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Wednesday December 02, 2015

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This Is The Beginning Of The End Of The Fossil Fuel Industry
HP | Alexander C. Kaufman | 12/02/15

Oil and gas giants such as Royal Dutch Shell, ExxonMobil and BP continue to reap stupendous profits from selling products that contribute to the high levels of carbon emissions causing climate change. Like the tobacco industry before it, these companies have poured money into lobbying and misinformation campaigns to escape restrictive regulations.

But, as world leaders gather in Paris on Nov. 30 for the month-long COP21 climate talks, the fossil fuel industry's future is in jeopardy. There may be an abundant supply of oil, gas and coal and -- at least for now -- a strong demand for these products, but there is a growing urgency among business leaders and policymakers to stem usage before the effects of global warming worsen dramatically. ... Read more

Sanders Beats All Top Republicans In Latest Poll
HP |Janie Velencia | 12/02/15

In a hypothetical matchup against the current GOP front-runner, business mogul Donald Trump, Sanders takes 49 percent of the vote to Trump's 41 percent. Against Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Sanders leads 44 percent to 43 percent. He also beats Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) by 10 percentage points and retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson by 6 points.

Fifty-nine percent of voters also say Sanders is honest and trustworthy -- placing him well above former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, his chief rival for the Democratic nomination, and above all top Republican candidates tested in the poll. ... Read more

ISIS Sympathizers In The U.S. Are Mostly Young, Male And American

Here's All The Nonsense 2016 Republicans Have Spouted About Climate Change
HP | Nick Visser | date

Scientists are in near universal agreement that the climate is changing, that it's largely humanity's fault and there is "no plan B" should we fail to act. But you'd never know that if you just listened to some of the Republican presidential contenders.

Here are some of the most outrageous things the 10 leading candidates for the GOP nomination have said about climate change. Many of these statements are patently false: A single volcano does not emit more greenhouse gases than all of humanity; weather is not the same thing as the climate; and a single nation like America -- the second-largest carbon emitter on the planet -- can certainly make a difference. ...

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Donald "It's Cold Outside" Trump

"It's snowing & freezing in NYC. What the hell ever happened to global warming?" -- March 2013
"I believe in clean air. Immaculate air. But I don't believe in climate change." -- Sept. 2015
"It's really cold outside, they are calling it a major freeze, weeks ahead of normal. Man, we could use a big fat dose of global warming!" -- October 2015

Ben "This Always Happens" Carson

"There's always going to be either cooling or warming going on. As far as I'm concerned, that's irrelevant. What is relevant is that we have an obligation and a responsibility to protect our environment." -- November 2014
"Of course there's climate change. Any point in time, temperatures are going up or temperatures are going down. Of course that's happening. When that stops happening, that's when we're in big trouble." -- September 2015

Marco "Oh, But The Jobs" Rubio

"We are not going to destroy our economy, make America a harder place to create jobs, in order to pursue a policy that will do nothing, nothing to change our climate, to change our weather." -- September 2015
"America is not a planet." -- September 2015

Ted "You Climate Blasphemers, You" Cruz

"If you look at satellite data for the last 18 years, there's been zero recorded warming. The satellite says it ain't happening." -- August 2015
"Climate change is not science. It's religion." -- October 2015

Jeb "Well Maybe, But I'm A Republican" Bush

"The climate is changing, whether men are doing it or not." -- June 2015
"I don't think it's the highest priority. I don't think we should ignore it, either." -- August 2015

Carly "I Worked With Scientists And They're All Wrong" Fiorina

"I believe if you're going to go to science, you need to read the fine print. And here's what the scientists say: A single nation acting alone can make no difference at all." -- September 2015
"The only answer to this problem, according to the scientist, is a three-decade global effort, coordinated and costing coordinated effort. It's impossible, are you kidding? A three-decade effort, costing trillions of dollars, coordinated with current technology? It'll never happen." -- September 2015

Mike "Um, Kaboom" Huckabee

"Science is not as settled on that as it is on some things." -- June 2015
"A volcano in one blast will contribute more than a hundred years of human activity." -- August 2015

