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Friday October 05, 2018

*SHAM: The Dozens of Witnesses The FBI Whiffed On
HP | Matt Ferner | 10/04/18

Here Are The People The FBI Didn't Ask About Brett Kavanaugh

The FBI interviewed just nine people about the Supreme Court nominee. This isn't what a thorough investigation looks like.

The FBI on Wednesday wrapped up its supplemental background investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. President Donald Trump and key Republican senators quickly expressed satisfaction with the report, calling it a "thorough investigation" and a "comprehensive review." But dozens of interviews with Kavanaugh's former classmates at Yale University revealed that FBI investigators interviewed just a small fraction of the witnesses who could shed light on the allegations and declined to speak with several people who contacted the bureau with relevant information.

The FBI reached out to 10 people in the course of its dayslong investigation and interviewed nine of them, according to The New York Times. The bureau spoke with Deborah Ramirez, a Yale classmate of Kavanaugh's who has accused the judge of thrusting his penis in her face at a college party; Mark Judge, a Georgetown Prep classmate of Kavanaugh's who Christine Blasey Ford said was present during Kavanaugh's alleged attempt to rape her at a high school party; Leland Keyser, a high school friend of Ford's who she said attended that party; Patrick "P.J." Smyth, a prep school classmate of Kavanaugh's who Ford said was also at the party; Chris Garrett, a prep school classmate of Kavanaugh's; and Tim Gaudette, another prep school classmate of Kavanaugh's. ... Read more

Trump: Franken folded 'like a wet rag' under sexual misconduct allegations

Kavanaugh says his testimony might have been 'too emotional' and 'sharp'

Trump calls Kavanaugh protesters 'rude elevator screamers'

Kavanaugh advances to final vote
Politico | Burgess Everett | 10/05/18

Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh advanced to a final confirmation vote, narrowly clearing a key procedural hurdle on Friday morning, 51-49.

The vote was mostly on party lines, though Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) voted "no" and Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) voted "yes." Kavanaugh's confirmation is not assured: Swing vote senators could conceivably vote differently on Saturday during an expected confirmation vote.

Murkowski, Manchin and GOP Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Jeff Flake of Arizona were undecided going into the vote, having raised questions about sexual assault investigations facing Kavanaugh and demanding an FBI investigation into those charges. Collins said she will announce her final decision on Kavanaugh on Friday afternoon. ... Read more

The secret of why Trump won't release his taxes | CNN | 10/04/18 | 7:25

What Most Disqualifies Brett Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court?
NewYorker | Adam Gopnik | 10/04/18

book that every young man and woman starting out in life these days ought to have handy is Dariel Fitzkee's "Magic by Misdirection," a classic in the magical arts written decades ago by a once famous American performer. It basically tries to lay out all the varieties of misdirection--the ways that you can be asked to pay attention to one thing while the performer is doing another. A staggering catalogue not of gaffes or gimmicks but of behaviors, it's a study in all the ways of drawing your attention away from this thing I'm doing here to that thing I'm doing there. The repeated moral is that everything I'm doing may be something other than it seems, and it doesn't matter how brazenly I do it; you'll still buy it. Intricate to the point of rococo, Fitzkee's book makes a distinction between, for instance, simulation and dissimulation: "Simulation is a positive act. It shows a false picture. Dissimulation is a negative act. It hides a true picture. One reveals and the other conceals." A good magician can be simulating with one hand and dissimulating with the other, and you don't know which is which. ...

... All of which is to put us in mind of the truth that the Brett Kavanaugh drama--with all the debates over the layout of suburban Maryland houses and the parsing of the repeated use of the letter "F"--is a distraction. Kavanaugh is not unqualified for the Supreme Court just because of something that he may have done when he was seventeen, or because of how he may have lied to the Senate about this or that specificity of his youthful behavior or about how he may have accepted illicitly obtained Democratic e-mails when he worked in the George W. Bush White House, or about his possible involvement in the effort to make torture seem acceptable. (Kavanaugh maintains innocence on all fronts.) He became disqualified for the Supreme Court the moment that he accepted the offer from Donald Trump. ... Read more

Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Friday, October 05 [11:25]

NYT Expose: "Self-Made Billionaire" Donald Trump Built Empire on Father's Money, Tax Dodging & Fraud | DN | 10/04/18 | 20:08

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

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Eve Ensler to White Women Supporting Kavanaugh: Stand with Survivors & Fight This Nomination
Eve Ensler: Nobel Peace Prize For Mukwege & Murad Is an Award for Every Rape Survivor in the World
Could Brazil Return to a Dictatorship? Glenn Greenwald on Possible Election of Far-Right Demagogue

*Weak Underfunded IRS Behind Trump's Wealth and History of Avoiding Taxes | TRNN | 10/04/18 | 15:49

Investigative tax attorney James Henry talks about the New York Times' investigation into the origins of Trump's wealth, how it is related to tax evasion, and how the US tax system has systematically and increasingly favored the rich.

