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Tuesday October 18, 2016

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Whipping Boy: Trump Hints RYAN Wants Him To Lose... Trump Rally Chant: 'Paul Ryan Sucks'... MEANWHILE: Ryan Still Endorses...

Elizabeth Warren Drops Truth Bomb on Trump: Here's How Things Are Really 'Rigged'
AlterNet | Alexandra Rosenmann | 10/17/16

"It's rigged for the Donald Trumps of the world!"

Democratic Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren launched another attack on Donald Trump in Denver, Colorado during a campaign speech for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton on Sunday. In perhaps her most effective takedown of the GOP nominee yet, Warren issued a scathing response to Trump's pathetic claims of the election being stolen from him due to a "rigged" system.

"Donald Trump has been talking a big game," Warren announced. "He's been talking about how the game is rigged. Well, I want to say this. He's right. The game is rigged. It's rigged for the Donald Trumps and billionaires of the world, and we're here to fight back!" ... Read more

Republicans May Block Any Of Clinton's Supreme Court Nominees, McCain Says (When will this end?????)

Donald Trump vs. Hillary Clinton Town Hall Debate (10/16/16) [8:26]

Ralph Nader: How Plutocratic Forces Have Crippled Democracy, And Why It's Up to Us to Fight Back
AlterNet | Ralph Nader | 10/13/16

Again and again the tension between commercial imperialism and an ethical life has played out dramatically in American history.

In the 1920s, near the end of his spectacular career as our country's most prominent fighter for working people, labor leader, presidential candidate, orator, and all-around progressive Eugene Debs was asked by a reporter: "Mr. Debs, what do you regret the most in your lifelong struggle for justice?"

Debs looked at him and replied: "What do I regret the most? I regret that the American people can have almost anything they want under our Constitution, but they seem not to want much of anything at all." ... Read more

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Stephen Colbert | One Diagram Explains Every Conspiracy Against Donald Trump (10/18/16) [8:07]

Stephen Colbert | Bill O'Reilly On Mike Pence: Defending Trump Is Not Easy (10/18/16) [6:42], Part 2 [4:50]

Lucifer's Banker: The Untold Story of How I Destroyed Swiss Bank Secrecy by Bradley C. Birkenfeld

As a private banker working for the largest bank in the world, UBS, Bradley Birkenfeld was an expert in Switzerland's shell-game of offshore companies and secret numbered accounts. He wined and dined ultrawealthy clients whose millions of dollars were hidden away from business partners, spouses, and tax authorities. As his client list grew, Birkenfeld lived a life of money, fast cars, and beautiful women, but when he discovered that UBS was planning to betray him, he blew the whistle to the US Government.

The Department of Justice scorned Birkenfeld's unprecedented whistle-blowing and attempted to silence him with a conspiracy charge. Yet Birkenfeld would not be intimidated. He took his secrets to the US Senate, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and the Internal Revenue Service, where he prevailed.

His bombshell revelations helped the US Treasury recover over $15 billion (and counting) in back taxes, fines, and penalties from American tax cheats. But Birkenfeld was shocked to discover that at the same time he was cooperating with the US Government, the Department of Justice was still doggedly pursuing him. He was arrested and served thirty months in federal prison. When he emerged, the Internal Revenue Service gave him a whistle-blower award for $104 million, the largest such reward in history.

A page-turning real-life thriller, Lucifer's Banker is a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the secret Swiss high-net worth banking industry and a harrowing account of our government's justice system. Readers will follow Birkenfeld and share his outrage with the incompetence and possible corruption at the Department of Justice, and they will cheer him on as he ''hammers'' one of the most well-known and powerful banks in the world.

Some Fun News

Mom Uses Face-Painting Skills To Turn Kids Into 'Something Magical'
HP | Taylor Pittman | 10/12/16

Lynn Hetherington Becker of Columbus, Ohio, is a self-taught artist, muralist and face painter. After face painting for charity and church events, Becker decided to offer her skills professionally and learned she especially loves using people's faces as her canvas.

