Bills Introduced by Republicans While We Were Distracted by the 'Russian Spy Drama'
Legislation advanced by the GOP included bills to terminate the EPA, repeal the Affordable Care Act, defund Planned Parenthood, and criminalize certain types of abortion.
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CLAIM
Legislation introduced by Republicans during President Trump's first two months in office included bills to: terminate the Environmental Protection Agency; redistribute federal school funding via voucher programs; terminate the Dept. of Education; repeal a wildlife protection rule; repeal the Affordable Care Act; defund Planned Parenthood; establish a national right-to-work law; strip federal funds from sanctuary cities; criminalize abortion; and place new sanctions on Iran.
RATING Mostly True
ORIGIN
In March 2017, social media users began sharing an article .. http://archive.is/zXeMT .. published by Resistance Report, a left-leaning news and opinion web site, purporting to list “nine terrifying bills” advanced by Congressional Republicans while Americans were “distracted” by claims and counter-claims regarding the Trump administration’s alleged ties to Russia:
- The Republican-led Congress is wasting no time forcing through the most horrendous bills seen in decades while America’s eyes are on Russia.
With both houses of Congress solidly under Republican control, there’s little in the way to stop House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin) and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) from sending bills to President Trump’s desk that embody the most dangerous aspects of radical right-wing ideology. -
The list has since grown to 10 bills (with the addition of legislation to place new sanctions on Iran) and gone viral, with more than one version in circulation. Value judgments aside (we invite readers to make up their own minds about how “horrendous” or “dangerous” these bills are), we can verify that the following 10 pieces of legislation were, in fact, introduced by Republicans, and are, in fact, real, although their content has in some cases been misrepresented, and not all of these bills have any clear shot at passage.
Here is the full list, with brief summaries and links to sources for more information:
1 – H.R. 861: To terminate the Environmental Protection Agency
H.R. 610 .. https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/610 , aka the “Choices in Education Act of 2017,” would change how federal tax dollars are distributed to qualified states for education spending, mandating that all such monies be awarded in block grants, a portion of which must go into voucher programs for use by parents to pay for private and home schools. The bill was introduced by Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa), with three Republican cosponsors. Supporters say the legislation is intended to widen educational options for all Americans, though critics .. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/2/23/1636961/-Rep-Steve-King-Introduces-Bill-To-Begin-De-funding-of-Public-Education .. maintain it amounts to at least a partial defunding of public schools.
3 – H.R. 899: To terminate the Department of Education
4 – H.J.R. 69: To repeal a wildlife protection rule in the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge
House Joint Resolution 69, introduced .. http://www.snopes.com/2017/02/19/house-votes-killing-hibernating-bears-alaska/ .. by Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska) on 7 February 2017 and passed by the House nine days later, would negate U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service regulations prohibiting certain types of non-subsistence hunting for purposes of predator control on federally protected lands in Alaska. Supporters of H.J.R. 69 say .. http://donyoung.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=398835 .. the reversal is necessary to redress an “illegal jurisdictional power grab” by the federal government.
5 – H.R. 370: To repeal the Affordable Care Act
According to Reuters .. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-obamacare-idUSKBN14X1SK , Congressional Republicans tried more than 60 times to repeal or modify the Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”) while Obama was still in office. Candidate Trump promised to rid of Obamacare if he won, and it was a major plank in the 2016 Republican Party platform. Not unexpectedly, Rep. Bill Flores, a Texas Republican, re-introduced H.R. 370 .. https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/370 , a bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act, on 8 January 2017, eight weeks after Trump was elected. It contained no details pertaining to what might be offered as an alternative to the ACA, or when.
[.. as always expected i don't think there is much doubt that much of ACA will be retained ..
- Currently, 28 states and Guam have given workers a choice when it comes to union membership. Labor unions still operate in those states, but workers cannot be compelled to become members as a requirement of their job. Kentucky became the 27th right-to-work state when it enacted HB 1 on Jan. 9, 2017. Missouri became the 28th by enacting SB 19 on Feb. 2, 2017. -
H.R. 83 .. https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/83 , introduced by Rep. Lou Barletta (R-Pennsylvania) and cosponsored by nine Republicans, would punish so-called “sanctuary cities .. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/09/02/us/sanctuary-cities.html ” (such as San Francisco, Los Angeles, New Orleans, and New York City) who refuse to comply with certain federal immigration policies, such as handing over undocumented immigrants for deportation. The bill provides that any local jurisdiction that does not comply with federal immigration regulations “shall be ineligible to receive Federal financial assistance for a minimum period of one year.” Confusingly, two days after H.R. 83 was introduced on 23 January 2017, President Trump signed an executive order .. https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/sanctuary-cities/ .. designed to do the same thing. Critics argue that the order is unconstitutional.
9 – H.R. 147: To criminalize abortion in certain cases by making it a felony punishable by up to five years in prison
The Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act (PRENDA) of 2017, H.R. 147 .. https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/147 , was introduced on 3 January 2017 by Rep. Trent Franks (R-Arizona), with 59 cosponsors, all Republicans. The bill, similar to ones introduced in previous sessions of Congress, would not criminalize abortion per se (contrary to how it has been represented in some sources), but it would make it a crime under certain conditions:
- This bill imposes criminal penalties on anyone who knowingly or knowingly attempts to: (1) perform an abortion knowing that the abortion is sought based on the sex, gender, color or race of the child, or the race of a parent; (2) use force or the threat of force to intentionally injure or intimidate any person for the purpose of coercing a sex-selection or race-selection abortion; (3) solicit or accept funds for the performance of such an abortion; or (4) transport a woman into the United States or across a state line for the purpose of obtaining such an abortion.
Violations or attempted violations shall result in fines and/or imprisonment for up to five years. -
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Add .. Rachel Maddow is amazed that people in the intelligence community and the heads of the congressional intelligence committees who are supposed to keep check on irregularities and abuse of the system by people about the White House.
Special Report: Aircraft carriers, championed by Trump, are vulnerable to attack
FILE PHOTO: Pre-Commissioning Unit Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) is maneuvered by tug boats in the James River during the aircraft carrier's turn ship evolution in Newport Beach, Virginia, U.S., June 11, 2016. U.S. Navy/Mass Communications Specialist Seaman Apprentice Gitte Schimmacher/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo
By Scot Paltrow Thu Mar 9, 2017 | 7:48pm EST
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Last week, President Donald J. Trump chose the deck of the newest U.S. aircraft carrier, the $13 billion USS Gerald R. Ford, for a speech extolling his planned boost in military spending.
Trump vowed that the newest generation of “Ford Class” carriers - the most expensive warships ever built - will remain the centerpiece of projecting American power abroad.
“We're going to soon have more coming,” Trump told an enthusiastic audience of sailors, declaring the new carriers so big and solidly built that they were immune to attack.
Trump vowed to expand the number of carriers the United States fields from 10 to 12. And he promised to bring down the cost of building three “super-carriers,” which has ballooned by a third over the last decade from $27 to $36 billion.
The Gerald R. Ford alone is $2.5 billion over budget and three years behind schedule, military officials say. The second Ford-class carrier, the John F. Kennedy, is running five years late.
Trump's expansion plans come as evidence mounts that potential enemies have built new anti-ship weapons able to destroy much of the United States’ expensive fleet of carriers. And as they have been for decades, carriers remain vulnerable to submarines.
In a combat exercise off the coast of Florida in 2015, a small French nuclear submarine, the Saphir, snuck through multiple rings of defenses and “sank” the U.S. aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt and half of its escort ships. In other naval exercises, even old-fashioned diesel-electric submarines have beaten carriers.
All told, since the early 1980s, U.S. and British carriers have been sunk at least 14 times in so-called “free play” war games meant to simulate real battle, according to think tanks, foreign navies and press accounts. The exact total is unknown because the Navy classifies exercise reports.
