Interactive: More than 1,000 student walkouts scheduled across the country
INTERACTIVE News Mar 13 2018, 8:20 am ET by Kiara Alfonseca and Anna Brand
Thousands of students and organizations across the country are joining in school walkouts in honor of those who died in the Parkland, Florida, shooting last month and to call on legislators for stricter gun laws. On March 14, at 10 a.m. ET, administrators, allies, and students of all ages will collectively leave classrooms in protest of Congress’ “inaction” on gun reform.
The National School Walkout, with over 1,000 protests organized so far, is just one of several upcoming events being held in wake of the Parkland shooting, including the March For Our Lives in Washington, spearheaded by the Parkland students, on March 23. The March 14 walkout is led by the Women’s March’s Youth EMPOWER group.
[no, umm, 'presidential' Weakly Address on February 24, 2018]
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Statement from the Press Secretary Regarding the Terrorist Attacks in Afghanistan, Somalia, and Yemen
Issued on: February 24, 2018
We condemn in the strongest terms the cowardly terrorist attacks in Afghanistan, Somalia, and Yemen, which have claimed dozens of innocent lives. We extend our deepest sympathies to the families and friends of those killed, and wish a speedy recovery to those who were wounded. These attacks only strengthen the resolve of responsible nations to pursue, destroy, and rid the world of terrorists, and we will never waver.
‘You shouldn’t be able to own an AR-15 if you are mentally ill’
AM Joy 2/24/18
Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg demands gun control in the wake of the mass shooting at his high school that left 17 of his fellow students dead. Hogg joins Joy Reid to discuss putting the NRA and the rest of the gun lobby on the defensive.
‘We have to stand up and say we don’t want to take this anymore’
AM Joy 2/24/18
Parkland shooting survivors and activists David Hogg and Ryan Deitsch are demanding gun control legislation from elected officials, in addition to confronting lawmakers who take donations from the NRA and others in the gun lobby. They also join Joy Reid to discuss gun advocates accusing them of being actors.
Michael Steele: Yes, Republican Party has racism problem
AM Joy 2/24/18
Michael Steele responds to the CPAC official who said hiring a ‘black guy’ was the ‘wrong thing to do,’ answering ‘yes’ when Joy Reid asked Steele if the Republican Party has a racism problem.
Parkland shooting survivors join tradition of children activists
AM Joy 2/24/18
The Parkland shooting student survivors are teenagers, yet they are now leaders and activists on the issue of gun control despite their youth, joining a tradition of children activists dating back to the Civil Rights Movement. Joy Reid and her panel discuss.
Mueller continues to put squeeze on Manafort, Gates in Russia probe
AM Joy 2/24/18
Paul Manafort may be concerned that after pleading guilty, former Trump campaign aide Rick Gates will cooperate with the Robert Mueller investigation. Joy Reid and her panel discuss why Donald Trump should also be concerned.
Will Trump grant or deny Jared Kushner’s security clearance?
AM Joy 2/24/18
Donald Trump can grant Jared Kushner a permanent security clearance, regardless of the findings or recommendations of the FBI, yet so far the president chooses to place the final decision with Gen. Kelly. Joy Reid and her panel discuss.
CPAC 2018 - From Deployment to Employment: Reintegrating Veterans into Civilian Life
Published on Feb 24, 2018 by American Conservative Union
Moderator: David Sands, The Washington Times Bob "ShoeBob" Carey, The Independence Fund Mark "Oz" Geist, Member of Benghazi Annex Security Team Chair Cathy McMorris-Rodgers, House Republican Conference SSG. Travis Mills (Ret.)
CPAC 2018 - The 2nd Amendment: 10 Years after Heller
Published on Feb 24, 2018 by American Conservative Union
Moderator: Niger Innis, Congress of Racial Equality Graham Hill, Ice Miller Strategies Willes Lee, National Federation of Republican Assemblies Carrie Lightfoot, The Well Armed Woman
Published on Feb 24, 2018 by American Conservative Union
Moderator: Marji Ross, Regnery Publishing Mona Charen, Ethics and Public Policy Center Kelsey Harkness, The Daily Signal Ashley McGuire, The Catholic Association
Conservative writer Mona Charen criticized conservatives for defending President Trump and supporting Roy Moore amidst numerous harassment allegations at the Conservative Political Action Conference.
Mona Charen didn’t make any friends after she spoke out against Trump at CPAC. Cenk Uygur, Ana Kasparian, and Kyle Kulinski, the hosts of The Young Turks, break it down.
