U.S. ramps up pressure on Israel to address Gaza crisis ahead of deadline The Biden administration is ratcheting up pressure on the Israeli government to meet a set of demands from the U.S. to address the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. Why it matters: If Israel fails to fully implement the U.S. demands by Nov. 13, the U.S. could suspend its military assistance to Israel - a step the Biden administration has avoided so far but is gaining more support inside the State Department, according to a U.S. official. Determining if Israel has met its commitments to the U.S. and whether it has violated U.S. law during the war in Gaza could be the first major decision the Biden administration has to to make during the transition period after the presidential election. Catch up quick: U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin sent a letter on Oct. 13 to their Israeli counterparts with an ultimatum: Israel must take steps within 30 days to improve the dire humanitarian conditions in Gaza or risk the supply of U.S. weapons to Israel being affected. ... Read more Iran preparing major retaliatory strike from Iraq within days, Israeli intel suggests Israeli intelligence suggests Iran is preparing to attack Israel from Iraqi territory in the coming days, possibly before the U.S. presidential election, two Israeli sources tell Axios. Why it matters: Israel and Iran have been engaged in an escalating tit-for-tat for weeks. Carrying the attack out through pro-Iranian militias in Iraq and not directly from Iranian territory could be an attempt by Iran to avoid another Israeli attack against strategic targets in Iran. Driving the news: The sources said Israeli intelligence suggests the attack is expected to be carried out from Iraq using a large number of drones and ballistic missiles. ... Read more Inequality Causing Social Fabric to Unravel Inequality Causing Social Fabric to Unravel, Rebellion in Military Possible - Wilkerson and Jay | theAnalysis-news | 10/31/24 | 39:05 |
 Top U.S. & World Headlines - November 01, 2024 | 11/01/24 | 10:10 "Little Secret"? Elie Mystal on Trump's Likely Plan to Steal Election with GOP House Speaker Johnson | DN | 11/01/24 | 12:04
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 Trump gets BAD NEWS over “little secret” to steal election | btc | 11/01/24 | 9:32
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How the Israeli Attack on Iran Could Seed a New World War If you ask the average citizen of any country whether their leaders should start wars, almost all would give a resounding "No." The public, overall, opposes war, but tolerates leaders who prioritize power, legacy, and special interests over the wishes of their own people. This is how we find ourselves recklessly stumbling toward a global conflict that could erupt out of the regional crises currently unfolding. With its early Saturday morning attack, Israel is on the verge of dragging the U.S. into a regional war with Iran. Let's start with the Middle East. With its early Saturday morning attack, Israel is on the verge of dragging the U.S. into a regional war with Iran. The plans were drawn up weeks ago and, despite U.S. warnings, Israel went ahead with the bombing. Though, for the moment, Iran seems to be exercising restraint, U.S. leadership seems to not be up for the challenge of averting this conflagration. The Biden administration has proven ineffective. Not only has it failed to secure a ceasefire in Gaza, the administration is also emboldening Israel by providing military assistance against retaliatory attacks from Iran. ... Read more Global summit blends AI and biotech The Biden administration this week is hosting a first-of-its-kind international summit about the use of artificial intelligence in the life sciences as governments and private industry increasingly push the boundaries of biotechnology. Why it matters: The convergence of the life sciences and advanced AI could reveal the underpinnings of diseases, help identify new cures or produce more resistant crops. But there are barriers and bottlenecks - and potential risks - to combining the technologies. The catch: Training today's advanced AI models requires massive amounts of high-quality, standardized scientific data. But there aren't many accessible databases with that information. Officials hope the AI-Bioscience Collaborative (AIBC) Summit being held Thursday and Friday in Washington, D.C., can begin unlocking troves of data that can be used in the life sciences. The gathering has not been publicly announced. ... ... ... Read more 
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Trump's vulgar rally becomes a drag on his campaign Donald Trump's much-hyped rally in New York has become an own goal that's weighing on his campaign as it tries to sprint to next week's election. Driving the news: Republicans on Monday tried to stop the fallout from the racist, sexist and vulgar rhetoric by several rally speakers, including a comedian who called Puerto Rico a "floating island of garbage." Democrats, Latino groups and others seized on the remarks - and the fact that Trump's campaign approved the speakers - as the latest sign that Trump's divisive rhetoric should disqualify him from a second term. ... Read more MAGA world's hyper-confidence Donald Trump's surrogates, allies and foot soldiers appear supremely confident he'll be re-elected president next week, projecting an air of inevitability inconsistent with what polls portray as a coin-flip election. A longtime member of Trump's inner circle told Axios: "We've never had data that looks this good." Why it matters: Trump could win, potentially in a landslide. So could Vice President Harris. And yet the MAGA universe largely refuses to entertain the latter outcome - priming Trump's base for mass distrust, disbelief and denial of a second straight election loss. ... ... ... Read more 
 How a Russian dark fleet is used to evade international sanctions | 60 Minutes | 10/28/24 | 13:14Trump identifies a scapegoat in case he loses If he winds up losing the election, Donald Trump already has lined up a scapegoat. Trump is making clear that he'll blame Michael Whatley, the Republican National Committee chair who Trump tasked with building the party's massive "election integrity" team. Why it matters: It's the latest sign of how Trump's false claims of election fraud in 2020 are at the core of the GOP's identity - and the "if I don't win, they cheated" mantra Trump has continued into the 2024 campaign.
