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Friday August 29, 2014
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4 Calamities Destroying America's Economy Being Ignored by Elites
AlterNet | Frithjof Bergmann | 08/27/14

The world's current economic and political structures are proving incapable of fixing the global crisis of poverty, unemployment, and dislocation from a viable way of life for the majority of the world's population. Why? Let us begin with one present-day example: Larry Summers, former Secretary of the Treasury and also former chair of the Board of Economic Advisors, recently was the principal guest of the national radio broadcast "On Point." The topic of the hour-long dialogue was growing "inequality."

Summers posited that we are in an oddly slow recovery. He gave some reasons for the slowness but maintained that the measures instigated by the government (the Federal Reserve pumping funds into the economy, and the like) were fundamentally correct, and that with patience and persistence the recovery would solve the problems we have.

This basically is the position of Obama and importantly, by no means only his. Every government in every country subscribes essentially to this same apostolic faith. That faith is pathetic and even grotesquely mistaken. It ignores the four "Tsunami" causes for the globally increasing inequality:

  1. Automation: The number of jobs that have been automated out of existence in the last 30 years is astronomical.
  2. A second colossal cause is globalization. Despite the nonstop discussion of that topic its basic significance is still largely misunderstood.
  3. Environmental degradation is growing... or in-ther-words depletion of natural resources
  4. The fourth mega-force that escalates inequality everywhere is the industrialization of farming. Throughout the millennia of the Agricultural epoch approximately 75% of the population lived and worked on farms. Now, in some contries it is 4%.
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Uzi Death Called ‘Industrial Accident’. Arizona law enforcement officials said no criminal charges would be filed related to the incident where a 9-year-old girl accidentally shot and killed her instructor with an Uzi.

Shocking Picture of What Life Will Look Like When You Can't Afford to Retire
AlterNet | Lynn Stuart Parramore | 08/25/14

In a must-read article in the current issue of Harper's magazine, journalist Jessica Bruder, adjunct professor at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, adds a new phrase to America's vocabulary: "Elderly migrant worker." She documents a growing trend of older Americans for whom the reality of unaffordable housing and scarcity of work has driven them from their homes and onto the road in search of seasonal and temporary employment across the country. Packed into RVs, detached from their communities, these "Okies" of the Great Recession put in time at Amazon warehouses, farms and amusement parks, popping free over-the-counter pain reliever to mask the agony of strained muscles and sore backs. And when they can't hold up any longer? The RV sometimes becomes a coffin. ... Read more

UN: Ukraine conflict death toll hits 2,600, civilians ‘trapped inside conflict zones’ (08/29/14). UN Report

Louisiana is drowning, quickly.
magazine | author | date

Scientists now say one of the greatest environmental and economic disasters in the nation’s history is rushing toward a catastrophic conclusion over the next 50 years, so far unabated and largely unnoticed.

At the current rates that the sea is rising and land is sinking, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientists say by 2100 the Gulf of Mexico could rise as much as 4.3 feet across this landscape, which has an average elevation of about 3 feet. If that happens, everything outside the protective levees -- most of Southeast Louisiana -- would be underwater. ... Read more
Gulf’s Delacroix Islanders Watch As Their World Disappears (older) [11:02]
Click to zoom - Loosing Ground

CNN | P Morgan HACKED. High Tech Way Of Running A Plane Into The WTC. FBI Probes JPMorgan Hack (08/28/14) [2:03]
TRNN | May Boeve from 350.org and Bruce Hamilton of the Amalgamated Transit Union discuss: Global Warming and Economic Crisis Lead to One Solution: Climate Jobs (08/29/14) [14:28]
TRNN | Shir Hever: Israeli Agribusiness Demanding Relief From Government as BDS Intensifies (08/29/14) [9:37]
Climate Change
*If There's Global Warming ... Why Is It So Cold? (01/28/14) [6:34]
NatGeo | Six degrees could change the world () [1:36:06]
James CorbettReport
James Corbett | We Are Headed for Global War, Fukushima Update and More! (08/26/14) [25:39]
*James Corbett | Century of Enslavement: The History of The Federal Reserve (07/06/14) [1:30:11]
TruthLoader
James Corbett | Are perceptions on topics like 'Bilderberg' changing? With James Corbett (older 2013) [4:37]
Keiser Report
Keiser Report: Bitcoin Independence! (E646) (08/28/14) [25:45] Note: Interview on Bitcoin starts at 13:20
*Keiser Report: 'Les Misérables', or is it Ferguson) (E645) (08/28/14) [25:45] Note: Interview with Matt Taibbi on Wall Streets Swindle starts at 12:00
In the second half, Max interviews journalist and author, Matt Taibbi about the injustice that follows the wealth divide and how Ferguson, Missouri plays into that.
*TYT | Ebola Outbreak Still Accelerating In West Africa (08/28/14) [4:49]
TYT | Uzi In Hands Of 9-Year-Old Girl Ends Instructor’s Life (08/28/14) [6:40]
TYT | Video Captures EXACTLY How Cops Treat Black People (08/28/14) [6:53]
TYT | Russia Distances Itself From Its Own Invasion Of Ukraine (08/28/14) [4:41]
Diane Rehms Show
Diane Rehm Domestic News - Friday (08/29/14) [1hr]
International News - Friday (08/29/14) [1hr]
Other Videos and Documentaries I Ran Across

08.29.2014. 11:20

Thursday August 28, 2014
News Articles

JPMorgan and Other Banks Struck by Hackers
NYT | Nicole Perlroth | 08/27/14

A number of United States banks, including JPMorgan Chase and at least four others, were struck by hackers in a series of coordinated attacks this month, according to four people briefed on a continuing investigation into the crimes.

The hackers infiltrated the networks of the banks, siphoning off gigabytes of data, including checking and savings account information, in what security experts described as a sophisticated cyberattack.... Read more

For sale: Systems that can secretly track where cellphone users go around the globe
WashingtonPost | Craig Timberg | 08/24/14

Makers of surveillance systems are offering governments across the world the ability to track the movements of almost anybody who carries a cellphone, whether they are blocks away or on another continent.

The technology works by exploiting an essential fact of all cellular networks: They must keep detailed, up-to-the-minute records on the locations of their customers to deliver calls and other services to them. Surveillance systems are secretly collecting these records to map people's travels over days, weeks or longer, according to company marketing documents and experts in surveillance technology.

The world's most powerful intelligence services, such as the National Security Agency and Britain's GCHQ, long have used cellphone data to track targets around the globe. But experts say these new systems allow less technically advanced governments to track people in any nation -- including the United States -- with relative ease and precision. ... Read more

NSA surveillance programs are identified by "SIGADs," short for "signals intelligence activity designators." Internal NSA support documents reviewed by The Washington Post indicate that location information is collected via at least 10 SIGADs, including: DANCINGOASIS, FAIRVIEW, MYSTIC, OAKSTAR, RAMPART-A, RAMPART-M, RESOLUTETITAN, STORMBREW, TIMBERLINE, and WINDSTOP. Three of the SIGADs are believed to be located in the United States: FAIRVIEW, STORMBREW and TIMBERLINE which is at Sugar Grove Research Station in West Virginia.

Documents show how the NSA infers relationships based on mobile location data
WashingtonPost | Ashkan Soltani | older, but good

The NSA doesn't just have the technical capabilities to collect location-based data in bulk. A 24-page NSA white paper shows that the agency has a powerful suite of algorithms, or data sorting tools, that allow it to learn a great deal about how people live their lives. ...

... The NSA collects Internet and phone metadata via relationships with corporate partners that allow the agency to intercept traffic at key network routing points. These partnerships take many forms. A company may transfer Call Detail Records to the NSA or allow the agency to install large-scale surveillance equipment to capture this traffic. ... Read more

GOP candidates credit Koch brothers for their success
ThHill.com | Mike Lillis | 08/27/14

GOP Senate candidates are facing new scrutiny in the wake of Wednesday reports tying them closely to the conservative billionaires Charles and David Koch. Rep. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), Rep. Cory Gardner (R-Colo.) and Iowa state Sen. Joni Ernst (R) attended a lavish June conference sponsored by the Koch brothers. Cotton and Ernst both credited the brothers' political activities for enabling their campaigns, The Huffington Post reported early Wednesday, citing audio from the event. ... Read more

Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Thursday, August 28 [11:14]
*DN | As Obama Settles on Nonbinding Treaty, "Only a Big Movement" Can Take on Global Warming (08/27/14) [9:35]
*DN | Tax Dodging Whopper? Burger King Moves to Canada After Merger with Tim Hortons (08/27/14) [7:11], Part 2 [12:00]
*TRNN | Dr. Michael E. Mann discusses: IPCC Synthesis Report Demands Control Over Fossil Fuel Consumption (08/28/14) [10:21]
TRNN | Investigative journalist Patrick Cockburn discusses: Why America Failed To Anticipate the Rise of the Islamic State (08/28/14) [1:25]
TRNN | The Battle for Justice in Ferguson Runs through the Soul of the Democratic Party (08/28/14) [7:53]
Climate Change
yaleClimateForum | Expecting the Unexpected: Abrupt Climate Change (08/27/14) [7:24]
Senior Scientists discuss the potential for sudden disruptions of human and natural systems as a consequence of climate change.

YouTube Commenter
There are people out there deeply invested in companies and jobs and lifestyles which depend upon using our collective atmosphere as a sewer for their products. 2% of the Earth's population is responsible for putting out 50% of the CO2, and even fewer benefit from the proceeds of companies which do that. Just read Exxon-Mobil's report. *They* say their own scientists tell them climate change is real and dangerous, and they expect a number higher than the mean IPCC number by 2050, 6-7 degrees Fahrenheit increase. But they just don't believe the average American is willing to pay the increased energy costs to avoid that, and, so, they say, their profits are safe, as are their energy reserves.?
David Suzuki | Climate Change - An Uncertain Future (07/30/13) [45:07]
TYT | GOP Candidates Thrilled To Be In Koch Bros' Deep Pockets (08/27/14) [8:12]
TYT | 9-Year-Old Accidentally Kills With Automatic Weapon (08/27/14) [4:16]
TYT | Burger King Exploits Corporate Tax Donut Hole In Sweet, Sweet Merger (08/27/14) [9:27]
TYT | Climate Treaty, Koch Meeting, ESPN Apology & "Dead" Man Found Alive (08/27/14) [2:18]
Ring of Fire
Papantonio: Could Mitt Possibly Save The GOP? (08/27/14) [5:10]

08.28.2014. 13:41

Wednesday August 27, 2014
News Articles

The UN's New Report on Global Warming Is the Most Terrifying Yet
Bill Moyers | John Light | 08/27/14

The New York Times and Bloomberg News got a look at a draft of a new UN report on climate change. It's bleak, to say the least.

Runaway growth on the emission of greenhouse gases is swamping all political efforts to deal with the problem, raising the risk of "severe, pervasive and irreversible impacts" over the coming decades, according to a draft of a major new United Nations report. ...

... But one of the central points of the IPCC report is that some of what we've wrought is already irreversible, and more of it soon will be. The world's existing power plants are already slated to pump over 300 billion tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere -- a figure that's growing by billions of tons each year, speeding up the changes that are already underway. Governments' efforts to do something are a drop in the bucket compared to what's needed. ... Read more

Click to zoom - NSAs ICReach Search Program

The Nail In The Petrodollar Coffin: Gazprom Begins Accepting Payment For Oil In Ruble, Yuan
ZeroHedge | author | 08.27.14

According to Russia's RIA Novosti, citing business daily Kommersant, Gazprom Neft has agreed to export 80,000 tons of oil from Novoportovskoye field in the Arctic; it will accept payment in rubles, and will also deliver oil via the Eastern Siberia-Pacific Ocean pipeline (ESPO), accepting payment in Chinese yuan for the transfers. Meaning Russia will export energy to either Europe or China, and receive payment in either Rubles or Yuan, in effect making the two currencies equivalent as far as the Eurasian axis is conerned, but most importantly, transact completely away from the US dollar thus, finally putin'(sic) in action the move for a Petrodollar-free world. ... Read more

Fighting Ebola With Nothing but Hope
TheDailyBeast.com | Abby Haglage | 08/27/14

Primary health care manager Emmanuel Boyah is at Ebola's frontline in Liberia. If he contracts the disease, there will be no 'secret serum' waiting for him. Yet he keeps fighting.

Black shirt tucked into snug black pants, his role is made transparent by the bright yellow embroidery across his chest: "International Rescue Committee." Stacks of clean brown boxes surrounding him hold bleach, latex gloves, and masks--weapons against Ebola. These supplies will be distributed to medical facilities across Lofa County, one of the hardest hit regions in Liberia, where reports show more than 624 deaths.

According to a report released this week by the World Health Organization, an estimated 240 health-care workers have been infected with Ebola in West Africa. Of that number, at least 50 percent are already dead. For an international relief worker, contracting the virus likely means becoming the focus of headlines about high-tech aircrafts and secret serums. For a West African doctor in the same position, it means simply one less health-care worker on a continent in desperate need of more. ... Read more

Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Wednesday, August 27 [8:43]
DN | "The Damage is Beyond Imagination in Gaza": Journalist Mohammed Omer on Ceasefire Deal & Rebuilding (08/27/14) [7:34]
*DN | NSA Creates Google-Like Search Engine to Help Other Agencies Access Collected Phone, Email Records (08/27/14) [3:44]
DN | Is Ferguson Feeding off the Poor? City Disproportionately Stops, Charges and Fines People of Color (08/27/14) [5:32]
*TRNN | Investigative journalist Patrick Cockburn says: The Islamic State, Assad, and the Contradictions Faced by the US in Syria (08/27/14) [11:25]
TRNN | Max Blumenthal assesses: Israel and Gaza Extends Cease Fire Amid Last Minute Attacks (08/27/14) [8:01]
TYT | Burger King Exploits Corporate Tax Donut Hole In Sweet, Sweet Merger (08/26/14) [9:27]
TYT | Saudi Arabia Beheads At Shocking Rate & Why We Look The Other Way (08/26/14) [11:33]
Rich Hill at Sundance
Rich Hill Official Trailer (2014) - American Small Town (06/09/14) [2:20]
Rich Hill Documentary (to rent) (2014) [1:32:49]
Filmmakers talk about Rich Hill at Sundance 2014 (02/07/14) [8:59]
Rich Hill Documentary website
Ring of Fire
*Pap Attack: Corporate Pigs and Politicians (08/27/14) [4:52]
Papantonio: Big Pharma Gone Wild -- The Xarelto Scam (08/27/14) [6:54]
Other Videos and Documentaries I Ran Across
Note: I don't endorse any of the videos in this section.
As I construct My News Pages I constantly run across a lot of NEW videos, and since I find YouTube frustrating trying to re-find videos, I save the links in this section so I can find them again.

