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President Trump is about to pull the U.S. out of the Paris Climate Agreement.

The agreement was hailed as a landmark for pulling the planet back from the brink of

destruction but Trump has been telegraphing since his campaign that he wants to pull out.

Trump's hostility to the Paris Climate Agreement is not surprising.

He has surrounded himself with climate deniers and vowed to roll back environmental regulations

on just about everything.

He has appointed as his EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt who previously had spent almost

his entire career trying to destroy the EPA.

He appointed Myron Ebell to lead his EPA transition team, despite the fact that Ebell is a non-scientist

that says all scientists are lying about climate change being real.

At one point on the campaign trail Trump called climate change a "chinese hoax" designed

to lure America into economically ruinous policies.

Which is ironic since China is actually making lots of money on clean technology turning

itself into a world leader on the subject.

It is also possible that US imports could start to be harmed by the efforts of some

countries to tax carbon emissions.

Trump has also tried to eliminate the Clean Power Plan, without which the US will never

meet the goals set in Paris.

That deal is already stayed in the courts but Trump ordered a broad review to roll-back

whatever he can.

He has taken steps to supercharge the pipeline building process, and almost certainly will

not give up on opening vast new areas of public land to drilling for oil.

Trump is even on quixotic quest to restore the coal industry, something even the coal

industry doesn't really think is possible.

So the Paris Climate Agreement withdrawal makes perfect sense in that context.

Trump is part of a revanchist sector of the American ruling class, from the most heavily

polluting industries that have been trying to do what cigarette companies did for decades.

Essentially wage a guerilla war against science to prevent any major legislation that harms

their profit making.

They want to the rollback of all environmental regulations no matter the costs to humans

and the environment more broadly.

But wait, a ton of large energy companies and other major corporations have asked Trump

to stay in the deal.

What's that about?

Which brings us to our second issue, which is the Paris Climate Talks led to an agreement

that will probably not come close to doing enough to actually save the planet from being

destroyed.

Major countries and corporations are under quite a bit of pressure to do something about

Climate Change, something that can be noted by the 61% of Americans who support America

staying in the deal.

So the Paris Climate talks were, like the Kyoto Accords, designed to create the impression

major change was being pursued when really it was just changes around the margins.

James Hansen, the world's most prominent climate scientist called the agreement a "fraud."

Hansen stated: "It's just worthless words.

There is no action, just promises."

He then went on to tangentially note the profit motives behinds fossil fuels saying "As

long as fossil fuels appear to be the cheapest fuels out there, they will be continued to

be burned."

More technically GreenPeace noted: "The deal sets out the objective of limiting temperature

rises to 1.5 degrees, but the emissions targets on the table take us closer to 3 degrees."

Kumi Naidoo, GreenPeace International Director, went on to say: "There's not enough in

this deal for the nations and people on the frontlines of climate change.

It contains an inherent, ingrained injustice.

The nations which caused this problem have promised too little help to the people who

are already losing their lives and livelihoods."

Erich Pica, President of Friends of the Earth added "The Paris agreement is not a fair,

just or science-based deal.

The United States has hindered ambition.

The result is an agreement that could see low-lying islands and coastlines swallowed

up by the sea, and many African lands ravaged by drought."

In reality it seems that the only way to actually reach the goal of keeping global temperatures

below a two degree rise is to keep 80% of all fossil fuels in the ground.

Obviously a task no major corporation or country is willing to take-up.

It is also worth noting that we are at about a one degree increase now.

As 350.org notes "we're already seeing more storms, flooding, heatwaves, drought,

and island nations at risk of going underwater."

So even limiting the rise below two degrees means we are moving towards a much different,

scarier, less just, and more violent world.

So in reality we need to transition to 100% renewable energy essentially right away, starting

now.

There are a number of proposals and plans but all of them would mean a major change

in how we structure our society: one that essentially eliminates the imperatives of

private profit over investments in essentially everything, and a dynamic democratic process

to determine and allocate resources based on capabilities, needs, and wants of the human

family.

That's called "socialism" and Trump removing the U.S. from the Paris Climate Agreement

is a great opportunity to remind people again why we need it.

Our lives literally depend on it.

For more infomation >> Eugene Puryear: U.S. withdrawal from Paris Accord & the need for a new system' - Duration: 4:50.

