By BINYAMIN APPELBAUM and ANA SWANSON NOV. 2, 2017
Jerome H. Powell, a member of the Federal Reserve’s board since 2012, is President Trump’s pick to be the next chairman. Credit Lexey Swall for The New York Times
WASHINGTON — President Trump nominated Jerome H. Powell to chair the Federal Reserve on Thursday afternoon, bypassing Janet L. Yellen for a second term .. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/11/02/business/economy/janet-yellen-fed-legacy.html .. but turning to a replacement who is expected to stay the course on monetary policy if the economy continues its steady growth.
A leaked FBI counterterrorism memo claims that so-called black identity extremists pose a threat to law enforcement. That’s according to Foreign Policy magazine, which obtained the document written by the FBI’s Domestic Terrorism Analysis Unit. The memo was dated August 3, 2017—only days before the deadly white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, where white supremacists, Ku Klux Klan members and neo-Nazis killed one anti-racist protester, Heather Heyer, and injured dozens more. But the report is not concerned with the violent threat of white supremacists. Instead, the memo reads: “The FBI assesses it is very likely Black Identity Extremist perceptions of police brutality against African Americans spurred an increase in premeditated, retaliatory lethal violence against law enforcement and will very likely serve as justification for such violence.” Civil liberties groups have slammed the FBI report, warning the “black identity extremists” designation threatens the rights of protesters with Black Lives Matter and other groups. Many have also compared the memo to the FBI’s covert COINTELPRO program of the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s, which targeted the civil rights movement. We speak with Malkia Cyril, co-founder and executive director of the Center for Media Justice as well as a Black Lives Matter Bay Area activist. https://www.democracynow.org/2017/10/16/cointelpro_2_fbi_targets_black_identity
Full Broadcast 16Oct17 Real News with David Knight GUESTS: • Roger Stone — Hillary tries to pin Weinstein on Trump • Jerome Corsi — the key to shutting down Mueller’s investigation • Stacy Washington — The spoiled millionaire NFL players are about to wake up and find themselves in the position of Colin Kaepernick — desperate to get back what they lost TOPICS: • Vegas lies turn Sheriff & FBI into a joke • Mexican Drug War is more lethal than the war in Afghanistan • Besides costing your liberty & privacy, the crony capitalist dream of electric cars and a ban on all internal combustion engines will have a $2.7 TRILLION price tag for charging infrastructure • Trump castrates ObamaCare and takes big moves to connect with his agenda & his voters
[from Alex Jones and his merry band of batshit bullshitters]
Monday, October 16th 2017[, with an appearances by Roger Stone]: Cross Dressing Demon Speaks At Michelle Obama Library - The Las Vegas Massacre official narrative shows to be a sham as new details, expert analysis, and eyewitnesses emerge. The Democrats were quick to burn one of their own, Harvey Weinstein, because they think they can exploit the situation to falsely claim President Trump is also a sexual predator. Also, a new wave of populism sweeps across Europe as a young "whizz-kid" was just elected as Austria's new foreign minister after taking on immigration. Jack Posobiec hosts the fourth hour.
Finally Australia now has a reason to use the post office again! While the USA may now have legal gay marriage, our friends in Australia do not. Sara Wiseman and Craig Hall, stars of the hit Australian drama "A Place to Call Home", are here to talk about why this is still an issue and how all Australians can change it.
Also featuring appearances by: Leonardo Nam, Arielle-Carver-O'Neill, Samara Weaving, Danielle Cormack, Jenni Baird, Heather Mitchell, Matt Day and Keiynan Lonsdale.
Infowars Reporter Millie Weaver Hosts the War Room with Jake Lloyd discussing the Weinstein sex allegations and the potential conflicts with power house attorney Gloria Allred representing one of Weinstein's accusers and her daughter attorney Lisa Bloom having legally advised Weinstein for a year and only more recently stepping down from advising him after media backlash. Roger Stone hosts the 4th hour breaking down Bill Clintons sexual assault allegations and refutes accusations that Julian Assange received the DNC leaks from Russian hackers. Millie and Jake Lloyd interview Brandon Tatum about the Las Vegas Shooting and NFL player Colin Kaepernick.
