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Friday September 30, 2016
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Worse than Sarah Palin! Joe Biden Goes to Town on Trump's Fact-Free Debate Disaster
AlterNet | Alexandra Rosenmann | 09/30/16

Vice President Joe Biden was horrified by Monday night's presidential debate. "I was watching by myself," he told "Tonight Show" host Jimmy Fallon when asked about the heavily anticipated event, adding, "I've never quite seen anything like that." Given Donald Trump's tendency to lie, there was much emphasis placed on fact-checking, which Biden acknowledged certainly kept the Bloomberg folks busy.

"I can tell you what, I've never seen anybody who knew so few facts," he said. Biden also rehashed his memories of debating Sarah Palin in 2008, which over 70 millon people watched.

"It's not a joke! It's like, whoa!" Biden exclaimed. "We are in real jeopardy." ... Read more

We Just Passed A Grim Carbon Dioxide Threshold, Possibly For Good
HP | Dominique Mosbergen | 09/28/16

CO2 levels surpassed 400 ppm in September. Scientists say we won't see a month below that symbolic benchmark "ever again."

Scientists at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii announced in 2013 that atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide reached a daily average above 400 parts per million for the first time in history. CO2 concentrations "haven't been this high in millions of years," said scientist Erika Podest at the time. "This milestone is a wake-up call."

But the situation has only gotten worse. Worldwide, 400 ppm, which indicates the ratio of carbon dioxide to other gases in the atmosphere, started to be read more consistently and in more locations. Last March, global CO2 levels topped the symbolic benchmark for an entire month -- a first since record-keeping began. Antarctica, the last place on Earth without a 400 ppm reading, finally reached it in May. ... Read more

How a Reclusive Hedge-Fund Boss and His Daughter Are Reshaping the Republican Party
Time |Alex Altman | 09/29/16

Robert and Rebekah Mercer have emerged as powerful players in Donald Trump's campaign, not to mention the fight for the GOP's future. What is it they want?

... Over the course of the 2016 presidential contest, the Mercers have become two of the most pivotal and least understood behind-the-scenes players in American politics. Robert Mercer is a reclusive figure who has never spoken publicly about his political beliefs. Daughter Rebekah, a former Wall Street trader who runs an online gourmet-cookie company with her sisters, is described as the activist investor behind the family's vast political concerns. Together they form a link between Trump's campaign and super PAC, armed with the cash and clout to shape everything from his staff to his data operation to his super PAC strategy. "It's hard to think of anybody like them," says Larry Noble of the nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center. ... Read more

Mothballing the World's Fanciest Oil Rigs Is a Massive Gamble
Bloomberg | David Wethe | 09/19/16

In a far corner of the Caribbean Sea, one of those idyllic spots touched most days by little more than a fisherman chasing blue marlin, billions of dollars worth of the world's finest oil equipment bobs quietly in the water.

They are high-tech, deepwater drillships -- big, hulking things with giant rigs that tower high above the deck. They're packed tight in a cluster, nine of them in all. The engines are off. The 20-ton anchors are down. The crews are gone. For months now, they've been parked here, 12 miles off the coast of Trinidad & Tobago, waiting for the global oil market to recover.

The ships are owned by a company called Transocean Ltd., the biggest offshore-rig operator in the world. And while the decision to idle a chunk of its fleet would seem logical enough given the collapse in oil drilling activity, Transocean is in truth taking an enormous, and unprecedented, risk. No one, it turns out, had ever shut off these ships before. ... Read more
Off the coast of Trinidad, high-tech drillships are piling up. They were shut down to cut costs. Will they ever come back on? ()09/19/16) [4:07]

How Donald Made a Fortune by Dumping His Debt on Other People
motherJones | Max J. Rosenthal | 09/30/16

Until the election, Mother Jones Magazine bringing you "The Trump Files," a daily dose of telling episodes, strange but true stories, or curious scenes from the life of GOP nominee Donald Trump.

In 1995, five years after his business empire nearly collapsed under massive debt, Donald Trump was finally righting the ship. He'd sold off costly assets like his mega-yacht and money-losing airline, gone through two bankruptcies, and gotten debt relief by giving his creditors partial ownership of some of his properties. But the three casinos he still controlled -- the Taj Mahal, the Trump Plaza, and the Trump Castle -- were still deeply in debt.

So Trump figured out a way to erase that debt -- at least for himself. He created Trump Hotels and Casino Resorts, a publicly traded company that operated the Trump Plaza. For about six months, it was a success. The company's stock shot up from $14 to $35 a share, putting Trump back on the Forbes list of America's 400 wealthiest people and helping him pay down $88 million of his personal debt, according to the Washington Post's Michael Kranish and Marc Fisher in their book, Trump Revealed. "The IPO of Trump Hotels was what finally fueled Trump's comeback," wrote Fortune this March. ... Read more

Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Friday, September 30 [12:56]
DN | As Earth Reaches Frightening CO2 Milestone, Bill McKibben Calls for War on Climate Change. Part 1 (09/30/16) [10:56 ], Part 2 [17:34] *TRNN | Bill Black discusses: CEO John Stumpf faces grilling from Congress on How Wells Fargo Keeps Scamming Its Customers & Employees (09/30/16) [21:15]
Pull Quote
As oppose to business entrepreneurs, most top executives don't care about their industry or closer yet their company. Their motto :"I'll Be Gone, You Will Be Gone"
*TRNN | The Empire Files: How Palestine Became Colonized (09/30/16) [22:31]
TRNN | international law professor John Quigley discusses: Obama Vetoed 9/11 Bill to Preserve U.S. Impunity (09/30/16) [11:42]
*TYT | Meet Trump's New Sugar Daddy (09/29/16) [20:08]
Robert Mercer is a right-wing oligarch who loves bribing politicians so he can make more money at the expense of everyone else. He recently went ahead and bought himself a slightly used Trump campaign.

Mercer, who first spent over $10 million trying to make Ted Cruz president,just gave $2 million to a Super PAC supporting Trump. Mercer is also a top investor in the Breitbart News Network. According to the Post, Mercer's daughter Rebekah nudged Trump to bring in Stephen Bannon, Breitbart's executive chairman, to run his campaign.
TYT | LEAKED MEMO: Trump Campaign's Monica Lewinsky Strategy (09/29/16) [4:32]
A leaked memo from the Trump campaign shows a plan to have his surrogates bring up the Monica Lewinsky scandal while praising Trump for not bringing it up. Trump's son went as far as to call him "courageous" for not using this line of attack in the debate.
RT | Keiser Report: Invasion of Debt Snatchers (E 973) (08/29/16) [25:40]
Max and Stacy discuss the Invasion of the debt snatchers as tech gets leveraged and mobile phone bills get collateralized. In the second half Max and Stacy continue their conversation with Karl Gray (@paradimeshift) about the cryptocurrency and blockchain investment space.
RT | CrossTalk: Russia-US relations: Increased Tensions (08/30/16) [24:28]
Thom Hartmann - www.thomhartmann.com/
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*DR | Friday News - Domestic (09/30/16) [1hr]
After the first presidential debate, polls show Donald Trump losing support from women in key battleground states. Congress acts to avoid a government shutdown. And a new report says the U.S. murder rate surged last year. A panel of journalists joins Diane for analysis of the week's top national news stories.
*DR | Friday News - International (09/30/16) [1hr]
Heads of state attend the funeral of Israeli statesman Shimon Peres. Russia rejects Secretary Kerry's demands on Syria. And the U.S. plans to deploy 600 more troops to Iraq to fight the Islamic State. A panel of journalists joins guest host Joshua Johnson for analysis of the week's top international news stories.
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09.30.2016. 11:29

Thursday September 29, 2016
News Articles

Trump angry at allies conceding he lost debate
CNN & HP | Gloria Borger | 09/29/16

Donald Trump is angry that his aides and advisers have conceded to reporters -- largely without attribution -- that the Republican nominee struggled in his first presidential debate.

In a conference call with surrogates Wednesday afternoon, Trump aides made clear the Republican nominee is upset that his allies publicly acknowledged they pushed him to change his preparation and tactics before his next bout with Hillary Clinton. And he wants them to stop it immediately. The message was "not subtle," a source familiar with the call said. ... Read more

Trump Debate Excuses Tweet
Believe me, I won. You didn't see it, but I won. Believe me. I was there. It was beautiful. I used big words. #TrumpDebateExcuses
Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right by Arlie Russell Hochschild

In Strangers in Their Own Land, the renowned sociologist Arlie Hochschild embarks on a thought-provoking journey from her liberal hometown of Berkeley, California, deep into Louisiana bayou country--a stronghold of the conservative right. As she gets to know people who strongly oppose many of the ideas she famously champions, Hochschild nevertheless finds common ground and quickly warms to the people she meets -- among them a Tea Party activist whose town has been swallowed by a sinkhole caused by a drilling accident -- people whose concerns are actually ones that all Americans share: the desire for community, the embrace of family, and hopes for their children.

Strangers in Their Own Land goes beyond the commonplace liberal idea that these are people who have been duped into voting against their own interests. Instead, Hochschild finds lives ripped apart by stagnant wages, a loss of home, an elusive American dream--and political choices and views that make sense in the context of their lives. Hochschild draws on her expert knowledge of the sociology of emotion to help us understand what it feels like to live in "red" America. Along the way she finds answers to one of the crucial questions of contemporary American politics: why do the people who ...
*TYT | Elizabeth Warren Costs Wells Fargo Executives $60 Million (09/28/16) [16:09]
Stephen Colbert | Elizabeth Warren Rips Wells Fargo's CEO A New One (09/29/16) [6:01]

The Run Begins: Deutsche Bank Hedge Fund Clients Withdraw Excess Cash
ZeroHedge | author | 09/29/16

Deutsche Bank concerns just went to '11' as Bloomberg reports a number of funds that clear derivatives trades with Deutsche Bank AG have withdrawn some excess cash and positions held at the lender, a sign of counterparties' mounting concerns about doing business with Europe's largest investment bank. ... Read more

Wells Fargo To Be Sanctioned By DOJ For Improperly Seizing Soldiers' Cars
ZeroHedge | author | 09/29/16

And the hits just keep on coming. The full court press on Wells Fargo continues, on the heels of California's sanctions, Bloomberg reports the bank is now facing a Justice Department sanction over improperly repossessing cars owned by members of the military, according to two people with knowledge of the investigation. ... Read more

Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Thursday, September 29 [12:26]
What Drives Trump Supporters?: Sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild on Anger & Mourning of the Right (09/28/16) [15:53 ]
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Stephen Colbert | Elon Musk Wants To Fire Donald Trump Into Space (09/29/16) [8:52]
*TRNN | Morris Pearl, the chairs of an association of millionaires: 'Patriotic Millionaires' Call for Higher Taxes and Wall St. Regulation (09/29/16) [21:05]
*TRNN | David Turnbull of Oil Change International discusses: Report: Fossil Fuel Projects Must Be Phased Out Within 17 Years to Halt Global Warming (09/29/16) [11:44]
*TRNN | Whistleblower John Kiriakou: Intelligence Agencies Are Gathering Information Against You in Case of Your Dissent (09/28/16) [6:37]
TYT | Trump Foundation Is Donald Trump's Personal Piggy Bank, Not A Charity (09/28/16) [9:25]
TYT | Germany PROVES We Can END Fossil Fuels (09/28/16) [3:22]
RT | 'We'll sell launches, not promises': Russian firm joins space race with Sea Launch platform purchase (09/29/16) [2:57]
RT | Reports: Syrian rebels may get weapons capable of downing planes (09/28/16) [6:26]
Thom Hartmann - www.thomhartmann.com/
*ThomHartmann | Is Citizens United Coming to An End? (09/28/16) [8:05]
ThomHartmann | "Trumped Up Trickle Down" Explained... (09/28/16) [12:45]
ThomHartmann | We Have All Won An Oligarchy & Lost A Democracy (09/28/16) [6:09]
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*DR | Congress Overrides President Obama's Veto Of A 9/11 Victims' Bill (09/29/16) [1hr]
The Senate overrides President Obama's veto of a bill that would allow 9/11 victims' families to sue Saudi Arabia. How these lawsuits might work -- and how other nations might respond.
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09.29.2016. 12:15

Wednesday September 28, 2016
News Articles

Republican Senators Call Trump's Debate Performance 'Interesting'
HP | Laura Barron-Lopez | 09/27/16

Senate Republicans came up with creative answers or gave up and ran away from reporters on Tuesday when asked about Donald Trump's performance during his first presidential debate against Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.

Out of several Republicans The Huffington Post asked about Trump's Monday night showing, three said it was "interesting" before escaping behind closed doors, one told HuffPost to "go away," three thought their nominee started out strong but couldn't keep up momentum, and another was just pleased "nobody was throwing anything." ... Read more

*Elon Musk to Make Us a Multiplanetary Species
Bloomberg News | Dana Hull | 09/23/16

When Elon Musk takes the stage of the 67th International Astronautical Congress in Guadalajara, Mexico on Sept. 27, it won't be to rehash terrestrial concerns like a fatal Tesla autopilot crash or a poorly received merger proposal. Instead, the space and electric-car entrepreneur will be talking about realizing his boyhood dream: going to Mars.

Musk's keynote address, entitled "Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species," will tackle the technical challenges and "potential architectures for colonizing the Red Planet," according to organizers. Translation: huge rockets, big spacecraft. No one has been anticipating the event more eagerly than Musk, who founded Space Exploration Technologies Corp., his rocket-launch company, 14 years ago with the express goal of putting humans on other planets to live and work. ... Read more
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk: Colonizing Mars Simulation (current) [7:49]

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk unveils plans to 'colonize Mars' (09/27/16) [1:26:01]

Elon Musk takes the stage of the 67th International Astronautical Congress in Guadalajara, Mexico on Sept. 27, it won't be to rehash terrestrial concerns like a fatal Tesla autopilot crash or a poorly received merger proposal. Instead, the space and electric-car entrepreneur will be talking about realizing his boyhood dream: going to Mars.