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Top U.S. & World Headlines - October 29, 2024 | 10/29/24 | 9:23 Trump's Night at the Garden: Racist Campaign Rally Adopts Language of Fascism and Violence | DN | 10/29/24 | 15:31
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MAGA speakers unleash ugly rhetoric at Trump's MSG rally NEW YORK - Donald Trump's rally at Madison Square Garden on Sunday opened with speakers who made racist, sexist and crass remarks about Vice President Kamala Harris and Puerto Ricans. It concluded with speeches from Trump, his wife, Melania, and billionaire Elon Musk arguing that Trump's the hopeful, optimistic choice. Why it matters: Crude comments at Trump rallies aren't new. But many speakers at the rally unleashed rhetoric unprecedented in modern American history so close to an election. ...
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Top U.S. & World Headlines - October 28, 2024 | 10/28/24 | 11:00 "Save Us From Ourselves": 3,000+ Israelis Call For Int'l Help to Pressure Israel to Back Ceasefire | DN | 10/28/24 | 11:52
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 Trump suffers the ultimate humiliation at his OWN rally | btc | 10/27/24 | 9:32
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 Former DOJ Official Warns of Potential "Election Crisis" | Amanpour and Company | Amanpour and Company | 10/23/24 | 18:38How long it took each state to be called in 2020 If 2020 is our guide, it's likely that the 2024 presidential election won't be decided on Election Day. Why it matters: Any period of uncertainty could see the country thrust into a time of legal drama, paralyzed governance and overall distrust, as Axios' Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen reported. Because of post-2020 legal changes nationwide - including in all seven swing states — many results could be slower than in 2020, when President Biden declared victory over former President Trump after the Associated Press called Pennsylvania on the Saturday after Election Day. ... Read more Why Economists Hate Trump's Tariff Plan Why Economists Hate Trump's Tariff Plan | WSJ | 10/18/24 | 8:17America's Last Election  America's Last Election Part 1: The Big Lie | If You're Listening | ABC News In-depth | 10/20/24 | 21:00 |
Top U.S. & World Headlines - October 25, 2024 | 10/25/24 | 9:53 BRICS Breakthrough? Economists Richard Wolff & Patrick Bond on Growing Alliance, Challenge to U.S. | DN | 10/25/24 | 8:12
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 Trump issues THREAT to Jack Smith amid prosecutions | btc | 10/25/24 | 13:08
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Trump shrugs off lifetime of scandals Driving the news: Days before the election, Trump's former chief of staff, retired four-star Gen. John Kelly, went on the record to warn that the former president is a "fascist" who would rule like a dictator. "He commented more than once that, 'You know, Hitler did some good things, too,' " Kelly alleged to The New York Times, choosing to speak out after Trump floated using the U.S. military against political enemies. Kelly, who left the White House in December 2018, also told The Atlantic that Trump wanted the kind of military generals Hitler had - generals who he said were "totally loyal to him." ... Read more Trump shrugs off lifetime of scandals.pdf Steve Rattner: Trump's mass deportation and trade war plans will tank the economy | MSNBC | 10/24/24 | 13:41Donald Trump groped me in what felt like a 'twisted game' with Jeffrey Epstein, former model alleges A former model who says she met Donald Trump through the late sexual abuser Jeffrey Epstein has accused the former president of groping and sexually touching her in an incident in Trump Tower in 1993, in what she believed was a "twisted game" between the two men. Stacey Williams, who worked as a professional model in the 1990s, said she first met Trump in 1992 at a Christmas party after being introduced to him by Epstein, who she believed was a good friend of the then New York real estate developer. Williams said Epstein was interested in her and the two casually dated for a period of a few months. "It became very clear then that he and Donald were really, really good friends and spent a lot of time together," Williams said. ... Read more |
Top U.S. & World Headlines - October 24, 2024 | 10/24/24 | 11:54 "Ethnic Cleansing": Israeli Group B'Tselem Calls for World to Stop Israel's Siege of Northern Gaza | DN | 10/24/24 | 14:51
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Trump dealt blow with OCTOBER SURPRISE | btc | 10/23/24 | 10:15Republican scramble as Trump dealt fatal blow | btc | 10/23/24 | 14:44
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Trump's closing strategy: Make a splash and attack In the closing days of what he says is his last campaign, Donald Trump has launched a strategy combining splashy, attention-getting stunts with dark, apocalyptic messaging. Why it matters: It's a scaled-up version of a familiar Trump routine - stay in the news, be provocative, deflect. This strategy led Trump to that fry-cook photo op at a closed McDonald's, and to have a rally with Elon Musk. It's why he's planning a Sunday rally at New York's Madison Square Garden - a storied venue in a state he's highly unlikely to win, but that promises lots of media coverage. It's also why Trump's messaging - wrapped in personal grievances throughout the campaign — seems to have escalated to a daily hunt for shock value. ... Read more
The campaign is putting together a head-turning lineup to join Trump in New York, one campaign insider said - just as Trump had former NFL stars Ottis Anderson and Lawrence Taylor join him at a rally this year in neighboring New Jersey.
John Kelly tells NYT Trump said: "Hitler did some good things" Former President Trump has on multiple occasions praised Adolf Hitler, alleged John Kelly, his longest-serving White House chief of staff, to the New York Times. The big picture: In a series of audio interviews with the NYT, Kelly raised concerns that Trump would rule like a dictator if elected next month, said he believes the GOP presidential nominee meets the definition of a fascist and claimed that he does not have an understanding of history or the Constitution. "Certainly the former president is in the far-right area, he's certainly an authoritarian, admires people who are dictators - he has said that. So he certainly falls into the general definition of fascist, for sure," Kelly told the NYT. ... Read more
In a separate interview published Tuesday, Kelly addressed a report in Peter Baker and Susan Glasser's book "The Divider" that Trump had asked him: "Why can't you be like the German generals?"
