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Is the U.S. Exporting Its Travel Ban with Thousands of TSA & DHS Agents in 70 Countries?

Published on Dec 29, 2017 by Democracy Now! [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzuqE7-t13O4NIDYJfakrhw / https://www.youtube.com/user/democracynow , https://www.youtube.com/user/democracynow/videos ]

A New York Times investigation has revealed how the Department of Homeland Security is increasingly going global, with thousands of agents from the Department of Homeland Security and the Transportation Security Administration stationed in more than 70 countries around the world. Hundreds more DHS workers are deployed at sea on Coast Guard ships or in the skies on surveillance planes. Stationing ICE overseas is reportedly about four times as expensive as a domestic post. Now some countries are accusing DHS of attempting to export the United States’ restrictive immigration laws, with one German politician saying DHS’s interrogations and detentions at foreign airports constitute an extrajudicial travel ban. We speak with Ron Nixon, The New York Times’s homeland security correspondent who broke the story, “Homeland Security Goes Abroad. Not Everyone Is Grateful [ https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/26/world/americas/homeland-security-customs-border-patrol.html ].”
https://www.democracynow.org/2017/12/29/is_the_us_exporting_its_travel [with embedded video, and transcript]

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


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Concerns Raised About $1 Billion Facial Scan Program with High Error Rate at Nine U.S. Airports

Published on Dec 29, 2017 by Democracy Now!

This month, Senators Mike Lee, a Republican, and Edward Markey, a Democrat, called for a halt to the expansion of a $1 billion airport facial scanning program that the Department of Homeland Security uses to identify travelers on some flights that depart from nine U.S. airports: Boston, Las Vegas, Miami, New York’s John F. Kennedy, Washington Dulles, both Houston airports, Chicago O‘Hare and Atlanta. Congress has approved the program for use on non-U.S. citizens but never expressly authorized its use on Americans. The senators also asked DHS to provide data about the accuracy of the scans and cited a study [ https://www.law.georgetown.edu/news/press-releases/half-of-all-american-adults-are-in-a-police-face-recognition-database-new-report-finds.cfm ] by the Center on Privacy and Technology that said the technology had high error rates and was subject to bias, because the scans often fail to properly identify women and African Americans. We speak with Ron Nixon, homeland security correspondent for The New York Times.
https://www.democracynow.org/2017/12/29/concerns_raised_about_1_billion_facial [with embedded video, and transcript]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X59wXqFxJZg [with comments]


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Deportation Now on Hold for Mexican Journalist Emilio Gutiérrez Soto, But He Remains in Detention

Published on Dec 29, 2017 by Democracy Now!

After a visit from Texas Democratic Congressmember Beto O’Rourke and a flurry of news reports, including on Democracy Now!, the Board of Immigration Appeals has reopened the asylum case of award-winning journalist Emilio Gutiérrez Soto, vacating his deportation order and granting him a full stay of his removal order. This means Gutiérrez cannot be deported, at the moment, and that the BIA will now issue a new ruling. But Gutiérrez has still not been released. We play an excerpt from our exclusive jailhouse interview with Gutiérrez and speak with William McCarren, the executive director of the National Press Club, who visited Gutiérrez in detention and said Gutiérrez broke down crying several times, and Gutiérrez’s lawyer, Eduardo Beckett.
https://www.democracynow.org/2017/12/29/deportation_now_on_hold_for_mexican [with embedded video, and transcript]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xa6TlcQWmao [with comments] [and see also in particular (linked in) https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=137496780 and preceding and following (earlier this string)]


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As Trump Attacks Media with “Fake News” Claims, a Record 262 Reporters Are Jailed, 46 Killed in 2017

Published on Dec 29, 2017 by Democracy Now!