[from Alex Jones and his merry band of batshit bullshitters]
The president presents himself as pious in public. But according to the New Yorker, he mocks Vice President Mike Pence's religiosity in private. Duration: 4:22
White House doesn't mention reporter's quote came from them
All In with Chris Hayes 10/16/17
Thing 1/Thing 2: The White House released a self-serving study about tax cuts and then tried to attribute its findings to a reporter who just wrote it up. Duration: 2:27
Trump ducks failure to address Green Beret deaths with Obama lie
The Rachel Maddow Show 10/16/17
Rachel Maddow notes that not only did Donald Trump fail to duly honor the recent deaths of U.S. Green Berets attacked in Niger, but given the chance, he told a lie about President Obama instead. Duration: 15:09
Rachel Maddow takes a moment to explain to viewers that the cold-like symptoms she's experiencing are the result of late-onset allergies. Duration: 0:50
New reports detail Russia's cyber campaign for Trump
The Rachel Maddow Show 10/16/17
Rachel Maddow shares two new reports that add detail to what is known about how Russia tried to interfere in the U.S. democratic process on Donald Trump's behalf. Duration: 6:12
Campaign donations bail out Trump and Junior on Russia legal fees
The Rachel Maddow Show 10/16/17
Fredreka Schouten, campaign finance reporter for USA Today, talks with Rachel Maddow about the legal fees for Donald Trump and his son and other members of the Trump campaign are covering the cost of legal fees associated with the Trump Russia investigation. Duration: 7:15
Pence extremism, unpopularity overlooked in Trump's shadow
The Rachel Maddow Show 10/16/17
Jane Mayer, staff writer for the New Yorker, talks with Rachel Maddow about her profile of Mike Pence, including the fact that his religious extremism and incompetence made him unpopular as governor before Donald Trump chose him as a running mate. Duration: 10:17
Pence could face legal jeopardy for role in Trump scandals
The Rachel Maddow Show 10/16/17
Jane Mayer, staff writer for the New Yorker, talks with Rachel Maddow about Mike Pence's key roles in the failure to vet Mike Flynn and the obfuscation of the firing James Comey and the legal jeopardy he could face as a result. Duration: 3:50
Lawrence: Pres. Trump counters 'fake news' with 'fake friends'
The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell 10/16/17
President Trump and Mitch McConnell held a press conference to make it seem as if the two leaders get along, but a new report from Politico shows Trump and the White House are blaming all of their legislative issues on the Senate and its Majority Leader: McConnell. Duration: 12:07
Ex-GOP Rep.: Republic might be 'better off' if Dems take Congress
The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell 10/16/17
Former Florida Republican congressman David Jolly says President Trump presents such a clear threat, America "might be better off as a republic" if Democrats take the House in 2018, to act as a check on Trump. Lawrence O'Donnell also discusses with Glenn Thrush. Duration: 6:37
Lawrence O’Donnell talks with The Atlantic’s James Fallows and Toronto Star Washington Correspondent Daniel Dale, who says Trump has backed off several of his recent claims when challenged on them by reporters and says “this lying doesn’t have to stand.” Duration: 9:26
Trump makes nice with GOP, hits Obama & more in news conference
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams 10/16/17
In a surprise, long, & wide-ranging Rose Garden press event with Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Pres. Trump discussed Obama, Puerto Rico, Hillary Clinton, GOP unity and much more. Our panel reacts. Duration: 9:31
Trump: Obama didn't call families of fallen U.S. troops
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams 10/16/17
Leading one former Obama aide to call him 'a deranged animal,' Pres. Trump falsely claims his predecessors didn't call the families of fallen U.S. troops. Paul Rieckhoff & Jeremy Bash discuss. Duration: 6:24
Eric Holder on Trump Gold Star Family remark: Stop the damn lying
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams 10/16/17
Reacting to Donald Trump's comment that his predecessors didn't call the families of fallen U.S. troops former Obama Attorney General Eric Holder said Donald Trump must 'stop the damn lying.' Duration: 1:05
Discussing North Korea, Trump's top diplomat invokes bombs
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams 10/16/17
While discussing a potential diplomatic solution with North Korea, Secy. of State Rex Tillerson said he'll keep his efforts up 'until the first bomb drops.' Retired Gen. Barry McCaffrey joins. Duration: 4:15
While in Chicago with The Best F#@king News Team, Trevor takes a closer look at how the Trump administration and conservative media politicize the city's crime rates.
