While I was working as commercial electrician installing energy efficiency lighting in a middle school renovation project, I began a discussion with my co-worker. We talked about how time consuming it was to install energy efficient devices, and if it were to catch on, how it would not only create job security for current electricians, but that it would also bring in thousands more jobs in ours and other skilled trades.
Hillary Clinton's former campaign manager joins Chris Hayes to talk about the FBI's investigation into connections between the Trump campaign and Russia. Duration: 6:34
Rep. Brooks: AHCA vote is test of who's a real conservative
All In with Chris Hayes 3/21/17
GOP Rep. Mo Brooks of Alabama says he sees the vote on the Republican health care bill as a test of who in the House is a real conservative. Duration: 7:34
Rachel Maddow looks at the role of Russian bot networks and cyber war tactics during the 2016 U.S. election and notes that those things didn't just go away after the election. Duration: 20:44
FBI probing Russian influence via pro-Trump US websites
The Rachel Maddow Show 3/21/17
Greg Gordon, national correspondent for McClatchy News, talks with Rachel Maddow about McClatchy investigative reporting in the FBI looking into the role of pro-Trump U.S. news sites in Russian intrusion in the U.S. Duration: 6:55
Dahlia Lithwick, senior editor and legal correspondent for Slate, talks with Rachel Maddow about the damage to the integrity of the Supreme Court by Republicans not allowing President Obama to name a justice to replace Antonin Scalia. Duration: 10:23
Donald Trump's first big piece of legislation is in danger because Congressional Republicans aren’t afraid of him. Lawrence O'Donnell breaks down the fallout with Ken Vogel and Peter Wehner. Duration: 11:16
Donald Trump's SCOTUS pick plays the Senate confirmation game
The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell 3/21/17
Lawrence O'Donnell explains the Supreme Court confirmation game and why the founding fathers would not have understood what was happening if they had attended the questioning of Neil Gorsuch today. Duration: 12:05
Trump pushes health care bill, but does he have the votes?
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams 3/21/17
MSNBC's Brian Williams looks at the President's effort to rally Republicans behind his increasingly unpopular health care plan ahead of a Thursday vote. Kristen Welker, Bianna Golodryga, and Charlie Sykes discuss. Duration: 10:17
White House tries to distance Trump from Russia investigation
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams 3/21/17
MSNBC's Brian Williams looks at the latest questions facing the Trump White House over wiretapping and Russia with Bianna Golodryga, Jeremy Bash, and Charlie Sykes. Duration: 8:29
Dem Sen. Hirono worries Neil Gorsuch will protect big business
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams 3/21/17
MSNBC's Brian Williams talks to Hawaii Democratic Sen. Mazie Hirono about the concerns she still has ahead of the Senate Judiciary's vote on Pres. Trump's Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch. Duration: 4:39
Rare color film of White House & Pres. Hoover discovered
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams 3/21/17
MSNBC's Brian Williams shares the discovery of what may very well be the earliest color film ever taken of the White House from the Hoover administration. Duration: 0:52
Trevor lists the headlines he has no time to cover, including Neil Gorsuch's Supreme Court nomination hearing, Tomi Lahren's suspension and Ivanka Trump's new White House gig.
Sean Spicer holds an impromptu press briefing with Seth and the Late Night press corps to answer burning questions, like how hard is it to get President Trump's hair ready in the morning?
[originally aired March 21, 2017 (U.S. central time)]
Wednesday, March 22nd 2017[, with Roger Stone hosting the fourth hour]: N.Korea Accelerating 'First Strike' Nuke Program - On today's broadcast we'll cover North Korea's decision to accelerate the development of a "first strike" nuclear program. Also, Judicial Watch founder Larry Klayman will join the show to discuss the possibility of Obama being behind the Trump leaks. We look into the shooting outside the British Parliament building and the ongoing battle to replace Obamacare.