The Committee to Protect Journalists has published its 25th annual survey of journalists killed and jailed around the world. This year, the list of those killed included 42 journalists and four media workers. A record 262 journalists were imprisoned around the world, with Turkey, China and Egypt topping the list for the second year in a row. Mexico reached an historic high in journalists killed this year, and the country leads the world in journalists killed in a non-conflict zone. This comes as President Donald Trump has waged a relentless campaign to discredit journalists in the United States, often with rhetoric that could potentially incite his followers to violence. We speak with María Salazar-Ferro, the director of the Emergencies Department of the Committee to Protect Journalists.
https://www.democracynow.org/2017/12/29/as_trump_attacks_media_with_fake [with embedded video, and transcript]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgI33ZAjD2A [with comments]


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Full Show - 2018: Civil War in DC & War With North Korea - 12/29/2017

Published on Dec 29, 2017 by Ron Gibson [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYv-5LsUyc_P8KMo7YGPFPA / https://www.youtube.com/user/RonGibsonCF , https://www.youtube.com/user/RonGibsonCF/videos ]

Military & intelligence sources in the US & China have publicly stated they believe the US will attack North Korea by March 2018 and now a terrorism exercise will begin Jan 2 that looks like the one that took place 10 weeks before 9/11. And, Roger Stone, Jerome Corsi & Lee Stranahan join David Knight to look at the recent Executive Order & DOJ investigations that may be the beginning of a move against the Clinton Foundation & the Deep State.

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JjRHTP0Kzo [with comments] [the significantly edited official Alex Jones/Real News with David Knight upload at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2GwfBjU-qc (title adapted and text taken from; with comments)]


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Alex O'Connor and Lloyd Evans: Cults and Religion | Zagreb, Croatia

Published on Dec 29, 2017 by CosmicSkeptic [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7kIy8fZavEni8Gzl8NLjOQ / https://www.youtube.com/user/alexjoconnor , https://www.youtube.com/user/alexjoconnor/videos ]

Almost anybody can get stuck in a cult. Religion is overrated. I joined Lloyd in Croatia to speak at Hugo's Bar, Zagreb on these truths, and we were both thrilled to see so many of you there.

https://twitter.com/cosmicskeptic
https://www.facebook.com/CosmicSkeptic/

Lloyd's channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/johncedars1929

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00o868yXDUo [with comments]


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Full Show - The Secrets of QAnon’s War with the Deep State Pedophiles Exposed - 12/29/2017

Published on Dec 29, 2017 by Ron Gibson

Friday, Dec. 29th 2017: Trump Slams 'Climate Change' - President Trump trolls "global warming" proponents, the liberal "fake news" media and Amazon with fresh tweets. Meanwhile his Make America Great Again agenda rolls on full steam ahead as new polls show the same favorability rating for Trump's first year as Obama's. Trump also makes a border wall central to any DACA compromise with Democrats. We'll also give a year-end wrap-up of 2017's hottest stories.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkTPyGYgTCw [title adapted from the included https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHvrpUNyv84 [with comments]; with comments] [no official Alex Jones upload (yet) at https://www.youtube.com/user/TheAlexJonesChannel/videos ]


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President Donald Trump Is A Moron

Published on Dec 29, 2017 by JaclynGlenn [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCravYcv6C0CopL2ukVzhzNw / https://www.youtube.com/user/JaclynGlenn , https://www.youtube.com/user/JaclynGlenn/videos ]

Trump thinks we need some 'good old global warming'. What an idiot.

Trump tweets that 'cold' East Coast 'could use a little bit of' global warming- http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/28/politics/trump-global-warming-tweet/index.html

"The difference between weather and climate is a measure of time. Weather is what conditions of the atmosphere are over a short period of time, and climate is how the atmosphere "behaves" over relatively long periods of time."

Plz complete 3rd grade.

Sincerely,
America
https://twitter.com/JaclynGlenn/status/946727080821129217

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u99NK4yx6YY [with comments]


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Why They Hate Putin: Learn The Secret! Special Report

Streamed live on Dec 29, 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 ]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6A8uOB7ggw [with comments] [a must-watch]


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Why Christian arguments fail..

