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Arctic Methane Release Due To Climate Change Could Cost Global Economy $60 Trillion, Study Reports
Reuters | Nina Chestney | 07/24/13

A release of methane in the Arctic could speed the melting of sea ice and climate change with a cost to the global economy of up to $60 trillion over coming decades, according to a paper published in the journal Nature.

Researchers at the University of Cambridge and Erasmus University in the Netherlands used economic modelling to calculate the consequences of a release of a 50-gigatonne reservoir of methane from thawing permafrost under the East Siberian Sea. They examined a scenario in which there is a release of methane over a decade as global temperatures rise at their current pace. They also looked at lower and slower releases, yet all produced "steep" economic costs stemming from physical changes to the Arctic. ... Read more

Janet Yellen For Federal Reserve Chairman? Dems Reportedly Send Letter Urging Obama To Pick Her
HP | Ashley Alman | 07/25/13

A group of Democratic senators have reportedly signed a letter encouraging President Barack Obama to appoint Federal Reserve Board of Governors Vice Chairman Janet Yellen as the next chairman. According to the Wall Street Journal, the endorsement letter does not mention Larry Summers, who has also been floated as a possibility. One Democratic senator who signed the letter voiced his apprehension to the paper.

"There's a lot of concern among a lot of Democrats about an appointment of Larry Summers to that long-term position as Fed chairman," said Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa). "He was one of the architects of getting rid of Glass-Steagall, of getting rid of other regulations." ... Read more

*Roberts's Picks Reshaping Secret Surveillance Court
NYTimes | Charlie Savage | 07/25/13

The recent leaks about government spying programs have focused attention on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and its role in deciding how intrusive the government can be in the name of national security. Less mentioned has been the person who has been quietly reshaping the secret court: Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.

In making assignments to the court, Chief Justice Roberts, more than his predecessors, has chosen judges with conservative and executive branch backgrounds that critics say make the court more likely to defer to government arguments that domestic spying programs are necessary.

Ten of the court's 11 judges -- all assigned by Chief Justice Roberts -- were appointed to the bench by Republican presidents; six once worked for the federal government. Since the chief justice began making assignments in 2005, 86 percent of his choices have been Republican appointees, and 50 percent have been former executive branch officials. ... Read more

Detroit By The Numbers

$18 billion Detroit's estimated debt obligations.

$11.9 billion City's unsecured obligations to lenders and retirees.
$6.4 billion City's obligations backed by enterprise revenues (Revenue Bonds).

38 cents Of every tax dollar that the city collects goes to service legacy debt and other obligations rather than providing services for the city's residents and businesses.
$115.5 million Detroit's negative cash flows in fiscal year 2012.
8% Interest accrued on Detroit's deferred payment of pension fund contributions.
Over 100,000 Estimated number of Detroit creditors.
22% Reduction in city employees since fiscal year 2010.
1.85 million Detroit's population in 1952, its highest point.
62% Decline in Detroit's population from 1950 to 2012.
150,000 Number of manufacturing jobs Detroit lost between 1947 and 1963 as smaller auto makers disappeared and Big Three auto makers move operations to suburbs and out of state.
47% Detroit's share of US auto sales in 2008.
80% Of Detroit's manufacturing was lost between 1972 and 2007.
78% Of Detroit's retail establishments were lost between 1972 and 2007.
735,104 Number of jobs in Detroit for residents and non residents in 1970.
346,545 Number of jobs in Detroit for residents and non residents in 2012.
9.4% Jobless rate in Detroit as of June 2013.
30% Decline in Detroit's municipal income tax receipts since 2002.
36% Of Detroit's population lives below the poverty level.
54% Of Detroiters own a home.
16% Of Michigan's population lives below poverty level.
28% Decline in Detroit's receipts from utility user's tax over the last decade.
$1.6 billion Decline in city's assessed property values over the last five years.
$134.9 million Property tax revenues for city's 2013 fiscal year.
139 square miles Detroit's city footprint.
40% Of city's street lights do not work.
78,000 Number of abandoned structures in Detroit, representing 20% of the city's housing stock.
210 City parks were closed during fiscal year 2009, reducing its total by 66%.

Source: Alexander Rozens, Bloomberg Brief

NSA News | Nationial Security State

Enemy Of The State (1998) (full movie) [2:12:12]

1.8 gigapixel ARGUS-IS. World's highest resolution video surveillance platform by DARPA [4:41]

DemocracyNow Daily News

Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Friday, July 26 [15:50]

*DN | Juror B29 Says Zimmerman "Got Away With Murder," Renewing Scrutiny of Prosecution & Florida Laws (07/26/13) [22:06], Part 2 [6:17]

DN | Egypt Tensions Escalate as Morsi Detained and Supporters of Army, Brotherhood Hold Rival Protests (07/26/13) [12:36]

Globalization

*John Pilger: The New Rulers of the World (older, but I like John Pilger) [53:56]

PBS Nova

*PBS Nova | Nova Russian meteor strike 2013 [52:07]

What Scientists Are Seeing Over Antarctica (12/01/12) [8:34]

NSA News

*PBS Nova | The Spy Factory [56:02]

RT | NSA Blackmailing Obama? | Interview with Whistleblower Russ Tice (07/09/13) [11:49]

ABC | NSA Whistle Blower Russell Tice Interviewed (09/16/08 org) [5:42]

MSNBC | Fmr Agent Russell Tice Accuses Obama, Nsa Of LYING, Alleges BROADER Spying Programs (06/21/13) [5:06]

BF | Whistle-blower Russ Tice: NSA Death Star in Utah Online! (06/21/13) [3:23]

CNN | Facebook admits role in NSA surveillance (06/25/13) [2:56]

TYT | Snowden Leak "Tip of the Iceberg" of NSA Surveillance Program (06/13/13) [4:02]

RT | William Binney NSA Whistleblower: Everyone in US under virtual surveillance, all info stored, no matter the post (12/02/12 [4:02]

RT | Thomas Drake NSA Whistleblower: After 9/11 NSA had secret deal with White House (17/09/12 [11:02]

Diane Rehms Show

Domestic News - Friday(07/26/13) [1hr]

International News - Friday(07/26/13) [1hr]

Why WTC Towers Fell (one version)

PBS Nova | "9/11 Why the Towers Fell" [54:14]

Chicago Tribune | W. Gene Corley - Obituary 77 (died 03/01/13)

W. Gene Corley: lead investigator on the WTC bombing (Wikipedia)

MSNBCChris Hayes - All In

Chris Hayes | Eric Holder to go after Texas on voting rights (07/25/13) [10:29]

Chris Hayes | Juror says Zimmerman got away with murder (07/25/13) [6:22]

Chris Hayes | Boehner's Steve King problems (07/25/13) [7:04]

Chris Hayes | Anthony Weiner: sex scandals and second chances (07/25/13) [7:04], Part 2 [6:51]

Comedy News

The Colbert Report | Stephen Henderson: Detroit's Bankruptcy (07/25/13) [7:55]

Carlos Danger

John Oliver Destroys Anthony Weiner: Withering 'Daily Show' Takedown Explains Why Weinergate 2.0 Matters (07/25/13) [4:26], Part 2 [6:01]

The Peanut Pool [1:03]

Other Videos and Documentaries I Ran Across

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Real Ancient Technology Found in Cuzco Peru 2012 New (03/12/12 [7:22]
Lake Titicaca: Mysterious Stone Structures (04/10/11) [2:50]

RT | Wozniak: Web crackdown coming, freedom failing (08/14/12 [10:49]

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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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