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Thursday June 21, 2018

Trump Says He Will End the Family Separations He Imposed
TheAtlantic | David A. Graham | 06/20/18

Seeking to quell one of the most volatile political tempests of his stormy presidency, Donald Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order he said was intended to end the separation of children from parents arrested illegally entering the United States by directing that youths be held with adults.

"We're going to have strong borders but we're going to keep the families together," Trump said in brief remarks in the Oval Office. "I didn't like the sight or the feeling of families being separated." ... Read more

Administration Of Hate: The Snatching and Caging of Immigrant Children. It Is Happening Here.
TheIntercept | author | 06/20/18

ALL MASS CRIMES in history start with a justification, a necessity rationalization, a sick form of nationalism and racism. This week on Intercepted: The Intercept's Ryan Devereaux talks about his recent reporting in the border state of Arizona and paints a harrowing picture of the human toll of family separations by ICE. Alice Speri lays out her investigation of sexual abuse by ICE officers and contractors in immigration detention centers. Sohail Daulatzai discusses his new book, "With Stones in Our Hands: Writings on Muslims, Racism, and Empire," and explains why the film "The Battle of Algiers" is still relevant more than 50 years after its release. The legendary resistance singer Barbara Dane shares stories from her 91 years on earth fighting militarism, racism, and economic injustice. ... Read more
Intercepted | Jeromy Scahill
Administration Of Hate: The Snatching and Caging of Immigrant Children with Jeromy Scahill | TheIntercept | 06/20/18 | 1hr

Solar Is the Future. Donald Trump Tied a Bow on It and Gave It to China.

Antarctic Ice Sheet Is Melting Way Faster Than Expected, Scientists Warn
HP | Dominique Mosbergen | 06/14/18

The planet's largest ice sheet is now losing more than 240 billion tons of ice every year ? a threefold increase from less than a decade ago. The melting is happening so fast that it could cause sea levels to rise 6 inches by the end of the century, the study projects.

The accelerating pace of melting means rising sea levels could threaten coastal communities far earlier than scientists had expected. North America, particularly the East Coast of the U.S., could be particularly hard-hit.

The study, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, has been described as the most exhaustive analysis ever conducted on the changes to Antarctica's ice sheet. The research involved more than 80 scientists from 44 international organizations and used data taken from multiple satellites, as well as air and ground measurements and computer simulations. ... Read more

Even Scott Pruitt's Friends Have Given Up on Him
MotherJones | Rebecca Leber | 06/20/18

Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt may still be clinging to his job despite his ever-expanding list of controversies, but his inner circle of allies is shrinking fast.

Since April, seven key EPA staffers have resigned, four of whom had once worked for him or were longtime friends he brought to the EPA from Oklahoma. And while not directly affiliated with the EPA, Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), who has been a key ally of Pruitt's, recently revealed some cracks in his support. On Wednesday, when Fox News personality Laura Ingraham observed that Pruitt was "hurting the president" and it was time for him to go, Inhofe replied, "I've seen these things. They upset me as much as they upset you, and I think something needs to happen to change that." He suggested that one solution "would be for him to leave that job," and that the deputy EPA administrator Andrew Wheeler "might be a good swap." ... Read more

President Donald Trump's Tipping Point | Axios | 06/21/18 | 4:12

Sy Hersh: I Knew Richard Nixon Beat His Wife in 1974, But Did Not Report the Story | 06/20/18 | 4:41

Remembering the My Lai Massacre: Seymour Hersh on Uncovering the Horrors of Mass Murder in Vietnam | 06/20/18 | 15:35

Seymour Hersh: Media Today Must Cover Yemen & Trump Policy, Not Get Distracted by Tweets | 06/20/18 | 7:10

Seymour Hersh on Torture at Abu Ghraib & Secret U.S. Assassination Programs | 06/20/18 | 6:09

Sy Hersh: Henry Kissinger Must "Count Burned and Maimed Cambodian & Vietnamese Babies" in His Sleep | 06/20/18 | 5:34

Investigative Reporter Sy Hersh: Working with Gene McCarthy's Presidential Bid Shaped My Life Path | 06/20/18 | 6:12

Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Thursday, June 21 (FULL) | 59:02

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Israel Kills 52 Syrian/Iraqi Anti-ISIS Fighters, as US Takes Aim at Iran | TRNN | 06/20/18 | 11:52

Trump's Trade War with China: A Great Miscalculation | TRNN | 06/20/18 | 8:47

Breaking: Trump Caves On Immigrant Families | TYT | 06/20/18 | 14:10

Child Prison Camps: More Evil, More Expensive | TYT | 06/20/18 | 5:20

Breaking News: Michael Cohen Likely To Flip On Trump | TYT | 06/20/18 | 7:05

The1a.org

How Will Families Separated At The Border Be Reunited? | 1a.org | 06/21/18 | 1hr

As reports swirled about the more than 2,000 migrant children had been separated from their parents at the southern border, Jonathan Blitzer wrote in The New Yorker that "No protocols have been put in place for keeping track of parents and children concurrently, for keeping parents and children in contact with each other while they are separated, or for eventually reuniting them. Immigration lawyers, public defenders, and advocates along the border have been trying to fill the void."

