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Pentagon Developing New War Concept in Response to Threat From China and Russia
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WASHINGTON, DC – February 21, 2019 Earlier this month, US Naval Chief Admiral John Richardson appealed to Washington for an offensive against Russia and China. During an Atlantic Council conference, he accused Russia of blockading the Azov Sea and strengthening its military and naval presence in the Eastern Mediterranean. According to Richardson, Russia and China use the fleet for the aggressive seizure of land, seas and power, thus Richardson believes that for the US, “it’s time to strike first,” according to Business Insider. Richardson is not the only general who says...
Oregon Man Can’t Get Back to Normal After Being Wrongfully Convicted of Child Sexual Abuse
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In 2017, Josh Horner was found guilty of sexually abusing a child. Sentenced to 50-years in prison – essentially the rest of his life – he only served 18 months after the Oregon Innocence Project looked into his case and found multiple errors, which resulted in his exoneration. Even though he received numerous apologies, his previous life is ruined. The National Registry of Exonerations tells the story of 42-year old Josh Horner who was wrongly convicted of sexually abusing a child by a non-unanimous jury – a practice every state but Oregon has banned – and sentenced to l...
Tesla Autopilot Veers off Highway as Driver Locked Out of All Controls
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Tesla cars are trying to kill their drivers… again. A New Jersey man reportedly almost died after his rogue Tesla recently decided to crash off the highway. A man from North Brunswick, New Jersey, is lucky to be alive after his vehicle’s so-called “autopilot” mode took control and plowed into several objects before coming to a sudden halt. Even though the driver tried to take control of the Tesla and override the “autopilot,” – which split the difference and went down “the middle” before veering off the highway entirely and crashing – the vehicle “would not let him.” Wh...
Amazon Pays Zero Corporate Tax for Second Year in a Row
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SAN-FRANCISCO – February 21, 2019 Cyber-retailing giant Amazon Inc., the company that belongs to the richest man in the world, Jeff Bezos, did not pay a cent of corporate income tax either in 2017 or 2018. At the same time, Amazon’s revenues, which, in theory, should be levied, amount to many billions of dollars. https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-02-19/amazon-paid-zero-corporate-tax-second-year-row In fiscal 2018, Amazon's net income was $11.2 billion, which is two times more compared to $5.6 billion a year earlier. Yet, a report by the Institute on Taxation and Econ...
NYC Commission on Human Rights Outlaws Hair and Hairstyle-Based Discrimination
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On Monday, the New York City Human Rights Commission released new guidelines protecting New Yorkers from being discriminated due to their hair texture or style. The guidance gives New Yorkers the right to “maintain natural hair or hairstyles that are closely associated with their racial, ethnic or cultural identities” and classifies any attempt to single people out based on their hair or hairstyle as racial discrimination. The protections apply to everyone but were prompted largely by what the commission calls “racist stereotypes that black hairstyles are unprofessional....
Check Your “Privilege List”: New York School Gives Points for Being White, Male, or Straight
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A New York public high school recently gave students in one class a “privilege reflection form” that’s turning more than a few heads. Thus, if you are an overweight black blind gay transgender woman from the Middle East and are planning to become a “scientist,” you’ve got zero chance of being among the “privileged” few… Saratoga Springs High School students have recently been asked to score their “privilege status” based on a variety of factors using a special “privilege reflection form,” which raised concerns among parents worried about the assignment’s underlying messag...
CBS Turns to Artificial Intelligence to Glean Viewers’ Emotional Responses to TV Shows
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CBS’s research team has resorted to using the dispassionate logic of machines to get a faster read on how viewers respond emotionally to its TV shows. The broadcaster started using the data-analytics platform developed by New York startup Canvs, which uses proprietary artificial-intelligence processing (AI) to parse natural-language comments. CBS first started using the Canvs Surveys tool to automate the coding of open-ended responses to surveys fielded by its research team starting in the fourth quarter of 2018. Now it uses Canvs to process feedback on its entire slate...
To Account for the Wall: Why States Are Suing Trump
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WASHINGTON - February 21, 2019 A coalition of sixteen US states has filed a lawsuit against Trump's administration over his declaration of a national emergency to unlock funds for the US-Mexico border wall. The Congress refused to finance the Trump project, so he resorted to a state of emergency. Congress later granted him $1.375 billion for the barrier construction--less than a quarter of the $5.7 billion he requested. Trump's declaration, under the National Emergencies Act, aims to allow him to take some $6.1 billion from Title 10 funding for the armed forces. This wo...
February 21: The Battle of Valverde, the Founding of NASCAR, and Other Events of the Date
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A number of important events have taken place on February 21 in U.S. history. Here is our take on the most interesting and valuable of them. 1862 – American Civil War: Engagements in Confederate Arizona: the Battle of Valverde We’ve covered a number of battles fought in Mississippi, Virginia, and Tennessee, but how about the battles fought in the Wild Wild West? The Battle of Valverde, or the Battle of Valverde Ford, was fought from February 20 to 21, 1862, near the town of Valverde at a ford in Valverde Creek in Confederate Arizona, in what is today the state of New Mex...