Taken from The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo, the video above asks soldiers in the Democratic Republic of Congo why they rape women. Rape has been used as a weapon of war throughout the decade-long conflict, with Amnesty International and other organizations estimating that between 75,000 to 150,000 women have been raped during the civil war.
Republican Representative Eric Cantor delivered a presentation this week in Chicago to the CME Group, one of America’s largest derivative traders, on Republican efforts to rollback industry regulation:
So the Republicans and our growth agenda are very focused on stopping regulations that negatively impact people who want to create growth and value. Whether it’s the EPA, the FDA, the FCC, the SEC, the CFTC, you name it, there’s an acronym for a federal agency causing harm right now. We’re trying to pull that in.
“Maybe we should always show pictures. Bin Laden, pictures of our wounded service people, pictures of maimed innocent civilians… We can only make decisions about war if we see what war actually is.”
Last week across the southern United States, a powerful weather system unleashed a myriad of tornadoes, many reaching the highest tornado designation of F-5. Over 300 people passed away during this outbreak in Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, Tennessee, North Carolina, and Virginia while whole towns were wiped off the map. Here are five astounding videos that capture the magnitude and destruction of lasts weeks weather:
A student at the University of Alabama catches a F5 tornado as it narrowly misses his dormitory.
Donald Trump is here tonight. Now, I know that he’s taken some flak lately, but no one is prouder to put this birth certificate to rest than The Donald. Now he can get to focusing on the issues that matter. Like, did we fake the moon landing? What really happened at Roswell? And where are Biggie and Tupac?
But the best part of the night was when Seth Meyers spent 2 minutes ripping Trump, with Trump just sitting there and scowling through the whole thing:
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