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Everything You Wanted to Know About the 'Polar Vortex' That's Engulfed Much of N. America with Freezing Temps
AlterNet | Emily Atkin | 01/06/14

On Sunday night, a reporter for The Weather Channel stood in a Minnesota snowstorm, talking about local efforts to move homeless children into heated shelters. "How cold is it supposed to get?" the anchor, back in the studio, asked. The reporter replied: " Colder than Mars."

Indeed, recent temperatures across the U.S. have been Mars-like. Forecasts in the midwest call for temperatures to drop to 32 below zero in Fargo, N.D.; minus 21 in Madison, Wis.; and 15 below zero in Minneapolis, Indianapolis and Chicago. Wind chills have been predicted to fall to negative 60 degrees -- a dangerous cold that could break decades-old records. ... Read more
What is the polar vortex and what causes it? (01/06/14) [2:19] Millions face coldest weather in decades (01/07/14) [2:37]

*'Polar Vortex' - Meteorology can be confusing, but these 2 experts break down the science behind our current crazy (01/06/14) [7:11]
BBC | A heat wave in central and north Australia has forced farmers to slaughter livestock (01/03/14) [2:01], Note: 50 Celsius = 122 Fahrenheit
*BBC | 2013: Australia's Hottest Year On Record (01/05/14) [2:01]

Inside the Right-Wing Love Affair with Conspiracy Theories
AlterNet | CJ Werleman | 01/04/14

The New York Times recently published what is arguably the most comprehensive examination of the events that took place leading up to the deaths of four Americans in Benghazi. The six-part, multimedia report (see below) is not only the most exhaustive account of the tragedy ever published by a major news organization, it is also completely apolitical. In other words, it revealed the truth. Yet right-wing conspiracy theorists refuse to believe it.

While the article hardly paints the administration in a positive light, it makes clear that right-wing, echo chamber-generated conspiracy theories have no basis in reality. Central to the right's Benghazi narrative was the claim that President Obama, facing a fight for reelection, chose to lie and conceal the truth on Benghazi. In other words, the administration "knew" it was a carefully planned and orchestrated attack carried out by al-Qaeda, but instead chose to spin the story that it was a spontaneous protest carried out by a mob of Islamists, who were reacting to the release of anti-Muslim YouTube documentary. ... Read more

The Facts About Benghazi
NYT | staff | 12/30/13

An exhaustive investigation by The Times goes a long way toward resolving any nagging doubts about what precipitated the attack on the United States mission in Benghazi, Libya, last year that killed Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans. ... Read more

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“Security Arc” forms amidst Mideast terror
DemocracyNow Daily News
Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Tuesday, January 07 [12:26]
DN | Weather Whiplash: As Polar Vortex Brings Deep Freeze, Is Extreme Weather Linked to Climate Change? (01/07/14) [9:57]
DN | From Sandy to Haiyan, Year of Extreme Weather Brings More Coverage of Climate Change (01/07/14) [11:58]
*DN | From Funding Climate Deniers to Shadowy Groups, Koch Brothers Network Spent $400 Million in 2012 (01/07/14) [14:15]
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Senator Bernie Sanders Says NSA Is Spying On ALL Members Of Congress! (01/06/14) [8:14]
News (old, older, but enlightening)
FORAtv | Noam Chomsky: Courts have given big business personhood, while deigning personhood to illegal immigrants [4:12]
FORAtv | Noam Chomsky Compares Right-Wing Media to Nazi Germany [3:19]
*Prof. Antony C. Sutton | Wall Street, Nazis & the Bolshevik Revolution [40:00]
Blackwater which has historic links with the Order of Malta [6:11]
Bill Moyers
Bill Moyers | North Carolina: Battleground State (01/03/14) [47:11]
This week on Moyers & Company, "State of Conflict: North Carolina" offers a documentary report from a state that votes both blue and red and sometimes purple (Romney carried it by a whisker in 2012, Obama by an eyelash in 2008). Now, however, Republicans hold the governor's mansion and both houses of the legislature and they are steering North Carolina far to the right: slashing taxes on corporations and the wealthy, providing vouchers to private schools, cutting unemployment benefits, refusing to expand Medicaid and rolling back electoral reforms, including voting rights.
60 Minutes
60 Minutes | The Cleantech Crash: Despite billions invested by the U.S. government in so-called "Cleantech" energy, Washington and Silicon Valley have little to show for it. (01/05/14) [13:49]
TYT News
TYT | Climate Change or Just Hot/Cold Weather? (07/11/12) [4:50]
Diane Rehms Show
Diane Rehm Four Years After Citizens United: The State Of Money In Politics (01/07/14) [1hr]
In January 2010, the Supreme Court handed down their landmark Citizens United ruling, dramatically altering campaign finance in America. The decision allowed corporations and labor unions to spend unlimited money directly on politics and it created an explosion in so called 501(c)(4)s, nonprofits named for where they fall in the tax code. As these organizations have become some of the biggest spenders in politics today, new questions are arising in DCand around the country about how--and whether--money in politics should be reined in. Four years after Citizens United: how we pay for politics and the state of campaign finance reform.

