Tornado Alley (PROG)

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Trump takes credit for safest commercial aviation year worldwide

MSNBC Live with Stephanie Ruhle
1/2/18

In a tweet Tuesday morning, President Trump took credit for a record low number of passenger jet crashes worldwide in 2017. NBC’s Tom Costello fact checks the claim. Duration: 4:22

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/stephanie-ruhle/watch/trump-takes-credit-for-safest-year-in-commercial-aviation-worldwide-1127831619762 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6BMnsSq230 [with comments]


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Full Show - Iran Color Revolution & Liberty In America - 01/02/2018

Published on Jan 2, 2018 by Real News with David Knight [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCC1L9FOMSaPgMyoLSnps47g , https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCC1L9FOMSaPgMyoLSnps47g/videos ]

Violence in the streets followed by internet censorship. When social media enacts censorship at the bidding of powerful factions in & out of government is Iran that different from America? What color will our Soros revolution be? And, Charles Ortel, expert on international corruption & fraud looks at what’s ahead for the Clinton’s various schemes.

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCr9BhB4LNE [with comments] [also at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgkhKNOEHp4 (with comments)]


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WATCH: Ambassador Nikki Haley speaks on Pakistan, Iran

Published on Jan 2, 2018 by PBS NewsHour [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6ZFN9Tx6xh-skXCuRHCDpQ / https://www.youtube.com/user/PBSNewsHour , https://www.youtube.com/user/PBSNewsHour/videos ]

U.S. Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley spoke on Tuesday, addressing U.S. withholding aid to Pakistan and about Iran.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLs3shy--O8 [comments disabled]


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Full Show - President Trump Just Raised Taxes On Himself By Hundreds Of Millions - 01/02/2018

Published on Jan 2, 2018 by The Alex Jones Channel [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvsye7V9psc-APX6wV1twLg / https://www.youtube.com/user/TheAlexJonesChannel , https://www.youtube.com/user/TheAlexJonesChannel/videos ]

Tuesday, Jan. 2nd 2018: Trump in charge on Twitter! - Trump's tweets provoke media and international backlash as the President calls out Pakistan's abuse of America's aid. The public was also reminded on Obama giving money to the Iranian regime. In addition, Trump hints at jail for Huma Abedin for giving passwords to foreign agents! Also on the show, CNN's humiliating New Year party, Bannon unleashed, California's sanctuary hell, and Dr. Steve Pieczenik joins Alex Jones to talk about the Persian revolution currently taking place. Paul Joseph Watson hosts the final hour.

[and again, to berate just one obvious point -- in claiming Trump will pay vastly more in federal income taxes in respect of his real estate holdings, Alex is conflating the new lowered limitation on the ability of individuals to deduct real estate taxes paid on their residential real estate, with the ability of business/investment entities to deduct real estate taxes paid on their real estate holdings (Trump's Mar-a-Lago being one example of a holding so held), which latter has been and remains unlimited -- and in claiming the same will hit him by virtue of the real estate holdings of his own businesse/investment entities, Alex is just brazenly lying, has to know better]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBUAnELznyg [with comments] [also, edited, at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJ00wtium0I (additional text adapted from; with comments)] [and see also in particular (linked in) https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=61131925 and preceding and following, https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=107030537 and preceding and following] [a must-watch]


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WATCH: Sarah Sanders holds White House news briefing

Streamed live on Jan 2, 2018 by PBS NewsHour

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

Press Briefing by Press Secretary Sarah Sanders
James S. Brady Press Briefing Room
January 2, 2018
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/press-briefing-press-secretary-sarah-sanders01022018/ [official transcript, with the official White House upload embedded]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3z_kKlAGzE [comments disabled] [official White House upload at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUc3n6wVatk (with comments)]


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Presidential Message on National Stalking Awareness Month, 2018
January 2, 2018
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/presidential-message-national-stalking-awareness-month-2018/


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When Your Best Friend Is Your Stalker | Bob's Burgers

Published on Jan 4, 2018 by Comedy Central UK [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsv4YOF2RBYh0NQ1vuHQ-hg / https://www.youtube.com/user/ComedyCentralUK , https://www.youtube.com/user/ComedyCentralUK/videos , https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLHHcQWkLnpoCviRe2vMmzHea2wdXxCok ]

Louise visits her best friend stalkers house, only to find out that she has the exact same bedroom.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WOqWllWf74 [with comments]


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Full Show - Trump Calls Out Deep State, Wants DOJ To Investigate - 01/02/2018

Published on Jan 3, 2018 by War Room [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClsn7QZVdszxLlUs-GOG0Sg , https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClsn7QZVdszxLlUs-GOG0Sg/videos ]

2018 kicks off with a bang, as President Trump calls out Hillary Clinton, Huma Abedin, James Comey and the deep state all in one Tweet, indicating he is aware of the double standard within the deep state when it comes to punishing those who colluded with Clinton to try and steal the election. Meanwhile, Europe has gone full libtard, urging parents to purchase sex toys for their children.

