Bernie Sanders Delivers Epic Speech On Democratic Socialism

Bernie Sanders delivered his long-awaited speech advocating for democratic socialism in America. He pointed to the example of FDR’s New Deal which was part of a massive social movement to secure rights for workers against the corporate/owner class. Ana Kasparian (The Point), John Iadarola (Think Tank), and Jimmy Dore (The Jimmy Dore Show Podcast), hosts of the The Young Turks, break it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.

"In a speech at Georgetown University on Thursday afternoon, Sen. Bernie Sanders, the independent from Vermont who's seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, did something unprecedented for a major candidate: He made the case for democratic socialism.

The address, which Sanders wrote himself, had been in the works for weeks, and in it Sanders embraced a label that has most often been used to attack him. (At the first Democratic presidential debate last month, front-runner Hillary Clinton distanced herself from Sanders' "democratic socialist" views.) At times, this address sounded much like Sanders' stump speech: He railed against Wall Street, the "ruling class," and the billionaire Koch brothers. But he tied those stances to an ideology that he contended was an essential part of the United States' heritage.” (***Explicit language from the news anchors***)
Interview:
https://youtu.be/8_8R6PgGcTw

History Wars Exposed: Right-Wing Influence in APUSH Curriculum Update | Political Research Associates

“At the root of current objections to this highly regarded process is a blatant disregard for the facts.”
and ...

Who, you may ask, is leading this blatant disregard for the facts?  Note especially (with my emphasis added):

The American Principles Project (APP), which has been advocating against APUSH since at least the Jefferson County protests, was founded in 2009 by Princeton University professor and Catholic neoconservative Robert P. George in order to ensure that the “dignity of the person” is reflected in local and national policies. Some of the APP’s best-known work has been produced in the fight against Common Core, but its leadership is invested in a broader slate of culture war issues. After the publication of the Manhattan Declaration in 2009, The New York Times called George “the country’s most influential conservative Christian thinker.”29 George was the primary author of the Declaration—part of an effort to unify conservative Catholics and evangelicals around a three-part agenda, which they described as “life, marriage, and religious liberty”30—but other APP figures are also proven culture warriors. APP chairman Sean Fieler also heads the Chiaroscuro Group, whose radio ads attacking a pro-choice politician once featured a talking fetus; the APP’s board president, Francis Cannon, coauthored a post-2012 report on “Building a Winning GOP Coalition”;31 and other board members include anti-marriage equality activist Maggie Gallagher and Luiz Tellez, cofounder of the anti-LGBTQ and anti-abortion legal advocacy group the Witherspoon Institute (which helped fund a thoroughly debunked 2012 study by conservative sociologist Mark Regnerus suggesting negative outcomes for children of same-sex couples32). 

http://www.politicalresearch.org/2015/10/19/history-wars-exposed-right-wing-influence-in-apush-curriculum-update/#sthash.FFnZcPRr.Qzcb35Zb.dpuf

The Black Tusk at Garibaldi Provincial Park, BC [4752 × 3168] [OC]

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Bernie Sanders Quotes FDR: 'Freedom Cannot Exist Without Economic Security'

During a speech at Georgetown University, Sanders quoted FDR and explained the policies of the Roosevelt administration that his own administration would emulate.
Interview:
https://youtu.be/cCeGOg3AVek

Sanders invokes FDR to defend democratic socialism

“Against the ferocious opposition of the ruling class of his day, people he called economic royalists, Roosevelt implemented a series of programs that put millions of people back to work, took them out of poverty, and restored our faith in government. He redefined the relationship of the federal government to the people of our nation. He combatted cynicism, fear and despair. He reinvigorated democracy. He transformed the country, and that is what we have to do today,” said the Vermont senator, an independent who caucuses with Democrats while identifying as a democratic socialist...
Read more: Interview:
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/11/bernie-sanders-socialism-speech-216071

Madeleine Albright, Who Came To America As A Refugee, Slams Proposal To Ban Syrians | ThinkProgress

“These proposals are deeply disturbing to me on many levels,” she said, expanding on a four-paragraph essay she wrote for Time earlier this week. “I cannot and do not pretend to liken my situation to Syria … But I do know what it’s like to leave your home and travel halfway around the world seeking refuge.”
http://thinkprogress.org/world/2015/11/20/3724575/madeleine-albright-syrian-refugees/

Rubio Trumps Trump: Shut Down Any Place Muslims Gather To Be 'Inspired' — Not Just Mosques | ThinkProgress

