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Financial World

The Wolf of Wall Street

*The Wolf of Wall Street Official (trailer) | 06/16/13 | 2:14

PBS Frontline | To Catch a Trader, SAC Trading | 01/07/14 | 53:41

PBS FRONTLINE correspondent Martin Smith goes inside the government's ongoing, seven-year crackdown on insider trading, drawing on exclusively obtained video of hedge fund titan Steven A. Cohen, incriminating FBI wiretaps of other traders, and interviews with both Wall Street and Justice Department insiders.

Margin Call | 2011 | 1:42:08,

Inside Job Documentary by Charles Ferguson
*Inside Job | trailer | 2010 | 2:45

Long, but one of the best documentaries on what went on during the financial crisis of 2008.

Inside Job by Charles Furgison | 2011 | 1:48:38

*The Biggest Bank Heist Ever! | 2011 | 49:42

Shorter version of Inside Job. Uses a lot of the same material, more of the one-on-one interviews.

FOUR HORSEMEN by RenegadeEconomist.com

*FOUR HORSEMEN is an independent feature documentary which lifts the lid on how the world really works | 1:38:54

Heist

Heist: A Who Done It On The Economy (shortened version) | 27:57

Heist - Who Stole the American Dream? (full) | 2012 | 1:26:21

Military

No End in Sight Iraq's Descent Into Chaos by Charles Ferguson

No End in Sight by Charles Ferguson | 2006 | 1:41:53

Why We Fight by Eugene Jarecki,

"Why We Fight" by Eugene Jarecki, is a 2006 documentary film about the military--industrial complex | | 1:38:41

Dirty Wars by Jeremy Scahill

*Dirty Wars by Jeremy Scahill | 2013 | 1:26:21

UNMANNED: America's Drone Wars by Greenwald

*UNMANNED: America's Drone Wars by Robert Greenwald (full) | 10/28/13 | 1:03:55

Nuclear Bombs expoded

A Time-Lapse Map of Every Nuclear Explosion Since 1945 (hint 2053) - by Isao Hashimoto | 14:25

The above video starts out slow, but keeps building as more countries get into the act. Note: you can use the progress bar to move back and forth inside the video.

Environment - Climate Change

Chasing Ice by James Balog

*Chasing Ice (full) | 2012 |

Chasing Ice with James Balog Lecture | 01/16/14 | 1:06:11

GeoEngineering

GeoEngineeringWatch.org | Dane Wigington: Climate Engineering Weather Warfare, and the Collapse of Civilization | 01/30/14 | 1:17:19

Click to zoom chart - Globe/w winds at Jet Stream level

Pretty Cool Globe Showing the Winds at Jet Stream Level
Click to zoom chart - winds at Jet Stream level

Click to zoom chart - temps near ground level

Click picture to zoom in to the TED talks

Exponential (hockey stick) growth

Albert Bartlett, professor emeritus of Physics at Univ of Colorado-Boulder, talks about how to view unfettered growth | | 1:13:54 or the updated version here

Give the above video a chance. Watch the first 10 minutes and see if it doesn't spark an interest. Professor Bartlett has an easy way of explaining exponential (hockey stick) growth that most of us don't understand.

Environment - Resource

Big Oil

*Robert Greenwald's "Koch Brothers Exposed" (full) | 2012 | 1:00:51

The Big Fix - BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Cover up | 2012 | 1:30:20

Houston We Have A Problem | | 46:36, Part 2 [39:55]

A Crude Awakening - The Oilcrash () | | 1:22:52

Tar Sands - Click to zoom

Tar Sands is a messy job

Oil Dericks (New & Old) - Click to zoom

Oil Rigs in the Gulf - 4,000 of them - Click to zoom

HBO Newsroom

*The Newsroom - Why America is NOT the greatest country in the world, anymore. (current) | | 4:48

*The Newsroom - Tea Party is the American Taliban (current) | | 6:12

*The Newsroom - Hiring the intern (current) [1:20]

12-year old Victoria Grant explains why her homeland, Canada, and most of the world, is in debt (05/08/12) [6:43]

Financial Charts

Bank Consolidation - "Too Big To Fail" Banks
"Too Big To Fail" Banks - Click to zoom

Left vs Right - Click to zoom

National Debt

Who's Responsible for National Debt - Click to zoom

US Debt Clock - Click to zoom

World Debt Clock - Click to zoom

My Comment
I heard that if you had a stack of $100.00 dollar bills that equaled 1 trillion dollars, the stack would be 62 miles high! Or, if you paid back a loan at 1 dollar a second it would take 31.7 years to pay back 1 billion dollars... or 31,700 years to pay back 1 trillion dollars.

