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Edward Snowden, v 1.0: NSA Whistleblower William Binney Tells All
ReasonTV | William Binney | 01/10/14

"Where I see it going is toward a totalitarian state," says William Binney. "You've got the NSA doing all this collecting of material on all of its citizens - that's what the SS, the Gestapo, the Stasi, the KGB, and the NKVD did."

Binney is talking about the collection of various forms of personal data on American citizens by the National Security Agency (NSA), where he worked for 30 years before quitting in 2001 from his high-placed post as technical leader for intelligence. A registered Republican for most of his life, Binney volunteered for military service during the Vietnam War, which led to his being hired by the NSA in the early '70s.

In 2002 - long before the revelations of Edward Snowden rocked the world - Binney and several former colleagues went to Congress and the Department of Defense, asking that the NSA be investigated. Not only was the super-secretive agency wasting taxpayer dollars on ineffective programs, they argued, it was broadly violating constitutional guarantees to privacy and due process.

The government didn't just turn a blind eye to the agency's activities; it later accused the whistleblowers of leaking state secrets. A federal investigation of Binney - including an FBI search and seizure of his home and office computers that destroyed his consulting business - exonerated him on all charges.

"We are a clear example that [going through] the proper channels doesn't work," says Binney, who approves of Edward Snowden's strategy of going straight to the media. At the same time, Binney criticizes Snowden's leaking of documents not directly related to the NSA's surveillance of American citizens and violation of constitutional rights. Binney believes that the NSA is vital to national security but has been become unmoored due to technological advances that vastly extend its capabilities and leadership that has no use for limits on government power. "They took that program designed [to prevent terrorist attacks] and used it to spy on American citizens and everyone else in the world," flatly declares Binney.

ReasonTV | Edward Snowden, v 1.0: NSA Whistleblower William Binney Tells All (01/10/14) [50:12]

We're like addicts of horror. Trying to get bigger and bigger kicks from nastier and nastier NSA stories. We are drunk from it.

TPP Wikileaked: US Watering Down Enviro Protections in Secret Trade Deal
Bill Moyers | John Light | 01/16/14

Another chapter in the tale of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) -- a secret international trade deal being pushed by the Obama administration and described by critics as "NAFTA on steroids" -- has once again been Wikileaked. This one deals with the environment, and it shows that, by and large, the US is caving on environmental standards it had previously set for international trade agreements.

... The TPP is a deal negotiated by the US, New Zealand, Singapore, Chile, Brunei, Australia, Vietnam, Peru, Malaysia, Canada, Mexico and Japan. The complete text has not been released to the public, but the Obama administration is rushing to get it finalized as part of a strategic "pivot to Asia." The agreement had previously been criticized for increasing corporate control over the Internet, copyrights and patents and potentially having the same negative effect on the US job market as NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement entered into 20 years ago. ... Read more

Part Three: Neil deGrasse Tyson on Science Literacy
BillMoyers | Neil deGrasse Tyson | 01/24/14

Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson unwittingly triggered a controversy in the blogosphere last week when he said this on our show: "If you have a religious philosophy that is not based in objective realities that you then want to put in the science classroom, then I'm going to stand there and say no, 'I'm not going to allow you in the science classroom.'" ... Read more

Whole Brain Activities--Math

The Constant Presence of U.S. Drones in the Sky Traumatize and Ruin Lives on the Ground
AlterNet | H.H. Bhojani | 01/23/14

Nabila's drawings are like any other nine-year-old's. A house rests besides a winding path, a winding path on which wander two stick figures. Tall trees, rising against the back drop of majestic hills. Clouds sprinkled over a clear sky.

Nabila's drawings are like any other nine-year-old's. With one disturbing exception. Hovering over the house, amidst the clouds, above the people, are two drone aircraft. ... Read more

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Approx. 4,000 oil platforms in the Gulf

DemocracyNow Daily News

Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Monday, January 27 [11:33]

DN | Bill Moyers on Dark Money, the Attack on Voting Rights & How Racism Stills Drives Our Politics (01/27/14) [18:30]

Just wait until you see what happens 30 seconds in! [2:03]

Bill Moyers

BillMoyers | Peter Edelman on Waging Another War on Poverty (01/14/14) [1:15]

*BillMoyers | Neil deGrasse Tyson on Science Literacy, Part 3 (01/24/14) [26:46]

BillMoyers | Neil deGrasse Tyson on the New Cosmos, Part 1 (01/10/14) [26:46]

