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Monday December 05, 2016

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Donald Trump Will Be President In Just Over A Month And The Constitution Is Already Under Attack
HP | Sam Levin | 12/03/16

"We had one of the top people at The New York Times come to Harvard University and say, 'I'm willing to go to jail to get a copy of Donald Trump's taxes so I can publish them,'" Lewandowski said, according to Politico. "Dean Baquet came here and offered to go to jail -- you're telling me, he's willing to commit a felony on a private citizen to post his taxes, and there isn't enough scrutiny on the Trump campaign and his business dealings and his taxes?"

Even after winning the presidency, Trump has had an almost myopic focus on the Times, criticizing the paper's coverage of him. He has pledged to sue the newspaper, though, when he met with its staff, he called it "a great, great American jewel. A world jewel." ... Read more

Paul Ryan On Trump Tweeting Lies: 'Who Cares?'

TYT | How Would Jesus Treat Muslims? (12/02/16) [6:42]

TYT | Trump's Tax Plan Explained (12/04/16) [7:43]

The Real Risk Behind Trump's Taiwan Call
NewYorker | Evan Osnos | 12/03/16

If you work in foreign affairs, you learn that a highly unexpected event is often the result of intent or incompetence. (You also learn that what looks, at first, like intent often turns out to be incompetence.) In the Donald Trump era, we may need a third category -- exploitation -- which has elements of both.

In his first semiofficial act of foreign policy, President-elect Trump, on Friday, lobbed a firework into the delicate diplomacy of Asia by taking a phone call from Taiwan's President, breaking thirty-seven years of American practice in a way that is sure to upset relations with China. It wasn't clear how much he intended to abruptly alter geopolitics, and how much he was incompetently improvising. There is evidence of each; in either case, the way he did it is very dangerous.

Some background: Taiwan broke away from mainland China in 1949, and the two sides exist in a tense equilibrium, governed by decades of diplomatic agreements that serve to prevent war in Asia. Under that arrangement, the U.S. maintains friendly relations with Taiwan, while Presidents since Ronald Reagan have deliberately avoided speaking directly with Taiwan's President because the U.S. formally recognizes only the Beijing government.

When news broke of Trump's phone call with Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen, foreign-policy experts were, unsurprisingly, appalled. Since his election, Trump has conducted a series of phone calls with foreign leaders, without seeking expertise from those at the State Department and the National Security Council who monitor the details of those relationships. On Wednesday, he told Pakistan's President that he would do whatever he could to help him -- despite America's strong interest in preventing Pakistan from doing many things it would like to do in India and Afghanistan. To use an analogy that Trump would recognize, it's akin to arriving for a negotiation without first asking the value of the assets, the cost of the transaction, or the previous terms of engagement. ... Read more

Bill Maher On Trump: It's Like Watching A Toddler Playing With A Gun

*Inside Standing Rock - What is Dakota Access Pipeline? (11/23/16) [17:57]
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5 Most Idiotic Trump Moments This Week
AlterNet | Janet Allon | 12/04/16

We don't want to alarm you or anything, but it's beginning to look like Donald Trump does not know how this whole presidenting thing works. And since he has the curiosity level of a pet rock, chances don't seem great he'll be learning anytime soon. His week was a combination of gaffes, bizarre confessions and weirdly tone-deaf phone calls that appear to be setting off international incidents. He seems to miss campaigning, and held a rally in Ohio to crow again about all the other people he vanquished when he beat Hillary. He tweeted how he's just going to unconstitutionally toss flag burners out of the country. (Whee, this presidenting thing is fun!) And he also took the time to oh-so-presidentially tweet his detail-free "big announcement" about how he's going to step back from running his companies, so no more "conflicts of interest!" Poof, they'll just magically disappear.