Here's what American freedom looks like under a Republican fear monger.
“It’s not about closing down mosques. It’s about closing down any place — whether it’s a cafe, a diner, an internet site — any place where radicals are being inspired,” Rubio said on Fox News’ The Kelly File on Thursday night when asked if he agreed with Trump. “The bigger problem we have is our inability to find out where these places are, because we’ve crippled our intelligence programs, both through unauthorized disclosures by a traitor, in Edward Snowden, or by some of the things this president has put in place with the support even of some from my own party to diminish our intelligence capabilities.”
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2015/11/20/3724509/rubio-trump-shut-down-mosques/

NPR Host Challenges Governor To Name One Problem With The Vetting Process For Refugees | ThinkProgress

Michigan Governor Rick Snyder was the first of more than 30 primarily Republican governors who are attempting to block the resettlement of Syrian refugees. When asked about his specific concerns regarding the two-year screening process for refugees seeking to enter the U.S., however, Snyder was unable to point to a single problem with the current system...
http://thinkprogress.org/world/2015/11/20/3724498/snyder-refugees/

Education: The Enemy of Republicans

https://youtu.be/5sitvQA4cDs

Real Time with Bill Maher: Overtime – November 20, 2015 (HBO)

Bill Maher and his guests – Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, Sen. Angus King, MP Chrystia Freeland, Ben Domenech and Andy Cohen – answer viewer questions after the show.
Interview:
https://youtu.be/RlILOdeEvS8

Real Time with Bill Maher: New Rules – November 20, 2015 (HBO)

Bill Maher issues his latest decrees for society and makes the case against electing politicians who believe we are living in the End Times.
Interview:
https://youtu.be/db9T5Bct3F0

Real Time with Bill Maher: Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom Interview – November 20, 2015

Bill Maher and California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom discuss Syrian refugees and legalized marijuana in this clip from November 20, 2015.
Interview:
https://youtu.be/4Vpyy2VqFY8

State Lawmaker Supports Putting Muslim Refugees In 'Segregated' Camps | ThinkProgress

Rhode Island was founded by refugees looking to flee religious persecution in England, but now a lawmaker from that state is urging her governor to put Syrian refugees into camps “segregated from our populous” if the state is called to act as host.
http://thinkprogress.org/immigration/2015/11/20/3724419/rhode-island-elaine-morgan/

The Center for Public Integrity: The Koch brothers' foundation network explained

In all, six separate private foundations are tied to one or both Koch brothers
http://www.publicintegrity.org/node/18713

Major U.S. Ally in War Against Islamic Extremism Sentences Poet to Death for Insulting Islam

One sentiment that's been in the air in the United States since the Nov. 13 terror attacks in Paris is that the urgency of defeating an enemy as dangerous as ISIS might justify alliances with countries that we would otherwise not want to cooperate with, like Russia. On Friday, a Guardian story out of the Middle East underlines the absurd contradictions that can arise from such geopolitically expedient partnerships: Saudi Arabia, the U.S.'s ostensible ally against violent Islamic extremists, has sentenced a poet to death for allegedly insulting Islam:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2015/11/20/poet_ashraf_fayadh_sentenced_to_death_in_saudi_arabia_for_insulting_islam.html

Ted Cruz Creates a ‘National Prayer Team’

...Mr. Cruz, who has aggressively courted the support of evangelicals, said the creation of the team would “establish a direct line of communication between our campaign and the thousands of Americans who are lifting us up before the Lord."...
http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/11/20/ted-cruz-creates-national-prayer-team/

Exclusive: Air Force Whistleblowers Risk Prosecution to Warn Drone War Kills Civilians, Fuels Terror

Has the U.S. drone war "fueled the feelings of hatred that ignited terrorism and groups like ISIS"? That’s the conclusion of four former Air Force servicemembers who are speaking out together for the first time. They’ve issued a letter to President Obama warning the U.S. drone program is one of the most devastating driving forces for terrorism. They accuse the administration of lying about the effectiveness of the drone program, saying it is good at killing people—just not the right ones. The four drone war veterans risk prosecution by an administration that has been unprecedented in its targeting of government whistleblowers. In a Democracy Now! exclusive, they join us in their first extended broadcast interview.
Interview:
https://youtu.be/mE9NV_wzzrQ

"Numbing & Horrible": Former Drone Operator Brandon Bryant on His Haunting First Kill

