. >> elizabeth kolbert on, "the sixth extinction: an unnatural history." and the link between climate change and the most devastating mass extinction in years. action --obal day of first, a global day of action. >> it will be a huge internet protest. it is going to be an opportunity for big websites like reddit and others. >> over 6000 websites are taking part in a day of action against the nsa and mass surveillance. we will speak to rainey reitman. all of that and more coming back. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. an anti-drone activist and journalist has gone missing in pakistan just days before he was due to travel to europe to speak with parliament members about the impact of the u.s. drone wars. the legal charity reprieve says karim khan was seized in the early hours of february 5 by up to 20 men, some wearing police uniforms. yes not been seen since. his brother and son were both killed in a drone strike. he criticized u.s. drone wars in an interview with filmmaker madiha tahir. >> you ask me a ques

half billion years and presents evidence for a sixth mass extinction in "the sixth extinction: an unnatural history." an iraqi interpreter recounts his work with u.s. navy seals in "code name johnnie walker: the extraordinary story of the iraqi who risked everything to fight the with the u.s. navy seals." journalist annie jacobson recalls the program that brought nazi scientists to the cus after world war ii to work on government projects in "operation paper clip: the secret intelligence program that brought nazi scientists to america." in "the twilight of the american enlightenment: the 1950s and the crisis of liberal belief," george mars den, a history professor at university of notre dame, analyzes the political landscape in a post-world war ii u.s. david lockbaum and edward lyman, members of the union of concerned scientists recount the 2011 nuclear emergency in japan at the fukushima nuclear power reactor, the story of a nuclear disaster. in "the news: a user's manual," 25 news stories are analyzed to better understand their effect on readers and viewers. look for these titles in books

because it's unnatural. it's a shame. it's a sin.in the most civilized countries. >> reporter: at central station, all the hate, all the attacks, all the relentless pressure, it's all taking a terrible toll. the show, it seems, can't go on. one club manager has already left for washington, d.c. and is seeking asylum in the united states. backstage, everything is changing, too. victor, who started his drag career here is leaving, heading to san francisco for good. >> my mother say me, go for america, because you can live like normal people. here, you can't. here is dangerous, because here is russia. >> reporter: tonight is victor's final performance. ♪ >> reporter: backstage, victor has a guest. >> it's my sister. she's really sad because i'm going to san francisco. >> i'm sad because my brother leave me and he's my one frien four, five days ago, i was in some cafe and some man saw me and said that gay is terrible. he should die. and i just called my brother and said i really think you should leave moscow and russia. he will be happy

her new book is called the sixth extinction, an unnatural history.ase welcome to the program elizabeth kolbert. [cheers and applause] how are you? >> pretty good, how are you? >> jon: very well, thank you. the book is called "the sixth extinction." there have been five extinction events thus far. >> heretofore, yeah. >> jon: those are what? the fifth and most famous is the extinction that did in the dinosaurs. >> jon: that was an asteroid. >> that was an asteroid. >> jon: and prior to that what had extincted the animal? >> a variety of thingsism tinted -- things extincted the animals. the first is 450 million years ago believed to be caused about a sudden cold snap. >> jon: polar vortex if you will. >> major, major polar vortex. >> jon: the sixth extinction is caused by an invasive species that you write about. that would be us. >> exactly. >> jon: your early description of us reminded me of the asian carp. [ laughter ] >> there are similarities. >> jon: we are introduced to an area and we immediately spread out and make it out our own. >> yeah, we'r

get upset about when you had some sort of greek yogurt sex game going on or a spot celebrating the unnaturalg and a horse? there was an ad where a man's head was cracked open. oh, my god! oh, my god! it revealed his smaller other green head apparently to the purpose of selling some kind of nut. i can't recall the specific type of nut. i recall enjoying the ad thinking it was very amusing. can't recall the type of nut he was selling. of course, the now infamous half time ad for turbotax. what is that? what does that have to do with tax returns? i don't think either of those people are even accountants. so can someone please explain what exactly is the problem with a group of attractive immigrants singing a beloved american song in their native languages? >> i think biggest issue here is, there are a lot of people unfortunately are coming to america now, not assimilating. >> assimilating? they're singing america the beautiful while drinking coca-cola. how much more american assimilation can they have? maybe if they were open carrying a gun shaped like jesus while losing a bald eagle strapped o