Guests
  1. Lawrence Lessig professor, Harvard Law School and director, Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University. He is leading "The New Hampshire Rebellion" in support of campaign finance reform.
  2. Matea Gold reporter covering money and politics, The Washington Post.
  3. Bradley Smith chairman and founder, Center for Competitive Politics. He is a professor at the West Virginia University College of Law.
MSNBC Chris Hayes - Al l In
Chris Hayes | Battle lines drawn ahead of benefits vote (01/06/14) [2:52], Part 2 [10:15]
Chris Hayes | Deep freeze heats up climate change-deniers (01/06/14) [7:58]
More segments on the MSNBC website
MSNBC Rachel Maddow
Rachel Maddow | Democrats seek icebreaker for frozen Congress (01/06/14) [19:03]
More segments on the MSNBC website
Pretty wild
Flyboard [6:12]
Other Videos and Documentaries I Ran Across
Note: I run across a lot of videos, with a lot of them being repeats. But there are names that stick out and I try to collect as many videos of theirs I can.
  1. G. Edward Griffin
  2. Prof. Antony C. Sutton
  3. Professor Carroll Quigley
Banks & Oil & Corporatocrcy
Aljazeera | Secret of the Seven Sisters - Desert Storms [47:30]
Aljazeera | Secret of the Seven Sisters - The Black El Dorado [47:30]
Aljazeera | Secret of the Seven Sisters - The Dancing Bear [47:30]

The family of Trillionaires and the Rothschild Conspiracy [55:18]
Master of the Universe [47:23]
Four Horseman of the Banking Cartel. They rule the World [51:05]
Global New World Order Government Through Central Banking [14:10]
Corporatism Explained [17:18]
CORPORATE FASCISM: The Destruction of America's Middle Class [1:41:52]
Ralph Nader, The Road to Corporate Fascism [54:16]
G. Edward Griffin
G. Edward Griffin | The Capitalist Conspiracy [47:04]
G. Edward Griffin | Super rich are in a conspiracy to rule the world (2007) [1:27:20]
Prof. Antony C. Sutton
Prof. Antony C. Sutton | Wall Street, Nazis & the Bolshevik Revolution [40:00]
Professor Carroll Quigley | Tragedy And Hope (audio book)
Professor Carroll Quigley | Tragedy And Hope | Europe's Shift to the Twentieth Century [27:39]
Professor Carroll Quigley | Tragedy And Hope | The Russian Empire to 1917 [1:57:08]
Professor Carroll Quigley | Tragedy And Hope | Stalinism, 1924-1939 [58:28]
Professor Carroll Quigley | Tragedy And Hope | World War II: Tide of Aggression, 1939-1941 [5:06:04]
Professor Carroll Quigley | Tragedy And Hope | World War II: Ebb of Aggression, 1941-1945 [7:28:42]
Professor Carroll Quigley | Tragedy And Hope | Cold War: American Atomic Supremacy, 1945-1950 [5:46:13]
Professor Carroll Quigley | Tragedy And Hope | Cold War: Race for the H-Bomb, 1950-1957 [9:34:16]
Professor Carroll Quigley | Tragedy And Hope | The New Era, 1957-1964 [8:20:31]
Tragedy And Hope, subtitled "A History Of The World In Our Time" is an epic and scholarly work of history written by Professor Carroll Quigley. The book covers the period of roughly 1880 to 1963 and is multidisciplinary in nature though perhaps focusing on the economic problems brought about by the First World War and the impact these had on subsequent events. The book has attracted the attention of conspiracy theorists due to suggestions in numerous places in the book that a secret society known as the Round Table has had considerable influence of the policies of the British and American governments over the course of the first half of the twentieth century.
Professor Carroll Quigley | Tragedy And Hope | Changing Economic Patterns [4:18:28]
Professor Carroll Quigley | Tragedy And Hope (full) (audio book)

