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Republicans Warn Iran Against Nuclear Deal With Obama
Reuters & HP | author | 03/09/15

Republican senators warned Iran on Monday that any nuclear deal made with U.S. President Barack Obama could last only as long as he remains in office, in an unusual intervention into U.S. foreign policy-making.

The letter, signed by 46 U.S. senators, says Congress plays a role in ratifying international agreements and points out that Obama will leave office in January 2017, while many in Congress will remain in Washington long after that. "We will consider any agreement regarding your nuclear-weapons program that is not approved by the Congress as nothing more than an executive agreement between President Obama and Ayatollah Khamenei," the letter read. ... Read more

NRA Top Lobbyist: Obama Admin. Proposal To Ban Armor-Piercing Ammo Is Actually A Move Against Women
MediaMatters | Tim Johnson | 03/03/15

On February 13 the ATF published a letter describing its intent to ban the importation and manufacture of a type of armor-piercing ammunition commonly called "green tip" that is used in AR-15 and other "AR-type" assault weapons. Because the "green tip" round contains a steel penetrator, it is more powerful than some other types of ammunition used in such firearms, and its use is already banned at some shooting ranges, including the NRA's.

Chris Cox, the National Rifle Association's top lobbyist, falsely claimed that a recent move by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) to ban a type of armor-piercing ammunition is motivated by animus towards women. In fact, the proposal aims to protect law enforcement officers. ... Read more

Evolution vs Intelligent Design vs Creationism
C-Span Book TV | Intelligent Design Theory vs. Evolution Debate: Schools, Evidence, Flaws, Facts, Arguments (older, 2008) [1:21:12]
A friend and I had dinner on Friday and originally we were talking about the economy. I said I was afraid of the right-wing Republicans, because of their seemingly disregard of science. We then got onto the topic of Creationism and strict Bible interpretation. I thought I would post several articles/videos on Evolution vs Intelligent Design and take care of the issue. Little did I realize the nuances that can enter into such a debate!

Earth's magnetic field can flip in less than 100 years, new study
TheWatchers | author | 10/15/14

It is known that Earth's magnetic field has flipped many times throughout the planet's history. Its dipole magnetic field remains about the same intensity for thousands to millions of years, but for incompletely known reasons it occasionally weakens (such is the case now) and, presumably over a few thousand years, reverses direction. A new study, however, shows that the final stage - a sudden 180-degree flip - can happen within a human lifetime.

The new study was done by a team of scientists from Italy, France and USA and it demonstrates that the last magnetic reversal of Earth's poles which happened some 786 000 years ago actually happened very quickly, in less than 100 years.

The discovery comes shortly after ESA's "Swarm" satellite array revealed that the intensity of Earth's magnetic field is decreasing 10 times faster than normal, decreasing in strength about 5 percent a decade rather than 5 percent a century. ... Read more

The sun's magnetic poles flip every 11 years.

Pole shift | Earth Crustal Displacement
Wikipedia | author | current

The cataclysmic pole shift hypothesis suggests that there have been geologically rapid shifts in the relative positions of the modern-day geographic locations of the poles and the axis of rotation of the Earth, creating calamities such as floods and tectonic events.

There is evidence of precession and changes in axial tilt, but this change is on much longer time-scales and does not involve relative motion of the spin axis with respect to the planet. However, in what is known as true polar wander, the solid Earth can rotate with respect to a fixed spin axis. Research shows that during the last 200 million years a total true polar wander of some 30° has occurred, but that no super-rapid shifts in the Earth's pole were found during this period. A characteristic rate of true polar wander is 1° or less per million years. Between approximately 790 and 810 million years ago, when the supercontinent Rodinia existed, two geologically rapid phases of true polar wander may have occurred. In each of these, the magnetic poles of the Earth shifted by ~55°. ... Read more

Dating Methodologies in Archaeology
Wikipedia | author | current

Dating material drawn from the archaeological record can be made by a direct study of an artifact, or may be deduced by association with materials found in the context the item is drawn from or inferred by its point of discovery in the sequence relative to datable contexts. ...

Absolute methods
Absolute dating methods rely on using some physical property of an object or sample to calculate its age. Examples are:
  1. Radiocarbon dating - for dating organic materials
  2. Dendrochronology - for dating trees, and objects made from wood, but also very important for calibrating radiocarbon dates
  3. Thermoluminescence dating - for dating inorganic material including ceramics
  4. Optically or optical dating for archaeological applications
  5. Potassium--argon dating - for dating fossilized hominid remains
  6. Archaeomagnetic dating - Clay lined fire hearths take on a magnetic moment pointing to the North Pole each time they are fired and then cool. The position of the North Pole for the last time the fire hearth was used can be determined and compared to charts of known locations and dates
  7. Lead Corrosion Dating.
  8. Amino acid dating
  9. Obsidian hydration dating - a geochemical method of determining age in either absolute or relative terms of an artifact made of obsidian
  10. Rehydroxylation dating - for dating ceramic materials

Relative methods
Relative or indirect methods tend to use associations built from the archaeological body of knowledge. An example is seriation. Ultimately, relative dating relies on tying into absolute dating with reference to the present. One example of this is dendrochronology which uses a process of tying floating chronologies of tree rings together by cross referencing a body of work.

In practice several different dating techniques must be applied in some circumstances, thus dating evidence for much of an archaeological sequence recorded during excavation requires matching information from known absolute or some associated steps, with a careful study of stratigraphic relationships.