*Obama Humiliated: Senate Overrides President's Veto Of "Sept 11" Bill In Crushing 97-1 Vote
ZeroHedge | author | 09/28/16

Moments ago, the Senate voted overwhelmingly to override President Obama's veto of a bill letting the victims of the 9/11 attacks sue Saudi Arabia, striking a blow to the president on foreign policy weeks before he leaves office. The vote marks the first time the Senate has mustered enough votes to overrule Obama's veto pen. ... Read more

"Russian Roulette" - Credit Suisse CEO Admits "EU Banks Not Really Investable"
ZeroHedge | author | 09/28/16

European banks are in a "very fragile situation" and are "not really investable as a sector" according to Credit Suisse chief executive Tidjane Thiam. Speaking at a conference in London this morning, The FT reports, the CEO of Europe's 'other Deutsche Bank' said "only a fool would try to make a five-year prediction in a world that is so random," wishing John Cryan (DB CEO) well, "I hope that they come out of their current predicament." ... Read more

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*DR | Who Pays Federal Income Taxes And Who Does Not (09/28/16) [1hr]
In Monday's debate, Republican nominee Donald Trump boasted that he paid little or nothing in federal income taxes in some years. Tax experts say this is highly unusual for such a high earner, unless he operated his businesses at a net loss. In general, high-income Americans pay more federal income taxes than middle- or low-income households. About 43% of households do not pay any federal income taxes because they are too poor. High earners, including real estate developers like Trump, however, can use several techniques to minimize taxes, including tax deductions for depreciating property. Who pays federal income taxes, who does not -- and why.
Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Wednesday, September 28 [10:25]
DN | Jill Stein "Debates" Clinton & Trump in Democracy Now! Part 1 (09/27/16) [12:06 ], Part 2 [15:20 ], Part 3 [ 13:38], Part 4 [18:45], Part 5 [18:56], Part 6 [10:56]
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
*Samantha Bee | Donald Trump and Roger Ailes, A Match Made in Hell, Part 1 (09/19/16) [6:52], Part 2 [4:23]
Samantha Bee | Donald Trump and the media: a terrifying, country-ending love affair, Part 1 (09/19/16) [5:13], Part 2 [4:57]
TRNN | Bill Curry and Rania Khalek predict that the debate will lead to a Clinton victory over the neo-fascist Trump, but also say that Clinton takes progressive positions "like chess pieces" - only to remove them from the table later (09/27/16) [16:08]
TRNN | Historian Gerald Horne: Trump and the Social Basis of Fascism (09/27/16) [15:41]
*TYT | Donald Trump Makes Excuses For Poor Debate Performance (09/27/16) [6:23]
TYT | Trump Rally Launches New Birther Theory: Funny or Scary? (09/27/16) [4:12]
TYT | Donald Trump Makes Excuses For Poor Debate Performance (09/27/16) [6:23]
TYT | Trump Debate Snifflegate (09/27/16) [3:42]
RT | US vs. Deutsche Bank: Another obstacle for Merkel in election year? (09/27/16) [6:06]
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09.28.2016. 12:13

Tuesday September 27, 2016
News Articles
CHUMP... FINEMAN: Worst Debate Performance Ever... Trump 'Punches Himself Out'... 'Loses His Cool'... Fell For Clinton's Trap... LUNTZ PANEL: 17-3 For Hillary, 'Birther Question Destroyed Him'... CNN: 18-2 Hillary... Undecideds React Coolly To Trump... Even White Supremacists Agree!... Trump Held It Together For 10 Minutes -- Then Unraveled... 'Improvised His Way To Infamy'... Contrast 'As Stark As Any Presidential Debate In American History'... D E B A C L E... Trump Interrupts Hillary Dozens Of Times!... Boasts Of Taking Advantage Of U.S. Laws And Workers... Hillary's Strategy: Expose Trump As Fraud And Scam Artist...
*PBS News | Presidential Debate 9/26/16 Donald Trump vs Hillary Clinton (full) (09/26/16) [1:33:21]
TYT | Presidential Debate | Who Won? (09/26/16) [12:41]
TYT | Why This Election Is SO Important. Wes Clark Jr. Vs. Jimmy Dore Debate (09/26/16) [13:01]

Trump Is Only Kind Of A Global Warming Truther, Campaign Manager Says
HP | Akbar Shahid Ahmed | 09/27/16

She offered fresh denials and explanations about the Republican nominee's science-denying tweets.

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump believes climate change is a natural phenomenon, his campaign manager told CNN Tuesday morning. That's a fresh story ? and a fresh lie. During the presidential debate Monday night, Trump himself lied by denying that he had previously called global warming a man-made hoax. ... Read more

Biographer Reveals There's Zero Evidence That Trump Is a Billionaire--He 'Just Makes It Up'
AlterNet | David Ferguson / Raw Story | 09/26/16

David Cay Johnston said that if Trump wasn't a presidential candidate, but just someone sitting next to you on a bar stool, "you'd quickly conclude, 'That's nuts.'"

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and The Making of Donald Trump author David Cay Johnston said in a new video that there is no evidence whatsoever that Donald Trump is actually the billionaire he claims to be.

In 2015, Johnston said, Trump variously claimed his net worth to be $8.7 billion, $10 billion, $11 billion and higher, "even though there was nothing going on in the economy that would suggest that kind of gyrations of net worth." ... Read more
There's Zero Evidence That Trump Is a Billionaire -- He 'Just Makes It Up' (09/27/16) [2:10]

Hillary vs Donald: So Who Won?
ZeroHedge | author | 09/27/16
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Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Tuesday, September 27 [10:04]
DN | WATCH: Clinton-Trump Debate & Democracy Now! Roundtable (full last night) (09/26/16) [2:59:04]
DN | Expanding the Debate: Jill Stein Spars with Clinton & Trump in Democracy Now! Part 1 (09/27/16) [51:00], Part 2 [52:00]
The Daily Show
*Trevor Noah | Trevor reacts to the first presidential debate! (09/27/16) [8:27]
Trevor Noah | 44% users get their news from Facebook! Part 1 (09/27/16) [8:27], Part 2 [6:46]
Trevor is awed by the raw fury of TheBlaze commentator Tomi Lahren, whose right-wing rants have made her an internet sensation.
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Stephen Colbert | The First Presidential Debate Lives Up To the Hype (09/26/16) [9:44]
TRNN | Glen Ford and Jeff Cohen discuss: Clinton vs Trump Debate: Is One Section of the Oligarchy More Dangerous? (09/27/16) [25:54]
TRNN | 24 Arrested For Demanding An Open Debate (09/27/16) [3:58]
TRNN | Col. Larry Wilkerson discusses: Trump's Position on Jerusalem Puts Him on the Side of the Settler Movement (09/27/16) [12:44]
TYT | We Should Ask Donald Trump Tough Question About Money (09/26/16) [3:22]
TYT | Presidential Debate | Was Hillary Clinton's Strategy Effective? (09/26/16) [4:47]
*RT | Keiser Report: Houdini's Magic Tricks in Modern Economy & Politics (E972) (09/27/16) [25:45]
Max and Stacy discuss what Houdini could teach us about the modern economy and politics, from the totally fake vanishing acts like the Libor charity funds in the UK to the very real entertaining extravaganzas like the Trump campaign. In the second half, Max and Stacy talk to Karl Gray (@paradimeshift) about his investments in Aid:Tech and how the blockchain is actually being deployed in the real world to solve transparency issues.
RT | Third party candidate Jill Stein responds to Clinton-Trump duel in real time (09/27/16) [6:24]
RT | 'Wings for Love': Mountain freestyle World Cup 2016 kicks off in China (09/27/16) [1:11]
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*DR | Analysis Of The First Clinton-Trump Debate (09/27/16) [1hr]
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump went head-to-head last night in their first debate as presidential candidates. They sparred on jobs, trade deals, policing practices and race, as well as tax returns and combating terrorism. The debate was contentious, with Trump repeatedly interrupting Clinton, and Clinton calling out for fact checkers more than once. Going into the debate, the candidates were virtually tied in the polls. Whether their performance on the stage tipped that balance is not yet clear. Diane and her guests talk about the first debate between the two major-party presidential candidates -- and whether either candidate won over undecided voters.
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09.27.2016. 12:21

Monday September 26, 2016
News Articles

What It Will Take for Hillary to Win the Debate
AlterNet | Steven Rosenfeld | 09/25/16

... Despite the hype, the stakes are enormous. Unless Clinton finds a way to connect with voters, especially the nearly one in three millennials now flocking to libertarian Gary Johnson, she may end losing in November because she's hovering in polls in the low 40s. If she tries to present herself in ways not yet seen by most Americans, she will likely fuel critics who say she cannot be trusted. Clinton can only be herself: prepared, concerned, wonkly, formidable, and maybe a bit wry.

Trump, in contrast, benefits from the biggest double-standard in recent American history. The public has grown used to his boasts, smears, over-promises, outright lies, and flailing antics. While the public expects Clinton to know everything about every topic and not be offputting, Trump will be let off the hook for an array of sloppy behaviors. Worse, if he doesn't loose his cool, his composure will likely be described by the GOP and pundits as a new sobriety, seriousness and debate victory. ... Read more

Debate Battle Plan: Show Up, No Dick Jokes

Here's Everything Donald Trump Has Promised to Do on His First Day as President
MotherJones | Tim Murphy | 09/23/16

  1. "Repeal every single Obama executive order." (He has also pledged more specifically to "eliminate every unconstitutional executive order.")
  2. "Repeal Obamacare." (On Trump's campaign website, he's less bullish, promising only to "ask Congress" on day one to repeal Obamacare immediately.)
  3. "End the war on coal."
  4. "Begin swiftly removing criminal illegal immigrants from this country." (More specifically, Trump has promised to do this in his "first hour" in office, "day one, before the wall, before anything.")
  5. "Begin working on an impenetrable, physical, tall, powerful, beautiful, southern border wall."
  6. Meet with Homeland Security officials and generals to begin securing the southern border.
  7. "Notify all countries that refuse to take back dangerous illegal immigrants who have committed crimes in this country that they will lose access to our visa programs if they continue to do so."
  8. Convene his top generals and inform them they have 30 days to come up with a plan to stop ISIS.
  9. Fix the Department of Veterans Affairs.
  10. Call the heads of major companies who are moving operations oversea to inform them that they'll face 35 percent tariffs.
  11. "Contact countries and say...'Folks, we love protecting you, we want to continue to protect you but you're not living up to the bargain'...They're not paying what they're supposed to be paying -- which is very little, by the way."
  12. "Defend the unborn."
  13. "Withdraw from TPP."
  14. "Start taking care of our...military."
  15. Suspend Syrian refugee resettlement.
  16. "Notify our NAFTA partners of my intention to renegotiate the deal."
  17. "Designate China as a currency manipulator."
  18. "Direct every agency in government to begin identifying all wasteful job-killing regulations, and they are going to be removed."
  19. "Get rid of gun-free zones [in] schools" and "military bases" -- which would require repealing a 25-year-old federal law. ("My first day, it gets signed, okay? My first day. There's no more gun-free zones.")
  20. "Ask Congress to pass 'Kate's Law' -- named for Kate Steinle -- to ensure that criminal aliens convicted of illegal reentry receive strong mandatory minimum sentences."
  21. Learn the difference between Hezbollah and Hamas.
  22. It's shaping up to be a busy day! Hillary Clinton, by contrast, has made only a few day-one promises, none of which is as concrete as shaking down European heads of state:
  23. -----
  24. "Tackle the gun lobby to try to reduce the outrageous number of people who are dying from gun violence in our country."
  25. "Reach out to Republicans and say, 'This is your chance to help millions of families and show that your party, the party of Lincoln, is better than Donald Trump.'"
  26. "Work with both parties to pass the biggest investment in new, good-paying jobs since World War II."
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The Movie that Sparked Citizen United
Hillary the movie () [1:22:05]
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Citizen Koch (trailer) (2014) [2:25]

Playing by different rules: The media lets Trump "get out of jail free" but won't let Clinton "pass go"
Salon | Bob Cesca | 09/19/16

The press slams Clinton based on pre-2016 political standards, while Trump is judged on a much lower bar

The only explanation for the lopsided coverage of the election by the political press so far is that, for some mysterious reason-defying logic, there's a "false equivalence" at work. It's become an almost throw-away phrase, bearing little weight these days. The political press certainly doesn't take it too seriously, that's for sure. We're just gaming the refs, they say. Someone's always bitching about the media, they say. Whatever helps them sleep at night, I suppose.

Nevertheless, according to what we're observing online and via cable news, Hillary Clinton's negatives appear eons more grievous than Donald Trump's missteps, even though they're not -- and this disparity unfairly elevates Trump and his poll numbers. This is how elections are tilted toward despots and undisciplined strongmen. They're legitimized and humanized despite their long menu of unprecedented gaffes, lies and treachery. ... Read more
TYT | Harvard Study: Media Ignores Policy Substance, Facts (09/24/16) [10:33]

The Avalon Village, Highland Park, MI
It Takes a Village In the middle of one of Detroit's most blighted and abandoned neighborhoods, Shamayim 'SHU' Harris and her team of engineers, futurists, artists, urban farmers and their nationwide allies are reimagining public and private space. This is an invitation to step into the village (current) [4:49]
The Avalon Village, Highland Park, MI website

26 Incredible Facts About The Economy That Every American Should Know Before The Trump-Clinton Debate
ZeroHedge | author | 09/26/16

Are you ready for the most anticipated presidential debate in decades? There will likely be quite a few questions about the economy, and without a doubt this is an area where Trump and Clinton have some very sharp differences. The mainstream media would have us believe that the U.S. economy is in pretty good shape, and if that was true that would seem to favor Clinton. But is it actually true? ... Read more

Will Deutsche Bank's Collapse Be Worse Than Lehman Brothers?
ZeroHedge | author | 09/26/16

DB is the proverbial "canary in the coalmine" for Europe. Perched atop one of the largest derivatives books in Europe, DB has ties to most major financial institutions in the region. ... Read more

BofA Fined $12.5 Million For Creating At Least 15 Mini "Flash Crashes"
ZeroHedge | author | 09/26/16

The SEC announced that BofA/Merrill Lynch agreed to pay a $12.5 million penalty for "maintaining ineffective trading controls" that failed to prevent erroneous orders from being sent to the markets and causing at least 15 mini-flash crashes between 2012 and 2014. ... Read more

Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Monday, September 26 [13:51]
DN | Keith Lamont Scott's Wife is Latest Black Woman Forced to Film State Violence Against a Partner (09/26/16) [7:45]
DN | Marc Lamont: Activism Works: Charlotte Police Release Dashboard & Body Camera Video in Keith Lamont Scott Killing (09/26/16) [8:27]
DN | Marc Lamont Hill Responds to Trump: "We Can't Arrest Our Way Out of a Problem of State Violence" (09/26/16) [4:40]
John Oliver
John Oliver | The 2016 presidential race is teeming with scandals. (09/25/16) [21:15]
John Oliver | Refugee Crisis: inappropriate analogy for the refugee crisis. (09/20/16) [10:31]
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Stephen Colbert | Hillary Clinton Preps for Two Trumps at the Debate (09/22/16) [7:23]
Stephen Colbert | Did Trump End The Birther Controversy, Or Is That His Biggest Lie Yet? (09/20/16) [11:04]
TRNN | PERI co-director Gerald Epstein discusses: Why the Federal Reserve Needs To Go Beyond Interest Rate Policy (09/26/16) [13:21]
TRNN | Ecuador's foreign minister Guillaume Long: Proposes Worldwide Elimination of Tax Havens (09/26/16) [25:13]
TRNN | The Rich Hide an Estimated 21 Trillion in Offshore Accounts (older) [14:18]
James Henry, author of "Pirate Bankers," says Swiss Banks like HSBC, Credit Suisse, and UBS facilitate offshore accounts and buy millions of dollars worth of influence in Washington.
TYT | How The Debates Were Corrupted By The Democrats AND Republicans (09/25/16) [5:02]
TYT | The Real Solution To America's Healthcare Problems (09/25/16) [3:56]
TYT | Big Pharma Always Gets Their Way -- Quick Profits, Dead Patients (09/24/16) [4:57]
The FDA's decision to approve a useless drug this week sent pharma stocks soaring and caused the resignation of a high-ranking FDA official who is sick of his agency acting as an arm of the pharmaceutical industry.
RT | Keiser Report: Earthquakes & Economy (E971) (09/24/16) [25:46]
Thom Hartmann - www.thomhartmann.com/
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*DR | Shooting Video Released: The Latest From Charlotte (09/26/16) [1hr]
Charlotte police release video of the shooting of Keith Lamont Scott -- but questions and doubts remain. The Washington Post's Wesley Lowery brings us the latest from Charlotte, North Carolina.
*DR | Protecting Our Data In An Era Of Increasing State-Sponsored Cyberattacks (09/26/16) [1hr]
500 million: that's the number of Yahoo users whose account information was stolen by hackers. The company recently revealed that it had discovered the 2014 hack -- said to be the largest to date of a single company's network. This comes as reports of state-sponsored hackings are on the rise in the U.S., and concerns are growing over intrusions by countries like Russia into one of our own country's most sacred systems: our elections. We'll get the latest on risks to our personal data and to the integrity of U.S. voting.
Aljazeera | She is My Son: Afghanistan's Bacha Posh, when Girls Become Boys (09/25/16) [26:49]
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09.26.2016. 11:23

Friday September 23, 2016
News Articles

The Infuriating Reason Wells Fargo Got Away With Its Massive Scam For So Long
HP | Emily Peck | 09/22/16

How did Wells Fargo get away with ripping off its banking customers for so long? The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the City of Los Angeles recently fined Wells Fargo $185 million for five years of misbehavior, but now congressional Republicans are asking why this didn't happen faster.

