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Extreme Heat

Phoenix, Las Vegas Bake In Scorching Heat
HP | Chris Carlson | 08/29/13

DEATH VALLEY, Calif. -- Dan Kail was vacationing in Las Vegas when he heard that the temperature at Death Valley could approach 130 degrees this weekend. He didn't hesitate to make a trip to the desert location that is typically the hottest place on the planet.

... The forecast called for Death Valley to reach 128 degrees Saturday as part of a heat wave that has caused large parts of the western U.S. to suffer. Death Valley's record high of 134 degrees, set a century ago, stands as the highest temperature ever recorded on Earth. ... Read more

Federal Wildfire Prevention Budget Cuts Protested In Senators' Letter
HP & AP | author | 06/28/13

... The administration is proposing a 31 percent cut in funding for fire prevention programs one year after record blazes burned 9.3 million acres. The federal government routinely spends so much money fighting increasingly-destructive fires that it uses money meant to be spent on clearing potential fuels like dead trees and underbrush in national forests. ... Read more

Firefighters continue to battle flames in Colorado (06/28/13) [0:38]
Comment of the Day: Former CEO: Denying Climate Change Is 'Sort Of Like Denying You've Got Cancer'.

Arizona Wildfire 2013: 19 Firefighters Die While Battling Yarnell Hill Blaze
HP & AP | John Marshall | 07/01/13

YARNELL, Ariz. -- An out-of-control blaze overtook an elite group of firefighters trained to battle the nation's fiercest wildfires, killing 19 members as they tried to protect themselves from the flames under fire-resistant shields.   It was the most firefighters killed battling a wildfire in the U.S. in decades. ... Read more

Extreme Heat | Climate Change
*The Scientific Case for Urgent Action to Limit Climate Change (05/20/13) [59:00]
*Evidence Of The Extreme Climate Change (11/16/12) [7:47]
Egypt | 1000s Protesting

Egypt Military Intervention: General Says Army Will Intervene If Crisis Not Resolved In 48 Hours
HP & Reuters | author | 07/01/13

The head of Egypt's armed forces gave politicians 48 hours on Monday to answer demands made by the Egyptian people or the military would offer its own "road map for the future".

In a statement read on state television, General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi called mass protests on Sunday, which called for Islamist President Mohamed Mursi to resign, an "unprecedented" expression of the popular will. (Reporting by Tom Perry; Editing by Alastair Macdonald) ... Read more

Chemical Warfare | GMO | Monsanto
*Jeffry Smith: Genetic Roulette movie [GMO] [57:06]
*CBS5 | Seeds Of Death movie [GMO] (05/24/13) [1:19:38]
The leaders of Big Agriculture--Monsanto, DuPont, Syngenta--are determined that world's populations remain ignorant about the serious health and environmental risks of genetically modified crops and industrial agriculture. Deep layers of deception and corruption underlie both the science favoring GMOs and the corporations and governments supporting them.
CBS5 | Toxic Secrets [Agent Orange] (03/19/12) [35:19]
In late 2010, Army veteran Steve House contacted CBS 5 Investigates, saying he wanted to tell the story about something he had done, while stationed at Camp Carroll, South Korea in 1978. House said he and other members of his platoon were ordered to bury hundreds of drums of toxic Agent Orange on the military base under the cover of night.

