Monday August 19, 2013
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The CIA wants to spy on you through your TV: Agency director says it will 'transform' surveillance
So what has Edward Snowden said that hasn't already been said by "once" CIA director David Petraeus?
Daily Mail | Rob Waugh |03/16/12 When people download a film from Netflix to a flatscreen, or turn on web radio, they could be alerting unwanted watchers to exactly what they are doing and where they are. Spies will no longer have to plant bugs in your home - the rise of 'connected' gadgets controlled by apps will mean that people 'bug' their own homes, says CIA director David Petraeus. The CIA claims it will be able to 'read' these devices via the internet - and perhaps even via radio waves from outside the home. Everything from remote controls to clock radios can now be controlled via apps - and chip company ARM recently unveiled low-powered, cheaper chips which will be used in everything from fridges and ovens to doorbells. The resultant chorus of 'connected' gadgets will be able to be read like a book - and even remote-controlled, according to CIA CIA Director David Petraeus, according to a recent report by Wired's 'Danger Room' blog. ... Read more NSA Broke Privacy Rules Thousands of Times, Contrary to Official Claims The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee has called for more hearings to examine the government's surveillance tactics following new revelations that the National Security Agency has violated privacy rules thousands of times in its surveillance of U.S. citizens and foreigners. ... The audit, from May 2012, tallied 2,776 incidents in the preceding 12 months. The documents also reveal efforts by NSA staffers to withhold information from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, which is supposed to provide oversight of NSA surveillance, and to whitewash reports submitted to the Justice Department and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence by removing details about NSA activity, including removing mention of unintended surveillance of Americans. ... Read more The PowerPoint rant that got a colonel fired ...I have been assigned as a staff officer to a headquarters in Afghanistan for about two months. During that time, I have not done anything productive. Fortunately, little of substance is really done here, but that is a task we do well. We are part of the operational arm of the International Security Assistance Force commanded by Army Gen. David Petraeus. It is composed of military representatives from all the NATO countries, several of which I cannot pronounce. ...
Read more Atlantic Basin Primed for an Above-Normal Hurricane Season Andrea, Barry, Chantal, Dorian, Erin*... who's next? Probably plenty more, according to NOAA's updated Atlantic hurricane season outlook. With five named storms already in the books this summer, the 2013 hurricane season is shaping up to be above normal, and there is a possibility that it could be very active during the peak of the season from mid-August through October. An additional 9-15 named storms are likely, of which 6-9 are predicted to become hurricanes, with 3-5 reaching major hurricane status. Among the climate factors behind the heightened activity? Heat. These maps show the tropical cyclone heat potential of the tropical Atlantic Ocean ramping up between May 24 (bottom) and August 4 (top). This "hurricane heat potential" depends not just on the surface temperature, but on the depth of the warm water. ...
Read more 8 Reasons Charles Koch is the Scariest Man in America Scary because he claims "We don't have the power to coerce anybody" while providing massive funding to organizations that attack public education, social programs, worker salaries, business regulations, and the environment. Scary because he refers to himself with words like 'integrity' and 'principles' while saying "I want my fair share - and that's all of it." Scary because he declares, "I want my legacy to be...a better way of life for...all Americans." Here is some of the legacy of Charles Koch: ... Read more |