Their bewilderment, however, is in itself rather bewildering, if not downright disingenuous. Not only has the GOP consistently opposed the very existence of the CFPB, but Republicans have more recently registered strong opposition to specific new rules proposed by the agency that would have helped bring Wells Fargo's misconduct into the open sooner. Read more

Trump Tax Plan Turns the Donald into Trickle-Down King
ZeroHedge | author | 09/23/16

If George Bush Senior thought Reaganomics was "voodoo economics," he'd think the Trump tax plan was its kachina doll, and if GB Minor had been smoking weed while popping magic mushrooms when he made his eponymous tax cuts, the Bush Tax Cuts might have come out looking like the Wall-Street tax Fantasia that Trump's peeps have brewed up -- a plan that will make Donald Trump and the guests in his gold-plated penthouse much wealthier if enacted but will barely nudge the middle class. ... Read more

Your Air Conditioner and Refrigerator Are Killing the Climate: What Are the Alternatives?
AlterNet | Reynard Loki | 09/22/16

Global temperatures are on pace to make 2016 another record-breaking year. It is feeding into a classic deadly environmental cycle: The hotter it gets, the more people want to buy air conditioners. And the more we use A/C, the more we emit greenhouse gases that, in turn, increase global warming.

But the planet may get some help soon, if world leaders can come to an agreement on how to handle the greenhouse gas emissions of coolants found in air conditioners and refrigerators. The agreement they're currently working on is actually an attempt to close a loophole in a landmark, three-decade-old treaty that was originally meant to help the environment. ... Read more

"It May Be Over For The BOJ" - Wall Street Throws Up On Kuroda's "Disastrous" New Policy
ZeroHedge | author | 09/23/16

Two days day after the BOJ unveiled its "QQE with Yield Curve Control" (but no fries), the sellside has had time to digest the central bank's latest proposal and the assessment, unlike that of Dan Loeb, is anything but glowing. In fact, it's downright "deplorable."

We start with Goldman, which as we reported two days ago, admitted not only that what the BOJ is launching is tantamount to a "stealth taper", but more disturbingly, has no idea just how the central bank will effectively control the yield curve: Read more

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*DR | Friday News - Domestic (09/23/16) [1hr]
Ongoing protests in North Carolina over the police shooting of a black man. Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump clash on national security policy after the New York bombing. And lawmakers sharply question Wells Fargo's CEO over scam accounts. A panel of journalists joins guest host Amy Walter for analysis of the week's top national news stories.
*DR | Friday News - International (09/23/16) [1hr]
Secretary of State Kerry accuses Russia of bombing an aid convoy in Syria. Hundreds are feared dead after a migrant boat capsizes off the Egyptian coast. And the U.S. allows Boeing to sell passenger planes to Iran. A panel of journalists joins guest host Amy Walter for analysis of the week's top international news stories.
Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Friday, September 23 [10:21]
*DN | Sen. Warren Calls for Wells Fargo CEO to Resign & Face Investigation Amid Growing Scandal (09/23/16) [13:20]
DN | Protests over Tulsa & Charlotte Police Killings Stem from Economic Policies That Perpetuate Racism (09/23/16) [17:46]
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Stephen Colbert | Reacts to the State of Emergency in Charlotte (09/23/16) [4:49]
TRNN | Nick Buxton Discusses US National Security Policy for Climate Change Seeks Security for Corporate-Controlled Assets (09/23/16) [13:08]
*TYT | Trump Campaign Chair Resigns After Racist Comments (09/22/16) [12:59]

TYT | USA Columnist On Protesters: Run Them Down (09/22/16) [6:17]
TYT | Donald Trump's Budget Would EXPLODE The Deficit (09/22/16) [5:32]
TYT | Clintons Want Lower Corporate Tax Rates... And TPP (09/22/16) [9:31]
RT | CrossTalk: Conflicting narratives and competing agendas - this is the tragedy of the Syrian conflict. Western media coverage is focused on forcing political outcomes. (08/23/16) [24:46]
Thom Hartmann - www.thomhartmann.com/
ThomHartmann | Who Has Benefited From So-Called "Free Trade?" (09/23/16) [9:20]
ThomHartmann | Why Hillary Clinton Is In Serious Danger Of Losing To Trump (09/23/16) [5:44]
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09.23.2016. 10:53

Thursday September 22, 2016
News Articles

N.C. Governor Declares State Of Emergency Amid Violent Protests
HP & Reuters | Greg Lacour | 09/21/16

Residents of Charlotte, North Carolina, woke up to a state of emergency and the National Guard and State Highway Patrol deployed to their city on Thursday after a second night of unrest sparked by the fatal police shooting of a black man.

According to police, Keith Scott, 43, was shot and killed by officers on Tuesday after he refused to drop a handgun. His family and a witness to the shooting said Scott was holding a book, not a firearm.

A peaceful rally in response to the shooting turned violent on Wednesday as protesters threw rocks and bottles at police in riot gear, smashed windows and doors and looted stores in downtown Charlotte. Officers fired rubber bullets, tear gas, flash-bang grenades and used pepper spray to disperse the crowd. ... Read more

Donald Trump's Tax Cuts Would Cause Deficit To Explode, Report Says
HP | Jonathan Cohn | 09/22/16

REPORT: Trump's Agenda Would Add $5.3 Trillion To Federal Debt

Donald Trump's policies would make the federal deficit much bigger. Hillary Clinton's wouldn't. That's the most important takeaway of a new report, one that maybe should get a little attention this campaign season.

The report comes from Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a nonpartisan think tank that, as the name suggests, focuses heavily on whether the government has enough resources to meet its financial obligations.

Earlier this year, the committee published a thorough review of the Clinton and Trump agendas ? with a particular focus on how each would affect the deficit (the difference between what the government spends and takes in) and the debt (the total amount of money that the government owes). ... Read more

*Trump Voters Reveal Their Wildest Clinton Conspiracy Theories to 'The Daily Show'
AlterNet | Sophia Tesfaye / Salon | 09/21/16

Jordan Klepper of "The Daily Show" has done yeoman's work surveying Donald Trump supporters this election season, and his latest dispatch may provide the most hilarious (or depressing) insight into the base of the modern-day Republican Party yet.

Klepper attended a rally for the Republican presidential nominee to ask some of his most ardent supporters about their crazy conspiracy theories surrounding Hillary Clinton's health. ... Read more
Trump Voters Reveal Their Wildest Clinton Conspiracy Theories to 'The Daily Show' (09/22/16) [5:07]

*In Dramatic Twist, Wells Fargo Said To Retaliate, Fire Whistleblowers Who Exposed Bank's Illegal Practices
ZeroHedge | author | 09/22/16

While the recent congressional hearing targeting John Stumpf, in which Elizabeth Warren suggested he should resign and be criminally charged, was nothing more than a "kangaroo court" meant to refocus public anger on banks, with good reason, the reason why we concluded that nothing would actually change is that ultimately there was no evidence the bank's executive management was aware of the bank's illegal, fraudulent tactics involving the creation of some 2 million fake customer accounts to "sandbag" retail banking fees. That assumption, however, may need revision now that CNN reports that it has heard from former Wells Fargo workers - some of whom were named - around the country, who tried to put a stop to the bank's illegal tactics only to be met with harsh, prompt and severe retaliation by the bank.

"Almost half a dozen workers who spoke with us say they paid dearly for trying to do the right thing: they were fired" ... Read more

Just Plain Pathetic
ZeroHedge | author | 09/22/16

We are speaking, of course, of the Fed's decision to punt yet again, and for a reason that is not mysterious at all. To wit, our financial rulers are petrified of a stock market hissy fit, and will go to any length of dissimulation and double-talk to avoid triggering a crash of the very bubbles their policies have inflated. ... Read more

*Aljazeera | Inside Story - Rise of the 'superbugs': Is resistance futile? (09/22/16) [24:50]
Hanjin shipping company goes under (09/22/16) [1:58]
Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Thursday, September 22 [7:38]
DN | State of Emergency: Charlotte NAACP & Protesters Demand Police Release Video of Keith Scott Shooting (09/22/16) [17:03]
DN | Rashad Robinson: Let's Implement Stop-and-Frisk on White Billionaires Like Trump (09/22/16) [4:33]
*TRNN | Bill Black: SEC Accusations Against US Billionaire Highlights Centrality of Insider Trading to Hedge Fund Profits (09/22/16) [10:49]
TRNN | Heidi Chow discusses: Dangers of the Proposed Bayer-Monsanto Merger (09/22/16) [10:49]
*TYT | Wells Fargo: Banker Fired For Doing The Right Thing (09/20/16) [6:07]
TYT | Staggering Number Of Jail Deaths Occur Within 3 Days Of Arrest (09/21/16) [5:44]
TYT | Protests And Riots In Charlotte After Police Kill Black Man (09/21/16) [11:01]
RT | Keiser Report: Hippies vs Hipsters (E970) (09/22/16) [25:47]
Thom Hartmann - www.thomhartmann.com/
ThomHartmann | How To Take On the Banksters (09/22/16) [6:31]
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*DR | Debate Over How Police Departments Are Addressing Deadly Force (09/22/16) [1hr]
The governor has declared a state of emergency in North Carolina, after police and residents clashed and another person was shot in a second night of protests over the fatal shooting of Keith Lamont Smith in Charlotte. His death came days after another black man, Terence Crutcher, was shot and killed by police in Tulsa, Oklahoma. They were the latest in a deadly string of encounters between citizens and police across the country this summer. In 2016, at least 702 people have been shot by police, according to a database by the Washington Post -- 163 of them were African-American men. Two years after Ferguson, some say we need a reset on policing in America. Guest Host Amy Walter and a panel discuss what departments are doing -- and whether it's working.
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09.22.2016. 12:46

Wednesday September 21, 2016
News Articles

U2's Bono Says Trump 'Potentially the Worst Idea that Ever Happened to America'
AlterNet | Kali Holloway | 09/21/16

U2 lead singer Bono appeared on "CBS This Morning" to discuss a bunch of topics with co-host Charlie Rose, and inevitably, Donald Trump came up. Bono, who's never shied away from sharing his thoughts on politics suggested that the GOP contender for president, if elected, could devastate the country.

"America is like the best idea the world ever came up with," the vocalist said. "But Donald Trump is potentially the worst idea that ever happened to America. Potentially. Could destroy it." ... Read more

*On "The Daily Show" Trevor Noah Harnesses the Power of Skittles Metaphors Against Trump (09/21/16) [8:01]
*Jimmy Kimmel Live | Lie Witness News - Trump's Tax Returns Edition (09/21/16) [3:32]

The Economists Who Didn't See the Big Crash of 2008 Coming Still Don't Understand What Happened or How to Fix It
AlterNet | Dean Baker / Truthout | 09/20/16

Last week marked the eighth anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the huge Wall Street investment bank. This bankruptcy sent financial markets into a panic with the remaining investment banks, like Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, set to soon topple. The largest commercial banks, like Citigroup and Bank of America, were not far behind on the death watch.

The cascade of collapses was halted when the Fed and Treasury went into full-scale bailout mode. They lent trillions of dollars to failing banks at below market interest rates. They also promised the markets that there would be "no more Lehmans" to use former Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's term.

This promise was incredibly valuable in a time of crisis. It meant that investors could lend freely to Goldman and Citigroup without fear that their loans would not be repaid -- they had the Treasury and the Fed standing behind them.

The public has every right to be furious about this set of events eight years ago, as well what has happened subsequently. First, everything about the crisis caught the country's leading economists by surprise. Somehow, the country's leading economists both could not see an $8 trillion housing bubble, nor could they understand how its collapse would seriously damage the economy. This bubble was clearly driving the economy prior to the crash, it is difficult to envision what these economists thought would replace the demand lost when the bubble burst. ... Read more

Trump's Giant Conflict of Interest Just Got Bigger
MotherJones | Russ Choma | 09/21/16

The US government is cracking down on Trump's largest financial backer. What will he do if elected president?

Donald Trump came under fire last week for his financial ties to overseas investors, including controversial financiers and corporations, whose interests might not align with US foreign policy. But if elected president, Trump would face a tremendous conflict of interest regarding the hundreds of millions of dollars he owes Deutsche Bank, which is now in the crosshairs of US regulators.

The US government has charged that the German banking giant misled investors into buying bad mortgage-backed securities in the run-up to the financial crisis of 2007 and 2008, and it is demanding that Deutsche Bank pay $14 billion to settle legal claims. The bank is reported to have planned for a settlement of $2 billion to $3 billion, and negotiations between it and the Department of Justice are likely to be contentious and last for months--possibly well into the next administration. Should Trump take the White House, what Deutsche Bank ends up paying for its alleged misdeeds might depend on how tough Trump's Justice Department will be with the bank to which he owes so much money. ... Read more

Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Wednesday, September 21 [13:00]
DN | U.N. Summit for Refugees & Migrants Creates New Urgency for Global Crisis of 65 Million Displaced (09/21/16) [7:22]
*DN | Holocaust Survivor: Trump Jr.'s Skittles Comment Brings Back Dark Images of Children Being Murdered (09/21/16) [7:04]
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
*Stephen Colbert | Donald Trump's eldest son may have attended top-flight schools, but his Skittles meme heavily implies that he failed English and Math. (09/21/16) [3:38]
*Stephen Colbert | You Should Definitely Take the Donald Trump Debate Prep Survey (09/21/16) [6:10]
*TRNN | Bill Black: Does a Golden Parachute Await Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf? (09/21/16) [18:35]
TYT | Trump Jr: Syrian Refugees Are Just Like Skittles... (0920/16) [3:50]
*TYT | Elizabeth Warren To Wells Fargo CEO: You Should Resign (09/20/16) [9:01]
TYT | Trump Denies He Ever Wanted A Muslim Ban (09/20/16) [6:25]
Thom Hartmann - www.thomhartmann.com/
ThomHartmann | Secret meeting between Joe Scarborough and Trump? (09/20/16) [6:08]
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*DR | The U.N. Takes Up The Threat Of The Growing Resistance To Antibiotics Worldwide (09/21/16) [1hr]
Antibiotic resistance kills 700,000 people a year worldwide. For the first time, the U.N. General Assembly is considering taking action. The rise of superbugs and what to do about it.
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09.21.2016. 12:58

Tuesday September 20, 2016
News Articles

Stop Whining About 'False Balance'
RollingStone | Matt Taibbi | 09/16/16

Everyone wants to blame reporters for the rise of Donald Trump. How about the media consumer?

News media outlets are increasingly coming under fire for the sin of "false balance" or "false equivalency." The New York Times, one of the outlets most often accused of this offense, recently defined the term:

"The practice of journalists who, in their zeal to be fair, present each side of a debate as equally credible, even when the factual evidence is stacked heavily on one side."

The crime of The Times, according to some of its readers, has been its coverage of the Clinton email and Clinton Foundation stories. As one Times reader put it, "There's too much at stake in this election for the media to stoke the belief that Hillary's mistakes (which she has definitely made) are even close to par with Trump's." ... Read more

Elizabeth Warren Slams Wells Fargo CEO Stumpf: "You Should Resign, You Should Be Criminally Investigated"
ZeroHedge | author | 09/20/16

As was widely expected, the main event during today's John Stumpf hearing before the Senate Banking Committee was the moments when anti-bank crusader, Elizabeth Warren would get to the mic. She did not hold back, and immediately launched into a full-blown attack on the one topic Americans find most disturbing: the utter lack of accountability, despite Stumpf's repeaeted protestations to the contrary.

"Since this massive year's long scam came to light you have said 'I am accountable', but what have you done to hold yourself accountable? Have you resigned? Have you returned one nickel of the money you earned while this scandal was going on?" After Stumpf failed to respond, Warren replied in his stead: "I will take that as a no."

When Stumpf confirmed that he has not fired a single senior executives, Warren slammed what he called "gutless leadership." ... Read more

C-SPAN | Sen. Warren to Wells Fargo CEO: "You should resign." (09/20/16) [8:56]
Fox News | Senate to grill Wells Fargo CEO over accounts scandal (09/19/16) [3:48]
Syria Burning: A Short History of a Catastrophe by Charles Glass

Since the upsurge of the Arab Spring in 2011, the Syrian civil war has claimed in excess of 200,000 lives, with an estimated 8 million Syrians, more than a third of the country's population, forced to flee their homes. Militant Sunni groups, such as ISIS, have taken control of large swathes of the nation. The impact of this catastrophe is now being felt on the streets of Europe and the United States.