Today, the United States is the only country to base its naval strategy on aircraft carriers. The U.S. fleet of 10 active carriers is 10 times as big as those deployed by its primary military rivals, Russia and China, who field one active carrier each.
Roger Thompson, a defense analyst and professor at Kyung Hee University in South Korea, says the array of powerful anti-ship weapons developed in recent years by potential U.S. enemies, including China, Russia and Iran, increase carriers’ vulnerability.
The new weapons include land-based ballistic missiles, such as China’s Dong Feng-21 anti-ship missile, which has a claimed range of 1,100 miles (1,770 kilometers) and moves at 10 times the speed of sound. Certain Russian and Chinese submarines can fire salvoes of precision-guided cruise missiles from afar, potentially overwhelming carrier-fleet anti-missile defense.
Russia, China, Iran and other countries also have so-called super-cavitating torpedoes. These form an air bubble in front of them, enabling them to travel at hundreds of miles per hour. The torpedoes cannot be guided, but if aimed straight at a ship they are difficult to avoid.
A 2015 Rand Corporation report, “Chinese Threats to U.S. Surface Ships,” found that if hostilities broke out, “the risks to U.S. carriers are substantial and rising.”
“Beyond a shadow of a doubt, a carrier is just a target,” says defense analyst Pierre Sprey, who worked for the U.S. Secretary of Defense’s office from 1966 to 1986 and is a longtime critic of U.S. weapons procurement.
DEFENDING CARRIERS
Navy leaders stand by the carrier. In an interview late last year, Admiral Scott Swift, commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, lauded carriers’ versatility. Swift says they remain “very viable,” sufficiently impregnable to be sent into the thick of combat zones.
Swift said he would order carriers into close battle “in a heartbeat.” Nevertheless, citing the new anti-ship weapons, Swift says the carrier “is not as viable as it was 15 years ago.”
Trump has said he will make good on his campaign promise to increase the Navy's fleet to 350 ships. The Navy currently has 277 deployable ships. The cost of a single new, Ford-class carrier – $10.5 billion without cost overruns – would consume nearly 20 percent of Trump’s proposed $54 billion increase in next year's defense budget.
Some critics, including former senior Defense Department personnel, say Washington has put too much of the country’s defense budget into a handful of expensive, vulnerable carriers.
At a naval symposium in 2010, then-Secretary of Defense Robert Gates called into question making such big investments in a few increasingly sinkable ships. Gates said “a Ford-class carrier plus its full complement of the latest aircraft would represent potentially $15 billion to $20 billion worth of hardware at risk.”
The Navy, with the backing of Congress, went ahead nevertheless. The program has strong Congressional backing. In the 1990s, when defense spending was cut after the end of the Cold War, Congress enacted a law requiring the Navy to maintain an 11-carrier fleet.
Congress has given the Navy a temporary exemption to have 10 active carriers while one is overhauled. When the Ford is commissioned, it will bring the U.S. carrier fleet to 11.
Trump did not specify in his speech how he would bring the carrier fleet to 12. But he said the Ford-class carriers would be invulnerable to attack because they represent the best in American know-how.
“There is no competition to this ship,” declared Trump, who called the Gerald R. Ford American craftsmanship “at its biggest, at its best, at its finest.”
FAILING SYSTEMS
Trump did not mention that the ship’s builder, Huntington Ingalls Industries, launched the Ford more than three years ago, but the Navy has yet to commission it and put it into service because of severe flaws. Many of its new high tech systems failed to work, including such basic ones as the “arresting gear” that catches and stops landing jets.
The Navy says the ship will be commissioned sometime this year. But the criticism has continued.
In a written statement in July, John McCain, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, noted the cost overruns and cited a list of crucial malfunctioning systems that remained unfixed. “The Ford-class program is a case study in why our acquisition system must be reformed,” McCain wrote.
Ray Mabus, who in January stepped down as secretary of the Navy, said in an interview that the Gerald R. Ford “is a poster child for how not to build a ship.” He added: “Everything that could have been done wrong was done wrong.”
Mabus said that because of commitments made before he became Navy secretary, the Ford was loaded with high-tech equipment that had not even been designed yet. He also faulted awarding the shipbuilder a “cost plus” contract, under which it gets a fixed profit regardless of how much it costs to build the vessel. “There was no incentive to hold down costs,” Mabus said.
Others criticize carriers as strategically flawed. Jerry Hendrix, a retired Navy captain and Defense Department official, is now director of the Defense Strategies and Assessments Program at the Center for a New American Security. Carriers, he said in an email exchange, give Washington’s rivals a cheap opportunity to score big. For the cost of a single carrier, he calculates, a rival can deploy 1,227 anti-carrier missiles.
“The enemy can build a lot more missiles than we can carriers for equivalent investments,” Hendrix said, “and hence overwhelm our defensive capabilities.”
The most commonly proposed alternative to carriers is building a much larger number of smaller, nimbler vessels, including submarines and surface ships. Submarines don’t require escorts and can hit distant targets on land. And carriers have not been tested in battle against an enemy able to fight back since World War II – more than 70 years ago.
The Navy and some outside defense experts say that despite increased threats, carriers remain fully viable and perform an essential service. They laud carriers’ mobility and swiftness, enabling the United States to project air power to places otherwise unreachable.
Carrier proponent Bryan McGrath, the deputy director of the Hudson Institute’s Center for American Seapower in Washington, said carriers are less vulnerable than stationary, land-based air bases.
“A carrier is a big floating airport, and not only a floating airport, but it moves at 40 knots,” says McGrath, a former captain of a guided missile destroyer. “How much more vulnerable are airfields on land that don’t move?”
But Sprey, the former Defense Department official and longtime Pentagon procurement critic, says carriers waste funds that could be used to build more cost-effective weapons systems.
“Every Ford-class carrier we build detracts from U.S. defense,” Sprey said.
LIMITED PROTECTION
Both strong supporters of carriers as well as opponents agreed that there is a serious flaw in the current configuration of U.S. carriers: their complement of strike aircraft. Almost all are short-range jets, the F-18 Hornet, whose range could render the planes useless in some conflicts.
The Chinese, in particular, have established sea zones bristling with anti-ship weapons meant to make it impossible for enemy flotillas to enter.
Top U.S Navy commanders, including Pacific commander Swift and Vice Admiral Mike Shoemaker, the Navy “Air Boss” in charge of carriers, say carriers could safely enter such zones long enough to carry out a mission. But many outside analysts say a U.S. president would be hesitant to risk such an expensive ship and the lives of up to 5,500 crew members.
In order to be relatively safe, a carrier would have to stand off by 1,300 nautical miles, or 2,300 kilometers – out of range of the Dong Feng missiles. And the F-18s have a range of only 400 nautical miles (equal to 460 statute miles or 740 kilometers) to a target with enough fuel to return.
Experts on both sides of the debate say that if the carriers have to stand off, the Hornets would have to be refueled in midair an impractical number of times while flying to and from their targets. It thus would be all but impossible for carriers to send air power into war zones.
The F-18s are to be replaced by 2020 with new F-35C Lightning IIs, but these have only a marginally better range of 650 nautical miles.
The Hudson Institute’s McGrath, who champions carriers, says the short-range jets impair the mission.
“What they (the Navy) haven’t done yet is to design and fund a strike aircraft that can fly 1,000 miles, drop its bombs and come home,” McGrath said.
The cost of carriers in terms of strategy and money is multiplied because carriers do not travel alone. For protection, they move with large escorts, making every “carrier strike group” a virtual armada.
Each carrier usually has an escort of at least five warships, a mixture of destroyers and cruisers, at least one submarine and a combined ammunition-supply ship and helicopters designed to detect subs. When close enough to shore, carriers are also protected by new, land-based P-8 Poseidon jets, designed to detect and destroy subs.