08.27.2014. 14:23

Tuesday August 26, 2014
News Articles

Executive Vice President and President of Epsilon Bryan J. Kennedy's Salary
www1.salary.com | author | 08/26/14

As Executive Vice President and President, Epsilon at ALLIANCE DATA SYSTEMS CORP, Bryan J. Kennedy made $2,962,098 in total compensation. Of this total $540,000 was received as a salary, $540,000 was received as a bonus, $0 was received in stock options, $1,812,740 was awarded as stock and $69,358 came from other types of compensation. This information is according to proxy statements filed for the 2013 fiscal. ... Read more

*TYT | Tap Water Dries Out In California. Could You Be Next? (08/25/14) [4:19]
Drinking, showering, cooking…we all rely on tap water everyday as a part of our routine. It is easy to take the endless flowing water from out facets for granted. What would you do if your tap water supply ends?

"California's extreme drought has dried up tap water supplies for hundreds of people living in rural San Joaquin Valley homes.

At least 182 of the 1,400 homes in East Porterville, California have no water or are having "some kind of water issue," the Porterville Recorder reports. The state's drought, which is in its third year, has dried up some of these residents' wells, forcing the county to deliver emergency supplies of water. The wells rely on the Tule River for water, but due to the drought, river flows have plummeted this year.

Tulare County Office of Emergency Services delivered 12-gallon-per person rations of bottled water to affected residents Friday, and the county has also provided a 5,000-gallon, non-potable water tank for people to use for bathing and flushing.

But the bottled water rations are only supposed to last three weeks, Emergency services manager Andrew Lockman told the AP -- after that, low-income residents will need to sign up for a grant program in order to keep receiving water, and the county is asking local companies to make bottled water donations."

Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve Is Actually Larger Than Switzerland
HP | Lisa_Miller | 08/26/14

When it comes to U.S. national parks, everyone knows about Yellowstone and Yosemite. But we bet you've never heard of the national park that's larger than a major European country.

Meet Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve. This vast, gorgeous national park in Alaska is the largest in the country. It clocks in at 13.2 million acres... making it larger than Switzerland. The park stretches from Mount St. Elias, one of the tallest peaks in America, to the Gulf of Alaska and offers glaciers, caves, lakes, mountains and, well, pretty much every natural wonder you could dream up. An array of flora and fauna populate the park, and if you're into snow, well this place has plenty of that. ... Read more



*DN | Vijay Prashad: 2011 NATO Bombing of Libya Led to Rise of Militias Now Fighting for Oil-Rich Land (08/26/14) [18:30]
*TRNN | PERI Co-Director Gerald Epstein discusses how Fed chair Janet Yellen's recent comments on bringing unemployment down could be positive (08/26/14) [6:29]
Global Warming
*MSNBC | Climate Deniers Backpedaling (07/25/14) [5:58]
ClimateCrocks.com website
Raw Video: Dark Snow Project (08/22/14) [8:11]
DarkSnowProject.org website
60 Minutes
*60 Minutes | The Stock Market Is Rigged (04/08/14, replay 08/17/14) [14:41]
60 Minutes | The end of privacy "The Data Brokers: Selling your personal information" (03/11/14, replay 08/17/14) [15:08]
John Oliver
HBO | What does John Oliver do for the News? Quite a lot actually (08/25/14) [2:51]
HBO | Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Wage Gap (08/25/14) [7:17]
TYT | Tap Water Dries Out In California. Could You Be Next? (08/25/14) [4:19]
TYT | Does ISIS Really Pose A Threat To The United States? (08/25/14) [12:23
TYT | Why This RNC Official Is Terrified Of "Warrior Children"? (08/25/14) [5:12]
Fukushima
Cancer Risk UnderEstimated in Japan: Arnie Gundersen & Ian Goddard (01/18/12) [26:49]
Chernobyl Uncensored (2000s) [2:18:11]
2 videos together giving a timely reminder of Chernobyl and how much worse it would have been without the mobilisation of hundreds of thousands of workers - indeed the phrase used was "the front line". Contrast this with the awful response of Japan and Tepco in a desperate attempt to minimise the crisis.

The Battle Of Chernobyl and a horizon documentary about the nuclear disaster.

08.26.2014. 11:17

Monday August 25, 2014
News Articles

Hamas official admits group murdered 3 Israeli teens
RT | author | 08/21/14

A Hamas official has admitted for the first time that members of its militant wing kidnapped and killed three Israeli teenagers in June. This fueled increased tensions with Israel and eventually led to the IDF's bombardment of Gaza.

Saleh Al-Arouri said the al-Qassam Brigades were responsible, after Hamas' leader Khaled Meshaal, who is in exile in Qatar, had earlier denied his group was involved. However, Meshaal did praise those who carried out the kidnappings. ... Read more
*TYT | Hamas Kidnapped & Killed Israeli Teens, Proving Devastating Stupidity (08/22/14) [15:39]

IBM's new supercomputing chip mimics the human brain with very little power
engadget.com | Joseph Volpe | 08/10/14

A lot has changed in the three years since IBM first unveiled a prototype of its human brain-inspired SyNAPSE (Systems of Neuromorphic Adaptive Plastic Scalable Electronics) chip. That single-core prototype has now been significantly scaled up, leading to a new, production-ready SyNAPSE chip that blows past its predecessor with 1 million neurons, 256 million synapses and 4,096 neurosynaptic cores, all the while only requiring 70mW of power.

Traditionally, faster processing has always meant greater power consumption, but IBM's new SyNAPSE chip flips that paradigm on its head. To give you some perspective of just how low-powered this supercomputing chip is, IBM's Chief Scientist Dr. Dharmendra S. Modha says it requires power equivalent to that of a battery from a hearing aid. It's an achievement that's merited IBM the cover of the journal Science; it also has the potential to drastically alter conventional approaches to computing. In fact, the new SyNAPSE chip is so disruptive to the current computing landscape that IBM's created a new programming language to go along with it and an educational outreach program called SyNAPSE University. It's no wonder why the project received $53 million in funding from DARPA. ... Read more

Dramatically different from traditional software, IBM's new programming model breaks the mold of sequential operation underlying today's von Neumann architectures and computers. It is instead tailored for a new class of distributed, highly interconnected, asynchronous, parallel, large-scale cognitive computing architectures.

IBM | Cognitive Computing: The SyNAPSE Project (2012) [5:15]

A New Era of Computing Requires a New Way to Program Computers
asmarterplanet.com | Dharmendra S. Modha | 08/08/13

Sixty years ago, in the face of tremendous skepticism, IBM engineer John Backus set out to radically change the economics of scientific computing on the IBM 704 by making programming much cheaper, faster, and reliable. The language that he and his colleagues developed--FORTRAN--became the first widely used high-level programming language. It laid the groundwork for the software industry as we know it and the waves of transformation that computing has brought to industry, science, government and society. The importance of FORTRAN is hard to overestimate as demonstrated by O'Reilly's poster on "The History of Programming Languages."

Today, we're at another turning point in the history of information technology. The era that Backus and his contemporaries helped create, the programmable computing era, is being superseded by the era of cognitive computing. Increasingly, computers will gather huge quantities of data, reason over the data, and learn from their interactions with information and people. These new capabilities will help us penetrate complexity and make better decisions about everything from how to manage cities to how to solve confounding business problems. ... Read more

6 Numbers That Show How Out of Whack America's Priorities Are
AlterNet | Paul Buchheit | 08/24/14

Americans constantly hear about the threat of "entitlements," which in the case of Social Security and Medicare are more properly defined as "earned benefits." The real threat is the array of entitlements demanded by the very rich.

Note:Read the first part of the article to get the total amount spent on each entitlement, but for another view: Annual Per Capita Numbers see below:

  1. $8,600 for each of the Safety Net recipients
  2. $14,600 for each of the Social Security recipients
  3. $27,333 for each of the Pension recipients
  4. $54,740 for each of the Teachers
  5. $200,000 for each of the Tax Break recipients among the richest 1%
  6. $500,000 for each of the Investment Income recipients among the richest 1%
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Sexiest Body Paint of Sports Illustrated
TodaysGrid | Steve Marshall | 01/29/14

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Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Monday, August 25 [7:32]
*DN | Blowback: Vijay Prashad on How Islamic State Grew Out of U.S Invasion of Iraq, Destruction of Nation (08/25/14) [5:49]
DN | "I Can't Breathe": NYC March over Chokehold Death of Eric Garner Protests Police Violence Nationwide (08/25/14) [13:11]
*TRNN | Investigative journalist Nafeez Ahmed: The Powers Behind The Islamic State (08/25/14) [21:18]
Investigative journalist Nafeez Ahmed gives specific examples of how Saudi, Qatari, and American interests have supported the group formerly known as ISIS, and what the global community can do now to reign them in.
*TRNN | Despite Renewed Attacks, Israel No Closer to Defeating Palestinian Resistance (08/22/14) [12:47]
+972's Samer Badawi reports that Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza remain steadfast in their resistance of Israeli occupation, and UCLA's Gabriel Piterberg says that despite the escalating levels of violence, Israel is no closer to its goal of defeating Palestinian political and military resistance.
TRNN | Is the Control of Gaza's Offshore Gas Reserves a Factor in Israeli Military Operations? (08/17/14) [12:54]
TYT | Washed Up Actor Calls Protestors "Animals" (08/25/14) [8:06]
TYT | Will The NRA Support This Gun Club? (08/25/14) [6:38]
TYT | How America Should Deal With ISIS Terrorists (08/22/14) [18:09]
TYT | ISIS Terrorists Invading America Via Mexican Border According To Rick Perry (08/22/14) [6:28]
TYT | Kajieme Powell Shooting Video Disturbs For So Many Reasons (08/22/14) [10:09]
Why the World is the Way It IS
I found this 2hr video one of the best Histories on Secret Societies. I have shortened it slightly to reduce the religious overtones, but not ny too much. Otherwise, the history is very well layed out and well worth watching.
*The New World Order- Secret Societies () [2:18:12]
Or watch the original
*The New World Order- Secret Societies and Biblical Prophecy () [2:26:13]
*The Money Masters - Bill Still Documentary on Central Banks and their secrets () [3:29:19]
An excellent historical account on Central Banks and our Central Bank called the Federal Reserve, produced by award winning documntary pruducer Bill Still
The Secret of Oz by Mr Bill Still () [1:50:48]
It is well known in economics academia that The Wonderful Wizard of Oz written by L. Frank Baum in 1900 is loaded with powerful symbols of monetary reform which were the core of the Populist movement and the 1896 and 1900 president bid of Democrat William Jennings Bryan.

The yellow brick road (gold standard), the emerald city of Oz (greenback money), even Dorothy's silver slippers (changed to ruby slippers for the movie version) were the symbol of Baum's and Bryan's belief that adding silver coinage to gold would provide much needed money to a depression-strapped, 1890s America.

We believe Baum's symbols represent the only solution to relieve the growing economic hardship here in America -- and the rest of the world. Practically speaking, 2009 marks the 70th anniversary of the 1939 MGM release of the The Wizard of Oz movie, so interest will be very high. Even Oz websites put up by kids get millions of hits.
Brain-Like Computers
WSJ | IBM's Brain-Like Microchip (08/07/14) [1:26]
3D Printing
Woman Receives 3D-Printed Skull (03/26/14) [1:09]
Taste Testing 3D-Printed Food! (01/14/14) [5:25]
3D printers print ten houses in 24 hours (04/16/14) [2:30]
Bee Sting... Therapy??
NatGeo | Bee Therapy (2007) [3:38]
Newsy | Bee Venom Can Kill HIV, Study Says (2013) [1:30]
AIDs
Fox23 | Possible AIDs Cure? Part 1 [7:51], Part 2 [9:00]
AIDs cure that was developed in the 1990's and suppressed by US... the doctor who developed the cure Dr. Gary R. Davi was ran out of the United States by death threats and eventually murdered in 2007.
Other Videos and Documentaries I Ran Across
Note: I don't endorse any of the videos in this section.
As I construct My News Pages I constantly run across a lot of NEW videos, and since I find YouTube frustrating trying to re-find videos, I save the links in this section so I can find them again.
Empire of Dreams - The Story of the Star Wars Trilogy (2004) [2:28:27]
Star Wars: Threads of Destiny (2014) (full) [1:48:32]
Star Wars: Threads of Destiny website
Star Wars is the sole copyright of Lucasfilm Ltd. The purpose of this film is to showcase the talents of its participants. It is illegal to sell, purchase or make money from this work. This movie may be copied and freely distributed but not sold.

Plot Outline
Set 100 years after "Return of the Jedi," the Jedi Order and the Republic are once again active. The planet Coreign produces a special ore that can power an entire city, but the Skenvi empire is interested in its potential for supreme spaceship armor.

Threads of Destiny is a fan-made feature film created by fans of George Lucas's Star Wars saga and directed by Rasmus Tirzitis.

This extraordinary film took 9 years to complete with the help of more than a hundred people working on it from all over the world.

08.25.2014. 13:10

Friday August 22, 2014
News Articles

Seven Key Takeaways From Joseph E. Stiglitz’s Tax Plan for Growth and Equality
BillMoyers | author | 05/30/14

But taxes also shape our incentives. We tax things that we deem to be harmful -- like tobacco and alcohol -- and hand out tax breaks to encourage things we find beneficial, like research.

According to a new white paper by Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz, our labyrinthine tax system is skewing those incentives. We’re encouraging corporations to invest in creating jobs overseas, when unemployment remains doggedly high here at home. We’re giving US-based multinationals good reason t0 deprive our treasury of revenues when we should be investing in infrastructure and the American people.

The full recommendations are available in Stiglitz’s report, Reforming Taxation to Promote Growth and Equity(PDF).

  1. Raise Corporate Income Tax Rates While Providing Incentives for Investments and Job Creation in the US
  2. Reduce Spending on Corporate Welfare
  3. Tax the Financial Sector
  4. Tax on Monopolies and Other Rent-Based Enterprises
  5. Ensure that Multinationals Pay Their Fair Share of Taxes and Have Incentives to Invest in America
  6. Increase Taxes on Industries That Produce Negative Externalities
  7. Make Dividend Payments Tax Deductible, But Impose a Withholding Tax
Read more
*Bill Moyers | Joseph E. Stiglitz Calls for Fair Taxes for All (08/21/14) [25:25]

SWAT Lobby to Congress: Hands Off Our Mine-Resistant Vehicles!
TheDailyBeast.com | Tim Mak | 08/21/14

In an attempt to counter widespread concern over “militarized” local police departments, law enforcement groups are pressing Capitol Hill to not cut off the supply of armored vehicles, body armor and other military equipment to the nation’s cops.

This week, the National Tactical Officers Association, the lobbying group for 1,600 SWAT teams across the country, emailed all legislative staffers in the House and Senate to express that they shared in “our nation’s grief” over the events in Ferguson, Missouri. ... Read more

Neil deGrasse Tyson Hit by Creationist Backlash for Explaining Universe Is Billions of Years Old
AlterNet | Dan Arel | 08/20/14

In the wake of the success of the "Cosmos" television series, which picked up four Emmy Awards earlier this week, Neil deGrasse Tyson discussed politics, religion and science in a recent interview with AlterNet.

When I asked if the success of "Cosmos" had surprised him, Tyson said he had not anticipated the kind of coverage the show would get by entertainment sites and blogs. Because of the show's major network backing and primetime slot, he said, it was covered like any other television show. He said this forced many entertainment writers to write about all sorts of science topics not often covered in these publications, exposing the show to a new and possibly unintended audience.

