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Friday December 06, 2019

Pensacola Naval Air Station shooting: What we know so far
Axios | Rashaan Ayesh | 12/06/19

At least three people were killed by a shooter, who also died, at Pensacola Naval Air Station in Florida on Friday, according to the Escambia County Sheriff's Office.

The base, which employs more than 16,000 military and 7,400 civilian personnel, is one of the Navy's most important -- and is the home of the Blue Angels flight team.

The big picture: Earlier this week, another shooting incident took place on a U.S. military installation when a U.S. sailor killed two people at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam Shipyard in Hawaii. ... Read more

Some of Donald Trump Most Famous Quotes

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The Ukraine Scandal Is Bigger Than We Realized, Democrats' Report Suggests
MotherJones | Dan Friedman | 12/03/19

The document reveals that Trump-linked lawyers secretly represented Ukrainian officials.

A 300-page impeachment report released on Tuesday by House Democrats describes how President Donald Trump used "the powers of his office to solicit foreign interference on his behalf in the 2020 election"--but it also suggests that the plot pursued by Trump and his allies in Ukraine was broader than investigators have so far revealed.

The report indicates that Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) was in close contact with Rudy Giuliani, Trump's personal lawyer, and Giuliani's since-indicted associate Lev Parnas as they engaged in an effort to smear former US Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch, whom Trump removed from her post a few months later. The Democratic document cites records of Giuliani's calls, obtained from AT&T, which detail extensive communications in early April between Nunes, Giuliani, Parnas, and John Solomon, then an opinion writer for the Hill newspaper whose columns Giuliani used to push his agenda. This revelation raised questions about Nunes' failure to recuse himself from hearings on the Ukraine scandal. ... Read more

Blast from the Past

Stephen Colbert

Don't Even Try To Out Stupid Donald Trump | Stephen Colbert | 07/26/18 | 5:40

This Tweet Trumps All Other Horrible Trump Tweets | Stephen Colbert | 09/13/18 |8:27

Was Helsinki A 'Top Three' Worst Moment Of Trump's Presidency? | 07/18/19 | 11:20

Donald Trump is an "Idiot" and a "Liar," Americans say in New Poll

Newsweek | Celeste Katz | 12/12/17

Americans aren't damning President Donald Trump with faint praise, according to a new poll: They're mostly just damning him. When asked for the first word that pops into their head when they think of the commander-in-chief, U.S. voters gave such glowing descriptors as "idiot," "liar" and "a**hole," according to a new Quinnipiac University survey out Tuesday.

In an open-ended question, Quinnipiac asked respondents over the phone, "What is the first word that comes to mind when you think of President Trump?" A total of 53 people responded with the word "idiot, 44 with "liar" and 36 with "incompetent." Another 26 people gave the response "a**hole," while 19 respondents said "moron," 18 said "arrogant" and 17 said "disgusting." ... Read more

Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds 12/12/17
What is the first word that comes to mind when you think of President Trump?

idiot 53
liar 44
incompetent 36
leader 35
strong 35

asshole 26
great 21
moron 19
arrogant 18
disgusting 17
unqualified 16
crazy 15
bold 14
buffoon 12
dangerous 12
ignorant 12
corrupt 11
dishonest 11
honest 11
racist 11
businessman 10
different 10
stupid 10
business 9
change 9
egotistical 9
fraud 9
good 9
narcissist 9
president 9
American 8
jerk 8
trying 8
unstable 8
awesome 7
bombastic 7
disaster 7
pig 7
childish 6
dumb 6
evil 6
joke 6
powerful 6
courageous 5
disgrace 5
fantastic 5
hard-worker 5
insane 5

'Idiot', 'Dope', 'Moron': How Trump™s aides have insulted the boss | Politico | Rebecca Morin | 09/04/18

1) 'Fear: Trump in the White House,' by Bob Woodward, is the latest book to detail chaos in the president'™s immediate orbit. Excerpts were published Tuesday and immediately brought to mind several disparaging comments that Trump'™s staff is reported to have made about the commander in chief.

2) Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Trump had the understanding of 'œa fifth- or sixth-grader,' according to accounts of Woodward'™s book that were published by The Washington Post. The comments came after a National Security Council meeting on Jan. 19 in which Trump questioned why the government was using resources to maintain a U.S. military presence on the Korean Peninsula. Mattis told Trump that presence was necessary 'œin order to prevent World War III.'

3) White House chief of staff John Kelly called Trump 'œan idiot' and said he thought the president was 'œunhinged,' The Post also reported. NBC News first reported in May that Kelly had referred to the president as an idiot multiple times, in addition to making several remarks 'œinsulting the president'™s intelligence and casting himself as the savior of the country.' Kelly has denied that he ever called Trump an idiot.

4) Omarosa Manigault Newman, who was the highest-ranking African-American staffer in the West Wing, claimed in a book published earlier this summer that Trump is a 'œracist, misogynist and bigot.' In her book, 'œUnhinged,' Manigault Newman said she witnessed Trump use racial epithets while describing presidential counselor Kellyanne Conway'™s husband, George Conway, who is half Filipino.

5) Earlier this year, Michael Wolff detailed in his book 'Fire and Fury' that a number of individuals in the Trump administration insulted the president'™s intelligence. Both Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and former chief of staff Reince Priebus called Trump an 'œidiot,' Wolff wrote. Former economic adviser Gary Cohn said Trump was 'œdumb as shit,' and former national security adviser H.R. McMaster said the president was a 'œdope,' according to the book.

6) Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon said in November 2017 that Trump was 'œlike an 11-year-old child,' according to Vanity Fair. He also said that Trump had 'œlost his step.' Bannon had left the White House in August 2017.

7) Former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in July 2017 called Trump a 'œmoron,' NBC News reported. The comments came after Tillerson had a meeting at the Pentagon with members of the White House national security team and Cabinet officials.

8) At a dinner in July 2017, McMaster mocked Trump, also calling him an 'œidiot,' BuzzFeed News reported. At the dinner, which was with Oracle CEO Safra Catz, McMaster also said Trump was a 'œdope' with the intelligence of a 'kindergartner,' according to that report.

9) And the list goes on... Yada, yada, yada

Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Friday, December 06 [10:26]

"It's Our Future": Meet the Youth Activists Behind Fridays for Future Movements in Uganda and Chile | DN | 12/06/19 | 17:49

Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Friday, December 06 (FULL) | 59:02

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COP25: Alternative Climate Summit Honors Those "Suffering the Crimes of Transnational Corporations"
"It's Our Future": Meet the Youth Activists Behind Fridays for Future Movements in Uganda and Chile
Why Are Some of Spain's Biggest Polluters Sponsoring U.N. Climate Summit?

Brexit Looms Over Unpredictable UK Elections | TRNN | 12/06/19 | 18:50

William Barr Threatens America | TYT | 12/05/19 | 8:32

William Barr FAILS Trump | TYT | 12/05/19 | 9:42

The1a.org

The News Roundup - Domestic | 1a.org | 12/06/19 | 1hr

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called for House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jarrod Nadler to begin drawing up articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump.

Attorney General William Barr issued a warning to certain communities over protests of law enforcement, saying that they could lose their right to police protection.

California Sen. Kamala Harris announced she's ending her presidential campaign despite meeting the polling threshold to qualify for the next Democratic debate.

The News Roundup - International | 1a.org | 12/06/19 | 1hr

This week, the Iranian government acknowledged that it used deadly force on protestors. The demonstrations over an increase in gasoline prices have left hundreds of people dead, according to some reports.

Meanwhile, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, French President Emmanuel Macron and NATO secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg appeared to make fun of President Donald Trump in a viral video this week. President Trump responded by calling the Canadian prime minister "two-faced."

We recapped part of what happened at the NATO meeting and the London Bridge attack earlier this week.

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Speaker Nancy Pelosi: I Don't Hate Anybody | Stephen Colbert | 12/05/19 | 8:04

The Daily Show with Trevor Noah

Pelosi Presses On & Constitutional Scholars Testify | Trevor Noah | 12/05/19 | 7:14

Jimmy Kimmel

Pelosi Moving Forward with Impeachment | Jimmy Kimmel | 12/05/19 | 9:53

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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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