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Tuesday March 20, 2018
Inequality in America: A National Town Hall | Bernie Sanders | 03/19/18 | 1:42:24
Bernie's Inequality in America National Town Hall (summary) | TYT | 03/19/18 | 11:50
*Wealth Inequality in America [6:25]

Explosion At San Antonio FedEx Facility May Be Linked To Austin Bombings, FBI Says
HP | Willa Frej | 03/20/18

A package exploded at a FedEx sorting facility in Schertz, Texas, early Tuesday morning, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives' confirmed. FedEx told HuffPost that one person was being treated for minor injuries.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation told The Associated Press and CBS News that it believes the detonation at the facility outside San Antonio is likely connected to the string of bombings that have rocked Austin in the past month. "We suspect it is related to our investigation," FBI San Antonio spokeswoman Michelle Lee told CNN. ... Read more

WE HAVE TO GET MONEY OUT OF POLITICS. OR WE ARE SCREWED AS A DEMOCRACY!!!

Trump's election consultants, Cambridge Analytica, Execs Bragged Of Using Fake News, Sex To Sway Elections
HP | Nina Golgowski | 03/19/18

Disturbing undercover interviews with executives from U.K.-based political research firm Cambridge Analytica have revealed admissions of bribery, entrapment and the use of sex workers to sway political elections around the world, according to an investigative series airing Monday.

The results of a monthslong investigation by Britain's Channel 4 News revealed Cambridge Analytica's inner workings as told by Alexander Nix, the company's chief executive, and Mark Turnbull, the managing director of CA Political Global, to a reporter posing as a client. ... Read more and Here

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Cambridge Analytica (CA) is a privately held company that combines data mining and data analysis with strategic communication for the electoral process. It was created in 2013 as an offshoot of its British parent company SCL Group to participate in American politics. In 2014, CA was involved in 44 US political races. The company is partly owned by the family of Robert Mercer, an American hedge-fund manager who supports many politically conservative causes. The firm maintains offices in London, New York City, and Washington, D.C.

In 2015, it became known as the data analysis company working initially for Ted Cruz's presidential campaign. In 2016, after Cruz's campaign had faltered, CA worked for Donald Trump's presidential campaign, and on the Leave.EU-campaign for the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the European Union. CA's role and effect on those campaigns has been controversial and is the subject of ongoing criminal investigations in both countries.
Cambridge Analytica, Wikipedia
President Trump has already achieved a record 43% turnover rate for top-level staff members

Jared Kushner, RIP: A Political Obituary for the President's Son-in-Law
Truth-out | Nomi Prins, TomDispatch | 03/19/18

Among the casualties are Secretary of State Rex Tillerson; my former boss at Goldman Sachs, economic policy chief Gary Cohn; National Security Advisor Michael Flynn; FBI Director James Comey; White House Press Secretary and Communications Director Sean Spicer; four other communications directors including Hope Hicks who, having been Ivanka Trump's confidante, was elevated to the status of the president's "real daughter" before her own White House exit; chief strategist Steve Bannon; Chief of Staff Reince Priebus; a bunch of other instant relics of Trumpian political history, and a partridge in a pear tree. (Actually, a 200-year-old magnolia uprooted from the White House grounds thanks to the first lady.)

Responding to Hope Hicks' departure and, perhaps subliminally, the rumored future exile of son-in-law Jared Kushner, the president typically half-lamented and half-quipped, "So many people have been leaving the White House. It's invigorating, since you want turnover. I like chaos. It really is good. Who's going to be the next to leave? Steve Miller or Melania?" ... Read more

Trump has... spent 26% of his time out on the golf course spend 33% of his time at a Trump branded property cost US $43,000,000.00 in tax payer money for golf.

Flawed Assessments Caused $2 Billion Shift in Property Taxes, Study Finds
ProPublica | Jason Grotto | 03/15/17

Under Cook County Assessor Joseph Berrios, assessment system shaved $1 billion from Chicago's most expensive homes, while owners of lower-valued homes picked up the tab.

