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Friday June 08, 2018

Is the world getting better or worse?

Is the world getting better or worse? A look at the numbers | Steven Pinker | TED | 05/21/18 | 18:32

Trump: 'Don't have to prepare very much' for North Korea summit
TheHill | Jordan Fabian | 06/07/18

President Trump on Thursday said he does not have to prepare "very much" for his high-stakes summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un because he believes "it's about attitude."

"I think I'm very well prepared," Trump told reporters during a meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. "I don't think I have to prepare very much. It's about attitude. It's about willingness to get things done."

The president said the scheduled June 12 summit with Kim in Singapore will be "much more than a photo op," predicting it will be both "fruitful" and "exciting." He also suggested he could host a second round of talks with the North Korean leader to discuss his nuclear program. ... Read more
Guess How Trump Is Prepping For North Korea Summit | TYT | 06/07/18 | 9:58

Ben Bernanke: 'Wile E. Coyote' Economy Will Go Off A Cliff In 2020
HP | Mary Papenfuss | 06/08/18

Former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke warned that the Trump administration's massive, unfunded $1.5 trillion tax cut and about $300 billion in new spending pose serious problems for the future.

"What you are getting is a stimulus at the very wrong moment," Bernanke said at the American Enterprise Institute, a Washington think tank, Bloomberg reported Thursday. "The economy is already at full employment."

Stimulus packages are used when the economy is flagging. When the economy does slump in the future, there may be few reserves to spend to get it going again. Bernanke predicted a "Wile E. Coyote" moment when the fallout hits, referring to the endlessly failing character in the "Road Runner" cartoons. The stimulus "is going to hit the economy in a big way this year and next year, and then in 2020, Wile E. Coyote is going to go off the cliff," Bernanke warned. ... Read more

Free Trade or Fair Trade? | Rich vs Poor?

The deceptive promise of free trade | DW Documentary | 06/06/18 | 42:26

How the rich get richer -- money in the world economy | DW Documentary | 07/05/17 | 42:24

Bernie Sanders, Cuomo spar over health care | CNN | 06/07/18 | 19:28

Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Friday, June 08 [11:12]

Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Friday, June 08 (FULL) | 59:02

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As EPA Scandals Mount, Scott Pruitt Is Radically Reshaping Agency to Aid Polluters and Big Business
Israeli Military Pushes Misleading Video in Attempt to Smear Slain Palestinian Medic Razan al-Najjar
After Trip to Gaza, Anthony Bourdain Accused World of Robbing Palestinians of Their Basic Humanity
Kathy Kelly on Afghanistan: Destitution, Unemployment & Hunger Must Be Addressed to Achieve Peace

US-Saudi-UAE War on Yemen Could Starve Millions of Civilians | TRNN | 06/08/18 | 14:52

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Putin LOVING Trump's New Trade War With Europe | TYT | 06/07/18 | 13:41

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Friday News Roundup -- Domestic | 1a.org | 06/08/18 | 1hr

This week, Democrats took a step toward regaining control of the House of Representatives, following elections in California, New Jersey and several other states.
Women candidates were also highly successful. At least 601 women are expected to run for the House, Senate or gubernatorial seats this year, according to Politico.
Two states -- Iowa and South Dakota -- are poised to elect female governors for the first time this fall after Republican women secured their party nominations. And women will make important gains in the House after posting key victories in New Mexico, Iowa and New Jersey.
This week, President Trump commuted the sentence of Alice Johnson, a 63-year-old woman with a life sentence for a nonviolent drug conviction. Kim Kardashian West advocated for Johnson at the White House last week.
Trump did not comment on the revised death toll in Puerto Rio at a FEMA meeting regarding hurricane preparedness. After a public statement, the president pivoted to "his prowess in negotiating airplane deals, his popularity, the effectiveness of his political endorsements," among other topics, according to leaked audio of the meeting obtained by the Washington Post.
A delivery man was detained by ICE after he dropped off pizza at an Army base in Brooklyn. For the third month in a row, there were more than 50,000 arrests at the border in May. And The New York Times told the story of a child from Honduras who was separated from his father at the border.
The first few nights, he cried himself to sleep. Then it turned into "just moaning and moaning," said Janice, his foster mother. He recently slept through the night for the first time, though he still insists on tucking the family pictures under his pillow.

Friday News Roundup -- International | 1a.org | 06/08/18 | 1hr

A Pentagon spokesperson said this week that there is no way to know how many civilians have been killed in the fight against ISIS. However, an Amnesty International report says the U.S. killed thousands of civilians in the campaign to remove ISIS from Raqqa, Syria.
A volcanic eruption in Guatemala turned deadly this week. Ninety-nine people are now known to have died since Sunday, and nearly 200 others remain unaccounted for, according to the BBC.
The G7 meeting will be held in Canada this weekend, although some commentators are calling it the G6 + 1 in response to tariffs put in place by the United States.
And former basketball player Dennis Rodman is "considering going to Singapore" for the upcoming summit between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and President Trump. What do we know about how the talks will look? Who will and won't be at the negotiating table?

Joe: Rudy Giuliani Is Not Even A Shadow Of Himself Now | Morning Joe | MSNBC | 06/08/18 | 17:44

Why Rudy Giuliani's PR Strategy Could Be A Big Problem | Morning Joe | MSNBC | 06/08/18 | 11:45

Bipartisan Senate Pair Team Up On Marijuana Bill | Morning Joe | MSNBC | 06/08/18 | 12:05

Trump's bedtime story: 'The Book' | Axios | 06/08/18 | 4:29

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Rudy Giuliani: 'I Don't Even Really Look At Porn' | Stephen Colbert | 06/07/18 | 9:48

China's Sonic Attacks Reach The Late Show | Stephen Colbert | 06/08/18 | 2:45

Scott Pruitt Is Hungry For Chick-fil-A | Stephen Colbert | 06/08/18 | 4:37

The Daily Show with Trevor Noah

Team Trump's Above-the-Law Legal Arguments | Trevor Noah | 06/08/18 | 6:09

Full Frontal with Samantha Bee

Missing Migrant Children Update | Samantha Bee | 006/06/18 | 7:08

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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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