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2004 6.0 Rough idle lots of white smoke...NEED HELP ASAP
I'm leaving on a family vacation in 2 days and need to tow my boat.
I will start from the beginning.
My truck has about 90k miles on it. It started a while back with a light cloud of smoke after driving it for a while. It would smoke when I would pull to a stop sign or traffic light when I would go to accelerate. It would be one small cloud then it would clear up. The truck still had the factory EGR so I decided to delete it this week. The only other mod is 4inch turbo back exhaust. After deleting the EGR truck was running great no smoke lots of power etc. I shut the truck off yesterday for about 30 mins and when I went to start I had a lot of engine knocking and lots of white smoke. This condition clear up after a few minutes and went back to running fine. Then I noticed the smoking condition and rough low RPM idle. Truck runs great during acceleration just has a rough idle and white smoking. I put the truck on a scan tool and found nothing but EGR codes since its deleted. I went ahead and did an injector balance test. Test showed no engine RPM change when shutting down injector 6. I had #6 injector replaced yesterday and now the truck smokes worse than before. Scan the truck and now I get an injector balance fault on #6. Truck still has a very slight miss and smokes much worse. I've only put 10 miles on it since the injector swap. I'm just at a loss and need this fixed ASAP.
Let me know if anyone has any ideas.
Also no coolant loss, White smoke smells like fuel and smoke goes away under acceleration. I'm going to check the FICM voltage tonight when I get home.
Also Swamps Diesel has been nothing but helpful during this whole thing. Thanks again to those guys
Re: 2004 6.0 Rough idle lots of white smoke...NEED HELP ASAP
I know it sucks to think it happens, but I have swapped a bad injector for a reman that was bad. All that work for nothing. I would pull it out and check my orings. If they look good....get another injector.
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Re: 2004 6.0 Rough idle lots of white smoke...NEED HELP ASAP
Ok its not a bad injector. I sWitched it to cylinder 4 to see if it through a cyl 4 balance code and it didnt. Cleared the codes and I get the cylinder 6 balance code. I'm thinking its the FICM Its not down on power at all and only does it at idle
Anyone else have any ideas?
Re: 2004 6.0 Rough idle lots of white smoke...NEED HELP ASAP
I'm still thinking it is an injector.
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Re: 2004 6.0 Rough idle lots of white smoke...NEED HELP ASAP
is your ficm wiring harness ok it doesnt have any bad spots in it anywhere where its rubbed on the valve covers or anything and wore a hole in the insulation? that will also cause it to run like that. just a thought.
Re: 2004 6.0 Rough idle lots of white smoke...NEED HELP ASAP
Checked all the wiring it checks ok. Swapped in a swamps FICM same problem
Re: 2004 6.0 Rough idle lots of white smoke...NEED HELP ASAP
Had the same issue with my 06. I deleted the EGR and would get some smoke at operating temp when it was 60+ degree's outside. Finally took it into a dealership,they did an injector test, #2 injector was crapping out, so i replaced it. No more smoke and truck seems to run better. I would guess bad injector.
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Re: 2004 6.0 Rough idle lots of white smoke...NEED HELP ASAP
Just ordered the Autoenginuity package to attempt to locate another bad injector. Any other Ideas? Would a leaking intake or head gasket cause this condition?
Re: 2004 6.0 Rough idle lots of white smoke...NEED HELP ASAP
a leaking intake wouldnt cause it i wouldnt think. mine didnt it just didnt have any power because it wouldnt build up any boost pressure and it sounded like the turbo down pipe was off. it was really loud inside the cab.
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Greg Laurie Daily Devotion - Sept. 3, 2007
Monday, September 3, 2007
A Meaningful Life
"Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven."
—Matthew 5:16
How should I live my life on this earth? What purpose does God have in mind for me, now that I have received His Son Jesus Christ into my heart?
These are questions every believer should ask, because if you have no goals or purpose, you can waste your life. As I have often said, if you aim at nothing, you are bound to hit it.
Many people simply want to prolong their lives, rather than try to find their purpose in life. Certainly medical science is helping us live longer lives. We can add years to our lives, but we cannot add life to our years. Should our primary goal be to prolong our lives, or should it be to live life to its fullest?
Jim Elliot was fresh out of college when he felt the call of God to go to the mission field. Tragically, Jim and four other young missionaries lost their lives in the jungles of Ecuador in an attempt to reach others with the gospel. It might seem like a terrible waste of life for such a young man with so much promise. But after his death, this entry was found in one of his journals: "I seek not a long life, but a full one, like you, Lord Jesus."
That is a good goal: To live a full life, a life with meaning and purpose. We don't know how long we will live—that is up to God. But life is not merely a matter of years. It is a matter of how we live. It is not the years that count, but what you do with those years. What kind of life are you living right now?
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#SpringCleaning: 7 Ways To Change Your Relationship
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If we don't like what we see when we look in the mirror, we don't try to paint something different or paste collage on the mirror to change what we see. We understand the mirror is a reflection, so we change ourselves, what we are wearing, how our hair is arranged, our makeup and our clothes. However when we don't like our reflection from our life, we try to change the mirror, our life on the outside, rather than change what is being reflected, our inner state of being.
I love the movie Buck, the documentary about Buck Branaman, the man who was the inspiration for the both the book and the movie Horse Whisperer. Buck also served as Robert Redford's coach on the movie set. In real life he teaches horse owners and riders how to get what they want from their horses. The key is not about changing the horse, because the horse is just the rider or horse owner's mirror. It is about changing the where the rider is 'coming from,' their state of being as expressed in their own behavior. The horse is simple intimately relating too and reflecting back what is going on inside and being expressed by the person. The horse is responding perfectly to what it is receiving.
The horse is like the rest of life. What is happening in our life is responding perfectly to what is happening inside of us, just like the mirror showing us what we look like. Life, like the horse, is showing us how we are being inside of ourselves.
An amazing life-changing, empowering adventure begins when we realize this intimaterelationship with life responding to us, to our inner being, our energy, emotions and thoughts. Many people who attend Buck Branaman's horse clinics become converts to an exciting new relational way of working with horses.
Similarly, when we discover the power of our creative inner life and begin to experience how life is deeply responsive to our inner state of being and reflects it back to us. We stop feeling like we are on the receiving end of the stick, struggling to get what we want in our life on the outside. We stop trying to paint on the mirror, or beating the horse into submitting to our will. Life becomes exciting, empowering, deeply intriguing and much, much easier. It is all about intimate relationship, our own intimate inner relationship with life.
When we begin to realize this, we no longer need to suffer the bad relationship, the crappy job, the stresses that overwhelm us. We now have a choice. We begin to look inside to what is really happening there. What is the habituated knee-jerk inner choice we are making, that is so painful both inside and outside? When we identify that choice — THAT is a huge win. We have identified the real source of our pain. From there we just need to find the inner choice that feels good. That is the choice that will effect a new outer reflection that also feels good, one much more to our liking, both as we experience it first of all inside our self and therefore as it is reflected back to us on the outside.
Instead of believing that the feelings of overwhelm, anxiety, the sense of loss, defeat, confusion are solely due to the circumstances of life, we can begin to see how those life circumstances are largely a reflection of our beliefs, our false perceptions, the inner state of being we are choosing to hold onto inside of ourselves. As we look inward and become aware of those unconscious painful beliefs that we are choosing to entertain inside, we are now able to make a different choice. When we change that choice, when we make a kinder choice for ourselves, we will feel an inner shift and like the horse, life will also feel that shift and respond to it and reflect that kindness back to us.
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How Texting Affects The Quality Of Your Relationship
From Single Black Male
Don't you always enjoy attending events where your friends are celebrating something? Whether it's a birthday, job promotion, job creation, newborn baby, engagement, etc. you will create a new connection with someone. Recently, I caught up with a good buddy of mine, and the conversation inspired me to share.
He recalled supporting a group of friends who were celebrating an anniversary. After doing his normal meet and greet conversations, someone had his attention, but she didn't have his. They exchanged numbers, he walked her home, and he called it a night.
What ensued were weeks and weeks of endless text messages back-and-forth, and back-and-forth again. Having merely met within the confinements of a mutual friends celebratory event, they had gone on for an even longer time without seeing each other again. When you're young and free, you get to the point quickly. Like the eternal line from Puff Daddy, "Why don't my friends…meet your friends…and we can be friends." LOL!
They go on for days and do nothing but text. She never called him and he never called her. He even forgot what her voice sounded like! It was very strange hearing the story, because how else would you know that someone else is really into you unless they talk to you on a consistent basis. Consistent text messages, from my perspective, do not hold the same weight or importance as consistent phone calls and conversations. Is that a guy thing? Fellas, do you agree or disagree?
After that initial meeting, they only met up once more, and it was for a "limited" time. His description of "limited" was thirty minutes. They caught up, of course, talked about the inconsistent New York weather, what the rest of our week looked like. What followed was another long duration of text messages and never a face-to-face interaction.
Read more about texting relationships at SingleBlackMale.org
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10 Tips For Amazing Pregnancy Sex
From HelloBeautiful
Pregnancy is an exciting time! With the all the changes and anticipation, it can be hard to maintain your regular life, much less your sex life. Fortunately, your love life doesn't have to slow down during pregnancy. In fact, sex during pregnancy can bring you and your partner closer together.