Former Air Force pilot Brandon Bryant is one of the the first U.S. drone operators to speak out against President Obama’s global assassination program. Bryant served as a sensor operator for the Predator program from 2007 to 2011, manning the camera on the unmanned aerial vehicles that carried out attacks overseas. After he left active duty in the Air Force, he was presented with a certificate that credited his squadron for 1,626 kills. We hear Bryant’s recounting of his first-ever lethal drone strike and the impact it continues to have on him today.
Interview:
https://youtu.be/S6sqUJaxMdM

Exclusive: 2 Air Force Vets Speak Out for First Time on Why They Want the Drone War to Stop

In an unprecedented open letter to President Obama, four U.S. Air Force servicemembers who took part in the drone war say targeted killings and remote-control bombings fuel the very terrorism the government says it’s trying to destroy. Two of the signatories, former sensor operator Stephen Lewis and former Air Force technician Cian Westmoreland, tell us why they are speaking out for the first time about what they did. “Anybody in the Air Force knows that an air strike has collateral damage a significant amount of the time,” Westmoreland says. “I’m saying it wasn’t all enemies. It was civilians as well.”
Interview:
https://youtu.be/ArlvkgvfvgA

Week In The News: Paris Attacks, Syrian Refugees, ISIS Strategy (Tom Ashbrook, On Point)

Paris nightmare this week, echoing on and on from last Friday’s attacks. The horror from ISIS that has hit Beirut and Turkey and a Russian jetliner out of Egypt, now in the heart of Europe. With a huge death toll and a long tail of reaction. Politicians ready to slam the door on Syrian refugees in the USA. Donald Trump talking about registering Muslims. Jeb Bush says let’s take Christians. President Obama saying let’s keep our cool. Then a Mali attack and more. We’ve got Hillary Clinton on ISIS. Bernie Sanders on his American way. This hour On Point, our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines. — Tom Ashbrook
Interview:
http://onpoint.wbur.org/2015/11/20/paris-attacks-isis-strategy-refugee-policy

Friday News Roundup – Domestic (Diane Rehm Show, 2015-11-20)

Less than a week after terrorist attacks in Paris, the U.S. House of Representatives easily passes a measure that would require higher security for Syrian and Iraqi refugees entering the country. President Obama says he will veto it. While some states welcome Syrians, more than two dozen governors say they plan to block refugee resettlement. Presidential candidates lay out their plans to counter terrorism at home and abroad. And in a speech on democratic socialism, Bernie Sanders makes his case for electability. A panel of journalists joins Diane for analysis of the week’s top national news stories.
Interview:
http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2015-11-20/friday-news-roundup-domestic

Friday News Roundup – International (Diane Rehm Show, 2015-11-20)

The search continues for others involved in the Paris attacks after a chief suspect is killed in a raid. France and the U.S. step up air strikes in Syria. Russia confirms it was a bomb that brought down a civilian airliner over Egypt. A panel of journalists joins Diane for analysis of the week’s top international news stories.
Interview:
http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2015-11-20/friday-news-roundup-international

Top U.S. & World Headlines — November 20, 2015

https://youtu.be/2tjY82Sn9qc

Catholic hospital system says it can deny women emergency care on religious grounds

Response to ACLU lawsuit demonstrates, once again, that Catholic hospitals put ideology above patient safety...
http://www.eclectablog.com/2015/11/catholic-hospital-says-it-can-deny-women-emergency-care-on-religious-grounds.html

Donald Trump Says He’d ‘Absolutely’ Require Muslims to Register

NEWTON, Iowa — Donald J. Trump, who earlier in the week said he was open to requiring Muslims in the United States to register in a database, said on Thursday night that he “would certainly implement that — absolutely.”...

http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/11/20/donald-trump-says-hed-absolutely-require-muslims-to-register/

Satanic Temple Chapter Offers to Help Muslims Who Fear Backlash

One day, parents will tell their children to bring home a nice Satanist...
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2015/11/19/satanic-temple-chapter-offers-to-help-muslims-who-fear-backlash/

Texas GOPer: 'Mary And Jesus Didn't Have Suicide Bomb Vests Strapped On'

“What they’re going to bring up over the holiday season is, ‘Mary and Joseph were refugees. Mary and Joseph when they went into Egypt were refugees,’” Bannon said.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/texas-goper-mary-jesus-suicide-bombers

More Mexicans Are Going Back to Mexico Than Coming Here

The Pew Research Center estimates that 1 million Mexican immigrants have departed the U.S. since the great recession began in 2009. Meanwhile, only 870,000 immigrants have left their homes in Mexico to reside in the United States during that same time period.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/this-chart/pew-poll-shows-more-mexicans-leaving-u-s