Veteran Middle East expert Charles Glass combines reportage, analysis, and history to provide an accessible overview of the origins and permutations defining the conflict. He also gives a powerful argument for why the West has failed to get to grips with the consequences of the crisis.

These Are The Faces Of European Regions Facing Depopulation Today
HP | Gaia Mellone | 09/20/16

A demographic crisis is unfolding across Europe, with birth rates plummeting at alarming rates. For a photo project titled "Negative Zero," English-Swedish artist and journalist Anastasia Taylor-Lind grabbed her camera and embarked on a road trip to photograph some of the communities hardest hit by the disaster. Driving from London to the country of Georgia, Taylor-Lind visited a number of cities with declining populations in Eastern Europe, the Balkans, Russia, and the Caucasus. Read more

Former 'Star Wars' Star Moved to Psychiatric FacilityFormer 'Star Wars' Star Moved to Psychiatric Facility
magazine | author | date

Jake Lloyd, who played Anakin Skywalker in 'Star Wars: The Phantom Menace,' has been moved from a jail cell to a psychiatric facility. Jake's been behind bars since June for taking cops on a chase that exceeded speeds of 100 mph. The actor's mom, Lisa, tells us authorities reached the conclusion he needed help more than punishment, because he suffers from schizophrenia ... thus the move. Read more

Matthew Perry says past substance abuse has caused him to forget 'three years' of 'Friends'
AOL | Alex Ungerman | 09/20/16

During a recent interview on BBC Radio 2 in Britain, the 46-year-old actor found himself unable to recall his least favorite episode of Friends due to his admitted substance abuse at the time. "I think the answer is I don't remember three years of it," he candidly admitted. "So none of those... somewhere between season three and six."

"You can't have a drug problem for 30 years and then expect to have it be solved in 28 days," adding, "Getting sober is a really hard thing to do." Read more

'The Case of: JonBenet Ramsey': Everything We Learned From Part Two
RollingStone | Rachel Brodsky | 090/20/16

In conclusion of docuseries, CBS team suggests that Burke Ramsey is the killer -- but stop short of formally accusing him

Read more

CBS | The Case Of: JonBenét Ramsey - Preview (08/17/16) [3:09]
Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Tuesday, September 20 [15:57]
*DN | A Debate on Empire: Is Donald Trump One Terrorist Attack Away from the Presidency? (09/19/16) [7:22]
Ralph Nader, former presidential candidate, discusses what expanding the presidential debate to include third-party candidates would mean for the discussion of this weekend's attacks in New Jersey and New York. Nader says, "Brute force doesn't work. ... State terrorism kills far more people than stateless terrorism." He says Clinton is "more systemically hawkish" and Trump is "unpredictably belligerent."
BreakingThroughPower.org website
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
Samantha Bee slammed NBC for propping up Donald Trump's celebrity and normalizing him to the point where voters aren't turned off by his rhetoric, Part 1 (09/20/16) [5:13], Part 2 [4:57]
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Stephen Colbert | Did Trump End The Birther Controversy, Or Is That His Biggest Lie Yet? (09/20/16) [11:04]
*TRNN | Chris Hedges: To Stop Terrorism, End U.S. Occupation of the Middle East (09/19/16) [8:54]
TRNN | Col. Lawrence Wilkerson Discusses: Record US Aid to Israel Reflects Growing Influence of Military-Industrial Complex (09/20/16) [12:08]
*TRNN | Can a Lebanon-Style Solution End the Syrian War? (09/20/16) [11:27]
The conflict will not come to an end until the US and Russia make their respective clients agree to an imposed settlement or else face an immediate arms embargo, says journalist Charles Glass
TYT | NYC / Jersey Bomb Suspect Captured After Shootout (09/19/16) [3:26]
TYT | Why Did CNN Edit Hillary's Bombing Comments? (09/19/16) [5:29]
*RT | Keiser Report: Privilege of Unfairness for Bankers (E969) (09/20/16) [25:45]
In this episode of the Keiser Report, Max and Stacy discuss the lessons from Calvin of Calvin & Hobbes fame on the exorbitant privilege of unfairness for bankers. They look at the game theory behind Deutsche Bank's too big to fail, too broke to punish sweet spot as it attempts to 'negotiate' with the U.S. Department of Justice. In the second half, Max interviews precious metals expert, Ned Naylor-Leyland of Old Mutual Global Investors about gold - the original denominator - and about return-free risk in the negative yielding bond markets.
Thom Hartmann - www.thomhartmann.com/
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*DR | Update On The Investigations Into NY/NJ Bombings And The Stabbing Attack In Minnesota (09/20/16) [1hr]
Yesterday after a gunfight in Linden, N.J., 28-year-old Ahmad Khan Rahami, a U.S. citizen born in Afghanistan, was taken into custody in connection with a bomb blast in lower Manhattan this weekend and the discovery of several other devices in the region. It's not yet clear if others may have been involved or what the motive may have been. And in Minnesota the man accused of stabbing several people at a mall was reported to be a Somali American, prompting members of that community to speak out. Join us to discuss the latest on the investigations and the anxieties these attacks have provoked.
*DR | Why Maureen Dowd Calls 2016 "The Year Of Voting Dangerously" (09/20/16) [1hr]
Maureen Dowd has been writing about politics for The New York Times for the past 30 years. Dowd is known for her acerbic style and seeming delight in mocking political foibles and hubris whenever she can. The 2016 race for president has offered up a mother lode of material for Dowd's weekly column. She skewers both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, but is perceived by some to be harder on the latter. Many of her recent columns appear in a new book, along with essays from two of Dowd's conservative siblings and some fresh material of her own. Guest host Michel Martin sits down for a conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Maureen Dowd.
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09.20.2016. 12:58

Monday September 19, 2016
News Articles

Sanitizing the 21st Century's Worst War Crime
AlterNet | Rev. William Alberts / CounterPunch | 09/16/16

... "What are 'shock and awe'? " Those are the feelings the Iraqi people experienced when then President George W. Bush gave the order for 21,000-pound "mother of all bombs" and hundreds of cruise missiles to rain down on Baghdad and other cities. A Pentagon official, with knowledge of the first strike plan was quoted as saying, "There will not be a safe place in Baghdad. . . . The sheer size of this has never been seen before, never been contemplated before." The pre-emptive battle plan was to launch "airstrikes so devastating they would leave Saddam's soldiers unable or unwilling to fight." ("Iraq Faces Massive U.S. Missile Barrage," by Sue Chan, CBS News, Jan. 24, 2003)

"What are 'shock and awe'?" Ask the families and friends of the estimated one million Iraqi civilians killed in a war that UN Secretary General Kobe Annan said was "illegal." Ask over one million widows in Iraq what "shock and awe" means to them. Ask some of the five million orphaned Iraqi children. Ask any of the over four million dislocated Iraqi people, fleeing for their lives when the bombs fell because "there was not a safe place in Baghdad." Their plight made worse by the American aggression triggering severe sectarian violence between Shia and Sunni citizens. Who, as reported, had lived in relative peace in Iraq, where, under Saddam Hussein, women enjoyed equal rights, and the country's education system flourished until the US-controlled UN economic sanctions had their deteriorating effect. (See "Was life for Iraqi Women Better Under Saddam?" By Rania Khalek, muftah.org, March 19, 2913) ... Read more

A Trump Presidency Would Likley Be Even Worse Than You Think: 11 Ways He Would Destroy the America We Know
AlterNet | Steven Rosenfeld | 09/18/16

... Keith Olbermann's recent video reels off hundreds of Trump's vicious attacks, lies, boasts, ego and dark fantasies. "The Republican Party has actually nominated for president an irresponsible, unrealistic, naive, petulant, childish, vindictive, prejudiced, bigoted, racist, Islamophobic, anti-Semitic, misogynistic, fascistic, authoritarian, insensitive, erratic, disturbed, irrational, inhuman individual named Donald John Trump," he sums up. "This is madness!" ...

  1. Will there be a revival of American racism against non-whites? There has not been as openly bigoted, racist and pro-white major party presidential candidate in decades. ...
  2. Will police reform, criminal justice reform, gun control, be totally lost? Copying Richard Nixon's late 1960s 'dog whistle' bid for southern states, Trump has claimed that he represents the "silent majority" who want a "law and order" president, meaning more police, more aggressive policing and tougher courts. ...
  3. Will the use of force abroad grow like the embrace of force at home? The question is when and where would the White House send troops into action overseas, and what other weapons would be used. ...
  4. Will gains made by women be set back decades? Clearly, if Clinton wins, that would be a barrier-breaking milestone leading to many federal policies heeding gender differences. ...
  5. Will the economy be trashed by a debt-fed bubble? Trump has boasted that he would create more jobs than anyone, but apart from promising to vastly increase military spending, revive carbon producers (coal mining, offshore drilling, finishing the Keystone XL pipeline) renegotiate trade treaties (which has not been done), and cut business taxes, he's offered few specifics. ...
  6. Will climate change be ignored? Trump has infamously said that climate change was a hoax pushed by the Chinese government to get an marketplace advantage because the U.S. would have to tax and reel in industries making them less competitive. ...
  7. Will student debt and high tuition remain sky high? Trump has no plan for reducing higher education costs and it is not among his website's issues and positions. ...
  8. Will health care be recaptured by free-market predators? Trump wants to shrink the government's role, which he said would increase access to health care and lower consumer costs. That starts with repealing Obamacare, allowing insurers to sell policies across state lines and ending government health benefits for undocumented migrants, his website says. ...
  9. Will the rich keep getting richer? Trump has modified his tax proposals several times in the campaign, each time shrinking how much he'd cut federal revenues--but the bottom line is still a giant giveaway to the wealthiest Americans. Trump's proposals would consolidate the current system of seven income tax brackets, throw out the Obamacare surcharge on the wealthiest Americans, and sharply cut corporate tax rates. ...
  10. How far will civil rights be rolled back? Trump's pledge to round up and deport 11 million migrants lacking visas--and several million of their children born here--would unleash an unprecedented police state that would challenge American civil liberties to the core. But he also opposes same-sex marriage, and his running mate, Indiana Gov. Pence, has pushed some of the most oppressive "religious liberty" laws allowing anti-LGBT discrimination in the nation. ...
  11. Will right wingers control the Supreme Court for decades? The Supreme Court is one of the biggest issues in the election not getting the coverage it deserves. Whether there is progress or backtracking on every major issue depends on the ideological makeup of the justices ...
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Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Monday, September 17 [14:57]
DN | Two-Party Tyranny: Ralph Nader on Exclusion of Third-Party Candidates from First Presidential Debate (09/19/16) [7:07]
DN | Nader: Trump is a Freeloading, Pontificating Empty Suit Who Has Cheated on Everything He's Done (09/19/16) [7:02]
TRNN | New Brazilian Government Introducing 'Shock Doctrine' Against Social Programs (09/16/16) [12:02]
TYT | Elizabeth Warren Grills FBI Director On Banksters (09/17/16) [7:44]
TYT | War On Terror Is Costing You A Fortune (09/17/16) [11:44]
TYT | FBI Director Puts Tape Over His Laptop's Webcams (09/17/16) [6:49] RoF | August Breaks Another Heat Record, Still No Climate Change Action From USA (09/19/16) [3:57]
The Corporate Media Is A Complete and Unmitigated Disaster (09/18/16) [7:34]
Thom Hartmann - www.thomhartmann.com/
ThomHartmann | JP Bernbach - author of the new book "Beyond Reason: Debunking Conservative Lies, Delusions, and Falsehoods and What You Really Need to Know Before You Vote.", Part 1 (09/16/16) [12:48], Part 2 [12:17]
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*DR | The Latest On Possible Acts Of Terrorism in New York City, New Jersey And Minnesota (09/19/16) [1hr]
The latest on the bomb investigation in New York City and New Jersey and the stabbings at a Minnesota mall as possible acts of terrorism.
*DR | Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump Turn Their Attention to the Upcoming Presidential Debates (09/19/16) [1hr]
Most political scientists say presidential debates don't matter as much as we think they do in terms of their ability to change the outcome of the race. But history is rife with face-offs that allegedly decided elections: The debate between John Kennedy and Richard Nixon in 1960. And Ronald Reagan's famous 'there you go again' line in his clash with President Jimmy Carter in 1980. And one week from today, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump will take the stage in what many are predicting will be the most-watched debate ever. Guest host Michel Martin and a panel of guests discuss the first presidential debate, the issues likely to be discussed and what it could mean for the dynamics of the race for the White House. And we'll also hear from Libertarian Party nominee Gary Johnson and Green Party nominee Jill Stein on being left out of the upcoming debate.
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09.19.2016. 12:42

Friday September 16, 2016
News Articles

Newsweek Bombshell: Trump's 'Pay To Play' Presidency
HP/Newsweek | Kurt Eichenwald | 09/14/16

How the trump organization's foreign business ties could upend u.s. national security

If Donald Trump is elected president, will he and his family permanently sever all connections to the Trump Organization, a sprawling business empire that has spread a secretive financial web across the world? Or will Trump instead choose to be the most conflicted president in American history, one whose business interests will constantly jeopardize the security of the United States?

Throughout this campaign, the Trump Organization, which pumps potentially hundreds of millions of dollars into the Trump family's bank accounts each year, has been largely ignored. As a private enterprise, its businesses, partners and investors are hidden from public view, even though they are the very people who could be enriched by -- or will further enrich -- Trump and his family if he wins the presidency. ... Read more

Hillary Clinton On Donald Trump's Latest Birther Remarks: 'This Is Who He Is'
HP | Elise Foley | 09/15/16

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton criticized her Republican opponent Donald Trump on Thursday for declining ? again ? to say President Barack Obama was born in the United States.

Trump made the comments to The Washington Post in an article that came out just 20 minutes before Obama, the first black president, took the stage at the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute Gala, so Obama may not have seen them. Read more

Elizabeth Warren Just Trolled Wells Fargo's CEO So Hard
HP | Zach Carter | 09/16/16

John Stumpf is the chairman of the Wells Fargo board of directors. This prestigious body is tasked with holding company executives accountable for misdeeds, and the chairmanship is its premier position. So it makes sense that Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) would ask Stumpf what punishments the board is considering levying against company executives in the wake of a major scandal.

Late last week, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau levied a $185 million penalty against Wells Fargo for creating literally millions of fake accounts for its own customers ? replete with bogus fees ? in an effort to meet aggressive internal sales targets. On Friday, Warren sent a letter to Stumpf asking if the board is considering clawing back pay to top executives as a result of the mess. ... Read more

Pentagon's $1.1 Trillion Flying Money Pit, Is (Sort of) Ready for Duty
AlterNet | Angelo Young / Salon | 09/15/16

The lemon has liftoff! After 20 years, the most expensive weapon in history is being put into service.

