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Here is Robert Reich In fact, since the beginning of Trump's presidency, just 1,200 coal-mining jobs have been created, according to monthly reports by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In fact, the 1,200 coal jobs during Trump's presidency thus far are just 100 more than were created between August and December 2016 under President Obama. http://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-has-only-delivered-1200-coal-mining-jobs-despite-claiming-have-751885 Robert Reich: The Three Big Lies About Trump’s Tax Plan http://www.newsweek.com/robert-reich-three-big-lies-about-trumps-tax-plan-750616 Robert Reich: Trump May Be Dumb, But He Has Plenty of Emotional Intelligence http://www.newsweek.com/robert-reich-trump-may-be-dumb-he-has-plenty-emotional-intelligence-773200 Trump doesn’t think he’s stupid, of course. As he recounted, “I went to an Ivy League college … I did very well. I’m a very intelligent person.” Yet Trump wasn’t exactly an academic star. One of his professors at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business and Finance purportedly said that he was “the dumbest goddamn student I ever had.” Trump biographer Gwenda Blair wrote in 2001 that Trump was admitted to Wharton on a special favor from a “friendly” admissions officer who had known Trump’s older brother. what about Mayer and Salovey’s second aspect of emotional intelligence – influencing the emotions of others? This is where Trump shines. He knows how to manipulate people. He has an uncanny ability to discover their emotional vulnerabilities – their fears, anxieties, prejudices, and darkest desires – and use them for his own purposes. To put it another way, Trump is an extraordinarily talented conman. He’s always been a conman. He conned hundreds of young people and their parents into paying to attend his near worthless Trump University. He conned banks into lending him more money even after he repeatedly failed to pay them. He conned contractors to work for them and then stiffed them. By Robert Reich On 1/7/18, from above story. Does that answer your question?

I'm surprised to read the words of the first two posters in this thread as they are among the most fervent supporters of trump. Robert Reich started out under the Ford administration, a republican president. Robert B. Reich is the Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, and a senior fellow at the Blum Center for Developing Economies. He served as secretary of labor in the Clinton administration, and Time magazine named him one of the 10 most effective cabinet secretaries of the 20th century. He has written 14 books, including the best-sellers "Aftershock," "The Work of Nations," "Beyond Outrage" and, most recently, "Saving Capitalism." He is also a founding editor of The American Prospect magazine, chairman of Common Cause, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and co-creator of the award-winning documentary "Inequality for All." Above from: https://www.salon.com/2017/12/30/a-year-with-trump_partner/ and the story entitled: Robert Reich: Surviving a Year with Donald Trump America has had its share of incompetents, but Trump’s disregard of American ideals is like nothing else before him But a better summation of how trump is further polarizing America by driving a wedge between people above the average income level and below it is: Robert Reich: Trump Voters, He’s Taking You For Suckers http://www.newsweek.com/robert-reich-trump-voters-hes-taking-you-suckers-764897

A quick search turns it up on page 204. One should have anticipated this from the "Pu##y grabber in chief", I guess.

Trump Told Hope Hicks She Was 'The Best Piece of Tail' Corey Lewandowski Would Ever Have, Book Claims “You’ve already done enough for him,” Trump allegedly responded to Hicks. “You’re the best piece of tail he’ll ever have,” he added, in a comment that reportedly sent Hicks “running from the room.” The president’s comment was an apparent reference to an on-off romantic relationship between Hicks and Lewandowski, the book claims. http://www.newsweek.com/trump-told-hope-hicks-she-was-best-piece-tail-corey-lewandowski-would-ever-770332

The green is the onboard oxygen AKA MD-1 Bailout Oxygen. I think the black is a GPS/ELT antenna connector.

N. Korea?? Pakistan fought the 1999, Kargil War with India while it had nuclear weapons. They don't have ICBM's that can threaten more than about 1700 nm. Their leaders don't brag about "bigger buttons" to threaten adversaries. Having said that I get your point. They have by far the most terrorism, political violence, of any nuclear power.