... Tyson was not as shocked by the backlash the show garnered from certain religious and political groups, mainly creationists who took issue with Tyson’s insistence on discussing evolution, the Big Bang theory and the history of scientific discovery. Their criticism of the show did not bother Tyson at all. “You have to ask yourself, what are the numbers behind the people making these claims? Someone like Ken Ham [owner of the Creation Museum] has beliefs that are even crazy to many Christians.” ... Read more

Ruling on Nuclear Waste Storage Could Create a "Catastrophic Risk"
MotherJones | Josh Harkinson | 08/22/14

Strict safety controls sought by environmental groups for the storage of radioactive waste at dozens of nuclear power plants may fall to the wayside under a rule that's expected be approved by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission next week. According to a congressional source who does not wish to be identified, the NRC is rushing to vote on the rule before the September retirement of Commissioner William Magwood, an ally of the nuclear power industry.

The rule would establish that the environmental risks of storing spent fuel in pools of water at reactor sites for extended periods are negligible and for the most part don't need to be studied as part of the licensing requirements for nuclear power plants. But critics of the rule say that the NRC is blatantly ignoring its own research, which shows that the practice could lead to serious disasters: "You will have all the waste sitting, basically, in a giant swimming pool," the source says, "and the potential of the swimming pool draining or being breached by an accident or an attack or a power loss that causes the water to boil off—all of those things would have impacts that the NRC's own analysis says would equal that of a meltdown of the reactor core." ... Read more

DemocracyNow Daily News
Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Friday, August 22 [full 57:00]
TRNN News
*TRNN | Peter Sinclair discusses | Greenland's Glaciers Rapid Melting Will Have Global Effects (08/22/14) [8:07]
Fukushima
I ran across a recent Fukushima video "The Fukushima Hoax", and while I know the situation there is dire, I thought I should look for more current videos of Fukusima to substantiated the authors claims. The videos I found from CBS, PBS, Vice I organized in order from "sugar coated" to "Alarming". It is very interesting how news organizations (corporations, and governments) can distort the truth.
CBS | Fukushima: A rare look inside the nuclear plant three years after quake (01/23/14) [2:49]
*PBS News Hour | Return to Fukushima with Miles O'Brien (08/06/14) [33:15]
Three years after the disaster at Fukushima, science correspondent Miles O'Brien returned to the Daiichi nuclear plant for an exclusive look at the site. Follow Miles on a never-before-seen tour of Daiichi's sister site, Fukushima Daini, which narrowly avoided a meltdown during the Tohoku earthquake. As the country debates turning its reactors back on, Miles asks: will Japan have a nuclear future?
Vice | Shocking Report From Fukushima (06/10/14) [13:33]
*Fairewinds.org | New TEPCO Report Shows Damage to Unit 3 Fuel Pool MUCH Worse Than That at Unit 4 (03/01/14) [7:36]
The Fukushima Hoax (06/12/14) [7:26]
Fukushima Building MORE Tanks & More Aftershocks Expected (07/15/14) [6:26]
Thom Hartmann
Thom Hartmann | Politically Corrected: Karl Rove & The Fact Free Zone of Fox News (08/21/14) [1:56]
Technology | National Security | NSA
I was talking to a friend last weekend about the NSA and National Security and about how much we really don't know about their capabilities. I ran across some more videos on this topic, so I thought I would list them here, along with my all time favorite "Jacob Applebaum: To Protect And Infect (12/30/13) [1:02:42]".
*Next Future Terrifying Technology (03/04/14) [1:04:52]
*Jacob Applebaum: To Protect And Infect (12/30/13) [1:02:42]
Hackers (full documentary) () [1:26:34]
Wall Street
*Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005)(trailer) [2:00]
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005) (full) [58:33], Part 2 [56:00]
*The Crooked E - The Unshredded Truth About Enron (2003) [1:21:16]
Diane Rehms Show
Diane Rehm Domestic News - Friday (08/22/14) [1hr]
International News - Friday (08/22/14) [1hr]
Comedy
Your children will have a blast discovering what happens when we destroy the planet with Earth Ball (08/19/14) [2:04]

08.22.2014. 12:18

Thursday August 21, 2014
News Articles

Another Police Shooting in St. Louis: St. Louis Police Release Video Of Kajieme Powell Killing
HP | Ryan Grim | 08/20/14

... St. Louis Police Chief Sam Dotson said Tuesday that both of the officers opened fire on Powell when he came within a three or four feet of them holding a knife "in an overhand grip." But the newly released cell phone footage undermines the statement, showing Powell approaching the cops, but not coming as close as was reported, with his hands at his side. The officers began shooting within 15 seconds of their arrival, hitting Powell with a barrage of bullets. ...

CNN's Don Lemon and Chris Cuomo pushed Dotson on the officers' decision to use lethal force, rather than opting for an alternate form of defense like a Taser. "Certainly a Taser is an option that's available to the officers, but Tasers aren't 100 percent," Dotson said. "So you've got an individual with a knife who's moving towards you, not listening to any verbal commands, continues, says, 'shoot me now, kill me now.' Tasers aren't 100 percent. if that Taser misses, that [individual] continues on and hurts an officer." ... Read more

*Kajieme Powell Shooting. (Police arrive at 1:20 into the video) (08/20/14) [6:30]

Robert Reich: American Democracy Is Diseased
AlterNet | Robert Reich | 08/20/14

Americans are sick of politics. Only 13 percent approve of the job Congress is doing, a near record low. The President's approval ratings are also in the basement. A large portion of the public doesn't even bother voting. Only 57.5 percent of eligible voters cast their ballots in the 2012 presidential election.

Gilens and Page analyzed 1,799 policy issues in detail, determining the relative influence on them of economic elites, business groups, mass-based interest groups, and average citizens. Their conclusion: "The preferences of the average American appear to have only a miniscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy." ... Read more

Also see Sticky News - Income Inequality

Bank Of America Reaches Record $17 Billion Settlement With U.S.
HP & AP | Jeff Horwitz | 08/20/14

Bank of America has reached a record settlement of nearly $17 billion to resolve an investigation into its role in the sale of mortgage-backed securities before the 2008 financial crisis, officials directly familiar with the matter said Wednesday. One of the officials, who spoke with The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the announcement isn't scheduled until Thursday at the earliest, said the bank will pay $9.65 billion in cash and provide consumer relief valued at $7 billion.

The deal is the largest settlement arising from the economic meltdown in which millions of Americans lost their homes to foreclosure. It follows agreements in the last year with Citigroup for $7 billion and with JPMorgan Chase & Co. for $13 billion. ... Read more

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Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Thursday, August 21 [full 57:00]
Bill Moyers
*Bill Moyers | Joseph E. Stiglitz Calls for Fair Taxes for All (08/21/14) [25:25]
A recent report by Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz for the Roosevelt Institute suggests that paying our fair share of taxes and cracking down on corporate tax dodgers could be a cure for inequality and a faltering economy.

This week on Moyers & Company, Stiglitz tells Bill Moyers that Apple, Google, GE and a host of other Fortune 500 companies are creating what amounts to "an unlimited IRA for corporations." The result? Vast amounts of lost revenue for our treasury and the exporting of much-needed jobs to other countries.

"I think we can use our tax system to create a better society, to be an expression of our true values," Stiglitz says. "But if people don't think that their tax system is fair, they're not going to want to contribute. It's going to be difficult to get them to pay. And, unfortunately, right now, our tax system is neither fair nor efficient."
TRNN News
TRNN | TRNN's Jessica Desvarieux pays tribute: What My Friend Jim Foley Taught Me to Question (08/21/14) [6:47]
TRNN | Police Continue to Violate Press Freedom In Ferguson: With 11 journalists arrested thus far, Truthout.org investigative reporter Mike Ludwig describes how Ferguson police are using intimidation tactics against journalists (08/21/14) [9:15]
Ring of Fire
Ring of Fire | Papantonio: Ferguson's Prosecutor Trojan Horse? (08/20/14) [6:29]
Ring of Fire | Papantonio: V.A. Horror Stories Mounting (08/20/14) [8:54]
Ring of Fire | Obama Makes Wrong Turn On Immigration (08/20/14) [1:53]
TYT News
*TYT | Father Of Affluenza Teen Arrested For Impersonating Police Officer (08/20/14) [6:00]
*TYT | Officer 'Go F*ck Yourself' Threatens To Kill Ferguson Protestor (08/20/14) [6:17]
TYT | Missouri Lt Governor's Not-So-Subtle Color Choice For Justice (08/20/14) [4:56]
Tiny House News
All of California is in a state of emergency because of the prolonged drought, now in its third year. And it's more than just Californians who are feeling the impact -- the state uses its scarce water to provide the nation with more food than any other state.
Tiny Houses in California | Salvaged tiny homestudio: tin can siding, paper bag wallpaper (12/13/14) [8:43]
Micro Living in Japan (12/11/14) [11:49]
(More) Rich People Gone GREED
'Girls Gone Wild' Files for Bankruptcy (03/04/13) [6:04]

08.21.2014. 09:57

Wednesday August 20, 2014
News Articles

The Disease in American Democracy
Bill Moyers | Robert Reich | 08/19/14

A new study scheduled to be published in this fall by Princeton's Martin Gilens and Northwestern University's Benjamin Page confirms our worst suspicions.

Gilens and Page analyzed 1,799 policy issues in detail, determining the relative influence on them of economic elites, business groups, mass-based interest groups and average citizens.

Their conclusion: "The preferences of the average American appear to have only a miniscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy." Read more

Payday Loans
*HBO | Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Predatory Lending. (08/10/14) [16:32]
*TYT | Big Banks Behind Payday Loan Scams (older, but good) [4:01]
Key Facts on Payday Lending:

  1. An estimated 120 million payday loans are issued annually in the US worth a total value of $42 Billion.

  2. The average effective interest rate on a payday loan is 455% (APR). For a loan of $300, a typical borrower pays on average $775, with $475 going to pay interest and fees over an average borrowing cycle.

  3. Watch the video of Mitzi Rivers-Singleton of Kansas who ended up paying $30,000 in fees for a $3,000 loan over a seven year period.

  4. There are some 17 major payday lending companies (both public and privately-held) that operate approximately half of the nation's total of 22,000 payday lending outlets.

  5. Major banks provide over $1.5 Billion in credit available to fund major payday lending companies.

  6. The major banks funding payday lending include Wells Fargo, Bank of America, US Bank, JP Morgan Bank, and National City (PNC Financial Services Group).

  7. All together, the major banks directly finance the loans and operations of (at minimum) 38% of the entire payday lending industry, based on store locations.

  8. The major banks indirectly fund approximately 450,000 payday loans per year totaling $16.4 Billion in short-term payday loans.

  9. Wells Fargo is a major financier of payday lending and is involved with financing companies that operate one third (32%) of the entire payday lending industry, based on store locations.

  10. All of these above mentioned banks received TARP bailout funds in 2008-09 and have benefited from accessing capital at exceptionally low interest rates from the Federal Reserve.

  11. Major banks access credit from the Federal Reserve (Discount Window) at 0.5% or less, these banks extend an estimated $1.5 Billion annually to eight major payday lending companies, who in turn use this credit to issue millions of payday loans to consumers every year at average rates of 400% APR.

BBC | The Truth about Payday Loans :Young, British and Broke (older) [57:17]
GMO Foods | Monsanto | Agent Orange, etc.
*Jeffrey M. Smith: The GMO Threat (2011) [59:48]
*Genetically Modified Organism (GMO) - Myths and Truths (09/20/12) [6:38]
The World According to Monsanto (full) () [1:49:02]
There's nothing they are leaving untouched: the mustard, the okra, the bringe oil, the rice, the cauliflower. Once they have established the norm: that seed can be owned as their property, royalties can be collected. We will depend on them for every seed we grow of every crop we grow. If they control seed, they control food, they know it -- it's strategic. It's more powerful than bombs. It's more powerful than guns. This is the best way to control the populations of the world. The story starts in the White House, where Monsanto often got its way by exerting disproportionate influence over policymakers via the "revolving door". One example is Michael Taylor, who worked for Monsanto as an attorney before being appointed as deputy commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 1991. While at the FDA, the authority that deals with all US food approvals, Taylor made crucial decisions that led to the approval of GE foods and crops. Then he returned to Monsanto, becoming the company's vice president for public policy.

Thanks to these intimate links between Monsanto and government agencies, the US adopted GE foods and crops without proper testing, without consumer labeling and in spite of serious questions hanging over their safety. Not coincidentally, Monsanto supplies 90 percent of the GE seeds used by the US market. Monsanto's long arm stretched so far that, in the early nineties, the US Food and Drugs Agency even ignored warnings of their own scientists, who were cautioning that GE crops could cause negative health effects. Other tactics the company uses to stifle concerns about their products include misleading advertising, bribery and concealing scientific evidence.
DemocracyNow Daily News
Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Wednesday, August 20 [9:09]
Bill Moyers
Bill Moyers | Joseph E. Stiglitz: Let's Stop Subsidizing Tax Dodgers (preview) (08/19/14) [0:29]
*Wealth Inequality in America [6:25]
Ring of Fire
*Ring of Fire 08/17/2014 (Full Episode) [57:00]
Published on Aug 18, 2014

  1. 00:44 - "The Tea Party's Charity Swindle." David TeSelle explains how pro-troop charities are being used to fund Tea Party candidates. #TeaPartyCheats
  2. 10:10 - "Scalia's Son Sabotaging Wall Street Reform." Howard Nations tells us how Antonin Scalia's son is working to undermine meaningful finance reform. #FinanceReform
  3. 19:44 - "BP Still Won't Pay Up." Newspaper publisher Rick Outzen talks about BP's ongoing fight to avoid their full liability for the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil rig disaster. #PayUpBP
  4. 29:23 - "McDonnell Trial Highlights GOP's Corrupt Nature." David Haynes explains why the Bob McDonnell trial is a prime example of the GOP culture of corruption. #McDonnellTrial
  5. 38:11 - "V.A. Horror Stories Mounting." Christopher Lavorato gives us the latest developments in the VA care scandal that is leaving our troops with subpar care. #VADisaster
  6. 47:13 - "The Backstory." Progressive host David Pakman joins us for a discussion of the news that the corporate media refused to talk about.
Ring of Fire | Hillary Clinton - The Perfect Republican Candidate (08/14/14) [1:51]
TYT News
TYT | Is Monsanto Evil? (older, but good) [9:38]
TYT | Bill Banning Nukes To Police, Fails For Sickening Reason (08/19/14) [7:16]
TYT | Ferguson Police Inflame Tensions While GOP 'Disgusted' By Democracy (08/19/14) [14:09]
TYT | Obama Fulfills Demand For Weakness In A Time Of Crisis (08/19/14) [11:15]
More Interesting News
2014 August Breaking News New World Order ALERT RIMPAC2014 international Military exercise (06/25/14) [34:06]

08.20.2014. 10:12

Tuesday August 19, 2014
News Articles

Two California youths accused of plotting high school shooting spree
Reuters | Steve Gorman | 08/18/14

Police in the Los Angeles suburb of South Pasadena said on Monday they had thwarted a mass shooting plot with the arrest of two teenagers who were conspiring to kill several staffers and as many fellow students as possible at their high school.