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Lindsey Graham Mashups
Lindsey Graham

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said the quiet part aloud on why he’s still so close to former President Donald Trump: because we can use him for our goals. "President Trump has gotten people who wouldn't give me or Romney or anybody else the time of day. They believe he is on their side," the senator told the America First Agenda Summit crowd on Tuesday in Washington, D.C.

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Environment & Climate Change
Environment

The term "climate change" is often used to refer specifically to anthropogenic climate change (also known as global warming). Anthropogenic climate change is caused by human activity, as opposed to changes in climate that may have resulted as part of Earth's natural processes.

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AI - Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning | Deep Learning
AI - Artificial Intelligence

AIArtificial intelligence (AI) is intelligence demonstrated by machines, as opposed to the natural intelligence displayed by animals including humans. AI research has been defined as the field of study of intelligent agents, which refers to any system that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its chance of achieving its goals.

The term "artificial intelligence" had previously been used to describe machines that mimic and display "human" cognitive skills that are associated with the human mind, such as "learning" and "problem-solving". This definition has since been rejected by major AI researchers who now describe AI in terms of rationality and acting rationally, which does not limit how intelligence can be articulated.
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Quantum mechanics | AI - Artificial Intelligence
Quantum mechanics

Quantum mechanics is a fundamental theory in physics that provides a description of the physical properties of nature at the scale of atoms and subatomic particles.  It is the foundation of all quantum physics including quantum chemistry, quantum field theory, quantum technology, and quantum information science.
Classical physics, the collection of theories that existed before the advent of quantum mechanics, describes many aspects of nature at an ordinary (macroscopic) scale, but is not sufficient for describing them at small (atomic and subatomic) scales. Most theories in classical physics can be derived from quantum mechanics as an approximation valid at large (macroscopic) scale.
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Economy, Wall Street and Banksters

Wall Street and Banksters

Wall Street is an eight-block-long street running roughly northwest to southeast from Broadway to South Street, at the East River, in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City. Over time, the term has become a metonym for the financial markets of the United States as a whole, the American financial services industry (even if financial firms are not physically located there), or New York-based financial interests.

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Intelligence Agencies/Deep State?

Intelligence Agencies/Deep State?

An intelligence agency is a government agency responsible for the collection, analysis, and exploitation of information in support of law enforcement, national security, military, and foreign policy objectives. Means of information gathering are both overt and covert and may include espionage, communication interception, cryptanalysis,.

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Daniel Ellsberg | Pentagon Papers
Daniel Ellsberg

Daniel Ellsberg and Paul Jay explore Ellsberg's latest book, The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner. In the introduction to the book, Ellsberg writes: "No policies in human history have more deserved to be recognized as immoral or insane. The story of how this calamitous predicament came about and how and why it has persisted over a half a century is a chronicle of human madness".

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Nukes
Nukes

Nuclear weapons have come a long way and come in all types of different sizes. Some are relatively small while others are enormous, so big they boggle the mind at what they can be capable of, i.e. the Soviet 'Tsar Bomba' is/was 3,000 times greater than the Hiroshima bomb.

