President Donald Trump is visiting the Philippines as part of his 13-day trip across Asia, where he met with Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte and said the two have a “great relationship.” Since taking office in 2016, the controversial Filipino leader has presided over a bloody so-called war on drugs in which more than 7,000 people have been extrajudicially killed by police or vigilantes. It is unclear whether Trump raised the issue of human rights when he saw Duterte. While broadcasting from the U.N. climate conference in Bonn, Germany, we speak with Tetet Lauron, program manager for climate justice at IBON International, who was a member of the Philippines delegation to the United Nations climate summits from 2011 to 2013. https://www.democracynow.org/2017/11/13/thousands_protest_in_manila_as_trump[with embedded video, and transcript]
Full Broadcast 13Nov17 Real News with David Knight Have you heard about the corruption trial of Senator Menendez? It’s gone on for 9 weeks yet MSM media doesn’t seem to be interested in bribery, corruption & teen hookers. Meanwhile, the GOP establishment can’t embrace real tax cuts to save its life — or the economy. And, the US Army will accept those with serious mental illness to fulfill its recruitment goals. Outlaw Morgan joins David Knight to discuss.
[from Alex Jones and his merry band of batshit bullshitters]
WATCH: Puerto Rico Gov. Rosselló, Congresswoman González provide update on Hurricane Maria recovery
Streamed live on Nov 13, 2017 by PBS NewsHour
Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló and Congresswoman Jenniffer González-Colón provide an update on Hurricane Maria recovery during a news conference in D.C.
Monday, Nov. 13th 2017[, with Matt Dubiel hosting the fourth hour]: Trump Approval UP - President Trump is enjoying surging support from Americans as he gets into the groove of his presidency. We look into the possibility that the Podestas will soon face indictments over their dealings with Russia. Media commentator Gavin McInnes explains how the mainstream media will try to save face. And the Washington Post is now attacking the Drudge Report by claiming it spreads "Russian propaganda."
In today's politically correct culture, apparently it is more than tolerable to sexualize children, as long as it pandering to homosexuality and transsexualism, if it's heterosexuality, then is it intolerant. We discuss events happening all around the globe where cross dressers and drag queens are being put in front of children at public events as heroes an entertainers. We are joined by Millie Weaver, Roger Stone, and Dr. Shiva for Senate.
[from Alex Jones and his merry band of batshit bullshitters]
Republicans fleeing Moore amid new sex allegations with teens
The Beat With Ari Melber 11/13/17
Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell says Roy Moore should “step aside” and Sen. Gardner calls for expulsion as new accuser, Beverly Young Nelson, tearfully claims she was sexually assaulted by Moore as a teen. Duration: 9:47
New Roy Moore accuser Beverly Young Nelson speaks out with Gloria Allred
The Beat With Ari Melber 11/13/17
Steve Bannon and Breitbart News float Roy Moore conspiracy theory, defending the embattled candidate amid growing sexual misconduct allegations. Duration: 7:30
Federal Prosecutor: Trump’s “belief” in Putin could indicate motive to obstruct justice
The Beat With Ari Melber 11/13/17
Donald Trump raises suspicion about his relationship with Vladimir Putin, saying he “believes” Putin’s claim that Russia did not meddle in the 2016 election. Fmr. U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade says Trump’s behavior towards Putin could reveal a motive to obstruct justice. Duration: 5:53
MSNBC’s Ari Melber breaks down Mark Zuckerberg’s global reach beyond Russia, reporting on meetings with foreign autocrats and why Facebook is developing special censorship software. Duration: 9:02
WikiLeaks and Trump Jr. traded direct messages during the election
All In with Chris Hayes 11/13/17
The Atlantic's Julia Ioffe reports on messages sent between Donald Trump Jr. and WikiLeaks on Twitter during the presidential campaign, which continued even on election day. Duration: 7:11
Rebecca Traister on Roy Moore and post-Weinstein reckoning
All In with Chris Hayes 11/13/17
The fifth woman to come forward against Senate candidate Roy Moore, Beverly Young Nelson, alleges he violently sexually assaulted her when she was 16 years old. New York Magazine's Rebecca Traister joins Chris Hayes to discuss the Moore accusations in the context of the post-Harvey Weinstein reckoning. Duration: 4:48
Trump judicial nominee didn’t disclose his wife is a top White House lawyer
All In with Chris Hayes 11/13/17
Brett J. Talley, Donald Trump’s nominee for a lifetime appointment as a federal judge, despite having only three years of experience practicing law, did not disclose that he is married to the chief of staff to the White House counsel. Duration: 2:44
Senate GOP considers turning against Roy Moore as scandal deepens
