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Former dishwasher, janitor, telemarketer & librarian. Currently assisting the elderly. Ardent Sanders supporter.

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2,000 Year Old Computer - Decoding the Antikythera Mechanism - Full Documentary HD A Greek shipwreck holds the remains of an intricate bronze machine that turns out to be the world's first computer. In 1900, a storm blew a boatload of sponge divers off co, From YouTubeVideos
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, February 7, 2018
The 2,000-Year-Old Computer - Decoding the Antikythera Mechanism Recently, hi-tech imaging has revealed the extraordinary truth: this 2000-year-old unique clockwork machine was the world's first computer...
Hillary Clinton On 'Alternate Nostril Breathing' During an interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper, Hillary Clinton demonstrated a Yoga breathing technique called Alternate Nostril Breathing. WTF?, From YouTubeVideos
(19 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, December 26, 2017
Hillary Loves Yoga! I couldn't imagine anything being more persuasive for OEN viewers, as far as of embarking on a sincere investigation of the realm of the spirit, than knowing that Hillary Clinton (herself!) is a full-fledged convert to the wonderful world of meditation. And, as unambiguous proof of that fact, here she is praising yoga to the skies and demonstrating one of the more esoteric practices of that discipline.
Hillary Clinton (The Situation Room), From WikimediaPhotos
(6 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, November 3, 2017
New York Times Has No Coverage of Clinton's Takeover of the DNC I believe the story broke in the Huffington Post early yesterday, so there should have been more than enough time for the Times to feature at least something in today's paper about the Clinton Presidential campaign arranging to pay the DNC's monthly bills, and effectively taking control of the party in 2015.
Kevin Spacey, From WikimediaPhotos
(10 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, November 3, 2017
My Utterly Baseless Conspiracy Theory Regarding the Cancellation of "House of Cards" Having no inside information, and after having done virtually no research on the matter, I have a theory as to why Kevin Spacey's career is being utterly destroyed. Personally, I've never really liked Spacey. He's always struck me as an arrogant, egotistical so and so. But there is no denying that he is a transcendentally gifted actor, and with "House of Cards", he became a bona fide cultural force.
Albert King & Stevie Ray Vaughan -- In Session 2010 1983, From YouTubeVideos
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, October 23, 2017
Original 1983 Albert King & Stevie Ray Vaughn "In Session" PBS Special "At the time this pair met in a Canadian TV studio, Vaughan was blazing a trail into the blues world with his debut album, Texas Flood. King was long since a legend, and though he apparently didn't recognize the name "Vaughan," he immediately recognized the young guitarist who'd sat in with him whenever he played in Austin. The video dimension turns this session into a master class for both Vaughan and the viewer.
Islam Empire of Faith PBS Documentary, From YouTubeVideos
(8 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, October 21, 2017
PBS Documentary: "Islam, the Empire of Faith" This should really be required viewing for everyone in the western hemisphere. I just happened to take it out of my local library. Despite some prior knowledge of the basic origins of Islam, it was with Part II that I got my first glimpse of a truly alternative history of the entire world.
MSNBC host Chris Hayes on 2012 Brooklyn Book Festival panel, From WikimediaPhotos
SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, September 16, 2017
"This Latest Obamacare Repeal Effort Actually Has a Real Shot to Pass" Chris Hayes 9/15/17 This segment of "All In with Chris Hayes" is quite chilling. Apparently McConnell & Co have devised an ingenious way to pass the repeal of Obamacare the fourth time around. Mr. Hayes summarizes the most recent attempt which must pass in three weeks in order to avoid the requirement becoming 60 votes in the Senate at the end of September as opposed to the current simple majority.
Bob Dylan 2016 Nobel Lecture in Literature Bob Dylan received the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature .for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.., From YouTubeVideos
(6 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, June 7, 2017
Bob Dylan's Nobel Prize Lecture Bob Dylan's 2016 Nobel Prize lecture. The lecture was a requirement for him receiving the prize (or at least the prize money...) Otherwise I'm pretty sure he would never have gone to the trouble.
