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Monday December 19, 2016

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Breaking: Russian Ambassador to Turkey Killed in Apparent Assassination.

Why Suicide Bombings Have Nothing To Do With Islam
The Evolution of How Suicide Bombings Incorrectly Became Synonymous With Islam
HP | Hasan Piker | 12/14/16

Suicide is a sin in Islam, just like in the other two Abrahamic religions, Christianity and Judaism.

This is the 19th terrorist incident in Turkey in 2016. In 2015, suicide attacks around the world reportedly killed or injured 9,109 civilians. Most suicide bombings target Muslims rather than non-Muslims. Yet there is a widespread perception in the West that suicide bombings tend to be carried out by Muslims against non-Muslim targets and serve a religious purpose rooted deep within Islamic doctrine.

Suicide bombings have been around since the 18th century, but I want to talk about suicide bombings as a tool of modern terrorist warfare and how it became the archetype of Muslim violence. Because while popular culture depicts Muslims as trigger-happy suicide bombers, suicide has always been a cardinal sin in Islam. ... Read more
TYT | Suicide Bombings Have NOTHING To Do With Islam (12/18/16) [6:32]

100 CEOs Have as Much Retirement Savings as 116 Million Americans.

Senate Dems seek divestment blind trust for Trump's assets
Politico | Elana Schor | 12/15/16

Five Democratic senators on Thursday unveiled a bill they plan to release next month that would require Donald Trump to divest assets that risk a conflict of interest and place the proceeds in a blind trust as well as require his appointees to step aside from official decisions that could benefit him.

The legislation previewed by Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Chris Coons (D-Del.), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) also would symbolically deem any Trump violation of federal conflict-of-interest rules "a high crime or misdemeanor under the impeachment clause of the U.S. Constitution," according to a summary released by its sponsors. ... Read more
TYT | Elizabeth Warren Paving Way To Impeach Trump (12/18/16) [7:52]

Yet Another Donald Trump Pick Has A Habit Of Spreading Dangerous Conspiracy Theories
HP | Hayley Miller | 12/16/16

President-elect Donald Trump announced Thursday that he's chosen Fox News contributor Monica Crowley as the National Security Council's senior director of strategic communications. If her conspiracy theory-pushing past is any indication, she'll fit right in with several of Trump's administration picks.

Crowley promoted a debunked theory that Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin had ties to "Islamic supremacists" ? a claim proven false by The Washington Post, Snopes and other sources.
But Crowley's unsubstantiated claims aren't limited to targeting Abedin. She was a vocal proponent of the birther movement, often calling President Barack Obama's citizenship into question. In 2008, she suggested Obama lied about his blackness.
"[Obama is] not black African, he is Arab African," she said on Laura Ingraham's radio show. "And yet, this guy is campaigning as black and painting anybody who dares to criticize him as a racist. I mean that is -- it is the biggest con I think I've ever seen."

TYT | How Qualified Are Trump's Cabinet Picks? (12/18/16) [8:55]

Without the Christian Right, There'd Be No President Trump: What Do They Want in Exchange?
AlterNet | Jason Wilson | 12/18/16

They overlooked his three marriages and sexual harassment all the way to the White House.

The so-called alt-right may have grabbed most of the attention since Donald Trump's victory, but it's the Christian right that got him over the line. And experts say they are much more likely to influence how he governs.

... In 2016, white evangelical Christians composed 26 percent of the electorate -- just as they did in 2012, 2008, and 2004. And their quarter of the total vote in 2016 went 81-16 percent for the Republican. This gave Donald Trump a slightly bigger share of evangelicals than Mitt Romney, the pious Mormon, in 2012, or war hero John McCain in 2008. Trump even slightly outdid George W. Bush's 2004 share, even though W identified as a born-again Christian. ... Read more

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

Aljazeera | The Crusades, An Arab Perspective - Part 1: Shock () [47:11]

explores the birth of the Muslim revival in the face of the crusades.

