June 12, 2019

Stephen Colbert - Guests Jon Meacham & Tim McGraw: Songs That Tell America's Story

The co-authors of 'Songs of America,' Tim McGraw and Jon Meacham, reflect on the lessons they've learned while assembling a collection of America's most patriotic tunes.

June 12, 2019

Stephen Colbert - Monologue and Opening - 6/11/19

Joe Biden And Donald Trump Collide In Iowa



Not only did both President Trump and former Vice President Biden appear in Iowa on Tuesday, they also both appeared in each other's remarks.




Trump's Super Secret Agreement With Mexico



President Trump is assuring everyone that his secret agreement with Mexico is incredible, genius, and DEFINITELY real.




Meanwhile... Walmart Wants The Keys To Your House



Meanwhile... Walmart is offering a new service. And all you have to give them unlimited access to your home.




Are Donald Trump And Richard Nixon The Same?



One of these things should not be like the other...

June 12, 2019

The Daily Show: Eric Swalwell - Running for President and Bringing Hope to Places That Need It

Democratic presidential candidate Eric Swalwell talks about his approach to stopping gun violence, his position on health care and his perspective on white privilege.




Talking Dems - Eric Swalwell Audience Q&A



Eric Swalwell chats with the audience about the war in Afghanistan, healthcare, and education.

June 12, 2019

Seth Meyers - President Trump's New Immigration Deal with Mexico - Monologue - 6/10/19

Seth Names Award Acronyms You Can Win Besides the EGOT



Seth Meyers describes alternative, but equally impressive, award groups acronyms you can win other than the EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony).




Fred Armisen, Art Aficionado: Christina’s World by Andrew Wyeth



Fred Armisen describes the history behind a famous piece of art by Andrew Wyeth titled Christina’s World.

June 12, 2019

The Daily Show - If You Don't Know, Now You Know: Russia & China

Following a near-collision between Russian and U.S. naval ships in the Philippine Sea, Russian president Vladimir Putin cozies up to Chinese leader Xi Jinping, leaving Trump in the cold.

June 11, 2019

Stephen Colbert: Why Guest Sec. of Defense Ash Carter Lifted The Military's Transgender Ban

Former U.S. Secretary of Defense and 'Inside the Five-Sided Box' author, Ash Carter, believes the most qualified people should be admitted into the military, regardless of their gender identity.




Sec. Ash Carter: 'Not Enough Was Done' To Stop Russia In 2016



Former U.S. Secretary of Defense and 'Inside the Five-Sided Box' author, Ash Carter, questions whether the Obama and Trump administrations responded aggressively enough to Russia's continued efforts to meddle in U.S. elections.

June 11, 2019

Stephen Colbert - Monologue and Opening - 6/10/19

The Truth About Trump's Big 'Win' Over Mexico



If Donald Trump's deal with Mexico looks familiar, that's because much of it had already been put in place by prior agreements.




When Trump Doesn't Like The News, He Interrupts It



Shortly after one of the guests disagreed with the President's weaponization of tariffs, a cable news show received an on-air call from you-know-who.




Doin' It Donkey Style



Democrats held a campaign event this weekend that had a massive turnout.




The President Needed To Vent



CNBC wasn't the only recipient of an early morning phone call from the President on Monday.

June 11, 2019

VIDEO: Bodyshop Leftover 'Barn Finds' Sprawl 20 Acres

Tom Cotter, the Barn Find Hunter known for unearthing some of the coolest barn finds with his video crew, heads to St. George, Utah.

During a visit to the area, Tom finds out about a junkyard, by a number of people which is said to have hundreds of cars that have sat without the owner willing to sell them. By those same people who tipped him off about the junkyard, he was told there was no way he was going to be allowed to go in there. Tom went ahead to make the visit, but they were closed, so he noted a phone number. After making a few phone calls, he’s allowed to pay a visit to Blake’s Auto Salvage.

Before getting the tour from Jim McEwen who knows the owner, Red, the video team tours the junkyard with a drone - and this place is huge! There are cars as far as the eye can see, and even cars stacked on cars in some spots. Surprisingly, a lot of them look to be relatively solid body machines. There’s everything on this almost 20 acre lot, muscle cars, sports cars, pony cars, classic SUVs, trucks, buses and delivery trucks.


