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Friday June 29, 2018

Scoop: Trump's private threat to upend global trade
Axios | Jonathan Swan | 06/29/18

President Trump has repeatedly told top White House officials he wants to withdraw the United States from the World Trade Organization, a move that would throw global trade into wild disarray, people involved in the talks tell Axios.

What we're hearing: "He's [threatened to withdraw] 100 times. It would totally [screw] us as a country," said a source who's discussed the subject with Trump. The source added that Trump has frequently told advisers, "We always get fucked by them [the WTO]. I don't know why we're in it. The WTO is designed by the rest of the world to screw the United States." ... Read more
Scoop: Trump's private threat to upend global trade | Axios | 06/29/18 | 6:14

Ayers and Mulvaney eyed as possible successors to John Kelly
Politico | Christopher Cadelago and Eliana Johnson | 06/28/18

John Kelly has long told associates he wanted to make it a year in the White House, but has been telling people in recent days that he expects to leave his role as President Donald Trump's chief of staff "very soon." According to two Republicans close to the White House, the retired Marine general may depart before his July 31 anniversary.

These people said Vice President Mike Pence's chief of staff, Nick Ayers, is being eyed as a potential successor, a move that would lend considerable political heft as the president steps up his campaigning to help Republicans keep control of Congress and begins to plan for his 2020 campaign. ...

... But these individuals said that Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney, who emerged as a favorite of Trump's during the victorious effort to pass tax reform last winter, is also a possible candidate for the top White House post. ... Read more

The Trump-Fox & Friends feedback loop, explained | VOX | older, 02/09/18 | 6:06

How politicians troll the media | VOX | 03/05/18 | 7:07

*The Plot to Destroy Democracy: How Putin and His Spies Are Undermining America and Dismantling the West by Malcolm Nance

In the greatest intelligence operation in the history of the world, Donald Trump was made President of the United States with the assistance of a foreign power. For the first time, The Plot to Destroy Democracy reveals the dramatic story of how blackmail, espionage, assassination, and psychological warfare were used by Vladimir Putin and his spy agencies to steal the 2016 U.S. election--and attempted to bring about the fall of NATO, the European Union, and western democracy. It will show how Russia and its fifth column allies tried to flip the cornerstones of democracy in order to re-engineer the world political order that has kept most of the world free since 1945.

Career U.S. Intelligence officer Malcolm Nance will examine how Russia has used cyber warfare, political propaganda, and manipulation of our perception of reality--and will do so again--to weaponize American news, traditional media, social media, and the workings of the internet to attack and break apart democratic institutions from within, and what we can expect to come should we fail to stop their next attack.

Nance has utilized top secret Russian-sourced political and hybrid warfare strategy documents to demonstrate the master plan to undermine American institutions that has been in effect from the Cold War to the present day. Based on original research and countless interviews with espionage experts, Nance examines how Putin's recent hacking accomplished a crucial first step for destabilizing the West for Russia, and why Putin is just the man to do it.

Nance exposes how Russia has supported the campaigns of right-wing extremists throughout both the U.S. and Europe to leverage an axis of autocracy, and how Putin's agencies have worked since 2010 to bring fringe candidate Donald Trump into elections.

*Is President Donald Trump Trying To Dismantle NATO & The European Union? | The Last Word | MSNBC | 06/29/18 | 10:00

Solar Is the Future. Donald Trump Tied a Bow on It and Gave It to China.
MotherJones | Jeffrey Ball | July/August 2018

Most Americans have never heard of Huawei (pronounced HWA-way), but the company operates in 170 countries, employs 180,000 people, and in 2017 had revenue of $92 billion. These days it's leveraging its telecom experience to corner what it sees as the next big thing: solar energy. The company's main solar product is a suitcase-sized device called an inverter, which changes the direct current, or DC, that a solar panel produces into the type that can be fed into a power grid: alternating current, or AC.

