we fought hard to make our voices heard about the keystone x.l. pipeline over the past several months and finally our government is beginning to realize the grave affects that the keystone x.l. pipeline could have on our climate but our fight isn't over we can let those who think that the pipeline is inevitable or that america is going to be a fossil fuel dependent nation forever erase the progress that's been made most important we mean we need to make it clear to big oil the obama administration and their supporters that we are going to just lie back and enjoy the keystone x.l. pipeline and the toxic dirty and dangerous oil that it would be transporting it's time to stop the environmental rape of america and our planet once and for all. that's the way it is to died thursday at the ori six twenty four to democracy begins and you get out there get active tag worth. old. technology innovations all the developments from around russia. that's huge you're covered. live. live. live . live. talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want. wealth

even trans canada has said that oil from the keystone x.l. pipeline is not guaranteed to stay in the united states back in two thousand and twelve during a congressional hearing on the pipeline project alex poor bay the head of the trans canada's pipeline division was asked right upfront if he would support legislation requiring canadian tar sands oil and its by products to be sold only in the u.s. he replied no i can't do that. and numerous other studies have found that much of the oil transported through the keystone x.l. pipeline is actually going to be exported from the gulf of mexico after it's been refined we won't see a drop of that toxic dirty and dangerous tar sands oil unless of course we're forced to deal with the tar sands oil spill disaster meanwhile a report by consumer watchdog found that if the keystone x.l. pipeline is approved americans especially in the midwest will see higher gas prices adding up to an additional three to four billion dollars each year that's roughly twenty to forty to forty cents a gallon is an increase. on a gall

a metal review on the keystone x.l. pipeline project something that both supporters and opponents of the project have been eagerly awaiting review had been on everyone's mind since last summer when president obama addressed the nation and said that he would not go forward with the keystone pipeline if the greatly increased carbon pollution and greenhouse gas emissions take a look. but i do want to be clear allowing the keystone pipeline to be built requires a finding that doing so would be in our nation's interest. and our national interest will be served only if this project does not significantly exacerbate the problem of carbon pollution but so what did the review reveal about the keystone pipeline and carbon pollution well for the first time the state department's review acknowledges that the keystone x.l. pipeline could speed up climate change the review finds that the prime pipelines effects on the climate will be similar to adding five point seven million new cars to americans road that mean road that means tons and tons

a new state department report says that the keystone x.l. pipeline would have little impact on global climate change but can we really trust a report written by contractors affiliated with oil giant trans canada the company responsible for the pipeline more on that system also the death of forty six year old academy award winning actor philip seymour hoffman is truly a tragedy but the most tragic part of it all is that his death could easily have been prevented tell you how into night still to take and islam was the fastest growing religion in the country last decade but many american muslims still feel like second class citizens but was ever a change last minnesota congressman keith ellison the person muslim ever elected to congress in tonight's special monday edition of conversations with great minds. good to know this on friday the state department released its final environmental review on the keystone x.l. pipeline project something that both supporters and opponents of the project have been eagerly awaiting the review had been on everyone's min

including the american petroleum institute who are advocating for the construction of the keystone x.l. pipeline the pipeline is a political conundrum for president obama who has pledged to make progress on climate change he said this about the keystone pipeline last summer our national interest will be served. only if this project does not significantly exacerbate the problem of carbon pollution well the obama administration has valid to put climate change at the top of the agenda the protesters here say he can turn those words into action by blocking the keystone x.l. pipeline president obama has a decision to make does he want to be a climate champion or what does he want to be remembered as the pipeline president we know what the implications of moving so much fossil fuel from one part of the continent to another would have for not only global climate change and carbon dioxide emissions but really for the future heating of the planet but with energy independence high on the agenda and labor union saying there's jobs on the line there is strong political pressure especially from republicans t

keystone pipeline for a very long time prior to that court's rulings. president obama had been expected to make a final decision on the keystone x.l. pipeline over the summer or maybe early this fall but thanks to their role in analysts are now saying that the entire keystone project is essentially on a hold for the immediate future and could be delayed for a year or more and that's great news because the keystone x.l. pipeline is a terrible deal for america joining me now for more on why that is dave's salgado producer and director of pipe why is exposed this welcome back pleasure being hyper wise expose my flies expose tell me about that well i was speaking last summer with lisa graves the executive director of the center for media and democracy and she's a lawyer i'm a lawyer and we were both talking about how this this keystone x.l. pipeline just seems like a really bad idea but we couldn't really put our finger on what precisely made it such a bad idea so being lawyers we decided to look at the evidence and what we found was that a lot of what the public is being told about this project is just balls. just lies like for example

