Black lives matter and more. Then to Bill Mckibben. Movement haveate long since concluded the fountain a fossil fuel money which buys politicians and spreads disinformation can only be met if we coin our own currency. In this case, the currency of movements. Passion, spirit, creativity, sometimes we spend the currency of our own bodies and had to jail. Amy as 2015 is set to be the earths warmest year on record, World Leaders and climate activists are gearing up for the u. N. Climate talks in paris. We will speak to Bill Mckibben about paris, oil julie in the arctic and the university of , californias decision to divest from coal and oil sands companies. All that and more coming up. Welcome to democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. In japan, helicopter teams are rushing to rescue people from their rooftops as his stork historic flooding has forced more than 90,000 people from their homes. At least 12 people have been injured and one person is missing. Homes and cars have been swept away by the torrents of water. Researchers at the university of tokyo have linked increased flooding to Climate Change, particularly in asia. Meanwhile, California State Assembly has stripped a key provision from governor jerry browns Climate Change legislation. The measure had sought to set targets to reduce gasoline use. It had been the subject of fierce opposition from the oil and gas industry, which had launched a statewide advertising blitz against the legislation. The university of california has announced it has sold off more than 200 million worth of investments in coal and tar sands companies. University Officials Say the move was prompted by concerns over environmental sustainability as well as the increasing riskiness of investing in the Tar Sands Industries which have both been seen their profits plunge in recent months. More on Climate Change and the Development Movement with three now, activist Bill Mckibben later in the broadcast live in our studio. The European Union has proposed a new plan to resettle 160,000 refugees across the bloc as hundreds of thousands of people fleeing violence and war in syria, afghanistan, iraq, somalia, eritrea, and other countries have arrived on europes shores this year. The new plan still has to be approved by the majority of eu governments. Germany, france, spain and italy have already expressed approval of the plan, although german chancellor Angela Merkel has said the plan does not go far enough. The United Nations is now estimating at least 850,000 people are expected to cross the mediterranean this year and next. Meanwhile, in the United States, secretary of state john kerry has said the administration is considering increasing the total number of refugee visas issued from 70,000 in 2015 to as many as 100,000 in 2016. The increase is still far less than many have demanded. The International Rescue committee has called on the United States to take in an additional 65,000 refugees from syria alone. In turkey, prosecutors have opened a criminal investigation against selahattin demirtas, one of the leaders of the hdp, turkeys main prokurdish political party. The charges against demirtas include humiliating the turkish people, insulting the president and this comes on the heels of a wave of nationalist violence that swept the country earlier this week as protesters attacked hdp headquarters in at least a halfdozen cities. Meanwhile turkey has deported a , dutch journalist after she was arrested while reporting on a protest at which activists denounced the increasing fighting between Turkish Security forces and the kurdistan workers party, known as the pkk. In nepal, an official says police have killed at least four people after opening fire on protesters demanding statehood wednesday. At least 30 people have died in protests over the last month as different ethnic groups have protested for statehood in the drafting of nepals new constitution. In the United States, democratic president ial candidate Hillary Clinton has endorsed the obama administrations nuclear deal with iran. In an address wednesday in in an address wednesday, clinton also vowed she would not hesitate to take military action if iran moved toward developing a Nuclear Weapon. Meanwhile republican , president ial candidates donald trump and texas senator ted cruz rallied against the Iran Nuclear Deal. While the deal is aimed at curbing Irans Nuclear activities, cruz invoked the threat of iran developing a nuclear bomb. If iran gets a Nuclear Weapon , the single greatest risk is weons and t itahip anywhere in the atlantic and fire it up straignto th air into the atmosphere. They would set uwhat is called nila tro debacles electromagnetic holes which would take down the electric red on the eastern seaboard and kill tens of millions of americans. Amy amy the Iran Nuclear Deal has enough democratic support to block republican attempts to undo it in congress. Nald trump, meanwhile, has come under criticism again for his comments about women. In an interview with Rolling Stone magazine, trump said of rival candidate and former Hewlett Packard ceo carly fiina, look at that face would anyone vote