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Monday October 08, 2018

UN details massive changes needed to slow global warming
Axios | Ben Geman | 10/08/18

Keeping global warming in check will require deployment of carbon-trapping technologies and aggressively moving away from fossil fuels, a major new United Nations report concludes -- far more quickly than current forecasts envision.

Why it matters: The scientific analysis of what's needed to limit temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels -- the ambitious goal of the Paris climate agreement -- reveals huge hurdles to avoiding widespread damages from climate change.

The big picture: The U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change finds that to stay within 1.5ÂºC, net human-caused CO2 emissions must decline by 45% by 2030 compared to 2010 levels, and reach "net zero" by roughly mid-century. ... Read more

Key global warming target is slipping out of reach, UN scientists warn

Brazilian Elections

Brazilian Elections | Last Week Tonight with John Oliver | 10/07/18 | 16:13

The Next Republic: The Rise of a New Radical Majority by D. D. Guttenplan

The Next Republic profiles nine successful activists who are changing the course of American history right now:

new labor activist and author Jane McAlevey
racial justice campaigner (and mayor of Jackson, Mississippi) Chokwe Antar Lumumba
environmental activist (and newly elected chair of the Nebraska Democratic Party) Jane Kleeb
Chicago's first openly gay Latino public official Carlos Ramirez-Rosa
#ALLOFUS co-founder Waleed Shahid
young architects of Bernie Sanders amazing rise, digerati Corbin Trent and Zack Exley, founders of Brand New Congress
and author and anti-corruption crusader Zephyr Teachout.

Additionally, the introduction to The Next Republic ties in the election and first year of the Trump presidency to the current rise of populism of the left, and there are three historical chapters that describe key moments in American history that shed light on current events: the Whiskey Rebellion, the Lincoln Republic, and the Roosevelt Republic. Guttenplan understands the magnitude of the problem of democracy, and at the same time the great possibilities for its resurgence. Like a cross between George Packer's The Unwinding and John F. Kennedy's Profiles in Courage, The Next Republic is both unyielding and deeply hopeful, the first book to come out of the Trump ascendency that stakes a claim for seeing beyond it.

Senator Bernie Sanders Speech Ahead of Senate Final Vote on Kavanaugh Confirmation

Senator Bernie Sanders FURIOUS Speech Ahead of Senate Final Vote on Kavanaugh Confirmation | TNF | 10/05/18 | 18:50

The GOP's gender gap problem
Axios | David Nather | 10/08/18

This was a striking graphic in a recent slide deck by Bruce Mehlman of Mehlman Castagnetti Rosen & Thomas. It shows how rapidly women have drifted away from the Republican Party since the 2016 election -- opening up a lopsided preference for Democrats to control Congress in just the last few months.

Why it matters: The Brett Kavanaugh confirmation fight isn't likely to help. And with men preferring Republicans by a narrower margin -- 47% to 44% in the September NBC/WSJ poll -- the graphic is a vivid illustration of the troubles ahead if the GOP alienates women voters. ... Read more

Votes on Supreme Court nominees are getting tighter
Axios | Lazaro Gamio | 10/07/18

Most Supreme Court justices are confirmed by lopsided majorities, but since the 1990s, partisan votes have become more common. The bottom line: Brett Kavanaugh was confirmed Saturday with the lowest number of yes votes for a justice in the history of the Supreme Court. ... Read more

Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Monday, October 08 [11:54]

Could Brazil Return to a Dictatorship? Glenn Greenwald on Possible Election of Far-Right Demagogue | DN | 10/05/18 | 15:49

Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Monday, October 08 (FULL) | 59:02

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Headlines
"They Did Not Care": How the GOP Dismissed Assault Accusations & Confirmed Kavanaugh
Where Does #MeToo Go from Here? Women Are "On Fire" with Rage as Kavanaugh Joins Supreme Court
Alleged Saudi Murder of Washington Post Columnist Prompts Calls to Halt U.S. Relations with Regime

The Next Republic: The Rise Of A New Radical Majority | TRNN | 10/07/18 | 30:40

The FBI Investigation Into Kavanaugh Is Over And Lindsey Graham Brags About Not Needing To Read It | TYT | 10/05/18 | 34:22

Trump Administration ADMITS To Climate Change | TYT | 10/05/18 | 8:15

Trump Blatantly Peddling Conspiracy Theories | TYT | 10/05/18 | 8:21/a>

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A Supreme Court Nominee Divides The Country | 1a.org | 10/08/18 | 1hr

After an intense and complicated nomination process, Brett Kavanaugh is now a Supreme Court justice. He was sworn in on Oct. 6. After a long speech on the Senate floor, Senator Susan Collins of Maine voted to confirm Kavanaugh, with Senator Joe Manchin quickly announcing that he would also vote to confirm him.

It might not just be a divisive vote among the American people. It's also divisive in the Senate, as Senator Jeff Flake bucked the Republican party by insisting on an FBI investigation.

What are women, especially conservative women, across the country thinking and feeling about the Kavanaugh nomniation? Will this impact their support of Republicans and the president?

The State We're In: Redistricting | 1a.org | 10/08/18 | 1hr

Over and over, one of our most-requested shows is a look at redistricting and gerrymandering efforts. So we're tackling it on the state level for the second edition of our series, "The State We're In."

For example, in North Carolina, even though a judge has ruled that their electoral map is unconstitutionally gerrymandered for partisan reasons, there won't be enough time to redraw the state's map before elections in November. ...

Brett Kavanaugh Vote Will Drive Political Backlash If History Is Guide | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC | 10/05/18 | 24:58

GOP Celebrates; Mitch McConnell Defends Blocking Garland | Morning Joe | MSNBC | 10/08/18 | 16:06

A Republican Since 1979 Is Now Leaving The Party | Morning Joe | MSNBC | 10/08/18 | 16:02

Powell: Not sure Trump can be a moral leader | CNN | 10/07/18 | 7:32

NYT reporter who broke Trump tax story details investigation | ABC News | 10/05/18 | 4:52

Some YouTube Commenters

Trump CAN'T sue the Times. He'd NEVER want to go through the discovery phase of the trial. All his financial crimes would come to light.
Everybody knows trump is a pathological liar he is just compulsive liar no matter about big and small, regardless of the situation.
Corruption is in this family's DNA. Muller and State Attorneys are on the job. The Statutes of limitations may have ran on the old but there are new crimes because once a crook always a crook. When his current taxes are revealed, he will surrender before even being charge.
I don't know about everyone else but I work two jobs to pay mine and my mom bills and those taxes they take out I can keep but I can't. So when someone decides to commit a tax fraud so they can keep all their money that shit not right. I don't care who it is you shouldn't be able to get away with that.
Not sure it will amount to anything, as the criminal statute of limitations has passed, but, all the same, damn fine reporting by the Times.
Trump is and always will be a Con-man!

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

The EPA Says Radiation Isn't So Bad | Stephen Colbert | 10/06/18 | 4:17

The Daily Show with Trevor Noah

Poison Letter Sent to Trump & Russian Trolls Bash "The Last Jedi" | The Daily Show | 10/06/18 | 2:55

Real Time with Bill Maher

*New Rule: Power Begets Power | Bill Maher | 10/06/18 | 6:42

SNL

Brett Kavanaugh Post-Game Cold Open | SNL | 10/06/18 | 5:51

Brett Kavanaugh Post-Game Cold Open | SNL | 10/07/18 | 4:36

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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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