Speakers announced
A Sanders spokesman says that McKibben will speak at Sanders’ presidential campaign kickoff. In an email McKibben writes:
Bernie is the ultimate what-you-see-is-what-you-get politician. There’s no fancy moves and no adroit spin, just relentless day-in day-out advocacy for working people, and for a working planet. Bernie’s been in the forefront of all the crucial environmental fights of recent years, always willing to knuckle down and do the hard work of fighting the big corporations.
Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, founders of Ben & Jerry’s Homemade Inc., are also expected to speak — with free ice cream in tow.
Wants to be ‘the small business President’
Clinton participates in a discussion about the local and national economy with the community in New Hampshire. Her main focus for this discussion is how the state of the economy affects small businesses.
There’s nothing more important than small business, it is the engine of economic growth, it is where most of our jobs come from, and I want to be the small business President.
Proud of middle class focus
At a Center for American Progress event Biden says that he’s proud that he’s spent his career focused on the middle class.
In this town, being referred to as ‘Middle Class Joe’ is meant as an insult. No, I really mean it. Because you’re not sophisticated if you’re middle class. Because even among some of we Democrats, we’re sophisticated jerks lots of times.
He stands by the straightforward comments that have gotten him into trouble:
I got criticized for saying LaGuardia was like a Third World airport. Guess what? The governor and everybody else, including The New York Times, calls it a Third World airport. And they’re changing it. We have to invest.
He advises Democrats making a White House bid:
We should run on what we’ve done. Whoever’s running should also talk about what the resurgence in place in the future is, and talk about in 2016 what we’ve done. Some say this amounts to a third term for President Obama. I call it sticking to what works and expanding on it to restore the middle class.
Pan official trailer
Warner Bros Pictures releases the trailer for Pan.
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Wants to expand military, toughen terror laws
Christie delivers a foreign policy themed speech in Portsmouth Navel Shipyard, New Hampshire calling for a stronger military. His plan calls for growing the military to 500,000 Army soldiers and 185,000 Marines, and increasing the size of the Navy fleet to 350 ships from the current 260 ships, and increases to the size of the Air Force.
President Reagan once said that ‘above all, we must realize that no arsenal or no weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today’s world do not have. It is a weapon that we as Americans do have.
He also calls for tougher anti-terror laws, stronger surveillance program, increasing military spending and its worldwide presence.
Too often, the loudest voices in the debate about how to keep our country safe are driven by some purist, theoretical vision of how we should manage our intelligence efforts. When Edward Snowden revealed our intelligence secrets to the world in 2013, civil liberties extremists seized that moment to advance their own narrow agenda. They want you to think that there’s a government spook listening in every time you pick up the phone or Skype with your grandkids. Let me be clear – all these fears are exaggerated and ridiculous.
Carol trailer
Cannes Films releases the trailer for Carol.
https://youtu.be/bhHy4L8me7o
Commencement speech: Defend free speech
McEwan urges graduating students to defend the principle of free speech in his commencement speech.
It’s worth remembering this: freedom of expression sustains all the other freedoms we enjoy. Without free speech, democracy is a sham. Every freedom we possess or wish to possess (of habeas corpus and due process, of universal franchise and of assembly, union representation, sexual equality, of sexual preference, of the rights of children, of animals – the list goes on) has had to be freely thought and talked and written into existence. No single individual can generate these rights alone. The process is cumulative. It was a historical context of relative freedom of speech that made possible the work of those who were determined to extend that liberty.
It can be a little too easy sometimes to dismiss arguments you don’t like as hate speech, or to complain that this or that speaker makes you feel… disrespected. Being offended is not to be confused with a state of grace. It’s the occasional price we pay for living in an open society.
Praises Tufts graduates for activism
Albright praises the Tufts community for its activism during her commencement ceremony address.
You have stood up on behalf of workers, you have spoken out against the scourge of sexual assault, you have made clear that black lives matter, and you have pressed for action on climate change. All I see are doers … when I tell you the world needs you, I really, really mean it. I wanted to use the fine education I received for more than meaningful dinner conversation. I wanted to give something back to this country that had given so much to me. I insist that you put your opinions to the test, when required, you dare — as Tuft’s motto suggests — to be voices crying for peace and light. Because your choices will make all the difference to you, and to us all.
Pulls out of debate
In a phone interview Stephanopoulos calls the donations a mistake and reiterates his earlier apology.
I gave the donations for the right reasons, for the best of intentions, to support causes I believe in. In retrospect, I realize that even though that falls within our guidelines, I should have gone above and beyond that, just to avoid anything that would even raise any possible appearance of a conflict. That’s why it was a mistake, and that’s why I’m sorry — to our viewers and to my colleagues.