He had a succession of bizarre phone convos with foreign leaders.
He appointed a fellow conspiracy theorist to helm the Health and Human Services Department.
He held a bizarre campaign rally in Ohio, appearing to be stuck in a time machine from three weeks ago.
He told a truly baffling story about the Carrier deal, apparently unaware that it makes him look more awful than usual.
One of his surrogates just flat-out confirmed that facts don't matter anymore.

A Path to Peace by George Mitchell
George Mitchell discusses IRAQ-IRAN (recent) [4:16]

George Mitchell discusses ISRAEL_PALESTINE (recent) [5:14]

George Mitchell discusses Health (recent) [4:07]

Remember - A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

DemocracyNow - http://www.democracynow.org

Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Monday, December 05 [11:46]

*DN | Expert on Trump Business Conflicts: "There are Hard Ethical Questions in Life. This Not One of Them" (12/02/16) [9:24]

*DN | Bankers Behind "Great Foreclosure Machine" Join Trump's Cabinet as Treasury & Commerce Secretaries (12/02/16) [5:21]

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Stephen Colbert | Trump Will Soon Acquire Mass Text Capability (12/02/16) [9:05]

The Daily Show with Trevor Noah

*Profiles In Tremendousness - National Security Adviser Michael Flynn (12/01/16) [6:06]

*Tomi Lahren gives her take on the Black Lives Matter movement (11/30/16) [13:59]

TRNN News - http://therealnews.com/

*TRNN | William Hurting says Trump's latest pick for Secretary of Defense is a gift to the defense industry (12/02/16) [8:17]

TYT News - http://www.tytnetwork.com/

TYT | CNN Commentator: "No Such Thing As Facts" (12/02/16) [9:45]

TYT | Bernie Sanders DESTROYS The House Science Committee On Twitter (12/02/16) [7:42]

TYT | Hey Democrats STOP Running Corporatist Candidates! (12/04/16) [5:36]

RT - http://www.rt.com/

RT | Keiser Report: Neoliberalism Strikes Back (E1001) (12/03/16) [25:46]

Max and Stacy discuss neoliberalism "striking back" as China gets to have a plan: one that involves buying up German high tech companies. In the second half, Max visits Piedmont Biofuels, a community-scale biodiesel project in Pittsboro, North Carolina, to talk to its president and co-founder, Lyle Estill.

RT | CrossTalk: Trumpspotting: How should we assess his growing foreign policy team? What do they all appear to have in common? Then there is Syria again. Finally, standing with Standing Rock. (12/05/16) [24:31]

Ring of Fire - http://ringoffireradio.com/

Thom Hartmann - www.thomhartmann.com/

ThomHartmann | Did Carrier Fleece Both Trump & America? (12/01/16) [11:48]

Diane Rehm - http://thedianerehmshow.org

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*DR | Trump's Pick For Defense Secretary: A Look At Marine Gen. James Mattis (12/05/16) [1hr]

President-elect Donald Trump has chosen General James Mattis as the new Secretary of Defense. Mattis is described as both a tough and thoughtful leader -- and one who may challenge Trump, differing from the President-elect on Russia, Iran, and NATO. Much of the initial reaction to the appointment of "Mad Dog Mattis" has been positive, even from Democrats. But one concern looms large for some: Mattis' recent military service. It would require a special congressional waiver for him to take the post, and some feel strongly that to allow it would be going against an important tenet of U.S. government. We take a close look at General James Mattis.

*DR | What Trump's Presidency Could Mean For Reproductive Rights (12/05/16) [1hr]

or DR | What Trump's Presidency Could Mean For Reproductive Rights (12/05/16) [1hr]

During his campaign, President-elect Donald trump pledged to defund Planned Parenthood and nominate Supreme Court justices opposed to abortion. Now, he's preparing to take office in January with a Republican-controlled Congress and abortion opponents in his cabinet. Among them: incoming Health Secretary Tom Price, who also wants to dismantle the Affordable Care Act. This is likely to reopen emotional debates over issues like abortion and the role of government in health care -- at the federal level and within state legislatures. What Trump's presidency could mean for reproductive rights and women's health.

