The founder of the internet archives, Brewster Kahle. The archive Just Announced plans to near its site in canada to protect itself from the new administration. Then to donald trump and the bomb. Will the president elect start a new Nuclear Arms Race . We will speak with arms control expert joe cirincione, author of Nuclear Nightmares. Plus, we look at what was once called the crime of the century. Someone had passed americas atomic bomb secrets. The federal government had laid the crime at the doorstep of two new yorkers. Amy more than 60 yearafafter the e ecution, the rosenberg casese i still stirring ntrorovey and d bate. Thelels sons are asng presint o oba to exerate thr mother as a new rerepo shows ethel was execudd becausshe refud to coorate wi theovernme doubt nvict her husband. To help convict her husband. All of that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. In breaking news, russian president Vladimir Putin said today syrias government has agreed to a ceaeasefire with rebels said to begigin at midnit tonighght. Putin said russia and turkey would guarantee terms of the truce and that the deal excludes fighters with isis, the so proclaimed islamic state. It was not immediately clear which of the dozens of rebel groups fighting the regime of syrian president Bashar Alassad would take part in any truths. Claims of a truce came as the syrian observatory for human rights said 40 people, including children, were killed in air strikes. Amateur video purports to show the aftermath of the attacks with children and adults seen fleeing through smokefilled streets. In washington, d. C. , s secretary of state john kerry blasted israels government, saying in a address s the relentless expansn of jewish settlements in the occupied west bank has allbutended the prospect of a twostate solution with thee palestinians. Despite our best efforts over the years, the two state solution is now in serious jeopardy. The truth is that trends on the ground, violence, terrorism, incitement, settlement expansion, and the seemingly endless occupation, their combining to destroy hopes for peace on both sides and increasingly cementing in a reversible one state reality that most people do not actually want. Amy secretary kerrys speech followed intense israeli criticism of the u. S. For refusing to veto a u. N. Security Council Resolution earlier this week. The measure condemns israels expansion of settlements a flagrant violation of international law. John kerry insisted the u. S. Had not abandoned its longtime ally, but said israeli democracy will not survive under a single state. Realityis a fundamental. If the choice is one state, israel can either be jewish or democratic. It cannot be both. And it wont ever really be at peace. Amy in the west bank, palestinian president abas said he was willing to talk in exchange for settlement construction. This is the chief negotiator erekat. He has the choice. Settlements or peace. He cant have both. Settlements are illegal under international law. Settlements are the antidote for the two state solution. Amy bitumen netanyahus reaction to the speech was swift and harsh. Now i must express id disappointment with the speech today of john kerry. A speech that was almost as unbalanced as the antiisrael resolution passed at the u. N. Last week. Israel looks forward to working with president elect trump and with the american congress, democrats and republicans alike, to mitigate the damage that this resolution has done anand ultimately to repeal it. Amy donald trump took to twitter to blast john kerrys speech, writing in a pair of tweets on capitol hill, lawmakers in both parties blasted john kerrys address. Lindsey graham called it delusional, while new York Democratic senator Chuck Schumer said john kerry had embolden extremists on both sides. Donald trumps Transition Team said wednesday it was considering whether to begin privatizing the veterans a administration. The socalled Public Private option would allow veterans to skip treatment at va hospitals, giviving them funds to visit private private sectoror hospitals and clinics instead. Veteran groups say they will oppose any efforts to privatize the v v. A. In washington, d. C. , the Obama Administration is expected to announce new sanctions against russia today over its alllleged role in hacking u. S. Institutions, including the emails of Hillary Clintons campaign manager. Lawmakerss and u. S. Intelligence officials have repeatedly said russian hackerers helped Donald Trumps campaign defeat hillary clinton, but have not provided specific evidence. In iraq, u. S. Warplanes launched airstrikes on mosul today as the iraqi army fought to reclaim the city from isis. Hundreds of residents poured out of the citys eastern neighborhohoods to escape the violence. W we fled the neighborhood to escape the mortars, mortars that would consnstantly fall on us. The situation was difficult. Everything is expensive. We were starving. Amy Iraqi Security forces aree screening the displaced residents and busing them to camps east of mosul. For many residents say cold and wet weather has made conditions so miserable, theyre desperate to leave. As many as one Million People remain trapped inside mosul with limited access to food and. Rinking water ful in colombia, lawmakers hahave approved a law granting amnesty to some members of the farc guerrilla group. This is fernando cristo, colombias interior minister. It means the path is clear to guarantee that the mobilization of disarmament of farc members in the First Quarter of next year. It is no more and no less than the end of