Twenty years since the Pentagon began taking bids from defense contractors, the F-35 fighter jet -- the most expensive weapon ever made -- is finally ready to see active duty over the Pacific Ocean. The U.S. Marine Corps expects to deploy 16 of the stealthy high-tech warplanes early next year at Iwakuni Air Station in Japan. From there, U.S. pilots will begin testing the jets in regular noncombat operations from the Navy's USS Wasp amphibious assault vessel in what one commanding general has described as the "school of hard knocks." ... Read more

Harvard Crushes The "Obama Recovery" Farce With 9 Simple Charts
ZeroHedge | author | 09/16/16

A couple of months back we posted 9 charts that, at least in our minds, debunked the myth of the "Obama Recovery" despite suggestions from the administration that any such efforts were just a futile attempt at "peddling fiction"

In a recent study entitled "Problems Unsolved and a Nation Divided" (study can be viewed in its entirety at the end of this post), Harvard University points out that, despite claims of an "Obama Recovery," in fact, the U.S. economy has continued to deteriorate in the aftermath of the "great recession." Among other things, Harvard attributes the economic deterioration to a "lack of economic strategy, especially at the federal level" and a "political system was once the envy of many nations" but has now "become our greatest liability." ... Read more
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Deutsche Bonds "Dropping Like A Stone" As 'Most Dangerous Bank In The World' Plummets
ZeroHedge | author | 09/16/16

"They are dropping like a stone," warns one European credit strategist as signals from the bottom of Deutsche Bank's capital structure signal a "huge increase in the potential for a coupon skip." With DB stock tumbling towards record lows again (EUR 11 handle), Bloomberg reports, the bank's 1.75 billion euros ($2 billion) of 6% additional Tier 1 bonds, the first notes to take losses in a crisis, are crashing... as the world's most systemically dangerous bank faces existential problems once again. ... Read more

Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Friday, September 16 [12:04]
DN | U.S. Foreign Policy for Sale? Behind the Trump Organization's Vast Financial Network (09/16/16) [13:00]
A sweeping new investigation has raised questions about the little-known Trump Organization and potential conflicts of interest should Trump become president. The investigation published in Newsweek magazine reveals the Trump Organization is a vast financial network that stretches from New York City to India, Ukraine, China, Brazil, Argentina, Turkey and Russia. It's connected to Russian mining, banking and real estate billionaire Vladimir Potanin, who himself is closely tied to the Russian government. Trump's frequent praise of Russian President Vladimir Putin has already sparked concern among national security experts about U.S. foreign policy under a possible Trump presidency. The report concludes, "If Donald Trump wins this election and his company is not immediately shut down or forever severed from the Trump family, the foreign policy of the United States of America could well be for sale." We speak with Newsweek senior writer Kurt Eichenwald, author of the new article, "How the Trump Organization's Foreign Business Ties Could Upend U.S. National Security."
DN | What Would Happen to NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden If He Is Tried Under the Espionage Act? (09/16/16) [16:51]
DN | Debate: Should Obama Pardon NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden? (09/16/16) [12:36]
TRNN | The Guardian Leaks Reveal $12 Million in Corporate Money Behind Gov. Scott Walker's 2011 Fight Against Unions (09/16/16) [9:32]
TYT | Colin Powell Leaked Emails Reveal Harsh Truths (09/15/16) [11:58]
TYT | Trump's Supreme Court Choice: Women Voting Was A Mistake (09/15/16) [9:14]
TYT | Trump Takes Lead In Crucial States (09/15/16) [9:52]
RT | Keiser Report: Lunatics & Economy (E967) (09/15/16) [25:46]
Max and Stacy discuss negative interest rates, bans on cash and the one-percenters destroying dollar stores. In the second half, Max interviews James Turk of Goldmoney.com about the basket of deplorables that is the US economy. They also discuss gold standards and Special Drawing Rights.
Thom Hartmann - www.thomhartmann.com/
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*DR | Friday News - Domestic (09/16/16) [1hr]
New polling of likely voters shows Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump nearly tied in the presidential race -- and indicates many voters believe electing either candidate would be risky for the country. Hillary Clinton gets back on the campaign trail after taking several days to recover from pneumonia, and both candidates release a doctor's letter about their health. The Justice Department investigates Wells Fargo, after revelations the bank's employees opened millions of fake bank accounts. And new Census Bureau data show middle class incomes saw the biggest jump in decades last year.
*DR | Friday News - International (09/16/16) [1hr]
Accusations of fighting by both sides threaten Syria's fragile ceasefire brokered by the U.S. and Russia. UN officials say Syria is delaying aid deliveries to civilians in violation of the agreement. Israel and the U.S. sign an unprecedented $38 billion military aid package. A former militiaman testifies the president of the Philippines presided over the killings of criminals and political opponents while he was mayor. And Obama pledges to lift all remaining sanctions against Myanmar.
Aljazeera | The Stream - NASA's 'Hidden Figures' (09/15/16) [24:51]
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09.16.2016. 11:28

Thursday September 15, 2016
News Articles

Oliver Stone Dives into the "Horrible Experience" of Making Snowden
VanityFair | Yohana Desta | 08/30/16

If you want to make a movie about one of the most famous whistle-blowers of all time, just know it's not going to be easy. Just ask Oliver Stone, director of Snowden--the upcoming biopic about N.S.A. whistle-blower Edward Snowden, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Assembling the production was a gargantuan task from start to finish, meticulously covered in a new report from The New York Times.

The director jumped through innumerable hoops to get the movie made; it included an extra layer of difficulty because he wanted the actual Snowden to appear in the film. Stone managed this particular feat by meeting with Anatoly Kucherena, Snowden's lawyer in Russia--who had also, curiously, written a novel based on his client's life, titled Time of the Octopus. Stone bought the rights to the book for a reported $1 million in exchange for regular access to the whistle-blower. ... Read more
Snowden by Oliver Stone (trailer) (04/27/16) [2:38]

Director Oliver Stone, who brought Platoon, Born on the Fourth of July, Wall Street and JFK to the big screen, tackles the most important and fascinating true story of the 21st century. Snowden, the politically-charged, pulse-pounding thriller starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Shailene Woodley, reveals the incredible untold personal story of Edward Snowden, the polarizing figure who exposed shocking illegal surveillance activities by the NSA and became one of the most wanted men in the world. He is considered a hero by some, and a traitor by others. No matter which you believe, the epic story of why he did it, who he left behind, and how he pulled it off makes for one of the most compelling films of the year.

Senator Dick Durbin Skewers GOP's Irrational Fear Of Refugees
HP | Michael McAuliff | 09/14/16

"For the record, 800,000 refugees have been accepted in the United States since 9/11," Durbin said. "Not one has been engaged in domestic terrorism. All right?"

The senator appeared to be overlooking a handful of cases that could be tied to terrorism, but his larger point still stands: The number of refugees linked to terror activities in the United States is minuscule, according to an extensive analysis by the Cato Institute that found 20 examples of refugees linked to terrorism out of more than 3.2 million refugees admitted since 1975.

Durbin said Republicans would be much better off focusing on the nation's massive flow of visitors who receive no background checks.

"We have 20 million visa waiver visitors to the United States each year," he said. "If you want to talk about security and foreigners in this country, for goodness sakes, if we did a fingerprint, biometric investigation or evidence accumulation before they got on board the plane, [it's] not too much to ask, and it would make us safer." ... Read more

He's Back: Keith Olbermann's Premiere Episode Absolutely Eviscerates 'Demonic Messiah' Donald Trump

The Average American Consumes a Shocking Amount of Raw Materials
AlterNet | Mary Hoff / Ensia | 09/14/16

How much raw material does it take to support you? If you're an average African, about 3 metric tons (3.3 tons) -- the equivalent of an elephant's worth of biomass, fossil fuels, metal ores and nonmetallic minerals -- per year. But if you're an average North American, make that a whopping eight elephants. ...

... The report reveals some startling patterns in the use of materials around the world. Total materials use tripled between 1970 and 2010, from 22 billion metric tons (24 billion tons) to more than 70 billion metric tons (77 billion tons). Even more unsettling, per capita materials use grew from 7 metric tons (7.7 tons) to 10 (11) in 2010. And overall material efficiency -- the amount of raw material needed per unit of GDP -- has actually decreased worldwide since 2000. ... Read more

Apple Says Initial Quantities Of iPhone 7 Plus Sold Out Globally
HP & Reuters | author | 09/15/16

... Supplies of the larger size of Apple's new phone have been exhausted in all shades, and the smaller iPhone 7 has also sold out in the new jet black color, the company said.

Customers who enter Apple Stores Friday, when the gadgets hit shelves, will not be able to purchase the sold-out phones on site, but they can continue to place orders for their desired models online, Apple said. ... Read more

Frontrunning: September 15
  1. Global stocks struggle for footing after bond slip (Reuters)
  2. Mobileye says Tesla was 'pushing the envelope in terms of safety' (Reuters)
  3. Donald Trump is a problem for the whole world, EU's Schulz says (Reuters)
  4. Stuck on Ship, One Gloomy Hanjin Crew Waits to Learn Its Fate (WSJ)
  5. U.K. Approves EDF's £18 Billion Hinkley Point Nuclear Project (BBG)
Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Thursday, September 15 [11:52]
TRNN | Can Renewables Contain Extreme Weather Conditions Seen? (09/15/16) [14:33]
TRNN | Snowden: Spy or Whistleblower (09/15/16) [9:47]
TRNN | Phyllis Bennis and Rania Khalek say: Record US Military Aid to Israel Not About Security, But Prolonging the Occupation (09/15/16) [14:47]
TYT | Bernie Sanders Joins Dakota Access Pipeline Protest (09/15/16) [7:27]
TYT | Colin Powell Leaked Emails: TYT Supreme Court (09/15/16) [10:26]
Thom Hartmann - www.thomhartmann.com/
ThomHartmann | Professor Vincent Hendricks, Center for Information and Bubble Studies (09/15/16) [7:54]
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*DR | Middle-class Income Is Up And The Poverty Rate Is Down: Implications For American Families And Economic Policy (09/15/16) [1hr]
U.S. household incomes soared last year. The gains were the largest in decades and were felt across racial and ethnic groups, and by women as well as men. The official poverty rate fell more sharply than it has since 1968. Most economists and labor experts welcomed the news -- contained in a Census Bureau report released yesterday. But many stressed that income growth has been too slow. And there are still far too many Americans living in poverty -- more than 43 million. Guest host A Martinez talks with a panel of experts about what the new data mean for American families and economic policy prescriptions.
*DR | The Story Behind The Rise Of ADHD In The United States (09/15/16) [1hr]
About 15 percent of children in the U.S. receive a diagnosis of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, or ADHD. That is about three times the rate most experts agree is appropriate. This over-diagnosis means millions of kids may be taking powerful medications for a psychiatric disorder they do not have, or are not getting the support needed for the real challenges they do face. Investigative reporter Alan Schwarz tells the story of how we got here in a new book, "ADHD Nation: Children, Doctors, Big Pharma and the Making of an American Epidemic."
Aljazeera | Inside Story - How will new US-Israel military deal affect Middle East? (09/14/16) [25:15]
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09.15.2016. 10:25

Wednesday September 14, 2016
News Articles

Newsweek Bombshell: Trump's 'Pay To Play' Presidency
HP/Newsweek | Kurt Eichenwald | 09/14/16

How the trump organization's foreign business ties could upend u.s. national security

If Donald Trump is elected president, will he and his family permanently sever all connections to the Trump Organization, a sprawling business empire that has spread a secretive financial web across the world? Or will Trump instead choose to be the most conflicted president in American history, one whose business interests will constantly jeopardize the security of the United States?

Throughout this campaign, the Trump Organization, which pumps potentially hundreds of millions of dollars into the Trump family's bank accounts each year, has been largely ignored. As a private enterprise, its businesses, partners and investors are hidden from public view, even though they are the very people who could be enriched by -- or will further enrich -- Trump and his family if he wins the presidency. ... Read more

*Monsanto May Soon Cease to Exist
MotherJones | Tom Philpott | 09/13/16

In what would be the year's biggest deal so far, German pharma giant Bayer is poised to buy Monsanto.

On Tuesday, marriage negotiations between seed/pesticide giant Monsanto and its suitor, German behemoth Bayer, got hotter than a corn field at high noon in late summer. Bayer sweetened its offer to $56.5 billion Tuesday afternoon, just as Monsanto's Board of Directors was scheduled to meet to consider the offer, according to Bloomberg News. The companies could agree to terms as early as Wednesday--but the merger could "still fall apart," the news service reported, adding that "if successful, it would lead to the biggest deal this year and the largest ever by a German company."

In its current incarnation, Bayer is mainly a pharmaceutical company, with interests in prescription drugs, over-the-counter staples like aspirin, and animal medicines. But it also has a large division devoted to selling seeds and pesticides--and it has been itching for months to expand those business lines by taking over Monsanto. ... Read more

Monsanto Is Selling Itself For $66 Billion In Pesticide Megamerger
TYT | Who Will Win The 2016 Election? (09/14/16) [8:51]
TYT | Kellyann Conway To CNN: Are You Calling Trump A Liar? (09/14/16) [3:33]

White Privilege Has Enormous Implications for Policy -- But Whites Don't Think It Exists
AlterNet | Natalia Khosla/Salon | 09/13/16

Barack Obama's presidency has been defined by a new understanding by Americans that the country has yet to truly confront racism. His nomination was greeted with optimism which quickly turned sour, with 69 percent of Americans saying race relations are generally bad, levels equal to those following the Rodney King acquittal. Police violence and structural inequities have led to the Black Lives Matter movement, while on the right, racism propelled Trump to the GOP nomination. It's clear that solving America's many problems, from rampant levels of inequality to unemployment to lagging education systems to rising health care costs, will require us to understand how racism and privilege plays out in our society.

Whites Don't Believe They Have Privilege ... Read more

Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Wednesday, September 14 [11:06]
*DN | Lawyer for Imprisoned Whistleblower Chelsea Manning: Ongoing Pattern of Abuse Led to Hunger Strike (09/13/16) [5:44]
*DN | Obama's War on Whistleblowers Forced Edward Snowden to Release Documents, Says Wikileaks Editor (09/14/16) [7:25]
*DN | Is Hillary Clinton's Criticism of Edward Snowden a Distraction from Real Issue of Surveillance? (09/14/16) [7:58]
DN | "Pardon Snowden" Campaign Launches, Led by ACLU, Amnesty & Human Rights Watch (09/14/16) [3:24]
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
*Stephen Colbert | As The Lunghazi Scandal Rages, A Healthy Cartoon Hillary Speaks Out (09/14/16) [7:54]
Stephen Colbert | 'Snowden' star Joseph Gordon-Levitt discusses Oliver Stone's love of war movies (09/14/16) [4:00]
Stephen Colbert | The star of 'Stranger Things' confesses her fears, and then gives Stephen a test to see if he's worthy to hang with her squad. (09/14/16) [8:20]
TRNN | Historian Gerald Horne: How Bipartisan Economic Policy Fuels White Working Class Support for Trump (09/14/16) [6:14]
TYT | How Fracking Is Destroying Our Environment (09/14/16) [3:50]
*RT | Keiser Report: US Elections Toxic Soap Opera (E966) (09/13/16) [25:44]
Discuss the basket of deplorables and the fistful of dollars that is the toxic soap opera called US Elections 2016 in which the "basket of deplorables" is not the bankers with the fistful of campaign dollars, but the schmuck voter. They look at one deplorable bank, Wells Fargo, which has had to fire 5,300 of their employees for engaging in yet another bout of systemic fraud.
RT | CrossTalk: Is Democratic Party nominee Hillary Clinton physically fit to be president of the United States? (08/14/16) [23:54]
Thom Hartmann - www.thomhartmann.com/
*ThomHartmann | Has the Fed Created a "False Economy?" (09/13/16) [11:47]
Economist Dr. Richard Wolff, Author of "Capitalism's Crisis Deepens" Discusses: Donald Trump is accusing Janet Yellen of playing politics with interest rates and creating a "false economy." (09/13/16) [11:47]
ThomHartmann | Why Won't the Media Push Back On Liar Think Tanks & Experts? (09/13/16) [6:15]
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*DR | What's Next For The Dakota Access Pipeline And The Fight For Tribal Rights (09/14/16) [1hr]
At the Sacred Stone Camp, near the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation In North Dakota, thousands of people from more than 200 Native American tribes have joined the protest against a pipeline that would carry crude oil from the Dakotas through Iowa to Illinois. And more demonstrations have emerged across the country this week. They say the project would damage drinking water and sacred ground. The Texas company behind the pipeline says it poses no risk, and a judge ruled last week that the stakeholders went beyond their legal obligations to get approval for it. Meanwhile, an order from the Obama administration has halted construction of the pipeline around certain waterways near the reservation. The controversy has sparked a renewed conversation over how energy projects are approved -- and who is involved in the process. What's next for the Dakota Access Pipeline and how infrastructure decisions are made in the U.S.
*DR | What's Gone Wrong With The Language of Politics? (09/14/16) [1hr]
Public anger against conventional politicians and their parties is on the rise across the Western world. In Europe, right-wing, populist candidates are winning state-wide elections. And here in the U.S., it's the rise of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, whose backers praise him for "telling it like it is." In a new book, New York Times CEO Mark Thompson warns that underneath this growing support for populist candidates is a breakdown of our public language, which he says is being misused and misunderstood. Guest host A. Martinez talks with Thompson about what's gone wrong with the language of politics and what to do about it.
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09.14.2016. 11:43

Tuesday September 13, 2016
News Articles

Paul Singer Warns It Is A "Very Dangerous Time" For Stocks, Prefers Gold
ZeroHedge | author | 09/13/16

Having previously warned that "the ultimate breakdown from this environment is likely to be surprising, sudden, intense, and large," Elliott Management's Paul Singer slammed the "amazing arrogance" of policy-makers who have "created a tremendous increase in hidden risk, risk that investors don't exactly know." As CNBC notes, Singer issued cautionary words for the path ahead, "it's a very dangerous time in the global economy and global financial markets," adding that gold was "under-represented" in investors' portfolios. ... Read more

Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
Samantha Bee | If shooting yourself in the foot qualifies you to be president, then we have the most qualified candidates in years. (09/12/16) [5:25]
Samantha Bee | Here's what's going on in Matt Lauer's neck of the woods...nothing. Part 1 (09/12/16) [3:47], Part 2 [5:19]
Samantha Bee | We met the taco-truck guy before he was the taco-truck guy. (09/12/16) [6:02]

Turkey Formally Asks U.S. To Arrest Cleric Gulen Over Coup Plot, Turkish Media Reports
HP & Reuters | author | 09/13/16

Turkey has made a formal request to the United States for the arrest of U.S.-based Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen on charges of orchestrating an attempted military coup on July 15, Turkish broadcaster NTV said on Tuesday.

