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Clinton surges to big lead in McClatchy-Marist poll
mcclatchydc.com | David Lightman | 08/04/16

Clinton made strong gains with two constituencies crucial to a Republican victory -- whites and men -- while scoring important gains among fellow Democrats, the poll found.

Clinton not only went up, but Trump also went down. Clinton now has a 48-33 percent lead, a huge turnaround from her narrow 42-39 advantage last month. ... Read more
TYT | Donald Trump's Polls PLUMMETING After Week Of Fail (08/04/16) [9:04]

Top 10 Articles in Todays Papers
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TRUMP TANKS: Clinton Adds To Lead As Donald Goes Off The Rails
Khan Meltdown Leaves Campaign Critically Wounded
Hillary Swoops In To Convert Crestfallen Republicans

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GOP Insiders To Politico: Trump Should Drop Out
GOP Senators Distance Themselves From Trump In An Effort To Save Senate Majority

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Trump's New York Campaign Chair: 'No Doubt' President Obama Is A Muslim

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Polls Suggest Younger Voters Are Seriously Considering Libertarian, Green Party Candidates

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Trump Admits He Didn't See Nonexistent Iran Money Video
EARLIER: Trump Repeats Lie That He Watched Iran Video Even After His Campaign Acknowledged It Didn't Exist

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There Would Be No Check On President Trump's Power To Launch Nuclear Weapons

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Black Lives Matter Protesters Block Road To Europe's Busiest Airport

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ISIS Captures Up To 3,000 Fleeing Iraqis, Executes 12

POLITICS
WATCH: Trump's Supporters Weigh In On The Khan Controversy

POLITICS
The Cowardly Ryan: Calls Trump Attacks 'Beyond The Pale' -- But Won't Rescind Endorsement!

Trump Made Up An Entire News Story On Iran -- And He's Standing By It
thinkprogress.org | Adrienne Mahsa Varkiani | 08/04/16

In the last few days, Donald Trump has made up an entire news story on U.S. foreign policy. Speaking at a rally in Maine on Thursday, Trump claimed that the Iranian government released secret footage it had of the United States transferring $400 million in cash to Iran.

"You know why the tape was given to us? Because they want to embarrass our country," Trump said. "They want to embarrass our country. They want to embarrass our president. Because we have a president who's incompetent. They want to embarrass our president." ... Read more
TYT | Donald Trump Makes Up Iran Story After Watching Fox News (08/04/16) [6:49]

At the Crossing Borders Conference in Greece, critical theorist Maria Nikolakaki says 24 people are displaced every minute, which equals 34,000 every day - and this is, at its core, a class war.

Spurred Out of Service: How Conald Trup Avoided Vietnam
inquisitr.com | Nancy Bailey | 08/04/16

Donald Trump's history of avoiding the draft has fallen under scrutiny, since his public feud with the parents of a fallen soldier, Humayun Khan, who was killed in 2004 by a car bomb while serving in Iraq.

Trump, whom the Gold Star father Khizr Khan said had "sacrificed nothing," retorted that he had made sacrifices and "done a lot," including creating jobs and helping establish a Vietnam War memorial in New York. ... Read more
TYT | Donald Trump Takes Vet's Purple Heart After Draft Dodging Vietnam (08/04/16) [4:36]

DemocracyNow - http://www.democracynow.org

Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Friday, August 05 [8:59]

*DN | Cartoonist Garry Trudeau: 30 Years of "Doonesbury" on Donald Trump, Part 1 (08/05/16) [9:14], Part 2 [10:40]

DN | Dave Zirin: Protests by Athletes and Displaced Rio Residents Accompany Opening of 2016 Olympic Games (08/05/16) [13:58]

TRNN News - http://therealnews.com/

*TRNN | Investigative journalist Bruce Livesey has teamed up with TRNN to make a documentary to expose the Koch brothers' war on the environment and their plan to influence the 2016 elections. (08/04/16) [4:41]

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

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RT | Israeli hackers breach ISIS messenger app, reveal 'attack plans' (08/05/16) [4:53]

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

Thom Hartmann - www.thomhartmann.com/

*ThomHartmann | A very real threat to life on this planet is currently trapped deep under Arctic permafrost. And thanks to climate change - that permafrost is rapidly disappearing. (08/05/16) [7:38]

ThomHartmann | Mike Papantonio, author of his new book "Law And Disorder" says: The idea of a Donald Trump presidency was scary enough already - but it just got even scarier. (08/05/16) [12:13]

ThomHartmann | Is This A Trump Scam.. building Up the Infrastructure? Or Is He Right On This? (08/05/16) [11:06]

Diane Rehm - http://thedianerehmshow.org

*DR | Friday News - Domestic (08/05/16) [1hr]

Note: the video starts at 3:50 on the Progressbar
More Republicans question whether to support Donald Trump for president. The FBI continues to investigate a hack of Democratic National Committee emails. And the latest on a Zika outbreak in Miami. A panel of journalists joins Diane for analysis of the week's top national news stories.

*DR | Friday News - International (08/02/16) [1hr]

The Obama administration defends a $400-million-dollar payment to Iran. President Obama denies the payment was a ransom payment for hostages. President Obama says the Islamic State is turning more to terrorism because it is losing ground in Iraq and Syria. The U.S. launches airstrikes on Islamic State targets in Libya. The Syrian government and rebels trade accusations over allegations of toxic gas attacks. And the Summer Olympics begin in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. A panel of journalists joins Diane for analysis of the week's top international news stories.

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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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