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Hey there, over the past couple weeks I've been talking about how weak the US Congress

has become.

I've also spent less time than I should talking about the accelerating horror that

is the crisis in Yemen.

Today I'll point out just how deeply these two things are connected.

The world is full of difficult problems.

Yemen is not a difficult problem.

Saudi Arabia is strangling the country, putting millions in danger of starvation, and the

United States is helping them do it.

The US government could stop it tomorrow, and save thousands or possibly millions of

lives.

Two presidents, one out of political calculation, and one out of an inability to see the world

complexly, signed us up and kept us in this project.

It is not a subtle, easily hidden project.

Real military assets, from intelligence to US military refueling planes are being used

to send Saudi and UAE bombers to kill children.

If we were primarily fighting ISIS or Al Queda here, I'd probably still be bitching about

it, with little hope of correcting the problem.

But we're not fighting Al Queda in Yemen.

We're fighting Al Queda's sworn enemies.

There is no legal authority for what's going on here.

No Declaration of War.

No plausible way to fit this under the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force.

Yet it continues.

It seems as if there are no people of principle or power left in the US Congress.

Our congresspeople are supposed to be the ones who rein in our power-mad presidents.

It's congress that's supposed to do the actual work of governing.

Once upon a time that was true.

And I don't mean 100 years ago.

As recently as the 1980s Congress still had the power to tell presidents no.

In 1979 the left wing Sandanista movement took power in Nicaragua.

The Reagan administration decided that the removal of this government was a priority,

so they started funding a bunch of rebel groups, known as the Contras.

Congress thought it was a bad idea.

So they stopped it.

I tend to agree with Congress on that one, but that's not the point.

The point is that as recently as 30 years ago, Congress had the power to slow down a

foreign war it disagreed with.

Let's compare the two situations.

In Nicaragua, Reagan could plausibly defend the Contras as brave freedom fighters.

We now know quite well that they were a bunch of murdering terrorists, but their supporters

could deny it back then.

The Contras were a diverse bunch of non-state actors, and any evil they committed could

be denied or blamed on someone else.

There's no denying what is being done to Yemen, by Saudi Arabia, a powerful, unitary

state, with US support.

Nicaragua was largely a covert operation.

Congress actually had to tighten up its blocking of funds to the Contras multiple times.

It was slippery and under-the radar by design.

The War in Yemen isn't even covert.

The US military is using large expensive refuelling planes to keep it going.

Most importantly Nicaragua was part of a decades long existential conflict.

I'd argue that it wasn't a good way to fight the Cold War, but it fit the fears of

the time.

In the late 1940s it really did look like the Communists could take over the world.

Rational people, and the US public in general, thought that losing the cold war was a real

threat in the 1980s as well.

The CIA's job was fighting communists, and most thought that's what they were doing

in Nicaragua.

Yemen isn't in service to anything really, other than arms sales.

So to sum up, back in the 1980s, in Nicaragua, Congress was powerful enough to stop US participation

in a war that was easy to ignore, arguably on the side of the good guys, and in service

to a decades long fight for the continued existence of the United States and its way

of life.

That took a lot of courage and power.

In 2017, in Yemen, Congress can't get it together to stop a war that is evil, pointless,

public, and helpful to Al Queda, which is supposedly the threat we've been fighting

for the past 15 years.

Congress doesn't just need to stop the war in Yemen because it's the right thing to

do.

Congress needs to stop the war in Yemen to preserve any self respect at all.

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Obama Spending Costs Revealed, Over $114 Million in Vacations and Hillary Campaigning. - Duration: 4:09.

Obama Spending Costs Revealed, Over $114 Million in Vacations and Hillary Campaigning.

Former President Barack Obama infamously spent large amounts of taxpayer dollars on vacations

and family outings, but until recently, an exact amount was not available due to refusals

by certain groups to disclose their records.

However, a Freedom of Information Act request and subsequent lawsuits filed by Judicial

Watch resulted in the disclosure of U.S. Air Force and the Secret Service documents showing

that the Obamas spent $9,028,346.90 on non-work related travel.