OLD THREATS
For carrier commanders, the most feared weapon is a 150-year-old one. A single, submarine-launched torpedo could send a carrier to the bottom.
Most modern torpedoes aren’t targeted to hit ships. Instead they are programmed to explode underneath. This creates an air bubble that lifts the ship into the air and drops it, breaking the hull.
For decades, critics have faulted the Navy for failing to develop effective defenses against modern torpedoes. A 2016 report by the Pentagon’s Office of Operational Test and Evaluation said the Navy has recently made significant progress, but the systems still have crucial deficiencies.
Experts also say that carriers are at risk from updated versions of one of the oldest naval vessels still in use: the diesel-electric submarine. These were the subs used in both World Wars. Diesel-electric subs have the advantage of being small – and while on electric power, silent, and in general quieter and harder to detect than nuclear subs.
Diesel-electric subs are also far cheaper to build than nuclear ones. Allies and rivals have been building large numbers of them. Worldwide, more than 230 diesel-electric subs are in use. China has 83 in use, while Russia has 19.
Hendrix, the former Defense Department official, says the carriers' vulnerabilities make the fleet a profligate use of money, vessels and aircraft.
“We have paid billions of dollars to build ships that are largely defensive in their orientation, thus taking away from the offensive power of the fleet,” Hendrix says. “In the end, we spend a lot of money on defense to send 44 strike aircraft off the front end of a carrier.”
Its formal name is the Executive Order Protecting the Nation From Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States, but is President Donald Trump's new executive order in fact a 'Muslim Ban 2.0'?
That is the contention of Hawaii Attorney-General Doug Chin.
Hawaii became the first state to challenge the US President's revised travel ban and a hearing is scheduled for next week.
The new executive order prohibits foreign nationals of six predominantly Muslim nations from entering the US for 90 days.
Among the changes from the first order, travellers from Iraq are no longer banned. Neither are those who have visas or hold a US Green Card.
The executive order is slated to take effect on March 16 and US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson says, "President Trump is exercising his rightful authority to keep our people safe".
The state of Hawaii begs to differ: "This second executive order is infected with the same legal problems as the first Order — undermining bedrock constitutional and statutory guarantees."
Mr Trump's first ban sparked chaos and protests at airports across the country.
Photo: Huge crowds gathered at LAX to protest Donald Trump's travel first ban. (AP: Ryan Kang)
As the legal skirmish for the revised order gets underway, it seems those from banned countries are not the only ones who may give the US a miss in coming months.
Several Australians have told me they have put their US travel plans on hold. And Australians are not the only ones.
Travel analyst ForwardKeys, a company that predicts travel patterns, says the travel ban has hurt bookings.
"Travel to the USA suffers 6.5 per cent Trump slump," proclaims the company's website.
Of course, millions will still visit the US, but the changes seem to have made entering the country just that bit harder.
When I arrived in the US at the end of February, I was reminded international travel sometimes ranks up there with root canal surgery as a painful exercise.
Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), had lengthy queues of passengers winding their way through customs.
I exited with a sigh of relief — only to discover the lines for connecting flights.
"Holy Mother of God," breathed an Australian next to me. "Another queue."
I had the benefit of travelling on a US passport, but it was still tough.
Travel crackdown could hurt Americans the most
A few days later, in tourist mecca New York, I found signature stores in Manhattan decked out in red, white and blue. Freedom Tower downtown shimmered in the sun. The city was at its vibrant, sassy, bossy best.
But the Big Apple is bracing for the economic impact of fewer foreign visitors. Tourism agency NYC & Company forecasts 300,000 fewer international visitors than in 2016 — the first drop in seven years.
The US Travel Association last week chimed in, saying the President's immigration policies are hurting tourism.
The White House disputed this. But an estimated 18 million Americans work in industries connected to tourism.
While the President has taken credit for returning thousands of manufacturing jobs to the US at companies such as Carrier, a major tourism downturn could cost the US economy billions of dollars and wipe out tens of thousands of jobs. There is growing alarm.
As the latest travel ban was debated, it was perhaps ironic that a crackdown by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) indicated it might be Americans, rather than foreigners, who are the biggest risk.
As I hopscotched between airports, I noticed overall airport security was more vigilant than usual. The random "pat-down" I received at Denver International Airport was more robust than I had remembered.
I was experiencing first-hand (so to speak) the TSA's new standardised pat-down procedures. The new protocol is more thorough and includes "sensitive" areas.
But the TSA says there are reasons for the crackdown.
Without providing any evidence to support his claim, President Trump takes to Twitter to accuse former President Obama of wiretapping him in the run-up to the 2016 election.
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Rachel Maddow talks with former Ambassador Daniel Fried, a 40-year U.S. diplomat, talks with Rachel Maddow about the State Department under Donald Trump and the shifting world power structure. Duration: 11:04
Trump fails to retain senior diplomats, replacements not ready
The Rachel Maddow Show 3/9/17
Newly retired U.S. Ambassador Daniel Fried talks with Rachel Maddow about the purging of experienced diplomats from the State Department under the Trump administration, with few replacements ready. Duration: 2:11
Pres. Trump has said he loves WikiLeaks, yet was silent after it attacked the CIA by revealing secrets. GOP foreign policy adviser Max Boot explains how the admin. has cozied up to WikiLeaks. David Corn and fmr. CIA Chief of Staff Jeremy Bash also join Ari Melber. Duration: 15:07
WA state AG: We beat Trump's travel ban once, we'll do it again
The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell 3/9/17
Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson joins Ari Melber to discuss his plan to challenge Trump's revised executive order on immigration, just as they did the first one before defeating it in court. Duration: 6:11
After Kellyanne Conway plugged Ivanka Trump's clothing line on television, MSNBC requested emails from the Office of Government Ethics via the Freedom of Information Act. MSNBC's Ari Melber can now report on how the event sent the president's lawyers scrambling. Duration: 1:31
End Times radio broadcaster and unhinged conspiracy theorist Rick Wiles dedicated his radio program yesterday to warning that a secretive pedophile ring is working to destroy President Trump before he can expose their murderous global network.
Wiles said that Trump is “besieged by a slithering cabal of seditious snakes” who are attempting to carry out a coup against him at the behest of the “perpetual war and pedophilia party that has ruled America since they assassinated John F. Kennedy in 1963.”
Wiles said that if Russia was responsible for leaking internal Clinton campaign emails, “then they deserve the highest citizenship award that this country can give anybody because they exposed the most vile, disgusting corruption I’ve seen in my lifetime.”
Hugh Hewitt interview with Speaker of the House Paul Ryan. Ryan responds to critics and lays out his arguments for the Republican's American Health Care Act and the three step plan to repeal and replace Obamacare.
Full Show - NYT Caught Red Handed / Jesse James Calls Out SJW’s In Studio And More - 03/10/2017
Published on Mar 10, 2017 by The Alex Jones Channel
Friday, March 10th 2017: Prosperity Under Trump Explodes - In a selectively distributed report from the White House delivered to Infowars, Trump outlines what he's accomplished in his first 50 days. The president also points to Drudge’s ‘Great Again’ praise of the new jobs report showing a reversal of the economic decline fueled by the globalists. Trump insider Roger Stone reveals breaking news and Jesse James reveals the game plan to restore America.
