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money for nothing: iraqi mps get us $23 million -- for retiring
niqash.org/ | Mustafa Habib | 07/08/13

Baghdad activists are planning a major demonstration at the end of August protesting the huge sums Iraqi MPs get, even if they serve less than four years in parliament. Over 300 MPs get around US$72,000 a year in a country where the average wage was around US$6,000 in 2012.

According to a document obtained from Parliament, each of the 325 MPs in Iraq gets a salary after he leaves office, of at least US$72,000 a year. And that's even if the MP doesn't complete a full term in office. Adding all of the salaries together equals around US$23 million a year in MPs' salaries. Iraqi MPs get these payments as long as they live and the number getting these pensions obviously rises with each new batch of parliamentarians. ... Read more

Forget Apology: Eric Holder Owes The American People A Resignation
ZeroHedge | author | 08/12/13

Bloomberg's Jon Weil, who has compiled the following stunning array of lies regarding the DOJ's enforcement activity disclosed by none other than its head, Eric Holder, is far too kind when he says that the "fast and furious" Holder owes the American people an apology. What we really owes is at least a resignation (and frankly much more, but it is too early on Monday to become too politically incorrect). And considering that the DOJ in its now former employee Lanny Brauer's words refused to prosecute those banks which were deemed "too big to prosecute", the lying here has now became a meta phenomenon, as the DOJ is effectively caught lying about lying. How many more meta levels of higher up fraud "inception" can Holder take this, before the American people finally demand his head, metaphorically-speaking of course? ... Read more

Michigan Safety Net for Boomers Frays on Bankrupt Detroit
Bloomberg | author | 08/12/13

