Full Broadcast 16Nov17 Real News with David Knight GUESTS: • Mark Hall — A Turkish Imam [Fethullah Gülen ( https://fgulen.com/en/ )], protected by the US government, is given $750M in taxpayer subsidies for his US schools and gets over $600M in taxpayer bonds in Texas alone to build the schools. TOPICS: • Gloria Allred’s client accused Roy Moore but the “evidence” is full of holes & doctored documents • The US & UK gave safe harbor & transportation to ISIS jihadis who admit they are traveling to western nations for “a day of reckoning”
[from Alex Jones and his merry band of batshit bullshitters]
Thursday, Nov. 16th 2017: Al Franken Sex Allegations - Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) is the next public figure accused of sexually groping a woman while she was asleep. We also look into new developments in the Roy Moore situation as well as the ongoing censorship of non-liberals on Twitter when Roger Stone joins during the second hour. Social commentator Tommy Robinson speaks out on this and explains how censorship is used to hide the truth about the migrant crisis. Jon Rappoport hosts the fourth and final hour.
President Donald Trump's press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders holds the daily news briefing from the White House, the first since President Trump returned from his Asia trip.
As more sexual assault allegations are reported every day, most recently Al Franken, we ask our female audience members if this is an every day issue for women in America, or just the symptoms of a political agenda by the establishment to try and save face by accusing and smearing their enemies. We also discuss the current status of the censorship campaign being waged by social media giants such as Twitter and Facebook.
[from Alex Jones and his merry band of batshit bullshitters]
Nine accusers speak out on Moore while Trump remains uncharacteristically silent. A pastor supporting Moore says some stories have “holes” while a Republican Alabama Trump delegate says allegations are “credible” so she can no longer support Moore. Duration: 16:52
Investigators: Kushner withheld WikiLeaks, Russia emails
The Beat With Ari Melber 11/16/17
Russia investigators are demanding documents from Jared Kushner, after it was revealed he had emails about a “Russian backdoor overture” and forwarded a WikiLeaks email to a Trump campaign official. Duration: 4:50
The USA Today reports taxpayers are footing Trump’s personal legal bills. Former ethics lawyer for George W. Bush, Richard Painter on that, and his lawsuit against Trump. Duration: 4:40
Evidence of gifts not sufficient to convict Sen. Menendez on bribery charges. Ari Melber breaks down the “friend defense” and why a Supreme Court ruling makes corruption harder to convict despite strong evidence. Duration: 2:26
Kushner didn't provide Russia documents Senate asked for
All In with Chris Hayes 11/16/17
Jared Kushner didn't hand over certain documents concerning both Russia and WikiLeaks that the Senate Judiciary Committee requested, said the committee's bipartisan leaders today. Duration: 6:09
Republican tax bill would create American dynasties
All In with Chris Hayes 11/16/17
Republicans want to cut taxes for the super rich -- and raise them on working people. That might be bad for you, as Robert Reich explains, but it's great news for the children of billionaires. Duration: 6:47
Thing 1/Thing 2: Giving lots of speeches isn't easy. But we've noticed a trick Trump uses frequently - if you make a mistake, just pretend you meant to do it. Duration: 2:23
Political scandals, tax bills, and a Keystone pipeline oil spill
The Rachel Maddow Show 11/16/17
Rachel Maddow rounds up some of the day's top stories that have made it a challenging news day to keep up with everything that is going on. Duration: 5:13
Newly flipped witness may have info on Turkey and Mike Flynn
The Rachel Maddow Show 11/16/17
Tom Winter, NBC News investigative reporter, talks with Rachel Maddow about new reporting that Reza Zarrab, a Turkish-Iranian national wanted by Turkey and charged in the U.S. for sanctions violations is talking with prosecutors and may have information about Mike Flynn. Duration: 17:15
Rachel Maddow looks at the the questions facing the Senate, particlarly the ethics committee, on how to deal with Senator Robert Menendez, Senator Al Franken, and potential senator Roy Moore and the particulars of the accusations they face. Duration: 7:57
Can Senate Ethics Committee address pre-Senate scandals?
