We spend the hour with former New York Times reporter James Risen, who left the paper in August to join The Intercept as senior national security correspondent. This week, he published a 15,000-word story headlined “The Biggest Secret: My Life as a New York Times Reporter in the Shadow of the War on Terror [ https://theintercept.com/2018/01/03/my-life-as-a-new-york-times-reporter-in-the-shadow-of-the-war-on-terror/ ].” The explosive piece describes his struggles to publish major national security stories in the post-9/11 period and how both the government and his own editors at The New York Times suppressed his reporting, including reports on the Bush administration’s warrantless wiretapping program, for which he would later win the Pulitzer Prize. Risen describes meetings between key Times editors and top officials at the CIA and the White House. His refusal to name a source would take him to the Supreme Court, and he almost wound up in jail, until the Obama administration blinked. https://www.democracynow.org/2018/1/5/the_biggest_secret_james_risen_on[with embedded video, and transcript]
How the NY Times & U.S. Government Worked Together to Suppress James Risen’s Post-9/11 Reporting
Published on Jan 5, 2018 by Democracy Now!
We continue our interview with former New York Times reporter James Risen, who left the paper in August to join The Intercept as senior national security correspondent. This week, he published a 15,000-word story headlined The Biggest Secret: My Life as a New York Times Reporter in the Shadow of the War on Terror. https://www.democracynow.org/2018/1/5/how_the_ny_times_us_government[with embedded video, and transcript]
New Fake Book rehashes old fake news, Sessions burns the Constitution to stop people from lighting up and as we learn ALL computers over the last 10 years have a serious security flaw, Nissan wants you to let their cars read your mind. Then, Scott Adams on the genius of Trump’s Twitter diplomacy with “Rocket Man”.
[from Alex Jones and his merry band of batshit bullshitters]
As always, thank you kindly for the view, and I hope that this video helps you illustrate the inconsistencies of current drug laws to those who think otherwise. Stay rationale my fellow apes.
How the price of eggs sparked an uprising in Iran.
Since December 28th, Iran has undergone multiple days of populist protests. At least 20 deaths have occurred, as protestors clash with Iranian security forces, and hundreds of people have been arrested. The demonstrations began in Mashad, Iran's second largest cit, and have since spread throughout the country. There are multiple reasons for the protests, but the main one seems to stem from Iran's halting economy.
Statement by the Press Secretary on Pay Raises for Workers After the Tax Bill
Issued on: January 5, 2018
More than one million hardworking Americans have already received a “Trump Bonus” or “Trump Pay Raise” as a result of the historic tax reform package that President Donald J. Trump signed into law just before Christmas. President Trump said from the beginning that lowering tax rates, simplifying the complicated tax code, and making our companies more competitive would be the fuel that propels our economy to new heights. The preliminary results show that the President is right, and American workers and families are the big winners. And this is only the beginning. The President remains focused on empowering Americans to build more prosperous lives for themselves and brighter futures for their children.
Friday, Jan. 5th 2018[, with an appearance by Mike Cernovich]: Wolff admits Trump book work of fiction! - Anti-Trump author Michael Wolff, who's at the center of the Bannon controversy, admits he cannot vouch the authenticity of his latest book. Also, intelligence insider Zaq in Morocco joins today's program to discuss North Korea and other geopolitical happenings.
Christopher of Missing the Mark made a video called 'What Atheists Would Actually Do if They Came to Believe in God', where he decides to tell atheists the real answer to that question.
We take a closer look at the video as well as the Noel Plum video that sparked Christopher's original video. I don't much disagree with Noel's idea or that of Christopher when it comes to whether or not we'd (most of us anyway) publicly pay obeisance to a deity if we knew it existed, but I do take a bit of an issue with Christopher's analogy where he attempts to explain away the horrors described in the Old Testament.
Emperor Atheist speaking on how science and technology will eventually bury religion once and for all. We will not see it, but it will happen as history has shown over the last few centuries how science is dwindling religion.
