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Friday August 03, 2018

Donald Trump Jr. Says Democrats Are More Like Nazis Than Republicans Are
HP | Carla Herreria | 09/02/18

What he didn't mention was the white supremacists and neo-Nazis who support his father.

onald Trump Jr. said Thursday that the platform of the Democratic National Committee is "awfully similar" to the Nazi Party's.

Trump, President Donald Trump's eldest son and head of the Trump Organization, made the remark during an interview with One America News Network while attending a premiere for Dinesh D'Souza's film "Death of a Nation," which also attempts to frame similarities between Democrats and Germany's Nazi Party. ... Read more

Prominent Conservatives Attend Screening of New D'Souza Film | 08/02/18 | 6:04
Death of a Nation (trailer) | 2018 | 2:17

Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change
NYT | Nathaniel Rich | 08/01/18

The world has warmed more than one degree Celsius since the Industrial Revolution. The Paris climate agreement -- the nonbinding, unenforceable and already unheeded treaty signed on Earth Day in 2016 -- hoped to restrict warming to two degrees. The odds of succeeding, according to a recent study based on current emissions trends, are one in 20. If by some miracle we are able to limit warming to two degrees, we will only have to negotiate the extinction of the world's tropical reefs, sea-level rise of several meters and the abandonment of the Persian Gulf. The climate scientist James Hansen has called two-degree warming "a prescription for long-term disaster." Long-term disaster is now the best-case scenario. Three-degree warming is a prescription for short-term disaster: forests in the Arctic and the loss of most coastal cities. ... Read more

What Is QAnon: Explaining the Internet Conspiracy Theory That Showed Up at a Trump Rally
NYT | Justin Bank, Liam Stack and Daniel Victor | 08/01/18

Do you remember Pizzagate? It's a little like that: a web of baseless conspiracy theories. And its supporters were highly visible at an event for the president in Florida.

In one shot on Fox News, the president was partially obscured by a sign in the crowd reading "We Are Q." In another shot during the president's speech, a sign promoting the debunked Seth Rich conspiracy theory, with the hashtag #Qanon, came into focus in the center of the screen. Some attendees wore T-shirts with a blocky Q. Others held up signs with the letter.

They were all self-described "followers of Q," an anonymous person or group of people who claim to be privy to government secrets. That supposedly classified information has been revealed on the 4chan and 8chan message boards and spread around mainstream internet platforms like YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. Q has attracted people -- the exact number is hard to know -- eager to consume his "bread crumbs," or new details in a sprawling web of conspiracy theories. ... Read more
WTF Is QAnon?! | TYT | 08/02/18 | 14:15

Meet The Trump Fans Of Q-Anon (HBO) | VICE | 08/02/18 | 4:13

Manafort trial Day 3: The bookkeeper speaks, a man-made waterfall and a Rick Gates guarantee
magazine | Darren Samuelsohn and Josh Gerstein | 08/02/18

Testifying on the third day of special counsel Robert Mueller's prosecution of the longtime GOP operative, who is facing bank- and tax-fraud charges, Heather Washkuhn of the Southern California-based accounting firm NKSFB said she handled Manafort's books from 2011 to 2018, earning about $100,000 a year.

During that period, she managed the accounts for more than a half dozen Manafort properties in Florida, New York and Virginia, tracking money as it moved around his different bank accounts, helping pay his bills and manage rental properties, and creating annual statements for Manafort's accountants to do his taxes.

... Under questioning from Mueller prosecutor Greg Andres, Washkuhn testified she was not aware of any holdings Manafort kept outside the U.S. She also acknowledged dealing frequently with Manafort's longtime associate Rick Gates, who cut a plea deal earlier this year and agreed to cooperate with the prosecution of Manafort and Mueller's broader Trump-Russia probe. ... Read more

The Midterm Elections Are in Serious Danger of Being Hacked, Thanks to Trump
MotherJones | AJ Vicens and Pema Levy | 10/18

Why has the White House and its GOP allies in Congress done so little to combat the threat?

On July 12, 2016, Matthew Emmons, an IT technician, was settling into a quiet workday when a colleague approached his cubicle in the Springfield strip-mall office of the Illinois State Board of Elections. Servers holding the personal information of more than 7.5 million voters had ground to a halt, and there was something he had to see.