Because the county's assessment system is skewed in favor of high-priced homes, the errors amount to a staggering transfer of wealth that benefited Chicago's most affluent homeowners at the expense of people who own lower-priced homes. ... Read more

Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Tuesday, March 20 [10:35]
Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Tuesday, March 20 (FULL) | 59:02
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Meet The Man Behind Cambridge Analytica, Who Made Trump President | TRNN | older, 11/02/17 | 31:20
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What's On Your Mind, Facebook User? | 1a.org | 03/20/18 | 1hr
After Donald Trump proved so many prognosticators wrong and won the election in 2016, the news was littered with explanations for how the campaign won over voters in key states. One suggestion that Trump's clever use of data had a lot to do with his victory. The campaign had used a firm called Cambridge Analytica, which had ties to conservative investor Robert Mercer and strategist Steve Bannon, to identify and reach potential supporters.

It was a strategy that combined computer science and psychology. In early 2017, The New York Times called this kind of data harvesting "an emerging science that many believe could reshape American politics and commerce."

Big data companies already know your age, income, favorite cereal and when you last voted. But the company that can perfect psychological targeting could offer far more potent tools: the ability to manipulate behavior by understanding how someone thinks and what he or she fears.

A voter deemed neurotic might be shown a gun-rights commercial featuring burglars breaking into a home, rather than a defense of the Second Amendment; political ads warning of the dangers posed by the Islamic State could be targeted directly at voters prone to anxiety, rather than wasted on those identified as optimistic.

Now, one of the minds behind Cambridge Analytica has gone on the record to say the company was more than a way to influence elections. As he describes it, Cambridge Analytica was essentially built to be the most powerful weapon in a culture war.

*Cambridge Analytica was essentially built to be the most powerful weapon in a culture war | 03/20/18 | 13:03

A follow-up investigation from the UK's Channel 4 secretly filmed the group's top executives as claiming they could entrap politicians using bribes and Ukrainian sex workers.

*UK's Channel 4 secretly filmed the group's top executives as claiming they could entrap politicians using bribes and Ukrainian sex workers | 03/20/18 | 19:12

Officials from Facebook and Cambridge Analytica have in the past denied that the firm used the social network's data. After these new revelations went public, lawmakers in the U.S. and the U.K. began demanding answers from Facebook.

But even if the firm is found to have improperly acquired data, that won't make all this information go away. By using Facebook and other networks, we've already given up enough personal information to be targeted and swayed by anyone with access to our profiles and an incentive to influence us.
Cambridge Analytica Scandal Rocks Already Rattled President Trump World | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC | 03/19/18 | 23:00
President Trump Shows Disturbing Pattern With Officials Critical Of Russia | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC | 03/16/18 | 22:49
Senator Amy Klobuchar: We Want To Hear From Mark Zuckerberg | Morning Joe | MSNBC | 03/20/18 | 10:22
Americans Measure Impact Of Iraq War In New Poll | Morning Joe | MSNBC | 03/20/18 | 5:10
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The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Let The Robert Mueller Tweets Begin! | Stephen Colbert | 03/20/18 | 8:15
Stephen Analyticizes Cambridge Analytica | Stephen Colbert | 03/20/18 | 5:47
The Daily Show with Trevor Noah
Tucker Carlson's Bad Take on Teen Activists & Trump's White House Purge | Trevor Noah | 03/20/18 | 2:45
Note: I add this just to expose you to what the Alt Right is listening to. Sometimes pretty scary. And now it is atarting to make my skin crawl
Hillary About To Be Indicted Following McCabe Firing | Alex Jones | 03/17/18 | 24:04
Bill Mitchell joins Alex Jones -> Evidence Emerges That Mueller Is Really Working With Trump To Sting Hillary And The Deep State | Alex Jones | 03/17/18 | 16:32

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Quantum mechanics | AI - Artificial Intelligence
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Rana Foroohar and Fall of American Business
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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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China Valley of Tunnels

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Trump's Mashups
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