Jun 28 2019 - News Jun 2019 - News - Occupy Banksters & Crony Capitalism & GREED

Friday June 28, 2019

Fact-checking the first Democratic presidential debate (both nights) | The Fact Checker | 06/28/19 | 2:39

** SECOND Democratic Primary Debate:

SECOND Democratic Presidential Debate - June 27 (Full) | NBC News | 06/27/19 | 4:02:27

Note: the debate starts at 1:04:00 on the Progressbar. Use the Progressbar to jump around the video.

Debates highlight the space between 2020 Democrats
Axios | Alexi McCammond | 06/28/19

While Sen. Kamala Harris' confrontation with former Vice President Joe Biden will likely steal most of the postgame headlines from Thursday's second round of the Democratic debates, there were a few other major takeaways worth noting.

The state of play: Democrats are not united on everything. If one of the more progressive Dems won, they'd still have plenty of moderates telling them to get real and stop trying to offer free college to everyone or abolish private health insurance.

Sen. Bernie Sanders seemed like a sidelight: Nearly everyone else could name the first issue they'd push as president but he couldn't, or wouldn't, choose. (Biden, seeming to misunderstand the question, said: "[T]he first thing I would do is make sure that we defeat Donald Trump, period.") ... Read more

5 Takeaways From Night 2 Of The Democratic Debate
NPR | Domenico Montanaro | 06/28/19

When Sen. Kamala Harris of California launched her presidential campaign in January and drew a crowd of 20,000 in Oakland, Calif., she raised some eyebrows about the potential for her candidacy. But during the early stretch of this Democratic primary campaign, Harris struggled to catch on or stand apart -- until Thursday night.

Harris showed in the second night of the first Democratic presidential primary debate why so many thought she had such promise as a candidate from the beginning. She commanded the stage, was crisp, and showed skill and courage in going after former Vice President Joe Biden.

Harris needed a breakout moment, and she got it
Biden did not have a good night
Sanders and Buttigieg were flat
The candidates showed themselves to be very liberal
The race was reshaped after a two-day debate

** FIRSTst Democratic Primary Debate:
Live Analysis
NPR | staff | 06/26/19

We may be done with this debate, but in reality we're only at the midpoint since there are another two hours tomorrow night! We'll have more analysis on NPR.org, a new NPR Politics Podcast in your feed soon and more coverage on air tomorrow. Come back tomorrow as more of the leading candidates take the stage, including former Vice President Joe Biden, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg and California Sen. Kamala Harris.

Who Won the First Democratic Debates?
TheIntecept | Deconstruction | 06/28/19

A WHOPPING 20 Democratic presidential candidates met in Miami, Florida this week for the first in what promises to be a very long season of primary debates. Pre-debate buzz centered around frontrunners like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren--or Kamala Harris and Joe Biden, who let the fireworks fly on the second night in a heated exchange over the ex-Vice President's record on school bussing. One surprise standout was former HUD Secretary JuliÃ¡n Castro, who made headlines on the first night for his radical immigration proposals and for clashing with fellow Texan Beto O'Rourke. Castro joins Mehdi to talk about his big night, and Intercept DC Bureau Chief Ryan Grim stops by to analyze the debates. ... Read more
Deconstructed | Mehdi Hasan
Deconstructed Podcast: Who Won the First Democratic Debates? | TheIntercept | 06/28/19 | 1hr

Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Friday, June 28 [8:17]

Democratic Candidates Talk Immigration, Healthcare & More in First Presidential Primary Debate | DN | 06/27/19 | 42:30

Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Friday, June 28 (FULL) | 59:02

Note: on the full 59:02 video look for small white (or black) circles on the Progressbar they denote the different news stories. You can move the pointer on the Progressbar to jump to each story, and around the video.

Headlines
Supreme Court Hands GOP Big Victory on Gerrymandering, Ensuring "Massive Election Rigging"
Kamala Harris Challenges Biden on Opposing Busing & Integration In 1970s: "That Little Girl Was Me"
Dem Candidates All Support Healthcare for Undocumented People, Split On Decriminalizing Immigration
Remembering Stonewall: On 50th Anniversary, Leaders of Uprising Look Back on Sparking the LGBTQ Movement

Sanders & Warren Pitch Rival Plans to Address $1.6 Trillion in Student Debt | TRNN | 06/27/19 | 14:00

