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Wednesday February 27, 2019

Michael Cohen Plans Withering Testimony: Trump A 'Racist,' 'Conman,' 'Cheat'
HP | Nick Visser | 02/27/19

Michael Cohen plans to tell a congressional committee on Wednesday that his former boss, President Donald Trump, is a con man and racist who regularly lied to the American people, according to a copy of his prepared remarks obtained by The New York Times.

The attorney, who once served as Trump's right-hand man, will speak with the House Committee on Oversight and Reform on Wednesday in a widely publicized hearing. In his remarks, Cohen plans to say that Trump indirectly told him to lie about his involvement in a real estate project in Moscow ... Read more
Testimony of Michael D. Cohen Committee on Oversight and Reform U.S. House of Representatives | 02/27/19 | pdf

Eric Trump, Donald Trump Jr. Freak Out Over Michael Cohen Hearing: 'National Disgrace'
HP | Lee Moran | 02/27/19

Donald Trump's eldest sons called the congressional hearing a "clownshow" and accused Democrats of being "sick."

President Donald Trump's sons Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. lashed out Wednesday about the imminent congressional hearing of their father's former fixer and attorney, Michael Cohen.

Eric Trump tweeted that it was "a national disgrace that on the eve of historic peace talks" between his father and North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un in Hanoi, Vietnam, "the Democrats in the House orchestrate this clownshow."

He also claimed his father's accomplishments "are nothing short of incredible especially in the face of such hate & adversity." ... Read more

Eric Trump, Donald Trump Jr. Freak Out Over Michael Cohen Hearing: 'National Disgrace' | HP | 02/27/19 | 6:53
Poverty isn't a lack of character; it's a lack of cash
Poverty isn't a lack of character; it's a lack of cash | Rutger Bregman | TED | 06/13/17 | 14:58
"Poverty is a Personality Defect" said by Margaret Thatcher (former PMof UK)
If We Can Keep It: How the Republic Collapsed and How it Might Be Saved by Michael Tomasky

A game-changing account of the deep roots of political polarization in America, including an audacious fourteen-point agenda for how to fix it.

Why has American politics fallen into such a state of horrible dysfunction? Can it ever be fixed? These are the questions that motivate Michael Tomasky's deeply original examination into the origins of our hopelessly polarized nation. "One of America's finest political commentators" (Michael J. Sandel), Tomasky ranges across centuries and disciplines to show how America has almost always had two dominant parties that are existentially, and often violently, opposed. When he turns to our current era, he does so with striking insight that will challenge readers to reexamine what they thought they knew. Finally, not content merely to diagnose these problems, Tomasky offers a provocative agenda for how we can help fix our broken political system?from ranked-choice voting and at-large congressional elections to expanding high school civics education nationwide.
If You Can Keep It: The Forgotten Promise of American Liberty by Eric Metaxas

#1 New York Times bestselling author Eric Metaxas delivers an extraordinary book that is part history and part rousing call to arms, steeped in a critical analysis of our founding fathers' original intentions for America.

In 1787, when the Constitution was drafted, a woman asked Ben Franklin what the founders had given the American people. "A republic," he shot back, "if you can keep it." More than two centuries later, Metaxas examines what that means and how we are doing on that score.

If You Can Keep It is at once a thrilling review of America's uniqueness -- including our role as a "nation of nations" -- and a chilling reminder that America's greatness cannot continue unless we embrace our own crucial role in living out what the founders entrusted to us. Metaxas explains that America is not a nation bounded by ethnic identity or geography, but rather by a radical and unprecedented idea, based on liberty and freedom for all. He cautions us that it's nearly past time we reconnect to that idea, or we may lose the very foundation of what made us exceptional in the first place.

Roger Stone's and Jerome Corsi's Time in the Barrel
New Yorker | Jeffrey Toobin | 02/25/19

Roger Stone's house, in Fort Lauderdale, is situated between a quiet street and one of the city's canals, which are the only feature Fort Lauderdale shares with its Italian sister city, Venice. In a small room on the first floor, Stone keeps mementos of a career as a political consultant and provocateur which is now in its fifth decade. There are bumper stickers from Richard Nixon's campaigns for President and photographs of Stone with candidates for whom he's worked. There's one of Arlen Specter, the late senator from Pennsylvania, and several of Stone with Donald Trump, whose political aspirations Stone has championed since the nineteen-eighties. ... Read more

