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Art of the lie

Politicians have always lied. Does it matter if they leave the truth behind entirely?



From the print edition | Leaders

Sep 10th 2016

CONSIDER how far Donald Trump is estranged from fact. He inhabits a fantastical realm where Barack Obama’s birth certificate was faked, the president founded Islamic State (IS), the Clintons are killers and the father of a rival was with Lee Harvey Oswald before he shot John F. Kennedy.

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If Mr Trump loses in November, post-truth will seem less menacing, though he has been too successful for it to go away. The deeper worry is for countries like Russia and Turkey, where autocrats use the techniques of post-truth to silence opponents. Cast adrift on an ocean of lies, the people there will have nothing to cling to. For them the novelty of post-truth may lead back to old-fashioned oppression.

http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21706525-politicians-have-always-lied-does-it-matter-if-they-leave-truth-behind-entirely-art

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Andrea Mathews LPC, Ph.D.
Traversing the Inner Terrain

The Art of the Lie
Why can't we just tell the truth?
Posted Jan 25, 2017

Why do we lie? Why don’t we just tell the truth? Wouldn’t life be oh-so-much simpler if we all just told the truth? Wouldn’t our relationships be more intimate, our interactions with others more fluid; our religion, our politics, our international concerns all go smoother?

Well, the answer to those questions for many people is “no.” In fact, beyond the bent to use or abuse others, the main reason most of us lie is because we are afraid. We are afraid that someone will know us. We are afraid that interactions with others will get really messy. We are afraid we will put our vulnerabilities out there for others to see, others who will only use and abuse our vulnerabilities. We are afraid we will have to question our religions. We are afraid that political and international concerns will go awry. And so we lie.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/traversing-the-inner-terrain/201701/the-art-the-lie

Andrea's silence solution sounds a bit utopian, but anyway the fear angle feels valid.

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Donald Trump's team defends 'alternative facts' after widespread protests

* President and advisers push falsehoods about inauguration attendance
* Secretary of state pick backed by key Republican senators

VIDEO: 0:44 Kellyanne Conway denies Trump press secretary lied: ‘He offered alternative facts’

Jon Swaine
@jonswaine

Monday 23 January 2017 05.25 EST

[...]

Asked on ABC’s This Week whether he had full confidence in Trump, John McCain, the Republican senator and former presidential nominee, replied: “I don’t know.”

Trump also stated falsely during his speech at the CIA on Saturday that reports of a feud between him and US intelligence officials had been invented by journalists, who he said were among “the most dishonest human beings on Earth”.

Only 10 days earlier, Trump had personally likened the US intelligence establishment to Nazi Germany. He also suggested US officials had leaked to the media an explosive and unverified dossier by a former British spy alleging links between Trump and Russia.

Some of Trump’s most loyal supporters in Washington defended the president’s unusual remarks. “You’re going to see more of this,”
Devin Nunes, a Republican congressman for California, told CNN’s State of the Union. “He was just having a good time.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/22/donald-trump-kellyanne-conway-inauguration-alternative-facts

So constant lying is explained away by "just having a good time", eh .. sheesh,
ugly .. this post was prompted by the Kasparov quote in your 6th item down ..

Why Nobody Cares the President Is Lying

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All administrations lie, but what we are seeing here is an attack on credibility itself.

The Russian dissident and chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov drew upon long familiarity with that process when he tweeted: “The point of modern propaganda isn’t only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.”

Mr. Kasparov grasps that the real threat is not merely that a large number of Americans have become accustomed to rejecting factual information, or even that they have become habituated to believing hoaxes. The real danger is that, inundated with “alternative facts,” many voters will simply shrug, asking, “What is truth?” — and not wait for an answer.

In that world, the leader becomes the only reliable source of truth; a familiar phenomenon in an authoritarian state, but a radical departure from the norms of a democratic society. The battle over truth is now central to our politics.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/04/opinion/sunday/why-nobody-cares-the-president-is-lying.html

which was a top tweet.

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Daylin Leach
@daylinleach
Hey @realDonaldTrump I oppose civil asset forfeiture too! Why don't you try to destroy my career you fascist, loofa-faced, shit-gibbon!
1:58 PM - 7 Feb 2017

Hey @realDonaldTrump I oppose civil asset forfeiture too! Why don't you try to destroy my career you fascist, loofa-faced, shit-gibbon!

— Daylin Leach (@daylinleach) February 7, 2017

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Daylin Leach
February 7 at 1:39pm ·
Hey! I oppose civil asset forfeiture too. Why don't you come after me you fascist, loofa-faced shit-gibbon!!

[ https://www.occupycorporatism.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Susanne.Posel-Headline.News_.Official-trump.civil_.forfeiture.texas_.lawmaker.destroy.career_occupycorporatism-890x395_c.jpg ]
Trump invites sheriff to 'destroy' Texas state lawmaker who opposes asset forfeiture
“Who is the state senator?" Trump replied. "Do you want to give his name? We’ll destroy his career.”
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/trump-sheriff-asset-forfeiture-texas-234740
https://www.facebook.com/daylin.leach/posts/10154066859965672 [with comments]


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Pennsylvania Lawmaker Calls Trump A ‘Fascist, Loofa-Faced S**t-Gibbon’

Daylin Leach is interviewed at Roll Call offices in Washington, D.C., on April 23, 2013.
The comment came in response to Trump threatening to “destroy” the career of a Texas state senator.
02/08/2017

[ https://twitter.com/stevehoenstine/status/829419230261026820 (with comments)]
Hamfisted Bun Vendor
@MetalOllie
Hamfisted Bun Vendor Retweeted Donald J. Trump:
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
Just arrived in Scotland. Place is going wild over the vote. They took their country back, just like we will take America back. No games!
11:21 PM - 23 Jun 2016
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Just arrived in Scotland. Place is going wild over the vote. They took their country back, just like we will take America back. No games!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 24, 2016

(with {over 19,000} comments)]
Scotland voted to stay & plan on a second referendum, you tiny fingered, Cheeto-faced, ferret wearing shitgibbon.
12:59 AM - 24 Jun 2016
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Scotland voted to stay & plan on a second referendum, you tiny fingered, Cheeto-faced, ferret wearing shitgibbon. https://t.co/iKyEIxf8ej

— Hamfisted Bun Vendor 🔞 (@MetalOllie) June 24, 2016

(with coments)]
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/pennsylvania-senator-calls-trump-a-facist-loofa-faced-st-gibbon_us_589b6cd2e4b0c1284f2a1456


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Facts on Trump’s Immigration Order

"Trump and Staff Rethink Tactics After Stumbles"

By Brooks Jackson, Eugene Kiely, Lori Robertson and Robert Farley
Posted on February 1, 2017 | Updated on February 9, 2017

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How Many Foreign-Born Have Committed Terrorist Acts in U.S.?

The point of the order is to keep would-be foreign terrorists out of the United States. That raises the question of how many foreign-born people have committed such crimes in the U.S. Trump’s executive order directs the secretary of homeland security and the U.S. attorney general to find out.

The order instructs the two departments to collect and make publicly available information about foreign nationals who have been charged or convicted of terrorism-related offenses, or have been removed from the country because of terrorism-related activity.

Others, though, already have compiled some of that information. One of them is Alex Nowrasteh, an immigration policy analyst at the Cato Institute, who produced a 28-page report last year called “Terrorism and Immigration .. https://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/pubs/pdf/pa798_2.pdf .”

Nowrasteh’s report identified 154 foreign-born people who were convicted of carrying out or attempting to carry out a terrorist attack in the U.S. over a 40-year period, from 1975 to 2015, most of them on or after Sept. 11, 2001. Forty of the 154 were responsible for 3,024 deaths; 114 of them were not responsible for any deaths.

Only 17 of the 154 foreign-born terrorists were from the seven countries covered by the Trump administration’s temporary travel ban. But none of the 17 was responsible for any deaths — even though the seven countries combined represented almost 40 percent of all refugees accepted into the U.S. in the last 10 years.

As of Jan. 31, a total of 255,708 refugees from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen have been admitted to the U.S. since the start of 2008. Those countries account for almost 40 percent of the 642,593 total refugees who have come to the U.S. in that time period, according to .. https://cdn.factcheck.org/UploadedFiles/Refugee-Arrivals-by-Nationality-and-Religion.pdf .. the State Department’s Refugee Processing Center.

“The first sentence of his order states that it is to ‘protect the American people from terrorist attacks by foreign nationals admitted to the United States,'” Nowrasteh wrote in a blog post .. https://www.cato.org/blog/guide-trumps-executive-order-limit-migration-national-security-reasons . “However, the countries that Trump chose to temporarily ban are not serious terrorism risks.”

In all, the report identified 3,432 murders caused by terrorists on U.S. soil in 40 years, including the 3,024 caused by foreign-born terrorists — or 88 percent all terrorism-related deaths.

To put the terrorism-related murders in perspective, there were about 768,000 total murders during the same 40-year period, the report says. As a percentage, terrorism-related deaths represented 0.39 percent of all murders over the 40 years.

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Cato Institute, Sept. 13, 2016: The annual chance of being murdered was 252.9
times as great as dying in an attack committed by a foreign-born terrorist on U.S. soil.
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The vast majority of the murders caused by terrorists occurred on Sept. 11, 2001, when 2,983 people — not counting the 19 hijackers — were killed in the deadliest terrorist attack in U.S. history. The 9/11 attacks accounted for 98.6 percent of all people killed in terrorist attacks during the 40 years, the report says.

Trump’s executive order cites the 9/11 attacks three times. But none of the 9/11 hijackers came from any of the seven countries that fall under Trump’s 90-day travel ban. Fifteen were from Saudi Arabia; two were from the United Arab Emirates; one was from Egypt, and one was from Lebanon, according to the CIA .. https://www.cia.gov/news-information/speeches-testimony/2002/DCI_18_June_testimony_new.pdf .

MUCH more .. http://www.factcheck.org/2017/02/facts-on-trumps-immigration-order/

.. not surprised the facts on this matter are misrepresented by the Washington Examiner in the article JimLur posted here ..

Report: 72 convicted of terrorism from 'Trump 7' mostly Muslim countries
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=128631160

The anti-immigration Center for Immigration Studies guilty of misrepresentation there is criticized by the CATO Institute in this one ..

JimLur .. Immigrants Don't Drain Welfare. They Fund It.
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=128482785

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Trump’s faux-pas diplomacy


“When you hear about the tough phone calls I’m having, don’t worry about it. Just don’t worry about it," President Donald Trump said at last week's National Prayer Breakfast.
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The State Department is struggling to contain the fallout as Trump goes off topic in calls with foreign leaders.

By Tara Palmeri, Kenneth P. Vogel, Josh Dawsey and Nahal Toosi
02/08/17 05:08 AM EST

President Donald Trump spent much of a recent phone call with French President Francois Hollande veering off into rants about the U.S. getting shaken down by other countries, according to a senior official with knowledge of the call, creating an awkward interaction with a critical U.S. ally.

While the Hollande call Jan. 28 did touch on pressing matters between the two countries — namely the fight against the Islamic State — Trump also used the exchange to vent about his personal fixations, including his belief that the United States is being taken advantage of by China and international bodies like NATO, the official said.

At one point, Trump declared that the French can continue protecting NATO, but that the U.S. “wants our money back,” the official said, adding that Trump seemed to be “obsessing over money.”

“It was a difficult conversation, because he talks like he’s speaking publicly,” the official said. “It’s not the usual way heads of state speak to each other. He speaks with slogans, and the conversation was not completely organized.”

The revelations about the unconventional call are only the latest in a series of leaked accounts of Trump’s calls with foreign leaders that are generating increasing doubts about the new president’s style of diplomacy at a time of global uncertainty. Diplomats and politicians across the spectrum and around the world are worried that Trump’s seemingly unstructured and personality-driven approach to dealing with foreign leaders risks alienating traditional allies and emboldening foes.

Trump and the White House have so far brushed off the concerns, which spiked after reports emerged that he warned Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto that he might send troops to Mexico to clear out the “bad hombres down there” and that he argued with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull over a prior agreement with the Obama administration to resettle refugees from a camp in Australia, saying that Turnbull is giving him “the next Boston bombers.”

The White House has provided sanitized readouts, including of the call with Hollande, presenting it as a focused conversation with Trump expressing his support for NATO. “President Trump reaffirmed the U.S. commitment to NATO and noted the importance of all NATO Allies sharing the burden on defense spending,” the release read. “The leaders also lauded our combined efforts to eliminate ISIS in Iraq and Syria.”