a 52 year conflict with the farc. Of armss abandonment is down hands of the united nations, so the entire situation can begin. Amy the law will not protect farc members who committed war crimes or human rights violations. It follows a historic peace accord that foformally ended a civil war that left a quartermillion colombians dead. In new jersey, an eightyearold boy is fighting to rejoin his cub scout pack after he wasas kickeded out becausese he was ba gigirl. The case of jojoe maldano ofof seacaucus appears to be the first t to challenge a ban on transgender r boys joining boy scout trtroops. The case follows y years of resistance by the boy y scoutstf america to allow gay and lesbian adult leaders, before the organization finally dropped a blanket ban in july of 2015. In a statement, a spokesperson for the boy scouts said no youth may be removed from any of our programs on the basis of his or her sexual orientation. Gender identity isnt related to sexual orientation. In texas, a Fort Worth PoliceDepartment Faces new charges of racism and excessive force, afteter the release of a video showing an officer shooting a black man in the back. 33yearold d david collllie was left paralyzed after the encocounter in july. Cocollies lawyer, nate washington, released a copy ofoa dashcam video on wednesday, showing a Fort Worth Police officer and a local sheriffs deputy opening fire mere seconds after leleaving their car. Thiss s nate wasashington. We know that the officers indicated that they were telling mr. Collie to come to them, two walks to them. They were telling him to take your hands out of your pockets, things of that sort. As he attempted to comply, raised his hands as they told him to, they shot him. Amy collie spent 61 days in a hospital handcuffed to his bed and was left permanently paralyzed from the waist down. Washington said the officers were off duty at thehe time of e shooting. Police initiallyly accused colle of pointining a box cucutter ate officersrs, but the e video doet appear to back up the claim. A grand jury declined to indict collllie on aggravateded assault charges. A Fort Worth Police spokesperson says an investigation remains ongoing and a case against the officer has not yet been presented to a separate grand jury. The release of the video came less than a week after a viral video showed an African American mother and her teenage daughters being violently arrested by a white fort worth officer after the woman herself had dialed 911 to report an assault on her sevenyearold son. In florida activists opposing , construction of the sabal trail natural gas pipeline are holdining a series of protests across the state today. Environmentalists say the 3 billion, 500mile pipeline threatens the florida aquifer, which supplies Drinking Water to about 10 Million People. Water protectors have set up four camps along the pipelines route from which theyre organizing resistance to the project. Meanwhile, in west texas, activists say theyre preparing to establish a protetest camp in ththe path of the e transpecos pipeline, which would carry natural gas under the Rio Grande River on the u. S. Mexico border. It is being built by Energy Transfer partners, the company constructing the Dakota Access pipeline, which has faced months of resistance from the Standing Rock sioux tribe and over 200 indigenous nations from across the americas. President barack obama wednesday created a new National Monument in the southwest. The order will preserve some 1. 3 million acres in utah that are home to native american sacred sites. In a first, the monument will be comanaged by the federal government and five tribes. Obama also set aside 300,000 acres of desert in nevada. The land abuts the ranch of cliven bundy, who led an armed standoff against u. S. Agents in 2014 after he allegedly allowed his cattle to graze on federallymanaged land without paying grazing fees. And famed hollywood Actress Debbie Reynolds died wednesday of a stroke, just one day after the death of her daughter actress carrie fisher. Reynolds was 84 4 years old. In 1952, Debbie Reynolds had her breakout role in the musical comedy, singin in the rain. She was nominated for an Academy Award for her work in 1964s the unsinkable molly brown. Reynoldss son todd fisher said his mother was heartbroken over sister carrie fishers death on tuesday. He reported reynoldss last words as, i miss her so much, i want to be with carrie. And those are some of the headlines. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Nermeen and im nermeen shaikh. Welcome to all of our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. In just over three weeks, donald trump will be sworn in as the next president. According to the sierra club, trump will be the only world theer who still denies Science BehindClimate Change. During the president ial campaign, the sierra club prproduced this ad highlighting some of trumps comments. Mr. Trumump all of this with te Global Warming. A lot of it is a hoax. It is a moneymaking industry, ok . They said you calllled climae change a hoax. Is that true . Mr. Ttrump well, i might t hav. I believe that Climate Change is not manmade. We are going to cancel the paris climatate agreement. Ouour president is worrieded abt Global Warming. What a ridiculous situation. Nermeen donald trump has nominated a number of Climate Change deniers for top post. Including exxon Ceo Rex Tillerson secretary of state, Oklahoma Attorney general scott pruitt to head the environmental section agency, former Texas Governor rick terry to head the energy department, and congressman ryans