant-as-fallout-swells-from-anti-muslim-videos/2017/11/30/d9ae0f2c-d5d7-11e7-b62d-d9345ced896d_story.html

Trump's bigoted retweets are a national security threat
http://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/362551-trumps-bigoted-tweets-are-a-national-security-threat

Prime Minister, Tell Trump He’s Not Welcome in Britain
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/30/opinion/britain-trump-tweets-visit.html

more: https://news.google.com/news/story/dmQtKi0dbBYyR1MBg3n6AxutjtbMM?ned=us&gl=US&hl=en

Trump, Britain First, and the Purveyors of Racism and Bigotry
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/trump-britain-first-and-the-purveyors-of-racism-and-bigotry

‘I’m just waiting for a call from the White House with an apology.’ Britain’s ‘wrong’ Theresa May speaks out.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/11/30/donald-trump-blasted-theresa-may-on-twitter-unfortunately-he-got-the-wrong-woman/

more: https://news.google.com/news/story/d92ERxJBfFldgLMlJVPy9gFZ1hkgM?ned=us&gl=US&hl=en

30 Years Later, Gay Man’s Fall From Australian Cliff Is Ruled a[n anti-gay] Hate Crime
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/30/world/australia/hate-crime-scott-johnson.html

more: https://news.google.com/news/story/d8Nb9Fhx3ZP51yM-8Yw7P-nQYd1iM?ned=us&gl=US&hl=en

How Rex Tillerson Wrecked the State Department
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/how-rex-tillerson-wrecked-the-state-department

more: https://news.google.com/news/story/d7255cE9zi-tSBM08FoR2HG3dUHFM?ned=us&gl=US&hl=en

Trump's Attention-Diversion Tweet Cycle Goes International
If the news-grabbing, discussion-dominating presidential social-media habit is getting routine in the U.S., it’s now getting exported overseas.
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/11/the-political-cost-of-trumps-tweets/547112/

more: https://news.google.com/news/story/dO7SjG2rEcRCD-MRyQaPRF_uUf1oM?ned=us&gl=US&hl=en

Trump was seeking to ‘elevate the conversation’ with retweets of anti-Muslim videos, spokeswoman says
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/11/30/trump-was-seeking-to-elevate-the-conversation-with-retweets-of-anti-muslim-videos-spokeswoman-says/

more: https://news.google.com/news/story/d6NVhBKVJtJmYgMe_22xLQl30im1M?ned=us&gl=US&hl=en

Trump inches toward moving U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem
The president promised during the campaign to support the move from Tel Aviv, but delayed it in June amid efforts to revive the Middle East peace process.
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/11/30/trump-us-embassy-move-jerusalem-271764

Officials: Trump mulls calling Jerusalem Israel’s capital - AP
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/officials-trump-not-moving-us-embassy-to-jerusalem-for-now/2017/11/30/c84b6f58-d60f-11e7-9ad9-ca0619edfa05_story.html
original https://www.apnews.com/c8886052a9de408d931c2975b1f25c9c/Officials:-Trump-mulls-calling-Jerusalem-Israel's-capital

Officials: Trump likely to waive requirement to move US embassy to Jerusalem but may recognize city as Israel’s capital
https://www.apnews.com/416568c25b0246adada5085b92d058ba/Officials:-Trump-likely-to-waive-requirement-to-move-US-embassy-to-Jerusalem-but-may-recognize-city-as-Israel's-capital

more: https://news.google.com/news/story/dnuHXRPy5nggrlMqu484mfBu45KwM?ned=us&gl=US&hl=en

New North Korean Missile Is A 'Monster'
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/11/30/567468685/new-north-korean-missile-is-a-monster

North Korea’s Third ICBM Launch
https://www.38north.org/2017/11/melleman112917/

more: https://news.google.com/news/story/d6fCtxpXjOprrzMBCNXT-skltguEM?ned=us&gl=US&hl=en

US putting off planned ban on its use of cluster bombs
https://www.apnews.com/92ca83c2c09f4d5ea6b229a9ae27eb90/US-putting-off-planned-ban-on-its-use-of-cluster-bombs

Trump expected to shrink 2 Utah monuments by two-thirds
https://www.apnews.com/1d34b16b520547d296acf4fb62fb23d9/Trump-expected-to-shrink-2-Utah-monuments-by-two-thirds

