ORLY-EP0146D - Salty Bad Ideas: Hegemony
Welcome to ORLYRADIO #146 recorded Saturday February 25th, 2017 - where we dismantle the current events for your edutainment through mostly rational conversations that make you go ‘Oh Really’! I’m your host Andy Cowen, with my usual suspects, Amber Biesecker,and Daniel Atherton.
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Bad Ideas:
DNC Chair decided on second vote.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/25/us/politics/dnc-perez-ellison-chairman-election.htmlIsrael denying Human Rights Watch visas http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/02/israel-visas-biased-hrw-staff-170224052706477.html
White House Correspondents Dinner
Australia decides to slash pay benefits http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-39060356
PIA Investigates overpacked flight http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-39081476
Kim Jong-nam was killed by VX nerve agent http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-39073389
Duterte tries to play nice with China http://www.reuters.com/article/us-philippines-china-idUSKBN1630X6
Russia to veto Syrian sanctions http://www.reuters.com/article/us-un-syria-securitycouncil-idUSKBN1631XP
Car Bomb kills 51 in Syria http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-39075851
HOW BAD COULD IT BE?
Russian ambassador to UN Vitaly Churkin dead: Diplomat dies suddenly in New York http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/russian-ambassador-un-vitaly-churkin-dead-diplomat-dies-suddenly-new-york-puton-a7590366.html
“Records created, generated, or received by the congressional office of a Member … are exclusively the personal property of the individual Member [emphasis added]… and such Member … has control over such records.” (You can read the full resolution here.) https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2017/01/house-rules-change-didnt-hear-about/
BBC dismayed over German spying http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39080256
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