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

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


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Theodore Shoebat Thinks Atheism is Unnatural

Published on Jan 2, 2018 by Godless Cranium [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCewUkuIHNuwuMNWMa96q9ZQ , https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCewUkuIHNuwuMNWMa96q9ZQ/videos ]

Theodore Shoebat thinks that atheism is unnatural.

He argues that atheists believe in all sorts of unnatural things, such as colonizing other planets, homosexuality and (ironically) everlasting life.

Theodore even talks about artificial intelligence, and we delve a little bit into how (or why) consciousness might have evolved, and whether or not it's smart to create artificially intelligent, conscious machines.

Original video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzmqkEKM4UQ [with comments]

Hello there atheists video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g98eMnF_n2Y [with comments]

Sources:
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/07/who-is-peter-thiel-rnc-2016-trump/492380/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Thiel#Religious_views

https://www.americamagazine.org/content/all-things/faith-technology-qa-peter-thiel

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/german-court-upholds-ban-on-bestiality-ruling-it-does-not-violate-the-right-to-sexual-self-a6884216.html

https://www.internations.org/germany-expats/guide/29464-culture-shopping-recreation/religion-in-germany-16010

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWGVCtGgqIA

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/humans-evolution-new-evolving-new-characteristics-biobank-a8118451.html

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3327538/

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2146419-alzheimers-and-smoking-genes-suggest-were-still-evolving/

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/09/170905145553.htm

https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/the-big-questions/mars-colonists-might-evolve-entirely-new-type-human-n708636

http://www.yalescientific.org/2012/03/do-animals-exhibit-homosexuality/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ErpH6tgM50 [with comments] [and see also in particular (linked in) https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=112469581 and preceding and following, https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=120159431 and preceding and following, https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=123333782 and preceding and following, https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=128499180 and preceding (and any future following), https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=137473029 and preceding and following (earlier this string)]


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Is Romney-Trump clash coming to D.C.?

The Beat With Ari Melber
1/2/18

Sen. Hatch’s retirement opens the door for a run by vocal Trump critic Mitt Romney Duration: 7:56

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/the-beat-with-ari-melber/watch/is-romney-trump-clash-coming-to-d-c-1128069187898


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Trump lashes out at “deep state” Justice Dept.

The Beat With Ari Melber
1/2/18

Trump attacks the Department of Justice and suggests jailing Clinton aide Huma Abedin amid Mueller probe. Duration: 10:50

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/the-beat-with-ari-melber/watch/trump-lashes-out-at-deep-state-justice-dept-1128074307503 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvpVFnx3m4s [with comments]


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Nixon insider: Trump legal team might be in dark

The Beat With Ari Melber
1/2/18

John Dean sends warning to Trump legal team about Michael Flynn and Trump adviser George Papadopoulos told an Australian diplomat Russia had “dirt” on Clinton during campaign, according to the New York Times. Duration: 6:42

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/the-beat-with-ari-melber/watch/nixon-insider-trump-legal-team-might-be-in-dark-1128073283926


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Trump to Kim Jong Un: My nuclear button is bigger than yours

All In with Chris Hayes
1/2/18

Donald Trump fired off a tweet responding to Kim Jong Un's claim that he has a nuclear button on his desk. Duration: 0:51

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-to-kim-jong-un-my-nuclear-button-is-bigger-than-yours-1128035907921 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClEoM9ns23Q [with comments]


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The White House’s 'deep state' obsession

All In with Chris Hayes
1/2/18

Donald Trump once again attacked his own Justice Department, calling it 'Deep State Justice Department' in a tweet on Tuesday. Duration: 7:44

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/the-white-house-s-deep-state-obsession-1128043587798


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Roy Moore's Jewish lawyer supported Doug Jones

All In with Chris Hayes
1/2/18

Turns out that the lawyer who Kayla Moore cited as proof that her husband isn't anti-Semitic is a self-proclaimed "passionate supporter" of Moore's opponent. Duration: 2:17

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/roy-moore-s-jewish-lawyer-supported-doug-jones-1128062019564 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vppOsEUSlBU [with comments]


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2018 opens with frigid cold

The Rachel Maddow Show
1/2/18

Rachel Maddow alerts viewers to extreme cold (and a good chance of a northeast snow storm) forecast for the end of the first week of the year. Duration: 1:29

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/2018-opens-with-frigid-cold-1128167491832


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Trump compares button size with Kim Jong Un