Turkey blames members of Gulen’s religious movement for the failed putsch two months ago, in which rogue soldiers commandeered tanks and fighters jets, bombing parliament and seizing bridges in a bid to take over power. ... Read more

120 American Charter Schools and One Secretive Turkish Cleric - The Man Accused of Inspiring Turkey's Coup
TheAtlantic | Scott Beauchamp | older, 08/12/14

120 American Charter Schools and One Secretive Turkish Cleric - The FBI is investigating a group of educators who are followers of a mysterious Islamic movement. But the problems seem less related to faith than to the oversight of charter schools.

It reads like something out of a John Le Carre novel: The charismatic Sunni imam Fethullah Gülen, leader of a politically powerful Turkish religious movement likened by The Guardian to an “Islamic Opus Dei,” occasionally webcasts sermons from self-imposed exile in the Poconos while his organization quickly grows to head the largest chain of charter schools in America. It might sound quite foreboding -- and it should, but not for the reasons you might think. ... Read more

? The Man Accused of Inspiring Turkey’s Coup Is Behind the Largest Charter-School Chain in America
TheNation | George Joseph | 07/19/16

Until last Friday, most Americans had probably never heard of Fethullah Gülen—the controversial Sunni cleric now accused of fomenting a coup attempt in Turkey. But the aged cleric, currently exiled in the Poconos, Pennsylvania, has far greater influence on US society than most realize.

Since 2002, Gülen-affiliated foundations have quietly built up the largest charter-school network in America, with over 130 schools in 26 different states nationwide. This rapid buildup is troubling, however, since financial records suggest the cleric’s charter-school network has routinely funneled public-education dollars to its own members, often with unclear benefit to students. ... Read more

*Gülen movement schools - Wikipedia
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Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Tuesday, September 13 [11:59]
*DN | Rep. Barbara Lee: Repeal 9/11 Authorization for Use of Force to Cancel Blank Check for Endless War (09/13/16) [10:42]
TRNN | Col. Lawrence Wilkerson says: The Israel Factor in the Syrian Ceasefire, but does the Israeli leadership thinks that an endless war serves its interests (09/13/16) [13:56]
*TRNN | The Empire Files: Rejecting Neoliberalism, an Interview with Ecuador's Foreign Minister Guillaume Long (09/13/16) [26:14]
*TYT | Clinton Calls Trump Supporters ‘Basket Of Deplorables’ (09/12/16) [10:32]
TYT | Why Media Loves ‘Basket Of Deplorables’ Comment? (09/12/16) [8:26]
RT | CrossTalk: A new deal: a ray of hope for Syria? And, is Russia really trying to manipulate American elections? Also, Ukraine’s dark present and Gfuture. Finally, the optics of G20. (08/12/16) [24:08]
Thom Hartmann - www.thomhartmann.com/
ThomHartmann | Bernie Joins Pipeline Fight. Hillary Still Silent. ... (08/12/16) [1:00:07]
Media’s obsession with Hillary having pneumonia, Hillary calling Trump supporters deplorable, and the latest on the fight to protect Native land from a pipeline in North Dakota. Thom discusses the importance of the ceasefire in Syria with The Nation’s Katrina vanden Heuvel and in tonight’ Daily Take Thom details why voting for Donald Trump because you want to get money out of politics is like smoking cigarettes to cure cancer.
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*DR | Prospects For A Ceasefire In Syria And The Delivery Of Humanitarian Aid (09/12/16) [1hr]
The U.S. -- Russian brokered ceasefire in Syria which went into effect at sundown on Monday is said to be, so far, mostly holding. Despite long odds for success Washington and Moscow hope their joint efforts can target the Islamic State and an Al Qaeda terrorist group while allowing for the delivery of humanitarian aid to thousands of increasingly desperate Syrian civilians: Join us for an update on the ongoing brutal conflict in Syria and prospects for this latest ceasefire agreement to hold.
*DR | Scholar Akhil Reed Amar On Turning To The Constitution To Confront The Issue Of Our Time (09/13/16) [1hr]
September 17th is Constitution Day. That’s not exactly Thanksgiving or the 4th of July in most people’s calendars, but for Akhil Reed Amar the day is a moment to celebrate and reflect on how the Constitution informs the most important issues of our day. Amar is a law professor at Yale University and he thinks of himself as constitutional journalist — someone who can quickly distill and explain news events for the public while also offering a set of enduring ideas. Guest host A Martinez talks to Amar about what the Constitution says about the issues of our era.
Aljazeera | Inside Story - Could the latest deal on Syria bring peace? (09/10/16) [25:50]
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09.13.2016. 12:11

Monday September 12, 2016
News Articles

Clinton Leaves 9/11 Ceremony Early After Feeling 'Overheated'
HP | author | 09/11/16

Her doctor later said the nominee had pneumonia and became overheated at the event.

Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton abruptly left a memorial event in New York City on Sunday morning. The Clinton campaign later said that she felt overheated and went to recuperate at her daughter's apartment.

"Secretary Clinton attended the September 11th Commemoration Ceremony for just an hour and thirty minutes this morning to pay her respects and greet some of the families of the fallen," a statement from the campaign read. "During the ceremony, she felt overheated so departed to go to her daughter's apartment, and is feeling much better." ... Read more

Arrival (2016) (trailer) [2:26]
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The Oceans Can't Protect Us Anymore -- Here's Why
NationalGeographics | Christine Dell'Amore | 09/05/16

The oceans, which have borne the brunt of most of global warming, have finally hit their limit as dying corals and plummeting fish stocks signal that the seas are at a dangerous tipping point, according to the broadest ever look at the issue. And people are already experiencing direct consequences, such as more extreme weather events, including hurricanes, says the report, released by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. ... Read more

Tent Cities Full Of Homeless People Are Booming In Cities All Over America As Poverty Spikes
ZeroHedge | author | 09/12/16

Tonight, countless numbers of homeless people will try to make it through another chilly night in large tent cities that have been established in the heart of major cities such as Seattle, Washington, D.C. and St. Louis. Homelessness has gotten so bad in California that the L.A. City Council has formally asked Governor Jerry Brown to officially declare a state of emergency. And in Portland the city has extended their "homeless emergency" for yet another year, and city officials are really struggling with how to deal with the booming tent cities that have sprung up... Read more

Trump Slams Fed's "False Stock Market", Says Yellen Should Be "Ashamed"
ZeroHedge | author | 09/12/16

Even The New York Times admits that Trump is right... but suggests the politically-correct (and economically most effective) policy has been not to admit it publically...

  1. Trump is correct that the Fed is not independent. It's an arm of government. It is insulated from politics, but far from impervious.
  2. Moreover, the framework of a nation's monetary policy, like all policy, is appropriately and necessarily a subject for political debate.
  3. But history teaches clearly that central banks achieve the best results, economically speaking, when left to their technocratic devices.
  4. Since the Carter administration, presidents (and candidates) have generally avoided the kind of critique Trump is now making repeatedly.
  5. It came to be accepted that any short-term political benefits of attacking the Fed were outweighed by the long-term economic costs.
  6. It would be interesting to hear Trump explain why he disagrees.
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*DR | Concerns About Presidential Candidates' Health (09/12/16) [1hr]
Hillary Clinton canceled a scheduled trip Monday to California. This came after Clinton left a Sept.11 ceremony Sunday in New York and then stumbled getting into her vehicle. Shortly afterward, her campaign said she has been diagnosed with pneumonia. And Donald Trump pledged to release his own medical records. Guest host A Martinez and a panel discuss the growing pressure for the presidential candidates to disclose their medical records and the possible impact the information, or lack thereof, could have on the 2016 race.
*DR | Why Murder Rates Are Rising In Some Cities And Decreasing In Others (09/12/16) [1hr]
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has said that crime is out of control across the nation. Yet many studies indicate homicide rates across the nation are much lower than they were in the 1990s. Several new studies of crime data show, however, indicate that murder rates are rising in dozens of cities. A new analysis compiled from police departments by the New York Times indicates that murder rates rose in 25 of the nation's 100 largest cities, including Chicago, Cleveland and Baltimore. Guest host A Martinez and a panel of guests discuss why murder rates are rising in some cities and decreasing in others.
Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Monday, September 12 [13:36]
DN | In Dramatic Reversal, White House Halts Dakota Access Pipeline Construction Under Missouri River (09/12/16) [17:58]
To discuss Friday's district court ruling in the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe's lawsuit against the U.S. government to stop the Dakota Access pipeline, and the White House's dramatic intervention less than an hour later, we go to Standing Rock to speak with Standing Rock Sioux Chairman Dave Archambault. We are also joined by attorney Jan Hasselman, who brought the tribe's case to federal court.
DN | Water Protectors at Standing Rock React to Obama's Intervention in Dakota Access Pipeline Battle (09/12/16) [5:59]
*TRNN | Former FBI agent Coleen Rowley discusses still unanswered questions about the lead up to 9/11 (older 10/23/09 [12:39]
*TRNN | Sen. Bob Graham: FBI Covered Up Role of Bandar and Saudis in 9/11 Attacks, Part 1 (09/11/16) [38:11], Part 2 [13:27]
*TYT | Chris Wallace: I'll Let Candidates Lie To You (09/11/16) [6:52]
TYT | College Republicans Make Surprise Endorsement (09/11/16) [9:10]
TYT | Oceans Have Been Slowing Global Warming... Until Now (09/10/16) [11:05]
TYT | Louie Gohmert: Hillary Clinton Has Special Needs (09/11/16) [14:42]
RT | The Peace We Lost (documentary) (09/11/16) [27:34]
RT | Keiser Report: Leprechaun Economics (E965) (09/10/16) [25:45]
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09.12.2016. 12:33

Friday September 09, 2016
News Articles

Trump's shot at top brass rankles military circles
Politico | Bryan Bender | 09/08/16

Donald Trump's broadside against the top military brass is drawing warnings of a crisis in civilian-military relations should he become commander in chief and begin bypassing generals and admirals now serving under President Barack Obama.

"It would be unprecedented," said Mackubin Thomas Owens, a retired Marine colonel and former instructor at the Naval War College. "This would be making the military into a partisan prize. The idea you are going to come in and fire all the generals and admirals would be nearly impossible for a variety of reasons, but would also be stupid." ... Read more

TYT | Media Turns On Matt Lauer After Trump Interview (09/08/16) [6:17]
TYT | Trump's Very Repeated Words Add Up Very Very Much (09/08/16) [6:54]
TYT | Was Matt Lauer Sexist Against Hillary Clinton? (09/08/16) [7:28]
TYT | Trump Still Defending Putin (09/08/16) [3:59]

Former intelligence officers alarmed by Trump's briefing readout
Politico | Sarah Wheaton | 09/08/16

Donald Trump's decision to offer up a politicized readout of his confidential national security briefings has set off alarm bells in the intelligence community, with some high-profile former officials warning the Republican nominee crossed a "red line."

During the NBC's Commander-in-Chief forum on Wednesday night, Trump said "there was one thing that shocked me" from the briefings he received, going on to say that he could tell that government officials were unhappy with President Barack Obama for not following expert advice. ... Read more

Clinton And Trump Are The Byproduct Of Crony Capitalism Run Amok
HP | Senior writer, BillMoyers.com | 09/09/16

Greasing The Outstretched Palms Of The Candidates

The recipe could not be simpler. Mix cynicism with greed, quickly stir and voila! American politics and government served up on a platter to the highest bidder.

Call it low cuisine. And it doesn't get any lower than what we've seen during this wretched campaign season -- a presidential contest that, as one friend in Washington recently said, pits "the unethical versus the unhinged." ... Read more

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13 Academics Who Have Become Shills for Corporate Giants in the Food, Agrochemical and Fossil Fuel Industries
AlterNet | Lorraine Chow | 09/08/16

Mounting evidence reveals that corporations are buying science and support from university professors.

There's nothing new or unusual about corporate and academic collaboration. IBM, for instance, has partnered with universities around the country since the 1940s to support computer science education. This relationship is mutually beneficial both for the tech giant and the institutions sponsored. IBM's grant dollars provide welcome funding for research and equipment for students, all while fostering a new class of computer scientists and engineers.

University-business partnerships, however, require a careful balance. Take the tobacco industry. According to a 2012 study by Harvard professor Allan Brandt, cigarette makers all but invented the concept of industry-academic conflicts of interest. ... Read more

DN | Leading Economists Oppose TPP Provision Giving Corporations Upper Hand in Investor-State Disputes (09/08/16) [12:05]
DN | Dakota Access Company Attack Comes on Anniversary of Whitestone Massacre (09/08/16) [17:48]
TRNN | Professor Andrew Bacevich says: Trump vs. Clinton Commander-In-Chief Forum: A Missed Opportunity (09/09/16) [12:32]
TRNN | The Powerful Interests Backing the Dakota Access Pipeline (09/09/16) [4:49]
TRNN | Bolivian President Clamps Down on Cooperative Mining Sector Following Conflict (09/09/16) [10:40]
RT | Keiser Report: Brexit Sea of Consequences (E964) (09/08/16) [25:44]
In this episode of the Keiser Report, as the clod called Britain is washed away by the "Brexit means Brexit" vote, Max and Stacy ask if Europe will be worse off, or will the trading bloc hardly notice? In the second half, Max interviews Liam Halligan on what "Brexit means Brexit" actually means and about the rise of protectionism.
RT | CrossTalk: The Trump Doctrine (08/09/16) [24:29]
Donald Trump is one of the most unorthodox presidential nominees in American electoral history. He is unpolished and very brash. But some of his foreign policy ideas are intriguing -- even commonsensical. This terrifies and enrages the establishment.
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*DR | Friday News -- Domestic (09/09/16) [1hr]
The Friday News Roundup: Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump square off on national security in their first joint appearance of the election season. The Senate fails once again to pass Zika funding. And a wave of shootings in Chicago pushes the city's homicide count to more than five hundred this year. A panel of journalists joins guest host John Donvan for analysis of the week's top national news stories.
*DR | Friday News -- International (09/09/16) [1hr]
North Korea carries out its fifth nuclear test provoking condemnation around the world. Obama's final trip to Asia as president was to focus on climate change and maritime security, but is over-shadowed by a dust-up with the Philippine president and confrontations with Chinese officials. While in China, Obama meets with Vladimir Putin over a Syrian ceasefire, but the countries fail to reach an agreement. Complicating negotiations, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter warns Russia not to interfere with U.S. elections amid accusations they are hacking into American political institutions. And the Mexican finance minister resigns after a controversial visit from Donald Trump. Guest host John Donvan and a panel of journalists discuss the international week in news.
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09.09.2016. 10:17

Thursday September 08, 2016
News Articles
NBC Commander-In-Chief Forum: Donald Trump VS Hillary Clinton (full) (09/07/16) [53:21]
TYT | NBC Presidential Forum: The Young Turks Summary (09/07/16) [6:17]
TYT | NBC Presidential Forum: The Young Turks Biggest Winner (09/07/16) [13:12]
TYT | NBC Presidential Forum: The Young Turks Biggest Fail (09/07/16) [10:33]

Fact-checking the NBC 'commander-in-chief' forum
politifact.com | Linda Qui | 09/07/16

Clinton defended her handling of highly sensitive information as secretary of state, claiming that none of the emails sent and received on her private server had a header marking them as classified. She acknowledged her use of the server as well as her support for invading Iraq were "mistakes."