Dem Senator: 'Generally White Males' Carried Out Attacks In U.S. After 9/11

“I mean, since the beginning of the Bush administration when we were attacked, September 11th, we’ve not had any major terrorist attacks in this country. We’ve had individual crazy people, of normally, they look more like me than they look like Middle Easterners," Brown said. "They are generally white males, who have shot up people in movie theaters and schools. Those are terrorist attacks, they’re just different kinds of terrorists.”
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/sherrod-brown-white-male-terrorists

House OKs GOP Bill To Curb Syrian Refugees With Veto-Proof Majority

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a stinging rebuke to President Barack Obama by Republicans as well as members of his own party, the House ignored a veto threat Thursday and overwhelmingly approved Republican legislation erecting fresh hurdles for Syrian and Iraqi refugees trying to enter the United States.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/house-vote-syrian-refugees-defying-veto-threat

Ben Carson: 'There is currently no ability to vet' Syrian refugees | PolitiFact

"There is currently no ability to vet these people. By letting refugees into our country without vetting we are putting America at risk," Republican candidate Ben Carson wrote in an official statement posted on Facebook on Nov. 16.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/nov/19/ben-carson/ben-carson-there-currently-no-ability-vet-syrian-r/

Donald Trump says Obama administration is pushing refugees toward states with GOP governors | PolitiFact

Is the administration sending refugees to Republican-led states but not Democratic ones? In a word, no.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/nov/18/donald-trump/donald-trump-says-obama-administration-pushing-ref/

No country For Anyone Not Already Here

All the GOP candidates have come out against accepting Syrian refugees, but only because it might be a little too cold for them here.
https://youtu.be/lkRpAK3OtqQ

Teacher Compliments Students And It's Turning His Classroom Around

Chris Ulmer decided to implement a new teaching method and it's turning his classroom around.
https://youtu.be/C9eGz9hXfEI

Sam Harris: What happens if you really follow the bible

http://youtu.be/TasoRGeDHCc

Al Jazeera America: Israeli troops kill two Palestinians in West Bank raid

Israeli troops killed two Palestinian gunmen during a clash in the occupied West Bank on Monday that was sparked by an army incursion to demolish the family home of a jailed Palestinian, Palestinian medical sources and residents said.
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/11/16/israeli-troops-kill-two-palestinians-in-raid.html

Politifact.com Truth-O-Meter rulings from National: Ben Carson: "Every signer of the Declaration of Independence had no federal elected office experience."

"You are absolutely right — I have no political experience," Carson wrote in the initial version of his post. "The current Members of Congress have a combined 8,700 years of political experience. Are we sure political experience is what we need. Every signer of the Declaration of Independence had no elected office experience. What they had was a deep belief that freedom is a gift from God. They had a determination to rise up against a tyrannical King. They were willing to risk all they had, even their lives, to be free."
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/nov/08/ben-carson/ben-carson-said-no-one-who-signed-declaration-inde/

Condoleezza Rice: I Get The Security Concerns, But The US Should Accept Refugees

"I fundamentally understand that you in a position of authority, like you, governor and others, in addition to having compassion for others, you have to be safety conscious for your people," Rice said, nodding at Bentley. "What the United States has done is to be open to people who are fleeing tyranny, who are fleeing danger, but we have done it in a very careful way that has worked for us."
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/condoleeza-rice-refugees-security

Ignore The Freakout: Here's What Obama Really Said About 'America Winning'

What I do not do is to take actions either because it is going to work politically or it is going to somehow in the abstract make America look tough. Or make me look tough.
And maybe part of the reason is because every few months I go to Walter Reed and I see a 25 year old kid who is paralyzed or who has lost his limbs and some of those are people I've ordered into battle. 

And so I can’t afford to play some of the political games that others may. We’ll do what’s required to keep the American people safe. And I think it’s entirely appropriate in a democracy to have a serious debate about these issues. If folks want to pop off and have opinions about what they think they would do, present a specific plan. If they think that somehow their advisers are better than the chairman of my Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the folks who are actually on the ground, I want to meet them. And we can have that debate. 