Steve Curtis, former Colorado GOP chairman who said last year that only Democrats commit voter fraud, has now been charged with voter fraud. Duration: 2:25
Rep Schiff: Trump Russia case now 'more than circumstantial'
The Rachel Maddow Show 3/22/17
Rachel Maddow reports on developments in the investigation into coordination between the Donald Trump campaign in Russia, from a new report on Paul Manafort acting in Russia's interest to a new characterization of the evidence by ranking House Intelligence Committee member Rep. Adam Schiff. Duration: 21:21
Nunes muddies Trump probe with abrupt claim of new evidence
The Rachel Maddow Show 3/22/17
Rachel Maddow explains a confusing pair of press conferences by House Intelligence Committee Chair Devin Nunes, in which Nunes asserted some new evidence in the investigation into whether the Donald Trump campaign coordinated with Russia in the 2016 election. Duration: 6:22
Charlie Savage, national security reporter for The New York Times, talks with Rachel Maddow about how the investigation into collaboration between the Donald Trump campaign and Russia has made many Americans newly aware of how the U.S. gathers intelligence. Duration: 7:20
Russian paid Manafort millions to help Putin influence US: AP
The Rachel Maddow Show 3/22/17
Jeff Horowitz, reporter for the Associated Press, talks with Rachel Maddow about the AP's scoop that Paul Manafort, before he was Donald Trump's campaign manager, was paid millions by a Russian oligarch to serve the interests of Vladimir Putin in the U.S. Duration: 3:58
House Intel Chair Devin Nunes broke tradition and precedent by delivering news to the president that some Trump transition messages were collected by U.S. intel. Democrats and Republicans called Nunes’ actions partisan and damaging. Lawrence speaks with Intel Cmte member Rep. Eric Swalwell. Duration: 14:17
Our panel of experts weighs in on how House Intel Chair Rep. Devin Nunes got the information he revealed. Lawrence talks to former NSA General Counsel Rajesh De, former House Intel. Staffer Mieke Eoyang, and New York Times reporter Matthew Rosenberg. Duration: 9:17
Schiff: More than circumstantial evidence on Trump-Russia link
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams 3/22/17
After GOP Intel. Chair Devin Nunes bypassed his committee taking info on intelligence reports to Pres. Trump, the top Democrat on the committee breaks news about evidence of Trump-Russia ties. Duration: 8:24
Dem Senator: Why was Trump team talking to surveillance targets?
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams 3/22/17
MSNBC's Brian Williams talks to Senate Intelligence Committee member Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-NM) about House GOP Intel. Chair Nunes sharing information with Pres. Trump. Duration: 4:55
White House's last ditch effort to get votes for health care bill
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams 3/22/17
MSNBC's Brian Williams talks to Eugene Robinson, Ashley Parker, and Eli Stokols about the looming vote on the Republicans' health care plan which doesn't appear to have the votes to pass. Duration: 5:07
TrumpCare's New 'Three-Bucket Strategy'... Buckets Full Of What?
Published on Mar 23, 2017 by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Stephen talks about TrumpCare's new rebranding attempt, the weirdest character in 'Beauty and the Beast,' and tunes in once more to 'Real News Tonight.'
Trump's Russia and Wiretapping Scandals Overshadow Supreme Court: A Closer Look
Published on Mar 22, 2017 by Late Night with Seth Meyers
Seth takes a closer look at the FBI's investigation into Russia's interference in the presidential election and Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch's confirmation hearing.
Full Show - Islamic Terror Strikes London & Obamacare Vote - 03/23/2017
Published on Mar 23, 2017 by The Alex Jones Channel
Thursday, March 23rd 2017[, with Jon Rappoport hosting the fourth hour]: ISIS claims responsibility for a London terror attack Wednesday which claimed the lives of four people, including one American. We'll continue looking at the healthcare showdown in Washington with the final vote on the repeal of Obamacare set to take place. Technology researcher Nick Begich joins the show to break down revelations in Wikileaks' Vault 7 CIA document trove. Dr. Steve Pieczenik also covers the deep state's attempted coup against President Trump.
Chris Hayes, Joy Reid, and McKay Coppins respond to reporting that President Trump is done negotiating with the hard right on health care reform. Duration: 7:26
Massive, nationwide protest changed course of GOP anti-ACA plan
The Rachel Maddow Show 3/23/17
Rachel Maddow looks at how massive, nationwide protest and resistance attached human stories to the consequences of repealing Obamacare and made the Republican legislative plan much more difficult. Duration: 12:50
Sanders: Donald Trump lied about protecting working people
The Rachel Maddow Show 3/23/17
Senator Bernie Sanders talks with Rachel Maddow about how the dismantling of the Affordable Care Act and other Donald Trump Republican agenda items will hurt working class Americans. Duration: 9:12
Rachel Maddow reports on the assassination of a critic of Vladimir Putin, the latest in a long chain of such attacks, and also reports on the latest developments in the Russian scandal in the U.S. Duration: 15:30
Video of Murder of Putin’s Critic Voronenkov. [Warning: Explicit Content
Published on Mar 24, 2017 by NewsFromUkraine [ http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtj7qT-lvSoAFSAV78sTvtw , http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtj7qT-lvSoAFSAV78sTvtw/videos ] Ex-Russian MP Denis Voronenkov, who fled to Ukraine in October 2016 and started to testify against Putin’s regime, was murdered in the center of Kyiv on 23 March 2017. In the first video [this one], Voronenkov with his bodyguard are going to Kyiv’s Premier Palace hotel (entrance is around the corner) to meet with another fled Russian deputy Ilya Ponomarev (the only deputy in Russian parliament who voted against the annexation of Crimea). Second video ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqUXqyzsEyw ) shows the scene right after shooting. The body in red shoes is the killer. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGNXv_C_bkE [with comments]
Bill Browder, author of "Red Notice," talks with Rachel Maddow about the condition of Nikolai Gorokhov, lawyer for Russian whistle-blower Sergei Magnitsky, who fell from a fourth floor window, and the dangers for being an opponent of Vladimir Putin. Duration: 5:29
Intel member Eric Swalwell tells Lawrence O'Donnell he and the other Democratic committee members gave Devin Nunes an ultimatum: either provide them with the same information Nunes gave Ryan and Trump, or they will have to re-evaluate where the investigation goes. Duration: 15:29
Reports from inside the Trump White House say, before Friday's final vote, President Trump was already blaming Speaker Paul Ryan for the chaos surrounding the repeal and replace plan of Obamacare. Lawrence O'Donnell discusses with Josh Barro and Steve Brill. Duration: 5:40
Richard Painter, who worked in George W. Bush's White House Counsel Office, throws out the "T" word. He tells Lawrence O'Donnell that any American who helped the Russians influence the 2016 elections committed treason. Duration: 3:45
Republican Party fractured over looming health care vote
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams 3/23/17
MSNBC's Brian Williams gets the latest from Capitol Hill and talks to two GOP lawmakers, Rep. Chris Collins & Rep. Leonard Lance, one voting yes and one voting no on the GOP bill. Duration: 12:08
Will Trump ask Paul Ryan to resign if health care vote fails?
