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Let’s Hope the Door Hits Elizabeth Warren on the Way Out
One of the biggest panderers and condescending candidates we ever have seen is calling it quits after a disastrous Super Tuesday (Super Thursday if you are Joe Biden). She turned off so many people she couldn’t win her home state of Massachusetts. She came to the realization there was no hope of beating out Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders.
By Gregory Alan6 years ago in The Swamp
Open Letter to Bernie Sanders
Dear Bernie Sanders, I am writing to you in my concerns about our planet. As we all know before this new year started Australia and the Amazon has been dealing with a lot of forest fires. In one area it is due to their climate and how they are located directly underneath our ozone layer, but in another country, fires were made from our own species, humans. Australia's forest fires killed a lot of animals to the point some are either vulnarbale or endangered. These two areas are just the beginning, what about the Arctic?
By Trinity Shadow6 years ago in The Swamp
Can Social Enterprises Empower Urban Refugees?
As intrastate conflicts throughout the world continue to outbreak and fester, a huge humanitarian crisis has emerged on a global scale. In 2018, nearly 69 million people in the world have been forcibly displaced from war, violence or persecution. Of this figure, 40 million people are internally displaced, 25.4 million are refugees and 3.1 million are asylum-seekers.
By row / shell 6 years ago in The Swamp
Coronavirus-What do we really know?
Little has changed since the plague when it comes to containment of a virus or epidemic. Test, quarantine, burn, public hysteria that correlates to violence and less than human acts and burn it, burn everything. The world has not seen an epidemic so widely scattered with such a high population effected for quite some time. It is easy to instill fear and with social media, information is fed in waves crashing in both the factual and fiction shores. So much information, that it took me an entire day to wade through just a glimpse of what is out there in order to form some kind of opinion. The information highway allow so much traffic, that it is easy to take a wrong turn and get lost.
By Musing Around6 years ago in The Swamp
Women Who Seek to be Equal With Men Lack Ambition
Intelligent, sensible, caring, understanding, personable, genuine, loving, literate, compassionate, empathetic, honest, having integrity, hard working, incredible: these are just some of the positive character traits of two women who are very special to me in my life. I could name them and talk more about them, but I am not going to do that. Firstly, these ladies may get embarrassed by my talking about them, and you may not wish to hear about two special ladies who you have not up until now heard of, and will probably never get to know either.
By Ian McKenzie6 years ago in The Swamp
Help the Dying Mother
Hello sir, I have grown up in a very small village in the HinduKush range of Pakistan where all we have got is nature and we are totally dependant on it for our food and living. The imagination of love in that region is related to that of a mother who is always there for a kid no matter what the situation are, and this is why nature is also called mother nature. Over the years, climate change and environmental degradation has ruined our lives and we have faced serious catastrophies including floods, melting of glaciers and what not. This is how our mother is sick now. Imagine the situation. It is not a metaphor. It is as real as it can get. People are dying because they have shifted to artificial products and thousands of people are diagnosed with cancer each year in such a small region because the whole diet cycle has changed for people. They cannot plow their fields any more in fear of what the climate crisis do to them and the self-sufficiency of the region is gone.
By Abdul Wahid Khan6 years ago in The Swamp
Meredithminded
It is no secret that the United States began as a slave society. Throughout history, the narrative of Afro-Americans treated as second class citizens manifested in slavery, the civil war, reconstruction, and the civil rights movement. The Supreme Court ruling of Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483 (1954), made segregation of any form illegal in the United States. Many viewed desegregation as the “freedom” Afro-Americans deserved after the calculated and systematic racism brought on by European colonizers. In 2008 history was made with the first Afro-American President and First Lady. Black women are currently the most educated group in the United States. There is an array of black wealth circulating throughout America and black entrepreneurship is on the rise. There are laws put in place to combat discrimination and racism. To the ignorant eye, Afro-Americans are “equal.” However, we know that racism still thrives in American culture. The criminal justice system in the United States is a blatant example of lack of equality amongst the races. If you look at the actual language in the 13th amendment (the amendment that ended slavery in the U.S.) it states that, “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for a crime shall exist within the United States.” But we knew this. We all saw the Netflix documentary. Afro-American males account for 37% of the prison population in the U.S. There are also 96,000 people from Pennsylvania are behind bars. And with no surprise Afro-Americans make up 46% of the prison population. The number of individuals on probation and parole in PA are even higher.
By Brittonea Meredith6 years ago in The Swamp
"Accurate Labels"
"Accurate Labels" are everything. - March 6th, 2020 I am not a fan of politics or laws or lawmaking, but I do care about the future and health of myself and my loved ones. Working in the Food and Beverage industry, this new proposed law peaked my interest.
By Johnathon Lee6 years ago in The Swamp
Decade of Violence and Threats Revealed in Court Battle
A court in Britain revealed that Dubai's ruler orchestrated the abduction of two daughters, then intimidated one of his many wives when she started questioning his treatment of them, according to documents released on Thursday by British court.
By Anton Black6 years ago in The Swamp
An Open Letter to Trump On The Environment . Top Story - March 2020.
President Trump, I fail to understand the reasoning behind your disregard for preserving the continued habitability of our planet. As a father, I would assume you are possessed of the basic paternal inclination to ensure the security of your own progeny. Yet, you disregard all subjects of environmental concern with a casual and disinterested contempt which can only be called lazy, arrogant, and entitled.
By Walter Rhein6 years ago in The Swamp