But what I’m not interested in doing is posing or pursuing some notion of American leadership, or America winning or whatever other slogans they come up with, that has no relationship to what is actually going to work to protect the American people. And to protect people in the region who are getting killed. And to protect our allies in people like France. I’m too busy for that.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/obama-america-winning

Huckabee Calls For Paul Ryan To 'Step Down Today' If He Can't Stop Refugees

About a dozen Republican governors and lawmakers called for the end of Syrian refugee resettlement programs on Monday in reaction to the attacks that killed more than 100 people in Paris.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/mike-huckabee-paul-ryan-refugee-programs

PT 1: Glenn Greenwald on "Submissive" Media's Drumbeat for War and Anti-Muslim Scapegoating

In the aftermath of the Paris attacks, media coverage has seen familiar patterns: uncritically repeat government claims, defend expansive state power, and blame the Muslim community for the acts of a few. We discuss media fearmongering, anti-Muslim scapegoating, ISIL’s roots, and war profiteering with Glenn Greenwald, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and co-founder of The Intercept. "Every time there’s a terrorist attack, Western leaders exploit that attack to do more wars," Greenwald says. "Which in turn means they transfer huge amounts of taxpayer money to these corporations that sell arms. And so investors are fully aware that the main people who are going to benefit from this escalation as a result of Paris are not the American people or the people of the West —-— and certainly not the people of Syria — it is essentially the military-industrial complex."
Interview:
https://youtu.be/MQDRGrA9I7A

PT 2: Glenn Greenwald on "Submissive" Media's Drumbeat for War and Anti-Muslim Scapegoating

In the aftermath of the Paris attacks, media coverage has seen familiar patterns: uncritically repeat government claims, defend expansive state power, and blame the Muslim community for the acts of a few. We discuss media fearmongering, anti-Muslim scapegoating, ISIL’s roots, and war profiteering with Glenn Greenwald, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and co-founder of The Intercept. "Every time there’s a terrorist attack, Western leaders exploit that attack to do more wars," Greenwald says. "Which in turn means they transfer huge amounts of taxpayer money to these corporations that sell arms. And so investors are fully aware that the main people who are going to benefit from this escalation as a result of Paris are not the American people or the people of the West —-— and certainly not the people of Syria — it is essentially the military-industrial complex."
Interview:
https://youtu.be/VX5igFy5P58

Glenn Greenwald: "Shameless" U.S. Officials Exploit Paris Attacks to Defend Spying & Attack Snowden

As France and Belgium move to expand state power in the aftermath of the Paris attacks, top U.S. officials have renewed a push to defend mass surveillance and dismiss those who challenge it. On Wednesday, FBI Director James Comey said intelligence and law enforcement officials need to have access to encrypted information on smartphones, despite no evidence that the Paris attackers used encryption. Meanwhile, others have used the Paris attacks to criticize NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. In recent days, CIA Director John Brennan has suggested revelations about mass spying have made it harder to find terrorists, while former CIA Director James Woolsey has said Snowden has blood on his hands. "We have not heard such blatant, shameless lying from intelligence and military officials since 2002 and 2003 when they propagandized the country into invading Iraq based on utterly false pretenses," says The Intercept’s Glenn Greenwald, the Pulitzer-winning journalist who exposed NSA mass surveillance based on Snowden’s leaks. "It is actually shocking to listen to."
Interview:
https://youtu.be/0AydkwQi3Es

Overdosing on Weed & Marijuana Addiction

--Kevin Hill, MD, MHS, addiction psychiatrist and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at McLean Hospital and Harvard Medical School, and author of "Marijuana: The Unbiased Truth about the World’s Most Popular Weed,” joins David to discuss marijuana addiction, medical applications of marijuana, and legalization
Interview:
https://youtu.be/F0aXR3qGwiQ

Aid-In-Dying Advocacy Group Girds For Battles After California Victory

Aid-in-dying bills were introduced this year in 23 state legislatures, plus in the District of Columbia, up from four last year, according to Compassion & Choices. Despite formidable opposition from the Catholic Church, disabled-rights groups and parts of the medical community, the group sees its strength growing...
https://www.thelundreport.org/content/aid-dying-advocacy-group-girds-battles-after-california-victory

Texas Board of Education Rejects Proposal Allowing Experts to Fact-Check Textbooks

And the ones who will suffer the most are the students, who will once again be stuck with a subpar education because the adults in charge didn’t feel the need to bring in experts to vet the content kids are supposed to learn in school...
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2015/11/19/texas-board-of-education-rejects-proposal-allowing-experts-to-fact-check-textbooks/

Desperate Journey: Shocking Video Shows Risks Refugee Families Take to Reach Europe Safely

So far this year, more than 800,000 asylum seekers and refugees have arrived in Europe by sea. Human Rights Watch has just produced a short video capturing the harrowing journey to Europe. "Desperate Journey: Europe’s Refugee Crisis" is narrated by HRW’s Judith Sunderland.
Interview:
https://youtu.be/PGE_l0G5Xcg

