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Friday March 31, 2017

Trump's War on Terror Has Quickly Become as Barbaric and Savage as He Promised
TheIntercept | Glenn Greewald | 03/26/17

FROM THE START of his presidency, Donald Trump's "war on terror" has entailed the seemingly indiscriminate slaughter of innocent people in the name of killing terrorists. In other words, Trump has escalated the 16-year-old core premise of America's foreign policy -- that it has the right to bomb any country in the world where people it regards as terrorists are found -- and in doing so, has fulfilled the warped campaign pledges he repeatedly expressed.

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*Media Largely Fine With Trump's Civilian Bloodbath | TYT | 03/30/17 | 12:57

FBI releases never-before-seen photos from 9/11 Pentagon attack
The Pentagon debris
Politico | author | 03/31/17

The FBI on Thursday released to the public about two dozen never-before-seen photos from the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attack on the Pentagon. The 9/11 attacks -- in New York, Virginia and Pennsylvania -- killed nearly 3,000 people, including 184 at the Pentagon, where a hijacked American Airlines Flight 77 crashed into the west side of the building. The "9/11 Attacks and Investigation Images" were posted to "The Vault," the FBI's Freedom of Information Act Library. ... Read more

Just a reminder:

  1. The facade of the Pentagon didn't collapse until 45 minutes after the plane hit the hardened "newly renovated" section.
  2. The original hole the plane disappeared into was approximately 16 feet in diameter.
  3. The fiberglass reinforced nose of the plane made it through 3 hardened rings of buildings (6 hardened walls) before it made a perfectly round exit hole in C ring.
  4. Many of the columns between the entrance and exit holes were perfectly intact.
  5. The plane hit the exact offices where the accountants who were looking into the missing 2.3 trillion dollars Donald Rumsfeld spoke of at a news conference on 9/10 (day before 9/11).
Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Friday, March 31 [13:06]
Have Feds Flipped Mike Flynn Against Trump? | TYT | 03/29/17 | 3:55
Quick Hits: Trump Bans "Climate Change," South Korean President Arrested, And More... | TYT | 03/30/17 | 3:46
Single Payer Pros & Cons Exposed | ThomHartmann | 03/30/17 | 11:56
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*Trump Administration Scandals Risk Normalizing Corruption | MSNBC Rachel Maddow | 03/31/17 | 9:28
Former FBI Agent: Possible Russia, Trump Campaign Collusion Worries Me | MSNBC Morning Joe | 03/31/17 | 9:01
Flynn offers to testify on Russia for immunity | CNN Anderson Cooper | 03/31/17 | 15:49
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Late Show's Presidential Leak-crets, Vol. 3 | Stephen Colbert | 03/31/17 | 5:33
The Daily Show with Trevor Noah
So Much News, So Little Time - Nepotism, Impeachment & the Freedom Caucus | Trevor Noah/Daily Show | 03/30/17 | 6:27

03.31.2017. 13:48

Thursday March 30, 2017

Ivanka Trump, Shifting Plans, Will Become a Federal Employee
NYTimes | Maggie Haberman | 03/29/17

Ms. Trump, 35, will be an assistant to the president; Mr. Kushner, 36, has the title of senior adviser.

Ivanka Trump, the elder daughter of President Trump, is becoming an official government employee, joining her husband, Jared Kushner, in serving as an unpaid adviser to her father in the White House.

The announcement on Wednesday amounts to the formal recognition of the value Mr. Trump places on the judgment and loyalty of both his daughter and his son-in-law. While relying on family members for advice is hardly unusual for a president, giving them a formal role has few precedents. Read more
Trump Makes Ivanka Official | TYT | 03/29/17 | 5:07

Trump says coming up with a bipartisan health-care bill will be 'so easy.'
WashingtonPost | Peter W. Stevenson | 03/29/17

After President Trump and congressional Republicans admitted defeat in their effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act and replace it with the American Health Care Act, Trump publicly put the blame on Democrats. That, despite the fact that Republicans had enough votes to pass a bill without any Democrats onboard -- if they could only come together as a party.

So when it became clear the GOP didn't even have enough votes to pass the bill without Democratic support, they abandoned it. Trump said he'd move on to tax revision, promising to let the Affordable Care Act "explode." ... Read more
Trump Is Sure Healthcare Reform Will Be Easy | TYT | 03/29/17 | 7:44

More Trump U lawsuits are coming -- if Judge Gonzalo Curiel lets fraud cases move forward
RawStory | Brad Reed | 03/29/17

When Trump University agreed to fork over $25 million to settle a fraud lawsuit last December, President Donald Trump probably though he'd put the matter to bed permanently.

... Specifically, Politico notes that Curiel will determine whether the $25 million settlement "is fair to thousands of people who paid anywhere from about $1,500 for a three-day seminar up to about $35,000 for the 'gold elite' mentorship." ... Read more
Trump University Coming Back To Haunt Donald | TYT | 03/29/17 | 6:15

Keith Olbermann
Could Donald Trump Pass a Sanity Test? | Keith Olbermann | 03/29/17 | 6:37
Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Thursday, March 30 [12:47]
Corporations Want Your Browser History, And Trump Wants To Give It To Them | TYT | 03/29/17 | 6:18
Trump SHREDDING Obama's Environmental Rules | TYT | 03/29/17 | 8:21
*Will the Stock Market Keep Going Up Under Trump? | TYT | 03/29/17 | 7:31
Keiser Report: Lethal Economic Shocks (E1051) | RT | 03/30/17 | 25:45
Max and Stacy discuss the economic shocks that are more lethal in America than anywhere else. In the second half, Max continues his conversation with Professor John Mill Ackerman about the Mexico-USA relationship in the age of Trump.
*Does the Falling Stock Market Mean Trump is the Next Hoover? (FULL) | ThomHartmann | 03/28/17 | 27:57<
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*Political Strains In West Serve Vladimir Putin Goals | MSNBC Rachel Maddow | 03/29/17 | 20:06
Focus Group Reacts To President Donald Trump: 'Impulsive, Chaotic' | MSNBC Morning Joe | 03/30/17 | 9:46
Donald Trump loses control of the Bully Pulpit | MSNBC Morning Joe | 03/30/17 | 17:10
Ivanka Trump Takes Official Adviser Position In Father's Office | MSNBC The 11th Hour | 03/30/17 | 4:26
Campaign To Purchase Lawmakers' Browsing History | MSNBC All-in | 03/30/17 | 2:26
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Scrapping Of Internet Privacy: Something We Can All Hate Together | Stephen Colbert | 03/30/17 | 5:37
Trump Addresses (And Is The Reason For) A Women's Empowerment Forum | Stephen Colbert | 03/30/17 | 6:01
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
Governing Is Hard: Trumpcare Edition | Samantha Bee | 03/29/17 | 6:23
The Daily Show with Trevor Noah
Trump Vows to End the Nonexistent War on Coal | Trevor Noah | 03/30/17 | 7:59

03.30.2017. 13:54

Wednesday March 29, 2017

Bernie Sanders Tears Into Donald Trump's 'Disaster' Of A Climate Change Order
HP | Lee Moran | 03/29/17

"It is beyond belief that we have the leader of the most powerful country on earth not believing in science."

"President [Donald] Trump's anti-environmental executive orders are a disaster," Sanders says in the clip posted to Twitter on Tuesday. "They are a threat to the future of this country, and to the future of the world."

"It is beyond belief that we have the leader of the most powerful country on earth, not believing in science," he continues in the video, which intersperses clips of him talking alongside captioned facts that disprove Trump's claims. ... Read more

Golden Boy Tarnished: Trump Keeps Giving Jared Kushner More Jobs -- but Is He Any Good at Any of Them?
magazine | author | date

Does he wash the cars, too? Kushner apparently does everything in the Trump administration -- when he's not skiing.

As it turns out Trump's actually a yuuuge believer in taking vacations. He has been to his Florida resort seven times already ($3,000,000.00 at taxpayer expense) and last weekend the White House tried to pretend the president was having meetings at his Virginia golf club. It was later revealed that he was hitting the links again.

So it's not surprising that Trump was quick to forgive his favorite daughter and son-in-law for their little getaway. Not only did he forgive Jared; on Monday he put him in charge of a bold new initiative to run the country like a business with what the Washington Post described as a "SWAT team of strategic consultants" that "will be staffed by former business executives." If the first couple of months of the Trump administration are any indication of what that might look like, we're in for a bumpy ride. As Salon's Simon Maloy observed: ... Read more

David Rockefeller
The Unauthorized Biography of David Rockefeller | Corbett Report | 03/27/17 | 59:13
Dark Secrets of the Rockefeller Family | HC | | 34:43

The Ugly Numbers of Trauma, Exile and Death Caused by U.S. Wars and Interventions in the Past 75 Years
AlterNet | John Dower / TomDispatch | 03/28/17

The casualty list is staggering.

On February 17, 1941, almost 10 months before Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, Life magazine carried a lengthy essay by its publisher, Henry Luce, entitled "The American Century." The son of Presbyterian missionaries, born in China in 1898 and raised there until the age of 15, Luce essentially transposed the certainty of religious dogma into the certainty of a nationalistic mission couched in the name of internationalism. ... Read more

The Violent American Century: War and Terror Since World War II by John W. Dower (April 2017)

World War II marked the apogee of industrialized "total war." Great powers savaged one another. Hostilities engulfed the globe. Mobilization extended to virtually every sector of every nation. Air war, including the terror bombing of civilians, emerged as a central strategy of the victorious Anglo-American powers. The devastation was catastrophic almost everywhere, with the notable exception of the United States, which exited the strife unscathed and unmatched in power and influence. The death toll of fighting forces plus civilians worldwide was staggering.

The Violent "American Century" addresses the U.S.-led transformations in war conduct and strategizing that followed 1945--beginning with brutal localized hostilities, proxy wars, and the nuclear terror of the Cold War, and ending with the asymmetrical conflicts of the present day. The military playbook now meshes brute force with a focus on non-state terrorism, counterinsurgency, clandestine operations, a vast web of overseas American military bases, and--most touted of all--a revolutionary new era of computerized "precision" warfare. By contrast to World War II, postwar death and destruction has been comparatively small. By any other measure, it has been appalling -- and shows no sign of abating.

The winner of numerous national prizes for his historical writings, including the Pulitzer and the National Book Award, Dower draws heavily on hard data and internal U.S. planning and pronouncements in this concise analysis of war and terror in our time. In doing so, he places U.S. policy and practice firmly within the broader context of global mayhem, havoc, and slaughter since World War II--always with bottom-line attentiveness to the human costs of this legacy of unceasing violence.
Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Wednesday, March 29 [14:23]
Wendell Potter -> Will Dems Derail Sanders's Push for Public Option? | TRNN | 03/29/17 | 11:26
Democrats Must Take on Corporate Power If they Want to Win | TRNN | 03/29/17 | 13:17
Janet Redman says -> Trump's Climate Order Protects Fossil Fuel's Bottom Line | TRNN | 03/29/17 | 6:48
TrumpCare Defeat Kicks Off Presidential Twitter Meltdown, As Is Tradition | TYT | 03/28/17 | 4:37
Investigator Devin Nunes Insists He Isn't In The Bag For Trump | TYT | 03/28/17 | 4:30
Blocked Yates Testimony Looking More Like Cover Up | TYT | 03/28/17 | 7:57
Trump Surrogates Blame Obama For Bush-Era Tragedies | TYT | 03/28/17 | 3:24
RT | CrossTalk: The battle of two very different narratives define Washington politics: On the one hand, the Russians did it, and on the other, Obama did it? | 03/29/17 | 24:10
Keiser Report: 'The New Detroit' (E1050) | RT | 03/28/17 | 25:45
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Donald Trump White House A Poor Source For Facts | MSNBC Rachel Maddow | 03/28/17 | 12:52
Mika On Sean Spicer Briefing: 'What Is Wrong With Him?' | MSNBC Morning Joe | 03/29/17 | 11:05
Former CIA Acting Director On Devin Nunes: 'It Feels Like A Cover Up' | MSNBC Last Word | 03/29/17 | 15:36
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
This Diagram Shows Nunes' Conflict Of Interests In Investigating Trump | Stephen Colbert | 03/29/17 | 10:30
The Daily Show with Trevor Noah
MEAL Team Six - How to Save Meals on Wheels | Trevor Noah | 03/28/17 | 6:20
Keith Olbermann
Here's How This Will End for Trump (#52) | Keith Olbermann | 03/28/17 | 6:08

03.29.2017. 12:25

Tuesday March 28, 2017
Bernie Sanders Introducing 'Medicare For All' Bill | TYT | 03/27/17 | 12:23
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Trump takes biggest swing yet at Obama climate legacy
Politico | Alex Guillen | 03/27/17

President Donald Trump will direct the federal government on Tuesday to begin dismantling his predecessor's most significant climate change policies, with a sweeping directive telling agencies to stop trying to reduce the carbon pollution of electric utilities, oil and gas drillers and coal miners.

The executive order Trump will sign represents his biggest blow yet to former President Barack Obama's climate legacy. But it does not go as far as some conservatives would like to dismantle the EPA's authority to regulate greenhouse gases, nor will it begin to separate the U.S. from a landmark international climate accord -- two areas of intense disagreement within the administration. ... Read more

Mar-a-Lago can't release visitor logs -- because it doesn't keep them
Politico | Darren Samuelsohn | 03/28/17

On Friday night, guests streamed into Mar-a-Lago, the president's self-proclaimed "southern White House," for the annual Palm Beach GOP Lincoln Day Dinner. All they had to do to get into the seaside retreat, where the first lady and the president's youngest son were vacationing for spring break, was buy a $300 ticket.

They didn't have to submit to the kinds of rigorous background checks required if they'd been entering the White House in Washington. And there were no weapon screenings or bomb-sniffing dogs checking vehicles of the sort that have long been routine at public restaurants or other places where the president or first lady is present. ... Read more

HE WENT TO JARED: White House Announces Trump’s Son-In-Law Is Now Responsible For Everything
Remember Monty Python?? | 3:18

Top Republican Warns: "Government Shut Down Is A Real Possibility, And Wall Street Is Unprepared"
ZeroHedge | author | 03/28/17

"We're starting to hear growing concerns that a government shutdown at the end of April may be a real possibility given the rise of the Freedom Caucus.... What’s currently playing out triggers flashbacks of the summer of 2011 when the US was downgraded by S&P as a polarized Congress wasn't able to raise the debt ceiling quickly enough." ... Read more

Keith Olbermann
Which of Trump's Cronies Will Flip on Him First? (#51) | Keith Olbermann | 03/27/17 | 8:59
The Truth Of Trump's "I Alone Can Fix It" Canard (#50) | Keith Olbermann | 03/22/17 | 8:33
Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Tuesday, March 28 [14:19]
Col. Lawrence Wilkerson says -> Military-Industrial Complex Pushes Nuke Modernization, Risking Confrontation with Russia | TRNN | 03/28/17 | 10:38
Dr. Michael Mann says -> Study Links Extreme Weather Events to Climate Change | TRNN | 03/27/17 | 10:57
Farmer Art Tanderup says -> Nebraskan Landowners Resist Keystone XL By Refusing to Sell Their Property to TransCanada | TRNN | 03/27/17 | 13:07
Big Government is Getting In Your Face | TYT | 03/27/17 | 3:19
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Embattled Devin Nunes Paralyzes House Intel Committee | MSNBC Rachel Maddow | 03/27/17 | 11:47
Trump son-in-law sought for Russia questions | MSNBC Rachel Maddow | 03/27/17 | 17:09
How President Trump Can Rebound From Low Approval Rating | MSNBC Morning Joe | 03/28/17 | 7:20
Calls Grow For Devin Nunes To Recuse Himself From Russia Probe | MSNBC Morning Joe | 03/28/17 |12:20
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Jared Kushner, Chief White House Nepotism Beneficiary | Stephen Colbert | 03/28/17 | 7:20
Trump On American Healthcare: When You Love Something, Let It Explode | Stephen Colbert | 03/28/17 | 10:09
The Daily Show with Trevor Noah
The Playa-Hater Phenomenon | Trevor Noah/Daily Show | 03/27/17 | 6:20

03.28.2017. 09:35

Monday March 27, 2017

Trump And Master Salesmanship Lose, Facts And Reality Win
HP | S.V. Date | 03/24/17

As the dust settles from Friday's collapse of "Trumpcare" in the House of Representatives and fingers try to point out the various losers, at least one clear winner has emerged: facts. ...

