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Wednesday December 14, 2016

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tIt's Hard To Overstate How Anti-Environment Donald Trump's Cabinet Picks Are
HP | Kate Sheppard | 12/13/16

Rex Tillerson at the State Department. Scott Pruitt at the Environmental Protection Agency. Rick Perry at the Department of Energy. Jeff Sessions at the Department of Justice.

Tillerson is the CEO of Exxon Mobil, a company that spent decades and millions of dollars supporting climate change denial and is currently under investigation for doing so. Tillerson has personally argued that climate change is no biggie because "we will adapt to this." If he's confirmed as secretary of state, he will be in the position of deciding whether the U.S. stays involved in the Paris climate agreement and whether to approve massive international oil pipelines like Keystone XL. ... Read more

85 richest people, small enough number to fit everyone on one greyhound bus, control more wealth than the bottom 3.5 billion people , 1/2 the worlds population.

Pipeline 150 miles from Dakota Access protests leaks 176,000 gallons of oil
WashingtonPost | Amy Dalrymple | 12/13/16

A ruptured pipeline has spilled more than 176,000 gallons of crude oil into a hillside and a Little Missouri River tributary about 150 miles west of Cannon Ball, N.D., where thousands of activists have spent months fighting construction of the Dakota Access oil pipeline, state officials said Monday. ...

... Built in the 1980s, the pipeline is six inches in diameter and transports about 1,000 barrels of oil daily, Suess told Forum News Service. The Dakota Access pipeline is 30 inches in diameter and could transport more than 500,000 barrels of oil daily. ... Read more
TYT | Oil Pipeline Bursts Close To Standing Rock Protest (12/13/16) [5:06]

Drone footage captures devastation of east Aleppo (12/13/16) [2:39]

Wells Fargo Becomes First Bank To Face Sanctions For Failing Too-Big-To-Fail Test
HP | Ben Walsh | 12/13/16

Regulators revealed a huge scam involving sham accounts earlier this year, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation said Tuesday that the bank now faces sanctions for failing to show it could go out of business in an orderly way.

As a result, Wells Fargo is banned from creating new international bank operations or acquiring non-banks until it shows regulators it can be unwound safely. This is the first time that a bank has faced penalties under the post-economic crisis system, which was set up to ensure that banks can fail without needing government bailouts. ... Read more

"Believing something the CIA says is like trusting a meth addict with your car, and trusting the CIA when they're working with the Washington Post is like trusting a meth addict with your car and leaving your kid in the back seat with the house keys and money for Taco Bell."

Trump Isn't Rewarding a Lot of Loyalists with Cabinet Jobs. Here's Why.
NYTimes | Maggie Haberman | 12/09/16

President-elect Donald J. Trump boasted throughout the presidential campaign of his loyalty as a singular quality. "Folks, look, I'm a loyal person," Mr. Trump said at a CNN town hall in April, explaining why he would not rid his campaign of a staff member who was under fire.

Some of Mr. Trump's earliest supporters -- among them Rudolph W. Giuliani, Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey, Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich and Mike Huckabee -- have not fared well in the job sweepstakes. On top of that, they have been left in the December cold while Mitt Romney, a leader of the "never Trump" movement, has been wooed by the president-elect's advisers for secretary of state. ... Read more
TYT | Spurned Trump Backers Go Rogue (12/13/16) [8:24]
TYT | Trump "Tortured" Mitt Romney (12/13/16) [4:12]

Up into the dizzy heights of Chinese skyscraper (360 video) (12/13/16) [1:04]

Remember to use the compass in the top-left corner of the video to pan around 360 degrees.

DemocracyNow - http://www.democracynow.org

Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Wednesday, December 14 [12:48]

DN | Electoral College Members Seek Intel Briefing on Possible Russian Meddling in Election to Aid Trump (12/13/16) [17:56]

DN | Vowing to "Stop Political Correctness," Gen. John Kelly to Head Department of Homeland Security (12/13/16) [10:40 ]

DN | "You Are Hurting Future Generations": Mark Ruffalo's Message to People Profiting From Fossil Fuels (12/13/16) [4:38]

The Daily Show with Trevor Noah

President-elect Trump nominates ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson for secretary of state, prompting Trevor to break down the oil tycoon's foreign policy experience. (12/13/16) [5:06]

TRNN News - http://therealnews.com/

TRNN | Former Financial Regulator Bill Black: White Collar Crime Will Have a Field Day Under Trump (12/13/16) [11:38]

TRNN | Portland is the First City to Tax Corporations that Pay their CEOs 100 Times More than Workers (12/14/16) [7:08]

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

TYT | Rick Perry To Head Agency He Forgot Existed (12/13/16) [8:04]

TYT | Does Trump Think Wrestling Is Real? (12/13/16) [2:59]

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

ISIS used as tool by Saudis, US & Turkey when it suits their interests (12/13/16) [5:24]

RT | CrossTalk: The mainstream media are very angry and fighting back -- and fighting back dirty. Because of low ratings and the inability to control the narrative any longer, the mainstream now demonizes alternative media. (12/14/16) [24:56]

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

Thom Hartmann - www.thomhartmann.com/

ThomHartmann | America's Most Pressing Economic Problem Exposed! (Student Loan debt) (12/13/16) [8:32]

ThomHartmann | Trump's Business Ties are a Giant Bull's Eye for Terrorists (12/13/16) [27:48]

Diane Rehm - http://thedianerehmshow.org

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*DR | New Details Of A Russian-Backed Campaign To Interfere With U.S. Elections (12/14/16) [1hr]

or DR | New Details Of A Russian-Backed Campaign To Interfere With U.S. Elections (12/14/16) [1hr]

Late last week, a CIA report suggested Russia intervened in U.S. elections to boost Donald Trump's chances of winning. On Tuesday, a New York Times investigation supported that conclusion -- and revealed new evidence that Russian hackers also targeted nearly a dozen congressional races. The investigation details a series of missed signals, slow responses and a mis-estimation of Russia's ability to influence U.S. politics--by political leaders, the FBI and The White House. It also traces two decades worth of Russia's attempts to tamper with America's most sensitive computer networks. Diane and a panel discuss new details about Russia's role in the 2016 race and its efforts to destabilize democracies around the world.

*DR | How Washington Has Changed Over Nearly Four Decades Of The Diane Rehm Show (12/14/16) [1hr]

or DR | How Washington Has Changed Over Nearly Four Decades Of The Diane Rehm Show (12/14/16) [1hr]

The rise of cable TV and the 24-hour news cycle. Pundits shouting at each other on air. Members of Congress refusing to even glance across the aisle. Social media trolls. Fake news. And now new evidence that Russia engaged in cyber-espionage to try to influence the U.S. presidential election as well as House elections in a half-dozen states across the country. Those are just some of the concerns that did not exist when Diane began her career in radio nearly 40 years ago. Diane speaks with two journalists and a political scientist who have had front-row seats in Washington as these changes unfolded.

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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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