In 2013 there were at least four major scandals involving America's nuclear weapons and how they are handled. We now start off 2014 with a new scandal involving 34 Air Force officers implicated in a cheating scheme involving exams for nuclear missile launches. Tune in as Occupy The Microphone discusses this and more today Live at Five! Sponsored in part by Yellow Mama Music
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Two more Air force generals have been relieved of duty that oversaw nuclear weapons operations. Back in May, 17 other officers in charge of maintaining nukes were fired. An innocent man was freed this week after serving 19 years for a crime he did not commit. These stories and more on Occupy The Microphone live at five!
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A professor in Pittsburg who had cancer and huge medical bills committed suicide and her death is putting the spotlight back on how little educators are paid in America. Margaret Mary Vojtko was a long-time, part-time professor who earned only $10,000 per year. Contrast her paltry pay with a graph from a report that shows that the highest paid public employees across the nation are either football or basketball coaches.
When the dust settled after last year's elections, North Carolina Republicans began to pass laws making any number of changes, leading to mass arrests for non-violent civil disobedience in Moral Monday protests sponsored by the NAACP. Now it appears that these same legislators have tried to seize control of the Charlotte airport. Owned and operated by the city for decades, including years under Governor McCrory when he was Mayor, why did the state legislature intervene and pass a law designed to take at least some control over the airport's future? Could there be a profit motive at play?
A declassified document shows that in 1961, two hydrogen bombs were dropped inadvertently in Goldsboro, North Carolina. Just how close did America come to a nuclear weapon catastrophe?
