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Friday March 22, 2019

NOAA warns of "unprecedented flood season" across U.S.
Axios | Rashaan Ayesh | 03/22/19

The U.S. is likely to see "historic, widespread flooding" through May, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association's spring outlook.

What they're saying: "The extensive flooding we've seen in the past two weeks will continue through May and become more dire and may be exacerbated in the coming weeks as the water flows downstream. This is shaping up to be a potentially unprecedented flood season, with more than 200 million people at risk for flooding in their communities," writes Ed Clark, the director of NOAA's National Water Center. ... Read more

Under Trump, America increasingly loses its global lead
Axios | Nicholas Johnston | 03/22/19

The United States is no longer driving the conversation on some of the biggest issues facing the world, both short- and long-term. Instead, foreign nations are making the decisions.

Why it matters: America is losing its position as the global arbiter for international norms -- from airline safety to online privacy to the response to climate change. It's a trend that predates President Trump, but it's accelerating now -- and it makes Americans beholden to the decisions of foreigners.

Global trust in U.S. leadership is near record lows, according to Gallup; 31% percent of people worldwide surveyed last year said they approve of U.S. leadership, lower than Germany and China. ... Read more

Kushner, Inc.: Greed. Ambition. Corruption. The Extraordinary Story of Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump by Vicky Ward

Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump are the self-styled Prince and Princess of America. Their swift, gilded rise to extraordinary power in Donald Trump's White House is unprecedented and dangerous. In Kushner, Inc., investigative journalist Vicky Ward digs beneath the myth the couple has created, depicting themselves as the voices of reason in an otherwise crazy presidency, and reveals that Jared and Ivanka are not just the President's chief enablers: they, like him, appear disdainful of rules, of laws, and of ethics. They are entitled inheritors of the worst kind; their combination of ignorance, arrogance, and an insatiable lust for power has caused havoc all over the world, and may threaten the democracy of the United States.

Ward follows their trajectory from New Jersey and New York City to the White House, where the couple's many forays into policy-making and national security have mocked long-standing U.S. policy and protocol. They have pursued an agenda that could increase their wealth while their actions have mostly gone unchecked. In Kushner, Inc., Ward holds Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump accountable: she unveils the couple's self-serving transactional motivations and how those have propelled them into the highest levels of the US government where no one, the President included, has been able to stop them.

Trump provokes global anger by recognising Israel's claim to Golan Heights
TheGuardian | Oliver Holmes | 03/22/19

Syria has vowed to retake the Golan Heights as Donald Trump's call for the US to recognise the occupied territory as part of Israel elicited strong responses from Russia, Turkey and Iran.

The president ended half a century of US foreign policy and broke from post-second world war international consensus that forbids territorial conquest during war with a tweet on Thursday that said it was time "to fully recognise Israel's sovereignty over the Golan Heights". ... Read more

Kushner Used Private Email To Conduct Official Business, House Committee Says
NPR | Tim Mak | 03/21/19

Jared Kushner's attorney told the House Committee on Oversight and Reform that Kushner uses private messaging applications and personal email to communicate about official White House matters, the committee wrote in a letter to White House Counsel Pat Cipollone on Thursday.

The oversight panel said that Kushner, the president's son-in-law and a senior White House adviser, had been using WhatsApp as part of his official duties -- an apparent violation of a law governing White House records. ... Read more

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Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Friday, March 22 [11:07]

Kushner, Inc: Vicky Ward on How Jared and Ivanka's Greed & Ambition Compromise U.S. Foreign Policy | DN | 03/21/19 | 17:04

"Jared's peace plan is essentially Bibi's peace plan. It involves everyone else doing things and everyone else paying for it except Israel," says journalist Vicky Ward. Her new book, "Kushner, Inc." details the Kushner family's relationship to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his influence on U.S. foreign policy.

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Human Rights Attorney to Trump: "Israel Is Not Interested in the Golan Heights for Security"
"Remember the South": Devastating Cyclone Idai Another Example of Global South Paying for Polluters
"Water Is Life": Midwestern Floods Threaten Indigenous Communities at Forefront of Climate Crisis

Might Makes Right: Trump Endorses Israeli Annexation of Golan Heights | TRNN | 03/21/18 | 5:24

New Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Conspiracy Theory | TYT | 03/21/19 | 12:57

Assault Rifles BANNED In New Zealand | TYT | 03/21/19 | 15:47

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Friday News Roundup -- Domestic | 1a.org | 03/22/19 | 1hr

For months, speculation has brewed over the release date of special counsel Robert Mueller's report into the 2016 election. It could be any day now.

AP reports: The House voted unanimously last week for a resolution calling for any report in Mueller's investigation to be made public. It was a symbolic action designed to pressure [Attorney General William Barr] into releasing as much information as possible.
President Trump, who has undermined the Mueller investigation since the beginning, made his position known this week. "Let it come out, let people see it," he told reporters on Wednesday. "Let's see whether or not it's legit."

