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Wednesday October 31, 2018

Trump launches early blame game on markets and the economy
Politico | Ben White | 10/30/18

The president looks to blame Democrats and the Fed for declines in the stock market. Analysts cite many other explanations.

In recent days, Trump and his senior advisers have repeatedly argued that recent turbulence in the stock market reflects investor fear that Democrats will retake the House in the midterm elections next week. "If you want your Stocks to go down, I strongly suggest voting Democrat," Trump tweeted Tuesday. And he has repeatedly bashed the Federal Reserve in recent interviews for its modest campaign of rate hikes.

The Trump campaign's closing ad of the midterm cycle -- using footage from the 2008 financial crisis -- suggests that handing power to Democrats would bring back sky-high unemployment. "I think election risk is a big part of this correction," Larry Kudlow, Trump's top economic adviser, said in an interview. "The market doesn't want to see an overturning of the business tax cuts or the deregulation or the energy boom. Until this is settled, it's going to be hard." Economists and market analysts say these arguments bear little connection to reality. ... Read more

'Over A Million' Jobs From The Saudi Arms Deal? Not Quite | All In | MSNBC | 10/30/18 | 3:05

Steve Schmidt: President Donald Trump Is 'Stoking And Inciting' Worst Among Us | All In | MSNBC | 10/30/18 | 10:45

Mattis, Pompeo call for ceasefire in Yemen
Axios | Haley Britzky | 10/31/18

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis both separately called for a ceasefire in Yemen's civil war on Tuesday night.

The big picture: Both voiced continued U.S. support for the Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen last month, but the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul has seriously disrupted the U.S.-Saudi relationship. And Yemen is facing the world's worst ongoing humanitarian crisis as a result of the war.

Mattis, who spoke at the U.S. Institute of Peace, via CNN: "We've got to move towards a peace effort and we can't say we're going to do it some time in the future. We need to be doing this in the next 30 days, we've admired this problem for long enough down there."
Pompeo issued a statement: "The time is now for the cessation of hostilities. ... Substantive consultations under the UN Special Envoy must commence this November in a third country. ... It is time to end this conflict, replace conflict with compromise, and allow the Yemeni people to heal through peace and reconstruction.

Pittsburgh Reverend Shouts At Trump: 'It's Not About You'

Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Wednesday, October 31 [13:11]

How White Supremacist Ideology & Conspiracies Have Fueled U.S. Domestic Terror & Hateful Violence | DN | 10/30/18 | 17:44

Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Wednesday, October 31 (FULL) | 59:02

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How African Americans Fought For & Won Birthright Citizenship 150 Years Before Trump Tried to End It
Birthright Citizenship Expert: This Is Not a Diversion, Trump Has Pushed Radical Plan for Years
As Bolsonaro Threatens to Criminalize Protests, a New Resistance Movement Is Emerging in Brazil

Trump's Kids Losing Citizenship? | TYT | 10/30/18 | 5:03

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Harsh Words. Violent Acts. Who's Accountable? | 1a.org | 10/31/18 | 1hr

He called for the death penalty for the wrongly accused Central Park 5. When he announced his bid for the presidency, he called migrants "rapists" and "murderers." He regularly calls the press "the enemy of the people." He once tweeted an anti-Semitic meme. He amplified chants of "lock her up" about his former opponent Hillary Clinton at his rallies.

But as the country processes the cumulative trauma of two actual crises that occurred inside its borders -- a spate of pipe bombs sent to the president's political opponents, and the massacre of 11 people at a synagogue by a man who spewed anti-Semitic vitriol and called immigrants "invaders" -- there is clear overlap between the hatred and delusion that drove this lethal behavior and the paranoia and misinformation surrounding the caravan.

"The court cannot ignore the circumstances of one of the most rhetorically mold-breaking, violent, awful, hateful and contentious presidential elections in modern history, driven in large measure by the rhetorical China shop bull who is now our president," James Pratt and Michael Shultz, Stein's defense attorneys, wrote in their sentencing memo, as HuffPost first reported.

John Carpenter Settles The Score | 1a.org | 10/31/18 | 1hr

If you find yourself facing a tale of horror on-screen, your first instinct might be to cover your eyes. Here's a tip: cover your ears.

Images of spooky houses and bloodthirsty monsters are only a small part of what gets your heart racing. Music does the rest of the job.

Master of horror John Carpenter has been proving that since the '70s, with his original scores that bring scary movies to life. His latest project is a return to the film that first helped his career take off: "Halloween." Carpenter directed and scored the original in 1978. And he's the composer for the 2018 sequel -- now in theatres.

Bumbling President Trump Booster Botches Mueller Smear, Implicates Own Mom | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC | 10/30/18 | 11:51

Reagan's daughter: Trump has never shown compassion | CNN | 10/30/18 | 6:09

Some Youtube Commenters

Patti Davis is an eloquent spokesperson for Ronald Reagan. She embodies his message so well. Patti, it is comfort having you here in this tumultuous world ?? at the present existence.
Sarah Sanders is the propaganda minister for this fascist administration.
The day after 9/11 he bragged that now his building was the tallest in New York.
Reagan's daughter is right. We should never look towards a pathological narcissist like Trump for compassion, empathy, or understanding. You can't get blood from a turnip. Trump simply doesn't have it in him. He's moral abomination, and a mistake of human nature.

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Trump Warns Of 'Young, Strong' Men In The Caravan | Stephen Colbert | 10/30/18 | 7:43

Some Youtube Commenters

Not to mention his fearmongering about "big, strong men" in the caravan directly harkens to extremely racist and harmful stereotype that dark-skinned men are sexually dangerous predators who must be kept away from pure white women.?
young and strong all opposite of the orange covfefe?
He is indirectly calling them rapist. Again.?
"a citizen with all these benefits". Yeah, all that free college, and free healthcare. We're not talking about basically every other developed country? Oh, nevermind.?"a citizen

The Daily Show with Trevor Noah

Trump and Fox News's Caravan Hysteria Reaches a Fever Pitch | Trevor Noah | 10/30/18 | 8:29

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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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