inky to become interior secretary. Now scientists have a federal agencies are expressing growing concern the new Administration May attempt to destroy or bury decades of scientific studies on client change. Bob walker has already proposed stripping funding of nasa, research, describing it t as politically correct environmental monitoring. Amy in a scramble to protect data, protecting data of , research, a guerrilla archiving event was just held at the university of toronto in an attempt to save the climate studies on servers outside the United States. Organizers in the u. S. Are planning additional events in the coming weeks to archive vulnerable government websites and databases that conontain Climate Research. This comes as the end of term web archive, a project administered by the internet archive, gets underway. The project captures and saves u. S. Government websites at risk of changing or disappearing altogether at the end of president ial administrations. In the wake of trumps election, the internet archive has announced it will be moving a copy of its archive to canada. For more were joined by two , guests. Laurie allen is assistant director for digital scholarship at the university of pennsylvania libraries and a member of the data refuge project to rescue climate and envivironmental data. And Brewster Kahle is a computer engineer, internet entrepreneur, activist, and digital librarian. He is the founder r of the internet archive. We welcome you both to democracy now laurie allen, why dont you start out by explaining what you are doing to preserve Climate Change research and why youre so concerned it might be you raised from gogovernment websit. Thank you. So what we are doing is a really large collaborative effort, including the internet archive, and as you mention, the folks in toronto as well as researchers, scholars, librarians, citizens, scientists from many different places basically creating safe channels for data that is currently stored and made accessible through federal websites and through the federal government to move to new locations so it can so began continue to ensure access to these facts for research. It is also to raise awareness of the value of this data and have preserveda is today. Were holding events, one in philadelphia chen were 13 and january 14 where we will use protocols that are appropriate to the data that we are trying to save. So as much as possible, we will move to the internet archive. For other kinds of data, we will move to trusted repositories here in the u. S. And around the we continueuesure to provide access to them. Nermeen laurie allen, could you say more about the kind of data youre looking to archive . The main concern is not documents, but rather the Analytic Software that may become obsolete with disuse. Could you explain the significance of such software to Climate Research . Absolutely. As we have talked to scientists and researchers who rely on federal climate data, so many of them use a variety of sources. Challenges is in figuring out ways to preserve continue to provide access to the data themselves, but also the software used to analyze the data. Scientists rely on data multiple forms, so we are we are identifying protocols that we hope will be appropriate to each of a you know, whether it is the software used to create derivatives versions of the data that are more useful for other purposes, or if possible, to save the software themselves or it is ae itself really sticky problem. To the extent, i think, we can work with the internet archive, we are. But as you mentioned, there are data that just cannot be scraped, they cannot be copied using web archiving. For those, it is basically going up to be a casebycase basis, which is why so many of the events are engaging with developers and Software Engineers in collaboration with scientists and librarians and archivists to identify those materials that are most vulnerable, valuable, and take those one at a time and figure out how we can continue to provide access to them. Amy i want to bring Brewster Kahle into this conversation, founder of the internet archive, which is such an important public resource. Everything to the way back machine, where you can find a previous iterations of websites. Every president ial term that is over have been running the end of term archive to archive and the information of a president ial administration is preserved when it changes over, like we see from obama to trump. But what about obama to trump . Do you see a special threat now when it t comes to preservrving information . This administration or Upcoming Administration has promised radical change, even potentially canceling old apartmenents. The services holold apartmen. The services that the depapartments have traditionally served are now online and could be deleted, changed, modified in ways that we really dont know what is coming up. Where we have e always gone and preserved paper records, which is providing some level o of preservation, is a new aspect. Previousuch beyond speaker does said, beyond just recording webpages. We need the whole databases and the struructures that science nw dependnds on. But it is now within an administration we are not really sure what is coming up. Nermeen Brewster Kahle, could you explain what exactly happens when there is a change in admiministratition . Your end of term archive keeps all of the information that was previously in a particular administrations website, but what exactly changes . Is everything from dotgove sites removed . Whihitehouse. Gov disappears. Anybody accessing any of ththe pre