There's a made-in-Michigan quality to Art Reyes, a third-generation autoworker with a pension, retiree health benefits and income that enabled him to send three of his four children to college.   He's a product of the old Michigan, which gave birth to organized labor, worker protections and wages that propelled the middle class. That Michigan is almost gone. Now overseeing the nation's largest municipal bankruptcy in Detroit, the state is at the forefront again, this time playing host to the unraveling of the homemade fabric that cloaked and comforted working families for generations. Read more
DemocracyNow Daily News
Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Monday, August 12 [14:53]
*DN | Senate Insider Speaks Out: Ex-Wyden Staffer on Secret Laws, Domestic Spying and Obama's NSA Reforms (08/12/13) [20:30]
As President Obama proposed a series of changes to reform the government's surveillance policies and programs, we speak to Jennifer Hoelzer, the former deputy chief of staff for Democratic Senator Ron Wyden, a longtime critic of the Obama administration for using a secret interpretation of the USA PATRIOT Act to allow the NSA to conduct domestic surveillance. "Unfortunately Edward Snowden was the only means by which we have been able to have this debate," Hoelzer says.
Diane Rehms Show
Diane Rehm *Mounting Tensions Between The U.S. And Russia (08/12/13) [1hr]
In a press conference Friday, President Barack Obama defended his decision to hit pause on the U.S.-Russian relationship. Over the last several months, differences have emerged over Syria and human rights. The president said NSA leaker Edward Snowden was not the only reason for cancelling a summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, and Putin's return to power has brought an increase in Cold War-type anti-America rhetoric. Also on Friday, the U.S. Secretary of State and Secretary of Defense met with their Russian counterparts over areas where interests overlap and conflicts divide. A panel joins Diane to discuss tensions between the U.S. and Russia and possibilities for future collaboration.
Monsanto Hired BlackWater Mercenaries to Spy on Americans
TRNN News
TRNN | Yves Engler: With Keystone XL Delayed, Trans-Canada Sets Eyes on "Energy East" (08/12/13) [10:25]
*TRNN | Patrick Bond: Scientists Warn Arctic Methane Release Would Cost $60 Trillion (08/12/13) [8:15]
Bloomberg | Where In the World Is This $60 Trillion Time Bomb? (08/01/13) [2:15]
Newsy | Melting Arctic Ice Could Cost $60 Trillion (08/01/13) [2:02]
Newsy | Permafrost Methane Time Bomb NBC News (10/09/12) [6:48]
Income Inequality
*Wealth Inequality in America [6:25]
Bush, Cheney and Halliburton & KBR
The Halliburton Agenda: The Politics of Oil and Money () []
Bush's Legacy: New Iraq Oil Law To Open Iraq's Oil Reserves to Western Companies () [29:04]
Climate Change
DC | Global Warming, What You Need To Know, with Tom Brokaw (2012) [1:27:32]
Noam Chomsky: How Climate Change Became a 'Liberal Hoax' (01/24/12) [21:50]
Bill McKibben: Why Climate Change Is the Most Urgent Challenge We Face (01/24/11) [28:11]
Bill McKibben, author and founder of the international environmental campaign 350.org, says that a global campaign to curb climate change, the ecological devastation that will result could make our planet uninhabitable.
The Great Debate: Climate Change - Surviving The Future (02/15/13) [1:31:43], Part 2 [51:43]
PBS Frontline | Climate of Doubt (10/23/12) [53:52]
Lord Christopher Monckton interviewed on the CLIMATE CHANGE (08/15/11) [57:32]
Climate State
GeoEngineering
Chemtrails [10:27]
*DN | Geoengineering: Can We Save the Planet By Messing With Nature? (05/20/13)[26:01]
"What in the World Are They Spraying?" [1:37:45]
"Why in the World are They Spraying?" [1:12:56]
Fukushima
RT | Thom Hartmann: Has the Fukushima "China Syndrome" begun? (08/07/13) [7:00]
RT | Fukushima nuclear waste still leaking into Pacific (08/09/13) [6:19]
Fukushima: 300,000 litres of radioactive water leaking into the Pacific (08/08/13) [5:12]
China Syndrome Emergency at Fukushima (08/06/13) [32:13]
NASA
This Week @NASA (08/09/13) [5:24]
A Year of Curiosity on Mars (08/06/13) [1:10:46]
NASA | ScienceCasts: The Sun's Magnetic Field is About to Flip (08/05/13) [4:04]
Jeremy Scahill - Dirty Wars
Jeremy Scahill: DIRTY WARS - Official Theatrical Trailer [2:21]
VICE | Jeremy Scahill on "Dirty Wars" and U.S. National Security (06/25/13) [59:46]
Dirty Wars: Jeremy Scahill & Rick Rowley's New Film Exposes Hidden Truths of Covert U.S. Warfare (01/22/13) [29:39], Part 2 [6:47]
Buzzsaw | Dirty Wars and Reporters Under Attack with Jeremy Scahill (07/14/13) [37:59]
ReasonTV | Jeremy Scahill's "Dirty Wars: The World is a Battlefield" (06/13/13) [41:31]
Aljazeera | The Stream : Uncovering America's 'dirty wars' (04/29/13) [36:10]
Independent Media | Jeremy Scahill "How Do You Surrender To A Drone?" (05/26/13) [1:03:23]
Martin Bashir | Author Jeremy Scahill on 'Dirty Wars,' Tsarnaev Brothers (04/25/13) [6:01]
Peace Activist David Swanson: on the Film, "Dirty Wars" (07/26/13) [9:11]
Glenn Greenwald
Piers Morgan | Glenn Greenwald "Snowden Had To Go To Russia Is Because The US Is Filled ... (07/31/13) [12:48]
DN | Glenn Greenwald Slams NSA Backer Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger Over ABC Interview, Defense Industry Ties (08/06/13) [3:49]
Naomi Klein
BookTV | The Free Market Economy, Disaster Capitalism and Blackwater: Naomi Klein & Jeremy Scahill (2008) [1:28:42]
Naomi Klein | The Shock Doctrine 2009 [1:18:38]
Klein's third book, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, was published on September 4, 2007, becoming an international and New York Times bestseller translated into 28 languages. The book argues that the free market policies of Nobel Laureate Milton Friedman and the Chicago School of Economics have risen to prominence in countries such as Chile, under Pinochet, Poland, Russia, under Yeltsin, and the United States (for example, the privatization of the New Orleans Public Schools after Hurricane Katrina). The book also argues that policy initiatives (for instance, the privatization of Iraq's economy under the Coalition Provisional Authority) were rushed through while the citizens of these countries were in shock from disasters, upheavals, or invasion.
PBS Frontline
PBS Frontline: The Warning, The Financial Collapse - Brooksley Born [56:17]
PBS Frontline | Six Billion Dollar Bet, Frontline investigates MF Global's disastrous bet on European debt. (05/22/12) [21:07]
PBS Frontline | Money, Power and Wall Street on PBS Part 1 (04/24/12) [59:14], Part 2 [54:31], Part 3 [59:14], Part 4 [54:31]
PBS Frontline | Ten Trillion and Counting (03/24/09) [56:47]
PBS Frontline | Inside the Meltdown-the first tremors (02/17/09) [56:29]
PBS Frontline | Breaking the Bank, The Bank of America Story (01/16/09) [55:11]
PBS Frontline | Fighting for Bin Laden-The Secret War- Pakistan! (01/03/12) [17:17]
PBS Frontline | Top Secret America (09/06/11) [53:41]
MSNBC Rachel Maddow
Maddow | NSA Spying Data Being Used By LOCAL Police To Bust US Citizens For "Regular Old Crime" (08/06/13) [13:07]
Comedy News
Scary Kentucky Fried Chicken Commercial (1967) [1:01]
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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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