Trump takes credit for safest commercial aviation year worldwide
MSNBC Live with Stephanie Ruhle 1/2/18
In a tweet Tuesday morning, President Trump took credit for a record low number of passenger jet crashes worldwide in 2017. NBC’s Tom Costello fact checks the claim. Duration: 4:22
Violence in the streets followed by internet censorship. When social media enacts censorship at the bidding of powerful factions in & out of government is Iran that different from America? What color will our Soros revolution be? And, Charles Ortel, expert on international corruption & fraud looks at what’s ahead for the Clinton’s various schemes.
[from Alex Jones and his merry band of batshit bullshitters]
Tuesday, Jan. 2nd 2018: Trump in charge on Twitter! - Trump's tweets provoke media and international backlash as the President calls out Pakistan's abuse of America's aid. The public was also reminded on Obama giving money to the Iranian regime. In addition, Trump hints at jail for Huma Abedin for giving passwords to foreign agents! Also on the show, CNN's humiliating New Year party, Bannon unleashed, California's sanctuary hell, and Dr. Steve Pieczenik joins Alex Jones to talk about the Persian revolution currently taking place. Paul Joseph Watson hosts the final hour.
[and again, to berate just one obvious point -- in claiming Trump will pay vastly more in federal income taxes in respect of his real estate holdings, Alex is conflating the new lowered limitation on the ability of individuals to deduct real estate taxes paid on their residential real estate, with the ability of business/investment entities to deduct real estate taxes paid on their real estate holdings (Trump's Mar-a-Lago being one example of a holding so held), which latter has been and remains unlimited -- and in claiming the same will hit him by virtue of the real estate holdings of his own businesse/investment entities, Alex is just brazenly lying, has to know better]
2018 kicks off with a bang, as President Trump calls out Hillary Clinton, Huma Abedin, James Comey and the deep state all in one Tweet, indicating he is aware of the double standard within the deep state when it comes to punishing those who colluded with Clinton to try and steal the election. Meanwhile, Europe has gone full libtard, urging parents to purchase sex toys for their children.
[from Alex Jones and his merry band of batshit bullshitters]
Theodore Shoebat thinks that atheism is unnatural.
He argues that atheists believe in all sorts of unnatural things, such as colonizing other planets, homosexuality and (ironically) everlasting life.
Theodore even talks about artificial intelligence, and we delve a little bit into how (or why) consciousness might have evolved, and whether or not it's smart to create artificially intelligent, conscious machines.
John Dean sends warning to Trump legal team about Michael Flynn and Trump adviser George Papadopoulos told an Australian diplomat Russia had “dirt” on Clinton during campaign, according to the New York Times. Duration: 6:42
Turns out that the lawyer who Kayla Moore cited as proof that her husband isn't anti-Semitic is a self-proclaimed "passionate supporter" of Moore's opponent. Duration: 2:17
Rachel Maddow alerts viewers to extreme cold (and a good chance of a northeast snow storm) forecast for the end of the first week of the year. Duration: 1:29
Rachel Maddow shows Donald Trump inviting a nuclear attack from North Korea by goading Kim Jong Un with thinly veiled sneers about the size of his penis. Duration: 1:01
Dossier didn't trigger Trump Russia probe; GOP pretends otherwise
The Rachel Maddow Show 1/2/18
Mark Mazzetti, Washington investigations editor for The New York Times, talks with Rachel Maddow about his reporting that the Trump Russia investigation was triggered by a tip from U.S. allies, not the Christopher Steele dossier. Duration: 17:22
American identities hijacked to fake support for Trump policies
The Rachel Maddow Show 1/2/18
Rachel Maddow reports on an emerging pattern of public feedback on U.S. policy changes being stuff with fake comments from the hijacked identities of real Americans to show artificial support for Trump administration policies. Duration: 13:50
Trump admin ends AIDS council without warning or explanation
The Rachel Maddow Show 1/2/18
Gabriel Maldonado, former member of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV and AIDS, talks with Rachel Maddow about the surprise firing of the entire council by the Trump administration without any explanation. Duration: 5:26
Orrin Hatch retirement opens door for a Mitt Romney senate run
The Rachel Maddow Show 1/2/18
Rachel Maddow reports on how the announcement of the retirement of Orrin Hatch enables Mitt Romney to run to represent Utah in the Senate. Duration: 0:52
Kristof: Trump tweets 'pour gasoline' on feud with North Korea
The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell 1/2/18
New York Times columnist Nick Kristof, recently back from North Korea, says President Donald Trump's tweet about North Korea's dictator Kim Jong Un and his nuclear capability is speeding up America's path toward nuclear war. Duration: 2:47