A member of the National Security Council staff also pushed back against the senior official’s assessment of the Hollande call.

“This is mischaracterization due to the nature of the call,” said the staff member, a communications aide. “They did discuss the issue of countries meeting their defense commitments under NATO. They agreed that was important that countries meet their goals.” (France is among the NATO members that do not meet the target of 2 percent of GDP to be contributed to the alliance’s defense.)

The aide also did not elaborate on why Trump brought up the topic of China with the French president.

Trump also defended himself at the National Prayer Breakfast last week, telling the crowd, “When you hear about the tough phone calls I’m having, don’t worry about it. Just don’t worry about it.”

But there are plenty of people worried about it.

“This is not the way you lead our country,” Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia, the top Democrat on the intelligence committee, said of the Mexico and Australia conversations. Warner added in a brief interview that he remains concerned about Trump’s combative calls with foreign leaders.

Veterans at the State Department are also worried about Trump’s brash style in dealing with world leaders and his early forays into foreign policy.

The phone calls to foreign leaders from France, Germany, Mexico, Russia and Japan during Trump’s first week in office came with little guidance from the State Department, angering some at the agency, which is accustomed to briefing presidents extensively on geopolitical currents before the calls happen.

State Department officials say there’s little respect at Foggy Bottom for Trump’s Twitter diplomacy, where longtime foreign policy hands find themselves simultaneously frustrated and relieved by the fact that they are limited in their ability to go out and try to clean up Trump’s diplomatic mess because of all the vacancies at the department.

Still, not all of Trump’s phone calls have gone off the rails.

The trick to a good call with Trump is less about policy agreement than personal chemistry, said two people familiar with some of the world leader talks.

For example, New Zealand Prime Minister Bill English began his Sunday evening call with Trump by thanking the president for taking the time to talk during the Super Bowl and chatting about New Zealand golfer Bob Charles, said someone briefed on the call. The person said that set the tone for an amicable conversation, even though English went on to express disagreement with Trump’s executive order restricting travel from seven predominantly Muslim countries.

And, when the politics and the personalities mesh, the calls can become mutual admiration societies, as was the case with Trump’s call during the transition with Milos Zeman, president of the Czech Republic.

Zeman is a hard-liner on both immigration and Iran, and he and Trump found common ground on those issues, but also hit it off personally in a big way, said a Czech political operative briefed on the call.

Trump told Zeman “you’re my type of guy” and invited him to the White House repeatedly during the course of the conversation (a visit was subsequently, but tentatively, scheduled for April). “We expected it to go well, but it was surprising how well it went. The chemistry was very good,” said the Czech operative.

There is intense speculation in diplomatic circles about how Trump’s off-the-cuff style may have played out during a call last month with Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose country is considered America’s top geopolitical foe, but for whom Trump has had kind words. The White House released only a brief, anodyne readout of that phone call, and so far, few additional details have been disseminated.

As for the calls that did result in leaks or unpleasantries, State Department officials have been struggling to manage the fallout, according to an agency official.

Normally, this person said, any change in foreign policy — or discussions on the calls — would be heavily vetted with experts and senior department officials. “These are usually the most orchestrated of affairs,” this person said. “They aren’t orchestrated like that anymore.”

This person said “what really bothers you about this administration is they don’t care about the experts and what we’ve done here for decades. I don’t think they trust us for anything.”

For the most part, American officials in embassies around the world have had to refer to the White House when asked about policy direction or the president’s verbal lashes. Because Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was confirmed just days ago — and a slew of top posts at the department remain unfilled — most U.S. diplomats simply don’t have much guidance about what to say to their counterparts. The State Department’s public affairs division has yet to hold its traditional daily press briefing under the new administration.

One U.S. diplomat mentioned avoiding doing a Q & A session at the end of a recent public appearance overseas to escape the likely volley of questions about the new president. When speaking to counterparts, the diplomat has been counseling patience, assuring them that things will likely improve once Tillerson appoints his subordinates and conversations on issues ranging from trade to security can resume in full.

The challenge, the diplomat said, is that foreign leaders’ patience will run out, especially in places facing important elections of their own in the next year or two. Those countries include Mexico, France and Germany, where the relationship with the U.S. is already a campaign issue.

The Trump disruption “becomes a bigger story than it otherwise might be because it’s political season,” the diplomat said. “It’s the kind of thing you can manage for a week or so, but the story isn’t really going away.”

Since taking over, Tillerson, the former CEO of ExxonMobil, has spurred hope within the foreign service that he will be a stabilizing force. His first day was spent meeting or speaking on the phone with representatives of several of America’s closest allies: the foreign ministers of Germany, Mexico and Canada, as well as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

In the days since, Tillerson also has spoken to counterparts in Australia, South Korea and Japan, as well as NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg.

The State Department has offered thin readouts that nonetheless were reassuring to U.S. diplomats: “In all of his conversations, Secretary Tillerson stressed America’s steadfast commitment to its key allies and partners as it works to protect the interests and safety of the American people.”

He has his work cut out for him, though. According to the State official, the department is “on edge more than I’ve ever seen it, and I’ve worked here for more than two decades.” Officials have even begun communicating covertly with each other, afraid the administration will listen in on them.

This person said that more people wanted to sign the dissent memo blasting Trump’s recent executive order on refugees and immigrants, which ultimately attracted the signatures of nearly 1,000 State Department employees. But the official said there “was confusion on how to sign it, and whether it was going to cost you your job.”

“We’re hoping Tillerson helps figure it out,” the State Department official said. “We don’t know much about how he will do, but I think everyone is glad he’s here.”

Elana Schor contributed to this report.

© 2017 POLITICO LLC

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/trump-foreign-leaders-phone-calls-234770 [with comments]


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FULL: President Trump Speech at Major Cities Police Chiefs Association Winter Conference

Published on Feb 8, 2017 by The White House [ http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYxRlFDqcWM4y7FfpiAN3KQ / http://www.youtube.com/user/whitehouse , http://www.youtube.com/user/whitehouse/videos ]

Washington, DC

President Donald Trump speaks at 2017 MCCA Winter Conference.

Remarks by President Trump at MCCA Winter Conference
February 08, 2017
https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/02/08/remarks-president-trump-mcca-winter-conference [official transcript]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrVxneiWOsM [also at e.g. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5rvzO1UEVY (title and additional text taken from; with comments)]


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Full Show - Infowars Drives Stake Of Truth Into MSM Vampires - 02/08/2017

Published on Feb 8, 2017 by The Alex Jones Channel [ http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvsye7V9psc-APX6wV1twLg / http://www.youtube.com/user/TheAlexJonesChannel , http://www.youtube.com/user/TheAlexJonesChannel/videos ]

On the Wednesday, Feb.8th 2017 broadcast of the Alex Jones Show [with Roger Stone guest-hosting the fourth hour], conservative politician Kevin Martin is in studio to discuss false MSM narratives. Whistleblower Philip Haney also joins the show to go into detail about how the DHS will benefit from a Trump presidency. Also, Milo Yiannopoulos talks about his plan to return to UC Berkeley and continue the fight for the First Amendment.

James O'Keefe's Racist Anal Sex Joke About Milo Yiannopoulos

Published on Feb 3, 2017 by The Undercurrent [ http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfWDu0q3Ep7JXCcZor6l5Cg / http://www.youtube.com/user/TYTinvestigates , http://www.youtube.com/user/TYTinvestigates/videos ]
This racist anal sex joke about his fellow rightwing provocateur Milo Yiannopolous shows James O'Keefe's true colors.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBJjGVbaya8 [with comments]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6z8uwkSvEE [with comments]


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DRUDGE: GOP Should Be Sued For Fraud

Published on Feb 8, 2017 by The Alex Jones Channel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnaM_4KUsEU [with comments]


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The Republican Carbon Tax Is Republican, Say Republicans
There’s just one problem: other Republicans.

James Baker III, the former secretary of state under George H.W. Bush, tours parts of Florida affected by Hurricane Ike in October 2008.
Feb 8, 2017
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/02/a-republican-proposal-for-a-carbon-tax-okay/516048/ [with comments]


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The Travesties Done in Your Name and Mine | The Resistance with Keith Olbermann | GQ

Published on Feb 8, 2017 by GQ [ http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsEukrAd64fqA7FjwkmZ_Dw / http://www.youtube.com/user/GQVideos/videos , http://www.youtube.com/user/GQVideos/videos , http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0hKMB1-xkc-XWNf9VL-LxVYysdHpjyMF ]

These are not our values. Are they?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLnG5cYhc1Y [with comments]


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Steve Bannon Believes The Apocalypse Is Coming And War Is Inevitable


President Donald Trump speaks on the phone with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on Jan. 28, 2017, with national security adviser Mike Flynn, center, and Chief Strategist Steve Bannon, at right.
Drew Angerer via Getty Images


Trump signs an executive order he said would impose tighter vetting to prevent foreign terrorists from entering the United States, Jan. 27, 2017.
Carlos Barria / Reuters

Trump’s top adviser thinks we’re in “the great Fourth Turning in American history.”

By Paul Blumenthal and JM Reiger
02/08/2017 01:15 pm ET | Updated February 8, 2017

WASHINGTON - In 2009, the historian David Kaiser, then a professor at the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, got a call from a guy named Steve Bannon [ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/topic/steve-bannon ].

Bannon wanted to interview Kaiser for a documentary he was making based on the work of the generational theorists William Strauss and Neil Howe. Kaiser, an expert on Strauss and Howe, didn’t know Bannon from Adam, but he agreed to participate. He went to the Washington headquarters of the conservative activist group Citizens United, where Bannon was then based, for a chat.

Kaiser was impressed by how much Bannon knew about Strauss and Howe, who argued that American history operates in four-stage cycles that move from major crisis to awakening to major crisis. These crises are called “Fourth Turnings” - and Bannon believed the U.S. had entered one on Sept. 18, 2008, when Hank Paulson and Ben Bernanke went to Capitol Hill to ask for a bailout of the international banking system.

“He knew the theory,” Kaiser said. “He obviously enjoyed interviewing me.”

Bannon pressed Kaiser on one point during the interview. “He was talking about the wars of the Fourth Turnings,” Kaiser recalled. “You have the American Revolution, you have the Civil War, you have World War II; they’re getting bigger and bigger. Clearly, he was anticipating that in this Fourth Turning there would be one at least as big. And he really made an effort, I remember, to get me to say that on the air.”

Kaiser didn’t believe global war was preordained, so he demurred. The line of questioning didn’t make it into the documentary - a polemical piece, released in 2010, called “Generation Zero [ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3SLtP10NQ8 (next below; with comments)].”

Bannon, who’s now ensconced in the West Wing as President Donald Trump’s closest adviser, has been portrayed [ http://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/video/jennifer-jacobs-steve-bannon-donald-trumps-chief-idea-43671283 ] as Trump’s main ideas guy [ http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/08/breitbart-stephen-bannon-donald-trump-master-plan ]. But in interviews, speeches and writing - and especially in his embrace of Strauss and Howe — he has made clear that he is, first and foremost, an apocalypticist.

In Bannon’s view, we are in the midst of an existential war, and everything is a part of that conflict. Treaties must be torn up, enemies named, culture changed. Global conflagration, should it occur, would only prove the theory correct. For Bannon, the Fourth Turning has arrived. The Grey Champion, a messianic strongman figure, may have already emerged. The apocalypse is now.

“What we are witnessing,” Bannon told The Washington Post [ https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-hard-line-actions-have-an-intellectual-godfather-jeff-sessions/2017/01/30/ac393f66-e4d4-11e6-ba11-63c4b4fb5a63_story.html ] last month, “is the birth of a new political order.”

Strauss died in 2007, and Howe did not respond to requests for comment. But their books speak for themselves. The first, Generations, released in 1991, set forth the idea that history unfolds in repetitive, predictable four-part cycles - and that the U.S. was, and still is, going through the most recent cycle’s tail end. (In Generations, Strauss and Howe became perhaps the first writers to use the term “millennials” to describe the current cohort of young people.)

Strauss and Howe’s theory is based on a series of generational archetypes - the Artists, the Prophets, the Nomads and the Heroes - that sound like they were pulled from a dystopian young adult fiction series. Each complete four-part cycle, or saeculum, takes about 80 to 100 years, in Strauss and Howe’s reckoning. The Fourth Turning, which the authors published in 1997, focuses on the final, apocalyptic part of the cycle.