How 2 Conspiracy Theorists Shaped Trump's Worldview (And Why They Matter To Mueller) | Fresh Air | 02/21/19 | 1hr
Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Wednesday, February 27 [13:20]
Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Wednesday, February 27 (FULL) | 59:02
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  2. As India and Pakistan Issue Veiled Nuclear Threats, New Ceasefire Urged to Defuse Kashmir Conflict
  3. CodePink's Medea Benjamin on Peace Delegation to Iran & Fallout from U.S. Withdrawal of Nuke Deal
  4. Dream hampton on Making "Surviving R. Kelly" & the Grassroots Activists That Helped Bring Him Down
  5. Disarmament Expert on N. Korea Summit: An International Process Is Needed to Reduce Nuclear Threat
The "Permanent War State" Aims to Plunder Venezuela -- Larry Wilkerson | TRNN | 12/26/18 | 18:58
Trump promises "democracy and freedom" to Venezuela, delivered by Elliott Abrams who brought you illegal wars, coups, and support for dictatorships; and Mike Pompeo and VP Pence, both with deep ties to the Koch brothers who need Venezuelan heavy crude to feed their Texas refinery.
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Confused Tucker Carlson Gets Dismantled By Bold Progressive | TYT | 02/26/19 | 8:02
Ivanka Laughing In The Face Of Poor People | TYT | 02/26/19 | 8:09
The1a.org
Two authors on what it takes to keep the republic going | 1a.org | 02/27/19 | 1hr
We all have that one relative that won't budge on their views, no matter how many facts or articles you send them. It seems as though this is a relatively new phenomenon, or at least much more prevalent than it used to be. Is that the case? Is our sociopolitical system really broken?

Michael Tomasky's new book If We Can Keep It | He contends that the founders, with the Connecticut Compromise, designed a fatally flawed system for our federal legislature. By mandating that the Senate be made up of two representatives from each state, they gave outsize influence to sparsely populated states. As for the House of Representatives, a blasé attitude about maintaining districts of equal size led to inequality, with rural areas of 10,000 constituents having the same representation as urban ones with 50,000 constituents. This situation only changed with a 1964 Supreme Court decision mandating "one person, one vote." "The founders were visionaries," Tomasky writes. "But they were human. They made some mistakes."

Eric Metaxas | He believes that the Founding Fathers incorporated into the Constitution the Golden Triangle of Freedom: "freedom requires virtue; virtue requires faith; and faith requires freedom," an idea articulated by British social critic Os Guiness. Metaxas exhorts Americans today to revitalize freedom by behaving virtuously, insisting on virtuous leaders, and recognizing the significance of Judeo-Christian religion in the nation's identity and destiny.
Fresh Air
How 2 Conspiracy Theorists Shaped Trump's Worldview (And Why They Matter To Mueller) | Fresh Air | 02/21/19 | 1hr
Jeffrey Toobin covers legal affairs for The New Yorker. His new article is titled "Roger Stone's And Jerome Corsi's Time In The Barrel." He writes that Stone and Corsi came together to support Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign. The Mueller investigators have questioned both men about their contacts with WikiLeaks and their possible involvement in the release of emails stolen from the chair of Hillary Clinton's campaign, John Podesta. Stone has been indicted by prosecutors for witness tampering, obstruction and five counts of lying. Mueller's team has questioned Corsi. But as of yet, he's not been indicted.

Two of the people under investigation by Robert Mueller - Roger Stone and Jerome Corsi - are conspiracy theorists who believe the deep state is trying to take over America. Stone is a self-described dirty trickster from the Nixon era, who also co-founded a lobbying firm with Paul Manafort in the 1980s and has been close to Donald Trump for more than 30 years. Corsi is one of the fathers of birtherism and the swift boat campaign that tried to discredit John Kerry during his presidential run by accusing him of lying about his record in Vietnam.
'Counterpuncher' Michael Cohen Now Gets To Punch Back | Morning Joe | MSNBC | 02/27/19 | 11:37
Why Rep. Matt Gaetz's Words Look Like Witness Tampering | Morning Joe | MSNBC | 02/27/19 | 7:24

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Quantum mechanics | AI - Artificial Intelligence
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Economy, Wall Street and Banksters

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Intelligence Agencies/Deep State?

Intelligence Agencies/Deep State?

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Daniel Ellsberg | Pentagon Papers
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Nukes
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Rana Foroohar and Fall of American Business
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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

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Kuznick Interviews

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China Valley of Tunnels

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911
911

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The Vietnam War

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Trump's Mashups
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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
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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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