(12 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, May 31, 2017
Chomsky on Reading in the Digital Age Noam Chomsky reflects on the changes in reading he's witnessed since the advent of digital technology.
Jimmy Carter Brilliantly Explains How The Establishment Gave Us Trump Read More At: theintercept.com/2017/ 05/09/jimmy-carter-and-bernie- sanders-explain-how-inequality -breeds-authoritarianism/  Support The Show On ..., From YouTubeVideos
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, May 30, 2017
How the Establishment Gave Us Trump Jimmy Carter recently gives a genuinely brilliant explanation of how we got Trump, and the host of the cable show does an admirable job of expounding on Carter's perspective.
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, March 20, 2017
Congressman Eric Swalwell vs President Trump I happened to turn on the Congressional hearings with FBI Director Comey when a Congressman from California named Eric Swalwell was questioning the Director. I was quite stunned by not only how many more connections Trump has with Russia than I was previously aware, but also by just how fearless and aggressive this fellow was in hammering Comey.
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(8 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, March 5, 2017
Ralph Nader on Trump's Address to Congress Ralph Nader once again puts the unreality of the Trump/GOP vision for America in real perspective.
Homeland, From FlickrPhotos
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, February 22, 2017
"Homeland" Boldly Goes Where No TV Show Has Gone Before The Showtime Series "Homeland" seems to be giving us a plausible explanation as to how false flag operations could be carried out in reality.
Jarmusch, From FlickrPhotos
(8 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, February 1, 2017
Jim Jarmusch's "Paterson": More Poem than Motion Picture? A review of Jim Jarmusch's astonishingly mundane (or is it mundanely astonishing?) new film "Paterson".
Inauguration Day, From FlickrPhotos
(8 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, January 21, 2017
The Inaugural Address and Enduring Question of Real Change in America In a recent interview with Charlie Rose, on at least two separate occasions, Sen. Bernie Sanders called Donald Trump "A very strange man." I don't believe that he was saying this in the sense that many on the left would assume, i.e. that Trump is simply a narcissistic, self-promoting con man and buffoon.
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(10 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, January 11, 2017
Nader: Trump is a Freeloading, Pontificating Empty Suit Who Has Cheated on Everything He's Done Nader in this episode of "Democracy Now" just unloads on the Donald in a way I haven't seen anyone do, at least not this effectively..
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SHARE More Sharing        Friday, December 16, 2016
A New Poll on the Secret World of Trump Voters This is a glimpse into the truly bizarre view of reality that people who voted for Donald Trump actually hold.
From flickr.com/photos/62021300@N00/4579324280/: Bob Dylan, From ImagesAttr
(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, December 14, 2016
Perhaps It's the Nobel Prize That Doesn't Deserve Bob Dylan It just seems a bit odd to me that the controversy revolving around Bob Dylan being awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize for literature should stop short of what seems to me a far more interesting question: does Dylan's cultural import and significance actually transcend the award altogether?
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(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, December 11, 2016
Cornel West: "This is Going to be the Most Trying of Times in Our Lifetime" President-elect Donald Trump has announced a handful of new cabinet picks with deep ties to Wall Street. On Tuesday, he named Steven Mnuchin to be Treasury Secretary. Mnuchin is a former executive for Goldman Sachs, where his father also worked. Mnuchin's hedge fund also played a role in the housing crisis, after it scooped up the failing California bank IndyMac in 2008.
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SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, December 10, 2016
A New Poll on the Truly Bizarre Alternate Universe of Trump Voters This is a glimpse into the truly bizarre view of reality that people who voted for Donald Trump actually hold.
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(23 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, November 11, 2016
Steve Pieczenik Brags About Stealing the Election After warning Americans that the FBI, CIA, NYC Police, and other intelligence and law-enforcement agencies would not tolerate another Clinton administration, Dr. Steve Pieczenik apparently couldn't help but gloat about having achieved their objectives.
From flickr.com/photos/63642729@N00/5563900414/: media.png, From Images
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, November 9, 2016
Media Gives Trump Free 24/7 Coverage, Then Laments His Winning Election The media's free ride of Donald Trump may personify the nature of the Establishment's recklessness, greed and self-destructiveness.