for that . Fiorina is the only woman in the race for the republican president ial nomination. The Justice Department has unveiled new guidelines intended to increase the prosecution of executives involved in white collar crime. This comes after the Justice Department has failed to criminally prosecute executives for financial crimes that led to the housing and economic crises. On wednesday, Deputy Attorney general sally yates said corporations can only commit crimes through fleshandblood people. Its only fair that the people who are responsible for committing those crimes be held accountable. The public needs to have confidence that there is one system of justice and it applies equally regardless of whether that crime occurs on a Street Corner or in a boardroom, she said. The new policies are guidelines, not rules. Puerto rico governor Alejandro Garcia padilla has outlined a new fiveyear plan to address puerto ricos debt crisis that plans on raising the tuition at university of puerto rico, cutting investment in health care and contracting forprofit companies to run public road and ports. In return, the plan calls for debt restructuring that would require hedge funds and other creditors to voluntarily accept reduced payments. On wednesday, governor Alejandro Garcia padilla called on hedge funds to come to the negotiation negotiating table. Now the most important conclusion from this plan is that even if we impose all the measures in it, he would not be sufficient to meet the immediate delivery them. The Massive Public data puerto rico is impediment to growth. That is why the time is now that the creditors come to the table and share the sacrifice. Amy in news from pasco, washington, three Police Officers who shot and killed an unarmed mexican farmworker earlier this year in an incident which sparked protests will not face criminal charges. Police fired 17 shots at antonio zambranomontes. Telephone video shows him turning to face police and raising his hands before he is shot. On wednesday, Franklin County prosecutor shawn sant said the shooting was reasonable under the standards established in our state laws. Sant said Police Killed zambranomontes because he turned toward them with a rock in his hand. An attorney for zambranomontes family said they were sorely disappointed and would be filing a lawsuit. The republicancontrolled House Judiciary Committee held its first in a series of hearing on planned parenthood wednesday following an antichoice groups release of heavily edited videos targeting the organization. The videos show planned parenthood employees discussing the sharing of fetal tissue with researchers. Speaking at the hearing, democratic Congressmember Jerrold Nadler of new york said planned parenthoods practices are legal. The laws are clear. The ability to dip his , comply with these laws. Just as they comply with thousands of other federal state, local laws and regulations every single day. That should be the conclusion of this hearing, but instead, before any inquiry, this committee has declared them guilty and chosen to capitalize on the sensational, unsubstantiated smears made in a series of unethical, possibly illegal, videos. The goal is clear, to smear penland planned parenthood. Amy planned parenthood was not invited to testify at the hearing on planned parenthood. In other news on planned parenthood, a planned Parenthood Health center in pullman, washington, was heavily damaged by what investigators say was an arson attack. In a statement, karl eastlund, ceo of planned parenthood of Greater Washington and north idaho called the attack a predictable Ripple Effect from the false and incendiary attacks that fuel violence from extremists. And those are some of the headlines. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman with juan gonzalez. Juan welcome to all our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. On wednesday, democratic president ial candidate Martin Omalleys campaign sent out emails urging supporters to join a rally scheduled for next week in front of the Democratic NationalCommittee Office in washington, d. C. No, the rally is not a campaign event, its to protest the dncs debate schedule, which allows for six democratic debates, four of which will be held before the Iowa Caucuses in february. This is Martin Omalley last Martin Omalley also criticized the schedule last month at the Democratic NationalCommittee Summer meeting in minneapolis. Four debates. What are debates . Four debates. Four debates and four debates only were told for voters to make their decision. This is totally unprecedented in our partys history. This sort of rate process has never been attempted before. Where did it come from . To what end, for what purpose, what national or Party Interest does this decree serve . How does this help us tell the story of the last eight years of democratic progress . How does this promote our democratic ideas for making wages go up and Household Incomes go up again instead of down . Amy its not the first time the former governor of maryland has expressed concern about the political process. In may, when he announced his bid for the democratic