DemocracyNow Daily News
 Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Monday, August 19 [12:21]
DN | Sharif Abdel Kouddous: In Modern Egypt's Bloodiest Period, "New Horrors Are Brought Every Day" (08/19/13) [13:34],
Part 2 [24:06]DN | Editor of the Progressive Arrested Covering Solidarity Singers' Protest of Wisconsin Gov. Walker (08/19/13) [7:01] TRNN News
TRNN | Lynn Parramore: Why Has NY Planned Parenthood & NOW Denounced Spitzer for NYC Comptroller? (08/19/13) [8:32]TRNN | Oliver Stone: Snowden Is a Hero; Obama Is a Snake (08/12/13) [5:16] Interesting Video
100 Years in 10 Minutes (1911 - 2011 in 10 Minutes) [10:39]Halliburton & KBR & Dick Cheney
Truth about Halliburton and Dick Cheney (2008) [7:03]
Is Halliburton to Blame For Gulf Oil Spill? Conspiracy in the Gulf (2010) [7:32] TRNN | Halliburton Admits Guilt in Gulf Oil Spill Case, But Why is This Good News for BP? (07/31/13) [6:33] Halliburton Admits Destroying Evidence in Gulf Spill Blame (07/26/13) [6:02] Auth. Struggling To Stop An Exploded Natural Gas Drilling Rig From Burning Out Of Control (07/24/13) [12:28] Hurricane Season
NOAA | Atlantic Hurricane Season Outlook (05/23/13) [3:58]Fukushima
RT | Fukushima hero died of cancer (07/11/13) [6:43]BeyondNuclear.org website Dateline | Fukushima Now (03/05/13) [18:56] Afghanistan Ghost Base
RT | Ghost military base in Afghanistan cost tax payers $34 million (07/10/13) [2:04]Rachel Maddow | Shocking $32,000,000.00 military waste test Americas' patience with Afghanistan (07/10/13) [15:39] TYT News
TYT | Wikileaks Stratfor Emails Devastating (02/28/12) [9:50]
Lunchroom memo from Fred Barton, Stratfor's vice-president of intelligence, in which he states that he has an unofficial rule: "Admit nothing, deny everything and make counter-accusations."
Guardian | WikiLeaks' Stratfor dump lifts lid on intelligence-industrial complex (02/28/12) (article)Washington Post | Top Secret America (articles) Wikileaks
BBC Newsnight | Wikileaks files reveal Arctic 'carve up' (05/13/11) [8:48]Diane Rehms Show
The Aftermath Of Oil Spills In Michigan And Arkansas (08/19/13) [1hr]Aljazeera News
Ajazeera | Listening Post: Edward Snowden: Shooting the messenger? (07/01/13) [25:00]
Ajazeera | Counting the Cost: A middle class revolution? (08/04/13) [25:00] A middle class revolution? (article) Ajazeera | Inside Story: Israel's booming secretive arms trade (08/16/13) [25:00] Israel's booming secretive arms trade (article) Aljazeera | earthrise: small farming without artificial pesticides and fertilizers (07/23/13) [15:00] Ajazeera | Inside Story: Egypt: After the 'massacre' (08/16/13) [25:00] Egypt: After the 'massacre' (article) Comedy
Stephen Cobert | NSA Press Conference on Domestic Spying [4:56]Stephen Cobert | Golden Age of Fracking [2:00] 
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The arrogance of being thick as a brick [11:03]
Operation Ajax: Iran and the CIA Coup in 1953 [8:39], Part 2 [8:39]
Overthrowing Governments 101, CIA Coups [26:31]
CIA Covert Action in Iran, Vietnam, Laos, the Congo, Cuba, and Guatemala (1965) [51:47]
CIA Overview (propaganda) (08/12/13) [9:07]
ABC20/20 | KILL SHOT: The story Behind Bin Laden's Death (08/11/12) [15:01], Part 2 [15:01], Part 3 [10:47]
NatGeo | The Last Days Of Osama Bin Laden, Worlds Most Wanted Terrorist (03/20/12) [44:51]
BBC | The Death of Bin Laden () [29:06]
Osama Bin Laden died years ago
CIA Agent: "Osama Bin Laden died of natural causes" 5 Years Before Seal-Team-6 Raid (05/29/12) [0:53]
BBC | David Frost interview with Benazir Bhutto: Osama Bin Laden Dead Since 2001 (2007) [3:19]
BBC | Obama did NOT kill Osama Bin Laden (05/15/11) [2:22]
Seal Team Six
Esquire.com | Navy SEAL That Killed Osama bin Laden abandoned by the Government. (02/11/13) [5:55]
MoxNews | Who Really Killed Osama Bin Laden? (03/26/13) [14:13]