state department released an environmental impact report stating that the southern leg of the keystone x.l. pipeline will have an insignificant impact on carbon emissions but even if this report gives obama the green light to move forward of one group is refusing to allow the construction of keystone native american communities including the just released a statement entitled no keystone x.l. pipeline will cross lakota lands. nation as well as other tribes from oklahoma to oregon have banded together to plan on how they will take direct action yes it looks like obama now has america's indigenous community to worry about if he does approve this toxic project so if you believe that that's destructive pipeline has no business crossing their native american territory and join me and let's break the set. it was a little very hard to take. your. life that he ever had sex with the terror threat there's no doubt that. my next guest is someone who has shattered the two party monopoly after winning a seat on seattle's city council what makes her unique is that she's the fur. socialist to be elected to public

both the right and the left have started to take the oil industry's side not approving the keystone x.l. pipeline i'll tell you why they're totally wrong in tonight's. getting to know this right now the white house is pushing congress to pass the biggest so-called free trade deal in a generation with almost no one in the mainstream media talking about first we got the north american free trade agreement nafta then we get the central american free trade agreement katha and now we're about to get. the southern hemisphere and asia free trade agreement shaft but the powers that be don't call it shafter they call it the trans-pacific partnership or t p p if approved the t.p.t. would create a whole new set of rules regulating the economies of twelve countries in four different continents border in the pacific ocean negotiations have been conducted entirely in secret with the help of six hundred or so corporations but over the past few months a series of leaks has shed some light on we're just what the t p p actually is all about although its supporters call it a free trade deal a t p p isn't as much ab

change a populist issue because the republicans in the oil industry have framed the entire keystone x.l. pipeline debate as a populist issue the president isn't letting us have job of the american energy exactly exactly and you know if the president doesn't and he ends up approving this pipeline he's lost an opportunity to a take a stand on climate change a position the united states at the forefront of say no to the fossil fuel industry and b. he's also up lost an opportunity to frame that climate change debate which has been shaped by republicans as one that only elitists care about as a populist debate and i think that's unfortunate. well you know with technology and science into it are woven with issues that the masses are trying to figure out i mean i know i would look at this i look at all the stuff i'm not a scientist and i'm trying to figure it out and we have more and more of the science and technology with the electorate making decisions based on the perception and it's very difficult to understand what i think about this is you know aside from the specific issue is as we come out of th

state department released an environmental impact report stating that the southern leg of the keystone x.l. pipeline will have an insignificant impact on carbon emissions but even if this report gives obama the green light to move forward of one group is refusing to allow the construction of keystone native american communities including the oglala sioux just released a statement entitled no keystone x.l. pipeline will cross lakota lands. nation as well as other tribes from oklahoma to oregon have banded together to plan on how they will take direct action yes it looks like obama now has america's indigenous community to worry about if he does a.

best of the rest of the news after last week's court ruling in nebraska it looks like the keystone x.l. pipeline project could be on a whole for the immediate future but the keystone pipeline isn't the only environment destroying pipeline project being considered in american someday down in kentucky as a battle over another proposed pipeline the bluegrass pipeline but this pipeline would be environmentally safe reduce our dependence on foreign oil and create tons of jobs right. that's what the folks behind it are hoping you believe. american. future. is a grueling industry helping rebuild our economy and reducing our dependence on oil . joining me now for more on what's going on out of the bluegrass state is coal stangl or staff writer with in these times they call welcome thanks for joining us so what is the bluegrass so this is a pipeline that would transport natural gas liquids so this is a byproduct of the natural gas drilling process it's not actually the gas that's going towards electricity generation these liquids are used for feedstock for petrochemical products for plastics and this pip

of more than three point one million gallons of hazardous liquids per year plans for the keystone x.l. pipeline a massive project that would. from canada soil since two refineries in texas have caused many to worry that they may become collateral damage in the way of big oil like the residents of mayflower arkansas but there's a lot of us that have been forgotten we're just collateral damage in mayflower i'm going to check on our t.v. well this week over six thousand websites worldwide took part in a campaign known as the day we fight back the call for internet freedom as part of a global fight against mass surveillance and excessive powers wielded by intelligence agencies and also commemorated the daffs of a programmer aaron swartz seen by many as a champion of online freedom and he took his life thirteen months ago while facing thirty five years behind bars for downloading academic journals many claim that an anti hacking law was unfairly used by the authorities and their hounding of the activists civil liberties advocates are now pushing for congress to reform it parker hagan's from the elec

of more than three point one million gallons of hazardous liquids per year plans for the keystone x.l. pipeline a massive project that would. from canada soil since two refineries in texas have caused many to worry that they may become collateral damage in the way of big oil like the residents of mayflower arkansas there's a lot of us that have been forgotten we were just collateral damage in mayflower i'm going to check on our team. is we thousands of web websites and activists worldwide took part in a campaign called the day we fight back a protest against mass surveillance and growing powers of intelligence agencies. in months since the suicide of internet freedom poster boy are in swartz a tragedy many think was provoked by the response of u.s. authorities who faced thirty five years behind bars in a million dollar fine for downloading academic journals and civil liberties advocates are now pushing for congress to reform the law considering it too strict barker hagan's from the electronic frontier foundation says there's a lot to be done before politicians realize such tactics are unaccepta