Here are a few links from philosophers, and scientists, and other intellects who says religion will eventually be replaced by rational ideas of science.
An exciting edition of the War Room. Alex Jones challenges Brian Stelter to a bare knuckle fight for 1 million dollars, Dr. Steve Pieczenik calls for malpractice lawsuits against those saying Trump is unfit for office, Al Gore blames global warming for global freezing, and an MSNBC guests makes one of the most ludicrous statements ever. All that and more on this classic edition of War Room.
[from Alex Jones and his merry band of batshit bullshitters]
GOP push to charge ex-spy who helped expose Russian threat
The Beat With Ari Melber 1/5/18
GOP Senators want criminal charges to be brought against Christopher Steele, author of the Trump-Russia dossier. Democrats say they are trying to distract from Mueller’s Russia investigation. Duration: 11:37
DOJ investigating Clinton emails, Clinton Foundation
The Beat With Ari Melber 1/5/18
Trump DOJ now investigation Hillary Clinton’s emails and the Clinton Foundation, despite similar probes being shut down in 2016 for lack of evidence. Critics argue the DOJ is following Trump’s public talking points. Duration: 6:05
Melber: Trump uses 'projection' as a defense tactic
The Beat With Ari Melber 1/5/18
Trump is an expert at projecting his own faults onto his political rivals as a defense mechanism. Psychologist Dr. Justin Frank discusses how this method of coping could be extremely dangerous and how this tactic helps Trump mange his anxiety. Duration: 6:58
Sabo is a 40-something Los Angeles street artist who doesn’t care if his work is respected or not, but he does want to provoke a strong reaction.
His targets are what he considers the political establishment (albeit, he is a stout Trump supporter) and the entertainment industry.
In the wee hours of Friday morning, VICE News embedded with Sabo and his small street team as he attempted to put up his installations around Beverley Hills, including a “Caution” sign that says “Caution, Pedophiles Ahead,” two days before this Sunday’s Golden Globes.
Sabo is partly responsible for the “They Knew” campaign (showing images of Meryl Streep’s eyes covered with text next to Harvey Weinstein), and has profited off of other creations like posters portraying Trump happily giving two middle fingers, and patches that say “The Deplorables.”
Whereas a renowned street artist like Banksy has successfully hid their identity for decades, Sabo will gladly tell you about himself and the intentions behind his art (which is usually torn down by critics within 1-2 days of installing). A self-described “ 1960’s right leaning liberal,” you could also call him a successful street art troll who plans to irritate anyone who he identifies as a “Leftist,” which is what he deemed us.
It's deja vu all over again as new reports say the Justice Department, under Jeff Sessions, has launched a new inquiry into the Clinton Foundation. Duration: 6:53
Why that fake "Gorilla Channel" Trump story rings true
All In with Chris Hayes 1/5/18
A lot of people fell for a fake passage supposedly from Michael Wolff's "Fire and Fury" about Donald Trump complaining his TV was broken because it didn't have the "Gorilla Channel." There may be a reason that story would ring true. Duration: 3:10
Republicans, compliant FBI make progress undermining Russia probe
The Rachel Maddow Show 1/5/18
Rachel Maddow looks at how Republican interest in investigating Russia's intrusion in the 2016 election has turned over the course of the past year to an interest in undermining that investigation, and how the FBI has become more compliant as Trump and Republicans have stepped up attacks. Duration: 22:42
History offers Trump lesson in attacking investigations
The Rachel Maddow Show 1/5/18
Leon Neyfakh, host of the "Slow Burn" Watergate podcast, talks with Rachel Maddow about how Nixon's effort to push back on the Watergate investigation compares to the Trump Republican effort to discredit the FBI and Robert Mueller's Trump Russia investigation. Duration: 7:12
Gillibrand cries foul on Trump US attorney replacement
The Rachel Maddow Show 1/5/18
Rachel Maddow explain why Senator Kirsten Gillibrand is not happy about the Trump administration choosing a former Trump transition team member and Rudy Giuliani law partner to be the new U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York. Duration: 3:54
New Trump US attorney appointments raise questions
The Rachel Maddow Show 1/5/18
Matt Axelrod, former senior Justice Department official, talks with Rachel Maddow about the peculiarities in the way the Trump administration has appointed some replacement U.S. attorneys. Duration: 5:52
List of high-level Trump administration departures grows
The Rachel Maddow Show 1/5/18
Rachel Maddow adds a new set of names to the already unprecedentedly long list of high-level Trump administration staffers who have left their positions, from the vice president's office to the NSA. Duration: 3:30
Chris Stewart third Republican to call for Sessions resignation
The Rachel Maddow Show 1/5/18
Rachel Maddow reports that Rep. Chris Stewart of Utah is now the third Republican member of Congress calling for the resignation of Jeff Sessions, news that comes as Sessions was left out of a significant Trump meeting at Camp David. Duration: 0:48
After ‘Fire and Fury,’ is a Trump W.H. mass exodus imminent?