Within minutes, a handful of techs had anxiously gathered around a monitor showing the registration database servers hitting total capacity. "We knew we were under attack," Emmons, now the IT director, recalls. "These are very powerful servers, and it had locked those things up." ... Read more

Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Friday, August 03 [9:41]
We speak with Nathaniel Rich, writer-at-large for The New York Times Magazine. His piece "Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change" was published August 1 in a special edition of The New York Times Magazine dedicated to climate change. | NYT | 08/01/18 | article
"Losing Earth": How Humanity Came to Understand Climate Change & Failed to Act in Time | DN | 08/02/18 | 11:57
Extreme Weather Is Exploding Around the World. Why Isn't the Media Talking About Climate Change? | DN | 08/02/18 | 11:27
Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Friday, August 03 (FULL) | 59:02
Note: on the full 59:02 video look for small white (or black) circles on the Progressbar they denote the different news stories. You can move the pointer on the Progressbar to jump to each story, and around the video.
  1. Headlines
  2. A Slaughter in Silence: How Trump's "America First" Policy Enabled Ethnic Cleansing in the DRC
  3. Mexican Journalist Emilio Gutiérrez Soto, Freed from Detention, Denounces ICE "Concentration Camps"
  4. Body of Olivia Lone Bear Found in N. Dakota as Native Women Face Crisis of Murders, Disappearances
Is Trump Betraying the American People? With TRNN's Paul Jay | TRNN | 08/02/18 | 51:16
Trump Admin. Admits Russia Hacking US Elections RIGHT NOW | TYT | 08/02/18 | 11:53
Sean Hannity Has A Message For Violent Conservatives | TYT | 08/02/18 | 11:54
The1a.org
Friday News Roundup -- Domestic | 1a.org | 08/03/18 | 1hr
  1. President Trump is pressuring Attorney General Jeff Sessions to end the Russia probe, in a Twitter broadside leveled on Wednesday. But the AG's power is limited because Sessions recused himself from the Russia investigation.
  2. In media news, Facebook discovered a coordinated disinformation campaign ahead of the midterm elections. Last week, The Daily Beast reported that Senator Claire McCaskill of Missouri was the "first identified target of the Kremlin's 2018 election interference."
  3. In an update on #MeToo, Ronan Farrow produced a blockbuster scoop for The New Yorker on alleged harassment by CBS Head Les Mooves. From his story.
  4. And the Trump administration's immigration policy continues to cause controversy. This time, a federal appeals court in California said the president acted outside of his authority when he threatened to withhold funding from "sanctuary cities."
Friday News Roundup -- International | 1a.org | 08/03/18 | 1hr
  1. Disputed presidential elections in Zimbabwe have left troops patrolling the Harare city center, and most residents staying inside their homes. This is the first election since Robert Mugabe stepped down in November.
  2. Reuters reports that the country has averaged up to 10 percent economic growth over the past several years. Since April, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has pushed several reforms like making peace with Eritrea and liberalizing the economy. But could his biggest hurdle to progress be undoing the snarl of government regulation?
  3. And President Trump said this week that he would meet with Iranian officials. But the Iranians have flexed their defensive power, beginning "a major military exercise" in the Strait of Hormuz, according to CNN. What does this mean for the American relationship with Iran?
  4. It may take years to identify them, but North Korea has returned remains of soldiers who were missing in action. The North Koreans say they are U.S. troops, but only one 'dog tag' was returned with them. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will be in Singapore for a regional summit, where the denuclearization process will likely be discussed.
US 'Wide Open' To Cyber Attack As Russians Continue Undeterred | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC | 08/02/18 | 14:10
'It's Getting Old': President Donald Trump Yet Again Attacks The Media | Morning Joe | MSNBC | 08/03/18 | 13:28
Tale Of Two Administrations On Russian Meddling In U.S. Elections | Velshi & Ruhle | MSNBC | 08/03/18 | 3:40
Trump Intel Officials: Russia's A Threat. Donald Trump: Russia's A Hoax. | The 11th Hour | MSNBC | 08/02/18 | 11:12
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
How Mueller Sparked Trump's Latest Twitter Fit | Stephen Colbert | 08/02/18 | 7:54
The Daily Show with Trevor Noah
Trump Fights Obstruction with Obstruction | Trevor Noah | 08/02/18 | 7:56
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Prominent Conservatives Attend Screening of New D'Souza FilmTrump and Rudy Giuliani Panic Over the Russia Probe | Seth Meyers | 08/02/18 | 7:56

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