May 8, 2018

The Daily Show: Back in Black - The Primaries Are Working Their Stupid Magic

As the 2018 primary elections approach, both Republican and Democratic candidates go out of their way to win over the most ideologically extreme voters.

May 8, 2018

The Daily Show: Trevor and Michael Kosta Discuss the Trump-Giuliani "Scumbag Defense"

Rudy Giuliani presents conflicting ideas on the Stormy Daniels story on cable news programs, and Michael Kosta wonders if he's actually a legal genius.

May 8, 2018

The Daily Show: Guest Michael Hayden - "The Assault on Intelligence" in Trump's Post-Truth America

"The Assault on Intelligence" author Michael Hayden argues that President Trump's penchant for lying has wreaked havoc on the U.S. intelligence community.

May 8, 2018

Seth Meyers - Rudy Giuliani Keeps Making Things Worse for Trump: A Closer Look

Seth takes a closer look at the aftermath of Rudy Giuliani saying the president lied about paying hush money to Stormy Daniels, and how Trump's legal team still doesn't have their story straight.

May 7, 2018

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) - Rudy Giuliani

Rudy Giuliani is new to Trump’s legal team, but not to public controversy. John Oliver examines his turbulent record as a lawyer, a politician, and an enemy to ferrets.

May 7, 2018

Greenpeace escort protests world's first purpose-built floating nuclear power plant

Amsterdam, Netherlands – As the ‘Akademik Lomonosov’, a floating nuclear power plant built in St. Petersburg, today entered Danish waters on its journey to Murmansk, it was met by Greenpeace activists forming a peaceful escort, and demanding stricter regulatory measures.

Speaking from aboard the Beluga II, a Greenpeace ship sailing alongside the Russian nuclear plant, Jan Haverkamp, a nuclear expert for Greenpeace Central and Eastern Europe, said:

“This power plant basically moves the threat of a nuclear catastrophe into fragile Arctic waters. With its flat-bottomed hull and lack of self-propulsion it’s like balancing a nuclear power plant on a wooden palette and setting it adrift in some of the world’s roughest waters.”

Russian-built nuclear icebreakers and submarines have an incident-ridden history, which, according to Jan Haverkamp, should cause alarm among nuclear regulators.

“We are urging the international community to demand from Russia a full and independent assessment and oversight of the transport, testing and operation of this floating nuclear power plant, especially considering Rosatom’s ambitions of mass producing these sci-fi fantasy floating disasters,” said Haverkamp.


More (Includes videos and photos): https://www.greenpeace.org/international/press-release/16305/greenpeace-escort-protests-worlds-first-purpose-built-floating-nuclear-power-plant/



4 May, 2018 - World's first floating nuclear power plant bound for Arctic

May 7, 2018

New York City's Crumbling 'Island of The Dead' Is Unearthing Its Nameless Skeletons

1 million souls who can't stay buried.

It's the largest mass burial site in the US, but for an estimated 1 million souls interred at New York City's 'Island of the Dead', their eternal resting place is disintegrating.

Hart Island in the Bronx, said to be the largest taxpayer-funded cemetery in the world, is crumbling in the face of longstanding erosion, and as the ground gives way, the buried remains of New York's unidentified poor are becoming exposed.

"Skeletal remains are literally just coming out of the earth," the director of non-profit Hart Island Project, Melinda Hunt, told CBS.

"Entire skeletons are sort of falling out of the hill onto the beach, and then they're washed away with the tide."

Hunt's organisation says the affected area – informally known as 'Bones Beach' – has been eroding for decades due to storms and severe weather, and after years of mismanagement by NYC's Department of Correction, which controls the site, the inevitable unearthing of human remains has reached a crisis point.


More: https://www.sciencealert.com/new-york-city-s-crumbling-island-of-the-dead-is-unearthing-its-nameless-skeletons-hart-bronx?perpetual=yes&limitstart=1

May 6, 2018

North Korea says denuclearization pledge not result of U.S.-led sanctions

Source: Reuters

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea said on Sunday its intention to denuclearize, unveiled at a historic inter-Korean summit, was not the result of U.S.-led sanctions and pressure, warning the United States not to mislead public opinion.

Impoverished North Korea has been hit by a series of U.N. and U.S. sanctions in recent years in a bid to rein in its nuclear and missile programs.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in vowed “complete denuclearization” of the Korean peninsula in the first inter-Korean summit in more than a decade on April 27, but the declaration did not include concrete steps to reach that goal.

The North’s official KCNA news agency said Washington was “misleading public opinion” by claiming the denuclearization pledge was the result of sanctions and other pressure.

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-southkorea/north-korea-says-denuclearization-pledge-not-result-of-u-s-led-sanctions-idUSKBN1I703M

May 6, 2018

SNL - Weekend Update on Rudy Giuliani's Confessions

Weekend Update anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che tackle the week's biggest news, including Rudy Giuliani admitting President Donald Trump knew about the Stormy Daniels payment.]/b]




Weekend Update on Vet Who Smuggled Heroin in Puppies



Weekend Update anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che tackle the week's biggest news, including a Colombian veterinarian accused of smuggling heroin inside puppies.




Weekend Update: Pete Davidson on Colin Jost, Michael Che



Pete Davidson admits he's jealous that Colin Jost and Michael Che are hosting the 2018 Emmys.




Weekend Update: Leslie Jones on Facebook's Dating Feature



Leslie Jones explains why she won't be using Facebook's dating feature.

May 6, 2018

SNL - Cold Open - Michael Cohen Wiretap

With the FBI listening in, Michael Cohen (Ben Stiller) fields calls from Donald Trump (Alec Baldwin), Rudy Giuliani (Kate McKinnon), Melania Trump (Cecily Strong), Ivanka Trump (Scarlett Johansson) and Jared Kushner (Jimmy Fallon) and Stormy Daniels.