Trump Gives Praise But No Money to Historically Black Colleges HBCUs get less than 1 percent of federal funds for research College leaders asked Trump to target grants, renovations Counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway takes a photo as President Donald Trump and leaders of historically black universities and colleges talk in the Oval Office of the White House on Feb. 27, 2017, in Washington. March 1, 2017 On the campaign trail, President Donald Trump praised historically black colleges and universities and signaled that they’d be a priority for his administration. This week, Trump followed his rhetoric by meeting with the leaders of more than 60 of the schools (called HBCUs), a gathering that also drew attention for the meme-able photo of Kellyanne Conway with her feet up on the Oval Office couch. Trump followed that meeting with an executive order designed to raise the profile of HBCUs by moving their oversight into the White House from the Department of Education. He stopped short of allocating any money for the schools or directing Congress to do so, as the leaders had asked. HBCUs represent 3 percent of all U.S. colleges by number but received less than 1 percent of the federal money that goes toward academic research in 2014. "We are getting crumbs," David Wilson, president of Morgan State University in Baltimore, said at a panel in New York earlier this month. [...] https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-03-01/trump-gives-praise-but-no-money-to-historically-black-colleges
HBCUs Among Schools That Would Get $25 Billion From Clinton’s Education Plan August 14, 2015 WASHINGTON (WPGC/AP) — Calling for a “new college compact,” Hillary Rodham Clinton unveiled a $350 billion plan this week aimed at making college more affordable and reducing the crushing burden of student debt. The proposal centers on a $200 billion federal incentive system aimed at encouraging states to expand their investments in higher education and cut student costs. States that guarantee “no-loan” tuition at four-year public schools and free tuition at community colleges will be eligible to receive federal funds. But there are also specific provisions for historically black colleges and universities. Private universities with “modest endowments” that serve a higher percentage of low-income students, including historically black colleges, would receive $25 billion in federal funds to help lower the costs of attendance and improve graduation rates. The plan also invests new federal funds in states that commit to investing more in public HBCUs, invests more funds when public schools enroll low- and middle-income students and ensures that Pell recipients at these public HBCUs can direct their full Pell funding toward living expenses. And for all HBCUs, both public and private, Clinton says her plan would significantly cut interest rates that students pay on any loans (so that the government never profits on the loans), enable students and parents with debt to refinance their loans at lower rates and allow students never to have to repay more than 10 percent of their monthly income, among other things. [...] http://wpgc.cbslocal.com/2015/08/14/hbcus-among-schools-that-would-get-25-billion-from-clintons-education-plan/ [no comments yet]
I am generally a healthy person. I have been a runner and a weight lifter. I am very careful in my diet. I’m a user of the Infowars supplements. I have been treated with acupuncture by perhaps the greatest acupuncturist in the state of Florida if not the United States.
So there’s a guy who’s damn near invincible, what with the trucker speed and the needles. Nonetheless, a few weeks ago he began to suffer symptoms that he thought at first were a “routine stomach virus,” but soon grew much, much worse, with
over 14 days of high fevers, delirium, night sweats; I had lesions on my chest and my face, I had extreme diarrhea, I had vomiting that could not be stopped with medication, I became exceedingly dehydrated, and I ultimately had to be hydrated by IV and saline injections.
Well there you have it: definitely murder, or the symptoms of about a million other things. Jones helpfully pointed out that Stone is such a magnificent physical specimen that “the last time you were in the hospital was when you were born.” Aha! Now there’s a connection he should have explored further!
a substance that may have been polonium or had the characteristics of polonium. This made me exceedingly ill. The conjecture of all the doctors was that I did not receive a large enough dose to kill me, but I have never been this ill.
Hold on to your tinfoil hats, kids: Stone didn’t happen to bring along his medical records or anything like that, because the important thing is to figure out who would have tried to murder him using Polonius, the busybody old fart from Hamlet. (We bet it was the Danes!) Stone happens to know that, as one of the highest level operatives against the “Deep State,” it could be practically anyone!
“Who would want to do this to me? I am an enemy of the deep state. I think people know that I was an insider in American politics I was close to power in nine presidential elections” [...]
“The Republican/Democrat Bush-Clinton deep state has manufactured this Russia fraud. They have compounded it by [pushing] a clearly fabricated document [...]
“Perhaps the fact that I’m effective on behalf of my beliefs has something to do with it,” Stone theorizes.
Stone also theorized the fake news pee hooker document was paid for by Dan Senor, a former advisor to Mitt Romney, the guy who wanted to delegitimize Donald Trump so much that he was begging for a job as Secretary of State. But maybe the poisoning was Romney’s revenge for Trump not choosing him! You know how Romney goes around having people murdered. They all do.
Out in mere reality, Polonium 210 is a radioactive isotope used by Russian intelligence agents to murder former FSB agent Alexander Litvinenko [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Alexander_Litvinenko ] in England, although Alex Jones of course knows Litvinenko was actually killed by British intelligence in a false flag attack to make Russia and Vladimir Putin look bad, because that’s just how evil the British are. Why, oh, why do U.S. and British intelligence services keep trying to stir up trouble between America and the peace-loving leader of Russia? It is indeed a mystery.
This article appears in other versions of the March 20, 2017 issue with the headline “First as Tragedy”.
Illustration by Tom Bachtell
The problem in Washington is not a conspiracy against the President; it’s the President himself.
By David Remnick March 20, 2017 Issue
One evening in 1970, a young Navy lieutenant found himself outside the White House Situation Room with a parcel of sensitive Pentagon documents, waiting for someone to sign for them. He sat down beside a man in late middle age, who wore a dark suit and an unsmiling expression. “There was nothing overbearing in his attentiveness,” the officer recalled years later. “But his eyes were darting in a kind of gentlemanly surveillance.”
The two men fell into conversation. The lieutenant mentioned that he had been taking graduate courses at George Washington University. The older man said that he had gone to law school at G.W. at night. Now he was at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, working under J. Edgar Hoover. He encouraged the young man to pursue only employment that interested him, and, shortly afterward, the officer applied for a job as a reporter at the Washington Post. He flunked the tryout and went to work instead for a suburban weekly. But he kept in touch with his friend, seeing him as a kind of career counsellor and, not without guile, as a potential source. Soon, the F.B.I. man confided in the reporter, telling him that he believed that the Nixon Administration was corrupt, paranoid, and trying to infringe on the independence of the Bureau.
In the summer of 1971, both men were promoted, one to the No. 3 job at the F.B.I., the other to the metropolitan staff of the Post. Within a year, their friendship became the most important reporter-source relationship in modern history. The reporter was Bob Woodward, who, with Carl Bernstein, led the coverage of the Watergate scandal and the fall of Richard Nixon. The F.B.I. man was Mark Felt, who, until he was in his nineties and revealed himself as Woodward’s source, was known to the world only as Deep Throat.
Was Deep Throat part of an American Deep State? Some of Donald Trump’s most ardent supporters (and, in a different, cautionary spirit, a few people on the left) have taken to using “the Deep State” to describe a nexus of institutions—the intelligence agencies, the military, powerful financial interests, Silicon Valley, various federal bureaucracies—that, they believe, are conspiring to smear and stymie a President and bring him low.
“Deep State” comes from the Turkish derin devlet, a clandestine network, including military and intelligence officers, along with civilian allies, whose mission was to protect the secular order established, in 1923, by the father figure of post-Ottoman Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. It was behind at least four coups, and it surveilled and murdered reporters, dissidents, Communists, Kurds, and Islamists. The Deep State takes a similar form in Pakistan, with its powerful intelligence service, the I.S.I., and in Egypt, where the military establishment is tied to some of the largest business interests in the country.
One day earlier this month in Palm Beach, just after 6 A.M., the President went on a vengeful Twitter binge. Trump reads little but has declared himself “the Ernest Hemingway of a hundred and forty characters,” and that morning he levelled what the Times rightly called “one of the most consequential accusations made by one president against another in American history.” With no evidence, save the ravings of the talk-radio host Mark Levin and an account, in Breitbart News, of Levin’s charges of a “silent coup,” Trump accused President Obama of tapping his “wires” at Trump Tower. He compared the unsubstantiated offense to “McCarthyism” and “Nixon/Watergate.”
