Mr. President has had enough after continuous obstructionism by the Republicans in the last seven years. He has decided to lock heads with the selfish legislators in the Congress who have done all they could to hinder social development and progress in this country.

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Recently, the President made headlines by issuing an executive order to seal up the lacuna that enables people to avoid the firearm background check system cleverly. Right now he is focusing his attention on the vast sums of money which is eroding the place of integrity in our political system and gradually revealing the foundations of the democracy of the United States which is one of the oldest.

He is keen on making a proposal that will compel government contractors to disclose their contributions to lobbying firms and politically active groups such as Super PACs in a bid to ensure more transparency and accountability.

This move by Mr. President will have a significant and wide-reaching effect as it was estimated by the Public Citizen Congress Watch that 70 percent of Fortune 100 companies including General Electric, Apple, Exxon Mobil and General Motors had federal contracts to the tune of $100,000 in the previous year.

Democrats have welcomed the idea; President Obama has been sent a letter by 155 House Democrats encouraging him to issue the order. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), the House Minority leader in a statement, said that “requiring corporations to disclose their unlimited spending in our elections was the only path the misguided Citizens United Supreme Court decision left us to protect the sanctity of our democracy.”

As everyone would expect, the politicians belonging to the Republican Party are shocked by the fact that it would no longer be possible for them to deny how their corporate donors are influencing their legislative activities instead of first putting into consideration the desires and needs of those who voted them in.

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Mitch McConnell (R-KY), the Majority Leader of the Senate, complained about the president’s bravery and lack of “respect for the process.”
“I believe that’s the word he used, right? Audacious? My goodness. I mean, does the president not have any respect for the process? Goodness, gracious. By that standard, President Obama is Wilsonian, as if there are just no boundaries beyond which he cannot push. Apparently, their strategy is to overreach everywhere for as long as they can.”

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One of the oldest festivals celebrated throughout the history of man is Thanksgiving. There were instances of ancient tribes preparing feasts and making offerings to their gods and seek favor from them. In times of old, the Jews, the Romans and the Greeks also had similar celebrations to the gods and goddesses of harvest.

In the United States, it is believed that Thanksgiving was harvest festival originally held in 1621 by the pilgrims of the Plymouth colony. The pilgrims held a 3-day feast during the first Thanksgiving to celebrate their enormous harvest after they arrived North America.

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Although a national day of Thanksgiving was proclaimed by George Washington, the idea of having a national holiday of Thanksgiving was later dismissed by Thomas Jefferson. Later on in 1863, President Abraham Lincoln declared the last Thursday of November as a national day of thanksgiving. Again in November 1941, thanksgiving was approved specifically as the fourth Thursday of November by a joint resolution of Congress.

Thanksgiving Day or Thanksgiving is a day chosen to give thanks to God after the end of the harvest season. It is celebrated at different times and in different ways in various parts of the world. While Thanksgiving is celebrated on the second Monday of October in Canada, it is a holiday in the United States and is observed on the fourth Thursday of the month of November. However, in the United Kingdom, it is not a major festival and it is known as the Harvest festival. On Thanksgiving, family and friends gather together to feast and to celebrate their bountiful harvest, relax and enjoy the company of each other. In a standard Thanksgiving recipe, Turkey is the main item. This day also denotes the unofficial commencement of the winter holiday period.

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Although the dates for observing Thanksgiving Day in different parts of the world are different, the celebration in Canada is in most part the same as in the United States. In the UK, Harvest festival is celebrated towards the end of September or October and special services of Thanksgiving are held in churches on that day.
The Jews all over the world observe Sukkot, a celebration of thanksgiving which last for nine days. Thanksgiving Day is observed by the Chinese as Zhong Qui or the festival of the Autumn Moon on the eight months of the Chinese calendar. In India, the festival is known as the Onam.

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A worldwide gathering of learned people, lawyers, and activists drove by Australian Dr. Janice Duffy, American Jerome Almon, and a few subjects of the European Union are calling for Congress, government powers, and web crawler titans Google, Yahoo, and Bing to close down the website because of claims contained in a criminal arraignment against one of the webpage’s essayists in the condition of Iowa. Extra affirmations including the staggering impact the site have had on the military and veterans that are posted on RipoffReport.

As indicated by the Australian daily paper The Sydney Morning Herald, Dr. Janice Duffy has documented a common dispute against the Ripoff Report, Google, Yahoo7 (Australia), and Bing. The gathering has reached the U.S. Branch of Justice, both the House and Senate Veteran’s Affairs Committees, and approached internet searcher boss and organizers Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Marissa Mayer, and Bill Gates to inspect the issue and to address it openly.

The gathering likewise takes note of that the new Net Neutrality leads as of late went by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) don’t address the significant issues contained in the Iowa arraignment extending from data fraud, hacking, to digital blackmail. The association further notes that the main 3 vengeance porn proprietors, who utilized Ripoff Report as their plan of action, were all as of late indicted various wrongdoings as indicated by Fox News, ABC news, CNN, and CBS news (http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/04/04/california-revenge-porn-site-operator-sentenced-to-18-years/).

Mr. Almon and Ms. Duffy caution that the disappointment of lawmakers, internet searcher CEOs, and controllers to act has prompted the tremendous hacking embarrassments that have shaken Home Depot, Anthem, Target, JP Morgan, and the late billion dollar bank hacking episode found by Russian digital security firm Kaspersky Labs as per CNBC. The association cautions of a Bernie Madoff-like miss by powers. As indicated by a late CNN review, trust in web security has dropped to an untouched low because of such significant hacking episodes. The gathering notes that a large portion of the bank and corporate programs started as spammers and retribution porn site proprietors. As per various media reports going back to the 1980s, Bill Gates conjecture the peril that spammers spoke to the internet and security.

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