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from CNSNews.com (& MRC & NewsBusters)
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MSNBC Guest: Caitlyn Jenner 'Flaunting Her Residual White Male Privilege'
On Friday's The Beat with Ari Melber -- a relatively new MSNBC show that recently replaced Greta Van Susteren's For the Record program -- host Melber not surprisingly assembled a panel of lefties to discuss the week's news for the show's regular "Fall Back" segment. Former Ebony editor-in-chief Amy DuBois Barnett took aim at Caitlyn Jenner because the transgender Republican was recently seen wearing a pro-Donald Trump hat even after Trump's announced ban on transgenders in the military. Inserting race into the conversation, DuBois griped Jenner is "flaunting her residual white male privilege."
MSNBC Guest: Caitlyn Jenner 'Flaunting Her Residual White Male Privilege'
On Friday's The Beat with Ari Melber -- a relatively new MSNBC show that recently replaced Greta Van Susteren's For the Record program -- host Melber not surprisingly assembled a panel of lefties to discuss the week's news for the show's regular "Fall Back" segment. Former Ebony editor-in-chief Amy DuBois Barnett took aim at Caitlyn Jenner because the transgender Republican was recently seen wearing a pro-Donald Trump hat even after Trump's announced ban on transgenders in the military. Inserting race into the conversation, DuBois griped Jenner is "flaunting her residual white male privilege."
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from The Economist
Is pregnancy in America much deadlier than in other rich countries?
The question is harder to answer than you might think. FEW things are more tragic than the death of a woman in pregnancy or childbirth. In America, as in other rich countries, such deaths are extremely rare. Nonetheless, 700-800 pregnant women and new mothers die each year. By some measures, America’s maternal mortality is several times higher than in rich European countries. By other measures, however, America has the same rate as Britain.
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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
Tax Withholding Is Miracle-Grow for Government
Americans don’t like the tax system, but they don’t dislike it nearly as much as they should. For those of us who want to scrap the tax system, this is a challenge. And I’m not shy about admitting the problem. There are two reasons for the inadequate level of disdain. First, nearly half of all households are no longer are subject to the income tax. Indeed, the system is actually a revenue generator for some households since the EITC wage subsidy is a redistribution program laundered through the tax code. Second, many people get a warm and fuzzy feeling when they file their taxes because of the expectation that they will get a sizable refund, even though that payment from the IRS is simply a reflection of having paid too much tax during the prior year.
No One Could Plan the Cloud Computing Revolution
People talk about Amazon Web Services as providing “software as a service”. What it actually does is turn computing power into an on-demand utility. With AWS, users don’t need to maintain vast banks of servers. They can buy as much processing power, or bandwidth, or data storage as they need, for pennies on the dollar.
People talk about Amazon Web Services as providing “software as a service”. What it actually does is turn computing power into an on-demand utility. With AWS, users don’t need to maintain vast banks of servers. They can buy as much processing power, or bandwidth, or data storage as they need, for pennies on the dollar.
One of the most important dates in recent human history is the 26th of April 1956. That was the day that the first dedicated, and specially designed container ship, the Ideal X sailed from New Jersey. It was the container more than anything else, which made possible the huge growth in world trade. It has transformed our lives in all kinds of ways. Every household in North America, Europe or any other parts of the world for that matter now, contains a whole range of goods and products from other parts of the world, which are cheaply and easily available to them. This is almost entirely due to the revolution in shipping and transportation that started back in 1956.
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from New Statesman
"The leading voice of the British left, since 1913."
An examination of people’s “unspoken” emotions is missing from recent British history.
As the Italian navy enters Libyan territorial waters for the first time, they are joined by strange allies: Europe’s far right. The Italian government is facing mounting criticism at home for allowing tens of thousands of Africans to arrive on its shores. This year year more than 95,000 have landed, according to the UN’s refugee agency. A further 2,385 have lost their lives or gone missing. Italian attempts to curb the African exodus now has the support of the European far right. Members of the “Identitarian movement” have sent their own ship into the Mediterranean with the explicit aim of returning Africans to Libya. The former Ukip donor Arron Banks has the influence and resources to significantly support the dangerous Defend Europe mission, should he choose to.
from Orthodox Christianity
At first there was mobile communication, then text messages, chats, and forums. But over the past ten years social networks like Facebook, Twitter, and others have become aggressively dominant. They first softly became a part of our lives and then won an overwhelming victory in the style of Julius Caesar: “Veni, vidi, vici” (“I came; I saw; I conquered” from Latin).
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from PBS (& affiliates)
How the upper middle class keeps everyone else out
In the United States, people within the top 1 percent income bracket own one-third of the nation’s wealth. But scholar Richard Reeves, author of “Dream Hoarders,” argues that the top 20 percent has created an even starker divide with behaviors and policies that limit economic mobility for lower-income groups.
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from The Spokesman-Review
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from Zero Hedge
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
This Mysterious Military Spy Plane Has Been Flying Circles Over Seattle For Days
A very unique USAF surveillance aircraft has been flying highly defined circles over Seattle and its various suburbs for nine days now. Nobody at the DoD seems to know who the aircraft belongs to or what exactly it is doing flying so many missions over the Seattle area. But based on its visibly exotic configuration, and information collected by open source flight tracking websites, we can get a good idea of its capabilities and guess as to what it’s up to.
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