Becker said she loves using her face painting talent to turn kids into "something magical." The mom of three has painted her own kids' faces, as well as kids' faces at events. She said her favorite face-painting piece was for her friend's 3-year-old daughter in which she made her look older. Read more

DemocracyNow - http://www.democracynow.org

Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Monday, October 17 [8:53]
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Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Tuesday, October 18 [9:54]

TRNN News - http://therealnews.com/

*TRNN | Col. Lawrence Wilkerson discusses: After Mosul, will ISIS Whither? (10/18/16) [11:49]

*TRNN | Col. Lawrence Wilkerson discusses: US-Russia Tensions Escalating Over Fate of Assad (10/18/16) [14:03]

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

*TYT | John Cusack Interview with Cenk Uygur on The Young Turks (10/14/16) [59:33]

*TYT | Losing Badly, Trump Swears Election Is Rigged (10/17/16) [8:51]

*TYT | Gingrich And Giuliani: Black People Steal Your Elections! (10/17/16) [12:17]

*TYT | Trump Supporter Explains Hillary Assassination Plans To Camera (10/17/16) [7:10]

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

*RT | Keiser Report: Max and Stacy discuss more warnings of global economic imbalances and the failings of neoliberalism. (E981) (10/18/16) [25:43]

Max and Stacy discuss more warnings of global economic imbalances and the failings of neoliberalism. Max talks to Mike Maloney of GoldSilver.com about his latest chapter in his online documentary on monetary history, Hidden Secrets of Money.

RT | Expedition 49/50 crew holds preflight press conference in Baikonur (10/18/16) [37:39]

Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) cosmonauts Sergei Ryzhikov and Andrei Borisenko, and NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough,hold a preflight press briefing from Baikonur Cosmodrome.

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

Thom Hartmann - www.thomhartmann.com/

*ThomHartmann | Whistleblower, Bradley C. "Brad" Birkenfeld, Lucifer's Banker: The Untold Story of How I Destroyed Swiss Bank Secrecy (10/18/16) [10:19]

*ThomHartmann | The Danger About Donald Trump's "Election Rigging" Talk (10/18/16) [6:15]

Diane Rehm - http://thedianerehmshow.org

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*DR | Donald Trump's Unsubstantiated Claims Of A Rigged Election (10/18/16) [1hr]

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump appears to be doubling down on his claims that there will be voter fraud come election day. And he's called Republican party leaders who have strongly denied his accusations naÃ¯ve. Presumably among those who are naÃ¯ve is his own vice presidential running mate, Mike Pence. Trump offered no evidence to support his accusations, but many say he has already convinced a number of his supporters to question the integrity of the U.S. voting system. Why some say undermining confidence in the U.S. voting system is dangerous -- and assessing the actual risks of potential election fraud.

*DR | H.W. Brands: "The General Vs. The President" (10/18/16) [1hr]

In the years following World War II, Americans enjoyed a brief respite from global conflict. But in December of 1950, China entered the war against the U.S. and its allies in Korea. President Harry Truman assures the American people he will defend South Korea but also wants to avoid escalation into a third world war. His commander of forces in the Pacific is Douglas MacArthur, beloved hero of World War II. MacArthur wants to fight the Chinese and North Korean forces all the way out of Korea. The two leaders soon clash over strategy and President Truman ultimately fires MacArthur. Diane talks with historian H.W. Brands about the struggle for power between an untested president and a powerful general, and how it changed the course of history.

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

Aljazeera | Inside Story - Building BRICS (10/16/16) [24:59]

Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa form the bloc of emerging economies, but is it still relevant? For several years now, the most talked-about trend in the global economy has been the rise of developing markets.

Some economists expected Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa to lead the world to new economic heights. But as the BRICS bloc met for its 8th summit in India's state of Goa, those hopes appeared to be fading.

Aljazeera | We the People - Jobs: End of the Line (10/17/16) [22:44]

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

PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) - pbs.org/

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

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RT Abby Martin | Oliver Stone Blasts American Exceptionalism (10/31/13) [28:01]
Keith Olbermann | You're Lying to Yourself if You Think Trump is the Answer (#24) (10/18/16) [11:56]

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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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