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Tuesday Aug 02, 2016

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David Stockman Rants Against The Dangers & Digressions Of The Donald's Demagoguery
ZeroHedge | author | 08/02/16

"Making America great" is about unleashing the nation's capitalists again. It's an expression that prosperity is not bestowed by the state but won by the kind of builders, investors, innovators and workers that The Donald fancies to be the essence of Trump Inc. To that extent, Donald Trump could be regarded as an incipient anti-statist. While this might seem like an overly generous characterization, it is a measure, alas, of the degree to which the bipartisan "policy" consensus against him has congealed around what is essentially a Keynesian axiom of endless macroeconomic intervention and "stimulus". ... Read more

TYT | Koch Brothers Pass On Hillary AND Trump. Will Buy Congress Instead. (08/01/16) [6:40]

Trump Urges His Supporters To Sell Stocks, Warns Of "Very Scary Scenarios" For Investors
ZeroHedge | author | 08/02/16

Now that we are exactly three months away from the November 8 election, if Trump wants to really boost his electoral chances, a market crash right now be certainly most welcome by his campaign. Which may be why Trump today urged his supporters to get out of equities as "interest rates set by the Federal Reserve are inflating the stock market" and warned of "very scary scenarios" for investors. ... Read more

A "1 In 10,000 Year Event": JPM Head Quant Explains Why The S&P Refuses To Sell Off
ZeroHedge | author | 08/02/16

"... one would expect this scenario to happen once every ~10,000 years. The fact that we see this type of behavior demonstrates market inefficiency--in this case driven by hedging of option exposure. Quite literally, the market was pinned. Over the past 3 weeks, the amount of call options exceeding put options (in terms of gamma exposure) averaged almost $40bn (per 1%), which is the largest call to put gamma imbalance ever observed." ... Read more

European Bank Bloodbath Destroys Stress Test Credibility
ZeroHEdge | author | 08/02/16

If the goal of the EBA Stress Tests was to reassure investors and regain confidence that 'all is well' in Europe's increasingly fragile and systemically interconnected banking system, then it has utterly failed. The broadest European bank stock index is now down 7% from the post-stress-test spike highs, Italian banks are at record lows and being halted (despite Renzi's promises), Commerzbank is struggling with capital raise chatter, and Deutsche Bank and Credit Suisse are tumbling after being booted from the Stoxx 50. ... Read more

The Rising: Connecting Human Health and Oil Operations

The Rising: Connecting Human Health and Oil Operations (trailer, longer) (07/11/16) [5:38]

The Rising: Connecting Human Health and Oil Operations (trailer, short) (07/11/16) [1:57]

The Rising: Connecting Human Health and Oil Operations (crowed funding) (04/12/16) [5:08]

The Rising: Connecting Human Health and Oil Operations (website)

The Big Fix - BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Cover up (12/27/12) [1:30:19]

Whatever You Do, Don't Look Down
HP | Abigail Williams | 08/02/16

Situated off the side of China's Tianmen Mountain, the 100-meter-long, 1.6-meter-wide skywalk is situated high above Hunan's Zhangjiajie National Forest Park. Dubbed the "Coiling Dragon Cliff" skywalk, the clear glass walkway overlooks a sheer drop that would turn any stomach. ... Read more
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DemocracyNow - http://www.democracynow.org

Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Tuesday, August 02 [12:10]

DN | The Never-Ending War: U.S. Announces New Front Against ISIS in Libya (08/02/16) [6:24]

The U.S. military carried out two airstrikes in Libya against ISIS fighters on Monday in the latest escalation of the U.S. war against the self-proclaimed Islamic State. The strikes took place in the city of Sirte. Pentagon officials said the campaign would continue until ISIS has been driven from the city, which it took over last year. Libya has been engulfed in fighting after a U.S.-backed military intervention ousted longtime dictator Muammar Gaddafi in 2011. The Pentagon said Libya's Western-backed unity government requested the airstrikes. The so-called unity government is one of three competing governments that claim legitimacy in the country. We speak to Phyllis Bennis, fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies. She's author of "Understanding ISIS and the New Global War on Terror."

DN | Trump Attacks Muslim Mother of Slain U.S. Soldier in Comments "Beyond Limit of Human Decency" (08/01/16) [14:00]

TRNN News - http://therealnews.com/

TRNN | Dave Zirin the author of Brazil's Dance with the Devil: 2016 Summer Olympic Games in Rio Eclipsed By Controversy (08/02/16) [13:07]

TRNN | Arn Menconi tells: Colorado Green Party Senate Candidate: 'I'm Running to Stop Endless Wars' (08/02/16) [6:53]

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

TYT | Trump Continues Feud With Fallen Veteran's Family. (08/01/16) [10:00]

TYT | Republicans Condemn Trump For Khan Comments (08/01/16) [6:32]

TYT | Trump Advisor Smears Muslim War Hero As Terrorist Double Agent (08/01/16) [7:24]

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

RT | Keiser Report: Myth of Millennial Entrepreneur (E948) (08/02/16) [25:45]

From Kingston, NY, Max and Stacy discuss the myth of the Millennial entrepreneur. Business startups have collapsed but the Obama administration says that student debt is great for the US economy; meanwhile, in China, 'innovation centers' have popped up all over the country, but will the entrepreneurs ever show up? In the second half, Max interviews Gerald Celente of TrendsResearch.com about entrepreneurship and US elections.