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Top U.S. & World Headlines - October 23, 2024 | 10/23/24 | 13:40 Israel's attack on Gaza has set Gaza's development back 7 decades. 
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 The High Cost of Trump's Mass Deportation Plan | Robert Reich | 10/23/24 | 3:09
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Americans split on idea of putting immigrants in militarized "camps" A policy proposed by former President Trump to round up and deport undocumented immigrants - even if it requires using military-guarded encampments - has Americans divided, per a new survey. Why it matters: The survey results come as Trump is promising to carry out mass deportations using a 226-year-old law that allows the federal government to detain "enemy aliens" in times of war. By the numbers: 50% of Americans surveyed oppose setting up encampments for undocumented immigrants, while 47% favor the idea, according to the annual survey from the nonpartisan Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI), in partnership with the Brookings Institution. ... Read more Meta's new facial recognition helps recover accounts, spot fake ads Meta is gradually releasing facial recognition technology across Facebook and Instagram to help users locked out of their accounts and to spot scam ads that improperly use a celebrity's image. Why it matters: This is the first major expansion of Meta's facial recognition system since its 2021 rollback. The company has also been running a test of the technology to spot so-called "celebrity bait ads," which often rely on AI-generated images of famous people to entice users into buying into whatever scam they're promoting. ... Read more 
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Top U.S. & World Headlines - October 22, 2024 | 10/22/24 | 11:19 Naomi Klein: Israel Has Weaponized October 7 Trauma to Justify Its Genocide in Gaza | DN | 10/22/24 | 15:57 Naomi Klein on 2024 Election, Trump/Musk Misinformation & the "Real Conspiracy" of Money & Power | DN | 10/22/24 | 9:26
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 Americans split on idea of putting immigrants in militarized "camps" | btc | 10/22/24 | 14:26
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What La Nina Will do to Earth in 2025 Join with me today as we dive into the fascinating climate cycle that became the stuff of legend centuries before we had the science to explain it. I'm Alex McColgan, the founder of the Astrum brand, and your host on this podcast. Come and listen as I tell you about incredible missions, fascinating discoveries, and everything I've come to love about space.... Read more What La Niña Will do to Earth in 2025 | Astrum | 09/17/24 | 19:02Israel gave the White House its demands for ending the war in Lebanon Israel gave the U.S. a document last week with its conditions for a diplomatic solution to end the war in Lebanon and allow displaced civilians from both sides of the border to return to their homes, two U.S. officials and two Israeli officials told Axios. Why it matters: The Israeli Prime Minister's Office gave the paper to the White House ahead of President Biden's envoy Amos Hochstein's visit to Beirut on Monday to discuss a diplomatic solution to the conflict, Israeli officials said.
 US intelligence about Israel's plans to attack Iran leaked, sources say | CNN | 10/20/24 | 8:19
The US is investigating a leak of highly classified US intelligence about Israel's plans for retaliation against Iran, according to three people familiar with the matter. One of the people familiar confirmed the documents' authenticity.
The leak is "deeply concerning," a US official told CNN. The documents, dated October 15 and 16, began circulating online Friday after being posted on Telegram by an account called "Middle East Spectator." They are marked top secret and have markings indicating they are meant to be seen only by the US and its "Five Eyes" allies - Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. |
Top U.S. & World Headlines - October 21, 2024 | 10/21/24 | 11:02 Will Netanyahu Incite a War with Iran? Leaked U.S. Docs Detail Israel's Attack Plans | DN | 10/21/24 | 11:45
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Trump rally descends into DYSFUNCTION as Trump behaves BIZARRELY | btc | 10/20/24 | 10:57
 IDF EXPOSED For Using Palestinians As Human Shields | TYT | 10/20/24 | 15:03
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One-third of Americans agree with Trump's racist remark on immigrants One in three Americans say that immigrants entering the country illegally today are "poisoning the blood of our country" - language echoing the rhetoric of white supremacists and Adolf Hitler, a new survey finds. Why it matters: The results suggest that in a nation of immigrants, many Americans have bought into the historically racist rhetoric that Donald Trump has used to stoke anti-immigrant sentiment while promising mass deportations if he's re-elected president. The big picture: The annual survey from the nonpartisan Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI), in partnership with the Brookings Institution, measured the nation's deep political divisions in part by checking their feelings toward the phrase "poisoning the blood of our country." ... Read more
Four times last year, Trump referred to immigrants as "poisoning the blood" of the nation.
