Category: Aggregated

US and EU give the nod at Israel’s travel ban on BDS co-founder

How Israel helps settler groups grab Palestinian land

Russia Blames ‘Foreign Interference’ for Brazil Coup

Pfizer no longer allowing its drugs to be used in executions

Turkey urged to prosecute Russian pilot’s murderers

Texas secessionists fail to break away from US

Ex-head of ant-doping lab claims Sochi medalists used banned drugs

UN panel warns about Israel and Saudi human rights violations

Belgium paid Al-Qaeda terrorist nearly €80,000 in ‘moral damages’ – reports

China using ‘coercive tactics’ in South China Sea: Pentagon

ISIS preventing Iraqi civilians from leaving Fallujah: Pentagon official

May I ask you a question? How’s this great economic recovery working out for you? It’s really affected the cardboard recycling market adversely, did you know that? Because everyone is raiding the cardboard recycling bins to get cardboard to make signs that say: “Hungry, please help” and “Spare change, anything will help”. Yeah, great economic recovery! If we recover any more, we’ll be asking the UN for food drops here. My wife and I were returning from Bisbee some weeks back and I looked over at the railroad mainline and see this siding with what looked to be hundreds of locomotives … Continue reading →

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It appears to be a simple maths question on first glance, but this brainteaser is the latest to have the internet scratching its head. A debate has erupted over the correct answer to the problem, which reads: 9 – 3 ÷ 1/3 + 1 = ? The question originally went viral in Japan, where reportedly only 60 percent of adults could get the right answer. A debate has erupted over the correct answer to this problem, which originally went viral in Japan  While the answers have ranged from three to nine, the correct solution relies on a basic rule that you probably learnt … Continue reading →

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There’s an enormous amount of research suggesting that emotional intelligence (EQ) is critical to your performance at work. TalentSmart has tested the EQ of more than a million people and found that it explains 58% of success in all types of jobs. People with high EQs make $29,000 more annually than people with low EQs. Ninety percent of top performers have high EQs, and a single-point increase in your EQ adds $1,300 to your salary. I could go on and on. Suffice it to say, emotional intelligence is a powerful way to focus your energy in one direction with tremendous … Continue reading →

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“No modern precedent exists for the revival of a party so badly defeated, so intensely discredited, and so essentially split as the Republican Party is today.” Taken from “The Party That Lost Its Head” by Bruce Chapman and George Gilder, this excerpt, about Barry Goldwater’s defeat in 1964, led Thursday’s column by E.J. Dionne of The Washington Post. Dionne is warning what could happen if the GOP perpetrates the political atrocity of nominating Donald Trump. For weeks now, the Post’s editorial page has sermonized about the “moral” obligation of all righteous Republicans to repudiate Trump. The Post’s solicitude for the … Continue reading →

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