By now, Trump’s tactics are familiar. Schooled by Roy Cohn, Joseph McCarthy’s protégé, in the dark arts of rage, deflection, insult, and conspiracy-mongering, Trump ignited his political career with “birtherism,” and he has kept close by his side Steve Bannon, formerly of Breitbart, who traffics in tinfoil-hat theories of race, immigration, and foreign affairs. Together, they have artfully hijacked the notion of “fake news,” turning it around as a weapon of insult, diversion, division, and attack.
One does not have to be ignorant of the C.I.A.’s abuses—or of history, in general—to reject the idea of an American Deep State. Previous Presidents have felt resistance, or worse, from elements in the federal bureaucracies: Eisenhower warned of the “military-industrial complex”; L.B.J. felt pressure from the Pentagon; Obama’s Syria policy was rebuked by the State Department through its “dissent channel.” But to use the term as it is used in Turkey, Pakistan, or Egypt is to assume that all these institutions constitute part of a subterranean web of common and nefarious purpose. The reason that Trump is so eager to take a conspiratorial view of everything from the C.I.A. to CNN is that an astonishing array of individuals have spoken out or acted against him. Above all, he is infuriated that intelligence and investigative services have been looking into possible Russian connections to him, his advisers, his campaign, and his financial interests.
Bannon and Trump, according to the Post, refer to the Deep State only in private, but their surrogates feel no hesitation about doing so openly. “We are talking about the emergence of a Deep State led by Barack Obama, and that is something we should prevent,” Representative Steve King, of Iowa, said. “The person who understands this best is Steve Bannon, and I would think that he’s advocating to make some moves to fix it.”
Trump and Bannon would undoubtedly have called Deep Throat glaring evidence of an American Deep State. Felt was a Hoover loyalist; he oversaw the F.B.I.’s pursuit of radical groups like the Weather Underground and instituted illegal searches, known as “black-bag jobs.” Yet he was deeply offended that the President and his top aides ran what constituted a criminal operation out of the White House, and he risked everything to guide Woodward. The level of risk became clear in October, 1972, when Nixon’s aide H. R. Haldeman told him that Felt was the likely source. “Now, why the hell would he do that?” Nixon said. “Is he Catholic?” “Jewish,” Haldeman replied. “Christ, [they] put a Jew in there,” Nixon said. “That could explain it, too.” (It didn’t, quite. Felt was not Jewish.)
The problem in Washington is not a Deep State; the problem is a shallow man—an untruthful, vain, vindictive, alarmingly erratic President. In order to pass fair and proper judgment, the public deserves a full airing of everything from Trump’s tax returns and business entanglements to an accounting of whether he has been, in some way, compromised. Journalists can, and will, do a lot. But the courts, law enforcement, and Congress—without fear or favor—are responsible for such an investigation. Only if government officials take to heart their designation as “public servants” will justice prevail.
Annie Linskey, Howard Fineman and Malcolm Nance discuss the latest on Trump’s wiretapping charge and the pressure on FBI director Comey to take a stance. Duration: 8:15
9 million painkillers shipped to tiny West Virginia town
All In with Chris Hayes 3/10/17
In just two years, drug wholesalers shipped 9 million opioid pills to a pharmacy in Kermit, WV, a town of just 400 people. Now the town is trying to take the wholesalers to court. Duration: 10:54
Maddow: Pence story on Flynn impossible to believe
The Rachel Maddow Show 3/10/17
Rachel Maddow reviews the dubious explanations the Trump administration has offered for its behavior toward disgraced National Security Adviser Mike Flynn and points out the glaring problems in V.P. Pence's story about what he knew about Flynn's lobbying. Duration: 23:08
Abrupt Trump purge of US attorneys raises questions
The Rachel Maddow Show 3/10/17
Rachel Maddow reports on the sudden, unexpected purge of 46 U.S. attorneys from the Justice Department, including Preet Bharara, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, who has been asked personally by Donald Trump to stay on. Duration: 7:33
Mistrustful Trump, under pressure, purges US attorneys
The Rachel Maddow Show 3/10/17
Charlie Savage, Washington correspondent for the New York Times, talks with Rachel Maddow about what is behind the expected and abrupt purging of 46 U.S. attorneys, particularly Preet Bharara, who would have overseen any investigations into Donald Trump's operations in New York City. Duration: 6:33
As Donald Trump avoids questions about his wild claim that Pres. Obama illegally wiretapped him, his spokesman Sean Spicer laughed about Trump's reversal on another important issue. Lawrence O'Donnell discusses with Jonathan Alter, EJ Dionne, and Catherine Rampell. Duration: 10:24
Bipartisan lawmakers want to take away Trump's war powers
The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell 3/10/17
FBI director Comey will appear before the House Intelligence Committee to testify on Russian interference in the election. Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT) joins Lawrence O'Donnell to react and to discuss the bill he sponsored to take away Trump's war powers. Duration: 5:18
Lawrence O'Donnell gives the last word to Drew Gilpin Faust, the history-making president of Harvard University, who has a warning about a budget cut being considered by Donald Trump and congressional Republicans. Duration: 4:19
McConnell on Mexico paying for Trump's wall: 'Uh, no'
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams 3/10/17
Brian Williams shares Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's succinct answer to whether Mexico will pay for a border wall as Donald Trump promised repeatedly in his campaign. Duration: 1:28
Who are the advisers and media players apparently feeding the president 'alternative facts'? Joy Reid and her panel discuss how fake news harms our democracy. Duration: 13:33
The CIA has blasted WikiLeaks over its release of purported hacking methods and more. What will be the political and security implications? Joy Reid and her panel[, including Malcolm Nance,] discuss. Duration: 9:08
Fla. man tried to burn down store he thought was Muslim-owned
Richard Lloyd, 64, told cops he wanted to "run the Arabs out of our country." (St. Lucie County Sheriff's Office)
Lloyd tried to burn down the Met Mart by setting fire to a dumpster and rolling it in front of the store. (St. Lucie County Sheriff's Office)
BY Chris Sommerfeldt Updated: Saturday, March 11, 2017, 11:39 PM
A Florida man determined to "run the Arabs out of our country" attempted to burn down a convenience store that he mistakenly thought was Muslim-owned, police said.
Cops were called to a Met Mart in Port St. Lucie after 64-year-old Richard Lloyd was seen acting suspiciously by the store's entrance around 7:40 a.m. on Friday, according to officials.
"When the deputies arrived, they noticed the dumpster had been rolled in front of the doors and the contents were lit on fire," Sheriff Ken Mascara said in a statement [ https://www.facebook.com/stluciesheriff/posts/1483273451692355 ]. "Upon seeing our deputies, the man put his hands behind his back and said 'take me away.'"
The store was not open at the time of the incident and firefighters quickly extinguished the dumpster fire without it causing any property damage.
Lloyd told investigators that he decided to try and burn down the Met Mart because he was angry about what followers of Islam "are doing in the Middle East," adding he thought the store owners were Muslim.
But the enraged alleged arsonist was mistaken.
"It's unfortunate that Mr. Lloyd made the assumption that the store owners were Arabic when, in fact, they are of Indian descent," Mascara said. "Regardless, we will not tolerate violence based on age, race, color, ancestry, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, homeless status, mental or physical disability."
Lloyd was charged with first degree arson and remained at the St. Lucie County Jail in lieu of a $30,000 bond as of late Saturday, according to records.
He apparently has a history of mental illness, and will undergo psychiatric evaluation, cops said. The state attorney's office will look into whether the Friday fire should be investigated as an intentional hate crime.
President Donald Trump (Alec Baldwin) addresses members of the military (Kenan Thompson, Kyle Mooney, Aidy Bryant, Leslie Jones, Sasheer Zamata, Beck Bennett, Alex Moffat, Kate McKinnon) during an alien invasion.