Written markers
  1. Epigraphy - analysis of inscriptions, via identifying graphemes, clarifying their meanings, classifying their uses according to dates and cultural contexts, and drawing conclusions about the writing and the writers
  2. Palaeography - the study of ancient writing, including the practice of deciphering, reading, and dating historical manuscripts
  3. Numismatics - many coins have the date of their production written on them or their use is specified in the historical record

Age-equivalent stratigraphic markers
  1. Paleomagnetism: the polarity of the Earth changes at a knowable rate. This polarity is stored within rocks; through this the rock can be dated.
  2. Tephrochronology: volcanic ash has its own signature for each eruption. In a sedimentary sequence the associated material within the ash layer can be dated, giving a date for the eruption. If this ash is found anywhere else in the world, a date will already be known (bearing in mind transportation time).
  3. Oxygen isotope chronostratigraphy: this is based on the climatic stages displayed in SPECMAP relating to different cold and warm stages experienced in deep time; for example, point 5.5 in the SPECMAP chronology describes the peak of the last interglacial 125,000 years ago.

Stratigraphic relationships
Archaeologists investigating a site may wish to date the activity rather than artifacts on site by dating the individual contexts which represents events. ... Read more
Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Monday, March 09 [6:52]
DN | Voting Rights Remain Under Attack 50 Years After the Bloody Sunday March in Selma (03/09/15) [7:38]
DN | 103-Year-Old Civil Rights Pioneer Joins Original Foot Soldiers, Jesse Jackson to Mark Bloody Sunday (03/09/15) [6:10]
*DN | "Struggle is a Never-Ending Process": MLK Daughter Bernice King on Selma March, Black Lives Matter (03/09/15) [2:37]
PBS Masterpiece - Downton Abbey
*PBS | Downton Abbey Season05: Episode 1-9
There is only 1 week left to watch all the Season 05 of Downton Abbey. I really love the PBS Masterpiece program.
John Oliver
HBO | John Oliver: U.S. Territories (03/08/15) [13:12]
*TRNN | Economist Richard Wolff discusses: U.S. Workers Returning to Labor Force with Part-time Jobs and Stagnant Wages (03/08/15) [11:09]
TRNN | Professor Vijay Prashad discusses Iran's major offensive against ISIS in Iraq and the need for a Mideast coalition against ISIS (03/09/15) [6:53]
TRNN | Netanyahu Speech Sets Dangerous Precedent (03/06/15) [4:53]
TYT | 'Piggy' CEO L. Dennis Kozlowski Released From Jail (03/07/15) [9:38]
TYT | Huge Counterattack Against ISIS In The Iraqi Town Of Tikrit (03/07/15) [6:31]
TYT | ISIS = Islamic Extremists? 'No' Says Obama and Jordan's King Abdullah II (03/07/15) [3:07]
TYT | NRA Calls Ban On Armor Piercing Ammo Sexist (03/07/15) [5:25]
*RT | CrossTalk: Battleground 2016 (03/09/15) [24:24]
RT | Keiser Report: Abandoning Free Market Principles (E728) (03/07/15) [25:43]
Ring of Fire | Ring of Fire on Free Speech TV (03/09/15) [52:58]
  1. 00:59 - "TPP Sale Echoes Broken NAFTA Promises." Howard Nations will tell us how the Obama administration's TPP sales pitch echoes the same empty promises that were used to sell NAFTA. #TPP
  2. 12:20 - "Progressives Too Silent on Loretta Lynch." David Hersh will explain the lack of progressive outcry against AG nominee Loretta Lynch, and why we need to be very wary of her confirmation. #GetMadGetLoud
  3. 22:41 - News with Pap and Sam.
Thom Hartmann - www.thomhartmann.com/
ThomHartmann | Prof. Richard Seager: How Drought and Climate Change Helped Make ISIS (03/06/15) [9:28]
Other Videos and Documentaries I Ran Across
5 Awful Things Hidden In The Budget Deal (recent) [7:01]
Gil Fulbright for Senate - Honest Political Ads (recent) [1:43]
Crop Circles Decoded (2013) [14:47]
UFOs File | Crop Circles - Hyperspace Gateways (2014) [1:16:45]
UFOs File | Lecture by Alan Foster - Crop formations - Messages for Humanity (2012) [1:34:23]
HC | Crop Circle Controversy () [1:41:10]
National Security Act of 1947
The National Security Act of 1947 was a major restructuring of the United States government's military and intelligence agencies following World War II. The majority of the provisions of the Act took effect on September 18, 1947, the day after the Senate confirmed James Forrestal as the first Secretary of Defense. His power was initially limited and it was difficult for him to exercise the authority to make his office effective. This was later changed in the amendment to the act in 1949, creating what was to be the Department of Defense.

The Act merged the Department of War (renamed as the Department of the Army) and the Department of the Navy into the National Military Establishment (NME), headed by the Secretary of Defense. It also created the Department of the Air Force, which separated the Army Air Forces into its own service. Initially, each of the three service secretaries maintained quasi-cabinet status, but the act was amended on August 10, 1949, to ensure their subordination to the Secretary of Defense. At the same time, the NME was renamed as the Department of Defense. The purpose was to unify the Army, Navy, and Air Force into a federated structure.
Linda Moulton Howe: UFO Crash Retrieval lecture (2013) [59:19]
Linda Moulton Howe: CIA Army Agent UFO Alien Disclosure (2014) [45:13]
Linda Moulton Howe interviews a CIA/NSA operative.
The leaks are coming faster and these people are only risking themselves by coming forward what do they gain through fraud? The truth speaks for itself you decide but its an amazing interview. Also links other interviews Richard Dolan & 80 year old ex-CIA operative. The interviewing you are listening to was done more than 17 years ago at Cooper's house in Florida. He dropped out of Linda Moulton Howe's project because of fear. Out of respect for him LMH held the interview after the man died in early 2014.
UFOTV® The Disclosure Movie Network | I Know What I Saw (11/2/14) [1:33:12]

03.09.2015. 12:18



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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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