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams 3/23/17
MSNBC'S Brian Williams shares a breaking New York Times report that Trump is upset with Ryan over health care and Sean Spicer being asked if Ryan should resign if the vote fails. Duration: 7:51
Intel. Cmte. Dem on reports of new evidence on Trump-Russia ties
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams 3/23/17
Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT) of the House Intelligence Committee reacts to the news from the committee's top Democrat that there is new evidence of possible collusion between Team Trump & Russia. Duration: 6:43
Defiant Trump defends blatant falsehoods in new interview
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams 3/23/17
MSNBC's Brian Williams talks to TIME Magazine Washington Bureau Chief Michael Scherer about his shocking interview with Pres. Trump where Trump didn't back down from past false statements. Duration: 6:42
Republicans Can't Get Their S**t Together on Health Care: The Daily Show
Published on Mar 23, 2017 by The Daily Show with Trevor Noah
After years of trying to repeal Obamacare, House Republicans are forced to delay the vote on their own health care legislation thanks to lack of support within the party.
Full Show - Benghazi Hero Warns Democrats Against Martial Law Plan - 03/24/2017
Published on Mar 24, 2017 by The Alex Jones Channel
Friday, March 24th 2017[, with an appearance by Larry Klayman]: NSA to Provide 'Smoking Gun' Proof Obama Spied on Trump - NSA whistleblower William Binney reveals just how Obama surveilled incoming President Trump and how it's part of a greater operation against you and your family. Also, former Army Ranger and hero of the Benghazi attack, Kris Paronto, discusses what's going on in DC and how the power structure is moving against Trump. And we analyze the current healthcare bill and how Congress is pushing ahead with a vote.
Pres. Trump addressed the decision to pull GOP health care bill: "Let's let Obamacare go for awhile."
Published on Mar 24, 2017 by CBS News
Following the decision by House GOP leaders to pull their health care bill, President Trump blamed Democrats for the bill's failure, but said the outcome was "perhaps the best thing that could happen."