More than a one-third of Americans (35%) agree with the statement "immigrants are invading our country and replacing our cultural and ethnic background" — a basis for "white replacement theory," the PRRI survey found. Jan. 6 case appendix to be released Friday after judge denies Trump's request The judge in former President Trump's federal Jan. 6 case on Thursday evening rejected his lawyers' request to delay the court-ordered release of a redacted appendix of new evidence from special counsel Jack Smith. Why it matters: Trump's lawyers said delaying the case until after the election would allow them to submit a counter to the appendix that the special counsel's office filed, but U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan denied their request and ordered Smith's dossier be unsealed with redactions on Friday. Trump is in a close race against Vice President Kamala Harris and he was seeking to delay the appendix's release until after Nov. 14. ... Read more  UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v.s. DONALD J. TRUMP, Defendant | CRIMINAL NO. 23-cr-257 |
Top U.S. & World Headlines - October 18, 2024 | 10/18/24 | 12:07 Gideon Levy: Death of Sinwar Won't End Israel's War While U.S. Gives Netanyahu Free Rein in Gaza | DN | 10/18/24 | 9:29
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Money, Banking, and the Federal Reserve Playing with Fire: Money, Banking, and the Federal Reserve | misesmedia | 10/12/24 | 39:01 |
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Harris' Independence Day: Takeaways from her interview with Fox News Vice President Harris ventured into the lion's den Wednesday to deliver a message that many Americans - including anxious Democrats - have been waiting to hear: "My presidency will not be a continuation of Joe Biden's presidency," Harris told Fox News' Bret Baier. Why it matters: In the highest-risk interview of her campaign, Harris took the rare step of distancing herself from the unpopular, aging president she serves - touting a "new generation of leadership" to millions of skeptical Fox News viewers.  Election Subversion 2024: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver | 10/17/24 | 28:43U.S. titans tighten supply chain grip Driving the news: Amazon on Wednesday became the third Big Tech giant in recent weeks to announce ambitions to tap nuclear energy to power surging AI demand. The company said that it's signed three new agreements to help develop nuclear energy projects: building at least four small modular nuclear reactors (SMR) in Washington state; exploring an SMR project in Virginia; and investing in fuel startup X-energy. Separately, auto giant GM said today it's investing $625 million more in cash and credit into Canadian mining company Lithium Americas to help start a new joint venture in Nevada. ... Read more 
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Top U.S. & World Headlines - October 17, 2024 | 10/17/24 | 12:46 Ex-State Dept. Official: Israel Is Starving Gaza Now. We Can't Wait Another 30 Days to Take Action | DN | 10/17/24 | 12:51
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Fox host CONCEDES DEFEAT after interview with Kamala | btc | 10/17/24 | 9:55
 Is Project 2025 Scarier Than We're Being Told? w/ Ali Velshi | Thom Hartmann |10/17/24 | 3:48
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Meet the billionaires funneling millions into the 2024 race A handful of powerful megadonors have played an outsized role in shaping the 2024 presidential race through mammoth donations toward their favored candidates. Why it matters: The amount of money being injected into 2024 races means this election cycle is poised to become the most expensive federal election ever, according to a new analysis released by the research group OpenSecrets last week. The big picture: President Biden's replacement on the Democratic ticket by Vice President Kamala Harris spurred "an enormous boost in fundraising" among Democrats, per OpenSecrets. ...
Israel vows to improve Gaza conditions after U.S. threat to withhold weapons Israeli officials have been assuring their U.S. counterparts that Israel will act quickly to improve the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza following an ultimatum from the Biden administration, two Israeli officials tell Axios. Driving the news: Secretary of State Blinken and Secretary of Defense Austin sent a letter to Israeli leaders on Monday warning that shipments of U.S. weapons to Israel could be affected if Israel does not take steps within 30 days to improve the conditions in Gaza, according to a copy of the letter obtained by Axios. Senior U.S. officials emphasized that the letter was not intended as a pretext for withholding weapons but as an attempt to spur a change in direction from the Israeli government. ... Read more Why the U.S. Military Spends So Much Money
Why the U.S. Military Spends So Much Money | Johnny Harris | 10/10/24 | 28:23Sources into Military budget.pdf 
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BREAKING: Fox host endorses Kamala Harris | btc | 10/15/24 | 9:08
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In photos: Hurricane Milton's aftermath Hurricane Milton has resulted in at least eight deaths, as officials continued to survey damage from the storm on Thursday. The big picture: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said the death toll from Wednesday night's hurricane was expected to rise in coming days, and the state was working to restore power and replenish fuel supply. Over 2.6 million people remained without electricity as of 8:45pm ET Thursday. ... Lots of photos Behind the Curtain: The Republican welfare state Republicans spent decades railing against welfare recipients. Now, they're deeply reliant on them to win elections. Why it matters: The explosion of people getting 25% or more of their income from government aid - and Republican reliance on their votes - vividly explains the rise of former President Trump and the remaking of the Republican Party. The big picture: Trump rose to power with the backing of the working class, then reoriented the party to focus on them as much as big business. This helps explain the massive surge in government spending under Trump, his continued opposition to trade agreements, his scorn for GOP ideas to gut Social Security and Medicare, and his us-vs.-them rhetoric. ... Read more
Residents in more than half of America's counties (53%) drew a substantial share of their total income - more than a quarter - from the government in 2022, according to a new study, The Great Transfer-mation," by the Economic Innovation Group, a bipartisan think tank.
Overwhelmingly, these counties vote Republican. The transfer payments are funded in part by taxpayers in rich blue areas. In 2000, that was the case in just 10% of counties. In 1970, government safety-net money accounted for significant income in fewer than 1% of America's counties. In photos: Northern lights dazzle skies across the U.S. and world The northern lights returned to skies across the U.S. and the world over Thursday night after a powerful solar storm triggered stunning celestial displays also known as aurora borealis. The big picture: Extreme G5 geomagnetic conditions were observed reaching the Earth for the first time in 21 years on Thursday and remained at G4 levels overnight, per NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center, which warned the storm had the potential to disrupt communications and the electric power grid. ... Lots of pictures |
Top U.S. & World Headlines - October 11, 2024 | 10/11/24 | 11:13 "Death Is Everywhere": Doctor Who Volunteered in Gaza & Lebanon Condemns Israeli Attack on Hospitals | DN | 10/11/24 | 12:10
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BREAKING: Trump gets FINAL bad news in DC court | btc | 10/11/24 | 9:19
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1) It's been 3 years 9 months and no trial for January 6. Our legal system is broken. 2) Why is this man not already in a cell? How can it be legal for a criminal, a convicted felon to run for office? 3) The world is tired of Trump. Trump is rotten to the core. Kamala Harris / Tim Walz 2024! 4) Yet he's not behind bars. Our justice system is a joke. Get him in jail now!!!!! 5) Trump doesn't deserve any leniency or preferential treatment! Lock him up! 6) So much bad news and still no accountability. It’s getting old. Time to lock this criminal up and toss the key
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What we couldn't prepare for with Hurricane Milton The big picture: It's nearly impossible to fully prepare for the projected scale of devastation of a storm like Milton. There are still people and pets in the path of the storm who weren't able to - or didn't - evacuate in time. FEMA - whose workers will be on the front lines helping people and managing the destruction - is already short-staffed, and is now spread even thinner due to the back-to-back hits from Helene and Milton. The scale of the storm itself and the unpredictability of its precise path meant that it was impossible to gauge where the most help would be needed on Florida's coast. ... Read more
Hospitals across the U.S. are postponing elective surgeries, giving some patients Gatorade and using other workarounds to conserve IV fluids in the face of a nationwide shortage that officials fear will intensify with the arrival of Hurricane Milton.
