Reagan -Obama

Reagan• Chernobyl– 4/26/86• Level 7 nuclear disaster.

– https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLkv_j3BxFg

• Challenger– 1/28/86 O-ring failure causes space shuttle to

explode– https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUALwYsXS

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Players Roll / GoalUS (NSA) / Reagan Administration Support pro-democracy movements in Iran

and Nicaragua by selling arms(against Boland Amendment (N) and Arms Embargo (I))*Also 6 US hostages held by Revolutionary Guard (Iran’s military special forces)

Israel Middle man. Received arms from US, sent to Iran. Received 2nd shipmen of arms that they kept and paid for – with a portion of the proceeds being sent to Contras

Iran - -Pro Democracy movement In the midst of Iran / Iraq war, a pro-democracy faction received US weapons (against US embargo with Iran)

Contra Rebels/ Nicaragua Pro-democracy Nicaraguan insurgent group (HORRID human rights record) wanting to overthrow the left-leaning Sandinistas (Daniel Ortega…now current president) received money (against Boland Amendment)

Iran-Contra Affair

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nix_vj2DaqQ

G.H.W. Bush• Randy Weaver– 1992 standoff / shootout over laundering illegal

weapons– https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wncvHvUujX8

• Tiananmen Square– 1989 prodemocracy movement throughout China

• Death estimates up to 2000– https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lGyZpbA_tY

• Gulf War (1st Gulf War, Persian Gulf War, Desert Shield, Desert Storm)– 1990-91; Saddam Hussein invades Kuwait; coalition

victory– https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6135B0DLlIw

Clinton• Timothy McVeigh– 4/19/95; 168 people killed, over 600 injured– Domestic terrorism; sought revenge for WACO, Ruby

Ridge; against big government– http://www.ahctv.com/tv-shows/zero-hour/zero-hour-video/oklahoma-city-bombing-survivors-account/– https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtX_R-fKOBc

• Waco Standoff / Branch Davidians• 2/28-4/19/93; Texas• Religious cult/ compound stormed by ATF for Firearms

violations• 76 people die after tear gas ignites weapon’s cache• davidian background• seige

• LA Riots– 4/29-5/4/1992 – South Central LA– Following acquittal of police involved in Rodney

King beating• 53 people dead; over 2000 injured; 11,000 arrested• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UymAKaUquzs• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5UGiTIirKw

G.W. Bush• Enron– https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5UGiTIirKw– https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0vNuZyf2uo

• TARP– Troubled Asset Relief Program - $700 billion ($470-

615 b)– “bailout” after housing bubble; Top down economic

stabilizer…. • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troubled_Asset_Relief_Progr

am• https://projects.propublica.org/bailout/

• 2000 Election– Bush V Gore• Bush won electoral, Gore won popular• Final decision made by Supreme Court

– Florida - recounts– “Chads”

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_2000• http://www.wtvy.com/news/headlines/This-Day-in-His

tory-Supreme-Court-Announces-Decision-on-2000-US-Presidential-Election-Results-December-12-2000-235545581.html

Obama• ARRA– American Relief and Recovery Act• $787 billion stimulus package (ended up being $831b)• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Recovery_and_

Reinvestment_Act_of_2009• https://www.cbo.gov/publication/45122

– Bottom up investments

• ACA– Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act• Regulatory overhaul of the health care system

– Controversy over mandates, subsidies, exchanges– http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patient_Protection_and_Afforda

ble_Care_Act

• Fukushima– 3/11/11; nuclear meltdown of three core reactors• tsunami triggered by earthquake• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_nucle

ar_disaster• meltdown explained

– the tsunami– the tsunami– 2004 tsunami

– fukushima-may-be-risk-imminent-hydrogen-explosion