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Robert Reich: 7 of the Big Legacies of Bernie Sanders' Historic Campaign
AlterNet | Robert Reich / RobertReich.org | 07/12/16

Bernie Sanders's campaign is now officially over, but the movement he began is still just beginning. He's provided it seven big legacies:

  1. Bernie has helped open America's eyes to the power of big money corrupting our democracy and thereby rigging our economy to its advantage and everyone else's disadvantage.
  2. Bernie has shown that it's possible to win elections without depending on big money from corporations, Wall Street, and billionaires.
  3. Bernie has educated millions of Americans about why we must have a single-payer health-care system and free tuition at public universities, and why we must resurrect the Glass-Steagall Act and bust up the biggest banks.
  4. The Sanders campaign has brought millions of young people into politics, ignited their energy and enthusiasm and idealism.
  5. The movement Bernie ignited has pushed Hillary Clinton to take more progressive positions on issues ranging from the minimum wage to the Trans Pacific Partnership, the XL Pipeline, Wall Street, and Social Security.
  6. He's taught Americans how undemocratic the Democratic Party's system for picking candidates really is.
  7. Seventh is the real possibility Bernie has inspired of a third party -- if the Democratic Party doesn't respond to the necessity of getting big money out of politics and reversing widening inequality, if it doesn't begin to advocate for a single-payer healthcare system, or push hard for higher taxes on the wealthy - including a wealth tax - to pay for better education and better opportunities for everyone else, ...
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Massive heat dome forecast to bake much of U.S. by late next week
WashingtonPost | Jason Samenow | 07/13/16/span>

A huge, hot area of high pressure is forecast to develop over the central United States next week, which may result in the nation's most significant heat wave of the summer.

... It is too soon to say exactly how hot temperatures will be, but initial indications are that the central United States may face some of the country's hottest weather with respect to normal. Record heat is certainly a possibility, although exactly how many records fall and where won't come into focus for several more days. ... Read more
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Hillary's New Attack Ad (07/14/16) [1:49]

Trump's Shocking Surge Continues: Ties Hillary In Latest NYT Poll
ZeroHedge | author | 07/14/16

Following yesterday's chaotic polling data, the latest NYT/CBS poll provides a post-email-gate reality check as Hillary Clinton's 6-point lead has evaporated leaving Trump tied nationwide, leading the "reckless" former secretary of state on the economy and jobs, trade, and national security. Perhaps more worrying for the Clinton campaign is the rise in negativity with 67% of voters saying she is not honest and trustworthy. ... Read more

How Business School Is a Driving Force in America's Increasingly Unequal Society

"We Shouldn't Be At New All Time Highs" - Even Larry Fink Doesn't Get It
ZeroHedge | author | 07/14/16

"I don't think we should be at new [stock] highs... We are seeing investors worldwide pausing, we are seeing quite a large sum of money being pulled out of equities over the last year. And yet we are at record highs. That's just a sign of how much money is being taken out by central banks in their bond purchases, and stock repurchases from companies." ... Read more

Central Bank Wonderland is Complete and Now Open for Business -- The Epocalypse Has Fully Begun
ZeroHedge | author | 07/14/16

Summer vacation is here, and the whole global family has arrived at Central-Bank Wonderland, the upside-down, inside-out world that banksters and their puppet politicians call "recovery." Everyone is talking about it as wizened traders puzzle over how stocks and bonds soared, hand-in-hand, in face of the following list of economic thrills:

