Carles Puigdemont is enemy No. 1 of the Spanish government. Though he became the Catalan president practically by chance, Puigdemont now represents the independence dream of millions of Catalans. On Tuesday, he may declare that the moment has come.
He's been president of the Catalan parliament since January 2016, but Carles Puigdemont (pronounced “Karlas Poutch-dé-mont”) still lives in Girona (population 100,000 and nearly 100km northeast of Barcelona), the town where he was mayor for five years (2011-2016). It's a choice perhaps made because he readily admits never having aspired to the presidency.
Wednesday, October 11th 2017[, with Roger Stone hosting the fourth hour with an appearance by Rep. Matt Gaetz (Batshit - Fla.)]: Countries Are Defeating Globalism By Turning Back To Christ - Harvey Weinstein moves to Europe, and democratic politicians distance themselves as the controversy behind the Hollywood mega-producer's perverted acts persists. President Trump threatens NBC's broadcasting license for publishing way too much fake news. Alex Jones breaks it all down here on Infowars.
Vice President Pence delivered remarks in honor of National Hispanic Heritage Month at the Naval Observatory, his official residence in Washington, D.C.
Today on the War Room, we fit together some of the puzzle pieces in the Las Vegas Massacre, as well as speak with a former arms dealer that says videotaping and recording transactions was a typical practice. We take a look at the absolutely devastating collapse of Hollywood, mainstream news and liberalism, all coincidentally spiraling out of control after the election of Donald Trump.
[Another recently-debuted new show from Alex Jones and his merry band of batshit bullshitters.]
New Trump cabinet official under fire for ethics, spending
The Beat With Ari Melber 10/11/17
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke follows Tom Price using government resources for personal travel. Trump’s ethics chief says he’s “deeply concerned” with the administration’s actions. Duration: 3:46
Ari Melber calls out Mark Zuckerberg for “virtual” Puerto Rico trip
The Beat With Ari Melber 10/11/17
Ari's message to the facebook founder who is under fire for saying a new virtual reality feature can help people understand the crisis in puerto rico Duration: 3:23
Major Democratic donor Tom Steyer thinks so - and he says voters have a right to know where every Democrat stands before the 2018 election. Duration: 4:28
Dawn Dunning, one of 20 women who have now come forward accusing Harvey Weinstein of predatory sexual behavior and assault, told MSNBC's Stephanie Ruhle what happened to her when she was supposed to have a lunch meeting with Weinstein in 2003. Duration: 6:25
Roy Moore made $1M from his tax-exempt public charity
All In with Chris Hayes 10/11/17
Thing 1/Thing 2: Alabama Senate Candidate Roy Moore said he didn’t take a salary from the small Christian charity he founded – but he actually received over $1M from 2007 to 2012, far more than what was disclosed on public tax filings. Duration: 2:16
Secretary Zinke having awesome time with taxpayer money
The Rachel Maddow Show 10/11/17
Rachel Maddow reports on the adventures and activities Donald Trump's Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is having while engaging in political activities using taxpayer money. Duration: 2:43
Maddow: Bad leadership turned Puerto Rico crisis into catastrophe
The Rachel Maddow Show 10/11/17
Rachel Maddow describes reporting on the chaos in the Donald Trump White House and notes that the continued problems in the disaster response in Puerto Rico that is costing American lives is attributable to bad leadership at the top. Duration: 19:01
Veracity of Trump dossier holding up despite Republican attacks
The Rachel Maddow Show 10/11/17
Mark Hosenball, Reuters national security correspondent, talks with Rachel Maddow about portions of the Trump Russia dossier that have turned out to be true, and the Republican effort to undercut the Russia investigation by discrediting the dossier. Duration: 7:28
Weinstein exposed by system built to keep his accusers quiet
The Rachel Maddow Show 10/11/17
Jodi Kantor, investigative reporter for The New York Times, talks with Rachel Maddow about how the system Harvey Weinstein used to keep women quiet ended up helping expose what he was trying to cover up. Duration: 6:38
Complicity of Weinstein aides integral to sexual abuse scandal
The Rachel Maddow Show 10/11/17
Jodi Kantor, investigative reporter for The New York Times, talks with Rachel Maddow about how the Harvey Weinstein employed a system of assistants to set up the encounters that are the basis of multiple accusations of sexual misconduct. Duration: 3:12