that's the unnatural state of puerto rico politics caused by the fact that we have this political statuslem to resolve. president obama in the marc march 2011 white house report on puerto rico's status he said that puerto rico's economic problems will not be fully resolved until we deal with our political status problem. >> justin, your main question is economic development. that's what you're about. that's what you're working on. do you agree with kenneth mcclintock that the uncertain future of economic status makes it harder or are there really realities o on the ground that o matter what puerto rico's status were, it would make economic development harder now. >> i wouldn't dare touch the status with a ten foot pole in fear of being mobbed when i left this studio. but to see puerto ricans serve the front line, and some i in a greater extent and die at a greater rate, but not being able to vote. that's a tragedy. but i'm not--i'm not in as far as economically speaking, certainly if puerto rico were to become a state i would be concerned about the welfare capacity of the state. there ar

it is crazy to have to do it and those -- unnatural circumstances. they are damaging circumstances. i don't know what the right answer is. there should be a budget process that forces the two branches to come to the table and negotiate but not at the risk -- this cost is too high. maybe you can argue that shutting down government is not too high a cost. it is costly for everybody and we saw that last year, possibly for the legislative branch and the executive but maybe there is a way to do it to impose costs that don't also threatened the full faith and credit of the u.s. government. everybody agrees that no one wants to do that. no one wants to see us damage our cost of borrowing. that is too costly so we need a budget process reform. >> having lived through this repeatedly, i think we can all agree that defaulting on the debt would be a disaster. i don't think anybody would disagree with that. on the other hand, not facing up to our growing -- over the long term is a disaster of its own kind. after being in the middle of these discussions for a lot of years, it is really hard to g

you know, my dad being the cute, fuzzy panda bear, and your mom being the evil, money-hungry unnaturallyi've had it with them, too.

second, she wears men's clothes, which is indecent, unnatural, and abominable. and in spite of our most earnest remonstrances and entreaties, she will not change them even to receive the sacrament. is the blessed st. catherine an evil spirit? is st. margaret? is michael the archangel? how do you know that the spirit which appears to you is an archangel? does he not appear to you as a naked man? do you think god cannot afford clothes for him? [laughter] well answered, joan. it is, in effect, well answered. but no evil spirit would be so simple as to appear to a young girl in a guise that would scandalize her when he meant her to take him for a messenger from the most high. joan, the church instructs you that these apparitions are demons seeking your soul's perdition. do you accept the instruction of the church? i accept the messenger of god. how could any faithful believer in the church refuse him? wretched woman, again i ask you, do you know what you are saying? you wrestle in vain with the devil for her soul, my lord. she will not be saved. now, touching the ma

remember left hand as being compelled to change to the right hand for writing when it was totally unnatural for them to do that and they suffered enormous stress. yes many of them develop stuff as in status and i see sex orientation as being parallel so that i think that a gay orientation is inborn so that by the time you're born i think you're pretty much on track to whichever sex orientation you have i think this is a scientific consensus but the question is a bit broader here is the question of the social attitudes and as you pointed out homosexuality was pathologist only a few decades ago so for society at large it is understandably taking some some time to. get used to that what could be the potential ramifications of pushing these changes before our society comes to terms with it well it's a very divisive issue i agree and there are some very entrenched attitudes on both sides but i suppose it's an area where i quite favor the legislation that will permit people to to follow their own drums because very often social attitudes will only change after the law steps in to defend minority

develop a clear picture of our future global climate. 95% of alaskan glaciers are melting at an unnatural and unprecedented pace. >> glaciers are really large contributors to changing sea levels. you want to be able to quantify how much water is coming out of these systems every year and then use that information to develop models and predict in the future to help policymakers plan for potential facts of sea level change in the next 50 or 100 years. >> scientists like dr. arendt come here to conduct research and to share their experience with the young-and-upcoming researchers taking part in the program. to collect the ground data that sophisticated high-tech science depends on, students have to cross vast distances through the isolated heart of the icefield. in order to traverse the icefield safely, we train them extensively for the dangers of this rugged field experience. here at camp 17, they learn adventure skiing, safe glacier travel on a rope, and how to rescue a colleague from a crevice. the training equips and inspires these students for a career in extreme environmental research,

