Wednesday, September 16, 2015

Australian Cartoon On The Refugee Crisis

http://i.imgur.com/1RhSiTZ.jpg
This cartoon depict show the European nations are all running in the water to save the Syrians whilst the larger nation, UAE, Saudi Arabia and Qatar sit around doing nothing to aid the stranded citizens of Syria.

Bernie Takes The Lead As The Presidential Front-runner For The Democratic Party

http://rare.us/story/bernie-sanders-is-now-the-democratic-presidential-frontrunner-for-2016/

As Bernie Sanders takes the lead in polls in Iowa barely topping out Hillary (40% to Bernies 41%) he is becoming the presidential forerunner for the democratic party. As Hillary has tried to apologize for the use of her private email accounts Bernie has been steadily sweeping her supporters out from under her as she continuously got lashed out against by the republicans.

Friday, September 11, 2015

Federalism

1.  Federalism,  mode of political organization that unites separate states or other polities within an overarching political system in such a way as to allow each to maintain its own fundamental political integrity. 
2.  195 nation states are in all types of different countries around the world.
3.  25,Of the eight largest countries in the world by area, seven—Russia, Canada, the United States, Brazil, Australia, India, and Argentina—are organized on a federal basis. (China, the third largest, is a unitary state.) Federal countries also include Austria, Germany, Malaysia, Mexico, Nigeria, Switzerland, and Venezuela
4. These countries have a larger landmass comparatively than the rest of the countries in the world.
5.Unitary system, a system of political organization in which most or all of the governing power resides in a centralized government. It contrasts with a federal system.
6.More than 150 have a unitary government, the largest of these are France, China, Japan, United Kingdom and Sweden, Italy.
7.In a unitary government the main government controls everything so this takes pressure off of the lower level government to make hard decisions, but in this type of government it is a lot easier for power to be bought and bribed thus resulting in more corruption. The federal government is a type of government that allows states to reside underneath one political scheme whilst still having  a say in government affairs, but i this type of government it takes longer to enact policies and laws. 
8.It depicts federalism in a bad light saying that even though states think they have power the government is still controlling and manipulating them into decisions. State want so to have it both ways.

9.This cartoon depicts that the federal government as a bad thing that uses there power against the helpless on small issues on individuals that are already suffering.


10.This one depicts the government as saying things they will allow,states having power, but when states ask for small appeals the government will not allow them to make the change.


11.That federalist government is like a three tiered cake and explains how the national government handles foreign affairs while the local government handles minuscule community  and state things. Then explains how government supplies public education and  national parks.


12.It is different from the example in the video because the two parts of government are combined together in a swirl and then instead of different layers it is the same pattern of teamwork happening again and again in the same repeating pattern.

Saturday, September 5, 2015

Guatemala President Resigns Amid Corruption Probe


http://mobile.nytimes.com/aponline/2015/09/03/world/americas/ap-lt-guatemala-political-crisis.html?referrer=

The president of Guatemala is resigning today amid a public scandal of corruption including him and his fellow party members. The 65 year old president Perez Molina is awaiting the approval and name of a new president before he can officially resign.

Thursday, September 3, 2015

Iran's supreme leader calls for parliamentary vote on nuclear pact, lifting of all sanctions


http://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-iran-nuclear-khameini-20150903-story.html

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei stated Thursday that the Iranian parliament should vote on a nuclear accord with the western powers so the sanctions against his country can be lifted, just a day after Obama stated that he would not be blocked by opponents of the deal.

Tuesday, September 1, 2015

Democratic Party Adopts $15/hour Minimum Wage


http://usuncut.com/news/democratic-party-adopts-15hour-minimum-wage-national-platform-2/
Hoping to appeal to the greater masses of the common people the democratic party has shifted one of the major goals of their platform in order to raise the minimum wage of all jobs saying that people need more money in order to sustain and live in America at this point in time.

Huge protests in Japan over new security bills


http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/08/30/us-japan-politics-protest-idUSKCN0QZ0C320150830?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&utm_source=twitter

The new security bills implemented by their prime minister Abe have not been taken to well  by the Japanese and they have held over 300 rallies against the defense bills. These demonstration were the biggest since the radioactive disaster in Fukushima.