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Monday November 05, 2018

'Trump has hijacked the election': House Republicans in panic mode
Politico | Rachael Bade | 11/05/18

Worries deepen that Trump's charged immigration rhetoric will cost the GOP more seats.

House Speaker Paul Ryan got President Donald Trump on the phone Sunday for one final plea on behalf of anxious Republicans: Please, please talk up the booming economy in the final hours before Election Day. But Trump, unsurprisingly, had another issue on his mind. He boasted to Ryan that his focus on immigration has fired up the base, according to a source familiar with the call.

Two days out from an expected Democratic takeover of the House, Republicans focused on the chamber are profoundly worried that Trump's obsession with all things immigration will exacerbate their losses. Many of these same Republicans welcomed Trump's initial talk about the migrant caravan and border security two weeks ago, hoping it would gin up the GOP base in some at-risk, Republican-held districts. ... Read more

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

Family Separation: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver | 11/04/18 | 18:19

Trump on Climate Change

On climate change, Trump disavows his own scientists, government | 11/04/18 | 2:02

Only half of Americans have faith in democracy Just 51% of Americans said they have faith in democracy, and 37% say they have lost faith in democracy, according to a new Axios/SurveyMonkey poll conducted in late October. | Axios | Kim Hart | 11/05/18 | article

Trump rattles his saber at the "caravan," while Mnuchin splashes $1.3338 trillion in debt
Salon | Bob Hennelly | date

Trump's treasury just broke the trillion dollar debt mark and we are busy watching him bark at the southern border

In the final days of the midterm campaign President Donald Trump's camo clown car has all eyes on the southern border as 15,000 American troops are assembled to prepare for the onslaught of a ragtag caravan of refugees.He's been visualizing a kind of Gaza-like scenario where American troops will get to fire on rock throwing migrants.

We look where he points no matter what. We can't help it. He's the 'entertainer-in-chief'. His skilled misdirection has the effect of obscuring his disastrous misrule. You have to always ask what are the things he's not attending to, or leaving on automatic pilot, that could come crashing down on his watch or somebody else's later on down the line.

So, we should not be surprised that there was scant attention paid last week when the U.S. Treasury Department disclosed that it was going to issue $425 billion in new debt for this quarter, bringing our grand total for 2018 to an eye popping $1.3 trillion in debt. As the Fiscal Times pointed out, that reflects "a 145 percent increase from the $546 billion issued in 2017." That's the biggest annual issuance of federal public debt since 2010 when Uncle Sam issued $1.586 trillion in debt. ... Read more

Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh billed as "special guests" at Donald Trump's final 2018 rally
Salon | Shira Tarlo | 11/05/18

Monday's rally is another reminder of the symbiotic relationship between Fox News and President Trump's White House

President Donald Trump on Monday will host Fox News primetime host Sean Hannity as a "special guest" at his final rally of the midterm season. Hannity's involvement was announced in a Trump campaign press release distributed Sunday afternoon. Fox News told CNN that Hannity is not sponsoring the rally or campaigning to "Make America Great Again," and instead the network star would be hosting his "Hannity" program from the rally site and would interview Trump.

Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh will also be there, the Trump campaign announced, noting that the rally in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, is Limbaugh's hometown. ... Read more

Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Monday, November 05 [13:49]

Noam Chomsky: Members of Migrant Caravan Are Fleeing from Misery & Horrors Created by the U.S. | DN | 11/02/18 | 9:13

Noam Chomsky on Pittsburgh Attack: Revival of Hate Is Encouraged by Trump's Rhetoric | DN | 11/02/18 | 24:55

Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Monday, November 05 (FULL) | 59:02

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"He Set Out to Kill Women": Self-Proclaimed Misogynist Murders 2 Women at Florida Yoga Studio
Noam Chomsky on Midterms: Republican Party Is the "Most Dangerous Organization in Human History"
A March to Disaster: Noam Chomsky Condemns Trump for Pulling Out of Landmark Nuclear Arms Treaty
Noam Chomsky: The Future of Organized Human Life Is At Risk Thanks to GOP's Climate Change Denial