Aljazeera - http://america.aljazeera.com/

Aljazeera| The Listening Post: Fidel Castro: Contested legacy, competing narratives (12/03/16) [25:00]

Aljazeera| Normalising Trump: The US media whitewash (11/19/16) [25:00]

NPR (National Public Radio) - www.npr.org/

PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) - pbs.org/

MSNBC - Maddow/Hayes - www.msnbc.com/

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Lindsey Graham Mashups

Lindsey Graham

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said the quiet part aloud on why he’s still so close to former President Donald Trump: because we can use him for our goals. "President Trump has gotten people who wouldn't give me or Romney or anybody else the time of day. They believe he is on their side," the senator told the America First Agenda Summit crowd on Tuesday in Washington, D.C.

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Environment & Climate Change

Environment

The term "climate change" is often used to refer specifically to anthropogenic climate change (also known as global warming). Anthropogenic climate change is caused by human activity, as opposed to changes in climate that may have resulted as part of Earth's natural processes.

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AI - Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning | Deep Learning

AI - Artificial Intelligence

AIArtificial intelligence (AI) is intelligence demonstrated by machines, as opposed to the natural intelligence displayed by animals including humans. AI research has been defined as the field of study of intelligent agents, which refers to any system that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its chance of achieving its goals.

The term "artificial intelligence" had previously been used to describe machines that mimic and display "human" cognitive skills that are associated with the human mind, such as "learning" and "problem-solving". This definition has since been rejected by major AI researchers who now describe AI in terms of rationality and acting rationally, which does not limit how intelligence can be articulated.
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Quantum mechanics | AI - Artificial Intelligence

Quantum mechanics

Quantum mechanics is a fundamental theory in physics that provides a description of the physical properties of nature at the scale of atoms and subatomic particles. It is the foundation of all quantum physics including quantum chemistry, quantum field theory, quantum technology, and quantum information science.
Classical physics, the collection of theories that existed before the advent of quantum mechanics, describes many aspects of nature at an ordinary (macroscopic) scale, but is not sufficient for describing them at small (atomic and subatomic) scales. Most theories in classical physics can be derived from quantum mechanics as an approximation valid at large (macroscopic) scale.
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Economy, Wall Street and Banksters

Wall Street and Banksters

Wall Street is an eight-block-long street running roughly northwest to southeast from Broadway to South Street, at the East River, in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City. Over time, the term has become a metonym for the financial markets of the United States as a whole, the American financial services industry (even if financial firms are not physically located there), or New York-based financial interests.

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Intelligence Agencies/Deep State?

Intelligence Agencies/Deep State?

An intelligence agency is a government agency responsible for the collection, analysis, and exploitation of information in support of law enforcement, national security, military, and foreign policy objectives. Means of information gathering are both overt and covert and may include espionage, communication interception, cryptanalysis,.

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Daniel Ellsberg | Pentagon Papers

Daniel Ellsberg

Daniel Ellsberg and Paul Jay explore Ellsberg's latest book, The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner. In the introduction to the book, Ellsberg writes: "No policies in human history have more deserved to be recognized as immoral or insane. The story of how this calamitous predicament came about and how and why it has persisted over a half a century is a chronicle of human madness".

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Nukes

Nukes

Nuclear weapons have come a long way and come in all types of different sizes. Some are relatively small while others are enormous, so big they boggle the mind at what they can be capable of, i.e. the Soviet 'Tsar Bomba' is/was 3,000 times greater than the Hiroshima bomb.

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Rana Foroohar and Fall of American Business

Rana Foroohar

Ms. Foroohar says financialization delivers stagnant wages, inequality and economic crisis; the Financial Times columnist and author of "Makers and Takers" says the financial sector represents only 7 percent of the U.S. economy, but takes around 25 percent of all corporate profit while creating only 4 percent of all jobs.