On "Day 270" of the Donald Trump White House Regime, Norman Lear is calling "Trump the Middle Finger of the American Right Hand". Louis Farrakhan says his People need their Own Land and I might add they need their own Bank !!! And Further more the European Tribes of North America need their own Bank !!! But I don't think that will Make Bibi too Happy ?
The Mystery Of Wilbur Ross' Missing Billions Dressed in a blue suit and red tie, Donald Trump’s 79-year-old pick for Secretary of Commerce sat before a panel of senators for nearly four hours in January, deflecting dozens of questions with relative ease. When one legislator at the confirmation hearing asked Wilbur Ross how he would ensure that his official actions did not create conflicts of interest, given his vast personal holdings, Ross left little room for criticism. “I intend to be quite scrupulous about recusal and any topic where there is the slightest scintilla of doubt,” he said. What he left unsaid, however, was that between the November election and January inauguration, he had quietly moved a chunk of assets into trusts for his family members, leaving more than $2 billion off of his financial disclosure report—and therefore out of the public eye. Ross revealed the existence of those assets, and the timing of the transfer, when Forbes asked why his financial disclosure form listed fewer assets than he had previously told the magazine he owned. The hidden assets raise questions about whether the Secretary of Commerce violated federal rules and whether his family owns billions in holdings that could create the appearance of conflicts of interest. [...] https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2017/10/16/the-mystery-of-wilbur-ross-missing-billions/#73695cdf1c90
Trump gives his own performance a Trump-sized endorsement The president called an impromptu Rose Garden press conference on Monday to sell reporters and the public on his job performance. Friends say President Donald Trump has grown frustrated that his greatness is not widely understood, that his critics are fierce and on TV every morning, that his poll numbers are both low and “fake,” and that his White House is caricatured as adrift. So on Monday, the consummate salesman — who has spent his life selling his business acumen, golf courses, sexual prowess, luxury properties and, above all, his last name — gave the Trump White House a Trump-sized dose of brand enhancement. [...] http://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/16/trump-press-job-performance-243842
The religious right carries its golden calf into Steve Bannon’s battles By Michael Gerson At the Family Research Council’s recent Values Voter Summit, the religious right effectively declared its conversion to Trumpism. The president was received as a hero. Stephen K. Bannon and Sebastian Gorka — both fired from the White House, in part, for their extremism — set the tone and agenda. “There is a time and season for everything,” said Bannon. “And right now, it’s a season for war against a GOP A time to live and a time to die. A time to plant and a time to uproot. A time to mourn and a time to embrace angry ethnonationalism and racial demagoguery. Yes, a time to mourn. There is no group in the United States less attached to its own ideals or more eager for its own exploitation than religious conservatives. Forget Augustine and Aquinas, Wilberforce and Shaftesbury. For many years, leaders of the religious right exactly conformed Christian social teaching to the contours of Fox News evening programming. Now, according to Bannon, “economic nationalism” is the “centerpiece of value voters.” I had thought the centerpiece was a vision of human dignity rooted in faith. But never mind. Evidently the Christian approach to social justice is miraculously identical to 1930s Republican protectionism, isolationism and nativism. Do religious right leaders have any clue how foolish they appear? Rather than confidently and persistently representing a set of distinctive beliefs, they pant and beg to be a part of someone else’s movement. In this case, it is a movement that takes advantage of racial and ethnic divisions and dehumanizes Muslims, migrants and refugees. A movement that has cultivated ties to alt-right leaders and flirted with white identity politics. A movement that will eventually soil and discredit all who are associated with it. The religious right is making itself a pitiful appendage to this squalid agenda. If Christian conservatives are loyal enough, Bannon promises that they can be “the folks who saved the Judeo-Christian West.” All that is required is to abandon the best of the Judeo-Christian tradition: a belief in the inherent value and dignity of every life. This belief in human dignity leads to a certain moral and political logic. It means that the primary mission of Christians in public life is not to secure their own interests or to defend their own identity. It is to seek a society in which every person can flourish. This is the definition of the common good — which is not truly common unless it includes the suffering and powerless. The common good is a neglected topic in our politics. It is not identical to market forces, or to legal rules that maximize individual autonomy. It is the result of