The tell-all book quickly shot up to the No. 1 spot on Amazon and almost immediately was backordered there and at other major booksellers including Barnes & Noble. While the book won’t be back in stock on Amazon for another two to four weeks, people can still order the Kindle and audio editions, which were No. 2 and No. 3 on Amazon’s best-seller list. http://time.com/money/5089578/michael-wolff-fire-and-fury-trump-sales/ OK, someone needs to start a new thread about the movie, the name of the movie and who should star in it.

More and more people are coming out vetting the facts and representations of this book and virtually every story is ringing true. Marc could use the internet to learn the facts about something before resorting to instinctive. Right vr left, Breitbart inspired rhetoric. Michael Wolff got access to the trump WH because he wrote a favorable, accurate book about trumps friend Rupert Murdoch. trump expected a flattering expose of himself because he loves media attention. This is that book: https://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Owns-News-Murdoch/dp/B007U7TQ42 This is the author: "Wolff was nominated for the National Magazine Award three times, winning twice".. The Columbia Journalism Review criticized Wolff in 2010 when Wolff suggested that The New York Times was aggressively covering the breaking News International phone hacking scandal as a way of attacking News Corporation chairman Rupert Murdoch.[21] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Wolff_(journalist) Murdoch is no friend of the "left". Wolff is a NY,NY based author with a long track history of magazines and books. Leaning towards "In a 2004 cover story for The New Republic, Michelle Cottle wrote that Wolff was "uninterested in the working press," preferring to focus on "the power players—the moguls" and was "fixated on culture, style, buzz, and money, money, money." This is what got him access to the trump WH because the media whore trump expected a Murdoch style book. Instead he got the truth and its ugly.

Dec 18 2013, 11:38 am ET

Two senior pilots have been grounded for fighting in the cockpit mid-air on a New Years Day flight from London to Mumbai with 324 passengers and 14 crew members on board. Officials of Indian airline Jet Airways are investigating claims that a male pilot slapped his female colleague during a heated argument which resulted in both pilots leaving the cockpit unattended on the long haul flight. After being slapped, the female pilot, who has not been identified, left the cockpit in tears, according to local newspapers. A member of the cabin crew, who was concerned about the safety of passengers, then tried to convince the pilot to re-enter the cockpit to operate the flight. http://www.newsweek.com/pilot-fight-mid-air-cockpit-unmanned-jet-airways-770790

Oh there are so many like that. Its a non-stop expose of trump buffoonery. This is another story by the same author of the book: http://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/michael-wolff-book-trump

This story is adapted from Michael Wolff’s book Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House: http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/01/michael-wolff-fire-and-fury-book-donald-trump.html Keep in mind that the book is filled with lies and fabrications. Thats why trump's lawyers are in such a hurry to get a court order restricting distribution.

Author has tapes of interviews with Bannon, officials: report The author of an explosive new book on the Trump White House reportedly has tapes of some of his interviews with officials. Axios reported that author Michael Wolff recorded interviews with people including former White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon and former White House deputy chief of staff Katie Walsh. http://thehill.com/homenews/media/367377-author-has-tapes-of-interviews-with-bannon-officials-report

Lawmakers briefed by Yale psychiatrist on Trump's mental health: report More than a dozen lawmakers last month met with a Yale University psychiatry professor for two days to discuss President Trump’s fitness for office, Politico reported Wednesday. Dr. Bandy X. Lee reportedly met with the group of lawmakers on Dec. 5 and Dec. 6 and warned them the president is “going to unravel.” All of the lawmakers in attendance were Democrats, except for one Republican senator. “We feel that the rush of tweeting is an indication of his falling apart under stress. Trump is going to get worse and will become uncontainable with the pressures of the presidency,” Lee told Politico. http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/367362-lawmakers-briefed-by-yale-psychiatrist-on-trumps-mental-health-report

