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*TYT | Why Bernie Sanders Has Excellent Chance of Winning Now (01/11/16) [11:18]

*Top 10 Reasons Why Bernie Sanders May Actually Become President (older, but good 08/04/15) [13:33]

TUESDAY: Obama Gives His Final State Of The Union Address
AP & HP | author | 01/11/16
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*Thom Hartmann | You Won't Believe these Facts about the U.S. Economy in 2015... (01/10/16) [5:19]

58 Facts About The U.S. Economy From 2015 That Are Almost Too Crazy To Believe
EconomicCollapseBlog | author | 01/11/16

The world didn't completely fall apart in 2015, but it is undeniable that an immense amount of damage was done to the U.S. economy. This year the middle class continued to deteriorate, more Americans than ever found themselves living in poverty, and the debt bubble that we are living in expanded to absolutely ridiculous proportions. Toward the end of the year, a new global financial crisis erupted, and it threatens to completely spiral out of control as we enter 2016. ...
58 Facts About The U.S. Economy

These days, most Americans are living paycheck to paycheck. At this point 62 percent of all Americans have less than 1,000 dollars in their savings accounts, and 21 percent of all Americans do not have a savings account at all.
The lack of saving is especially dramatic when you look at Americans under the age of 55. Incredibly, fewer than 10 percent of all Millennials and only about 16 percent of those that belong to Generation X have 10,000 dollars or more saved up.
It has been estimated that 43 percent of all American households spend more money than they make each month.
For the first time ever, middle class Americans now make up a minority of the population. But back in 1971, 61 percent of all Americans lived in middle class households.
According to the Pew Research Center, the median income of middle class households declined by 4 percent from 2000 to 2014.
The Pew Research Center has also found that median wealth for middle class households dropped by an astounding 28 percent between 2001 and 2013.
In 1970, the middle class took home approximately 62 percent of all income. Today, that number has plummeted to just 43 percent.
There are still 900,000 fewer middle class jobs in America than there were when the last recession began, but our population has gotten significantly larger since that time.
According to the Social Security Administration, 51 percent of all American workers make less than $30,000 a year.
For the poorest 20 percent of all Americans, median household wealth declined from negative 905 dollars in 2000 to negative 6,029 dollars in 2011.
A recent nationwide survey discovered that 48 percent of all U.S. adults under the age of 30 believe that "the American Dream is dead".
Since hitting a peak of 69.2 percent in 2004, the rate of homeownership in the United States has been steadily declining every single year.
At this point, the U.S. only ranks 19th in the world when it comes to median wealth per adult.
Traditionally, entrepreneurship has been one of the primary engines that has fueled the growth of the middle class in the United States, but today the level of entrepreneurship in this country is sitting at an all-time low.
For each of the past six years, more businesses have closed in the United States than have opened. Prior to 2008, this had never happened before in all of U.S. history.
If you can believe it, the 20 wealthiest people in this country now have more money than the poorest 152 million Americans combined.
The top 0.1 percent of all American families have about as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent of all American families combined.
If you have no debt and you also have ten dollars in your pocket, that gives you a greater net worth than about 25 percent of all Americans.
The number of Americans that are living in concentrated areas of high poverty has doubled since the year 2000.
An astounding 48.8 percent of all 25-year-old Americans still live at home with their parents.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 49 percent of all Americans now live in a home that receives money from the government each month, and nearly 47 million Americans are living in poverty right now.
In 2007, about one out of every eight children in America was on food stamps. Today, that number is one out of every five.
According to Kathryn J. Edin and H. Luke Shaefer, the authors of a new book entitled "$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America", there are 1.5 million "ultrapoor" households in the United States that live on less than two dollars a day. That number has doubled since 1996.
46 million Americans use food banks each year, and lines start forming at some U.S. food banks as early as 6:30 in the morning because people want to get something before the food supplies run out.
The number of homeless children in the U.S. has increased by 60 percent over the past six years.
According to Poverty USA, 1.6 million American children slept in a homeless shelter or some other form of emergency housing last year.