The Rachel Maddow Show 11/16/17
Steve Kornacki, MSNBC national correspondent, talks with Rachel Maddow about whether the Senate Ethics Committee can consider the actions of a senator before they were in office. Duration: 5:04
Senate asks Kushner for info about 'Russian backdoor overture'
The Rachel Maddow Show 11/16/17
Rachel Maddow reports on a letter from the Senate Judiciary Committee to Jared Kushner asking for him to submit a more complete set of documents, including one about a "Russian backdoor overture and dinner invite" - whatever that is! Duration: 4:49
Inept recovery keeps most of Puerto Rico still with no power
The Rachel Maddow Show 11/16/17
Rachel Maddow repots on the continuing botched recovery effort in Puerto Rico where progress in bringing electricity back is regularly countered by backslides in areas that are supposed to have already been repaired. Duration: 2:19
Rachel Maddow alerts viewers that while she can't tell them what it is, Richard Engel has an important scoop that will air on Friday night at 9pm ET. Duration: 0:50
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
Republicans and Democrats are handling scandal in their party very differently as is the President who slammed Al Franken but is yet to comment on Roy Moore. Fmr US Atty Joyce Vance, Conservative Author Charlie Sykes, and Fmr. US Rep. Donna Edwards Join Ali Velshi. Duration: 18:14
NBC News reports that a witness in a money-laundering case may have useful information to the Special Prosecutor’s probe of fmr. Trump advisor Michael Flynn. NBC News Nat’l Security reporter Julia Ainsley and Joyce Vance Join Ali Velshi. Duration: 6:21
Dossier author says Trump’s Russia deals deserve investigation
The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell 11/16/17
Should Trump deals in Russia be investigated? The case for that is in a new book "Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win." Author Luke Harding Joins Ali Velshi. Duration: 5:55
Democratic Sen. Al Franken has apologized after allegations of sexual assault from a 2006 USO show that occurred before he was elected. Meanwhile, GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore remains defiant in the face of the sexual misconduct allegations against him. Duration: 11:26
Senators Hatch & Brown get in tax reform shouting match
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams 11/17/17
A late evening debate over tax reform got heated between GOP Sen. Orrin Hatch and Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown. MSNBC's Brian Williams shares the details. Duration: 4:35
Russia probe focusing on Hope Hicks & Jared Kushner
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams 11/17/17
Lawmakers on the Hill want more Russia docs from Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner as Mueller's team gets ready to interview longtime Trump aide Hope Hicks. Our reporter panel reacts. Duration: 6:28
Trump ends ban on importing heads of hunted elephants
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams 11/17/17
The Trump administration has ended an Obama-era policy on hunting trophies from two African nations leading to outrage from animal rights groups. Zoologist Jarod Miller reacts. Duration: 5:00
A reporter accuses Al Franken of groping her, and Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore continues dodging allegations that he sexually assaulted teen girls.
Published on Nov 16, 2017 by Late Night with Seth Meyers
Seth takes a closer look at a new sexual harassment allegation against Senator Al Franken and more women coming forward to accuse Roy Moore of sexually assaulting them as teenagers.
Texas sheriff is on the hunt for driver with profane anti-Trump window sticker “FUCK TRUMP AND FUCK YOU FOR VOTING FOR HIM.” A sheriff in Texas is looking for a truck bearing a profanity-laced anti-Trump sticker and said authorities are considering charging its owner with disorderly conduct — a threat that immediately raised alarm among free speech advocates. Fort Bend County Sheriff Troy E. Nehls posted a photo of the truck Wednesday on Facebook [ https://www.facebook.com/SheriffTNehls/photos/a.1432629380323155.1073741828.1431647400421353/1954765468109541/?type=3&theater - since deleted] after, he said, he’d received several complaints about the display from unhappy people in the Houston-area county. A graphic on the rear window of the GMC Sierra reads: “F--K TRUMP AND F--K YOU FOR VOTING FOR HIM.” (The profanity is spelled out on the sticker.) “If you know who owns this truck or it is yours, I would like to discuss it with you,” the sheriff wrote. “Our Prosecutor has informed us she would accept Disorderly Conduct charges regarding it, but I feel we could come to an agreement regarding a modification.” The Houston Chronicle said the truck’s owners have no plans to remove the custom graphic, which they ordered after Trump’s election. “It’s not to cause hate or animosity,” Karen Fonseca told the Chronicle. “It’s just our freedom of speech and we’re exercising it.” [...] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/11/16/texas-sheriff-is-on-the-hunt-for-driver-with-profane-anti-trump-window-sticker/
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“They’re in a World of Shit”: Ivanka and Jared’s First Year in Washington Has Not Gone as Expected A year after Trump’s stunning election, the administration has zero legislative wins, a looming investigation hanging over their heads, and Jared and Ivanka have a pretty erratic family member/boss to deal with—and New York isn’t looking much prettier. https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/11/inside-ivanka-and-jareds-first-year-in-washington