"Enough evidence was discovered, and based on that evidence the two students were arrested," the statement said, though it did not identify the pair or make clear when they were taken into custody. ... Read more

Iraq Vet: Small-Town Cops Have Better Armor and Weaponry Than We Carried in a Combat
Bill Moyers | Rafael Noboa y Rivera | 08/15/14

In my year in Iraq, I lost track of how many times my guys asked me why so many Iraqis viewed us with distrust when we were trying to help them. The question would arise while we were walking the beat with Iraqi police officers, manning checkpoints, or in our forward operating base after we went off-duty.

Invariably, my response went something like this: “Imagine that you’re back home, OK? Suddenly, you got a whole mess of Iraqi soldiers in your town. They’re all over the place, doing the same things we’re doing right now. How do you think you’d react? You’d probably get pretty hot, right?” ... Read more
“Civil Disturbances (ATP 3-39.33)”, the Army’s crowd control manual (PDF)

How America’s Largest Worker Owned Co-Op Lifts People Out of Poverty
Bill Moyers | Laura Flanders | 08/15/14

Before Zaida Ramos joined Cooperative Home Care Associates, she was raising her daughter on public assistance, shuttling between dead-end office jobs, and not making ends meet. “I earned in a week what my family spent in a day,” she recalled.

After 17 years as a home health aide at Cooperative Home Care Associates (CHCA), the largest worker-owned co-op in the United States, Ramos recently celebrated her daughter’s college graduation. She’s paying half of her son’s tuition at a Catholic school, and she’s a worker-owner in a business where she enjoys flexible hours, steady earnings, health and dental insurance, plus an annual share in the profits. She’s not rich, she says, “but I’m financially independent. I belong to a union, and I have a chance to make a difference.” ... Read more
A Co-op Story: Green Worker Co-op Academy (08/08/14) [8:02]

Liberia fights Ebola in capital, West Africa toll tops 1,200
Reuters | Stephanie Nebehay | 08/19/14

Liberia battled on Tuesday to halt the spread of the Ebola disease in its crowded, run-down oceanside capital Monrovia, recording the most new deaths as fatalities from the world's worst outbreak of the deadly virus rose above 1,200.

The epidemic of the hemorrhagic disease, which can kill up to 90 percent of those it infects, is ravaging the three small West African states of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, and also has a toehold in Nigeria, Africa's biggest economy.

As the Geneva-based World Health Organization rushed to ramp up the global response to the outbreak first detected in March, including emergency food deliveries to quarantined zones, it announced that deaths from it had risen to 1,299 as of Aug. 16, out of 2,240 cases. ... Read more

DemocracyNow Daily News
Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Tuesday, August 19 [9:46]
DN | Pastor: In Ferguson Police Crackdown, I Need a Gas Mask More Than My Clerical Collar (08/19/14) [13:56]
DN | Activist: For a New Generation, Ferguson Marks Historic Nonviolent Resistance to Police Repression (08/19/14) [5:40], Part 2 [9:41]
*DN | "Overpoliced & Underprotected": In Michael Brown Killing, Neglect of Black Communities Laid Bare (08/19/14) [12:39]
TRNN News
TRNN | Activist Kevin Alexander Gray talks about the need for radical structural change to address the demands of the Ferguson uprising and the killing of unarmed African Americans across the United States (08/18/14) [12:48]
John Oliver
*John Oliver: Ferguson, MO and Police Militarization (08/17/14) [15:09]
TYT News
TYT | Fox Guest’s Ignorant 'Explanation' Of Michael Brown’s Head Wounds (08/18/14) [4:04]
TYT | Are White People Thug Gangsters, Just Look At Their Hands! (08/18/14) [4:37]

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*TYT | 'Raid & Detain' Is Now The Standard Procedure For Internet Trash-Talk? (08/18/14) [7:58]
*TYT | President Obama (R) Destroys Lobbyist Regulations (08/18/14) [3:48]
TYT | Congress Gets A Raise, But No Raise For You. (08/18/14) [3:12]
Thom Hartmann
Thom Hartmann: Why Fox News has the Right to Lie to Us (older) [6:55]
Fox News Caught Lying/Knowing Nothing on Solar Power (older) [5:15]
What is going on with these people?
ANOTHER Republican Says Disabled Children God's Punishment for Abortion (04/14/14) [2:17]
Some Other Infamous Quotes

  1. “When I see a 9/11 victim family on television, or whatever, I’m just like, ‘Oh shut up’ I’m so sick of them because they’re always complaining.” – Glenn Beck
  2. “Facts are stupid things.” – Ronald Reagan
  3. “Trees cause more pollution than automobiles.” – Ronald Reagan
  4. “If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.” — Todd Akin
  5. “I think it would be a good idea if perhaps we had the kids work for their lunches: trash to be taken out, hallways to be swept, lawns to be mowed, make them earn it, If they miss a lunch or they miss a meal they might not, in that class that afternoon, learn to add, they may not learn to diagram a sentence, but they’ll learn a more important lesson.”- Del. Ray Canterbury (R-Greenbrier)
  6. “Feminism was established so as to allow unattractive women access to the mainstream of society.”- Rush Limbaugh
  7. “What a terrible thing to have lost one’s mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.” – Vice President Dan Quayle, on “A Mind is a Terrible Thing To Waste”
  8. And I couldn’t get over the fact that there was no difference between Sylvia’s restaurant and any other restaurant in New York City. I mean, it was exactly the same, even though it’s run by blacks, primarily black patronship… There wasn’t one person in Sylvia’s who was screaming, “M-Fer, I want more iced tea.”– Bill O’Reilly on going to a restaurant in Harlem
  9. “But we also know that the very founders that wrote those documents worked tirelessly until slavery was no more in the United States. … I think it is high time that we recognize the contribution of our forbearers who worked tirelessly — men like John Quincy Adams, who would not rest until slavery was extinguished in the country.” -Rep. Michele Bachmann
  10. “I think [women] should be armed but should not vote…women have no capacity to understand how money is earned. They have a lot of ideas on how to spend it…it’s always more money on education, more money on child care, more money on day care.”– Ann Coulter

08.19.2014. 10:46

Monday August 18, 2014
News Articles

Federal Authorities Wade Deeper Into Teen's Death
WSJ | Devlin Barrett | 08/17/14

The announcement Sunday came after dozens of Federal Bureau of Investigation agents descended on the St. Louis suburb over the weekend to gather evidence as violent protests resumed following two days of relative peace.

Earlier, more than 3,000 people, including prominent civil rights leaders, gathered at a "unity rally" to call for greater protection for young black men who encounter police and greater federal intervention in the case of Michael Brown, the African-American teen killed Aug. 9 by a white police officer. ... Read more

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Lawmaker To Introduce Bill To Curb Increasing Militarization Of Police Agencies
http://washington.cbslocal.com/ | author | 08/15/14

A police officer keeps watch over demonstrators protesting the shooting death of teenager Michael Brown on Aug. 13, 2014 in Ferguson, Mo (north St. Louis)

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A giant column of Russian aid trucks is headed for Ukraine — flanked by attack helicopters
vox.com | Max Fisher | 08/15/14

Russia is sending 280 trucks barreling toward eastern Ukraine as part of what it says is an aid convoy to help Ukrainian civilians effected by the worsening fighting there. But Ukrainian officials say they will not allow the trucks to cross into Ukraine because they believe they are a clandestine invasion force. It's not hard to see why: a few months earlier, Russia sent undercover special forces into the Ukrainian region of Crimea as the vanguard of a hostile invasion, which quickly annexed the territory.

Russia, never great at public relations abroad, is giving Ukraine reasons to worry, and not just because it is actively arming and supplying the eastern Ukrainian separatists who are causing the violence there. On Wednesday, for example, the aid convoy made a mysterious and unannounced stop at a Russian military base -- no one is sure why. Russia will not reveal the contents of the trucks. ... Read more

NAFTA Is 20 Years Old – Here Are 20 Facts That Show How It Is Destroying The Economy
ZeroHedge | author | 08/15/14

Back in the early 1990s, the North American Free Trade Agreement was one of the hottest political issues in the country. When he was running for president in 1992, Bill Clinton promised that NAFTA would result in an increase in the number of high quality jobs for Americans that it would reduce illegal immigration. Ross Perot warned that just the opposite would happen. He warned that if NAFTA was implemented there would be a "giant sucking sound" as thousands of businesses and millions of jobs left this country. Most Americans chose to believe Bill Clinton. Well, it is 20 years later and it turns out that Perot was right and Clinton was dead wrong.

  1. More than 845,000 American workers have been officially certified for Trade Adjustment Assistance because they lost their jobs due to imports from Mexico or Canada or because their factories were relocated to those nations.
  2. Overall, it is estimated that NAFTA has cost us well over a million jobs.
  3. U.S. manufacturers pay Mexican workers just a little over a dollar an hour to do jobs that American workers used to do.
  4. The number of illegal immigrants living in the United States has more than doubled since the implementation of NAFTA.
  5. In the year before NAFTA, the U.S. had a trade surplus with Mexico and the trade deficit with Canada was only 29.6 billion dollars. Last year, the U.S. had a combined trade deficit with Mexico and Canada of 177 billion dollars.
  6. It has been estimated that the U.S. economy loses approximately 9,000 jobs for every 1 billion dollars of goods that are imported from overseas.
  7. One professor has estimated that cutting the total U.S. trade deficit in half would create 5 million more jobs in the United States.
  8. Since the auto industry bailout, approximately 70 percent of all GM vehicles have been built outside the United States. In fact, many of them are now being built in Mexico.
  9. NAFTA hasn't worked out very well for Mexico either. Since 1994, the average yearly rate of economic growth in Mexico has been less than one percent.
  10. The exporting of massive amounts of government-subsidized U.S. corn down into Mexico has destroyed more than a million Mexican jobs and has helped fuel the continual rise in the number of illegal immigrants coming north.
  11. Someone making minimum wage in Mexico today can buy 38 percent fewer consumer goods than the day before NAFTA went into effect.
  12. Overall, the United States has lost a total of more than 56,000 manufacturing facilities since 2001.
  13. Back in the 1980s, more than 20 percent of the jobs in the United States were manufacturing jobs. Today, only about 9 percent of the jobs in the United States are manufacturing jobs.
  14. We have fewer Americans working in manufacturing today than we did in 1950 even though our population has more than doubled since then.
  15. Back in 1950, more than 80 percent of all men in the United States had jobs. Today, only 65 percent of all men in the United States have jobs.
  16. As I wrote about recently, one out of every six men in their prime working years (25 to 54) do not have a job at this point.
  17. Because we have shipped millions of jobs overseas, the competition for the jobs that remain has become extremely intense and this has put downward pressure on wages. Right now, half the country makes $27,520 a year or less from their jobs.
  18. When adults cannot get decent jobs, it is often children that suffer the most. It is hard to believe, but more than one out of every five children in the United States is living in poverty in 2014.
  19. In 1994, only 27 million Americans were on food stamps. Today, more than 46 million Americans are on food stamps.
  20. According to Professor Alan Blinder of Princeton University, 40 million more U.S. jobs could be sent offshore over the next two decades if current trends continue.
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So if NAFTA is so bad for American workers, then why don't our politicians just repeal it? [6:44]
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Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Monday, August 18 [13:13]
DN | Missouri Deploys National Guard to Ferguson; Autopsy Shows Police Shot Michael Brown 6 Times (08/18/14) [6:56], Part 2 [12:19], Part 3 [12:11], Part 4 [3:01], Part 5 [7:34]
TRNN News
*TRNN | Nafeez Ahmed and Antonia Juhasz say that the U.S. is using the possibility of Kurdish independence as a threat against the central government in Baghdad (08/18/14) [15:49]
TRNN | IPS's Phyllis Bennis discusses: Will Iraq's New PM Differ from al-Maliki? (08/18/14) [9:33]
TRNN | Richard Falk says: "A Tragic Mistake" To Not Explore Diplomacy With Hamas (08/18/14) [16:12]
*TRNN | Aleksandr Buzgalin says that Western sanctions are fueling a new sense of nationalism and pride, but it serves the oligarchs who want a more powerful state and armed forces to pursue their "Jurassic Capitalism" economic agenda (08/18/14) [10:23]
Stephen Colbert to Replace Letterman, Conservatives Flip Out (04/14/14) [7:18]
TYT News
*TYT | Getting A Military Vehicle Is Shockingly Simple (08/15/14) [10:56] (see left column)
TYT | Russia Sends Hundreds Of Trucks To Ukrainian Border (08/15/14) [2:04]
"Russia is sending 280 trucks barreling toward eastern Ukraine as part of what it says is an aid convoy to help Ukrainian civilians effected by the worsening fighting there. But Ukrainian officials say they will not allow the trucks to cross into Ukraine because they believe they are a clandestine invasion force. It's not hard to see why: a few months earlier, Russia sent undercover special forces into the Ukrainian region of Crimea as the vanguard of a hostile invasion, which quickly annexed the territory.

Russia, never great at public relations abroad, is giving Ukraine reasons to worry, and not just because it is actively arming and supplying the eastern Ukrainian separatists who are causing the violence there. On Wednesday, for example, the aid convoy made a mysterious and unannounced stop at a Russian military base — no one is sure why. Russia will not reveal the contents of the trucks.
TYT | Ukraine Destroys Russian Military Convoy, Open Warfare Looms (08/15/14) [7:03]
"Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said Friday that Ukrainian forces had attacked and destroyed part of a column of Russian military vehicles on Ukrainian territory, a step that, if confirmed, would represent a significant escalation of hostilities between Ukraine and Russia.

Poroshenko told British Prime Minister David Cameron that “the majority” of a column of Russian military vehicles “had been destroyed by the Ukrainian artillery at night,” his office said in a statement. The announcement came as NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Friday that the defense alliance had seen an “incursion” into Ukraine the previous night.

The Kremlin denied Friday that there had been a border incursion, and a Russian military spokesman said that no Russian vehicles had been destroyed.“
NYTimes | For days after the death of Michael Brown, protesters faced off with the police as racially charged demonstrations gripped the streets of Ferguson, Mo. (08/15/14) [3:09]
Ring of Fire
Ring of Fire | Papantonio: Ferguson Displays New Militarized Police Culture (08/15/14) [7:22]
Shadow Government | COG
TheLipTV | Sean Stone: CIA Secret Terror & the Shadow Government with Juval Aviv (04/11/14) [44:27]
What do the CIA, Hamas, the Mossad and Iran have in common? More than you may believe. CIA secrets of drugs, terror and the Lockerbie bombing, and the web of influence that has made political enemies into brothers in business through the shadow government is shared by retired Mossad agent, Juval Aviv. We also look at what the Russian government are really doing in Ukraine, US and Chinese government interest in Malaysia Flight 370, and more on this Buzzsaw interview hosted by Sean Stone.