Documentary filmmaker Michael Moore argues that in the wake of the failure of the GOP's plan to repeal and replace Obamacare, Democrats should start fighting for single payer health care. Duration: 10:01
Former White House photographer throws lots of shade at Trump
All In with Chris Hayes 3/24/17
Pete Souza, official White House photographer during the Obama years, has been digging through his archives and posting some serious digs at the new administration. Duration: 1:36
Rachel Maddow reviews the latest developments in the litany of investigations into the Donald Trump campaign while Trump's political agenda continues to fail. Duration: 22:47
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer talks with Rachel Maddow about the failure by Donald Trump and Republicans to dismantle the Affordable Care Act, and the power of the grassroots effort to thwart Trump. Duration: 7:12
Schumer: Wrong to vote on Gorsuch while Trump under investigation
The Rachel Maddow Show 3/24/17
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer talks with Rachel Maddow about why Senate Democrats should oppose Neil Gorsuch for the Supreme Court, and why the confirmation should be postponed until investigations of Donald Trump are resolved. Duration: 3:47
Schumer urges Ryan to consider replacing Nunes as Intel chair
The Rachel Maddow Show 3/24/17
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer talks with Rachel Maddow about the investigations into the Donald Trump campaign's possible collaboration with Russia and whether Rep. Nunes can chair an objective investigation as House Intelligence Committee chairman. Duration: 2:22
Lawrence: Trump presidency effectively over after repeal failure
The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell 3/24/17
Donald Trump's strong-arm ultimatum did not persuade House Republicans as Paul Ryan admits "Obamacare is the law of the land." Ezra Klein, Editor-in-Chief of Vox.com, and The Daily Beast's Rick Wilson join Lawrence O'Donnell. Duration: 15:48
House Intel Dem: Canceled hearing 'real blow to investigation'
The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell 3/24/17
House Intel member Jim Himes hits Committee Chairman Devin Nunes for canceling a public hearing that would further investigate the Trump team's possible ties to Russia. He says Nunes' move is motivated by partisan politics. Rep. Himes joins Lawrence O'Donnell. Duration: 4:57
In a colossal defeat, Trump-Ryan health care bill collapses
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams 3/24/17
The top two Republicans in Washington, Pres. Trump and Speaker Ryan, suffered an embarrassing defeat as the GOP health care bill fell apart. How did it happen? MSNBC's Brian Williams breaks it down. Duration: 16:05
Candidate Trump pledged to end Obamacare 'immediately'
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams 3/24/17
Speaking after the GOP health care bill fell apart, Pres. Trump said he never pledged to repeal and replace Obamacare early in his administration. But that's just not true. Our panel reacts. Duration: 5:35
Trump in February: 'Nobody knew' health care was so complicated
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams 3/24/17
After today's health care defeat, MSNBC's Brian Williams looks at the President's comments last month when he expressed surprise at how difficult health care reform really is. Duration: 1:59
House Intel Chair Nunes cancels public hearing next week
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams 3/24/17
As the investigation into Pres. Trump and Russia continues, there's been blowback after Rep. Nunes canceled a public hearing next week. MSNBC's Brian Williams talks to Jeremy Bash. Duration: 5:22
Bill Maher Gets No Smiles From Tyranny Expert: “I’m Not Going To Laugh At Any Of That”
March 24, 2017 Bill Maher couldn’t get so much as a chuckle out of his history professor guest tonight when the subject turned to dictators. Timothy Snyder [ http://deadline.com/tag/timothy-snyder/ ], author of On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons From The 20th Century [ https://www.amazon.com/Tyranny-Twenty-Lessons-Twentieth-Century/dp/0804190119 (currently "#1 Best Seller in Books")] sat stonefaced as Maher read off a list of things about Donald Trump [ http://deadline.com/tag/donald-trump/ ] that remind him of Third World dictators. “Yeah, right, so I’m not going to laugh at any of that,” Snyder said on HBO’s Real Time With Bill Maher, “because in your world it’s Third World dictators, but in my world…it’s the 1930s.” To be fair, Maher’s roster didn’t seem intended so much as a comedy bit (that came in New Rules, watch below) but rather as a fun-poking checklist of Trump habits – putting names on buildings, hiring family members, holding rallies, hating the press, blaming minorities – but when he asked when Snyder when we can expect Trump to don military regalia, the Yale professor didn’t bite. “Picking out a group of your neighbors and citizens and associating them with a worldwide threat, that’s the 1930s,” Snyder said. “And what we have to remember about the 1930s, we think of Hitler and Stalin as supervillains but they’re not – they could only come to power with some form of consent.” Snyder then turned to the audience, with Maher’s encouragement, to warn of what maybe comes next. “When a terrorist attack comes, you will not necessarily know who did it. What you can know is that certain kinds of leaders will use that to suspend your rights. During your fear and your grief you have to mobilize and protest for your own rights because the Reichstag fire is the oldest trick in the Hitlerian book. You cannot let that trick be played.” [...] http://deadline.com/2017/03/real-time-with-bill-maher-hbo-timothy-snyder-donald-trump-1202051337/ [with (separate) embedded video (the New Rule next below), and comments], http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZVE4jQCrfY [the only YouTube of the segment currently evident (no official upload, at least not yet); with comments]
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New Rule: Trump and the Long Con | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)
Published on Mar 24, 2017 by Real Time with Bill Maher
In his editorial New Rule, Bill Maher explores the similarities between President Trump and a snake oil salesman.
This week, new reporting came out saying Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, may have had a much closer relationship with Russia than originally discovered. The AM Joy panel[, including Malcolm Nance,] discusses why this could continue to be a problem for Donald Trump. Duration: 15:22
This [December 5, 2016] event talks about the historical realities of political ideology, and discuss the ramifications of the 2016 election. Professor Snyder is one of the leading experts on Eastern European history, and recently published a new book, Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning, winner of the MacMillan Center’s Gustav Ranis International Book Prize. Professor Snyder will discuss the recent presidential election and the state of European and American political history.
Sponsored by the Yale Political Union and the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies.