Meanwhile, the Pentagon inspector general has opened an investigation into acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan's ties to Boeing. Also, a Senate panel plans to hold a hearing next week on aviation safety with the FAA and other federal agencies. A second hearing is in the works to hear testimony from Boeing, other aviation manufacturers and industry stakeholders.
Finally, a federal judge has ruled that the U.S. Department of Interior "did not sufficiently consider climate change" when allowing oil and gas companies to lease federal land in Wyoming. How might the ruling affect the relationship between the Trump administration and the fossil fuel industry?

Friday News Roundup -- International | 1a.org | 03/22/19 | 1hr

U.S. President Donald Trump made news again through one of his preferred modes of communication -- a tweet.

Donald J. Trump | @realDonaldTrump | After 52 years it is time for the United States to fully recognize Israel's Sovereignty over the Golan Heights, which is of critical strategic and security importance to the State of Israel and Regional Stability! | Mar 21, 2019

This week, we analyzed how online extremism has been allowed to proliferate on social media platforms. We asked NBC News reporter Ben Collins whether social media sites just don't know what to do about hate speech? He responded: "If that's true, that's depressing. But I don't think that's true." You can hear that entire conversation here..
What responsibility do social media companies bear in preventing another live-streamed massacre? And why was the New Zealand government able to take such rapid action on banning these weapons, when other parts of the globe have struggled to take any meaningful steps toward gun control?
A week after a mass shooting at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, the government there agreed to ban semi-automatic guns. The ban includes all the weapons and parts used in the attack last Friday. In announcing the decision, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said, "It's about all of us. It's in the national interest. And it's about safety."
In other news from around the world, a devastating cyclone hit Mozambique, leaving tens of thousands of people in need of fresh water and rescue.
A petition for the United Kingdom to remain in the E.U. by revoking Article 50 surpassed a million signatures this week, though Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said a Brexit cancellation was unlikely. How much more room to maneuver does Prime Minister May have? What would a deal that is acceptable to both the E.U. and the U.K. Parliament look like?

Joe: Why Would The Mueller Report Come Right Now? | Morning Joe | MSNBC | 03/22/19 | 6:57

When Attacking John McCain, President Donald Trump Only Hurts Himself | Morning Joe | MSNBC | 03/22/19 | 16:24

Insider: WH Staff 'Exasperated' By Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump | The Beat With Ari Melber | MSNBC | 03/22/19 | 6:10

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Elizabeth Warren: Get Rid Of The Electoral College | Stephen Colbert | 03/21/19 | 4:42

The Daily Show with Trevor Noah

Mr. Kellyanne vs. Mr. President: A Twitter Feud for the History Books | Trevor Noah | 03/21/19 | 7:11

Samantha Bee

Guess Who's Running? | Samantha Bee | 03/20/19 | 7:59

Late Night with Seth Meyers

Trump Ramps Up Campaign as Mueller Report Looms | SethMeyers | 03/21/19 | 10:15

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Lindsey Graham Mashups

Lindsey Graham

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said the quiet part aloud on why he’s still so close to former President Donald Trump: because we can use him for our goals. "President Trump has gotten people who wouldn't give me or Romney or anybody else the time of day. They believe he is on their side," the senator told the America First Agenda Summit crowd on Tuesday in Washington, D.C.

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Environment & Climate Change

Environment

The term "climate change" is often used to refer specifically to anthropogenic climate change (also known as global warming). Anthropogenic climate change is caused by human activity, as opposed to changes in climate that may have resulted as part of Earth's natural processes.

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AI - Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning | Deep Learning

AI - Artificial Intelligence

AIArtificial intelligence (AI) is intelligence demonstrated by machines, as opposed to the natural intelligence displayed by animals including humans. AI research has been defined as the field of study of intelligent agents, which refers to any system that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its chance of achieving its goals.

The term "artificial intelligence" had previously been used to describe machines that mimic and display "human" cognitive skills that are associated with the human mind, such as "learning" and "problem-solving". This definition has since been rejected by major AI researchers who now describe AI in terms of rationality and acting rationally, which does not limit how intelligence can be articulated.
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Quantum mechanics | AI - Artificial Intelligence

Quantum mechanics

Quantum mechanics is a fundamental theory in physics that provides a description of the physical properties of nature at the scale of atoms and subatomic particles. It is the foundation of all quantum physics including quantum chemistry, quantum field theory, quantum technology, and quantum information science.
Classical physics, the collection of theories that existed before the advent of quantum mechanics, describes many aspects of nature at an ordinary (macroscopic) scale, but is not sufficient for describing them at small (atomic and subatomic) scales. Most theories in classical physics can be derived from quantum mechanics as an approximation valid at large (macroscopic) scale.
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Economy, Wall Street and Banksters

Wall Street and Banksters

Wall Street is an eight-block-long street running roughly northwest to southeast from Broadway to South Street, at the East River, in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City. Over time, the term has become a metonym for the financial markets of the United States as a whole, the American financial services industry (even if financial firms are not physically located there), or New York-based financial interests.

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Intelligence Agencies/Deep State?

Intelligence Agencies/Deep State?