prudent public and private choices that strengthen community — the seedbed of human flourishing — and ensure the weak are valued and protected. The idea of the common good emerged from religious sources, but provides a broad, political common ground. If there is a single reason that Republican health-care reform has failed, it is because party leaders could not make a credible case that the common good was being served. Even if individual elements of the various plans were rational, they did not add up to a more just, generous and inclusive society. Who would now identify conservative Christian political engagement with the pursuit of the common good? Rather, the religious right is an interest group seeking preference and advancement from a strongman — and rewarding him with loyal acceptance of his priorities. The prophets have become clients. The priests have become acolytes. It is possible for Christian conservatives to support the appointment of conservative judges without becoming a tribe of apologists and sycophants. It is possible to selectively endorse elements of the administration’s agenda without becoming Bannon’s foot soldiers. There is more at stake here than bad politics. When Christians ally their faith with bias and exclusion, they are influencing how the public views Christianity itself. They are associating the teachings of Jesus Christ — a globalist when it came to the Great Commission — with ethnonationalist ideology. This should be a sobering prospect for any Christian. But few seem sobered. Instead, the faithful give standing ovations to the purveyors of division and prejudice. When anyone or anything takes priority over the faith, there is a good, strong religious word for it: idolatry. And the word is unavoidable, as religious conservatives carry their golden calf into Bannon’s battles. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-religious-right-carries-its-golden-calf-into-steve-bannons-battles/2017/10/16/53717dcc-b28c-11e7-be94-fabb0f1e9ffb_story.html
Sneak peek: D.C.’s huge new Museum of the Bible includes lots of tech — but not a lot of Jesus The Museum of the Bible, a massive new institution opening next month just south of the Mall, is just as notable for what it includes — vivid walk-through re-creations of the ancient world, one of the world’s largest private collections of Torahs, a motion ride that sprays water at you, a garden of biblical plants — as for what it leaves out. The $500 million museum, chaired and largely funded by the conservative Christian family that owns Hobby Lobby, doesn’t say a word about the Bible’s views on sexuality or contraception. The museum doesn’t encourage visitors to take the Bible literally or to believe that the Bible has only one correct form. And on floor after gleaming floor of exhibitions, there is very little Jesus. This isn’t the evangelism that the billionaire Green family first promised a decade ago when they set out to build a museum dedicated to Scripture. At the time, the museum’s mission statement promised to “bring to life the living word of God .?.?. to inspire confidence in the absolute authority” of the Bible, the book at the institution’s center. [...] https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/social-issues/sneak-peek-dcs-huge-new-museum-of-the-bible-includes-lots-of-tech--but-not-a-lot-of-jesus/2017/10/16/1afe67c2-a94d-11e7-92d1-58c702d2d975_story.html
Mike Pence Was ‘Full of Shit’ When He Was A Young Republican Candidate, VP’s Brother Says Vice President Mike Pence showed immaturity early in his political career, was too easily swayed by moneyed interests, had a nickname tied to his weight and didn’t exactly stand out as a student, his older brother says. “Mike burned a lot of bridges,” Gregory Pence told The New Yorker. “He upset a lot of his backers. It was partly because of immaturity, but he really was kind of full of shit.” Gregory Pence was referring to his brother’s use of campaign donations for his personal expenses, which was not illegal at the time, but hurt the young Mike Pence’s image among his early political backers. The then-31-year-old candidate spent nearly $13,000 to pay his credit card bill, mortgage payment and even groceries. [...] http://www.newsweek.com/pence-brother-full-congress-686186
Trump Once Reportedly Severely Joked About Mike Pence And His Relationship To Gay Rights “Don’t ask that guy—he wants to hang them all!” A piece in The New Yorker published Monday says President Trump once joked about Vice President Mike Pence wanting to "hang" all gay people. https://www.buzzfeed.com/remysmidt/hang-them-all
Astronomers just proved the incredible origin of nearly all gold, platinum, and silver in the universe For the first time ever, astronomers have detected a neutron star collision. Gravitational waves picked up by the LIGO and Virgo detectors pinpointed the source to a galaxy 130 million light-years away. The collision produced a radioactive "kilonova" that forged hundreds of Earths' worth of platinum, gold, silver, and other atoms. The discovery solves a longstanding mystery about the origins of heavy elements. http://www.businessinsider.com/neutron-stars-crash-ligo-gravitational-waves-periodic-elements-2017-10
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