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Friday February 27, 2015

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Room for Improvement
MotherJones | Scott Carrier | March/April 2015

Clean up cities. Give the homeless a place to live. And save money too? The shocking simple, surprisingly cost-effective solution that won over a bunch of conservatives in Utah.

IT'S EARLY DECEMBER, 10:30 in the morning, and Rene Zepeda is driving a Volunteers of America minivan around Salt Lake City, looking for reclusive homeless people, those camping out next to the railroad tracks or down by the river or up in the foothills. The winter has been unseasonably warm so far--it's 60 degrees today--but the cold weather is coming and the van is stacked with sleeping bags, warm coats, thermal underwear, socks, boots, hats, hand warmers, protein bars, nutrition drinks, canned goods. By the end of the day, Rene says, it will all be gone.

These supplies make life a little easier for people who live outside, but Rene's main goal is to develop a relationship of trust with them, and act as a bridge to get them off the street. "I want to get them into homes," Rene says. "I tell them, 'I'm working for you. I want to get you out of the homeless situation.'"

And he does. He and all the other people who work with the homeless here have perhaps the best track record in the country. In the past nine years, Utah has decreased the number of homeless by 72 percent--largely by finding and building apartments where they can live, permanently, with no strings attached. It's a program, or more accurately a philosophy, called Housing First. ... Read more
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CoalitionForTheHomeless.org in NYC website

Homelessness
Tonight, more than 60,000 New Yorkers will sleep in homeless shelters, the most since the Great Depression.

Roughly 80% of those in shelter are families, including more than 25,000 kids.

Climate Oscillations and the Global Warming Faux Pause
HP | Michael E. Mann | 02/26/15

No, climate change is not experiencing a hiatus. No, there is not currently a "pause" in global warming. Despite widespread such claims in contrarian circles, human-caused warming of the globe proceeds unabated. Indeed, as reported here at The Huffington Post just last month, the most recent year (2014) was likely the warmest year on record.

It is true that Earth's surface warmed a bit less than models predicted it to over the past decade-and-a-half or so. This doesn't mean that the models are flawed. Instead, it points to a discrepancy that likely arose from a combination of three main factors (see the discussion my piece last year in Scientific American). ... Read more
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Homelessness
One exasperated mom told The New Yorker Magazine. "Every month I get a paper from Welfare saying how much they just paid for me and my two kids to stay in our one room in this shelter. $3,444! Every month!" "Give me $900 and I'll find me and my kids an apartment, I promise you."

Here Is What Americans Spent Their "Gas Savings" On
ZeroHedge | author | 02/27/15

Today, following the first revision of consumer spending, we learn that in the fourth quarter Americans spent even more on healthcare, pushing the total up by $1 billion more, to a whopping $21.4 Bn, or 18% of all spending on goods and services in Q4.

In any event, the math is clear - the next time anyone asks you what Americans spent their so-called "gas savings" on in Q4, and why retail sales in the end of 2014 (and the start of 2015) were so weak, show them this chart. ... Read more
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DemocracyNow - http://www.democracynow.org/

Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Friday, February 27 [7:02]

*DN | "A Historic Decision": Tim Wu, Father of Net Neutrality, Praises FCC Vote to Preserve Open Internet (02/27/15) [17:56]

*DN | Antiquities Scholar: Islamic State's Destruction of Museum & Library is Cultural & Ethnic Cleansing (02/27/15) [12:05]

*DN | 17 Shots: Police Killing of Unarmed Mexican Farmworker in Washington State Sparks Protest (02/27/15) [13:35]

ZeroHedge

ZeroHedge | Allan Greenspan on the Economy (02/26/15) [9:29]

Truth Loader

TruthLoader | Are we heading for another recession? (02/12/15) [4:36]

TruthLoader | Could China kill the US dollar? (05/29/14) [6:55]

TruthLoader | The Truth About The War On Drugs With Johann Hari (02/01/15) [8:25]

Simon sat down with journalist and author of "Chasing the Scream - The first and last days of the war on drugs" Johann Hari to discuss the realities of the drug war and addiction.

TruthLoader | Who is the IMF and did they cause a famine in Africa? (02/23/15) [4:41]

TruthLoader | What's happened to Venezuela? (02/19/15) [5:09]

TruthLoader | Syria and Islamic State: The War for Natural Gas (02/04/15) [2:39]

TRNN News - http://therealnews.com/

TRNN | Former financial regulator Bill Black: Irish Style Banking Inquiry into the 2008 Financial Crisis (02/27/15) [14:35]

TRNN | Professor James K. Galbraith: The Greek Debt and the German acquiescence (02/27/15) [12:03]

Initially Germany stood firm that Greece would have to sign the existing loan program to secure an extention but this was an untenable position and at the end of the day, it was the creditor countries and institutions that took a step back says Professor James K. Galbraith, academic colleague and advisor to Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis.

TRNN | Miguel Tinker Salas: Venezuelan Gov. Releases Audio of Coup Plotters (02/27/15) [16:44]

On Thursday, Venezuela officials released recordings of what it said was proof that opposition figures and some military officers were plotting to overthrow the government - Analysis with Miguel Tinker Salas and Paul Jay.

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

TYT | Conservatives Compete To Demonize The Poor At Annual GOP Clownfest (02/26/15) [7:24]

TYT | ISIS Smashes Priceless Ancient Statues In Gut-wrenching Video (02/26/15) [6:53]

TYT | Northeast US Sea Levels Rise 4 Inches In Two Years (02/26/15) [6:03]

TYT | Bullets Counted In Police Shooting Of Fleeing Man (02/26/15) [4:50]

Jon Stewart - Daily News

Jon Stewart | The 99% of the 1%, Hasan Minhaj investigates an overlooked and pressing case of inequality threatening a portion of the population in the United States. (02/27/15) [4:49]

*Jon Stewart | Why Does The Obama Administration Keep Prosecuting Whistleblowers? (02/27/15) [7:16]

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

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

Thom Hartmann - www.thomhartmann.com/

Other Videos and Documentaries I Ran Across

Greenspan- The Most Guilty Man On Earth (02/23/15) [3:08}
Bush Mafia Whacks Romney (02/14/15) [4:37}

TruthLoader | 5 Companies that have profited from war (11/19/14) [3:37]
TruthLoader | Could China kill the US dollar? (05/29/14) [6:55]
TruthLoader | The Five Worst CIA Operations Ever (03/07/14) [10:28]
5 Most Shocking CIA Experiments of Project MKULTRA (03/07/14) [4:59]
The five most bizarre CIA programmes (03/07/14) [8:39]
Did the CIA Create AIDS? (03/07/14) [2:30]

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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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