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Hollywood-style surveillance technology inches closer to reality
Center for Investive Reporting | G.W. Schulz | 04/11/14

COMPTON, Calif. -- When sheriff's deputies here noticed a burst of necklace snatchings from women walking through town, they turned to an unlikely source to help solve the crimes: a retired Air Force veteran named Ross McNutt.

McNutt and his Ohio-based company, Persistent Surveillance Systems, persuaded the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department to use his surveillance technology to monitor Compton's streets from the air and track suspects from the moment the snatching occurred. The system, known as wide-area surveillance, is something of a time machine -- the entire city is filmed and recorded in real time. Imagine Google Earth with a rewind button and the ability to play back the movement of cars and people as they scurry about the city. ... Read more
PBS | State of Surveillance: Police, Privacy and Technology (04/11/14) [27:46]

Killing of environmental activists rises globally
magazine | Denis D. Gray | 04/14/14

As head of his village, Prajob Naowa-opas battled to save his community in central Thailand from the illegal dumping of toxic waste by filing petitions and leading villagers to block trucks carrying the stuff -- until a gunman in broad daylight fired four shots into him. A year later, his three alleged killers, including a senior government official, are on trial for murder. The dumping has been halted and villagers are erecting a statue to their slain hero.

But the prosecution of Prajob's murder is a rare exception. A survey released Tuesday -- the first comprehensive one of its kind - says that only 10 killers of 908 environmental activists slain around the world over the past decade have been convicted. ... Read more

Citi Mortgage Originations Drop To Record Low
ZeroHedge | author | 04/14/14

What was worst, and naturally will not be discussed at all by the peanut gallery, about Citi's just announced results is that the amount of Citigroup mortgage originations - that key aspect of the trumpeted "housing market recovery" - did what it has done at every other bank. It plunged. Only at Citigroup, it plunged so badly, it just reached a new record low which at $5.2 billion is a 71% drop from a year ago! Long live the housing recovery... in which nobody seems to be participating. ... Read more

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LISTEN: Alleged Kansas Gunman Frazier Glenn Miller Discusses the Tea Party, Obama, and Ron Paul
MotherJones | Tim Murphy | 04/14/14

In a 2010 radio interview, Frazier Glenn Miller, the man suspected of killing three people on Sunday at a Jewish community center and a Jewish retirement center in Kansas, said he was interested in the tea party, voiced support for then-Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and spoke approvingly of Ron Paul, the Texas Republican congressman and presidential candidate. In late April 2010, Miller, a former Ku Klux Klan Grand Dragon, was a guest on The David Pakman Show, a nationally syndicated left-of-center radio and television program. At the time, Miller was running for US Senate as an independent in his home state of Missouri with the slogan, "It's the Jews, Stupid," and Pakman pressed Miller on his extreme views. ... Read more
EXCLUSIVE: KS Shooting Suspect Glenn Miller Interview & Private Emails; He Likes Ron Paul (04/14/14) [19:05]

DemocracyNow Daily News
Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Monday, April 14 [10:42]
DN | "This Award Is For Snowden": Greenwald, Poitras Accept Polk Honor for Exposing NSA Surveillance (04/14/14) [9:40]
DN | "We Won't Succumb to Threats": Journalists Return to U.S. For First Time Since Revealing NSA Spying (04/14/14) [22:24]
DN | Polk Winner on Afghanistan: Slain Journalists, Ghost Polls & Unresolved U.S. Ties to Deaths, Torture (04/14/14) [13:30]
TRNN News
TRNN | Lia Tarachansky and Shir Hever: Has Palestinian Maneuvering Revived Peace Talks? (04/13/14) [12:04]
PBS NewsHour
IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel Climate Change)
*PBS | Latest IPCC report - explained with co-author Prof. David Victor (04/13/14) [13:44]
Climate Change 2014: Mitigation of Climate Change (pdf)
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the international body for assessing the science related to climate change. The IPCC was set up in 1988 by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to provide policymakers with regular assessments of the scientific basis of climate change, its impacts and future risks, and options for adaptation and mitigation.
Climate Change 2014: Mitigation of Climate Change.pdf
State of Surveillance
PBS | Wide-area surveillance technology can watch a city in real time (04/12/14) [9:00]
Especially between 8:30-15:00 min (1/4-1/2 on progressbar).
*PBS | State of Surveillance: Police, Privacy and Technology (04/11/14) [27:46]
"State of Surveillance" examines new technologies police departments are using to fight crime and the civil liberties concerns raised by these tools.

Law enforcement agencies say that many of the technologies make it easier to solve and, in some cases, even prevent crime. But privacy advocates warn that expanded databases could become dragnets that are increasingly populated with information about law-abiding citizens.
Diane Rehms Show
Diane Rehm Violence In Public Places And How It Affects Our Sense of Security (04/14/14) [1hr]
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Lehman Brothers...
*The Last Days Of Lehman Brothers (2011) [59:04]
The Last Days of Lehman Brothers is a British television film. The drama was inspired by the real events that occurred over the weekend leading up to the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers on 15 September 2008. Investment bank Lehman Brothers is in trouble after a turbulent six months and the leaders of the three biggest investment banks on Wall Street met at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. American Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson declares that the company is not too big to fail and that there will be no bailout using public money.
The Fall of Lehman Brothers (2011) [59:04]
ENRON
*The Crooked E - The Unshredded Truth About Enron (2003) [1:21:16]
How Did Enron Make Their Money, Hide Their Finances, Fail and Get (2004) [42:21]
Enron: Making Money in the Financial World - Stock Market, Commodity (2005) [54:13]
The Act of Killing
The Act of Killing Official (trailer) (2013) [2:41]
Netflix | The Act of Killing (full) (2012) [2hr 2mim]
The Act of Killing (full) (12/17/13) [2:39:41]
Unfortunately I haven't found and English copy of "The Act of Killing" on YouTube. Will keep looking.
Interview | Werner Herzog and Errol Morris talk about "The Act of Killing" (06/17/13) [12:29]
The Act of Killing website
Other Videos and Documentaries I Ran Across
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PBS | PBS NewsHour Friday (04/11/14) [53:56]
PBS | PBS NewsHour Saturday (04/12/14) [25:12]
The Deal (2005) (Full) [1:47:45]
A political thriller steeped in illegal oil trading, the Russian Mafia, and governmental cover-ups.
The Wall Street Code [50:31]

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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
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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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Quantum mechanics | AI - Artificial Intelligence
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Economy, Wall Street and Banksters

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Intelligence Agencies/Deep State?

Intelligence Agencies/Deep State?

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Daniel Ellsberg | Pentagon Papers
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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

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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

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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
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Jessica Leeds (1980s)
Kristin Anderson (1990s)
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Temple Taggart McDowell (1997)
Karena Virginia (1998)
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Victoria Hughes,
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Tasha Dixon (2001)
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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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