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Koch-Backed Political Network, Built To Shield Donors, Raised $400 Million In 2012 Elections
HP & WashingtonPost | author | 01/05/13

The political network spearheaded by conservative billionaires Charles and David Koch has expanded into a far-reaching operation of unrivaled complexity, built around a maze of groups that cloaks its donors, according to an analysis of new tax returns and other documents. ...

... But they have substantial firepower. Together, the 17 conservative groups that made up the network raised at least $407 million during the 2012 campaign, according to the analysis of tax returns by The Washington Post and the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonpartisan group that tracks money in politics. ... Read more
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$500 Billion In 2013 Corporate Buybacks: Half Of QE

How Right-Wing Radicals -- From Nixon to Paul Ryan -- Have Deceived America
AlterNet | Paul Rosenberg | 01/06/14

From Nixon to Reagan to Gingrich to Bush to Paul Ryan and Chris Christie today, leaders who've shifted America to the right have been aided by moderating misrepresentations. In the case of Reagan, it was not just the man, but conservatism itself that received the flattering reinterpretation. That was a difference that mattered; it goes to the heart of why Reagan is the American right's touchstone. But the more general process of misrepresenting and reinterpreting increasingly radical ideological figures as if they were normal, everyday pragmatic problem-solvers is one that's been a repeated leitmotif in America's political trajectory since Richard Nixon's political resurrection in 1968. ... Read more

Climate Change - Don't just look outside!

Meanwhile, In The Non "Polar Vortex" World...
ZeroHedge | author | 01/06/14

While America is preparing to usher in the coldest days of the 21st century, some other places around the globe are hardly as worried. Below is a photo from Rio's Ipanema beach over the weekend, where temperatures hit 51 degrees. Celsius. ... Read more

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Temperatures in an Australian outback town have soared above 50 degrees Celsius (122 Fahrenheit). The heatwave in Oodnadatta has forced residents to stay inside, as one woman recorded 54 (129.2 F) degrees on her thermometer. A local official described the heat in the town as "like stepping into an oven." Temperatures will drop overnight, but only to 34 (93.2 F) degrees. Elsewhere in Australia, bushfires are still raging in North Stradbroke Island, Queensland, where firefighters are doing what they can to get the blazes under control. Electricity has been cut to parts of the island and generators are being ferried over to provide power. Report by Mark Morris.
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A heatwave affecting Argentina has left at least seven people dead - most of them elderly - in the past week, officials say. The heat has been compounded by power cuts, which have prevented many people from using air conditioning. In Santiago del Estero and other northern provinces temperatures have soared to over 45C (113F). Meteorologists say it has been the worst heatwave in the region since records began in 1906.


DemocracyNow Daily News
Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Monday, January 06 [13:42]
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*TRNN | David Bacon: By Pushing the TPP, Obama is Repeating the Mistakes of NAFTA (01/06/14) [6:23]
*TRNN | Tim Wise: 20 Years on, Mexico is NAFTA's Biggest Lie (01/03/14) [11:00]
*TRNN | Tim Wise: NAFTA + US Farm Subsidies Devastates Mexican Agriculture (12/20/10) [8:23]
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*TYT | President Taxes The Rich (In France) (01/04/14) [4:48]
*TYT | How Being Rich Makes You A Total Dick (01/04/14) [4:46]
TYT | Ice in Antarctica Proves 'Global Cooling', says Fox Host (01/02/14) [7:47]
TYT | Anti-Abortion Crisis Pregnancy Centers Thriving In Texas (01/02/14) [12:27]
TYT | GOP Loses Another Major Funder (01/02/14) [3:15]
NPR FreshAir
coming up: Scott Stossel shares a personal, medical and pharmaceutical history of anxiety, and discusses his new book My Age of Anxiety, Monday on NPR's Fresh Air.
Diane Rehms Show
Diane Rehm The U.S. National Security Apparatus (01/06/14) [1hr]
President Barack Obama faces a full agenda on his return to work today. One of the top items: reforming the National Security Agency. While on vacation, he considered the recommendations of a task force he appointed to improve operations at the NSA. The president is soon expected to announce possible changes to controversial spying programs -- some of which have been in place since 9/11. While many privacy advocates have praised the task force recommendations, some say they don't go far enough. And others worry that tinkering too much with our nation's surveillance programs could pave the way for another attack. Diane and her guests discuss a rethinking of national security.