Blitzer's latest dispatch from El Paso, Texas, is about a Honduran woman named Ana Rivera, and her son Jairo.

They were caught scaling a fence in El Paso, and spent the night in a holding cell at a U.S. Border Patrol station with other mothers and children, a group of about twenty-five people in all. On the afternoon of their second day in detention, two male agents entered the cell. "They didn't say anything," Rivera told me. "They just walked over and grabbed Jairo. It felt like my son was stuck to me. He clung to me, cried and screamed. They had to pull him away." She pleaded with the agents to tell her what was going on. The other women in the cell were too stunned to speak, Rivera told me. In the next few hours, the agents started taking other children, too. Eventually, the mothers were told that they would be reunited with their children after spending a few days in jail. Nearly six weeks later, Rivera has not seen her son.

How Will Families Separated At The Border Be Reunited? | 1a.org | 06/21/18 | 1hr

The people closest to President Trump have come under more scrutiny in recent days. News outlets are reporting that First Lady Melania Trump was a key influence on President Trump's decision to sign an executive order to walk back the administration's previous policy of family separation.

And when it comes to people close to the president, Kate Andersen Brower is an expert. She's written books on the office of the First Lady and the office of the Vice President.

Of Pence, she writes:

Before he was elected to Congress, Pence sought name recognition in Indiana as a radio host, marketing himself as "Rush Limbaugh on decaf." "He could not be a more directable talent," said Kent Sterling, who was an assistant program director for The Mike Pence Show. When Pence started out in radio, Sterling directed him to try not to be too long-winded. "He nodded when I asked him and I wondered if he got it. The next day he was spot on. He was perfect and he never deviated." Pence's friends from Indiana say Mike and Karen see the world as engaged in a moral conflict between those who are against Christianity and those who support it. "I've never questioned Mike Pence's convictions with respect to his faith," said Scott Pelath, who was Democratic minority leader in the Indiana House when Pence was governor. "He's gotten exactly what he's wanted in his life of faith. I'm worried that it's made him even more resolute in his belief that he's been sent on a holy mission. And that is dangerous for the country. It's untenable.

Throughout the immigration policy debate, the vice president has supported Trump. In a meeting with members of Congress prior to the executive order on June 20, he emphasized the president's priorities.

"But what the President reiterated again yesterday, and he has said every day from when he sought this office, is we have a crisis of illegal immigration. And as the President made clear, we don't want families to be separated. We don't want children taken away from parents. But right now, under the law -- and we sit with these lawmakers -- we only have two choices before us: Number one is, don't prosecute people who come into our country illegally, or prosecute them and then, under court cases and the law, they have to be separated from their children."

During the family separation crisis, all living first ladies, including Melania Trump, expressed concern about the separation policy.

Americans Finding Ways To Work Against Donald Trump Immigration Policy | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC | 06/20/18 | 25:29

Joe: This Was A Decision President Donald Trump And Jeff Sessions Made | Morning Joe | MSNBC | 06/21/18 | 19:11

Time Reveals 'Welcome To America.' Cover | Morning Joe | MSNBC | 06/21/18 | 7:33

An Inside Look At Shelters And Tent Cities | Velshi & Ruhle | MSNBC | 06/20/18 | 6:47

Jake Tapper: Trump surrendered for the first time | CNN | 06/20/18 | 12:24

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Trump's Executive Order To Undo An Executive Failure | Stephen Colbert | 06/20/18 | 8:43

Stephen Miller Takes A Victory Lap On Family Separation | Stephen Colbert | 06/21/18 | 5:16

Late Night with Seth Meyers

The Trump Team's Lies About Immigrants and Family Separation | Seth Meyers | 06/20/18 | 10:04

Full Frontal with Samantha Bee

Migrant Kids Update: Trump Fixed It! | Samantha Bee | 06/20/18 | 8:37

Note: I add this just to expose you to what the Alt Right is listening to. Sometimes pretty scary.

"Space Force" Is The Start Of Trump Declassifying The US Secret Space Program | 06/21/18 | 11:06

BREAKING: Satanic Vampire Network Ruling Planet Earth | 06/20/18 | 16:37

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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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