Another week flew by. The Olympics started and Brazil (Brasil) pays a heavy price. Here they are in the midst of a coup by an oligarchy that can't even cheat their way to the presidency, so they just out right steal it. Public servants doing without pay to prop up the extensive costs of the games including security that abuses them. Then there's Turkey and Russia are joining forces after the coup, as we escalate attacks in Libya. Meanwhile we focus on the circus of an election, and it seems to be T-rump bashing week.

The Democratic Convention is over, but here's a couple of speeches that only were posted this week. From the People's Convention (which Steven D helped organize)

Nina Turner speaks at the people's revolution (27 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KslcARD1P0w

Jill's speech at the people's revolution (35 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ux4GmPqB3iI

Green Party and the Convention

Some people suggest that Jill won at the DNC
https://off-guardian.org/2016/07/31/independents-and-jill-stein-won-the-...

What is the Green Party? (3 min) from RT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lTFN1E2vV0

A couple of 1 min Jill Stein ads
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7mpnkgYrX8&feature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvSkuxhfnoM

Jill's booster club channel – clips from many interviews
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNPXLOZRCORjQiQl_sELbpw/videos

Jill suggest stopping wars for oil (5 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hd6gLKkaBD4

Jill selects her VP before the Green Convention. Analysis by the TYT (10 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCA3I2nln2M

YahNe Ndgo talks to Green Party members at reception in Houston (15 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEALbQyO_Dw

The Green Party Convention was this weekend
http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/08/04/beyond-clinton-vs-trump-gree...

From the Green Party Convention, Cheri Honkala the 2012 US Vice Presidential Nominee likens voters' allegiance the two party system to an abusive relationship (6 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqFxJg4pe0s

The Green Convention (Assange appears about 2.5 hours into the clip) 3 hours total
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ud5cys5kves

TYT and the Assange address (5 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rO_gy5YTN8Y

The afternoon of the green convention with major speeches (another 3 hours)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHAId_jaYQw

More from the election circus
Democrats leave Philly divided
http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/38281-focus-democrats-eme...
This interview on Democracy Now illustrates the divide. Kshama Sawant vs. Rebecca Traister on Clinton and DNC (20 min) part 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-yZbjZ_VOo
(10 min) part 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7itD4JvHi1U

Col. Lawrence Wilkerson and Paul Jay discuss Hillary Clinton's militarist track record and Donald Trump's bellicose rhetoric (27 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEzACPZqMyY

The Polls have turned against T-rump
http://caucus99percent.com/content/polls-have-turned-against-trump-big-way

The need for order in a disorderd world - the idea that explains Trump, Putin, Brexit . . . and everything else. "Liberal democracy and international law have not lived up to their promise. Instead of creating stability, they have produced inequality and chaos."
http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/attytood/The-idea-that-explains-Trump...

Foreign corporations are influencing the election. Now, direct evidence has emerged for the first time showing a foreign company has indeed donated money to a federal campaign (10 min) with Lee Fang https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShdS4exow7Y

Lee Fang, co-wrote the multi-part series "Foreign Influence." The article in full
https://theintercept.com/2016/08/03/gop-lawyer-chinese-owned-company-us-...

The leaks are coming! More leaks are coming!
Wikileaks continues to shake things up. Three more DNC honchos step down. TYT (9 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldGapj3dBuk

Julian Assange says there is no evidence to suggest that the DNC was hacked by the Russian government. Assange claims the next leak will lead to the arrest of Hillary Clinton.(3 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nB9u9dSQVkc

E-mails belonging to Hillary Clinton expose the involvement in shipping weapons to terrorists in the Islamic State, or ISIS. Assange said last week that Clinton played a key role in funneling weaponry from Libya to terror groups in Syria. And the mainstream media don't care! (6 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0dmEOwWxGU

No matter what the evidence is from wikileaks, Clinton will not be indicted (6 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=562dcc20-0000-2df3-b15c-94eb...

The NSA has all of Hellery's deleted emails (10 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0ojVlDTfhw

The new leaks evidently will focus on the Clinton Foundation. Here's some background -
Clinton Foundation could bring down the government
http://www.infowars.com/fbi-source-clinton-foundation-can-bring-down-ent...

More detailed Foundation information
http://www.thompsontimeline.com/category/clinton-foundation/

Charles Ortel on the foundation
http://usawatchdog.com/clinton-foundation-is-robin-hood-in-reverse-charl...

TPP
is finally getting some mention in the media.