If you don't know that a more legitimate publication than Breitbart exists anymore, then you are simply a credulous victim of Trump's calculated attempts to denigrate the genuine news media in service of his own populist, demagogic agenda. Here's a WaPo article shooting down the credibility of Wolff's book, essentially defending Trump from several of its accusations. That's what a legitimate publication does. From the story: "In some ways, this is the tell-all that Trump's post-truth presidency deserves. Trump's own version of the truth is often subject to his own fantastic impulses and changes at a moment's notice. The leaks from his administration have followed that pattern, often painting credulity-straining images of an American president. As the New York Times's Maggie Haberman notes, that makes claims in Wolff's book that would ordinarily seem implausible suddenly plausible." Although there was a well know reporter interviewed on CNN, today, who said that Michael Wolff was in the West Wing as much as any reporter. If not more so. When you gather a bunch or lying, self interested, self enrichment seeking narcissists. This is what you get. Its most often said that a team reflects its coach. A business reflects its CEO, etc. For the WH, its so and deserved.

Oh yeah, the knives are out now. A room full of narcissists and not a truthful word between them all. The interests of the country..., down the road a long time ago while the scent of money was perused. Calling Marc, there must be something ironic here?

Yikes and a new news cycle in Washington is underway.

That is a well written story and people in a hurry should slow down and take the time to read it. Its the type of journalism that the WP and NYT put out.

I'm just curious, but do suppressors interfere with accuracy? They change the point of impact of rifles but don't affect accuracy. Which means a grouping of bullets will strike a target in a slightly different spot with the suppressor attached. As compared to the same rifle with the suppressor off the same rifle.

2017 was the safest year for flying ever, and Trump is falsely taking credit https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/1/2/16840732/2017-airline-safety-trump Trump budget would raise deficit $46B for air traffic control https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/05/23/trump-budget-would-raise-deficit-air-traffic-control/102026976/

Why Has the US Dollar Been Consistently Falling Throughout 2017? Throughout 2017, however, the greenback has taken a long and sustained nosedive to hit multi-year lows. The U.S. Dollar Index, which measures the value of the dollar against a weighted basket of currencies belonging to six of the United States’ biggest foreign trade partners—the euro, yen, pound sterling, Canadian dollar, Swedish krona and Swiss franc—recently slipped to its lowest level in more than two years.... The unpredictable leadership style of Donald Trump himself hasn’t exactly helped the greenback... his actual view on this issue was that “our dollar is getting too strong…it is very, very hard to compete when you have a strong dollar and other countries are devaluing their currency”. Trump’s desire to abandon the US’s previous “strong dollar” policy seems to be on the basis that a strong currency hurts the competitiveness of US businesses by making US products more expensive when sold abroad, which in turn erodes sales revenue. A weaker dollar, therefore, would help push the overall trade balance back in the US’s favour, and would thus fall in line with Trump’s efforts to rejuvenate US manufacturing and exports." https://internationalbanker.com/brokerage/us-dollar-consistently-falling-throughout-2017/ US Dollar to Decline in 2018, Say BMO Capital Markets, in Latest Forecasts https://www.poundsterlinglive.com/usd/8213-dollar-to-decline-in-2018-says-investment-bank-in-latest-full-year-forecasts In 36 Months, America Will Face a $1 Trillion Budget Deficit. Do Voters Care? http://fortune.com/2017/09/22/united-states-budget-deficit/ Deficit could hit $1 trillion in 2018, and that's before the full impact of tax cuts https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/12/20/deficit-could-hit-1-trillion-2018-and-thats-before-full-impact-tax-cuts/969347001/

