MIC Check Kanye West Is Running For President!? (875 hits)
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"And yes, as you probably could have guessed, I have decided in 2020 to run for president."
In a rambling speech at the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday night, Kanye West accepted the video vanguard award from Taylor Swift and proceeded to call out the VMAs for exploiting artists for ratings, talk the sweet joys of marijuana and announce some unbelievable news.
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The U.N. is using virtual reality to make the rich and powerful feel empathy. Motherboard
Europe’s migrant crisis has received a lot of attention as of late, with every day seemingly bringing another dark development. But there’s another attention-worthy humanitarian crisis that people should be talking about. The number of migrants reaching Europe are very few compared with the nearly 4 million Syrians who have fled to Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey and Iraq, creating the biggest refugee population from a single conflict in a generation. The aid group World Vision raised $8 million in just two weeks for Nepal earthquake victims, but have only received $2.7 million in donations throughout the past four years for Syrian refugees. Richard Stearns, the organization’s president, said the crisis is “mind numbing for the American people. They look at the Middle East, they say, ‘This is crazy. They’re all attacking each other. We don’t understand it.’ It’s like a tangled ball of yarn, and they tune it out.” There’s no hashtag, viral video or breaking news notification about the crisis; it’s our responsibility to contribute our attention, time and resources to address a devastating problem.
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