“We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold.” This is the opening line from the highly acclaimed roman à clef Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream written by Hunter S. Thompson, one of America’s most…
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Understanding the National Debt and Budget Deficit
Good morning Hank, it’s Tuesday. So, one of the biggest issues in global politics these days is government debt and deficits, which is a particularly big deal in the United States because of the Presidential campaign and also because of the looming fiscal cliff. And Hank, as you’ll no doubt remember, I received a bronze…
#WashWeekPBS full episode: Recapping the September Democratic debate
ANNOUNCER: This is Washington Week. Once again, from Washington, moderator Robert Costa. ROBERT COSTA: What a week. Thursday’s Democratic debate kicked off the post-summer political season, with former Vice President Joe Biden staking out centrist ground with his plan to add a public option to current healthcare law. But many of his challengers made a…
Giant Leaps of Innovation in the Digital Revolution from Ada to Zuckerberg
(audience clapping) – You’re waving me in. – Evening everybody and thank you so much for being here. When we imagined and when we decided that the best way to commemorate Purdue’s 150th would be to try to build a continuous stream of brilliant and talented and knowledgeable people who would bring fresh ideas, the…
Prostitutes of God (Documentary)
[MUSIC PLAYING] SARAH HARRIS: The first thing that strikes you when you come to India is a sense of extreme contrasts. While some people are still shitting off the side of railway lines and eating from banana leaves, other people are drinking Frappuccinos and wearing Gucci sunglasses. Along with this feeling of progress and moving…
What it’s like to be targeted by a troll army
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Rebel Rabbis: Anti-Zionist Jews Against Israel
a fight is not to advance a fight is to wake up people and to make them think you believe strongly as they deserve will come to an end we have got on homicide when Stamford Hill a Jewish neighborhood in North London we’re here to meet the UK branch of the controversial ultra-orthodox Jews…
VILE HYPOCRISY EXPOSED by reporter doing his job.
So the next time Human Rights Watch comes out with a report that’s critical of Israel for its treatment of the Palestinians, I’ll assume that you’re going to be saying the same thing, correct? That you think that the report is credible, it’s based on eyewitness accounts? Uh, as — And you’re not going to…
Carpe Donktum Gets Doxxed By ANTIFA Supporting Journalists
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