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How Eggs can Help us Understand the Extinction of Madagascar's Elephant Birds - Duration: 9:50.

Good morning, let's keep talking about Island colonization and

this time in Madagascar.

My name is Kristina Douglass, I'm a Buck Postdoctoral Fellow

in the Department of Anthropology and in the Department of Vertebrate Zoology.

So as many of you may know Madagascar was colonized

recently in human history relative to other parts of the world.

Some estimates place initial arrivals of people in Madagascar to the first

Millennium A.D. but there's emerging evidence that an early forager phase

may be present in Madagascar.

We're not sure exactly who the first Malagasy were in terms of

where they were coming from and so many questions remain to be

answered both about the precise timing and location of first arrivals.

Madagascar is incredibly biogeographically diverse as I'm sure you all know.

In the late Holocene, Madagascar also experienced tremendous

environmental change and so many research questions from

archaeologists and paleontologists and paleoecologists are concerned

with the link between human arrival on the island and some of these changes.

Famous among these changes are the extinction of megafauna

in Madagascar and other endemics.

Here you see reconstructions of some of these megafauna

species that included giant lemurs, pygmy hippos, and these

giant elephant birds.

The elephant birds in particular are a mysterious case of extinction

because we have very limited evidence from archaeological

and paleontological sites of elephant bird remains.

Very few, if any, elephant bird bones have been recovered from

any archaeological sites and the purpose of my research is to look

at eggshell which I have found in abundant quantities at archaeological

sites in Southwest Madagascar as an alternative means for understanding

extinction of these animals.

To give you some context in terms of where we are in addressing

some of these questions, we have very large gaps in our data

sets concerning human impact on the environment in Madagascar.

Here for example you see that of the many invasive plants and

animals that were introduced to the island in the late Holocene

we have limited knowledge of the precise timing

and location of their introduction.

So the arrows are essentially pointing to places where we

know rice, cotton, and cattle were introduced and some suggestions

of the timing of those introductions but for the vast majority of invasives

in Madagascar, we have almost no data to time their introduction.

We also have a fairly limited archaeological sample in terms

of a geographic representation of the different regions in Madagascar

and in terms of timing.

The map on the left hand side if you turn your attention to the

orange boxes those represent sites with this potentially very

early forager component going back as far as 4500 BP.

The other sites that you see, the other phases that you see

highlighted in those boxes are all from the mid-1st Millennium AD and onward.

On the right hand side, if you look at that map, you'll see that

paleontological sites are concentrated very heavily in the southwest which is

why I focus my research there to link archaeological signatures

to paleontological remains.

Why ratites? I'm interested broadly in human ratite interaction as these

birds have gone extinct from much of their former ranges.

Famous examples include New Zealand and Mauritius which I'm

sure you're all familiar with where moa in the case of New Zealand

and the dodo in the case of Mauritius went extinct relatively recently due

to human pressures.

So ratites are very interesting because all of the materials that

people are interested in have multiple lives and iterations

in human life, eggs as something to be consumed, as containers for

liquids, as material for crafts and so on.

So for the first time I've documented that people in Madagascar were in fact

exploiting nests of elephant birds. They were doing this for many reasons.

I found evidence of worked eggshell for the first time. Along the top row

you'll see eggshell fragments that were worked and are essentially

the remains of perforations that were created to extract liquid from eggs and

then presumably to be able to use eggs as containers for other liquids

after they were consumed.

I found evidence of beads and other artifacts associated with eggs.

But the question of timing is still very pertinent.

Are the eggs that I have found that have been worked extensively

by human communities coming from active nests? And this is

where is microstructure work comes in.

The main picture in the center of the screen is showing you

an ontogenetic time series of changes in eggshell microstructure,

this is the interior portion of eggshell as the embryo develops.

This was done on turkey eggshell and applied to the archaeological

record of the American southwest. I'm now using similar techniques and

developing them further to look at extinct taxa, in this case the elephant

bird and as you see on the upper right hand side these are SEM images

of elephant bird eggs showing the degree of erosion, so as the embryo

develops and here again in the main image, the top left corner that is an

undeveloped egg embryo and in the far bottom right that is a fully

developed embryo and a fully eroded egg. So I'm using this

to track whether eggs that I'm looking at from the archaeological

record were in fact harvested from active nests and had living embryos in them.