Strauss and Howe postulate that during this Fourth Turning crisis, an unexpected leader will emerge from an older generation to lead the nation, and what they call the “Hero” generation (in this case, millennials), to a new order. This person is known as the Grey Champion. An election or another event - perhaps a war - will bring this person to power, and their regime will rule throughout the crisis.

“The winners will now have the power to pursue the more potent, less incrementalist agenda about which they had long dreamed and against which their adversaries had darkly warned,” Strauss and Howe wrote in The Fourth Turning. “This new regime will enthrone itself for the duration of the Crisis. Regardless of its ideology, that new leadership will assert public authority and demand private sacrifice. Where leaders had once been inclined to alleviate societal pressures, they will now aggravate them to command the nation’s attention.”

Cyclical models of history are something academics kick around every now and then, said Sean Wilentz, an American history professor at Princeton University. But the idea has not caught on among historians or political actors.

“It’s just a conceit. It’s a fiction, it’s all made up,” Wilentz said about cyclical historical models. “There’s nothing to them. They’re just inventions.”

Michael Lind, a historian and co-founder of the New America Foundation, a liberal think tank, has called Strauss and Howe’s work “pseudoscience [ http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/01/26/reviews/970126.26lindlt.html ]” and said their “predictions about the American future turn out to be as vague as those of fortune cookies.”

But Bannon bought it.

“This is the fourth great crisis in American history,” Bannon told an audience at the Liberty Restoration Foundation, a conservative nonprofit, in 2011. “We had the Revolution. We had the Civil War. We had the Great Depression and World War II. This is the great Fourth Turning in American history, and we’re going to be one thing on the other side.”

Major crises “happen in about 80- or 100-year cycles,” Bannon told a conference put on by the Republican women’s group Project GoPink that same year. “And somewhere over the next 10 or 20 years, we’re going to come through this crisis, and we’re either going to be the country that was bequeathed to us or it’s going to be something that’s completely or totally different.”

The “Judeo-Christian West is collapsing,” he went on. “It’s imploding. And it’s imploding on our watch. And the blowback of that is going to be tremendous.”

War is coming, Bannon has warned. In fact, it’s already here.

“You have an expansionist Islam and you have an expansionist China,” he said during a 2016 radio appearance. “They are motivated. They’re arrogant. They’re on the march. And they think the Judeo-Christian West is on the retreat.”

“Against radical Islam, we’re in a 100-year war,” he told Political Vindication Radio in 2011.

“We’re going to war in the South China Seas in the next five to 10 years, aren’t we?” Bannon asked during a 2016 interview with Reagan biographer Lee Edwards.

“We are in an outright war against jihadist Islamic fascism,” he said in a speech to a Vatican conference in 2014. “And this war is, I think, metastasizing far quicker than governments can handle it.”

In a 2015 radio appearance, Bannon described how he ran Breitbart, the far-right news site he chaired at the time. “It’s war,” he said. “It’s war. Every day, we put up: America’s at war, America’s at war. We’re at war.”

To confront this threat, Bannon argued, the Judeo-Christian West must fight back, lest it lose as it did when Constantinople fell to the Ottomans in 1453. He called Islam a “religion of submission” in 2016 - a refutation of President George W. Bush’s post-9/11 description of Islam as a religion of peace. In 2007, Bannon wrote a draft movie treatment [ https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/bannon-film-outline-warned-us-could-turn-into-islamic-states-of-america/2017/02/03/f73832f4-e8be-11e6-b82f-687d6e6a3e7c_story.html ] for a documentary depicting a “fifth column” of Muslim community groups, the media, Jewish organizations and government agencies working to overthrow the government and impose Islamic law.

“There’s clearly a fifth column here in the United States,” Bannon warned in July 2016. “There’s rot at the center of the Judeo-Christian West,” he said in November 2015. “Secularism has sapped the strength of the Judeo-Christian West to defend its ideals,” he argued at the Vatican conference. The “aristocratic Washington class” and the media, he has claimed, are in league with the entire religion of Islam and an expansionist China to undermine Judeo-Christian America.

This sort of existential conflict is central to Strauss and Howe’s predictions. There are four ways a Fourth Turning can end, they argued, and three of them involve some kind of massive collapse. America might “be reborn,” and we’d wait another 80 to 100 years for a new cycle to culminate in a crisis again. The modern world - the era of Western history that Strauss and Howe believe began in the 15th century - might come to an end. We might “spare modernity but mark the end of our nation.” Or we might face “the end of man,” in a global war leading to “omnicidal Armageddon.”

Now, a believer in these vague and unfounded predictions sits in the White House, at the right hand of the president.

“We’re gonna have to have some dark days before we get to the blue sky of morning again in America,” Bannon warned in 2010. “We are going to have to take some massive pain. Anybody who thinks we don’t have to take pain is, I believe, fooling you.”

“This movement,” he said in November, “is in the top of the first inning.”

Copyright © 2017 TheHuffingtonPost.com, Inc.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/steve-bannon-apocalypse_us_5898f02ee4b040613138a951 [with embedded video, and comments], http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3Nw7o5Cob0 [same as the non-YouTube video embedded at the source (and so embedded above); with comments]


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[h/t Elroy Jetson, http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=128553053 ]


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Steve Bannon Wanted Mel Gibson for His Movie About Nazis, Abortion, ‘Mutants’



In 11 pages, the cautionary tale about arrogant scientists tampering with divine design covers Eden, Hitler, mutants, immortality, and the ‘most radical ideology in history.’

Asawin Suebsaeng
02.09.17 12:15 AM ET

More than a decade before Stephen K. Bannon [ http://www.thedailybeast.com/content/dailybeast/articles/2017/01/31/steve-bannon-s-long-love-affair-with-war.html ] became one of President Donald Trump [ http://www.thedailybeast.com/content/dailybeast/features/2016/donald-trump.html ]’s closest White House aides, he tried to make an epic documentary-style film about the eugenics movement, Adolf Hitler, “blood purity,” abortion, contraception, Darwinism, mutants, and cloning. According to his longtime Hollywood writing partner, Bannon even met with controversial Oscar winner Mel Gibson [ http://www.thedailybeast.com/content/dailybeast/articles/2016/09/07/glenn-beck-mel-gibson-told-me-jewish-people-stole-his-christ-movie.html ] in his effort to get the picture made.

The 11-page outline for Bannon’s unmade movie, a copy of which was reviewed by The Daily Beast, was written in the spring of 2005 and bears the ominous title The Singularity: Resistance Is Futile. (The project’s alternate working title: The Harvest of the Damned.)

The document, which credits Bannon as a writer, producer, and director, divides the movie into 22 segments spread across four sections. A heady, incomplete mix of science, history, religion, and politics, it sketches out a story in which mankind’s unquenchable thirst for knowledge and scientific advancement has led to horrific, fascist atrocities and forced sterilization, drawing a direct line between those atrocities and modern bio-technology.

The draft is unfinished, so it is unclear precisely what Bannon's full message and story arc were intended to be. But the theme that genetic and reproductive sciences has led to Nazi horrors and war crimes is a theme seen in a lot of conservative agitprop.

Essentially, Bannon’s is a Christian right-friendly story of arrogant scientists trying to perfect the human race at the expense of the natural order and God’s vision of humanity.

“The acceleration of technological progress is the central feature of the 20th /21st century,” the chapter titled “The Religion of Technology” begins. “We are on the edge of change brought about by Man’s ability to create… Man, the toolmaker, is on the verge of creating greater-than-human intelligence.”

“The Tree of Knowledge—the garden of the new Eden, fruit of the forbidden tree: clones, mutants, and designer humans,” the segment continued.

Subsequent segments riff on the Enlightenment, Christianity, English literature, physics, nanotechnology, genetic engineering, and “incomprehensible social change,” to name a few of the big subjects that piqued Bannon’s cinematic interest.

“[The] most radical ideology in history—Man as the driver of evolution, the creator of the new Adam,” Bannon’s draft reads.

Later, Segment 8 covers in four minutes “subjugation of race and class throughout time,” including Native Americans, “Jews and gypsies,” “Suni’s and Shiites” (sic), and also the genocides in Rwanda and Bosnia.

The next four minutes cover Darwin, Nietzsche, Wagner, “the survival of the fittest,” “the Ubermensch,” and “the Aryan Elite.”

And things keep getting darker. Segment 12 opens Section III, “The Commercial Eugenics Civilization,” with two minutes covering Nazi theories and practices of racial purity, and “the perfectibility of life through a human-controlled elite race that will bring about a better world.”



From there, it’s a deep dive into “Anglo-Saxons” and “the Aryans,” which includes a bullet point on “the American Eugenics Movement: Sanger, Rockefellers, Harrimans, abortion, contraception.”

That in turn segues into sections on German nationalism and Hitler’s “fan letter” to eugenicist Madison Grant, and how Nazi doctors, gas chambers, and death camps were influenced by American eugenics [ http://www.thedailybeast.com/content/dailybeast/articles/2015/08/18/anti-immigration-extremists-heart-trump.html ], including sterilization law in California.

Bannon’s draft soon leaves behind the Nazi bloodbath and Holocaust to examine “Yuppie Science” and “Bio-technology as big business: Irving Weismann, Hans Kiersted, Ray Kurzweil, Karen Bernstein, Biomark, Amgen, and the darlings of Wall Street.”

The “new age super-powers” are identified as China, Singapore, Korea, and Japan, and Walt Disney and Ted Williams are categorized as part of the “frozen elite.”

In its penultimate segment, the film examines “post-humanity,” “the Fountain of Youth,” and “The New Immortals”—who are “living happily… ever-after,” apparently thanks in part to “spare body parts for sale.” That’s followed by a “CODA” described only as “THE SINGULARITY,” and a final four-minute segment, described only as NOVUS ORDO SECULORUM—a slight variant of the Latin motto that translates to “New Order of the Ages” and appears just below the pyramid with an eye on the back of our one-dollar bills.

Bannon did not respond to requests for an interview on this story.

Julia Jones—Bannon’s longtime Hollywood writing partner and former close friend who had a falling out with Bannon over his prominent role in Trump’s campaign, which “disgusted” her [ http://www.thedailybeast.com/content/dailybeast/articles/2016/10/11/breitbart-boss-stephen-bannon-bragged-in-2015-i-m-trump-s-campaign-manager.html ]—is credited as Bannon’s co-writer on The Singularity. When reached by The Daily Beast this week, Jones confirmed that this was an unfinished project the two had worked on together back in the Bush years but said she did not remember contents of the outline.

“This was the first thing Steve wanted to do after [our Ronald Reagan movie [ http://www.thedailybeast.com/content/dailybeast/articles/2016/08/19/i-watched-all-of-steve-bannon-s-bad-movies.html ]] In the Face of Evil—but nothing ever came of it,” she recalled. “I was very involved in researching it.”

Jones said she did extensive research for this would-be movie, which included drawing inspirations from books like Edwin Black’s War Against the Weak.

Jones also said Bannon talked about how he was securing financing for the film from at least one Hollywood big name. Jones recalled at least two occasions over the four months that they worked on the film when Bannon “said we were getting the money from Mel Gibson,” the famous Lethal Weapon star and director of Braveheart and The Passion of the Christ.

“At one point, Steve came [into the office] and said he met with Mel—‘We’re gonna do a cloning documentary with Mel Gibson,’ he told me,” Jones said.

Another source close to Bannon during his days as a conservative filmmaker in Hollywood who asked not to be named due to fear of retribution also told The Daily Beast about hearing Bannon boast about meeting with Gibson for The Singularity.

“Yup, he certainly enjoyed name-dropping Gibson,” the former Bannon associate said.

There was a time when Bannon was tight with people in close-knit circles of conservative Hollywood [ http://www.thedailybeast.com/content/dailybeast/articles/2016/04/21/conservative-hollywood-s-plan-to-stop-trump.html ], and that included some people who had worked with Gibson. Jim Caviezel, for instance, was a huge fan of Bannon’s pro-Reagan propaganda doc, and Caviezel would even host exclusive parties with Bannon to promote the film [ http://www.thedailybeast.com/content/dailybeast/articles/2016/12/08/steve-bannon-s-biggest-fan-was-jesus-himself-jim-caviezel.html ] at a mansion in Santa Barbara. (Caviezel played Jesus Christ in Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ, the 2004 blockbuster drama dogged by charges of blatant anti-Semitism [ http://www.thedailybeast.com/content/dailybeast/articles/2016/12/13/hollywood-officially-pardons-mel-gibson-for-shame.html ].)