Guest Bio:
Juval Aviv is an Israeli-American security consultant and writer. He may be best known for his work with the Mossad, the Israeli intelligence service, and for having conducted the counter-terrorist operation as detailed by George Jonas in his novel, Vengeance: The True Story of an Israeli Counter-Terrorist Team. Since 2003, Aviv has published four books related to security, two of which address notable mysteries. He writes under the nom-de-plume of Sam Green.
Shadow Government - Alex Jones DVDs
I don't normally post Alex Jones Show or his Videos, because he has gotten to extreme in his opinions. I can see how that can happen through frustration. But, since he is on the Right and I'm on the Left I rather stick with DemocracyNow, TRNN, Ring-of-Fire, Thom Hartmann, TYT, etc. However, I do like his videos for the historical information on the NWO and also exposing Secret Societies, i.e. Freemason, Illuminati, CFR, Trilateral Commission, Bilderberg, Bohemian Grove, Skull & Bones, etc.
Invisible Empire: A New World Order Defined () [2:14:00]
Fall of the Republic () [2:24:19]
Police State 4: The Rise of FEMA () [2:20:38]
EndGame () [2:19:30]
The Obama Deception () [1:53:40]
Shadow Government - History
I found this 2hr video one of the best Histories on Secret Societies. If you are short on time, you can skip over the intro to 4:35, and if you are not particularly religious you can probably skip the ending, 2:17:00 to 2:26:14. Otherwise, the history is very well layed out.
*The New World Order- Secret Societies and Biblical Prophecy () [2:26:13]
The following video is part of the Zeitgeist Movement... this is Part 3. I particularly like the whole set of videos and will try to post them later this week. This video again reinforces the Histories on Secret Societies.
The Men Who Own and Run the U S Government (2013) [48:55]
Aaron Russo Told About 9/11 in Advance (2009) [5:12]
Reflections And Warnings - An Interview With Aaron Russo (2009) [1:35:45]




More Less Stressful Articles
Click to zoom - iPad
Jason Hall Organized a Movement.
I started Slow Roll to show Detroit in a positive light.
It takes heart to live in Detroit. Locals are quick to acknowledge their city’s challenges, and Jason Hall was no different. “I was feeling a bit beaten down by this city,” he says. But everything changed when a friend suggested he do the simplest thing: Take a bike ride to clear his head. “I got out and started to see Detroit in a different way,” he says. “On the ground level, you see the potential that exists. The city’s wide open for new ideas.”
Click to zoom - Vegetarian Mushroom Spinach Lasagna
Robin Williams
Koko's Tribute to Robin Williams (08/13/14) [4:36]
A Robin Williams tribute video from USO (08/13/14) [6:50]

08.18.2014. 11:16

Friday August 15, 2014
News Articles

One Nation Under SWAT: The Militarization of America's Police
AlterNet | TomDispatch | 08/14/14

Amidst the outrageous police presence in Ferguson, a look at how local law enforcement is turning communities into war zones.

Think of it as a different kind of blowback. Even when you fight wars in countries thousands of miles distant, they still have an eerie way of making the long trip home. Take the latest news from Bergen County, New Jersey, one of the richest counties in the country. Its sheriff's department is getting two mine-resistant ambush-protected vehicles, or MRAPs -- 15 tons of protective equipment -- for a song from the Pentagon. And there's nothing special in that. The Pentagon has handed out 600 of them for nothing since 2013, with plenty more to come. They're surplus equipment, mostly from our recent wars, and perhaps they will indeed prove handy for a sheriff fretting about insurgent IEDs (roadside bombs) in New Jersey or elsewhere in the country. When it comes to the up-armoring and militarization of America's police forces, this is completely run-of-the-mill stuff. ... Read more

Ferguson Is 60 Percent Black. Virtually All Its Cops Are White.
MotherJones | Hannah Levintova | 08/14/14

Black residents of Ferguson, Missouri, the working-class city in northern St. Louis county where an unarmed black teenager was shot dead by police officers on Saturday, say the town has been a "powder keg" of racial imbalance for decades. "They treat us like second class all the way down the line," one black resident told the LA Times. A black city alderman said the ensuing protests are "a boiling over of tensions that had been going on for a long while." Read more

Click to zoom - Ferguson, IL
War Cry of the Conservatives - Lets Cut the Budget
I love this video
Donald Rumsfeld Admits Day before 911 "2.3 TRillion Dollars Missing from DOD" () [3:57]

96 Bodies You Won't See On Billboards -- But Should
HP | Nina Bahadur | 08/13/14

Only 5 percent of women have the type of body we see on billboards and in TV commercials. The "Expose" project wants you to see the remaining 95 percent.

Blogger and activist Jes Baker teamed up with photographer Liora K to showcase women's bodies just as they are -- unfiltered, un-Photoshopped, and totally amazing. ... Read more

I think they have missed another section of the population!


DemocracyNow Daily News
Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Friday, August 15 [8:06]
DN | Facing National Outcry, Ferguson Police Drop Military-Grade Gear as Protests Continue Over Shooting (08/15/14) [10:45]
*DN | Cops or Soldiers? Pentagon, DHS Helped Arm Police in Ferguson with Equipment Used in War (08/15/14) [7:16]
*DN | As WHO Warns Ebola Death Toll Is Underestimated, How Should Global Community Handle Dire Crisis? (08/15/14) [15:58]
TRNN News
*TRNN | Mr. Williams says the global elites plan to protect themselves by adapting to the threat of continuing fossil fuel use, while everyone else will suffer the consequences of climate change disasters (08/15/14) [15:19]
TRNN | Freedom of the Press in Jeopardy as Obama Goes After Times Reporter Risen (08/15/14) [7:01]
TRNN | Award winning journalists James Risen and Phil Donahue discuss the importance of grassroots movements in preserving the basic tenants of democracy at a time of unprecedented attacks on whistle-blowers and journalists. (08/15/14) [7:02]
TYT News
TYT | Over A Billion Raised By Clintons & Guess 'Who' Gave Most (08/14/14) [5:18]
Diane Rehms Show
Diane Rehm Domestic News - Friday (08/15/14) [1hr]
International News - Friday (08/15/14) [1hr]
Continuity of Government (COG) | Shadow Government
HC | Day After Disaster: Washington, D.C. gets NUKED! () [1:30:46]
The Day After (1983) American Nuclear Holocaust (1983) [2:01:47]
Peter Dale Scott 2010 "Continuity of Government" (05/09/13) [58:24]
Day Before 911
Donald Rumsfeld on 9/10/11, 2.3 Trillion Dollars Just Gone Missing from the DOD [1:48]
911
9/11 - Uncovering Ten Years Of Deception, Part 5 (2011) [57:56]
corbettreport | Who Was Really Behind the 9/11 Attacks? (2013) [1:00:41]
Pentagon
CNN | Jamie Mcintyre, CNN's senior Pentagon correspondent at the time, was at the Pentagon shortly after it was hit. Here's what he reported. () [0:58]
USAF Witness: There was "a strange lack of visible debris…moments after impact" () [4:33]
Karen Kwiatkowski, PhD, U.S. Air Force (retired) wrote that there was a lack of debris moments after impact. Kwiatkowski, who was an Air Force Lieutenant Colonel employed at the Pentagon on 9/11, was a contributor to a book titled 9/11 and American Empire Intellectuals Speak Out, in which she wrote that there was "a strange lack of visible debris on the Pentagon lawn, where I stood only moments after the impact. . . . I saw . . . no airplane metal or cargo debris."
Where was Cheney on 9/11? () [6:49]
Video contains a review of some of the reasons for questioning the official story of Flight 77, Part 1 () [10:13]
WTO Building 7
WTC 7 - BBC The Third Tower () [58:56]
The Men In Building 7 (WTC Documentary 2012) [42:09]
The most taboo subject in corporate media history, 9/11. In the Salomon Brothers Building, also known as WTC Building 7, there was an emergency bunker for the mayor and a bomb proof command center on the 23rd floor. A Case of AWOL or honesty mistakes?
Even More Stuff
9/11 Truth: Hollywood Speaks Out () [2:30:59]

08.15.2014. 19:59

Thursday August 14, 2014
News Articles

There's Another Mammoth Global Trade Agreement You've Never Heard Of
BillMoyers | Cole Stangler | 08/12/14

Most progressives are, by now, familiar with the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the proposed trade deal that would link the United States with Pacific Rim powerhouses like Australia and Japan. Wonkier corners of the left are equally conversant in the intrigue of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), a pact that would couple the United States and the European Union. Like-minded critics would do well by memorizing yet another trade acronym: TISA, or the Trade in Services Agreement. Judging by the stakes and the ultra-secrecy of the negotiations, it could easily be the worst of the bunch.

Here's what we know: Fifty countries, including the United States, the EU nations, Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Japan, Switzerland, Taiwan and Turkey, have been in TISA talks since 2012. The resulting agreement will set the terms for almost 70 percent of global trade in "services": everything from banking and construction to telecom and tourism.>/p>

The public got its first glimpse of the treaty on June 19, when WikiLeaks published a draft of the agreement's chapter on financial services. It wasn't pretty. The text included proposals to extend new "market access" guarantees to all participating states and fresh limits on the ability of nations to "discriminate" against foreign financial firms. The section hasn't been finalized, but the leak confirmed what TISA skeptics feared: The United States and EU are leading the charge to block countries from imposing domestic regulations on the multi-trillion-dollar services industries.

"It is astounding that at a time when we are still reeling from the devastating consequences of reckless financial deregulation, our governments are negotiating further deregulation of the financial sector, solely in the interests of large financial corporations," says Daniel Bertossa, senior policy and advocacy officer at Public Services International (PSI), a global public-sector union federation based in France. .... Read more

TPP Trade Agreement
Click to zoom - Global Trade Deals
The TPP, short for Trans Pacific Partnership, is a Free Trade Agreement that is currently being pushed by the US to 10 nations of the Pacific Rim: New Zealand, Australia, Brunei, Chile, Malaysia, Peru, Singapore, Vietnam, Mexico and Canada. Japan has shown interest. The TPP just held it's 13th Round of Negotiations in the US, and will be holding Round 14th on September. The Trans-Pacific Partnership would create a super-treaty which would jeopardize the sovereignty of the nations involved by giving that power to large corporations like Wal-Mart, Monsanto, Goldman Sachs, Pfizer, Halliburton, Philip Morris, GE, GM, Apple.

  1. The economic power of this group is more than 40% larger than the 27- nation European Union.
  2. TPP will offshore millions of good-paying jobs to low-wage nations, undercutting working conditions globally and increasing unemployment.
  3. TPP will expand pharmaceutical monopoly protections and institute longer patents that will decrease access to affordable medications
  4. TPP will limit food GMO labeling and allow the import of goods that do not meet US safe standards.
  5. TPP will institute SOPA, PIPA, and CISPA-like regulations and Internet measures which restrict our right to free speech.
  6. TPP will roll back Wall Street regulations, and prohibit bans on risky financial services.
  7. TPP will give multinational corporations and private investors the right to sue nations in private tribunals. These tribunals have the power to overturn environmental, labor, or any other laws that limit profit, awarding taxpayer funded damages.
  8. TPP will encourage the privatization of lands and natural resources in areas where indigenous people live.
TTIP Trade Agreement
TISA Trade Agreement

Unholy Trinity on America
EcomonyInCrisi.org | Ruth Patterson | 06/27/14

... "Free trade" is uncontrolled, unrestricted access to our economy, tariff- and duty-free, for goods made in foreign lands for $4 per hour or less. We cannot compete with these wages, so our manufacturers are forced to close up, sell out or leave the country. It is the reason we have lost our manufacturing sector and languish in a state where nearly a quarter of the workforce is unemployed or underemployed. No wealthy nation can withstand a "free trade" relationship with a nation of low wages and few regulations. ...

... The first of three gargantuan "free trade" deals is the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Many different countries in all kinds of states of development are being bound together with the "free trade". The deal is being negotiated in secret, and get used to that because none of these trade deals has any transparency. Most of this deal isn't even about trade. In addition to forcing open relations between us and low-wage nations, it will tighten controls over the Internet and other areas, all without Congressional involvement. ...

... The second, which started negotiations about a year ago, is the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). Its trade implications are perhaps less potentially damaging than the TTP's, because it involves the U.S. and Europe, whose wages are similar to ours, but like the TPP it will principally not be about trade. Again, negotiations are secret and only Wikileaks has allowed us the little bit of knowledge that we have. ...

... Finally, there is TISA. The Trade in Services Agreement. The extent of this agreement could be the entire globe when all is said and done. This scheme is even more secret than the previous two, as it was given a top secret classification that will not expire until five years after the agreement is passed! Our leaders propose to fashion laws for us and we can't even know what they are! ... Read more



DemocracyNow Daily News
Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Thursday, August 14 [5:53]
*DN | Armed w/ Military-Grade Weapons, Ferguson, Missouri Police Crack Down on Protests Over Michael Brown Shooting (08/14/14) [7:13]
DN | Worse Than Tiananmen? 1st Anniversary of Egyptian Army Killings of 800+ Anti-Coup Protesters (08/14/14) [15:10]
DN | New Family Detention Centers Hold Immigrant Women and Children Without Bond as Asylum Claims Pend (08/14/14) [8:42]
DN | Atomic Cover-Up: The Hidden Story Behind the U.S. Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Part 1 (08/09/14) [10:18], Part 2 [seems there is a problem]
As radiation readings in Japan reach their highest levels since the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant meltdowns, we look at the beginning of the atomic age. Today is the 66th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki, which killed some 75,000 people and left another 75,000 seriously wounded. It came just three days after the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, killing around 80,000 people and injuring some 70,000. By official Japanese estimates, nearly 300,000 people died from the bombings, including those who lost their lives in the ensuing months and years from related injuries and illnesses. Other researchers estimate a much higher death toll. Democracy Now! airs an account of the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki by the pilots who flew the B-29 bomber that dropped that bomb, and feature an interview with the son of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist George Weller, who was the first reporter to enter Nagasaki. He later summarized his experience with military censors who ordered his story killed, saying, "They won." Democracy Now! interviews Greg Mitchell, co-author of "Hiroshima in America: A Half Century of Denial," with Robert Jay Lifton. His latest book is "Atomic Cover-Up: Two U.S. Soldiers, Hiroshima & Nagasaki and The Greatest Movie Never Made."
TRNN News
TRNN | PERI Co-Director Gerald Epstein discusses how FED Vice Chair Stanley Fischer's has ignored real solutions to improve the economy, like increasing wages, ... (08/14/14) [7:59]
*TRNN | Lawrence Wilkerson: Cooperation with Iran Necessary to Thwart Islamic State in Iraq (08/14/14) [9:54]
*TRNN | Burt Wides | Systemic Corruption and 40 Years Since Nixon Resigned (08/14/14) [22:11], Part 2 [21:04]
Mr. Wides tells Paul Jay the Watergate scandal exposed a pattern of a White House above the law and paved the way to exposure of CIA assassinations plots and illegal actions.
Ring of Fire
Ring of Fire | The Corporate Death Grip on America (08/13/14) [3:15]
Chris Hayes - All In
Chris Hayes | Protesters and police clash in wake of shooting death of Michael Brow. (08/12/14) [15:34]
Chris Hayes | Chris Hayes examines the racial double-standard that still dominates American society. (08/12/14) [7:48]
Chris Hayes | Chris Hayes asks "Mrs. Doubtfire" screenwriter Randi Mayem Singer about her memories from working with the actor Robin Williams (08/12/14) [4:47]
Tiny House
Tiny house in the city- Boneyard Studios tour -Jay Austin's home [10:40]
ReasonTV | Jay Austin's Beautiful, Illegal Tiny House [10:31]
Colorado portable tiny house + Airstream-ish portable office [12:47]
Other Videos and Documentaries I Ran Across
Note: I don't endorse any of the videos in this section.
As I construct My News Pages I constantly run across a lot of NEW videos, and since I find YouTube frustrating trying to re-find videos, I save the links in this section so I can find them again.