Guests
  1. Richard Clarke former counterterrorism official, currently a consultant for ABC News, adjunct faculty member at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, and author of "Against All Enemies" and "The Scorpion's Gate."
  2. Tom Gjelten national security correspondent, NPR, and author of "Bacardi and the Long Fight for Cuba: The Biography of a Cause."
  3. Marc Rotenberg executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center and teaches Information Privacy Law at Georgetown University Law Center.
  4. Stewart Baker attorney at Steptoe and Johnson, former general counsel at National Security Agency and former assistant secretary of policy at Department of Homeland Security.
MSNBC Chris Hayes - All In
Chris Hayes | The Obamacare wars press on (01/03/14) [7:32]
*Chris Hayes | Right mocks rescued climate scientists (01/02/14) [14:07]
*Chris Hayes | There's global warming - and it's snowing (01/02/14) [10:16]
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MSNBC Chris Hayes - All In
Rachel Maddow | GOP unemployment stand ignores economic facts (01/03/14) [16:08]
*Rachel Maddow | Maddow rejects Kochs' call for correction, Rachel Maddow responds to criticism by the Koch brothers of reporting in a segment on Thursday's show (01/03/14) [9:03]
*Rachel Maddow | Unprecedented tech en route to disarm Syria, Daryl Kimball, exec. dir. of the Arms Control Association, talks with Rachel Maddow about the new ship borne system for deactivating Syria's chemical weapons. (01/02/14) [10:22]
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Other Videos and Documentaries I Ran Across
Note: Lots of videos below. Some of them I have just found but feel are really good. For an example: look at the 'Truthloader' videos, in sequence, to get a feeling why a lot of people feel the Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld Government was so corrupt.

Others videos have been around for a while, but still have a lot of good information. Again for an example try:
  1. Corbett Report | Who Was Really Behind the 9/11 Attacks? (09/02/13) [1:00:41]
  2. 9/11 Conspiracy Solved: Names, Connections, & Details Exposed! () [43:29]
  3. 9-11 Ripple Effect () [1:36:16]
  4. Guns & Butter | Kevin Ryan "Another Nineteen - Investigating Legitimate 9-11 () [2:00:06]
Nuclear War
Effects of a nuclear bomb (2013) [4:13]
A Time-Lapse Map of Every Nuclear Explosion Since 1945 [5:08]
Nuclear Weapon Effects on People And Property [15:11]
Pentagon, NSA and the Security State
Top Secret ; The Pentagon [40:54]
Rumsfeld 1 day before 9/11 - 2.3 Trillion Dollars Missing from DOD [3:57]
September 10th 2001 Secretary of Defense of the USA declared war on the Pentagon bureaucracy over an alleged $2.3 trillion in unaccounted for funds on expenses, the next day 9/11 happened and the previous day's headlines were over-shadowed by the start of the Bush administration's modern-day crusade the 'War on Terror' supported by the mythical 'Coalition of the Willing' in search of 'Weapons of Mass Destruction' and 'Taliban fighters'.
Cynthia McKinney Nails Donald Rumsfeld On The Missing Trillions [9:17]
Truthloader | Who are The Carlyle Group, and how are they connected to bin Laden? [9:18]
Truthloader | What you're not being told about Booz Allen Hamilton and Edward Snowden [7:17]
Truthloader | A history of NSA wiretapping, Prism, Edward Snowden, William Binney and Thomas Drake [10:41]
2013 U.S. intelligence budget
These tables are found in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence's budget for 2013. They detail spending requests for intelligence agencies and programs, as well as personnel breakdowns by pay grade, language expertise, and years of service.
Truthloader | Edward Snowden reveals the US 'black budget' of secret intelligence spending [3:38]
Truthloader | Bilderberg 2013 - Your guide to 'The Bilderberg Group' [8:34]
Al Jazeera | David Frost | Donald Rumsfeld gives a very raw interview [23:42]
9/11
Corbett Report | Who Was Really Behind the 9/11 Attacks? (09/02/13) [1:00:41]
What Happened to the Planes and Passengers on 9/11 [14:49]
the Miracle of stairwell B () [48:00]
Children of 911 revealed (2011) [44:54]
9/11 Emergency Room [47:29]

9/11 Conspiracy Solved: Names, Connections, & Details Exposed! () [43:29]
9-11 Ripple Effect () [1:36:16]
Guns & Butter | Kevin Ryan "Another Nineteen - Investigating Legitimate 9-11 () [2:00:06]
9/11 The Lost Tapes full documentary - September 11 2001 () [44:38]

911 In Plane Site [1:12:12]
9/11 - Painful Deceptions () [1:58:28]
9/11 - The Falling Man [1:11:26]
Other 9/11
NBC News Coverage of the September 11, 2001, Terrorist Attacks () [1:36:54]
Top Secret ; The Pentagon () [40:54]
Michael Ruppert: The grand chessboard [43:04]

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