Trump Pressed Top Republicans to End Senate Russia Inquiry
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/30/us/politics/trump-russia-senate-intel.html

Top Intel Dem: Sessions refused to say whether Trump asked him to hinder Russia probe
http://thehill.com/homenews/house/362599-top-intel-dem-says-sessions-refused-to-say-whether-trump-asked-him-to-hinder

Schiff: ‘Disturbing’ That Sessions Won’t Say If Trump Tried To Derail Russia Probe
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/sessions-wont-comment-trump-influence-russia-probe

more: https://www.google.com/search?q=schiff+sessions

Undocumented Immigrant Acquitted in Killing of Kate Steinle
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/30/us/kate-steinle-murder-trial.html

Sessions blasts sanctuary cities after Kate Steinle murder trial ruling
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/362707-sessions-blasts-sanctuary-cities-after-kate-steinle-decision

Senate Republicans Scramble to Find Revenue for Tax Bill With Vote Expected Friday
The Senate will not vote on its tax bill tonight.
Republicans are considering raising some taxes down the road to help offset the cost of their tax bill after the Senate parliamentarian rejected the idea of a trigger that would have automatically increased taxes if economic growth fell short of projections.
Congress’s bipartisan tax referee said that economic growth induced by the tax cut would only offset $458 billion of its cost over the next decade. The analysis put the bill’s total price at $1 trillion, contradicting the Republican argument that the measure would essentially pay for itself.
Earlier in the day, Senator John McCain of Arizona, who had been undecided about the bill, said he would vote yes, but Senator Susan Collins of Maine said she remained undecided.
Though Republicans sound optimistic, party leaders still do not have firm commitments from enough senators to ensure the bill will pass.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/30/us/politics/tax-overhaul-senate-debate.html

How Rex Tillerson Did So Much Damage [to the State Department] in So Little Time
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/30/opinion/tillerson-damage-trump-replacement.html

In Snub to U.S., Russia and Egypt Move Toward Deal on Air Bases
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/30/world/middleeast/russia-egypt-air-bases.html

FBI trying to ‘get in front’ of future threats of Russian interference, director says
http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/362580-fbi-trying-to-get-in-front-of-russian-interference-threat-in-2018

Ahead of Vote, Promised Treasury Analysis of Tax Bill Proves Elusive
WASHINGTON — In pitching the $1.5 trillion tax overhaul, Steven Mnuchin, the Treasury secretary, has said repeatedly that the plan will pay for itself through a surge of economic growth and that over 100 people in Treasury are “working around the clock on running scenarios for us.”
Mr. Mnuchin has promised that Treasury will release its analysis in full. Yet, as the full Senate prepares to vote on a sweeping tax rewrite, the administration has yet to produce the type of economic analysis that it is citing as a reason to pass the tax cut.
Those inside Treasury’s Office of Tax Policy, which Mr. Mnuchin has credited with running the models, say they have been largely shut out of the process and are not working on the type of detailed analysis that he has mentioned. An economist at the Office of Tax Analysis, who spoke on the condition of anonymity so as not to jeopardize his job, said Treasury had not released a “dynamic” analysis showing that the tax plan would be paid for with economic growth because one did not exist.
Instead of conducting full analyses of tax proposals, staff members have been running numbers on individual provisions or policy ideas, like lowering the tax rate on so-called pass-through businesses and figuring out how many family farms would benefit from the repeal of the estate tax. Activity has picked up more recently as Treasury has sought to provide technical assistance to the Joint Committee on Taxation and the Congressional Budget Office for their estimates.
A Treasury official said that there was not sufficient time to produce a full analysis with growth and revenue estimates of the final bill, which the Senate Finance Committee passed before Thanksgiving. The official pointed to a letter sent this week to Mr. Mnuchin by nine top conservative economists detailing how the Republican tax bills could bolster economic growth, saying that reflected the findings of its own economic models.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/30/us/politics/treasury-analysis-tax-bill.html

