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The Hunting Ground (trailer) (current) [2:12]

Harry Reid Wants Elizabeth Warren To Be Vice President
HP | Zach Carter | 06/08/16

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) believes Elizabeth Warren should be the running mate of presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, according to four Senate sources familiar with Reid's thinking.

Reid had initially been skeptical of the chatter around Warren, publicly warning that Democrats couldn't afford to lose the seat the Massachusetts senator currently occupies. But The Boston Globe reported last week that he tasked attorney Marc Elias with studying how manageable the loss would be. ... Read more

Elizabeth Warren Focus Group (current) [3:39]

CNBC | Senator Elizabeth Warren - Reinstating Glass-Steagall (older, 07/12/13) [5:30]

TYT | Elizabeth Warren Endorses Hillary Clinton (06/08/16) [5:27]

Neocons and Liberal Interventionists -- Like Hillary -- Are Converging on Foreign Policy
HP | Alastair Crooke | 06/08/16

Fighting the so-called Islamic State, as the narrative is told in the West and the Sunni Gulf states, is becoming seen as "nakedly sectarian," as the Washington-based Syria commentator Hassan Hassan wrote in the Financial Times last week. The fighting in Fallujah and the prospective battle for Raqa'a, he wrote, "offer ISIS an opportunity to present itself as a custodian of the Sunni, especially in Iraq, where it has established itself as the only Sunni militant group able to stand up to militias supporting the Shia-dominated government." ...

... Wahhab proclaimed those who did not accept his puritan monotheism as apostates and idolaters who should be killed immediately. And now, Shiites, Alawites, Zaidis, Druze, Ismailis -- and Kurds, who are mostly Sunni Muslim -- are defending themselves and their families from the truly fundamentalist zealotry of neo-Wahhabism that murders all whom it deems apostate. To reverse the narrative and cast their efforts to defend themselves as somehow sectarian is bizarre -- especially since the bulk of the Syrian army and Kurds fighting ISIS are themselves Sunni Muslims. ... Read more
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Ralph Bucher Â· Slave at Retired - The title was "The New American Century", by John Bolton, I believe. His doctrine has been religiously followed by both Prez Bushy and Prez Obama. I'm sure that H. Clinton is marching in line. It's all about Money and Power, forming a ring around Russia and China. It's the Corporatist view of the world. ISIS is Wahabbism, the King of Saudi Arab is the head of the snake. We are talking out of both sides of our mouth. Iran is the natural power in the region. The global corporatist empire is intent on stepping on Iran's head. The concept of Democracy enters the picture about as much as it does in the deep south of the USA.

Brian Amberg - You don't have to fight Saudi Arabia, you just have to stop sending our tax money and oil money there so that they won't have the excess change to fund terror groups. This is a completely peaceful solution and requires no interventionism (which is why the WallStreet/Bush-Clintonite/MIC prefers to fight wars with phantom organizations instead of simply cutting off the funding).

Wm Schillerstrom - Brian Amberg Cutting off the funding? The US could stop importing every drop of Saudi oil and it would have zero effect on Saudi power and influence. Oil is a fungible commodity that powers the industrialized world. This is a fact of life for the forcible future. China, Japan, South Korea and the Europeans need oil and will happily buy as much Saudi sweat crude as they can. Because of their large excess capacity, the Saudis literally control the price of oil. Oil prices are low only because the Saudis want to drive the higher cost producers out of the market. The Saudis and Gulf States, for b...See More

Sam Yachup Â· Dunedin High School - Wm Schillerstrom I pretty much agree with your comments but does the U.S. leadership fole always have to take the form of military intervention before diplomatic, social and economic efforts have been exhausted? And what form should military intervention take...peacekeeping, regime change, occupation???

Their approach is to cast Iran as the source of all 'regional tensions' and to hold onto America's Gulf bases in order to be a 'force that can flex across several different mission sets and prevail.'

DemocracyNow - http://www.democracynow.org

Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Thursday, June 09 [5:52]

*DN | As 13M People Read Stanford Victim's Letter, Advocates See "Watershed" Moment in Fight Against Rape (06/09/16) [13:25]

*DN | Dolores Huerta & Norman Solomon on Trump, Sanders' Next Steps & Media Coverage of the 2016 Race (06/08/16) [11:26]

*DN | Dolores Huerta vs. Norman Solomon: A Debate on Best Path Forward for Democratic Party (06/08/16) [3:54]

DN | Meet the Law Professor Leading a Bid to Recall the Judge Who Sentenced Stanford Rapist to 6 Months (06/08/16) [14:23]

TRNN News - http://therealnews.com/

TRNN | Danny Glover: Will the Sanders Movement Develop as an Independent Force? (06/09/16) [15:03]

TRNN | NATO Exercises Encircling Russia: U.S. Might be Sleepwalking into a Doomsday Scenario, Part 1 (06/09/16) [6:06], Part 2 [11:48]

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

TYT | Will Bernie Voters Back Hillary In General Election? (06/08/16) [1:57]

TYT | Media Screaming At Bernie To Drop Out (06/08/16) [11:12]

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

*RT | 'Revolving door': Google & EU govts' cross-hiring revealed in new report (06/09/16) [3:17]

*RT | Keiser Report: In this episode of the Keiser Report, Max and Stacy discuss the markets, showing what the politicians won't tell us: from unsustainable debts to $1 trillion debt pandas. (E925) (06/09/16) [25:45]

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

Thom Hartmann - www.thomhartmann.com/

Diane Rehm - http://thedianerehmshow.org

*DR | The Stanford Rape Case And Why It's Sparking Public Outrage (06/09/16) [1hr]

A California judge last week sentenced former Stanford university athlete Brock Turner to six months in jail for sexually assaulting an unconscious young woman on campus. The lenient sentence sparked widespread public outrage and efforts to recall the judge. Letters to the court by Turner and his father painting Turner as a victim of campus party culture fueled the outrage. The case has also called into question how colleges are addressing the growing number of allegations of sexual assault. We look at the Brock Turner case, sexual assault on American campuses and the role of law enforcement and college administrators.

*DR | Challenges For The Democratic Party And The Presidential Race Ahead (06/09/16) [1hr]

Following Tuesday's primaries Hillary Clinton has become the Democrat's presumptive presidential nominee, the first woman to do so in U.S. history. In her remarks that night she noted that the "vigorous debate' lead by her Democratic opponent, Bernie Sanders, had strengthened the party overall, but there's a hitch: Senator Sanders has vowed to press on. At Sanders' request, he will be meeting with President Obama today. Whether and to what extent Clinton and Sanders can reconcile to present a unified front for the race ahead remains to be seen. Please join us to discuss what's at stake for the Democratic Party.

Aljazeera - http://america.aljazeera.com/

Aljazeera | Talk to Al Jazeera: Dilma Rousseff: 'No legal grounds for this impeachment' (06/07/16) [25:21]

NPR (National Public Radio) - www.npr.org/

PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) - pbs.org/

MSNBC - Maddow/Hayes - www.msnbc.com/

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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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