Police in New York City have identified 80 separate homeless encampments in the city, and the homeless crisis there has gotten so bad that it is being described as an "epidemic".
If you can believe it, more than half of all students in our public schools are poor enough to qualify for school lunch subsidies.
According to a Census Bureau report that was released a while back, 65 percent of all children in the U.S. are living in a home that receives some form of aid from the federal government.
According to a report that was published by UNICEF, almost one-third of all children in this country "live in households with an income below 60 percent of the national median income".
When it comes to child poverty, the United States ranks 36th out of the 41 "wealthy nations" that UNICEF looked at.
An astounding 45 percent of all African-American children in the United States live in areas of "concentrated poverty".
40.9 percent of all children in the United States that are being raised by a single parent are living in poverty.
There are 7.9 million working age Americans that are "officially unemployed" right now and another 94.4 million working age Americans that are considered to be "not in the labor force". When you add those two numbers together, you get a grand total of 102.3 million working age Americans that do not have a job right now.
According to a recent Pew survey, approximately 70 percent of all Americans believe that "debt is a necessity in their lives".
53 percent of all Americans do not even have a minimum three-day supply of nonperishable food and water at home.
According to John Williams of shadowstats.com, if the U.S. government was actually using honest numbers the unemployment rate in this nation would be 22.9 percent.
Back in 1950, more than 80 percent of all men in the United States had jobs. Today, only about 65 percent of all men in the United States have jobs.
The labor force participation rate for men has plunged to the lowest level ever recorded.
Wholesale sales in the U.S. have fallen to the lowest level since the last recession.
The inventory to sales ratio has risen to the highest level since the last recession. This means that there is a whole lot of unsold inventory that is just sitting around out there and not selling.
The ISM manufacturing index has fallen for five months in a row.
Orders for "core" durable goods have fallen for ten months in a row.
Since March, the amount of stuff being shipped by truck, rail and air inside the United States has been falling every single month on a year over year basis.
Wal-Mart is projecting that its earnings may fall by as much as 12 percent during the next fiscal year.
The Business Roundtable's forecast for business investment in 2016 has dropped to the lowest level that we have seen since the last recession.
Corporate debt defaults have risen to the highest level that we have seen since the last recession. This is a huge problem because corporate debt in the U.S. has approximately doubled since just before the last financial crisis.
Holiday sales have gone negative for the first time since the last recession.
The velocity of money in the United States has dropped to the lowest level ever recorded. Not even during the depths of the last recession was it ever this low.
Barack Obama promised that his program would result in a decline in health insurance premiums by as much as $2,500 per family, but in reality average family premiums have increased by a total of $4,865 since 2008.
Today, the average U.S. household that has at least one credit card has approximately $15,950 in credit card debt.
The number of auto loans that exceed 72 months has hit at an all-time high of 29.5 percent.
According to Dr. Housing Bubble, there have been "nearly 8 million homes lost to foreclosure since the homeownership rate peaked in 2004?.
One very disturbing study found that approximately 41 percent of all working age Americans either currently have medical bill problems or are paying off medical debt. And collection agencies seek to collect unpaid medical bills from about 30 million of us each and every year.
The total amount of student loan debt in the United States has risen to a whopping 1.2 trillion dollars. If you can believe it, that total has more than doubled over the past decade.
Right now, there are approximately 40 million Americans that are paying off student loan debt. For many of them, they will keep making payments on this debt until they are senior citizens.
When you do the math, the federal government is stealing more than 100 million dollars from future generations of Americans every single hour of every single day.
An astounding 8.16 trillion dollars has already been added to the U.S. national debt while Barack Obama has been in the White House. That means that it is already guaranteed that we will add an average of more than a trillion dollars a year to the debt during his presidency, and we still have more than a year left to go.

What we have seen so far is just the very small tip of a very large iceberg. About six months ago, I stated that "our problems will only be just beginning as we enter 2016?, and I stand by that prediction.

Rand Paul, Carly Fiorina Fail To Make The Cut For The Next Prime Time GOP Debate.