Everything you need to know about the Trans-Pacific Partnership. The good and the bad. Hasan Piker of Pop Crunch breaks down the TPP. TYT (6 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vY5FHxEcSTM&spfreload=10

Jimmy Dore looks at Obama and the TPP. Barack Obama is aggressively pushing the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) which will increase economic inequality on a massive scale. (11 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0e3SZIPbI4

Lee Camp is talking about the TPP. You know, the Trans-Pacific Partnership: The massive 12-nation international trade deal that comprises nearly 40% of the world's commerce and is a huge giveaway to corporate interests at the expense of workers and environment. (10 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYi2SW8bgH8

Natural-Writes suggest we just say no to the TPP
http://caucus99percent.com/content/just-say-no-tpp

Around the world

Corbyn struggles to lead the Labour party. London-based economist John Weeks says the current struggle in the Labour party will continue. (13 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbvdjpDA1vU

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/aug/04/jeremy-corbyn-10-point-v...

Turkey

Coup fails because the people don't support the military (3 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ab56xcLyrwo

President Erdogan once again slammed the US for harboring Gulen, who lives in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania, and demanded his extradition (5 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Txd31xdODMc

John Helmer, Russian-based Anglo-American journalist says that Russia feels threatened by US, NATO, Turkey, and the turbulence at its borders. (20 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgCekC8VqiI

Putin explains the provocation of the US (12 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqD8lIdIMRo

Political economist Aleksandr Buzgalin says that Turkey’s relative independence from NATO is of interest to the Russian elite (10 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoJaEy45L3c

Vijay Prashad explains how the Turkish pivot towards Russia is propelled by the failure of relationship building with Europe and the war with Syria (15.5 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RY9dwYbaMc

More US Bombing in Libya -
The US military has begun bombing targets around the Libyan city of Sirte, which is controlled by militias associated with Islamic State. The Pentagon says this was the first strike of a new campaign that currently has "no endpoint." (5 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmZmdc6KIIo

Vijay Prashad said the Libyan Government of National Accord has been under pressure to invite the US bombing campaign because western governments won’t grant access to $67 billion in sovereign funds until the Islamic State is defeated (10.5 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7e7-mBEogk

Is ISIL a creation of the US, Turkey, and Saudi? Big Al references a book which suggests that.
http://caucus99percent.com/content/scumbag-trump-clinton-founded-isis

Latin America

Brazil

Can you keep up with the leaders of Brazil? Here's a guide from Glen Greenwald
https://theintercept.com/2016/08/05/the-intercepts-olympics-guide-for-id...
and more at ek's essay here -
http://caucus99percent.com/content/junkyard-cesspool-wars-2016-day-1

The Federal Courts of the state of Amazonas blocked R$ 38 million (US$ 11.5 million) of Facebook's accounts in Brazil as the company did not comply with a previous order - the courts had ordered the company to disclose information on its users and messages exchanged on WhatsApp that would be used in investigations. However, the order was not followed by the company.
http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/internacional/en/business/2016/07/1796283-b...

More than 10,000 athletes across the world have convened in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, first South American city ever to host the Olympics. Brazil is battling an economic recession, a massive Zika outbreak and the recent ouster of its democratically elected president, Dilma Rousseff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Y_m4ugjv_w part 1 (11 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-S3_zwTBek part 2 (14 min)

Brazilian riot police used tear gas and pepper spray against hundreds of protesters who were marching along the Olympic torch relay route in Duque de Caxias, north of Rio de Janeiro, Wednesday. (2.5 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zI0q5UDP47g

Alex Cuadros, author of Brazillionaires: Wealth, Power, Decadence, and Hope in an American Country, says the PT, under the leadership of Lula and Rousseff, has failed to disrupt corporate influence over politics (11 min) part 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iVyH7bjfLI

Dave Zirin the author of Brazil's Dance with the Devil: The World Cup, the Olympics, and the Fight for Democracy says, it's the perfect opportunity for the anti-democratic forces in Brazil to market themselves as if they are the saviors of the country (13 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLnpaE2nHdE

Venezuela
Venezuela's National Electoral Council (CNE) has announced its approval of the first step in an opposition campaign to recall President Nicolas Maduro. It said the opposition had succeeded in gathering 1% of voter signatures in all 24 of Venezuela's states.
http://www.latinamericanpost.com/article/venezuelan-campaign-for-maduro-...