Don't believe me? That's ok. I have 10 tips to tell you otherwise!
Here are 10 tips for keeping a healthy sex life when you're pregnant:
1. Don't be afraid to have sex if you want to.
For most women, sex is perfectly safe during all trimesters of a normal pregnancy. Talk to your doctor if you have any concerns about sex while you are pregnant.
2. Try something new.
Many women experience an increased sex drive as they enter their second trimester, which can be a great time to experiment with different positions or adding a little kink to the mix. Check out this blog post for some great information on safe kink during pregnancy.
3. Make sure you are comfortable.
Your body goes through a lot of changes during your pregnancy. Positions or touching that you enjoyed before may suddenly cause irritation or discomfort while you are pregnant. Be sure to talk to your partner about anything that feels uncomfortable, so you and your partner enjoy your time in the bedroom.
4. Be intimate.
If sex doesn't feel good, there are lots of other ways you can still remain intimate with your partner. Kissing, cuddling, sensual massages or hugging brings you and your partner closer together and can help fulfill your sexual desires even if you don't feel like having intercourse. Receiving oral sex can offer release without the discomfort from penetration and often due to the increase in sensitivity can feel more pleasurable than before.
5. Find the best positions.
Know which sex positions work best for the different stages of your pregnancy. Missionary and other positions where you are lying on your back can be uncomfortable as your pregnancy progresses, and can even be unsafe after the fourth month of pregnancy, because they put pressure on major blood vessels. Avoid putting weight and pressure on your abdomen by using positions like woman on top, spooning, or side by side. Experiment and find what works best for you and your partner. This doesn't have to be a chore, it really can be exciting! Consider using this as a chance to have adventurous sex on a different piece of furniture or in a new room of your house.
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He Says He Can't See Any Wife Of His As A Pole Dancer, Should I Break Up With Him?
From Essence
Dear Abiola,
For a long time, I felt out of touch with my body and myself. I hated my dark chocolate complexion, the way I looked and everything about myself. I even hated sex because I never thought anybody could think someone who looked like me was sexy.
Then my friend invited me to a pole fitness class two years ago. Everybody knows me to be conservative. Doing something like this isn't "me!" I was reluctant but I went and it changed EVERYTHING! Now I feel sexy and beautiful. My body is fit and toned, I feel in control of myself and I love who I see in the mirror. My friends even say I move differently.
With my new attitude I met a new man. He is very successful and says that one day he wants me to be his wife. We've been dating for almost 2 months. The problem is that the thing that most turns me on to myself turns him off. He says he can't see any wife of his as a pole dancer or "pole ho," his words.
He knows that I work in a bank and I'm not a pole dancer; this is just the workout I prefer. He goes to the gym everyday so I don't see the difference. No one sees me except the 7 or 8 other women in my class. I invited him to come see me dance. I said I would rent a private studio so he can see what I'm doing but he said no.
He said that I need to choose and if I'm going to be serious with him I need to find another way to work out ASAP. He feels that any woman who gets with him needs to uphold a certain image. I think the truth is he finds it a little threatening. He always wants to know who was there, what I did, etc. For the last couple of weeks, I had to lie and say I was doing zumba. Nothing against zumba but I really feel a healing connection with pole fitness.
Am I bugging? Should I just give up the dumb pole fitness classes for my man? Is pole dancing something shameful for a wife? Pole fitness is like my therapy. He doesn't know that this sexy, new me that's been turning him out in the bedroom is a benefit of my pole classes.
By the way, thank you so much for the advice you give. I have been reading your Intimacy Interventions for a long time — but never thought I would be writing in. I am too embarrassed to talk to anybody else about this. Help!
Read Abiola's response at Essence.com
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3 Secrets To Help Couples Communicate Better
From YourTango
Have you ever tried to convince a man to do more in your relationship, only to see him pull further away from you? There's a smart way to communicate with a man and motivate him to invest in your relationship — without any convincing at all.
When you're frustrated that you're doing more than your fair share in a relationship, do you feel the need to take action and try to talk the man you're with into giving more? Sure you do — most women react the same way. And you don't need me to tell you that most men will resist your efforts.
That's because of something I call "the convincer". When you try to talk a man into doing what you want, he will naturally become "the resister". It's human nature.
Your convincing is a turn off for him, because he'll feel like he's being forced rather than making his own decision to invest in the relationship. If you really want to get a man to start putting in more effort, memorize these three key elements.
COMMUNICATION SECRET #1: Truly Listen
In order for a man to respect your feelings and needs, he needs to feel safe to share his true feelings with you. And the way to do that is to show him you're not just venting your feelings but rather truly interested in what he has to say.
Men — just like women — need to feel like it's okay to have their feelings, and that they will be heard and respected. And when they realize their partner isn't really listening or interested in who they truly are or how they truly feel, they will start to shut off bit by bit.
So, approach difficult conversations with a spirit of negotiation. Understand that he has his own reasons for feeling the way he does, and listen with the intent of reaching an agreement that pleases both of you. This kind of listening makes a man feel most comfortable to open up and respond with a deeper level of thought, care and honesty.
Read more about communication at YourTango.com
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"Where Is This Going?" 4 Signs Your Relationship Is Ending
From YourTango
Maintaining a relationship is one of the things that many people are not very good at. It's not because relationships are really not meant to last forever, but people are often unaware of what they should — and shouldn't — do to have a lasting relationship. What's worse is that we hardly notice our relationship is failing until it's too late.
Since it's hard to tell when things aren't going well from afar, you may as well look at your own actions to know if you're doing a good job of building a strong relationship or not.
So you can be more aware of where you're heading, see the various ways you're actually ruining your relationship below.
1. You're Taking Your Partner For Granted
One of the best things you can do to rush the end of your relationship is to think that your partner will always be with you to make your life better and easier. You may think it's not too much or too hard to cook dinner, do some grocery shopping, or clean the house but all these can become burdensome to your partner.
It's important that you acknowledge and appreciated whatever it is that your partner is doing to make your life together as comfortable as possible. A simple "Thank you" can mean so much to the person who willingly does things for you. You wouldn't ignore a visitor in your home, so you don't have any reason at all to treat your special someone worse.
2. You Don't Have Anything To Say … All The Time.
Looking back, you would see how much you enjoyed talking to each other when you were in the early stages of your relationship. In fact, you may have spent so many hours at night talking on the phone or whenever you had the chance to be alone together. Talking or communicating is an essential aspect of building a strong relationship.
When you notice that you hardly talk to each other already, you may as well expect your relationship to die eventually. Take note also that talking here doesn't just mean exchanging words. What couples need is to have some real and sincere conversations where they could learn more about each other. It's true that the fading of honest conversations between couples is a natural process that relationships go through overtime. But still, you need to make a conscious effort to spend time with your partner to talk about the important things in your lives.
Read more about relationships at YourTango.com
Tags:communication, dating, intimacy, love, relationship, sex, trust
What Is On Your Relationship Bucket List?
From YourTango
Since the film Bucket List came out in 2007, most of us haven't just heard of bucket lists, we've got one. Mine includes: traveling internationally, getting over my irrational fear of karaoke, and finishing a book I started writing years ago.
Bucket lists reflect our unique dreams and desires, which makes them deeply personal. They're also inspirational: They remind us of what we want to accomplish and of the qualities we hope to honor more fully before we die. In my case, we're talking about adventure, creativity and overcoming challenges, to name but a few. Viewed through the lenses of doing (what we want to experience) and being (who we aspire to be) bucket lists aren't just a boon to our personal growth. They also benefit our romantic relationships.
Research shows that trying new things together reinforces relationship happiness. Novelty not only provides more ways for us to connect, it gives us a new, and renewed, perspective on our partners.
For couples, creating and checking items off a bucket list energizes your relationship.
How do you go about creating a couples bucket list? Start with these three questions.
- What new experiences and adventures do we yearn to have with each other?
- What do we want to create together as a couple?
- Who do I most want to be in our relationship?
Feel free to answer these questions jointly. Or you can respond separately and then compare notes, highlighting areas of overlap. Focus on the big picture if you notice differences. For example, don't assume that your wish for more romance and your partner's interest in a course on Tantric sex mean you don't agree. My guess is you share a desire for more intimacy, maybe passion, too. So ask yourselves:
What might be possible for me, and for us, if I tried what my partner suggests?
Unlike items on our most common to-do list — buy milk, pay bills, etc — it's easy to defer our relationship bucket list (and our individual one, too) to some vague future. "We'll explore our sensuality after our kids leave home," we tell ourselves, or "we'll take a cross-country road-trip after we retire."
Read more about relationships at YourTango.com
Tags:communication, dating, love, relationship, Relationship Bucket List, sex, trust
How Much Do You Tell Your Friends About Your Relationship?
From Essence
Last night on Blood, Sweat, and Heels, Mica's mother found out that Mica's boyfriend Terry was still in another relationship when he started dating her daughter. After talking about it, Mica's mother admitted that she's glad she wasn't told from the beginning because she wouldn't have given him a chance or grown to like him the way she does.
Mica is not the first woman to keep the messy details of her relationship from family and/or friends. Some women only share the good because they want their friends to like the guy and/or don't think it's their business.