08.14.2014. 10:41

Wednesday August 13, 2014
News Articles

When She Talks, Banks Shudder
NYTimes | Binyamin Appelbaum | 08/09/14

... But after years of quixotic advocacy, Ms. Admati is reaching some very prominent ears. Last month, President Obama invited her and five other economists to a private lunch to discuss their ideas. She left him with a copy of “The Bankers’ New Clothes: What’s Wrong With Banking and What to Do About It,” a 2013 book she co-authored. A few weeks later, she testified for the first time before the Senate Banking Committee. And, in a recent speech, Stanley Fischer, vice chairman of the Federal Reserve, praised her “vigorous campaign.” ... Read more

Bill Moyers | Stanford finance professor Anat R. Admati talks to Bill Moyers about "too-big-to-fail" banks. (06/14) [24:34]

When Did Republicans Start Hating the Environment?
MotherJones | Chris Mooney | 08/13/14

Roughly 1991, according to a new study.

It's one of those facts that sweeps you back into an alien, almost unrecognizable era. On July 9, 1970, Republican President Richard Nixon announced to Congress his plans to create the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. By the end of that year, both agencies were a reality. Nowadays, among their other tasks, they either monitor or seek to mitigate the problem of global warming—actions that make today's Republicans, Nixon's heirs, completely livid.

To give one example of how anti-environment the right today is, just consider this ThinkProgress analysis, finding that "over 58 percent" of congressional Republicans refuse to accept the science of climate change. So what happened to the GOP, from the time of Nixon to the present, to turn an environmental leader into an environmental retrograde? According to a new study in the journal Social Science Research, the key change actually began around the year 1991—when the Soviet Union fell. "The conservative movement replaced the 'Red Scare' with a new 'Green Scare' and became increasingly hostile to environmental protection at that time," argues sociologist Aaron McCright of Michigan State University and two colleagues. ... Read more
Click to zoom - Geoengineering

Paul Singer Will Make Argentina Pay
Bloomberg | Max Abelson | 08/07/14

“He [Paul Singer]finds a country in distress, he buys its debt, he demands full payment, and he doesn’t care about the economics, the poverty, the circumstances of the country,” says Mark Cymrot, who represented Peru and is head of BakerHostetler’s international disputes group. “From his point of view, he would say, ‘What’s wrong with it?’ And you’d have to say he’s right. But I wouldn’t want to earn money that way myself.” ... Read more
*TYT | Real Life Super Villains Hold Entire Country Hostage (08/12/14) [14:56]

Click to Zoom - I Love Sidewalk Art
DemocracyNow Daily News
Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Wednesday, August 13 [10:19]
DN | The Rise of ISIS: US Invasion of Iraq, Foreign Backing of Syrian Rebels Helped Fuel Jihadis' Advance (08/13/14) [13:05]
*DN | Glenn Greenwald on Iraq: Is U.S. "Humanitarianism" Only Summoned to Control Oil-rich Areas? (08/13/14) [7:25], Part 2 [2:42], Part 3 [7:07]
TRNN News
*TRNN | Christopher Williams: Can Geo-Engineering Save the Planet?, Part 4 (08/13/14) [18:28]
Click to zoom - Geoengineering
TRNN | Meteorologist Jeff Masters discusses: Linking Extreme Weather Events to Climate Change, Part 1 (08/13/14) [6:24]
TRNN | Meteorologist Jeff Masters discusses: How the Jet Stream Affects Weather Patterns, Part 2 (08/13/14) [5:12]
WH | Freezing Weather : Polar Vortex Explained/with 3D Animation Video (6 months ago) [2:12]
John Pilger
John Pilger | The War You Don't See (2010) [1:23:06]
John Pilger | Breaking The Silence - The War On Terror [51:25]
Ring of Fire
Ring of Fire | The Koch Plan to Destroy the Economy (08/12/14) [2:26]
Ring of Fire | Time for Democrats to Fight Back (08/08/14) [5:04]
Ring of Fire | Big Banks Crippling America with Debt (08/08/14) [4:12]
TYT News
TYT | Robin Williams Is A Coward, According To Shep Smith (08/12/14) [8:23]
TYT | Protests in St. Louis After Teen Murdered By Police (08/12/14) [5:39]
TYT | Fox News Anchor Helps The Terrorists (08/12/14) [5:37]
*TYT | Real Life Super Villains Hold Entire Country Hostage (08/12/14) [14:56]
More Interesting Videos
Italian Design - Space Saving Furniture [6:00]
Talented Pianist Performs Beethoven's 'Für Elise' In Multiple Styles At Airport In Prague (08/11/14) [5:46]
Other Videos and Documentaries I Ran Across
Note: I don't endorse any of the videos in this section.
As I construct My News Pages I constantly run across a lot of NEW videos, and since I find YouTube frustrating trying to re-find videos, I save the links in this section so I can find them again.

08.13.2014. 13:08

Tuesday August 12, 2014
News Articles

We Say Goodbye To Robin Williams at 63
USAToday | author | 08/12/14

"Robin Williams passed away this morning," said Mara Buxbaum, president of his PR firm. "He has been battling severe depression of late. This is a tragic and sudden loss. The family respectfully asks for their privacy as they grieve during this very difficult time."

His wife, Susan Schneider, issued a brief statement: "This morning, I lost my husband and my best friend, while the world lost one of its most beloved artists and beautiful human beings. I am utterly heartbroken," she said. ... Read more

USAToday | Oscar-winning actor/comic Robin Williams was found dead in his California home Monday, a possible suicide, according to investigators. He was 63 (08/12/14) [3:45]

Undeniable Proof That The California Drought Is A Big Deal
HP | author | 08/11/14

With major wildfires burning six at a time, more than half of California now experiencing the most severe category of dryness and experts warning that even an El Niño year won’t be enough to redeem the west in 2015, residents of California and beyond must face the terrifying reality that the drought probably isn’t done breaking records -- and it’s not something just farmers and firefighters have to face.

The Huffington Post asked readers to share photos through the hashtag #OurDroughtIsReal to show how the drought is affecting them in their own backyards, literally. Here are some of the heartbreaking photos and stories you shared. ... See article for a lot more photos

The Rebirth of Stakeholder Capitalism?
BillMoyers | Robert Reich | 08/12/14

... Pantagonia, a large apparel manufacturer based in Ventura, California, has organized itself as a “B-corporation.” That’s a for-profit company whose articles of incorporation require it to take into account the interests of workers, the community and the environment, as well as shareholders. ...

... In addition, 27 states have passed laws allowing companies to incorporate as “benefit corporations.” This gives directors legal protection to consider the interests of all stakeholders rather than just the shareholders who elected them. We may be witnessing the beginning of a return to a form of capitalism that was taken for granted in America 60 years ago. ...

... What changed? In the 1980s, corporate raiders began mounting unfriendly takeovers of companies that could deliver higher returns to their shareholders – if they abandoned their other stakeholders. The raiders figured profits would be higher if the companies fought unions, cut workers’ pay or fired them, automated as many jobs as possible or moved jobs abroad, shuttered factories, abandoned their communities and squeezed their customers. ... Read more

Some pictures I ran across
Sudan is one of the world’s poorest countries. It’s a country whose poverty levels are lower than those of even a few third-world countries. To say that it’s poor isn’t even enough to fully describe the state of the country of Sudan.

The picture above shows just that. No, that’s not the hand of a dead infant or child. It’s the hand of a child, albeit, a thin and heavily malnourished one. The mere state of the child’s body and how it’s common in the country of Sudan speaks a lot about just how poor the country is.
Zoom - Sudan
Zoom - Family
DemocracyNow Daily News
Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Tuesday, August 12 [9:27]
DN | History Repeating Itself? U.S. Bombing Iraq While Jockeying to Oust Leader It Once Favored (08/12/14) [11:18]
DN | As U.S. Strikes Continue in Iraq, Yazidis Still Need Safe Passage to Flee ISIS "Cleansing" Attacks (08/12/14) [7:46]
TRNN News
TRNN | Christopher Williams: Fracking Success Shut Down US Climate Change Policy (08/12/14) [16:39]
Mr. Williams tells Paul Jay that the fabulous profits made from fracking oil and gas took climate change off Obama agenda, and while coal emissions may be down in the US, coal exports have grown exponentially.
TRNN | Vijay Prashad: Renewed US air strikes will plunge Iraq into further chaos while the US and its allies refuse to seek a regional solution to the conflic (08/12/14) [14:04]
Banksters | Crony Capitalism | GREED
*THE FLAW takes an in-depth look at how the credit bubble hastened the economic crash that afflicted the world in the first decade of the 21st century. (2011) [1:21:00]
International award winning director David Sington tells the story of the credit bubble which caused the financial crisis and brought suffering to millions. Forsaking easy explanations of greedy bankers and incompetent regulators, this film goes to the roots of the forces which caused America and the UK to be gripped by the crazy belief that everyone could be rich and property prices would rise for ever. With a cast of bankers, borrowers, brokers and some of the best economic brains in the world, the film tells a gripping story of delusion, deceit and destruction.
60 Minutes
60 Minutes archives | The Nixon years () [26:00]
AUGUST 5, 2014, 6:26 PM | This 8/11/74 broadcast featuring Mike Wallace and Morley Safer was devoted to a retrospective of Richard Nixon's political career, his presidency and the Watergate scandal that led to his resignation.
Politics
The Dark Side of Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger: Seymour Hersh Interview (1983) [58:24]
Richard Nixon's Secrets Uncovered () [44:59]
*The Fog of War - Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara (older, but good) [1:46:42]
The Trials of Henry Kissinger (old, but good) [1:19:41]
For more information on the military-industrial complex go to the following menu: "Why We Fight" by Eugene Jarecki, is a 2006 documentary film about the military-industrial complex. [1:38:41]
Thom Hartmann
Thom Hartmann | The GOP billionaire behind Argentina's crash (08/06/14) [9:22]
Thom Hartmann | The Roots of the New Cold War (08/07/14) [11:35]
*Thom Hartmann | Siberian Crater Mystery Solved. Dr. Michael Mann, Penn State University author of "The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars" (08/08/14) [12:42]
John Oliver
*HBO | Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Predatory Lending. (08/10/14) [16:32]
Payday loans put a staggering amount of Americans in debt. They prey on the elderly and military service members. They’re awful, and nearly impossible to regulate. We’ve recruited Sarah Silverman to help spread the word about how to avoid falling into their clutches.
Diane Rehms Show
Diane Rehm The Latest on U.S. Involvement in Iraq (08/12/14) [1hr]
What's At Stake In The Scottish Independence Referendum (08/12/14) [1hr]

08.12.2014. 12:18

Monday August 11, 2014
News Articles

Lindsey Graham: If Obama Doesn't Go On Offense, Terrorists Are 'Coming Here'
HP | Amanda Terkel | 08/11/14

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) doesn't think the public has been sufficiently frightened about what is going on in the Middle East. On Sunday, he urged President Barack Obama to give a speech warning Americans that the United States faces a possible terrorist attack from Iraq or Syria. ...

... On Thursday, Obama announced that he had authorized limited airstrikes in Iraq in an effort to stop the Islamic State, a militant group currently threatening the Kurdish city of Irbil, where American officials and forces are located. The group has also driven thousands of Iraqis belonging to the minority Yazidi sect onto a barren mountain and terrorized people across the country as it seeks to establish a caliphate in Iraq and Syria. ... Read more
Fox | Sen. Lindsey Graham Says Terrorist Attack From Iraq, Syria Will Set U.S. City on Fire (08/11/14) [4:14]

Trompe l'oeil Artwork
Click to zoom - 3D Murals

3D Mural Art Of Artist Eric Grohhe
arborsci.com | author | 2011

Eric Grohe Murals LLC Working in cooperation with architects, designers, art commissions and community representatives, Eric Grohe creates mural art that transforms the environment and communities as well. He believes that his art should involve, challenge and inspire the viewer; not simply adorn, but integrate with its architectural surroundings. ... Read more
Eric Grohe website

Eye Deceiving Wall Murals by John Pugh
amusingplanet.com | author | 2011

California based artist John Pugh specializes in the art of in ‘trompe l’oeil’, which means 'to deceive the eye’ in French. Pugh uses his skills to create huge 3D scenes on the side of buildings that fools the eye. Take for instance the wall mural painted on a wall in Los Gatos, California. It looks as if an earthquake had shaken away the walls of these buildings to reveal Egyptian architecture hidden inside. And that woman peering into the ruins? She is not real either. ... Read more
John Pugh website
John Pugh - Mana Nalu

Edgar Mueller website
Janet Shearer website
Zoom - Facade of the 39GeorgeV building
In 2007, the people of Paris were able to take in this view of the 39 George V building. While the structure was being renovated, artwork made entirely of photographs of the original building was manipulated, printed and hung on scaffolding to shelter the rehabilitation.
Zoom - René Magritte Building
Back in 2009, a new museum, dedicated to the Belgian surrealist painter René Magritte, opened in Brussels. The building that housed this famous painter's work had its facade recreated in trompe l'oeil, featuring two side of theatre curtains pleated open to reveal a giant reproduction of iconic work of Magritte: The Empire of Light (1954).
BuzzFeed | 33 Brain-Melting Works Of 3-D Sidewalk Chalk Art
DemocracyNow Daily News
Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Monday, August 11 [9:07]
DN | Noam Chomsky on Media’s "Shameful Moment" in Gaza & How a U.S. Shift Could End the Occupation (08/11/14) [11:54], Part 2 [15:30], Part 3 [19:22]
TRNN News
TRNN | Medical ethicist Harriet Washington explains why most pharmaceuticals companies decline to produce drugs for the developing world yet use it for clinical testing (08/11/14) [8:39], Part 2 [10:47]
Nuclear Weapons
60 Minutes | Tour a nuclear launch control center (04/27/14) [5:24]
*HBO | Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Nuclear Weapons (07/27/14) [15:21]
Inside the Making of Dr. Strangelove () [46:02]
War
The Trials of Henry Kissinger (old, but good) [1:19:41]
Cambodia
John Pilger | Year Zero - The Silent Death of Cambodia (1979) [52:13]
Laos
DN | 50 Years After U.S. Launched Secret War on Laos, Unexploded Bombs Still Killing Civilians (06/25/14) [5:56]
Watch the US Drop 2.5 Million Tons of Bombs on Laos

08.11.2014. 11:03

Friday August 08, 2014
News Articles

The "Recovery" In One Chart: When Americans Can't Even Afford To Buy McDonalds For 9 Months In A Row
magazine | author | date

It is the latter that is by far the best indicator of how the US economy is progressing when stripped of all the bullshit seasonal adjustments, rhetoric and lies from the administration which focus on what is a glowing recovery, for the 1%. ... Read more
Zoom - Americans Can't Even Afford To Buy McDonalds

Wall Street Analysts: High Inequality Makes Us Vulnerable to Crashes
Bill Moyers | Joshua Holland | 08/07/14

For many years there were some economists who argued that their discipline shouldn't worry about inequality. Economists, they said, should focus on efficiency and growth, and leave the distribution up to the political world. But a research brief released on Tuesday by the Wall Street ratings agency Standard and Poor's concludes that growth versus equality is a false choice. The authors argue that while some inequality may be desirable in a market economy -- it spurs entrepreneurship and innovation -- when those at the top take too large a share of a nation's output, they tend to bank it rather than spend it. This ultimately hurts consumer demand and slows down economic growth. They also note that "higher levels of income inequality increase political pressures, discouraging trade, investment, and hiring."