Russian "Doomsday Machine" an Answer to U.S. Decapitation Strategy -- Daniel Ellsberg on RAI (Part 5/8) | TRNN | 11/04/18 | 16:42

The Doomsday Machine: The Big Lie of the Cold War -- Daniel Ellsberg on RAI (Part 1/8) | TRNN | 10/29/18 | 16:04

*Hitler Wouldn't Risk Doomsday, But The United States Did -- Daniel Ellsberg (Part 2/8) | TRNN | 11/01/18 | 17:56

Truman Delayed End of WWII to Demonstrate Nuclear Weapons -- Daniel Ellsberg on RAI (Part 3/8) | TRNN | 11/02/18 | 21:28

The Largest Act of Terrorism in Human History -- Daniel Ellsberg on RAI (Part 4/8) | TRNN | 11/04/18 | 16:29

Trump Supporter: I'd Shoot My Sister For Trump | TYT | 11/04/18 | 15:40

The1a.org

The Last Day Before The Midterms | 1a.org | 11/05/18 | 1hr

Midterm elections are (finally) happening on Tuesday. We're watching a bunch of races: Republican Ted Cruz and Democrat Beto O'Rourke for Senate in Texas; Democrat Stacey Abrams and Republican Brian Kemp for Georgia governor; and Andrew Gillum and Ron DeSantis for Florida governor.

History Brought Us Here: Doris Kearns Goodwin On Disagreement | 1a.org | 11/05/18 | 1hr

Plenty of people are saying they've never seen a political climate as polarized and as angry as this one. You've seen the talking heads on CNN and, well, even on NPR decrying the state of civil discourse and offering advice for how we should treat other people we disagree with.

Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, in her new book focuses on leadership, specifically the leadership of Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, and Lyndon Johnson. She says we've got a lot to learn from them -- especially from their early years as leaders. She tells us that these legends of American history...well, they screwed up too.

I mean, Lincoln had a near suicidal depression when he felt like he had broken his word to his constituencies, broken his promise to Mary that he would get married to her. And they had to take all knives and razors and scissors from his room.
But he comes out of that by saying, "I would just as soon die now, but I have not yet accomplished anything to make any human being remember that I have lived," incredibly, right?
Teddy Roosevelt loses his wife and his mother on the same day in the same house. He goes to the Badlands. He rides his horse 15 hours a day. But by being in the West, he absorbs this love of nature, and he becomes a Westerner, as well as an Easterner.
FDR, of course, has his polio. And when he took up that rehab center in Warm Springs, and he was Doc Roosevelt to his fellow polio patients, he taught them how to live again, a life of joy, even if they were paralyzed. It's exactly what he was able to do with the country when the country is paralyzed.
LBJ has a massive heart attack when he's on the top of the heap as majority leader, but he says, what if I died now? What would I be remembered for? And then he goes right for civil rights in the Senate, goes right for civil rights in the presidency.

Joe: This Is A Closer Race Than I Thought It Would Be | Morning Joe | MSNBC | 11/05/18 | 12:07

Why Aren't Republicans Focusing More On The Economy? | Velshi & Ruhle | MSNBC | 11/05/18 | 5:52

Midterm Elections: What Matters With Jacob Soboroff | MSNBC | 11/05/18 | 44:43

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Cartoon Donald Trump: The Midterms Are All About Me... Maybe | Stephen Colbert | 11/03/18 | 4:01

Republicans And Democrats Have Different Sexy Thoughts | Stephen Colbert | 11/03/18 | 7:31

Trevor Noah

Florida's Lionfish Invasion | The Daily Show | 11/04/18 | 5:40

Seth Meyers

Trump's Racist Fearmongering Is His Latest Scam | Seth Meyers | 11/02/18 | 13:48

Trump Attacks the Media as His Allies Blame "Both Sides" for Violence | Seth Meyers | 10/30/18 | 10:24

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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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