Michelle Obama on Sheryl Sandberg's 'lean in' strategy: 'That s--- doesn't work all the time'

Michelle Obama criticized the Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg's 'lean in' philosophy, saying it wasn't enough for women trying to excel.

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Obama’s comments are not the first criticism of Sandberg’s approach, which some has said puts the burden on women, rather than widespread policy changes, to solve workplace inequality.

Sandberg advocated in her 2013 book, “Lean In,” that women take charge in the workplace. It encouraged women seek to supercharge their careers by improving their negotiation tactics, striving to fill leadership roles at work, and taking control of their professional life. 

“I did not really get how hard it is to succeed at work when you are overwhelmed at home.”,  Sandberg

China Tells Trump That Climate Change Is No Hoax It Invented

China couldn’t have invented global warming as a hoax to harm U.S. competitiveness because it was Donald Trump’s Republican predecessors who started climate negotiations in the 1980s, China’s Vice Foreign Minister Liu Zhenmin said.

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U.S. Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush supported the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in initiating global warming talks even before China knew that negotiations to cut pollution were starting, Liu told reporters at United Nations talks on Wednesday in Marrakech, Morocco.

“If you look at the history of climate change negotiations, actually it was initiated by the IPCC with the support of the Republicans during the Reagan and senior Bush administration during the late 1980s,” Liu told reporters during an hour-long briefing.

Reagan’s Legacy 

While Reagan died in 2004, George Schulz, who served as his secretary of state, has become one of the most prominent Republicans voicing concern about climate change and urging action.

“The potential results are catastrophic,” said Schulz, 95, in an interview with Bloombergin 2014. “So let’s take out an insurance policy.”

China’s President Xi Jinping underlined the importance of cooperation between the two largest economies when he spoke to Trump on Monday, said Liu, who added China will continue its fight against climate change “whatever the circumstances.”

He added that richer nations should take more responsibility than poor countries for financing the fight against climate change, in line with the UN’s Framework Convention on Climate Change. “Of course we’re still expecting developed countries including the United States will continue to take the lead on mitigating climate change,” he said.

If you look at the Republican position on Climate Change and Donald Trump's statement on Climate Change, they come closets to the national policies of Nicaragua, Syria and North Korea.

How 37 Banks Became 4 In Just 2 Decades

If you were wondering how banks got “too big to fail,” here’s a good place to start. This chart shows us how, over the last couple of decades, 37 banks have became just 4 mega-banks. These same 4 mega-banks have, thus far, been immune to the consequences of any and all of their terrible decisions that places the entire world economy in jeopardy. 

Former Prisoners Speak Out on Torture at Abu Ghraib • BRAVE NEW FILMS

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Because private military contractors hired unqualified translators for intelligence gathering and interrogations, many innocent people (mothers, taxi drivers, pizza delivery drivers) were taken to Abu Ghraib and tortured for no reason at all. These companies were receiving contracts for BILLIONS of dollars, but would put no effort into vetting or training their employees -they’d hire as many people as they could, as quickly as possible so they could fulfill their contracts. They put lives on the line and damaged America’s reputation abroad for their own private profit. SUBSCRIBE: http://bit.ly/1JUX3Xv WATCH the full film free: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Q8y-... One of the strategies they’d use is to strip detainees nude and tie a rope around their penises to cut off the circulation. Interrogators would tie 7 or 8 other men together this way, then push one -causing the whole chain would fall. They’d urinate on them, put weapons on their private parts, and inject them with chemicals that would render them unable to have children. These were INNOCENT people. Meanwhile, CACI’s CEO was bringing home over $22 million per year -even though there was no oversight of their operations. Because private contractors weren’t bound by military law, there was a “Wink & Nod” approach to interrogations. The companies (CACI & Titan -the latter now known as L-3 Services) would simply turn a blind eye, so they could have plausible deniability and avoid prosecution. The ONLY two people to be punished for this widespread abuse are two individual soldiers that carried out the orders. No one at the top has been sent to prison for their negligence and profiteering. The worst thing that could happen to a contractor would be simply sent home -only to return the following week, working for a different company. This is an excerpt from the 2006 Brave New Films Documentary, "Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers" WATCH the full film free: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Q8y-...

• Former MI6 chief, Sir Richard Dearlove 
• Former European CIA chief, Tyler Drumheller
• Former Director of German intelligence, August Hanning