Snyder is the award-winning author of Bloodlands and Black Earth, and his extensive study of the Holocaust has made him one of the foremost experts on authoritarian movements. In this brief and urgent [March 5, 2017 ( http://www.politics-prose.com/event/book/timothy-snyder-tyranny-twenty-lessons-twentieth-century )] call-to-action, Snyder, the Housum Professor of history at Yale, identifies striking parallels between the political landscape of pre-war Europe and today’s United States. History’s lessons are many, however, and while democracies can fail, they can also resist and grow stronger. From the examples of the twentieth century, Snyder has distilled twenty essential points that should guide the current struggle. They are as simple as “do not obey in advance” and “beware the one-party state,” and as inspiring as “contribute to good causes” and “learn from peers in other countries.”
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Conservative news crack-up? Things just got real for some partisan personalities These should be high times for conservative news outlets, what with like-minded officials and operatives in control of virtually every important office in Washington. And yet the news about conservative news organs lately has been a parade of dysfunction, a messy portrait in pixels. Specifically: - The Independent Journal Review (IJR), a politics-and-policy news site geared toward conservative millennials, retracted a story last week that suggested that a federal judge in Honolulu had ruled against President Donald Trump's latest immigration ban shortly after former president Barack Obama made "a surprise visit" to the city. The site acknowledged that the innuendo-laden story was wrong and suspended three staff members responsible for it. - Incendiary writer and speaker Milo Yiannopoulos resigned from the alt-right news site Breitbart last month after videos of him speaking favorably about child sexual abuse surfaced. - Rising conservative star Tomi Lahren was suspended this week from the Blaze, her online home, after she told ABC's "The View" that she supports abortion rights, an apparently heretical statement in the judgment of Blaze founder Glenn Beck. - Fox News Channel suspended analyst Andrew Napolitano indefinitely this week after he repeatedly said Obama had recruited British spies to bug Trump Tower during the 2016 presidential campaign. British officials had protested Napolitano's statements, calling them "ridiculous." [...] http://www.mystatesman.com/news/gen-politics/conservative-news-crack-things-just-got-real-for-some-partisan-personalities/A08P2itRYpnJOfT9QNqpvJ/ original https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/a-conservative-news-crack-up-things-just-got-real-for-some-partisan-personalities/2017/03/23/87641024-0f42-11e7-9d5a-a83e627dc120_story.html
Trump aide Boris Epshteyn leaving White House, officials say "We are exploring opportunities within the administration," a senior administration official said Epshteyn, who was a campaign surrogate for Trump, declined to comment http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/25/politics/epshteyn-leaving-white-house/
This WHITE Teen Admitted She Made Up Claims She Was Abducted And Raped By "Three Black Males" - Denison, Texas Local police called the hoax “offensive to the African-American community.” The false accusations were also used by white nationalists to push their agenda online. https://www.buzzfeed.com/tanyachen/teen-claims-she-was-raped-by-three-black-males-hoax
Mnuchin: Losing human jobs to AI "not even on our radar screen" Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin joined Axios' Mike Allen this morning at the debut of his News Shapers event series to talk about his new role in the Trump Administration. On AI supplanting human jobs: "it's not even on our radar screen.... 50-100 more years" away. "I'm not worried at all" about robots displacing humans in the near future, he said, adding: "In fact I'm optimistic." Other big ticket items: [...] https://www.axios.com/treasury-secretary-mnuchin-interviews-with-axios-live-updates-2327865447.html
German scientists switch on the 'world's largest artificial sun' in an attempt to create climate-friendly fuel The giant honeycomb-like structure uses 149 large cinema spotlights to focus energy onto a small panel This 20-by-20 centimetre (8x8 inch) spot will reach temperatures of of up to 3,000°C (5,432°F). The team can use this energy to create clean hydrogen fuel by splitting water into its constituent parts The experiment uses as much electricity in four hours as a four-person household would in a year http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4341598/Scientists-switch-artificial-sun-German-lab.html
This WHITE Teen Admitted She Made Up Claims She Was Abducted And Raped By "Three Black Males" - Denison, Texas Local police called the hoax “offensive to the African-American community.” The false accusations were also used by white nationalists to push their agenda online. https://www.buzzfeed.com/tanyachen/teen-claims-she-was-raped-by-three-black-males-hoax
The Secret To Happiness Revealed - included in 12-28-16 Alex Jones Show Paul Joseph Watson talks about the death of Carrie Fisher and how now many people are completely unhappy no matter what the accomplish. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Y-f8VLzMdM