Bannon and Gibson also overlapped politically, as they were both part of the more outspoken [ http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/tech/news/techpolicy/2004-10-31-gibson-stemcell_x.htm ] Christian Hollywood right.

“Steve was such a good Catholic—he didn’t approve of abortion,” Jones said. “I’m pro-choice but anti-abortion—we had the anti-abortion part in common.”

When reached for comment about Bannon’s reported claims that he had met with Gibson for the project, Gibson’s publicist Alan Nierob quickly and tersely denied it, replying, “‘Fake news’ is my comment.”

Before Bannon headed Breitbart [ http://www.thedailybeast.com/content/dailybeast/articles/2016/11/04/liberal-hollywood-power-players-working-for-breitbart-and-trump-campaign-ceo-steve-bannon-too.html ] and then became one of the most powerful people in the world via the Trump administration [ http://www.thedailybeast.com/content/dailybeast/articles/2016/11/13/trump-s-man-stephen-bannon-flirts-with-a-le-pen.html ], he operated in the Democratic bastion of liberal Hollywood as a right-wing filmmaker influenced by [ http://www.thedailybeast.com/content/dailybeast/articles/2016/08/19/i-watched-all-of-steve-bannon-s-bad-movies.html ] the filmmaking of Nazi propagandist Leni Riefenstahl. Some of his projects became films, others did not.

Last week, The Washington Post published excerpts [ https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/bannon-film-outline-warned-us-could-turn-into-islamic-states-of-america/2017/02/03/f73832f4-e8be-11e6-b82f-687d6e6a3e7c_story.html ] from his draft for a movie that warned about how Muslim extremists could try to turn the U.S. into the “Islamic States of America.” The document also blamed the “American Jewish Community” as being one of the “enablers [ http://www.thedailybeast.com/content/dailybeast/cheats/2017/02/03/bannon-movie-outline-warns-of-islamic-states-of-america.html ]” of this supposed threat.

As The Daily Beast reported last year, Bannon’s other unproduced film projects included a script about the Rwandan genocide, a Shakespearean hip-hop musical about [ http://www.thedailybeast.com/content/dailybeast/articles/2016/08/23/steve-bannon-donald-trump-s-campaign-ceo-once-wrote-a-rap-musical.html ] the 1992 Los Angeles riots, and an adaptation of Titus Andronicus that was set “on the moon with creatures from outer space [ http://www.thedailybeast.com/content/dailybeast/articles/2016/12/03/how-donald-trump-s-top-guy-steve-bannon-wrote-a-hollywood-sex-scene-set-in-outer-space.html ].”

Today, he sits at the height of executive power.

“The film producer Stephen K. Bannon isn’t just on a crusade. He’s on a roll,” The New York Times wrote [ http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/26/movies/on-the-right-side-of-the-theater-aisle.html ] of Bannon in June 2005, in a piece on conservatives working in the movie industry.

The paper might as well have been writing about him now.

© 2017 The Daily Beast Company LLC

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Trump is not-so-subtly threatening the judicial system, and even his Supreme Court nominee [mildly mumbles in private putting up an appearance that he] is upset
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
The opinion of this so-called judge, which essentially takes law-enforcement away from our country, is ridiculous and will be overturned!
7:12 AM - 4 Feb 2017
[ https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/827867311054974976 (with {over 73,000} comments)]
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Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
What is our country coming to when a judge can halt a Homeland Security travel ban and anyone, even with bad intentions, can come into U.S.?
2:44 PM - 4 Feb 2017
[ https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/827981079042805761 (with {over 67,000} comments)]
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Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
I have instructed Homeland Security to check people coming into our country VERY CAREFULLY. The courts are making the job very difficult!
2:42 PM - 5 Feb 2017
[ https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/828343072840900610 (with {over 37,000} comments)]
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Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
Just cannot believe a judge would put our country in such peril. If something happens blame him and court system. People pouring in. Bad!
2:39 PM - 5 Feb 2017
[ https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/828342202174668800 (with {over 50,000} comments)]
February 8, 2017
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/02/08/president-trump-is-not-so-subtly-threatening-the-american-court-system/ [with embedded video, and comments]


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Sean Spicer Makes Up Atlanta Islamist Terror Attack
Kellyanne Conway is not the only Trump adviser to make up a terrorist attack. White House press secretary Sean Spicer has repeatedly listed Atlanta among cities wracked by Islamist terror.
02.08.17
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/02/08/sean-spicer-makes-up-atlanta-islamist-attack.html


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SURE, OK
Spicer: I ‘Clearly Meant Orlando’ When I Cited Atlanta Terror

02.09.17
http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2017/02/09/spicer-i-clearly-meant-orlando-when-i-cited-atlanta-terror.html [referencing http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/sean-spicer-citing-unknown-atlanta-terror-attack-times/story?id=45364173 (with comments)]


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Sessions confirmed: 'Republicans are scared of Trump'

All In with Chris Hayes
2/8/17

That's Senator Sherrod Brown's conclusion after the Senate voted narrowly to confirm Senator Jeff Sessions, one of the president's most controversial nominees, as Attorney General of the United States. Duration: 8:56

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/sessions-confirmed-republicans-are-scared-of-trump-873094211843


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Trump lashes out at judges - again

All In with Chris Hayes
2/8/17

The president says comments in court over his travel ban are 'disgraceful,' and says the ban would only be blocked due to politics [with Laurence Tribe]. Duration: 6:44

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-lashes-out-at-judges-again-873095747675


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Court considers Trump travel ban

All In with Chris Hayes
2/8/17

The Washington State attorney general weighs in on whether he thinks the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals will continue a temporary restraining order of President Trump's travel ban. Duration: 4:49

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/court-considers-trump-travel-ban-873097795593


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Republican actions on race are no accident

The Rachel Maddow Show
2/8/17

Rachel Maddow traces some of the recent strains of racism within the Republican Party and its overlap with new Donald Trump hires and notes that what may appear like political gaffes to most Americans actually fit a broader, deliberate theme. Duration: 16:56

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/republican-actions-on-race-are-no-accident-873191491574 [and see also in particular (linked in) http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=103100000 and preceding and following]


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Trump loses case to cover Jr's failure, lawyer lies to TRMS

The Rachel Maddow Show
2/8/17

Rachel Maddow updates previous reporting on Donald Trump's attempt to use a legal loophole to shield his son from responsibilities associated with a failed business in South Carolina, with news that the ruling went against Trump, and Trump's lawyer is shown to have lied to The Rachel Maddow Show. Duration: 5:58

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-loses-case-to-cover-jr-s-failed-company-lawyer-lies-to-maddow-873204291897


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Web archivist preserves removed USDA animal welfare reports

The Rachel Maddow Show
2/8/17

Rachel Maddow follows up on reporting about the USDA removing reports on animal abuse and welfare certification from its web site, with a note that the intrepid Russ Kick has preserved much of the data on his Memory Hole 2 web site. Duration: 4:56

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/web-archivist-preserves-removed-usda-animal-welfare-reports-873867331710


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Trump breaks promise not to interfere in family businesses

The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell
2/8/17

Donald Trump took to Twitter to attack Nordstrom for dropping daughter Ivanka's clothing line. He also called a military advisor at 3AM to ask about monetary policy. Olivia Nuzzi, Charlie Sykes, and Catherine Rampell join Ari Melber. Duration: 14:04

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/trump-breaks-promise-not-to-interfere-in-family-businesses-873169987989


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Sen. Blumenthal: SCOTUS nominee needs to publicly rebuke Trump

The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell
2/8/17

Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) says Neil Gorsuch, Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee, called the president's attack on judges "disheartening," but Blumenthal tells MSNBC's Ari Melber that it isn't enough for Gorsuch to say it behind closed doors. Duration: 7:05

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/sen-blumenthal-scotus-nominee-needs-to-publicly-rebuke-trump-873174595834


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Trump hits judges: A 'bad high school student' could handle case

The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
2/8/17

Once again hitting the judiciary saying judges should 'do what's right,' Pres. Trump said the case around his travel ban is so simple a bad high school student would understand it. Duration: 2:41

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/trump-hits-judges-a-bad-high-school-student-could-handle-case-873207875713


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Pres. Trump's history of talking about how smart he is

The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
2/8/17

Discussing the court case around his travel ban on Wednesday, the president - as he has many times in the past - talked up his intelligence. MSNBC's Brian Williams discusses with his panel. Duration: 1:42

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/pres-trump-s-history-of-talking-about-how-smart-he-is-873210947804


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Phoenix protests erupt after family says mom is to be deported

The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
2/8/17

MSNBC's Brian Williams is joined by NBC News's Gadi Schwartz with breaking news of protests in Phoenix after a family says a mother is being deported because of Pres. Trump's executive action. Duration: 5:25

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/phoenix-protests-erupt-after-family-says-mom-is-to-be-deported-873188931972


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'America first'? Trump hits Nordstrom for dropping Ivanka's brand

The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
2/8/17

Nordstrom, an American company employing thousands, was the latest to face Trump's Twitter scrutiny after it dropped his daughter Ivanka's line. MSNBC's Brian Williams talks to his panel. Duration: 6:06

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/-america-first-trump-hits-nordstrom-for-dropping-ivanka-s-brand-873210947929


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Sen. McCain clashes with White House over Yemen raid

The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
2/8/17

Was the recent U.S. raid into Yemen a 'success'? The White House and Sen. John McCain are at odds over the mission. MSNBC's Brian Williams talks to National Security Analyst Kevin Baron. Duration: 6:08

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/sen-mccain-clashes-with-white-house-over-yemen-raid-873210435944


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CNN Had It In Them the Whole Time | Full Frontal with Samantha Bee | TBS

Published on Feb 8, 2017 by Full Frontal with Samantha Bee [ http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC18vz5hUUqxbGvym9ghtX_w , http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC18vz5hUUqxbGvym9ghtX_w/videos ]

No-fucks Jake Tapper and his colleagues at CNN had a very, very good day. Yes, you read that right.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaCJBk4892c [with comments]


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The Original Trump Haters | Full Frontal with Samantha Bee | TBS

Published on Feb 8, 2017 by Full Frontal with Samantha Bee

We sent Amy Hoggart to Scotland to discuss resisting oppression with people who are born crotchety.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pbTmXsfiYk [with comments]


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Donald and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Sanctuary Cities | TBS

Published on Feb 8, 2017 by Full Frontal with Samantha Bee

President Snowflake is feeling very unsafe in places where people are treated like people.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vypzrtAHyXk [with comments]


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Full Frontal Turns One | Full Frontal with Samantha Bee | TBS

Published on Feb 10, 2017 by Full Frontal with Samantha Bee

It's our first birthday! Our little one-year-old show can walk, talk, and generate conspiracies about Trump's literacy.

[originally aired February 8, 2017]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEOR_gIfo6g [with comments]


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Senator Elizabeth Warren Reacts to Being Silenced: The Daily Show

Published on Feb 9, 2017 by The Daily Show with Trevor Noah [ http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwWhs_6x42TyRM4Wstoq8HA , http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwWhs_6x42TyRM4Wstoq8HA/videos ]

Senator Elizabeth Warren defends her decision to share Coretta Scott King's letter about attorney general nominee Jeff Sessions on the floor of the Senate.

[originally aired February 8, 2017]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mAxcwBTWj4 [with comments]


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Great Moments In Black History With Jon Batiste

Published on Feb 9, 2017 by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert [ http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMtFAi84ehTSYSE9XoHefig , http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMtFAi84ehTSYSE9XoHefig/videos ]

Jon Batiste enlightens us all with a truly great moment in black history.

[originally aired February 8, 2017]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cht7MWEyL4I [with comments]


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President Trump Is Using His Office To Protect His Family's Businesses

Published on Feb 9, 2017 by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Stephen calls out the President for using his platform to attack Nordstrom for dropping Ivanka's clothing line.

[originally aired February 8, 2017]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLw-zd87wVk [with (over 9,000) comments]


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Jake Tapper's Job Isn't To Be Liked

Published on Feb 9, 2017 by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

The host of CNN's 'History of Comedy' doesn't care if the President dislikes CNN, he's working to tell the truth.