... But Trump's and Ryan's problems go beyond whipping votes among fellow Republicans. Because for all the bashing Republicans have given the Affordable Care Act as government overreach and "socialized medicine," Obama's signature health care law was built upon a Republican, market-based foundation.

Its core principles were dreamed up in a conservative think tank in the 1990s as a way to counter the far more sweeping health-care plan pushed by President Bill Clinton. A version of it was implemented a decade later in Massachusetts under Republican Gov. Mitt Romney.

This, in fact, was the reason so many liberal Democrats were infuriated with Obama in 2009 for proposing a GOP plan to start with, rather than a single-payer scheme like they preferred. ... Read more
Paul Ryan: Comments After Health Care Bill Pulled | CNN Jake Tapper | 03/24/17 | 28:29

**Trump Taps Jared Kushner To Lead Team That Will Run Government 'Like A Company'
HP | Mary Papenfuss | 03/27/17

Fresh from the slopes of Aspen, Jared Kushner will on Monday be named the head of an aggressive new team charged with "fixing" the federal government by using business strategies.

"The government should be run like a great American company," Kushner said on Sunday in an interview with The Washington Post, which first revealed the new initiative. "Our hope is that we can achieve successes and efficiencies for our customers, who are the citizens." ... Read more

Trump administration greenlights Keystone Pipeline
Politico | Ben Lefebvre | 03/24/17

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Trump To CEO: Just Bribe Me Next Time | TYT | 03/24/17 | 4:22
30-Page Explanation for New Keystone XL Decision.pdf
The 30-page explanation the department gave for its new decision refers constantly to findings from the earlier Obama-era report with no new material outside of communications from TransCanada.
On Meet the Press Discussing Russia Investigation's Next Steps | NBC Meet the Press | 03/26/17 | 7:10
After a failed healthcare bill, what's next? | Face the Nation | 03/26/17 | 14:47
*Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Monday, March 27 [14:02]
**More Than 1,000 Civilians Killed by US-Led Airstrikes in Iraq & Syria as Trump Expands War on Terror | DN | 03/27/17 | 12:45
*After Republican Infighting Dooms GOP Healthcare Plan, Trump Vows to Let Obamacare "Explode" | DN | 03/27/17 | 9:46
Medicare for All? Sen. Bernie Sanders Poised to Push for Single Payer after GOP Plan Falls Apart | DN | 03/27/17 | 9:29
Climate Catastrophe Is Here: 2016 Hottest Year on Record | TRNN | 03/26/17 | 11:52
*Trump Didn't Know What Was In Trumpcare Bill | TYT | 03/24/17 | 8:19
Did Trump Secretly Win Trumpcare Debacle? | TYT | 03/24/17 | 5:29
Does The Government Owe It To The People To Protect Them Financially? | TYT | 03/26/17 | 12:40
Keiser Report: Trail of 'American carnage' (E 1049) | RT | 03/25/17 | 25:47
Max and Stacy discuss the trail of 'American carnage' and how it led to a Trump presidency. In the second half, Max and Stacy discuss the OxyCartel pushing millions of prescription pills on small towns across the USA.
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PBS NewsHour Weekend (FULL) | 03/25/17 | 25:03
PBS NewsHour Weekend (FULL) | 03/26/17 | 25:02
A Dire Period Of Scandal For Donald Trump In Turmoil | MSNBC Rachel Maddow | 03/24/17 | 22:58
Chuck Schumer: 'Art Of The Deal Is Out The Window' | MSNBC Rachel Maddow | 03/24/17 | 7:24
Joe: GOP Health Care Bill Needed To Fail | MSNBC Morning Joe | 03/27/17 |14:50
"Worst 100 days we've ever seen" CNN panel DESTROYS Donald Trump AFTER Healthcare FAIL | CNN | 03/24/17 | 4:32
President Trump Plugs Fox Show Hours Before Host Calls On Paul Ryan to Resign | MSNBC | 03/26/17 | 12:40
CNN Morning News: Caucus Member Quits, Trump Blames Caucus For Scuttling Bill | CNN | 03/27/17 | 44:34
Lawrence: Donald Trump's Presidency Effectively Over After Repeal Failure | MSNBC Last Word | 03/26/17 | 16:00
Real Time with Bill Maher
Monologue: Repeal and Disgrace | Real Time with Bill Maher | 03/24/17 | 6:02

03.27.2017. 09:10

Friday March 24, 2017

Trump Is Done Negotiating On Health Care, Demands Vote On Friday
HP | Sam Stein | 03/23/17

The Trump White House is done negotiating over repealing and replacing Obamacare, senior officials said Thursday night, and Republicans are moving ahead with a vote on their bill Friday, even though they seem to lack enough support for passage and recalcitrant conservatives and moderates continued talking.

Tension boiled over in a meeting between top administration officials ? including top strategist Steve Bannon and Chief of Staff Reince Priebus ? and Republican lawmakers hours after House leadership delayed a scheduled vote on their health care legislation Thursday. President Donald Trump, according to Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney, is done negotiating, and House Republicans are scheduled to vote Friday. If the vote fails, Mulvaney said, the president was prepared to leave Obamacare in place. ... Read more

Kochs pledge millions to GOPers in 2018 -- if they vote no on health care bill
CNN | Theodore Schleifer | 03/23/17

In a last-minute effort to sink the Republican health care bill, a powerful network of conservative donors said Wednesday it would create a new fund for Republican 2018 reelection races -- but they'll only open it up to GOPers who vote against the bill.

The advocacy groups helmed by Charles and David Koch have unveiled a new pool of money for advertisements, field programs and mailings that would exclude those who vote for the health care bill they oppose on Thursday. The effort, which they described as worth millions of dollars, is an explicit warning to on-the-fence Republicans from one of the most influential players in electoral politics not to cross them. ... Read more
**Koch Brothers Sabotage Trump's Big Plans | TYT | 03/23/17 | 8:36

'I'm president, you're not': Here are the 5 craziest quotes from Trump's bonkers Time interview
RawStory | Brad Reed | 03/23/17

President Donald Trump sat down with Time Magazine for an interview this week in which he doubled down on multiple falsehoods that he has said over the course of the past two years.

During the interview, Trump repeatedly refused to admit that he had ever said anything that was incorrect, and at times he justified spouting falsehoods by simply claiming that he was quoting "very respected" sources in the media. ... Read more
Trump To Critics: "I'm The President, And You're Not" | TYT | 03/23/17 | 8:46

Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Friday, March 24 [13:20]
*Will House Republicans "Jump Off the Cliff" and Cut Healthcare for 24 Million Americans? | DN | 03/24/17 | 15:31
*Attorney for "Frozen Trucker": Neil Gorsuch May Have Been Most Hostile Judge I've Ever Encountered | DN | 03/24/17 | 9:27
Sen. Al Franken Grills Neil Gorsuch on Frozen Trucker Case in Extended Questioning | DN | 03/24/17 | 10:29
New Provisions Eliminate Healthcare From GOP 'Wealthcare' Bill | TRNN | 03/23/17 | 3:41
Trump Stooge Spectacularly Undermines Investigation | TYT | 03/23/17 | 6:42
Trump DESTROYING Wall Street Regulations | TYT | 03/23/17 | 10:44
Will Our Democracy Survive the Right-Wing Takeover? | ThomHartmann | 03/22/17 | 11:45
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Hayes: President Donald Trump Doesn't Want Or Care About AHCA | MSNBC Chris Hayes | 03/24/17 | 7:38
President Defiant Trump Defends Blatant Falsehoods In New Time Magazine Interview | MSNBC The 11th Hour | 03/24/17 | 6:53
Joe: Let Congress Start Renegotiating On Health Care Bill | MSNBC Morning Joe | 03/24/17 | 18:45
Tom Price: Health Care Bill Is One Step In A Bigger Plan | MSNBC Morning Joe | 03/24/17 | 9:32
Daily Show with Trevor Noah
Republicans Can't Get Their S**t Together on Health Care | Trevor Noah/Daily Show | 03/23/17 | 6:38
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
A Real Conservative Wishlist | Stephen Colbert | 03/23/17 | 0:57

03.24.2017. 10:40

Thursday March 23, 2017

Everything About This Republican Obamacare Repeal Vote Is Nuts
HP | Jeffrey Young , Sam Stein | 03/23/17/span>

An unpopular president and a House Republican leadership team with a seemingly weak grasp of its own members' priorities is preparing to rush through legislation that would trade 24 million people's health coverage for a huge tax cut on wealthy households and health care corporations.

This nearly friendless plan goes by the name of the American Health Care Act, a dull title that belies not only the havoc it could wreak on the health care system but the chaos it's creating within the Republican Party, from the White House to Capitol Hill to the monied interests that fund the GOP's agenda.

The Republican health care reform bill polls poorly, has sparked protests across the country, and would have disproportionately harmful effects on the older, poorer and rural voters often credited with President Donald Trump's electoral victory while having disproportionately positive effects for well-off urbanites.

It doesn't solve the Affordable Care Act's problems, or fulfill Trump's promises to offer universal coverage or his and other Republicans' promises to reduce health care costs for consumers. ... Read more

Russian Agent, Paul Manafort, Ran Trump's Campaign
AP & TYT | author |03/22/17

Evidence shows that Paul Manafort was influencing the Trump campaign to be more pro-Putin.

"WASHINGTON (AP) -- Before signing up with Donald Trump, former campaign manager Paul Manafort secretly worked for a Russian billionaire with a plan to "greatly benefit the Putin Government," The Associated Press has learned. The White House attempted to brush the report aside Wednesday, but it quickly raised fresh alarms in Congress about Russian links to Trump associates.

Manafort proposed in a confidential strategy plan as early as June 2005 that he would influence politics, business dealings and news coverage inside the United States, Europe and former Soviet republics to benefit President Vladimir Putin's government, even as U.S.-Russia relations under Republican President George W. Bush grew worse.

Manafort pitched the plans to aluminum magnate Oleg Deripaska, a close Putin ally with whom Manafort eventually signed a $10 million annual contract beginning in 2006, according to interviews with several people familiar with payments to Manafort and business records obtained by the AP. Manafort and Deripaska maintained a business relationship until at least 2009, according to one person familiar with the work.

"We are now of the belief that this model can greatly benefit the Putin Government if employed at the correct levels with the appropriate commitment to success," Manafort wrote in the 2005 memo to Deripaska. The effort, Manafort wrote, "will be offering a great service that can re-focus, both internally and externally, the policies of the Putin government."" ... Read more

**Russian Agent, Paul Manafort, Ran Trump's Campaign | TYT | 03/22/17 | 15:09
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right by Jane Mayer (2017)

In her new preface, Jane Mayer discusses the results of the most recent election and Donald Trump's victory, and how, despite much discussion to the contrary, this was a huge victory for the billionaires who have been pouring money in the American political system.

Why is America living in an age of profound and widening economic inequality? Why have even modest attempts to address climate change been defeated again and again? Why do hedge-fund billionaires pay a far lower tax rate than middle-class workers? In a riveting and indelible feat of reporting, Jane Mayer illuminates the history of an elite cadre of plutocrats -- headed by the Kochs, the Scaifes, the Olins, and the Bradleys -- who have bankrolled a systematic plan to fundamentally alter the American political system. Mayer traces a byzantine trail of billions of dollars spent by the network, revealing a staggering conglomeration of think tanks, academic institutions, media groups, courthouses, and government allies that have fallen under their sphere of influence. Drawing from hundreds of exclusive interviews, as well as extensive scrutiny of public records, private papers, and court proceedings, Mayer provides vivid portraits of the secretive figures behind the new American oligarchy and a searing look at the carefully concealed agendas steering the nation. Dark Money is an essential book for anyone who cares about the future of American democracy.

Obamacare repeal in jeopardy as Trump offers 11th-hour concessions
Politico | Kyle Cheney | 03/23/17

The Republican plan to replace Obamacare -- backed vehemently by President Donald Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan -- continued to bleed support from moderate House members Thursday morning just hours before an expected vote.

An effort to woo conservatives, hatched late Wednesday, appeared to backfire with other factions in the House Republican Conference, and the growing rebellion threatens to derail Trump's guarantee that he will repeal and replace the seven-year-old health care law.

"After careful deliberation, I cannot support the bill and will oppose it," Rep. Charlie Dent (R-Pa.) announced after he joined moderates for a two-hour meeting with Ryan and House leaders late Wednesday. "I believe this bill, in its current form, will lead to the loss of coverage and make insurance unaffordable for too many Americans, particularly for low-to-moderate income and older individuals." ... Read more

Keith Olbermann
The Truth Of Trump's "I Alone Can Fix It" Canard (#50) | Keith Olbermann | 03/22/17 | 8:33
Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Thursday, March 23 [13:03]
*Jane Mayer on Robert Mercer & the Dark Money Behind Trump and Bannon's Radical Vision | DN | 03/23/17 | 19:19
We look at Robert Mercer, the man who is said to have out-Koched the Koch brothers in the 2016 election. The secretive billionaire hedge-fund tycoon, along with his daughter Rebekah, is credited by many with playing an instrumental role in Donald Trump's election. "The Mercers laid the groundwork for the Trump revolution," Trump's chief strategist Stephen Bannon said. "Irrefutably, when you look at donors during the past four years, they have had the single biggest impact of anybody, including the Kochs." Before Bannon and Kellyanne Conway joined the Trump campaign, both worked closely with the Mercers. The Mercers bankrolled Bannon's Breitbart News, as well as some of Bannon's film projects. Conway ran a super PAC created by the Mercers to initially back the candidacy of Ted Cruz. While the Mercers have helped reshape the American political landscape, their work has all been done from the shadows. To talk more about the Mercers, we speak with Jane Mayer, staff writer at The New Yorker. Her latest piece is headlined "The Reclusive Hedge-Fund Tycoon Behind the Trump Presidency: How Robert Mercer exploited America's populist insurgency." She is also author of "Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right," which just came out in paperback.
*Dark Money Billionaires Push for Pro-Nuclear Radiation Climate Denier for White House Science Post | DN | 03/23/17 | 15:52
*Dark Data: Trump Backers Bankroll Firm Developing Psychological Profiles of Every U.S. Voter | DN | 03/23/17 | 7:01
Nick Brana discusses -> Should Sanders Continue the Fight Outside the Democratic Party? | TRNN | 03/23/17 | 11:43
**Jeffrey Tayler, Contributing editor to The Atlantic, discusses -> Russia vs. USA: Who is the Threat, Who is the Aggressor? Part 2 | TRNN | 03/23/17 | 21:51
Keiser Report: Heading for Global War (E1048) | RT | 03/23/17 | 25:48
In this episode of the Keiser Report Max and Stacy discuss the racket that is war. In the second half Max talks to JP Sottile of NewsVandal.com about trumping Trump and howling at the Moonves: how corporate media raked in the big bucks pushing a reality TV star as president.
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Donald Trump Russia Case 'More Than Circumstantial' | MSNBC Rachel Maddow | 03/22/17 | 21:33
*Paul Manafort Worked For Billionaire On Vladimir Putin's Behalf | MSNBC Morning Joe | 03/22/17 | 14:25
*Lawrence: President Trump, Paul Ryan, Devin Nunes In Over Their Heads | MSNBC The Last Word | 03/23/17 | 14:28
Daily News with Trevor Noah
*Neil Gorsuch Speaks Like Every Action Hero Ever | Trevor Noah/Daily Show | 03/22/17 | 8:53
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
*Trump's Hard Power Budget | Samantha Bee | 03/22/17 | 5:55
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
*TrumpCare's New 'Three-Bucket Strategy'... Buckets Full Of What? | Stephen Colbert | 03/23/17 | 6:10

03.23.2017. 08:43

Wednesday March 22, 2017

Insurance Executive Blasts GOP Health Care Proposal: 'This Bill Is Terrible'
HP | Jonathan Cohn | date

Most insurance industry executives have been circumspect about the repeal of the Affordable Care Act and its proposed replacement, the American Health Care Act. Mario Molina is an exception.