He also says he will not host the February 2016 Republican primary debate
I don’t want to be a distraction, so I’m not going to moderate that debate…I am going to continue to cover the 2016 campaign. I think I’ll be able to prove every single day that I do it with intelligence and fairness, just as I’ve done for the last 17-plus years.
Mad Max: Fury road
In this adventure directed by George Miller based on a book by Brendan McCarthy, Nick Lathauris and Miller, Hardy plays Max a man of action and few words trying to restore order in a stark desert landscape where humanity is broken. Costarring Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult, Josh Helman, Zoe Kravitz and Rosie Huntington.
When I got over the initial jubilation and excitement I suddenly realised that Mad Max is synonymous with Mel Gibson. If it’s not Mel it’s not Mad Max, and that was a little bit daunting and possibly people were going to dislike the change
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Iraq ‘Biggest disaster in American history’
Albright says during a Woodrow Wilson Center event in Washington, D.C.:
I have believed that Iraq is the biggest disaster in American history. It has ruined America’s reputation or damaged it … What it did was militarize democracy and make it very hard, and I think it has put us in a very bad position in the Middle East … I think that going into Iraq – God knows why – has kind of disturbed all of it, and we haven’t put it back together, and I think it’s going to need an awful lot of thinking from scholars and practitioners doing stuff together.
Premieres ‘Irrational Man’ at Cannes
Allen premieres his 46th film as director, Irrational Man, at the Cannes Film Festival in France. The dark comedy about a philosophy professor who may be losing his sanity stars Joaquin Phoenix, Emma Stone and Parker Posey. On the film’s topic, philosophy:
There’s no positive answer to the grim reality of life, no matter how much the philosophers talk to you or the priests or the psychologists. The bottom line after the all talk is: Life has its own agenda and it runs right over you while you’re prattling. We’re all going to wind up in the same position sooner or later.
On filmmaking:
The only thing you can think of as an artist is try to come up with something where you explain to people why life is worth living, and is a positive thing, and does have some meaning. Now, you really can’t do that without conning them. You can’t be honest and do that. Because in the end, it has no meaning. You’re living in a random universe. You’re living a meaningless life.
Council on Foreign Relations foreign policy speech
Rubio lays out his foreign policy vision in his talk at the Council on Foreign Relations. He criticizes Obama and calls for bigger military budget. He also wants America to take a more aggressive stance across the globe.
American strength is a means of preventing war, not promoting it…Sadly, I believe President Obama often disagrees with that simple truth. He entered office believing America was too hard on our adversaries, too engaged in too many places, and that if we just took a step back and did some more ‘nation building at home– ceding leadership to other countries — America would be better liked and the world better off.
Before I Wake trailer
Relativity Media releases the trailer for Before I Wake.
Jem and the Holograms trailer
Universal Pictures releases the trailer for Jem and The Holograms.
Liberty University commencement
Bush delivers the Liberty University commencement address. He talks about abortion and the oppression of Christians around the world.
Wherever there is a child waiting to be born, we say choose life, and we say it with love…Wherever women and girls in other countries are brutally exploited, or treated as possessions without rights and dignity, we Christians see that arrogance for what it is. Wherever Jews are subjected to the oldest bigotry, we reject that sin against our brothers and sisters, and we defend them.
He also raised question on what he views as the encroachment of government against religious freedom.
We find officials in a major city demanding that pastors turn over copies of their sermons. Or federal judges mistaking themselves for elected legislators, and imposing restrictions and rights that do not exist in the Constitution.
Real Time with Bill Maher: Overtime
Chafee appears on Real Time with Bill Maher: Overtime, where Maher prods him about when he’s going to announce his run for president. When Maher asks what distinguishes him from the other candidates, Chafee responds:
Certainly my record, and that is one, first of all, of high ethical standards over 30 years, as a mayor, as a governor, and as a United States senator.
Maher presses Chafee on the Clintons. Chafee cites Whitewater, “travelgate” and The Clinton Foundation.
Forever cancelled
ABC cancels the show.
z.com ad
The band create an ad titled Move with the Markets, for z.com’s forex, commodities and indices trading mobile apps.. The video shows scenes in Japan and London, including a walk across the famous Abbey Road crosswalk.
Trainwreck trailer release
In this comedy, directed by Judd Apatow, Shumer plays a magazine writer who tries to live an uninhabited life free from stifling relationships, until she meets a charming successful sports doctor, played by Bill Hader.