New Yorker reporter Evan Osnos, recently back from North Korea and China, explains how North Korea views Trump’s nuclear taunts and how China is flexing its muscles with Donald Trump in the Oval Office. Duration: 6:41
Lawrence: New Trump nuclear tweet shows he is 'unfit to serve'
The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell 1/2/18
President Trump taunted North Korea about his “nuclear button” on Twitter. Lawrence O'Donnell says it is proof Trump is “now clearly the most dangerous person who has ever occupied the White House.” Duration: 6:47
Fusion GPS: dossier did not spark FBI Russia investigation
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams 1/3/18
Breaking News: Founders of the firm behind the Russian dossier speak out in a New York Times opinion piece about President Trump’s ties to Russia and what congress is keeping a secret. Duration: 16:49
Colonel Jack Jacobs and former Governor and U.S. Ambassador Bill Richardson join Nicolle Wallace to discuss the dangers of taunting the North Korean leader over who has the bigger nuclear button. Duration: 6:31
Republican Senator Orrin Hatch’s news of retirement leaves a door open for Trump critic Mitt Romney to run in 2018. Our expert panel discusses the pairs uneasy past and what makes this a situation to watch. Duration: 4:24
Anti-government protests erupt in Iran as economic inequality grows, and Kim Jong-un touts his readily-available nuclear button and claims he's open to talks with South Korea.
As rumors swirl about WWE CEO Vince McMahon's plans to reboot his failed alternative football league, Tim Baltz offers patriotic suggestions for running it.
"Day 348" Trump "My Button is Bigger than Yours" lol, Plus April LaJune QAnon Minions
Published on Jan 2, 2018
"Day 348" Donald Trump says His Button is Bigger than the Tubby Tyrant's Button ! QAnon has April LaJune and all the Trump Minions excited.., MOSSAD PSYOP. Will the 36 year old slumlord still be the DeFacto Secretary of State for 2018 ? Only Bibi knows when Jared Kushner will be heading to the World Bank Job $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
German AfD MP under fire for anti-Muslim New Year tweets A German far-right politician is facing a criminal investigation over anti-Muslim comments made on New Year's Eve. Beatrix von Storch, deputy leader of the AfD party, had her Twitter account suspended on Monday over her inflammatory post. She accused Cologne police of appeasing "barbaric, gang-raping Muslim hordes of men" after they tweeted a New Year message in Arabic. Police have filed a complaint against her for incitement to hatred. Cologne prosecutors must now decide whether to launch an official inquiry. Ms Storch's remarks came after the city's police force tweeted New Year greetings in a number of languages, including English and French as well as German and Arabic. [...] http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-42537656
German Far-Right AfD Cries Censorship Over Anti-Muslim Tweets AfD leaders double down, urge users to repeat deleted comments Action follows new German law cracking down on hate speech Alternative for Germany, a far-right opposition party that brands Chancellor Angela Merkel a traitor, accused the government of censorship after saying Twitter Inc. deleted derogatory comments about Muslim men by two of its leaders. [...] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-02/german-far-right-afd-cries-censorship-over-anti-muslim-tweets
The Trump Effect: Business, Anticipating Less Regulation, Loosens Purse Strings WASHINGTON — A wave of optimism has swept over American business leaders, and it is beginning to translate into the sort of investment in new plants, equipment and factory upgrades that bolsters economic growth, spurs job creation — and may finally raise wages significantly. While business leaders are eager for the tax cuts that take effect this year, the newfound confidence was initially inspired by the Trump administration’s regulatory pullback, not so much because deregulation is saving companies money but because the administration has instilled a faith in business executives that new regulations are not coming. “It’s an overall sense that you’re not going to face any new regulatory fights,” said Granger MacDonald, a home builder in Kerrville, Tex. “We’re not spending more, which is the main thing. We’re not seeing any savings, but we’re not seeing any increases.” The applause from top executives has been largely reserved for the administration’s economic policy agenda. Many chief executives have been publicly critical of President Trump’s approach to social and cultural issues, including his response to a white nationalist march over the summer in Charlottesville, Va., that turned deadly and his decision to withdraw from the Paris climate accord. Two of the business advisory councils that Mr. Trump assembled in the nascent days of his presidency disbanded after executives grew concerned about his public remarks on the violence in Charlottesville. There is little historical evidence tying regulation levels to growth. Regulatory proponents say, in fact, that those rules can have positive economic effects in the long run, saving companies from violations that could cost them both financially and reputationally. Cost-benefit analyses generally do not look just at the impact of a regulation on a particular business’s bottom line in the coming months, but at the broader impact on consumers, the environment, public health and other factors that can show up over years or decades. [...] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/01/us/politics/trump-businesses-regulation-economic-growth.html
