10 States Where Millennial Voters Could Change the Election 
“Think they all love Bernie Sanders? Wrong.”
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/03/young-voters-millennials-presidential-election-super-tuesday
Former Bush Treasury Official Agrees with Sanders on Breaking Up the Big Banks (video and text)
“Economist Gerald Epstein says President of Minneapolis Federal Reserve Neel KashKari's Support of Bernie's Banking Policy is Both Surprising and Welcome”
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=15778
Col. Wilkerson: The Foreign Policy of Clinton, Trump, Cruz & Rubio "Frighten Me" (video and text)
“Former Bush administration official Larry Wilkerson says the candidates' hawkish foreign policy record is cause for concern with the potential of a possible North Korea engagement”
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=15779
IACHR Agrees to Hold Hearing on Central Americans Held in Detention
http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/press-release/iachr-agrees-hold-hearing-central-americans-held-detention
Can a 3-year old represent herself in immigration court? This judge thinks so. 
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/can-a-3-year-old-represent-herself-in-immigration-court-this-judge-thinks-so/2016/03/03/5be59a32-db25-11e5-925f-1d10062cc82d_story.html
3 Ex-TEPCO Execs Indicted Over Fukushima Nuclear Disaster
https://www.popularresistance.org/3-ex-tepco-execs-indicted-over-fukushima-nuclear-disaster/
Refusing To Settle, Dimock Families Take Fracking Giant To Court 
https://www.popularresistance.org/refusing-to-settle-dimock-families-take-fracking-giant-to-court/
See an American town that's about to be completely lost to climate change. 
http://www.upworthy.com/see-an-american-town-thats-about-to-be-completely-lost-to-climate-change?c=upw1
NATO Sends Warships to the Aegean Sea to Stop the Mass Exodus of Refugees (video and text) 
“Saskia Sassen, the author of Expulsions: Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy, says it is astounding that Europe and the US have missed opportunities to intervene and prevent this crisis”
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=15799
19 amazing things you don't want to miss in the night sky in 2016.
http://www.upworthy.com/19-amazing-things-you-dont-want-to-miss-in-the-night-sky-in-2016?c=upw1
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MJ: Very, very encouraging. I hope that our Millennials continue to vote! As with other generations.
Real News: Good article, HC doesn't want to break up big banks, while Bernie does. He also doesn't take campaign money from Wall Street, whereas she takes the money, and for her speaking engagements. Bernie is the winner. Truthful and honest all the way around.
Col. Wilkerson: This is a great article, by the Colonel. I believe it. Yes, a proliferation or indication of an attack is very frightening. The 'conservation of enemies' should be the candidates mantra, imo, Repug or Dem, as we don't need any more wars!!!
WP: Uhhh…I'm in my 60's and don't think I could even begin to wrap my head around immigration law, and if I did learn everything there is to know about it, I'd be in my 80's to comprehend everything. A 3 or 4 year old?? oh, I don't think so. A courtroom can be very intimidating to an adult or teenager, but for a little one? No, not even. Nope!
TEPCO Execs Indicted: Death and destruction and now a wasteland. So very very sad. "With the five-year anniversary of the massive tsunami and subsequent triple reactor meltdown at Fukushima Daiichi rapidly approaching, many are hoping this one admission by TEPCO may become the first in a pattern of good behavior — a first step in coming clean about the many dark secrets engulfing the demolished scene at what was once the world’s tenth largest nuclear power plant." *PR – different page.
Upworthy: Very sad. Climate change is here and now, what with the weather patterns, rain and fire will continue to come to erode the land. I am relieved to read that they are receiving a grant to recover. The govt. needs to assist our Native Americans, and the many others who live in poverty, and provide assistance to those that desperately need it. I was reading somewhere too, aren't the sinkholes swallowing the land there also?
Upworthy2: I was hoping to see the total eclipse tomorrow night, but I read here, that it's visible in 2017. Can someone remind me then? lol.
I will read the other links later.
Well Done, Thank you for your informative post, JL.
I also recall reading about sinkholes in LA–not sure how near or far from this community though.
1. Good to see that Millenials may vote for Sanders and if not, not for Drumpf. Isn't it amazing that the young see through him while so many older people don't?
2. Slowly but surely the common sense Bernie advocates is getting through to some people who matter.
3. Anyone who can see past the hot-air foreign policies of all candidates except Bernie, will also see that this aggressive rhetoric will lead to even more trouble than the past presidents/Republicans already have caused. Make no mistake, the rest of the world is not amused and Col. Wilkerson isn't the only one that is frightened by this hawkishness.
4. “The United States’ response to the global refugee crisis has long fallen short of its international human rights obligations." The IACHR agreeing to a hearing is an excellent result of the hard work done by Human Rights First and others on behalf of immigrants from Central America who are held in detention. Kudos to them. For Drumpf it'll mean increasing the volume and demanding a wall that's even higher, I'm sure.
5. Kick Jack Weil out of the Justice Department, the man is insane and a danger to children. And all that to save a few bucks on taxpayer-funded attorneys. Republican, I presume?
6. It's good to see CEO's responsible for the disaster indicted for negligence, but as is common for all these cases all over the world, the government officials, including the PM, are spared even though they are just as culpable.
7. I didn't understand the frown with this link until I read the article. I'm happy to see people stand up to fracking and think that the Dimock families certainly have a case to take the Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. to court on. But the case has been whittled down a lot and tha fact that one of the plaintiffs has worked for Cabot Oil & Gas, and has drilled recklessly himself for the company until he realized what the consequences were, doesn't make it any stronger.
8. I wonder what the Jean Charles band of Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw are going to do with the $48 million grant they receive, not for suffering the results of climate change (rising sea levels and storms/floods), but as natural disaster relief. Relocating their tribe seems the only viable solution, but that means that their ancestral lands will be gone for ever.
9. Meddling in the Middle East by America and Europe lies at the root of this humanitarian problem, yet neither wants to take their responsibility. All they do is continue their meddling and now Russia has joined in again (they fought a war in Afghanistan from 1979 to 1989) to complete the chaos, without a solution for the refugee problem they have caused themselves.
10. I don't have a telescope and it's cloudy too often here, so I'll settle for one super moon and a meteor shower this year. I remember seeing the Perseid meteor shower a little short of 40 years ago on a camping in Southern France. We had driven there in our 2CV to escape the rains in the Black Forest and arrived late on the site with a bottle of wine or two and sat outside after a very late meal to wind down. By the time everyone els had gone to sleep and the whole camping site was dark the meteors started streaking across the sky and fascinated by the spectacle we didn't get to bed until five and the wine was gone.
Good ones!!
Three years old? Phhbbbbt. Even the Catholic Chirch, widely considered to be backward (and in many ways it is) says the age of reason is seven. This is appalling – and thankfully seems to have gotten that reaction pretty universally.
Best of luck to the Jean Charles band. Yes. Some places it is more obvious than others.
Amen!
Amen to both!