SEAL Team 6 Assassinated () [11:34]
Obama's SEAL Team 6 Coverup (05/30/13) [12:57]
Guardian | WikiLeaks' Stratfor dump lifts lid on intelligence-industrial complex (02/28/12) (article)
Next 100 Years - STRATFOR - George Friedman (2009) [8:10] Part 2 [6:41]
STRATFOR | George Friedman on America's Domination in the 21st Centruy (2009) [25:39]
STRATFOR | Rethinking Iran (2009) [6:38]
STRATFOR | George Friedman Predicts WorldWarIII Between Turkey and Poland (2010) [5:32]
STRATFOR | Agenda: With George Friedman: Global Warming (2009) [5:51]
North America
STRATFOR | Canada's Geographic Challenge (2013) [2:12]
SouthAmerica
STRATFOR | Mexico's Geographic Challenge (2012) [1:54]
STRATFOR |Argentina's Geographic Challenge (2012) [2:00]
Europe
STRATFOR | Germany's Geographic Challenge (2013) [2:13]
STRATFOR | Spain's Geographic Challenge (2013) [2:06]
STRATFOR | France's Geographic Challenge (2013) [1:49]
STRATFOR | Italy's Geographic Challenge (2013) [2:10]
STRATFOR | Greece's Geographic Challenge (2012) [2:12]
STRATFOR | Croatia's Geographic Challenge (2012) [1:52]
Middle East
STRATFOR | Turkey's Geographic Challenge (2013) [2:17]
STRATFOR | Saudi Arabia's Geographic Challenge (2012) [2:04]
STRATFOR | Syria's Geographic Challenge (2012) [2:04]
STRATFOR | Egypt's Geographic Challenge (2012) [2:04]
Africa
STRATFOR | Ethiopia's Geographic Challenge (2012) [2:13]
Euroashia
STRATFOR | Russia's Geographic Challenge (2012) [1:32]
STRATFOR | Mongolia's Geographic Challenge (2012) [2:02]
STRATFOR | Nepal's Geographic Challenge (2012) [2:08]
STRATFOR | Japan's Geographic Challenge (2013) [2:01]
STRATFOR | Indonesia's Geographic Challenge (2012) [2:02]
STRATFOR | The Philippines' Geographic Challenge (2012) [2:06]
On the Desperate Edge of Now
This episode examined how the various national memories of the Second World War were effectively rewritten and manipulated in the Cold War period. For Germany, this began at the Nuremberg Trials, where attempts were made to prevent the Nazis in the dock--principally Hermann Göring--from offering any rational argument for what they had done. Subsequently, however, bringing lower-ranking Nazis to justice was effectively forgotten about in the interests of maintaining West Germany as an ally in the Cold War. For the Allied countries, faced with a new enemy in the Soviet Union, there was a need to portray WW2 as a crusade of pure good against pure evil, even if this meant denying the memories of the Allied soldiers who had actually done the fighting, and knew it to have been far more complex. A number of American veterans told how years later they found themselves plagued with the previously-suppressed memories of the brutal things they had seen and done. The title comes from a veteran's description of what the uncertainty of survival in combat is like.
Adam Curtis | The Living Dead: On the Despirate Edge of Now E1 [58:07]
You Have Used Me as a Fish Long Enough
In this episode, the history of brainwashing and mind control was examined. The angle pursued by Curtis was the way in which psychiatry pursued tabula rasa theories of the mind, initially in order to set people free from traumatic memories and then later as a potential instrument of social control. The work of Ewen Cameron was surveyed, with particular reference to Cold War theories of communist brainwashing and the search for hypnoprogammed assassins. The programme's thesis was that the search for control over the past via medical intervention had had to be abandoned and that in modern times control over the past is more effectively exercised by the manipulation of history. Some film from this episode, an interview with one of Cameron's victims, was later re-used by Curtis in his The Century of the Self. The title of this episode comes from a paranoid schizophrenic seen in archive film in the programme, who believed her neighbours were using her as a source of amusement by denying her any privacy, like a pet goldfish.