[originally aired February 8, 2017]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7KnAd9AM1o [with comments]


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How Democrats Are Responding to Trump: A Closer Look

Published on Feb 8, 2017 by Late Night with Seth Meyers [ http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVTyTA7-g9nopHeHbeuvpRA / http://www.youtube.com/user/LateNightSeth , http://www.youtube.com/user/LateNightSeth/videos ]

Seth takes a closer look at the slash-and-burn strategy the Trump administration is using to push their agenda through and what the Democrats are doing to stop it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2wcUGeHnT0 [with comments]


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Trump Administration Prepares to Execute “Vicious” Executive Order on Deportations

February 9 2017
https://theintercept.com/2017/02/09/trump-administration-prepares-to-execute-vicious-executive-order-on-deportations/ [with comments]


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An Arizona mom is deported. How many others might face the same fate?

A protester locked himself to the van carrying Guadalupe Garcia de Rayos outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility Wednesday in Phoenix.
February 9, 2017
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/02/09/an-arizona-mom-is-deported-how-many-others-might-face-the-same-fate/ [with embedded video, and comments]


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Federal agents conduct immigration enforcement raids in at least six states
February 10,2017
U.S. immigration authorities arrested hundreds of undocumented immigrants in at least a half-dozen states this week in a series of raids that marked the first large-scale enforcement of President Trump’s Jan. 26 order to crack down on the estimated 11 million immigrants living here illegally.
Officials said the raids targeted known criminals, but they also netted some immigrants without criminal records, an apparent departure from similar enforcement waves during the Obama administration. Last month Trump substantially broadened the scope of who the Department of Homeland Security can target to include those with minor offenses or no convictions at all.
[...]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/federal-agents-conduct-sweeping-immigration-enforcement-raids-in-at-least-6-states/2017/02/10/4b9f443a-efc8-11e6-b4ff-ac2cf509efe5_story.html [with embedded videos, and (over 9,000) comments]


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The Mysterious Disappearance of the Biggest Scandal in Washington
Whatever happened to the Trump-Russia story?

President Donald Trump speaks to Vladimir Putin by phone on January 28.
Feb. 9, 2017
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/02/russia-trump-putin-scandal-media [with comments]

Donald Trump has successfully buried the story that worries him most

2017/02/09
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/2/9/1631858/-Donald-Trump-has-successfully-buried-the-story-that-worries-him-most [with comments]


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Trump denounced nuclear arms treaty in phone call with Putin – sources
The president’s reported remarks on the Obama-era New Start Treaty between the US and Russia have provoked alarm among security specialists

Donald Trump speaks with Vladimir Putin in the Oval Office on 28 January.
9 February 2017
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/09/trump-putin-call-nuclear-deal-new-start-treaty


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Trump paused a call with Putin to make an aide explain a nuclear arms treaty

Feb 9, 2017
http://www.vox.com/world/2017/2/9/14562014/trump-putin-call-new-start-what


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As Putin Looms And Trump Withdraws, Estonia Is Training Civilians To Fight

An Estonian paramilitary volunteer fires a machine gun toward Russia. Jan. 14.
Civilians are volunteering in droves to fight Russia’s little green men, should they cross the border.
02/09/2017 Updated February 9, 2017
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/putin-trump-estonia_us_5897905de4b09bd304bbd1dd [with comments]


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Russia Launches Operation 'Anyone But Macron'
As scandal threatens Fillon's candidacy, the Kremlin turns its attention to an unexpected centrist challenger [in the upcoming French election].

A worker puts the final touches to a giant figure of Francois Fillon (C), former French prime minister, member of The Republicans political party and 2017 presidential candidate of the French centre-right, next to French National Front leader Marine Le Pen (R) and Emmanuel Macron (L), head of the political movement En Marche !, or Onwards !, during preparations for the carnival parade in Nice, France.
Feb 9, 2017
https://themoscowtimes.com/articles/russia-launches-operation-anyone-but-macron-57104


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National security adviser Flynn discussed sanctions with Russian ambassador, despite denials, officials say

National security adviser Michael Flynn, shown in the daily White House news briefing on Feb. 1, had denied discussing sanctions with Russia’s ambassador, but backed away from that denial on Thursday.
February 9, 2017
National security adviser Michael Flynn privately discussed U.S. sanctions against Russia with that country’s ambassador to the United States during the month before President Trump took office, contrary to public assertions by Trump officials, current and former U.S. officials said.
Flynn’s communications with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak were interpreted by some senior U.S. officials as an inappropriate and potentially illegal signal to the Kremlin that it could expect a reprieve from sanctions that were being imposed by the Obama administration in late December [ https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/obama-administration-announces-measures-to-punish-russia-for-2016-election-interference/2016/12/29/311db9d6-cdde-11e6-a87f-b917067331bb_story.html ] to punish Russia for its alleged interference in the 2016 election.
Flynn on Wednesday denied that he had discussed sanctions with Kislyak. Asked in an interview whether he had ever done so, he twice said, “No.”
On Thursday, Flynn, through his spokesman, backed away from the denial. The spokesman said Flynn “indicated that while he had no recollection of discussing sanctions, he couldn’t be certain that the topic never came up.”
Officials said this week that the FBI is continuing to examine Flynn’s communications with Kislyak [ https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/fbi-reviewed-flynns-calls-with-russian-ambassador-but-found-nothing-illicit/2017/01/23/aa83879a-e1ae-11e6-a547-5fb9411d332c_story.html ]. Several officials emphasized that while sanctions were discussed, they did not see evidence that Flynn had an intent to convey an explicit promise to take action after the inauguration.
Flynn’s contacts with the ambassador attracted attention within the Obama administration because of the timing. U.S. intelligence agencies were then concluding that Russia had waged a cyber campaign designed in part to help elect Trump; his senior adviser on national security matters was discussing the potential consequences for Moscow, officials said.
The talks were part of a series of contacts between Flynn and Kislyak that began before the Nov. 8 election and continued during the transition, officials said. In a recent interview, Kislyak confirmed that he had communicated with Flynn by text message, by phone and in person, but declined to say whether they had discussed sanctions.
The emerging details contradict public statements by incoming senior administration officials including Mike Pence, then the vice president-elect. They acknowledged only a handful of text messages and calls exchanged between Flynn and Kislyak late last year and denied that either ever raised the subject of sanctions.
“They did not discuss anything having to do with the United States’ decision to expel diplomats or impose censure against Russia,” Pence said in an interview with CBS News [ http://www.cbsnews.com/news/face-the-nation-transcript-january-15-2017-pence-manchin-gingrich/ ] last month, noting that he had spoken with Flynn about the matter. Pence also made a more sweeping assertion, saying there had been no contact between members of Trump’s team and Russia during the campaign. To suggest otherwise, he said, “is to give credence to some of these bizarre rumors that have swirled around the candidacy.”
Neither of those assertions is consistent with the fuller account of Flynn’s contacts with Kislyak provided by officials who had access to reports from U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies that routinely monitor the communications of Russian diplomats. Nine current and former officials, who were in senior positions at multiple agencies at the time of the calls, spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence matters.
All of those officials said ­Flynn’s references to the election-related sanctions were explicit. Two of those officials went further, saying that Flynn urged Russia not to overreact to the penalties being imposed by President Barack Obama, making clear that the two sides would be in position to review the matter after Trump was sworn in as president.
“Kislyak was left with the impression that the sanctions would be revisited at a later time,” said a former official.
A third official put it more bluntly, saying that either Flynn had misled Pence or that Pence misspoke. A spokesman for Pence did not respond to a request for comment. The sanctions in question have so far remained in place.
[...]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/national-security-adviser-flynn-discussed-sanctions-with-russian-ambassador-despite-denials-officials-say/2017/02/09/f85b29d6-ee11-11e6-b4ff-ac2cf509efe5_story.html [with embedded video, and comments]


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Michael Flynn's Debacle

Trump’s national security adviser’s potentially false statements about his pre-inauguration contacts with Russian officials are a major scandal.
Feb 10, 2017
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/02/michael-flynns-disaster/516285/ [with comments]


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Bombshell Report Suggests Trump's National Security Adviser Is Dishonest and a Threat to US Policy

He also may not be very bright.
Feb. 10, 2017
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/02/flynn-trump-washington-post-russia [with comments]


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Trump’s Russia strategy collides with foreign policy reality in leaked call with Putin

Russian President Vladimir Putin holds a Security Council meeting in Moscow on Feb. 9.
February 10, 2017
MOSCOW — President Trump’s heady campaign rhetoric about possible detente with Russia is coming face to face with the realities of his chaotic new administration. 
Details emerged Thursday about a telephone call [ https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/details-of-trump-putin-call-raise-new-white-house-leak-concerns/2017/02/09/162f0fe6-ef0b-11e6-b4ff-ac2cf509efe5_story.html ] between Trump and Russian President Vladi­mir Putin in which Trump blasted a treaty negotiated under the Obama administration that limits nuclear weapons deployments — after Trump reportedly paused the call with Putin to ask an aide about the treaty. According to a report by the Reuters news agency, Trump then denounced the New START treaty as favoring Russia. 
[...]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/trumps-russia-detente-collides-with-foreign-policy-reality-in-leaked-call-with-putin/2017/02/10/4dedd4fa-ef7c-11e6-b4ff-ac2cf509efe5_story.html [with embedded video, and comments]


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Alex Jones (FULL SHOW Commercial Free) Thursday 2/9/17: Roger Stone, Jerome Corsi, Celia Farber

Published on Feb 9, 2017 by Ron Gibson [ http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYv-5LsUyc_P8KMo7YGPFPA / http://www.youtube.com/user/RonGibsonCF , http://www.youtube.com/user/RonGibsonCF/videos ]

On this Thursday, Feb. 9th 2017 edition of the Alex Jones Show [with Jon Rappoport guest-hosting the fourth hour, and appearances by Roger Stone, Jerome Corsi and Celia Farber], we discuss Trump's "PHENOMENAL" tax cuts coming soon and how the White House needs to floor the accelerator to repeal Obamacare. There's nothing to "repair" - Obamacare is simply a wealth-transfer scheme that impoverishes Americans through excessive healthcare costs while enriching the private, off-shore mega banks who wrote the law. We also look into the pro-amnesty protest outside an ICE center in Arizona where protestors are demanding the release of an illegal who may have committed a felony.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4zNV7kr8iA [with comments] [the somewhat edited Alex Jones upload at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lO8oyB25wNM (with comments)]


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Donald Trump Is Connecting With People Like Adolf Hitler Did (08/23/15)

Published on Feb 9, 2017 by Mike Malloy [ http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpU4j-LN_aibXA1gONvWzxw / http://www.youtube.com/user/hschulein , http://www.youtube.com/user/hschulein/videos ]

From August 23rd, 2015.

Mike was so right...Immigrants are the new jew.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKk0Q4vmQmU [with comments]


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Alt-Right Idiots Bravely Cancel Their Netflix Subscriptions Over 'Dear White People'

Baked Alaska™
@bakedalaska
Netflix announced a new anti-white show (Dear White People) that promotes white genocide.
I cancelled my account, do the same. #NoNetflix
3:21 PM - 8 Feb 2017
[ https://twitter.com/bakedalaska/status/829424970677641216 (with comments)]
Feb 9, 2017
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2017/02/alt-right-idiots-bravely-cancel-their-netflix-subscriptions-over-dear-white-people/ [with comments], http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LzggK5DRBA [with (at one point over 82,000) comments]


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Eye of the Stormer

The Daily Stormer site banner before (left) and after (right) the election.
Propelled by the Trump campaign and a new focus on the 'alt-right,' the Daily Stormer is now the top hate site in America.
February 09, 2017
https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2017/eye-stormer


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University Officials Are Investigating After College Republicans Passed Out An Anti-Semitic Valentine’s Day Card
The College Republicans at Central Michigan University have apologized and denied prior knowledge of the card.

The College Republicans at Central Michigan University are facing widespread condemnation after passing out an anti-Semitic Valentine’s Day card.
Feb. 9, 2017
https://www.buzzfeed.com/juliareinstein/university-officials-are-investigating-after-college-republi [with comments]


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Violence And Threats Toward Abortion Clinics Nearly Doubled After Planned Parenthood Videos
One doctor describes it as a “constant mental beatdown.”