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(6 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, November 6, 2016
Is Steve Pieczenik Just Plain "Coup, Coup"? Dr. Steve Pieczenik keeps us apprised of events allegedly to come after the Obama administration's overthrowing of itself and right-wing fanatics' re-instating him...
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(40 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, November 2, 2016
Is This Possible? Dr. Steve Pieczenik claims that Hillary and Bill Clinton are attempting a takeover of the United States and will stop at nothing. A coup d'e'tat of this magnitude has never been effected in such a subtly calculated way. And he explains the resistance he claims to be a part of.
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(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, November 1, 2016
Ralph Nader Talks About His New Book, "Breaking Through Power" One of The Atlantic's hundred most influential figures in human history, Nader has been instrumental in the founding of scores of citizens groups as well as in the establishment of watchdog agencies including OSHA and the EPA. In dozens of books since his 1965 Unsafe at Any Speed, Nader has worked to educate and empower consumers. His latest call to action is an inspiring look at American citizens who have organized and waged.
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(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, October 22, 2016
Photos from the Beginning of Time By pushing NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to its limits, an international team of astronomers has shattered the cosmic distance record by measuring the farthest galaxy ever seen in the universe. This surprisingly bright infant galaxy, named GN-z11, is seen as it was 13.4 billion years in the past, just 400 million years after the Big Bang. GN-z11 is located in the direction of the constellation of Ursa Major.
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(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, October 16, 2016
Video: Ralph Nader Interviews Noam Chomsky Ralph spends the full hour with Noam Chomsky talking about censorship, nuclear war, citizen activism, ISIS, the Israeli/Palestinian question and much, much more.
From farm1.static.flickr.com/769/21777432861_e04ccf8f24.jpg: Bernie Sanders for President, From Images
(30 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, July 31, 2016
Bernie Sanders is the Most Powerful Politician in America Sanders, in just one short year, by sheer force of character and moral will, has gone from being a marginal, virtually unknown "fringe" candidate for President of the United States, to the most powerful politician and influential political leader in this country.
Charlie Rose David Shankbone 2010 NYC, From FlickrPhotos
(9 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, July 27, 2016
Charlie Rose's Astonishing New Web Site I've had a love/hate relationship with the "Charlie Rose" show for decades now. I think he represents what is the best, and what's most lacking in TV journalism.
Bernie Sanders at ISU - 1/25/2016, From FlickrPhotos
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, July 24, 2016
The "Anyone But Sanders" Movement I think there are few things which illustrate the actual state of politics in this country better than the Debbie Wasserman Schultz resignation.
Police, From FlickrPhotos
(11 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, July 8, 2016
How About Screening Out Homicidal Cops? We're looking for background checks before selling firearms to anyone who walks off the street. Why not require the same for cops who would be carrying firearms as well?
Hillary  with Goldman Sachs CEO Blankfein, From ArchivedPhotos
(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, July 6, 2016
What on Earth Was She Hiding? One aspect of the email scandal which hasn't gotten any scrutiny is: What was Hillary so scared of coming to light in her emails that she would compromise top secret government documents in order to protect her own? If we go back to her own original rationale for using a private server rather than a government one, it was to make sure none of her private emails became public.
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(9 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, June 22, 2016
Some Down-to-Earth Advice From a Far-Out Psychic Psychic and Medium Danielle Egnew gets point-blank about the 2016 presidential election and it's role in the evolution of consciousness -- WHY certain candidates are in play, WHAT they each represent, WHO advances into the Presidency, and the MUCH bigger picture of what's going on, from an energetic, social and spiritual perspective.
From opednews.com/populum/uploadgallery/16786906821_217b016710_n.jpg: President Obama, From Images
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, June 17, 2016
Does Obama Know Clinton's Glory Days are Numbered? This may well be far-fetched. But after watching the H. A. Goodman video, in which Goodman states that the evidence cannot lead to anything other than an indictment (or at the very least a crippling FBI report) and that everyone in the Department of Justice is well aware of this, mustn't we assume that this would also include President Obama?
