The Virtual Interview: Edward Snowden – The New Yorker Festival

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Published on Oct 11, 2014

The New Yorker Festival presents Edward Snowden in conversation with Jane Mayer.

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Edward Snowden’s Speech on Moment of Truth

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Published on Sep 15, 2014

Edward Snowden talks about online surveillance on Kim Dotcom’s Moment of Truth event. Julian Assange and Glenn Greenwald were also present.

Watch the entire video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pbps1…

Read the whitepaper: http://kim.com/whitepaper.pdf

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Tense stand-off between Million Mask March protesters and police in London

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Published on Nov 5, 2014

Protesters and police engaged in a tense stand-off with sporadic scuffles erupting across central London amid mass acts of civil disobedience. At least 10 Million Mask March protesters were detained after breaching cordons and inciting police to fight. Harry Fear has been following the rallies at the scene.

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‘Anonymous could become our Arab Spring’ – ex-CIA on Million Mask March day

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Published on Nov 5, 2014

The Million Mask March is sweeping the globe across Wednesday as demonstrators protest against austerity, mass surveillance and oppression. RT talks to former CIA analyst Ray McGovern on the issue.

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Fight fiercely, Harvard, against global warming, alumnus says | Divest Harvard

November 6, 2014 – 8:13AM

Charles Miller

‘Fight fiercely, Harvard’, a favorite college’s song, doesn’t seem to apply to climate change, an alumnus says.

More than 40 years ago, as a Harvard sophomore, I sat in the classroom of Professor Roger Revelle, who was teaching a course on human population. We learned about Malthus, Norman Borlaug and the green revolution. Revelle, in his heavily stained necktie, would entertain us with mental calculations he’d performed while taking a shower earlier in the morning.

Over the course of the semester, we also learned about a then-little known phenomenon called the greenhouse effect, first advanced by a Swedish chemist in the 1890s. Under this theory, the burning of fossil fuels like coal and oil would cause the Earth to get warmer.

I was hooked. (Apparently Al Gore was too – he took the same course.) Global warming became an animating force in my life, and for the past 20 years I have spent a good portion of my professional time on this issue. Since I learned about global warming for the first time at Harvard, I find it personally a little ironic that Harvard is failing to do its part by divesting of stocks in fossil fuels.

In a letter to the Harvard community, President Drew Faust advanced a number of reasons why, in her view, Harvard should not divest. I’d like to tackle them one by one.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/fight-fiercely-harvard-against-global-warming-alumnus-says-20141106-11hlia.html

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Professor Chris Rapley discusses climate change and creativity

Royal Opera House

Published on May 13, 2014

Chris Rapley, Professor of Climate Science at University College London addresses the Culture Change conference at the Royal Opera House. Speaking at the event, he states his belief that creativity must be at the centre of shaping future climate and asks the audience of cultural Small and Medium Enterprises to be confident about sustainability and the difference they can make.

Culture Change is a business support programme for small and medium enterprises and microbusinesses within the creative and cultural industries based in the East of England. This is a new Royal Opera House programme supported by the European Regional Development Fund that provides a minimum of 12 hours free support to your organisation.

To find out more visit: http://www.roh.org.uk/about/culture-c…

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Climate Change Activists Come Up Short In Midterm Elections

November 05, 2014 4:20 PM ET

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Tom Steyer, the hedge-fund billionaire, spent tens of millions of dollars in the midterms, mostly in seven senate and gubernatorial races. Most of his candidates lost, as will — presumably —one of his Steyer’s key ambitions: major action on climate change.

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Meet the Senate’s New Climate Denial Caucus

—By Tim McDonnell

| Wed Nov. 5, 2014 2:43 PM EST

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Well, folks, it wasn’t such a great night on the climate action front. It looks like the millions of dollars that environmental philanthropist Tom Steyer invested in the midterms didn’t buy much other than a fledgling political infrastructure to sock away for 2016. With Republicans now in control of the Senate, we’re likely to see a bill to push through the Keystone XL pipeline coming down the pike soon. And Mitch McConnell, probably the coal industry’s biggest booster, retained his seat.

In fact, McConnell and his climate-denying colleague James Inhofe of Oklahoma—the likely chair of the Senate’s Environment and Public Works committee—won a lot of new friends on Capitol Hill last night. It probably won’t surprise you to learn that most of the Senate’s newly elected Republicans are big boosters of fossil fuels and don’t agree with the mainstream scientific consensus on global warming. Here’s an overview of their statements on climate change, ranging from a few who seem to at least partly accept to science to those who flat-out reject it.

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Election Results Make U.S. Congress Action on Climate Change Even Less Likely

Kentucky Republican Mitch McConnell, who will lead the Senate, emphasizes coal-mining jobs over warnings from scientists.

A mountain is leveled to extract coal in Appalachia. In poor regions of the U.S., mountaintop mining is seen as a source of much-needed jobs. The practice destroys areas that were once diverse temperate forests.

Photograph by George Steinmetz, National Geographic Creative

Mark Silva, for National Geographic, Published November 5, 2014

In the green hills and gray hollows of Kentucky‘s well-mined mountains, the economy of extracting coal from the fuel-rich ground isn’t what it once was.

Yet Mitch McConnell, a longtime senator poised to become majority leader of the U.S. Senate in a Congress that will be fully controlled by his Republican Party come January, has found political fortune in those hills. He successfully campaigned for reelection there with warnings about a “war on coal” he accuses Democratic President Barack Obama of waging. This helps explain what the United States won’t be doing about global warming in the near future. (Read more about how the midterm election results may intensify the battle over clean energy.)

An alignment of the newly empowered McConnell and fellow Republican leaders—who either openly doubt scientists’ findings that human industry has heated the planet, or contend that curbing carbon emissions into the Earth’s atmosphere isn’t worth the potential cost of lost jobs—is likely to create the most hostile political environment ever for addressing climate change in Washington.

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Choctaw Code Talkers

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Uploaded on Jul 20, 2010

In 1918, not yet citizens of the U.S., Choctaw members of the U.S. American Expeditionary Forces were asked to use their native language as a powerful tool against the German Forces in World War I, setting a precedent for code talking as an effective military weapon and establishing them as America’s original Code Talkers.

This film will be available Fall 2010 at www.nativetelecom.org.

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