The Rachel Maddow Show
1/2/18

Rachel Maddow shows Donald Trump inviting a nuclear attack from North Korea by goading Kim Jong Un with thinly veiled sneers about the size of his penis. Duration: 1:01

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-compares-button-size-with-kim-jong-un-1128169539575


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Trump taunts Iran, insults Pakistan

The Rachel Maddow Show
1/2/18

Rachel Maddow reports on Donald Trump injecting himself into the politics of Iranian protests and picking a fight with Pakistan. Duration: 1:38

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-taunts-iran-insults-pakistan-1128169027846


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Dossier didn't trigger Trump Russia probe; GOP pretends otherwise

The Rachel Maddow Show
1/2/18

Mark Mazzetti, Washington investigations editor for The New York Times, talks with Rachel Maddow about his reporting that the Trump Russia investigation was triggered by a tip from U.S. allies, not the Christopher Steele dossier. Duration: 17:22

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/dossier-didn-t-trigger-trump-russia-probe-gop-pretends-otherwise-1128118339641 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvzJeNUKwdI [with comments]


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American identities hijacked to fake support for Trump policies

The Rachel Maddow Show
1/2/18

Rachel Maddow reports on an emerging pattern of public feedback on U.S. policy changes being stuff with fake comments from the hijacked identities of real Americans to show artificial support for Trump administration policies. Duration: 13:50

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/american-identities-hijacked-to-fake-support-for-trump-policies-1128124483978 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbDtMD8rAwg [with comments]


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Trump admin ends AIDS council without warning or explanation

The Rachel Maddow Show
1/2/18

Gabriel Maldonado, former member of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV and AIDS, talks with Rachel Maddow about the surprise firing of the entire council by the Trump administration without any explanation. Duration: 5:26

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-admin-ends-aids-council-without-warning-or-explanation-1128143427655


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Orrin Hatch retirement opens door for a Mitt Romney senate run

The Rachel Maddow Show
1/2/18

Rachel Maddow reports on how the announcement of the retirement of Orrin Hatch enables Mitt Romney to run to represent Utah in the Senate. Duration: 0:52

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/orrin-hatch-retirement-opens-door-for-a-mitt-romney-senate-run-1128177731520


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Kristof: Trump tweets 'pour gasoline' on feud with North Korea

The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell
1/2/18

New York Times columnist Nick Kristof, recently back from North Korea, says President Donald Trump's tweet about North Korea's dictator Kim Jong Un and his nuclear capability is speeding up America's path toward nuclear war. Duration: 2:47

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/kristof-trump-tweets-pour-gasoline-on-feud-with-north-korea-1128117315661 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NndDKY9JQk [with comments]


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How North Korea and China view Trump

The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell
1/2/18

New Yorker reporter Evan Osnos, recently back from North Korea and China, explains how North Korea views Trump’s nuclear taunts and how China is flexing its muscles with Donald Trump in the Oval Office. Duration: 6:41

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/how-north-korea-and-china-view-trump-1128119875594 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ala2y3n0mZk [with comments]


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Lawrence: New Trump nuclear tweet shows he is 'unfit to serve'

The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell
1/2/18

President Trump taunted North Korea about his “nuclear button” on Twitter. Lawrence O'Donnell says it is proof Trump is “now clearly the most dangerous person who has ever occupied the White House.” Duration: 6:47

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/lawrence-new-trump-nuclear-tweet-shows-he-is-unfit-to-serve-1128108611963 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RVdYDO9Rms [with comments]


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Fusion GPS: dossier did not spark FBI Russia investigation

The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
1/3/18

Breaking News: Founders of the firm behind the Russian dossier speak out in a New York Times opinion piece about President Trump’s ties to Russia and what congress is keeping a secret. Duration: 16:49

©2017 NBCNews.com

9originally aired January 2, 2018]

http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/fusion-gps-dossier-did-not-spark-fbi-russia-investigation-1128196163894


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Trump to NK: My nuclear button is bigger!

The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
1/3/18

Colonel Jack Jacobs and former Governor and U.S. Ambassador Bill Richardson join Nicolle Wallace to discuss the dangers of taunting the North Korean leader over who has the bigger nuclear button. Duration: 6:31

©2017 NBCNews.com

9originally aired January 2, 2018]

http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/trump-to-nk-my-nuclear-button-is-bigger-1128184899872 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ot57NsTD2ZI [with comments]


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Trump-Romney rivalry reignited

The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
1/3/18

Republican Senator Orrin Hatch’s news of retirement leaves a door open for Trump critic Mitt Romney to run in 2018. Our expert panel discusses the pairs uneasy past and what makes this a situation to watch. Duration: 4:24

©2017 NBCNews.com

9originally aired January 2, 2018]

http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/trump-romney-rivalry-reignited-1128189507970