Top U.S. & World Headlines — November 19, 2015

https://youtu.be/c1FS9aW0n0U

Obama Loses His Cool With Reporters Repeatedly Asking Same ISIL Questions (VIDEO)

"What I'm not interested in doing is posing or pursuing some notion of American leadership or America winning or whatever other slogans they come up with that has no relationship to what is actually going to work to protect the American people and to protect people in the region who are getting killed and to protect our allies in people like France," Obama said. "I'm too busy for that."
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/obama-g20-summit-frustration-reporters

Donald Trump: We Have To 'Strongly Consider' Shutting Down Mosques (VIDEO)

"I would hate to do it but it would be something that you're going to have strongly consider," Trump said. "Some of the ideas, some of the hatred, absolute hatred, is coming from these areas."
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/donald-trump-shut-down-mosques

More Than 100,000 Texan Women Have Tried To Induce Their Own Abortion | ThinkProgress

“As clinic-based care becomes harder to access in Texas, we can expect more women to feel that they have no other option and take matters into their own hands,” said Daniel Grossman, a TxPEP co-investigator and Professor in Reproductive Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco...
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2015/11/17/3723068/self-induced-abortion-texas/

Oil Demand In The U.S. Can Stress Water Supplies In Countries Thousands Of Miles Away | ThinkProgress

Drilling for oil and gas is highly water-intensive. Even in the U.S., fossil fuel production has come under fire for the amount of water it uses — California used 70 million gallons of water for fracking last year, a figure that, though small compared to other sectors in the state, angered environmentalists who were concerned about the state’s ongoing drought. And an analysis last year found that fracking operations are stressing water supplies in areas of the U.S. that are already experiencing drought...
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/11/17/3723020/oil-international-water-footprint/

Hungry For Power Games: May The Branch Be Ever In Your Face

Farewell, Governor Bobby Jindal and better luck next Arbor Day.
https://youtu.be/wpZFrQP4c2s

Why Ted Cruz Is Wrong About Accepting Syrian Refugees | Crooks and Liars

No network -- not Fox, CNN or MSNBC -- is talking accurately about why ISIS exists or why they're on the attack.
http://crooksandliars.com/2015/11/why-ted-cruz-wrong-about-accepting-syrian

Meet The Anti-Muslim Adviser Behind Ben Carson's 'Chinese In Syria' Claims

Dr. Ben Carson insisted last week that he had “better sources” than the U.S. government after Obama administration officials said there was no evidence to support his claims that the Chinese military was getting involved in Syria.

But what are those sources, exactly?...
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/robert-dees-ben-carson-foreign-policy

Fox News Monsters Laugh About Thought Of Bernie Sanders Being Beheaded By ISIS (VIDEO)

“He’s brilliant, that guy,” Steyn said in a sarcastic tone. “I mean, al-Baghdadi [leader of ISIS] will be sawing Bernie Sanders’ head off, and he’ll be saying as his neck is being sliced, ‘Oh, if only we had an emissions trading scheme!'” Steyn continued as Varney laughed...
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/11/16/fox-news-monsters-laugh-about-thought-of-bernie-sanders-being-beheaded-by-isis-video/

Could Atropine Eyedrops Help Reduce Nearsightedness In Children?

If you peek into classrooms around the world, a bunch of bespectacled kids peek back at you. In some countries such as China, as much as 80 percent of children are nearsighted. As those kids grow up, their eyesight gets worse, requiring stronger and thicker eyeglasses. But a diluted daily dose of an ancient drug might slow that process.
http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/11/17/456344212/could-atropine-eyedrops-help-reduce-nearsightedness-in-children

Justice Scalia Reportedly Suggests Kim Davis May Ignore The Court’s Marriage Equality Decision

In case there is any doubt what Scalia meant by “case rulings that lack a warrant in the text or original understanding of the Constitution,” George says that the justice condemned two sets of cases in particular — the Court’s marriage equality decision in Obergefell v. Hodges and the Supreme Court’s cases preserving the separation of church and state.
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2015/11/17/3723135/scalia-obergefell-nonbinding/

Lawmakers Line Up To Make It Easier To Discriminate Against You When You Buy A Car

A bill to allow racially discriminatory car lending practices is up for a vote in the House this week. If it passes, it could restore a system that routinely charges black and Latino borrowers hundreds of dollars more for car loans than similarly-qualified white borrowers...

