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Thursday June 20, 2019

Iran Crisis: Have We Learned Nothing From the IRAQ War?
TheIntercept | Deconstructed | 06/20/19

CALLS FOR MILITARY ACTION against Iran grew louder this week in response to the Trump administration's claims that the Islamic Republic was responsible for attacks on oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman. Many analysts and politicians, both in the U.S. and abroad, expressed skepticism of those claims. But the U.S. media appears to be falling into a familiar pattern, providing a sympathetic platform for the administration without fundamentally questioning its premises. What can we learn from the last push for a war in the Middle East 17 years ago? Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, who served as chief of staff to then-Secretary of State Colin Powell during the run-up to the Iraq War, joins Mehdi Hasan to discuss the lessons of recent history. ... Read more
Deconstructed | Mehdi Hasan
Deconstructed Podcast: Iran Crisis: Have We Learned Nothing From the IRAQ War? | TheIntercept | 06/20/19 | ~1hr

Trump Makes INSANE Claims At Re-Election Rally

Trump Makes INSANE Claims At Re-Election Rally (Full show) | TYT | 06/20/19 | 43:31

What to make of the Fed
Axios | Dion Rabouin | 06/20/19

Fed Chair Jerome Powell made clear at the Fed's June policy meeting that the U.S. central bank is ready to cut interest rates -- just not yet.

What it means: Powell looks to be facing pressure from all sides -- President Trump, other central banks and even members of the Fed's rate-setting committee -- to lower interest rates. His press conference suggested that his heart's not in it, but he's ready to go. ...

What he said: "Uncertainties about this outlook have increased.... The Committee will closely monitor the implications of incoming information ... and will act as appropriate to sustain the expansion."

Between the lines: "The Fed left rates on hold but sent a clear message -- the next move is a cut. The only question now is the timing," analysts at Bank of America-Merrill-Lynch wrote in a note to clients. ... Read more

Obama voters explain what drew them to Trump

Obama voters explain what drew them to Trump | CNN | 06/20/19 | 7:41

Alastair Campbell interviews Michael Wolff

Alastair Campbell interviews Michael Wolff | British GQ | older 07/30/18 | 38:11

Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Thursday, June 20 [14:09]

Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Thursday, June 20 (FULL) | 59:02

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Writer Ta-Nehisi Coates Makes the Case for Reparations at Historic Congressional Hearing
Ta-Nehisi Coates: Reparations Are Not Just About Slavery But Also Centuries of Theft & Racial Terror
Ta-Nehisi Coates: "Joe Biden Shouldn't Be President"

Where Are the Skeptics as the Drums Roll for War with Iran? | TRNN | 06/14/19 | 15:29

Another Trump Official Quits | TYT | 06/20/19 | 6:44

Some of the YouTube Comments:

Of course, a guy beating his wife is a "terrific guy" and a "wonderful man" - he is WHITE! Those central park people were not white so of course he won't apologize for them.
Who beats their mom with a bat? What a piece of shit.
Yeah because he's white! Come on wake up america!
"Party of family values." "Trump is great for women."
Like father like son. Boys will be boys right?
Wife beater = terrific person. Trump logic.
Best and brightest.

The1a.org

The Waning Possibility Of Democracy In Sudan | 1a.org | 06/20/19 | 1hr

In the months since pro-democracy activists pushed out Sudanese dictator Omar al-Bashir, clashes between paramilitary groups and peaceful protesters in the country have grown increasingly violent.

In early June, The Sudanese Rapid Support Forces (RSF) attacked a sit-in in Khartoum, leaving over 100 people dead, and causing an estimated thousand cases of sexual violence, according to The New Republic.

One senior U.N. official I spoke to in the past week warned that Sudan was on the brink of a mass atrocity, but the world was not paying attention. The more troubling possibility is that the world has been paying plenty of attention to Sudan all along, but looking after purely Western interests. "Is the West really all driven by control and fear of migration?" a second senior U.N. official wondered to me. "Is that the only thing that they are about?"

Illinois Rep. Sean Casten Joins Those Calling For Impeachment Inquiry | Morning Joe | MSNBC | 06/20/19 | 11:47

US Drone Shot Down By Iran, US Officials Say | Morning Joe | MSNBC | 06/20/19 | 2:54

Former Trump WH Communications Director Hope Hicks Testifies To Congress | The 11th Hour | MSNBC | 06/19/19 | 13:45

Iran shoots down US drone aircraft | CNN | 06/20/19 | 8:12

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Trump 2020 Looks A Lot Like Trump 2016 | Stephen Colbert | 06/19/19 | 13:02
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Some of the YouTube Comments:

Another complete and uncut monologue, thank you for uploading it this way!
In the name of the father, the jr, and the holey ivanka....cant stop laughing.
"THEY'RE REALLY AFTER ALL OF YOU!" No .. for once Trump, this really IS all about you. The one time you wish it wasn't. It is.
We will make America Safe again by impeaching and then prosecuting criminals.
"Imagine if i got a subpoena and just refused to comply".
Everyone behind him looks like a mugshot photo.
Make America safe again by locking that orange faced psycho up.
What a Freakin Chump. Trump is a Lying, Cheating, Con Man!
What stands out about dangerous cult leaders is that they were or are all pathologically narcissistic. They all have or had an over-abundant belief that they were special, that they and they alone had the answers to problems, and that they had to be revered. They demanded perfect loyalty from followers, they overvalued themselves and devalued those around them, they were intolerant of criticism, and above all they did not like being questioned or challenged. And yet, in spite of these less than charming traits, they had no trouble attracting those who were willing to overlook these features. If you know of a cult leader who has many of these traits there is a high probability that they are hurting those around them emotionally, psychologically, physically, spiritually, or financially. This holds true for Jim Jones (Jonestown Guyana), David Koresh (Branch Davidians), Stewart Traill (The Church of Bible Understanding), Charles Manson, Shoko Asahara (Aum Shinrikyo), Joseph Di Mambro (The Order of the Solar Temple aka Ordre du Temple Solaire), Marshall Heff Applewhit (Heaven's Gate), Bhagwan Rajneesh (Rajneesh Movement), and Warren Jeffs (polygamist leader)... and fits Donald Trump like a glove!.

The Daily Show with Trevor Noah

Trump's Weird One-on-One with George Stephanopoulos | The Daily Show | 06/20/19 | 6:14

Jimmy Kimmel Live

Words You Can't Call Trump | Jimmy Kimmel | 06/19/19 | 9:20

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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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