Tuesday, October 27, 2015

news bits October 2015

It's the month of Halloween.
The New York Mets are scheduled to play the Kansas City Royals in tonight's first game of the world series, in Kansas City, Missouri. This shot was made the night of the first game of the American League Championship Series, also in Kansas City, on 14 October 2015.
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A major leak about the US drone program caused a stir mid-month.

A drone strike had mistakenly hit a hospital run by Doctors Without Borders in Afghanistan. The Pentagon admitted it and the President apologized for it.

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Last month's big news in the House was that Speaker John Boehner was stepping down in an almost unprecedented retirement. But this has revealed how fractured, leaderless, directionless and chaotic today's GOP really is. They have become so ridiculous, the Onion got it right.

There have been a number of candidates who have come forward to be the next Speaker but one after the other they realize they don't have enough votes for confirmation.

Numerous examples of this chaotic lack of leadership in the House has resulted in the party's willingness to attack the other party without evidence to back up their claims. There have been eight special investigative committe's since 2012 in Congress trying to find culpability or scandal with then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton regarding the American Embassy bombing in Benghazi, Libya. The most recent of these hearings in the GOP-led US House of Representatives brought her before the committee to testify. They didn't find anything new with 11 hours of her testimony last week. One reason may have to do with where the fault lay. Since then a western made video was touted by the CIA (and within days of the bombings and killings in 2012) as significantly inciting the attackers.

The Clinton hearing ended like this.

Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders was on Chris Hayes explaining why Exxon criminally lied since the 1970's in denying climate change when their own studies admitted the validity of the warming of the planet.
Former US Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin says a new book about the creation of the US Federal Reserve is 'required reading'.
Former Federal Reserve Chief has come forward and said he thought banking executives should have been prosecuted for the Great Recession of 2007-9.


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