of more than three point one million gallons of hazardous liquids per year plans for the keystone x.l. pipeline a massive project that would. from canada soil since two refineries in texas have caused many to worry that they may become collateral damage in the way of big oil like the residents of mayflower arkansas there's a lot of us that have been forgotten were just collateral damage in mayflower i'm going to check on r.t.e. . let's take a look now at what our team has lined up for you on our web site as the deadline for the pull out of american troops from afghanistan fast approaches washington is accused of offering sleep by pumping some three hundred million dollars into what they're calling the end of war economy that's our two dot com for more details. also there the free online encyclopedia is coming under the scrutiny of finnish police who question whether wikipedia is illegally collecting money from its donators more on this story just a click away. right from the scene in the first street. and i think the jury. on our reporters were there in. an instant. to be in the old little mom.

we're of course about to see in all likelihood the president approve the northern leg of the keystone x.l. pipeline so. it's an uninformed public it's a public. which is been diverted their emotional and intellectual energy has been invested in spectacle. coupled with a kind of ruthless corporate totalitarianism that thinks only in terms of quarterly profit and has absolutely no concern for the not only the common good but the very sustenance of. the ecosystem that might provide some kind of decent and acceptable living standards for future generations chris but on the flip side you've also said that as collapse becomes palpable humanity will retreat into what anthropologists call crisis cults what is a crisis called and why does our psychological hardwiring always revert back to these modes of group think. well when things become so desperate. retreat or human societies retreat into forms of magical thinking at the end of the. indian wars. in the latter part of the one nine hundred centuries you saw the rise of the ghost dance. which swept through the remnants of native communities these communiti

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he should approve the keystone x.l. pipeline. he should do it now. he should do the job that he was elected to do so middle-class americans can do the jobs that they desperately want to do. thank you, madam president. i yield the floor. the presiding officer: the senator from vermont. mr. leahy: madam president, what is the parliament situation? the presiding officer: the motion to proceed to s. 1963. mr. leahy: madam president, i would ask consent that i be allowed to speak up to ten minutes as if in morning business. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. leahy: madam president, last week, attorney general eric holder appeared before the senate judiciary committee. he reminded us of something that sometimes we have to be reminded, that we should support our nation's law enforcement officers and first responders. now, there is one vital program that provides, supports the families of fallen law enforcement officers and other first responders. that's the public safety officers' benefits program, the psob. i am proud to have authored legislat

over the weekend along into supported report on the controversial keystone x.l. pipeline was finally published by the state department the results small apartment deemed that there would be minimal environmental impact resulting from the construction. the massive oil pipeline last june obama announced that approval of the plan would depend on certain factors. allowing the keystone pipeline to be built requires a finding the doing so would be in our nation's interest. and our national interest will be served only if this project does not significantly exacerbate the problem of carbon pollution. it seems the state department's report is just the kind of push obama needs for his final decision to move forward with the project considering how the southern leg of keystone has already been built on the oil flowing the pressure from oil and gas companies to get the ball rolling on the northern side is mounting however if obama does indeed approve the project it could leave a lasting environmental scar on his legacy so they break down the real impacts of this plan and join my nat

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the keystone x.l. pipeline would run border to border carrying oil from refineries from canada to refineries in texas. today the state department said it saw no environmental problems with the project. the president will make a final decision later. today the state of maryland said a deadly combination of drugs has killed 37 people there since september. the mixture of heroin and a powerful painkiller has been hitting the streets all around the country. in western pennsylvania, 22 deaths were reported in just the last two weeks. we asked vanita nair to look into this. >> reporter: lab technicians in pittsburgh immediately new the heroin found on overdose victims was something different. the powder was white instead of yellow. medical examiner karl williams. >> when they found almost exactly the same substance in both of those stamp bags, almost a 50-50 mixture of heroin with fentanyl. >> reporter: what is fentanyl? >> fentanyl is a powerful narcotic. depending on how you formulate it, it can be 10, 20, 100 time

picture he posted with the caption that reads pipes for the seven thousand nine hundred mile keystone x.l. pipeline lie at the ready in a field and gas going north dakota so you know they're there ready to go let's pick up our callers and see the rich in los angeles say rich you want to talk about search warrants. each on tuesday the supreme court ruled in a los angeles case that police officers may enter and search your home without a warrant as long as one occupant consents even if the other resident has previously objected right now the court at previous emails that such protections were at the very core of the fourth amendment and it bans on unreasonable searches and seizures not only that tom in two thousand and six the court had ruled in a georgia case that a husband standing in the doorway could block police from searching his home even if it's a strange white unscented even if she was standing behind him. you know i mean when is this nightmare going to end with to supreme court we have in this court and and you know. it's it's it's room and thanks a lot for the call that we have in the supr

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