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*Debriefing the President: The Interrogation of Saddam Hussein by John Nixon

In December 2003, after one of the largest, most aggressive manhunts in history, US military forces captured Iraqi president Saddam Hussein near his hometown of Tikrit. Beset by body-double rumors and false alarms during a nine-month search, the Bush administration needed positive identification of the prisoner before it could make the announcement that would rocket around the world.

Barack Obama Sanctions Russia Over Election Meddling
HP | Akbar Shahid Ahmed | 12/29/16

President Barack Obama sanctioned Russian officials and entities on Thursday in response to Moscow's reported hacking during the U.S. presidential election.

In addition to hitting two Russian intelligence agencies, three companies and four individual intelligence officers with sanctions banning them from travel and business with U.S. companies or individuals, Obama ordered 35 Russian operatives posted at diplomatic facilities in Washington and San Francisco to leave. The president asked the State Department to bar Russians from entering two Russian-owned compounds in Maryland and New York that were used to gather intelligence, according to his statement. And Obama's Treasury Department barred U.S. business with two Russians accused of cyber-theft of money and data. ... Read more

How to Send a Text Message to a Verizon Phone From Your PC eMail Client

Open your e-mail program and start a new e-mail message.
Enter the cell phone number in the To: box using the format number@vtext.com, where "number" is the phone number of the cell phone to which you're sending the message. ...
Type a message of up to 160 characters in the message box and then click Send.

Israel Postponed Vote on New Housing Before Speech by John Kerry
NYTimes | Peter Baker | 12/28/16

Israeli leaders postponed plans on Wednesday to move ahead with new housing in East Jerusalem, just hours before Secretary of State John Kerry delivered a much-anticipated speech outlining an American vision for peace with the Palestinians.

The Jerusalem city planning committee, which was reported to be acting at the behest of the national government, canceled at the last moment a scheduled vote on permits for 618 new housing units in the predominantly Palestinian eastern section of the city. Members of the committee said the delay came at the request of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. ... Read more
TYT | Israel Strikes Back At UN (12/29/16) [8:14]

Donald Trump latest News Today (12/28/16) [33:59]

Note: I ran across this YouTube Account "President Trump News" and took a look to see what material he was pushing. It was mostly snippets from Fox. I don't watch Fox, because it makes my skin craw, but I was amazed on how one-sided the panelist have gotten... than I took a glance at the YouTube commenters (see below).

YouTube Commenters

steven foster - How about the elephant in the room. Obama is a muslim terrorist sympathizer?
Caz - steven foster + Kerry is also a globalist terrorist supporter what makes people turn into traitors is hard to figure out, Kerry served in the military swore allegiance to America, and somewhere along the way he was corrupted.?
Linda Maria de la Rosa - Every time I think I have seen Obama and his liberal mafia hit a new low they sink ever lower. And the biggest disgrace is that half of America still support this insanity. How can my fellow Americans not care about leaders intent on destroying our country??
Joseph Montfleury - How he got two terms and still be loved by so many. Soon, your Caligula president will be revealed?

Noam Chomsky: Israel's Response to the United Nation's Resolution on Palestine Is 'Hysterical'
AlterNet | Ken Klippenstein | 12/28/16

The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) passed a resolution 14-0 condemning all Israeli settlements on Palestinian land as having "no legal validity" and amounting to "a flagrant violation under international law." The resolution goes on to note that Israeli settlements pose "a major obstacle to the vision of two States living side-by-side in peace and security."

This represents the first UNSC resolution in almost eight years concerning Israel and Palestine, and the first in over 35 years regarding the issue of Israeli settlements. Typically the U.S. would veto resolutions critical of Israel, but in this case, the Obama administration opted to abstain, in effect allowing the resolution to pass.

For comment, AlterNet contacted Noam Chomsky, famed linguist, dissident and professor emeritus of MIT. Chomsky said of the resolution, "The UNSC resolution is essentially the same as UNSC 446, March 1979, passed 12-0-3. The main difference is that then two countries joined the U.S. in abstaining. Now the U.S. stands against the world; and under Trump, in even more splendid isolation, on much more crucial matters as well." ... Read more

Scientists Scramble to Protect Decades of Climate Research Before Trump Takes Office.