Read more about relationships at Essence.com
Tags:Blood Sweat & Heels, dating, love, relationship, sex
I Didn't Make My Boyfriend A Priority So He Dumped Me
From HelloBeautiful
Dating Kevin was one of the most eye-opening experiences I've ever had. He was the one that hated my vices and I was faced with a decision to make a life change or go back to being single. I chose single life, but it wasn't the vices that broke us up–well, sort of.
During the time that I dated Kevin, he'd lost the job he held for over eight years. He was feeling very down on himself and I think because I am a career-minded woman, he was always bothered by any and everything that had to do with my career. Kevin was no longer a working man, his only job was to worry about what I was doing and he did that very well. At first, I took his attention as devotion to me and getting to know me was high on his priority list. As a person in the media, my job is neverending, so there would be times, while we were on a date, or chilling at my apartment, that I would have to pick up my phone, address an email or worse, write a quick story. When we first started dating, Kevin was so enthralled with my demanding career, he even helped me write an op-ed. But that thrill was short-lived.
One busy Tuesday at work, I watched my phone buzz and light up with Kevin's name and I made a promise that I would respond quickly, but after four hours, another call came through and I slapped my palm to my face. "Hello," I picked up, trying my best not to sound irritated because I was swamped.
"Hey babe. How's your day? You saw my message and call?" Kevin said with a bit of desperation in his voice.
"Yes sweetheart, just swamped today, but we're still on for tonight, no worries," I said, trying to tackle his intention for calling before he could complain more.
Kevin sighed, "Yeah, I figured. I just really wanted to hear from you."
"That's sweet," I said, checking my attitude before I responded. But then, I did what I normally do when I am irritated; I slathered my comment in sarcasm, "Would it work for you if I designated a 10-minute window everyday that we could chat and just catch up. I know you hate texting," I smiled, knowing that I was kidding.
Read more on this dating story at HelloBeautiful.com
Tags:boyfriend, careers, communication, love, relationship, trust
No Romance? Evoking The Romantic In Your Boyfriend
Music plays from outside of your bedroom window, resonating against the late evening backdrop. You then drop whatever misleading but enthralling romantic novel you are currently invested in and you approach the window. You see your beloved below: stereo held high above his head, his body adorned in a trench jacket, and there's love written across his handsome face.
OH, wait….rewind. That's not your boyfriend, that's John Cusack (See: Say Anything), and that couldn't be your life, because your man does not have a romantic bone in his body.
For some reason, your boyfriend can spend his existence splurging on video games, but never on jewelry; bringing home a dozen donuts, but not a dozen roses; and sitting through three hours of basketball, but not two hours of Broadway.
He's unromantic and it's frustrating, but before you kick his adorable but oblivious butt to the curb, consider some subtle and not-so-subtle tips to help your man be the romantic that you always knew he could be.


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News Articles
The High Price of Free Money: Now US Bankers Fear Financial, Social, or Political 'Instability'
Something is changing about the perception of the Fed's free-money policies. While we've lambasted them for their nefarious effects on the real economy and the inequality they produce, Wall Street, the prime beneficiary, has been bombastically gung-ho about them. And the mainstream media have praised the Fed's "bold action," as it's called, at every twist and turn.
But now even Wall Street is getting cold feet. The official warning shot came from Fed Chair Janet Yellen, who admitted suddenly that "the extent of and continuing increase in inequality in the United States greatly concern me." Then bankers chimed in. FICO, which produces the infamous credit score, found in its latest survey of North American bank risk managers that 62% of them thought "the wealth gap poses a growing risk to the financial system."Click to zoom - for bigger image
Without thriving consumers, the American economy that is so dependent on them will continue to languish. Just adding more consumers to the mix may increase overall consumer spending, and stirring up inflation may cover up the issue. But as the majority of individual consumers falls further behind, the risks of financial, social, or political "instability" might be looking ever more plausible to those bankers. ... Read more
Canada's parliament attacked, soldier fatally shot nearby
A gunman attacked Canada's parliament on Wednesday, with gunfire erupting near where Prime Minister Stephen Harper was speaking, and a soldier was fatally shot at a nearby war memorial, stunning the Canadian capital.
The gunman in the parliament building was shot dead, and Harper was safely removed in incidents that may have been linked to Islamic militants. ... Read more
The Science of Fox News: Why Its Viewers Are the Most Misinformed
In June of 2011, Jon Stewart went on air with Fox News' Chris Wallace and started a major media controversy over the channel's misinforming of its viewers. "Who are the most consistently misinformed media viewers?" Stewart asked Wallace. "The most consistently misinformed? Fox, Fox viewers, consistently, every poll."
The author's goal here is to explore the underlying causes for this "Fox News effect"--explaining how this station has brought about a hurricane-like intensification of factual error, misinformation and unsupportable but ideologically charged beliefs on the conservative side of the aisle. ... Read more
Why Conservatives Opt for Propaganda Over Reality
Conservatives are consuming a right-wing media full of lies and misinformation, whereas liberals are more interested in media that puts facts before ideology.
Pew Research set out to find what's behind what it considers the increasing political polarization of the United States; why the country is moving away from political moderation and becoming more and more divided between liberals and conservatives. Its first report on the phenomenon, which examines where people are hearing news and opinion in both regular and social media, shows that this is happening for very different reasons among people moving to the right than for people moving to the left.
Or that's the charitable way to put it. The less charitable way is to say Pew discovered that conservatives are consuming a right-wing media full of lies and misinformation, whereas liberals are more interested in media that puts facts before ideology. It's very much not a "both sides do it" situation. Conservatives are becoming more conservative because of propaganda, whereas liberals are becoming more liberal while staying very much checked into reality. ... Read more
Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Thursday, October 23 [5:52]
*DN | Citizenfour: Inside Story of NSA Leaker Edward Snowden Captured in New Film by Laura Poitras (10/23/14) [9:51]
"At this stage I can offer nothing more than my word. I am a senior government employee in the intelligence community. I hope you understand that contacting you is extremely high risk ... This will not be a waste of your time." This was one of the first messages Edward Snowden wrote to filmmaker Laura Poitras beginning an exchange that helped expose the massive surveillance apparatus set up by the National Security Agency. Months later, Poitras would meet Snowden for the first time in a Hong Kong hotel room. Poitras filmed more than 20 hours of footage as Snowden debriefed reporters Glenn Greenwald and Ewen MacAskill. That footage -- most unseen until now -- forms the backbone of Poitras' new film, "Citizenfour." She joins us to talk about the film and her own experience with government surveillance. The film is the third installment of her 9/11 trilogy that also includes "My Country, My Country" about the Iraq War and "The Oath" about the U.S. military base at Guant�namo Bay, Cuba. Poitras' NSA reporting contributed to a Pulitzer Prize for Public Service awarded to The Guardian and The Washington Post.*DN | Jeremy Scahill: Blackwater Execs Remain Free as Guards Convicted for Killing 14 Iraqis in Massacre (10/23/14) [7:47]
*TRNN | Hedges & Wolin: Can Capitalism and Democracy Coexist?, Part 2 (10/23/14) [25:14]
Journalist Chris Hedges interviews political philosopher Sheldon Wolin, who says democracy requires continuous opposition and vigilance by the citizenry.*TRNN | Reese Erlich, Freelance Correspondent and Author of Inside Syria, says the irony in the support to the Kurds in Kobani is that PKK is considered a terrorist organization by the US (10/23/14) [25:14]
TYT | Colorado Teens Try To Run Away To Join ISIS (10/22/14) [7:27]
TYT | Canada Attacked - The Gun Law Role & The 'Terrorism' Question (10/22/14) [10:36]
TYT | Why This Man Scares Republicans Out Of Their Piss-Soaked Pants (10/22/14) [4:25]
TYT | Politico & BP Blatantly Conspire To Hide BP's Devastating Oil Spill (10/22/14) [5:17]
News Articles
Canadian Capital On Lock Down As A Result Of Ongoing "Terrorist" Shooting Incident
At least two people are injured, including a soldier, after shots were fired in the Parliamentary precinct in Ottawa on Wednesday morning; one shooter is dead and police suspect as many as two others are on the loose.
A dark-clothed gunman fired the shots just before 10 a.m. at the Canadian War Memorial, where a uniformed soldier was shot. The gunman then fled for Parliament Hill, where he unleashed more gunfire inside Centre Block. ...
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New poll from the Democratic firm Public Policy Polling. In its fifth trust poll, 35 percent said they trusted Fox news more than any other outlet, followed by PBS at 14 percent, ABC at 11 percent, CNN at 10 percent, CBS at 9 percent, 6 percent for MSNBC and Comedy Central, and just 3 percent for NBC.
Permanent Damage to US Economy-Michael Snyder
Michael Snyder is a self-proclaimed "truth-seeker" and financial writer who says there is no recovery on Main Street, and we are not going to get one--ever. Snyder contends, "We've had permanent damage to the U.S. economy. ...
... By the time President Obama's eight years are over, we are on pace to approximately double the size of the national debt from $10.6 trillion to more than $20 trillion. What we are doing is absolute insanity. . . . We are going to suffer the consequences for so much of this. As far as the time window, I believe the next 12 to 15 months are going to be the most interesting time economically and as a nation as I have ever seen." ...
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Apple Beats Top And Bottom Line, Repurchases Record $45 Billion In Stock In Fiscal 2014.
