70 Charities have called on
Corporations to end their Political Dark Money-untraceable in campaigns and
PAC’s under the rules of Citizens United.
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Obama called out Fox News on their constant
characterizations of the poor as lazy and leeches
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Obama has said that Global Warming is the next big
security threat to our country
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On the Climate Change Front:
Earth has recorded the warmest records for any 12 month period in recorded
history; meanwhile, the California Drought worsens!
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We are going to have huge Medicaid
Expansion fights in the states that didn’t take the Federal money
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The Sunni Shia fighting in Iraq has led the region
to the unstable state it’s in today-Should it be split into 3 partitions-as Joe
Biden suggested some ten years ago?
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The Iraq War question: have we been asking
the wrong question? It’s not what would you have done…it’s what are your plans
going forward? What would you do given the conditions on the ground as they
exist today!
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Campus Rape is
much higher than reported! Rape is
regularly being used as a weapon of war. In Nigeria, Boko Haram has raped
repeatedly. Now reports from Tunisia where women talk of decades of abuse from
the police.
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Under the
radar…is China’s cancellation of the Yangtze River Dam Project. It
would have destroyed the entire protection zone established by
environmentalists, and would have rendered any subsequent controls or
recommendations meaningless. The fact that the Chinese scrapped the project,
(or at least put it on hold), is significant. Some environmental concerns of
the people, and the rest of the world, have gained traction.
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Under the radar…Hillary hired Gary Gensler- a
former Goldman Sachs partner who helped implement Dodd-Frank legislation and
pushed for tighter banking reforms. His presence is significant in that it
raises hope within the left flank of the party that Hillary will give him a
seat at the table and push for stronger measures for Wall Street!
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There are 143 million people-almost ½ of the US
Population, living
in quake zones!
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A quote from Leon Trotsky, the Bolshevik
Revolutionary: “You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.”…War
is now written into the bottom line of big corporations. With global
instability on the rise, corporations are hiring political scientists and
including them in briefings at their board meetings
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There were a record number, 11 million, displaced people in their own countries in 2014.
The Total number of displaced IDP-Internally displaced people is around 38
million. 30,000 people a day are being displaced from their homes.
**These are but a few of the myriad number of stories I've seen that seem to be under reported. The Under the Radar segment will continue next month! Stay tuned...
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