Adam Curtis | The Living Dead: You Have Used Me as a Fish Long Enough E2 [58:34]
The Attic
In this episode, the Imperial aspirations of Margaret Thatcher were examined. The way in which Mrs Thatcher used public relations in an attempt to emulate Winston Churchill in harking back to Britain's "glorious past" to fulfil a political or national end. The title is a reference to the attic flat at the top of 10 Downing Street, which was created during Thatcher's period refurbishment of the house, which did away with the Prime Minister's previous living quarters on lower floors. Scenes from The Innocents (film) the adaptation of The Turn of the Screw by Henry James are intercut with Thatcher's reign.
Adam Curtis | The Living Dead: The Attic E3 [58:55]
Adam Curtis | The Trap: The Lonly Robot E2 [58:34]
Adam Curtis | The Trap: We Will Force U 2 B Free E3 [58:18]
Adam Curtis | The Mayfair Set: Entrepreneur Spelt E2 [58:55]
Adam Curtis | The Mayfair Set: Destroy the Technostructure E3 [59:19]
Adam Curtis | The Mayfair Set: Twilight of the Dogs E4 [59:00]
Adam Curtis | Pandora's Box: The the Brink of Eternity E2 [45:00]
Adam Curtis | Pandora's Box: The League of Gentlemen E3 [45:00]
Adam Curtis | Pandora's Box: Goodbye Mrs. Ant E4 [45:07]
Adam Curtis | Pandora's Box: Black Powder E5 [45:00]
Adam Curtis | Pandora's Box: A is for Atom E6 [45:52]
CIA
END of the PETRO DOLLAR? (03/02/12) [17:44]Operation Ajax: Iran and the CIA Coup in 1953 [8:39], Part 2 [8:39]
Overthrowing Governments 101, CIA Coups [26:31]
The United States government has a long history of coup making around the world. With our guest, author and former New York Times Bureau Chief Stephen Kinzer, we take a detailed look at the American overthrow of governments in Iran 1953, Guatemala 1954 and Chile 1973. In examining these coups, we learn the tried and true techniques employed by governments to destabilize and bring down foreign governments. We, also, examine the corporate interests which typically provide the impetus for coups.
Mr. Kinzer is the author of "Overthrow", a history of 14 American coups ranging from Hawaii in 1893 to Iraq in 2003. He is, also, the author of "All the Shah's Men, An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror" and co-author of "Bitter Fruit: The Untold Story of the American Coup in Guatemala."
DN | Stephen Kinzer on the History of BP/British Petroleum and Its Role in the 1953 Iran Coup [7:00],
Part 2 [28:00]Mr. Kinzer is the author of "Overthrow", a history of 14 American coups ranging from Hawaii in 1893 to Iraq in 2003. He is, also, the author of "All the Shah's Men, An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror" and co-author of "Bitter Fruit: The Untold Story of the American Coup in Guatemala."
CIA Covert Action in Iran, Vietnam, Laos, the Congo, Cuba, and Guatemala (1965) [51:47]
CIA Overview (propaganda) (08/12/13) [9:07]
Osama Bin Laden
Official StoryABC20/20 | KILL SHOT: The story Behind Bin Laden's Death (08/11/12) [15:01], Part 2 [15:01], Part 3 [10:47]
NatGeo | The Last Days Of Osama Bin Laden, Worlds Most Wanted Terrorist (03/20/12) [44:51]
BBC | The Death of Bin Laden () [29:06]
Osama Bin Laden died years ago
CIA Agent: "Osama Bin Laden died of natural causes" 5 Years Before Seal-Team-6 Raid (05/29/12) [0:53]
BBC | David Frost interview with Benazir Bhutto: Osama Bin Laden Dead Since 2001 (2007) [3:19]
BBC | Obama did NOT kill Osama Bin Laden (05/15/11) [2:22]
Seal Team Six
Esquire.com | Navy SEAL That Killed Osama bin Laden abandoned by the Government. (02/11/13) [5:55]
MoxNews | Who Really Killed Osama Bin Laden? (03/26/13) [14:13]
SEAL Team 6 Assassinated () [11:34]
Obama's SEAL Team 6 Coverup (05/30/13) [12:57]
Stratfor | George Friedman
TYT | Wikileaks Stratfor Emails Devastating (02/28/12) [9:50]Guardian | WikiLeaks' Stratfor dump lifts lid on intelligence-industrial complex (02/28/12) (article)
The most striking revelation from the latest disclosure is not simply the military-industrial complex that conspires to spy on citizens, activists and trouble-causers, but the extremely low quality of the information available to the highest bidder. Clients of the company include Dow Chemical, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Raytheon, as well as US government agencies like the Department of Homeland Security, the Defense Intelligence Agency and the Marines.
