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TYT | The Young Turks Election Day Coverage 2016 (LIVE) (11/08/16) []
TYT | Did Trump Target Jewish People In His Last Ad? (11/07/16) [7:25]

50 Far-Right-Wing Proposals from the 2016 GOP Platform That Would Be on Trump's Desk If Elected President
AlterNet | Steven Rosenfeld | 11/06/16

Most voters have heard enough about Donald Trump's plans for the presidency, but what about the rest of the Republican Party?

Before Trump turned the Republican nominating contest into a battle of boasts and bullying, right-wing extremists had dominated the party. Their platform, not surprisingly, goes even further to the right than what's even been heard from Trump as he promises to build a wall along the Mexican border and embrace the religious right's long-held tenets opposing abortion, LGBT rights and more. The GOP 2016 platform would make Christianity the official American religion, English the official American language, replace sex education with abstinence-only advice for teenagers, privatize almost all areas of federal services, cut taxes and regulations for the rich and titans of industry, and impose a belligerent foreign policy and military build-up. ...

  1. Tax cuts for the rich
  2. Deregulate the banks
  3. Stop consumer protection
  4. Repeal environmental laws
  5. Shrink unions and union labor
  6. Privatize federal railway service
  7. No change in federal minimum wage
  8. Cut government salaries and benefits
  9. 10. Appoint anti-LGBT and anti-Obamacare justices
  10. Legalize anti-LGBT discrimination
  11. Make Christianity a national religion
  12. Loosen campaign finance loopholes and dark money
  13. Loosen gun controls nationwide
  14. Pass an anti-choice constitutional amendment
  15. End federal funding for Planned Parenthood
  16. Allow states to shut down abortion clinics
  17. Oppose stem cell scientific research
  18. Oppose executive branch policy making
  19. Oppose efforts to end the electoral college
  20. Require citizenship documents to register to vote
  21. Ignore undocumented immigrants when drawing congressional districts
  22. No labeling of GMO ingredients in food products
  23. Add work requirements to welfare and cut food stamps
  24. Open America's shores to more oil and gas drilling
  25. Build the Keystone XL Pipeline
  26. Expand fracking and burying nuclear waste
  27. No tax on carbon products
  28. Ignore global climate change agreements
  29. Privatize Medicare, the health plan for seniors
  30. Turn Medicaid, the poor's health plan, over to states
  31. No increasing Social Security benefits by taxing the rich
  32. Repeal Obamacare
  33. Give internet service providers monopoly control
  34. Make English the official U.S. language
  35. No amnesty for undocumented immigrants
  36. Build a border wall to keep immigrants out
  37. Require government verification of citizenship of all workers
  38. Penalize cities that give sanctuary to migrants
  39. Puerto Rico should be a state but not Washington DC
  40. Support traditional marriage but no other families
  41. Privatize government services in the name of fighting poverty
  42. Require bible study in public schools
  43. Replace traditional public schools with privatized options
  44. Replace sex education with abstinence-only approaches
  45. Privatize student loans instead of lowering interest rates
  46. Restore the death penalty
  47. Dramatically increase Pentagon budget
  48. Cancel Iran nuclear treaty and expand nuclear arsenal
  49. Reaffirm support for Israel and slam sanctions movement
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Repulican Platform 2016.pdf
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Stephen Colbert | Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert for a timely reminder of the importance of casting your vote (11/07/16) [11:25]
Stephen Colbert | Cartoon Donald Trump Can No Longer Tweet (11/08/16) [1:11]
Stephen Colbert | Anthony Weiner's Penis Might Destroy Two Political Careers (11/01/16) [11:03]
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
Samantha Bee | Sam traveled to Russia to see the future of American journalism. (11/07/16) [7:05]
Samantha Bee | Samantha Bee officially endorsement of the baddest bitch ever to run for president. (11/07/16) [7:48]
Samantha Bee | Samantha Bee Interviews Russia's Own Trump. (11/07/16) [4:57]
Daily Show with Trevor Noah
Trevor Noah | ELECTION DAY 2016: FEEL THE RUSH (11/07/16) [1:01]
Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Tuesday, November 08 [11:49]
LastWeekTonight by John Oliver
John Oliver | Multilevel Marketing (11/07/16) [31:57]
*TRNN | Bruce Dixon and Bill Curry debate whether Trump or Clinton is the greater danger (11/07/16) [30:00]
*Is Pence the Next Cheney? (11/07/16) [16:30]
Allan Nairn says that Trump's VP Pence was a close ally of Cheney in Congress and holds the same foreign policy views; Amber Stearns says Pence is allied with the religious right in Indiana and is a climate change denier.
*TYT | Clinton Foundation Received BIG Check From This Qatar. (11/07/16) [7:14]
The Clinton Foundation has confirmed it accepted a $1 million gift from Qatar while Hillary Clinton was U.S. secretary of state without informing the State Department, even though she had promised to let the agency review new or significantly increased support from foreign governments.

Qatari officials pledged the money in 2011 to mark the 65th birthday of Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton's husband, and sought to meet the former U.S. president in person the following year to present him the check, according to an email from a foundation official to Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign chairman, John Podesta. The email, among thousands hacked from Podesta's account, was published last month by WikiLeaks.

Clinton signed an ethics agreement governing her family's globe-straddling foundation in order to become secretary of state in 2009. The agreement was designed to increase transparency to avoid appearances that U.S. foreign policy could be swayed by wealthy donors.
TYT | Trump Loses His Main Weapon (11/07/16) [3:36]
TYT | Veteran On Backlash From Viral Letter To Trump (11/07/16) [7:09]
RT | Picking next 'tin-pot' for America (E990) (11/08/16) [25:47]
Max talks to the people of New York by visiting Times Square and finds not only a divided electorate but a colourful and . . . sometimes angry one. In the second half Max talks to Chris Whalen about his reasons for voting for Trump and whether or not a Clinton 2.0 would actually be a Nixon 2.0.
Thom Hartmann - www.thomhartmann.com/
ThomHartmann | Comey... The Man Everyone Hates (11/07/16) [12:06]
ThomHartmann | Has the FBI/Comey Been in Contact w/Trumpland? (older 11/04/16) [12:05]
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*DR | How Misinformation Has Shaped The 2016 Presidential Race (11/08/16) [1hr]
In this presidential election, we've had more access to information than ever before. Eighty-one percent of all adults get some of their news online; 72 percent from their phones, according to Pew Research. But in many ways, it's also become more difficult to discern fact from fiction. Today's media landscape is littered with fake news sites, hyper-partisan Facebook pages and unverified Twitter accounts. They've fooled even seasoned journalists into reporting information that is false. And on social media, what we watch, hear and read increasingly comes from self-curated spaces that reflect views of like-minded social networks. How much do voters still care about the facts? And how does the media defend them? Diane and a panel discuss how misinformation has shaped this presidential race.
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MSNBC - Maddow/Hayes - www.msnbc.com/
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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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