The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell 1/5/18
‘Fire and Fury’ author Michael Wolff says the Trump’s attacks prove the book’s point, that he is unfit to be president. Plus, a new report that several Trump White House staff are contemplating their exit strategy. Neera Tanden, Daniel Dale, & Jennifer Rubin join Katy Tur. Duration: 17:26
Trump's major new policy changes that flew under the radar
The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell 1/5/18
While Trump was attacking Michael Wolff's new book, "Fire and Fury," the White House quietly made four major policy changes – two of which have drawn opposition from key Republicans. Katy Tur breaks down what you might've missed with Daniel Dale and Hunter Walker. Duration: 6:51
Donald Trump tries to ignore the week that was and talk policy as he heads to Camp David, but all attention is still on the bombshell book “Fire and Fury” by Michael Wolff. We look at Trump’s agenda for the next few weeks to discuss if the administration can get back to governing amid all of the drama. Duration: 10:17
How will history judge this week of the presidency?
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams 1/6/18
What did this week mean to Trump’s legacy? Presidential historian John Meacham and National Political Correspondent Steve Kornacki join us to discuss how the events of this past week will be reflected upon for years to come… and warn that Trump could have the same fate as other political figures that’ve worn out their welcome. Duration: 6:04
Days after President Donald Trump tweeted about big nuclear buttons, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced it is getting ready for what might happen after one gets pushed. The public health agency is hosting an educational grand rounds session at its Atlanta headquarters to discuss how officials might prepare and react to a nuclear explosion.
The CDC says it’s not doing this because of concerns about any particular politician—American or otherwise. Planning for the session began in April, according to CDC public affairs specialist Kathy Harben. Last year, sessions covered topics like hearing, workplace health and a type of birth defect that is preventable with folic acid supplements.
The nuclear attack session is scheduled for January 16 and will feature speakers from the CDC, the Food and Drug Administration and the Georgia Department of Health. Topics will include how data might help shape public health responses and what public health resources might be needed to be prepared. There will be a livestream available on the CDC’s website.
The President is doing his best to make the Oval Office remind him less of his ex-chief strategist. It's just hard to get that smell out of the carpet.
Published on Jan 6, 2018 by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Former White House Comms Director Anthony Scaramucci is going show-to-show in what appears to be an audition for another job in the Trump administration.
The Mystery That Keeps Neil deGrasse Tyson Up At Night
Published on Jan 6, 2018 by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
There's one terrifying mystery of the universe that astrophysicist and 'Astrophysics for People in a Hurry' author Neil deGrasse Tyson loses sleep over.
[originally aired January 5, 2018 (U.S. central time)]
Published on Jan 6, 2018 by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Astrophysicist and 'Astrophysics for People in a Hurry' author Neil deGrasse Tyson explains the science behind the first observed interstellar object to visit our universe (which Stephen knows is full of aliens).
[originally aired January 5, 2018 (U.S. central time)]
"Day 351" Word on the Street is that Donald Trump is "Losing It" !!! Watch Melania Shudder when he touches her and the last 17 minutes is Body Language on a Narcissist with his Finger on the Red Button.