Now, more than 30-years later, House and the other veterans are suffering from illnesses they attribute to Agent Orange exposure and they worry about how the chemicals they buried may have been affecting the Korean village surrounding the base.
Fred Wilcox: 50 Years Later, Agent Orange Still Killing (audio) [51:38]
A toxic herbicide known as Agent Orange (AO), named after the orange stripe painted across drums containing the defoliant, continues to wreak horrific biological damage on newborns today, not only in the country where it was irresponsibly sprayed, but in countries where individuals, mostly veterans, of what the Vietnamese call the "American War" had sent them to fight.
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DemocracyNow Daily News
Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Friday, July [15:40]
DN | Sharif Abdel Kouddous: Millions Protesting Morsi Show Egyptian Revolution Still Going Strong (07/01/13) [20:16]
*DN | Was Deadly Benghazi Killing of Amb. Stevens, "Blowback" for Secret US Assassinations? Part 1 (07/01/13) [13:41], Part 2 [7:26]
A new book on last year's Benghazi attack in Libya concludes the killing of U.S. ambassador Christoper Stevens and three others was in part blowback for a secret assassination operation run in North Africa by the Joint Special Operations Command and John Brennan, President Obama's then counterrorism advisor, now director of the CIA. According to "Benghazi: The Definitive Report," President Obama's counterterrorism adviser, John Brennan and JSOC commander Admiral Bill McRaven were running "off the books" unilateral operations in North Africa that were not coordinated through the Pentagon or other governmental agencies, including the CIA. Ambassador Stevens was reportedly never informed about these operations.
*Vice | Jeremy Scahill on "Dirty Wars" and U.S. National Security and JSOC (06/25/13) [59:46]
This week, we speak with Jeremy Scahill, national security correspondent for "The Nation," whose work covering America's special operations forces (JSOC) and targeted killings in Afghanistan, Yemen, and Somalia is chronicled in the recently released documentary, "Dirty Wars: The World is a Battlefield." As the U.S. continues to expand its use of covert counterterrorism measures worldwide, Scahill argues that far from making Americans safer, U.S. covert counterterrorism measures are in fact undermining national security.
National Security State
Future NSA surveillance
1.8 gigapixel ARGUS-IS. World's highest resolution video surveillance platform by DARPA [4:41]
*NSA Tracking [NSA] [4:48]
*Enemy Of The State, NSA, Compilation shortened to 3.5 minutes [NSA] [3:37]
Enemy Of The State, NSA, Compilation shortened to 9 minutes [NSA] [9:41]
*Enemy Of The State (1998) (full movie) [2:12:12]
Enemy of the State was made in 1998 and stars Gene Hackman, Lisa Bonet, Regina King, Will Smith, Jack Black, Jon Voight, and Jason Lee. This all-star cast stars in a film that performed well in its time, yet seems all the more relevant, intelligent, and interesting today. Edward Snowden didn't say too much that this movie didn't exactly say! It's pretty mind-blowing how intelligent and well-informed script-writers were.
NSA - National Security Agency
National Security Agency website
HeadquartersFort Meade, Maryland, U.S.
Employees40,000
Annual budget$10+ billion (estimate)
DirectorGeneral Keith B. Alexander
ProjectsThinThread, Trailblazer, Turbulence, Prism
National Security Agency - wikipedia
The National Security Agency (NSA) is a cryptologic intelligence agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the collection and analysis of foreign communications and foreign signals intelligence, as well as protecting U.S. government communications and information systems, which involves information security and cryptanalysis/cryptography.
How NSA Spys On You With Utah Data Center Super Computer [NSA] [9:38]
NSA Global Spy Network, *Echelon* From 2009
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ECHELON - Wikipedia
ECHELON is a name used in global media and in popular culture to describe a signals intelligence (SIGINT) collection and analysis network operated on behalf of the five signatory states to the UKUSA Security Agreement (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States. It has also been described as the only software system which controls the download and dissemination of the intercept of commercial satellite trunk communications.
Google Books | Echelon: Somebody's Listening by Jack O'Neill
NSA - PRISM
PRISM - Wikipedia
PRISM is a clandestine national security electronic surveillance program operated by the United States National Security Agency (NSA) since 2007. PRISM is a government code name for a data collection effort known officially by the SIGAD US-984XN. The program is operated under the supervision of the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court pursuant to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).
*Jeremy Scahill introduces Glenn Greenwald who Speaks Out [54:25]. Start video at 3 minutes
Glenn Greenwald speaks via Skype to the Socialism 2013 conference in Chicago regarding Edward Snowden's revelations about the NSA's mass surveillance program. Introductions by Jeremy Scahill, author of Blackwater and the filmmaker behind Dirty Wars, and Sherry Wolf, author of Sexuality and Socialism.
One of the comments under the original video
The problem is that true capitalism cannot exist in a nation where elected representatives are able to hold personal investments and interests, or where corporations are able to influence the democratic process.

There should be a wall? between government and capitalist enterprise in every single way.

No lobbying, no funding, no investments by those making decisions for the nation and the public.

Without such a wall, massive corruption is inevitable.
Surveillance Technology
*Surveillance Technology - Inventing the Future (02/17/13) [1:04:53]
Face Recognition
*Facebook Buys Face.Com (06/19/12) [1:13]
Facial Recognition Is Not Only For Surveillance, Says Face.com (04/05/12) [9:31]
Facial Recognition And A National Database (06/25/13) [3:49]
Other Videos and Documentaries I Ran Across
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Weather (Climate) Change
Skywatcher: Weather Modification, Cloud Seeding, Chemtrails? [28:28]
The Great Debate: CLIMATE CHANGE - Surviving The Future (02/15/13) [1:31:42], Part 2 [51:43]
GMO
C2CAM | Jeffry Smith: Genetic Roulette [GMO] (audio) [1:19:38]
Agent Orange
Fred Wilcox & Noam Chomsky- Scorched Earth: Legacies of Chemical Warfare in Vietnam (08/01/12) [39:17]
Fred Wilcox's previous book, "Waiting for an Army to Die", looked at the effects of Agent Orange on U.S.s Soldiers who served in Vietnam. In his latest book, "Scorched Earth: Legacies of Chemical Warfare in Vietnam", Mr. Wilcox turned his attention to the impact of Agent Orange on the Vietnamese.
Glenn Greenwald | NSA
MSNBC | Glenn Greenwald Tells MSNBC Host Put Down White House Talking Point Memo (06/10/13) [20:54]
CNN | Glenn Greenwald Schools CNN Host on NSA, Wikileaks, Controlled Media (06/10/13) [9:53]
CNBC | Guardian's Glenn Greenwald Schools NBC's Guthrie On NSA Snooping (06/11/13) [2:13]
Mass Shootings
History of American Mass Shootings: 10 Facts You Need to Know (06/06/13) [5:19]
Other Videos | Slight of Hand
Man Explains How The NSA-Snowden Case Is A Distraction For A Much Bigger War With Iran! (06/26/13) [5:26]
Top Obama official WE will kill the dollar WWIII already underway (06/22/13) [13:26]
Fed Reserve Missing $9 Trillion -"I Know Nothing"! [10:25]
Donald Rumsfeld 2.3 Trillion Dollars Just Gone [1:49]
C2CAM | Pole Shifts : Growing Evidence for Catastrophic Shifts Past and Present (10/16/12) [1:61:58]

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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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