Govern America | April 7, 2018 | Metric Fixation

"Metric Fixation"

Hosts: Vicky Davis, Darren Weeks

COMPLETE SHOW NOTES AND CREDITS AT: https://governamerica.com/radio/radio-archives/22113-govern-america-april-7-2018-metric-fixation

Caravan of migrants seeking asylum moves toward the United States. Disadvantaged poor migrants are being exploited as a weapon against the United States. Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Executive Order 13107. Trump needs to issue an Executive Order canceling EO 13107 and pull the U.S. out of the UN Human Rights treaties. Optical Practical Training visa extensions gives employers huge benefits to hire foreigners over domestic American people. Hawaii laments its low unemployment rate. How many other broadcasters are doing the same? Global healthcare system isn't about healthcare; it is built around the concept of emergency. The American people are subsidizing the whole world for healthcare and drugs. Axios fights "conspiracy theories" and asks: Who is responsible for policing content online? Video emerges and goes viral, showing how Sinclair Broadcasting uses its corporate power to spread its propaganda messages, while passing them off as local news. How many other broadcast companies are doing exactly the same thing? Facebook is sorry about Cambridge Analytica snafu, but made no apologies when the Democrats obtained their entire database and used it to help Obama get elected. Zuckerberg says to assume your data was scraped, and admits company reads "private" messenger conversations. Medicare accounting fraud leads to a huge windfall for the government. Professor Jerry Muller exposes what happens when corporate, government, bureaucratic, and philanthropic entities obsess and fixate on metrics. Follow-up on the Skripal poisoning as British Foreign Minister, Boris Johnson, has been caught in a lie, even as the government and police stories keep changing. We explain why the latest timeline is problematic. Timothy Cunningham, the CDC employee who went missing several weeks ago, has been found dead in a river. Media continues to hype the notion of a trade war. Will China attempt to leverage America's dependence on them for rare earth metals to win the battle over tariffs? Nigel Farage debates Vicente Fox on the subject of globalization. The trick of using the gross domestic product and keeping money moving. Vicente Fox's collaboration with Mikhail Gorbachev.