Betty Friedan: one of America's great feminists

Betty Friedan talks about gender roles and gender equality, women's liberation movement ...
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Donald Trump becomes the 45th President of the United States of America

Trump's inauguration took place on Saturday, January 20, 2017

Inaugural address: Trump's full speech 

Source: CNN

Protesters rally worldwide in solidarity with Washington march

Hundreds of thousands of people in the United States and around the world are joining marches Saturday to raise awareness of women's rights and other civil rights they fear could be under threat under Donald Trump's presidency.

Source: CNN     January 21, 2017

The Queen's Christmas message 2016

The Queen's Christmas message

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The Queen's speech in full: 'We can do small things with great love' 

 Read a full transcript of Queen Elizabeth II’s traditional Christmas Day address to the UK on 25 December 2016

 Source: The Guardian, 25 December 2016

Electoral College Settles Donald Trump’s Victory, but Little Else

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 The meeting of the Electoral College after presidential elections has long been little more than a tradition-bound formality, with political insiders gathering to ratify the preferences of their state’s voters and distribute 538 electoral votes. Yet as with so much else in this turbulent election year, even that civic ritual was punctuated by anger and dissent.

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Source: New York Times, Dec. 19, 2016

US presidential elections

The Electoral Vote will take place on December 19th

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What happens in the extremely unlikely scenario the Electoral College goes rogue?

Donald Trump is busy building his Cabinet and planning his agenda, but he isn't really, officially going to be President quite yet. One of the peculiarities of American democracy is that it's a group of 538 "electors" -- members of the Electoral College -- in this nation of 318 million who actually pick the president.

They'll do it, meeting in their respective states, on December 19th.

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Source:  CNN  December 16, 2016

1ère LV1 - CCTV cameras: Britain remains a surveillance state

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