“Conservative political analyst with National Review Mona Charen criticized conservatives for defending President Trump amidst numerous sexual harassment allegations at the Conservative Political Action Conference this weekend and faced an angry reaction from the audience. She writes in Sunday's New York Times why she is glad she got booed [ https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/25/opinion/im-glad-i-got-booed-at-cpac.html ].
Charen said that as a conservative, she is "disappointed in people from our side, in terms of being hypocrites about sexual harassers and abusers of women who are in our party (who are sitting in the White House), who bragged about their extra-marital affairs, who bragged about mistreating women."
"Because he happens to have an ‘R’ after his name, we look the other way, we don’t complain," he said about the party's support of Roy Moore for Senate "even though he was a credibly accused child molester."
"You cannot claim that you stand for women and put up with that," she said. "Not true! Prove it!" shouted one audience member. "It was a witch hunt!" yelled another.
CPAC 2018 - The Political Weaponization of Prosecutions
Published on Feb 28, 2018 by American Conservative Union
Moderator: Amb. Rick Graber, The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Lisa Nelson, ALEC Pat Nolan, ACU Foundation Center for Criminal Justice Reform Sidney Powell, Former U.S. Attorney Arthur Rizer, R Street Institute
[a breakout session from February 22, 2018 which, in particular giveen that I missed including it two posts back (. . .), fits in nicely in sequence here]
Join Alex Jones and Owen Shroyer in this special emergency broadcast breaking down the lies and disinformation being pushed by the Mainstream Media about Infowars.
A very educational video today. Buckle down and take notes.
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Oncologists Don’t Like Baking Soda Cancer Treatment Because It’s Too Effective and Too Cheap
Published on May 3, 2017 Baking soda is used for many things, but did you know it could be used to treat cancer? How astonishing is that! Even the most aggressive cancers which have metastasized have been reversed with baking soda cancer treatments. So, why aren’t more doctors using these treatments? They tell us chemotherapy saves lives, boosts long-term survival rates and does not damage healthy cells. All these statements by the cancer industry are false. Poison kills indiscriminately always has and always will. While damaging healthy cells, chemotherapy also triggers them to secrete a protein that sustains tumor growth and resistance to further treatment. That’s right chemotherapy will actually boost cancer growth. Visit us: http://greatlifeandmore.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jubx33UxTRI [with comments]
Republican pollster Frank Luntz gathered a focus group of current and former NRA members in his California home to discuss the organization, gun regulations and what the country needs to do to keep students safe in their schools.
After the Parkland shooting in Florida which left 17 dead, there has been renewed scrutiny over gun laws in the United States, with many pushing for stricter control.
"These gun regulations are bogus," said one N.R.A member. “The problem is it's a cultural problem. How does that get solved? Values have to be reinstilled."
“I'm saying that there's certain guns that we shouldn't have,” another panelist said, adding that mental evaluations were essential.
Almost all panelists agreed on expanding background checks, while one maintained that those are no guarantee against a possible future attack. “You don’t know if somebody is mentally unstable until they do something,” he said.
Looking at a Dr Zakir Naik video that was sent to me by a subscriber, in which he's asked why we need religion. He then interprets that to mean 'why do we need a way of life', and then asserts that his religion is the only true way of life.
Belize! I went on vacation to an island paradise with some friends, but of course couldn't help but make an episode.
It's another video without Francesco, but luckily this time I had the help of some high school students: Preston Smith and Aldair Rosato. Thanks, guys! I appreciate you joining me on this mini-adventure.
Democrats released a redacted version of a 10-page rebuttal to the Republicans FISA Memo, arguing that the Justice Department and FBI, and DOJ officials "did not abuse" the FISA process.
It’s been 133 days since Harvey Weinstein was outed as a serial abuser and harasser of women. Nearly every day since that story broke, more men in more professions have been accused of, admitted to, or denied shocking acts of aggression, exploitation, harassment, and prejudice toward women in the workplace.
No company is immune — including VICE. It has affected our workplace too.
Here and everywhere, people are doing what they always do to make sense of things: talking. To capture the kinds of conversations happening in America’s workplaces, we gathered lawyers, actors, technologists, construction workers, and hospitality workers, and asked them about the new reality of #MeToo: Women, Men, and Work.
The #MeToo movement has these moms scared. As the parents of college athletes, they are cheerleaders for their son's ambitions, but also their closest mentors in how to be responsible young men in the #metoo era. How do they reconcile a movement that's finally giving a voice to female trauma with the instinct to protect their sons?
VICE News Tonight sat down with mothers of college athletes, powerful and seemingly untouchable figures on their respective campuses, to find out how the #MeToo movement has impacted their parenting approach.