The big picture: Hurricane Helene swamped a Baxter International plant in North Carolina that supplies more than 60% of the nation's IV solution, and a second key facility operated by B. Braun in Daytona Beach, Florida, is in the path of the latest storm. Trump White House Got in the Way of Brett Kavanaugh Sexual Assault Investigation Six years after Brett Kavanaugh joined the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority, a Democratic senator claims the FBI barely followed up on explosive sexual assault allegations that emerged during his nomination. A report released Tuesday lays out how White House officials kept a tight leash on the FBI’s inquiry, contrary to Trump’s claims at the time that the agency had “free rein” to investigate the claims. ... Read more  Investigation Into Sexual-Assault Allegations Against Justice Brett KavanaughOn July 9, 2018, President Donald Trump nominated then-Judge Brett Kavanaugh of the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to be an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Before his confrmation hearing, Kavanaugh was subject to a routine "full-feld" background investigation by the FBI, which is a standard part of the confrmation process for all judicial nominees. On September 4, 2018, the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, following the ordinary procedure for considering Supreme Court nominees, commenced four days of hearings on Kavanaugh's nomination. On September 12, allegations of sexual misconduct by Kavanaugh, which had not been uncovered during the FBI's full-feld background investigation, began to surface. Over the next few days, Senators and the public learned of accusations by Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, a professor at Palo Alto University, that Kavanaugh had sexually assaulted her while the two were in high school. According to a letter Ford sent to Senator Dianne Feinstein, then the Ranking Member of the Judiciary Committee, "Brett Kavanaugh physically and sexually assaulted [Ford] during High School in the early 1980's" by locking her in a bedroom, climbing on top of her, attempting to remove her clothes, and putting his hand over her mouth to stop her from screaming.1 Kavanaugh publicly denied Ford's allegation.2 After Ford came forward, new allegations of sexual misconduct by Kavanaugh emerged, most notably from Deborah Ramirez, a classmate of Kavanaugh's at Yale University. On September 23, 2018, Te New Yorker reported Ramirez's allegation that, while in college, Kavanaugh "exposed himself at a drunken dormitory party, thrust his penis in her face, and caused her to touch it without her consent as she pushed him away."3 Kavanaugh publicly denied this allegation as well.4
Woodward reported that - according to an unidentified Trump aide - the former president and Putin have had "as many as seven" personal conversations since Trump left office in 2021.
Logan Act: Why it could be illegal for Trump to call Putin Recent revelations about former President Trump's personal relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin have raised questions about whether Trump violated U.S. law. Why it matters: With just weeks to go before the presidential election, the reports from journalist Bob Woodward's new book "War" have raised fresh questions about Trump's ties with leaders of one of the U.S.' greatest geopolitical adversaries. Driving the news: News of Trump's reported phone calls with Putin have caught the attention of his opponents as a possible violation of the Logan Act, which restricts private citizens from engaging in diplomatic affairs with U.S. rivals. ... Read more |
Top U.S. & World Headlines - October 10, 2024 | 10/10/24 | 11:40 3.5 Million Left Without Power After Florida Hit by Second Climate-Fueled Deadly Hurricane in Weeks | DN | 10/10/24 | 10:00 Trump & GOP Push Misinformation on Hurricanes as Climate Crisis Intensifies Across Globe | DN | 10/10/24 | 19:40
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New Supreme Court scandal SURGES into spotlight | btc | 10/10/24 | 13:32
 Dark Money Alone Wont Get Trump Elected But This Will "HATE" | Thom Hartmann |10/09/24 | 4:51
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Milton to hit Florida as "dangerous major hurricane" Wednesday night Threat level: The storm track is looking more likely to slip just south of Tampa Bay, between there and Sarasota. Where the peak surge hits will cause widespread, potentially "catastrophic" destruction, the National Weather Service warned. The National Hurricane Center has lowered Tampa Bay's storm surge projections slightly, to a still-record-setting 8- to 12-foot surge above ground level. As of Wednesday morning, the National Hurricane Center forecast brings the full wrath of the storm ashore near or just north of Sarasota, Siesta Key and Punta Gorda, with a "catastrophic" 10- to 15-foot surge. This forecast may still be adjusted. ... Read more 
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Click to enlargeTimeline of Gaza | 3500 BCE to October 7th, 2023  Timeline of Gaza | 3500 BCE to October 7th, 2023 | UsefulCharts | 07/xx/24 | 36:19Historical Origin of the 12 Tribes of Israel  Historical Origin of the 12 Tribes of Israel | UsefulCharts | 03/xx/24 | 32:26
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Top U.S. & World Headlines - October 09, 2024 | 10/09/24 | 11:28 "The First Live-Streamed Genocide": Al Jazeera Exposes War Crimes Israeli Troops Filmed Themselves | DN | 10/09/24 | 22:04 "Catastrophic Category 5": Report from West Florida on Hurricane Milton as Millions Evacuate | DN | 10/09/24 | 3:18
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Trump gets nightmare news from his OWN party | btc | 10/08/24 | 10:16
Did Dark Money Put Trump Ahead Of Kamala Harris? | Thom Hartmann |10/08/24 | 8:35
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With Hurricane Milton, climate change is a key factor Hurricane Milton, which reached the top 5 list of most intense storms on record in the Atlantic Ocean, poses a dire threat to Tampa Bay and other highly populated areas on Florida's west coast. The big picture: Human-caused climate change is among several factors that conspired to propel Hurricane Milton's rarely seen "explosive" intensification. Sea level rise tied to climate change makes this storm potentially more destructive today than it would have been even a few decades ago. Threat level: The storm, now a high-end Category 4, is on course for a calamitous encounter with the 17th-biggest metro area in the U.S. That area is unusually vulnerable to storm surge due to its coastline's shape and large population living near sea level. ... Read more 