Stratfor has recruited a "global network of informants who are paid via Swiss banks accounts and pre-paid credit cards -- which includes government employees, embassy staff and journalists around the world." This, he says, "is corrupt or corrupting because Stratfor is a private intelligence organisation that services governments and private clients."
Stratfor is also seeking to profit directly from this information by partnering in an apparent hedge-fund venture with Shea Morenz, a former Goldman Sachs managing director. He points to an August 2011 document, marked "DO NOT SHARE OR DISCUSS", from Stratfor CEO George Friedman, which says:
The claim that Stratfor buys information from insiders, while seeking to profit from their analysis, could attract the attention of regulators like the Securities and Exchange Commission, which polices Wall Street.
"What StratCap will do is use our Stratfor's intelligence and analysis to trade in a range of geopolitical instruments, particularly government bonds, currencies and the like."
The claim that Stratfor buys information from insiders, while seeking to profit from their analysis, could attract the attention of regulators like the Securities and Exchange Commission, which polices Wall Street.
Next 100 Years - STRATFOR - George Friedman (2009) [8:10] Part 2 [6:41]
STRATFOR | George Friedman on America's Domination in the 21st Centruy (2009) [25:39]
STRATFOR | Rethinking Iran (2009) [6:38]
STRATFOR | George Friedman Predicts WorldWarIII Between Turkey and Poland (2010) [5:32]
STRATFOR | Agenda: With George Friedman: Global Warming (2009) [5:51]
North America
STRATFOR | Canada's Geographic Challenge (2013) [2:12]
SouthAmerica
STRATFOR | Mexico's Geographic Challenge (2012) [1:54]
STRATFOR |Argentina's Geographic Challenge (2012) [2:00]
Europe
STRATFOR | Germany's Geographic Challenge (2013) [2:13]
STRATFOR | Spain's Geographic Challenge (2013) [2:06]
STRATFOR | France's Geographic Challenge (2013) [1:49]
STRATFOR | Italy's Geographic Challenge (2013) [2:10]
STRATFOR | Greece's Geographic Challenge (2012) [2:12]
STRATFOR | Croatia's Geographic Challenge (2012) [1:52]
Middle East
STRATFOR | Turkey's Geographic Challenge (2013) [2:17]
STRATFOR | Saudi Arabia's Geographic Challenge (2012) [2:04]
STRATFOR | Syria's Geographic Challenge (2012) [2:04]
STRATFOR | Egypt's Geographic Challenge (2012) [2:04]
Africa
STRATFOR | Ethiopia's Geographic Challenge (2012) [2:13]
Euroashia
STRATFOR | Russia's Geographic Challenge (2012) [1:32]
STRATFOR | Mongolia's Geographic Challenge (2012) [2:02]
STRATFOR | Nepal's Geographic Challenge (2012) [2:08]
STRATFOR | Japan's Geographic Challenge (2013) [2:01]
STRATFOR | Indonesia's Geographic Challenge (2012) [2:02]
STRATFOR | The Philippines' Geographic Challenge (2012) [2:06]
The Living Dead | Adam Curtis
Out of the carnage in Europe 50 years ago, the Allies selected certain memories. They used them to build the official version of the good war. This film is about how that happened. It tells why certain memories have to be buried and forgotten because they contradicted the optimism of the big historical picture. The Living Dead (subtitled Three Films About the Power of the Past) was the second major documentary made by the film-maker Adam Curtis.On the Desperate Edge of Now
This episode examined how the various national memories of the Second World War were effectively rewritten and manipulated in the Cold War period. For Germany, this began at the Nuremberg Trials, where attempts were made to prevent the Nazis in the dock--principally Hermann Göring--from offering any rational argument for what they had done. Subsequently, however, bringing lower-ranking Nazis to justice was effectively forgotten about in the interests of maintaining West Germany as an ally in the Cold War. For the Allied countries, faced with a new enemy in the Soviet Union, there was a need to portray WW2 as a crusade of pure good against pure evil, even if this meant denying the memories of the Allied soldiers who had actually done the fighting, and knew it to have been far more complex. A number of American veterans told how years later they found themselves plagued with the previously-suppressed memories of the brutal things they had seen and done. The title comes from a veteran's description of what the uncertainty of survival in combat is like.