Published on Dec 29, 2017 by Emperor Atheist [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCb4gMGQjON4h3ZmjvVwYbw , https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCb4gMGQjON4h3ZmjvVwYbw/videos ]

Emperor Atheist speaking on the illogical position of Christian apologists ,and Christian beliefs. When you get them in a position against the wall ,they can only resort to supernatural jargon as a defense...

https://ehrmanblog.org/historical-problems-with-the-hebrew-bible-the-conquest-of-canaan/
https://plus.google.com/u/0/+DrEricTenComfort/posts/1LSE2gAdnxp

Follow me at
http://twitter.com/EmperorAtheist
https://emperoratheist.wixsi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUDnnlD-pD8 [with comments]


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The Last Jedi Is Social Engineering Masquerading As A Movie

Streamed live on Dec 29, 2017 by The Alex Jones Channel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bET74_BkiRU [with comments]


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Now This Is What We Call Music 2017 | Super Deluxe Music

Published on Dec 29, 2017 by Super Deluxe [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeJLx_Dy_icz3oDHhJeMe9g , https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeJLx_Dy_icz3oDHhJeMe9g/videos ]

Which of these songs from 2017 was your favorite?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3zvfky9JNw [with comments]


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Full Show - 2017 A Year Of Victory For America - 12/29/2017

Published on Dec 29, 2017 by War Room [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClsn7QZVdszxLlUs-GOG0Sg , https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClsn7QZVdszxLlUs-GOG0Sg/videos ]

In the final War Room for 2017, we take a look back at everything that made 2017, and what to expect for 2018. Craig Sawyer joins us to discuss the latest developments over at https://vets4childrescue.org/ and Jerome Corsi talks about the latest revelations in the Abedin emails and President Trump's executive order.

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJen3xNFDl8 [with comments] [also, edited, at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4EvwzZjc-U (with comments)]


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Careers in Memoriam: The Daily Show

Published on Dec 29, 2017 by The Daily Show with Trevor Noah [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwWhs_6x42TyRM4Wstoq8HA , https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwWhs_6x42TyRM4Wstoq8HA/videos ]

The Daily Show says good riddance to some of the predatory men whose careers have been ruined after being accused of sexual misconduct.

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


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"Day 344" Radicals like Saul Alinsky, Donald Trump and Laura Loomer, LOL !

Published on Dec 29, 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 344" Radicals like Saul Alinsky, Donald Trump and Laura Loomer, LOL !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiYgsV2X-IM [with comments]


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stashed December 29, 2017:

The President Doesn't Care to Understand Global Warming
It’s a shame—ours and his.
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/12/the-president-doesnt-care-to-understand-global-warming/549377/

Trump is as unfit and ignorant as ever
By Jennifer Rubin
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2017/12/29/trump-is-as-unfit-and-ignorant-as-ever/

more: https://news.google.com/news/story/dt5MfuC40c5_1gMsROxSjHuS1B65M?ned=us&gl=US&hl=en

It feels colder in parts of Canada than on Mars
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/12/29/its-feels-colder-in-parts-of-canada-than-on-mars/

It's so cold in the U.S. and Canada that windows are breaking, and there's no end in sight
http://mashable.com/2017/12/28/arctic-blast-record-cold-us-canada-frigid-new-year/#bETaMQ1.9PqB

more: https://news.google.com/news/story/dP3QahpbwwWxybMMqVrE1djNZc7QM?ned=us&gl=US&hl=en

Cheap Amazon shipping leaves the Postal Service ‘dumber and poorer,’ Trump says
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/12/29/trump-calls-for-u-s-postal-service-to-raise-amazons-shipping-rates/

Why the Post Office Gives Amazon Special Delivery
A Citigroup analysis finds each box gets a $1.46 subsidy. It’s like a gift card from Uncle Sam.
July 13, 2017
https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-the-post-office-gives-amazon-special-delivery-1499987531

more: https://news.google.com/news/story/dBQ02A84XmVlkQMhAyvVheldw5L8M?ned=us&gl=US&hl=en