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Iranians Take to the Streets & Kim Jong-un Makes Nice with South Korea: The Daily Show

Published on Jan 2, 2018 by The Daily Show with Trevor Noah [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwWhs_6x42TyRM4Wstoq8HA , https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwWhs_6x42TyRM4Wstoq8HA/videos ]

Anti-government protests erupt in Iran as economic inequality grows, and Kim Jong-un touts his readily-available nuclear button and claims he's open to talks with South Korea.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vqHMTEmRwE [with comments]


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Making Football Great Again - The Opposition w/ Jordan Klepper

Published on Jan 2, 2018 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 ]

As rumors swirl about WWE CEO Vince McMahon's plans to reboot his failed alternative football league, Tim Baltz offers patriotic suggestions for running it.

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


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A Weather Report From The Overlook Hotel

Published on Jan 3, 2018 by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMtFAi84ehTSYSE9XoHefig , https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMtFAi84ehTSYSE9XoHefig/videos ]

All work and no play makes Jack a dull meteorologist.

9originally aired January 2, 2018]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nvFTq8mwSM [with comments]


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Stephen Uses Trump's Global Warming Logic Against Him

Published on Jan 3, 2018 by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Stephen fights fire with fire. Or in this case, stupid argument with stupid argument.

9originally aired January 2, 2018]

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


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Kim Jong-Un Wants To Be An Olympian

Published on Jan 3, 2018 by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Supreme leader Kim Jong-un is using the New Year to turn over a new leaf. They have those in North Korea, right?

9originally aired January 2, 2018]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGNonoabmO8 [with comments]


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New Footage From Disney World's Hall Of Presidents

Published on Jan 3, 2018 by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Disney really nailed the behavioral realism in its latest animatronic addition to the Hall of Presidents.

9originally aired January 2, 2018]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4bK_tTfhxw [with comments]


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Stephen Talks Legal Weed In California With Stoney Von Dankington

Published on Jan 3, 2018 by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

The Late Show's intern and resident pothead gives Stephen an update on California's second day as a legalized state.

9originally aired January 2, 2018]

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


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"Day 348" Trump "My Button is Bigger than Yours" lol, Plus April LaJune QAnon Minions

Published on Jan 2, 2018

"Day 348" Donald Trump says His Button is Bigger than the Tubby Tyrant's Button ! QAnon has April LaJune and all the Trump Minions excited.., MOSSAD PSYOP. Will the 36 year old slumlord still be the DeFacto Secretary of State for 2018 ? Only Bibi knows when Jared Kushner will be heading to the World Bank Job $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiNlROz8a8s [with comments]


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stashed January 2, 2018:

Trump Says ‘It’s Back To Work,’ Then Visits Golf Club For 7 Straight Days
“This is a man who ... criticized President Barack Obama regularly for playing golf during his presidency, but that criticism hasn’t continued into [his] presidency.”
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-golf-seven-days-back-to-work_us_5a4b30afe4b025f99e1d15b7

James Comey Expresses Hope For ‘More Ethical Leadership’ In 2018
The former FBI director tweeted that he’d like to see a focus on “the truth and lasting values” in the new year.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/comey-hopes-for-ethical-leadership_us_5a4abd75e4b0b0e5a7a80587

Social Media Sites In Germany Can Now Be Fined Millions For Not Deleting Hate Speech
A new law took effect on Jan. 1, affecting Facebook, Twitter, Google, YouTube, Snapchat and Instagram.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/germany-hate-speech-law_us_5a4b4283e4b025f99e1d2349

A Joker Is Editing Animatronic Donald Trump Into Real POTUS Photos
Too. Funny.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-animatronic-edited-into-pictures_us_5a4b4a1ae4b0b0e5a7a8352d

Women Fight Back After Assaults At Music Festivals Down Under
One collared a man who groped her; another punched her attacker in the head.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/australia-music-festival-assault_us_5a4ad78ce4b025f99e1d0378

Amber Alert Issued For Missing Daughters Of Slain Texas Woman
Texas police believe the girls are in grave danger.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/amber-alert-for-texas-daughters_us_5a4b1312e4b06d1621ba43bd

Hollywood Heroines Launch Initiative To Fight Sexual Harassment And Inequality
Kerry Washington, Reese Witherspoon and America Ferrera are just a few of the A-listers involved.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hollywood-initiative-times-up-equality_us_5a4a6074e4b0b0e5a7a7d907

U.S. Rabbi Rips Lorde For ‘Anti-Semitic’ Israel Concert Boycott In Washington Post Ad
Pop star is “young to be a bigot,” says Rabbi Shmuley Boteach.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/lorde-blasted-bigot-byrabbi_us_5a4ace99e4b025f99e1d02b2

