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Guest host Ari Rabin-Havt talks with journalist and author Jonathan Tasini about the success of the Bernie campaign and how the political revolution will continue.
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The number of migrants arriving in Italy from North Africa more than doubled from April to May, according to the latest figures from the European Union. EU officials say the sharp rise was not caused by the closure of the route further east through Greece and the Balkans, but rather by an increase in migrants traveling from across Africa. Henry Ridgwell reports.
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Fracking endangers our drinking water. There are 192,000 fracking wells in the United States, and half of them leak after 15 years. I wouldn’t mix an ounce of things I cannot pronounce!
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Gore Vidal (/ˌɡɔːr vᵻˈdɑːl/; born Eugene Louis Vidal; 3 October 1925 – 31 July 2012) was an American writer (of novels, essays, screenplays, and stage plays) and a public intellectual known for his patrician manner, epigrammatic wit, and polished style of writing.
In the 1960s, the weekly American sketch comedy television program Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-in featured a running-joke sketch about Vidal; the telephone operator Ernestine (Lily Tomlin) would call him, saying: “Mr. Veedul, this is the Phone Company calling! (snort! snort!)”.[102][103] The sketch, titled “Mr. Veedle” also appeared in Tomlin’s comedy record album This Is a Recording (1972).[104]
In 1967, Vidal appeared on the CBS documentary, CBS Reports: The Homosexuals, in which he expressed his views on homosexuality in the arts.[105]
In the 1970s, in the stand-up comedy album Reality . . . What a Concept, Robin Williams portrayed Vidal as a drunken shill in a Thunderbird wine commercial.
In 2005, Vidal portrayed himself in Trailer for the Remake of Gore Vidal’s Caligula, a video-art piece by Francesco Vezzoli included to the 2005 Venice Biennale and part of the permanent collection of the Guggenheim Museum in New York City.[106] Moreover, Vidal provided his own voice for the animated-cartoon versions of himself in The Simpsons and the Family Guy programs. Likewise, he portrayed himself in the Da Ali G Show; the Ali G character mistakes him for Vidal Sassoon, a famous hairdresser.
In the biographic film Amelia (2009), the child Vidal was portrayed by William Cuddy, a Canadian actor. In the Truman Capote biographic film Infamous (2006), the young adult Vidal was portrayed by the American actor Michael Panes.
In 2009, Vidal was the narrator for a production of Mother Courage and Her Children (1939), by Bertolt Brecht, staged by the Royal National Theatre, London.
In “Gore Vidal Dies at 86; Prolific, Elegant, Acerbic Writer”,The New York Times described him as “an Augustan figure who believed himself to be the last of a breed, and he was probably right. Few American writers have been more versatile, or gotten more mileage from their talent.”[118] In “Gore Vidal, Iconoclastic Author, Dies at 86”, The Los Angeles Times said that he was a literary juggernaut whose novels and essays were considered “among the most elegant in the English language”.[119] In “Gore Vidal Dies; imperious gadfly and prolific, graceful writer was 86”, The Washington Post described him as a “major writer of the modern era . . . [an] astonishingly versatile man of letters”.
In the “Gore Vidal Obituary”, The Guardian said that “Vidal’s critics disparaged his tendency to formulate an aphorism, rather than to argue, finding in his work an underlying note of contempt for those who did not agree with him. His fans, on the other hand, delighted in his unflagging wit and elegant style.”[121] In “Gore Vidal”, The Daily Telegraph described the writer as “an icy iconoclast” who “delighted in chronicling what he perceived as the disintegration of civilisation around him”.[122] In “Obituary: Gore Vidal”, the BBC News said that he was “one of the finest post-war American writers . . . an indefatigable critic of the whole American system . . . Gore Vidal saw himself as the last of the breed of literary figures who became celebrities in their own right. Never a stranger to chat shows; his wry and witty opinions were sought after as much as his writing.”[123] In “The Culture of the United States Laments the Death of Gore Vidal”, the Spanish on-line magazine Ideal said that Vidal’s death was a loss to the “culture of the United States”, and described him as a “great American novelist and essayist”.[124] In “The Writer Gore Vidal is Dead in Los Angeles”, the online edition of the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera described the novelist as “the enfant terrible of American culture” and that he was “one of the giants of American literature”.[125] In “Gore Vidal: The Killjoy of America”, the French newspaper Le Figaro said that the public intellectual Vidal was “the killjoy of America”, but that he also was an “outstanding polemicist” who used words “like high-precision weapons”.
On 23 August 2012, in the program a Memorial for Gore Vidal in Manhattan, the life and works of the writer Gore Vidal were celebrated, at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, with a revival The Best Man: A Play About Politics (1960). The writer and comedian Dick Cavett was host of the Vidalian celebration, which featured personal reminiscences about and performances of excerpts from the works of Gore Vidal, by friends and colleagues, such as Elizabeth Ashley, Candice Bergen, and Hillary Clinton, Alan Cumming, James Earl Jones, and Elaine May, Michael Moore, Susan Sarandon, Cybill Shepherd, and Liz Smith.
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(Steve Menzies) The temperature in the Arctic Circle is rising faster than anywhere else on Earth and the sea ice is shrinking at record levels. Scientists are forecasting that the first ice-free summer in the Arctic Ocean could be within the next 25 to 40 years. The impact, both natural and economic, will be massive. However, there is still great uncertainty about the future climatic, weather and environmental conditions facing the Arctic region. Join David Eades from BBC World and our panel of experts as they discuss the key challenges presented by the rapidly changing climate in the Arctic Circle:
– President of Iceland, Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson
– Director of the Finnish Meteorological Institute, Petteri Taalas
– Director of the Alfred-Wegener-Institute for Polar and Marine research, Karin Lochte
– President and CEO of Arctia Shipping, Tero Vauraste
– International expert in polar marine risks, Michael Kingston
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http://democracynow.org – Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders addressed supporters in a live webcast Thursday night and vowed to continue what he called his political revolution. He did not endorse former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, but said he will work with her to defeat the presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump. As thousands plan to attend a People’s Summit in Chicago to discuss the next steps of Sanders’ revolution, we speak with a key participant, RoseAnn DeMoro, head of National Nurses United, the first national union to back Sanders last year. Sanders recently tried to place her on the Democratic platform committee, but said he was blocked by the Democratic National Committee.
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http://democracynow.org – Britain is in a state of mourning after a rising star in the British Parliament died Thursday when she was stabbed and shot in her district. Jo Cox was a 41-year-old mother of two who worked at Oxfam before being elected as a Labour MP last year. She was known for her passionate support for Syrian refugees and was a member of Labour Friends of Palestine. Her death comes just a week before the major Brexit vote—when British voters will decide whether the country should stay in the European Union. Cox was a vocal advocate for Britain to stay in the EU. During the attack, eyewitnesses said, her assassin, Thomas Mair, shouted “Britain first”—a possible reference to the far-right, anti-immigrant political party of the same name which is pushing for Britain to leave the EU. We speak with Richard Cohen, president of the Southern Poverty Law Center, which has revealed that Mair is a longtime supporter of the neo-Nazi National Alliance. He notes Mair’s attack comes on the first anniversary of when self-declared white supremacist Dylann Roof murdered nine people in the historic Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina.
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