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Chuck Hagel Stepping Down As Secretary Of Defense
AP & HP | Julie Pace | 11/24/14

President Barack Obama says Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has concluded it's an "appropriate time" for him to complete his service. Obama says Hagel will stay in place at the Pentagon until a successor is confirmed.

Hagel has had a rocky tenure of nearly two years in which he's struggled to break through the White House's insular foreign policy team. He stepped down under pressure amid multiple foreign policy crises, including the rise of the Islamic State group. ... Read more

Arresting Portraits Give Voices To Homeless People In America's Poorest Big City by Robbie Couch (11/24/14) (photos)

Behind 700% Loans, Profits Flow Through Red Rock to Wall Street
Bloomberg | Zeke Faux | 11/24/14

Joshua Wrenn needed money to make the January payment for his Jeep Cherokee. The truck driver and aspiring country singer in Madison, North Carolina, got $800 within minutes from a website he found on his phone. When he called to check his balance a few weeks later, he was told he had electronically signed a contract to pay back $3,920 to a company owned by an American Indian tribe.

"I didn't ever see a contract, not one time," said Wrenn, 30. "If I was that stupid, to sign for $3,000 for an $800 loan, I might as well bury myself alive."

Payday loans like Wrenn's -- costly, short-term advances for those with poor credit -- are illegal in North Carolina and about a dozen other states. That's driving online lenders to Indian reservations, where tribes say they're not subject to interest-rate regulations.

American Web Loan, Wrenn's payday lender, is one of the biggest in the U.S. Its offices are in four double-wide trailers, behind the Otoe-Missouria tribe's 7 Clans Paradise Casino in Red Rock, Oklahoma, off a two-lane highway lined with wheat fields. John Shotton, chairman of the Otoe-Missouria, says his impoverished tribe needs the profits to fund affordable housing and after-school programs. ... Read more

Here Are The Most Popular "Hedge Fund" Stocks in The Third Quarter
AAPL has regained its top spot as the global hedge fund hotel's most beloved stock. In fact, 4 of the 5 most widely held names are all tech names, with GOOG, MSFT and FB rounding out the top 4, and only Citigroup as the outlier in the top 5. Perhaps more notable is that the former hedge fund darlings AIG and GM, have been abandoned by the HF crowd, and were in 9th and 16th place, respectively. Click to zoom - for Larger Image

7 Leading Candidates for Corporate Rip-Off of the Year
Alternet | Paul Buchheit | 11/23/14

There are so many to choose from. Every one of these selections is an act of corporate treachery that takes billions of dollars from the American people.

Selling Medication For Up To 100 Times More Than It's Worth - For an example is Gilead Sciences, the manufacturer of the drug Sovaldi, which charges about $10 a pill to its customers in Egypt, then comes home to charge $1,000 a pill to its American customers.
Paying Their Employees With Our Tax Money - Walmart made $19 billion in U.S. profits last year, and the four Walton siblings together made about $29 billion from their personal investments. That's about $33,000 per U.S. employee in profits and family stock gains. Yet they pay their 1.4 million American employees so little that the average Walmart worker depends on about $4,000 per year in taxpayer assistance, for food stamps and other safety net programs.
Giving Money to Executives Rather Than Investing in the Future - Corporations are spending trillions of dollars on stock buybacks, which use potential research and development money to pump up the prices of executive stock options. Apple alone is spending $90 billion to repurchase its own stock through 2015.
Making Money on Dirty Air and Water - Koch Industries dumps more pollutants into rivers and streams than General Electric and International Paper combined.
Making the Highest Profit Margin in the Corporate World -- And Demanding a Tax Cut - The trading volume on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) reached $1 quadrillion in notionalvalue last year. That's a thousand trillion dollars, about ten times greater than the world economy. CME complained that its taxes were too high, and they demanded and received an $85 million tax break from the State of Illinois.
Skipping Out on the Country that Made Their Business Possible - Walgreens (which later backed down), Burger King, and Medtronic are the biggest names in the so-called inversions that allow companies to desert the country that made them successful.
Group Ripoff: $74 Billion in Profits...and a Tax Refund - It seems incomprehensible that Boeing, Ford, Chevron, Citigroup, Verizon, JP Morgan, and General Motors, with a combined income last year of $74 billion, would pay no taxes, and in fact receive a combined refund of nearly $2 billion.

DemocracyNow - http://www.democracynow.org/

Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Monday, November 24 [16:15]

DN | After Vowing to End Combat Mission in Afghanistan, Obama Secretly Extends America's Longest War (11/24/14) [22:59]

DN | No Debate: Antiwar Voices Absent from Corporate TV News Ahead of U.S. Attacks on Iraq & Syria () [5:20]

TRNN News - http://therealnews.com/

TRNN | Who Is In Charge of Development: The Elite or the Majorities? (11/24/14) [11:54]

Homeless Man Records His Daily Life (11/16/14) [7:05]

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

TYT | Our F*cked Up Medical System May Leave This Family Bankrupt (11/23/14) [6:25]

TYT | NYC Penthouses Include Big Juicy Tax Breaks & Systemic Corruption (11/23/14) [8:59]

TYT | GOP To Blame Obama For The Government Shutdown They're Planning (11/23/14) [4:36]

TYT | Crazy Muslim Theory From The Biggest Presidential Palace Ever (11/23/14) [4:58]

Thom Hartmann

Thom Hartmann | Nomi Prinz: Banksters are Rigging the "Stock" System with HFT (04/08/14) [10:37]