Rare glimpse inside Blake's Auto Salvage | Barn Find Hunter - Ep. 57



While in St. George, Utah, Tom Cotter learns of a junkyard with hundreds of solid old cars, where the owner never sold anything and never allowed anyone inside. In classic Barn Find Hunter fashion, Tom makes a few phone calls and sweet-talks his way into Blake’s Auto Salvage. It is indeed a veritable fortress of forgotten cars. Many are only good for parts, but among them Tom finds an R-code Torino, a vintage White 706 tour bus from Yellowstone, and a low-mile Lincoln Continental Mk III.


In the northwest corner of the lot, Tom is introduced to a Hudson once owned by the great nephew of Joseph Hudson - this car is likely to return to the Hudson family soon. A weathered 1968 Pontiac GTO is another car in the area with a history behind it. The original owner of this car hunted it down, but decided to pass once he saw how time had treated his beloved muscle car.

The owner of the lot, Red, used to be a paint and body guy for many years of his career, which potentially explains why there’s so many of these cars ended up here - with many of them being turned into donor cars for better condition examples of that model.


https://www.motorious.com/articles/news/353194/video-bodyshop-leftover-barn-finds-sprawl-20-acres

June 11, 2019

Trump's Plan for Finding Oil in Alaska May Put Polar Bears at Risk

Fears of crushed polar bears spurred shift to aerial surveys

Trump administration won’t vet impact of overhead flights


Concern that heavy machinery rolling across an Alaskan wilderness in search of oil would crush some polar bears to death stopped the Interior Department from approving a seismic survey in the area earlier this year.

But the alternative -- a low-flying plane making frequent passes over the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge -- could still disturb polar bears, seals and calving caribou, according to conservationists and the Interior Department’s own experts.

Despite the risks, the Trump administration has no plans to vet the environmental impacts of the planned aerial survey, designed to arm oil companies with geophysical data to help them figure out the most promising locations to drill, and how much they should bid. The Interior Department’s hands-off approach is described in newly obtained documents and by people briefed on the matter who asked not to be named amid private deliberations.

“Low-flying aircraft can cause caribou to flee, causing disruption and harm during these sensitive periods,” Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management said in an April 23 letter to CGG Canada Services Ltd., the company seeking to do the work. The agency also warned CGG of the risk that the flights could drive polar bears to flee the coastline -- a possible violation of U.S. law barring the harassment of marine mammals.

Scientists with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service also raised concerns within the Interior Department about the planned surveillance and urged more review because of the potential impact on protected animals, according to two people familiar with the matter. Those concerns have not yet been heeded.


Much more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-10/polar-bears-new-threat-trump-s-plan-for-finding-oil-in-alaska?srnd=premium



Polar bear and a cub in Alaska. Photographer: Steven Kazlowski/Barcroft Media via Getty Images

June 11, 2019

Industrial methane emissions are 100 times higher than reported, researchers say

Emissions of methane from the industrial sector have been vastly underestimated, researchers from Cornell and Environmental Defense Fund have found.

Using a Google Street View car equipped with a high-precision methane sensor, the researchers discovered that methane emissions from ammonia fertilizer plants were 100 times higher than the fertilizer industry's self-reported estimate. They also were substantially higher than the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimate for all industrial processes in the United States.

"We took one small industry that most people have never heard of and found that its methane emissions were three times higher than the EPA assumed was emitted by all industrial production in the United States," said John Albertson, co-author and professor of civil and environmental engineering. "It shows us that there's a huge gap between a priori estimates and real-world measurements."

The researchers' findings are reported in "Estimation of Methane Emissions From the U.S. Ammonia Fertilizer Industry Using a Mobile Sensing Approach," published May 28 in Elementa. The work was funded in part by a grant from the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future's joint research program with EDF.

The use of natural gas has grown in recent years, bolstered by improved efficiency in shale gas extraction and the perception that natural gas is a less dirty fossil fuel.


Read more: https://phys.org/news/2019-06-industrial-methane-emissions-higher.html



A Cornell-Environmental Defense Fund research team equipped a Google Street View car with a high-precision methane sensor and found methane emissions from ammonia fertilizer plants to be 100 times higher than the fertilizer industry’s self-reported estimate. Credit: Cornell University