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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kim Kardashian is praising husband Kanye West’s bizarre appearance on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show.”
The rapper covered a variety of topics as he rambled nearly uninterrupted for seven and a half minutes during a segment on Thursday’s “Ellen.” At one point he danced around on stage before later chiding those who would refer to him as “whacko Kanye.” West wrapped things up by telling the audience, “I’m sorry for the realness.”
Kardashian posted “Proud of my baby” on Twitter along with a clip of West’s appearance. She also acknowledges the buzz around the segment by saying “LOL” to another Twitter user who described it as “twitter kanye in real life.”
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What America Thinks: Do Voters Care About the VP?
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You're going to hear a lot in the days ahead about possible vice presidential candidates, but when it gets right down to it, voters don't place a lot of importance on the person in the number two slot. Most say a presidential candidate's running mate ...and more » -
Usernames and passwords for 117 million LinkedIn users are now for sale on a dark web market https://t.co/PWTarzXes6 http://pic.twitter.com/ZisYtYspqg
— Forbes (@Forbes) May 19, 2016
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cleveland.comNike gets wavy with latest version of the LeBron 13
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Cleveland Cavaliers forward LeBron James points to a fan after he dunked for a score in the second quarter against the Toronto Raptors center Bismack Biyombo in the second quarter against the Toronto Raptors during game two of the Eastern Conference ...and more » -
OneNewsNowTrump names names for Scalia replacement
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Trump (May '16 pic) Some conservative legal minds are complimenting the list of potential U.S. Supreme Court nominees released this week Donald Trump. Yet other conservatives are questioning if he will really stand by the list if he's in the White ...and more » -
New York TimesPolitics|'Super PAC' Backing Donald Trump Reveals List of Supporters
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Donald J. Trump at a fundraiser in Lawrenceville, N.J., on Thursday. Credit Eric Thayer for The New York Times. A “super PAC” supporting Donald J. Trump released a partial list of 27 supporters on Thursday, as officials for the group said they would ...
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New York TimesPolitics|'Super PAC' Backing Donald Trump Reveals List of Supporters
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Donald J. Trump at a fundraiser in Lawrenceville, N.J., on Thursday. Credit Eric Thayer for The New York Times. A “super PAC” supporting Donald J. Trump released a partial list of 27 supporters on Thursday, as officials for the group said they would ...and more » -
Golf star Mickelson named in insider trading scheme with Dean Foods ex-chairman, pro-gambler https://t.co/FKbsu7Y4Mx http://pic.twitter.com/0xtcqQXCVA
— Reuters U.S. News (@ReutersUS) May 19, 2016
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By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan
“Welcome to Fort McMurray. We have the energy,” reads the signs as one enters this northern deep-woods outpost at the center of the Alberta tar sands petroleum-extraction zone. The forests surrounding Fort McMurray are on fire, closing in on the vast tar sands operations. More than 90,000 people have been evacuated, most from Fort McMurray, but thousands more from the oil sands work camps, where what is considered the dirtiest oil on the planet is extracted from tarry sand dug from earth-scarring open-pit mines. Across the hemisphere, the oil giant Shell has begun cleanup operations in the Gulf of Mexico, where oil-drilling operations have leaked, spilling more than 2,000 barrels of oil into the water, 97 miles off the coast of Louisiana.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported this week in its annual Greenhouse Gas Index that “human activity has increased the direct warming effect of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere by 50 percent above pre-industrial levels during the past 25 years.” The U.S. space agency NASA reported that April was the hottest April in recorded history, by a greater margin than ever. This continues a streak of month after month breaking each month’s temperature record.
The official response to catastrophic climate change is embodied in the Paris Agreement, the 31-page document agreed to by 175 countries so far. The agreement, reached last December in Paris and signed in April, was the culmination of years of negotiations that many criticized as being far from “FAB”: Fair, Ambitious or Binding. The agreement is overseen by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, or UNFCCC, which is now holding a high-level meeting in Bonn, Germany, the first since the Paris Agreement was settled.
Kumi Naidoo, the former head of Greenpeace International, told us in Paris on the eve of the release of the final Paris Agreement, “There are so many loopholes in that draft text, you could fly Air Force One through it ... the bottom line is, I would say that the fingerprints of the fossil-fuel industry is in far too many places on this draft text.” He added, “Most of us in civil society never said, ‘The road to Paris,’ we always said, ‘The road through Paris.’”
And along that road, coordinated globally to precede the Bonn meeting, people are putting their bodies on the line, with blockades, sit-ins, banner-hangs and a whole constellation of confrontational actions, driven by the urgency of the climate crisis. Here is just a sample of some of the protests from the past two weeks, as summarized by the climate action nonprofit group 350.org:
In the U.K., protesters shut down the country’s largest open-cast coal mine for a day. A similar protest halted coal shipments in Newcastle, Australia. In the U.S., people occupied train tracks overnight to stop “bomb trains,” oil-filled tanker cars that have exploded in the past, killing hundreds. In Germany, 3,500 people shut down a lignite mine and nearby power station for over 48 hours. In the Philippines, 10,000 marched against a proposed coal plant. Community members blocked traffic outside the gates of Brazil’s largest thermal coal plant. On land and water, people blockaded the Kinder Morgan tar sands facility in Vancouver, and in Turkey, 2,000 people marched to a large coal dump and surrounded it with a giant red line.
