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Gun Deaths VS. Ownership By Country

Analysis of data showing gun ownership statistics directly compared to gun deaths figures for 13 countries around the world: The United States of America, England, Switzerland, France, Canada, Zimbabwe, India, Netherlands, Japan, Brazil, Australia, Mexico and South Africa. Join the conversation on Facebook www.facebook.com Add TDC to your circles on Google+ plus.google.com Follow The Daily [...]

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Salmond: Scotland vs. Ireland’s Independence Movement

First Minister of Scotland Alex Salmond discusses the differences in Ireland’s and Scotland’s strategies for attaining independence from the United Kingdom. Salmond asserts that Scotland has never shed a drop of blood in their bid for freedom, and he believes the nation is poised for independence. Complete video available for purchase at fora.tv

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The Nation’s Chris Hayes: Why Our Elites and Leaders Fail

MSNBC Host and Editor-at-Large of The Nation Chris Hayes argues that the decline of meritocracy in US leadership is resulting in elites that cannot help but fail. “We have a social model that is breaking down before our eyes,” says Hayes, “a method of elite selection that is growing increasingly sclerotic, rigged, and corrupt.” Complete [...]

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‘US votes counted in dollars of 1%, not in voices of 99%’

Read full script – on.rt.com The concept of “American exceptionalism,” which traditionally places the US ahead of the rest of the industrialized world, should be dramatically reconsidered as the health and wellbeing of US citizens are sacrificed in the name of profit. This is according to Dr. Howard Steven Friedman, a leading UN health economist [...]

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The Green Revolution and the Growth of African Agriculture

October 6, 2011 – Director of Agricultural Development for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Prabhu Pingali, discusses the future of the “Green Revolution.” Following this presentation Professor Philip Pardey from the University of Minnesota discusses the current and future agricultural landscape in Africa. Stanford University: www.stanford.edu Stanford University Channel on YouTube: www.youtube.com

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Climate Change and the Agricultural Adaption

December 8, 2011 – Environmental Earth System Science Assistant Professor and FSE Center Fellow, David Lobell, gives a lecture about the future of climate change and how the agricultural landscape will have to adapt to these changes. Stanford University: www.stanford.edu Stanford University Channel on YouTube: www.youtube.com

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Stop the Euro: ‘Single currency tearing Europe apart’

RT’s Oksana Boyko interviews economist and author Wilhelm Hankel RT LIVE rt.com Subscribe to RT! www.youtube.com Like us on Facebook www.facebook.com Follow us on Twitter twitter.com Follow us on Google+ plus.google.com RT (Russia Today) is a global news network broadcasting from Moscow and Washington studios. RT is the first news channel to break the 500 [...]

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John Yoo’s Argument Against ‘Global Governance’

John Yoo, Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, discusses the influence of globalization on nation states. Yoo argues that the complexity of globalization is laying the foundation for “global governance”, a paradigm that threatens state sovereignty. Complete video available for purchase at fora.tv

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NGOs on steroids: ‘Foreign agents’ to front up in Russia

Campaign groups funded from abroad will face tougher scrutiny in Russia. Russia’s parliament has given the green light to a bill forcing such organizations to register as ‘foreign agents’. RT’s Egor Piskunov is outside the State Duma. RT LIVE rt.com Subscribe to RT! www.youtube.com Like us on Facebook www.facebook.com Follow us on Twitter twitter.com Follow [...]

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The Security of the Nation-State Is Anything But

Complete video available for free at fora.tv CUNY Distinguished Professor of Political Science Uday Mehta makes the case that the fears of mass, violent uprisings in the twentieth century never materialized; instead, it was the State, charged with protecting its citizens, that perpetrated violence against society.

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Activists report another massacre in Syria

Al Jazeera correspondents Kristen Saloomey and Rula Amin report from the United Nations and Beirut on the newest allegations of a massacre in the village of al-Qubayr, and what it might mean for Kofi Annan’s six-point peace plan. UN observers trying to access the site where at least 80 people were reportedly killed have been [...]

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Minority Births Now Majority In America

The United States has reached a historic tipping point, with children born to Latino, Asian, African American and mixed-race parents now constituting a majority of all births, the Census Bureau reported Thursday. Read the full story here: articles.latimes.com Add TDC to your circles on Google+ plus.google.com Join the conversation on Facebook www.facebook.com Follow The Daily [...]

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