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Wednesday February 08, 2017

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WATCH: Jake Tapper Hammers Kellyanne Conway in Heated New Interview
Salon & AlterNet | Taylor Link / Salon | 02/08/17

On Monday, legendary news anchor Dan Rather singled out CNN's Jake Tapper as today's journalistic standard. On Tuesday, Tapper showed off his talent in a 25-minute, wide-ranging showdown with White House senior counselor Kellyanne Conway

After Conway fabricated a terror attack -- the so-called Bowling Green massacre -- to justify a constitutionally-questionable travel ban, Tapper confidently held the high ground in the interview. "You cited a massacre that didn't happen. You said the media didn't cover it," Tapper said. ... Read more

MNN NYC | Jake Tapper Confronts Kellyanne Conway for WH Claims on Media Terror Coverage: Facts harmful (02/07/17) [11:44]

Kellyanne Conway's full interview with Jake Tapper (full) (02/07/17) [25:19]

Stephan Colbert | John Oliver: Trump's Election Was the Exactly the Trainwreck 'I Thought It Was Going to Be' () [6:32]

Note: I read this YouTube comment several days ago and decided to copy it here... it seemed so appropriate.

Indeed, the Middle East conflicts were originated by the British and were taken over by the US. Evidently, you don't even know what the "old Middle East" is, for if you did, you'd know that Middle East in its current format was curved out of the Ottoman empire by the British after the WWI. Britain carved small countries based on oil reserves and ethnicity out of what was left of Ottoman empire and it pitted different ethnicities against each other, so they would have to rely on the British to be protected against each other. In some cases they put minorities in charge of majorities (e.g. Sunnis in Iraq and Bahrain, and Alawites in Syria...) to be able to control their respective societies! After the WWII the Americans made a pact with the Saudis to maintain the "petrodollar" for US protection of their regime against both internal dissent, and external threat. That is why the US ignores Saudi involvement in most terrorist activities such as 9-11 and support for ISIS! FWI, the old "Middle East" primarily consisted of Ottoman empire before the British took it apart.?

Trump's Advisers Want a New Civil War -- We Must Not Let Them Have It

Elizabeth Warren Silenced on Senate Floor for Reading Words of Coretta Scott King
AlterNet | Alexandra Rosenmann | 02/08/17

Elizabeth Warren was silenced on the Senate floor Tuesday night in an unprecedented act of Republican censure. She had been reading a letter from Coretta Scott King criticizing the civil rights record of Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Trump's cabinet appointee for attorney general.

"Mr. Sessions has used the awesome power of his office to chill the free exercise of the vote by black citizens in the district he now seeks to serve as a federal judge," Warren said, citing the widow of Martin Luther King Jr. ... Read more

*Fukushima, Japan

BeyondNuclear.org | 'Fukushima catastrophe ongoing: Leakage on a daily basis' (02/06/17)

RT interviews Beyond Nuclear on recent measurements showing 53,000 Rem per hour (deadly to humans within a minute or less, at close range, in the absence of radiation shielding), or higher, radiation dose rates in the melted down Unit 2 reactor at Fukushima Daiichi, Japan. (The interview includes a section about the chronic, and acute, leaks of radioactive wastewater into the Pacific Ocean from the site.

BeyondNuclear.org | Fate of Fukushima No. 2 nuclear plant remains unknown (01/03/17)

BeyondNuclear.org | "Nearly 700,000 tons of radioactive water stored at Fukushima plant" (2015) (article)

As reported by the Asahi Shimbun, 700,000 tons of highly contaminated radioactive water has accumulated in temporary storage tanks at the devastated Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The figure grows by several hundred tons per day.

This means an additional 1,000-ton, 30-foot tall storage tank must be added every few days. More than a thousand such tanks now exist at the site.

700,000 tons of contaminated water is equal to more than 188 million U.S. gallons.

As the article reports, Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) claims that most of the stored wastewater has already been processed by its ALPS (Advanced Liquid Processing System), as of May 2015.

However, the ALPS had suffered numerous breakdowns, and even leaks into the environment, over the past several years. Also, ALPS only filters out 60-some of the radioactive substances in the wastewater. There are a couple hundred radioactive substances contaminating the water.

One of the hazardous radioactive substances that cannot be filtered out is tritium, a radioactive form of hydrogen. Tepco wants to simply dump the massive amount of tritium into the Pacific, but Japanese fishermen have resisted the plan for years.

Another unresolved question is where the 60-odd radioactive substances filtered out of the wastewater by ALPS will be stored or dumped.

BeyondNuclear.org | Contaminated Ground Water Flows into the Pacific Ocean Every Day

80-100 thousand gallons of contaminated ground water flows into the Pacific Ocean every day

BeyondNuclear.org | Cost of Fukushima disaster expected to soar to Â¥20 trillion (11/30/16)

Â¥20 trillion equates to about $180 billion in U.S. currency. Please note, however, the full cost accounting to increase the expenses for dealing with the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe's ongoing aftermath to more than $500 billion, by some estimates.