Adam Curtis | The Living Dead: On the Despirate Edge of Now E1 [58:07]
You Have Used Me as a Fish Long Enough
In this episode, the history of brainwashing and mind control was examined. The angle pursued by Curtis was the way in which psychiatry pursued tabula rasa theories of the mind, initially in order to set people free from traumatic memories and then later as a potential instrument of social control. The work of Ewen Cameron was surveyed, with particular reference to Cold War theories of communist brainwashing and the search for hypnoprogammed assassins. The programme's thesis was that the search for control over the past via medical intervention had had to be abandoned and that in modern times control over the past is more effectively exercised by the manipulation of history. Some film from this episode, an interview with one of Cameron's victims, was later re-used by Curtis in his The Century of the Self. The title of this episode comes from a paranoid schizophrenic seen in archive film in the programme, who believed her neighbours were using her as a source of amusement by denying her any privacy, like a pet goldfish.
Adam Curtis | The Living Dead: You Have Used Me as a Fish Long Enough E2 [58:34]
The Attic
In this episode, the Imperial aspirations of Margaret Thatcher were examined. The way in which Mrs Thatcher used public relations in an attempt to emulate Winston Churchill in harking back to Britain's "glorious past" to fulfil a political or national end. The title is a reference to the attic flat at the top of 10 Downing Street, which was created during Thatcher's period refurbishment of the house, which did away with the Prime Minister's previous living quarters on lower floors. Scenes from The Innocents (film) the adaptation of The Turn of the Screw by Henry James are intercut with Thatcher's reign.
Adam Curtis | The Living Dead: The Attic E3 [58:55]
The Trap, E1-E3
Adam Curtis | The Trap: E1 [58:34]Adam Curtis | The Trap: The Lonly Robot E2 [58:34]
Adam Curtis | The Trap: We Will Force U 2 B Free E3 [58:18]
Mayfair Set, E1-E4
Adam Curtis | The Mayfair Set: Who pays to Win E1 [44:21]Adam Curtis | The Mayfair Set: Entrepreneur Spelt E2 [58:55]
Adam Curtis | The Mayfair Set: Destroy the Technostructure E3 [59:19]
Adam Curtis | The Mayfair Set: Twilight of the Dogs E4 [59:00]
Pandora's Box, E1-E6
Pandora's Box, subtitled A Fable From the Age of Science, is a six part 1992 BBC documentary television series written and produced by Adam Curtis, which examines the consequences of political and technocratic rationalism.
Adam Curtis | Pandora's Box: The Engineers E1 [45:00]Adam Curtis | Pandora's Box: The the Brink of Eternity E2 [45:00]
Adam Curtis | Pandora's Box: The League of Gentlemen E3 [45:00]
Adam Curtis | Pandora's Box: Goodbye Mrs. Ant E4 [45:07]
Adam Curtis | Pandora's Box: Black Powder E5 [45:00]
Adam Curtis | Pandora's Box: A is for Atom E6 [45:52]
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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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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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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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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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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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Wall Street and BankstersWall 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?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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Daniel EllsbergDaniel 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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NukesNuclear 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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Rana ForooharMs. 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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The Untold History of the United States by Oliver Stone & Petere Kuznick | 2014 | 10 EpisodesOliver 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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Kuznick InterviewsHistorian 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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China Valley of TunnelsA 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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911On 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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The Vietnam WarKen 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 MashupsDonald 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 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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Trump's Speeches | RallysDonald 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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