TestTube (Discovery Digital Network)

How Powerful Is China? (09/04/14) [4:09]

Why are Russia and Ukraine Fighting? (09/03/14) [4:05]

Nomi Prinz

All the Presidents' Bankers by Nomi Prins (07/14/14) [1:04:14]

The longstanding relationship between Wall Street and the White House has often been described as a "revolving door," with both camps benefiting from the connection. All the Presidents' Bankers: The Hidden Alliances that Drive American Power offers an inside look at the political and economic web spun between these two giants. Journalist Nomi Prins traces the history of this partnership, from the creation of the Federal Reserve in 1907 to bankers' influence on politics after the financial crisis of 2008. A former Wall Street executive, Prins unravels the Ivy League schools, fishing trips, marriages, and job offers that thicken these ties each year. By recycling power and keeping it "in the family," Wall Street and the White House have become mutually beneficial entities, working together to shape national -- and international -- politics. According to Prins, these ties have had devastating consequences and the time has come to break them before it's too late.

Massive Fraud of The Financial Class with Nomi Prins () [1:19:06]

Interview with Nomi Prins; Sociopathic Banksters are Running the World () [49:08]

Nomi Prins-Financial Crash-Collapse Coming, It Should Have Happened () [19:41]

Webster Tarpley

Webster Tarpley on the 46 Drills of 9/11 (03/07/12) [58:36]

9/11 Synthetic Terror - Made in USA () [1:05:47]

Webster Tarpley 2013 "Manufactured Terrorism" () [1:08:54]

Webster Tarpley 9/11-Evidence () [1:06:12]

The Dark Web

BBC | Inside The Dark Web () [1:00:26]

TWC: The Dark Web Rises: A Journey through the Looking Glass! () [1:16:25]

Anonymous - The Internet's Own Boy - The Story of Aaron Swartz () [1:45:00]

The Virtual Interview: Edward Snowden - The New Yorker () [1:08:04]

More 9/11 Documentaries

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Identifying 9/11 Victims

PBS Newshour | author | 09/21/01
SUSAN DENTZER: Father of two, and a civilian Army employee, Ted Moy worked at the Pentagon. When his wife did not hear from him after last week's terrorist attack, she called various Pentagon phone numbers he'd given her to track him down.

MADELINE MOY: He's been moved around just, you know, different parts of Pentagon. I said, "Okay, I'll give him a few more hours," you know, and then I start to cry.

SUSAN DENTZER: By the time Madeline Moy and other family members were taken by bus several days later to see the crash site, they knew Ted wasn't coming back. ...

... SUSAN DENTZER: 52 of the 117 remains removed from the Pentagon have now been identified. Out of the more than 6,300 missing in New York those identified and whose families have also been notified now number 135.
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A Pattern of Evidence Destruction, Evidence Suppression, and Cover-up by Authorities and 9/11 Commission (article)

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Pentagon Body Parts/debris (01/31/13) (article)

Question

How is it possible that the Pentagon's highly touted missile detections systems could not locate Flight 77 in the 42 minutes it was known to be lost before it crashed into the heart of the defense system of the U.S.? The missile detection systems did not depend on FAA radar and were programmed to pick up any unaccounted for objects and raise alarms immediately, as mentioned on the CBO website.

Here's another related question. Why was the Pentagon's billion-dollar missile defense system such a hot topic in the media before 9/11, yet we've heard almost nothing about it since? Could it be that there are elements in the government and military who don't want people to think about questions like those asked here? And an even bigger question is why isn't our media asking these questions and more?

Why is it that the 9/11 Commission budget was far less than the budget allotted to the Challenger space shuttle disaster or even the Monica Lewinsky affair? The 9/11 commission was originally allotted only $3 million. Eventually, after much begging and haggling, the commission was given $15 million. Yet a CNN article lists the cost of the Lewinsky investigation at $30 million. A Los Angeles Times article states the cost of the Columbia space shuttle disaster investigation was $175 million.

How could 9/11 -- the greatest disaster in American history -- be given such a small budget for investigation? Why didn't the Pentagon aggressively investigate the greatest failure ever in U.S. defenses? And why did both the president (see CNN article) and vice-president (see Newsweek article) initially oppose any investigation at all?

History Leading Up to 9/11

The Secret History of 9/11 () [1:30:15]

Pilots for 9/11 Truth

Pandora's Black Box - Chapter Two - Flight Of American 77 () [50:56]

9/11: ATTACK ON THE PENTAGON () [50:56]

9/11: Skygate 911 () [39:50]

9/11: Simulations NEW RELEASE (2014) [46:22]
PilotsFor911Truth.org website

Falling Man (9/11)

9/11 - The Falling Man () [1:11:26]

More 9/11 Documentaries

ABC | Report from Ground Zero, Part 1 () [26:51], Part 2 [26:00], Part 3 [26:00], Part 4 [26:00]

HC | Relics from the Rubble (9/11) (2002) [51:27]

Pentagon 9/11 footage - rare clips() [8:38]

Thought Provoking | Should we ignore new 911 details () [10:39]

FAKE | 9/11 Pentagon HIT BY US CRUISE MISSILE () [3:37]

FAKE | LEAKED 9/11 ANNIVERSARY PENTAGON CRUISE MISSILE FOOTAGE WITH ANALYSIS () [6:19]

Webster Tarpley

Webster Tarpley on the 46 Drills of 9/11 (03/07/12) [58:36]

11.24.2014. 14:56

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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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