  1. Britain voted to exit the EU, and a handful of other nations are talking openly along similar lines. One major crack in the European Union just happened, and others are forming. (Brexit is the name of this new Earthquake ride near the gates of Wonderland.)
  2. Italy's oldest bank (also the world's oldest bank, Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena) faces bankruptcy unless it gets bailed out. The bank that has survived the greatest tests of time (founded in 1472 before Columbus sailed the ocean blue) is going down unless it finds a savior! Italy's prime minister is screaming for tax-payer bailouts. At the same time, one of Germany's oldest banks and one of the largest -- Deutsche Bank -- has just about become a penny stock and faces the likelihood of imminent collapse if not bailed out, too. (Welcome to Wonderland's zombie freak show of the world's oldest walking-dead banks dying again.)
  3. Gold and silver have been soaring as though people are fleeing to safety (in Wonderland's Bouncy House of Coins).
  4. People are also fleeing to safety in bonds, bringing the US 10-year bond down to a 1.318% yield, its lowest yield in history. (Hit me on the head with a hammer like a pop-up gopher, and watch me smile.)
  5. In many nations around the world, government bonds have been selling hotter than bombs in Syria even with negative interest rates, meaning you lose money every day you hold them. (The bonking game of bigger gophers for the near-sighted so that Wonderland remains handicap accessible.)
  6. In Switzerland, people are cuing up in the ticket line to give the government their money to hold for a fifty year ride now that the Swiss 50-year bond has turned negative. (Wonderland's biggest gopher for the totally blind. You don't just hit this one; it takes you the ride of your life for the rest of your life. We call it "Gopher Broke.")
  7. US jobs crashed in May, causing stocks to drop, but rebounded in June, causing stocks to rise, so that May is now seen as an unexplained anomaly. (Welcome to Ripley's House of Unexplained Economic Mysteries.)
  8. The Great Britain Pound crashed to a thirty-year low against the dollar. (Enjoy your ride on the currency bumper cars!)
  9. Japan's decade of quantitative wheezing has accomplished so little that they're going to cough up more of the same all over again because it was so much fun the first five times. (House of Bodily Humors and Horrors.)
  10. Central banks in Europe say they need to and will crank their own quantitative easing back up, so effective have all previous rounds been. (And, so, the merry-go-round spins and the calliope plays its happy music in Euro Dizzyland.)
  11. Falling oil prices, which contributed significantly to January's spectacular stock market plunge, are going back down the pipeline while oversupply is building rapidly at the bottom again with the buildup reaching its highest point in ten weeks. (Wonderland's log ride through oil with more than one crude splash.)
  12. Venezuela and Brazil are collapsing into economic chaos. (It's more fun than that bungy-jumping vehicle for two at the carnival.)
  13. Etc. (I know, darn! Just as he was on a roll. Well, hang on...)
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DemocracyNow - http://www.democracynow.org
Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Thursday, July 14 [13:18]
TRNN News - http://therealnews.com/
TRNN | Alexandr Buzgalin says: Why is the Capitalist West Fighting with Capitalist Russia? (07/14/16) [27:04]
TRNN | Bill Black says: New British PM Appoints Brexit Proponent Boris Johnson to Foreign Secretary (07/14/16) [7:19]
TYT News - http://www.tytnetwork.com/
*TYT | Trump Beating Clinton In Multiple Swing States (07/13/16) [7:12]
TYT | 2016 Republican Party Platform = More Theocracy, Less Democracy (07/13/16) [9:12]
TYT | Republicans Respond To Trump Attacks From Supreme Court Justice (07/13/16) [9:55]
TYT | George W. Bush Dances At Dallas Police Memorial Service (07/13/16) [7:04]
RT - http://www.rt.com/
*RT | Max and Stacy talk to Jim Rickards, author of The New Case for Gold, about gold as a solution to the world's debt problems. (E940) (07/14/16) [25:48]
Ring of Fire - http://ringoffireradio.com/
*Thom Hartmann - www.thomhartmann.com/
*ThomHartmann | GOP Focus on Heat From Porn Not Climate Change? (07/13/16) [6:42]
*ThomHartmann | Billions of Gallons of Fracking Waste Into Gulf? (07/13/16) [5:11]
*ThomHartmann | Has Big Ag Bought Another Victory? (07/13/16) [9:45]
Diane Rehm - http://thedianerehmshow.org
*DR | Controversy Over Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Comments About Donald Trump (07/14/16) [1hr]
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg made headlines this week by publicly criticizing Donald Trump. She called him "a faker" who "has no consistency." And she joked that if trump were to become president, she might move to New Zealand. Trump fired back with a tweet labeling her comments "very dumb" and calling for her to resign. On Thursday, Ginsburg apologized, saying her comments were "ill-advised." Still, critics of the justice's behavior--and there are many--say she's setting a dangerous precedent by taking sides in an election year. But Ginsburg also has many supporters: liberals and conservatives who worry about what a Trump presidency could do to the nation. We discuss the controversy.
DR | Robert P. Jones: "The End Of White Christian America" (07/14/16) [1hr]
Throughout much of the history of the United States, white Protestant Christians set the tone both culturally and politically. But demographic changes over the last few decades have transformed the country. As recently as 2008, white Christians made up the majority of the American population. Six years later, the number had dropped seven points to 47 percent. A religious scholar tracks these changes in a new book. He says understanding this shift can help explain everything from the rise of Donald Trump to the heated rhetoric of the same sex marriage debate.
Aljazeera - http://america.aljazeera.com/
Aljazeera | Al Jazeera World - Israel's Great Divide (07/13/16) [46:51]
Jewish people living in Israel today are largely divided into three main groups: Ashkenazi, Sephardi and Mizrahi.

The Ashkenazim are from Germany, France and Eastern Europe. The term "Ashkenazi" comes from the Hebrew word for Germany. Most American Jews today are Ashkenazim, descended from those who arrived from Europe in the mid-1800s and early 1900s.

The Sephardim are from Spain, Portugal, North Africa and the Middle East. The term "Sephardi" comes from the Hebrew word for Spain. Many Jews fled Spain after the end of Muslim rule there in 1492.

Sephardic Jews are often subdivided into Sephardim and Mizrahim, from North Africa and the Middle East. The term "Mizrahi" comes from the Hebrew word for eastern.

Israel's Great Divide explores the deep-rooted tension between Israel's Ashkenazi Jews and the Sephardi and Mizrahi communities.
NPR (National Public Radio) - www.npr.org/
PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) - pbs.org/
MSNBC - Maddow/Hayes - www.msnbc.com/

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