Inspector general launches inquiry into whether Treasury hid Republican tax bill analysis
The Treasury Department’s inspector general has launched an inquiry into whether the department hid an analysis of the Republican tax bill — or even did one at all.
Treasury Secretary Steven T. Mnuchin has said economic growth stimulated by the bill’s large tax cuts would offset lost revenue and indicated his department would produce an analysis proving it.
But no analysis has been released as the Senate prepared to vote on its version of the tax legislation. The House approved its tax bill on Nov. 16.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) wrote to Treasury Inspector General Eric M. Thorson on Thursday asking for an inquiry after a New York Times article said members of the Treasury’s Office of Tax Policy, which would do such an analysis, said they were not working on one.
“Either the Treasury Department has used extensive taxpayer funds to conduct economic analyses that it refuses to release because those analyses would contradict the Treasury secretary’s claims, or Secretary Mnuchin has grossly misled the public about the extent of the Treasury Department’s analysis,” Warren wrote. “I am deeply concerned about either possibility.”
Rich Delmar, counsel to the inspector general, said Thursday the office had launched an inquiry and that it was a “top priority.”
A spokeswoman for Mnuchin did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The announcement came as the congressional Joint Committee on Taxation released its analysis Thursday showing that the bill would add $1 trillion to the deficit over the next decade even after accounting for increased economic growth.
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http://www.latimes.com/politics/washington/la-na-pol-essential-washington-updates-inspector-general-launches-inquiry-into-1512084180-htmlstory.html

Trump’s Treasury Department is lying about its own analysis of the tax bill
Kinda fishy, don’t you think?
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/11/30/16719238/treasury-tax-analysis

Analysis Mnuchin promised showing tax cuts pay for themselves doesn’t exist: report
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/362522-analysis-mnuchin-promised-showing-tax-cuts-pay-for-themselves-doesnt

The case for normalizing impeachment
Impeaching an unfit president has consequences. But leaving one in office could be worse.
by Ezra Klein
https://www.vox.com/2017/11/30/16517022/impeachment-donald-trump

Need to Impeach
Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, a co-author of the Federalist Papers — and an immigrant himself — argued that "high crimes and misdemeanors" could be defined as "abuse or violation of some public trust." This president has clearly already exceeded these standards. Congress has impeached past presidents for far less.
— Tom Steyer, October 18, 2017
https://www.needtoimpeach.com/

Tom Steyer has gathered more than 3 million signatures to impeach President Trump. So why are Democrats so annoyed?
http://beta.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-on-politics-column-20171130-story.html

House Dem pledges vote to impeach Trump next week - Rep. Al Green (D-Texas)
http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/house/362558-house-dem-pledges-vote-to-impeach-trump-next-week

Trump “Impeachment Will Be Voted on Before Christmas,” Democrat Says After Anti-Muslim Video Retweets
http://www.newsweek.com/trump-impeachment-vote-christmas-democrat-anti-muslim-video-726485

Donald Trump is a madman: The President's Wednesday Twitter spasm confirms what many Americans have long suspected
Editorial
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/donald-trump-madman-article-1.3665163

I Came Up with Christmas: A President Show Christmas
airs 11-30-17
https://www.google.com/search?q=I+Came+Up+with+Christmas%3A+A+President+Show+Christmas
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=I+Came+Up+with+Christmas%3A+A+President+Show+Christmas

Internet Addiction Creates Imbalance in the Brain
https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-human-os/biomedical/imaging/internet-addiction-creates-imbalance-in-the-brain
study presented at https://meeting.rsna.org/

Does 'Smartphone Addiction' Show Up In Teens' Brains? - yep, like addiction
https://consumer.healthday.com/mental-health-information-25/addiction-news-6/does-smartphone-addiction-show-up-in-teens-brains-728910.html

Smartphone Addiction Creates Imbalance in Brain
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/smartphone-addiction-creates-imbalance-in-brain-300558945.html

more: https://news.google.com/news/story/d7Yf0DGswsfXDzM1XPcIo569vZxXM?ned=us&gl=US&hl=en

Migraine therapy that cut attacks hailed as 'huge deal'
A new approach to preventing migraines can cut the number and severity of attacks, two clinical trials show.
http://www.bbc.com/news/health-42154668
trials:
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1705848
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1709038

more: https://news.google.com/news/story/dFkHqjHFvg5MOsMdYPshUhw_ZcsYM?ned=us&gl=US&hl=en


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