BillMoyers | Neil deGrasse Tyson on Science, Religion and the Universe, Part 2 (01/17/14) [26:46]

BillMoyers | Naomi Klein on Capitalism and Climate Change (11/15/12) [31:42]

Surveillance State

To Protect And Infect or Wrist Slitting Depressing

*30c3: To Protect And Infect, Part 2 (12/30/13) [1:02:15]

30C3 | The Four Wars - Terror, whistleblowers, drugs, internet by Annie Machon (12/29/13) [25:00]

The Four Wars, by Annie Machon - Although Assange's talk was EPIC, this one, in my humble opinion, was the most inspiring and revealing talk I had the opportunity to watch at 30C3. It's that kind of thing that sounds almost obvious after you hear it, but you never had thought about it before. It's just 25 minutes.

*ProPublica | Has the Gov't Lied on NSA Snooping? Let's Go to the Videotape [2:53]

Money for Nothing

ReasonTV | Federal Reserve, Not Free Market, Caused Crisis says "Money for Nothing" Filmmaker Jim Bruce (12/09/13) [9:49]

*Money For Nothing: Inside the Federal Reserve (full) (2013) [1:43:41]

Money for Nothing website

Money For Nothing: Inside the Federal Reserve - Exclusive Director Interview (11/18/13) [29:09]
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The Biggest Bank Heist Ever! (2011) [49:42]

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Reason.tv - I like their interviews

Reason TV | Unconstitutional Presidential Power Grab - Road To Tyranny (01/22/14) [12:50]
Reason TV | Federal Reserve, Not Free Market, Caused Crisis says "Money for Nothing" Filmmaker Jim Bruce (12/09/13) [9:49]

PressTV - PressTV is Iranian, but the story lines are clear and all the facts are well known!

PressTV | The Carlyle Group, the Bush family and 9/11 (03/21/13) [25:42]

The Carlyle group is one of America's ten biggest military contracting firms. This firm specializes in what they call 'crony capitalism'. That means they make money by gaining access to the world's leading decision-makers.

The Carlyle group was founded in the late 80s by a fellow named Rubenstein. It is a highly influential multi-sector group, mostly defense related companies and corporations. In the 90s, it started bringing on board the Bush family and Bin Laden family. The two families became the key members of their board. The Group stands accused of involvement in and benefiting from 9/11 attacks..

The Carlyle Group operates in four business areas: Corporate private equity, defense, market strategies and fund of funds, through its AlpInvest subsidiary..

In its 2010 annual report, Carlyle reported assets in excess of $150 billion under management diversified over 84 distinct funds.

Truthloader - I like their short, clear and fact filled videos

Does Bush work for Carlyle, who owns Booz Allen, who get huge defense contracts
Truthloader | What you're not being told about Booz Allen Hamilton and Edward Snowden (10/07/13) [11:47]
Truthloader | Who are The Carlyle Group, and how are they connected to bin Laden? (08/16/13) [9:18]
Secret Groups
Truthloader | Bilderberg 2013 - Your guide to 'The Bilderberg Group' (05/30/13) [8:34]
Journalist & Whistleblowers
Truthloader | The War on Whistleblowers (11/12/13) [6:14]
Truthloader | Massive NSA spying program revealed by whistleblower Edward Snowden (06/10/13) [8:05]
Truthloader | Edward Snowden reveals the US 'black budget' of secret intelligence spending (08/30/13) [3:38]
Climate
Truthloader | Climate change could be far more serious than thought (01/03/14) [1:37]
Other Earth Threatening
Truthloader | How to start a war (01/07/14) [13:01]
Truthloader | Canada's Tar Sands: The most destructive project on Earth? (11/26/13) [7:50]
Truthloader | A race for what's left of the planet: The Arctic battleground (10/07/13) [11:47]
Truthloader | Who are Monsanto and are they really evil? (12/03/13) [11:09]
Military
Truthloader | Israel's nuclear weapons: the open secret (12/25/14) [8:42]

Brother Nathan - I like how Nathan speaks his mind

Brother Nathan | The Fed's Pipeline To Israel (09/06/13) [7:17]

GMO Monsanto

The World According to Monsanto (08/30/13) [1:49:04]
The Sick Story of GMO - Genetically Engineered Food - People As Lab Rats (08/30/13) [1:24:58]
Monsanto - The Most Evil Corporation in the World - What Everyone Must Know about GMOs (04/02/13) [1:01:49]

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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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