"I think this bill is terrible," Molina, the CEO of Molina Healthcare, told The Huffington Post in a lengthy interview Friday. The company covers more than 4 million people scattered across 13 states ? including California, where it's headquartered, as well as Florida, Michigan, New York and Texas. That makes it the 10th-largest health insurance company in the U.S., according to a 2015 government survey. ... Read more

A President's Credibility
WSJ | author | 03/22/17

If President Trump announces that North Korea launched a missile that landed within 100 miles of Hawaii, would most Americans believe him? Would the rest of the world? We're not sure, which speaks to the damage that Mr. Trump is doing to his Presidency with his seemingly endless stream of exaggerations, evidence-free accusations, implausible denials and other falsehoods.

The latest example is Mr. Trump's refusal to back off his Saturday morning tweet of three weeks ago that he had "found out that [Barack] Obama had my 'wires tapped' in Trump Tower just before the victory" on Election Day. He has offered no evidence for his claim, and a parade of intelligence officials, senior Republicans and Democrats have since said they have seen no such evidence. ... Read more

Democrats Beware: Sanders 'Movement' Turns to Midterms
ABCNews| Alex Seitz-Wald | 03/20/17

... During his presidential campaign, Sen. Bernie Sanders never quite decided whether his "political revolution" could coexist with the Democratic Party or needed to overthrow it. Now, Sanders is one of the most popular political figures in the country and the activists he galvanized have gone on to start new groups, join old ones, or run electoral campaigns.

The path of Sanders' former staffers reflects the split in his movement, and the some are already galvanizing for the 2018 elections -- and setting their sights on their own. .... Read more
Establishment Reacts To Justice Democrats | TYT | 03/21/17 | 19:31

Current vote count: Obamacare repeal would fail
Politico | Kyle Cheney | 03/22/17

President Donald Trump and GOP leaders race to flip holdouts a day before a make-or-break House vote.

President Donald Trump's plan to remake the nation's health care system -- and perhaps the fate of his legislative agenda -- hinges on a 24-hour battle of wills with resistant conservatives that begins Wednesday.

The president, and his allies in House GOP leadership, will bring to bear the full weight of the White House on rank-and-file holdouts as they attempt to secure a handful of votes to pass their plan to replace Obamacare. For members of the ultra-conservative House Freedom Caucus, the goal is to outlast the pressure campaign. ... Read more

The Only True Surprise? Trump's an Idiot (#49) | TRNN | 03/21/17 | 7:07

We Fact-Checked Lawmakers' Letters to Constituents on Health Care
ProPublica | Charles Ornstein | 03/22/17

When Louisiana resident Andrea Mongler wrote to her senator, Bill Cassidy, in support of the Affordable Care Act, she wasn't surprised to get an email back detailing the law's faults. Cassidy, a Republican who is also a physician, has been a vocal critic.

"Obamacare" he wrote in January, "does not lower costs or improve quality, but rather it raises taxes and allows a presidentially handpicked 'Health Choices Commissioner' to determine what coverage and treatments are available to you." There's one problem with Cassidy's ominous-sounding assertion: It's false. ... Read more

Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Wednesday, March 22 [12:17]
Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Wednesday, March 22 (FULL) [12:17]
Note: on the full 59:02 video look for small white circles on the Progressbar they denote the different news stories. You can move the pointer on the Progressbar to jump to each story, and around the video.
  1. Headlines
  2. A Driver Fled His Truck to Avoid Freezing to Death. Only One Judge Ruled Against Him: Neil Gorsuch
  3. Neil Gorsuch, Backed by $10 Million in Dark Money, Refuses to Weigh In on Citizens United
  4. Sen. Schumer Calls on Democrats to Boycott Neil Gorsuch Vote While Trump is Under FBI Investigation
  5. Meet 2 U.S. Citizens Detained at Airports: A Police Chief and a Lawyer Who Sued Trump Administration
*PERI's Robert Pollin says -> Trump's Budget Targets Climate Change Spending Across All Federal Agencies | TRNN | 03/22/17 | 15:02
Glen Ford says -> US Interfered in More Elections Than Any Other Nation | TRNN | 03/22/17 | 13:49
Whistle Blower Teacher Says Charter Schools Draining Students, Resources from Public Education | TRNN | 03/22/17 | 25:39
*Ivanka Trump Is Moving Into The White House | TYT | 03/21/17 | 7:22
Trump Cucks Republicans | TYT | 03/21/17 | 6:41
How The Freedom Caucus May Save Obamacare | ThomHartmann | 03/21/17 | 11:29
**Richard Wolff - Is Amazon the #1 Threat To Jobs? | ThomHartmann | 03/21/17 | 11:51
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SCOTUS Integrity Damaged By GOP Stolen Seat | TRNN | 03/21/17 | 10:34
Joe: Worst-Case Scenario If GOP Health Care Reform Bill Passes | MSNBC Morning Joe | 03/22/17 | 20:34
Daily Show with Trevor Noah
So Much News, So Little Time | Trevor Noah/Daily Show | 03/21/17 | 6:01
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Jeff Sessions Tackles Weed And The White House's (Unrelated) Paranoia | Stephen Colbert | 03/22/17 | 5:07

03.22.2017. 09:58

Tuesday March 21, 2017
Bernie Sanders Town Meeting in VT | TYT | 03/18/17 | 1:03:39
David Rockefeller, Banker, Philanthropist, Heir, Dies at 101

Not Just The US: UK Bans Use Of Laptops On Flights From 6 Mostly Muslim Countries
ZeroHedge | author | 03/21/17

One day after the Trump administration imposed a ban for carry-on electronic devices on planes coming to the US from 10 airports in mostly Muslim countries following unspecified terrorism threats, moments ago the UK issued a similar ban, restricting the use of carry on laptops and tablets for inbound flights for flights originating in the following nations: Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, Tunisia, and surprisingly, Saudi Arabia. ... Read more

Trump Is HISTORICALLY Unpopular. | TYT | 03/20/17 | 6:46
Black Edge: Inside Information, Dirty Money, and the Quest to Bring Down the Most Wanted... by Sheelah Kolhatkar (2017)

The rise over the last two decades of a powerful new class of billionaire financiers marks a singular shift in the American economic and political landscape. Their vast reserves of concentrated wealth have allowed a small group of big winners to write their own rules of capitalism and public policy. How did we get here? Through meticulous reporting and powerful storytelling, New Yorker staff writer Sheelah Kolhatkar shows how Steve Cohen became one of the richest and most influential figures in finance--and what happened when the Justice Department put him in its crosshairs.

Cohen and his fellow pioneers of the hedge fund industry didn't lay railroads, build factories, or invent new technologies. Rather, they made their billions through speculation, by placing bets in the market that turned out to be right more often than wrong--and for this they have gained not only extreme personal wealth but formidable influence throughout society. Hedge funds now manage nearly $3 trillion in assets, and competition between them is so fierce that traders will do whatever they can to get an edge.

Cohen was one of the industry's greatest success stories. He mastered poker in high school, went off to Wharton, and in 1992 launched SAC Capital, which he built into a $15 billion empire, almost entirely on the basis of his wizardlike stock trading. He cultivated an air of mystery, reclusiveness, and extreme excess, building a 35,000 square foot mansion in Greenwich, Connecticut, and amassing one of the largest private art collections in the world. On Wall Street, Cohen was revered as a genius.

That image was shattered when SAC became the target of a sprawling, seven-year government investigation. Labeled by prosecutors as a "magnet for market cheaters" whose culture encouraged the relentless hunt for "edge"--and even "black edge," or inside information--SAC was ultimately indicted in connection with a vast insider trading scheme, even as Cohen himself was never charged.

Black Edge offers a revelatory look at the gray zone in which so much of Wall Street functions, and a window into the transformation of the U.S. economy. It's a riveting, true-life legal thriller that takes readers inside the government's pursuit of Cohen and his employees, and raises urgent questions about the power and wealth of those who sit at the pinnacle of modern Wall Street.

These Are The Four Political Risks Keeping Goldman Up At Night
ZeroHedge | author | 03/21/17

With political uncertainty near record highs (but equity market uncertainty near record lows), Goldman's Jan Hatzius analyzes the four biggest political risks receiving the most attention from market participants (and stand to create the most chaos if the priced for perfection market is disappointed).

  1. The outlook for legislation to replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA, or "Obamacare") remains unclear and risks delaying congressional action on tax reform.
  2. The nomination of Neil Gorsuch to become a Justice on the Supreme Court is expected to move through the Senate Judiciary Committee this week, on its way to the Senate floor the week of April 3. If his confirmation is blocked, it could result in a change in Senate rules that could create a temporary political disruption.
  3. Congressional appropriations expire April 28, and must be extended by then to avoid a temporary government shutdown.
  4. The debt limit was reinstated March 16, and must be raised later this year to avoid disruption to Treasury's ability to borrow.
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Keith Olbermann
The Most Telling Thing About the FBI's Probe into Trump (#48) | Keith Olbermann | 03/20/17 | 6:52
*Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Tuesday, March 21 [11:20]
*FBI Head: Trump Campaign Under Investigation for Ties to Russia; No Evidence Obama Wiretapped Trump | DN | 03/21/17 | 13:08
*Inside How the Federalist Society & Koch Brothers Are Pushing for Trump to Reshape Federal Judiciary | DN | 03/21/17 | 18:46
Behind Neil Gorsuch's Rhetoric, His Record Suggests Aggressive Judge Wedded to Conservative Agenda | DN | 03/21/17 | 11:54
*Democrats Fail to Dig into Trump's Shady Financial Ties During Hearing | TRNN | 03/21/17 | 9:27
*Russia vs. USA: Who is the Threat, Who is the Aggressor?, Part 1 | TRNN | 03/21/17 | 19:33
FBI: We're Investigating Trump For Russia Ties | TYT | 03/20/17 | 10:01
**Sheelah Kohlhatkar: The Black Edge - Banksters, Trump & Populism | ThomHartmann | 03/20/17 | 11:51
**Greg Palast -> Does Trump Have A Deep State Of His Own? | ThomHartmann | 03/20/17 | 11:10
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Russia Seeks Parity With US On Cyber-Power | 03/20/17 | 21:48

Why FBI Russia Investigation Could Take Years | MSNBC Moring Joe | 03/21/17 | 5:47



The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The WERD: Screw Unto Others | Stephen Colbert | 03/21/17 | 9:57
The Daily Show with Trevor Noah
Trump Lies on Twitter During a Congressional Hearing on His Twitter Lies | Trevor Noah | 03/20/17 | 3:48

03.21.2017. 12:39

Monday March 20, 2017

Trump: Everyone knows Russia allegations are 'fake news'
Politico | Louis Nelson | 03/20/17

Hours before FBI Director James Comey is set to testify before Congress on Russia's involvement in the 2016 presidential elections, President Donald Trump renewed his attacks against those who have accused him of having ties to the Russian government.

"James Clapper and others stated that there is no evidence Potus colluded with Russia," the president wrote on Twitter Monday morning, referring to statements made earlier this month by the former director of national intelligence on NBC's "Meet the Press." "This story is FAKE NEWS and everyone knows it!" Read more

2 Months In, Trump May Already Own A First: Most Corrupt POTUS. Ever.
HP | S.V. Date | 03/20/17

Ethics experts cannot think of a predecessor more ready to use the prestige of the office for personal gain.

Imagine a foreign potentate who uses his official position to promote his private businesses. Who makes face time with visiting dignitaries a perk for his paying customers. Whose top aide urges the citizenry to embrace products sold by the sovereign's daughter.

As President Donald Trump enters his third month in office, he has already established at least one record, however dubious: the president most open and willing to use the prestige of the White House to enrich himself and his family. ... Read more

New Batteries for a Self-Substaining Home
The New Home Batteries | 08/20/16 | 27:59
Revenge of the Electric Car | 07/01/16 | 1:29:52
In 2006, as many as 5,000 modern electric cars were destroyed by the major car companies that built them. (Who Killed the Electric Car?).
Who Killed The Electric Car? | Sony | 2006 | 1:32:36
Sorry, it looks like you will have to view it on Netflix.

What A Shock: Comey Says, 'I Have No Information To Support Those Tweets.'
HP | Jason Linkins | 03/20/17

Monday morning on Capitol Hill brought us House Intelligence Committee hearing day, as FBI Director James Comey and NSA Director Adm. Mike Rogers were brought in to answer questions on the alleged links between Russian officials and the inner circle of President Donald Trump's campaign, as well as some of the more outlandish claims that have recently been made by Trump concerning "wiretaps" that were allegedly dropped on Trump Tower by President Barack Obama.

It was the latest moment in a strange and ongoing saga that has necessitated the involvement of government officials who all probably have much more important things to tend right now. At one point, the committee's ranking member, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif) was just reading Trump's tweets to Comey and Rogers, hoping that they would, perhaps, explain whether or not they were, you know, true. ... Read more

Comey: "The Russians Concluded Trump Was Hopeless Last August"
Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Monday, March 20 [11:50]
Trump's Budget Director Mick Mulvaney Insists Cutting Meals for Poor Seniors is Compassionate | DN | 03/20/17 | 4:46
Ari Berman: Supreme Court Pick Neil Gorsuch Has Praised Discriminatory Voter ID Laws | DN | 03/20/17 | 7:40
Trump Adds Another Former Goldman Sachs Official to His Administration | TRNN | 03/20/17 | 10:14
Empire Files: Abby Martin Exposes Steve Bannon | Abby Martin | 03/20/17 | 26:02
Bankruptcy Protection, Debt Jubilee, Students Debt and the Credit System | TRNN | 03/20/17 | 13:50
Quick Hits: Trump's Website STILL Says Muslim Ban, Tillerson Rattles Saber, And More... | TYT | 03/19/17 | 5:58
Trump Rolls Out MONSTROUS New Budget | TYT | 03/16/17 | 17:28
How Trump Wrote Off $100 MILLION In Taxes | TYT | 03/18/17 | 2:47
Keiser Report: Economic Populism (E1046) | RT | 03/18/17 | 25:47
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Watch Live: House hearing on Russia's involvement in the 2016 election (FULL) | PBS | 05:25:28 | 7:56
Leon Panetta: President Trump Should Apologize To President Obama And Move On | MSNBC Morning Joe | 03/20/17 | 8:55
Rep. Schiff: Trump-Russia Ties: 'Circumstantial Evidence Of Collusion' | Meet the Pres | 03/20/17 | 7:49
Rep. Adam Schiff connects the dots between Trump and Russia | CNN | 03/20/17 | 7:56
Alex Jones Show
I have listened to Alex Jones in the past, especially concerning "false flag" operations that the Government has done to other countries. Alex Jones widened my horizons and I feel bad that we have done such attrocities against other countries. But, now I feel Alex Jones is obfuscating the real facts/issues to some far right agenda. I feel we should all be working for a common good!
New NSA Whistleblower Goes Public About Trump Surveillance | AlexJones | 03/19/17 | 28:19
Documents Show Obama Surveilled Entire Trump Family For 8 Years | AlexJones | 03/19/17 | 37:41
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Donald Trump's federal budget plan proposes large funding cuts with largely negative consequences. | John Oliver | 03/19/17 | 12:04


03.20.2017. 18:33

Friday March 17, 2017

FOX NEWS POLL: Bernie Sanders remains the most popular politician in the US
BusinessInsider | Madeleine Sheehan Perkins | 03/16/17

Fox News' poll was conducted from March 12-14, 2017 via telephone (landlines and cell phones) with 1,008 randomly selected voters from across the country. The poll was done in conjunction with Democratic Anderson Robbins Research and Republican Shaw & Company Research. The full poll results report, including answers to over 50 questions ... Read more

Tom Cotton goes after Paul Ryan's agenda in battle of GOP heavyweights
Politico | Burgess Everett | 03/16/17

First on taxes and now on health care, the Arkansas senator has mercilessly attacked the well-laid plans of the House speaker.

