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Friday January 11, 2019

Trump Is Actually Taking Steps To Secure Wall Funding Through A National Emergency
HP | Lydia O'Connor | 01/10/19

Insiders told both The Washington Post and CNN that Trump is laying the groundwork for this controversial move.

With no end in sight to the government shutdown, President Donald Trump's administration is reportedly laying the groundwork to declare a national emergency to access funds for his much-debated wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.

Sources familiar with the preparations told The Washington Post and CNN that Trump is eyeing billions of unspent dollars from the Defense Department's disaster recovery and military construction coffers to build the wall ? a project for which Democrats have refused to approve funding and that Trump is unwilling to bend on. ... Read more

In '04, President Donald Trump Said To 'Go Through' Concrete Wall | 01/10/19 | 1:27

Proof of Collusion: How Trump Betrayed America by Seth Abramson

For the first time, the full, explosive record of the unthinkable: how a US president compromised American foreign policy in exchange for the promise of future business and covert election assistance.

Looking back at this moment in history, historians will ask if Americans knew they were living through the first case of criminal conspiracy between an American presidential candidate turned commander in chief and a geopolitical enemy. The answer might be: it was hard to see the whole picture. The stories coming in from around the globe have often seemed fantastical: clandestine meetings in foreign capitals, secret recordings in a Moscow hotel, Kremlin agents infiltrating the Trump inner circle...

Seth Abramson has tracked every one of these far-flung reports and now in, Proof of Collusion, he finally gives us a record of the unthinkable--a president compromising American foreign policy in exchange for the promise of future business and covert election assistance. The attorney, professor, and former criminal investigator has used his exacting legal mind and forensic acumen to compile, organize, and analyze every piece of the Trump-Russia story. His conclusion is clear: the case for collusion is staring us in the face. Drawing from American and European news outlets, he takes readers through the Trump-Russia scandal chronologically, putting the developments in context and showing how they connect. His extraordinary march through all the public evidence includes: ...

Proof of Collusion, Attorney Seth Abramson analyzes Trump and Russia from every angle | Salon Talks | current | 25:33

'Never been more depressed': Trump kills Graham effort to end shutdown
Politico | Burgess Everett | 01/10/19

By BURGESS EVERETT 01/10/2019 02:01 PM EST Updated 01/10/2019 06:30 PM EST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter President Donald Trump has rejected a plan proposed by a bloc of Senate Republicans who had hoped to break an impasse over the government shutdown, leaving Congress and the White House with little obvious way out of the extended battle over Trump's border wall.

On the 20th day of the shutdown, the GOP group tried to jump start bipartisan talks before Trump declares a national emergency to get his wall. But the president rejected their idea to allow congressional committees to sort out his border wall request while the government reopened, deeming the idea likely to leave him with nothing to show for the shutdown.

Vice President Mike Pence and acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney had been consulting with senators about the matter on Thursday. Pence and Mulvaney took the idea to the president, who shot it down, according to multiple people directly involved in the talks. While the congressional committees could still take up Trump's border wall plan, the president opposes the idea of opening the government before serious wall negotiations have begun, the people said. He told Senate Republicans he believes he is winning the fight and will not sign any stopgap bills at this point. ... Read more

All aboard the Flat Earth cruise -- just don't tell them about nautical navigation
TheGuatdian | author | date

The cruise, organized by the Flat Earth International Conference, promises to be a lovely time. Flat earthers -- who include the rapper B.o.B. and reality television person Tila Tequila -- will be able to enjoy restaurants, swimming pools and perhaps even an artificial surf wave.

There's just one problem for those seeking to celebrate the flatness of the Earth. The navigational systems cruise ships, and other vessels, use rely on the fact that the Earth is not flat: theoretically puncturing the beliefs of the flat Earth crowd. ... Read more

Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Friday, January 11 [14:27]

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Exclusive: Angela Davis Speaks Out on Palestine, BDS & More After Civil Rights Award Is Revoked

MOVIE REVIEW: VICE Underplays the "Evil" of Dick Cheney -- Larry Wilkerson (Part 1/3) | TRNN | 01/11/19 | 20:55

Trump: 'I Don't Have Temper Tantrums' | TYT | 01/10/19 | 10:11

Trump Makes The Most ERRONEOUS Claim Imaginable | TYT | 01/10/19 | 4:15

Texas Border Residents: There's No Crisis | TYT | 01/10/19 | 6:51

Trump Gives BIZARRE Press Briefing And Denies Saying Mexico Will Pay For Wall (Full) | TYT | 01/11/19 | 41:05

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Friday News Roundup -- Domestic | 1a.org | 01/11/19 | 1hr

We are now more than 20 days into the partial government shutdown. About 800,000 federal government employees in all 50 states have been affected. And many of those workers are about to miss their first paycheck.
The next day, the president walked out of a meeting with Democratic leaders, calling it "a waste of time" (though he reportedly brought candy to this meeting as a good-faith gesture).
President Trump visited the border Thursday and said he is willing to declare a national emergency to fund the wall, though such an action would "almost certainly" be challenged in court, according to NPR.
The viral Lifetime documentary "Surviving R.Kelly" has catalyzed legal action against the singer. R.Kelly is accused of sexual, emotional and physical abuse. He is also accused of maintaining a sex cult.

Friday News Roundup -- International | 1a.org | 01/11/19 | 1hr

The announcement of presidential election results in the Democratic Republic of Congo left observers and citizens surprised.How will the transfer of power be handled?
This week marks 100 days since Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was killed by Saudi Arabian officials in Turkey.
And in Nicaragua, some journalists have needed to file stories from secret locations after the regime of President Daniel Ortega cracked down on press freedoms.
Members of the Trump administration have been traveling to sell world leaders on several foreign policy moves, most notably the announcement that American troops would pull out of northern Syria. Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan would not meet with American National Security Advisor John Bolton over the Syria decision. Erdogan has also refused to say that Turkey would not attack the Kurdish forces in the area.

Joe: On Top Of Shutdown, GOP Keeps Collapsing | Morning Joe | MSNBC | 01/11/19 | 7:21

'You Are Seeing The Actions Of An Autocrat' | Morning Joe | MSNBC | 01/11/19 | 18:02

Trump 'Art Of The Deal' Co-Author: It's Been Fraud All Along | The Beat With Ari Melber | MSNBC | 01/10/19 | 9:05

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Trump Will 'Definitely' Declare A National Emergency, 'Probably' | Stephen Colbert | 01/10/19 | 11:47

The Daily Show with Trevor Noah

Shutdown Day 20: Trump Heads to the Border | The Daily Show | 01/10/19 | 10:02

Late Night with Seth Meyers

Trump Goes to the Border Amid Shutdown | Seth Meyers | 01/10/19 | 8:15

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Lindsey Graham Mashups

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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

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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.
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Economy, Wall Street and Banksters

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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

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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

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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

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The Vietnam War

The Vietnam War

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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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