RT | CrossTalk: Is Russia meddling in American politics? Also, are we witnessing another crucial tipping point in Syria? And, has Turkey's Erdogan turned his back on the west? (08/01/16) [23:56]

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

Thom Hartmann - www.thomhartmann.com/

ThomHartmann | The Sick & Dying Victims of BP Speak Out! (08/01/16) [7:23]

Diane Rehm - http://thedianerehmshow.org

*DR | Voter Access In 2016: Latest On Restrictions Across The Country (08/02/16) [1hr]

The North Carolina voter ID law targeted African Americans with "almost surgical precision." That's according to a three-judge panel that decided Friday to strike down the law. Recent weeks have seen a slew of similar victories for challengers of voting restrictions: Federal courts also dealt blows to Republican-backed laws in Texas, Wisconsin and Kansas. Supporters of these laws say they address voter fraud and other issues at the polls. But is the tide now turning when it comes to voter restrictions? The latest on recent court decisions affecting voters, and what they could mean for the outcome of the presidential election.

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

Aljazeera | Counting the Cost - The most powerful economic job in the world (07/30/16) [26:00]

Aljazeera | Inside Story - What's behind Russian humanitarian corridors in Aleppo? (07/31/16) [25:00]

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

PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) - pbs.org/

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

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Inside Turkey's Failed Coup
*CorbettReport | Behind the CIA's Failed Coup in Turkey: Was It Only a Dry Run? (07/18/16) [42:08]
Hudson Inst | Geostrategic Ramifications of the Crisis in Turkey (07/27/16) [1:17:26]
Brookings Inst | Turkey after the coup (07/20/16) [1:34:48]
Atlantic Council | Ten Days after Quelling the Coup: Where is Turkey Headed? (07/26/16) [1:25:26]
Washington Institute | Inside Turkey's Failed Coup: What Happened? Why? What Next? (07/22/16) [1:15:09]
FDD | After the Failed Coup: Prospects for Turkish Stability and the U.S.-Turkey Alliance (07/21/16) [1:17:24]

Robots
PBS Nova | Rise of the Robots (2016) [51:56]
Incredible Robots - Rise of the Machines () [52:02]

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Lindsey Graham Mashups

Lindsey Graham

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said the quiet part aloud on why he’s still so close to former President Donald Trump: because we can use him for our goals. "President Trump has gotten people who wouldn't give me or Romney or anybody else the time of day. They believe he is on their side," the senator told the America First Agenda Summit crowd on Tuesday in Washington, D.C.

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Environment & Climate Change

Environment

The term "climate change" is often used to refer specifically to anthropogenic climate change (also known as global warming). Anthropogenic climate change is caused by human activity, as opposed to changes in climate that may have resulted as part of Earth's natural processes.

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AI - Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning | Deep Learning

AI - Artificial Intelligence

AIArtificial intelligence (AI) is intelligence demonstrated by machines, as opposed to the natural intelligence displayed by animals including humans. AI research has been defined as the field of study of intelligent agents, which refers to any system that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its chance of achieving its goals.

The term "artificial intelligence" had previously been used to describe machines that mimic and display "human" cognitive skills that are associated with the human mind, such as "learning" and "problem-solving". This definition has since been rejected by major AI researchers who now describe AI in terms of rationality and acting rationally, which does not limit how intelligence can be articulated.
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Quantum mechanics | AI - Artificial Intelligence

Quantum mechanics

Quantum mechanics is a fundamental theory in physics that provides a description of the physical properties of nature at the scale of atoms and subatomic particles. It is the foundation of all quantum physics including quantum chemistry, quantum field theory, quantum technology, and quantum information science.
Classical physics, the collection of theories that existed before the advent of quantum mechanics, describes many aspects of nature at an ordinary (macroscopic) scale, but is not sufficient for describing them at small (atomic and subatomic) scales. Most theories in classical physics can be derived from quantum mechanics as an approximation valid at large (macroscopic) scale.
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Economy, Wall Street and Banksters

Wall Street and Banksters

Wall Street is an eight-block-long street running roughly northwest to southeast from Broadway to South Street, at the East River, in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City. Over time, the term has become a metonym for the financial markets of the United States as a whole, the American financial services industry (even if financial firms are not physically located there), or New York-based financial interests.

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Intelligence Agencies/Deep State?

Intelligence Agencies/Deep State?

An intelligence agency is a government agency responsible for the collection, analysis, and exploitation of information in support of law enforcement, national security, military, and foreign policy objectives. Means of information gathering are both overt and covert and may include espionage, communication interception, cryptanalysis,.