Trump Accuses Former Clinton Aide of Failing to Follow Security Protocols - Huma Abedin
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/02/us/politics/trump-clinton-huma-abedin.html

Emboldened Israeli Right Presses Moves to Doom 2-State Solution
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/01/world/middleeast/israeli-jerusalem-west-bank.html

Israel Changes Law to Make It Harder to Cede Jerusalem Control - Reuters
https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2018/01/02/world/middleeast/02reuters-israel-palestinians-jerusalem.html
original https://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-jerusalem/israel-changes-law-to-make-it-harder-to-cede-jerusalem-control-idUSKBN1ER0B1

How Trump Is Helping China
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/02/opinion/trump-china.html

Pakistan Summons U.S. Diplomat After Trump’s Tweet Stirs Outrage
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/02/world/asia/pakistan-trump-tweet.html

Ray of Hope, Then Deep Hostility Between US and North Korea - AP
https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2017/12/30/us/politics/ap-us-united-states-north-korea.html
original https://www.apnews.com/ade7d2195d454bf9beed828518ad100d/Ray-of-hope,-then-deep-hostility-between-US-and-North-Korea

For Trump, a Year of Reinventing the Presidency
In ways that were once unimaginable, President Trump has discarded the conventions and norms established by his predecessors. Will that change the institution permanently?
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/31/us/politics/trump-reinventing-presidency.html

Trump's Foreign Policy: Mixing the Brash and the Blunt - video
https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politics/100000005626648/trumps-foreign-policy-mixing-the-brash-and-the-blunt.html

Korean War, a ‘Forgotten’ Conflict That Shaped the Modern World
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/01/world/asia/korean-war-history.html

Can the Economy Keep Calm and Carry On?
By Paul Krugman
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/01/opinion/can-the-economy-keep-calm-and-carry-on.html

Can an Algorithm Tell When Kids Are in Danger?
Child protective agencies are haunted when they fail to save kids. Pittsburgh officials believe a new data analysis program is helping them make better judgment calls.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/02/magazine/can-an-algorithm-tell-when-kids-are-in-danger.html

A Note From Our New Publisher
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/01/01/opinion/Arthur-Gregg-Sulzberger-The-New-York-Times.html

Partisans, Wielding Money, Begin Seeking to Exploit Harassment Claims
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/31/us/politics/sexual-harassment-politics-partisanship.html

Kirsten Gillibrand, Long a Champion of Women, Finds the Nation Joining Her
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/16/us/politics/senator-kirsten-gillibrand-trump-women-sexual-harassment.html

With Disney Deal Looming, Murdoch’s Empire Is Fractured
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/01/business/media/rupert-murdoch-21st-century-fox-disney.html

South Korea Proposes Border Talks With North Korea After Kim’s Overture
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/02/world/asia/south-north-korea-olympics-talks.html

States Pay the Price When You Buy Online - lost sales taxes - new Supreme Court case
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/01/opinion/online-shopping-sales-tax.html

55 Ways Donald Trump Structurally Changed America in 2017
These are the concrete actions his administration has taken to alter how the country works.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/12/55-ways-donald-trump-structurally-changed-america-in-2017.html

German AfD MP under fire for anti-Muslim New Year tweets
A German far-right politician is facing a criminal investigation over anti-Muslim comments made on New Year's Eve.
Beatrix von Storch, deputy leader of the AfD party, had her Twitter account suspended on Monday over her inflammatory post.
She accused Cologne police of appeasing "barbaric, gang-raping Muslim hordes of men" after they tweeted a New Year message in Arabic.
Police have filed a complaint against her for incitement to hatred.
Cologne prosecutors must now decide whether to launch an official inquiry.
Ms Storch's remarks came after the city's police force tweeted New Year greetings in a number of languages, including English and French as well as German and Arabic.
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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-42537656

German nationalist’s anti-Muslim tweet prompts complaint - AP
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/german-nationalists-anti-muslim-tweet-prompts-complaint/2018/01/02/8ca4b8e2-efa5-11e7-95e3-eff284e71c8d_story.html
original https://www.apnews.com/f81a6f00c49f419c8d4949cf2a31a1e7/German-nationalist's-anti-Muslim-tweet-prompts-complaint

German nationalist lawmaker lashes out at Jewish activist
Aug. 31, 2016
https://www.apnews.com/c35f103d7b924ab8b08f2efe4edcb4d2/German-nationalist-lawmaker-lashes-out-at-Jewish-activist

German nationalist’s tweet about soccer team sparks outcry
Jul. 08, 2016
https://www.apnews.com/da2d123cf4bb460fbff1ce83f222067c/German-nationalist's-tweet-about-soccer-team-sparks-outcry