NAFTA 2.0 Enshrines Deregulation for all of North America | TRNN | 10/05/18 | 11:35

**Bernie's EPIC Announcement | TYT | 10/04/18 | 8:32

*What The FBI Did And Didn't Find On Kavanaugh | TYT | 10/04/18 | 11:12

The1a.org

Friday News Roundup -- Domestic | 1a.org | 10/05/18 | 1hr

Trump tax evations???
The New York Times has reported additional details. According to "an official briefed on the F.B.I. review," the bureau interviewed nine people of the 10 it contacted. And based on the findings, the White House believes the sexual misconduct allegations against Kavanaugh are uncorroborated.
We're also following the latest on immigration. On Wednesday, federal judge Edward Chen voted to suspend the Trump administration's plan to end Temporary Protect Status (TPS), which has allowed 300,000 immigrants from El Salvador, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Sudan to live and work in the U.S. for decades.

Friday News Roundup -- International | 1a.org | 10/05/18 | 1hr

What's the status on Brexit negotiations?
The U.S. canceled a 1955 treaty that normalized relations with Iran. The New York Times described the move as "largely symbolic.

In legal terms, the United States withdrawal from the 1955 treaty with Iran does not take effect immediately. The treaty remains in place for one year from any announcement of withdrawal, meaning Iran's lawsuit will proceed.

It was negotiated after the C.I.A. helped stage a coup in Iran that Iranians still cite as a gross violation of the country's sovereignty. The 1953 coup, code-named Operation Ajax, was engineered by Kermit Roosevelt Jr., a grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt, and installed a government that two years later cemented the treaty with President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

The treaty sets up commercial relationships, tax structures and access to each nation's courts. None of that has applied since the 1979 Islamic revolution.

Earlier this week we spoke to Louise Comfort, former director of The Center for Disaster Management at the University of Pittsburgh, about the tsunami.

Nominee Brett Kavanaugh's Decisions Will Be Tainted By Partisanship | Morning Joe | MSNBC | 10/05/18 | 11:17

Nominee Brett Kavanaugh So Damaged He Can't Be A Fair Jurist? | Morning Joe | MSNBC | 10/05/18 | 12:37

President Donald Trump's Sister Under The Spotlight After NYT Report | Velshi & Ruhle | MSNBC | 10/04/18 | 7:05

President Donald Trump Attacks NYT After Alleged Tax Schemes Report | The Last Word | MSNBC | 10/04/18 | 9:25

Ret. Justice John Stevens: Kavanaugh Disqualified Himself From Supreme Court | The Last Word | MSNBC | 10/04/18 | 17:10

I've said this elsewhere and I'll say it again here, Kavanaugh has clearly demonstrated by his incontinent performance at the last hearing, that he is unfit for high judicial office. People that can't see this reveal deficits in their own character and moral structure. This issue is not about politics, it is about ordinary human decency.?
"I said a few things I should not have said...." Is he referring to all his lies?
Kavanaugh is not suited due to temperment, dubious background and partisan instability
Kavanaugh showed us exactly who and what he is. He doesn't get a 'do over'.
"I promise." Kavanaugh lets his emotion and political views get the better of his intellect. If one lies on little things, can a "I promise" statement make us believe that he will not do it again? One more point, trump had lists of qualified judges to nominate, but trump picked the one that stated that a president could not be investigated for crimes committed while in office.
Demeanour is one thing - and it was inapproriate. But the there still is all the lying...!
It is disqualifying for a judge to even think what he said.

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Kavanaugh's Drinking Buddy Speaks Out | Stephen Colbert | 10/04/18 | 5:04

Ken Burns Presents: The Kavanaugh Letters | Stephen Colbert | 10/05/18 | 1:23

The Daily Show with Trevor Noah

*Trump Weaponizes Victimhood to Defend Kavanaugh - Between the Scenes | The Daily Show | 10/04/18 | 8:21

*Secretive, Speedy & Sketchy: The FBI Investigation Into Brett Kavanaugh | The Daily Show | 10/04/18 | 5:10

Late Night with Seth Meyers

GOP Pushes for Kavanaugh Vote After FBI Report | Seth Meyers | 10/04/18 | 10:41

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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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