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Daniel Ellsberg | Pentagon Papers

Daniel Ellsberg

Daniel Ellsberg and Paul Jay explore Ellsberg's latest book, The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner. In the introduction to the book, Ellsberg writes: "No policies in human history have more deserved to be recognized as immoral or insane. The story of how this calamitous predicament came about and how and why it has persisted over a half a century is a chronicle of human madness".

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Nukes

Nukes

Nuclear weapons have come a long way and come in all types of different sizes. Some are relatively small while others are enormous, so big they boggle the mind at what they can be capable of, i.e. the Soviet 'Tsar Bomba' is/was 3,000 times greater than the Hiroshima bomb.

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Rana Foroohar and Fall of American Business

Rana Foroohar

Ms. Foroohar says financialization delivers stagnant wages, inequality and economic crisis; the Financial Times columnist and author of "Makers and Takers" says the financial sector represents only 7 percent of the U.S. economy, but takes around 25 percent of all corporate profit while creating only 4 percent of all jobs.

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The Untold History of the United States by Oliver Stone & Petere Kuznick

The Untold History of the United States by Oliver Stone & Petere Kuznick | 2014 | 10 Episodes

Oliver Stone and American University historian Peter J. Kuznick began working on the project in 2008. Stone, Kuznick and British screenwriter Matt Graham cowrote the script. It covers "the reasons behind the Cold War with the Soviet Union, U.S. President Harry Truman's decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan, and changes in America's global role since the fall of Communism." Stone is the director and narrator of all ten episodes.

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Kuznick Interviews

Kuznick Interviews

Historian Peter Kuznick says Eisenhower called for decreased militarization, then Dulles reversed the policy; the Soviets tried to end the cold war after the death of Stalin; crazy schemes involving nuclear weapons and the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba put the world of the eve of destruction - with host Paul Jay

The Untold History of the United States by Kuznick, Peter.mobi | Book | 6.99 MB

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China Valley of Tunnels

China Valley of Tunnels

A report written by a Georgetown University team led by Phillip Karber conducted a three-year study to map out China’s complex tunnel system, which stretches 5,000 km (3,000 miles). The report determined that the stated Chinese nuclear arsenal is understated and as many as 3,000 nuclear warheads may be stored in the underground tunnel network.

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911

911

On September 11, 2001, 19 terrorists attacked the Unites States. They hijacked four airplanes in mid-flight. The terrorists flew two of the planes into two skyscrapers at the World Trade Center in New York City. The impact caused the buildings to catch fire and collapse. Another plane destroyed part of the Pentagon (the U.S. military headquarters) in Arlington, Virginia. The fourth plane crashed in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Officials believe that the terrorists on that plane intended to destroy either the White House or the U.S. Capitol. Passengers on the plane fought the terrorists and prevented them from reaching their goal. In all, nearly 3,000 people were killed in the 9/11 attacks.

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The Vietnam War

The Vietnam War

Ken Burns and Lynn Novick's ten-part, 18-hour documentary series, THE VIETNAM WAR, tells the epic story of one of the most consequential, divisive, and controversial events in American history as it has never before been told on film. Visceral and immersive, the series explores the human dimensions of the war through revelatory testimony of nearly 80 witnesses from all sides--Americans who fought in the war and others who opposed it, as well as combatants and civilians from North and South Vietnam. Ten years in the making, the series includes rarely seen and digitally re-mastered archival footage from sources around the globe, photographs taken by some of the most celebrated photojournalists of the 20th Century, historic television broadcasts, evocative home movies, and secret audio recordings from inside the Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon administrations.

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Trump's Mashups

Trump's Mashups

Donald Trump talks a lot, but what is he actually saying? VICE News' "Trump Talk" mashup series tries to answer that. And, we're happy to say, it was just nominated for two Webby Awards. Now you can watch all the nominated videos.

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Trump's Sexcapades

Trump's Sexcapades.

Jessica Leeds (1980s)
Kristin Anderson (1990s)
E. Jean Carroll (1995 or 1996)
Lisa Boyne (1996)
Cathy Heller (1997)
Temple Taggart McDowell (1997)
Karena Virginia (1998)
Mindy McGillivray (2003)
Jennifer Murphy (2005)
Rachel Crooks (2005)
Natasha Stoynoff (2005)
Juliet Huddy (2005 or 2006)
Jessica Drake (2006)
Ninni Laaksonen (2006)
Cassandra Searles (2013)
Allegations of pageant dressing room visits(1997)
Mariah Billado,
Victoria Hughes,
and three other Miss Teen USA contestants
Bridget Sullivan (2000)
Tasha Dixon (2001)
Unnamed contestants (2001)
Samantha Holvey (2006)

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Trump's Speeches | Rallys |Interviews

Trump's Speeches | Rallys

Donald Trump talks a lot, but what is he actually saying? Watch Trump at some of his rallys and see what you think.

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