Author: Sydney Robinson

Japanese First Lady Snubs Trump By Pretending to Speak No English During Dinner

Japanese First Lady Snubs Trump By Pretending to Speak No English During Dinner

Posted by | Jul 20, 2017 | , |

In an interview with the New York Times coming this week, President Trump spoke briefly about his time visiting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and First Lady Akie Abe. Trump said that he enjoyed himself well enough, but that the evening was made uncomfortable by the fact that the First Lady of Japan appeared to speak no English at all. Said Trump: “So, I was seated next to the wife of Prime Minister Abe [Shinzo Abe of Japan], who I think is a terrific guy, and she’s a terrific woman, but doesn’t speak English.” When asked for clarification,...

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Nevada Lawmakers Pass Emergency Regulation After Legal Weed Sells At Record Speed

Nevada Lawmakers Pass Emergency Regulation After Legal Weed Sells At Record Speed

Posted by | Jul 20, 2017 | , |

It has been less than a month since the state of Nevada enacted their marijuana legalization, and business has been booming. So booming, in fact, that the state was required to pass emergency legislation to bring more weed to the fast-selling state. In response to record sell-outs of the 47 legal retailers licensed to distribute the newly-legal drug, the Nevada Tax Commission hastily passed a regulation to allow more dispensaries to distribute cannabis in order to keep up with the massive demand. The decision to open application and allow more formerly medical marijuana dispensaries to get into the legal...

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Climate Change Helping to Solve Long Cold Missing Person Cases

Climate Change Helping to Solve Long Cold Missing Person Cases

Posted by | Jul 19, 2017 | , |

This week, Swiss police positively identified a set of bodies discovered in the Swiss Alps as longtime missing couple Marcelin and Francine Dumoulin. The Dumoulins had been missing for nearly 75 years and were lost in the icy snow of the the alpine glacier on which they were discovered. But their bodies, and the bodies of many others facing similar fates, might never have been discovered had it not been for the growing issue of climate change. In a fitting play on words, the thawing of ice in long-frozen areas, a direct consequence of warming global temperatures, is helping...

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The U.S. May Soon Have Its First Black Female Governor – Yes, It is 2017

The U.S. May Soon Have Its First Black Female Governor – Yes, It is 2017

Posted by | Jul 19, 2017 | |

Though we like to imagine that in 2017, nearly all racial and gender barriers have been broken (the presidency aside), a race for the Governor seat in Georgia is a stark reminder that we still have many miles to travel. If she wins, Democrat Stacey Abrams would be the first female black Governor in America, a significant milestone that should have happened long before now. Abrams currently serves as the House Minority Leader in her state and is seen as a leading voice for the Democratic party in the underrepresented South. Getting in the way of another historical milestone...

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Criminal Wells Fargo Doesn’t Want You to Know About its Latest Scheme

Criminal Wells Fargo Doesn’t Want You to Know About its Latest Scheme

Posted by | Jul 19, 2017 | , |

In 2016, Wells Fargo was in the news almost constantly for their deceptive business practices surrounding the fraudulent use of customer information to sign up for two million additional accounts and credit cards. At the time, Wells Fargo tried to downplay the severity of their fraud and placed the bulk of the blame on low level employees who were ordered to carry out the fraud by supervisors. They then worked to block customer lawsuits by using language buried in contracts. Now that the hubbub from that scandal has died down, Wells Fargo is trying its best to keep the...

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