Harley Bassman: "The Fed Is Trying To Land A Jumbo Jet On A Football Field"
In Harley Bassman latest news letter, in which he picks up on his favorite topic: implied volatility in rates, and the arbitrage opportunities it provides courtesy of epic risk mispricing in the current quote-unquote market, courtesy of the Fed's 6 year+ centrally-planned manipulation of, well, everything. ... Read more
Wall Street Is One Sick Puppy - Thanks To Even Sicker Central Banks
Last Wednesday the markets plunged on a vague recognition that the central bank promoted recovery story might not be on the level. But that tremor didn't last long.
Right on cue the next day, one of the very dimmest Fed heads--James Dullard of St Louis---mumbled incoherently about a possible QE extension, causing the robo-traders to erupt with buy orders. By the end of the day Friday, with the market off just 5% from its all-time highs, the buy-the-dips crowd was back, proclaiming that the "bottom is in". This week the market has been energetically retracing what remains of the October correction. ... Read more
Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Wednesday, October 22 [7:01]
*DN | In U.N. Speech, Noam Chomsky Blasts United States for Supporting Israel, Blocking Palestinian State (10/22/14) [18:23],
Part 2 [15:47]
How is Money Made | How Much Debt Do We Have*Demonocracyinfo | US Debt in Physical $100 bills [2:10]
*Mike Maloney | How is Money Made (and Who Benefits) [29:34] (start at 1:11)
*TRNN | Hedges & Wolin: Can Capitalism and Democracy Coexist? (10/22/14) [20:25]
Journalist Chris Hedge interviews political philosopher Sheldon Wolin, who says democracy requires continuous opposition and vigilance by the citizenry.*TRNN | Costas Lapavitsas speaks: The Financialization of Life (10/22/14) [16:34]
TYT | Bill O'Reilly Explains Dem Voting - It's Not Him, It's You (10/21/14) [5:51]
TYT | Sarah Palin's PAC Is A Massive Million Dollar Scam (10/21/14) [4:14]
TYT | Corrupt Congressman Threatens Critics With More Corruption (10/21/14) [6:32]
TYT | Republicans Love Latinos, Except When Hating Them Gets More Votes (10/21/14) [5:53]
TYT | Obamacare Worst Nightmare Hilariously Coming True For Republicans (10/21/14) [3:11]
National Debt*Demonocracyinfo | US Debt in Physical $100 bills [2:10]
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FED - Federal ReserveThe Federal Reserve Explained In 7 Minutes [7:06]
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Crash Course - Debt, Chp 13 [14:19]
Banksters | FED | Money | Debt*Mike Maloney | The Biggest Scam In The History Of Mankind - Hidden Secrets of Money 4 [29:34]
Derivatives*Brookley Born: Derivatives still a ticking time bomb! Sept 2011 () [11:42]
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*Derivatives Held by the Different Banks
*DN | All the President's Bankers: Nomi Prins on Secret History of Washington-Wall Street Collusion (04/08/14) [17:47], Part 2 [4:17]
Quarterly Report on Bank Derivatives Activities.pdf
OCC's Quarterly Report on Bank Trading and Derivatives Activities.pdf
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Another Month, Another Global Heat Record Broken
Earth is on pace to tie or even break the mark for the hottest year on record, federal meteorologists say. That's because global heat records have kept falling in 2014, with September the latest example.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Monday that last month the globe averaged 60.3 degrees Fahrenheit (15.72 degrees Celsius). That was the hottest September in 135 years of record keeping.
It was the fourth monthly record set this year, along with May, June and August. ... Read more
Tornadoes Increasingly Coming In Swarms In United States, Study Says
Tornadoes in the United States are increasingly coming in swarms rather than as isolated twisters, according to a study by U.S. government meteorologists published on Thursday that illustrates another trend toward extreme weather emerging in recent years.
Looking at tornado activity over the past six decades, the study in the journal Science found the total number of tornadoes annually remaining rather steady, averaging 495. Since the 1970s, there have been fewer days with tornadoes but plenty more days with many of them, sometimes dozens or more.
On the list of the 10 single days with the most tornadoes since 1954, eight have occurred since 1999, including five since 2011. That year alone had days with 115, 73, 53 and 52 twisters. ... Read more
California Drought Worsened By Climate Change, Scientists Say
California's catastrophic drought has most likely been made worse by man-made climate change, according to a report released Monday by Stanford University, but scientists are still hesitant to fully blame the lack of rain on climate change.
The research, published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society as part of a collection of reports on extreme weather events in 2013, is one of the most comprehensive studies linking climate change and California's ongoing drought, which has caused billions of dollars in economic damage. ... Read more
"Anti-Petrodollar" CEO Of French Energy Giant Total Dies In Freak Plane Crash In Moscow
Three months ago, the CEO of Total, Christophe de Margerie, dared utter the phrase heard around the petrodollar world, "There is no reason to pay for oil in dollars," as we noted here. Today, RT reports the dreadful news that he was killed in a business jet crash at Vnukovo Airport in Moscow after the aircraft hit a snow-plough on take-off. The airport issued a statement confirming "a criminal investigation has been opened into the violation of safety regulations," adding that along with 3 crewmembers on the plane, the snow-plough driver was also killed. ... Read more
Europe Demands Banks Hand Over Their Lunch Money Following Swiss Franc Libor Rigging
Having confirmed that RBS, UBS, JPMorgan,,and Credit Suisse operated a cartell to manipulate bid-ask spreads of Swiss Franc libor, the European Commission has unleashed unmerciless vengeance on these law-breaking institutions:
JPMorgan fined EUR 72.2 Million, UBS fined EUR 12.7 Million, Credit Suisse fined EUR 9.17 Million, & RBS Nothing (for whistle-blowing).
The commission found that these four entities 'influenced' interest rate derivatives prices between March 2008 and July 2009 - probably the most volatile and price-sensitive period of American financial history.. and they get fined "an hour's pay?" Nothing ever changes... Read moreClick to zoom - for bigger image
Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Tuesday, October 21 [13:26]
*DN | After Ignoring ISIS Assault on Kobani, U.S. Launches Major Strikes & Arms Turkey's Kurdish Foes (10/21/14) [15:06]
*DN | Former U.N. Special Rapporteur Richard Falk on the Legitimacy of Hope in the Palestinian Struggle (10/21/14) [16:19]
John OliverHBO | Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Translators (10/19/14) [16:06]
HBO | Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Supreme Court (10/19/14) [5:39]
TRNN | Journalist Sharif Kouddous: What direction is Egypt headed, several years after the Revolution? (10/20/14) [24:59]
TRNN | Kurt Lambeck, Professor of Geophysics: Study Finds Sea Levels Rising at an Unprecedented Rate (10/20/14) [10:44]
TYT | Panic Over Ebola Outbreak Goes Viral In America (10/20/14) [7:37]
TYT | Could You Forgive Him Like Michelle Knight Did? (10/20/14) [6:17]
TYT | Citizen Pulls Over Cop, Demands ID & It's Amazing (10/20/14) [10:44]
*TYT | White Privilege Even Applies To Riots - The Proof Is In The Pumpkins (10/20/14) [9:45]
TYT | CNN Axes 150 Jobs & Several Shows In 'Painful Week' (10/20/14) [5:11]
TYT | Chuck Todd Asks A Question Even A Journalist Would Ask (10/20/14) [3:12]
TYT | Russell Brand Must Choose: Trump, Hannity Or Piers Morgan? His Answer Is Perfect (10/20/14) [2:54], Part 2 [1:59]
TYT | Study Proves 70% Of Art Sold Are Fakes (10/19/14) [6:50]
News Articles
Living The Grecovery Dream: Two Jobless Parents, Two Kids, One Cat All Living In A Car
This is an article of a Greek Family that is living in their car. But, it reminds us that it could be anyone of us if we suddenly have an life changing crisis. We all need help sometime in our life!
Squeezed between steering wheel, handbrake, door and dashboard, Katerina reads in her history book, takes notes for school. Next to her, on the driver's seat, cat Eddy stares right in the camera lens. It may look like a cute snapshot on a sunny day, if it wasn't for a sad detail: a withering spring stuck in a roll of toilet paper. A distinctive memory of a former normal life that turned into a grim reality for a family of four. ... Read more
The Conference Board forecasts that China's annual growth will slow to an average of 5.5% between 2015 and 2019, compared with last year's 7.7%. It will downshift further to an average of 3.9% between 2020 and 2025, according to the report.
Why Chinese Growth Forecasts Just Crashed To A Paltry 3.9% - And Are Going Even Lower - In One Chart
Up until a few years ago, conventional wisdom was that China would grow at nearly double digits as long as the eye could see. Then, however, something happened, and China's 9% growth became 8%, then 7% and even lower, as suddenly the Politburo made it quite clear China would not chase growth at any cost, especially when the cost is trillions in bad debt and other NPLs, as we have explained time and again. The collapse in Chinese growth expectations is shown best on the following formerly hockeysticking chart of IMF's revised Chinese growth projections which has completely collapsed in the past few years. ...