The Republicans’ Fake Investigations By GLENN R. SIMPSON and PETER FRITSCH Glenn R. Simpson and Peter Fritsch, both former journalists, are the founders of the research firm Fusion GPS. A generation ago, Republicans sought to protect President Richard Nixon by urging the Senate Watergate committee to look at supposed wrongdoing by Democrats in previous elections. The committee chairman, Sam Ervin, a Democrat, said that would be “as foolish as the man who went bear hunting and stopped to chase rabbits.” Today, amid a growing criminal inquiry into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, congressional Republicans are again chasing rabbits. We know because we’re their favorite quarry. In the year since the publication of the so-called Steele dossier — the collection of intelligence reports we commissioned about Donald Trump’s ties to Russia — the president has repeatedly attacked us on Twitter. His allies in Congress have dug through our bank records and sought to tarnish our firm to punish us for highlighting his links to Russia. Conservative news outlets and even our former employer, The Wall Street Journal, have spun a succession of mendacious conspiracy theories about our motives and backers. We are happy to correct the record. In fact, we already have. Three congressional committees have heard over 21 hours of testimony from our firm, Fusion GPS. In those sessions, we toppled the far right’s conspiracy theories and explained how The Washington Free Beacon and the Clinton campaign — the Republican and Democratic funders of our Trump research — separately came to hire us in the first place. We walked investigators through our yearlong effort to decipher Mr. Trump’s complex business past, of which the Steele dossier is but one chapter. And we handed over our relevant bank records — while drawing the line at a fishing expedition for the records of companies we work for that have nothing to do with the Trump case. Republicans have refused to release full transcripts of our firm’s testimony, even as they selectively leak details to media outlets on the far right. It’s time to share what our company told investigators. We don’t believe the Steele dossier was the trigger for the F.B.I.’s investigation into Russian meddling. As we told the Senate Judiciary Committee in August, our sources said the dossier was taken so seriously because it corroborated reports the bureau had received from other sources, including one inside the Trump camp. The intelligence committees have known for months that credible allegations of collusion between the Trump camp and Russia were pouring in from independent sources during the campaign. Yet lawmakers in the thrall of the president continue to wage a cynical campaign to portray us as the unwitting victims of Kremlin disinformation. We suggested investigators look into the bank records of Deutsche Bank and others that were funding Mr. Trump’s businesses. Congress appears uninterested in that tip: Reportedly, ours are the only bank records the House Intelligence Committee has subpoenaed. We told Congress that from Manhattan to Sunny Isles Beach, Fla., and from Toronto to Panama, we found widespread evidence that Mr. Trump and his organization had worked with a wide array of dubious Russians in arrangements that often raised questions about money laundering. Likewise, those deals don’t seem to interest Congress. We explained how, from our past journalistic work in Europe, we were deeply familiar with the political operative Paul Manafort’s coziness with Moscow and his financial ties to Russian oligarchs close to Vladimir Putin. Finally, we debunked the biggest canard being pushed by the president’s men — the notion that we somehow knew of the June 9, 2016, meeting in Trump Tower between some Russians and the Trump brain trust. We first learned of that meeting from news reports last year — and the committees know it. They also know that these Russians were unaware of the former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele’s work for us and were not sources for his reports. Yes, we hired Mr. Steele, a highly respected Russia expert. But we did so without informing him whom we were working for and gave him no specific marching orders beyond this basic question: Why did Mr. Trump repeatedly seek to do deals in a notoriously corrupt police state that most serious investors shun? What came back shocked us. Mr. Steele’s sources in Russia (who were not paid) reported on an extensive — and now confirmed — effort by the Kremlin to help elect Mr. Trump president. Mr. Steele saw this as a crime in progress and decided he needed to report it to the F.B.I. We did not discuss that decision with our clients, or anyone else. Instead, we deferred to Mr. Steele, a trusted friend and intelligence