We begin our Democracy Now! special by looking at the growing movement of people calling on President Trump to resign over multiple claims of sexual harassment and assault. The renewed calls come amid the international #MeToo movement, in which women across the world have come forward to accuse a slew of powerful men of sexual harassment, assault and rape. Meanwhile, three of the 16 women who have publicly accused Trump of sexual harassment held a press conference last month in New York, demanding that Congress take action. The women shared accounts in which they said Trump groped, fondled and forcibly kissed them. We speak with two of them: Samantha Holvey, a former Miss USA contestant for North Carolina when Trump owned the pageant, and Jessica Leeds, who describes what happened to her when she encountered Donald Trump in the first-class cabin of a commercial flight in 1979. https://www.democracynow.org/2018/1/1/meet_the_women_who_accuse_trump[with embedded video, and transcript]
Constitutional Lawyer John Bonifaz on the Growing Movement to Impeach Trump
Published on Jan 1, 2018 by Democracy Now!
As some say the movement to impeach President Trump will grow stronger in 2018, this fall a half-dozen Democrats introduced articles of impeachment against Trump, accusing him of obstruction of justice and other offenses. In December, the House rejected the effort, even as 58 Democrats voted in support of the resolution—nearly a third of their caucus. Meanwhile, at least 17 communities around the country are on record calling for impeachment proceedings against Donald Trump. We revisit our interview with constitutional attorney John Bonifaz, co-founder and director of Free Speech for People [ https://freespeechforpeople.org/ ]. https://www.democracynow.org/2018/1/1/constitutional_lawyer_john_bonifaz_on_the[with embedded video, and transcript]
Duty to Warn: Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess the “Dangerous Case” of President Trump
Published on Jan 1, 2018 by Democracy Now!
We revisit our interview with someone who’s led a discussion of mental health professionals who are deeply concerned about President Trump’s psychological instability. Dr. Bandy Lee is a forensic psychiatrist on the faculty of Yale School of Medicine who organized the “Duty to Warn” conference at Yale and edited the best-selling book, “The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President [ https://www.amazon.com/Dangerous-Case-Donald-Trump-Psychiatrists/dp/1250179459 ].” Dr. Bandy Lee declares that she is not representing the views of Yale University, Yale School of Medicine or Yale Department of Psychiatry. https://www.democracynow.org/2018/1/1/duty_to_warn_psychiatrists_and_mental[with embedded video, and transcript]
Solar roadways promised almost everything... they would stay up for you when you got home late at night, they would take out the trash and cry when you got split ends. However in the end, after about 2mn dollars of government money, and 2mn dollars from an indiegogo campaign, they delivered on basically nothing. Their installation current generates no energy because its covered in snow, but even if it wasnt it would be generating about 1 cent of electricity per day! Even when it was at its prime, in the middle of summer it generated about 1/10th the power it would have if those solar panels had been put in a normal rooftop installation.
Even professionally done versions of this concept are simply non-starters, like the Colas wattway. The Chinese also recently announced they had built something similar.
Happy new year! It's been a while. An infant will do that to you. I hope you're well.
Since the new year is here, and you may be thinking about resolutions, I wanted to make one suggestion for something all of you can do this year: Try spreading reason, in some way, to people who aren't using it.
That doesn't mean you have to start an argument or convince a religious relative to abandon Jesus. Good luck with that. But maybe you come across a friend spreading a picture on Facebook that contains misinformation. I want you to politely explain why that information is wrong. Back it up with a citation. I know they might dismiss it or ignore it, but do it.
Maybe you read a news story that gets the facts wrong. Write to that newspaper or reporter and politely let them know what they screwed up. (Better yet, share that letter on social media.)
Maybe someone you know promotes alternative medicine, or some mid-level marketing scheme, or thinks your astrological sign has something to do with how you act, or wants to go on a detox diet. Talk to them. Guide them to a path of reason. Do it privately if that's easier. You don't have to publicly shame them.
The point is: Try to spread critical thinking in some way, especially if that's something you don't do already. You don't have to be a jerk about it. You don't have to do it all the time. But don't be afraid of it. We could use more critically thinking people out there willing to push back when they see something that's false.
If there's one thing I've learned from making videos like these for a few years, it's that you're bound to get pushback when you try to spread what you think are reasonable arguments -- I see your downvotes and nasty comments -- but I also get a lot of really wonderful messages, privately, from people who says these videos made a difference. You don't need a platform like this to do that yourself.
And even if your corrections don't change the mind of the person who made the comment in the first place, there's a good chance you might change the mind of a stranger who's reading it. You never know.
"Day 347" The Donald Trump Religious Zion Regime made it to 2018. The Rev. Huckabee wants Dina Habib Powell's Friend Huma Abedin in Jail !!! When did Preachers get involved in Political Crime ? Happy New Year America !
'Ferocious' fire ripped through Liverpool Echo Arena car park A witness has described watching a "ferocious" blaze which destroyed about 1,400 cars break out in front of her. http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-merseyside-42533830
Chocolate is on track to go extinct in 40 years Cacao plants are slated to disappear by as early as 2050 thanks to warmer temperatures and dryer weather conditions. Scientists at the University of California are teaming up with Mars company to try to save the crop before it's too late. They're exploring the possibility of using the gene-editing technology CRISPR to make crops that can survive the new challenges. http://www.businessinsider.com/when-chocolate-extinct-2017-12
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