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E-WasteBAN | Exporting Harm: The High-Tech Trashing of Asia (2013) [23:03]
Dateline | E-Waste Hell (09/25/11) [17:44]
Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Monday, October 20 [13:04]
DN | "Women Are Being Driven Offline": Feminist Anita Sarkeesian Terrorized for Critique of Video Games (10/20/14) [20:01]
Bill MoyersBill Moyers | Pulitzer Prize-winning author Marilynne Robinson talks to Bill about what the title character of her new book Lila, says about the state of democracy in America. (10/17/14) [25:16]
Senator Elizabeth WarrenSen. Elizabeth Warren: Banking Hearing on Income Inequality (09/17/14) [10:09]
Sen. Elizabeth Warren: Sen. Warren asks Fed Chair Yellen about efforts to end TBTF (To Big To Fail) (07/15/14) [7:30]
California DroughtStunning Scenes From California's Central Valley Drought, New Yorker
*TRNN | Deepa Kumar: Culture of the National Security State, Part 5 (10/19/14) [16:54]
*TYT | Raising The Minimum Wage Would Save Billions (10/19/14) [6:43] *TYT | Military Selling Planes For Scrap Metal (10/19/14) [5:19]
TYT | Honest Politician Reveals The Worst Part Of The Job - 'We Hate It' (10/19/14) [4:06]
TYT | On Obama: Elizabeth Warren vs Howard Fineman (10/19/14) [10:23]
Chris HayesU.S. Army Col. Lawrence Wilkerson: FOX News and GOP Exploiting American's Fears (10/18/14) [7:27]
News Articles
Now Comes The "Specter Of Deflation": The Money Printers' Latest Scam
The Fed's public relations firm of Hilsenrath & Blackstone was out this morning with the official line on the market's tremors of recent days. It seems that $10 trillion in freshly minted digital money at the world's major central banks over the last eight years---that is, a tripling of their balance sheets to $16 trillion--- is not enough. Not only is 2% inflation still MIA, but it now threatening to enter the dark side: Behind the spate of market turmoil lurks a worry that top policy makers thought they had beaten back a few years ago: the specter of deflation. Never mind that there is nothing close to a sustained run of negative consumer price indices anywhere in the world. ... Read more
Sorry, California. Winter Isn't Going to Fix Your Drought.
California's crippling drought is not expected to improve over the winter, according to new forecast data released today by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Nearly 60 percent of the state is experiencing exceptional drought--the worst category--NOAA reported. The map above shows that the northern California coast could see some improvement. But in the Central Valley, a critical source of fruits, nuts, and vegetables for the whole country, conditions won't be getting better any time soon. A little rain is expected, NOAA forecaster Mike Halpert said in a statement, but not enough to reverse the trend. ...
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News at a Glance
Insiders Blame Rove for Covering Up Iraq's Real WMD
Starting in 2004, some members of the George W. Bush administration and Republican lawmakers began to find evidence of discarded chemical weapons in Iraq. But when the information was brought up with the White House, senior adviser Karl Rove told them to "let these sleeping dogs lie." ...
... According to Wurmser, "in 2005-6, Karl Rove and his team blocked public disclosure of these (findings) and said 'Let these sleeping dogs lie; we have lost that fight so better not to remind anyone of it.'" ... Read moreRate of Mass Shootings Has Tripled Since 2011, Harvard Research Shows
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Severe Solar Storm Damage Could Top $2 Trillion
According to a study by Lloyd's of London, an extreme geomagnetic storm in the near future is almost inevitable. Such a storm that could cause widespread power outages in the U.S. for one to two years might have an economic cost of more than $2 trillion.
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Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Friday, October 17 [9:10]
DN | In Tight Midterms Facing Low Turnout, Colorado's Senate Race Could Decide Who Controls Congress (10/17/14) [13:17]
Jon StewartJon Stewart | Florida's gubernatorial race heats up as Governor Rick Scott shows up late to a debate where Democratic candidate Charlie Crist is using a fan to strategically cool his balls. (10/16/14) [8:58]
*TRNN | Why are Stock Markets so Volatile? (10/17/14) [11:56]
Real serious depression pending as a result of austerity says Professor Michael Hudson, author of The Bubble and Beyond and Finance Capitalism and its Discontents.TRNN | Behind America's Store Fronts -- Drugs, Homelessness and Abandonment (10/17/14) [7:10]
In an original TRNN series, conservative residents of the working-class town of Westminster, Maryland, paint a political landscape different from that depicted in the mainstream media.TYT | Pressure Mounts To Ban Travel To Africa (10/16/14) [9:53]
TYT | Ebola Sanity Briefly Infects Fox News, Will It Spread? (10/16/14) [5:53]
TYT | Frontier Flight Crew Exposed To Ebola (10/16/14) [4:37]
TYT | Privileged White Guy Refuses Jon Stewart's Case For White Privilege (10/16/14) [7:30]
TYT | Small Fan Ruins Debate In 'Extremely Peculiar' Moment (10/16/14) [7:02]
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More NewsBill Nye the Science Guy's Take on GMO Foods (10/16/14) [7:57]
PBS | Separating legitimate Ebola concerns from unnecessary fear (10/17/14) [7:32]
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Chomsky: Business Elites Are Waging a Brutal Class War in America
Journalist Matt Taibbi has suggested that the government is afraid to prosecute powerful bankers, referring to "an arrestable class and an unarrestable class." What is your view on the current state of class war in the U.S.?
Well, there's always a class war going on. The United States, to an unusual extent, is a business-run society, more so than others. The business classes are very class-conscious--they're constantly fighting a bitter class war to improve their power and diminish opposition. Occasionally this is recognized. We don't use the term "working class" here because it's a taboo term. You're supposed to say "middle class," because it helps diminish the understanding that there's a class war going on. ... Read more
Prepare For Epic Volatility: E-mini Liquidity Is Nonexistant
If you thought the last several days were volatile in the market, you ain't seen nothing yet: judging by the early liquidity, or rather complete lack thereof, in the market moving E-Mini contract, the asset class through which as we disclosed a month ago central banks directly manipulate markets with the CME's blessing, then we urge all those who have stop losses close to the NBBO to quietly pull those as they will get hit adversely. The reason? As this Nanex chart of ES orderbook levels show, there is zero, zilch, nada liquidity in the ES (purple line, compare to orange yesterday). ...
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How Laissez-Faire Economics Led to Inequality and Recession
Remember in 2009 when everyone was dodging blame for the financial crisis? Depending on who you asked, it was the bankers, the federal regulators, Fannie Mae, fraudster mortgage companies, the ratings agencies and the sub-prime borrowers themselves. The favorite claim of excuse makers was that no single group was to blame -- it was a cluster-f*** as one journalist friend put it.
If everyone did it, no one could be held accountable. But it wasn't true. Bankers and regulators were the major creators of the crisis, for their neglect and single-minded self-aggrandizement that often involved bending the rules. ... Read more
Thirteen Factories
The Thirteen Factories was an area of Guangzhou (Canton), China, where the first foreign trade was allowed in the 18th century since the hai jin (??) ban on maritime activities. It is also referred to as the "Thirteen Hongs" or the "Canton Factories". The site where the factories stood is now Wenhua Park, and Thirteen Hong Street, onto which the factories backed is now named Shisanhang Road.
Factories were "foreigners quarters", or trading posts, outside the city walls in Guangzhou rather than a place in the contemporary sense where are manufactured goods. The name came from the foreign agent term of "factors", who maintained offices or factories. Chinese citizens often referred to the factories as "Barbarian Houses". ... Read more
Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Thursday, October 16 [9:54]
*DN | A U.S. Nurse Witnesses Ebola's Ravages in Sierra Leone, Where Horrific Conditions Claim Lives Daily (10/16/14) [16:22],
Part 2 [11:42]
DN | A Little Shout of Joy: Supreme Court Lets Abortion Clinics Reopen, Easing Crisis of Access in Texas (10/16/14) [4:54]
Jon Stewart - Daily NewsJon Stewart | Jon Stewart Tries To Make Bill O'Reilly Admit White Privilege Exists. And Fails. (10/16/14) [8:01] *Jon Stewart | Just Try Not to Say Something Stupid for 90 Minutes (10/16/14) [7:46]
*TRNN | Phyllis Bennis: U.S. Will Fail In Attempt to Create Proxy Army in Syria (10/16/14) [14:03]
*TRNN | Deepa Kumar: The Islamophobia of "Homeland", Part 4 (10/16/14) [21:22]
Dr. Kumar tells Paul Jay that Muslim characters on Homeland are either terrorists, sympathizers of terrorists, or "good Muslims" which means pro-US.
TRNN | Deepa Kumar: Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, Part 3 (10/15/14) [20:21]TRNN | researcher Tamara Lorincz: Emissions Reduction Impossible Without Demilitarizing Foreign Policy (10/16/14) [13:42]
TRNN | Deepa Kumar: Fighting the Demonization of Muslims, Part 2 (10/14/14) [15:26]
TRNN | Ms. Deepa Kumar: Islamophobia and a Challenge to Bill Maher, Part 1 (10/10/14) [20:57]
The Pentagon's new climate change policy does not address the military's contribution to climate change, says researcher Tamara Lorincz.*TYT | Allowed To Bring Guns To Speeches You Disagree With (10/15/14) [5:38]
TYT | Media Completely Failing America On Ebola In Shocking New Study (10/15/14) [4:36]
*TYT | C.I.A. A Disaster Factory For Decades Yet Here We Go Again (10/15/14) [5:59]
TYT | 2nd Ebola Case In United States Raises Grim Questions (10/15/14) [8:36]
News Articles
James Risen Challenges the Greed, Power, and Endless War of the National Security State
No single review or interview can do justice to "Pay Any Price" -- the new book by James Risen that is the antithesis of what routinely passes for journalism about the "war on terror." Instead of evasive tunnel vision, the book offers big-picture acuity: focusing on realities that are pervasive and vastly destructive.