Joy Reid and her panel discuss the political implications, and the implications for justice, of the sudden firing of former U.S. attorney Preet Bharara after he refused to resign. Duration: 14:24
Senator Aodhán Ó Ríordáin of Ireland – who went viral last year for his anti-Trump speech – joins Joy Reid on his ‘Irish Stand’ event taking place on St. Patrick’s Day to show solidarity between the people of Ireland and #immigrants suffering under our president. Duration: 6:37
Phyllis Young of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe, Jane Kleeb, head of the Nebraska Democratic party, and Mustafa Ali, former head of the EPA's Environmental Justice Office, join Joy Reid on the Trump administration policies that will likely harm the environment. Duration: 9:56
Kalief Browder committed suicide after spending three years – without being charged – in the notorious Rikers Island prison. Joy Reid discusses the docu-series about his life and death with his brother and the filmmaker. Duration: 7:03
Alex Jones Destroys SNL’s Lies About Infowars And President Trump - 3/12/17 Full Show
Published on Mar 12, 2017 by The Alex Jones Channel
Sunday, March 12: Tech Elites Scheme Against Trump - Industry titans in technology are getting more vocal about their dislike of Trump, but they won't stop at words: what they're doing behind the scenes is even worse. We explain what's really going on. We also look into reports on the White House intruder who got close to the president, which brings back how the Secret Service encouraged Trump to use his tower instead because it offered more security than the White House. The elites are getting more desperate to stop Trump.
The Republican health care bill could leave many Americans without affordable coverage. Last Week Tonight's catheter cowboy returns to morning cable news to explain that to Donald Trump.
The Oligarch Files: Did a billionaire fertiliser baron bail out Trump by paying millions over the odds for this gaudy pleasure palace? And is THIS the Russian connection that could return to haunt the presidency? Trumps’s election campaign was bedevilled by allegations of links with Kremlin Story of Maison de l’Amitie is example of Donald Trump’s connections to Moscow Close scrutiny of The Donald’s business history now suggests that if there is a real concern about Russian connections, it may instead lie in hard financial facts http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4304946/Did-billionaire-fertiliser-baron-bail-Trump.html
Trump loyalist Roger Stone ADMITS he exchanged Twitter messages with 'Russian' DNC hacker 'Guccifer' but claims they were so 'innocuous' that he forgot all about them Roger Stone, a top confidante to President Donald Trump, says he was in contact with the online persona that hacked into the Democratic National Committee US intelligence believes Guccifer 2.0 was acting on behalf of the Russian government But Stone and Guccifer 2.0 both claim that that is false and he was acting on his own when he broke into the emails of Hillary Clinton campaign chief John Podesta http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4303238/Trump-loyalist-admits-contact-DNC-hacker.html
Report: Donald Trump’s Campaign Manager Signed Off on a Campaign Representative’s Trip to Russia - Carter Page They have NO idea what he did while he was there, though. http://www.gq.com/story/trump-campaign-to-russia
Leaked emails reveal Nigel Farage's long-standing links to Julian Assange Emails leaked to Business Insider show long-standing links between Nigel Farage and WikiLeaks' Julian Assange. Farage visited the Ecuadorean Embassy on Thursday but declined to say whether he had met Assange, who lives in exile there. UKIP has campaigned in the European Parliament on behalf of Assange. http://www.businessinsider.com/leaked-emails-nigel-farage-wikileaks-julian-assange-2017-3
What was Trump's friend Nigel Farage doing visiting Julian Assange at the Ecuadorean embassy just two days after WikiLeaks dump of CIA documents? British politician Nigel Farage is a close friend of Donald Trump - and went to the embassy where Julian Assange is hiding out on Thursday Farage, the former leader of Ukip and credited by Trump as architect of Brexit, was seen leaving the central London embassy around midday His visit to the building sparks rumours that he may have met Julian Assange It comes just two days after WikiLeaks published 'classified CIA files' The meeting will fuel questions over the Trump camp's links to Wikileaks Wikileaks released damaging emails from the Democrats and Clinton's top campaign aide which the Hillary camp partially blames for defeat One Trump confidante boasted about a 'back channel' to Assange at time of the leaks http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4297480/Nigel-Farage-visits-embassy-home-Julian-Assange.html
Nigel Farage Just Visited The Ecuadorian Embassy In London Asked by BuzzFeed News if he’d been visiting Julian Assange, the former UKIP leader said he couldn’t remember what he’d been doing in the building. https://www.buzzfeed.com/marieleconte/wait-what
Kellyanne Conway suggests even wider surveillance of Trump campaign ALPINE, N.J. — The White House is offering yet another wrinkle in its attempt to support President Trump’s allegation — unfounded, so far — that his campaign headquarters in Manhattan was wiretapped by the Obama administration. The latest comes from Trump’s senior counselor Kellyanne Conway. She says the “surveillance” may be broader than even Trump suggested. In a wide-ranging interview Sunday at her home in Alpine, where she lives with her husband — a possible nominee for U.S. solicitor general — and their four children, Conway, who managed Trump’s presidential campaign before taking the job as one of the president's closest advisers, suggested that the alleged monitoring of activities at Trump’s campaign headquarters at Trump Tower in Manhattan may have involved far more than wiretapping. “What I can say is there are many ways to surveil each other,” Conway said as the Trump presidency marked its 50th day in office during the weekend. “You can surveil someone through their phones, certainly through their television sets — any number of ways.” Conway went on to say that the monitoring could be done with “microwaves that turn into cameras,” adding: “We know this is a fact of modern life.” Conway did not offer any evidence to back up her claim. But her remarks are significant — and potentially explosive — because they come amid a request by the House Intelligence Committee for the White House to turn over any evidence by Monday that the phones at Trump Tower were tapped as part of what the president claims to be a secret plot by the Obama administration to monitor his campaign. The White House has not said whether it will provide any corroborative support to back up the president’s claim of the alleged wiretapping. The allegation came to light nine days ago when Trump wrote in an early-morning Twitter message that he “just found out that Obama had my ‘wires tapped’ in Trump Tower just before the victory.” Trump did not offer any evidence in his original Twitter message. And while criticism mounted in the following days that Trump may have overreached, neither he nor the White House provided any means to verify the claim. Indeed, the wiretapping claims have dominated much of the discourse in Washington, often overshadowing the president's attempt to promote changes in the Affordable Care Act and institute new immigration regulations. Now comes Conway’s insinuation of a much broader surveillance plan against Trump. Her suggestion, while further stirring up the debate, appears to indicate that the White House does not plan to back down from Trump’s original Twitter claim in spite of strong assertions that it is not true from the U.S. intelligence community as well as from former president Barack Obama himself and members of his inner circle. [...] http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/03/12/kellyanne-conway-surveillance-trump-campaign-wider/99109170/
Fort Worth neighbors make a simple, powerful statement in their front yards FORT WORTH, Texas – If your front yard is a representation of who you are, then there is no misunderstanding how father-of-two Brian Madden feels. "I feel it's important. It's important for people to know," he said Sunday afternoon as he played with his children and dogs outside. "We just truly believe in what it says." In one of Fort Worth's most colorful neighborhoods, equally colorful signs have started popping up in people's front yards-- including Madden's-- with a simple, but powerful, message. "In three different languages it says 'No matter where you are from, we’re glad you’re our neighbor,'" explained Betty Spitzberg. Spitzberg, who works on the Fairmount Neighborhood Association, said the sign was first spotted on Facebook. [...] http://www.khou.com/news/local/texas/welcoming-signs-popping-up-in-fort-worth-neighborhood/422007032
Hair loss and prostate drug linked to persistent erectile dysfunction in men - PR - Propecia - taken by Trump - further/reply to http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=128359984 Longer exposure to finasteride or dutasteride associated with higher risk of persistent erectile dysfunction In young men, prolonged exposure to finasteride (Propecia) posed a higher risk of persistent erectile dysfunction than any other risk factor Some men may not be able to have normal erections for months or years, even after stopping finasteride or dutasteride. Finasteride (Propecia, Proscar) is sometimes given to regrow hair or to shrink prostate Dutasteride (Avodart, Jalyn) is sometimes given to men to shrink prostate https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-03/nu-hla030817.php study https://peerj.com/articles/3020/
