Of 2014, race as an american flash point came up plenty. Not only in the shootings of Michael Brown, eric garner tamir rice and others, but the Legal Process and backlash that followed. More than half a century after the final vestiges of jim crow were torn down, housing, education, voting, it was illustrated again and again in in 2014 that there is more than one way to look at america. An opportunity and rights, personal safety on the streets. This was the scene earlier in december in new york city. Washington, d. C. Chicago, and oakland. In cities across the country people took to the streets to protest the decisions of two grand juries not to indict Police Officers in the deaths of two unarmed africanamerican men. What comes as weve seen in recent days in our criminal Justice System too Many Americans feel deep unfairness when it comes to the gap of professed ideals and how laws are applied on a daytoday basis. The grand jury decisions i am inflamed protesters. And the shooting of 1
To avoid gamblers and gambling keeping franchises out of vegas. But one thing that bigtime sports hate, and i mean hate, a big pile of money that it cant get its hands into. Its game, its raw material its product, really, and yet does not pay those teams a penny. The new nba commissioner adam silver has had enough. Hes opening the door a crack to green lighting betting on sports, and this time his league would get a cut. The end of a dirty little secret or the beginning of real headaches. There was terrific action. King james, lebron back with his home state Cleveland Cavaliers dropped 32 points. I would like to show you the highlights of this or any other game but i cant because to use any video from the nba i would have to license it at great expense from the league. The nba is rolling in money, according to forbes. The average team is worth 634 million , up 25 from 2013. The league just inked new tv deals with turner and espn. The average annual pay out for tv writes is 2. 6 million
And attacks on the people who tell those stories, journalists are happening around the globe, including here at home. We begin with a Staggering Number of refugees worldwide as the list of Armed Conflicts around the world has grown, the number of people forced to flee their homes now exceeds 50 million. In iraq, the United Nations high commissioner for refugees launched a operation to bring aid to more than half a Million People driven from their homes Islamic State fighters. Most of the displaced are still living in schools, mosques, churches, unfinished buildings and where else. Reporter some 9 Million People have fled their homes because of syrias civil war. In africa, ethnic fighting in south sudan has created well over a half million refugees. Some internal, some in camps. Meanwhile conflict between christians and muslims in the Central African republic has lead to some 430,000 refugees since fighting began last march. And many are dying in desperate attempts to find a better life
2014 started off as a triumphant year for russian president Vladimir Putin. He extended his rift into ukraine, and thumbed his nose at the west while doing it. But thanks to sanctions and sliding oil prices, 2015 is already looking to be a year of Economic Hardship for russia. It should be a growing disenchantment. Today hundreds of protesters streamed into red square. They came out to protest a Russian Court sentencing of alex sigh navalny. Well have more on that in a moment. But first, speaking of money, putins financial problems are only mounting. Rur sh Russian Companies are cut off from western credit. As a result, companies now face Serious Problems services more than 550 billion of russian corporate debt. They cant access western banks, so when they have to refinance, they have got to figure out new ways of doing so. Meanwhile Falling Oil Prices are cutting into russias state budget and fuelling a currency crisis. Russias central bank estimates 128 billion was moved out of the c
Day talked about the big stories of 2014, race as an american flash point came up plenty. Not only in the shootings of Michael Brown, eric garner tamir rice and others, but the Legal Process and backlash that followed. More than half a century after the final vestiges of jim crow were torn down, housing, education, voting, it was illustrated again and again in in 2014 that there is more than one way to look at america. An opportunity and rights, personal safety on the streets. This was the scene earlier in december in new york city. Washington, d. C. Chicago, and oakland. In cities across the country people took to the streets to protest the decisions of two grand juries not to indict Police Officers in the deaths of two unarmed africanamerican men. What comes as weve seen in recent days in our criminal Justice System too Many Americans feel deep unfairness when it comes to the gap of professed ideals and how laws are applied on a daytoday basis. The grand jury decisions i am inflamed