Steve Bannon warned President Trump about the 25th Amendment
The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell 10/11/17
Vanity Fair's Gabriel Sherman joins Lawrence O'Donnell with more on his explosive report that White House aides fear Trump is "unstable" and that Steve Bannon doubts Donald Trump will finish out his term. David Frum, David Cay Johnston, & Jason Johnson also join. Duration: 12:41
Fmr. Sen. Maj. Ldr.: 'We're in a dangerous moment in our history'
The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell 10/11/17
Lawrence O'Donnell talks to former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell about President Donald Trump's comment that he wanted to increase the U.S. nuclear arsenal, the future of the Iran deal, and the power of the Senate to restrain Trump. Duration: 8:19
Trump: NBC News report that I wanted more nukes is 'fake news'
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams 10/11/17
The president lashed out after an NBC News report detailed his comments during a meeting with top officials in which the topic of nuclear weapons was discussed according to multiple sources. Duration: 9:57
Reports: 'Unstable' & 'unhappy' Trump is privately lashing out
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams 10/11/17
Multiple new reports from inside the West Wing paint the president as increasingly hard to manage and 'unstable' according to some insiders. Our panel of reporters joins to discuss. Duration: 6:32
WaPost: Angry Trump 'threw a fit' over Iran nuclear deal
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams 10/11/17
A new report in The Washington Post details Pres. Trump's disdain with the Iran Nuclear Deal. Philip Rucker, who contributed to the report, joins to discuss. Duration: 1:14
Report: Bannon thinks just a 30% chance Trump finishes his term
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams 10/11/17
A new report in Vanity Fair states that ousted Trump aide Steve Bannon has said he thinks Pres. Trump only has a 30% chance of making it all the way through his first term. Duration: 2:08
Eugene Robinson: Latest Trump news scares the bejesus out of me
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams 10/11/17
Joining to discuss the latest headlines coming out of the Trump White House, Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson says he thinks Donald Trump is 'out of control.' Duration: 1:38
Poll: 55% of America thinks Trump is unfit to serve
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams 10/11/17
A new Quinnipiac poll puts Pres. Trump's job approval rating at 38% and found a clear majority - 55% of those polled - say Donald Trump is unfit to serve as president. Duration: 3:20
Donald Trump continues to feud publicly with his Secretary of State Rex Tillerson after he learned that he referred to Trump as an 'f-ing moron' behind his back. Trump later said 'I think it's fake news, but if he did that, I guess we'll have to compare IQ tests. And I can tell you who is going to win.' The whole thing is ridiculous, but you have to cut Trump slack, he is very smart. The reason we know this is because he says it over and over again.
Frank Sinatra's Ghost Sings a Song for Donald Trump
Published on Oct 11, 2017 by Jimmy Kimmel Live
Frank Sinatra's former manager Eliot Weisman just wrote a book called 'The Way It Was: My Life with Frank Sinatra.' In it, he tells the story of a heated exchange Sinatra had back in 1990 with then casino owner Donald Trump after he tried to low ball him for playing 12 shows at his casino in Atlantic City. When Frank heard the new, lower offer, Weisman says he told Trump to 'go f himself.' We don't know if this story is true, but it does come from a reputable source. If only there was some way to verify it.
Published on Oct 12, 2017 by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Stephen has a suggestion for the president who complained that 'the press is able to write whatever they want to write.' It's a quick read written by the Founding Fathers.
Seth Takes a closer look at how President Trump is now fighting with members of his own party who think he's dangerous, unstable and a threat to national security.
On "Day 265" of the Donald Trump White House Regime, He Threatens to revoke NBC's broadcasting License. Trump also says "He Hates everyone in the White House" is he unraveling ? Steve Bannon says Trump only has about a 30% Chance of finishing his Term. Is Mueller's taking his time ?