president ial nomination, Martin Omalley voiced indirect criticism of fellow candidates Hillary Clinton and jeb bush. The presidency is not a crown to be passed back and forth by you between two royal families. It is a sacred trust to be earned from the American People and exercised on behalf of of the people of these United States. Going toway we are rebuild the American Dream is if we retake control of our own american government. Amy while the latest polls put Martin Omalley behind Hillary Clinton and bernie in the democratic race, underdog status is not new to Martin Omalley. In 1990 nine, he defeated two africanamerican candidates and won onethird of the black vote to become mayor of the predominately black city of baltimore. He went on to serve two terms as mayor, then was elected for two terms as governor of maryland. Now he is running for president. Martin omalley, welcome to democracy now supporting this protest outside the Democratic National committee. Explain exactly what you are demanding. What im demanding is with the Democratic Party in the past is been good at, and that is actually Holding President ial debates and letting the people of the United States no what our leaders had to offer by way of ideas that actually move every American Family forward, they get wages to go up, make college more affordable so our economy can work again for all of us. Right now what weve seen is this edict from the chair of the dnc and i believe the dnc members were not even consulted. Some of the breaking news today is two vice chairs of the dnc have stepped forward and said, you know what . This is not good for our party, not good for our country. How are we going to make our case if we limit debates . Or worse, i mean, the one debate there having a New Hampshire and a very cynical way, was stuck on a saturday night right before christmas at the height of shopping and holiday season. I can only imagine the next degree from the chair will be that you can only watched them a credit president ial debates by subscribing to netflix. This is ridiculous. Meanwhile, 24 Million People tune into the carnival Barker Donald trump and all his hateful rhetoric about immigrants and new american immigrants, and we need to push back against this. Im looking forward to having more debates. Amy what are the rules . There shall only be one debate and i want and only one debate in New Hampshire and anyone that goes off script or participate in other debates other than those ancient by the dnc will be forbidden from attending other debates. It is a very undemocratic way to run the Democratic Party. We have important issues to talk about. People are looking for solutions. This much i know from the time i have spent in iowa and New Hampshire and i think the latest polling shows this, this race is wide open in the Democratic Party. It does not serve our party well to circle the wagons around the sheitable front runner as continues her downward ascent. What would serve our party is to have debates and speak to that year earning the people have for new leadership and an ability to get things done. That is a phrase i hear all across the country, we need to get things done again. Issues, terms of the when we first met a few weeks ago, your here in new york city to lay out your pretty ambitious immigration agenda and immigration has become even bigger issue in terms of the republican discussion. About talk differentiate yourself in terms of not a lengthy republican candidates, but your fellow Democratic Candidates and president obama on immigration. Thank you. I believe our country is made stronger every generation by the arrival of new american immigrants. Day, there were a lot of germans and a lot of irish. In our day, there are a lot of new american immigrants who are coming from our own hemisphere and others. I think the largest numbers are china of late. The bottom line is this. Did during several of our country is not barbed wire fences or chainlink fences, not internment camps for women and children. The enduring symbol of our country is the statue of liberty. We do best as a nation and where most credible in the exercise of our foreignpolicy when we act in accordance with our deepest principles. One of those principles, especially in the context were seeing the suffering in syria in the Refugee Families fleeing with their children, little bodies washing up on the beaches, we need to step up and i am the only candidate in this race in either party that has said we should accept 65,000 refugees from syria and step up and do our part in this crisis. One of the abiding truths of every great world religion is that you shall be kind to strangers, especially when they are fleeing for their lives and with her children. So we are great and generous and a good and compassionate nation and the truth can damn well defend herself, but she needs to be stated first. Amy this issue of Syrian Refugees coming to the United States. We did a whole show on this yesterday talking to people all over from macedonia to parliamentarian and germany who was saying, we have to look at the countries that they are fleeing from and look at the wea