both cooling the biggest mistake he's ever made was too unnatural i never thought doing the killing all these women every night every day a week after week year after year he was destructive to my old one person now the bishop of the pie little old clothes thank you that way. now as i said to mean that it's the nature of the show and defected real men and women to this job every day out of respect and lie in wait months to them as an actor my job is to portray them as clean and truthfully as possible. no this is the darkness of the show at the bar. now i think it really come under fire for that but i think if people actually watch realize that the show is not the curious the take down these bad guys were non sensational icing more nights you know making it look cool it's it's about these people and it's an alliance hunting down these horrible people that's here again and now nine pm tonight here on rt america ask her out there for now thanks for wanting. time is long i drew and mdm moving wing will . god be with us on this edition of news sites wednesday saturday twenty sixth and castin

at lawsons, you can dig into their unnaturally fluffy, insanely delicious addictive egg salad sandwichesrowded eateries serving who knows what. but it all smells delicious and looks enticing. in the tiny almost micro-neighborhood of nakamaguro, tokyo, all is quiet. and amazingly for right here in the middle of this eye goggling, pinball machine of a city, green. yasuda lives near here and he loves this place. a low key joint to enjoy family meals and meet friends. >> i so much appreciate i see you and all of the people from the u.s. >> well, we miss you. >> i miss new york city. >> i'll tell you something really terrible. every relationship i've ever had with a woman, at some point very early on, i bring them to yasura in new york. and i would watch how they eat. if they talk too much, if they didn't understand how to eat sushi, if they did not eat the uni, we will never have a relationship. that's it. that's the end. they don't serve high-end sushi here. or elaborate inspired fair. it's almost like hipster tempura. this style of food is known as kushiagei. things dipped in batter and fr

but when you look out behind us here behind our backs there's a feeling of almost unnatural calm we do hear that helicopter circling over the coastal cluster where the opening ceremony is just about every sense of nervousness right now is to get it all on the way and make it a big success is what i've been told so far we have one more person a very special person i would say to speak to before the ceremony began someone who is no stranger to the olympics twice in society kristie of a good chimera can figure skater olympic gold medalist two of them so games this isn't the first time you watch you working outside to be in lots of interviews and me for the last couple of hours and frys have a minute i have to say you're one of my childhood heroes thank you how are you finding sochi there's so much going on and so much gossip about what's happening here. if the city is ready what do you have to say. i have to say that my experience has been very positive so far out great accommodations where i am and i had a chance to walk around the olympic park in the venues are absolutely beautiful and

has its own museum of unnatural history. you will find bugs in vacuums. 826 ec.to it is a creative writing center for children were used -- encouraged to use their imaginations. it was started in san francisco by dave eggers. 826 at eight locations nationwide. they are focused on wednesday and the bazaar to get kicked in the door. >> i like to see the wolf. >> it does not shocked them anymore. they go to a place of they could he on the ceiling. that is what they do. >> the executive director, joe theahan, says that it is nation's most illiterate city. >> we are helping kids develop communication skills that they need. >> the kids get free tutoring and afterschool homework help. they also have fun. >> sometimes we get to play with the lizard. crack the program also partners with schools to help students write and publish their own books. >> i like to be creative. by the goal is to inspire young people so that no matter what they write, they understand the power of the words and give them thought. with help from some 500 826 d

>> and he is walking on his hind leggs which is -- hind legs which is unnatural. crime cat would be better at spreading awareness. >> it is no surprise to our viewers that i have never said that is my guess. i think this is on fortunate misunderstanding. mcgruff is known as the crime dog. morales thought it was a dog who commits crime. if he was the anti-crime dog this never would have happened. >> that is a question that we will have to ponder as we will move to the next story. >> the ring wouldn't spring. it is day whatever of -- >> at friday's opening ceremony large, fake snowflakes hovered over the ground as they would. and they grew into olympic rings. except one didn't leaving four rings and a runt. interesting. speaking of runts, bob costas went on air with his eyes swollen shut due to an infection or so he claims. it could have been novelty glasses. he described vladimir putin as a great peace maker. what is he talking about? what am i saying? a sexy scandal is brewing. the top female russian olympian yens combated the manly stereo types of russian female