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Rana Foroohar and Fall of American Business
Rana Foroohar

Ms. Foroohar says financialization delivers stagnant wages, inequality and economic crisis; the Financial Times columnist and author of "Makers and Takers" says the financial sector represents only 7 percent of the U.S. economy, but takes around 25 percent of all corporate profit while creating only 4 percent of all jobs.

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The Untold History of the United States by Oliver Stone & Petere Kuznick

The Untold History of the United States by Oliver Stone & Petere Kuznick | 2014 | 10 Episodes

Oliver Stone and American University historian Peter J. Kuznick began working on the project in 2008. Stone, Kuznick and British screenwriter Matt Graham cowrote the script. It covers "the reasons behind the Cold War with the Soviet Union, U.S. President Harry Truman's decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan, and changes in America's global role since the fall of Communism." Stone is the director and narrator of all ten episodes.

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Kuznick Interviews

Kuznick Interviews

Historian Peter Kuznick says Eisenhower called for decreased militarization, then Dulles reversed the policy; the Soviets tried to end the cold war after the death of Stalin; crazy schemes involving nuclear weapons and the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba put the world of the eve of destruction - with host Paul Jay

The Untold History of the United States by Kuznick, Peter.mobi | Book | 6.99 MB

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China Valley of Tunnels

China Valley of Tunnels

A report written by a Georgetown University team led by Phillip Karber conducted a three-year study to map out China’s complex tunnel system, which stretches 5,000 km (3,000 miles). The report determined that the stated Chinese nuclear arsenal is understated and as many as 3,000 nuclear warheads may be stored in the underground tunnel network.

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911
911

On September 11, 2001, 19 terrorists attacked the Unites States. They hijacked four airplanes in mid-flight. The terrorists flew two of the planes into two skyscrapers at the World Trade Center in New York City. The impact caused the buildings to catch fire and collapse. Another plane destroyed part of the Pentagon (the U.S. military headquarters) in Arlington, Virginia. The fourth plane crashed in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Officials believe that the terrorists on that plane intended to destroy either the White House or the U.S. Capitol. Passengers on the plane fought the terrorists and prevented them from reaching their goal. In all, nearly 3,000 people were killed in the 9/11 attacks.

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The Vietnam War

The Vietnam War

Ken Burns and Lynn Novick's ten-part, 18-hour documentary series, THE VIETNAM WAR, tells the epic story of one of the most consequential, divisive, and controversial events in American history as it has never before been told on film. Visceral and immersive, the series explores the human dimensions of the war through revelatory testimony of nearly 80 witnesses from all sides--Americans who fought in the war and others who opposed it, as well as combatants and civilians from North and South Vietnam. Ten years in the making, the series includes rarely seen and digitally re-mastered archival footage from sources around the globe, photographs taken by some of the most celebrated photojournalists of the 20th Century, historic television broadcasts, evocative home movies, and secret audio recordings from inside the Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon administrations.

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Trump's Mashups
Trump's Mashups

Donald Trump talks a lot, but what is he actually saying? VICE News' "Trump Talk" mashup series tries to answer that. And, we're happy to say, it was just nominated for two Webby Awards. Now you can watch all the nominated videos.

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Trump's Sexcapades
Trump's Sexcapades.

Jessica Leeds (1980s)
Kristin Anderson (1990s)
E. Jean Carroll (1995 or 1996)
Lisa Boyne (1996)
Cathy Heller (1997)
Temple Taggart McDowell (1997)
Karena Virginia (1998)
Mindy McGillivray (2003)
Jennifer Murphy (2005)
Rachel Crooks (2005)
Natasha Stoynoff (2005)
Juliet Huddy (2005 or 2006)
Jessica Drake (2006)
Ninni Laaksonen (2006)
Cassandra Searles (2013)
Allegations of pageant dressing room visits(1997)
Mariah Billado,
Victoria Hughes,
and three other Miss Teen USA contestants
Bridget Sullivan (2000)
Tasha Dixon (2001)
Unnamed contestants (2001)
Samantha Holvey (2006)

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Trump's Speeches | Rallys |Interviews
Trump's Speeches | Rallys

Donald Trump talks a lot, but what is he actually saying? Watch Trump at some of his rallys and see what you think.

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