"Now, my opponent was for the war in Iraq. He says he wasn't. You can go back and look at the record. He supported it," Clinton added. "I have taken responsibility for my decision. He refuses to take responsibility for his support. That is a judgment issue." ... Read more

Matt Lauer Failed The Moderator Test
HP | Michael Calderone | 09/07/16

Wednesday night's "Commander-in-Chief Forum" on NBC should have gone down as the first time the two 2016 presidential candidate shared a stage. But it will be remembered largely for the shortcomings of the man who was tasked with moderating.

Matt Lauer, the "Today" show host, flunked in primetime. And his failure was even more remarkable because he had the very information he needed to succeed.

During the first half of an hourlong event, Hillary Clinton pointed out to Lauer that Republican nominee Donald Trump had expressed support for the Iraq War prior to the 2003 U.S. invasion, even though he's falsely claimed throughout his entire candidacy to have been staunchly opposed to it. Read more

The Shell Game Behind a $43 Billion Market
Bloomberg | Carolina Wilson | 09/08/16

It's the hot new address for an old Wall Street machine: 1209 North Orange Street. There, in Wilmington, Delaware, several giants of American finance have established powerful outposts. Inside 1209 North Orange are little more than drop boxes. But the likes of Citigroup Inc., Goldman Sachs Group Inc., JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Morgan Stanley have all gone there lately for the same reason: to work around guidelines involving byzantine investments known as structured notes.

And so it is that in this lucrative -- and sometimes controversial -- corner of Wall Street, banks and regulators have together embraced something of a charade. ... Read more

"It's Bordering Chaos": $14 Billion In Cargo Stranded At Sea, Crews "Go Crazy" On Hanjin Ghost Ships
ZeroHedge | author | 09/08/16

The fallout from last week's historic bankruptcy of one of the world's biggest shipping lines, Hanjin Shipping, has found little resolution with as much as $14 billion worth of cargo stranded at sea: conditions are "bordering chaos," said the CEO of SeaIntelligence Consulting in Copenhagen, while the Hanjing shipping labor union added that "our ships can become ghost ships." ... Read more

Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Thursday, September 08 [10:55]
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
ColbertReport | Does This Trump-Shaped Cloud Predict a Republican Win in November? (09/08/16) [5:02]
ColbertReport | Trump's Campaign Goes Off Script (09/07/16) [5:09]
TRNN | Fred Branfman: America's Murderous Legacy in Laos (09/07/16) [6:37]
RT | Meanwhile in Yemen: All-female brigade of Houthi fighters brandishing rocket launchers during parade (09/06/16) [1:02]
RT | UK to build €2.3mn concrete wall around Calais camp to keep migrants out (09/07/16) [12:07]
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ThomHartmann | Don't Buy the Hype -- The TPP Won't Secure America (09/08/16) [4:05]
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*DR | What Turmoil At Fox News May Mean For Journalism, Television News And The Conservative Agenda (09/08/16) [1hr]
Fox News has been making its own news this week: a $20 million dollar payout and an unusual public apology to former Fox News host Gretchen Carlson who filed sexual harassment charges earlier this year against now former CEO Roger Ailes. Then the announcement that long time Fox evening anchor Greta Van Susteren was stepping down effective immediately. Many question whether recent events point to a few bumps for the top rated cable news organization or the start of a wholesale shift in organizations culture and direction: Join us to discuss what's going at Fox News and why it matters.
Aljazeera | Hanjin shipments in troubled waters after company's collapse (09/07/16) [2:08]
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09.08.2016. 10:15

Wednesday September 07, 2016
News Articles

Thanks To Fracking, Earthquake Hazards In Parts Of Oklahoma Now Comparable To California
Forbes | James Conca | 09/07/16

A magnitude 5.6 earthquake shook Oklahoma on Saturday, tied for the strongest quake ever recorded in the state. Odds are it was triggered by fracking operations, specifically the subsurface injection of fracking wastewater.

There is a direct connection between fracking and earthquakes in the central and eastern United States (Figure 1). But the earthquakes are not a result of fracking itself. They mostly result from the injection of fracking wastewater at depths well-below the fracking horizon. The larger the volumes of wastewater injected into the subsurface, the larger the earthquakes can be.

The United States Geological Survey just produced a seismic hazard forecast for 2016 for the central and eastern United States that includes both induced and natural earthquakes. While almost all of the fracking-induced or triggered earthquakes are small -- less than magnitude 3, which can’t be felt by most people -- enough are above 3 that the USGS predicted a 5% to 17% chance of significant damage to homes and structures in just the year 2016 for areas of north-central Oklahoma and southern Kansas where fracking occurs.... Read more

Secret War
From 1964 to 1973 United States dropped on an average of 8 bombs/minute on Laos. 270 million of those bombs were cluster bombs, where 1/3 of the bombs didn't explode. We dropped more bombs on Laos than Germany and Japan combined in WWII!
TYT | Obama Moves To Solve Ugly Vietnam War Legacy (09/06/16) [5:15]
The United States is still making and sell cluster bombs, for and example to Saudi Arabia, so they can use them to bomb Yemen. Will Yemen have to suffer the same fate as Laos. Will the world have to crean up Yemen in the next 40 years??

NOAA Removes Most Humpback Whales From Endangered Species List
HP | Carla Herreria | 09/07/16

Humpback whales have made an epic return after being hunted to the brink of extinction in several areas.

Most of world’s humpback populations have finally been removed from the endangered species list, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Tuesday.

NOAA Fisheries said of the 14 different population segments, nine have returned to healthy numbers. These include whales that breed in Hawaiian waters and whose population numbers have expanded to some 11,000 individuals, the agency said. ... Read more

Border Patrol Nation: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Homeland Security by Todd Miller

"In his scathing and deeply reported examination of the U.S. Border Patrol, Todd Miller argues that the agency has gone rogue since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, trampling on the dignity and rights of the undocumented with military-style tactics. . . . Miller's book arrives at a moment when it appears that part of the Homeland Security apparatus is backpedaling by promising to tone down its tactics, maybe prodded by investigative journalism, maybe by the revelations of NSA leaker Edward Snowden. . . . Border Patrol is quite possibly the right book at the right time . . . "--Tony Perry, Los Angeles Times

“At the start of his unsettling and important new book, Border Patrol Nation, Miller observes that these days 'it is common to see the Border Patrol in places--such as Erie, Pennsylvania; Rochester, New York; or Forks, Washington--where only fifteen years ago it would have seemed far-fetched, if not unfathomable.'”--Barbara Spindel, Christian Science Monitor

"Miller’s approach in Border Patrol Nation is to offer a glimpse into the secretive operations of the Border Patrol, reporting with a journalist’s objectivity and nose for a good story. Miller’s book is full of facts, and it’s clear he’s outraged, but he gives voices to people on every side of the issue. . . . Miller’s book is a fascinating read.. . . and bring the work of Susan Orlean to mind."--Amanda Eyre Ward Kirkus Reviews

"Todd Miller's invaluable and gripping book, Border Patrol Nation: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Homeland Security is the story of how this country’s borders are being transformed into up-armored, heavily militarized zones run by a border-industrial complex. It's an achievement and an eye opener."--Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch

"What Jeremy Scahill was to Blackwater, Todd Miller is to the U.S. Border Patrol!"--Tom Miller, author, On the Border: Portraits of America's Southwestern Frontier

"Todd Miller has entered a secret world, and he has gone deep. . . . Powerful."--Luis Alberto Urrea, author of The Devil's Highway: A True Story

"Journalist Miller tells an alarming story of U.S. Border Patrol and Homeland Security's ever-widening reach into the lives of American citizens and legal immigrants as well as the undocumented. In addition to readers interested in immigration issues, those concerned about the NSA’s privacy violations will likely be even more shocked by the actions of Homeland Security."--Publishers Weekly, Starred Review

Armed authorities watch from a military-grade surveillance tower as lines of people stream toward the security checkpoint, tickets in hand, anxious and excited to get through the gate. Few seem to notice or care that the US Border Patrol is monitoring the Super Bowl, as they have for years, one of the many ways that forces created to police the borders are now being used, in an increasingly militarized fashion, to survey and monitor the whole of American society.

In fast-paced prose, Todd Miller sounds an alarm as he chronicles the changing landscape. Traveling the country—and beyond—to speak with the people most involved with and impacted by the Border Patrol, he combines these first-hand encounters with careful research to expose a vast and booming industry for high-end technology, weapons, surveillance, and prisons. While politicians and corporations reap substantial profits, the experiences of millions of men, women, and children point to staggering humanitarian consequences. Border Patrol Nation shows us in stark relief how the entire country has become a militarized border zone, with consequences that affect us all.

Assange: New Clinton Revelations Coming As Soon As Next Week, Says Clinton Knew Meaning Of "C"
ZeroHedge | author |09/07/16

In an interview on Fox News show Hannity, Wikileaks' Julian Assange finally gave a more definitive timeline to long awaited further "significant" information they will be releasing on Hillary Clinton before the November election. The information will be released in "batches," and Assange says he is "confident" that the first batch will be released reasonably soon, perhaps as early as next week. ... Read more

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Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Wednesday, September 07 [11:32]
*DN | New Investigation Names Wall Street Banks Behind $3.8 Billion Dakota Access Pipeline (09/06/16) [3:17]
*DN | Who's Investing in the Dakota Access Pipeline? Meet the Banks Financing Attacks on Protesters (09/07/16) [9:55]
*DN | Iowa Landowners Sue to Stop Dakota Access Construction, Say Pipeline Provides No Public Service (09/07/16) [8:19]
*TRNN | Todd Miller: Trump's Wall Is Already Here (09/07/16) [11:39]
*TRNN | Oil Companies Seek to Exempt California's Underground Aquifers from Clean Water Act (09/07/16) [12:16]
TRNN | Alex Main: Tens of Thousands of Protesters Demand New Elections in Brazil (09/07/16) [15:12]
TRNN | Vijay Prashad discusses: 150 Million Indian Workers Take Part In Largest Strike in Centuries (09/07/16) [11:53]
TYT | Rich Kid College Jet Tours Cost More Than Your Ph.D. (09/06/16) [13:28]
RT | Inside Menwith Hill: NSA spy base in UK used for ‘kill or capture’ missions - Snowden leaks (09/06/16) [4:09]
*RT | Keiser Report: Will the dollar live to die another day? (E963) (09/06/16) [25:44]
In this episode of the Keiser Report, Max and Stacy discuss the new m-SDR and ask will the dollar live to die another day? And are SDRs forever? As the G20 in China concludes they ask whether the new Special Drawing Right is the first step toward one world currency. In the second half, Max interviews Dan Collins of ChinaMoneyReport.com about yuan internationalization and China’s quantum satellite.
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*DR | The Rise Of Populism And Anti-Immigrant Sentiment In Europe (09/07/16) [1hr]
Where there are earthquakes, there are often aftershocks -- in geology as in politics. And if Britain’s vote early this summer to break away from Europe was an earthquake, a much smaller scale election in Germany this week represents a clear aftershock. For the first time in post-war history, Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party finished behind a populist challenger espousing strong anti-immigrant views in German state elections. The defeat comes a year after Merkel argued for compassion as she opened Germany’s borders to more than a million refugees from the Syrian civil war and North Africa. A panel joins guest host John Donvan to talk about what’s happened since then to tip populist anger, and why nationalism is gaining ground across Europe -- from France to Denmark to Poland and the Netherlands -- as other countries prepare for elections of their own.
*DR | The Environmental Outlook: The Global Seed Vault (09/07/16) [1hr]
North of the Arctic Circle, deep inside a mountain in Norway, there’s a tunnel carved into the rock. It leads to a big room with subzero temperatures, filled with shelf upon shelf of boxes that hold hundreds of seeds from all over the planet. It’s called the Global Seed Vault, founded by conservationist Cary Fowler in 2008 to collect and protect seed samples from all over the world. Today, the vault holds more than 800,000 samples. For this month’s Environmental Outlook: Guest host John Donvan talks with the “father” of The Global Seed Vault about its role in protecting the world’s food supply from political upheaval and climate change.
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09.07.2016. 13:31

Tuesday September 06, 2016
News Articles

Art Of The Steal - Trump Living Large On Donors' Dime
HP | S.V. Date | 09/06/16

The GOP nominee's campaign is spending lavishly on Trump businesses instead of cheaper alternatives.

On the night of this spring's Florida primary, the pastor giving the invocation at Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago victory party prayed: "Lord, give Mr. Trump the power to rise above the GOP establishment." Turns out the prayer worked. Not only did Trump win the Republican presidential nomination, but two months later, on May 18, Trump signed a deal with the Republican National Committee giving him access to a top-notch fundraising operation after not having had one at all through the primaries. .. Read more

Around 10-11% of the earth is covered in glaciers and ice caps, yet they contain nearly 70% of the world's supply of fresh water.
The Madhouse Effect: How Climate Change Denial Is Threatening Our Planet, Destroying Our Politics, and Driving Us Crazy by Michael E. Mann

The award winning climate scientist Michael E. Mann and the Pulitzer Prize--winning political cartoonist Tom Toles have fought at the frontlines of climate denialism for most of their careers. They have witnessed the manipulation of the media by business and political interests and the unconscionable play to partisanship on issues that affect the well-being of millions. The lessons they have learned have been invaluable, inspiring this brilliant, colorful escape hatch from the madhouse of the climate wars.

Through satire, The Madhouse Effect portrays the intellectual pretzels into which denialists must twist logic to explain away the clear evidence that man-made activity has changed our climate. Toles's cartoons collapse counter-scientific strategies into their biased components, helping readers see how to best strike at these fallacies. Mann's expert skills at science communication aim to restore sanity to a debate that continues to rage against widely acknowledged scientific consensus. The synergy of these two commonsense crusaders enlivens the gloom and doom of so many climate-themed books -- and may even convert a few of the faithful to the right side of science.
Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth System by Ian Angus

Science tells us that a new and dangerous stage in planetary evolution has begun--the Anthropocene, a time of rising temperatures, extreme weather, rising oceans, and mass species extinctions. Humanity faces not just more pollution or warmer weather, but a crisis of the Earth System. If business as usual continues, this century will be marked by rapid deterioration of our physical, social, and economic environment. Large parts of Earth will become uninhabitable, and civilization itself will be threatened. Facing the Anthropocene shows what has caused this planetary emergency, and what we must do to meet the challenge.

Bridging the gap between Earth System science and ecological Marxism, Ian Angus examines not only the latest scientific findings about the physical causes and consequences of the Anthropocene transition, but also the social and economic trends that underlie the crisis. Cogent and compellingly written, Facing the Anthropocene offers a unique synthesis of natural and social science that illustrates how capitalism's inexorable drive for growth, powered by the rapid burning of fossil fuels that took millions of years to form, has driven our world to the brink of disaster. Survival in the Anthropocene, Angus argues, requires radical social change, replacing fossil capitalism with a new, ecosocialist civilization.
Anthropocene or Capitalocene?: Nature, History, and the Crisis of Capitalism by Elmar Altvater

The Earth has reached a tipping point. Runaway climate change, the sixth great extinction of planetary life, the acidification of the oceans -- all point toward an era of unprecedented turbulence in humanity's relationship within the web of life. But just what is that relationship, and how do we make sense of this extraordinary transition? Anthropocene or Capitalocene? offers answers to these questions from a dynamic group of leading critical scholars who challenge the conventional practice of dividing historical change and contemporary reality into "Nature" and "Society," demonstrating the possibilities offered by a more nuanced and connective view of human environment-making, joined at every step with and within the biosphere. In distinct registers, the authors frame their discussions within a politics of hope that signal the possibilities for transcending capitalism, broadly understood as a "world-ecology" that joins nature, capital, and power as a historically evolving whole.