. >> it is unnatural, it is not accepted by the customs of uganda. and even the modern religions came to uganda won't accommodate this, which is contrary to the order of nature and therefore is criminal. >> and the white house meanwhile has condemned the new law. in a statement it said instead of standing on the side of freedom justice and equal rights for its people, today the.ugandan president signed into law the bill which criminalizes homosexuality. it reflection poorly on the country's commitment to protect the human rights of people and to protect hiv-aids. russian police have arrested about 200 people including opposition people. lauren. >> thank you very much. arrests were made outside a russian court. seven people were given jail sentences of up to four years on charges of rioting during the 2012 square protests against president vladimir putin's inauguration. among those arrested were the opposition leader alexei navalny and pussy riot members. >> yet another political trial in russia. people who are convicted were absolutely innocent. the

it is an unnatural act. >> did it happen to you? >> it did not. >> once the elbows were tied, one guy is behind you and lifting up on your arms behind your back and one guy is in front of you with his foot under her head, pulling that up. up your armshing over your head and tie you in that position. --was a terrible, terrible >> had people get through that? -- how do people get through that? >> mental toughness. there is no way they can make you do something. wouldale, reisner, they eventually give in. they would eventually given. -- give in. they would try to get them to back off, they usually would not. you giving at a point where you can outsmart them. in at a point where you can outsmart them. we wanted to give in before we ever really gave in. >> what is the story of paul galante? >> he was a cell mate of mine. he got their 1.5 years before me and had been through a lot of the old stuff that i had not been through back in 1966. he was a real veteran. they were trying to do a propaganda thing with them and they brought him into

attention to all of this because joining us now, elizabeth kol bert, author of "the sixth extension of unnaturalistory." the human species is eradicating other species from the world. i want to remind our viewers of how secretary kerry talked about the importance of this issue a few days ago. >> climate change can now be considered another weapon of mass destruction, perhaps the worst more fierce weapon of mass destruction. >> is he right? is that dire? >> i don't think people realize how much of the world depends -- how all of us, all societies depend on this sort of climate that we are used to and how quickly we're pushing the planet, the whole planet into this climate regime that is unknown in human history. so if we really continue on the trajectory that we're on, we're going to have carbon dioxide on the atmosphere and it's very unclear what the consequences of that are going to be. >> i think a lot of people in the public, certainly a lot of house republicans and some house democrats and senate democrats think that there's a quality to all of this. there's chicken little, that scientists s

--re there is a natural where it is unnatural. -- anyot so much a caution is not about internal skirmishes. it is about timing. incentives will be formed by those organizations that are putting these in the practice. what you really want to zero in on is the barriers. >> i mentioned that this has been an issue of great concern over theate suites last several years. that thereeflection are powerful incentives to address this. ask target corporation. ask the hundreds of thousands of companies that have had intellectual property stolen through cyber intrusions. forward, themove scc as guidance out there for assessing and disclosing cyber risk. benchmarks,set of it helps to inform that process. of good andenty important business reasons for companies to address this issue. most companies know that. now we have some tools to help that. >> one of the challenges, of a company like target -- it'll be interesting to see how the framework helps this process -- is that some of those threats are getting more and more sophisticated. even if they take cyber security seriously, the cost of dealing with t

skill to his addiction, writing in "the new yorker," genius at most constructive or destructive is unnaturaln lived for great art and it's impossible to escape the idea that he died for it. we know that to be the case, that there is a connection. i do know, however, that his three young children are without a father and his partner and friends have lost a sweet and generous soul and now the rest of us are now deprived of his art. whatever the reason, we are all poorer for it. if there was anything such as the real housewives of hogwart, she got the plot line from her leading lady should have ended up with harry potter and not his friend. she confessed her regrets in an interview that. coul comes out this week. not only is that couple a mismatch, but they would likely end up needing couple's counseling. the interview was conducted by actress emma watson. that's it for "the lead." right now i turn you over to wolf blitzer in "the situation room." wolf? >>> jake, thank you. new savage ree in syria's civil war. fears that the violence could spread to this country. is america's syria policy faili