Does Increased Gun Ownership Help Decrease Crime? - NO [...] The basic finding was that the net effect of allowing citizens to carry concealed handguns was an increase in violent crime, which essentially rose to about a 15 percent increase after 10 years of existence of the right-to-carry law. [...] ... the single biggest effect seemed to be an increase in aggravated assaults. ... [...] https://www.npr.org/2017/11/07/562619774/does-increased-gun-ownership-help-decrease-crime
Moore, Trump and the Right’s New Religion - Christo-fascism By Charles M. Blow [...] The “religious right” as an idea is dead. There are religious people, and many are on the right, but the idea of religiosity as an organizing principle for conservatives has passed. Trump helped kill it. This incarnation of conservatism has burned its cross and erected the golden calf of Trumpism in its place. Trump is the right’s new religion. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/16/opinion/moore-trump-religious-right.html
White-on-White Voting Dravosburg, Pa., is a small — population 1,746 — working-class suburb that lies along the Monongahela River 10 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. If we want to understand what actually propelled Donald Trump to victory last November, presidential voting patterns there provide a vital clue. In 2012, Dravosburg backed Barack Obama over Mitt Romney 441 to 312, or 53.4 percent to 44.8 percent. Four years later, the men and women of Dravosburg abandoned their Democratic loyalties and backed Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton, 56.3 to 41.1. What is so interesting about this working-class community, with its strong ties to organized labor? It is one of thousands of white enclaves across the nation that provided Trump with his margin of victory. The election of Donald Trump revealed that in some of the nation’s whitest municipalities and counties — the communities arguably most insulated from urban crime, immigration and gangs — Trump did far better than Romney had done four years earlier. [...] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/16/opinion/trump-white-voting.html
Keystone Pipeline Leaks More Than 5,000 Barrels of Oil More than 5,000 barrels of oil spilled from the Keystone pipeline on Thursday in South Dakota, sending cleanup crews and emergency workers to the remote northeast portion of the state. The spill of more than 210,000 gallons, near Amherst, S.D., comes just days before regulators in neighboring Nebraska decide whether to grant the final permit needed for construction to begin on the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, which would be operated by the same company. An announcement in Nebraska is expected on Monday. TransCanada, the pipeline company, said in a statement that the leak was detected around 6 a.m. local time on Thursday. That portion of the pipeline “was completely isolated within 15 minutes,” the company said, and the pipeline was shut down. “TransCanada appreciates the collaborative support of local officials, emergency response personnel and commissioners in Marshall County, as well as the landowner who has given permission to access land for assessment, identification and cleanup activities,” the statement said. But opponents of Keystone XL quickly cited the spill as evidence of the risks posed by such pipelines, and urged Nebraska regulators to take note. “We’ve always said it’s not a question of whether a pipeline will spill, but when, and today TransCanada is making our case for us,” Kelly Martin of the Sierra Club said in a statement. “This is not the first time TransCanada’s pipeline has spilled toxic tar sands, and it won’t be the last.” https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/16/us/keystone-pipeline-leaks-south-dakota.html
Homeland Security's head of community outreach resigns over past controversial comments on black community, Islam Rev. Jamie Johnson resigned after CNN KFile report revealed inflammatory past comments he made about the black community and Islam. In past radio appearances, Johnson had said the black community was responsible for turning major US cities into "slums" and argued that Islam's only contribution to society was "oil and dead bodies." http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/16/politics/kfile-jamie-johnson-resigns/index.html
At COP23, the International Energy Agency predicts U.S. oil production is expected to grow at an unparalleled rate in the coming years—even as the majority of scientists worldwide are saying countries need to cut down on fossil fuel extraction, not accelerate it. Meanwhile, a group of 15,000 scientists have come together to issue a dire “second notice” to humanity, 25 years after a group of scientists issued the “first notice” warning the world about climate change. We speak with the co-author of this report, Kevin Anderson, one of the world’s leading climate scientists. Anderson is deputy director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research and professor of energy and climate change at the University of Manchester in Britain. The report is entitled “Can the Climate Afford Europe’s Gas Addiction? [ https://www.foeeurope.org/sites/default/files/extractive_industries/2017/can_the_climate_afford_europes_gas_addiction_report_november2017.pdf , www.foeeurope.org/NoRoomForGas ]” https://www.democracynow.org/2017/11/15/scientists_issue_dire_warning_on_climate [with embedded video, and transcript]
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Hoesung Lee, chair of the IPCC, speaks during a press conference at Songdo Convensia in Incheon on 8 October. Photograph: Jung Yeon-Je/AFP/Getty Images
But the muted response by Britain, Australia and other governments highlights the immense political challenges facing adoption of pathways to the relatively safe limit of 1.5C above pre-industrial temperatures outlined on Monday by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) .. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ipcc .