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2015/11/17/3723255/cfpb-car-loans-discrimination/

Why It Matters That Yet Another State Has Cleared Planned Parenthood Of Wrongdoing | ThinkProgress

His letter stated that his office “found no basis to believe that Planned Parenthood is selling fetal tissue or profiting from fetal tissue donations,” and that procedures performed by Planned Parenthood are of a “legally authorized medical procedure.”
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2015/11/17/3723094/critical-state-planned-parenthood-clinics-no-evidence-wrongdoing/

This Chart Is The Perfect Rebuttal To Governors Who Won't Take In Syrian Refugees | ThinkProgress

“The United States has resettled 784,000 refugees since September 11, 2001,” Newland wrote in a recent op-ed. “In those 14 years, exactly three resettled refugees have been arrested for planning terrorist activities—and it is worth noting two were not planning an attack in the United States and the plans of the third were barely credible.”
http://thinkprogress.org/world/2015/11/17/3722952/refugee-resettlement/

Global Temperatures Continue To Surge In Record-Breaking October | ThinkProgress

How hot was October globally? It was not merely the hottest October — by far — in the 135-year temperature record of NASA (see chart above). Or the hottest October — by far — in the 125-year temperature record of the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA):
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/11/17/3722928/charts-october-temperatures/

Pope’s Attitude Is Little Different Than His Predecessors’

"...The pope’s calling those protesting sexual abuse and church officials’ complicity “dumb” is shockingly revealing of the lack of seriousness with which he takes this issue – and devastating to those survivors who still held out hope that he would be different from his predecessors..."
http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/10/14/the-pope-and-the-sex-abuse-scandal

Calling Protesters in Chile ‘Dumb,’ Pope Francis Sets Off Uproar

“It is the Church of Osorno that is demonstrating; we are not taking orders from political parties,” Mr. Claret said. “We are now seeing the real face of Pope Francis, and we demand an explanation.”... “The pope’s statements are not surprising, but it is sad,” Mr. Cruz said. “The vision of a pope closer to abuse victims has been unmasked.”...
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/08/world/americas/calling-protesters-in-chile-dumb-pope-francis-sets-off-uproar.html?_r=0
https://youtu.be/8MJ-arsR7kE

The Guardian: Bjork on Iceland: 'We don't go to church, we go for a walk'

Iceland’s most celebrated musician is feeling particularly impassioned about her homeland: she had just held a press conference to raise awareness of the threat to the Icelandic highlands, an area of extraordinary beauty and ecological diversity that may be irreparably damaged by plans to lay a subsea power cable to the UK, accompanied by above-ground power stations and infrastructure...
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/nov/16/bjork-iceland-church-john-grant-sigur-ros

NRA-Backed Legislator: We Can't Take Syrian Refugees Because It's Too Easy For Them To Buy Guns | ThinkProgress

“While the Paris attackers used suicide vests and grenades,” Dale wrote, “it is clear that firearms also killed a large number of innocent victims. Can you imagine a scenario were [sic] a refugees [sic] is admitted to the United States, is provided with federal cash payments and other assistance, obtains a drivers license and purchases a weapon and executes an attack?” He urged the lawmakers to “do whatever you can to stop the [Syrian refugee] program.”
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2015/11/17/3722968/nra-texas-rep-no-syrians-gun-access/

The Truth About Ben Carson

https://youtu.be/F8Gi0bkORUQ

Send a Message: Action Alert! Urge Your Members of Congress Not to Cut the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program

Congress is currently deliberating over final fiscal year (FY) 2016 federal funding. One of the programs that would be drastically cut under these spending bills is the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program (TPPP).

The TPPP provides age appropriate, medically accurate, and effective sex education, while abstinence-only education has been proven time and time again to be inaccurate, ineffective, and harmful. Sex education policy should be based
http://action.secular.org/secular/app/write-a-letter?0&engagementId=112833

The New Republican War On Religious Freedom | ThinkProgress

“Never have the threats been greater to religious liberty than they are right here and now today,” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) told a campaign rally in Iowa last August, less than three months before he called for members of one of the world’s great faiths to be segregated away from Americans who share his religious beliefs.
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2015/11/17/3722936/republicans-react-to-paris-by-declaring-war-on-religious-freedom/

Yes, Terrorists Use Encryption But That Doesn't Mean It's A Bad Thing | ThinkProgress

To succeed, governments are going to need to resist the impulse to snatch encryption back from the masses when there’s a deadly event...
http://thinkprogress.org/world/2015/11/17/3722725/isis-encryption-paris-attacks/

Opinion: Circus politics is perilous for America - CSMonitor.com

The next president of the United States will confront a virulent jihadist threat, mounting effects of climate change, and an economy becoming ever more unequal.
http://m.csmonitor.com/Business/Robert-Reich/2015/1117/Opinion-Circus-politics-is-perilous-for-America