Huawei is boosting its solar-inverter business not just by undercutting Western companies on price, but by beating them on innovation. ... Read more

Life and death on billionaires' superyachts | The Guardian | 05/26/18 | 7:34

Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Friday, June 29 [8:22]

Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Friday, June 29 (FULL) | 59:02

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Actor Jay Ellis of HBO's "Insecure" Condemns Separation of Families at Protest in Brownsville, Texas
DNC Chair Tom Perez on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Upset Win & Obama's Immigration Policies
Voices from Brownsville Protest: We Have a Moral Responsibility to Help Asylum Seekers
Don't Put Children in Cages! Reunite Families Now! A Message from Youth Protesters in Texas
Texas Protesters March to Federal Courthouse Where Migrants Are Being Prosecuted in Mass Trials
Susan Sarandon & Linda Sarsour Speak Out as 630 Women Arrested Protesting U.S. Immigration Policy

LEAKED: Trump Says NATO As Bad As NAFTA | TYT | 06/28/18 | 9:09

White House Responds to Murdered Journalists | TYT | 06/28/18 |3:05

BREAKING: 5 Dead In Newspaper Shooting | TYT | 06/28/18 |12:44

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Friday News Roundup -- Domestic | 1a.org | 06/29/18 | 1hr

The week started with a national debate about the fact that we were having a national debate about civility. Then, the Supreme Court took over the headlines. ...
And Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement after 30 years. He notified President Trump of his retirement via letter:
In primary news, newcomer Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez defeated Representative Joseph Crowley in an upset victory for the Democratic bid in New York's 14th Congressional District. The 28-year-old is expected to beat Anthony Pappas in the midterms, which would make her the youngest woman ever elected to Congress.
On Wednesday, Officer Michael Rosfeld was charged with homicide in the fatal shooting of Antwon Rose in Pittsburgh. Rose, who was unarmed, had tried to flee a traffic stop when Rosfeld began to shoot.
The debate over immigration continued this week. The House did not pass a bill backed by President Trump to fund a border wall, and House Democrats demanded that the Trump administration put forth a reunification plan for immigrant parents and children separated at the border.

Friday News Roundup -- International | 1a.org | 06/29/18 | 1hr

President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet in Helsinki, Finland on July 16.
In Yemen, a Saudi-led coalition is attacking Hodeidah, a key port held by Iran-allied Houthi rebel fighters. Jane Arraf and Camila Domonoske report: Yemen has been engulfed in a civil war since Iranian-backed Houthis overthrew the Yemeni government and seized control of the capitol three years ago. Saudi Arabia, the UAE and other members of the coalition have fought to restore the ousted government and roll back Iran's influence in the region. The U.S. has provided the Saudi-led coalition logistical support.
And as The Guardian reports, "this year's election is far more about domestic issues than foreign policy: primarily the rampant corruption and crime that have left Mexico's 88 million registered voters furious and afraid." Since campaigning began in September, "more than 120 political candidates have been killed."
President Trump has often directed ire toward Latin America's second-largest economy, and famously said "when Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best" in his 2015 presidential announcement speech. How might these new leaders change Mexico's relationship with the U.S.?
In Germany, CNN International described this week as "make-or-break" for Chancellor Angela Merkel. Migration and Germany's asylum policy have become huge issues for her leadership. Der Spiegel reports that Bavarian conservatives have strongly criticized the German refugee asylum policy, which has threatened Merkel's political coalition.

How the upper middle class keeps everyone else out | VOX | 03/05/18 | 7:07

GOP Anxious To Subvert Robert Mueller As Donald Trump Russia Probe Pushes On | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC | 06/28/18 | 19:38

Joe: Trey Gowdy Knows Better | Morning Joe | MSNBC | 06/29/18 | 12:29

'A Disgraceful Exercise And A Dangerous One' | Morning Joe | MSNBC | 06/29/18 | 23:21

Rob Reiner On Donald Trump: You Don't Want A Potential Criminal Picking A Justice | Hardball | MSNBC | 06/29/18 | 10:28

*Paul Ryan: Why I don't publicly criticize Trump | CNN | 06/28/18 | 5:43

Trump ignores question on anti-media rhetoric | CNN | 06/28/18 | 8:00

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Alexandria Ocasio Cortez: Trump Isn't Ready For A Girl From The Bronx | Stephen Colbert | 06/29/18 | 5:56

Trump And Putin Are Getting Back Together | Stephen Colbert | 06/28/18 | 4:48

President Trump Reverts Back To Campaign Rally Trump | Stephen Colbert | 06/29/18 | 5:31

The Daily Show with Trevor Noah

In Trump's Universe, Everyone Loves "Space Force" | Trevor Noah | 06/29/18 | 4:36

Late Night with Seth Meyers

Trump's Rally; Kennedy Retires; GOP Attacks Russia Probe | Seth Meyers | 06/28/18 | 11:04

How America Got Divorced from Reality: Christian Utopias, Anti-Elitism, Media Circus | Kurt Andersen | Big Think | older, 10/08/17 | 12:31

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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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