German Far-Right AfD Cries Censorship Over Anti-Muslim Tweets
AfD leaders double down, urge users to repeat deleted comments
Action follows new German law cracking down on hate speech
Alternative for Germany, a far-right opposition party that brands Chancellor Angela Merkel a traitor, accused the government of censorship after saying Twitter Inc. deleted derogatory comments about Muslim men by two of its leaders.
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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-02/german-far-right-afd-cries-censorship-over-anti-muslim-tweets

more: https://news.google.com/news/story/dqug6mg58Ax6dEM991z3_A8HHtoRM?ned=us&gl=US&hl=en

The Trump Effect: Business, Anticipating Less Regulation, Loosens Purse Strings
WASHINGTON — A wave of optimism has swept over American business leaders, and it is beginning to translate into the sort of investment in new plants, equipment and factory upgrades that bolsters economic growth, spurs job creation — and may finally raise wages significantly.
While business leaders are eager for the tax cuts that take effect this year, the newfound confidence was initially inspired by the Trump administration’s regulatory pullback, not so much because deregulation is saving companies money but because the administration has instilled a faith in business executives that new regulations are not coming.
“It’s an overall sense that you’re not going to face any new regulatory fights,” said Granger MacDonald, a home builder in Kerrville, Tex. “We’re not spending more, which is the main thing. We’re not seeing any savings, but we’re not seeing any increases.”
The applause from top executives has been largely reserved for the administration’s economic policy agenda. Many chief executives have been publicly critical of President Trump’s approach to social and cultural issues, including his response to a white nationalist march over the summer in Charlottesville, Va., that turned deadly and his decision to withdraw from the Paris climate accord. Two of the business advisory councils that Mr. Trump assembled in the nascent days of his presidency disbanded after executives grew concerned about his public remarks on the violence in Charlottesville.
There is little historical evidence tying regulation levels to growth. Regulatory proponents say, in fact, that those rules can have positive economic effects in the long run, saving companies from violations that could cost them both financially and reputationally. Cost-benefit analyses generally do not look just at the impact of a regulation on a particular business’s bottom line in the coming months, but at the broader impact on consumers, the environment, public health and other factors that can show up over years or decades.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/01/us/politics/trump-businesses-regulation-economic-growth.html

Regulation and Deregulation of Industry
News about Regulation and Deregulation of Industry, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.
https://www.nytimes.com/topic/subject/regulation-and-deregulation-of-industry

Trump urges Justice Department to ‘act’ on Comey, suggests Huma Abedin should face jail time
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2018/01/02/trump-urges-justice-department-to-act-on-comey-suggests-huma-abedin-should-face-jail-time/

Trump suggests Huma Abedin be jailed after State Department email release
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/02/trump-huma-abedin-jail-email-release-319922

more: https://news.google.com/news/story/dbUw3BI0GY3C0PMrjdhwTrdK2DeSM?ned=us&gl=US&hl=en

Orrin Hatch, Utah Senator, to Retire, Opening Path for Mitt Romney

( https://youtu.be/QNGOSwXNDcg )
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/02/us/politics/orrin-hatch-retiring-romney-trump.html

Tribune Editorial: Why Orrin Hatch is Utahn of the Year
December 25, 2017
http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/editorial/2017/12/25/tribune-editorial-why-orrin-hatch-is-utahn-of-the-year/

Orrin Hatch announces he will retire from the Senate
https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/orrin-hatch-announces-he-will-retire-from-the-senate/2018/01/02/e76434c4-eff0-11e7-97bf-bba379b809ab_story.html

Trump begged Orrin Hatch to run again. The senator retired anyway.
http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/02/politics/orrin-hatch-donald-trump-analysis/index.html

The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: Senator Hatches Retirement Plan
Orrin Hatch announced he will not seek reelection
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/01/the-atlantic-politics-policy-daily/549533/

more: https://news.google.com/news/story/dkues-EEXN81IxMVigWnndDrFmbrM?ned=us&gl=US&hl=en

Roy Moore's Jewish lawyer voted for Doug Jones, raised money for his campaign - and will be at Jones's 1-3-18 swearing in
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/roy-moores-jewish-lawyer-is-a-friend-of-doug-jones/article/2644738

