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FREEFALL: Chinese Stocks Plummet
HP & AP | author | 07/08/15

China announced a flurry of new moves Wednesday to halt a stock market slide. The result? Another big dive in share prices. The government told state companies and executives to buy shares, raised the amount of equities insurance companies can hold and promised more credit to finance trading.

Hundreds of companies have halted trading in their stock after emergency measures announced last weekend failed to stop a rout that has dragged down the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index by more than 30 percent since early June. ... Read more

China Makes Selling For Big Investors Illegal
ZeroHedge | author | 07/08/15

Having corralled selling by the National Social Security fund earlier this week and after discouraging local reporters from mentioning selling in the press, China has now made it illegal for major shareholders to dump stock over the next six months. ... Read more

Greece Proves Again Why Democracy is the Criminal Classes' Great Fear
neweconomicperspectives.org | William K. Black | 07/05/15

The people of Greece have just shown great courage, and even greater common sense, in voting "No" in overwhelming numbers against the troika's war on the Greek people and labor throughout the EU. In recent days we have seen the spectacle of the major media shamelessly lying globally about the referendum and the Greek government -- cheered on by the troika. The troika openly sought to depose a second Greek head of state for the high crime of favoring a democratic vote on the troika's economic malpractice and effort to extort the Greek people by threatening to destroy their economy. The tone and content of the propaganda were extraordinary -- and reversed reality.

Greece's debt crisis has unsettled Asian stock markets but the losses in China are driven entirely by internal factors. Beijing fostered a market boom over the past year ... Read more

Germany Crushes All Hope Of Greece Getting Debt Relief

A Detailed Look At Hacking Team's Emails About Its Repressive Clients
firstlook.org/theintercept | Cora Currier | 07/07/15

Internal emails and financial records show that in the past five years, Hacking Team's Remote Control System software -- which can infect a target's computer or phone from afar and steal files, read emails, take photos and record conversations -- has been sold to government agencies in Ethiopia, Bahrain, Egypt, Kazakhstan, Morocco, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Sudan, Azerbaijan and Turkey. An in-depth analysis of those documents by The Intercept shows Hacking Team's leadership was, at turns, dismissive of concerns over human rights and privacy; exasperated at the bumbling and technical deficiency of some of its more controversial clients; and explicitly concerned about losing revenue if cut off from such clients. ... Read more

New Swat Documents Give Snapshot Of Ugly Militarization Of U.S. Police
firstlook.org/theintercept | George Joseph | 07/07/15

Extensive records from SWAT team raids in northeastern Massachusetts released today by the American Civil Liberties Union corroborate what police reform advocates have long insisted: that "Special Weapons And Tactics" units spend a majority of their time responding to low-risk situations that do not require SWAT's quasi-military approach.

The documents include after-action reports from 79 SWAT operations between August 2012 and June 2014 by the Northeastern Massachusetts Law Enforcement Council, or NEMLEC, a consortium of police departments covering 925 square miles in Middlesex and Essex Counties outside Boston. According to NEMLEC, its SWAT team exists to respond to "critical incidents," mainly "active shooters, armed barricaded subjects, hostage takers, and terrorists. ... Read more

More News
  1. Greece and China expose limits of 'whatever it takes' (Reuters)
  2. China no longer has a market: China Stock Sellers Frozen Out of 71% of Market (BBG)
  3. China's Market Rescue Makes Matters Worse as Prices Lose Meaning (BBG)
  4. China Stocks Plunge as State Support Fails to Revive Confidence (BBG)
  5. China Market Rout Spreads From Stocks to Price of Pig Food (BBG)
  6. China's State-Owned Firms Ordered Not to Cut Share Holdings (BBG)
  7. Greece Requests Three-Year Bailout in First Step Toward Meeting Creditors' Demand (WSJ)
  8. Greece Faces Euro Exit Unless Demands Accepted by Sunday (BBG)


Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Wednesday, July 08 [12:19]
*DN | Eric Holder Returns to Wall Street-Tied Law Firm After Years of Refusing to Jail Bankers (07/08/15) [16:47]
See Matt Taibbi's great articles from yesterday
*DN | The End of Encryption? NSA & FBI Seek New Backdoors Against Advice from Leading Security Experts (07/08/15) [14:14]
*DN | Has the World Abandoned Gaza? Region Remains in Ruins a Year After Deadly Israeli Assault (07/08/15) [12:42]
Jon Stewart
The Daily Show - Recap (6/29/15) [4:08]
*Jon Stewart | Major companies severe ties with Donald Trump after his derogatory comments about Mexican immigrants, but the Republican presidential hopeful is sticking by his words. (07/02/15) [9:21]
*Jon Stewart | Democalypse 2016 - 10 Pounds of S**t in a Five-Pound Bag, Presidential hopeful Ted Cruz battles for the limelight with a bizarre "Simpsons" audition tape, and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie kicks off his own campaign. (07/01/15) [10:11]
TRNN | Syriza MP Costas Lapavitsas: It's Time to Take Over the Banks, Part 1 (07/06/15) [14:27]
TRNN | Syriza MP Costas Lapavitsas: It's Time to Take Over the Banks, Part 2 (07/07/15) [11:51]
TYT | America's Racist History Whitewashed Out Of Texas Textbooks (07/07/15) [3:11]
TYT | Sarah Palin Quits AGAIN! Closes Subscription Channel (07/07/15) [4:02]
*RT | CrossTalk: Tehran Pivot? w/ Pepe Escobar & Gareth Porter (07/08/15) [24:03]
RT | Keiser Report: Greece pivoting from debt slavery (E779) (07/04/15) [25:33]
Thom Hartmann - www.thomhartmann.com/
ThomHartmann | The Father of Reaganomics and the Euro... (07/07/15) [5:14]
Jeb Bush's South Korean Sugar Daddy... (07/07/15) [8:28]
More Good News/Videos
Naomi Klein, David Suzuki, and Jane Fonda at March for Jobs, Justice, and the Climate (07/06/15) [5:36]
The March for Jobs, Justice, and the Climate in Toronto on July 5 2015 that I covered as part of my National Observer story. For this film we interviewed notables including Naomi Klein, David Suzuki, and Jane Fonda. The demonstrations, spearheaded by 350.org, brought over 10,000 people onto the streets of Toronto, calling on political leaders to roll out an agenda focused on providing decent jobs, social justice, and action on climate change and fossil fuel exploitation. Video by The National Observer
Laura Flanders | Our cities are being defined by invisible systems () [25:45]
Other Videos and Documentaries I Ran Across
Greg Palast - Investigative Reporter
*Greg Palast | Jim Crow Returns: Interstate "Crosscheck" Program threatens Millions of Voters (11/12/14) [27:15]
*TRNN & Vice | Greg Palast: The Confidential Memo at the Heart of the Global Financial Crisis (01/23/14) [12:26]
*The Confidential Memo at the Heart of the Global Financial Crisis | AthenianVoice | Greg Palast | 01/13/14 |
*BP Blow-out Cover-Up (04/20/12) [6:29]
EcoWatch reveals shocking information of a BP cover-up of a blow-out prior to the deadly Deepwater Horizon explosion in the Gulf. Special report from the Caspian sea. for Ecowatch.org by investigative reporter Greg Palast.
InfoWars | Greg Palast: Greece's Planned Implosion IMF (02/20/12) [13:00]
TYT | Greg Palast on Vultures' Picnic (11/16/11) [18:17]
InfoWars | Greg Palast: Ukraine A Lynch Pin to Global War (03/25/14) [19:43]
*Greg Palast | Bush Family Fortunes () [1:01:09]
Secret History of the War Over Oil in Iraq.pdf
BP Deepwater Horizon
*The Big Fix - BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Cover up () [1:30:20]
*BBC | Profit Pollution and Deception BP and the Oil Spill () [45:02]
The Deepwater Horizon oil spill (also referred to as the BP oil spill, the BP oil disaster, the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, and the Macondo blowout) began on 20 April 2010 in the Gulf of Mexico on the BP-operated .
Oil Disaster (Deepwater Horizon): The Rig That Blew Up () [44:45]
Seconds From Disaster The Deepwater Horizon (05/18/15) [44:58]

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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.

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Quantum mechanics | AI - Artificial Intelligence
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Economy, Wall Street and Banksters

Wall Street and Banksters

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Intelligence Agencies/Deep State?

Intelligence Agencies/Deep State?

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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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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

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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

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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

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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)
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Victoria Hughes,
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Tasha Dixon (2001)
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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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