ThomHartmann | Great Minds: Ellen Brown - Did You Know Banks Can Take Your Money in A Crisis? Part 1 (01/09/16) [12:52], Part 2 [12:29]

There Are Now More Solar Jobs In America Than Oil Jobs
HP | Shane Ferro | 01/12/16

A new report on the state of the solar industry out Tuesday from the nonprofit Solar Foundation shows that the number of jobs in the United States in the solar industry outpaced those in the oil and gas industries for the first time ever. As of November 2015 there were almost 209,000 people who worked in the solar industry, 90 percent of whom only work on solar-related projects, according to the report. While there were only about 185,000 people working in oil and gas in the United States in December 2015, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The one place where solar hasn't caught up to oil and gas, it seems, is in the pay. According to the report, solar installers -- which account for a plurality of jobs in the industry -- get $21 per hour on average. The pay in sales and design is higher, at $28.85 and $26.92, respectively. But oil and gas workers on average get $44 an hour, according to BLS. ... Read more

Nore News

Oil slips toward $30, traders bet on more falls (Reuters)
Oil Plunge Sparks Bankruptcy Concerns (WSJ)
RBS cries 'sell everything' as deflationary crisis nears (Telegraph)
World stocks drop but Europe shrugs off oil slide, China money market surge (Reuters)
Canadian Stocks Fall in Longest Slump Since 2002 as Oil Slides (BBG)
"Murderous" Yuan Rate Jolts Hong Kong as Top Currency Hub (BBG)

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Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Tuesday, January 12 [8:15]

DN | Why is Ramsey Orta, Man Who Filmed Police Killing of Eric Garner, the Only One Criminally Charged? (01/12/16) [12:03]

DN | El Chapo is Caught, But Corruption, U.S. Consumption & Failed Drug War Keep the Cartels in Business (01/12/16) [15:15]

DN | Mexican Writer Elena Poniatowska on the Missing 43 Students, 1968 Massacre & U.S.-Backed Drug War (01/12/16) [ 11:51]

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

CorbettReport | Jeb's Got Turtles & Kim's Got Nukes (Maybe) (01/09/16) [5:27]

Diane Rehm - http://thedianerehmshow.org

*DR |What's Behind New Deportation Raids Targeting Central American Immigrants (01/12/16) [1hr]

The Obama administration is deporting Central American immigrants in raids nationwide that began earlier this month. We discuss what's behind the new wave of deportations and reaction from communities and political leaders.

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*TRNN | Economist Rob Johnson says China is undergoing a major transition from an export-led economy to a domestic demand-led economy (01/12/16) [16:17]

TRNN | Retired Baltimore Police officers Neill Franklin and Michael Wood say President Obama's gun reform proposals will help but still fall short of addressing the root causes of gun violence. (01/11/16) [13:06]

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ThomHartmann | Thom Hartmann on Economic & Labor News: 1/11/16 [6:49]

ThomHartmann | Bernie Reveals Plan to Break Up the Big Banks: (01/06/16) [57:16]

ThomHartmann | TPP & The High Cost of Neglecting Our Manufacturing (01/11/16) [6:53]

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Use of Advertising/Propaganda

*The War You Don't See by John Pilger () [1:36:41]

The War You Don't See - John Pilger investigates the media's role in war. He traces the history of 'embedded' and independent reporting from the carnage of WWI to the current wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

*Why We Fight by Eugene Jarecki () [1:38:41]

Why We Fight won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival. It is an unflinching look at the anatomy of the American war machine, weaving unforgettable personal stories with commentary by a "who's who" of military and Washington beltway insiders. Featuring John McCain, Gore Vidal, William Kristol, Chalmers Johnson, Richard Perle and others, Why We Fight launches a bipartisan inquiry into the workings of the military industrial complex and the rise of the American Empire.

How Americans Are Manipulated By Mass Media Propaganda () [1:35:04]

Very illuminating documentary accurately exposing the truth about how American society is manipulated and enslaved by consumerism and mass media pop culture. Ironically, this is a communist North Korean film dubbed in English. Sadly, this cannot qualify as propaganda since it is all true. America is simply enslaved under a different system than communism. A debt system called consumerism.

01.12.2016. 12:42

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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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