The Rachel Maddow Show 11/13/17
Rachel Maddow looks at new sexual assault accusations against Roy Moore as Senate Republicans begin to withdraw their endorsements and consider ways in which they could prevent Moore from taking office should he win his election. Duration: 10:28
Trump Junior exposed for contacts with Wikileaks during campaign
The Rachel Maddow Show 11/13/17
Rachel Maddow reports on yet another new revelation of contact between the Trump campaign and Russia and its operatives, this time between Donald Trump Jr. and Wikileaks, and shows the growing body of reporting about the Trump campaign interacting with Wikileaks. Duration: 11:44
Comey notes could show up in Donald Trump obstruction case
The Rachel Maddow Show 11/13/17
Chuck Rosenberg, former U.S. attorney who has worked with James Comey and Robert Mueller, talks with Rachel Maddow about why he left the job of acting administrator for the DEA under Trump, and how James Comey's notes might be used in an obstruction case against Donald Trump. Duration: 7:40
Mueller well suited to immensity of Trump Russia investigation
The Rachel Maddow Show 11/13/17
Chuck Rosenberg, former U.S. attorney who has worked with James Comey and Robert Mueller, talks with Rachel Maddow about how the Trump Russia investigation keeps growing, and special counsel Robert Mueller's history investigating 9/11 qualifies him for the task. Duration: 6:08
NBC News: RNC still working with Roy Moore in Alabama
The Rachel Maddow Show 11/13/17
Rachel Maddow shares reporting from NBC News that unlike the NRSC, and contrary to rapidly accumulating un-endorsements from Republican senators, the RNC is still working in Alabama on Roy Moore's election campaign. Duration: 2:32
Moore scandal not disqualifying in eyes of many Alabama voters
The Rachel Maddow Show 11/13/17
John Archibald, columnist for the Birmingham News, talks with Rachel Maddow about how the Roy Moore scandal is being perceived by Alabama Republicans and whether denunciations from sitting senators will mean anything to Alabama voters. Duration: 3:31
Rachel Maddow alerts viewers that Jeff Sessions will be testifying in an open hearing before the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday morning at 10 a.m. Duration: 0:47
GOP Senate leaders abandoned Roy Moore on the day another woman came forward to speak against him. Beverly Young Nelson says he sexually assaulted her at age 16 and she was moved to speak by the courage of the women who told their stories to the Washington ... more Duration: 10:21
Wendy Sherman: Roy Moore 'does not belong anywhere in real life'
The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell 11/13/17
Former Undersecretary of State Wendy Sherman praised the "tremendous courage" of Roy Moore's accusers and says the allegations prohibit Moore from serving in any public office. Neera Tanden & Maria Teresa Kumar also join Lawrence O'Donnell. Duration: 9:58
What secret WikiLeaks-Don Jr. communications mean in Russia probe
The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell 11/13/17
A new report says Donald Trump, Jr. engaged in private messages with Wikileaks on Twitter from September 2016 to July 2017, including messages about emails stolen from Democrats. Natasha Bertrand and Mieke Eoyang join Lawrence O'Donnell to discuss. Duration: 6:22
George Will: Democrat Doug Jones deserves to win over Roy Moore
The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell 11/13/17
Conservative columnist George F. Will visited Alabama and spoke with Democratic Senate candidate Doug Jones. George Will explains why he thinks voters in very Republican Alabama could surprise us at the ballot box. Duration: 4:58
Trump Jr. reveals messages with Wikileaks from campaign
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams 11/14/17
After a report in The Atlantic revealed private correspondence between Donald Trump Jr. and Wikileaks, the president's son released them all on Twitter. Our panel discusses. Duration: 8:14
Trump compliments Putin & blasts fmr. U.S. intel bosses
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams 11/14/17
While on his official trip through Asia, Trump again repeated his doubts about Russia's election interference while lavishing compliments on Russian leader Vladimir Putin. Duration: 1:06
Fifth woman accuses Roy Moore of sexual misconduct
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams 11/14/17
A fifth woman, Beverly Young Nelson, has come forward - this time on camera - accusing Alabama GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore of past sexual misconduct. Our reporter panel reacts. Duration: 6:05
After multiple allegations of sexual misconduct have been levied against GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore, many in the party have called for him to step aside. But Hill Republicans don't have many good options if Moore refuses. Duration: 1:58
Jordan meets with Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz and the citizens of Puerto Rico to find out the truth about the Trump administration's hurricane recovery efforts.