Barriss' digital footprint suggests he was familiar with swatting. One of his Twitter handles was @SWAuTistic. The Twitter account has been suspended but CNN was able to find a cached copy of the profile that had multiple references to swatting. In a December 22 tweet, he said he was "thinking about swatting" the FBI headquarters. Two people who knew Barriss through the gaming and online community spoke to CNN on condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation in that community. One of them communicated with him after the Wichita shooting. CNN reviewed some of their messages. "I was in shock so I messaged him asking him why he'd do that," the friend told CNN. "He said it was stupid and he shouldn't have done it, but I didn't care. He's a grown man who's done this stuff before." The other friend said the Wichita call stemmed from an argument among two gamers that didn't involve Barriss or Finch. One of the gamers contacted Barriss and asked him to swat the other gamer, the friend told CNN. Barriss "was known in the gaming community for doing stuff like that," the friend said when asked why Barriss would be contacted about swatting. Barriss was arrested in 2015 for calling in fake bomb threats to CNN affiliate KABC, Glendale Police Sergeant Victor Jackson said. He received a two-year sentence. "After he got out of jail, he said he did it for attention and to be on the news but that was it. He also said he regretted it and wouldn't do it (again) but that was obviously a lie," one of the anonymous friends said of the 2015 arrest. "I think he feels powerful being able to do stupid stuff like that." http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/30/us/kansas-police-shooting-swatting/index.html

So if pit bulls are no more dangerous than other breeds, and the press is biased, are you suggesting then that there are actually hundreds of people killed yearly? I never suggested the press was biased. I have no idea how many are killed by dogs, injured by dogs, or what species are involved. Prior to some basic reading on this subject piqued by this thread. I'd thought they may have been slightly more aggressive than the average dog specie. As such, I was surprised to learn that they are less. You should read the quoted stories and come up with some new information and facts. To support your what seems to be unsubstantiated biases. Unbiased facts based upon science based research. Is usually more successful in debate. The American Temperament Test Society and US veterinarians don't seem to have reason to be biased against any particular dog specie. Some US insurers have premiums targeting some species, some don't. I like German shepherds myself. Carry on.

http://dogtime.com/dog-health/general/1220-american-pit-bull-terrier-temperament-dog-bites A good, sad, read on the situation. https://stories.barkpost.com/pit-bulls-shelters-question/ Testing suggests that all breeds are virtually the same. The pit bull is properly identified as "AMERICAN PIT BULL TERRIER" the ranking is here: https://atts.org/breed-statistics/statistics-page1/

China can lead way on climate change Unlike his US counterpart, President Xi Jinping with his push for a huge carbon trading market knows a cut in polluting emissions can bring economic benefits The global praise that greeted Beijing’s unveiling of plans to create the world’s largest carbon trading market was for good reason. With the United States having withdrawn from the Paris climate change accord, China has been eyed to take a leadership role.... President Xi Jinping, who is behind the drive, well knows the benefits for growth and development, a reality refuted by his American counterpart, Donald Trump, who denies that air pollution is causing global warming. The creation of a clean energy industry has brought billions of dollars and thousands of jobs and China is now a world leader in numerous fields,... Xi used the term “torch-bearer” rather than “leader” at the Communist Party’s recent 19th congress when referring to China’s role in the fight against climate change. But the introduction of the carbon trading market gives cause to consider taking up the leadership." http://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2126220/china-can-lead-way-climate-change According to a 2016 public survey conducted by the Centre for Communication and Public Opinion Survey at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the South China Morning Post received a credibility rating of 6.54, the highest credibility score among the various paid newspapers in Hong Kong https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_China_Morning_Post While the US forfeits leadership under trump China and XI recognize opportunity and profit. China Assumes Green Power Mantle, Leaving Germany, U.S. Behind https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-05/china-assumes-green-power-mantle-leaving-germany-u-s-behind Trump cedes green energy jobs and leadership to China http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-perspec-energy-green-chinese-solar-paris-climate-accord-renewable-1208-story.html the Chinese have recognized that green energy will provide millions of jobs in the future. That’s why they are heavily promoting development of their renewable fuels sector — not just as assemblers, but also as innovators. The Chinese government has invested vast sums in research and development for solar cells, solar panels and solar technology as well as the various subsystems to deliver that power. It heavily promotes startup companies to sell these innovations in domestic and overseas markets. And it’s working. Of the 8.1 million renewable energy jobs that exist around the world today, 3.5 million are in China, and fewer than 1 million in the U.S. Five of the six largest solar-module manufacturing firms in the world are Chinese. In short, China’s renewable energy sector is eating our lunch.