April 8, 2016

• There was a 50% uptick in executions worldwide between 2014 and 2015.
• Al Qaeda is winning a PR war over ISIS in Yemen by providing social services.
• Boko Haram has used women and girls in more than 100 terrorist attacks since 2014.
• There are some 4,000 internally displaced people within Syria—often in worse conditions than their refugee countrymen.
• The FBI has more than 500 standing requests from law enforcement agencies to unlock iPhones.
• Secretive FBI facial and voice recognition software may be tracking us all.
• Americans are growing more compliant with government use of facial, voice recognition software for surveillance.
• Offshore tax havens exist because the global community doesn't want to go after America for its tax evasion loopholes.
• Talk about how offshore tax havens are good come courtesy of undisclosed university ties to tax havens and America's loopholes.
• Hillary Clinton is benefitting the most from Citizens United of any candidate.
• California man pushes ballot proposal requiring politicians to wear corporate sponsor logos, NASCAR-style, "to shame them."
• Restrictive voter ID law made it difficult for college students to vote in Wisconsin.
• Despite relentless messaging, drastically low numbers of young adults have received the HPV vaccine.
• Door-to-door education canvassing about transgender issues may work yet.
• Remarkable profile of Tegan & Sara as they finally, finally come into the spotlight.
• Ruminations on controlling, dangerous male music industry svengalis.