Tom Cotton laid waste to the entire thing with just a few words. "The so-called three-phase plan is nothing but politician's talk," Cotton told Politico in an interview this week. "It's all talk."

The Arkansas senator and the House speaker -- both young, ambitious and potential White House material -- are engaged in a surprising confrontation these days. And it could bring down Ryan's signature legislative efforts to undo Obamacare and overhaul the tax code. ... Read more

Trump Just Sold a $15.8 Million Condo to a Consultant Who Peddles Access to Powerful People
MotherJones | Russ Choma | 02/27/17

Last week, Donald Trump's company sealed its first big post-inaugural real estate transaction, selling a $15.8 million penthouse to a Chinese-American business executive who runs a company that touts its ability to exploit connections with powerful people to broker business deals in China.

New York City property records show that Xiao Yan Chen, the founder and managing director of a business consulting firm called Global Alliance Associates, purchased the four-bedroom, six-bathroom condo in Trump's Park Avenue high-rise on February 21. Before taking office, Trump signed documents removing himself from the board of directors of Trump Park Avenue LLC, the entity that sold the unit, but he remains the LLC's owner. ... Read more

Monsanto Isn't Feeding the World--It's Killing Our Children
AlterNet | Katherine Paul | 03/17/17

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Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Friday, March 17 [15:07]
**Ralph Nader Denounces Trump Budget as Corporatist, Militarist & Racist: "The Mask is Off" | DN | 03/17/17 | 24:36
Is Trump Counterterrorism Aide Sebastian Gorka a Sworn Member of Hungarian Nazi-Allied Group? | DN | 03/17/17 | 10:50
Trump's Budget Shreds the Social Safety Net | TRNN | 03/17/17 | 5:23
*Fox News: Bernie Sanders & Plan Parenthood, More Popular Than Trump | TYT | 03/16/17 | 10:03
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What to expect from Trump-Merkel meeting on Russia, NATO | PBS | 03/16/17 | 6:47
Russia Payments Intensify Michael Flynn Scandal. | MSNBC Rachel Maddow | 03/17/17 | 22:22
Rachel Maddow raises the question of whether Donald Trump's former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn committed a crime by accepting payments from Russia, and whether the Trump campaign knew about it before hiring him.
Steve Bannon Possibly Pulling Strings Behind President Trump's Budget Proposal. | MSNBC Morning Joe | 03/17/17 | 12:43

Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
*Deepest State | Samantha Bee | 03/16/17 | 6:51
*Checking in with the #Resistance | Samantha Bee | 03/15/17 | 7:48
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Trump's Tax Returns Were Released By... Trump? | Stephen Colbert | 03/16/17 | 8:11

03.17.2017. 13:17

Thursday March 16, 2017

Trump Budget Takes Hatchet To EPA And Foreign Aid, Adds Billions To Military
Reuters & HP | Roberta Rampton | 03/16/17

President Donald Trump will ask the U.S. Congress for dramatic cuts to many federal programs as he seeks to bulk up defense spending, start building a wall on the border with Mexico and spend more money deporting illegal immigrants.

In a federal budget proposal with many losers, the Environmental Protection Agency and State Department stand out as targets for the biggest spending reductions. Funding would disappear altogether for 19 independent bodies that count on federal money for public broadcasting, the arts and regional issues from Alaska to Appalachia. ... Read more

*Thank Stephen Miller’s Big Mouth For Trump Travel Ban’s Latest Court Woes
HP | Nick Visser | 03/15/17

Recent comments made by a top aide to the White House contributed, in part, to a federal judge’s Wednesday ruling to place a nationwide hold on parts of President Donald Trump’s second attempt at a travel ban against citizens of six Muslim-majority nations.

Stephen Miller, a senior policy adviser to the president, was one of Trump’s most vocal mouthpieces following the fraught rollout of the administration’s first travel ban that sparked massive protests at airports around the country. Shortly after federal judges struck down that order, Miller appeared on television to stump a watered-down version, assuring Fox News it would include only “minor technical differences.” ... Read more

Interesting Bit of History
Tsar Nicholas II abdicated on this day 100 years ago. | RT | 03/15/17 | 2:31
Europe Before WWI - George, Nicholas, Wilhelm: Three Royal Cousins George, Nicholas, Wilhelm: Three Royal Cousins [48:23]
Note: this is an older video, but don't get put-off by the soundtrack, the information is good. It is hard to believe that at the beginning of the 20th century one "Royal Family" owned half of the worlds resources.
Meet Shweeb: Where monorail meets bike
Meet Shweeb: Where monorail meets bike | RT | 03/15/17 | 1:10

Trump’s budget ripped from Bannon’s nationalistic playbook
Politico | Shane Goldmacher | 03/16/17

The president’s first blueprint would deeply cut State Department funds while boosting defense and law enforcement funding.

The “deconstruction of the administrative state” now comes with line items. President Donald Trump released his blueprint for reshaping the American government on Thursday, a budget plan that slashes deeply into the State Department, redirects funds toward the military, guts environmental and housing programs -- and continues to run a nearly half-trillion-dollar deficit.

... Those numbers are stark, particularly for the State Department. Mulvaney said it would be cut by 28 percent -- “a fairly dramatic reduction,” he said -- but still smaller than the initial 37 percent gutting floated in February. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has pushed for more time to assess where to make such severe cuts. Some domestic programs, such as the National Endowment for the Arts, the United States Institute of Peace, the Chemical Safety Board, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which supports PBS and NPR, are on the chopping block for elimination entirely. Trump is pushing numerous such cuts, long sought by conservative Republicans, in the spending plan, while allocating “more money for things like private and public school choice,” Mulvaney said. ... Read more

Keith Olbermann
*Trump Can’t Even Watch TV Correctly (#47) | Keith Olbermann | 03/15/17 | 7:55
Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Thursday, March 16 [12:13]
Bill Black -> Trump's 2005 Tax Forms: 'Like Going to Dinner And Being Served Pictures of Food' | TRNN | 03/15/17 | 15:57
*Economist James Henry says -> Did Russian Oligarch Rybolovlev Bailout Trump in 2008? | TRNN | 03/16/17 | 14:26
DeSmogBlog's Steve Horn says -> Trump Fills the Swamp with Fossil Fuel Lobbyists | TRNN | 03/16/17 | 10:40
When You Have To Explain Your Boss Lied About Wiretapping... | TYT | 03/15/17 | 9:10
Republicans Now Blaming Each Other For TrumpCare Sh*tshow | TYT | 03/15/17 | 12:36
*Keiser Report: Jon Corzine’s Big, Bad Bond Bet. (E 1045) | RT | 03/16/17 | 25:43
Max and Stacy discuss the lawsuit by the administrator of MF Global against PwC for, ultimately, Jon Corzine’s big, bad European bond bet. In the second half Max interviews Charles Hugh Smith of OfTwoMinds.com about whether or not the Federal Reserve Bank has already lost control.
Note: remember Max and Stacy do a lot of bantering in the first half (12 min), usually pretty funny with nuggets of gold, where the second half (12 min) is usually a pretty good interview.
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Donald Trump Fails Again With Muslim Ban In Court | MSNBC Rachel Maddow | 03/15/17 | 9:53
WH Continues Wiretap Talk: 'It Starts To Undermine Their Credibility' | MSNBC Morning Joe | 03/16/17 | 11:08
The White House YouTube Channel | like CSpan??
President Trump Leads a Roundtable with CEOs and Union Workers | TheWhiteHouse | 03/15/17 | 26:54
President Trump Leads a Listening Session on Healthcare | TheWhiteHouse | 03/13/17 | 33:26
White House Press Briefing | TheWhiteHouse | 03/09/17 | 55:07
I looked a little closer to: The White House YouTube Channel. It appears to have been created a month ago. It appears to showcase Trumps meetings and speeches.
Daily Show with Trevor Noah
*Trevor Noah Warns Paul Ryan: Get Ready To Be Thrown Under The Trump Bus | Trevor Noah | 03/16/17 | 7:06
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
*That Does a White Dude Have to do to Get Fired?? | Samantha Bee | 03/15/17 | 2:23
Full Frontal Is Scared: Bassem Youssef Edition | Samantha Bee | 03/15/17 | 2:23
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Trumpcare | Stephen Colbert | 03/16/17 | 4:20

03.16.2017. 12:11

Wednesday March 15, 2017

Breitbart News Leads The Charge Against GOP Health Care Bill
HP | Michael Calderone | 03/14/17

The pro-Trump site is directing its fire at House Speaker Paul Ryan, not the president.

... On the recording from a private conference call in October, Ryan is heard telling House Republicans that he couldn't defend then-GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump at that moment or "in the future." His comments came amid a scandal over the now-president bragging on tape about groping women.

The never-before-heard recording didn't come to light through a liberal or mainstream news site. Rather, the right-wing, nationalist Breitbart News published it Monday night. ... Read more

Parts Of Donald Trump's 2005 Tax Returns Made Public
HP| Nick Visser , Ben Walsh | 03/14/17

Parts of Donald Trump's 2005 federal tax returns were made public on Tuesday night, revealing that the president made $150 million that year and paid $38 million in taxes.

An anonymous source released the first two pages of Trump's 2005 tax returns to Trump biographer and investigative journalist David Cay Johnston. Johnston joined MSNBC host Rachel Maddow on her show late on Tuesday to discuss the returns. ... Read more

**Exclusive Look At President Trump's 2005 Tax Return | MSNBC Rachel Maddow | 03/14/17 | 11:07

This Is What Trump's Deportation Campaign Really Looks Like
MotherJones | Brandon Ellington Patterson | 03/14/17

A woman hospitalized with a brain tumor, a dad dropping his daughter at school, and more.

Since February, dozens of deportation raids have been carried out by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents as Donald Trump has kicked his immigration crackdown into high gear. Immigrants--many of whom have lived and worked in the country for decades--have been arrested at home, at work, and at routine check-ins with ICE officials. Some arrests have sparked protests, while others have gone relatively unnoticed.

This is what one such arrest looked like:
There are several places that immigration officials consider sensitive--schools, churches, hospitals, and ceremonies like funerals and weddings--where they typically refrain from conducting enforcement actions. In the case of Sara Beltrán Hernández, ICE agents skirted this informal policy in late February by arresting her in the Texas hospital where she was receiving treatment for a brain tumor. Beltrán Hernández was transferred to a detention facility in Alvardo, Texas, where she had previously been held after spending 16 months while waiting for a judge to rule on her asylum request. Beltrán Hernández claimed she had fled El Salvador in late 2015 to escape domestic abuse and the gang violence that has devastated the country. ... Read more

Thousands of flights cancelled as snowstorm hits northeast US
Thousands of flights cancelled as snowstorm hits northeast US | Aljazeera | 03/14/17 | 2:05
Note: I have watched videos of houses being printed in China, but they were always printed by huge machines, inside a factory, usually far from the site of the actual home. This 3D Printer is amazing, because the machine can be dropped off and create a home on the actual site (for around $10,000). Heck, give it some legs (or tank treads) and it could roam around creating a complete subdivision/community.

This company will 3D print you a house anywhere you want it
DigitalTrends | Garrett Hulfish | 03/02/17

Giant 3D printers that fabricate homes have always done so in large facilities. Rather than assembling pieces printed elsewhere, engineering company Apis Cor has created the very first 3D-printed house using a mobile printer on-site.

Printing the self-bearing walls, partitions, and building envelope took the machine 24 hours to complete. The final result is the first house printed as a whole with an area of 409 square feet. ... Read more
Apis Cor: first residential house has been printed! | Aljazeera | 02/22/17 | 6:46

'People are scared': Paranoia seizes Trump's White House
Politico | Alex Isenstadt | 03/15/17

Staffers are leaving their phones at home, using secret apps and monitoring each other's social media.

A culture of paranoia is consuming the Trump administration, with staffers increasingly preoccupied with perceived enemies -- inside their own government.

In interviews, nearly a dozen White House aides and federal agency staffers described a litany of suspicions: that rival factions in the administration are trying to embarrass them, that civil servants opposed to President Donald Trump are trying to undermine him, and even that a "deep state" of career military and intelligence officials is out to destroy them.

Aides are going to great lengths to protect themselves. They're turning off work-issued smartphones and putting them in drawers when they arrive home from work out of fear that they could be used to eavesdrop. They're staying mum in meetings out of concern that their comments could be leaked to the press by foes. ... Read more

Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Wednesday, March 15 [14:07]
Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Wednesday (FULL) (03/15/17) [59:02]
Note: on the full 59:02 video look for small white circles on the Progressbar they denote the different news stories. You can move the pointer on the Progressbar to jump to each story, and around the video.
  1. Headlines
  2. David Cay Johnston Speaks Out About Receiving & Revealing 2 Pages of Trump's 2005 Tax Returns
  3. David Cay Johnston: How Trump Pays So Little in Taxes and Plans to Change Tax Law to Pay Even Less
  4. Aid Worker Decries U.S.-Backed "Relentless War" in Yemen Causing Widespread Threat of Starvation
  5. Trump Considers Slashing U.S. Funding to U.N. Amid Warnings of Worst Humanitarian Crisis Since WWII
  6. Arkansas Rushes to Execute 8 Men Using Drug Linked to Painful, Botched Executions
GOP Health Care Plan: Massive Wealth Transfer to Corporations, Military, and the Rich | TRNN | 03/14/17 | 4:32
Bill Black -> Attorney Fired By Trump Set Dangerous Precedent for Wall Street Prosecutions | TRNN | 03/14/17 | 12:07
Does Trump's Son-In-Law Have A Sweetheart Deal With China? | TYT | 03/14/17 | 10:03
What Was Rex Tillerson Hiding In Secret Email Account? | TYT | 03/14/17 | 9:31
Trump Will Believe Anything Aides Put In Front Of Him | TYT | 03/14/17 | 11:02
Eric Trump Can't Figure Out Why Dad's Brand Is So Hot Right Now | TYT | 03/14/17 | 12:03
RT | Keiser Report: Bloodletting Among Retailers (E1044) (03/14/17) [25:48]
Max and Stacy discuss the tripling of the Chinese banking system and the last quarter sharp decline in the E.U., Japan's and America's bank assets signalling 'financial crisis' on the horizon? In the second half Max continues his interview with Wolf Richter of WolfStreet.com about the bloodletting among retailers and how long before the bankruptcies begin.
Thom vs Joe Messina - Is GOP Health Plan Socialism For the Rich? | ThomHartmann | 03/14/17 | 11:21
Americans Don't Care About Choice - They Want Coverage! | ThomHartmann | older, 03/08/17 | 11:56
NPR (National Public Radio) - www.npr.org/
PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) - pbs.org/
**Why Presidents Release Their Tax Returns | MSNBC Rachel Maddow | 03/14/17 | 19:08
**Sen. Elizabeth Warren Calls GOP Bill 'Punch In The Gut' | MSNBC All-In Chris Hayes | 03/14/17 | 19:08
FBI Director James Comey Pressed To Detail Russia Probe | MSNBC Morning Joe | 03/15/17 | 6:42
Lindsey Graham: I Want To Know If There Was Surveillance | MSNBC Morning Joe | 03/15/17 | 13:06
*Russia! Russia! Russia! (#46) | Keith Olbermann | 03/14/17 | 7:09
A Monologue From Stephen Colbert As Rex Tillerson As Wayne Tracker | Stephen Colbert | 03/15/17 | 6:17

03.15.2017. 07:33

Tuesday March 14, 2017

GOP's 'Act Of Mercy' Could Result In 24 Million People Losing Health Care
HP| Amanda Terkel , Sam Stein | 03/13/17

As they seek to replace Obamacare with a conservative alternative, Republicans are discovering that finding the right sales pitch on health care can be an incredibly delicate task. For weeks now, the party has touted its plan as a compassionate salve to the woes of Obamacare ? without acknowledging that there are serious trade-offs in return. House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) has gone so far as to call the bill an "act of mercy."

