McCain, Battling Brain Cancer, Leaves Washington For Christmas Break Before Contentious Vote On Tax Bill

 In summy, on a Sunday John McCain went to Arizona to spent christmas with his family and is battling brain cancer ,which stops the Republican party on voting which they somewhat needs the senator vote but couldn't vote due to his surgery. So Trump told reporters that even through McCain is going through a really tough time that he will come back if they really need his vote. In which McCain was being treated at Walter Reid National Military medical center and was diagnosed with gliblastoma, an agressive malignant brain tumor that causes seizures, headaches, blurred vision and many other symptoms. His daughter was tweeting about family holiday plans and thanking all people who said kind words to her father to feel better. Senator John missed several senate votes, voted for initial version of tax bill, including sweeping tax cuts, passed senate with 51 botes, and the Republican leaders can pass the final version but since it's in the House-senate negotiations can't afford any more defections. Which the bar is set high to pass the legislation and they feared that two other people couldn't vote even through they wanted to pass the legislation. McCain has a good spirit is doing very well from his recovery and someone said he remains one of the toughest man on the earth. The issue here is both good and bad because even through McCain couldn't get his vote in, it did help a little bit to stop the voting somewhat and their is a chance the government and Trump doesn't need to wait for McCain to get his vote. Which the president and the others Republicans did need another vote in order to pass the bill for tax but their is ninety percent they can pass this legislation quick and simple. How can Trump and Republicans get the legislation to pass without John McCain vote?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/mccain-battling-brain-cancer-leaves-washington-for-christmas-break-before-contentious-vote-on-tax-bill/2017/12/17/5dd61326-e37a-11e7-833f-155031558ff4_story.html?utm_term=.dc8870751cfb

South Africa's New Leader

Over the past week, there has been talk of the election for the new leader of South America, monitored by the ANC( African National Congress). It is Africa's democratic political party and it has won every election since Nelson Mandela's election. This election will be seen as the most important election in the country. The previous leader, Jacob Zuma, is forced to step down as president. Many have felt that he was involved with a corrupt relationship with the Guptas, a wealthy Indian family, and facing prospect on 18 charges. There has been opposition to remove him as president and he was defeated. However, his leave of absence can spark negative effects in the political party. The election can cause political infighting and may has led assumptions to the party to split. It has even said the ANC will be at a crossroads because of this event. The new presidential candidates will be  Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma and Cyril Ramaphosa. The winner of this election will decide the leadership and fate of South Africa. Do you think the situation will become better due to receiving a new president and do you think something else should be done about this situation?

www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-42365341
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-42382393

Trump strikes again with Jerusalem

One may ask why Lebanon has broke out in protests due to Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel capital, since this decision directly affects Palestine. Well for one Lebanon has over 500,000 Palestine refugees who would be devastated to hear that Jerusalem won't be recognized as their capital after for it for so long. This decision  has produced major backlash around the world. North Korea (our enemy) has denounced President's Trumps's decision as "Reckless wicked Act". Indonesia a predominantly Muslim country had 10,000 people protest outside of the American Embassy "It was the third and largest demonstration in their country against the Jerusalem decision by Mr.Trump. 

This decision has had a ripple effect across the world. Arab nations extremists groups like the Taliban and  even our allies here have denounced the decision. Do you believe that this could cause another long war?   https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/10/world/middleeast/lebanon-protest-trump-jerusalem.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fpolitics&action=click&contentCollection=politics&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=7&pgtype=sectionfront

Donald Trump is totally not worried about Michael Flynn's guilty plea

President Donald Trump wants you to know one thing about former national security adviser Michael Flynn's guilty plea for lying to the FBI about his contacts with the Russians during the 2016 campaign: He's not worried about it. Not at all. Zero percent. Nada. Zilch.How do we know that? Because Trump just keeps telling us.

Since Flynn's guilty plea on Friday morning, Trump has tapped out double-digit tweets making clear that Flynn's decision to cooperate with special counsel Bob Mueller's investigation has no impact on him and, oh yeah, the FBI is super corrupt and bad. Also, the Russia investigation is a hoax. And Hillary Clinton got off easy. The media is bad and dishonest too.