professional with a long history of working with law enforcement. We did not speak to the F.B.I. and haven’t since. After the election, Mr. Steele decided to share his intelligence with Senator John McCain via an emissary. We helped him do that. The goal was to alert the United States national security community to an attack on our country by a hostile foreign power. We did not, however, share the dossier with BuzzFeed, which to our dismay published it last January. We’re extremely proud of our work to highlight Mr. Trump’s Russia ties. To have done so is our right under the First Amendment. It is time to stop chasing rabbits. The public still has much to learn about a man with the most troubling business past of any United States president. Congress should release transcripts of our firm’s testimony, so that the American people can learn the truth about our work and most important, what happened to our democracy. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/02/opinion/republicans-investigation-fusion-gps.html further to: How the Russia Inquiry Began: A Campaign Aide, Drinks and Talk of Political Dirt - excerpted at http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=137313092 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/30/us/politics/how-fbi-russia-investigation-began-george-papadopoulos.html
North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un just stated that the “Nuclear Button is on his desk at all times.” Will someone from his depleted and food starved regime please inform him that I too have a Nuclear Button, but it is a much bigger & more powerful one than his, and my Button works! https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/948355557022420992
Trump taunts North Korea: My nuclear button is 'much bigger,' 'more powerful' Trump's tweet about nuclear war was one of more than a dozen he posted throughout the day It came after Kim Jong UN delivered a New Year's Day address offering an olive branch to South Korea and continuing to threaten the US http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/02/politics/donald-trump-north-korea-nuclear/index.html
I will be announcing THE MOST DISHONEST & CORRUPT MEDIA AWARDS OF THE YEAR on Monday at 5:00 o’clock. Subjects will cover Dishonesty & Bad Reporting in various categories from the Fake News Media. Stay tuned! https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/948359545767841792
Donald Trump’s Year of Living Dangerously It’s worse than you think. When President Donald Trump sat down for dinner on September 18 in New York with leaders of four Latin American countries on the sidelines of the annual United Nations General Assembly, anxieties were already running high. There was the matter of Mexico and his promise to build that “big, beautiful wall,” presumably to keep not just Mexicans but all of their citizens out of the United States too. And the threat to blow up the North American Free Trade Agreement. And then, a month earlier, seemingly out of nowhere, Trump had volunteered that he was considering a “military option” in Venezuela as that country’s last vestiges of democracy disappeared. Amid the international furor over his vow to rain down “fire and fury” on North Korea in the same golf-course press conference, the news that the president of the United States was apparently considering going to war with its third-largest oil supplier had gotten relatively little attention. But the leaders from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Panama invited to the dinner remembered it well. So, it turned out, did Trump. After the photo op was over and the cameras had left the room, Trump dominated the long table. His vice president, Mike Pence, was to his right; Pence had just spent nearly a week on a conciliatory, well-received tour of the region, the first by a high-ranking administration official since Trump’s inauguration. To Trump’s left was his secretary of state, Rex Tillerson. “Rex tells me you don’t want me to use the military option in Venezuela,” the president told the gathered Latin American leaders, according to an account offered by an attendee soon after the dinner. “Is that right? Are you sure?” Everyone said they were sure. But they were rattled. War with Venezuela, as absurd as that seemed, was clearly still on Trump’s mind. By the time the dinner was over, the leaders were in shock, and not just over the idle talk of armed conflict. No matter how prepared they were, eight months into an American presidency like no other, this was somehow not what they expected. A former senior U.S. official with whom I spoke was briefed by ministers from three of the four countries that attended the dinner. “Without fail, they just had wide eyes about the entire engagement,” the former official told me. Even if few took his martial bluster about Venezuela seriously, Trump struck them as uninformed about their issues and dangerously unpredictable, asking them to expend political capital on behalf of a U.S. that no longer seemed a reliable partner. “The word they all used was: ‘This guy is insane.’” [...] https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/01/02/donald-trump-foreign-policy-analysis-dangerous-216202