... After several decades of stagnant wages, most Americans have little or no cushion to get them through a temporary setback. According to a 2013 survey of 1,000 US households by Bankrate.com, 81 percent of American families don't have enough emergency savings to pay the bills for six months. American households compensated for flat wages first by transitioning from one-earner to two-earners -- millions of women joined the workforce. Then we started borrowing. When the recession hit, we were tapped out and deeply in debt. With no economic security -- no cushion -- we stopped spending money on anything but the essentials, and that contributed to the "output-gap" that persists to this day.. ... Read more

Wildfires Cause Nearly a Fifth of Manmade Carbon Emissions
MotherJones | Alex Park | 08/07/14

Wildfires are raging around the western United States: As of yesterday, more than 10,000 firefighters were battling 20 fires in Oregon and California. Another fire in Washington state recently grew to cover more than 8,000 acres. While the immediate consequences of the blazes are obvious -- scorched earth, destroyed homes, millions of dollars in damages -- the longer-term consequences for the climate have, until now, been poorly understood.

In a study published at the end of July in the Journal of Geophysical Research, Mark Jacobson, a Stanford University engineer, says the burning of biomass like trees, plants, and grass -- either by accident or deliberately (often to create room for agriculture) -- creates 18 percent of all human-caused carbon emissions. Worse yet, that pollution kills people: Around the world, Jacobson writes, biomass burning may account for 5-10 percent of all air pollution deaths worldwide, or about 250,000 people annually. Read more

Zoom - China's Ghost Cities
Zoom - China's Ghost Cities [2]
Zoom - China's Ghost Cities [2.5]
Zoom - China's Ghost Cities [3]
Zoom - China's Ghost Cities [4]
Zoom - China's Ghost Cities [5]
Zoom - China's Ghost Cities [6]
DemocracyNow Daily News
Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Friday, August 08 [9:03]
*DN | As U.S. Air Strikes in Iraq Begin, Will Military Intervention Escalate Growing Crisis? (08/08/14) [15:16]
DN | Uri Avnery on Gaza Crisis, His Time in a Zionist "Terrorist" Group & Becoming a Peace Activist (08/08/14) [16:01]
PBS Frontline
*PBS Frontline | Losing Iraq (07/29/14) [1:24:10]
U.S. troops withdrew from Iraq in 2011, ending America's military commitment in the country. Now, chaos is once again engulfing Iraq. The team behind "The Lost Year in Iraq," "The Torture Question" and "Bush's War" takes a look at how we got here, what went wrong, and what happens next.
*PBS Frontline | Battle Zones: Ukraine and Syria (05/26/14) [53:41]
FRONTLINE reports from inside two raging conflicts. In "The Battle for Ukraine," filmmaker James Jones is on the ground with both sides of the conflict, Ukrainian nationalists and Russian separatists. And in "Arming the Rebels," reporter Muhammed Ali uncovers how the U.S. is secretly training Syrian rebels.
60 Minutes
*60 Minutes | Who's minding the nukes? Part 1 (07/10/14) [14:24], Part 2 (07/10/14) [11:44]
John Oliver
*HBO | Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Nuclear Weapons (07/27/14) [15:21]
*60 Minutes | China's real estate bubble (08/03/14) [12:45]
*60 Minutes | The Giving Pledge: A new club for billionaires (07/20/14) [12:35]
TRNN News
TRNN | Journalist Samer Badawi: Aftermath of Assault on Gaza Worse Than Operation Cast Lead (08/08/14) [11:29]
*TRNN | Greg Palast: Argentina Sues U.S. in World Court to Stop Vulture Fund Billionaire (08/08/14) [10:44]
Greg Palast: President Obama has failed to exercise his authority to stop a New York judge from ordering Argentina to pay vulture fund billionaire Paul Singer debt worth pennies on the dollar
Ring of Fire
Ring of Fire | Papantonio: Financial Collapse Right Around The Corner? (08/06/14) [8:46]
TYT News
Diane Rehms Show
Diane Rehm Domestic News - Friday (08/08/14) [1hr]
International News - Friday (08/08/14) [1hr]
Tiny House
TinyHouseBuild.com's: Couple Builds Own Tiny House on Wheels in 4 Months for $22,744.06 (2014) [28:02]
TinyHouseBuild.com's: FREE "How To Install Siding On A Tiny House" (2014) [41:39]
TinyHouseBuild.com website & DVD Course

08.08.2014. 12:48

Thursday August 07, 2014
News Articles

West African Healthcare Systems Swamped As Ebola Death Toll Tops 900
HP & Reuters | Derick Snyder | 08/06/14

Health workers in West Africa appealed on Wednesday for urgent help in controlling the world's worst Ebola outbreak as the death toll climbed to 932 and Liberia shut a major hospital where several staff were infected, including a Spanish priest.

The World Health Organization (WHO) said it would ask medical ethics experts to explore the emergency use of experimental treatments to tackle the highly contagious disease after a trial drug was given to two U.S. charity workers infected in Liberia. With West Africa's rudimentary healthcare systems swamped, 45 new deaths from Ebola were reported in the three days to Aug. 4 ... Read more

Click to zoom - Ebola Map
Gaza
The situation in Gaza explained with a map by lemondefr
Webster Tarpley - Israel-Palestine-Hamas...

17 Things To Read If You're Trying To See All Sides Of The Israel-Gaza Conflict
HP | Nick Wing | 08/05/14
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7 Things to Consider Before Choosing Sides in the Middle East Conflict
HP | Ali A. Rizvi | 07/28/14
Read more

Never ask me about peace again
al-monitor.com | Asmaa al-Ghoul | 08/04/14
Read more

DemocracyNow Daily News
Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Thursday, August 07 [7:32]
DN | Despite Ceasefire, Humanitarian Crisis Continues in Gaza with 500,000 Displaced & 10,000 Injured (08/07/14) [4:48]
DN | "A Hideous Atrocity": Noam Chomsky on Israel's Assault on Gaza & U.S. Support for the Occupation (08/07/14) [7:44]
Environment
Arctic Emergency: Scientists Speak (08/01/14) [28:58]
TRNN News
TRNN | Christopher Williams: Wall Street to Planet Earth, We Don't Mind and You Don't Matter, Part 2 (08/07/14) [18:22]
TRNN | Max Blumenthal: Deputy Speaker of Israeli Knesset Calls for Expulsion and Jewish Reoccupation of Gaza (08/07/14) [17:04]
Bill Moyers
Bill Moyers | Gary May on The Long Assault on Our Voting Rights (07/12/14) [27:29]
Acclaimed historian Gary May puts the 2013 Supreme Court decision gutting the Voting Rights Act into historical perspective. “You know, sometimes, we see this story as one of Martin Luther King and Lyndon Johnson — they get together and we have the Voting Rights Act. But, of course, it’s a much larger story,” May tells Bill. “It’s a perfect example of the value of collective change to bring about progress in this country, people getting together and being committed and willing to risk their very lives to bring something when the country desperately needs it.”
The Hollowing-Out of Government with Robert Reich (older, but interesting) [6:11]
Bill Moyers | Robert Reich: Inequality for All (older, but good) [56:46]
*Robert Reich | Inequality For All Official (trailer) (2013) [1:48]
Robert Reich | Inequality for All (full) [1:30:11]
Jon Stewart - Daily Show
Jon Stewart on Israel, Hamas cease fire We cannot be Israel's rehab sponsor and its drug dealer (08/02/14) [1:56]

08.07.2014. 09:07

Wednesday August 06, 2014
News Articles

Sticker Shock: How Big Pharma Gouges the American Public
BillMoyers | Terry J. Allen | 08/05/14

... The adventure began with a rant: "The last time I bought an EpiPen, it cost $60, and that was too much. Now it's $380. You're a reporter. Look into this." My marching orders came from Mary, a friend whose drugs aren't covered by insurance. Allergic to bees, she could die of anaphylactic shock if stung. Millions of kids and adults are similarly vulnerable -- peanuts, stings, various meds can swell shut their airways. Their lives may depend on a pen-shaped, plastic delivery device for self-injecting a fast-acting dose of epinephrine. ...

... Every doctor already knows about EpiPens. A limited customer base? With allergies on the rise and millions of EpiPens sold globally, economy of scale is built in, and a repeat market is guaranteed by quick expiration and dire need. EpiPen earned Mylan a tidy $640 million in 2012, The New York Times reported. ... Read more

The Toxic Algae Are Not Done With Toledo. Not By a Long Stretch.
MotherJones | Tom Philpott | 08/06/14

Last weekend, Toledo's 400,000 residents were sent scrambling for bottled water because the stuff from the tap had gone toxic--so toxic that city officials warned people against bathing their children or washing their dishes in it. The likely cause: a toxic blue-green algae bloom that floated over the city's municipal water intake in Lake Erie. On Monday morning, the city called off the don't-drink-the-water warning, claiming that levels of the contaminant in the water had fallen back to safe levels. Is their nightmare over?

I put the question to Jeffrey Reutter, director of the Stone Laboratory at Ohio State University and a researcher who monitors Lake Erie's annual algae blooms. He said he could "almost guarantee" that the conditions that caused the crisis, i.e., a toxic bloom floating over the intake, would recur this summer. But it's "pretty unlikely" that toxins will make it into the city's drinking water. ... Read more

Giant Holes in Siberia Are Evidence of Runaway Climate Change, Scientists Say
AlterNet & ecowatch.com/ | EcoWatch | 08/04/14

Scientists think this mysterious crater may be a giant methane blow-hole that signals the beginning of runaway climate change.

They are calling the point when frozen arctic methane in Canada, Alaska and Russia starts erupting into the atmosphere dragon burps.

I think Dr. Jason Box, who has highlighted the appearance of dangerous spikes in methane above Siberia, sums it up best, "If we don't get atmospheric carbon down and cool the Arctic, the climate physics and recent observations tell me we will probably trigger the release of these vast carbon stores, dooming our kids' to a hothouse Earth." ... Read more
Zoom - Dragon Burp?

WH | Climate Change & Wildfires Explained in Less Than Three Minutes (08/05/14) [2:38]

6 More Nails In Democracy's Coffin: Depressing Trends in Political Spending
AlterNet | Steven Rosenfeld | 07/29/14

American democracy--meaning our system of campaigns, lobbying and governing--has been drowning in dollars for decades. But a half-dozen recent trends suggest that 2014 is not just on the way to becoming another record-breaking election, where ever-greater sums are spent by elites to sway voters.

What sets 2014 apart is the staggering amount of outside money that is being spent for efforts that eclipse traditional candidate-run campaigns. This is a direct consequence of U.S. Supreme Court rulings that view all political messaging as free speech, and do not see how the wealthy monopolize the microphone, drown out debate and suppress dissent. ... Read more



DemocracyNow Daily News
Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Wednesday, August 06 [9:08]
DN | As Palestinians Go To ICC, Human Rights Watch Alleges Israeli War Crimes for Shooting Fleeing Gazans (08/06/14) [7:33]
DN | Can Israel Claim Self-Defense Against the Territory It Occupies? Int'l Jurist John Dugard Says No (08/06/14) [9:00]
DN | Killing of U.S. General by Afghan Soldier Underscores Obama's "Deep Problems" in Winding Down War (08/06/14) [3:57]
*DN | "War Makes Everyone Crazy": Hiroshima Survivor Reflects on 69th Anniversary of U.S. Atomic Bombing (08/06/14) [11:33]
TRNN News
*TRNN | Greenwald: US Intelligence Enables Israeli Attacks (08/06/14) [18:37]
*TRNN | Gar Alperovitz: Nuclear Attack on Japan Was Opposed by American Military Leadership (08/06/14) [14:27]
TRNN | Christopher Williams: Climate Change and Waiting for Bruce Willis (08/06/14) [17:56]
TRNN | The Consequences of Reagan Breaking the '81 Air Traffic Controllers Strike, Part 2 (08/06/14) [10:03]
Bill Moyers
*Bill Moyers | John Lithgow, 'King Lear' and Our Uncertain World (08/01/14) [24:23]
Free Shakespeare in the Park
John Lithgow joins Bill to talk about the challenges and triumphs of playing Shakespeare's greatest role, and why we are so drawn to the tale of this flawed, contradictory leader at this moment.

"When we talk about King Lear, where he fits in our time, we are in a very strange moment. I look around and 50 percent of the big-budget entertainment you are seeing these days is dystopian," Lithgow tells Moyers. "This is the era of Hunger Games and blasted landscapes and The Walking Dead. The zombie is the new, sort of, archetype of our times."
King Lear Movie 2008 [2:32:25]
Stephen Colbert
Stephen Cobert | Among the more absurd developments this week was the news of a new children's book, "My Parents Open Carry," produced and bought to you by the lunatics who think guns belong everywhere, including in children's bedtime stories. (08/07/14) [3:53]
Tiny House
Other Videos and Documentaries I Ran Across
Note: I don't endorse any of the videos in this section.
As I construct My News Pages I constantly run across a lot of NEW videos, and since I find YouTube frustrating trying to re-find videos, I save the links in this section so I can find them again.

08.06.2014. 13:50

Tuesday August 05, 2014
News Articles

Amid Protests, ALEC Launches New Spinoff to Influence Local Governments
Bill Moyers | Candice Bernd | 08/04/14

ALEC has generated legislation that advances the interests of its corporate members throughout state legislatures in the United States, as has been well documented by organizations such as the Center for Media and Democracy. More than 98 percent of the organization’s funding comes from corporations and corporate foundations, with the infamous petrochemical billionaire brothers, Charles and David Koch of Koch Industries, serving as some of the organization’s largest donors.

... “[ALEC] is going to continue to push an anti-worker narrative,” said Pamela Reséndiz, mobilization coordinator with the Dallas AFL-CIO. “Whether it’s right to work, or whether they’re trying to take away pensions from workers, or whether it is to cut out overtime pay . . . their policies affect everyone, regardless of whether you’re in a union or not.” ...

