Environment

U.S. Senator Rand Paul today released a special ‘Festivus: Airing of Grievances for 2015’ edition of ‘The Waste Report,’ which is an ongoing project cataloguing egregious examples of waste within the U.S. government.

The ‘Festivus: Airing of Grievances for 2015’ edition highlights over 30 examples of wasteful spending, misplaced priorities, and bad management in the federal government that have cost the taxpayer more than one billion dollars.

Of the 31 examples amassed from the past year, a few high-points of the ‘The Waste Report’ include:

NBC Universal Telemundo Airs Racist Blackface and Brownface performances by Raymond Arrieta!

Strangely enough, the CIA is partly at fault for creating the environment in which a liar like Donald Trump can thrive politically.

With massive infrastructure, nuclear and military deals, Japan has nudged India to take a militaristic stance in South China Sea that has China foaming in the mouth.

Since initially reporting on California's Alison Canyon gas leak, more details have emerged on the scale (and potential for no solution) of the problem as the infamous Erin Brockovich writes, "the enormity of the Aliso Canyon gas leak cannot be overstated. Gas is escaping through a ruptured pipe more than 8,000 feet underground, and it shows no signs of stopping," as according to the California Air Resources Board, methane - a greenhouse gas 72 times more impactful in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide - has been escaping from the Aliso Canyon site with for