https://www.youtube.com/user/DarkMatter2525/videos - recent not posted yet, chrono as uploaded If Muhammad Replaced Trump (. . .) Jul 24, 2016 If the ideals of Islamism came out of Trump's mouth, how would the Left & Right react? If any Muslims do respond to this cartoon, I have a couple predictions: 1. Some will respond by saying that the verses are out of context (standard response), but notice that none of these verses are actually justified by their context, and 2. Some other verse will be presented that contradicts one of the verses I used, which proves nothing other than the fact that the Islamic texts in question are contradictory. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D1sW7tu6-s You Can't Escape - Episode 8 of "Power Corrupts" ( https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLv--V1yc2QDJi6hFNhur3iAsyFpXRtB8w - further to http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=123593680 ) Aug 28, 2016 You might be able to escape religion, but you can't escape what caused it in the first place. All you can do is try to be cognizant of it, and try your best to keep it in check. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dspHj0Cj2-g Always Cry Wolf Sep 28, 2016 Human beings often unite during tragedies, foregoing our petty differences. Imagine if we didn't require the tragedy. While "crying wolf" is considered bad, the title of this video refers to what happened at Yellowstone, and in that light, the title's meaning is "always strive for balance". During my 40 years of life, I have learned that attaining balance is the greatest solver of problems. Be neither excessive nor neglectful. I believe that is a good rule for the macro as well, for society, and for our planet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVsVgAqV9WI Don't Expect A Terrible Hereafter Oct 25, 2016 I was challenged to make a meaningful animation without speech. Thanks to my friend, known as C0ct0pusPrime here on YouTube, for challenging me to do this a while back. I had a lot of ideas, but this one stuck with me the most. Life is filled with dark irony. The very thing you want the most, might actually end up being the thing you'd least want. If you're not mindful, you might find out too late. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_jijoIUi2A King Solomon Nov 28, 2016 Marriage should be between 1 man and 1000 women. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Zjjg7mmDN4 If Hitler Never Existed (. . .) Dec 21, 2016 This is basically a MUCH better version of "It's a Wonderful Life". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5TtDZlHqao The Horror of Your Desires Dec 29, 2016 If you somehow obtained ultimate power, the things you’d choose to do would show us far more clearly who you really are than you could possibly show us with your current limitations. You could choose to bend people to your will, even if only through threats and intimidation, or maybe you could enjoy life with us, help us, and teach us. The bible authors created a character in Yahweh who abuses his limitless power with wanton abandon, reeking of a crude tool of manipulation - not a loving, caring teacher. He is the ultimate bad guy, sold to us as the ultimate good guy - a monumental travesty of history. It certainly is a good thing that Yahweh is a fictional invention of ancient writers. My next animations will be about the life and times of King David, as found in 1st and 2nd Samuel (and a bit of 1st Kings). This animation was Episode 9 of my Power Corrupts series. Here’s a link to the full playlist of the Power Corrupts series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pA5PlJiqOnk&list=PLv--V1yc2QDJi6hFNhur3iAsyFpXRtB8w - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLv--V1yc2QDJi6hFNhur3iAsyFpXRtB8w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqJBD5SosZI King David Jan 22, 2017 This is the beginning of King David’s story from the Bible, the books of Samuel. I’d like to animate the rest of the books of Samuel, but that would take an enormous amount of work, and not only would your support via Patreon be greatly appreciated, but would also attach your name to the project (DarkMatter Army or above). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdtV9kbs_fo David, Goliath, and the 200 Cyclops Sleeves Feb 20, 2017 The Sunday School version of David and Goliath usually ends after David slings his rock, and for good reason; the rest isn’t quite wholesome family entertainment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZPhXoDI3F0 If Muhammad Became the President (. . .) Mar 17, 2017 If you dislike Trump, then you should probably dislike Muhammad 100x more. Oddly, it seems some people are confused on this issue. That confusion comes from the best of intentions, I'm sure, but it is ultimately self-defeating, and allows for tolerance of the intolerable. Please check the paragraph at the end of this video for elaboration. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yJqWCBq6GI
With proposal to penalize men for masturbating, legislator aims to shake up health debate State Rep. Jessica Farrar, a Houston Democrat, has filed House Bill 4260, which would fine men $100 for masturbating. https://www.texastribune.org/2017/03/12/rep-farrar-bill/
Author of masturbation fine bill says GOP lawmakers bent on retaliation AUSTIN — In another battle on the culture war front in the Texas House, a Democratic lawmaker said GOP legislators on Tuesday targeted her to show their displeasure with her attempt to satirize Republican efforts to curb abortion. "This was, as I was told, a way to put a woman in her place," said Rep. Jessica Farrar, D-Houston, calling the move an example of "misogyny" in the Republican male-dominated House. Last week, she filed a bill that poked fun at Republican-led laws that have reduced access to women's reproductive health care in Texas by proposing that men abide by some of the same restrictions that are imposed on women seeking abortions. Many GOP House lawmakers on Tuesday voted against an unrelated bill by Farrar having to do with attorneys' fees, an action she said was retribution for her satirical proposal. The attorneys' fee bill narrowly passed, 75-70. [...] http://www.dallasnews.com/news/texas-legislature/2017/03/14/author-masturbation-fine-bill-says-gop-lawmakers-bent-retaliation
AND WHOLE SAMANTHA BEE SERIES RE CATHOLIC HOSPITALS DENYING WOMEN PROPER CARE (below)