$1 Trillion & US Debt in Physical $100 bills | | 2:10

Click picture to zoom in - National Budget

Click picture to zoom in - National Debt

Click picture to zoom in - FDIC

Click picture to zoom in - Derivatives and Bank Exposures

*Wealth Inequality

Inequality for All by Robert Reich

*Robert Reich | Inequality For All Official | trailer | 2013 | 1:48

Inequality for All by Robert Reich (full) | 2013 | 1:30:11

Robert Reich on 'Inequality for All' an Interview with Bill Moyers

*Wealth Inequality in America | | | 6:25

*Wealth Inequality in the World | | | 3:51

Washington In Bed With Wall Street

Older videos, but nothing has changed. Only getting worst...

Wall Street: The Speed Traders | 60 Minutes | | 13:36>

60 Minutes: Blows The Lid Off Congressional Insider Trading | | 11/14/11 | 15:30

Jack Abramoff, The Lobbyist's Playbook | 60 Minutes | 11/06/11 | 14:53

RT | Jack Abramoff: 'Congress corrupt to core' | 01/18/12 | 12:14

American companies are finding new overseas tax havens to legally protect some of their profits from the U.S. tax rate | 60 Minutes | 08/14/11 | 13:48

Dylan Ratigan spills the beans in under 4 minutes. Must be a record.

Dylan Ratigan Goes on a Rant | | 4:45

Bill Black: Economic Collapse | | 48:45

Rachel Maddow As go unions, so goes the Democratic Party | | 4:30

How Goldman Sachs Takes Your Money | | 10:50

Privateizing America

ALEC - American Legislative Exchange Council
ALEC (The American Legislative Exchange Council) Explained in 5 Minutes | | 5:00

DN & Bill Moyers | Corporate-Legislative Body Writing Our Laws | 2012 | 11:38

Bill Moyers | United States of ALEC: Privatizing America One State House at a Time | 2013 | 56:46

ALEC Exposed.org website

Pick Your ALEC Politician

*The Untold History Of The US by Oliver Stone

The Untold History of the United States by Oliver Stone & Petere Kuznick | 2014 | 10 Episodes

E01: World War II
New series features events that at the time went under reported, but shaped America's history. The first chapter explores the birth of the American Empire by focusing on FDR, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin.
E02: Roosevelt, Truman, & Wallace
Historical upset of Harry Truman replacing Henry Wallace as Roosevelt's Vice President. Exploration of the relationship between the US and the Soviet Union and the beginnings of the Cold War.
E03: The Bomb
The strategies behind the U.S. atomic bombings of Japan are explored as well as the new mythology that emerged from the war. The bombing haunted the Soviets and mistrust towards the Allies grew quickly.
E04: The Cold War: 1945-1950
The equation changes: specific month-by-month causes of the Cold War emerge and it is not entirely clear who started it.
E05: The '50s: Eisenhower, The Bomb & The Third World
Eisenhower and John Foster Dulles replace Truman. Stalin dies but relations with the Soviet Union turn colder.
E06: JFK: To The Brink
JFK and the Bay of Pigs; on the brink of total war during Cuban Missile Crisis; early Vietnam; JFK's attempts at peace with Khrushchev; JFK assassinated.
E07: Johnson, Nixon & Vietnam: Reversal Of Fortune
Cataclysm in Vietnam as the war reaches a turning point - there's no going back. The betrayal by Richard Nixon.
E08: Reagan Gorbachev & Third World-Rise of the Right
Carter's dreams of change give way to Ronald Reagan. Gorbachev redeems Reagan and fresh opportunities for peace arise. The debate over Reagan's legacy.
E09: Bush & Clinton: Squandered Peace-New World Order
George W. Bush's doctrine of endless war in Iraq and Afghanistan and the continued cannibalization of the U.S. economy. Squandered chances given by the end of the Cold War. A new USA, the National Security Fortress.
E10: Bush & Obama - Age of Terror
The meaning of events up to today. Obama and the destiny of the American Empire.

*The Vietnam War by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick

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. THE VIETNAM WAR features more than 100 iconic musical recordings from greatest artists of the era and haunting original music from Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross as well as the Silk Road Ensemble featuring Yo-Yo Ma.