Chris "Sure, But Nah" Christie

"I think global warming is real. I don't think that's deniable. And I do think human activity contributes to it."* -- May 2015
*But Christie has adamantly opposed New Jersey joining into a multi-state greenhouse gas initiative, calling it "a completely useless plan." -- September 2014

John "It's Your Kids' Problem" Kasich

"We don't want to destroy people's jobs, based on some theory that is not proven." -- August 2015
"Do I believe there is something called climate change? I do. Do I think that human beings affect it? I do. How much? Not enough for me to go out and cost somebody their job." -- October 2015

Rand "Doesn't Really Know" Paul

"Not conclusive." -- April 2014
"Not sure anybody exactly knows why." -- April 2014
"Alarmist." -- April 2014
"I don't want to shut down all forms of energy such that thousands and thousands of people lose jobs." -- April 2015

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Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Wednesday, December 02 [11:09]

DN | Philippines' Former Climate Negotiator Yeb SaÃ±o's 900 Mile Pilgrimage to Paris Summit Ends with Fast (12/01/15) [7:30]

DN | Marshall Islands Poet to the U.N. Climate Summit: "Tell Them We Are Nothing Without Our Islands"

DN | The Global Poor vs. the 10%: How Climate Inequality Hurts the Most Vulnerable and Least Responsible

DN | Bill McKibben: Climate Protest Movement, Not COP21, Key to Preventing "Uninhabitable World"

DN | Bill McKibben Condemns Jailing of Ousted Maldives President, A Hero of Climate Movement

DN | As NY State Probes Exxon, Oil Giant Targets the Journalists Who Exposed Climate Change Cover-Up

DN | India's "The Hindu" Newspaper Stops Printing for the First Time in 137 Years Due to Massive Floods

DN | to Divest From FoAs U.S. Congress Lags, California Leads Pushssil Fuels Linked to Climate Change

DN | Is Oil & Gas the New Tobacco? Fossil Fuel Divestment Movement Reaches New Milestone

DN | Filipino Climate artist on COP 21: If World Leaders Really Cared,

*Diane Rehm - http://thedianerehmshow.org

*DR | Chicago Police Chief's Firing And Efforts To Boost Public Trust In Police (12/02/15) [1hr]

Chicago's mayor fires the city's police chief amid protests over the response to the police killing of a black teenager. Diane and guests give an update on efforts to boost public trust in police forces across the country.

TRNN News - http://therealnews.com/

TRNN | Todd Oppenheim compares the treatment of the six officers charged with killing Freddie Gray to the clients he represents as a Baltimore Public defender (12/01/15) [10:41]

TRNN | Veronica Arreola discusses: Planned Parenthood and the Long Line of Violence Against Women and Abortion Providers (12/01/15) [8:07]

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

TYT | Andrea Tantaros: Liberals Indicting Entire Religion... Christian White Republicans (12/01/15) [10:50]

*TYT | Bill O'Reilly: Planned Parenthood Deserves Criticism Over "Baby Parts" (12/01/15) [11:20]

TYT | Japan To Slaughter Thousands Of Whales For "Scientific Research" (12/01/15) [3:31]

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

*RT | CrossTalk: Syrian fault lines (12/02/15) [24:04]

*RT | Keiser Report: Moar War (E843) (12/01/15) [25:25]

RT | Disrupted oil routes push ISIS towards heroin trade, already 1 $bn a year (12/01/15) [1:16]

RT | Libyan Sirte becomes new ISIS stronghold with direct sea route to Europe (12/01/15) [1:52]

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

RoF | GOP Is Hellbent On Derailing Paris Climate Talks (12/01/15) [3:24]

*RoF | Ring of Fire (E213) - President Cruz...A Terrifying Thought (12/01/15) [29:00]

Thom Hartmann - www.thomhartmann.com/

*ThomHartmann | Is Ted Cruz the Most Extreme Anti-Woman Candidate? (12/02/15) [11:16]

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

PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) - www.pbs.org/

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

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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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