When added to the previously reported tab of $105,662,975.27, the total cost of personal

travel expenses during Obama's presidency amounted

to $114,691,322.17.

These additional records showed that over the course of just one weekend in February

of 2014, Obama family vacations cost the Secret Service $272,192.91.

Those costs included Michelle Obama's annual trip to Aspen with daughters Sasha and Malia,

which amounted to $6,970 in air/rail expenses, $5,614.99

in car rentals, and $76,078.30 in hotels for a total of $88,663.29.

Meanwhile, the former president was on a golfing trip to Palm Springs, which cost $10,951 in

air/rail travel, $10,166.79 in car rentals, and $162,411.80 in hotels for a total of $183,529.62.

The records also revealed how much taxpayer funding went toward campaigning for 2016 presidential

candidate Hillary Clinton.

In fact, during the campaign, the former first lady made two trips to North Carolina to stump

for the Democratic candidate.

For both trips, she took a C-40C military jet, which operated at $5,312 per hour, racking

up an Air Force bill of $40,902.40.

The records also indicated that during his second term, Obama spent more than $7 million

in taxpayer money to fly to his hometown of Chicago.

And, unfortunately, his taxpayer-funded trips did not end with his administration.

In fact, post-presidency, Obama has spent nearly $2 million in taxpayer money on travel

expenses, according to the Secret Service documents.

The details of those trips, however, were redacted due to concerns regarding "privacy"

and "law enforcement."

Judicial Watch had to sue for these records after the Air Force and Secret Service did

not respond to its public records requests in time, as required by law.

The organization's president, Tom Fitton, criticized both government groups for their

failure to produce the information.

"It shouldn't require federal lawsuits to…prod the Secret Service and Air Force

to produce information about the costs of presidential travel—whether the travel is

necessary or not, it's a massive amount of money," he said in a statement about

the report.

"We will continue to monitor this spending while taxpayers continue to pay the bills

for presidential travel."

Taxpayers shouldn't have to foot the bill for travel that isn't necessary to carry

out the duties of the presidency.

With an insurmountable national debt already burdening future Americans who haven't even

been born, our leaders should be cautious about overspending, especially for personal

reasons.

What do you think about presidents using taxpayer money for vacations and travel?

Please share this news if you're appalled at how much taxpayer money former President

Obama spent on vacations and traveling.

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For more infomation >> Obama Spending Costs Revealed, Over $114 Million in Vacations and Hillary Campaigning. - Duration: 4:09.

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What happens when I try to talk race with white people - Duration: 3:26.

RENI EDDO-LODGE, Author, "Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race": When

somebody tells me that they don't see race, I say, I mean, that's fine.

You know, you can choose not to see the sky, but it exists.

I'm told I was 4 years old when I turned to my mom and I said, well, you know, when am

I going to turn white?

I was consuming and engaging with media and culture around me, a lot of cartoons, a lot

of kids TV, comics, et cetera, et cetera, and all of the good people were white.

And I considered myself to be a good person.

I realized at that early age that to be white was to be human.

I was attempting to discuss race in white-dominated circles and really getting nowhere.

I wrote a blog post.

I titled it, "Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race."

Let's say we were having a broad conversation about inequality.

As soon as I tried to raise the topic of race, there was almost an immediate clamp-down,

shutdown, denial from my conversation partner.

They tried to find ways to convince me that, absolutely, no, race had nothing to do with

it, that actually I had a chip on my shoulder, and that, why was I trying to make everything

about race?

I actually decided to have a conversation with a person who I can now confidently say

is probably is a white anti-racist, a white critical anti-racist.

And I spoke to her about her journey.

And I said, well, what's led to you being somebody who is so aware of how race shapes

inequality?

She said that a lot of her defensiveness, initially, when it came to these conversations

about race was a fear a being wrong, a fear of -- she said a lot of it was to do with

her ego, a fear of being implicated in existing inequalities, a fear that she actually wasn't

doing enough.

I know that I have not spoken out in the past, for fear of losing a job, or losing a friend

or losing a space in a house share, because, when you discuss race in the conversation,

you become the troublemaker, you become the problem.

I dedicated a whole chapter in the book to discussing intersectionality.