Published this week, "Pay Any Price" throws down an urgent gauntlet. We should pick it up. After 13 years of militarized zealotry and fear-mongering in the name of fighting terrorism, the book -- subtitled "Greed, Power, and Endless War" -- zeros in on immense horrors being perpetrated in the name of national security.Here are a few quotes from the book:
Republican Right Embraces Its Long, Hypocritical Tradition of Pandering to Fear
They're back. Like the fourth sequel to a bad horror movie, the Republican Right has once again chosen to embrace its long ignoble, hypocritical tradition of pandering to -- and stoking -- fear.
As the election nears, their ads are filled with images of ISIL terrorists, Ebola viruses, Secret Service breaches, and "porous" borders through which knife-wielding Muslim extremists are surely infiltrating every corner of our society. It's not just disgusting. It's also hypocritical. The fact is that the Republicans have an abysmal record when it comes to defending the security of ordinary Americans.
But this is nothing new. Right-wing demagogues have perfected their techniques for appealing to our darkest fears for decades. It's embedded in their DNA. ... Read more
Another Ebola Case In Dallas
New York Times Reporter James Risen Finds 'Crazy Is The New Normal' In War On Terror
New York Times reporter James Risen was surprised Sunday when former National Security Agency chief Michael Hayden said he doesn't see a need for the government to prosecute Risen for refusing to reveal a source. "I'm glad to see he feels that way these days," Risen said in an interview Monday with The Huffington Post. "I'm not sure how long he's felt that way."
... Risen was one of a the few reporters to seriously scrutinize the Bush administration's case for war in Iraq, even as his own paper downplayed that skeptical coverage. The next year, Hayden and the Bush White House successfully pressured the Times not to publish Risen and colleague Eric Lichtblau's blockbuster report on the NSA's warrantless wiretapping program. The Pulitzer Prize-winning story finally appeared on the front page in late 2005, just weeks before Risen planned to reveal it in a chapter of his book, State of War. ... Read more
Your Thoughts on Tiny Houses
Last week, BillMoyers.com published a report on micro-houses (or, more popularly, "tiny houses"). These ultra-compact homes of 1,000 square feet or less are appealing to those who want to make their lives more sustainable, and, increasingly, are being looked at by some as a model for affordable housing.
Many in our audience had lived in a micro-house. "I lived in a 920-square-foot passive solar house and was very happy. My heating bill for the entire winter: $98," said Gordon Billingsley. And even though our BillMoyers.com piece looked at micro-homes for individuals, some of our audience said that they work for families, too. ... Read more
Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Wednesday, October 15 [12:34]
DN | As Second Dallas Nurse Diagnosed with Ebola, Are U.S. Hospitals Failing Healthcare Workers? (10/15/14) [14:59]
*DN | Infected Workers, Slow Deployment, No Vaccines: Ebola Response Shows Pitfalls of Privatized Health (10/15/14) [16:12]
DN | Mexico's Missing Students: Were 43 Attacked by Cartel-Linked Police Targeted for Their Activism? (10/15/14) [10:33]
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch -- a collection of debris in the North Pacific ocean -- is one of five major garbage patches drifting in the oceans.
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*TRNN | Sen. Bob Graham: Revealing the 9/11 Conspiracy Would Undo the Entire US-Saudi Alliance, Part 2 (10/14/14) [16:24]
*TRNN | Deepa Kumar: Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire (10/15/14) [20:21]
*TYT | Meet The Ultra-Rich Koch Donors Who Not-So-Secretly Run Things (10/14/14) [19:28]
TYT | Fox News Hides The Ugly, Honest Reason America Has No Surgeon General (10/14/14) [3:36]
TYT | Untouchable Rich Iranian Kids Flaunt Riches On Social Media (10/14/14) [5:53]
Islamic State of Iraq and the LevantWikipedia | author | current
The group originated as Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad in 1999. This group was the forerunner of Tanzim Qaidat al-Jihad fi Bilad al-Rafidayn--commonly known as al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI). It took part in the Iraqi insurgency against US-led forces and their Iraqi allies following the 2003 invasion of Iraq and joined other Sunni insurgent groups to form the Mujahideen Shura Council, which consolidated further into the Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) shortly afterwards. At its height, it enjoyed a significant presence in Al Anbar, Nineveh, Kirkuk, and other areas, but around 2008 its violent methods led to a backlash against it and temporary decline.
In April 2013, the group changed its name to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. It grew significantly under the leadership of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, gaining support in Iraq as a result of perceived economic and political discrimination against Iraqi Sunnis. ... Read more
News Articles
WHO: New Ebola Cases Could Be Up To 10,000 Per Week In 2 Months
The death rate in the Ebola outbreak has risen to 70 percent and there could be up to 10,000 new cases a week in two months, the World Health Organization warned Tuesday. WHO assistant director-general Dr. Bruce Aylward gave the grim figures during a news conference in Geneva. Previously, WHO had estimated the death rate at around 50 percent.
... For the last four weeks, there's been about 1,000 new cases per week -- including suspected, confirmed and probable cases, he said, adding that the U.N. health agency is aiming to get 70 percent of cases isolated within two months to reverse the outbreak. ... Read more
All That Is Broken With The US Financial System In One Chart
As the blue bar shows, total loans issued by the biggest US bank were $743 billion in Q3 2014: about $20 billion less than in the quarter Lehman blew up. Four years later, and the US commercial bank lending apparatus is still in a state of depression. Or so it would appear on the books.But why doesn't JPM lend out more: after all that is the main pathway to stimulate the economy as all pundits will tell us. Simple: it doesn't need to. As the red bars show, total consumer deposits held by the bank just rose once more, this time to a record $1,335 billion, up $15 billion in the quarter, pushing the deposit-over-loan difference to a new record $591 billion. This is happening exclusively due to the Fed, which when banks do not "create" money from loans (as they clearly don't), has to step in with QE and create money on its own. ... Read more
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Mortgage Application Pipeline At America's Largest Mortgage Lender Drops To Lowest Since Lehman
US housing picture is once again the worst it has ever been (excluding those days around the Lehman bankruptcy when all of finance died for a few weeks).
In short: the only people buying houses in the US now are foreigners laundering their illegal, tax-exempt profits (ever fewer) and those as close to the Fed's ZIRP as possible, and, of course, paying all cash. Everyone else: not so much.
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The Fed Is About To Pull The QE Plug... And This Happens
Moments ago, the Fed concluded its latest $931MM POMO, with just 6 more POMOs left ever (at least until another QE program is unveiled), and judging by the last week's performance, the market has finally figured this out. And Goldman, which has been pounding the table on shorting the 10 Year for about a year now, and in the process crucifying even more muppets, has some bad news for TSY shorts: global growth is crashing. ...
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Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Tuesday, October 14 [13:41]
*DN | James Risen Prepared to "Pay Any Price" to Report on War on Terror Amid Crackdown on Whistleblowers (10/14/14) [11:08],
Part 2 [4:39]
State of War by James Risen
John OliverWarren G Harding Love Letters (10/12/14) [3:11]
John Oliver: Pumpkins Spice (10/12/14) [3:11]
Jon Stewart - Daily Show*Jon Stewart | Former AIG Chairman and CEO Hank Greenberg sues the U.S. government, claiming that the terms of the company's $184 billion bailout were insufficient and unfair. (10/09/14) [9:58]
Jon Stewart | Jeremy Renner discusses the career of journalist Gary Webb, which served as the basis for his film "Kill the Messenger." (10/09/14) [5:15] *Jon Stewart | Former Secretary of Defense and CIA Director Leon Panetta discusses the need for Congress and President Barack Obama to work together to address the threat of ISIS. (10/08/14) [8:19], Part 2 [10:47]
*TRNN | Deepa Kumar: Fighting the Demonization of Muslims, Part 2 (10/14/14) [15:26]
TRNN | How Socialist China Became the Workshop of the World (10/13/14) [8:25]
TRNN | Privatization, Occupation, and the Israeli Economy (10/13/14) [13:29]
TYT | Republicans To Blame For No Ebola Vaccine? (10/14/14) [2:56] *TYT | Professor Reza Aslan On Sam Harris (10/14/14) [4:00], Part 2 [4:10]
TYT | How Budget Cuts Cost Us An Ebola Vaccine (10/14/14) [5:11]
TYT | New Texas Ebola Case, Is It Time To Panic? (10/14/14) [5:00]
Ring of FireRing of Fire | Ring of Fire (10/12/14) [57:00]
News Articles
Will The Fed Let The Stock Market Crash Before An Election?
... Let's set aside sentiment measures and technical analysis and ask a larger question: will the Fed let the stock market crash before an election? Once again we find two camps among participants. 1) One camp believes markets still obey the basic rules of technical analysis. The Fed and other central banks may intervene at the margins, but their interventions only work on low-volume days. When selling increases, it overwhelms the relatively modest size of central bank intervention and the market then crash. 2) The other camp holds that all markets are now engineered, and intervention can reach essentially unlimited levels if the Powers That Be deem that necessary.
For context, let's recall that the Fed conjured up $16 trillion to backstop global banks in the Global Financial Meltdown; (the Levy Institute came up with $29 trillion after poring over all the data). To put $16 trillion in context, note that entire gross domestic product (GDP) of the U.S. is about $17.3 trillion, and all residential mortgages in the U.S. total about $10 trillion. ...