Video shows environmental activists defacing popular Trump golf course A group of environmental activists pulled off an elaborate act of vandalism at one of President Trump’s premier golf courses early Sunday morning. The group — which labels itself an “anonymous environmental activist collective” — snuck into Trump National Golf Club in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif., and carved a message into the green with six-foot-tall letters that said: “NO MORE TIGERS. NO MORE WOODS.” [...] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/03/12/video-shows-environmental-activists-defacing-popular-trump-golf-course/
Turkey referendum: Dutch are 'Nazi remnants' - Erdogan Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has described the Dutch as "Nazi remnants and fascists", as a row grows over a cancelled Rotterdam rally. Turkey says 'No' to saying 'No', ahead of its referendum [ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-39064657 ] Why is German-Turkish reporter in detention? [ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-39125215 ] Erdogan rallies not welcome in Austria [ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-39105683 ] Erdogan's Nazi claim [ http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39173296 ] Why is Turkey holding a referendum? [ http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-38883556 ] Earlier, the Dutch government withdrew landing permission for a plane carrying Turkish FM Mevlut Cavusoglu. He was originally scheduled to speak at Saturday's rally in support of a Yes vote in a referendum which would give Mr Erdogan greatly increased powers. The rally was banned for security reasons, Rotterdam's mayor said. "Ban our foreign minister from flying however much you like, but from now on, let's see how your flights will land in Turkey," President Erdogan said at a rally in Istanbul. Mr Cavusoglu also warned Turkey would impose heavy sanctions if his visit were blocked. Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said in a statement (in Dutch) that the Turkish threat of sanctions made "the search for a reasonable solution impossible". Therefore the Netherlands was withdrawing landing rights, he said. Austria, Germany and Switzerland have banned similar gatherings where Turkish officials were due to speak. Earlier this week, the cancellations in Germany led Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to accuse Berlin of "Nazi practices". That comment drew a sharp response from German leaders, with Chancellor Angela Merkel describing the comparison as "unacceptable". Mr Erdogan is seeking to extend his powers in the 16 April vote. He is targeting millions of expatriate voters eligible to cast a ballot in the referendum - including 1.4 million in Germany. Rotterdam Mayor Ahmed Aboutaleb said earlier this week that the owner of the hall scheduled to hold Mr Cavusoglu's event in the city on Saturday had withdrawn authorisation, but the foreign minister could still visit. "He has diplomatic immunity and everything so we will treat him with respect, but we have other instruments to prohibit things happening in public spaces," Mr Aboutaleb said, quoted by Reuters news agency. There was also uncertainty about whether an event he was due to attend in Zurich, Switzerland, on Sunday would go ahead after one venue refused to hold it. Another event in Zurich scheduled for Friday and featuring a senior official was cancelled, as were rallies in the Austrian towns of Hoerbranz, Linz and Herzogenburg. The Dutch and Austrian governments have also criticised the Turkish government's drive to take its referendum campaign to Turks based in EU countries. Relations between Turkey and European countries have deteriorated since last July's attempted coup in Turkey. Germany has been critical of the mass arrests and purges that followed - with nearly 100,000 civil servants removed from their posts. Many European nations have expressed deep disquiet about Turkey's response to the coup attempt and its perceived slide towards authoritarianism under President Erdogan. Turkey is a key partner in an arrangement attempting to limit the movement of migrants into the EU, but has threatened to "open the gates" if the EU reneges on commitments to provide aid, visa-free travel for its nationals and accelerated membership talks. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39242707
The Secret To Happiness Revealed - included in 12-28-16 Alex Jones Show Paul Joseph Watson talks about the death of Carrie Fisher and how now many people are completely unhappy no matter what the accomplish. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Y-f8VLzMdM
https://www.youtube.com/user/DarkMatter2525/videos - recent not posted yet, chrono as uploaded If Muhammad Replaced Trump (. . .) Jul 24, 2016 If the ideals of Islamism came out of Trump's mouth, how would the Left & Right react? If any Muslims do respond to this cartoon, I have a couple predictions: 1. Some will respond by saying that the verses are out of context (standard response), but notice that none of these verses are actually justified by their context, and 2. Some other verse will be presented that contradicts one of the verses I used, which proves nothing other than the fact that the Islamic texts in question are contradictory. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D1sW7tu6-s You Can't Escape - Episode 8 of "Power Corrupts" ( https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLv--V1yc2QDJi6hFNhur3iAsyFpXRtB8w - further to http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=123593680 ) Aug 28, 2016 You might be able to escape religion, but you can't escape what caused it in the first place. All you can do is try to be cognizant of it, and try your best to keep it in check. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dspHj0Cj2-g Always Cry Wolf Sep 28, 2016 Human beings often unite during tragedies, foregoing our petty differences. Imagine if we didn't require the tragedy. While "crying wolf" is considered bad, the title of this video refers to what happened at Yellowstone, and in that light, the title's meaning is "always strive for balance". During my 40 years of life, I have learned that attaining balance is the greatest solver of problems. Be neither excessive nor neglectful. I believe that is a good rule for the macro as well, for society, and for our planet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVsVgAqV9WI Don't Expect A Terrible Hereafter Oct 25, 2016 I was challenged to make a meaningful animation without speech. Thanks to my friend, known as C0ct0pusPrime here on YouTube, for challenging me to do this a while back. I had a lot of ideas, but this one stuck with me the most. Life is filled with dark irony. The very thing you want the most, might actually end up being the thing you'd least want. If you're not mindful, you might find out too late. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_jijoIUi2A King Solomon Nov 28, 2016 Marriage should be between 1 man and 1000 women. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Zjjg7mmDN4 If Hitler Never Existed (. . .) Dec 21, 2016 This is basically a MUCH better version of "It's a Wonderful Life". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5TtDZlHqao The Horror of Your Desires Dec 29, 2016 If you somehow obtained ultimate power, the things you’d choose to do would show us far more clearly who you really are than you could possibly show us with your current limitations. You could choose to bend people to your will, even if only through threats and intimidation, or maybe you could enjoy life with us, help us, and teach us. The bible authors created a character in Yahweh who abuses his limitless power with wanton abandon, reeking of a crude tool of manipulation - not a loving, caring teacher. He is the ultimate bad guy, sold to us as the ultimate good guy - a monumental travesty of history. It certainly is a good thing that Yahweh is a fictional invention of ancient writers. My next animations will be about the life and times of King David, as found in 1st and 2nd Samuel (and a bit of 1st Kings). This animation was Episode 9 of my Power Corrupts series. Here’s a link to the full playlist of the Power Corrupts series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pA5PlJiqOnk&list=PLv--V1yc2QDJi6hFNhur3iAsyFpXRtB8w - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLv--V1yc2QDJi6hFNhur3iAsyFpXRtB8w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqJBD5SosZI King David Jan 22, 2017 This is the beginning of King David’s story from the Bible, the books of Samuel. I’d like to animate the rest of the books of Samuel, but that would take an enormous amount of work, and not only would your support via Patreon be greatly appreciated, but would also attach your name to the project (DarkMatter Army or above). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdtV9kbs_fo David, Goliath, and the 200 Cyclops Sleeves Feb 20, 2017 The Sunday School version of David and Goliath usually ends after David slings his rock, and for good reason; the rest isn’t quite wholesome family entertainment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZPhXoDI3F0