02/09/2017 Updated February 9, 2017
[...]
The scene outside women’s health clinics has become dramatically more threatening to patients and providers since 2015, when anti-abortion activists [James O'Keefe/'Project Veritas'] produced a series of heavily edited videos that purported to show Planned Parenthood workers negotiating the sale of fetal body parts. The videos have been thoroughly debunked [ http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/19/politics/planned-parenthood-videos/ ], and Planned Parenthood has been cleared of wrongdoing in multiple investigations [ http://www.npr.org/2016/01/28/464594826/in-wake-of-videos-planned-parenthood-investigations-find-no-fetal-tissue-sales ]. But the percentage of clinics reporting violence and threats by anti-abortion activists nearly doubled after the videos were released, from 19.7 percent of clinics in the first half of 2014 to 34.2 percent in the first half of 2016. 
The most common types of violence and intimidation that clinics have reported include stalking, bomb threats, death threats and people blocking access to clinics. In 2015, at one Colorado Planned Parenthood facility, a man broke in and shot 12 people, killing three. He cited the alleged sale of “baby parts [ http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/29/us/colorado-planned-parenthood-shooting/ ]” as his motivation. Nearly half of clinics (49.5 percent) reported at least one incident of severe violence or harassment in 2016, such as a break-in, robbery or instance of arson or vandalism. A quarter of all facilities said they experience harassment by anti-abortion protesters on a daily basis. 
“This is just not tolerable behavior in a democracy,” said Ellie Smeal, president of the Feminist Majority Foundation, a nonprofit. “This would never happen to men walking into a medical clinic.”
The FMF released a new report [ http://www.feminist.org/anti-abortion-violence/ ] ahead of a nationwide protest of Planned Parenthood funding this weekend, which women’s health advocates worry will turn violent. At the “Defund PP” rally on Feb. 11, anti-abortion demonstrators are expected to protest at more than 200 Planned Parenthood health centers in 44 states. 
[...]
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/planned-parenthood-violence_us_589c9cf6e4b04061313bff15 [with comments], http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0i9ft7jlyk0 [embedded; with comments]


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Congress will attempt to revoke Obama's funding protections for abortion providers
February 9, 2017
Congress has scheduled a vote to nullify the Obama administration's protections over Title X family planning funding for abortion providers like Planned Parenthood.
[...]
http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20170209/NEWS/170209894/congress-will-attempt-to-revoke-obamas-funding-protections-for [no comments yet]


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Life in Trump’s America Just Got Worse for Your Pet | The Resistance with Keith Olbermann | GQ

Published on Feb 9, 2017 by GQ

Love your cat or dog? Trump doesn’t.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzWppkh4JJY [with (over 4,000) comments]


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Trump vows law and order crackdown to combat 'menace of rising crime'
President signs orders that include focus on protecting police and promises ‘new era of justice’ despite violent crime rates that remain near historic lows
9 February 2017
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/09/donald-trump-police-crime-executive-orders-taskforce-cartels [with comments]


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In executive actions, President Trump vows crackdown on violent crime. Is America as unsafe as he [at least says he] thinks? [uh, no]

President Trump watches as Jeff Sessions, alongside his wife, Mary, is sworn in as attorney general by Vice President Pence.

February 9, 2017
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/02/09/in-executive-actions-president-trump-vows-crackdown-on-violent-crime-is-america-as-unsafe-as-he-thinks/ [with comments]


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Appeals court deals a blow to Pres. Trump's travel ban

All In with Chris Hayes
2/9/17

In a unanimous ruling, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a temporary restraining order blocking the ban from going into effect nationwide. Duration: 12:17

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
STATE OF WASHINGTON; STATE OF MINNESOTA, Plaintiffs-Appellees,
v.
DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States; U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY; REX W. TILLERSON, Secretary of State; JOHN F. KELLY, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Defendants-Appellants
Per Curiam Order
Filed February 9, 2017
https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3457898/2-9-17-9th-Circuit-Order.pdf

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/appeals-court-deals-a-blow-to-pres-trump-s-travel-ban-873982531626


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Schumer: Time for Trump to abandon travel ban

All In with Chris Hayes
2/9/17

Assessing the political fallout from the unanimous ninth circuit decision rejecting the Trump administration's effort to reinstate its ban. Duration: 9:46

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/schumer-time-for-trump-to-abandon-travel-ban-873974851663


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Court hands Trump a loss and a civics lesson in ban ruling

The Rachel Maddow Show
2/9/17

Rachel Maddow reports on some of the details in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals' ruling on Donald Trump travel ban executive order that real an administration out of its depth on the basics. Duration: 9:34

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
STATE OF WASHINGTON; STATE OF MINNESOTA, Plaintiffs-Appellees,
v.
DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States; U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY; REX W. TILLERSON, Secretary of State; JOHN F. KELLY, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Defendants-Appellants
Per Curiam Order
Filed February 9, 2017
https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3457898/2-9-17-9th-Circuit-Order.pdf

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/court-hands-trump-a-loss-and-a-civics-lesson-in-ban-ruling-874022979984 , http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wX67e3q_pzo [with comments]


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Washington AG talks next steps after beating Trump in ban case

The Rachel Maddow Show
2/9/17

Bob Ferguson, Washington state attorney general, talks with Rachel Maddow about his legal victory against Donald Trump's travel ban and what next steps are likely to happen in the case. Duration: 3:15

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/washington-ag-talks-next-steps-after-beating-trump-in-ban-case-874031683838


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Court loss puts Trump on defense over travel ban order

The Rachel Maddow Show
2/9/17

Nina Totenberg, legal afairs correspondent for NPR, talks with Rachel Maddow about the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals' ruling against Donald Trump's travel ban and what options Trump's team are likely considering now. Duration: 4:21

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/court-loss-puts-trump-on-defense-over-travel-ban-order-874046019995


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Poll shows worldview gap between Trump voters, Americans broadly

The Rachel Maddow Show
2/9/17

Rachel Maddow shares an exclusive look at new Public Policy Polling results that show considerable difference between how Donald Trump is viewed by his supporters versus Americans in general, and an alarming amount of leeway his supporters are willing to give him on unilateral power. Duration: 7:53

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/poll-shows-worldview-gap-between-trump-voters-americans-broadly-874065475695


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Trump a one-man constitutional crisis: ACLU executive director

The Rachel Maddow Show
2/9/17

Anthony Romero, executive director of the ACLU, talks with Rachel Maddow about Donald Trump's war on the judiciary and the continued legal battle against Trump's travel ban in the wake of Trump's loss in the 9th Circuit Court today. Duration: 6:19

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-a-one-man-constitutional-crisis-aclu-executive-director-874085955939


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Sex scandalized Alabama gov appointment sparks corruption outcry

The Rachel Maddow Show
2/9/17

John Archibald, columnist for the Birmingham News, talks with Rachel Maddow about sex scandal-plagued Alabama Governor Robert Bentley appointing the attorney general in charge of investigating his impeachment to the Senate seat vacated by Jeff Sessions. Duration: 7:34

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/sex-scandalized-alabama-gov-appointment-sparks-corruption-outry-874079299568


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Why Trump's travel ban lost again

The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell
2/9/17

MSNBC Chief Legal Correspondent Ari Melber explains the reasoning behind the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision not to reinstate President Trump's travel ban. Duration: 6:26

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
STATE OF WASHINGTON; STATE OF MINNESOTA, Plaintiffs-Appellees,
v.
DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States; U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY; REX W. TILLERSON, Secretary of State; JOHN F. KELLY, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Defendants-Appellants
Per Curiam Order
Filed February 9, 2017
https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3457898/2-9-17-9th-Circuit-Order.pdf

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/why-trump-s-travel-ban-lost-again-874047043831


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WA Gov. Inslee to Trump: We already saw you in court, you lost

The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell
2/9/17

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, who sued the Trump admin. over the travel ban, joins Ari Melber to talk about the 9th Circuit's unanimous ruling. Inslee says Trump's intent "to send Muslims to the back of the bus" doesn't hold up in court – or against the Constitution. Duration: 3:34

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/wa-gov-inslee-to-trump-we-already-saw-you-in-court-you-lost-874049091537


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Kellyanne Conway may face a federal ethics inquiry

The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell
2/9/17

In a rare bipartisan move, Republicans and Democrats have united to condemn remarks made by Kellyanne Conway that appear to violate ethics regulations. Now the House Oversight Committee is demanding an investigation. Norm Eisen and Paul Butler join Ari Melber. Duration: 4:34

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/kellyanne-conway-may-face-a-federal-ethics-inquiry-874046019959 , http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Eo8wiYbpEI [with comments]


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How will Trump White House react to loss in travel ban case?

The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
2/9/17

A big loss for Pres. Trump from a federal court is the first big stumble for this young administration. So what's next politically? MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace talks to her panel of experts. Duration: 5:46

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/how-will-trump-white-house-react-to-loss-in-travel-ban-case-874081347675


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Bipartisan outrage after Kellyanne Conway plugs Ivanka's brand

The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
2/9/17

More ethics and conflicts of interest questions are swirling around the White House after Pres. Trump aide Kellyanne Conway seemed to violate Federal Ethics Rules plugging Ivanka Trump's brand. Duration: 8:08

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/bipartisan-outrage-after-kellyanne-conway-plugs-ivanka-s-brand-874081347758


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Trump: Gorsuch's criticism of me was misrepresented (it wasn't)

The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
2/9/17

Pres. Trump blasted Sen. Blumenthal in front of a room of his Senate colleagues over comments made by Trump's own Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch. Duration: 2:49

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/trump-gorsuch-s-criticism-of-me-was-misrepresented-it-wasn-t-874081347891


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Pres. Trump has a history of bashing judges and courts

The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
2/9/17

MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace looks back at some of the president's past comments about courts and judges and discusses with her panel. Duration: 2:25

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/pres-trump-has-a-history-of-bashing-judges-and-courts-874083907629


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'This is the face of deportation': Deported mom talks to MSNBC

The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
2/9/17

NBC News correspondent Gadi Schwartz traveled to Nogales, Mexico, to talk with a mother whose deportation was protested Wednesday in Phoenix, and her kids about what this means for their family. Duration: 3:32

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/-this-is-the-face-of-deportation-deported-mom-talks-to-msnbc-874082883921 , http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbyVf9uUdO4 [with comments]


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Globalist Rebellion! 9th Circuit Court Rules Against Trump "Muslim Ban" ... Invites Terrorists

Published on Feb 9, 2017 by The Alex Jones Channel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69_XIaQXVh4 [with comments]


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Donald Trump Was Elected Commander-In-Chief, Not Judges

Published on Feb 9, 2017 by The Alex Jones Channel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esNABqlweEk [with comments]


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US senators blast anti-radicalisation plan to target Muslims


Trump joins hands with Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly.
(Reuters)


Members of the neo-Nazi National Socialist Movement hold flags as they salute and shout “Sieg Heil” during a rally in front of the Statehouse in Trenton, N.J.
Photo: Mel Evans/AP
[ https://www.mintpressnews.com/trump-plan-to-exclude-white-supremacists-from-countering-violent-extremism-cve-program-draws-ire/224807/ (no comments yet)]


Dylann Roof, responsible for a politically motivated killing rampage in a black church is rarely defined as a terrorist by most media.
[id.]


Robert Dear, responsible for the November, 2015 mass shooting in a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
[id.]


An American protester in Washington, D.C. holding a sign saying he’s Islamophobic.
(Photo: Wikimedia Commons)
[id.]

At least three non-profit organisations have turned down CVE grants from Department of Homeland Security since Trump took office

MEE and agencies
Friday 10 February 2017 03:34 UTC
Last update: 
Friday 10 February 2017 10:34 UTC

A dozen Democratic US senators on Thursday denounced a Trump administration plan to revamp a government anti-extremism programme, saying narrowing its focus solely to Islamic threats could jeopardise security and may be illegal.

Restructuring the Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) programme  to omit white supremacists and other non-Islamist groups "would severely damage our credibility with foreign allies and partners as an honest broker in the fight against violent extremism, and prove divisive in communities across our country," senators Cory Booker, Brian Schatz and 10 others wrote in a letter addressed to cabinet secretaries.

The current administration is planning to make Muslims the exclusive target of CVE, Reuters reported last week, citing five people briefed on the situation. It will be renamed "Countering Islamic Extremism" or "Countering Radical Islamic Extremism," according to the news agency.

The potential name change reflects a broader goal of Trump's - to exclude groups in the programme's purview such as white supremacists, whose followers have also carried out bombings and shootings in the United States.

Arab and Muslim organisations have had mixed perceptions of CVE since its inception in 2011, with many calling it discriminatory. But revamping the initiative to make it conspicuously target Islam is already earning condemnation from the Muslim community.

Despite scepticism from Muslim activists who opposed CVE, the programme claimed to push back against all sorts of extremism. For example, Life After Hate, an organisation that rehabilitates white supremacists, was awarded a $400,000 CVE grant - announced in December before Trump’s inauguration.