Supreme Court DESTROYS Democracy | TYT | 06/28/19 | 16:09

The1a.org

Friday News Roundup -- Domestic | 1a.org | 06/28/19 | 1hr

We analyzed the first night of debates with NPR political reporter Jessica Taylor and a panel of voters. Kate Nachazel, a senior at the University of Michigan, said she appreciated that the candidates didn't talk so much about President Donald Trump. "I think it's kind of a cheap shot at this point, just saying that we need to stop Trump," she said. She thinks for people voting Democratic, that's already established. What have we learned about these candidates? Who rose to the top? And who sunk to the bottom?
The high court's decision could have profound political consequences. The new population counts from the 2020 census will determine for the next 10 years how many seats each state gets in the U.S. House of Representatives and how many Electoral College votes each state gets in presidential elections beginning in 2024. They also help determine how some $900 billion a year in federal money is allocated across the country for roads, schools, hospitals, health care and more.
Also, 100 children were returned to a facility in Clint, Texas, whose conditions investigators called "substandard." Acting Customs and Border Protection commissioner John Sanders resigned. And the Senate approved a $4.6 billion emergency humanitarian aid bill for the Southern border.
Plus, former special counsel Robert Mueller is set to testify before the House Intelligence and Judiciary committees next month. What can we expect from his testimony?

Friday News Roundup -- International | 1a.org | 06/28/19 | 1hr

The reporter who took the photo, Julia De Luc, wrote about the photo and the story behind it for The Guardian. He died trying to save his daughter's life. Will it change anything? It should. These families have nothing, and they are risking everything for a better life. If scenes like this don't make us think again -- if they don't move our decision-makers -- then our society is in a bad way.
The new president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, pledged to help the family of Ã“scar Alberto MartÃnez RamÃrez and his daughter Valeria. Three million people have left El Salvador, mostly coming to the United States, partly due to endemic crime and corruption.
"Iran had threatened to go over the 300kg limit for low-enriched uranium stockpiles on Thursday," The Guardian reported. But UN investigators said that level had not been met yet, as European diplomats continued talks about Iran's pursuit of enriching uranium. What's the possibility of a new deal between Washington and Tehran?

Harris, Warren Emerge From Rocky First Set Of Debates | Morning Joe | MSNBC | 06/28/19 | 13:07

Sen. Kamala Harris: Joe Biden And I Just Have A Difference Of Opinion | Morning Joe | MSNBC | 06/28/19 | 24:02

Steve Mnuchin details new sanctions on Iran | CNN | 06/24/19 | 6:57

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Stephen Colbert's LIVE Monologue Following Democratic Debate #2 | Stephen Colbert | 06/28/19 | 14:38

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: "We Can't Just Say, 'Is Miami Going To Exist In 50 Years?'" | Stephen Colbert | 06/28/19 | 8:32

Late Night with Seth Meyers

Democratic Presidential Primary Debate, Night Two | Seth Meyers | 06/28/19 | 20:34

06.28.2019. 10:54

NPR

PBS

Special Interest Important stuff

GOOD Shorts Videos

Note: To view a video, click on code at left of the title

I'm still working on this

GOOD Short Videos

Newer Documentaries You Might Not Have Seen

Note: To view a video, click on code at left of the title

I'm still working on this

Newer Documentaries

Documentaries You've Never Seen

Note: To view a video, click on code at left of the title

Documentaries (small | pop-up)
Documentaries (big | full screen)

Good YouTube Documentaries

Note: To view a video, click on its name/title

Great YouTube Docs. (small | pop-up)
Good YouTube Docs. (big | full screen)

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.

Or click here for a tablet or a small screen device

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.

Or click here for a tablet or a small screen device

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.
Or click here for a tablet or a small screen device

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.
Or click here for a tablet or a small screen device

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.

Or click here for a tablet or a small screen device

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,.

Or click here for a tablet or a small screen device

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".

Or click here for a tablet or a small screen device

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.

Or click here for a tablet or a small screen device

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.

Or click here for a tablet or a small screen device

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.

Or click here for a tablet or a small screen device

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

Or click here for a tablet or a small screen device

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.

Or click here for a tablet or a small screen device

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.

Or click here for a tablet or a small screen device

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.

Or click here for a tablet or a small screen device

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.

Or click here for a tablet or a small screen device

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)

Or click here for a tablet or a small screen device

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.

Or click here for a tablet or a small screen device

Occupy Banksters & Crony Capitalism & GREED

Sponsors

Donation