Che Was a Murderous Psychopath, Not a Revolutionary Hero Yet 50 years after his execution, he's still a beloved icon of leftists everywhere. https://patriotpost.us/articles/51790
How Sarah Huckabee Sanders sees the world This is the world as seen through the eyes of White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders: As a girl, she watched her father, Southern Baptist pastor-turned-GOP-governor Mike Huckabee, sidelined constantly. Arkansas Democrats literally nailed his office door shut. In the years after, she saw conservative Christians — like her family, like most everyone she knew — ridiculed in American pop culture. As a young woman, she moved to Washington for a government job, and noticed right away that people in the nation’s capital care more about your job than who you are. “Certainly not like where I’m from,” she says. Sanders described this perpetual interloper experience from her other world: an elegant, well-appointed office at the White House, where reporters from places such as the New York Times and CNN metaphorically prostrate themselves at her door day in and out, where she can push aside her curtain to see the president’s helicopter land, and from where she can receive guidance on the phone every day from her father, long a political darling of conservative Christians, a TV celebrity now worth millions. As the public face of the U.S. president, Sanders is a fitting symbol for her fellow religious conservatives, who are both insider and outsider, powerful and powerless. Religious conservatives “aren’t outsiders in this White House, but generally speaking, they are,” the 35-year-old said recently in an interview in her West Wing office. Sanders’s podium persona is all business, even a bit short at times. She so often says she doesn’t know the answer to a question or will have to get back to the questioner that it has become a critics’ meme. “Saturday Night Live” featured a spoof of her on its season opener last weekend, with faux Sanders telling President Trump that her success lies in the fact that “I’m no-nonsense, but I’m all nonsense.” One on one, however, she comes across as relaxed and open, even when she’s on the offense. “If someone says something about another faith, particularly liberals come to their defense in a raging motion, but if someone attacks a Christian, it’s perfectly fine. At some point we became a culture that said that was okay.” For many conservative Christians, defending their faith is now tied tightly to defending Trump. For Sanders, that meant becoming a headline herself the day before this interview after she told reporters during a briefing that an ESPN host who called Trump a “white supremacist” should be fired. The comment about Jemele Hill set off an immediate firestorm. [...] https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/social-issues/how-sarah-huckabee-sanders-sees-the-world/2017/10/10/caa9f20e-9e2b-11e7-9083-fbfddf6804c2_story.html
How NBC ‘Killed’ Ronan Farrow’s Weinstein Exposé Inside and outside NBC, sources are challenging the network’s take on the bombshell it missed. ‘NBC did everything they could to delay it, complicate it, and ultimately [kill] it.’ https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-nbc-killed-ronan-farrows-weinstein-expose
Trump threatens broadcaster NBC after nuclear report US President Donald Trump has raised the prospect of challenging media licenses for NBC News and other news networks after unfavourable reports. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41584194
“I Hate Everyone in the White House!”: Trump Seethes as Advisers Fear the President Is “Unraveling” In recent days, I’ve spoken with a half dozen prominent Republicans and Trump advisers, and they all describe a White House in crisis as advisers struggle to contain a president that seems to be increasingly unfocused and consumed by dark moods. by Gabriel Sherman At first it sounded like hyperbole, the escalation of a Twitter war. But now it’s clear that Bob Corker’s remarkable New York Times interview—in which the Republican senator described the White House as “adult day care” and warned Trump could start World War III—was an inflection point in the Trump presidency. It brought into the open what several people close to the president have recently told me in private: that Trump is “unstable,” “losing a step,” and “unraveling.” The conversation among some of the president’s longtime confidantes, along with the character of some of the leaks emerging from the White House has shifted. There’s a new level of concern. NBC News published a report that Trump shocked his national security team when he called for a nearly tenfold increase in the country’s nuclear arsenal during a briefing this summer. One Trump adviser confirmed to me it was after this meeting disbanded that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called Trump a “moron.” In recent days, I spoke with a half dozen prominent Republicans and Trump advisers, and they all describe a White House in crisis as advisers struggle to contain a president who seems to be increasingly unfocused and consumed by dark moods. Trump’s ire is being fueled by his stalled legislative agenda and, to a surprising degree, by his decision last month to back the losing candidate Luther Strange in the Alabama Republican primary. “Alabama was a huge blow to his psyche,” a person close to Trump said. “He saw the cult of personality was broken.” According to two sources familiar with the conversation, Trump vented to his longtime security chief, Keith Schiller, “I hate everyone in the White House! There are a few exceptions, but I hate them!” (A White House official denies this.) Two senior Republican officials said Chief of Staff John Kelly is miserable in his job and is remaining out of a sense of duty to keep Trump from making some sort of disastrous decision. Today, speculation about Kelly’s future increased after Politico reported that Kelly’s deputy Kirstjen Nielsen is likely to be named Homeland Security Secretary—the theory among some Republicans is that Kelly wanted to give her a soft landing before his departure. One former official even speculated that Kelly and Secretary of Defense James Mattis have discussed what they would do in the event Trump ordered a nuclear first strike. “Would they tackle him?” the person said. Even Trump’s most loyal backers are sowing public doubts. This morning, The Washington Post quoted longtime Trump friend Tom Barrack saying he has been “shocked” and “stunned” by Trump’s behavior. While Kelly can’t control Trump’s tweets, he is