CVE aimed to address the causes of why some people are drawn to violence or extremism by providing grants and other resources to community groups to develop prevention efforts, including using social media.

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials who work on CVE met on Tuesday to continue discussions about the proposed changes, according to two sources who have worked closely with DHS on the programme.

Refocusing CVE efforts largely on Islam would "alienate Muslim organisations and individuals in the United States," the senators wrote to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Secretary of Defence James Mattis, Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly and Wade Warren, acting administrator for the US Agency for International Development.

At least three non-profit organisations have turned down CVE grants from DHS since Trump took office.

Leaders Advancing and Helping Communities (LAHC), a human services group in the Detroit suburb of Dearborn, and Ka Joog, a Somali community organisation in Minneapolis, each rejected a $500,000 CVE grant after being approved for it.

“I know it’s a lot of money, but it all comes down to principle. They are promoting a cancerous ideology that is promoting divisions and we don’t want to be a part of that,” Ka Joog’s executive director, Mohamed Farah, told CBS Minnesota [ http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2017/02/02/ka-joog-turns-down-500k-grant/ ].

Unity Productions Foundation, a non-profit based in Potomac Falls, Virginia, said it will find other ways to fund its project to produce videos that amplify the voices of Muslim scholars who reject militancy, after turning down a $396,000 CVE grant.

The senators warned in their letter that changes to CVE may increase the likelihood of militant attacks and "violate constitutional protections and the rights of American citizens".

White House press secretary Sean Spicer declined to comment on the reported changes last week, but said during a briefing that the programme was initially intended to focus on "rooting out radical Islamic terrorism".

© Middle East Eye 2017

http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/democratic-us-senators-denounce-cve-for-muslims-only [with comments]


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The Trump Family's White House Hustle: The Daily Show

Published on Feb 10, 2017 by The Daily Show with Trevor Noah

Donald Trump, First Lady Melania Trump and First Daughter Ivanka Trump fight accusations that they're using the office of the president to push their business ventures.

[originally aired February 9, 2017]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRRFnPrkFEs [with comments]


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Stephen Colbert Creates Some #FlakeNews

Published on Feb 10, 2017 by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Winter Storm Niko dominated the conversation in the Northeast today, but Stephen thinks everyone's hashtag game was weak.

[originally aired February 9, 2017]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KdprXwIE88 [with comments]


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Donald Trump Calls In To Ask A Few Basic Questions

Published on Feb 10, 2017 by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Trump has been making late night calls to friends, asking for help with things a President should really already know.

[originally aired February 9, 2017]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8UZQkN52o4 [with comments]


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Trump Abuses His Presidential Power: A Closer Look

Published on Feb 9, 2017 by Late Night with Seth Meyers

Seth takes a closer look at how Donald Trump uses his status as president to slam private companies and threaten lawmakers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G01nkoEZ8UM [with (over 8,000) comments]


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Trump vexed by challenges, scale of government
The new president’s allies say he has been surprised that government can’t be run like his business.

Sources say the mood of President Donald Trump in the three weeks since his inauguration has careened between surprise and anger.
02/10/17
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/donald-trump-challenges-governing-presidency-234879 [with comments] [in full at/see (linked in) http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=128620641 and preceding (and any future following)]


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Trump, Wall Street, Strive to Make Securities Fraud Great Again
A federal judge Wednesday ruled against opponents of the Department of Labor's fiduciary rule. But the fight isn't over. It's a tough time to be a small investor.
Feb 10, 2017
https://www.thestreet.com/story/13997233/1/trump-wall-street-strive-to-make-securities-fraud-great-again.html


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Trump, Changing Course on Taiwan, Gives China an Upper Hand

President Trump boarding Air Force One in Florida on Sunday. Mr. Trump’s reversal on Taiwan could mean a tougher negotiating position in Beijing on trade, North Korea and other issues.
FEB. 10, 2017
BEIJING — By backing down in a telephone call with China’s president [ https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/09/world/asia/donald-trump-china-xi-jinping-letter.html ] on his promise to review the status of Taiwan, President Trump may have averted a confrontation with America’s most powerful rival.
But in doing so, he handed China [ http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/china/index.html ] a victory and sullied his reputation with its leader, Xi Jinping [ http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/x/xi_jinping/index.html ], as a tough negotiator who ought to be feared, analysts said.
“Trump lost his first fight with Xi and he will be looked at as a paper tiger,” said Shi Yinhong, a professor of international relations at Renmin University of China in Beijing and an adviser to China’s State Council. “This will be interpreted in China as a great success, achieved by Xi’s approach of dealing with him.”
Mr. Trump’s reversal on Taiwan is likely to reinforce the views of those in China who see him as merely the latest American president to come into office talking tough on China only to bend eventually to economic reality and adopt more cooperative policies. That could mean more difficult negotiations with Beijing on trade, North Korea and other issues.
At the same time, the Chinese leadership will view statements by Mr. Trump with even greater skepticism. “Even though Trump has said he will support the ‘One China’ policy, China cannot fully trust him,” said Yan Xuetong, dean of the school of international relations at Tsinghua University in Beijing. “Even his own people don’t trust him.”
China’s official reaction to the telephone call, in which Mr. Trump affirmed that America would abide by the longstanding policy, was polite, even upbeat.
“The conversation was very cordial,” Lu Kang, the spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, said at a regular news briefing on Friday. “The One China principle is the political foundation of China-U.S. relations.”
Under that policy, the United States recognized a single Chinese government in Beijing, and severed diplomatic ties with Taiwan.
American strategic leadership was damaged by Mr. Trump staking out a position and then stepping back, said Hugh White, a professor of strategic studies at the Australian National University and the author of “The China Choice,” a book that argues that the United States should share power in the Pacific region with China.
“The Chinese will see him as weak,” Mr. White said of Mr. Trump. “He has reinforced the impression in Beijing that Trump is not serious about managing the U.S.-China relationship, and preserving U.S. leadership in Asia.”
Mr. Shi said the Chinese leadership had devised a strategy to remain firm and patient with Mr. Trump, and that approach had paid off.
[...]
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/10/world/asia/trump-one-china-taiwan.html


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Full Show - Ninth Circuit Court Ruling Is A Declaration Of War Against America - 02/10/2017

Published on Feb 10, 2017 by The Alex Jones Channel

On this jam-packed Friday, Feb. 10th 2017 broadcast of the Alex Jones Show, globalist 9th circuit court judges set up a Supreme Court battle after blocking an executive order signed by President Donald Trump banning entry into the US from 7 terror-prone nations. On today's show, former Navy SEAL and author Matt Bracken discusses the lower court's challenge to Trump's constitutional authority. Also, author Jon Rappoport continues analyzing the rise in social justice warrior culture. And libertarian commentator and VICE co-founder Gavin Mcinnes also breaks down what to expect at the upcoming Milo / Alex Jones speaking event in Berkeley.

Does the Supreme Court Overturn 80 Percent of Ninth Circuit Court Decisions? [uh, no]



Feb 10th, 2017
[...]
In short, social media claims that 80 percent of cases decided by the Ninth Circuit were overturned were flat out false; more than 99 percent of that circuit’s decisions stood and the Supreme Court reviewed a scant 0.106 percent of circuit court cases each year. Although figures from 2010 maintained the “Ninth Circuit [had] the second highest reversal rate at 80 [percent],” the “highest” was the Federal Circuit court’s median of 83 percent. However, left out of both the rumors and the blog post was the fact that the average rate of accepted cases ruled upon differently by the Supreme Court than a lower circuit court was over 68 percent across all courts. So of less the than one percent of all cases reviewed by the Supreme Court, 68 percent of decisions across all circuits were overturned. ...
http://www.snopes.com/ninth-circuit-court-most-overturned/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwxhATMSMJA [with comments] [the Trump-Abe press conference


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Trump shakes Japanese PM's hand for 19 seconds

Published on Feb 10, 2017 by CNN [ http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCupvZG-5ko_eiXAupbDfxWw / http://www.youtube.com/user/CNN , http://www.youtube.com/user/CNN/videos ]

President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe shared a 19-second handshake during a photo-op at the White House.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWbP8eC-SIw [with comments]


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FULL: Donald Trump & Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe Hold Joint Press Conference at White House

Published on Feb 10, 2017 by FOX 10 Phoenix [ http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJg9wBPyKMNA5sRDnvzmkdg , http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJg9wBPyKMNA5sRDnvzmkdg/videos ]

President Trump & Japanese Prime Minister hold joint news conference from the East Room of the White House.

Remarks by President Trump and Prime Minister Abe of Japan in Joint Press Conference
February 10, 2017
https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/02/10/remarks-president-trump-and-prime-minister-abe-japan-joint-press [official transcript]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juFwBqSKyKw [with comments] [and see also in particular (linked in) http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=128610975 and preceding and following]


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Trump brings up vote fraud again, this time in meeting with senators
'An uncomfortable silence' momentarily overtook the room, said one participant.

The revival of fraud claim is a sign that President Donald Trump, who lost the popular vote by nearly 3 million votes, continues to see himself as a victim of massive fraud.
02/10/17 Updated 02/10/17
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/trump-voter-fraud-senators-meeting-234909 [with comments]


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PALM TO FACE
President Trump reportedly told the Senate a totally bananas lie about voter fraud

February 10, 2017
http://theweek.com/speedreads/679618/president-trump-reportedly-told-senate-totally-bananas-lie-about-voter-fraud


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Trump reportedly revives false voter fraud claims, calling Elizabeth Warren 'Pocahontas'

fEB. 10, 2017
http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-voter-fraud-elizabeth-warren-pocahontas-2017-2


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Trump to Dems: 'Pocahontas is now the face of your party'
Sources said the moment came up in the context of Trump's analysis of the Democratic Party
The President also used the meeting to again surface unfounded claims of voter fraud
Updated February 11, 2017
http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/10/politics/donald-trump-elizabeth-warren-voter-fraud/ [with embedded videos]


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'Give Us Your Passwords'
What happens if border agents are allowed to demand access to your phone and online accounts - and turn you away if you don't comply?

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is considering requiring visitors to turn over their social-media passwords and browsing histories.
Feb 10, 2017
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/02/give-us-your-passwords/516315/ [with comments]


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Is This How Trump Will Deport Millions? | The Resistance with Keith Olbermann | GQ

Published on Feb 10, 2017 by GQ

Let’s consider the grim practicalities [a tad fuzzily on the amount of time mass deportations might take, in that an I.C.E. agent can be processing (far) more than one case at a time] of Trump's pledge.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPbvEqqEE5g [with comments]


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Trump nixes Abrams for No. 2 State Department job: sources


White House adviser Elliott Abrams is seen in a meeting in the West Bank town of Abu Dis, August 5, 2004.
REUTERS/Ammar Awad

By Matt Spetalnick and Steve Holland
Fri Feb 10, 2017

U.S. President Donald Trump has nixed Elliott Abrams for the No. 2 position at the State Department after learning that the Republican foreign policy veteran had criticized him during the 2016 election campaign, people familiar with the matter said on Friday.

Trump decided not to nominate Abrams, who had been the leading candidate for deputy secretary of state, after meeting him at the White House on Tuesday along with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, two sources told Reuters.

Abrams, 69, who served in foreign policy roles for presidents Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush, was Tillerson’s pick for the job, and the administration’s newly installed top diplomat tried and failed to convince the president to reconsider and offer him the job, one of the sources said.

Trump’s resistance to hiring his former Republican critics has slowed his ability to fill positions in his administration, especially in the foreign policy and national security areas.

The leaves former diplomat Paula Dobriansky as a potential choice for the position. She has been on Trump’s short list, an official said.

While Abrams did not sign either of two highly publicized letters from members of the Republican foreign policy establishment during the campaign pledging not to back Trump, he did criticize him both in his writings and media interviews during the presidential primaries.

Abrams, 69, a neoconservative who has long advocated an activist U.S. role in the world, last served in government in the Bush White House, first as a Middle East expert on the National Security Council and later as a global democracy strategy adviser.

He was assistant secretary of state during the Reagan administration and was convicted in 1991 on two misdemeanor counts of withholding information from Congress during the Iran-Contra scandal. He was later pardoned by President George H.W. Bush.