It all started Saturday morning with this tweet -- that Trump attorney John Dowd now claims he wrote: "I had to fire General Flynn because he lied to the Vice President and the FBI. He has pled guilty to those lies. It is a shame because his actions during the transition were lawful. There was nothing to hide!"The obvious problem here for Trump -- if that tweet is taken as accurate -- is that the day after he fired Flynn, he reportedly asked then FBI Director James Comey to see if he could find a way to "letting this go," meaning the bureau's investigation into Flynn. If you take Trump/Dowd's tweet literally, then Trump did so while knowing that Flynn had lied to the FBI.

The first strain of this next Trump Twitter tornado was the "Why aren't we talking about Clinton?" narrative.

"So General Flynn lies to the FBI and his life is destroyed, while Crooked Hillary Clinton, on that now famous FBI holiday 'interrogation' with no swearing in and no recording, lies many times...and nothing happens to her?" Trump tweeted. "Rigged system, or just a double standard?"He followed that one up with this: "Many people in our Country are asking what the 'Justice' Department is going to do about the fact that totally Crooked Hillary, AFTER receiving a subpoena from the United States Congress, deleted and 'acid washed' 33,000 Emails? No justice!"."Congratulations to @ABC News for suspending Brian Ross for his horrendously inaccurate and dishonest report on the Russia, Russia, Russia Witch Hunt," tweeted Trump. "More Networks and 'papers' should do the same with their Fake News!"

This fake news thing is going out of hand. Its mostly him just trying to redirect some of the blame on to some or something else. in this case he is worried because of the links that Flynn provided. He uses the Hilary situation just to deflect most of the blame and not make him self look guilty. Trying to cover his tracks and making the media less credible and saying its fake news is the best way he knows how.

Net Neutrality Showdown

The internet plays a large if not significant role in our everyday lives. We use it in so many different ways, some to study for tests, talk to someone in another country, look up information, or even just to watch their favorite show online. All of these are done for free due to the free access of these platforms through the internet. Even though its been prospering for a number of years since the internet was first created there have been those who have attempted to control such freedom just for their own personal gain. Some of the people are large corporate companies seeking the large amount of revenue from such a successful source have hidden their agenda through soft words stating that by controlling the internet and making consumers pay for certain websites is a way to help keep the consumer safe and with the largest amount of freedom. Although it can be argued that this is true, it comes into question of how can you give more freedom to something that is already free. The F.C.C. and other Comcast companies have all begun to take steps in controlling the internet and changing the internet from how we know it.

Net Neutrality was created so that companies would be prevented from treating those who pay for more exclusive content being treated better than those who have not spent money on the site. For example it prevents AT&T from charging a fee to companies that want to stream high-definition videos to people. It even shelters those who are just creating websites and can't afford to pay for fast line access. Large internet giants such as Google, AT&T, Charter, Microsoft, etc. have turned the innovative and promising into into a field of large corporate giants fighting against smaller and medium sized businesses. A letter sent to the F.C.C.head Ajit Pai, the one who drafted the net neutrality repeal order, more than 200 start-ups argued this week that the order “would put small and medium-sized businesses at a disadvantage and prevent innovative new ones from even getting off the ground.” And that this would in fact have the opposite effect of wanted people to use the internet more. The internet's once flexible nature is now seemingly coming to an end. With only a few weeks left till Congress makes the decision we can still change the results. If net neutrality is ended how much will this impact the world at large and its many consumers, will there be a massive drop in users or still a steady stream? I personally believe that we are seeing the end to a once glorious source. 


https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/29/technology/internet-dying-repeal-net-neutrality.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FNet%20Neutrality&action=click&contentCollection=timestopics&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=4&pgtype=collection

Lybian Slaves

     Video footage of Lybians being sold off at auctions has surfaced and shocked the world. The leaders of Lybia, France, Germany, and Niger have come together and formed a plan to evacuate migrants from Lybia. One of the reasons Lybia is having this issue is because these auctioneers are taking advantage of the fact that Lybia is a main transit point for refugees trying to reach Europe.
     It is ridiculous that in 2017 slavery is starting to arise. People are just trying to make it to a better place for better living conditions or job opportunities etc., and they’re being sold into slavery. Do you think this issue is getting the recognition it deserves? The U.S. tends to get involved with a lot of foreign affairs, but will they jump in this time to save these poor people?


https://www.google.com/amp/amp.timeinc.net/time/5042560/libya-slave-trade