False report led to officer-involved shooting in Kansas
Wichita detectives are looking at phone report
https://www.wcpo.com/news/national/false-report-led-to-officer-involved-shooting-in-kansas

Family says son killed by police in ‘swatting’ was unarmed, didn’t play video games
http://www.kansas.com/news/local/crime/article192147194.html

more: https://news.google.com/news/story/dJxDuZpinqrD7YM11cYPL0FSBU6eM?ned=us&gl=US&hl=en

Trump White House’s Revolving Door Of Staff Changes Expected To Continue In The New Year
The Trump administration’s high staff turnover has been unusual for modern presidencies.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/white-house-staff-shakeup_us_5a465893e4b0b0e5a7a5fd4e

Trump Again Threatens Status Of DACA, Demands Border Wall
Hundreds of thousands of undocumented young people, many of them children, are in limbo.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-daca-border-wall_us_5a465e2be4b0b0e5a7a601f6

Battle Over Contested Virginia House Of Delegates Seat Will Drag On
The name-drawing to determine the winner of House District 94, which could decide which party controls the chamber, is now scheduled for Jan. 4.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/virginia-house-of-delegates-name-drawing-postponed_us_5a467937e4b0b0e5a7a62de6

Child Toying With Stove Sparked Bronx Fire That Killed 12
The 3-year-old “had a history” of playing with stove burners, the fire commissioner said.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bronx-apartment-fire-dead_us_5a45a1d5e4b06d1621b7f1d7

8 Photos Show Americans Coming Together Despite The Awfulness Of 2017
In the wake of historic natural disasters, violence and injustice, people rallied to support their communities in a tumultuous year.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/photos-americans-coming-together-2017_us_5a32cdbfe4b0ff955ad1358f

Gunman Kills 9 Outside Coptic Church In Cairo - Reuters
ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/cairo-coptic-church-attack_us_5a467379e4b06d1621b85ba6
original https://www.reuters.com/article/us-egypt-security/gunman-kills-nine-outside-coptic-church-in-cairo-suburb-ministry-idUSKBN1EN0SX

Trump Reportedly Terminated All Members Of HIV/AIDS Council Without Explanation
The remaining 16 members of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS were fired on Wednesday.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-terminated-all-members-of-hivaids-council-without-explanation_us_5a465bd1e4b0b0e5a7a5ffb5

Barack Obama Tweets Uplifting Local Stories To Remind Us What Went Right In 2017
“Each of us can make a difference, and all of us ought to try.”
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/barack-obama-tweets-best-about-america_us_5a46730ae4b0b0e5a7a62291

Trump Voters Had [thought 2017 was] A Much Better 2017 Than Clinton Voters Did
Their hopes for next year are higher, too.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-voters-better-2017-than-clinton-voters_us_5a457086e4b025f99e1a9d2b

3 Big Environmental Stories To Watch In 2018
Lawsuits focused on climate change and another Canada-U.S. pipeline will be in the news.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/3-big-environmental-stories-to-look-for-in-2018_us_5a4397e2e4b025f99e18eda4

Al Franken Makes First Public Speech Since Announcing His Resignation
Franken is expected to resign on Jan. 2 amid multiple allegations of sexual misconduct.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/al-franken-makes-first-public-speech-since-announcing-his-resignation_us_5a463eebe4b06d1621b82b1f

Trump Says He Has An ‘Absolute Right’ To Control The Justice Department
In a New York Times interview, the president said more than a dozen times that there was no collusion with Russia during the presidential campaign.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-justice-department-new-york-times_us_5a45aa01e4b0b0e5a7a5b993

Trump Administration Moves To Weaken Offshore Safety Rules Prompted By 2010 Spill
The Interior Department says the rules created in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon disaster cause “unnecessary regulatory burdens.”
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-offshore-safety-measures_us_5a4590d4e4b06d1621b7e666

Despite Trump Administration Fearmongering, 2017 Is Among Safest Years Ever For Police
A closer look at the data calls into question the effort to politicize attacks on law enforcement.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/violence-against-police-2017_us_5a3c216ae4b06d1621b304f8