What are the uncomfortable conversations they are having? How are they teaching their boys the meaning of consent? How far are they going to make sure their boys don’t fall in the #MeToo spotlight?
Lupita Nyong'o chats about the strong female leads in the movie "Black Panther" and explains how she got the role of Trevor's mom in the adaptation of his memoir "Born a Crime."
Trump-Russia: Manafort 'paid European ex-politicians' Donald Trump's former campaign manager Paul Manafort secretly paid former senior European politicians to lobby for Ukraine's previous pro-Russia government, a new indictment says. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43177864
Is the NRA a Tax-Exempt Nonprofit Organization? A Facebook meme gets the basic facts right about the gun lobby's status as a social welfare organization. TRUE https://www.snopes.com/nra-tax-exempt-non-profit/
Mexico's president called off a White House visit after Trump refused to say publicly that Mexico won't pay for the border wall Mexico's president will reportedly no longer visit the White House after he argued with President Donald Trump over his long-promised border wall. Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto attempted to persuade Trump to publicly admit that Mexico won't pay for the border wall. Trump promised repeatedly during his 2016 presidential campaign that he would force Mexico to pay for it. http://www.businessinsider.com/mexico-president-trump-border-wall-argument-white-house-visit-2018-2
Improved Hubble Yardstick Gives Fresh Evidence for New Physics in the Universe Astronomers have used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to make the most precise measurements of the expansion rate of the universe since it was first calculated nearly a century ago. Intriguingly, the results are forcing astronomers to consider that they may be seeing evidence of something unexpected at work in the universe. That's because the latest Hubble finding confirms a nagging discrepancy showing the universe to be expanding faster now than was expected from its trajectory seen shortly after the big bang. Researchers suggest that there may be new physics to explain the inconsistency. "The community is really grappling with understanding the meaning of this discrepancy," said lead researcher and Nobel Laureate Adam Riess of the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) and Johns Hopkins University, both in Baltimore, Maryland. [...] https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/improved-hubble-yardstick-gives-fresh-evidence-for-new-physics-in-the-universe
Laura Ingraham Announces Week Off Air As Advertisers Flee
"Florida Gunman Nikolas Cruz Knew How to Use a Gun, Thanks to the NRA and the U.S. Army"
03/31/2018 05:58 am ET
Almost a dozen advertisers have dropped her Fox News show after she mocked a teenage survivor of the Florida school massacre.
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(Reuters) - Fox News show host Laura Ingraham announced on her show late Friday that she is taking next week off, after almost a dozen advertisers dropped her show after the conservative pundit mocked a teenage survivor of the Florida school massacre on Twitter.
Eleven companies so far have pulled their ads after a pushback by Parkland student David Hogg, 17, who called for a boycott of her advertisers.
Hogg took aim at the host’s show, “Ingraham Angle”, after she taunted him on Twitter on Wednesday, accusing him of whining about being rejected by four colleges to which he had applied.
Hogg is a survivor of the Feb. 14 mass shooting that killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in the Parkland suburb of Fort Lauderdale. He and other classmates have become the faces of a new youth-led movement calling for tighter restrictions on firearms.
Hogg tweeted a list of a dozen companies that advertise on “The Ingraham Angle” and urged his supporters to demand that they cancel their ads.
On Thursday, Ingraham tweeted an apology “in the spirit of Holy Week,” saying she was sorry for any hurt or upset she had caused Hogg or any of the “brave victims” of Parkland.
But her apology did not stop companies from departing.
The companies announcing that they are cancelling their ads are: Nutrish, the pet food line created by celebrity chef Rachael Ray, travel website TripAdvisor Inc, online home furnishings seller Wayfair Inc, the world’s largest packaged food company, Nestle SA, online streaming service Hulu, travel website Expedia Group Inc and online personal shopping service Stitch Fix.
According to CBS News, four other companies joined the list Friday: the home office supply store Office Depot, the dieting company Jenny Craig, the Atlantis, Paradise Island resort and Johnson & Johnson which produces pharmaceuticals as well as consumer products such as Band-Aids, Neutrogena beauty products and Tylenol.
Hogg wrote on Twitter that an apology just to mollify advertisers was insufficient. Ingraham’s show runs on Fox News, part of Rupert Murdoch’s Twenty-First Century Fox Inc. A Fox News representative was not immediately available for comment.
(Reporting by Rich McKay in Atlanta; additional reporting by Suzannah Gonzales in Chicago, Gina Cherelus in New York, Andrew Hay; Editing by David Gregorio, Matthew Lewis, Diane Craft and Kim Coghill)
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