... On Wednesday, ALEC announced the launch of a new offshoot that will apply ALEC’s modus operandi of courting legislators with corporate lobbyists to draft model bills advancing corporate interests – to the local level. This new arm of ALEC, the American City County Exchange (ACCE), held its first meeting last Wednesday at the Hilton Anatole. ACCE will work in conjunction with ALEC to influence elected representatives in city and county council positions, while ALEC focuses on state legislatures. ... Read more
ALEC - The American Legislative Exchange Council - Explained in 5 Minutes [5:00]
Bill Moyers | United States of Alec [31:54]

World’s Large Cities Move Water Equivalent to Ten Colorado Rivers to Meet their Annual Water Needs
NatGeo | Sandra Postel | 06/06/14

Now, a new study has estimated that collectively the world’s large cities, defined as those with at least 750,000 people, move 504 billion liters (133 billion gallons) of water a day a cumulative distance of some 27,000 kilometers. ...

... Large cities occupy only 1% of the Earth’s land surface, but the watersheds that provide their water cover 41% of the land surface, underscoring the importance of good land use in maintaining the quality of drinking water. ...

... The top ten largest cities under water stress, according to the McDonald team, are Tokyo (Japan), Delhi (India), Mexico City (Mexico), Shanghai (China), Beijing (China) Kolkata (India), Los Angeles (United States), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Moscow (Russia), and Istanbul (Turkey). ... Read more

How the West was Lost
NatGeo | Jay Famiglietti | 06/24/14

California’s epic drought is just the latest example of what is shaping up to be the new normal out west. Last year was the driest on record. This year, river flows are so low that deliveries of surface water to the southern half of the state, through California’s complex network of aqueducts and canals, were slashed to zero. Thirsty homeowners and anxious farmers have been forced to dig more and deeper wells to tap into steadily declining groundwater reserves.

Several cities and towns in California have imposed mandatory restrictions in order to curtail water use. The State Water Resources Control Board recently authorized fines of up to $500 for wasting water on washing down sidewalks or for overwatering yards. A new study from the University of California, Davis estimates that the current drought will cost the state $2.2 billion in damages, and will result in 17,000 jobs lost. ... Read more

US is Bankrupt: $89.5 Trillion in US Liabilities vs. $82 Trillion in Household Net Worth & The Gap is Growing.
ZeroHedge | author | 08/04/14

There are many ways to look at the United States government debt, obligations, and assets. Liabilities include Treasury debt held by the public or more broadly total Treasury debt outstanding. There’s unfunded liabilities like Medicare and Social Security. And then the assets of all the real estate, all the equities, all the bonds, all the deposits…all at today’s valuations. But let’s cut straight to the bottom line and add it all up…$89.5 trillion in liabilities and $82 trillion in assets. There. It’s not a secret anymore…and although these are all government numbers, for some strange reason the government never adds them all together or explains them…but we will. ... Read more

Zoom - Who is On the Watch List


DemocracyNow Daily News
Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Tuesday, August 05 [7:16]
DN | Gaza Ceasefire: After 1800+ Dead, What Led Israel to Stop the Assault -- and What Comes Next? (08/05/14) [9:10]
DN | Iron Dome Boondoggle: Has Obama Just Signed a $225M Check for a Defective Israeli Missile Shield? (08/05/14) [16:07]
Environmental Groups "Shocked" by Reports of NSA Spying of U.N. Climate Talks (older, but interesting) [3:56]
TRNN News
TRNN | Prof. Joseph McCartin and former PATCO spokesperson Elliot Simons discuss: The Consequences of Reagan Breaking The '81 Air Traffic Controllers Strike (08/05/14) [11:18]
TRNN | CIA Admits To Spying On Senate But No Prosecutions to Follow (08/05/14) [15:40]
McClatchy senior reporter Jonathan Landay and Co-Director of the Brennan Center for Justice's Liberty and National Security Program Elizabeth Goitein discuss the criminality of the CIA's actions and the growing trend of government surveillance on public employees.
Ring of Fire
Ring of Fire 08/03/2014 (Full Episode) [57:00]
TYT News
REPLAY - Financial Industry
cnbc | In Defining Hypocrisy, Weill, Who Led Repeal Of Glass Steagall, Now Says Big Banks Should Be Broken Up (07/25/12) [15:55]
Charles Ferguson | Inside Job | "Predatory Nation"
DN | "Inside Job" Director Charles Ferguson: Wall Street Has Turned US Into a "Predatory Nation" (06/12) [21:51]
Inside Job [1:48:39]
The Biggest Bank Heist Ever! () [49:41]
Corporations | Corporatocracy | Crony Capitalism
The Corporation : The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power (full) (2003) [2:25:16]
The Corporation Nation (full) (2010) [3:13:56]
Capitalism: A Love Story by Michael Moore (2009) [2:07:19]
John Oliver - Last Week Tonight
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Native Advertising (HBO) (08/03/14) [11:22]
*Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Nuclear Weapons (HBO) (07/27/14) [15:21]
*HBO | Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Wealth Gap (07/13/14) [14:09]
Other Videos and Documentaries I Ran Across
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Ayn Rand Story [1:23:22]
Capitalism: A Love Story is a 2009 American documentary film directed, written by and starring Michael Moore. The film centers on the late-2000s financial crisis and the recovery stimulus, while putting forward an indictment of the current economic order in the United States and capitalism in general.

Topics covered include Wall Street's "casino mentality", for-profit prisons, Goldman Sachs' influence in Washington, D.C., the poverty-level wages of many workers, the large wave of home foreclosures, corporate-owned life insurance, and the consequences of "runaway greed".

The film also features a religious component where Moore examines whether or not capitalism is a sin and if Jesus would be a capitalist, in order to shine light on the ideological contradictions among evangelical conservatives who support free market ideals.
Fahrenheit 911 by Michael Moore [2:02:21]
Police State 4: The Rise of FEMA (2009) [2:20:37]
Invisible Empire: A New World Order Defined () [2:14:01]

08.05.2014. 12:15

Monday August 04, 2014
News Articles

That FL CEO Who Said He'd FIRE Everyone if Obama Elected? Guess What Happened...
DailyKos.com | author | 07/25/14

"The Queen of Versailles" was a film documentary based on the sleazy time-share mogul, David Siegel, and his wife, Jackie. David had major financial troubles following Bush's 2008 economic crises. He even had to stop work on his private home, dubbed "Versailles", which was to be the largest home in the U.S. Poor guy.

Naturally, Obama was to blame for this. As you may recall during the peak of the presidential campaign, Mr. Siegel penned a letter threatening to fire all his employees and close down his Orlando-based company, Westgate, if Obama was elected. A snippet from the full letter: ... Read more

Robert Reich: Just Imagine If People Were Paid What Their Work Is Really Worth to Society
AlterNet | Robert Reich | 08/04/14

Does anyone seriously believe hedge-fund mogul Steven A. Cohen is worth the $2.3 billion he raked in last year, despite being slapped with a $1.8 billion fine after his firm pleaded guilty to insider trading?

On the other hand, what's the worth to society of social workers who put in long and difficult hours dealing with patients suffering from mental illness or substance abuse? Probably higher than their average pay of $18.14 an hour, which translates into less than $38,000 a year.

How much does society gain from personal-care aides who assist the elderly, convalescents, and persons with disabilities? Likely more than their average pay of $9.67 an hour, or just over $20,000 a year.

What's the social worth of hospital orderlies who feed, bathe, dress, and move patients, and empty their ben pans? Surely higher than their median wage of $11.63 an hour, or $24,190 a year.

Or of child care workers, who get $10.33 an hour, $21.490 a year? And preschool teachers, who earn $13.26 an hour, $27,570 a year?

Yet what would the rest of us do without these dedicated people? ... Read more

America's Massive National Security State Is the 4th Branch of Government
AlterNet | Tom Engelhardt | 08/03/14

As every schoolchild knows, there are three check-and-balance branches of the U.S. government: the executive, Congress, and the judiciary. That's bedrock Americanism and the most basic high school civics material. Only one problem: it's just not so.

During the Cold War years and far more strikingly in the twenty-first century, the U.S. government has evolved. It sprouted a fourth branch: the national security state, whose main characteristic may be an unquenchable urge to expand its power and reach. Admittedly, it still lacks certain formal prerogatives of governmental power. Nonetheless, at a time when Congress and the presidency are in a check-and-balance ballet of inactivity that would have been unimaginable to Americans of earlier eras, the Fourth Branch is an ever more unchecked and unbalanced power center in Washington. Curtained off from accountability by a penumbra of secrecy, its leaders increasingly are making nitty-gritty policy decisions and largely doing what they want, a situation illuminated by a recent controversy over the possible release of a Senate report on CIA rendition and torture practices. ... Read more

40 Million People Depend on the Colorado River. Now It's Drying Up.
MotherJones | Tom Philpott | 08/04/14

And here's what GRACE researchers found in the Colorado River Basin region: To make up for the gap between what the Colorado River supplies and what people and agriculture demand, farmers, landowners, and municipalities are dropping wells and tapping underground aquifers at a much faster rate than had been assumed. Between December 2004 and November 2013, the Colorado Basin surrendered almost 53 million acre-feet of underground water--roughly equal to about 1.5 full Lake Meads, siphoned away in just nine years.

"Quite honestly, we are alarmed and concerned about the implications of our findings," study coauthor Jay Famiglietti, a senior water scientist at NASA and a professor of at the University of California-Irvine, wrote in a blog post. "From a group that studies groundwater depletion in the hottest of the hot spots of water stress around the world--in India, the Middle East, and in California's Central Valley--that says something." ... Read more
Running Dry (National Geographic) [1:40]

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TRNN | Lia Tarachansky: Gaza Death Toll Nears 1500 as Ceasefire Breaks Down; Dozens Trapped Near Rafah Crossing (08/02/14) [18:48]
TRNN | The Real News looks into who are the groups chanting "death to Arabs" throughout Israel and attacking anti-war demonstrators. (08/04/14) [10:31]
TRNN | Michael Hudson: How World Bank & IMF Plan to "Dismantle" Ukrainian Economy (08/04/14) [5:43]
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Ayn Rand
I don't particularly like Ayn Rand's philosophy: "Selfishness is a Virtue", but I did find Nathaniel Branden interview and Ayn Rand " In Her Own Words" (below) interesting.
My Years with Ayn Rand: Author of Atlas Shrugged and the Fountainhead (1989) [1:06:49]
Nathaniel Branden (born April 9, 1930) is an American psychotherapist and writer known for his work in the psychology of self-esteem. A former associate and romantic partner of Ayn Rand, Branden also played a prominent role in the 1960s in promoting Rand's philosophy, Objectivism. Rand and Branden split acrimoniously in 1968, after which Branden focused on developing his own psychological theory and mode of therapy.
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Fountainhead (1949) (rent) (trailer) [2:15]
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NIH to launch early Ebola vaccine trial in September
USA Today | Liz Szabo | 07/31/14

The USA will launch an early-stage trial in September of an experimental vaccine against Ebola, the deadly viral disease that has killed 729 people in the largest outbreak in history.

The National Institutes of Health has been developing an Ebola vaccine for several years that has had "encouraging results" in primates, says Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Fauci said he's working with the Food and Drug Administration to fast track the vaccine into a phase 1 clinical trial this fall. This type of trial is the earliest study in humans and aims to make sure that drugs are safe and show some efficacy. ... Read more
CBS | Ebola Spread in Western Africa (07/31/14) []

CIA Director John Brennan should resign
Politico | Burgess Everett | 07/31/14

Udall railed on Thursday against the CIA's "tremendous failure of leadership" displayed by Brennan in the aftermath of Feinstein's March accusation that the CIA accessed Senate computers. The senator said the CIA director was not forthright about the agency's interference into the torture report and said the IG report "isn't enough."

"I have no choice but to call for the resignation of CIA Director John Brennan. The CIA unconstitutionally spied on Congress by hacking into Senate Intelligence Committee computers. This grave misconduct not only is illegal, but it violates the U.S. Constitution's requirement of separation of powers," Udall said. "There must be consequences." ... Read more

After months of denials, CIA director John Brennan admitted Thursday that the agency was surveilling the computers of the Senate's intelligence committee.
CBS | CIA chief apologizes for searching Senate members' computers (08/01/14) [2:17]

America's 10 Most Hated Banks
AlterNet | Erika Eichelberger | 07/29/14

If you put out a complaint box for customers of US banks and financial firms, you will get hundreds of thousands of complaints. That's what the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau--which was set up by Elizabeth Warren before she became a US senator--has discovered. And the bank that has drawn the most complaints is Bank of America. Wells Fargo, JPMorgan Chase, and Citibank were other top targets of consumer wrath.

... The majority of complaints targeting Bank of America--over 27,500 of them--concern mortgage practices, including foreclosure processing. In 2012, Bank of America, Citi, Chase, Wells Fargo, and Ally Bank--the nation's five largest mortgage servicers--entered into a $25 billion settlement with 49 states and the federal government over the banks' use of faulty foreclosure documents. (Bank of America recently agreed to pay a fine of $16.6 million to the Treasury Department to settle allegations that it processed nearly $100,000 in transactions for drug traffickers between 2005 and 2009.) ... Read more
Zoom - Banks American's Hate Most

DemocracyNow Daily News
Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Thursday, August 01 [9:19]
*DN | As Gaza Ceasefire Collapses, Israel Kills Dozens Following Soldier's Capture in Rafah (08/01/14) [11:38], Part 2 [11:16], Part 3 [9:16]
DN | Amnesty International: U.S. Should Stop Arming Israel Amid "Growing Evidence of War Crimes in Gaza" (08/01/14) [5:24]
*DN | John Brennan Faces Calls to Resign After CIA Admits to Spying on Senate Torture Probe (08/01/14) [4:04]
*State of Thirst: CALIFORNIA drought = food decline (03/01/14) [14:57]
TRNN News
*TRNN | Whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg: Why The Gulf of Tonkin Matters 50 Years Later (07/31/14) [14:13]
Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg and historian Gareth Porter discuss how the Gulf of Tonkin incident was used to further entangle the US in Vietnam and how shoddy intelligence reports continue to lead America into war.
*TRNN | Heiner Flassbeck: The US Dollar and the Search for a "Reasonable" Capitalist, Part 3 (07/31/14) [13:00]
TRNN | Heiner Flassbeck: The Necessity for Higher Wages, Part 4 (08/01/14) [11:34]
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Papantonio: BP Spill Keeps Getting Worse (08/01/14) [1:51]
Papantonio: No Labels -- Another Name For Corporate Republicans (07/31/14) [5:02]
*Citigroup Settlement Insulting To Victims (07/31/14) [9:20]
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TYT | Holocaust Survivor Mourns What Israel Has Become (07/31/14) [7:55]
TYT | UN Official Breaks Down Over Shelled Gaza School (07/31/14) [8:38]
TYT | CIA Confesses To Hacking Senate (07/31/14) [4:28]
TYT | Religious Lunacy Of All Kinds Has Real World Consequences (07/31/14) [7:13]
TYT | Corruption Memo Leaked - Money Matters & You Don't (07/31/14) [13:44]
Diane Rehms Show
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International News - Friday (08/01/14) [1hr]
Global Austerity and the US War Agenda
GRtv | Global Austerity and the US War Agenda (07/31/14) [10:36]
*Wealth Inequality in America [6:25]
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