Colombia
The more than 2,000 Cuban migrants who have congregated in the northwestern Colombian border town of Turbo near the Panamanian border and who want to continue their journeys to the United States, will be deported to their home country or to the country they came from to illegally enter Colombia, President Juan Manuel Santos said on Monday.
http://www.latinamericanpost.com/article/colombia-to-deport-cubans-gathe...

Cuba
New oil deposits discovered in northern Cuba
http://www.latinamericanpost.com/article/new-oil-deposits-discovered-in-...

Peru
Peru's new President, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, wants to reopen the Tia Maria copper mine, which was closed due to strong environmental protests.
http://www.latinamericanpost.com/article/kuczynski-eager-to-spur-mining-...

Honduras
The Honduran government has shrunk the state telephone, energy and water companies, and as many as 20,000 people have lost their jobs. The state has launched an assault on unions and workers (2 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDs5dPZp6D4

Ecuador
Abby Martin sits down with the President of Ecuador to find out how he feels about devastating damage that oil giant Chevron caused in the Amazon rainforest. The president also talks about how tax havens are affecting developing economies and, how giving the environment legal rights is important. (21 min) English subtitles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfPBy6oIgA0

ASIA

Taiwan
Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen’s formal apology to the island’s indigenous people has sparked debate on the island.
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asiapacific/taiwan-president-s/30109...

China
Chinese Defense Minister Chang Wanquan has warned of maritime security threats and called for increased preparations for what he termed a “people’s war at sea” as Beijing seeks to “safeguard sovereignty” after last month’s international tribunal ruling rejected its historic claims to much of the South China Sea.
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/08/03/asia-pacific/china-must-prep...

Here's an interesting idea which is evidently less expensive than elevated trains. Chinese engineers have made every city-dweller’s dream come true, building an elevated bus that can drive above car traffic. (1.5 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNrY3gPDEP0

AUSTRALIA
Australia criticized over asylum seeker 'abuse'
http://www.chinapost.com.tw/asia/australia/2016/08/04/474341/Australia-c...

In other news

Puzzling power plant purchase in NY near riverlover seems to be a shell game.
http://www.ithacajournal.com/story/news/local/2016/07/29/new-cayuga-plan...

Black lives Matter has concrete ideas
https://theintercept.com/2016/08/03/black-lives-matter-answers-the-quest...

Janae Bonsu & Montague Simmons say their demands for black power, freedom and justice go beyond reform and require transformative change (12 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLqsFHVWeCI

The Boston Police Department has unveiled an $89,000 ice cream truck as the newest addition to its patrol fleet. It will be used as part of "Operation Hoodsie Cup," a community policing initiative that has distributed roughly 120,000 free ice cream cups since 2010.
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/3195cf995e1d4e0899b2dd793f5dfd0b/boston-p...

Judge: “The world has enough terrorists. We do not need the police to create more out of marginalized people.”
https://theintercept.com/2016/08/03/court-throws-out-terrorism-convictio...

How An Albuquerque DA Took On Her Own Police Department And Lost Everything. This is a long, very well written story of what happened to a DA who charged police officers for the gratuitous murder of a homeless mentally ill man, detailing the dirty, often extremely personal response of the police until . . . the cops not only got away with the murder but also forced out a well regarded DA for daring to hold them to account for it. Well worth reading for insight into the costs and futility of doing the right thing in a hopelessly corrupted system.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/albertsamaha/how-an-albuquerque-da-took-on-her-...

Ever had a deputy sheriff track you down to hand deliver a summons to appear before the board of elections to prove that you actually reside at the residence listed on your voter registration - or lose your right to vote? That's what happened recently to (only) Black voters in Sparta, Ga. This story details a variety of Black voter suppression methods now being used in Southern and other states since the Supreme Court ruled in 2013 that "the conditions that originally justified [federal preclearance under the 1965 Voter Rights Act to changes in voter registration and voting procedures] no longer characterize voting in the covered jurisdictions."
http://nytimes.com/2016/08/01/us/critics-see-efforts-to-purge-minorities...

Climate change

The Real News to make a documentary to expose the Koch brothers’ war on the environment and their plan to influence the 2016 elections - and we need your help. (5 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cIEp_JiMPA

The wild climate this summer (4 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRrcyNosad0

How the melt rate is being researched this summer (5 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJJoRJ3sSBI

Methane release in the arctic tundra (30 sec)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HxB01a2Vtc

Arctic ice 2016 (3.5 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVwlQ4WkBkg

NASA scientist on 2016 temperature (4 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMeSx-En8hc

Understanding climate change channel is home to many great videos and college lectures.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo-r5Q-5TWB43oLI8eZ6euA

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