The Vietnam War

Whistle Blowers

The Whistleblower's Handbook: A Step-by-step Guide to Doing What's Right and Protecting Yourself by Stephen Kohn

The Pentagon Papers - Daniel Ellsberg

http://www.archives.gov/research/pentagon-papers/
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB48/nixon.html
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB48/supreme.html

Woody Harrelson discusses "The Most Dangerous Man in America" [4:17]

The Most Dangerous Man In America, Part 1 | 43:25, Part 2 | 43:25

William Binney - NSA

Sibel Edmonds - FBI

Russ Tice - NSA

Thomas Andrews Drake - NSA

John Kiriakou - CIA

Wendell Potter - CIGNA

Wikileaks - Julian Assange

Manning in the New York Times
The War Logs - Iraq & Afghanistan
diplomatic cables provides a chronicle of the United States' relations with the world

BBC US & Canada
TOC, Start
War Logs: Afghanistan, Wikileaks memos reveal partial view of UK's Afghan role
War Logs: Iraq
At a glance: Wikileaks cables
States Secret
Wikileaks US diplomatic cables: Key Pakistan issues

London: Guardian
TOC, Start | The Guardian
War Logs: Afghanistan
War Logs: Iraq
States Secret
US embassy 250,000 cables: browse the database

Other
Germany: Spiegel Online
France: Le Monde.fr
Spain: El Pais.com

Bradley Manning

See Wikileak references above
Collateral Murder - Wikileaks - Iraq

Edward Snowden

Citizen Four
Citizenfour Official (trailer) | 2014 | 1:26

Edward Snowden - Terminal F
Edward Snowden - Terminal F | 2015 | 58:09

Snowden by Oliver Stone
Citizens United | Snowden by Oliver Stone with Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Shailene Woodley (trailer) | 2016 | 2:26

Snowden by Oliver Stone (full) | current | 1:34:06

SNOWDEN Comic Con - Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Shailene Woodley, Zachary Quinto, Oliver Stone (interviews) | 2016 | 47:58

Surveillance State | Homeland Security??

*Enemy Of The State (1998) (full movie) [2:12:12]

Future NSA surveillance

1.8 gigapixel ARGUS-IS. World's highest resolution video surveillance platform by DARPA [4:41]

NOVA | The Spy Factory () [52:48]

A YouTube Commenter - now who perjured themselves before Congress? I thought that was illegal? So why isn't James Crapper in jail?

*ProPublica | Has the Gov't Lied on NSA Snooping? Let's Go to the Videotape [2:53]

$2 Billion NSA Utah Data Center, also known as the Intelligence Community Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative Data Center

Size - Many, many football fields

Speed - 27,000 trillion calculations a second

Ever wonder how fast the computer is in the NSA Utah Data Center: it can do 27,000 trillion calculations a second.

Storage - enough data to fill up the US
Ever wonder what 42 trillion file cabinets stacked together would look like?

According to a report by NPR, the NSA data center in Utah will be capable of saving 5 Zettabytes (5 billion Terabyte). Assuming that a filing cabinet with 60 files (30,000 pages of paper) uses up 0.4 m2, which would correspond to 120 MB of data, the printed out Utah data center would use up 17 million square kilometers.

911 | Iraq | The Bushladen Network

Bush, Cheney, PNAC, & The Criminal Conspiracy To Invade Iraq [10:46]

"The Bush Legacy" -- Eight Years of Criminal Conspiracy and Abject Stupidity (01/20/09) [9:23]

*Wes Clark - America's Foreign Policy (10/03/07) [7:36]

Bush Administration Commits Treason (02/26/07) [5:32]

Dick Cheney Exposed! (01/02/08) [8:59]
Don't be Fooled by Dick Cheney (05/22/09) [9:45]

Wes Clark - Discusses Foreign Policy (10/03/08) [4:33]

Bushladen Network - Click to zoom

*Truthloader | What you're not being told about Booz Allen Hamilton and Edward Snowden (10/07/13) [11:47]

*Truthloader | Who are The Carlyle Group, and what is their relationship with Booz Allen Hamilton? (08/16/13) [9:18]

Click to zoom - The Carlyle Group

Click to zoom - Booz Allen Hamilton

Click to zoom - Booz Allen Hamilton Revolving Door

Farenheit 911 by Michael Moore

Michael Moore | Farenheit 911 [1:58:29]

History of Corporate Tax Rates

Top Tax Rate - Click to zoom

Jesse Ventura -- Conspiracy Theory

I like Jesse Ventura's videos because they raise a lot of questions that we the public might never think about. I think the show also does a good job of answering the raised questions. But, I also think we the public can do a lot more research on our own and draw our own conclusions.

Jesse Ventura - Conspiracy Theory

Jon Steward: Fear Factory, By creating a convenient ecosystem, China's Foxconn draws in employees who earn 31 cents an hour working for 35 hours straight, thereby saving American companies money. (01/16/12) [7:06]

Unsolved Mysteries

Medical

Click to zoom - Major Causes of Death

Intelligence | National Secutity? | Black Budgets

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52.6 Billion Black Budget

Military | Military Budgets

**Daily Ticker | Find the $8.5 Trillion the Pentagon Can't Account For (2014) [5:32]

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07.03.2012. 15:02

NPR

PBS

Special Interest Important stuff

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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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