Anonymous hackers begin offensive against ISIS - CSMonitor.com

“They want to strike terror with their name, with bloody images, with violent videos. We cannot fight them with guns and rifles, stopping their propaganda is an effective way to weaken their manpower and their presence in the Internet. Disrupting their communications makes it difficult to organize their attacks in a fluid manner,” the person behind the Operation Paris account told the BBC.
http://m.csmonitor.com/World/Global-News/2015/1117/Anonymous-hackers-begin-offensive-against-ISIS

Polarize and conquer? How ISIS inflames anti-Muslim hostility - CSMonitor.com

When it targeted scores of Parisians in a concert hall last Friday, the terrorist group known as the Islamic State (ISIS) didn't just set out to kill more than 100 civilians enjoying an evening out. Its goal, according to experts and in ISIS's own words, was also to sow discord, ultimately polarizing the world into two sharply opposing camps.
http://m.csmonitor.com/USA/USA-Update/2015/1117/Polarize-and-conquer-How-ISIS-inflames-anti-Muslim-hostility

Five financial regulations that help protect your wallet - CSMonitor.com

The government has a well-deserved reputation for red tape, dysfunction, and Congressional bickering. But government bodies have also passed several regulations that protect the money in your wallet. Here is a look at some of the most important regulations protecting the financial health of consumers today.
http://m.csmonitor.com/Business/Saving-Money/2015/1117/Five-financial-regulations-that-help-protect-your-wallet

Thanksgiving.xlsx - Google Drive

How one mother plans for Thanksgiving -- on a spreadsheet you too can use --
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1fDs72csBfZMW1fQl9MWl9nMmM/view
...as discussed here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/food/comments/3t6upb/how_my_mother_plans_for_thanksgiving_dinner/

John Kasich Calls For New Agency To Promote 'Judeo-Christian' Values To The World

Republican presidential candidate John Kasich says he'd set up an agency with a "mandate" to promote what he calls "Judeo-Christian values" overseas to counter Islamist propaganda...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/kasich-judeo-christian-values-agency_564bc6d9e4b08cda348b6727
Interview:
https://aolvideoshd-vh.akamaihd.net/i//557/5192557/519255699_,1,2,4,8,128,.mp4.csmil/master.m3u8?hdnea=exp=1447896062~acl=/*~hmac=c9337d4e2ef61c7014015353228db52552901ed649c917fdb594810798f3cf4e

The Case For Accepting Syrian Refugees...In One Minute

Refusing refugees entry into the United States erodes American values and plays right into the hands of terrorists who are trying to divide us.
Interview:
https://youtu.be/H-yxw2mrht8

What Not To Say To Someone Who Has Depression – And What To Say Instead

It's not always easy to talk with someone who has depression. Here are some tips.
https://youtu.be/qwP1iaFpRiI

WOTM: Murder the Gays!!!

With three Presidential candidates in the wings, the National Religious Liberties Conference aspires to execute Homosexuals as part of their "religious liberty."
https://youtu.be/lz07IIsPvvY


Here is a video of the speech he's talking about:
https://youtu.be/GBDbGyv6SIQ

Ben Carson Advisor: Carson Needs Briefings to "Make Him Smart"

The latest information to come out of the Carson camp has the strange quality of seeming incredibly accurate.
https://youtu.be/oT90cj8GDPU

U.S. Marine Corps Veteran Fights For $15 Minimum Wage

A U.S. war veteran is now fighting another battle at home for a $15/hour minimum wage.
https://youtu.be/DszM-HtKiyM

Answers to Matt Slick's Questions for Atheists - Part 1

https://youtu.be/kEdrWAmrbkc

Catholic bishops revise voter guide after debate over ‘Pope Francis agenda’

“I believe that this document is gravely hobbled,” said McElroy, who was an outspoken advocate for the church’s social justice teachings even before Francis named him to the large and growing Southern California diocese earlier this year.
“Specifically, I think the pope is telling us that alongside the issues of abortion and euthanasia — which are central aspects of our commitment to transform this world — poverty and the degradation of the Earth are also central,” McElroy said. “But this document keeps to the structure of the worldview of 2007. It does not put those there.”
Instead, he said, the voter guide “tilts in favor of abortion and euthanasia and excludes poverty and the environment.”

http://www.religionnews.com/2015/11/17/catholic-bishops-revise-voter-guide-debate-pope-francis-agenda/