Under the Republican plan, repealing the Affordable Care Act could result in 24 million people losing health care coverage over the next decade. Older Americans would have to pay significantly more for insurance. A single 64-year-old who makes $26,500, for example, could face a 700 percent jump in premiums (from $1,700 now to $14,600 under the GOP bill). ... Read more

We need to remember the old adage/idiom:
Before you judge a man, walk a mile in his shoes.
walk a mile in someone else's shoes means before judging someone, you must understand his experiences, challenges, thought processes, etc. The full idiom is: Before you judge a man, walk a mile in his shoes. In effect, it is a reminder to practice empathy. While long credited as a Native American aphorism, replacing the word shoes with moccasins, the saying almost certainly is derived from a Mary T. Lathrap poem published in 1895. The original title of the poem was Judge Softly, later titled Walk a Mile in His Moccasins.

6 Things Paul Ryan Doesn't Understand About Poverty (But I Didn't, Either)
AlterNet | Karen Weese / Salon | 03/14/17

The rude dentist wasn't a cartoon villain; heck, most of the time he was probably a pretty nice guy. The problem was that he was utterly unable to imagine a life unlike his own, in which dental care wasn't a given -- where if there are five things on the list of essentials and the money runs out after item four, you just can't have number five, no matter how bad the pain. There was nothing in his personal experience to suggest the existence of such a life. He'd never imagined it, and no one had ever made him try. So he felt nothing when he crushed Nicole's hope and pride in two short sentences; indeed, he didn't realize he was doing it at all.

Fortunately, most of us are much more perceptive than that dentist. But there may be gaps in our experience that, despite our best intentions, leave us with blind spots about American families living in poverty. Here are a few things we may have missed: Hi, I'm right here ... Read more

Why Trump's government overhaul won't work
Politico | Kevin Kosar | 03/14/17

The president has the right idea. But he forgot to include the people that can make it happen.

What's not to like? The executive branch is an organizational basket case, and it sorely needs a re-think. For 238 years, citizen legislators and presidents have come to town with dreams of fixing public problems, hatching new agencies and programs to do it, many of which live long beyond the problem they were intended to solve. The slow aggregation of government initiatives has produced a $3.8 trillion per year government with at least 180 agencies. With each passing year, the government becomes more complex and incoherent -- "kludgeocracy", as political scientist Steven Teles termed it.

... But when it comes to the order itself -- well, it's hard to see how it has any chance of solving that problem. It instructs all agencies to examine their operations and draft plans for reorganization within 180 days. Mick Mulvaney, head of the Office of Management and Budget, must then take the agencies' plans and work them into a master plan for government reorganization. ... Read more

"The Powers-That-Be Have Looted Everything" - Greek Farmers Fight Riot Police With Shepherd Crooks
ZeroHedge | author | 03/14/17

Taxes are being hiked to satisfy inspectors who represent the international creditors who Greece's debt. If the government can't pay 7 billion euros by July, then the country will once again face the possibility of default. However, the farmers are determined to change their Leftist government's mind about the tax hikes. One of the protesting farmers who spoke to The Guardian stated that "We want to have them take back everything they have encumbered us with. To us, it seems like the powers that be have looted everything." ... Read more

There Is Nothing Normal About the Snowstorm About to Slam the East Coast
MotherJones | Eric Holthaus | 03/13/17

... If you live on the East Coast, you might have become complacent about epic snowstorms like this one. Twenty inches or so doesn't seem like such a big deal when you've lived through similar storms. But looking at the data, you'll see that 20-inch snowstorms are a relatively new phenomenon in places like New York City.

For the first 100 years that meteorologists kept weather records at Central Park, from 1869 through 1996, they recorded just two snowstorms that dumped 20 inches or more. But since 1996, counting this week's storm, there have been six. (You'll find similar stats for other major East Coast cities.) ... Read more

Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Tuesday, March 14 [11:34]
*Healthcare or Wealthcare? 24 Million to Lose Insurance Under GOP Plan While Rich Get Big Tax Breaks | DN | 03/14/17 | 13:23
*ALEC & For-Profit Health Industry Embrace GOP Bill Despite Opposition from Doctors & Nurses | DN | 03/14/17 | 10:49
*Is Jared Kushner Breaking the Law with $400M Real Estate Deal with Firm Tied to Chinese Gov't? | DN | 03/14/17 | 4:40
*From Lobbyists to Reality Show Stars, Meet the Hundreds of Officials Trump Has Quietly Installed | DN | 03/14/17 | 5:34
*Dr. Alan Robock responds -> Climate Scientist Slams Pruitt for Distorting Science of Global Warming | TRNN | 03/14/17 | 9:20
*DeSmogBlog's Steve Horn says -> Portions of Keystone XL, Dakota Access Built By Oligarch Who Helped Bring Putin to Power | TRNN | 03/14/17 | 14:32
Trump Cares This Much About The 24 Million Losing Healthcare... | TYT | 03/13/17 | 11:05
FBI Investigating Trump's Connection To Russian Bank | TYT | 03/13/17 | 8:05
Kellyanne Conway On Microwaves That Turn Into Cameras! | TYT | 03/13/17 | 4:20
Steve King Doubles Down On Racist Tweet | TYT | 03/13/17 | 9:07
NPR (National Public Radio) - www.npr.org/
PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) - pbs.org/
Bernie Sanders: GOP Health Care Bill 'Is Not Health Care Legislation' | MSNBC | 03/13/17 | 6:59
Mika On Wiretapping Claims: Were You Lying, Mr. President? Did You Make It Up? | MSNBC Morning Joe | 03/14/17 | 6:53
Inside Stephen Bannon's Nomadic Lifestyle | MSNBC Morning Joe | 03/13/17 | 4:55
Lawrence On President Donald Trump's Lies, Big And Small | MSNBC The Last Word | 03/14/17 | 9:53
Gutting Health Care Will Kill Americans (#45) | Keith Olbermann | 03/14/17 | 8:47
Third Month Mania - What Is the Greatest Donald Trump Tweet of All Time? | Trevor Noah/Daily Show | 03/14/17 | 5:08
*Stephen Reaches Out To President Obama Via Microwave | Stephen Colbert | 03/14/17 | 10:52

03.14.2017. 16:08

Monday March 13, 2017

HHS Secretary Tom Price Says 'Nobody Will Be Worse Off Financially' Under Obamacare Repeal
HP | Amanda Terkel | 03/12/17

President Donald Trump's administration made a bold guarantee Sunday morning, telling Americans that health insurance won't cost more if Republicans repeal the Affordable Care Act.

"I firmly believe that nobody will be worse off financially in the process that we're going through, understanding that they'll have choices that they can select the kind of coverage that they want for themselves and for their family, not the government forces them to buy," Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price said on NBC's "Meet the Press." ... Read more

Break Out The Shovels: Northeast Faces Blizzard And Winter Storm Watch
HP | Nina Golgowski | 03/12/17

A blizzard watch has been issued for parts of the Northeast, including New York City and Boston, with up to 18 inches of snow expected in some areas beginning Monday.

The National Weather Service is forecasting the bitter blast to roll up the coast Monday night and into Tuesday for most of the region. Parts of New Hampshire, Maine and Massachusetts may see snowfall into early Wednesday. ... Read more

Sarah Palin Blasts GOP Health Care Plan As 'Socialism'
magazine | author | date

An angry Sarah Palin tore into the new proposed Republican health care program as "socialism" on Saturday. In a strident interview with the conservative news outlet Breitbart, she also ripped the "quasi-reformed" proposal as a "RINO plan" -- Republican in name only. She said she expects President Donald Trump to "step in and fix it." "Remember this is government-controlled health care, the system that requires enrollment in an unaffordable, unsustainable, unwanted, unconstitutional continuation of government-run medicine," the former Alaska governor and one-time vice presidential candidate told Breitbart. "Even in this new quasi-reformed proposal, there is still an aspect of socialism. That's the whole premise here." Read more

9/11 - All Our Lives Changed on This Date
I have been collecting James Corbett videos so I can create a webpage of just his stuff. In the process I ran across some newer 9/11 vidoes that I found very interesting. So I decided to post them here.

Note: Christopher Bollyn's videos talk a lot about Zionism, but I feel he is talking about the State of Isreal and what "bad actors" are doing in the name of the country and not in the name of the Jewish people. I might be naive, but that is my take.
    First start with:
  1. Jame's video: 9/11: A Conspiracy Theory | CorbettReport | 09/11/11 | 4:55
  2. Then watch:
  3. 9/11 Conspiracy Solved: Names, Connections, & Details Exposed! | 10/31/12 | 43:28
  4. If you have time watch:
  5. Beyond the 28 Pages - What A Real 9/11 Investigation Would Reveal | 08/30/16 | 33:02
  6. It is kind of a repeat of the previous video, but with more current stuff.
    Next watch:
  7. "Solving 9-11 Ends the War" with Christopher Bollyn | NWGrassroots | 05/29/16 | 1:45:42
  8. If you have time watch:
  9. Christopher Bollyn "The Dual-Deception of 9/11 and the Fraudulent War on Terror" | OpenMindConferenceDK | 11/04/16 | 1:58:00
  10. Again it is kind of a repeat of the previous video, but from a different perspective.
    Next watch:
  11. Take the 47 Minute Building 7 Challenge! | 05/16/15 | 47:00
  12. And of course you have to watch:
  13. The Lone Gunmen - Pilot Show | 03/04/01 | 44:30
*9/11: A Conspiracy Theory | CorbettReport | 09/11/11 | 4:55
*9/11 Trillions: Follow The Money | CorbettReport | 09/11/15 | 59:34
*9/11 Conspiracy Solved: Names, Connections, & Details Exposed! | 10/31/12 | 43:28
*Beyond the 28 Pages - What A Real 9/11 Investigation Would Reveal | 08/30/16 | 33:02
*"Solving 9-11 Ends the War" with Christopher Bollyn | NWGrassroots | 05/29/16 | 1:45:42
*Christopher Bollyn "The Dual-Deception of 9/11 and the Fraudulent War on Terror" | OpenMindConferenceDK | 11/04/16 | 1:58:00
bollyn website
*Take the 47 Minute Building 7 Challenge! | 05/16/15 | 47:00
*WTC 7 - BBC The Third Tower | BBC | 09/19/11 | 58:56
*The Lone Gunmen - Pilot Show | 03/04/01 | 44:30
Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Monday, March 13 [14:22]
*China Warns U.S. & North Korea Are Set for "Head-On" Collision Amid Rising Tensions & Provocations | DN | 03/13/17 | 16:56
Mustafa Ali -> Meet the Top EPA Environmental Justice Official Who Quit to Protest Pruitt & Trump | DN | 03/13/17 | 13:11
*Col. Lawrence Wilkerson tells -> Adversarial Relationship With Russia Result of Decades of US Provocation | TRNN | 03/12/17 | 11:56
*Vijay Prashad provides analysis -> US Deploys More Troops to Syria to Fight ISIS | TRNN | 03/12/17 | 12:34
Thousands Protest Against Dakota Access in Front of White House | TRNN | 03/12/17 | 10:29
Trump INSULTS Veterans | TYT | 03/11/17 | 6:51
McConnell Doesn't Seem Psyched About Border Wall | TYT | 03/11/17 | 2:14
*Tucker Carlson Just Now Realizing Republicans Hate Poor People | TYT | 03/11/17 | 3:16
*Trump's Toll Road America | TYT | 03/11/17 | 3:16
Note: I don't particularly like or trust this guy Roger Stone, but I find it interesting he is on RT. What he says is still as creepy as ever.
Wiretapping at Trump Tower: 'A scandal bigger than Watergate' -- former Trump adviser Stone | RT | 03/11/17 | 25:55
*What The Wikileaks Dump Tells Us | FULL | ThomHartmann | 03/09/17 | 28:01
Is the far-right headed for victory in the Netherlands? | Aljazeera: Inside Story | 03/13/10 | 25:00
Will the Turkish referendum row escalate? | Aljazeera: Inside Story | 03/12/10 | 25:00
Can Turkey and Russia become allies? | Aljazeera: Inside Story | 03/11/10 | 25:00
NPR (National Public Radio) - www.npr.org/
PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) - pbs.org/
CBO: 14 Million More Americans Will Be Uninsured With GOP Health Plan | MSNBC | 03/13/17 | 4:22
House GOP Destroying America While Press Is Distracted By Donald Trump's Meltdowns | RoF | 03/12/17 | 4:01
Deadline Looms For President Donald Trump's Wiretap Claims | MSNBC Morning Joe | 03/13/17 | 4:29
GOP Remains Divided On Health Care Fix | MSNBC Morning Joe | 03/13/17 | 4:29
LastWeekTonight with John Oliver
**American Health Care Act | LastWeekTonight | 03/12/17 | 18:30
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
China's Trump-Branded Massage Parlours Rub Stephen The Wrong Way | Stephen Colbert | 03/11/17 | 7:37

03.13.2017. 22:26

Friday March 10, 2017

Insurance 101 For Paul Ryan: The Healthy Are Supposed To Help Pay For The Sick
HP | Mary Papenfuss | 03/09/17

Everyone pays into the pot and draws on it when they're sick. Younger people, who tend to be healthier than older people, pay for health insurance like everyone else. They'll rely on it when when they need it, probably more when they're older and there are younger, healthier people filing in behind them. It's the same with car insurance. Some people pay for decades and never get into an accident and never collect on their coverage (though the likelihood of anyone never using health insurance is unlikely).

... That's what actuarial figures are all about, so an insurance system can assess the risks of segments of customers to determine what everyone needs to put into the pot so there's enough to pay out when someone needs the money. ... Read more

'They ought to be careful': Trump raises eyebrows with heavy promotion of ExxonMobil announcement
BusinessInsider | Allan Smith | 03/07/17

President Trump raised eyebrows after he posted five congratulatory tweets promoting a Monday announcement from the energy giant ExxonMobil, the company from which his secretary of state came to the administration.

... Initially, the White House posted a press release reiterating the ExxonMobil news. That press release contained a paragraph that appeared to be copied, almost word-for-word, from the Exxon announcement. ... Read more
*TYT | Why Is Trump Doing Free Exxon Commercials?? (03/09/17) [8:12]
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Congress Warns Donald Trump: Stop Deleting Your Tweets
HP | Marina Fang | 03/09/17

When President Donald Trump or a member of his staff deletes a tweet, they may be violating federal law, two top congressmen warned the White House this week.

Reps. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) and Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), chairman and ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, sent a letter to White House counsel Don McGahn on Wednesday expressing concerns about the Trump administration's record keeping habits and its nontransparent use of social media and other forms of electronic communication. ... Read more

Trump may have violated the Constitution to trademark massage parlors and escort services in China
RawStory.com | Travis Gettys | 03/08/17

China has granted preliminary approval to 38 new Trump trademarks that would allow the U.S. president and his family to develop name-branded hotels, golf courses and other hospitality services.