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Where prior to 2008 the Fed and other central state players might have viewed $10 billion as a major intervention, what do you think whatever it takes is now? Do you really think $1 trillion would give those in charge pause? Since we're talking about propping up a $160+ trillion edifice ($80 trillion of assets in the U.S. alone), what's a trillion or two between pals?
Key Figures In CIA-Crack Cocaine Scandal Begin To Come Forward
... More than 18 years have passed since Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Gary Webb stunned the world with his "Dark Alliance" newspaper series investigating the connections between the CIA, a crack cocaine explosion in the predominantly African-American neighborhoods of South Los Angeles, and the Nicaraguan Contra fighters -- scandalous implications that outraged LA's black community, severely damaged the intelligence agency's reputation and launched a number of federal investigations. ...
... Now, Webb's bombshell expose is being explored anew in a documentary, "Freeway: Crack in the System," directed by Marc Levin, which tells the story of "Freeway" Rick Ross, who created a crack empire in LA during the 1980s and is a key figure in Webb's "Dark Alliance" narrative. The documentary is being released after the major motion picture "Kill The Messenger," which features Jeremy Renner in the role of Webb and hits theaters on Friday. ... Read more
Texas Health Worker Tests Positive For Ebola
Ebola Themed Halloween Costumes.Still working on this.
*TRNN | After revelations show that the Obama administration uses reporters' FOIA requests as a tip service, did the mainstream media create a monster that they can't tame? (10/13/14) [9:59]
TYT | Obama's Weakness Explained (10/12/14) [4:13]
TYT | ISIS Pushes Right Up To Turkish Border (10/12/14) [4:54]
TYT | DON'T Joke About Ebola When On A Plane (10/11/14) [4:30]
TYT | Is Sam Harris As Dangerous As Sarah Palin? (10/11/14) [19:41]
"Whether you think him a truth-teller or a bigot, Bill Maher deserves credit for launching one of the most robust public cultural/intellectual debates in recent memory. Two weeks ago today, he said on HBO that "a vast number of Muslims across the world" believe people who do not share their religious beliefs "deserve to die." He also suggested that the Islamic State, or ISIL, was not an abberation of Islam, but a reflection of it.TYT | Nobel Peace Prize Awarded To Malala Yousafzai And Kailash Satyarthi (10/11/14) [6:32]
Those remarks sparked a heated debate three days later on CNN, when hosts Don Lemon and Alisyn Camerota pressed the religious scholar Reza Aslan to defend Islam against the charge that it was inherently violent. Aslan argued that the CNN hosts were cherry-picking examples and making broad sweeping general claims about Islam that were false. "We are using two or three examples to justify a generalization," he said. "That's actually the definition of bigotry."
Four days later, Maher returned to his program with Sam Harris, the religious critic, and the two got into a shouting match with actor Ben Affleck and New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof over whether violence, intolerance, subjugation of women, etc. were inherent to Islam. Midway through the debate, Harris said "Islam at the moment is the motherlode of bad ideas." Maher concurred: "That's just a fact." Affleck, visibly repulsed and stupefied, only sighed: "Jesus Christ"
TYT | Meet Little Moe, The Ebola Killing Robot. (10/12/14) [2:02]
Still working on this.
News Articles
Key Figures In CIA-Crack Cocaine Scandal Begin To Come Forward
With the public in the U.S. and Latin America becoming increasingly skeptical of the war on drugs, key figures in a scandal that once rocked the Central Intelligence Agency are coming forward to tell their stories in a new documentary and in a series of interviews with The Huffington Post.
More than 18 years have passed since Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Gary Webb stunned the world with his "Dark Alliance" newspaper series investigating the connections between the CIA, a crack cocaine explosion in the predominantly African-American neighborhoods of South Los Angeles, and the Nicaraguan Contra fighters -- scandalous implications that outraged LA's black community, severely damaged the intelligence agency's reputation and launched a number of federal investigations.
It did not end well for Webb, however. Major media, led by The New York Times, Washington Post and Los Angeles Times, worked to discredit his story. Under intense pressure, Webb's top editor abandoned him. Webb was drummed out of journalism. One LA Times reporter recently apologized for his leading role in the assault on Webb, but it came too late. Webb died in 2004 from an apparent suicide. Obituaries referred to his investigation as "discredited."
Now, Webb's bombshell expose is being explored anew in a documentary, "Freeway: Crack in the System," directed by Marc Levin, which tells the story of "Freeway" Rick Ross, who created a crack empire in LA during the 1980s and is a key figure in Webb's "Dark Alliance" narrative. The documentary is being released a week after the major motion picture "Kill The Messenger," which features Jeremy Renner in the role of Webb and hits theaters on Friday. ... Read more
"Financial Markets Are Artificially Priced: What Do You Do?" - Bill Gross' First Janus Capital Letter
Financial markets are artificially priced.... We have had our Biblical seven years of fat. We must look forward, almost by mathematical necessity, to seven figurative years of leaner: Bonds -- 3% to 4% at best, stocks -- 5% to 6% on the outside. That may not be enough for your retirement or your kid's college education. It certainly isn't for many private and public pension funds that still have a fairy tale belief in an average 7% to 8% return for the next 10 to 20 years! ... Read more
Remember back when you held that median American nest-egg of $81,200? The average member of the Forbes 400 holds a fortune over 70,000 times that size.
America's Ridiculously Rich: the 2014 Edition
... And the richest of these 400 hold far more than that average. Take Larry Ellison, the third-ranking deep pocket on this year's Forbes list. Ellison just stepped down as the CEO of the Oracle business software colossus. His net worth: $50 billion.
What does Ellison do with all those billions? He collects homes and estates, for starters, with 15 or so scattered all around the world. Ellison likes yachts, too. He currently has two extremely big ones, each over half as long as a football field.
Ellison also likes to play basketball, even on his yachts. If a ball bounces over the railing, no problem. Ellison has a powerboat following his yacht, the Wall Street Journal noted this past spring, "to retrieve balls that go overboard."
Hiring that ball-retriever qualifies Ellison as a "job creator," right? Maybe not. Ellison has regularly destroyed jobs on his way to grand fortune. He has become, over the years, a master of the merge-and-purge two-step: First you snatch your rival's customers, then you fire its workers.
In 2005, for instance, Ellison shelled out $10.6 billion to buy out PeopleSoft, an 11,000-employee competitor. He then proceeded to put the ax to 5,000 jobs .
Five years later, Ellison bought out Sun Microsystems and indignantly denied that any "massive layoff" would be in the offing. Five months later, Ellison's Oracle quietly acknowledged a major downsizing in an official federal regulatory filing.
Job massacres like these have been hollowing out America's middle class ... Read more
Princess Juliana International Airport, St. Maarten
Maho Beach is located in St Maarten, and famous for the Princess Juliana International Airport adjacent to the it. Arriving aircraft must touch down as close as possible to the beginning of Runway 10 resulting in aircraft flying over the beach at minimal altitude.
Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Friday, October 10 [9:16]
*DN | Pakistani Education Activist Malala Yousafzai Becomes Youngest Winner of Nobel Peace Prize (10/10/14) [11:19]
DN | Ferguson October: Activists Call for Nationwide Convergence to Demand Justice for Michael Brown (10/10/14) [21:04]
*DN | Jeremy Scahill on Obama's Orwellian War in Iraq: We Created the Very Threat We Claim to be Fighting (repeat 10/03/14) [17:49] *TRNN | Ms. Deepa Kumar: Islamophobia and a Challenge to Bill Maher (10/10/14) [20:57]
TRNN | Baltimore Sun journalist Mark Puente discusses his investigation into police brutality cases that have cost the city $5.7 million (10/10/14) [14:30]
TYT | Fox News vs Harvard On ISIS Turns Into Embarrassing Ignorance Fest (10/09/14) [5:02]
TYT | Would Hosting Meet The Press Ruin Jon Stewart? (10/09/14) [6:46]
TYT | All Muslims Are Violent Radicals Like The Nazis, Insists Politician (10/09/14) [9:26]
*TYT | Immense Lie About ISIS Spreads Fear, Confusion & The Republican Message (10/09/14) [7:03]
TYT | Anti-Muslim Bias Goes WAY Beyond Bill Maher & Sam Harris (10/09/14) [12:25]
Ring of FireRing of Fire | The Death of Critical Thinking In America (10/09/14) [9:33]
Drugs | Betrailal | Gary WebbFreeway: Crack In The System Official Trailer - Marc Levin CIA Contra Documentary (trailer) (2014) [212]
Connections between Freeway Ricky Ross, the Bush Administration, and the crack cocaine epidemic () [26:31]
The drug kingpin Freeway Ricky Ross became known as The Wal-Mart of Crack in Los Angeles during the 1980s by becoming the largest supplier of drugs in the area, without his initially knowing that his source of drugs was a CIA agent connected to the Iran-Contra scandal associated with George Bush and Ronald Reagan.
This compilation of video clips from the documentary film The American Drug War: The Last White Hope details the circumstances of the connections between Ricky Ross and the CIA, showing how the connection was publicly exposed in the media and then largely forgotten by the public while CIA drug trafficking continues.