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Top U.S. & World Headlines - October 08, 2024 | 10/08/24 | 12:34 Ta-Nehisi Coates: I Was Told Palestine Was Complicated. Visiting Revealed a Simple, Brutal Truth | DN | 10/08/24 | 25:09
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Donald Trump's Tax Plan Could Bankrupt America | Thom Hartmann |10/07/24 | 2:55
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The backstory: "War" - from Simon & Schuster, Woodward's longtime publisher - is about the collision of three ongoing wars. It covers events from Jan. 6, 2021, to mid-August 2024: It started as a book about the war in Ukraine, beginning with the Russian buildup. After Hamas' terrorist attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, Woodward added the Middle East. The struggle for the American presidency is at the center of it all. Behind the scenes: Because Simon & Schuster pulls out all the stops for Woodward, he was able to make late changes to the manuscript after Biden dropped out and endorsed Harris on July 21. ... Read more |
 War by Bob WoodwardWar is an intimate and sweeping account of one of the most tumultuous periods in presidential politics and American history. We see President Joe Biden and his top advisers in tense conversations with Russian president Vladimir Putin, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky. We also see Donald Trump, conducting a shadow presidency and seeking to regain political power. With unrivaled, inside-the-room reporting, Woodward shows President Biden's approach to managing the war in Ukraine, the most significant land war in Europe since World War II, and his tortured path to contain the bloody Middle East conflict between Israel and the terrorist group Hamas. Woodward reveals the extraordinary complexity and consequence of wartime back-channel diplomacy and decision-making to deter the use of nuclear weapons and a rapid slide into World War III. The raw cage-fight of politics accelerates as Americans prepare to vote in 2024, starting between President Biden and Trump, and ending with the unexpected elevation of Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee for president. War provides an unvarnished examination of the vice president as she tries to embrace the Biden legacy and policies while beginning to chart a path of her own as a presidential candidate. |
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How Israel's war spread beyond Gaza Hamas' Oct. 7 attack on Israel sparked immediate fears of regional war. A year later, those fears are close to fruition. The big picture: Israel is fighting on two fronts, against Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon, while engaging in an escalating tit-for-tat with Iran, a key patron of both militant groups. Driving the news: While the war in Gaza is ongoing, the heaviest fighting has recently shifted to southern Lebanon. More than 1,000 people have died in Lebanon since Israel began an intense bombing campaign on Oct. 1, followed by a ground invasion. Israel says its goal is to clear out Hezbollah infrastructure to allow civilians who fled northern Israel after Oct. 8, 2023 - when Israel and Hezbollah began exchanging cross-border strikes - to safely return home. ... Read more 
Hurricane Milton: Dire scenario looms for Florida Evacuations are underway in the Tampa Bay area and other parts of the Florida Gulf Coast as Category 3 Hurricane Milton rapidly intensifies and is forecast to make landfall midweek. Threat level: The storm poses a dire scenario of a direct hit on Tampa Bay from the west-southwest, which would push an unprecedented 8-to-12-foot storm surge into the Bay and other locations along and to the south of where the eye crosses the coast. Hurricane and storm surge watches have been issued along the state's west coast. For comparison, the peak surge in Tampa Bay during Hurricane Helene was at the range 4 to 8 feet. It proved extremely damaging, and raised awareness about the city's overall surge risk exposure. ... Read more |
Top U.S. & World Headlines - October 07, 2024 | 10/07/24 | 11:31 Israeli Peace Activist Lost His Parents on October 7. He's Calling for an End to War & Occupation. | DN | 10/07/24 | 14:04
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Trump, Republicans caught pulling DISGUSTING stunt | btc | 10/07/24 | 14:57
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Jack Smith's endgame Special counsel Jack Smith's latest account of Jan. 6 is full of vivid new details depicting then-President Trump inflaming a violent insurrection despite knowing he had lost. Why it matters: Smith and his team are pulling out everything they can muster to persuade the courts that their case against Trump should go forward. The special counsel's latest brief, unsealed Wednesday, is an effort to keep the case against Trump alive in the face of the Supreme Court's ruling on presidential immunity. Job No. 1 is to convince the courts that Trump's actions were the actions of a private person desperate to cling to power - not those of a president carrying out his official duties. And the additional evidence prosecutors put forward in their latest brief is designed to help make that arguments. ... Read more
Job growth surged in September as unemployment rate edged down
Liz Cheney says at GOP birthplace it's "our duty" to reject Trump ormer Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) at a campaign event with Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday urged voters to "reject the depraved cruelty" of former President Trump and vote for the Democratic presidential nominee. The big picture: "In this election, putting patriotism ahead of partisanship is not an aspiration," said Cheney at the event in the birthplace of the Republican Party at Ripon, Wisconsin. "It is our duty." "We cannot turn away from this truth," said Cheney in her first campaign event with Harris since she endorsed the Democrat last month. ... Read more
Trump in an interview with Fox News ahead of her speech called former Republican Vice President Dick Cheney's daughter "a stupid war hawk."