GreenPaece | Fukushima Daiichi Radioactive Water Crisis: Tepco's Discharge Plans of Contaminated Sub-drain Water Into The Pacific Ocean (2015).pdf

NRC | Fukushima Water Contamination - Impacts On The U.S. West Coast.pdf

Fukushima Disaster Cleanup, wikipedia

Alex Jones' Former Editor Trashes Him as a Trump Sellout and Snake Oil Salesman
Media Matters & AlterNet | Eric Hananoki / Media Matters | 02/08/17

Kurt Nimmo, a longtime former editor for Alex Jones' Infowars.com, has been publicly trashing his ex-boss as a "snake oil salesman" who sold out to support President Donald Trump.

Alex Jones and his Infowars.com are known for pushing conspiracy theories, including claiming the government perpetrated the 9/11 attacks and the tragedies at Columbine, Oklahoma City, Sandy Hook, and the Boston Marathon, among others.

The site's editor, Paul Joseph Watson, apparently has no editorial standards and has repeatedly posted fraudulent information. Jones recently announced that the purported news organization would be attending White House press briefings and that it had hired widely discredited reporter Jerome Corsi as its D.C. correspondent. ... Read more
Truth Seeker | Alex Jones (InfoWars) Talkes: Fake News, George Soros, Megyn Kelly Exposed (02/03/17) [22:19]

DemocracyNow - http://www.democracynow.org

*Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Wednesday, February 08 [13:00]

*DN | Rep. Maxine Waters Urges Rejection of "Foreclosure King" Mnuchin for Treasury & Sessions for AG (02/07/17) [6:34]

*DN | Rep. Maxine Waters: DeVos is a Billionaire Wannabe Teacher Who Doesn't Care About Public Education (02/07/17) [7:59 ]

DN | Stephen Walt: From Israel to Iran to Mexico, Trump Has Already Blown It on Foreign Policy (02/07/17) [13:03]

*DN | Rep. Maxine Waters: Trump Should Be Impeached If He Colluded with Russians Ahead of Election (02/07/17) [ 2:43]

Keith Olbermann

Keith Olbermann | The 50 Craziest Things Trump Has Done As President (#29) (02/07/17) [9:37]

Keith Olbermann | Donald Trump's 50 Most Ridiculous Excuses | The Closer (#15) (old) [6:27]

Keith Olbermann | 176 Shocking Things Donald Trump Has Done This Election | The Closer (#1) (old) [17:25]

TRNN News - http://therealnews.com/

*TRNN | Sierra Club's Jack Darin and PEER's Jeff Ruch say: EPA Employees Speak Out Against Pruitt and Trump's Anti-Science Agenda (02/08/17) [13:09]

*TRNN | Karen Dolan says: Betsy Devos is likely to seek the rollback of protections for children in public schools and pursue pro-charter policy without adequate accountability standards (02/07/17) [13:08]

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

*TYT | CNN Host BLASTS Kellyanne Conway On Terrorism Hypocrisy (02/07/17) [7:06]

TYT | Dollar ALREADY Going Down Under Trump (02/04/17) [3:50]

TYT | Historic Vote Confirms Betsy DeVos (02/07/17) [12:40]

TYT | Big Problems Brewing Between Trump And California... (02/07/17) [12:40]

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

*RT | Kevin Kamps from BeyondNuclear.org -> Radiation at Fukushima at highest level since meltdown (02/06/17) [5:26]

Radiation levels at one of Fukushima's power stations is at its highest level since the tsunami-triggered meltdown almost six years ago, TEPCO reports. Safely dismantling the plant will prove an enormous challenge and is made even more difficult by this discovery.
Kevin Kamps Beyond Nuclear website

RT | Keiser Report: Topsy--Turvy World (E1029) (02/07/17) [25:44]

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

Thom Hartmann - www.thomhartmann.com/

ThomHartmann | Please Welcome President Steve Bannon (02/07/17) [12:16]

Diane Rehm - http://thedianerehmshow.org

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

*Aljazeera | Inside Story -> Is Russia testing Donald Trump in eastern Ukraine? (02/05/10) [25:00]

Aljazeera | What's changing the Antarctic sea ice conditions? (02/08/10) [3:07]

Aljazeera | Canada's Dark Secret - The story of Canada's residential school system and the indigenous survivors who bear witness to its abuses. (02/07/10) [47:30]

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

PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) - pbs.org/

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

Economist Richard Wolff

MNN NYC | Richard Wolff: Economic Update With Richard Wolff: Trump, Wall Street, Goldman Sachs (01/25/17) [58:00]

MNN NYC | Richard Wolff: Donald Trump and Mexico (01/31/17) [58:00]

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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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