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Is the US government doing enough to stop the spread of Islamic extremism?

As Vanguard correspondent Christof Putzel reports in tonight's premiere of “American Jihadi,” jihadist recruiting doesn't seem to be waning. What should the US being doing to further slow the spread of extremism? http://current.com/shows/vanguard/92509284_american-jihadi-vanguard-trailer.htm added by: afitzgerald

Obama To Earn Nearly $85 Million From Gulf Oil Disaster

Upon Obama’s taking office he staffed his administration with what is called a “Wall Street Cabinet”, including former employees of Goldman Sachs who Rolling Stone Magazine in their devastating article “The Great Bubble Machine” on this banking behemoth warned, “From tech stocks to high gas prices, Goldman Sachs has engineered every major market manipulation since the Great Depression — and they're about to do it again.” And when Rolling Stone Magazine warned that Goldman Sachs was about “to do it again” they probably didn’t even know how apocalyptic this banking giant’s machinations towards the United States really are, and as evident by the BP disaster in the Gulf when just three weeks prior to the Deepwater Horizon explosion they sold nearly half their shares of BP stocks saving for their investors billions of dollars of potential losses. Goldman Sachs wasn’t alone either in its astute “foreknowledge” of the collapse of BP’s stock value due to the Gulf disaster as BP’s own chief executive, Tony Hayward, sold about one-third of his shares weeks before this catastrophe began unfolding too. But according to this FSB report the largest seller of BP stock in the weeks before this disaster occurred was the American investment company known as Vanguard who through two of their financial arms (Vanguard Windsor II Investor and Vanguard Windsor Investor) unloaded over 1.5 million shares of BP stock saving their investors hundreds of millions of dollars, chief among them President Obama. For though little known by the American people, their President Obama holds all of his wealth in just two Vanguard funds, Vanguard 500 Index Fund where he has 3 accounts and the Vanguard FTSE Social Index Fund where he holds another 3 accounts, all six of which the FSB estimates will earn Obama nearly $8.5 million a year and which over 10 years will equal the staggering sum of $85 million. The FSB further estimates in this report that through Obama’s 3 accounts in the Vanguard 500 Index Fund he stands to make another $100 million over the next 10 years as their largest stock holding is in the energy giant Exxon Mobil they believe will eventually acquire BP and all of their assets for what will be essentially a “rock bottom” price and which very predictably BP has hired Goldman Sachs to advise them on. Important to note is that none of this wealth Obama, Goldman Sachs, and other American elites is acquiring would be possible without this disaster, all of whom, as the evidence shows, “somehow” knew what was going to happen before it actually did, including the US energy giant Halliburton who 2 weeks prior to this disaster just happened to purchase the World’s largest oil disaster service company Boots & Coots. Unfortunately for the American people watching as these elites destroy their country is that they are being told none of the truth, especially about Obama, who while becoming enormously wealthy off the hardship, misery and toil of his citizens has become the only US President in history to begin jailing every government whistleblower he can find, has won the right to jail anybody he wants without charges and hold them forever, and most incredibly has claimed the right to assassinate any American citizen he deems a threat. The great American Founding Father, and the United States first President, George Washington once said, “Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.” The American people to their great shame didn’t heed these words, now they are paying for it. http://beforeitsnews.com/story/79/527/Obama_To_Earn_Nearly_85_Million_From_Gulf_… added by: TomTucker

What can we do to help the developing world get clean water and eradicate conditions like those seen in last night’s Vanguard episode, "World’s Toilet Crisis"?

What can we do to help the developing world get clean water and eradicate conditions like those seen in last night's Vanguard episode, “World's Toilet Crisis”? http://current.com/shows/vanguard/92481864_inside-vanguards-worlds-toilet-crisis… added by: joshuaheller

What do you think is the biggest public health crisis facing the planet?

What do you think is the biggest public health crisis facing the planet? For inspiration, check out this sneak peek at Adam Yamaguchi's Vanguard episode, “World's Toilet Crisis,” airing on Current TV Wednesday, June 9 at 10/9c. http://current.com/shows/vanguard/92471289_how-to-solve-the-worlds-toilet-crisis… added by: joshuaheller

The Oxycontin Express

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The Oxycontin Express

Welcome to Our New Season

Executive Producer Adam Yamaguchi invites you to check out this new season of Vanguard, starting with tonight’s “Missionaries of Hate.”

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Welcome to Our New Season

Tensions Rise on Korean Peninsula

Threats and accusations increase from both North and South. Will war be inevitable?

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Tensions Rise on Korean Peninsula

Mariana van Zeller

The Vanguard correspondent talks about becoming a reporter and what it’s like working side by side with her husband, producer Darren Foster.

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Mariana van Zeller

Laura Ling, Euna Lee and the New Season of Vanguard

Last year, the Vanguard team was shaken when two of our colleagues and friends, Laura Ling and Euna Lee, were held against their will in North Korea for over four months. On May 19, their story will finally be told. The Vanguard team has continued to chase important stories, and in the new season we'll take you across the globe, investigating issues and telling stories in ways that no one else is telling them. We'll have exclusive sneak peeks online in the coming weeks. Then tune in to Current TV on Wednesday, May 19 for “Captive in North Korea.” Read the press release about our new season: http://current.com/s/news.htm Watch a sneak peek in which correspondent Mariana van Zeller investigates the rising influence of American evangelical groups on anti-gay laws and attitudes in Uganda: http://current.com/1h3ig4c added by: Adam_Yamaguchi

Russian Judge Who Convicted Neo-Nazis is Murdered

Yesterday, a Russian judge who had tried high-profile racist murder cases was shot dead in the stairwell of his home. Eduard Chuvashov had sentenced a group of ultra-nationalists, mostly teenage skinheads, to up to 23 years in jail for the murders of migrant workers from Central Asia. Chuvashov had faced threats on several radical websites, and authorities believe his killing is most likely related to the work he did. Three years ago, I went to Russia looking for the source of viral videos I had seen on the Internet showing neo-Nazi skinheads kicking and beating people in the streets with no apparent provocation. In the Vanguard documentary “From Russia With Hate,” I reported the attacks were coming almost daily in Russian cities. I was in Moscow on Hitler's birthday, April 20, and found foreign students confined to their dorms because nationalist fervor surrounding the anniversary was so high it wasn't safe for dark-skinned people to go outside. I filmed ultra nationalist politicians preaching hatred to crowds of disenfranchised youth in Moscow, and I interviewed a member of parliament who openly espoused using violence to terrify immigrants from former Soviet territories in the Caucuses and Central Asia. I also visited a secret, military-style training camp, where we watched neo-Nazis crawl through fire learning to become guerilla fighters. It was there I met the creator of many of the Internet attack videos, who proudly showed me his “propaganda films” of youth gangs setting upon and bashing nonwhites to terrorize the ethnic immigrant community. Not long after my visit, one of the leaders I interviewed was arrested and jailed, and I wondered if the Putin government was finally cracking down on the ultra-nationalists. Far from it. added by: Christof