World-renowned linguist and political dissident Noam Chomsky has just written a new book called “Who Rules the World?” He says that the two critical issues facing humanity are nuclear weapons and climate change, and that it is astounding how rarely these issues are addressed in the 2016 presidential campaign.
“When the Republicans on the Supreme Court just recently beat back a pretty moderate proposed Obama regulation on coal, that again is a message to the world, says, ‘Don’t bother doing anything,’” Chomsky told us last week. “The biggest, most powerful country in the world doesn’t care, so ‘you go ahead and do what you like.’ This is all literally saying, ‘Let’s race to the precipice.’”
There is hope in people taking action, though. In Professor Chomsky’s home state of Massachusetts, four teenage high-school students sued the state Department of Environmental Protection, claiming the state was breaking its own law mandating a reduction in greenhouse-gas emissions of 80 percent by 2050 by not taking action quickly enough. This week, the state’s highest court agreed, and Massachusetts must now implement a plan to cut emissions.
There has long been a clarion call to save the planet for future generations. It becomes increasingly clear that it is the younger generation that will save us all.
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.@realDonaldTrump on why he’s not releasing tax returns: “For 15 years I’ve been audited. It’s very unfair.” http://pic.twitter.com/CtYztVlJXO
— Fox News (@FoxNews) May 19, 2016
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BREAKING: EgyptAir says Airbus A320 Flight 804 carrying 59 passengers and 10 crew disappeared from radar early Thursday morning.
— The Associated Press (@AP) May 19, 2016
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WATCH: An American WWII veteran reunites with the Holocaust survivor he saved from a death camp 71 years ago. https://t.co/QKLp7U85md
— NBC Nightly News (@NBCNightlyNews) May 19, 2016
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Jaw-dropping anti-cyclonic #tornado touches open farmland, narrowly missing a home in Colorado, #US. Cr: James Smart http://pic.twitter.com/Owlasp8j3a
— People’s Daily,China (@PDChina) May 19, 2016
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The #ForbiddenCity in #Beijing were illuminated to showcase its original look on Wed, 1st time in hundreds of years http://pic.twitter.com/mQSGcvwI7M
— People’s Daily,China (@PDChina) May 19, 2016
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Two #earthquakes measuring 6.7 & 6.8 in magnitude shake coastal area in western Ecuador Wed., leading to one death http://pic.twitter.com/p9lDvHFlHg
— CCTVNEWS (@cctvnews) May 18, 2016
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ESPN (blog)Kyrie Irving living up to LeBron James' MVP premonition as Cavs keep rolling
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CLEVELAND -- The reality TV show "Last Point Guard Standing," otherwise known as the NBA playoffs, continued Tuesday with the Cleveland Cavaliers' Kyrie Irving taking on the next contestant he'll try to eliminate on his way to a championship: Kyle ...and more » -
Hillary and Bill Clinton earned more than $6.7 million from paid speeches in 2015 https://t.co/a0rR4yykWb http://pic.twitter.com/4RfbuteMPX
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) May 18, 2016
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Paramedic accused of stealing James Gandolfini’s $3000 Rolex watch before Gandolfini died. https://t.co/s6wccw13Y2 http://pic.twitter.com/Aq11hiQevy
— NBC Nightly News (@NBCNightlyNews) May 18, 2016
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Alberta wildfire destroys oil sands work camp as 8,000 staff are evacuated https://t.co/vp0xsz1pZN
— Guardian news (@guardiannews) May 18, 2016
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‘Cultural colonialism’: Pope Francis criticizes Western interference in Middle East, Africa https://t.co/MtRF7Zaoxa http://pic.twitter.com/UGEsgrNjuw
— RT (@RT_com) May 18, 2016
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Governments must ensure that humanitarian programming is gender-responsive. https://t.co/Vry0Zw3WEy #ShareHumanity http://pic.twitter.com/FJJLlx41a6
— United Nations (@UN) May 18, 2016
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House Republicans block provision to require women to register for the draft https://t.co/E6NzIIFCmj http://pic.twitter.com/SeVPzdPPrU
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) May 18, 2016
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Megyn Kelly broadens her profile with a Donald Trump-powered interview special https://t.co/PNG9n8iRbH http://pic.twitter.com/mGmRMLwrbm
— CNN (@CNN) May 18, 2016
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George Zimmerman smears Trayvon Martin’s parents: ‘They didn’t raise their son right’ https://t.co/EMdUQ2X1VK http://pic.twitter.com/QQNAOZQDYA
— Raw Story (@RawStory) May 18, 2016
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Carson Predicts Trump Won’t Have Much Time for This One Activity If He Becomes President
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Should he win the presidency, presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump might not have as much time to tweet anymore, Trump surrogate Dr. Ben Carson predicted Friday.
Carson, a retired neurosurgeon, appeared on Fox News Friday and defended Trump’s reactions to current events, such as the disappearance of a flight from Paris to Egypt which is widely believed to be a terrorist attack.
“Probably not to the same degree that you’re seeing the tweets and things right now,” Carson said, insinuating a President Trump’s reaction to a tragedy would be less likely to immediately pop up on social media. “He’s going to be too busy, quite frankly, for that.”
“He’s not gonna have time, you know, to be tweeting about that,” Carson added.
The former Republican presidential candidate asserted that Trump would be too wrapped up with matters in Iraq, North Korea and the South China Sea.
“I would expect him to entertain all the different possibilities, and more than likely as president he’s going to have a spokesperson, and they’re going to be issuing statements,” Carson predicted.
(H/T: The Hill)
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