Freeway Ricky Ross interview: 'Bush, Reagan let drugs flow free to US from Nicaragua' (01/15/11) [11:07]Kill the Messenger Official Trailer #1 - Jeremy Renner Crime (trailer) (2014) [2:18]
Joe Rogan Podcast #262 - Freeway Rick Ross (09/07/12) [2:32:40]
*DN | "Kill the Messenger" Resurrects Gary Webb, Journalist Maligned for Exposing CIA Ties to Crack Trade (10/09/14) [5:24]
Terrorist | Collateral Damage | and IraqBookTV | Why Did the Iraq War Start? The Untold Story - Seymour Hersh (2005) [1:22:50]
Leading To War () [1:12:16]
LeadingToWar website
Untold History of United States by Oliver Stone - Bush & Obama: Age of Terror (2013) [58:39]
News Articles
Want To Score High On The SAT? Pick Rich Parents
While money (reportedly) can't buy love, it appears, according to The WSJ, that it can buy brains.On average, based on calculations from FairTest, students in 2014 in every income bracket outscored students in a lower bracket on every section of the test. Rather stunningly, students from the wealthiest families outscored those from the poorest by just shy of 400 points. As WSJ's Josh Zumbrun so poetically notes, perhaps SAT should more appropriately stand for Student Affluence Test. ...
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Are Tiny Houses a Viable Affordable Housing Solution?
Last month's well attended climate march in New York City showed that we are finally recognizing the harmful effects of our fossil-fuel driven economy on the planet. Some Americans looking to shrink their carbon footprint are doing so by shrinking their homes, opting to live in ultra-compact houses, often referred to as "tiny houses."
Increasingly, these small homes are also being considered as models for affordable housing that could serve as a place for the homeless to find some stability and, perhaps, live permanently. In such varied locations as Portland, Oregon, upstate New York, Austin, Texas and Madison, Wisconsin, local advocates for the homeless have constructed communities of tiny houses. ...
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Collage of Tiny and not so Tiny houses. Fun to watch to see what different people are accomplishing.Awesome Micro Houses on Wheels Tiny Homes (04/11/14) [8:30]
Key Democrats, Led By Hillary Clinton, Leave No Doubt That Endless War Is Official U.S. Doctrine
Long before Americans were introduced to the new 9/11 era super-villains called ISIS and Khorasan, senior Obama officials were openly and explicitly stating that America's "war on terror," already 12 years old, would last at least another decade. At first, they injected these decrees only anonymously; in late 2012, The Washington Post - disclosing the administration's secret creation of a "disposition matrix" to decide who should be killed, imprisoned without charges, or otherwise "disposed" of - reported these remarkable facts.
... In May, 2013, the Senate Armed Services Committee held a hearing on whether it should revise the 2001 Authorization to Use Military Force (AUMF). A committee member asked a senior Pentagon official, Assistant Secretary Michael Sheehan, how long the war on terror would last; his reply: "At least 10 to 20 years." At least. A Pentagon spokesperson confirmed afterward "that Sheehan meant the conflict is likely to last 10 to 20 more years from today -- atop the 12 years that the conflict has already lasted." As Spencer Ackerman put it: "Welcome to America's Thirty Years War," one which -- by the Obama administration's own reasoning -- has "no geographic limit." ... Read more
Airstrikes are big business for defense companies
Airstrikes against ISIS in Iraq and Syria have served as launching point for far more than missiles. Those military decisions cost the U.S. millions of dollars a day, and defense contractors pocket much of that money. (Video via U.S. Navy)
Bloomberg reports in mid-September just ahead of airstrikes in Syria, defense firms Lockheed Martin, Northrop, Raytheon and General Dynamics Corporation all set stock price records. ...
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Woman Explains Why She Will End Her Life on November 1
Brittany Maynard and her husband were on their honeymoon when she started to get severe headaches. By January 2014, she found out she had a type of brain cancer called glioblastoma multiforme and was told she had ten years to live. A few weeks later, however, doctors uncovered the cancer was at stage 4, and she would only have six months to live. ...
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Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Thursday, October 09 [8:31]
*DN | U.S. Faces "Massive Military Failure" as ISIS Advances on Syrian Border Town of Kobani (10/09/14) [11:26]
*DN | Iraqi Journalist Who Embedded with Shia Militias on Fighting ISIS & Why US Strategy is Bound to Fail (10/09/14) [14:28]
*DN | "Kill the Messenger" Resurrects Gary Webb, Journalist Maligned for Exposing CIA Ties to Crack Trade (10/09/14) [5:24]
Bill Moyers - http://billmoyers.com/*Bill Moyers | Restoring an America That Has Lost Its Way (10/09/14) [25:23]
Conservation International
Nature Is Speaking --*TRNN | Rob Johnson comments: Concentration of Wealth in China Keeps Wages Low (10/09/14) [12:13]
Julia Roberts is Mother Nature [1:58]
Harrison Ford is The Ocean [1:58]
Kevin Spacey is The Rainforest [1:58]
Pen�lope Cruz is Water [1:58]
Edward Norton is The Soil [1:58]
Robert Redford is The Redwood [1:58]
TRNN | Prof. Rashid Sumaila, Fisheries Centre, Univ. of B.C. says ocean temperatures occurring at a much faster rate than scientists had previously predicted (10/09/14) [14:24]
*TYT | This Holy Book Is Full Of Appalling Violence (10/09/14) [8:42]
TYT | Endless War Is Here To Stay - Thanks Obama! (10/09/14) [11:10]
TYT | Doomed Incumbent Senator Rallies His Lobbyist Base (10/09/14) [7:28]
Ring of Fire*Ring of Fire | The Corporate Death Grip on America (08/13/14) [3:15]
Ring of Fire (full) (10/05/14) [57:00]
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The HS@MC program is a challenging and stimulating collaborative program that enables students to obtain a quality high school education while concurrently receiving direct and invaluable access to college courses and services. We bring students from many different Ventura County and Los Angeles high schools to create a friendly, close-knit, dynamic learning community that strengthens the group as well as the individual. Students enter the classroom every day feeling valued and respected for their opinions, skills, and talents.
Students take English, social studies, and elective classes from our high school teachers, and complete their math, science, and additional graduation requirements with college faculty. High school classes are Monday through Thursday from 1:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m., with a half-hour nutrition break and Fridays from 9:00 a.m. to 12 noon. Students can take college courses mornings, evenings, Fridays, and Saturdays, and earn both high school and college credit for each class. This dual enrollment process allows many of our students to graduate high school with a year or more of college already completed.
HS@MC's four full-time teachers are creative, enthusiastic, and committed to providing a rigorous academic experience with a wide range of educational opportunities that challenge students, using critical thinking and learning community models that are aligned to state content standards as well as infusing career-based skills. Schoolwork focuses on group work, projects, and writing rather than multiple-choice tests. Student achievement is constantly monitored, reviewed, and communicated to students as well as parents through parent conferences and meetings, website access, and email.
Moorpark College also provides a full range of student services and developmental programs to meet the needs of HS@MC students, including foundational services such as admissions and records, articulation, counseling, health center, financial aid, Learning Center, Writing Center, and ACCESS for students with disabilities. The college also provides support through student activities and clubs, Women's Center, the music program, and student government.
Our students come from public and private schools throughout Ventura County and the surrounding area, as well as various independent study and homeschool programs. While the academic coursework is rigorous, the social atmosphere is friendly and inviting.
The High School @ Moorpark College features many of the social activities one would find in a comprehensive high school: a junior/senior prom, yearbook, graduation ceremony, and Senior Grad Nite at Disneyland. Not to mention quarterly kickball games!
After graduation, many of our students go directly to a four-year university, while others finish their general education requirements at Moorpark College before transferring.
HS@MC graduates have gone on to attend many prestigious colleges and universities, including UC Berkeley, NYU, USC, UCLA, George Washington University, University of Texas at Austin, University of Sussex (England), Cal Poly, UC Davis, UC Santa Barbara, University of San Francisco, UC Santa Cruz, Loyola Marymount University, University of Oregon, University of Colorado, University of North Dakota, and California Lutheran University.
"The High School @ Moorpark College, a collaborative partnership with the Ventura Community College District, Moorpark College, Moorpark Unified School District, as well as the community, is committed to providing a safe, nurturing, and innovative educational experience through interdisciplinary learning communities and high academic standards that produce responsible citizens, effective communicators, and creative problem solvers that have a passion for learning, and who are capable of achieving their full potential with the skills to successfully compete in an ever-changing global environment."
Expected School Wide Learning Results
The ESLRS have been developed collaboratively with input from parents, students, our high school faculty and staff, as well as input from Moorpark College faculty and Moorpark Unified School District administration.
The High School @ Moorpark College students will demonstrate:
The High School @ Moorpark College is one of only thirteen middle colleges in California. Founded with a grant received from the California Community College Chancellor's Office in February 2000, this high school is a partnership between Moorpark College and Moorpark Unified School District, with an advisory council made up of school administrators from other school districts, including Conejo, Simi Valley, Oak Park, and Las Virgenes.
HS@MC is partially supported by grants from the California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office and the United States Department of Education Tech Prep Demonstration Program (TPDP). Non-grant fiscal support is provided by the Moorpark Unified School District, who continues to provide the majority of funding.
We look forward to educating students at the High School @ Moorpark College. Please do not hesitate to call (805) 378-1444 if you have any questions.


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