With the report set to be presented at a major climate summit in Poland in December, known as COP24, there is little time for squabbles. The report noted that emissions need to be cut by 45% by 2030 in order to keep warming within 1.5C. That means decisions have to be taken in the next two years to decommission coal power plants and replace them with renewables, because major investments usually have a lifecycle of at least a decade.
Mary Robinson, a UN special envoy on climate, said Europe should set an example by adopting a target of zero-carbon emissions by 2050. “Before this, people talked vaguely about staying at or below 2C – we now know that 2C is dangerous,” she said. “So it is really important that governments take the responsibility, but we must all do what we can.”
The UK, which has gone further than most nations by cutting its annual emissions by 40% since 1990, will need to step up if the more ambitious goal is to be reached.
Quick guide What difference would restricting warming to 1.5C make? ---- .. outed and inserted from link inside .. A key finding of the new IPCC report is the dramatic difference that restricting warming to 1.5C above pre industrial levels would have on the global environment.
The scientists found:
• By 2100, global sea level rise would be 10cm lower with global warming of 1.5C compared with 2C.
• Extreme heatwaves will be experienced by 14% of the world's population at least once every five years at 1.5C. But that figure rises to more than a third of the planet if temperatures rise to 2C
• Arctic sea ice would remain during most summers if warming is kept to 1.5C. But at 2C, ice free summers are 10 times more likely, leading to greater habitat losses for polar bears, whales, seals and sea birds.
• If warming is kept to 1.5C, coral reefs will still decline by 70-90% but if temperatures rise to 2C virtually all of the world's reefs would be lost ]. ---- - end insert.
Claire Perry, minister for energy, said the government would outline its next steps in the next few days: “I welcome the strong scientific analysis behind today’s IPCC report and its conclusions are stark and sober. As policymakers we need to work together to accelerate the low-carbon transition to minimise the costs and misery of a rapidly warming world.”
But her failure to spell out how this would be achieved was criticised by Green party MP Caroline Lucas, who said the UK government has slashed support for renewables, pushed ahead with fracking and airport expansion, and continues to subsidise fossil fuels.
“If ministers are serious about taking the action they admit is needed,” Lucas said, “the government would commit today to reversing the freeze on fuel duty announced last week and lifting the ban on onshore wind turbines. And crucially, Claire Perry must stop forcing fracking on communities who’ve rejected it.”
Bob Ward, of the Grantham Institute for Climate Change, said the UK had a good track record but needed to be more ambitious, which would require action across a wider area of government: “More effort is needed from other departments. For instance, the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government needs to be more proactive in ensuring that buildings become zero-carbon as soon as possible. And the Department for Transport must be more ambitious on developing electric vehicles.”
Politicians, scientists and climate activists will hold a meeting chaired by Lord Krebs, former member of the Committee on Climate Change, in parliament on Wednesday to discuss the new 1.5C report and consider policy options.
Among those attending will be Jim Skea, a co-chair of the IPCC working group on mitigation. “My biggest hope is that they [political leaders] take this seriously,” Skea said. “We can’t carry on with business as usual or minor changes.”
IMAGE inside - Rising temperatures, rising risks
But there is increasing pushback by the world’s powerful fossil fuel and agribusiness interests, who are supporting politicians who are apathetic or hostile to climate action. The new IPCC report stressed the urgent need for reforestation and greater forest protection, but within hours of its release the first round of the Brazilian presidential election ended with a huge lead for Jair Bolsonaro .. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/08/jair-bolsonaro-will-not-moderate-rhetoric-in-push-for-brazil-presidency , who has promised to quit the Paris accord and open up the Amazon rainforest to farmers and miners. Geoengineering may be used to combat global warming, experts say Read more
Donald Trump has also announced that the US will pull out of the climate deal. And in Australia, the prime minister, Scott Morrison, said there was no money for “global climate conferences and all that nonsense”.
So far, however, no government has actually dropped out and civil society groups say the new report by scientists will help them put pressure on leaders to aim for the safer, lower level of warming.
“Any administration, and it would appear especially the US and Australia, that pushes damaging domestic policies and picks apart science consensus is a dangerous outlier by ignoring the deadly impacts now due to climate chaos,” said Rachel Kennerley of Friends of the Earth.
“International cooperation is manifestly preferable but the rest of the world will have to double down on efforts – it’s a shortsighted block to the global efforts needed that this report sets out, but it’s not insurmountable either.”
Andrew Steer, president of the World Resources Institute, said the urgent message of the report “must be carried into the halls of power and the negotiation rooms at COP24. This should be a moral imperative for all leaders around the world.”
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