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(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, June 16, 2016
H. A. Goodman Is More Convinced than Ever that Clinton Will Be Indicted and Sanders Will Be the Nominee Huffpo columnist H. A. Goodman makes a very strong and interesting case that there can't possibly be anything that could prevent Clinton from having to drop out of the race prior to the Democratic convention, and the DNC being forced to name Bernie Sanders as the nominee.
110220-N-9584H-375, From FlickrPhotos
(8 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, June 15, 2016
Bernie Sanders Online Video Address to Supporters: Thursday, 6/16/16 8:30 PM EDT After today, the voting is done, but our political revolution continues. I want to talk to you directly on Thursday night about what's next for our campaign in a live, online video address at 8:30 p.m. EDT / 5:30 p.m. PDT. I hope that you will join:
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SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, June 14, 2016
Primary Election Fraud Lawsuit That Could Change Everything This video was just posted a few days ago. The host may be a bit obnoxious, but what he is reporting on is well worth watching. Apparently the two lawyers who contributed to stopping the 2012 presidential election from being stolen, Cliff Arnebeck and Bob Fitrakis, are on the verge of exposing this year's primary election fraud, and perhaps in so doing change the whole outcome.
From opednews.com/populum/uploadphotos/s_300_i_ytimg_com_51910_BhzId7C6jnM_hqdefault_947.gif: United Nations panel rules, From Images
(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, June 14, 2016
Assange Has Clinton Email Where She Instructs Staff to Remove "Classified" Heading from Document and Send It A rather depressing interview conducted on British television this past Sunday with Julian Assange has him saying that the person ultimately responsible for issuing an indictment against Hillary Clinton is (unfortunately) Barack Obama's chosen Attorney General, Loretta Lynch, whom Assange is convinced would never issue an indictment against Madam Secretary, regardless of what the FBI may recommend.
From flickr.com/photos/88876166@N00/21581068289/: Bernie Sanders for President, From Images
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, June 9, 2016
The Struggle Continues: A Campaign Memo From Bernie Sanders But you know that what we are doing is about more than Bernie Sanders. It is all of us together. It is what this movement is about. It is millions of people from coast to coast standing up and looking around them and knowing that we can do much, much better as a nation.
From farm3.static.flickr.com/2791/4115796948_8184611607_n.jpg: Hillary Clinton, From Images
(52 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, June 9, 2016
A Creeping Suspicion: Is Hillary Trying to Circumvent Appeasing Sanders with Warren as VP? Having Warren as VP would more or less absolve her from having to beg Sanders for his support, and/or concede any more concessions regarding his role at the convention. It's brilliant politics.
From opednews.com/populum/uploadphotos/s_300_opednews_com_11_24949307320_d0d8b05827_n_219.gif: Donald Trump, From Images
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, June 5, 2016
Chairman of Senate Foreign Relations Committee Believes Donald Trump is Bringing "A Maturity" to International Relations Senator Bob Corker, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee appeared on "This Week with George Stephanopolous" this morning to discuss the presumptive Republican nominee for president's positions on foreign relations.
Bernie Sanders   The 2nd Young Turks Interview FULL Cenk Uygur interviews Democratic presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders for the second time during the 2016 campaign. Tell us what you think in the ..., From YouTubeVideos
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, May 30, 2016
Bernie Sanders Makes Amply Clear He is STILL Looking to be Named the Nominee at the Democratic Convention Bernie Sanders talks in detail with Cenk Uygur of "The Young Turks" about the Democratic nomination process moving forward. What I found particularly striking is just how focused he continues to be on being the Democratic nominee for president. Make no mistake, he is undeterred.
Hillary and Bernie, From ArchivedPhotos
(10 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, May 28, 2016
Hillary Clinton Has No More "Right" to the Democratic Nomination Than Does Bernie Sanders The race for the Democratic nomination for president may not be as cut and dry as it is being made to seem.
(6 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, May 25, 2016
4 Myths Regarding the Relative Electibility of Hillary Clinton Why the perception that Hillary Clinton is a superior candidate to Bernie Sanders has no actual foundation.

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