Kazuo Ishiguro: 'We’re coming close to the point where we can create people who are superior to others' - tie in particular to http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=126997323 Social changes unleashed by new technologies could undermine core human values unless we engage with science, warns author Imagine a two-tiered society with elite citizens, genetically engineered to be smarter, healthier and to live longer, and an underclass of biologically run-of-the-mill humans. It sounds like the plot of a dystopian novel, but the world could be sleepwalking towards this scenario, according to one of Britain’s most celebrated writers. Kazuo Ishiguro argues that the social changes unleashed by gene editing technologies, such as Crispr, could undermine core human values. “We’re going into a territory where a lot of the ways in which we have organised our societies will suddenly look a bit redundant,” he said. “In liberal democracies, we have this idea that human beings are basically equal in some very fundamental way. We’re coming close to the point where we can, objectively in some sense, create people who are superior to others.” [...] https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/dec/02/kazuo-ishiguro-were-coming-close-to-the-point-where-we-can-create-people-who-are-superior-to-others
Teenager's sickle cell reversed with world-first therapy - gene therapy A French teenager's sickle cell disease has been reversed using a pioneering treatment to change his DNA. The world-first procedure at Necker Children's Hospital in Paris offers hope to millions of people with the blood disorder. Scientists altered the genetic instructions in his bone marrow so it made healthy red blood cells. So far, the therapy has worked for 15 months and the child is no longer on any medication. [...] http://www.bbc.com/news/health-39142971 study Gene Therapy in a Patient with Sickle Cell Disease http://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMoa1609677
Have Scientists Discovered the Earliest Fossilized Evidence of Life? A new paper makes the bold claim that structures in rocks approaching the age of Earth itself come from ancient bacteria, but this conclusion is highly controversial. http://www.snopes.com/2017/03/03/earliest-fossilized-evidence-of-life/
Breaking Faith The culture war over religious morality has faded; in its place is something much worse. Why did religiously unaffiliated Republicans embrace Trump’s bleak view of America? - SAME IMPULSE/THING For years, political commentators dreamed that the culture war over religious morality that began in the 1960s and ’70s would fade. It has. And the more secular, more ferociously national and racial culture war that has followed is worse. - NO - SAME THING - CHRISTIAN VS MUSLIM https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/04/breaking-faith/517785/
The Age of Stupid - full documentary (Official) - further in particular to http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=126997323 Hello. This is the official, full-length (89 min) version of our 2009 movie, The Age of Stupid. This film was made completely independently (we arguably invented crowd-funding to fund it) over five long years. We're a tiny independent film company always struggling to make ends meet, so if you watch for free here, please make a donation - http://spannerfilms.net/donate - and also sign up to our email list: http://www.spannerfilms.net/mailing_list . Thanks v much and enjoy the film, Franny & Lizzie from Spanner Films - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The Age of Stupid stars Oscar-nominated Pete Postlethwaite (In The Name of the Father, The Usual Suspects, Brassed Off) as a man living in the devastated future world of 2055, looking back at old footage from our time and asking: why didn’t we stop climate change when we had the chance? Launched at a Guinness World Recording-winning solar-powered premiere in London's Leicester Square, the film was released in cinemas worldwide, topped the UK box office (by screen average), became one of the most talked-about films of 2009 and garnered sensational reviews: The Telegraph called it "Bold, supremely provocative and hugely important", the News of the World described it as "A deeply inconvenient kick up the backside", ABC Australia said "So tightly constructed and dynamic you leave the cinema energised rather than terrified... hits home like a hammer blow" and the LA Times said "Think 'An Inconvenient Truth', but with a personality". Multi-award-winning documentary director Franny Armstrong (McLibel, Drowned Out) and Oscar-winning producer John Battsek (One Day In September, Restrepo) pioneered the now ubiquitous "crowd-funding" model to finance the film, and then spent four years following seven real people's stories to be interweaved with Pete Postlethwaite's fictional character: an Indian entrepreneur struggling to start a new low-cost airline, a Shell employee in New Orleans who rescued more than 100 people during Hurricane Katrina, an 82-year-old French mountain guide watching his beloved glaciers melt, two Iraqi refugee children searching for their elder brother, a young woman living in desperate poverty in Nigeria's richest oil area and a windfarm developer in Britain battling the NIMBYs who don't want his turbines to spoil their view. The Age of Stupid led to the formation of the 10:10 carbon reduction campaign which now operates in 45 countris (www.1010global.org). Recognising the film's unique contribution to independent filmmaking, the Huffington Post said that it "represents the future of film, film culture and film distribution and marketing". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=va_MVxpboqg [since gone dark - find another if possible] [though it clearly is dated]