more: https://www.google.com/search?q=roy+moore+jewish+lawyer

The Republicans’ Fake Investigations
By GLENN R. SIMPSON and PETER FRITSCH
Glenn R. Simpson and Peter Fritsch, both former journalists, are the founders of the research firm Fusion GPS.
A generation ago, Republicans sought to protect President Richard Nixon by urging the Senate Watergate committee to look at supposed wrongdoing by Democrats in previous elections. The committee chairman, Sam Ervin, a Democrat, said that would be “as foolish as the man who went bear hunting and stopped to chase rabbits.”
Today, amid a growing criminal inquiry into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, congressional Republicans are again chasing rabbits. We know because we’re their favorite quarry.
In the year since the publication of the so-called Steele dossier — the collection of intelligence reports we commissioned about Donald Trump’s ties to Russia — the president has repeatedly attacked us on Twitter. His allies in Congress have dug through our bank records and sought to tarnish our firm to punish us for highlighting his links to Russia. Conservative news outlets and even our former employer, The Wall Street Journal, have spun a succession of mendacious conspiracy theories about our motives and backers.
We are happy to correct the record. In fact, we already have.
Three congressional committees have heard over 21 hours of testimony from our firm, Fusion GPS. In those sessions, we toppled the far right’s conspiracy theories and explained how The Washington Free Beacon and the Clinton campaign — the Republican and Democratic funders of our Trump research — separately came to hire us in the first place.
We walked investigators through our yearlong effort to decipher Mr. Trump’s complex business past, of which the Steele dossier is but one chapter. And we handed over our relevant bank records — while drawing the line at a fishing expedition for the records of companies we work for that have nothing to do with the Trump case.
Republicans have refused to release full transcripts of our firm’s testimony, even as they selectively leak details to media outlets on the far right. It’s time to share what our company told investigators.
We don’t believe the Steele dossier was the trigger for the F.B.I.’s investigation into Russian meddling. As we told the Senate Judiciary Committee in August, our sources said the dossier was taken so seriously because it corroborated reports the bureau had received from other sources, including one inside the Trump camp.
The intelligence committees have known for months that credible allegations of collusion between the Trump camp and Russia were pouring in from independent sources during the campaign. Yet lawmakers in the thrall of the president continue to wage a cynical campaign to portray us as the unwitting victims of Kremlin disinformation.
We suggested investigators look into the bank records of Deutsche Bank and others that were funding Mr. Trump’s businesses. Congress appears uninterested in that tip: Reportedly, ours are the only bank records the House Intelligence Committee has subpoenaed.
We told Congress that from Manhattan to Sunny Isles Beach, Fla., and from Toronto to Panama, we found widespread evidence that Mr. Trump and his organization had worked with a wide array of dubious Russians in arrangements that often raised questions about money laundering. Likewise, those deals don’t seem to interest Congress.
We explained how, from our past journalistic work in Europe, we were deeply familiar with the political operative Paul Manafort’s coziness with Moscow and his financial ties to Russian oligarchs close to Vladimir Putin.
Finally, we debunked the biggest canard being pushed by the president’s men — the notion that we somehow knew of the June 9, 2016, meeting in Trump Tower between some Russians and the Trump brain trust. We first learned of that meeting from news reports last year — and the committees know it. They also know that these Russians were unaware of the former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele’s work for us and were not sources for his reports.
Yes, we hired Mr. Steele, a highly respected Russia expert. But we did so without informing him whom we were working for and gave him no specific marching orders beyond this basic question: Why did Mr. Trump repeatedly seek to do deals in a notoriously corrupt police state that most serious investors shun?
What came back shocked us. Mr. Steele’s sources in Russia (who were not paid) reported on an extensive — and now confirmed — effort by the Kremlin to help elect Mr. Trump president. Mr. Steele saw this as a crime in progress and decided he needed to report it to the F.B.I.
We did not discuss that decision with our clients, or anyone else. Instead, we deferred to Mr. Steele, a trusted friend and intelligence professional with a long history of working with law enforcement. We did not speak to the F.B.I. and haven’t since.
After the election, Mr. Steele decided to share his intelligence with Senator John McCain via an emissary. We helped him do that. The goal was to alert the United States national security community to an attack on our country by a hostile foreign power. We did not, however, share the dossier with BuzzFeed, which to our dismay published it last January.
We’re extremely proud of our work to highlight Mr. Trump’s Russia ties. To have done so is our right under the First Amendment.
It is time to stop chasing rabbits. The public still has much to learn about a man with the most troubling business past of any United States president. Congress should release transcripts of our firm’s testimony, so that the American people can learn the truth about our work and most important, what happened to our democracy.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/02/opinion/republicans-investigation-fusion-gps.html
further to:
How the Russia Inquiry Began: A Campaign Aide, Drinks and Talk of Political Dirt - excerpted at http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=137313092
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/30/us/politics/how-fbi-russia-investigation-began-george-papadopoulos.html

more: https://www.google.com/search?q=republicans%E2%80%99+fake+investigations

Trump: I have a 'much bigger' button than Kim Jong Un
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/367149-trump-i-have-a-much-bigger-button-than-kim-jong-un