so it's crazy to have to do it in those kinds of unnatural circumstances.g circumstances as well. i don't know what the right answer is. but there should be a budget process that forces the two branches to come to the table and negotiate. but not at the risk that this cost is too high. they can argue that shutting down government is not too high of a toss. it is costly for everyone we saw that last year. the legislative branch and the executive branch. but maybe there is a way to not also threaten this before it was discovered in 19 everyone agrees no one wants to do that. no one wants to damage the cost of borrowing. so we do need the budget process reform. >> senator? >> having lived through this repeatedly, i think that we can all agree that defaulting on the debt would be a disaster. and nobody should disagree with that. on the other hand not facing up to the growing debt over the long-term is a disaster of its own kind. and i can tell you that after being in the middle of these discussions for a lot of years, it is really hard to get colleagues to pay

. >> i think you're hitting on a big point, season the it unnatural praise?raises their contractor? >> right. >> somebody saves your life from cancer, you need brain surgery, a friend of mine is a brain surgeon. doesn't he deserve more praise than a public figure? >> you're a celebrity, right? >> not really. >> you have a show called hannity. >> you have a show called kennedy? >> no, i have a show called the independent. >> people come around and kiss your behind because you're sean hannity. >> i think we're a celebrity obsessed culture, when i was a contractor and working in restaurants, i didn't get as much attention as i do on radio and tv. >> and good for you, you are repe reaping the fruits of your labor, which is the american capitalist system, which you should. >> but how does phillip end up with a needle in his arm? >> a lot of them are not growing up with a healthy family unit. a lot of them are just emotional emotionally, spiritually empty. they have been used. they didn't have a real childhood. they have tons of money too soon. look at gabby dougla

fame i think is unnatural. i like my anmanity.going to the store and not be bothered. >> you must have tremendous pressure everywhere you go even down to wal-mart people going i want you to be hilarious. >> they ask stupid questions like what are you doing here? i got to eat, too. i need food. it is different sometimes when you just want to be normal but it is a lot of responsibility. >> let's take it to a break and talk a bit more about barack obama. his speech at the state of the union and how it applies to you personally, chris tucker. [ male announcer ] the new new york is open. open to innovation. open to ambition. open to bold ideas. that's why new york has a new plan -- dozens of tax free zones all across the state. move here, expand here, or start a new business here and pay no taxes for ten years... we're new york. if there's something that creates more jobs, and grows more businesses... we're open to it. start a tax-free business at startup-ny.com. >>> white people don't trust black people. that's why they won't vote for

. >> reporter: as it turns out, cows and other livestock don't react well to chem coicals or unnaturalnd newest cologne. the result, a new blend she aptly dubbed farmer. >> he likes this idea of cologne that has, you know, properties that are beneficial to livestock and also smell good on him and he can wear it out to a club or, you know, dinner, on a date, and still smell great. >> reporter: smelling good and allowing men to feel good about the fragrance they're wearing. lisa is proving she has the nose to make that happen. and all with a decisive maine flare. >> cool names. putting something on with whisky or -- >> would you wear that? >> i tend to wear cologne but if i wear cologne named whisky or wood i would feel good about it. >> cologne is $210 an ounce. >> you're paying. it has native wood, leaves, wild flowers all blended together. and animals love it. you hear that? >> there you go. american gothic, you and me, marci. >> if we ever have a farm together. my face is so skinny. i'll keep eating. >> keep eating that chicago pizza. babies aren't fully developed until at least 39 w