(Editing by Cynthia Osterman)

© 2017 Reuters

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-abrams-idUSKBN15P2B8 [and see also in particular (linked in) http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=54119408 and preceding and following]


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French presidential candidate to U.S. scientists afraid of Trump: ‘Come to France’

Demonstrators gather for a rally in solidarity with the Women's March in Washington at the Place de Trocadero in Paris, one day after the inauguration of President Trump.
February 10, 2017
Emmanuel Macron, France's liberal former economy minister and a leading candidate for president, has a message for U.S. climate researchers who are worried about the fate of their research under President Trump: “Please, come to France, you are welcome."
In a video posted on Twitter [ https://twitter.com/EmmanuelMacron/status/829849353867128832 ] and Facebook on Thursday, Macron contrasted his commitment to fighting global warming with the U.S. president's skepticism. Trump has said [ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/12/11/trump-says-nobody-really-knows-if-climate-change-is-real/ ] that “nobody really knows" whether climate change is real, and last month he met with William Happer [ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/01/13/trump-meets-with-princeton-physicist-who-says-global-warming-is-good-for-us/ ], a Princeton physicist who argues that climate change may be good for the world. The new administration and GOP-led Congress have also proposed policies [ https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/gop-backed-measures-seek-to-rein-in-science-used-at-epa/2017/02/08/a7638b28-edd9-11e6-a100-fdaaf400369a_story.html ] perceived as attempts to stifle government scientists.
“I do know how your new president now has decided to jeopardize your budget, your initiatives, as he is extremely skeptical of climate change," Macron said. “I have no doubt about climate change, and how committed we have to be regarding this issue."
Macron labeled his tweet with the hashtag #ScienceMarch — presumably to get the attention of the more than 800,000 people who say they plan to attend a rally in Washington [ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/02/03/scientists-plan-to-march-on-washington-but-where-will-it-get-them/ ] or satellite marches in April to advocate for science.
The same hashtag was appended to a video from a campaign rally Saturday, when Macron told “researchers, academics and companies in the United States fighting obscurantism and who are afraid today … you now have a new homeland: France." The declaration was met with a long round of cheers, applause and waving of French and European Union flags.
Macron may get an opportunity to make good on his promise. A recent poll placed him second among the crowded field of presidential candidates, according to Reuters. If he does make it to the second round of voting, a two-way runoff scheduled for May 7, he would beat far-right candidate Marine Le Pen with 66 percent of the vote, the poll found.
Macron is the most progressive of the front-runners in the presidential race. A cabinet member for former Socialist prime minister Manuel Valls, he left the government last year to start his own party, En Marche! The party's platform is strongly pro-European and includes a commitment to developing renewable energy.
[...]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/02/10/french-presidential-candidate-to-u-s-scientists-afraid-of-trump-come-to-france/ [with embedded video, and comments]


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Oroville dam in crisis raises alarm in California

The Rachel Maddow Show
2/10/17

Rachel Maddow reports on the giant Oroville Dam and its adjacent spillway that is steadily destroying itself as it continues to be used despite a massive hole, to prevent the dam from over-topping. Duration: 12:54

Oroville Dam spillway: 'It's not supposed to do that' [video]
Feb 08, 2017
As engineers tested the damaged Oroville Dam spillway Wednesday, Eric See of the Department of Water Resources explains what workers saw after the hole formed.
http://www.sacbee.com/news/state/california/water-and-drought/article131592714.html

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/oroville-dam-in-crisis-raises-alarm-in-california-874905667526


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Magnitude of Trump adviser Flynn's Russia scandal gains clarity

The Rachel Maddow Show
2/10/17

Rachel Maddow reports on the still-developing scandal that Donald Trump national security adviser, Mike Flynn, reportedly discussed U.S. sanctions with Russia before Trump was in office, and that communication existed during the campaign. Duration: 12:02

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/magnitude-of-trump-adviser-flynn-s-russia-scandal-gains-clarity-874908739801


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House Intel Committee looking at legality of Flynn Russia contact

The Rachel Maddow Show
2/10/17

Congressman Adam Schiff talks with Rachel Maddow about new reporting that Donald Trump's National Security Adviser, Mike Flynn, spoke to Russia about U.S. sanctions before Trump took office, and in fact, had contact with Russia through the campaign. Duration: 5:37

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/house-intel-committee-looking-at-legality-of-flynn-russia-contact-874922563593


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Trump-era ICE raids begin nationwide, protest and panic ensue

The Rachel Maddow Show
2/10/17

California State Senator Kevin de León talks with Rachel Maddow about discrepancies between what the federal government is saying about immigration enforcement and the ICE raids taking place nationwide in the past 48 hours. Duration: 4:54

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-era-ice-raids-begin-nationwide-protest-and-panic-ensue-874929731738 [also at/see (linked in) http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=128624350 and preceding (and any future following)]


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Call for FBI investigation into Trump Nat'l Security Advisor

The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell
2/10/17

New reports say Trump's National Security Advisor Michael Flynn spoke with Russia's ambassadors about sanctions before Trump took office - contradicting what members of the Trump admin. have said. Ari Melber discusses with Rick Stengel, Colin Kahl, and Rick Wilson. Duration: 14:14

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/call-for-fbi-investigation-into-trump-nat-l-security-advisor-874917443948


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Report: Conflicts and distrust inside Trump White House

The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell
2/10/17

Does Donald Trump already dislike being president? He may dislike some of the complicated aspects of governing according to a new report. The Trump team is also looking to quell leaks. POLITICO's Ken Vogel and GOP strategist Rick Wilson discuss with Ari Melber. Duration: 8:03

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/report-conflicts-and-distrust-inside-trump-white-house-874918467551


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GOP feeling pressure to counter Trump

The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell
2/10/17

Republican members of Congress are feeling the pressure to take on Donald Trump over his business conflicts and over policies like Obamacare. Jonathan Allen, Hunter Walker, and Erin Gloria Ryan join Ari Melber. Duration: 3:53

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/gop-feeling-pressure-to-counter-trump-874915395772


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Cartoon Donald Trump Gets Tucked Into Bed By Steve Bannon

Published on Feb 11, 2017 by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

There's a new nightly ritual at The White House, and it might be the most disturbing thing we've seen yet from this administration.

[originally aired February 10, 2017]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfSJpTJjPw4 [with comments]


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Long Ties, Big Lies And Made Up Crowd Size: The Sean Spicer Story

Published on Feb 11, 2017 by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

White House Press Secretary had a rough week and it doesn't look like it'll be getting easier any time soon.

[originally aired February 10, 2017]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBNZu0uPp3o [with comments]


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Is Trump Tired of Losing? | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)

Published on Feb 10, 2017 by Real Time with Bill Maher [ http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCy6kyFxaMqGtpE3pQTflK8A / http://www.youtube.com/user/RealTime , http://www.youtube.com/user/RealTime/videos ]

Bill recaps President Trump's terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week in his Real Time monologue.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqxOZvgTLXE [with comments]


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The Al Franken Millennium | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)

Published on Feb 10, 2017 by Real Time with Bill Maher

Senator Al Franken joins Bill to discuss how elected officials feel about the Trump presidency.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDqA7veCWns [with comments]


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Bill Maher Loses His Cool with Piers Morgan - Feb 10, 2017 | RealTime

Published on Feb 10, 2017 by Leo Deki [ http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9Gm9_USD9misw3FeKJ03ww / http://www.youtube.com/user/jkirui007 , http://www.youtube.com/user/jkirui007/videos ]

Bill Maher and Piers Morgan exchange jabs during heated debate over Donald Trump. This occurred on Fridays episode (ep 414) of Real Time with Bill Maher. Who do you think won during this rather contentious argument? Bill or Morgan?

[for the moment at least at] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYm-gW8yfA8 [with (over 6,000) comments]


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Piers Morgan & Jim Jefferies: The Lesser of Two Evils | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)

Published on Feb 10, 2017 by Real Time with Bill Maher

Bill's request for an apology from the people who said Hillary Clinton was the lesser of two evils leads to a confrontation between Daily Mail editor Piers Morgan and comedian Jim Jefferies.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtDOqNlgoOE [with comments]


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Oscars, Twitter Bullying, Celebrity Activism | Overtime with Bill Maher (HBO)

Published on Feb 10, 2017 by Real Time with Bill Maher

Bill and his Real Time panelists –  John Waters, Karine Jean-Pierre, Piers Morgan and Jim Jefferies – answer viewer questions after the show.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mz3QyNVDPBY [with comments]


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New Rule: Make America Learn Again | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)

Published on Feb 10, 2017 by Real Time with Bill Maher

Bill Maher has a Valentine's Day message for his first love.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNqXaeHXIQE [with comments]


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[fuagf]

President Trump Arrives in Poland Amid Tensions With Russia and North Korea

VIDEO

Darlene Superville and Ken Thomas / AP

5:43 PM ET

(WARSAW, Poland) — President Donald Trump opens his two-nation European visit with what he expects to be a short but warm stop in Poland before he encounters what could be a frostier reception and thornier issues at an international summit in Germany. Trump's sit-down with Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korea's first launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile threaten to put Trump's skills as a negotiator to the test.

Trump arrived in Warsaw late Wednesday for a 16-hour visit that includes a keynote address to the Poles from Krasinski Square, site of a monument commemorating the 1944 Warsaw Uprising against the Nazis. Scores of people who lined darkened roads waved American and Polish flags and recorded video of Trump's motorcade as it sped him and his wife, Melania, to their hotel.

Trump has scheduled talks with the leaders of Poland and Croatia and may hold a joint news conference — his first one abroad — with Polish President Andrzej Duda. He also was meeting with the heads of a dozen countries bordered by the Baltic, Adriatic and Black seas. Collectively known as the Three Seas Initiative, the group aims to expand and modernize energy and trade with a goal of reducing the region's dependence on Russian energy.

Duda told Polish broadcaster TVN24 on Wednesday that he wants to tackle concrete issues like energy security in the meeting with Trump, not engage in "some general talk about world security." Trump recently devoted a week to U.S. energy production.

At the same time, Trump will have to contend with escalating tensions with North Korea after it successfully launched its first intercontinental ballistic missile this week. Asked, as he left the White House, what he would do about North Korea, Trump said only: "We're going to do very well."

Trump, who's been seeking China's help in containing Pyongyang's missile and nuclear weapons programs, also tweeted his frustration with China for continuing to trade with North Korea.

"So much for China working with us - but we had to give it a try!" Trump wrote.

Chinese President Xi Jinping is among at least nine leaders Trump is scheduled to meet with later in the week in Germany during the Group of 20 summit of the world's leading rich and developing countries. U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson planned to join Trump in Germany.

Trump will also walk a fine line when he meets Friday with Putin. The highly anticipated sit-down comes when relations between the two nations are at a low point, and with the president showing reluctance to adopt a harder line toward Russia amid conclusions by multiple U.S. intelligence agencies that Moscow meddled in the 2016 presidential election to benefit Trump, and continuing federal and congressional investigations into possible collusion between Trump campaign associates and Russian government officials.

Trump's return to Europe follows a shaky inaugural visit in late May and signs of unhappiness around the globe with his presidency.

A recent Pew Research Center survey of attitudes toward Trump in more than three dozen countries found fewer than 3 in 10 respondents expressing confidence in his ability to do the right thing on international affairs.

Trump's earlier visit was marred by several awkward encounters, including a tough speech to NATO members urging them to spend more on their armed forces, an uncomfortable handshake with France's new president and a caught-on-camera moment when Trump pushed past the prime minister of Montenegro to get to the front of a group photo opportunity.

Poland may offer him a chance to shine.

Polish media reports say the government promised the White House cheering crowds as part of its invitation. Ruling party lawmakers and pro-government activists plan to bus in groups of people for Trump's speech. The White House didn't respond to a request for comment on the reports.

With Trump's sights already set on getting re-elected in 2020, the visit to Poland could also be seen as a power play for battleground states like Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, home to hundreds of thousands of Polish-American voters.

Trump may also seek to use Poland as an exemplar of partnership. A U.S. ally in Iraq and Afghanistan, Poland is among the five NATO members that spend at least 2 percent of their gross domestic product on the military. That's something that Trump — and U.S. leaders before him — have demanded of NATO allies.

Poland also hosts a few thousand U.S. troops, in addition to supporting U.S. and NATO forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. It's also a regular purchaser of U.S. military equipment.

The Polish government has emphasized that Russia's aggression in Ukraine poses a threat to the whole of Europe, something that will inevitably be raised in discussions with Trump as Europeans aim to gauge his willingness to confront Putin when they meet face to face on Friday.

http://time.com/4846396/donald-trump-warsaw-poland-russia-north-korea-vladimir-putin/

.. just a bit down in yours .. Why Nobody Cares the President Is Lying
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/04/opinion/sunday/why-nobody-cares-the-president-is-lying.html