doing his best to physically sequester the president—much to Trump’s frustration. One major G.O.P. donor told me access to Trump has been cut off, and his outside calls to the White House switchboard aren’t put through to the Oval Office. Earlier this week, I reported on Kelly’s plans to prevent Trump from mingling with guests at Mar-a-Lago later this month. And, according to two sources, Keith Schiller quit last month after Kelly told Schiller he needed permission to speak to the president and wanted written reports of their conversations. The White House denies these accounts. “The President’s mood is good and his outlook on the agenda is very positive,” an official said. West Wing aides have also worried about Trump’s public appearances, one Trump adviser told me. The adviser said aides were relieved when Trump declined to agree to appear on the season premiere of 60 Minutes last month. “He’s lost a step. They don’t want him doing adversarial TV interviews,” the adviser explained. Instead, Trump has sat down for friendly conversations with Sean Hannity and Mike Huckabee, whose daughter is Trump’s press secretary. (The White House official says the 60 Minutes interview is being rescheduled.) Even before Corker’s remarks, some West Wing advisers were worried that Trump’s behavior could cause the Cabinet to take extraordinary Constitutional measures to remove him from office. Several months ago, according to two sources with knowledge of the conversation, former chief strategist Steve Bannon told Trump that the risk to his presidency wasn’t impeachment, but the 25th Amendment—the provision by which a majority of the Cabinet can vote to remove the president. When Bannon mentioned the 25th Amendment, Trump said, “What’s that?” According to a source, Bannon has told people he thinks Trump has only a 30 percent chance of making it the full term. https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/10/donald-trump-is-unraveling-white-house-advisers
Worrying new research finds that the ocean is cutting through a key Antarctic ice shelf A new scientific study published Tuesday has found that warm ocean water is carving an enormous channel into the underside of one of the key floating ice shelves of West Antarctica, the most vulnerable sector of the enormous ice continent. The Dotson ice shelf, which holds back two separate large glaciers, is about 1,350 square miles in area and between 1,000 and 1,600 feet thick. But on its western side, it is now only about half that thickness, said Noel Gourmelen, a researcher at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland and the lead author of the research, which was just published in Geophysical Research Letters. The reason is the same one that is believed to be shrinking glaciers and pouring ice into the ocean across West Antarctica — warm ocean water located offshore is now reaching the ice from below. In Dotson’s case, it appears the water is first flowing into the deep cavity beneath the shelf far below it, but then being turned by the Earth’s rotation and streaming upward toward the floating ice as it mixes with buoyant meltwater. The result is that the warm water continually melts one part of the shelf in particular, creating the channel. [...] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/10/11/alarming-new-research-finds-that-the-ocean-is-cutting-through-a-key-antarctic-ice-shelf/ study http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2017GL074929/abstract
Secret Antarctic ice canyons revealed Ice shelves in Antarctica are like conveyor belts, continually carrying ice to the sea. Scientists have found hidden canyons on their undersides that may affect the shelves fragility. http://earthsky.org/earth/ice-shelves-satellites-dotson-hidden-canyons
Mysterious giant hole cracks open in Antarctica A giant hole the size of Maine or Lake Superior has suddenly appeared on the surface of Antarctica and scientists are not quite sure how it came into being. “It looks like you just punched a hole in the ice,” said atmospheric physicist Kent Moore, a professor at the University of Toronto’s Mississauga campus. The sudden emergence of this hole, for the second year in a row, has confounded scientists, whose access to the site is limited. “This is hundreds of kilometers from the ice edge,” said Moore. “If we didn’t have a satellite, we wouldn’t know it was there.” [...] https://inhabitat.com/mysterious-giant-hole-cracks-open-in-antarctica/
Obesity In Children And Teens Rose Sharply Worldwide Over Past 4 Decades In just over four decades, obesity levels in children and teenagers have risen dramatically worldwide, though that rise has been far from uniform. In a new study published online Tuesday, British researchers and the World Health Organization say those levels have plateaued lately in high-income countries, "albeit at high levels," while the rise in obesity rates has only accelerated in regions such as East Asia and Latin America. All told, researchers say their analysis of body mass index trends in more than 2,400 population-based studies from 1975 to 2016 — including more than 31 million people ages 5 to 19 — reflects a divergent world: The number of girls and boys with obesity worldwide increased tenfold over that period, from 11 million to 124 million, and at the same time the number of underweight young people remained higher, at 192 million, despite a slight decrease since 2000. Over the same period, the prevalence of obesity rose worldwide from under 1 percent for both girls and boys to 5.6 percent for girls and 7.8 percent for boys. If recent trends continue, researchers note, "child and adolescent obesity is expected to surpass moderate and severe underweight by 2022." Both ends of the spectrum carry their own health risks. Obesity has been associated with chronic disorders such as Type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure, while underweight is likely to increase one's chances of catching infectious diseases, among other potential problems. The rise in obesity "is a huge problem that will get worse," Harry Rutter, an obesity researcher with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, tells the BBC. "We have not become more weak-willed, lazy or greedy. The reality is the world around us is changing." [...] http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/10/11/557093908/obesity-in-children-and-teens-rose-sharply-worldwide-over-past-4-decades study: Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2817%2932129-3/fulltext?elsca1=tlpr
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