So by using these techniques we'll be able to use eggshell

to understand human use of eggs, we'll be able to potentially distinguish

better between the different species of ratites in Madagascar and learn

a little bit more about their reproductive ecology and finally better be able to

address this question of human driven, or not, extinction of the elephant bird.

Thank you.

[applause]

You're not finding elephant bird bones in archaeological

sites. What about other large sub-fossil remains? Are you

finding other sub-fossil taxa represented in archaeological sites?

That's a great question.

One of the main problems I would say is that we have

a sampling bias because most of these sub-fossil sites in

Madagascar are concentrated from what we can tell in the

southwest but aside from my excavations which cover

a 20 kilometer x 2 kilometer area, there have been no other systematic

archaeological studies. So it's not clear, you know we don't have

a very good sample of sites in the southwest to be able to say

whether or not, you know, a lot of other sub-fossil remains do

show up. For the moment though it doesn't seem to be the case and

these sub-fossil sites that I mentioned are taphonomic traps and so one of the

priorities for field research is to go out and survey those areas,

so survey around these sub-fossil sites and look

more carefully for archaeological signatures.

Why elephant birds?

Well, I'm interested in environmental change and particularly in how humans

contribute to environmental change.

Islands in particular are interesting and Madagascar among them I would

argue is the most interesting because of its tremendous biogeographical and

cultural diversity and the fact that it was settled relatively late

in human history. It's a huge land mass, you know, a little bit bigger

than California to give you some context and it's only approximately

250 miles off the African mainland.

So why was it settled so late and there's a huge debate about

anthropogenic influence and things like the extinction but

we still have relatively sparse evidence to ...

say exactly how people may have contributed to environmental

change in Madagascar.

I know what taxonomy is, I don't know what taphonomy is. Thank you.

So taphonomy is the study of how things change once they've

been deposited into … in my case into the archaeological record.

And so this is important with the eggshell in particular

because I'm trying to disentangle erosion due to development of the

embryo so that I can know when these eggs were potentially harvested

and then erosion that occurs on the surface of these microstructures

through action like wind, sand erosion, and etc., so trying

to disentangle those factors.

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Trump Pulls US Out of Paris Climate Agreement - Duration: 1:01.

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The U.S. Is on Collision Course with Iran and Russia, but Nobo - politics - Duration: 4:30.

The U.S.

Is on Collision Course with Iran (and Russia), but Nobody�s Talking About It

While celebrities are vehemently criticizing Donald Trump�s recent lack of manners on

his first foreign policy trip as president, the mainstream media and our beloved celebrities

appear to be completely oblivious of the warpath the Trump administration is taking America

down.

This time, that warpath is set against another Russian ally: Iran.

As Foreign Policy aptly asked last week, �Are the U.S. and Iran on a collision course in

Syria?� The answer to this question appears to be far worse than the media is letting

on.

As Anti-Media has previously explained, Iranian-aligned troops who were operating under the banner

of the Syrian Arab Army have been advancing toward a U.S. training base in Syria.

These troops have subsequently been struck by the U.S.-led coalition.

The proposed aim of these Syrian-Iranian-aligned troops is to open up the al-Tanf border crossing

to be positioned under the control of the Syrian government in order to open up direct

routes to Iraq and Iran (for supplies, reinforcements and the like.)

Not to mention, as one U.S. defense official told Foreign Policy, the Syrian government

maintains a military outpost in Deir Ezzor, another strategic area where Syrian forces

are battling one of the last major remnants of ISIS.

This outpost is isolated, making complete control of the area is almost meaningless

without the opening of the al-Tanf region, as Foreign Policy explains:

�The base has long been cut off from other areas of regime control and can only be resupplied

by airdrops, but it was recently reinforced by about 1,000 Syrian soldiers, giving the

regime in Damascus some fighting power in the area.�

The reclaiming of this territory by the Syrian army and its associated forces is a deal-breaker

for Washington.

Last Tuesday, Pentagon spokesman Capt. Jeff Davis told reporters that if the Iranian-backed

militia continues its advances, the coalition will continue to defend itself, as reported

by Foreign Policy.

Foreign Policy also reported that the U.S.-led coalition is tracking their movements carefully

in their advance towards Deir Ezzor.