Full Extended Interview: Joe Biden Talks To Stephen Colbert
Published on Nov 13, 2017 by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The 47th Vice President sits down with Stephen to discuss the divisions in American life, his relationship with VP Mike Pence, and his new book 'Promise Me, Dad."
Seth takes a closer look at how President Trump sparked a political firestorm with his comments on Russia’s election meddling, as his party deals with allegations that their Senate candidate in Alabama sexually assaulted underage girls.
Human rights advocates: Trump's silence on Duterte's drug war 'dismaying' 'Trump is failing to understand that words have power and failure to speak out could have a lot of symbolic value in terms of how Filipinos view the United States and the Philippine relationship with the United States,' says Kine of Human Rights Watch https://www.rappler.com/world/regions/asia-pacific/188261-human-rights-philippines-trump-duterte-asean-2017
The Lineman Got $63 an Hour. The Utility Was Billed $319 an Hour. SAN JUAN — The small energy outfit from Montana that won a $300 million contract to help rebuild Puerto Rico’s tattered power grid had few employees of its own, so it did what the Puerto Rican authorities could have done: It turned to Florida for workers. For their trouble, the six electrical workers from Kissimmee are earning $42 an hour, plus overtime. The senior power linemen from Lakeland are earning $63 an hour working in Puerto Rico, the Florida utility said. Their 40 co-workers from Jacksonville, also linemen, are making up to $100 earning double time, public records show. But the Montana company that hired the workers, Whitefish Energy Holdings, had a contract that allowed it to bill the Puerto Rican public power company, known as Prepa, $319 an hour for linemen, a rate that industry experts said was far above the norm even for emergency work — and almost 17 times the average salary of their counterparts in Puerto Rico. [...] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/12/us/whitefish-energy-holdings-prepa-hurricane-recovery-corruption-hurricane-recovery-in-puerto-rico.html
Iran-Iraq earthquake: Deadly tremor hits border region A 7.3-magnitude earthquake has shaken the northern border region between Iran and Iraq, killing at least 348 people and injuring thousands more. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-41963373
Security Breach and Spilled Secrets Have Shaken the N.S.A. to Its Core A serial leak of the agency’s cyberweapons has damaged morale, slowed intelligence operations and resulted in hacking attacks on businesses and civilians worldwide. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/12/us/nsa-shadow-brokers.html
The US's most secretive intelligence agency was embarrassingly robbed and mocked by hackers The New York Times on Sunday published a detailed look at how the National Security Agency, the US's largest and most secretive intelligence agency, had been deeply infiltrated over the past year. Expensive NSA cyberweapons are now for sale to hostile countries and have already been used in cyberattacks against the public. Now doubt surrounds the NSA, and experts wonder whether the agency can do its job at all. http://www.businessinsider.com/nsa-embarrassingly-robbed-mocked-by-shadow-brokers-2017-11
Advertisers cut ties with Hannity after Moore coverage, sparking social media backlash At least five companies said over the weekend that they will no longer advertise their products during Fox News' "Hannity." Fans of the show and its host criticized the brands for taking a political stance and called for a boycott on Twitter. Those that supported Keurig's decision to cut ties with Hannity praised the company and said they would be more apt to purchase goods from the brand. https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/12/keurig-advertisers-cut-ties-with-hannity-after-moore-coverage.html
Decent Christians And The Politics Of The Right How do people who think of themselves as decent Christians support politicians like Donald Trump and Roy Moore? How do they champion policies that discriminate and disadvantage and sometimes even do violence? Part of the answer may lie in their decency itself. Latin American theologian Marcella Althaus-Reid identified decency as a concept utilized within colonialism and patriarchy to ensure maintenance of the social order that benefited wealthy, white, male colonizers.* What was outside the approved behaviors of wealthy white men became “indecent.” Althaus-Reid notes in Latin American culture referring to a man as decent means he is economically honest and proper in his social exchanges. A decent woman is one who doesn’t engage in sexual behavior outside monogamous heterosexual marriage. She says these decency codes control men and women’s behaviors, politically and personally, and keep dominant social, political, economic, and religious structures intact. Christianity has often participated in and reinforced these norms of decency and the oppressive institutions they sustain. Decency assumes narrowly circumscribed standards as defined by the dominant social order. People who uphold and abide by these standards are then decent people. If we follow Althaus-Reid’s logic about the gendering of decency, we also recognize that women and men, LGBQ and straight, cis-gender and trans/gender non-conforming people, whites and people of color are held to different