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Top U.S. & World Headlines - October 04, 2024 | 09/04/24 | 10:38 What Is Israel's Endgame in Lebanon? Airstrikes Intensify, Hospitals Overwhelmed, 1.2M Displaced | DN | 10/04/24 | 15:13
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 Michigan Voters Could Swing the Nation | Robert Reich | 10/04/24 | 1:16
Trump goes OFF THE DEEP END over bombshell DC trial update | btc | 10/04/24 | 8:51
 Russia's Shocking Bomb Attack on Ukraine EXPOSED w/ Phillip Ittner | Thom Hartmann |10/04/24 | 10:56
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Read: New filing unveils additional evidence in Trump's 2020 election case A lengthy motion from special counsel Jack Smith was unsealed Wednesday, making public what prosecutors say is new evidence that former President Trump and his allies tried to subvert the 2020 presidential election results. The big picture: U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan unsealed the 165-page redacted motion, despite Trump's opposition. In response to a recent Supreme Court decision on presidential immunity, Smith filed the motion seeking a determination Trump was acting as a private citizen and not as the president when he sought to overturn the 2020 election.... Read more New filing unveils additional evidence in Trump's 2020 election case.pdf
"At its core, the defendant's scheme was a private one; he extensively used private actors and his Campaign infrastructure to attempt to overturn the election results and operated in a private capacity as a candidate for office," Smith wrote.
Trump "resorted to crimes" to try to keep power in 2020, Jack Smith alleges Special counsel Jack Smith outlined in a motion unsealed by a judge on Wednesday what he called former President Trump's "increasingly desperate" efforts to subvert the 2020 presidential election results. Why it matters: Trump and his legal team had opposed the motion, arguing it would interfere with the November election results. The filing unveils new details in connection to the Republican presidential nominee's Jan. 6 case. U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan unsealed the redacted motion on Wednesday. State of play: Smith in the motion wrote that Trump's "scheme was a private criminal effort." He emphasized throughout the document that the former president was acting in his capacity as a candidate, not a president. ... ... ... Read more How Israel's air defenses knocked down Iran's missiles Israel's air defenses, supported by the U.S., mostly neutralized the threat from Iran's approximately 180-ballistic missile attack on Tuesday. The big picture: Only one civilian was killed, in the West Bank, in one of the most intense aerial attacks Israel has ever faced. Once again, Israel's vaunted air defense systems lived up to their reputation. How it happened: Israel's Arrow, designed to take out long-range missiles like the ones Iran launched, played a key role. The system "performed as expected" and produced "wonderful" results, Israel Aerospace Industries CEO Boaz Levy told Axios. State-owned IAI developed the system in partnership with the U.S. The Arrow is one of the most sophisticated air defense systems in the world, with an advanced radar system to detect incoming projectiles and supersonic interceptors to knock them down. ... Read more |
Top U.S. & World Headlines - October 03, 2024 | 09/03/24 | 9:49 "Don't Do It": Lebanese Lawyer Warns Israel Against Using War to Create a "New Middle East" | DN | 10/03/24 | 18:06
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 Trump's Tax Scam: Why Nothing Trickled Down | Robert Reich | 10/03/24 | 4:21
Trump hit with pre-election nightmare in court | btc | 10/03/24 | 27:08
Trump & Kamala Tied ?!? - Why 2024 Election Polls Predict Closest Election in History | Thom Hartmann |10/03/24 | 6:09
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Israel plans massive Iran payback with Middle East on edge Israeli officials staring down all-out regional war tell Axios Israel will launch a "significant retaliation" to Tuesday's massive missile attack within days that could target oil production facilities inside Iran and other strategic sites. Why it matters: Israel and Iran have never been closer to opening up a new and far more dangerous front in the war that has engulfed the Middle East. Iran threatened on Tuesday that if Israel responds with force to the nearly 200 missiles it launched on Tuesday, it will attack again. If that happens, Israeli officials say all options will be on the table - including strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities. ... Read more Midwestern nice debate: Vance and Walz find surprising common ground The lone vice presidential debate between Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) and Gov. Tim Walz (D-Minn.) was substantive and unusually civil, with the candidates exchanging policy proposals on immigration, abortion and gun violence but not personal attacks. The big picture: VP debates rarely change the trajectory of an election - but this one did appear to temper the tone, however fleetingly. Vance stepped out of his role as former President Trump's campaign trail attack dog. He laid out a new, more nuanced approach to "mass deportations" under a Trump-Vance administration and seemed to concede that abortion bans - which he has supported - can be harmful to some women. Walz, for his part, nodded along with several of Vance's answers. At one point Vance laid out a very different approach to paid family leave than the one Walz had just espoused, and the Minnesota governor said he actually agreed with many of Vance's ideas and thought they could be incorporated into Harris' plans. ... Read more  In VP Debate, JD Vance Downplays Jan. 6 Insurrection & Refuses to Admit Trump Lost 2020 Election | DN | 10/02/24 | 4:31As Hurricane Helene Death Toll Tops 166, Vance Casts Doubt on Climate Science & Carbon Emissions | DN | 10/02/24 | 6:44 Walz Decries Demonizing Immigrants After Trump & Vance Spread Lies About Haitians in Springfield, OH | DN | 10/02/24 | 6:52 JD Vance Tries to Hide His Hard-Line Anti-Abortion Record by Coopting Democratic Talking Points | DN | 10/02/24 | 7:08 OpenAI speeds ahead as it shifts to for-profit OpenAI used a developer event in San Francisco on Tuesday to announce several capabilities, the most provocative of which allows developers to make use of the same real-time speech capabilities recently added to ChatGPT. In showing off the product to the press on Monday, OpenAI chose a demo of the capability paired with Twilio's cloud communications platform. In the demo, OpenAI showed its Realtime API powering an AI agent to make a call on its own to a fictional candy store and order 400 chocolate-covered strawberries. Asked about safeguards, OpenAI said it wasn't watermarking its AI voice to allow it to be detected, or mandating how people disclose their use of AI. ... Read more
Meanwhile, Fortune reported on Tuesday that another fierce debate took place within OpenAI over whether the company's o1 reasoning model (previously code-named Strawberry) was ready for release.
