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#11 - Millennial Problems; Aleppo Moments; Awful Excuses - 30Sep2016


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Hillary Clinton's campaign is concerned about her reach with millennials, so they have recruited Senator Bernie Sanders, President Barack Obama, and First Lady Michelle Obama to influence the demographic. Instead, they are consistently insulting them, and then wonder why she is having so much trouble beating Trump.
The US is building a new Military Air Operations base near Agadez, Niger in Central Africa, stating that the site was chosen to enhance the effectiveness of counterterrorism measures in Western Africa - except this new base is almost 600 miles east of the current US base of operations in the region.
Gary Johnson is repeatedly demonstrating that he has no real undestanding or care for foreign policy, following his lack of knowledge about Aleppo, Syria with his inability to name a foreign leader he admires - calling the second gaffe another "Aleppo Moment".
Two nuclear power facilities in the US are leaking, and one of them could be much worse than Japan's Fukushima incident - but this is being ignored by the media, the companies that run these sites, and largely by the government.
The San Diego, CA area is still seeing ongoing protests due to the police shooting death of Ugandan refugee Alfred Olango - the police "copsplain" that officers mistakenly thought that he had a gun, when in fact he had a 3-inch long e-cigarette.
More "copsplaining" from the Tulsa, OK officer Betty Shelby - with the worst excuse ever, she claims that her shooting and killing of Terence Crutcher was because she was "temporarily deaf".
A wrongly-convicted African-American man spent 20 years behind bars studying the law, and got his conviction overturned and won a $15 Million settlement.
A grocery store in the UK is heling to combat global food waste by selling food that would otherwise be thrown away, and with a "pay what you can" business model.
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A Mostly Accurate ViewBy Richard Waite