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6 days ago
Current Event bkoolSwiss banker admits paying millions in bribes to Fifa executive Julio Grondona
A former Swiss banker has admitted paying millions of dollars in bribes to Julio Grondona, a former senior executive at Fifa, chairman of football’s world governing body’s finance committee and president of the Argentinian football association.
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10 days ago
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Wordpress's owner is closing its San Francisco office because its employees never show up
The blogging platform's parent, a remote-working advocate, wound up listing the property.
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13 days ago
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Hawaii Ignores Trump and Becomes First State to Legally Support Paris Climate Agreement
Hawaii has passed a law to document sea level rise and set strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The bill signed by Gov. David Ige aligns the state’s goals with the Paris climate accord, AP reported. President Donald Trump withdrew the U.S. from that agreement last week. Ige says Hawaii is the first state to enact legislation implementing parts of the Paris climate agreement.
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2 weeks ago
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The Myth of the Kindly General Lee
The legend of the Confederate leader’s heroism and decency is based in the fiction of a person who never existed.
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2 weeks ago
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CNN fires Kathy Griffin
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3 weeks ago
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Intel Announces Skylake-X: Bringing 18-Core HCC Silicon to Consumers for $1999
There are days in this profession in which I am surprised. The longer I stay in the technology industry, they become further and further apart. There are several reasons to be surprised: someone comes out of the blue with a revolutionary product and the ecosystem/infrastructure to back it up, or a company goes above and beyond a recent mediocre pace to take on the incumbents (with or without significant financial backing). One reason is confusion, as to why such a product would ever be thought o...
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3 weeks ago
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Macron labels Russian media outlets as ‘propaganda’
French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday labeled two Russian media organizations as "organs of influence and propaganda.” Macron, standing alongside Russian President Vladimir Putin, said RT and Sputnik "behaved like structures of the government" instead of independent news channels. During his presidential race, Macron had banned reporters from the organizations from his campaign headquarters.
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1 month ago
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Ruthless fuckers targetting kids.
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1 month ago
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Russia probe reaches current White House official, people familiar with the case say
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1 month ago
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1 month ago
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Germany threatens to withdraw all soldiers from Turkey
Berlin will consider removing its soldiers from Turkey after Ankara refused to grant Germany's parliament permission to visit staff serving on a Turkish air base, Chancellor Angela Merkel said. Turkey blocked German lawmakers from visiting the soldiers at Incirlik air base, who are serving in a NATO mission targeting Isis in Syria. However Ms Merkel said it was “essential” that Germany’s defence committee is able to visit the near 270 troops stationed at the base.
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1 month ago
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Trump revealed highly classified information to Russian foreign minister and ambassador
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1 month ago
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Trump at Liberty University commencement: ‘In America, we don’t worship government; we worship God’
In his first commencement address as president, Donald Trump on Saturday drew a parallel between what he faces as a political outsider in Washington and what he said the Christian graduates of Liberty University can expect to encounter in a secular world. "Be totally unafraid to challenge entrenched interests and failed power structures," Trump said. "Does that sound familiar, by the way?"
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1 month ago
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Okay, this might be the first image of the new Assassin's Creed Origins
Okay, let's be cautious here but this Reddit post could be the first shot of Assassin's Creed, possibly called Origins. I'm in the process of trying to verify this, so treat it with extreme caution for the time being.
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1 month ago
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It took a century to create the weekend—and only a decade to undo it
Weekends are a lie created by capitalism. We made up the weekend the same way we made up the week. The earth actually does rotate around the sun once a year, taking about 365.25 days. The sun truly rises and sets over twenty-four hours. But the week is man-made, arbitrary, a substance not found in nature. That seven-day cycle in which we mark our meetings, mind birthdays, and overstuff our iCals—buffered on both ends by those promise-filled 48 hours of freedom—only holds us in place because ...
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1 month ago
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$554K price tag to replace iconic tree at top of condo building
A tree that towered over Vancouver for 30 years is gone, and condo owners are on the hook for its replacement.