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Top U.S. & World Headlines - October 02, 2024 | 09/02/24 | 10:03 Regional War Feared as Biden Backs Israel's Threat to Retaliate After Iranian Missile Attack | DN | 10/02/24 | 21:59
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Vance CRASHES & BURNS over simple question at VP debate | btc | 10/02/24 | 12:36
 Night of Violence? Trump's Fascist Response to Hurricane Helene | Thom Hartmann |10/02/24 | 4:49
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According to a flash poll conducted by SSRS for CNN, registered U.S. voters thought the two vice presidential nominees Tim Walz and JD Vance were fairly evenly matched in last night's VP-debate, hosted by CBS News and broadcast nationally on TV. The poll of 574 U.S. adults gave Vance the slight advantage with 51 percent of votes to Walz's 49.
As the following chart shows, the first and only scheduled vice-presidential debate between Walz and Vance appears to have helped the image of both candidates in the eyes of U.S. voters. Where Walz had been viewed favorably by 46 percent of registered voters in the run up to the debate, this rose by 13 percentage points to 59 percent on October 1 following the debate. For Vance, favorable opinions rose by 11 percentage points before and after the event, from 30 percent 41 percent. |
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Past wars loom over Israel's ground operation in Lebanon Israeli officials insist their ground operation in southern Lebanon will be limited in scope and length. But Israeli officials said that twice before - in 1982 and 2006. Those invasions of their northern neighbor escalated into far wider, deadlier and more protracted conflicts. Why it matters: That could happen again. The most dramatic possible consequence of a ground invasion would be if it convinces Iran to change course and get directly involved to save the militia it has built for decades. But there's another scenario U.S. officials have been warning about for months: pro-Iranian militias in Syria, Iraq and Yemen could come to Hezbollah's help and either send their fighters to Lebanon or open another front through Syria. ... Read more
For months, the skirmishes on the Israel-Lebanon border simmered below the threshold of a war. But two weeks ago Israel decided to escalate with a series of attacks that killed more than 1,000 people and dealt Hezbollah its biggest blow in years.
'Israel is trying to drag the US and Iran into a shooting war' Professor John Mearsheimer: 'Israel is trying to drag the US and Iran into a shooting war' | The Spectator | 10/01/24 | 40:13The stock market's astonishing returns A year ago, the 30-year return for the S&P 500 was 834%, which is to say it rose just over ninefold between the end of Q3 1993 and the end of Q3 2023. Today, the index's 30-year return is 1,135% - it's risen more than twelvefold in the past 30 years, and currently stands at an all-time high. Why it matters: The stock market has been on a tear of late - up 34% over the past year and up 20% year to date. That's the best stock-market performance in the first three quarters since 1997, and it's boosted total returns over pretty much any time horizon. ... Read more 
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ver the past few years, plant-based meat substitutes have come closer and closer to mimicking the real thing, with brands like Beyond Meat having even sussed out how to create fake meat that "bleeds". But after an initial boom, the company has rapidly come down from its peaks.
There are several reasons for the hype having died down, one of which being that many consumers decided to move away from buying the often more expensive items amid the cost of living crisis. Another reason cited is that plant-based meats have become a part of the U.S.'s culture war, labeled as a symbol of left-wing politics and a binary to "real" meat. 
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Top U.S. & World Headlines - October 01, 2024 | 09/01/24 | 9:52 Fears Grow over Israeli Ground Invasion as Israel Orders 25 Lebanese Villages to Flee Homes | DN | 10/01/24 | 15:27 "I Pled Guilty to Journalism": WikiLeaks' Julian Assange Speaks Publicly After Prison Release | DN | 10/01/24 | 7:21 Ports Shut Down from Maine to Texas as 45,000 Dockworkers Launch Strike over Pay & Automation | DN | 10/01/24 | 10:54
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Trump gets SHUT DOWN over hurricane response ON FOX NEWS | btc | 10/01/24 | 11:29
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Lindsey GrahamSen. 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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EnvironmentThe 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 IntelligenceAIArtificial 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 mechanicsQuantum 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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Wall Street and BankstersWall 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?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 EllsbergDaniel 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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NukesNuclear 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 ForooharMs. 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 | 2014 | 10 EpisodesOliver 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 InterviewsHistorian 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
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China Valley of TunnelsA 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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911On 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 WarKen 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 MashupsDonald 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.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 | RallysDonald 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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