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19 Signs That American Families Are Being Economically Destroyed
ZeroHedge| author | 04/12/16

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. ...

The poorest 40 percent of all Americans now spend more than 50 percent of their incomes just on food and housing.
For those Americans that don't own a home, 50 percent of them spend more than a third of their incomes just on rent.
The price of school lunches has risen to the 3 dollar mark at many public schools across the nation.
McDonald's "Dollar Menu & More" now includes items that cost as much as 5 dollars.
The price of ground beef has doubled since 2009.
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.
Incomes fell for the bottom 80 percent of all income earners in the United States during the 12 months leading up to June 2014.
At this point, more than 50 percent of all American workers bring home less than $30,000 a year in wages.
After adjusting for inflation, median household income has fallen by nearly $5,000 since 2007.
According to the New York Times, the "typical American household" is now worth 36 percent less than it was worth a decade ago.
47 percent of all Americans do not put a single penny out of their paychecks into savings.
One survey found that 62 percent of all Americans are currently living paycheck to paycheck.
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.
According to one recent report, 43 million Americans currently have unpaid medical debt on their credit reports.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.

'Trust, but protect' FBI director covers his personal laptop webcam with tape.

"Investors" Panic Buy Stocks After IMF Downgrades The World | article | ZeroHedge | 04/12/16

IMF Again Cuts Global Growth Forecast As It Warns Of "Secular Stagnation" | article | ZeroHedge | 04/12/16

*9/11 Exposed 2nd Edition (2015) [1:50:00]

1-Hour Guide to 911 by Joe Plummerl.pdf

Bernanke's Former Advisor: "People Would Be Stunned To Know The Extent To Which The Fed Is Privately Owned"
ZeroHedge| author | 04/12/16

Earlier today, former central bank staffer and Dartmouth College economics professor Andrew Levin, special adviser to then Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke between 2010 to 2012, said something shocking. "A lot of people would be stunned to know" the extent to which the Federal Reserve is privately owned." Is the truth finally starting to come out? ... Read more

Tragedy & Hope: A History of the World in Our Time by Carroll Quigley

Tragedy & Hope: A History of the World in Our Time by Carroll Quigley is the ultimate insider admission of a secret global elite that has impacted nearly every modern historical event. Learn how the Anglo-American banking elite were able to secretly establish and maintain their global power. This massive hardcover book of 1348 pages provides a detailed world history beginning with the industrial revolution and imperialism through two world wars, a global depression and the rise of communism. Tragedy & Hope is the definitive work on the world's power structure and an essential source material for understanding the history, goals and actions of the New World Order.

Reading the full 1300 page Tragedy & Hope is hard to do, so here are some abridged versions that you might find interesting.

Tragedy & Hope 101.pdf
Tragedy and Hope by Carroll Quigley(abridged).pdf
Tragedy and Hope - Birungueta.pdf

DemocracyNow - http://www.democracynow.org

Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Tuesday, April 12 [10:38]

DN | Democracy Spring: Over 400 Arrested at U.S. Capitol Protesting Corruption & Money in Politics (04/12/16) [10:54 ]

*DN | Lee Fang: Dark Money & Lobbyists Serving as Superdelegates Could Decide the 2016 Race (04/12/16) [7:10]

DN | Beauty Secrets of the Spies: CIA Begins Investing in Skin Care Products That Collect DNA (04/12/16) [6:27]

DN | Death by Gentrification: Alex Nieto Killed by Hail of Police Bullets in a Changing San Francisco (04/12/16) [18:06]

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

ColbertReport | The Road To The White House Has Gotten Lumpy (04/08/16) [4:21]

Full Frontal with Samantha Bee

Full Frontal with Samantha Bee | NRA Eddie Eagle (04/12/16) [6:42]

Diane Rehm - http://thedianerehmshow.org

*DR |What Income And Geography Mean For Life Expectancy (04/12/16) [1hr]

New research shows location is a key factor in determining life expectancy for poor Americans, and confirms the disparity in health outcomes between the rich and poor. How health and lifespan are linked to factors like income, geography and gender.

TRNN News - http://therealnews.com/

*TRNN |Col. Larry Wilkerson: The Problem of International "Terrorism" Is Here To Stay (04/12/16) [8:57]

*TRNN | The Empire Files: Empires Feed on Congo's Treasure (04/12/16) [27:50]

TYT News - http://www.tytnetwork.com/

TYT | Joe Scarborough: Democratic Primary Is Rigged (04/11/16) [14:34]

RT - http://www.rt.com/

RT | 'Trust, but protect' FBI director covers his personal laptop webcam with tape (04/11/16) [1:53]

RT | First Man in Space: 55th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's flight (04/12/16) [9:48]

RT | Keiser Report: Pork Barrel Politics (E900) (04/12/16) [25:45]

Ring of Fire - http://ringoffireradio.com/

Thom Hartmann - www.thomhartmann.com/

Aljazeera - http://america.aljazeera.com/

Aljazeera | Inside Story - Is Ukraine in crisis? (04/12/16) [24:57]

NPR (National Public Radio) - www.npr.org/

PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) - pbs.org/

MSNBC - Maddow/Hayes - www.msnbc.com/

Other Videos and Documentaries I Ran Across

Note: This book is by William Hartung. I was going to post it yesterday with his article "How Not to Audit the Pentagon".

Prophets of War: Lockheed Martin and the Making of the Military-Industrial Complex by William D. Hartung

When President Dwight D. Eisenhower gave his famous warning about the dangers of the military-industrial complex, he never would have dreamed that a single company could accumulate the kind of power and influence that is now wielded by Lockheed Martin. As a full-service weapons maker, Lockheed Martin receives over $29 billion a year in Pentagon contracts, or roughly one out of every ten dollars the Department of Defense doles out to private contractors. Prophets of War recounts the fascinating and often-frightening history of America's largest military contractor as well as its role in the formation of foreign policy.

The company has produced spy satellites; helped the Pentagon collect personal data on U.S. citizens; provided interrogators for employment at Guantanamo Bay; manufactured our highest-tech aircraft; and more. It has also been embroiled in numerous scandals â€” from bribing officials in the Netherlands, Italy, and Japan in exchange for the purchase of Lockheed airplanes in the 1970s, to the provision of $600 toilet covers and $7,000 coffee makers to the Pentagon in the 1980s.

William D. Hartung's enthralling exposÃ© chronicles the growth of Lockheed Martin into one of the most influential corporations in the world, and examines the pivotal role the company has had in America's metastasizing military industrial complex. It asks: How has one company become the recipient of such a large portion of America's tax dollars through contracts with the Pentagon, NASA, the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Energy, the NSA, and even the U.S. Census and the IRS? Hartung's meticulous, hard-hitting history follows Lockheed Martin's meteoric growth and unravels how this arms industry giant has helped shape U.S. foreign policy for decades.

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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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