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When Demography Isn’t Destiny(city-journal.org)
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Cost of all U.S. wars versus cost of coronapanic(philip.greenspun.com)
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Jimmy Carter and China’s offer of 10M migrants(philip.greenspun.com)
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The last paragraph: But as Upton Sinclair pointed out long ago, ignorance is hardest to eradicate when someone’s breakfast depends on it. Individual dumbness is worth getting rid of. Collective stupidity’s future is assured. It pays for its
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Erik Schmidt and Sergey Brin are all part of the surveillance state and war machine. They will soon be awarded Nobel Prizes like the war criminal Henry Kissinger. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trial_of_Henry_Kissing
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There are plenty of foreign tests around the world where not a single white person was involved in devising them. And they are so so much harder, especially in mathematics, than the SAT. Math tests are universally acknowledged to be neutral
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The white savior NGO charity complex. Poverty tourism is the hottest trend for white saviors and then the expectant applause.
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One of the conspiracy theories: New conspiracy theory claims US Air Force shot down MH370 in a failed bid to intercept it and seize electronic equipment on its way to China https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-94074
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It is the restoration of regular train lines: Regular train services have returned to the Dartmoor line in Devon for the first time in 49 years. Great Western Railway (GWR) trains is operating the route between Okehampton and Exeter as part
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The US medical system is incredibly regulated and constricted by the government and the rules and regulations. It is NOT a free market. An English friend who moved to the Bay area for work at Genentech had a wife who was a doctor from the U
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This article reminded me of the Malcolm X quote on corporate media “If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”
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These false flag diversity initiatives are there to entrench the privileged white elite who are threatened by the children of often 1st generation immigrants. From the article: UC admissions officers have said they were able to thoroughly e
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Dolezal And more do Native American. That's an easier one to check on the checkboxes for whites. That's why there has been an exponential increase of the self-identified &
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Jim Barksdale famously said that the only way to make money is bundling and unbundling. The Internet is driving both. - It seems that the big (cable-like streaming) bundles are coming back.
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Disney Adds Disney+ and ESPN+ to Hulu and Live TV, Raises Bundle’s Price by $5(deadline.com)
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https://archive.md/thlho
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I wonder if there any zoning rules in many parts of the world that prevent adoption of this. Also what would it end up costing (has to be less than an elevator). But I love the idea that it is a super simple solution to those with disabilit
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I don't think the film hid the sadistic side of Beria or his being a sexual predator. But maybe it was not so clear cut to all viewers as it was also a dark comedy with true gallows humor.
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That's what first came to mind. What a joker he was. His roasts from the 1970s are beyond hilarious as well. From the comments of that link: In America, when you tell Soviet jokes, everyone die laughing In Soviet Russia, you tell Sovie
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Decentralised finance is booming, but it has yet to find its purpose(economist.com)
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The 2001 winner of the award Daniel Cohn-Bendit was a known pedophile since the 1970s: Cohn-Bendit has been accused of defending and committing paedophilia, as he published a number of provocative statements regarding sex with children in t
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For sure. Although one thing that has baffled me is that all Swiss Germans do their school work in traditional German and NOT the language they speak. Swiss Germans understand Germans but the vice versa is not always true: The dialects of S
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Yes exactly. That is why the diversity metric that would actually alleviate the situation of poor blacks like being income based is NOT used as that would also cripple the rich white elites.
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Hopefully this will not be an exit scam although they can easily and I assume legally do it: ConstitutionDAO has promised to refund all donors via Juicebox, however — minus Ethereum gas fees.
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Someone Made a Pirate Bay for NFTs(vice.com)
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A Look Under the Hood of the Most Successful Streaming Service on the Planet(theverge.com)
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From the article: Various health economists have calculated a NNTV for COVID-19 vaccines. Ronald Brown, a health economist in Canada, estimated that the NNTV to prevent a single case of coronavirus is from 88 to 142. Others have calculated
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U.N. deals diplomatic blow to Britain and U.S. over Indian Ocean islands (2019)(reuters.com)
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If the Chinese did this the press would write about the genocide in Diego Garcia etc.... The UN resolution (international norms???) and International Court of Justice (ICJ) is being violated by the UK and US: https://www.reuters.
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The muscle memory of Microsoft is part of their DNA. So long as IT managers continue to buy lousy Microsoft products and don’t get fired for not buying best-of-breed alternatives (and there are so so many like Zoom and Slack etc..) then thi

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