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U.S. Ramps up Bombing of ISIS in Eastern Syria Following Trump Withdrawal Announcement
TheIntercept | Trevor Aaronson, Ali Younes | 01/03/19

AFTER PRESIDENT DONALD Trump announced the withdrawal of 2,000 troops from Syria last month, the U.S. military ramped up its bombing campaign against the Islamic Stateâ€™s remaining territory in the eastern part of the country, according to sources on the ground and photographs we obtained.

The fiercest attacks in the past week have occurred in Al Kashmah, a village on the Euphrates River near the border with Iraq, according to three sources in eastern Syria. Amid U.S. airstrikes and artillery fire by the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, civilians and family members of ISIS fighters fled to villages to the south, the sources said. While Al Kashmah has not yet fallen, the only people remaining there are fighters representing what has become the front line of the war against ISIS in Deir al-Zour province. ... Read more

House votes to reopen government despite Trump veto threat
Axios | Khorri Atkinson | 01/04/19

The House passed a short-term spending package Thursday night that would reopen eight government agencies through September and the Department of Homeland Security through February, but which does not include funding for President Trump's border wall.

Why it matters: The White House issued a statement Thursday formally threatening to veto the Democrats' proposed spending package if it passed. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has said the Senate won't take up any House spending bill that Trump won't sign. ... Read more

Trump's Stream of Consciousness (or Brain Fart??)

Donald Trump meets with Cabinet today amid government shutdown | CBS | 01/02/19 | 38:16

Rachel Maddow Breaks Down Where Donald Trump Gets His Conspiracy Theories
HP | Lee Moran | 01/04/19

MSNBC's Rachel Maddow on Thursday did a deep dive into where President Donald Trump may get some of his conspiracy theories.

The host of "The Rachel Maddow Show" pointed out that several of Trump's foreign policy talking points since taking office have appeared to directly parrot propaganda and fake news originally put forward by Russian President Vladimir Putin's government. ... Read more

Rachel Maddow Breaks Down Where Donald Trump Gets His Conspiracy Theories | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC | 01/04/19 | 13:38

Nancy Pelosi Heads To White House As Shutdown Continues | Morning Joe | MSNBC | 01/04/19 | 18:46

Will Senator Mitt Romney Be A Check On President Trump On Capitol Hill? | The 11th Hour | MSNBC | 01/04/19 | 8:27

President Trump Said Heâ€™d â€˜Look Foolishâ€™ To Take Deal He Previously Accepted | The Last Word | MSNBC | 01/03/19 | 15:39

What Do The Shifting Markets Mean For Businesses In 2019? | Velshi & Ruhle | MSNBC | 01/04/19 | 7:33

Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Friday, January 04 [11:19]

Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Friday, January 04 (FULL) | 59:02

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As Most Diverse Congress in History Takes Office, Dems Push to End Shutdown Without Funding for Wall
Christmas in Tornillo: Activists, Lawmakers Demand Trump Shut Down Prison Camp for Migrant Children
How Trump's Labor Secretary Cut a Deal for Multimillionaire & Serial Sexual Abuser Jeffrey Epstein

AI Should Improve Quality of Life, Not Make Capitalists Rich -- Lester Earnest on RAI (Part 5/5) | TRNN | 01/04/19 | 9:41

Cold War Radar System a Trillion Dollar Fraud -- Lester Earnest on RAI (Part 1/4) | TRNN | 12/24/18 | 21:02:01

Military-Industrial-Congressional Frauds -- Lester Earnest on RAI (Part 2/4) | TRNN | 12/26/18 | 13:01

DOD Criterion for Success: Spend all Your Money by Year End - Lester Earnest on RAI (Part 3/4) | TRNN | 12/28/18 | 10:18

Billionaires Shouldn't Control Artificial Intelligence -- Lester Earnest on RAI (Part 4/5) | TRNN | 01/02/19 | 9:56

Wilkerson's Real "Vice" -- Cheney Moved GOP to Far Right (Part 4/4) | TRNN | 01/02/19 | 11:34

Wilkerson on the Real "Vice" Cheney (Part 1/4) | TRNN | 12/31/18 | 12:38

Wilkerson on the Real "Vice" Cheney's BP Disaster (Part 2/4) | TRNN | 12/31/18 | 8:46

Wilkerson on the Real "Vice" Cheney's Cold War and Regime Change (Part 3/4) | TRNN | 01/02/19 | 10:03

Trump FREAKS OUT On James Mattis | TYT | 01/03/19 | 10:12

Is Lindsey Graham Sabotaging Trump? | TYT | 01/03/19 | 9:34

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Friday News Roundup -- Domestic | 1a.org | 01/04/19 | 1hr

The partial shutdown persisted through a second week, with no end in sight. AP reports: In public, Trump renewed his dire warnings of rapists and others at the border. But when pressed in private by Democrats asking why he wouldn't end the shutdown, he responded at one point, "I would look foolish if I did that."
On Wednesday, President Donald Trump met with congressional leaders who presented a package of bills, but the possibility of resolution remained distant.
As the government ground to a halt, the 2020 presidential race kicked into gear. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-MA, announced her candidacy on Monday, becoming the first major candidate to do so. Who else will join the race?
On Wednesday, President Trump said he "essentially" fired Defense Secretary Jim Mattis last month due to his performance at the Pentagon (Mattis resigned). His successor, Acting Secretary Patrick Shanahan, made his debut as the president criticized the war in Afghanistan and called Syria a land of "sand" and "death."
And Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke left the Trump administration on Wednesday, amid investigations into his real estate dealings. Former oil lobbyist David Bernhardt has begun serving as his interim replacement.

Friday News Roundup -- International | 1a.org | 01/04/19 | 1hr

President Donald Trump reversed a precedent set by several conservative American presidents by suggesting that the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan was due to a fight against terrorism.
About 7,000 American forces are expected to leave Afghanistan this summer, per an announcement by President Trump. Almost half of Afghanistan remains under Taliban control. Has President Trump's troop withdrawal announcement strengthened the Taliban's negotiating position with the Afghan government?
Presidential elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo were held last Sunday, but results have not yet been announced. These elections are supposed to be the first peaceful transfer of power in the DRC in 59 years.
Bolsonaro, Brazil's new president, has already issued orders that undermine protections for LGBTQ populations and indigenous groups, undercutting the defenses of some of his supporters, who dismissed the seriousness of his rhetoric.

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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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