An intelligence agency is a government agency responsible for the collection, analysis, and exploitation of information in support of law enforcement, national security, military, and foreign policy objectives. Means of information gathering are both overt and covert and may include espionage, communication interception, cryptanalysis,.

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Daniel Ellsberg | Pentagon Papers

Daniel Ellsberg

Daniel Ellsberg and Paul Jay explore Ellsberg's latest book, The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner. In the introduction to the book, Ellsberg writes: "No policies in human history have more deserved to be recognized as immoral or insane. The story of how this calamitous predicament came about and how and why it has persisted over a half a century is a chronicle of human madness".

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Nukes

Nukes

Nuclear weapons have come a long way and come in all types of different sizes. Some are relatively small while others are enormous, so big they boggle the mind at what they can be capable of, i.e. the Soviet 'Tsar Bomba' is/was 3,000 times greater than the Hiroshima bomb.

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Rana Foroohar and Fall of American Business

Rana Foroohar

Ms. Foroohar says financialization delivers stagnant wages, inequality and economic crisis; the Financial Times columnist and author of "Makers and Takers" says the financial sector represents only 7 percent of the U.S. economy, but takes around 25 percent of all corporate profit while creating only 4 percent of all jobs.

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The Untold History of the United States by Oliver Stone & Petere Kuznick

The Untold History of the United States by Oliver Stone & Petere Kuznick | 2014 | 10 Episodes

Oliver Stone and American University historian Peter J. Kuznick began working on the project in 2008. Stone, Kuznick and British screenwriter Matt Graham cowrote the script. It covers "the reasons behind the Cold War with the Soviet Union, U.S. President Harry Truman's decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan, and changes in America's global role since the fall of Communism." Stone is the director and narrator of all ten episodes.

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Kuznick Interviews

Kuznick Interviews

Historian Peter Kuznick says Eisenhower called for decreased militarization, then Dulles reversed the policy; the Soviets tried to end the cold war after the death of Stalin; crazy schemes involving nuclear weapons and the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba put the world of the eve of destruction - with host Paul Jay

The Untold History of the United States by Kuznick, Peter.mobi | Book | 6.99 MB

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China Valley of Tunnels

China Valley of Tunnels

A report written by a Georgetown University team led by Phillip Karber conducted a three-year study to map out China’s complex tunnel system, which stretches 5,000 km (3,000 miles). The report determined that the stated Chinese nuclear arsenal is understated and as many as 3,000 nuclear warheads may be stored in the underground tunnel network.

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911

911

On September 11, 2001, 19 terrorists attacked the Unites States. They hijacked four airplanes in mid-flight. The terrorists flew two of the planes into two skyscrapers at the World Trade Center in New York City. The impact caused the buildings to catch fire and collapse. Another plane destroyed part of the Pentagon (the U.S. military headquarters) in Arlington, Virginia. The fourth plane crashed in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Officials believe that the terrorists on that plane intended to destroy either the White House or the U.S. Capitol. Passengers on the plane fought the terrorists and prevented them from reaching their goal. In all, nearly 3,000 people were killed in the 9/11 attacks.

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The Vietnam War

The Vietnam War

Ken Burns and Lynn Novick's ten-part, 18-hour documentary series, THE VIETNAM WAR, tells the epic story of one of the most consequential, divisive, and controversial events in American history as it has never before been told on film. Visceral and immersive, the series explores the human dimensions of the war through revelatory testimony of nearly 80 witnesses from all sides--Americans who fought in the war and others who opposed it, as well as combatants and civilians from North and South Vietnam. Ten years in the making, the series includes rarely seen and digitally re-mastered archival footage from sources around the globe, photographs taken by some of the most celebrated photojournalists of the 20th Century, historic television broadcasts, evocative home movies, and secret audio recordings from inside the Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon administrations.

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Trump's Mashups

Trump's Mashups

Donald Trump talks a lot, but what is he actually saying? VICE News' "Trump Talk" mashup series tries to answer that. And, we're happy to say, it was just nominated for two Webby Awards. Now you can watch all the nominated videos.

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Trump's Sexcapades

Trump's Sexcapades.

Jessica Leeds (1980s)
Kristin Anderson (1990s)
E. Jean Carroll (1995 or 1996)
Lisa Boyne (1996)
Cathy Heller (1997)
Temple Taggart McDowell (1997)
Karena Virginia (1998)
Mindy McGillivray (2003)
Jennifer Murphy (2005)
Rachel Crooks (2005)
Natasha Stoynoff (2005)
Juliet Huddy (2005 or 2006)
Jessica Drake (2006)
Ninni Laaksonen (2006)
Cassandra Searles (2013)
Allegations of pageant dressing room visits(1997)
Mariah Billado,
Victoria Hughes,
and three other Miss Teen USA contestants
Bridget Sullivan (2000)
Tasha Dixon (2001)
Unnamed contestants (2001)
Samantha Holvey (2006)

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Trump's Speeches | Rallys |Interviews

Trump's Speeches | Rallys

Donald Trump talks a lot, but what is he actually saying? Watch Trump at some of his rallys and see what you think.

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