standards of decency. Men are decent when they obey the law and when they conform to the carefully crafted patriarchal scripts of white, heterosexual male gender and sexual behavior. Women are decent when they avoid sexual behavior outside normative heterosexual marriage (although the sexual double bind means they still must present themselves as sexually alluring to men while maintaining their purity). Indecent men are the ones who infringe on the property rights of other men—their financial assets or their women—but only if the crime or accusation can be proven. Men get the benefit of the doubt, hence, the chorus of “if it’s true” in response to allegations about Roy Moore’s behavior toward teenage girls. Indecent men are the ones who ignore the scripts of hetero-masculinity—gay men, transmen, bisexual men, gender non-conforming people, men of color who don’t know their place in white supremacy. Indecent women are the ones who need contraception or access to abortion. They are the ones who shouldn’t have been wearing short skirts or have been in that bar or have gone on that date. They are the ones who don’t date men or date women and men or marry other women or who are transwomen or gender non-conforming, or women of color who don’t know their place in white supremacy. In contrast to these indecent people, many Christians on the political and religious Right can think of themselves as decent because their behaviors fit within and support the dominant social order, unlike women who have sex outside monogamous heterosexual marriage or queer people or transpeople. Because decency means supporting and obeying the dominant social order, decency doesn’t have to encompass action on behalf of the poor or refugees fleeing violence or Puerto Rican victims of hurricanes. Because decent Christians fit within the rigid social and religious boundaries of white, capitalist, heteropatriarchy, they can see themselves as good, law-abiding, God-fearing people, even as they endorse laws and policies that harm and oppress others who, as people outside the boundaries of decency, are legitimate targets of discrimination, dehumanization, and even violence. Furthermore, as long as people can see themselves as decent, they can assume their actions are also decent, even when those actions involve supporting men who are not decent themselves, like Donald Trump and Roy Moore. Decent Christians can support men like them because they believe, despite these men’s own personal indecency, as politicians they will uphold standards of decency in law and policy—they will work against abortion, marriage equality, transgender rights, and immigration—rights that challenge the dominant social, economic, political, and religious order. In fact, denying rights to all of these indecent people is decent because it upholds the systems that benefit white, heterosexual, US-born, wealthy, Christian Americans, who are the standard for decency. In response to Christian decency that allows and even encourages discrimination and marginalization, Althaus-Reid offers the image of the “Un-Just” Messiah. She argues that to think of the Messiah as the “Just” one is to imagine a Messiah who fits within the restrictive norms of decency. Jesus, however, did not fit within that space but exceeded it and became the “Un-Just” Messiah, who was larger than the role dictated by society, who acted outside the accepted norms of his time, who refused the tight social and theological spaces afforded him. Authentic Christian faith, then, is a call to reject decency, those rigid moral spaces that shore up the power of the dominant social order. Decency that allows Christians to support bigotry, harm and injustice is not Christian at all. It is a veiled justification for supporting the current social order that benefits those who already hold the most power. As Althaus-Reid notes, decent Christians make decent citizens. Indecent Christians, however, resist dominating powers. They challenge existing systems of gender, race, sexuality, and nation. They demand transformation of the intersecting systems of patriarchy, white nationalism, and colonialism toward radical love, inclusion, and justice. If decency is a regulating system that ensures preservation of the status quo, indecency is the response Christian faith requires. *Marcella Althaus-Reid. Indecent Theology: Theological Perversions in Sex, Gender and Politics. New York: Routledge, 2000. https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/decent-christians-and-the-politics-of-the-right_us_5a08809de4b0cc46c52e6b74
George Bush Snr 'groped 16-year-old girl' during 2003 photo op - with pic A woman has said she was 16 when former US President George HW Bush groped her buttocks as she posed for a photo with him and her mother. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41974116
First CO2 [emissions] rise in four years puts pressure on Paris targets Global emissions of CO2 in 2017 are projected to rise for the first time in four years, dashing hopes that a peak might soon be reached. http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-41941265
The Artificial Intelligence Issue Advances in artificial intelligence are about to force all of us to confront questions about privacy, inequality, employment—and what it really means to be human. November/December 2017 https://www.technologyreview.com/magazine/2017/11/
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