Donald Trump's lawyers applied for the trademarks in April 2016, when the Republican presidential candidate was attacking China at campaign rallies, and their approval raises potential constitutional issues after his inauguration as president, reported the Associated Press. ... Read more
*TYT | Why Is Trump Trademarking Chinese Massage Parlors?? (03/09/17) [6:58]

GOP lawmakers are about to pass two laws that would make it nearly impossible to sue corporations
RawStory.com | Sarah K. Burris | 03/08/17

There are two major laws that Congress is working to pass that would make it more difficult for an American to sue a corporation, The Consumerist reported.

H.R. 985, the Fairness in Class Action Litigation Act is akin to an Erin Brockovich killer. The first of the two laws, would make it more difficult for American's to file class action lawsuits against a corporation, the Center for American Progress explains. The law would put restrictions on the criteria for people banding together for a class action suit. It also would complicate and delay any payments for an attorney representing the clients. Such an act would make it risky for any lawyer to take on a case to help someone hurt by a corporation. According to CAP, Vice President Mike Pence has been seeking laws like this for years. ... Read more
*TYT | Why Republicans Want To Ban Class Action Lawsuits (03/09/17) [10:43]

Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Friday, March 10 [13:11]
**DN | WikiLeaks Publishes Thousands of Alleged Secret CIA Documents (03/09/17) [2:34]
TRNN | Campaign Calls on Bernie Sanders to Lead a New Party (03/10/17) [19:46]
**TRNN | Jane McAlevey -> GOP's Deadly Obamacare Replacement, Part 2 (03/10/17) [16:24]
*TYT | If TrumpCare Fails, Donald Has A "Plan B" (03/09/17) [3:56]
*TYT | Ted Cruz's Trump A$$-Kissing Tour Continues... (03/09/17) [4:58]
RT | CrossTalk: Wikileaks strikes again. On full display are the CIA's spy tools and methods. Snowden provided a briefing book on U.S. surveillance, but the CIA leaks could provide the blueprints. (03/10/17) [24:37]
ThomHartmann | GOP Wants to Take Away Your Healthcare & Make the Rich Richer... (FULL) (03/09/17) [28:01]
Aljazeera | The Big Picture: The People vs America, Part 2 (02/17/10) [27:30]
NPR (National Public Radio) - www.npr.org/
PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) - pbs.org/
*MSNBC Rachel Maddow | Donald Trump Weakens, Hollows Out State Department (03/10/17) [4:20]
Click to zoom in
Propublica.org | Here are More than 400 Officials Trump has Quietly Deployed Across the Government | Al Shaw | 03/09/17 | article
*MSNBC Morning Joe | Michael Flynn Registered As Foreign Agent For Turkey 'Shocking' (03/10/17) [7:32]
*MSNBC Morning Joe | Rex Tillerson Continuing To Be 'Elbowed Out' Of Top WH Meetings (03/10/17) [7:29]
*Keith Olbermann | Trump's Amazing Speech Sure Didn't Age Well (#44) (03/09/17) [8:28]
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
*Samantha Bee | Long Day's Journey Into CPAC (03/09/10) [5:37]
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
*Stephen Colbert | The Creators Of TrumpCare On TrumpCare: 'Don't Call It TrumpCare' (03/10/17) [10:36]
The Daily Show with Trevor Noah
*Trevor Noah | The GOP Still Hasn't Figured Out Health Care (03/10/17) [7:37]

03.10.2017. 11:41

Thursday March 09, 2017
News Articles

*GOP Rushes Forward With Its Health Care Bill
HP | Jonathan Cohn , Jeffrey Young | 03/08/17

They don't know what it will actually do, but that's not stopping them.

House Republicans on Wednesday plowed ahead with their effort to dismantle the Affordable Care Act, brushing aside new criticism of what their proposed legislation would do ? and ignoring protests over the hurried process they are using to enact it.

Two House committees ? Energy and Commerce, and Ways and Means ? spent the day debating complementary portions of the American Health Care Act, the long-awaited bill to repeal and "replace" the 2010 health care law. Ways and Means finally approved the legislation in early Thursday. Energy and Commerce was still debating later Thursday morning. ... Read more

We're Spending $30 Million For Melania To Live In NYC As Trump Suspends Military Child Care

Why the Russia Story Is a Minefield for Democrats and the Media
RollingStone | Matt Taibbi | 03/08/17

Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper appeared on Meet the Press this past weekend to discuss the Trump-Russia scandal. Chuck Todd asked: Were there improper contacts between the Trump campaign and Russian officials?

JAMES CLAPPER: We did not include any evidence in our report, and I say, "our," that's N.S.A., F.B.I. and C.I.A., with my office, the Director of National Intelligence, that had anything, that had any reflection of collusion between members of the Trump campaign and the Russians. There was no evidence of that... Read more

When Whistleblowers Tell The Truth They're Traitors. When Government Lies It's Politics

If the Feds Did Wiretap Trump Tower, It's Not Obama Who Should Worry
WiredMagazine | Brian Barrett | 03/04/17

Early Saturday morning, President Trump fired off a series of tweets accusing, without evidence, former President Barack Obama of wiretapping Trump Tower in the month before the election. Trump compared the alleged snooping to "Nixon/Watergate," and intimated legal action.

What makes the broader allegation so extraordinary isn't that it is new. Quite the contrary. Various reports that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court granted Justice Department investigators a warrant to probe the Trump campaign's ties with Russia surfaced in November. What makes Trump's Twitter tirade so striking is what prompted it, and what it might imply if it's true. ... Read more

EPA's Environmental Justice Head Resigned After 24 Years. He Wants to Explain Why.
MotherJones | Rebecca Leber | 03/09/17

The head of the Environmental Protection Agency's Office on Environmental Justice submitted his resignation on Tuesday. First reported by InsideClimate News, the resignation of Mustafa Ali comes as the Trump administration considers layoffs and budget cuts at the EPA that, if enacted, would eliminate the environmental justice budget and cut funding to grants for pollution cleanup.

Ali, a founder of the program in 1992 who has worked there since, told Mother Jones he resigned because he was concerned the administration's proposals to roll back its environmental justice work would disproportionately affect vulnerable communities. "That is something that I could not be a part of," Ali says. ... Read more

Voters See More Hatred In The Country Since Trump Was Elected
HP | Grace Sparks | 03/09/17

Most Americans believe that hatred and prejudice has risen in the country since President Donald Trump's election, according to a Quinnipiac poll released Thursday. Sixty-three percent of voters said the level of hatred and prejudice has increased, compared to 32 percent who said it hasn't changed and 2 percent who said it has decreased.

Democrats were the most likely to see a negative impact, with 84 percent saying hostility has increased. Republicans were more divided, with a surprisingly high 42 percent agreeing that hatred has risen and 49 percent saying it hasn't changed. The views of independents were almost identical to those of all registered voters. ... Read more

Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Thursday (FULL) (03/09/17) [59:02]
Note: on the full 59:02 video look for small white circles on the Progressbar they denote the different news stories. You can move the pointer on the Progressbar to jump to each story, and around the video.
  1. Headlines
  2. Exclusive: Facing Possible Deportation, Immigrant Activist Ravi Ragbir Speaks Out Before ICE Check-in
  3. A Day Without a Woman: Voices of Resistance from New York City's Women's Strike Rally
  4. "We Want to Stand Up & Be Counted": New Yorkers Speak Out at NYC's Day Without a Woman Rally
**TRNN | Jane McAlevey says -> GOP's Deadly Obamacare Replacement (03/09/17) [7:47]
**TRNN | Journalist Marcy Wheele -> Wikileaks CIA Docs Suggest Gov. Hides Knowledge of Security Vulnerabilities from Tech Industry (03/09/17) [9:49]
**TRNN | Bill Black says -> Chinese Telecom Giant Pays DoJ $892 Million Fine for Practices Trump Wants Legal For U.S. Firms (03/09/17) [12:05]
**TYT | Republicans To Millions Kicked Off Obamacare: Just Go To ER! (03/08/17) [6:45]
**TYT | TrumpCare Loaded With Tax Cuts For The Rich (NONE For Middle Class) (03/08/17) [8:23]
TYT | Office Of Science And Technology Taking Out The Science (03/08/17) [3:49]
RT | Keiser Report: Neoliberalism is Junk (E1041) (03/09/17) [25:47]
Max and Stacy discuss why neoliberalism didn't make us richer. In the second half, Max interviews professor Steve Keen about Quantitative easing (QE) and its role in financial crisis.
Thom Hartmann - www.thomhartmann.com/
NPR (National Public Radio) - www.npr.org/
PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) - pbs.org/
MSNBC - Maddow/Hayes - www.msnbc.com/
Main Stream Media
MSNBC Morning Joe | The 'Nuggets Of Reality In Sea Of Trumpian Paranoia' (03/09/17) [7:32]
MSNBC Morning Joe | 'The most insensitive message': GOP health care talk (03/09/17) [7:32]
MSNBC Morning Joe | Joe: 'Everybody Knows' President Donald Trump's Phone Not Tapped (03/09/17) [7:10]
Some Humor
Samantha Bee
*Samantha Bee | That Was the Week that WTF (03/08/17) [7:03]
Stephen Colbert
Stephen Colbert | TrumpCare, Russian Ambassadors And Other Things Bad For Your Health (03/09/17) [8:54]
The Daily Show with Trevor Noah
Trevor Noah | Trump's Unfounded Accusations of Wiretapping (03/08/17) [7:03]
Trevor Noah | Between the Scenes - Paul Ryan's Health Care Bluff (03/08/17) [1:54]

03.09.2017. 19:30

Wednesday March 08, 2017
News Articles

The Health Care Industry Really Doesn't Like GOP's Obamacare Replacement
HP | Igor Bobic | 03/07/17

Major trade groups representing the health care industry on Tuesday voiced serious concerns, and in some cases outright opposition, to House Speaker Paul Ryan's (R-Wis.) bill to reform the Affordable Care Act, joining a chorus of critics from both the left and the right.

Groups representing hospitals, doctors, nursing homes, patients and older people criticized the Republican proposal. While some major industry players, including insurers and drugmakers, were notably silent, one big Medicaid provider predicted the GOP plan would wreck the insurance marketplace.

The speed with which major health industry groups distanced themselves from the GOP plan stands in sharp contrast to how Obamacare took shape in 2009. Democrats sought input from the health care industry from the beginning, working to build support before their bill was released to the public. ... Read more

From YESTERDAY GOP - A Better Way
Paul Ryan Pushing His TheBetterWay Agenda (2017) [3:56]
ABetterWay.speaker.gov website
Personal Note: I was agast when I went to the GOP's ABetterWay website. I was expecting a fountain of information on all the different projects the GOP is working on, i.e. Poverty, National Security, Economy, The Constitution, Health Care, and Tax Reform. The website is a sham! The website is nothing but a bunch of bullet-points and some attached PDFs. I could have put the website together in an afternoon. Is this what the GOP spending millions/billions of dollars working on? If so we are all in REAL trouble.
A Better Way, Health Care 06/22/16.pdf
NEW Today GOP - American Health Care Act
FoxNews | Paul Ryan Holds Press Conference On New Healthcare Plan (03/07/17) [12:10]
Personal Note: The website is nothing but a bunch of bullet-points and Q&A exchanges. The only substance seemed to be the following:
"Will I be able to buy a real health care plan with it?"

"Our tax credits are based on age and family size."

"Each year, low-and middle-income Americans will be eligible to receive between $2,000 and $14,000 to purchase health insurance, depending on how old you are and how big your family is."
ReadTheBill.gop Or ReadTheBill.gop website.
AmericanHealthCareAct.pdf

WikiLeaks Dumps Documents It Claims Detail The CIA's Arsenal Of Hacking Tools
HP | Ryan Grenoble | 03/07/17

WikiLeaks on Tuesday released a trove of 8,700 documents, which it claims originated at the CIA's Center for Cyber Intelligence, that describe, in detail, the agency's hacking abilities and techniques.

Among the more interesting revelations of the so-called "Vault 7" documents, assuming they're legitimate, is the sheer breadth of devices government hackers could possibly compromise. That includes just about everything powered by Microsoft Windows, Android and iOS, such as smartphones, computers and even Samsung smart TVs, which it allegedly figured out how to turn into hidden recording devices under an effort code-named "weeping angel." ... Read more

Vault 7: CIA Hacking Tools Revealed | Wikileaks website

FoxNews | CIA declines to comment on WikiLeaks document dump (03/07/17) [1:54]

Timothy Geithner's Right (For Once)
ZeroHedge | author | 03/08/17

Many of us disagree with the bloviated, self-congratulatory notion that the Federal Reserve and the U.S. Treasury saved the U.S. economy, capitalism and everything else in 2008-09 up to and including the Central Bank of Mars and the bat guano futures market.

With that said, Geithner's conclusion: current policy extremes, politics and astounding debt levels limit policymakers' emergency options in the next crisis ... Read more
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Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Wednesday, March 08 [13:51]
Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Wednesday (FULL) (03/08/17) [59:02]
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  1. Headlines
  2. Women in More Than 50 Countries Set to Strike Today on International Women's Day
  3. Eve Ensler & Christine Schuler Deschryver on the Predatory Mindset of President Trump
  4. Hurray for the Riff Raff on Feminism, Gentrification, Gender Violence & Art in Era of Trump
Humor (Or Not So Humorous)
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
*Stephen Colbert | Republicans Release New Health Plan, And We're All Going To Die (03/08/17) [10:34]
Stephen Colbert | General Michael Hayden Says The CIA Is Not Spying On Us Through Our Televisions (03/08/17) [7:28]
The ex-director of the CIA and NSA dismisses Trump's wiretapping accusations against Obama and promises Stephen that no one is spying on him while he disrobes.
Keith Olbermann
Keith Olbermann | The Crisis of Trump's Conspiracy Theories (#43) (03/07/17) [6:45]
*TYT | WikiLeaks: The CIA Bugs Everyone's Phones, TVs, Cars... (03/07/17) [10:28]
*TYT | Steve Bannon Loves This "Shockingly Racist" Book (03/07/17) [11:32]
Camp of the Saints by Lean Raspail (1973)

The Camp of the Saints (Le Camp des Saints) is a 1973 French novel by Jean Raspail. The novel depicts a setting wherein Third World mass immigration to France and the West leads to the destruction of Western civilization. Almost forty years after its initial publication, the novel returned to the bestseller list in 2011.

Camp of the Saints on Wikipedia




The Camp of the Saints by Jean Raspail | Ch. 1-10 & Introduction (Audiobook) [1:25:20]
*TYT | Behold The Nightmare That Is TrumpCare... (03/07/17) [14:52]
*TYT | OOPS! Trump Believed Alex Jones On Obama Wiretapping Him (03/07/17) [4:33]
*RT | Vault 7: WikiLeaks releases 'Year Zero' largest ever publication on CIA hacking tools (03/07/17) [3:33]
Thom Hartmann - www.thomhartmann.com/
*ThomHartmann | Prof. Richard Wolff - Be Very Very Careful About the Stock Market...Here's Why (03/07/17) [11:46]
NPR (National Public Radio) - www.npr.org/
PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) - pbs.org/
MSNBC - Maddow/Hayes - www.msnbc.com/
MSNBC Rachel Maddow | More Pieces Of Donald Trump Russia Dossier Check Out (03/07/17) [22:48]
Main Stream Media
MSNBC Andrea Mitchell | Former CIA Director: Wikileaks Dump Could Be 'Very Damaging' (03/07/17) [10:25]
MSNBC Morning Joe | Mika: How Can Anyone Trust What This White House Says? (03/07/17) [9:28]
MSNBC | Amy Klobuchar: Trump's Wiretap Claim An Attempt To 'Distract' From News (03/07/17) [6:53]
FoxNews | New WikiLeaks dump exposes thousands of alleged CIA secrets (03/07/17) [2:37]
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03.08.2017. 12:21

Tuesday March 07, 2017
News Articles

House Republicans Unveil Bill To Repeal Obamacare
HP | Jonathan Cohn , Jeffrey Young | 03/06/17

It would likely take insurance from millions, but conservatives are already protesting.

