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California's New Era of Heat Destroys All Previous Records
Bloomberg | author | 04/10/15

The California heat of the past 12 months is like nothing ever seen in records going back to 1895. The 12 months before that were similarly without precedent. And the 12 months before that? A freakishly hot year, too.

What's happening in California right now is shattering modern temperature measurements--as well as tree-ring records that stretch back more than 1,000 years. It's no longer just a record-hot month or a record-hot year that California faces. It's a stack of broken records leading to the worst drought that's ever beset the Golden State. ... Read more
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Tornadoes in Illinois: Crews search town for missing residents
AP | author | 04/10/15

Emergency crews say they're conducting detailed searches of homes and other structures in a northern Illinois town to ensure nobody is trapped in rubble left by a deadly tornado.

Authorities say 67-year-old Geraldine M. Schultz was killed and roughly a dozen people were injured Thursday after the tornado swept through tiny Fairdale, an unincorporated town of about 150, about 80 miles northwest of Chicago. Read more

If you have no debt at all, and you also have 10 dollars in your wallet, that you are wealthier than 25 percent of all Americans.

19 Signs That American Families Are Being Economically Destroyed
ZeroHedge | author | 04/10/15

The systematic destruction of the American way of life is happening all around us, and yet most people have no idea what is happening. Once upon a time in America, if you were responsible and hard working you could get a good paying job that could support a middle class lifestyle for an entire family even if you only had a high school education. Things weren't perfect, but generally almost everyone in the entire country was able to take care of themselves without government assistance. We worked hard, we played hard, and our seemingly boundless prosperity was the envy of the entire planet. But over the past several decades things have completely changed. We consumed far more wealth than we produced, we shipped millions of good paying jobs overseas, we piled up the biggest mountain of debt in the history of the world, and we kept electing politicians that had absolutely no concern for the long-term future of this nation whatsoever. ...

  1. The poorest 40 percent of all Americans now spend more than 50 percent of their incomes just on food and housing.
  2. For those Americans that don't own a home, 50 percent of them spend more than a third of their incomes just on rent.
  3. The price of school lunches has risen to the 3 dollar mark at many public schools across the nation.
  4. McDonald's "Dollar Menu & More" now includes items that cost as much as 5 dollars.
  5. The price of ground beef has doubled since 2009.
  6. In 1986, child care expenses for families with employed mothers used up 6.3 percent of all income. Today, that figure is up to 7.2 percent.
  7. Incomes fell for the bottom 80 percent of all income earners in the United States during the 12 months leading up to June 2014.
  8. At this point, more than 50 percent of all American workers bring home less than $30,000 a year in wages.
  9. After adjusting for inflation, median household income has fallen by nearly $5,000 since 2007.
  10. According to the New York Times, the "typical American household" is now worth 36 percent less than it was worth a decade ago.
  11. 47 percent of all Americans do not put a single penny out of their paychecks into savings.
  12. One survey found that 62 percent of all Americans are currently living paycheck to paycheck.
  13. According to the U.S. Department of Education, 33 percent of all Americans with student loans are currently behind on their student loan debt repayments.
  14. According to one recent report, 43 million Americans currently have unpaid medical debt on their credit reports.
  15. The rate of homeownership in the U.S. has been declining for seven years in a row, and it is now the lowest that it has been in 20 years.
  16. For each of the past six years, more businesses have closed in the United States than have opened. Prior to 2008, this had never happened before in all of U.S. history.
  17. According to the Census Bureau, 65 percent of all children in the United States are living in a home that receives some form of aid from the federal government.
  18. If you have no debt at all, and you also have 10 dollars in your wallet, that you are wealthier than 25 percent of all Americans.
  19. On top of everything else, the average American must work from January 1st to April 24th just to pay all federal, state and local taxes.
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GE Announces One Of Largest Buybacks In History, Will Repuchase $50 Bn In Shares After Selling Most Of GE Capital
ZeroHedge | author | 04/10/15

Moments ago, General Electric showed why April is much more likley to be a rerun of February than January or March when it announceed that it would go ahead and repurchase half of the total record stock buybacks announced in February, or some $50 billion in what may be the largest stock buyback announcement in history! How will GE fund this massive distribution to its shareholders, of which the most concentrated one will once again be the biggest winners? Simple: by dumping the division that nearly caused its insolvency during the financial crisis, the hedge fund known as GE Capital. As part of the just announced mega transaction, GE announced an agreement to sell the bulk of the assets of GE Capital Real Estate to funds managed by Blackstone. ... Read more

Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Thursday, April 10 [13:34]
*DN | Obama Faces Latin American Opposition to Venezuela Sanctions as Cuba Joins Summit of the Americas (01/10/15) [17:00]
Jon Stewart
Jon Stewart | Jon Stewart: Kansas Is America's 'Welfare Queen' (04/10/15) [8:19]
*TRNN | Activist Gerald Horne: The Summit of the Americas in the Context of US Imperialism (04/10/15) [12:59]
*TRNN | Miguel Tinker Salas say: Summit of the Americas: U.S. Agenda is to Push TPP to Split Latin American Integration (04/10/15) [7:36]
TRNN | Glen Ford: Summit of the Americas, All Eyes on Cuba (04/10/15) [6:30]
TYT | Boston Marathon Bomber Verdict - Guilty Or Not Guilty?Boston Marathon Bomber Verdict - Guilty Or Not Guilty? (04/09/15) [5:14]
TYT | Congress To Obama: War, Have At It! Peace, We DEMAND Oversight! (04/09/15) [2:51]
TYT | Head Of Scientology REALLY Didn't Trust His Father (04/09/15) [7:33]
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John Oliver Just Inadvertently Inspired DickPics4Freedom
AlterNet | Kali Holloway | 04/09/15

It turns out the late night host was right -- dick pics really were the best way to get people talking about NSA spying.

When, on this Sunday's "Last Week Tonight," John Oliver put NSA spying into terms most Americans might care about -- that is, by describing how "dick pics" get passed around by federal employees -- he inadvertently started a freedom movement. ... Read more
*HBO | John Oliver: Ed Snowden tells John Oliver: 'They are still collecting everybody's information, including your dick pics' (04/05/15) [33:14]

Edward Snowden - Whistleblower
*Citizen Four (2014) [2:14:00] be patient, Sound does't start until 45 sec, and the Progressbar doesn't work very well.
If the above link doesn't work try the following:
Citizen Four (2014) [2:14:00]
Stable multi target tracking in real time surveillance video (03/22/15) [1:10]
Pentagon Papers | Daniel Ellsberg - Whistleblower
Thom Hartmann - www.thomhartmann.com/

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