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The Untold History of the United States by Oliver Stone & Petere Kuznick

The Untold History of the United States by Oliver Stone & Petere Kuznick | 2014 | 10 Episodes

Oliver Stone and American University historian Peter J. Kuznick began working on the project in 2008. Stone, Kuznick and British screenwriter Matt Graham cowrote the script. It covers "the reasons behind the Cold War with the Soviet Union, U.S. President Harry Truman's decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan, and changes in America's global role since the fall of Communism." Stone is the director and narrator of all ten episodes.

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Kuznick Interviews

Kuznick Interviews

Historian Peter Kuznick says Eisenhower called for decreased militarization, then Dulles reversed the policy; the Soviets tried to end the cold war after the death of Stalin; crazy schemes involving nuclear weapons and the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba put the world of the eve of destruction - with host Paul Jay

The Untold History of the United States by Kuznick, Peter.mobi | Book | 6.99 MB

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China Valley of Tunnels

China Valley of Tunnels

A report written by a Georgetown University team led by Phillip Karber conducted a three-year study to map out China’s complex tunnel system, which stretches 5,000 km (3,000 miles). The report determined that the stated Chinese nuclear arsenal is understated and as many as 3,000 nuclear warheads may be stored in the underground tunnel network.

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911

911

On September 11, 2001, 19 terrorists attacked the Unites States. They hijacked four airplanes in mid-flight. The terrorists flew two of the planes into two skyscrapers at the World Trade Center in New York City. The impact caused the buildings to catch fire and collapse. Another plane destroyed part of the Pentagon (the U.S. military headquarters) in Arlington, Virginia. The fourth plane crashed in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Officials believe that the terrorists on that plane intended to destroy either the White House or the U.S. Capitol. Passengers on the plane fought the terrorists and prevented them from reaching their goal. In all, nearly 3,000 people were killed in the 9/11 attacks.

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The Vietnam War

The Vietnam War

Ken Burns and Lynn Novick's ten-part, 18-hour documentary series, THE VIETNAM WAR, tells the epic story of one of the most consequential, divisive, and controversial events in American history as it has never before been told on film. Visceral and immersive, the series explores the human dimensions of the war through revelatory testimony of nearly 80 witnesses from all sides--Americans who fought in the war and others who opposed it, as well as combatants and civilians from North and South Vietnam. Ten years in the making, the series includes rarely seen and digitally re-mastered archival footage from sources around the globe, photographs taken by some of the most celebrated photojournalists of the 20th Century, historic television broadcasts, evocative home movies, and secret audio recordings from inside the Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon administrations.

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Trump's Mashups

Trump's Mashups

Donald Trump talks a lot, but what is he actually saying? VICE News' "Trump Talk" mashup series tries to answer that. And, we're happy to say, it was just nominated for two Webby Awards. Now you can watch all the nominated videos.

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Trump's Sexcapades

Trump's Sexcapades.

Jessica Leeds (1980s)
Kristin Anderson (1990s)
E. Jean Carroll (1995 or 1996)
Lisa Boyne (1996)
Cathy Heller (1997)
Temple Taggart McDowell (1997)
Karena Virginia (1998)
Mindy McGillivray (2003)
Jennifer Murphy (2005)
Rachel Crooks (2005)
Natasha Stoynoff (2005)
Juliet Huddy (2005 or 2006)
Jessica Drake (2006)
Ninni Laaksonen (2006)
Cassandra Searles (2013)
Allegations of pageant dressing room visits(1997)
Mariah Billado,
Victoria Hughes,
and three other Miss Teen USA contestants
Bridget Sullivan (2000)
Tasha Dixon (2001)
Unnamed contestants (2001)
Samantha Holvey (2006)

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Trump's Speeches | Rallys |Interviews

Trump's Speeches | Rallys

Donald Trump talks a lot, but what is he actually saying? Watch Trump at some of his rallys and see what you think.

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