Trump seen as a child by staff, says Fire and Fury author Michael Wolff The author of a controversial book on Donald Trump's White House has defended his reporting, saying that he stands by everything he wrote and that the president's staff see him as a "child". http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42579990
US created only 148,000 jobs in Dec, vs 190,000 jobs expected Nonfarm payrolls rose by 148,000 in December, according to the Labor Department, well below expectations of 190,000. Biggest job gains by sector came from health care (31,000), construction (30,000) and manufacturing (25,000). The retail sector, however, lost 20,000 jobs despite the holiday shopping season. https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/05/us-nonfarm-payrolls-december-2017.html
White supremacist charged with terror attack on Amtrak train: report An armed white supremacist who sneaked onto an Amtrak train engine and tried to stop it in rural Nebraska has been charged in federal court with terrorism, the Lincoln Journal-Star reported Friday (Jan. 5). The FBI says Taylor Michael Wilson, 26, of St. Charles, Missouri, expressed an interest in "killing black people." Wilson, traveling from Sacramento, California, to St. Louis, was found and subdued while "playing with the controls" in a follow engine on the eastbound California Zephyr, according to an FBI affidavit quoted by the Journal-Star. The train was carrying about 175 people. He had a loaded .38-caliber pistol, a speed loader and a National Socialist Movement business card, and a backpack with three more speed loaders, a box of ammunition, a knife, tin snips, scissors and a ventilation mask. FBI agents searching Wilson's home found 15 guns, a handmade shield, tactical vest, 11 AR-15 rifle ammunition magazines, a drum magazine for a rifle, ammunition, white supremacy documents, gunpowder and ammunition-reloading supplies. http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2018/01/white_supremacist_charged_with.html
The Death of a Prophet Thomas Monson, the late Mormon church president, stressed the importance of community in an increasingly atomized nation. To his church, he was a “prophet, seer, and revelator.” To his detractors, he was a barrier to progress. [...] https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/01/mormon-prophet/549773/
The FBI is investigating the Clinton Foundation The FBI has been quietly investigating the Clinton Foundation for months, reviving a probe that was dialed back during the 2016 election amid tensions between Justice Department prosecutors and FBI agents about the politically charged case, according to people familiar with the matter. The investigation is being run out of the FBI’s field office in Little Rock, where the foundation has offices in the William J. Clinton Presidential Center, the people said. Agents are trying to determine if any donations made to the foundation were linked to official acts when Hillary Clinton was secretary of state from 2009 to 2013, these people said. It was not immediately clear what specific donations or interactions agents were scrutinizing, and there was some skepticism inside both the Justice Department and the FBI that the case would ultimately lead to any charges. The very existence of such a probe will likely lead to accusations from Democrats that the Republican administration is pursuing old, dead cases to punish political enemies. [...] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/the-fbi-is-investigating-the-clinton-foundation/2018/01/05/1aca0d4a-f1cf-11e7-97bf-bba379b809ab_story.html
The Trump-Russia investigation, from the beginning One year ago, this week, the US intelligence community publicly confirmed Russia's interference in the 2016 election In the months after the election, the Trump team denied that there were any contacts with Russians during the campaign http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/05/politics/trump-russia-investigation-documentary/index.html
Internet falls for Trump-'Gorilla Channel' parody Amid startling disclosures about life in the Trump White House, Twitter users fall for a satirical fake excerpt from Michael Wolff's book that claims the president is obsessed with gorillas. https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/05/trump-gorilla-channel-parody-326374
Clinton Foundation investigated by Justice Department The US Justice Department has opened a new inquiry into the Clinton family's non-profit organisation, the Clinton Foundation, US media report. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42579732