North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un just stated that the “Nuclear Button is on his desk at all times.” Will someone from his depleted and food starved regime please inform him that I too have a Nuclear Button, but it is a much bigger & more powerful one than his, and my Button works!
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/948355557022420992

Trump taunts Kim Jong Un: My nuclear button “is a much bigger & more powerful one”
Trump escalates tensions with North Korea in a tweet.
https://www.vox.com/2018/1/2/16843480/trump-taunts-kim-jong-un-nuclear-button-tweet

Trump taunts North Korea: My nuclear button is 'much bigger,' 'more powerful'
Trump's tweet about nuclear war was one of more than a dozen he posted throughout the day
It came after Kim Jong UN delivered a New Year's Day address offering an olive branch to South Korea and continuing to threaten the US
http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/02/politics/donald-trump-north-korea-nuclear/index.html

more: https://www.google.com/search?q=trump+button

I will be announcing THE MOST DISHONEST & CORRUPT MEDIA AWARDS OF THE YEAR on Monday at 5:00 o’clock. Subjects will cover Dishonesty & Bad Reporting in various categories from the Fake News Media. Stay tuned!
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/948359545767841792

Many Comments Critical of ‘Fiduciary’ Rule Are Fake - parallel net neutrality comments (Maddow 1-2-18)
Wall Street Journal analysis shows 40% of respondents didn’t write the posts that were attributed to them
Dec. 27, 2017
https://www.wsj.com/articles/many-comments-critical-of-fiduciary-rule-are-fake-1514370601

Business-Loan Growth Fell Off a Cliff in 2017 and No One Can Figure Out Why
Bankers are mystified by the sluggish expansion in corporate borrowing; some hope the U.S. tax-code overhaul will open the floodgates
https://www.wsj.com/articles/business-loan-growth-fell-off-a-cliff-in-2017-and-no-one-can-figure-out-why-1514926643

Why Oklahoma Has The Most Women Per Capita in Prison
System admits more nonviolent offenders than others and imposes harsher sentences
https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-oklahoma-has-the-most-women-per-capita-in-prison-1514898001

Rule Change Allows Damaged Churches to Rebuild With Federal Aid
Houses of worship hit by disasters on or after Aug. 23 are now eligible for funding
https://www.wsj.com/articles/rule-change-allows-damaged-churches-to-rebuild-with-federal-aid-1514947617

Donald Trump’s Year of Living Dangerously
It’s worse than you think.
When President Donald Trump sat down for dinner on September 18 in New York with leaders of four Latin American countries on the sidelines of the annual United Nations General Assembly, anxieties were already running high.
There was the matter of Mexico and his promise to build that “big, beautiful wall,” presumably to keep not just Mexicans but all of their citizens out of the United States too. And the threat to blow up the North American Free Trade Agreement. And then, a month earlier, seemingly out of nowhere, Trump had volunteered that he was considering a “military option” in Venezuela as that country’s last vestiges of democracy disappeared. Amid the international furor over his vow to rain down “fire and fury” on North Korea in the same golf-course press conference, the news that the president of the United States was apparently considering going to war with its third-largest oil supplier had gotten relatively little attention. But the leaders from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Panama invited to the dinner remembered it well.
So, it turned out, did Trump. After the photo op was over and the cameras had left the room, Trump dominated the long table. His vice president, Mike Pence, was to his right; Pence had just spent nearly a week on a conciliatory, well-received tour of the region, the first by a high-ranking administration official since Trump’s inauguration. To Trump’s left was his secretary of state, Rex Tillerson. “Rex tells me you don’t want me to use the military option in Venezuela,” the president told the gathered Latin American leaders, according to an account offered by an attendee soon after the dinner. “Is that right? Are you sure?” Everyone said they were sure. But they were rattled. War with Venezuela, as absurd as that seemed, was clearly still on Trump’s mind.
By the time the dinner was over, the leaders were in shock, and not just over the idle talk of armed conflict. No matter how prepared they were, eight months into an American presidency like no other, this was somehow not what they expected. A former senior U.S. official with whom I spoke was briefed by ministers from three of the four countries that attended the dinner. “Without fail, they just had wide eyes about the entire engagement,” the former official told me. Even if few took his martial bluster about Venezuela seriously, Trump struck them as uninformed about their issues and dangerously unpredictable, asking them to expend political capital on behalf of a U.S. that no longer seemed a reliable partner. “The word they all used was: ‘This guy is insane.’”
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https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/01/02/donald-trump-foreign-policy-analysis-dangerous-216202

more: https://www.google.com/search?q=trump%27s+year+of+living+dangerously

Making China Great Again
As Donald Trump surrenders America’s global commitments, Xi Jinping is learning to pick up the pieces.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/01/08/making-china-great-again

more: https://www.google.com/search?q=making+china+great+again


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