Sarah Palin wants America to be "unshackled" from the UN
Salon | Matthew Rozsa | 12/30/16

"One is, I called for our next president, Donald Trump, to call for the unshackling of the political bands tying us to the UN," Palin said. "By exiting the UN, where injustice is actually rewarded, we then will be able to uphold America's reputation as the leader, and as the kind and compassionate and generous nation that we are -- as the nation sharing values that, when emulated by any other nation, can bring justice and equal rights to any other nation."

Palin continued: the other way to look at this is, is it really going to be one person, one leader's responsibility to do so? Or is this going to be part of the revolution that we have just seen, that did elect Trump? It's we the people needing to step up and do it. It's our government. It's our money funding the lion's share of the globalist circus. It's we the people needing to rise up and make this a part of the revolution that we have just so benefited from. ... Read more

Carrie Fisher & Debbie Reynolds

Carrie Fisher & Debbie Reynolds Interview (full) - The Oprah Winfrey Show - 2011 [42:51]
Carrie Fisher on Late Show, April 4, 1994 [7:08]
Carrie Fisher on Late Night, 1983, 1987 [22:23]
Debbie Reynolds - "This Is Your Life", 1961 [23:53]

DemocracyNow - http://www.democracynow.org

Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Friday, December 30 [9:41]

*DN | Diana Buttu & Gideon Levy on Israeli Settlements, Kerry, Military Aid & End of Two-State Solution (12/30/16) [27:54]

*DN | CIA Interrogator Reveals Saddam Hussein Predicted Rise of ISIS & U.S. Failure in Iraq (12/29/16) [26:46]

Ten years ago this week, on December 30, 2006, former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was executed. Hussein was toppled soon after the U.S. invasion began in 2003. We continue our conversation with former CIA analyst John Nixon, author of the new book, "Debriefing the President: The Interrogation of Saddam Hussein."

*DN | Scientists Scramble to Protect Decades of Climate Research Before Trump Takes Office (12/29/16) [6:20]

DN | Facing Possible Threats Under Trump, Internet Archive to Build Server in Canada (12/29/16) [15:15]

*2008 Financial Crisis

Note: I ran across the following movie/documentary "Hank: Five Years from the Brink by Joe Berlinger (2013)" on Netflix. It is an on-screne interview of Hank Paulson and his recollections on the 2008 financial crash. Years ago I watched the movie "Too Big to Fail" and thought I would compare the two. Interesting the contortions they had to go through to save the World, but it's to bad that no-one steps up to the plate to take credit why it happened and why so little has been changed to prevent another financial crash from happening again.

For why the 2008 Crash happened watch "Inside Job by Charles Furgison", my personal favorite, or "Meltdown: the Men that Crashed the World".

On Netflix | Hank: Five Years from the Brink by Joe Berlinger (2013) [1:26:00]

Too Big to Fail, Part 1 (2011) [1:04:05], Part 2 [34:33]

C-Span | Hank Paulson on the Wall Street Bailouts, Capital Markets, Finance, China, Economy (2011) [1:02:48]

*Inside Job by Charles Furgison Part 1 (2011) [57:07], Part 2 [47:02]

BBC | Meltdown: the Men that Crashed the World () [2:49:15]

... And of course there are the people who think entitlements are the sole cause of our financial problems, and at the same time totally ignore the 50% of the National Budget (US) that goes to the military and Homeland Security.

United Kingdom Financial Crisis 2017 (full) [59:33]

TRNN News - http://therealnews.com/

*TRNN | FBI whistleblower Coleen Rowley says: Russia Sanctions Moves the US Closer to Another Cold War (12/30/16) [11:04]

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

TYT | Meet The Con Artist Leading Trump's Inauguration Prayer (12/29/16) [9:29]

TYT | Trump's Spokesman Fired Already? (12/29/16) [3:51]

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

RT | Whistleblower John Kiriakou says: CIA, White House owe US people proof of Russian role in US election (12/30/16) [12:46]

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

Thom Hartmann - www.thomhartmann.com/

Diane Rehm - http://thedianerehmshow.org

Diane Rehm will no longer be on the air daily, though she will be doing a weekly podcast. As soon as I get links to the podcast I will post them.

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

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

PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) - 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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