Kazuo Ishiguro: 'We’re coming close to the point where we can create people who are superior to others' - tie in particular to http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=126997323 Social changes unleashed by new technologies could undermine core human values unless we engage with science, warns author Imagine a two-tiered society with elite citizens, genetically engineered to be smarter, healthier and to live longer, and an underclass of biologically run-of-the-mill humans. It sounds like the plot of a dystopian novel, but the world could be sleepwalking towards this scenario, according to one of Britain’s most celebrated writers. Kazuo Ishiguro argues that the social changes unleashed by gene editing technologies, such as Crispr, could undermine core human values. “We’re going into a territory where a lot of the ways in which we have organised our societies will suddenly look a bit redundant,” he said. “In liberal democracies, we have this idea that human beings are basically equal in some very fundamental way. We’re coming close to the point where we can, objectively in some sense, create people who are superior to others.” [...] https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/dec/02/kazuo-ishiguro-were-coming-close-to-the-point-where-we-can-create-people-who-are-superior-to-others
Teenager's sickle cell reversed with world-first therapy - gene therapy A French teenager's sickle cell disease has been reversed using a pioneering treatment to change his DNA. The world-first procedure at Necker Children's Hospital in Paris offers hope to millions of people with the blood disorder. Scientists altered the genetic instructions in his bone marrow so it made healthy red blood cells. So far, the therapy has worked for 15 months and the child is no longer on any medication. [...] http://www.bbc.com/news/health-39142971 study Gene Therapy in a Patient with Sickle Cell Disease http://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMoa1609677
Have Scientists Discovered the Earliest Fossilized Evidence of Life? A new paper makes the bold claim that structures in rocks approaching the age of Earth itself come from ancient bacteria, but this conclusion is highly controversial. http://www.snopes.com/2017/03/03/earliest-fossilized-evidence-of-life/
The Age of Stupid - full documentary (Official) - further in particular to http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=126997323 Hello. This is the official, full-length (89 min) version of our 2009 movie, The Age of Stupid. This film was made completely independently (we arguably invented crowd-funding to fund it) over five long years. We're a tiny independent film company always struggling to make ends meet, so if you watch for free here, please make a donation - http://spannerfilms.net/donate - and also sign up to our email list: http://www.spannerfilms.net/mailing_list . Thanks v much and enjoy the film, Franny & Lizzie from Spanner Films - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The Age of Stupid stars Oscar-nominated Pete Postlethwaite (In The Name of the Father, The Usual Suspects, Brassed Off) as a man living in the devastated future world of 2055, looking back at old footage from our time and asking: why didn’t we stop climate change when we had the chance? Launched at a Guinness World Recording-winning solar-powered premiere in London's Leicester Square, the film was released in cinemas worldwide, topped the UK box office (by screen average), became one of the most talked-about films of 2009 and garnered sensational reviews: The Telegraph called it "Bold, supremely provocative and hugely important", the News of the World described it as "A deeply inconvenient kick up the backside", ABC Australia said "So tightly constructed and dynamic you leave the cinema energised rather than terrified... hits home like a hammer blow" and the LA Times said "Think 'An Inconvenient Truth', but with a personality". Multi-award-winning documentary director Franny Armstrong (McLibel, Drowned Out) and Oscar-winning producer John Battsek (One Day In September, Restrepo) pioneered the now ubiquitous "crowd-funding" model to finance the film, and then spent four years following seven real people's stories to be interweaved with Pete Postlethwaite's fictional character: an Indian entrepreneur struggling to start a new low-cost airline, a Shell employee in New Orleans who rescued more than 100 people during Hurricane Katrina, an 82-year-old French mountain guide watching his beloved glaciers melt, two Iraqi refugee children searching for their elder brother, a young woman living in desperate poverty in Nigeria's richest oil area and a windfarm developer in Britain battling the NIMBYs who don't want his turbines to spoil their view. The Age of Stupid led to the formation of the 10:10 carbon reduction campaign which now operates in 45 countris (www.1010global.org). Recognising the film's unique contribution to independent filmmaking, the Huffington Post said that it "represents the future of film, film culture and film distribution and marketing". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=va_MVxpboqg [since gone dark - find another if possible] [though it clearly is dated]
A sobering look at what Betsy DeVos did to education in Michigan — and what she might do as secretary of education The people who best know the education advocacy work of Betsy DeVos, the billionaire tapped by President-elect Donald Trump to be his education secretary, are in Michigan, where she has been involved in reform for decades. DeVos is a former Republican Party chairwoman in Michigan and chair of the pro-school-choice advocacy group American Federation for Children, and she has been a shining light to members of the movement to privatize public education by working to create programs and pass laws that require the use of public funds to pay for private school tuition in the form of vouchers and similar programs. She has also been a force behind the spread of charter schools in Michigan, most of which have recorded student test scores in reading and math below the state average. Many pro-school-choice groups have praised the choice, saying DeVos will work hard to grow new programs that give parents more school choice. But public education advocates say that they fear she will help propel America’s public education system toward destruction. The Detroit Free Press has written a number of articles about DeVos’s education record in Michigan. Here is an important piece [ http://www.freep.com/story/opinion/columnists/stephen-henderson/2016/12/03/betsy-devos-education-donald-trump/94728574/ ] looking at what a DeVos Education Department could be expected to do, written by someone who has watched her work for some time. He is Stephen Henderson, editorial page editor of the Free Press, where this first appeared. He gave me permission to republish it. [...] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2016/12/08/a-sobering-look-at-what-betsy-devos-did-to-education-in-michigan-and-what-she-might-do-as-secretary-of-education/
Teacher to Trump’s education pick: Let’s ‘address the elephant in the room.’ It’s you. The selection of Betsy DeVos by President-elect Donald Trump as his education secretary nominee has been attacked by public school advocates who see her longtime support for school “choice” and private Catholic education as evidence that she does not support America’s public education system. In this post, that sentiment is explained by an educator who has written an open letter to DeVos. He is Patrick Kearney, facilitator for Teacher Leadership in the Johnston Community School District in Iowa. He spent 25 years as a band director in private and public schools of Iowa, and is a past-president of the Iowa Bandmasters Association and past co-chair of the Iowa Jazz Championships. He was also a founding board member of the Jazz Educators of Iowa. His wife teaches in the Des Moines Public Schools and his son is studying education at Drake University. Here’s the letter, which first appeared on Huffington Post [ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/an-introduction-from-public-school-teachers-to-betsy_us_5845e2fbe4b0707e4c8171a3 ]. Kearney gave me permission to republish it. [...] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2016/12/10/teacher-to-trumps-education-pick-lets-address-the-elephant-in-the-room-its-you/
Welcome to the era of cognitive business Start your cognitive business journey by learning more about cognitive solutions like Watson and the IBM Cloud platform that supports cognitive workloads. http://www.ibm.com/cognitive/
The material that could let robots REPAIR themselves: Wolverine-style substance heals within 24 hours The material is transparent, stretchable, and can conduct electricity The material can stretch 50 times its original length without being damaged As well as its use in robots, researchers believe it could be used to extend the lifetime of batteries in electric cars, and improve biosensors in the medical field http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4070900/The-material-let-robots-REPAIR-Wolverine-style-substance-heals-24-hours.html
Scientists built an AI that is smarter than most adults Computers can already hold a massive amount of instantly-retrievable data in a manner that puts most humans to shame, but getting them to actually display intelligence is an entirely different challenge. A team of researchers from Northwestern University just made a huge stride towards that goal with a computational model that actually outperforms the average American adult in a standard intelligence test. [...] http://bgr.com/2017/01/19/ai-smarter-than-humans-northwestern/ referencing (among other): Making AI systems that see the world as humans do https://phys.org/news/2017-01-ai-world-humans.html study http://psycnet.apa.org/?&fa=main.doiLanding&doi=10.1037/rev0000039
Tornado Town, USA - big piece - map of mini-tornado alleys Four devastating tornadoes hit Moore, Oklahoma, in 16 years. Was it geography or just bad luck? May 26, 2016 http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/tornadoes/