A sobering look at what Betsy DeVos did to education in Michigan — and what she might do as secretary of education The people who best know the education advocacy work of Betsy DeVos, the billionaire tapped by President-elect Donald Trump to be his education secretary, are in Michigan, where she has been involved in reform for decades. DeVos is a former Republican Party chairwoman in Michigan and chair of the pro-school-choice advocacy group American Federation for Children, and she has been a shining light to members of the movement to privatize public education by working to create programs and pass laws that require the use of public funds to pay for private school tuition in the form of vouchers and similar programs. She has also been a force behind the spread of charter schools in Michigan, most of which have recorded student test scores in reading and math below the state average. Many pro-school-choice groups have praised the choice, saying DeVos will work hard to grow new programs that give parents more school choice. But public education advocates say that they fear she will help propel America’s public education system toward destruction. The Detroit Free Press has written a number of articles about DeVos’s education record in Michigan. Here is an important piece [ http://www.freep.com/story/opinion/columnists/stephen-henderson/2016/12/03/betsy-devos-education-donald-trump/94728574/ ] looking at what a DeVos Education Department could be expected to do, written by someone who has watched her work for some time. He is Stephen Henderson, editorial page editor of the Free Press, where this first appeared. He gave me permission to republish it. [...] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2016/12/08/a-sobering-look-at-what-betsy-devos-did-to-education-in-michigan-and-what-she-might-do-as-secretary-of-education/
Teacher to Trump’s education pick: Let’s ‘address the elephant in the room.’ It’s you. The selection of Betsy DeVos by President-elect Donald Trump as his education secretary nominee has been attacked by public school advocates who see her longtime support for school “choice” and private Catholic education as evidence that she does not support America’s public education system. In this post, that sentiment is explained by an educator who has written an open letter to DeVos. He is Patrick Kearney, facilitator for Teacher Leadership in the Johnston Community School District in Iowa. He spent 25 years as a band director in private and public schools of Iowa, and is a past-president of the Iowa Bandmasters Association and past co-chair of the Iowa Jazz Championships. He was also a founding board member of the Jazz Educators of Iowa. His wife teaches in the Des Moines Public Schools and his son is studying education at Drake University. Here’s the letter, which first appeared on Huffington Post [ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/an-introduction-from-public-school-teachers-to-betsy_us_5845e2fbe4b0707e4c8171a3 ]. Kearney gave me permission to republish it. [...] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2016/12/10/teacher-to-trumps-education-pick-lets-address-the-elephant-in-the-room-its-you/
Welcome to the era of cognitive business Start your cognitive business journey by learning more about cognitive solutions like Watson and the IBM Cloud platform that supports cognitive workloads. http://www.ibm.com/cognitive/
The material that could let robots REPAIR themselves: Wolverine-style substance heals within 24 hours The material is transparent, stretchable, and can conduct electricity The material can stretch 50 times its original length without being damaged As well as its use in robots, researchers believe it could be used to extend the lifetime of batteries in electric cars, and improve biosensors in the medical field http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4070900/The-material-let-robots-REPAIR-Wolverine-style-substance-heals-24-hours.html
Scientists built an AI that is smarter than most adults Computers can already hold a massive amount of instantly-retrievable data in a manner that puts most humans to shame, but getting them to actually display intelligence is an entirely different challenge. A team of researchers from Northwestern University just made a huge stride towards that goal with a computational model that actually outperforms the average American adult in a standard intelligence test. [...] http://bgr.com/2017/01/19/ai-smarter-than-humans-northwestern/ referencing (among other): Making AI systems that see the world as humans do https://phys.org/news/2017-01-ai-world-humans.html study http://psycnet.apa.org/?&fa=main.doiLanding&doi=10.1037/rev0000039
Mnuchin: Losing human jobs to AI "not even on our radar screen" Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin joined Axios' Mike Allen this morning at the debut of his News Shapers event series to talk about his new role in the Trump Administration. On AI supplanting human jobs: "it's not even on our radar screen.... 50-100 more years" away. "I'm not worried at all" about robots displacing humans in the near future, he said, adding: "In fact I'm optimistic." Other big ticket items: [...] https://www.axios.com/treasury-secretary-mnuchin-interviews-with-axios-live-updates-2327865447.html
Evolution Strategies as a Scalable Alternative to Reinforcement Learning We’ve discovered that evolution strategies (ES), an optimization technique that’s been known for decades, rivals the performance of standard reinforcement learning (RL) techniques on modern RL benchmarks (e.g. Atari/MuJoCo), while overcoming many of RL’s inconveniences. https://blog.openai.com/evolution-strategies/
Tornado Town, USA - big piece - map of mini-tornado alleys Four devastating tornadoes hit Moore, Oklahoma, in 16 years. Was it geography or just bad luck? May 26, 2016 http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/tornadoes/
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