And it's really from the perspective of my doomed encounters with white British feminism.

And they were really doomed, because I was surrounded by very nice white middle-class

women who just didn't want to hear about race.

And I was told I'm splitting the movement, I'm being divisive, et cetera, et cetera,

et cetera.

And that was really a galling time for me, because I don't really have the option of

separating these two issues.

In Britain, power is still very white here.

Black and minority ethnic people are about 14 percent of the population, but that definitely

is not reflected in the corridors of power, in who shapes culture, who shapes politics,

who shapes the arts.

No one's asking the gatekeepers to examine their own prejudices and ask, well, why aren't

you recruiting people who are not like you and not from your background?

I heard a great quote, and I can't remember who said it.

But the person said, you know, you can't ask me why I haven't been invited to the party.

You have to ask the host.

My name's Reni Eddo-Lodge, this is my Brief But Spectacular take on talking to white people

about race.

JUDY WOODRUFF: And you can find additional Brief But Spectacular episodes on our Web

site, PBS.org/NewsHour/brief.

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DIY Cute "Ugly" Holiday Sweaters! // Under $15 & EASY NO SEW Option! - Duration: 2:58.

Since tomorrow is December I wanted to share my favorite holiday tradition with you. Every year my sister

and I do holiday themed ugly sweaters, so this year I came up with three new ideas I've never done before.

I decided to sew all of mine because I wanted to have a cleaner edge

But you could definitely just use hot glue or fabric glue to put all the pieces together

So to start out I drew my design

on a piece of paper then I cut out the shapes from my fleece as a

Tip if you're sewing it's easiest to sew down the parts that are on top of the main design first like the eyes

And nose and then sew the main design on but if you're gluing it doesn't really matter

I like to use pins when I'm sewing to help keep the design centered and also keep it in place

So I use these pins to also pin back a part of the head to put the sequins underneath the design to kind of hide

The edge and then I just used some jewel embellishment glue to glue it all together so using that same glue

I made the word design that I wanted and then I just went along and used that same glue to glue all the words down

This design is a lot like the last one so I used the same

process of cutting out a piece of paper and then cutting the shapes and sewing them down first before the entire design the ears are

A little bit special though because I wanted to give a folded over look so I actually made a little slit where part of the

Ear could be in front of the head and then part of the ear could be behind the head

So I sewed everything all down and again

It would be easy to glue all of these pieces

but another tip is to put a piece of paper in between the front and the back so that you don't catch the back when

You're sewing and or glue doesn't actually get to the back as well

I forgot to film myself doing the sequins

But I actually meant to make the words smaller so that they fit when my arms were down

So another tip is that you can learn from my mistake and keep in mind what the sweater will look like on since I did

Mine laying flat and I forgot to think about that.

Lastly, I just added some black puff paint to paint on the wrinkles in my Pug

I wanted to do a more simple design too, so I thought this was kind of a cheeky fun one

it would be the easiest to glue but I found that it was the most difficult to sew because of all the turns in the

leaves so my strategy was to pin everything down and then sew right on top instead of sewing each individual piece and

Lastly remember to wear it when you're deciding where to glue the Hollies so that you get them in the spot that you want

The winner of last week's giveaway is Tiffany!!!!

I put everyone's usernames that entered into an Excel spreadsheet, and then used a random number generator to pick

Thank you so much to those who entered. It made me smile reading all of your comments.

If you liked this video

Please don't forget to give me a thumbs up,

comment below which sweater was your favorite

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For more infomation >> DIY Cute "Ugly" Holiday Sweaters! // Under $15 & EASY NO SEW Option! - Duration: 2:58.

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4 tube flip fluid painting EPIC FAIL - Duration: 4:13.

ok, yup I went for it...5 little tubes to fill with paint..

but make sure they are level or the paint will start creeping...

picked all kinds of different colors (sorry, you can't see it all!)

So...never mix a dark blue with an orange...trust me..not a good thing..wait for it...

ok..here comes the fun part!

ohhh those cells...am I right?

I love the large cells..I find that if I were to use a torch at this point, it will create a ton on tiny cells...

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