EpiPen Price Hike Can Only Happen in a Hijacked Democracy
AlterNet | Michael Winship | 09/06/16

Cash and carry has become nothing more than standard operating procedure in politics and government, and it's wrecking the republic. The whole system is rotten to the core, corrupted by big business and special interests.

Or daughter, as we learned these past few days when the news introduced us to Heather Bresch, CEO of a drug company called Mylan and daughter of Democratic US Sen. Joe Manchin III, who's also the former governor of West Virginia. ... Read more

"26 million people have already been displaced due to climate change, and 150 million more will join those numbers by as soon as 2050."

Remember the Syrian conflict started over dought conditions that caused the farmers to rebel

FX Trading By Hedge Funds And Prop Traders Tumbles 30% Over Past Three Years
ZeroHedge | author | 09/06/16

What was most striking in the latest Triennial BIS survey, was the shrinkage in FX trading by hedge funds and proprietary trading firms which fell by more than 30% over the past three years. The shrinkage in the share of FX trading by these investors is likely the result of regulatory pressures and FX rigging investigations which caused significant retrenchment by FX prop desks. ... Read more



DN | Dakota Access Pipeline Company Attacks Native American Protesters with Dogs & Pepper Spray (09/03/16) [7:46]
TRNN | Not Seen For 1000 Years: Rise in Global Temperatures Ushering In New Epoch (09/04/16) [18:43]
TRNN | Facing the Anthropocene: The Earth's New Geological Era (09/04/16) [12:30]
*TYT | The Next Middle East Disaster? (09/04/16) [3:40]
TYT | AGGRESSIVE PROGRESSIVES Episode 2: Voting For Jill Stein = White Privilege? (09/05/16) [9:27]
I believe this is a new segment. I will have to investigate it further. What I watched I found interesting and insightful.
TYT | RoF | Climate Deniers Are Just As Dangerous As The Most Criminal Corporations (09/03/16) [8:59]
TYT | RoF | How Much Can We Reduce Military Spending Before It's a Risk? (09/04/16) [3:20]
Thom Hartmann - www.thomhartmann.com/
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*DR | The Other Elections: Key Senate And House Races And The Fight For Congress (09/06/16) [1hr]
With the nation's eyes glued to the presidential election, congressional races have stayed largely out of the spotlight. But their outcomes are significant. The Republican-controlled congress may be headed for a shake-up; in states like Pennsylvania, New Hampshire and Ohio, Republican incumbents elected in 2010 are looking for second terms. But latest polls for states with key contests signal a possible Democratic majority in the Senate next year. As we close in on the final weeks of campaigning, a look at Senate and House elections: the GOP fight to keep control of Congress, how the presidential election affects down-ballot races and what the results could mean for America in 2017.
*DR | Kati Marton: "True Believer: Stalin's Last American Spy" (09/06/16) [1hr]
The true story of a privileged young American who becomes a spy for Joseph Stalin.
*Aljazeera | H2wOe: India's Water Crisis - Warning to the World (09/04/16) [25:20]
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09.06.2016. 10:47

Friday September 02, 2016
News Articles

Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto And Donald Trump Are Now In A Twitter Fight
HP | Elise Foley | 09/01/16

So did you guys discuss who's paying for the wall or not?

Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto took to Twitter Thursday afternoon to once again insist that his country won't pay for a border wall, no matter how many times GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump promises it will. "I repeat what I told him in person: Mr. Trump, Mexico will never pay for the wall," he wrote in Spanish. ... Read more

Donald Trump's Immigration Speech in Phoenix
BB | Watch Donald Trump's Immigration Policy Speech in Phoenix (08/31/16) [1:14:04]
TYT | Racist Right Rallies Around Trump (09/01/16) [5:57]
On Wednesday night in Phoenix, Ariz., Donald Trump sought to answer any doubts his staunch supporters had about the "softening" of his immigration policy, and one of the most outspoken supporters, Ann Coulter, told Yahoo News Guest Anchor Stephanie Sy that she was pleased with what she heard. Coulter, author of the new book "In Trump we Trust: E Pluribus Awesome!" told Sy, "I can't stop smiling. Technically, I thought his speech was better than Churchill," referencing a tweet she made about Trump's speech and Winston Churchill.

On whether or not every undocumented immigrant will get deported in a Trump administration, Coulter said, "Any law does not have 100 percent enforcement. Maybe you won't catch all of them, but wow, we are talking about a pretty rapid deportation for, I don't know, 60 to 80 percent of these."

On getting funding from Congress to back Trump's immigration plan, which includes building a wall on the southern United States border and tripling the number of ICE deportation officers, Coulter didn't seem to think that would be an issue. She said, "A lot of what he plans to do doesn't require very much from Congress. We already have a lot of money for the military and for the immigration enforcement service."

When pressed on using military funding for Trump's immigration plan, Coulter said, "You can use the military to build the wall. That's a big part of it, and guarding the wall and making sure people are not coming into the country illegally is absolutely a military function; it's been used before to construct things along our border. That is absolutely a military function, and that's a huge chunk of the money needed to enforce our immigration laws for the first time." She continued, "ICE already has a lot of money."

Coulter also described Trump as having a mandate to put his plan in place if he's elected. She told Sy, "If Trump is elected president, as I think he will be, I think it will send a pretty strong message for what the American people want on this, and yes, I do think Congress will go along with him for this whole program or face losing their reelection.
Since 2014 The US Has Added 520,000 Waiters And Bartenders And Lost 13,000 Manufacturing Workers
Kingdom of the Unjust: Behind the U.S.-Saudi Connection by Medea Benjamin (09/13/16)

The diminutive co-founder of Code Pink has become famous for fearlessly tackling head-on subjects the left and right studiously avoid. Sometimes, she does so in person--as at President Obama's speech at the National Defense College, or in Egypt, where she was assaulted by police. Here, she's researching the sinister nature of the relationship between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia.

In seven succinct chapters followed by a meditation on prospects for change, Benjamin--cited by the L.A. Times as "one of the high profile members of the peace movement"--shines a light on one of the weirder, and most important, elements of our foreign policy. What is the origin of this strange alliance between two countries that have very little in common? Why does it persist, and what are its consequences? Why, over a period of decades and across various presidential administrations, has the United States consistently supported a regime shown time and again to be one of the most powerful forces working against American interests? Saudi Arabia is perhaps the single most important source of funds for terrorists worldwide, promoting an extreme interpretation of Islam along with anti-Western sentiment, while brutally repressing non-violent dissidents at home.

Mylan Didn't Lower EpiPen Prices After All; They Just Appeared To
AlterNet | Gaius Publius | 09/01/16

Just another Big Pharma scam

These days have seen a number of stories about the Mylan EpiPen scandal, the essence of which is captured in the graphic at the top (note, though, that the graphic understates the EpiPen price; it's now around $640). Heather Bresch, Mylan's CEO, decided to increase corporate profit by increasing the price of a mature product, EpiPen, a device that delivers life-saving epinephrine to people who suffer life-threatening anaphylactic shock from allergic exposure to, for example, bee stings and peanuts. In the view of most observers, she did it simply because she could.

There's no economic reason for the price increases, any of them. Epinephrine (basically adrenalin) is not proprietary. As Dr. Lee Rogers notes in the first link below, "As a hormone, it's a product of nature and cannot be patented." And the delivery mechanism (the "pen") has been around since 1977. All of the R&D is done, and the medicine is cheap. All told, each EpiPen contains just one dollar worth of medicine. (And it seems the original EpiPen was at least partly developed with taxpayer money.) ... Read more

Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Thursday, September 01 [10:17]
Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Friday, September 02 [11:05]
*DN | Is an Arkansas Town Town Operating a "Hot Check" Court as an Illegal Debtors' Prison? (09/02/16) [6:56]
DN | The Criminalization of Poverty: Woman Describes Fines & Arrests After $1.07 Check Bounces (09/02/16) [7:56]
DN | Dilma Rousseff on Ouster: This is a Coup That Will Impact Every Democratic Organization in Brazil (09/01/16) [11:52]
TRNN | Economist James Henry explains: Uproar Over Apple-Iceland Tax Deal Ruling Could Put Multinationals Under the Gun During G20 (09/01/16) [7:29]
TRNN | Trump Would Intensify Bipartisan Immigration Policy Already in Place (09/01/16) [10:40]
*TYT | Donald Trump Trying To Lose The Election With His Immigration Speech? (09/01/16) [16:16]
RT | CrossTalk: Universal Bogeyman (08/02/16) [24:35]
Thom Hartmann - www.thomhartmann.com/
*ThomHartmann | Medea Benjamin - Why Is Saudi Arabia A Key US Ally? Paart 1 (09/01/16) [12:43], Part 2 [11:38]
Medea Benjamin, Kingdom of the Unjust: Behind the U.S.-Saudi Connection/CODEPINK/Global Exchange joins Thom. The United States is supposedly the world's last great hope for democracy. So why does it work so closely with Saudi Arabia - one of the world's most brutal theocracies? The answer in tonight's Conversations with Great Minds with Medea Benjamin.
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*DR | Friday News - Domestic (09/02/16) [1hr]
or DR | Friday News Roundup (09/02/16) [1hr]
Donald Trump talks tough in a speech on immigration. Senators McCain and Rubio win in state primaries. And the Supreme Court blocks a restrictive North Carolina voting law. A panel of journalists joins guest host Frank Sesno for analysis of the week's top national news stories.
*DR | Friday News - International (09/02/16) [1hr]
Donald Trump meets with Mexico's president. The Brazilian president is impeached. And the FBI says Russian hackers targeted U.S. election systems. A panel of journalists joins guest host Frank Sesno for analysis of the week's top international news stories.
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09.02.2016. 12:18

Thursday September 01, 2016
News Articles

Donald Trump Just Cranked Up The Volume On Immigration
HP | Elise Foley | 09/01/16

Anyone hoping for a kinder, gentler GOP nominee can forget it. He's getting worse.

The Republican presidential nominee firmly shot down speculation on Wednesday that he may be open to legal status for undocumented immigrants, vowing that "no one will be immune or exempt from enforcement."

"Anyone who has entered the United States illegally is subject to deportation," Trump said during what he billed as a major policy speech in Phoenix. "That is what it means to have laws and to have a country. Otherwise we don't have a country." ... Read more

Immigration in the United States: New Economic, Social, Political Landscapes with Legislative Reform on the Horizon
Faye Hipsman Migration Policy Institute | older 2013

... In the 1970s and 1980s, refugee and humanitarian emergencies led to annual admissions of more than 200,000 during some years. During the last decade and half, and especially since 9/11, both the size of the refugee program and annual asylum grants have decreased (see Figure 3). FY 2011 saw 56,384 refugee arrivals, down from 73,293 in FY 2010. Burma (16,972) Iraq (9,388) Bhutan (14,999), Somalia (3,161), and Cuba (2,920) were the top five refugee-sending countries of FY 2011. That year, 24,988 individuals were granted asylum (defensive and affirmative), a slight uptick from FY 2010 after about ten years of steady decline. There is no cap on asylum approvals.

Noncitizens who enter the United States for tourism, work, or study reasons are admitted with a temporary nonimmigrant status. There are over 70 categories of visas for nonimmigrants, including tourists, business visitors, foreign students, H-1B workers, religious workers, intracompany transferees, diplomats, and representatives of international organizations. Nonimmigrant visas typically have strict terms and conditions, and allow for periods of stay ranging from a few weeks or months to six or more years. A small number of nonimmigrant visas allow for eventual permanent residency.

In 2011, 7.5 million nonimmigrant visas were granted. Temporary tourism and business visitors represent the vast majority of nonimmigrant visa holders. Nonimmigrant visas issued to foreign students have increased significantly during the last decade. The 447,410 student visas issued in 2011 is more than 50 percent greater than the number issued in 2001. Much of this growth has been driven by the exponential rise in students from China, who now represent 35 percent of all foreign students. South Korea, Saudi Arabia, and India also send students to the United States in high numbers. ... Read more

Trump's Revolting All-Out Attack on Immigrants Bears the Fingerprints of New Adviser Roger Ailes
AlterNet | Adele M. Stan | 08/31/16

In a speech designed to smear undocumented immigrants, Trump looked to the GOP's winning 1988 strategy.

... In the late summer of 2016, Republican presidential nominee Donald J. Trump was down in the polls, compared with his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton. So the Trump campaign came up with what its operatives hope will be a winning theme: tying the former secretary of state to crimes committed by undocumented immigrants. In a speech delivered to an Arizona rally of mostly white cheering Trump supporters, the GOP standard bearer repeatedly referred to American citizens who had lost their lives at the hands of undocumented criminals, and then brought to the stage the loved ones of some who had been killed. After each of the family members -- mostly mothers -- of the deceased testified for Trump, he kissed her and brought the next one to the podium. ... Read more

Hillary Clinton Disliked By A Record Number Of Americans, Survey Finds
HP | Matt Ferner | 08/31/16

While bombastic Republican nominee Donald Trump remains the most unpopular major-party presidential nominee in modern U.S. history, Hillary Clinton is not faring much better ? a new poll found that she is currently the most disliked she has ever been in 25 years of public life.

Just 41 percent of Americans have a favorable view of the Democratic presidential nominee, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll released Wednesday. It also found that 56 percent have an unfavorable view of her, a record high for the poll. ... Read more

TRNN | Ending of TTIP Talks May Be Tactical But Should be Celebrated Nevertheless' (09/01/16) [13:48]
TRNN | Harvard Professor Sidney Chalhoub: President Dilma Rousseff Impeached, New Government to Pursue Right-Wing Agenda [11:42]
TRNN | Professor John Ackerman on Mexican president Enrique Pena Nieto: 'He's Our Trump' [12:39]
TYT | How Mexico Visit Is Big Win For Trump (08/31/16) [12:27]
TYT | Tea Party Trump Supporter's Explains Why He's Not Racist (08/31/16) [4:24]
RT | Keiser Report: Simple Sleight of Monetary Hand (E961) (09/01/16) [25:45]
Max and Stacy discuss all that was won by simple sleight of monetary hand. They also discuss Scotland's collapsing North Sea oil revenues and whether or not China can help them. In the second half, Max interviews David Low about Scotcoin and asks David, 'why not just use bitcoin?' They also discuss how it is that the Scottish independence referendum drove David to cryptocurrencies.
Thom Hartmann - www.thomhartmann.com/
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*DR | Donald Trump's Immigration Plan And His Visit To Mexico (09/01/16) [1hr]
Under a Donald Trump presidency, there would be only one route to legal status for immigrants in the United States: to return home and apply for re-entry. In a speech last night in Phoenix, the Republican nominee for president took a hardline conservative position on immigration: zero tolerance for immigrants who commit crimes, an end to sanctuary cities and certain visas, and a new ideological test for entry. Still, he was short on specifics. He renewed his promise to build an "impenetrable, physical wall"--paid for by Mexico. But hours earlier, during a visit to Mexico, the country's president pledged to work with the U.S., but not subsidize a barrier. An update on the Republican presidential nominee's proposals on immigration, illegal drugs and trade.
*DR | Jesmyn Ward On Race In America: "The Fire This Time" (09/01/16) [1hr]
National Book Award-winning author Jesmyn Ward on the new edited volume, "The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race.
Aljazeera | Inside Story - Has Ireland given illegal tax incentives to Apple? (09/01/16) [25:00]
Aljazeera | People & Power: India's Nuclear Riddle (09/01/16) [25:00]
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09.01.2016. 10:56



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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

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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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 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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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?

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
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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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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)
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Mariah Billado,
Victoria Hughes,
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Bridget Sullivan (2000)
Tasha Dixon (2001)
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Samantha Holvey (2006)

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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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