Star-Spangled Banner

49ers quarterback has been protesting National Anthem. More detail on it's history.

https://theintercept.com/2016/08/28/colin-kaepernick-is-righter-than-you-know-the-national-anthem-is-a-celebration-of-slavery/

Climate Change: Six Foot Sea Level Rise by 2100

Scientists anticipating a 6 foot sea level rise by 2100.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/08/24/as-sea-levels-rise-23-states-could-see-nearly-1-9-million-homes-underwater/?hpid=hp_hp-more-top-stories_ee-underwater-1155am%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.bc767f89f3b9

Losses in real estate will be one issue but not a very important one compared to the mass migrations and competition for more limited resources (wars) we will all be subject to. The value of life will become cheaper and cheaper as time moves on.

Another article predicting a 70 foot rise in sea levels.

https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=123545

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/aug/30/nasa-climate-change-warning-earth-temperature-warming

2016 Olympics Rio

Alternate medal count totals based on population and GDP.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/olympics/2016/08/21/rio-2016-alternate-medal-table-how-countries-rank-when-we-adjust/

Maternal Mortality Rate in Texas

Texas has the highest maternal mortality rate in the developed world most likely due to state legislators restrictions on women's reproductive clinics in the state.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/aug/20/texas-maternal-mortality-rate-health-clinics-funding

Software Security Flaws

Software developed to identify security flaws in software products.

https://theintercept.com/2016/07/29/a-famed-hacker-is-grading-thousands-of-programs-and-may-revolutionize-software-in-the-process/

Democratic Convention banning delegates

Democratic National Convention confiscating signs and banning delegates from convention floor. And they call this a democracy.

https://theintercept.com/2016/07/31/video-shows-arkansas-democrats-barring-bernie-sanders-delegate-from-convention-floor/?comments=1#comments