Taking Issues “Off the Table” - First Jerusalem, Now Refugees Last month, President Donald Trump granted a cherished wish of American and Israeli hardliners, taking Jerusalem—an issue that the Oslo Agreement stipulated would be resolved only in permanent status negotiations—“off the table.” Now, only weeks later, American and Israeli hardliners are again trembling with anticipation at the possibility that Trump will fulfill another long-held desire: destroying or crippling the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), the UN agency that supports Palestine refugees across the Middle East. [...] https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/taking-issues-off-the-table-first-jerusalem-now_us_5a4ff1c9e4b0f9b24bf31732
( https://youtu.be/3oHhw_9bQk0 ) “You have to be at peace with the fact that something might happen, and you might not make it through,” says Alexandra de Steiguer, the caretaker for the Oceanic Hotel, in Brian Bolster’s short documentary, Winter’s Watch. De Steiguer has spent the past 19 winters tending to the 43-acre grounds of the hotel, on Star Island, which sits 10 miles off the coast of New England. In the long, wintry off-season, she is the island’s sole inhabitant. Winter’s Watch explores de Steiguer’s relationship to extreme isolation. Its meditative imagery contemplates the beauty of absence, while de Steiguer reflects on the unique challenges and rewards of solitude. “There are no other distractions,” she says. “You have to decide how to fill your days….and yet it is peaceful, and I can use my imagination.” The hulking—and possibly haunted—hotel bears a striking resemblance to The Shining, but de Steiguer maintains that “if there are ghosts out here, they are being extremely kind to me.” Rather, she has embraced what she calls “the great waiting of winter.” “Being alone here and seeing the struggle of winter makes me feel connected to the web of life,” she says. “Winter has a quiet exuberance. You have to look into the bones.” https://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/549518/winters-watch/
Trump was referring to the Diversity Immigrant Visa Program .. https://www.uscis.gov/greencard/diversity-visa , which uses a computer lottery system to randomly issue up to 50,000 immigrant visas each year to qualified applicants from countries with low rates of immigration to the United States.
At a Jan. 9 meeting .. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-meeting-bipartisan-members-congress-immigration/ .. on immigration, Trump said: “They call it ‘visa lottery,’ I just call it ‘lottery.’ But countries come in and they put names in a hopper. They’re not giving you their best names; common sense means they’re not giving you their best names. They’re giving you people that they don’t want. And then we take them out of the lottery. And when they do it by hand — where they put the hand in a bowl — they’re probably — what’s in their hand are the worst of the worst.”
Trump grossly misrepresents how the program works. As we wrote .. https://www.factcheck.org/2017/12/trumps-baseless-immigration-claim/ .. when Trump made similar remarks last month, there is no evidence that other countries are gaming the system and sending the U.S. “the worst of the worst.”
“It is a complicated and lengthy process,” explained Stephen W. Yale-Loehr .. http://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/faculty/bio_stephen_yale-loehr.cfm , who teaches immigration law at Cornell Law School. “Among other things, the consular officer must make sure the individual is not ‘inadmissible.’ This means that the person has not committed a crime, doesn’t have a serious health problem, isn’t a terrorist, hasn’t committed fraud, and hasn’t overstayed in the U.S. before.”
“The diversity lottery is a true lottery,” Yale-Loehr also told us. “There is no way a foreign government can game the lottery to offload the worst of their citizenry.”
All of our video collaborations with CNN’s “State of the Union” are available on FactCheck.org.
In the post, Tapper fact checks Trump and diversity lottery https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=137697464 as well as the video, there are four articles looking at Trump's proposals in relation to the Canadian and Australian policies. He lauds them, however Trump wants an end to chained migration, yet it exists in both the Canadian and Australian systems.
LOL, prostrate drives me bonkers when it's meant to mean prostate, and it's been said to me a million times since i had mine, uh, chipped at. Now i get smacked with it in a Medpage article.
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Cancer Death Rates Fall: Here's Why
-- Meanwhile, incidence drops for some cancers, rises for others
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The reduction was fueled largely by fewer deaths from lung, breast, prostrate, and colorectal cancer, reported Rebecca Siegel, MPH, of the American Cancer Society and colleagues in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians.
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