. >> the average american chance of having an unnatural death sometime during the day, getting hit bying like that is one micro-mort. every day we have one micro-mort. >> this is a way to compare these different kinds of sports. what we do, going up to the hill to ski for a day, average day on the hill, that's an extra half micro-mort. bobsledding, they haven't done rigorous studies but it only goes up to 10 micro-morts or something. it's not like every time they go up there they're getting ready to die. it does increase their chance of injury. these people are olympians. they've been practicing their technique. shaun white knows what he's doing. >> speaking of rookies, i used to be a downhill ski racer with the national brotherhood of skier, not by any means olympic-bound. my dad went skiing one time -- i never had an injury -- went skiing once on the bunny slope and cracked his ribs. >> microrib. not a mcrib. >> not a baby back rib. >> just want to make sure you're not confused. >> i've fallen on the bunny slope, too. >> it's tragic. training also plays a part in confidence but it a

>> guest: i think promiscuity is an unnatural way for people to behave. it's an unhealthy way... c-span: where does it come from? >> guest: it comes, i think, from a kind of general permissiveness, a relaxation of moral codes. it comes from the de-moralization, i think, that i was talking about. c-span: let me just keep going through that though. where does that come from? >> guest: where does that come from? it comes from everything that's been happening in the past 34 or 40 years. it comes from all kinds of things. it comes from, for example, the affluence of our society, so that young people have so much more money available to them to indulge their needs. do you remember the great old puritan principle of the deferral of gratification? well, young people don't feel that for the most part anymore; they don't feel the need for that. there's an awful lot of ready money around. it comes from technology which has made enormous advances of all kinds, the birth control pill, for example, which permits for a much more liberal, much more permissive attitude towards sexual affairs. i f

puppy love plays on the unnatural friendship. >> his bond and struggle to ultimately be together. >>7 budweiser clydesdales have been practicing for show time. their trainer teaches them to do all kind of things. like play flag football. jump a four and a half foot fence and even talk. >> good horse. >> if you thought training a horse was hard, try eight yellow lab puppies. oh, each little rascal has a job to do. play tug of war, walk like a clydesdale, even run away. >> there's a short window for training because puppies grow fast, like this little girl charlotte. they start at 8 weeks and shoot the commercial at 11 weeks. and onset there are plenty of distractions. the director meticulously executing each shot. >> so you think it's more about being careful not to overplay it. there's a lot of other good shots. you want it to stand out. i actually think it's one of the best investments we can make. people are more focused on the commercials than the game. >> how can you go wrong with clydesdales and puppies? >> that's so adorable. >> it is. i can't wait to see the commercials. but t

unnatural, natural. for thousands of years, you have your ebbs and flows.here are times when it becomes popular and unpopular at other times. host: here's a headline from linda cho. gop on the arizona gay law, make it go away. -- headline from politico. they're not wanting to and tagged by social conservatives who oppose same-sex marriage or force business owners to go against their conscience. it goes on to quote orrin hatch from utah who said that we should not have discrimination anyway. on the other hand, i think there is legitimate questions raised about whether businesses have to conform to certain moral standards that they agree with. issue and i pivotal don't know how to resolve it, honestly. that's what he said. how do you think this should be resolved? is they states right issue? we were founded on individual rights. we have our individual rights. my tolerance and and your tolerance begin? tolerance is not a one-way street. the homosexual community has to realize that there are a lot of people who don't agree with what they are doing. forget about

it is also not unnatural for them to inbreed. stuart: you are lost on that.what were you expecting to see? the hilton hotel? >> not that. not that. i want a belly laugh and i have not gotten it yet. i used to live in east africa. [laughter] stuart: the maker of flappy bird withdraws it from the marketplace because he is making $50,000 a day and he does not like the limelight. two popular. still, chose a nerd is this dude? you do not want to bask in the glory? this is really a dude who loves his mother's basement. stuart: he says he will still make games. i think he is setting himself up. there is nothing funny about this. the beatles. fifty years ago yesterday they appeared on the ed sullivan should show. i actually met paul mccartney a couple weeks ago. paul mccartney. ringo starr. john lennon. and then you have, what is the last dude's name? stuart: this is pathetic. absolutely pathetic. george harrison. >> name the jackson five. name one of the jackson five. [laughter] stuart: michael. >> not michael. stuart: it is a parody. back after this. ♪ stuart: ther