If the U.S.-led coalition is, indeed, tracking these troops movements towards Deir Ezzor,

the U.S. should be well aware of the photographs produced by regional outlet al-Masdar, which

show that the Russian air force is currently deploying air power to cover these advances.

The Telegraph, too, confirmed that Russian jets provide air cover for these Iranian-backed

militias.

Donald Trump�s childish instinctual decision to push another official out of his way to

get to the front of a photo-op is surely worthy of our criticism, yet one has to wonder why

this behavior outrages celebrities and commentators who are hardly bothered by the thousands of

Iraqis and Syrians who are dying needlessly at the behest of the same man�s foreign

policy strategy.

And what should we make of the thousands more who will be unnecessarily pummeled into rubble

by Donald Trump�s decision to put America on a direct warpath with Iran and Russia?

The media wants you to believe Donald Trump is compromised by Russia when in actuality,

his administration is closer to transforming the Cold War 2.0 into World War 3 than any

other administration before him.

Meanwhile, in tandem with the mass media, Trump�s administration has been sowing the

seeds for a new conflict with Iran, which may involve over 55 countries that have just

signed a military pact with the express intention of confronting Iran in Iraq and Syria.

Whatever one�s thoughts on Iran, Russia, and Syria, any human rights organization should

be able to vouch for the fact that the United States� military strategy cannot be a realistic

solution to the problems currently engulfing the Middle East region.

It will only bring more death and destruction and ignite a ticking time-bomb in the process.

And that is something we all need to be talking.

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NIBIRU-#2th June 2017 Solar eclipse reveals big Planet heading towards us - Duration: 30:21.

NIBIRU-#2th June 2017 Solar eclipse reveals big Planet heading towards us

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Is the US Navy Deploying a Third Carrier Strike Group to the Asia-Pacific? | President of Malta - Duration: 3:35.

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170531 [ENGSUB] "I hope both of us become closer later on" - SVT DK & NCT Jaehyun - Duration: 1:11.

[Credit video to Peachy J] [Not my video]

[Subs by Song Yehi]

JN: You're same age (With DK), right? JH: Yes...

JN: Same school, right?

JH: Actually, we're both same high school and elementary school,

JH: ...yet we didn't get to meet each other for casual meetings.

JN: So, how's your feeling when saw DK at school? What feeling are you having?

JH: I'm also a trainee back then. We're both trainees.

JN: Oh, kind of 'Friend' feeling~ JH: Yes!

JN: So, what's the reason that DK-sshi have?

DK: For me, it's because Jaehyun is very handsome...

DK: Somehow I thought...I can't go near him...

DK: He's very shining~!

JN: Jaedi, what to do with you! DK: I think that's why we aren't close enough.

JN: I hope both of you get closer now. DK: I hope so!

SK: Right now they're firends...last year, when we went to Teuk's radio, he said the opposite--

DK: We're close--

JN: You need to be closer slowly~ You need to be friends! You need to be friend a little bit~

(Jaedi who can't do anything) JH: You make it more awkward like this!

SK: That's right~ JN: That's the main point today! The awkwardness~!

[Subs by Song Yehi]

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Trump to withdraw US from Paris Agreement Report - Duration: 1:43.

Trump to withdraw US from Paris Agreement Report

by Melissa Quinn

President Trump said Wednesday he would decide as early as this week whether to withdraw

from the Paris Agreement on climate change over the next few days, following reports

that Trump has already decided to leave the controversial agreement.

"I will be announcing my decision on the Paris Accord over the next few days.

MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!" the president tweeted Wednesday morning.

Trump's statement on Twitter came just hours after two officials with knowledge of the

decision told Axios that a team of officials, including EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt,

are deciding how best to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement.

Options including leaving the agreement fully, a process that could take three years, or

leaving the underlying United Nations climate change treaty, which would be more immediate.

Trump promised to leave the Paris Agreement during the campaign.

Former President Barack Obama entered the U.S. into the accord last year.

Congressional Republicans opposed the climate deal, and 22 Republicans, including Senate

Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, sent Trump a letter urging him to withdraw the U.S. from

the Paris Agreement.

Trump said during his first foreign trip he would make a decision on the climate deal

this week.

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U.S. Special Forces face Bigger Risks as Trump steps up hunt for militants around the globe - Duration: 4:41.