House Republican leaders on Monday formally unveiled legislation to repeal most of the Affordable Care Act and "replace" it with a very different health policy scheme ? one in which government would do a lot less to help people get comprehensive health insurance and, most likely, many more people would struggle to find affordable medical care.

The bill represents a starkly different vision for the health care system than embodied by the Affordable Care Act. President Barack Obama's 2010 law expanded health coverage to 20 million previously uninsured people and slashed the share of Americans without health insurance to an all-time low. The law targeted financial assistance to lower-income households and featured a slew of consumer protections, starting with an ironclad guarantee of coverage for people with pre-existing conditions.

The plan endorsed by House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), by contrast, offers less financial assistance to low-income people, likely resulting in millions of Americans losing the health coverage they have today, and provides tax credits to people with higher incomes. The bill scraps key consumer protections. ... Read more

House To Ram Bill Through Before Budget Office Can Even Analyze It...

Maybe It's Time To Stop Calling The GOP Obamacare Plan A 'Replacement'
HP | Jonathan Cohn | 03/04/17

This could be the week House leaders finally introduce legislation to repeal the Affordable Care Act, which Republicans have been trying to wipe off the books ever since it became law in 2010. The new bill supposedly exists already ? tucked away in a sealed room somewhere in the Capitol building, available only to Republicans who sit on the committee tentatively planning to mark up the legislation.

Despite the secrecy, reports in Politico, the Wall Street Journal and other outlets have provided a pretty clear picture of what Republicans have in mind. If those preliminary reports are correct, the proposal would fall well short of the repeated promises from President Donald Trump and other GOP leaders to replace Obamacare with something that provides "great health care" for all Americans. ... Read more

FoxNews | Paul Ryan Dodges Questions About Obama Wiretapping Trump (03/04/17) [17:37]
ABetterWay.speaker.gov website
Personal Note: I was agast when I went to the GOP's ABetterWay website. I was expecting a fountain of information on all the different projects the GOP is working on, i.e. Poverty, National Security, Economy, The Constitution, Health Care, and Tax Reform. The website is a sham! The website is nothing but a bunch of bullet-points and some attached PDFs. I could have put the website together in an afternoon. Is this what the GOP spending millions/billions of dollars working on? If so we are all in REAL trouble.
A Better Way, Health Care 06/22/16.pdf

Inside Trump's fury: The president rages at leaks, setbacks and accusations
WashingtonPost | Philip Rucker, Robert Costa and Ashley Parker | 03/05/17

President Trump spent the weekend at "the winter White House," Mar-a-Lago, the secluded Florida castle where he is king. The sun sparkles off the glistening lawn and warms the russet clay Spanish tiles, and the steaks are cooked just how he likes them (well done). His daughter Ivanka and son-in-law Jared Kushner -- celebrated as calming influences on the tempestuous president -- joined him. But they were helpless to contain his fury. Trump was mad -- steaming, raging mad. Read more

Wikileaks Unveils 'Vault 7': "The Largest Ever Publication Of Confidential CIA Documents"; Another Snowden Emerges
ZeroHedge | author | 03/07/17

A total of 8,761 documents have been published as part of 'Year Zero', the first in a series of leaks the whistleblower organization has dubbed 'Vault 7.' WikiLeaks said that 'Year Zero' revealed details of the CIA's "global covert hacking program," including "weaponized exploits" used against company products including "Apple's iPhone, Google's Android and Microsoft's Windows and even Samsung TVs, which are turned into covert microphones." WikiLeaks tweeted the leak, which it claims came from a network inside the CIA's Center for Cyber Intelligence in Langley, Virginia.

... Another profound revelation is that the CIA can engage in "false flag" cyberattacks which portray Russia as the assailant. Discussing the CIA's Remote Devices Branch's UMBRAGE group, Wikileaks' source notes that it "collects and maintains a substantial library of attack techniques 'stolen' from malware produced in other states including the Russian Federation. ... Read more

Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Tuesday, March 07 [12:00]
*DN | This is Still a Muslim Ban: Trump's New Executive Order Decried for Discriminating Based on Religion (03/07/17) [12:50]
*DN | The GOP Fix for Obamacare: Rich Get Tax Breaks While Millions of Others Lose Healthcare (03/07/17) [16:53]
Humor
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Cartoon Donald Trump Is Visited By Ghosts Of Presidents Past (03/07/17) [2:08]
During his weekend retreat to Mar-a-Lago, Cartoon Donald Trump gets some sage tweeting advice from Cartoon Richard Nixon and Cartoon Abraham Lincoln.
Stephen Colbert | President Trump Had A Bad (Or Sick) Weekend At Mar-a-Lago (03/07/17) [2:08]
Keith Olbermann
Keith Olbermann | The Russian Developments That Matter Most (#42) (03/06/17) [8:27]
**TRNN | Col. Lawrence Wilkerson says -> Empire in Decay: Federal Government Falling Apart as Spying Allegations Fly (03/07/17) [11:26]
TRNN | ACLU: Travel Ban 2.0 Still Targets Muslims, Remains Unconstitutional (03/01/17) [6:58]
*TYT | Top Trump Adviser Accidentally Admits WikiLeaks "Back Channel" (03/06/17) [7:11]
*TYT | Kellyanne Conway Tries Her Best To Explain Trump's Wiretapping Claims (03/06/17) [6:59]
TYT | Trump Trots Out Muslim Ban 2.0 (03/06/17) [8:59]
TYT | LEAKED: Child-In-Chief Trump Throws Oval Office Tantrum (03/06/17) [12:55]
TYT | Nude Photos Of Female Marines Posted Online (03/06/17) [7:35]
TYT | Why Everyone's Freaking Out Over Emma Watson's Boobs (03/06/17) [8:28]
Thom Hartmann - www.thomhartmann.com/
NPR (National Public Radio) - www.npr.org/
PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) - pbs.org/
MSNBC - Maddow/Hayes - www.msnbc.com/
*MSNBC Rachel Maddow | Sketchy Donald Trump Deal Eyed For Ties To Iran (03/06/17) [23:10]

03.07.2017. 13:31

Monday March 06, 2017
News Articles

Leashes Come Off Wall Street, Gun Sellers, Polluters and More
NYTimes | Eric Lipton | 03/05/17

Giants in telecommunications, like Verizon and AT&T, will not have to take "reasonable measures" to ensure that their customers' Social Security numbers, web browsing history and other personal information are not stolen or accidentally released.

Wall Street banks like Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase will not be punished, at least for now, for not collecting extra money from customers to cover potential losses from certain kinds of high-risk trades that helped unleash the 2008 financial crisis.

And Social Security Administration data will no longer be used to try to block individuals with disabling mental health issues from buying handguns, nor will hunters be banned from using lead-based bullets, which can accidentally poison wildlife, on 150 million acres of federal lands. .... Read more

Former Intelligence Chief Denies Trump Campaign Was Wiretapped
HP | Daniel Marans | 03/05/17

James Crapper also said he knew of no evidence that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia.

James Clapper, the former director of national intelligence, said Sunday that Donald Trump's presidential campaign was not wiretapped under his watch.

"For the part of the national security apparatus that I oversaw as [director of national intelligence], there was no such wiretap activity mounted against the president-elect, at the time, as a candidate or against his campaign. I can't speak for other Title III-authorized entities in the government, or a state or local entity," Clapper told NBC News' Chuck Todd on "Meet the Press." ... Read more

NBC Meet the Press | Full Clapper: 'No Evidence' of Collusion Between Trump and Russia (03/05/17) [7:31]

If Trump Tower Was Wiretapped, Trump Can Declassify That Right Now
TheIntercept | Jon Schwarz | 03/04/17

IF IN FACT Trump Tower was wiretapped during the 2016 presidential campaign, as President Trump claimed in several tweets Saturday morning, he can do much more than say so on twitter: Presidents have the power to declassify anything at any time, so Trump could immediately make public any government records of such surveillance.

... According to a report in the BBC, citing unnamed sources, a joint government task force was formed in spring of 2016 to look into an intelligence report from a foreign government that Russian money was somehow coming into the U.S. presidential race. In June the Department of Justice, part of the task force, asked the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court for a warrant to intercept electronic communications by two Russian banks. ... Read more

Former Trump adviser Carter Page also met with Russian envoy
Politico | Josh Meyers | 03/02/17

When Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak traveled to the GOP convention last summer, he met with then Sen. Jeff Sessions, as well as with two other Trump campaign advisers, including oil industry consultant Carter Page.

Page, at the time an unpaid foreign policy adviser to Trump, engaged in a conversation with the ambassador at the same July 20 luncheon in Cleveland where Sessions, now attorney general, and Kislyak chatted, according to J.D. Gordon, a national security adviser to the Trump campaign who was also present at the lunch. ... Read more

China's Banking System Hits $33 Trillion, Overtaking The Eurozone As World's Largest
ZeroHedge | author | 03/06/17

Chinese bank assets hit $33 trillion at the end of 2016, versus $31 trillion for the eurozone, $16 trillion for the US and $7 trillion for Japan. The value of China's banking system is now more than 310% the size of its GDP, compared to "only" 280% for the eurozone and its banks. China's bank assets are projected to grow by $3.3 trillion in 2017. ... Read more

Bannk of International Settlements (BIS) Admits TARGET2 Is A Stealth Bailout Of Europe's Periphery
ZeroHedge | author | 03/06/17

"In the period leading up to mid-2012, T2 balances grew strongly due to intra-euro area capital flight. At the time, sovereign market strains spiked and redenomination risk came to the fore in parts of the euro area. Private capital fled from Ireland, Italy, Greece, Portugal and Spain into markets perceived to be safer, such as Germany, Luxembourg and the Netherlands." ... Read more
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Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Monday, March 06 [13:17]
DN | Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Monday, March 06 (FULL) [59:02]
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  1. Headlines
  2. Advocate: DHS Proposal to Split Children from Parents at U.S. Border is "State-Sanctioned Violence"
  3. Advocate: We Expect Trump's New Muslim Travel Ban Will Be As Unlawful As First Executive Order
  4. Meet Jocelyn Avelica, Whose Dad Was Detained by ICE While Driving his Daughter to School
  5. Debate: Are Trump's Ties to Russia a Dangerous Security Issue or Critics' Fodder for New Red Scare?
Humor
John Oliver
John Oliver | Dalai Lama (03/05/17) [18:51]
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Stephen Colbert | Russian Revelations Continue To Leak Out, Implicating Trump's Inner Circle (03/04/17) [5:39]
Keith Olbermann
Keith Olbermann | Why Trump is Refusing to Confront Reality (#41) (03/03/17) [5:39]
Keith Olbermann | Be Honest: Trump's Banning Muslims & Purging Hispanics (#40) (02/28/17) [5:02]
TRNN | Bill Black -> High Frequency Trading in the Trump Era (03/06/17) [10:03]
TRNN | Col. Lawrence Wilkerson says -> Trump's New National Security Advisor Believes in Empire, More Realpolitik than Flynn (03/06/17) [10:00]
Click to zoom in TYT | Quick Hits: Financial Deregulation, Oklahoma Earthquakes, And More! (03/05/17) [2:19]
TYT | Former Trump Adviser Confesses Russian Meeting (03/03/17) [10:22]
TYT | Trump Lied About US Steel For Pipeline, Everything (03/03/17) [8:46]
RT | Keiser Report: Cognitive Dissonance in US Stock Markets (E1040) (03/04/17) [25:45]
Max and Stacy discuss cognitive dissonance in US stock markets. In the second half, Max continues his interview with economic researcher, writer and trend forecaster, Chris Martenson of PeakProsperity.com about 'the mother of all bubbles' in US equity markets.
Thom Hartmann - www.thomhartmann.com/
ThomHartmann | Jeff Sessions...In Deep Trouble? (03/02/17) [11:47]
NPR (National Public Radio) - www.npr.org/
PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) - pbs.org/
MSNBC - Maddow/Hayes - www.msnbc.com/
MSNBC Rachel Maddow | Vladimir Putin Critic Takes Big Risk Exposing Graft (03/06/17) [22:35]
Main Stream Media
MSNBC Morning Joe | 'No Impulse Control': President Donald Trump's Focus On The Short Game (03/06/17) [14:09]
MSNBC Morning Joe | President Donald Trump's Tap Tweets: 'A Low, Low Moment For Washington' (03/06/17) [23:13]
CNN | Trump Asks Congress To Probe Obama Wiretap Charge (03/06/17) [29:47]
NBC Meet the Press | Marco Rubio Full Explosive Interview With Chuck Todd (03/05/17) [9:35]
MSNBC Last Word | Trump's tax return Prove He Is not a BILLIONAIRE!!!! (03/03/17) [12:52]
Other Videos
Edward Snowden Destroys Donald Trump Presidency (02/06/17) [50:00]
Edward Snowden - Terminal F (2015) [58:09]
The Silent Order NSA Sees Everything Hears Everything [49:44]

03.06.2017. 11:59

Friday March 03, 2017
News Articles

Trump's Already Small Circle Of Trusted Advisers Suffers Another Big Blow
HP | S.V. Date , Sam Stein | 03/02/17

Or so it must seem to President Donald Trump who, just five weeks into his term and two weeks after having to fire his national security adviser, has now watched his closest Cabinet ally neutered in a key role.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced Thursday that he was recusing himself from any investigations pertaining to the Trump campaign, following the revelation that he spoke with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak twice last year, despite having testified under oath during his confirmation hearings that he had no contact with any Russians. ... Read more

Democrats (And Rand Paul) Go In Search Of Secret GOP Obamacare Bill

120 U.S. Generals and Admirals Just Sent Trump a Dire Warning About Diplomacy
AlterNet | JP Sottile / Anti-Media | 03/02/17

America's generals are talking turkey. But we're not talking about the well-known idiom for "speaking frankly" about a subject ... although over 120 retired generals did just send a frank letter in response to a new State Department-slashing budget proposal by President Trump.

In that unusual military missive, a group of "former three- and four-star generals" led by "Retired Gen. David Petraeus, a former CIA director, and retired Adm. James Stavridis, the former NATO supreme allied commander," pled with lawmakers and yet another general, new National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster, to preserve State Department funding.

Why do these men of war want to make sure Trump doesn't gut diplomacy? Because they think it is "critical to keeping America safe," according to a report by CNN on the much-discussed letter. ... Read more

Climate Change

'Shell Knew': Oil Giant's 1991 Film Warned of Climate Change Danger
AlterNet | Damian Carrington / The Guardian | 03/01/17

The oil giant Shell issued a stark warning of the catastrophic risks of climate change more than a quarter of century ago in a prescient 1991 film that has been rediscovered.