Aljazeera | The Crusades: an Arab Perspective - Revival: The Muslim Response to the Crusades (12/14/16) [47:01]

Aljazeera | The Caliph - Part 1: Foundation () [48:55]

For almost 13 centuries, from the death of the Prophet Muhammad in 632 to the overthrow of the last Ottoman caliph in 1924, the Islamic world was ruled by a caliph.

Aljazeera | The Caliph - Part 2: Division () [48:44]

Other Documentaries
Discovery | The History of the Ottoman Empire () [1:30:21]

Documentary | The Crusades () [56:14]

DemocracyNow - http://www.democracynow.org

Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Monday, December 19 [12:20]

DN | Ari Berman: How Voter Suppression Helped Pave Way for a Legislative Coup in North Carolina (12/19/16) [10:33]

DemocracyNow Show (full) (12/19/16) [28:00]

SNL

SNL | 'SNL' Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin As Shirtless Santa Claus (12/17/16) [4:53]

SNL | Grab That P*ssy' Alec Baldwin ROASTS Donald Trump (older, 10/09/16) [6:43]

TRNN News - http://therealnews.com/

TRNN | PERI's Heidi Garrett-Peltier says: When It Comes to Job Creation, Renewable Energy Outshines Fossil Fuels (12/19/16) [7:13]

TRNN | Yasha Maccanico says: EU Immigration 'Assistance' to Italy and Greece Seeks to Block Migrants From Leaving (12/19/16) [11:12]

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

TYT | America Is Now A Death Economy (12/18/16) [5:10]

TYT | The Time For A Living Wage Is NOW! (12/18/16) [5:33]

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

RT | Keiser Report: Max and Stacy discuss how both the Italian bank, Monte dei Paschi, and the American retailer, Sears, survived war, Great Depressions and famine, only to be destroyed by the modern paper derivative. (E1007) (12/17/16) [25:44]

RT | CrossTalk: The West's political and media elites are obsessed with Russia. Blaming Russia and its president Vladimir Putin is now a default position explaining the world's woes. How did it come to this? (12/19/16) [24:09]

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

Thom Hartmann - www.thomhartmann.com/

ThomHartmann | Is The US Aiding & Abetting Famine In Yemen? (12/16/16) [11:06]

ThomHartmann | The Republican Post-Election Coup (full Show) (12/16/16) [27:95]

Diane Rehm - http://thedianerehmshow.org

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*DR | Members of the Electoral College Meet in the States to Vote for President and Vice President. (12/19/16) [1hr]

or DR | Members of the Electoral College Meet in the States to Vote for President and Vice President. (12/19/16) [1hr]

Five hundred thirty-eight electors meet today in state capitols around the country to cast their votes for president and vice president. Historically, this day has been a mere formality. But in a deeply divided election that saw Hillary Clinton win the popular vote by more than 2 million votes, presidential electors have been flooded with emails and phone calls urging them to change their vote. More than half of states require electors to vote for the candidate who won the popular vote in that state. But those laws are weak and carry only nominal penalties. And on Friday, an appeals court ruled several states cannot remove electors if they change their votes. Diane and guests discuss presidential electors and the outcome of the 2016 election.

*DR | Ongoing Questions About How Donald Trump Will Deal With Business Conflicts Of Interest As President (12/19/16) [1hr]

or DR | Ongoing Questions About How Donald Trump Will Deal With Business Conflicts Of Interest As President (12/19/16) [1hr]

Last week, President-elect Donald Trump tweeted he would hand control of his businesses to his sons before taking office. But he didn't address his own role, something he had promised to discuss in a press conference last week. He put off that announcement until next month. Trump isn't the first official to balance public office with family business. But critics say Trump's vast network of personal and professional ties make separating the roles more complicated. And the government's ethics office says Trump must divest to truly avoid conflict-with foreign entities, banks and a host of government agencies. A look at Trump and his businesses as he takes the White House.

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

PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) - pbs.org/

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

Other Videos and Documentaries I Ran Across

talkingsticktv | Jeremy Scahill - The Assassination Complex (05/15/16) [1:15;30]
Jeremy Scahill & Glenn Greenwald Reveal NSA Role in Assassinations Overseas (02/10/14) [23:37]

12.19.2016. 12:53

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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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