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Today in Military History: 6/1 - US and USSR sign chemical weapons agreement - Duration: 0:51.

- Today in military history, 1990.

The United States and the Soviet Union

sign the Chemical Weapons Accord

where both nations agree to begin the destruction

of their sizeable reserves of chemical weapons.

The treaty called for an 80 percent reduction

of their chemical weapon stockpiles

and was intended to be the first step towards a global ban.

By 1993, 150 other nations joined the Super Powers

to sign a comprehensive treaty banning chemical weapons.

Today, chemical weapon proliferation

remains a contested issue.

The United States has pledged

to destroy or neutralize its entire stock pile by 2017

and works with the United Nations to condemn the use

of chemical agents throughout the world.

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June 2017 Promotions (US only) - Duration: 1:32.

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Dark Souls 1 - Trailer [legendado PT-BR/EN-US] - Duration: 4:00.

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The F Word (US) Season 1 Ep 1 FULL HD (S1E01) ! - Duration: 41:59.

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US Treasury Enacts Sanctions Targeting North Korean Weapons Program - Duration: 1:01.

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Trump withdrawing U.S. from climate change agreement is embarrassment - Duration: 0:56.

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Russian military jet narrowly misses collision with U.S. Navy aircraft near Crimea - Duration: 2:45.

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FIDGET SPINNER SWAG (pls kill us) - Duration: 8:57.

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How Trump's Paris Climate Deal Decision Weakens The US - Duration: 4:34.

Hey there, so Donald Trump just announced that he's going to bring the United States

out of the Paris Climate Accords.

A lot of people are flipping out about this right now, but there's one group of people

who are actually pleased and excited.

These are the climate skeptics, or people who believe that government shouldn't be doing

anything to try to combat climate change.

This small section of the US public is pretty excited right now, and I think that's a mistake.

I think that's a big mistake.

Now I'm not a big Environment guy.

It's not really my issue.

I believe that climate change is real, and I believe that humans cause it, but I just

don't know enough about the science, I'm not someone who's going to go shout from the rooftops

about stuff that I don't truly understand.

So it's never really been my issue, but I am also very angry that Trump has made this

decision.

And it's not about the environment.

I believe that this was the wrong decision for US influence and US power.

One of the interesting details of this discussion is the fact that Rex Tillerson wanted to stay

in the Paris Accords.

Now that's very interesting because Tillerson is actually a CEO from Exxon Mobil, that was

his job before this.

He's pretty much the definition of an oil company executive.

I am not a big fan of Rex Tillerson, and you'll probably hear more about that on this channel,

but in this instance I think he was right.

What Tillerson knows, and what Trump has just chosen to ignore is the fact that having a

US seat at the Paris Climate accords, meant that US companies, US energy executives, and

US climate skeptics had influence on the process.

That influence is now gone.

This isn't like when George W. Bush took the United States out of the Kyoto Protocol, I

think that was about 15 years ago?

Back then Climate Change was not a mass issue.

You had some people in the developed world who were freaking out about it, and you had

some other people who weren't.

Climate Change is now a mass issue.

200 countries signed up for the Paris Climate Accords.

I think the United States has now joined Syria and Nicaragua as some of the few countries

that are outside of the conversation.

And that's what you should be focusing on.

Not as an environmentalist, but as someone who cares about US power, this was an insane

decision to make.

The Paris Accords are now going to go forward without the United States.

It's not just an agreement, it's a framework within which the rest of the world can decide

how to handle these issues.

The United States no longer has a seat at that table.

It is just as dumb as the United States unilaterally deciding not to participate in the United

Nations or the World Trade Organization anymore.

Yes, the climate accords are pretty weak at this point, and they're just at the beginning

formation stages.

It is tremendously in the United States interest to be a part of that formation.

And for climate skeptics, the US vote was pretty much the only thing holding back these

climate accords, from becoming much bigger, much more powerful, and much more stringent.

So actually, if you're an environmentalist, maybe you should celebrate the fact that the

United States is no longer involved.

Maybe that's an over-statement, but as someone who is deeply concerned with American power

and wants American power and prestige to be preserved in the world, uhhh... this was a

really bad decision.

And it was also a really really bad decision if you're a climate skeptic.

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