... Shell's 28-minute film, called Climate of Concern, was made for public viewing, particularly in schools and universities. It warned of extreme weather, floods, famines and climate refugees as fossil fuel burning warmed the world. The serious warning was "endorsed by a uniquely broad consensus of scientists in their report to the United Nations at the end of 1990", the film noted. ... Read more
ShellOil | What Shell knew about climate change in 1991 (trailer) (1991) [2:40]

ShellOil | Climate of Concern - Royal Dutch Shell (FULL) (1991) [28:31]
Love of Gun(s)
TheGuardian | Gun Nation (09/16/16) [29:56]
VICE | Gun Crazy USA () [26:09]
VICE | Shooting the Biggest Guns Money Can Buy | The Big Sandy Shoot (07/12/12) [13:08]
Economics
Jim Rogers -> We're About To Have The Worst Economic Problems Of A Lifetime (02/10/17) [1:08:19]
Jim Rogers interview begins at --- 12:32

  1. What's in store for the U.S. Equity Markets?
  2. Outlook on the U.S. Dollar
  3. Is the 35-year bond bull market over?
  4. Where are junk bonds going?
  5. History of government failures
  6. His views on the global populist movements
  7. Is there war on the horizon?
  8. Are the Russian's being scapegoated?
  9. Update on his views on gold
  10. His views on movement to cashless society
  11. Are we moving away from a free society?
Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Friday, March 03 [14:37]
**DN | Billionaire Wilbur Ross Confirmed Despite Questions over Ties to Russian Oligarchs Close to Putin (03/02/17) [18:58]
The New York Times reports that the Obama administration scrambled during its final days in office to preserve evidence of Russia's collusion with the Trump campaign. Citing unnamed former officials, the Times says Obama's aides left a "trail of evidence" across different government agencies to prevent the incoming Trump administration from covering up or destroying evidence. We speak to James Henry about his latest piece, "Wilbur Ross Comes to D.C. With an Unexamined History of Russian Connections."
*DN | David Cay Johnston: As Jeff Sessions Scandal Brews, We Need a Public Probe of Trump's Ties to Russia (03/02/17) [9:40]
*DN | Trump's Proposed EPA Cuts Threaten Health & Lives of Tens of Millions of Americans (03/03/17) [12:32]
Some Humor
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
*Stephen Colbert | Jeff Sessions Can't Recuse Himself From Stephen's Monologue (03/03/17) [8:00]
TRNN | Michael Hudson -> 'J is for Junk Economics', Part 4 (03/03/17) [12:27]
*TYT | Cenk's Prediction On Trump And Russia... (03/02/17) [6:24]
TYT | BOMBSHELL: Looks Like Jeff Had A Few Sessions With The Russians... (03/02/17) [10:04]
*RT | CrossTalk: GOP-Which way? (03/03/17) [24:16]
Thom Hartmann - www.thomhartmann.com/
NPR (National Public Radio) - www.npr.org/
PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) - pbs.org/
MSNBC - Maddow/Hayes - www.msnbc.com/
MSNBC Rachel Maddow | DHS Intel Doc Contradicts Case For Travel Ban (03/02/17) [18:27]
Main Stream Media
MSNBC Morning Joe | Former U.S. Ambassador To Russia Weighs In On Sergey Kislyak (03/03/17) [12:59]
Other Videos and Documentaries I Ran Across
BBC The Conspiracy Files: The Trump Dossier (01/20/17) [59:42]
BBC One Documentary President Donald Trump The Kremlin Candidate? (2017) [28:58]
CBC The Fifth Estate | The Rise and Rage of Donald Trump : The Fire Breather () [42:48]

03.03.2017. 12:30

Thursday March 02, 2017
News Articles

Trump Team's Ties To Russia Face Sharper Scrutiny Amid New House Probe And Explosive Reports
HP | Jessica Schulberg , Sam Stein | 03/01/17

A series of bombshell revelations Wednesday night cast new light on Donald Trump's potential ties to the Russian government during the course of the presidential campaign and seem likely to escalate calls for a special prosecutor to investigate the matter.

The New York Times reported that intelligence officials working for the Obama administration had grown so concerned about the scope of Russia's meddling in the elections and the evidence of ties to Trump's operation that they began to leave a breadcrumb trail of clues for future investigators to follow. Among those data points that had them spooked were a series of meetings that affiliates of the Trump campaign and the Russian government allegedly held in European capitals ? meetings that the Trump White House has consistently denied ever took place.

About an hour later, The Washington Post published its report that U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions spoke twice last year with Russia's ambassador to the United States and failed to disclose it to lawmakers during his January confirmation hearing. Sessions had been a top surrogate for the Trump campaign and a senior member of the influential Senate Armed Services Committee. ... Read more

Stockman: "Trump Will Create A Debt Crisis Like Never Before"
ZeroHedge | author | 03/02/17

"Trump is so deep in fiscal la-la-land, he won't even find the wrong envelope... he is saying crazy things."

Stockman added that "...by the time we get to June or July, we are going to see a debt ceiling crisis like never before." "I think what people are missing is this date, March 15th 2017. That's the day that this debt ceiling holiday that Obama and Boehner put together right before the last election in October of 2015. That holiday expires. The debt ceiling will freeze in at $20 trillion. It will then be law. It will be a hard stop. The Treasury will have roughly $200 billion in cash. We are burning cash at a $75 billion a month rate. By summer, they will be out of cash. Then we will be in the mother of all debt ceiling crises. Everything will grind to a halt. I think we will have a government shutdown. There will not be Obama Care repeal and replace. There will be no tax cut. There will be no infrastructure stimulus. There will be just one giant fiscal bloodbath over a debt ceiling that has to be increased and no one wants to vote for." Read more
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Democrats On Donald Trump's Address To Congress: It Was 'Surreal'
HP | Laura Barron-Lopez , Michael McAuliff |03/01/17

"It was a surreal experience," Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) told The Huffington Post moments after Trump's address. "We have a reality show host in the White House masquerading as the president of the United States of America and half the country is still in complete shock."

For freshman Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), a constitutional law professor who won election in November, it was unlike anything he's ever heard. "To me, it actually felt a little bit like The Hunger Games at points. There was something kind of dystopian, science fiction about the experience," he said. "I looked up and I saw [former House Speaker] Newt Gingrich and suddenly I felt that I was transported to a different world." ... Read more

Crony Capitalism at Work? Trump Adviser Carl Icahn Strong-Arms Ethanol Lobby to Save His Company Millions
TheIntercept | David Dayen | 03/02/17

that billionaire investor Carl Icahn has used his position as Donald Trump's deregulatory czar to strong-arm the ethanol lobby into agreeing to a change that will save one of Icahn's companies $200 million a year.

If so, this would be the most obvious example yet of crony capitalism in the Trump era.

Trump named Icahn as deregulatory czar in December, saying he would be "a leader in helping American entrepreneurs shed job-killing regulations that stifle economic growth." But because Icahn was a "special adviser" to the president with no formal White House position, the administration said he did not have to divest from any of his prodigious financial holdings. At the time, observers noted that Icahn would have a perfect opportunity to advise on deregulatory actions that would line his own pockets. Read more

Federal Officials Are Searching Caterpillar's Corporate Headquarters; Stock Plunges
ZeroHedge | author | 03/02/17

Federal officials have executed search warrants at three Caterpillar, Inc. facilities in the Tri-County Area -- including the corporate headquarters -- Thursday morning. Company officials confirmed the presence in a statement without specifying which agency was performing the search or what the search was in regard to. ... Read more

The Illusion Of Progress
ZeroHedge | author | 03/02/17

This is precisely what you'd expect of a self-serving elite that was desperate to cloak the unhappy reality that the relative few are benefiting immensely at the expense of the many. ... Read more
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Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Thursday, March 02 [13:16]
Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Thursday (FULL) (03/02/17) [59:00]
  1. Headlines
  2. David Cay Johnston: As Jeff Sessions Scandal Brews, We Need a Public Probe of Trump's Ties to Russia
  3. Billionaire Wilbur Ross Confirmed Despite Questions over Ties to Russian Oligarchs Close to Putin
  4. Asylum Seeker Battling Brain Tumor Removed from Texas Hospital in Handcuffs, Taken to Private Jail
A Bit of Humor
Daily Show with Trevor Noah
Trevor Noah/Daily Show | Fake Presidential Pivot Was Trump's Plan All Along (03/02/17) [4:33]
Trevor Noah/Daily Show | The GOP vs. Constituents: The Daily Show (03/01/17) [6:57]
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Stephen Colbert | The 'O' Presidents: Obama And Oprah (03/02/17) [2:50]
TRNN | Michael Hudson -> 'J is for Junk Economics', Part 3 (03/01/17) [10:57]
TYT | Fact-Checking Trump's Speech To Congress (03/01/17) [9:07]
TYT | Economic Crisis Forces Country To Starve (03/01/17) [7:24]
TYT | Veterans 'Yelled In Pain' As VA Staff Neglected Them (03/01/17) [8:04]
TYT | Trump Says "Radical Islamic Terrorism"... Nothing Happens... (03/01/17) [6:11]
RT | Keiser Report: Financial Toxicity in the US (E 1039) (03/02/17) [25:46]
Max and Stacy discuss financial toxicity in the U.S. 'healthcare' industry. In the second half Max interviews economic researcher, writer and trend forecaster, Chris Martenson of PeakProsperity.com about 'the mother of all bubbles' in U.S. equity markets.
RT | Rep. Tulsi Gabbard calls for the US to stop aiding terrorists like Al-Qaeda and ISIS (03/01/17) [5:44]
Thom Hartmann - www.thomhartmann.com/
ThomHartmann | Is Trump's $1 Trillion Infrastructure Plan A Scam? (03/01/17) [11:31]
NPR (National Public Radio) - www.npr.org/
PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) - pbs.org/
MSNBC - Maddow/Hayes - www.msnbc.com/
MSNBC Rachel Maddow | President Donald Trump's Travel Ban Hard To Justify With Facts (02/28/17) [6:39]
MSNBC Brian Williams | Adam Entous, national security reporter for The Washington Post, talks with Brian Williams about the discovery that Jeff Sessions met with the Russian ambassador during the Donald Trump campaign (03/01/17) [6:54]
MSNBC Chris Hayes | Cancer Survivor Calls Obamacare Repeal 'Dehumanizing' (02/28/17) [6:31]
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MSNBC Morning Joe | Mika: President Trump's Address Would Have Been A Good Inaugural Speech (03/01/17) [20:37]
RT | On this episode of "Watching the Hawks" Tyrel Ventura, Tabetha Wallace and Sean Stone look at the newfound liberal love for George W. Bush and Mainstream Media's new acceptance of Donald Trump. (03/01/17) [28:05]

03.02.2017. 11:55

Wednesday March 01, 2017
News Articles
**Bernie Sanders' BRILLIANT Response To Trump's Speech To Congress (03/01/17) [14:15]
PBSNewsHour | Watch Trump's address to Congress in 7 minutes (02/28/17) [7:00]
CNN | Donald Trump delivers first address to Congress (FULL) (02/28/17) [1:01:04]

Wilbur Ross Comes to D.C. With an Unexamined History of Russian Connections
dcreport.org | James S. Henry | 03/01/17

In the midst of the Trump Administration's many other Russian entanglements,[1] it turns out that Wilbur J. Ross, Jr., the billionaire American investor who is one of Donald Trump's closest advisors on trade and economics, has direct financial ties to several leading oligarchs from Russia and the Former Soviet Union or FSU.

... Central to this inquiry is the question of Ross's role as Vice Chair and a leading investor in the Bank of Cyprus, the largest bank in Cyprus, one of the key offshore havens for illicit Russian finance. Ross has been Vice Chairman of this bank and a major investor in it since 2014. His fellow bank co-chair evidently was appointed by none other than Vladimir Putin. ... Read more

Disaster Capitalism: Making a Killing Out of Catastrophe by Antony Loewenstein (2017)

Disaster has become big business. Best-selling journalist Antony Loewenstein trav­els across Afghanistan, Pakistan, Haiti, Papua New Guinea, the United States, Britain, Greece, and Australia to witness the reality of disaster capitalism. He discovers how companies cash in on or­ganized misery in a hidden world of privatized detention centers, militarized private security, aid profiteering, and destructive mining.

What emerges through Loewenstein's re­porting is a dark history of multinational corpo­rations that, with the aid of media and political elites, have grown more powerful than national governments. In the twenty-first century, the vulnerable have become the world's most valu­able commodity.

Fact-Checking Donald Trump's First Presidential Address to Congress
AlterNet | Alan Yuhas / The Guardian | 02/28/17

Jobs, taxes and business
"Since my election, Ford, Fiat Chrysler, General Motors, Sprint, Softbank, Lockheed, Wal Mart, and many others have announced they will invest billions and billions of dollars in the United States and will create tens of thousands of new American jobs."

Some of these corporations announced jobs and investment before the election, though Ford credited the president with its decision to create 700 jobs and make a $700m investment in Michigan. General Motors had committed $2.9bn and Walmart announced an expansion before any votes were cast, on the other hand, and several companies, including Chrysler, had previously agreed to create jobs. ... Very long & good article, read more

Climate Change
*CBS | Michio Kaku Explains Why He Is No Longer A Climate Change Denier Global Warming Is Real (02/12/17) [4:55]
*Climate Change the Crisis, Part 1 (12/17/16) [29:46]
*Bernie Sanders and Bill Nye discussing about climate change. (full) (02/27/17) [34:16]

Trump Wants You to Think All the Immigrants He'll Deport Are Criminals. They're Not.
TheIntercept | Zaid Jilani | 03/01/17

PRESIDENT TRUMP ON TUESDAY night blamed undocumented immigrants for violent, criminal behavior -- also accusing them of hurting the economy, stealing jobs from struggling families, costing the government billions of dollars, and generally creating "an environment of lawless chaos."

The man who began his presidential campaign talking about "rapists" coming over the border cast his crusade to deport and block undocumented immigrants as a moral choice between protecting Americans or leaving them vulnerable to exploitation and death. "What would you say to the American family that loses their jobs, their income, or a loved one, because America refused to uphold its laws and defend its borders?" he asked. ... Read more

Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Wednesday, March 01 [11:54]
*DN | Trump Seeks Record Pentagon Budget Eclipsing Spending by Ronald Reagan & George W. Bush (03/01/17) [3:44]
*DN | Bernie Sanders Slams Trump for Ignoring Climate Change, Income Inequality & Voter Suppression (03/01/17) [4:24]
*DN | "Trump Is Resurrecting the Scare Tactics": Prof. Kelly Lytle Hernández on Trump's Deportation Plans (03/01/17) [7:13]
*DN | In Move Recalling Nazi-Era Policies, Trump to Create Office to Track Crimes Committed by Immigrants (03/01/17) [5:07]
A Little Bit of Humor
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Stephen Colbert | Trump Lays Out His Vision For Moving Forward (03/01/17) [12:38]
Keith Olbermann
Keith Olbermann | Let's Be Honest: Trump's Banning Muslims and Purging Hispanics (02/28/17) [5:02]
**TRNN | Ralph Nader -> on Trump's Speech to Congress (03/01/17) [19:56]
**TRNN | Corinna Gilfillan -> With Transparency Rule Eliminated, Industries Can Hide Billions in Payments to Foreign Government (03/01/17) [14:22]
**TRNN | Economist James Henry says -> New Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross Tied to Russian Oligarchs, Money-Laundering Bank (03/01/17) [10:54]
Thom Hartmann - www.thomhartmann.com/
**ThomHartmann | The Age Of Trump Is the Age Of Disaster Capitalism (02/28/17) [27:42]
NPR (National Public Radio) - www.npr.org/
PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) - pbs.org/
MSNBC - Maddow/Hayes - www.msnbc.com/
**MSNBC Rachel Maddow | Wilbur Ross At Nexus Of Donald Trump Russian Deal (02/28/17) [21:56]
**CNN | Donald Trump News: white house dismisses russia ties (02/28/17) [12:50]
Main Stream Media
MSNBC Morning Joe | Mika: President Trump's Address Would Have Been A Good Inaugural Speech (03/01/17) [20:37]
MSNBC | Nancy Pelosi: President Trump's Speech Was 'Bait-And-Switch' (03/01/17) [11:53]
MSNBC | Ted Cruz: President Trump's Speech Was Very Positive, Unifying (03/01/17) [8:33]
Who Are These People??
Unhinged Left so far gone that Civil War now seems unstoppable (02/03/17) [20:56]
Stop LYING to yourself: The Left wants you DEAD! (02/17/17) [9:14]
Alex Jones : Leave The U S While You Still Can! Civil War Coming! (02/13/17) [12:28]

03.01.2017. 15:54



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