Anti-Government Protests Rock Iran For Second Day - Reuters
The outbreak of regional unrest reflects growing discontent over rising prices, alleged corruption, and Iran’s costly involvement in regional conflicts in Syria and Iraq.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/iran-anti-government-protests_us_5a4657b3e4b025f99e1af97c
original https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-economy-protests/protests-rally-in-western-iran-some-demonstrators-detained-in-tehran-idUSKBN1EN0P0

Thousands Of Palestinians Protest Trump - Reuters
Protesters took to the streets of Gaza and the West Bank for a fourth day in a row.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-palestinians-protest_us_5a4655fae4b025f99e1af876
original https://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians/thousands-of-palestinians-take-part-in-anti-trump-protests-idUSKBN1EN166

South Korea Seizes Ship Suspected Of Transferring Oil To North Korea - Reuters
Shipping oil to Pyongyang is in direct defiance of international sanctions.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/south-korea-ship-seizure_us_5a461acae4b025f99e1adf35
original https://www.reuters.com/article/northkorea-missiles/south-korea-seizes-hk-flagged-vessel-it-says-transferred-oil-to-north-korea-idUSS6N1MO00M

Thousands Of Peruvians Protest Pardon Of Former Authoritarian Leader Alberto Fujimori - Reuters
President Pedro Pablo Kuczysnki pardoned the former leader after Fujimori’s loyalists in Congress saved him from an impeachment bid.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/peru-protests-alberto-fujimori-pardon_us_5a460908e4b025f99e1acf06
original https://www.reuters.com/article/us-peru-fujimori/thousands-of-peruvians-march-against-fujimori-pardon-idUSKBN1EM1RH

NYPD Officers Suspended After Witnesses Say They Didn’t Check On Woman Later Found Dead
The victim’s 2-year-old daughter was later discovered crying near her mother’s body.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/cops-suspended-mom-found-dead_us_5a45ad38e4b0b0e5a7a5b9d2

A Look Back At 2017’s Best, Worst and Ugliest Queer Political Moments
This year, LGBTQ people faced some of their most extraordinary challenges ever. But the Queer Resistance rose up.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/2017-queer-political-moments_us_5a3e8b4be4b0b0e5a7a27bdf

Exercise Prescribed to Improve Memory
https://psychcentral.com/news/2017/12/29/exercise-prescribed-to-improve-memory/130556.html

Exercise to Improve Memory and Slow Dementia, New Recommendations Say
http://www.newsweek.com/exercise-improve-memory-slow-dementia-doctors-recommend-761003

Exercise is good medicine for boosting memory and thinking skills, new guidelines say
http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-exercise-mild-cognitive-impairment-20171228-story.html

Guideline Recommends Exercise for MCI
Based on short-term evidence that twice-weekly exercise benefits cognition
https://www.medpagetoday.com/neurology/generalneurology/70163

more: https://news.google.com/news/story/dIDWqeqHssjSZlMaps678cnOjitaM?ned=us&gl=US&hl=en

A New Species of Giant Octopus Has Been Hiding in Plain Sight
https://earther.com/a-new-species-of-giant-octopus-has-been-hiding-in-plain-1821535243
report https://sites.google.com/site/apuoctopusprojects/alaska-octopus-project-page/frilled-giant-pacific-octopus

Octopuses are so clever, scientists missed a species right under their noses
https://qz.com/1167856/the-frilled-giant-pacific-octopus-is-a-new-species-of-cephalopod-discovered-in-2017/

New Frilled Giant Pacific Octopus Discovered in Alaska
http://www.newsweek.com/enteroctopus-dofleini-frilled-giant-pacific-octopus-alaska-763826
studies
http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.4003/006.035.0207
http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.4003/006.035.0206

There’s a new giant octopus in town
https://www.slashgear.com/theres-a-new-giant-octopus-in-town-29513151/

more: https://news.google.com/news/story/de_OYCUav5pJDxMGQ8i3WspVrwGRM?ned=us&gl=US&hl=en


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