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They're in the money: Wealth of world's billionaires surges 20 percent in 2017

RT
Mon, 29 Oct 2018 15:12 UTC

A joint report by UBS and PWC showed that world's billionaires' wealth enjoyed its greatest-ever increase last year, hitting $8.9 trillion shared among 2,158 individuals.

"The past 30 years have seen far greater wealth creation than the Gilded Age" the report said. "That period bred generations of families in the US and Europe who went on to influence business, banking, politics, philanthropy and the arts for more than 100 years. With wealth set to pass from entrepreneurs to their heirs in the coming years, the 21st century multi-generational families are being created."

More than 40 of the 179 new billionaires created last year inherited their wealth, the report said. "A major wealth transition has begun. Over the past five years, the sum passed by deceased billionaires to beneficiaries has grown by an average of 17 percent each year, to reach $117 billion in 2017. In that year alone, 44 heirs inherited more than a billion dollars each."

What free speech? 53% of college students are too intimidated to disagree with their professors

RT
Mon, 29 Oct 2018 14:25 UTC

US college campuses have traditionally been known as havens of free speech among students, but now professors are increasingly sharing their opinions - and many undergraduates are afraid to disagree with them, a new survey found.

Some 800 full-time undergraduate students at private and public four-year universities took part in the survey earlier this month that was conducted by McLaughlin & Associates on behalf of Yale University's William F. Buckley, Jr. Program.

More than half of those students (52 percent) said that their professors or course instructors express their own unrelated social or political beliefs "often" in class, according to the poll results that are due to be released next week, but were seen in advance by The Wall Street Journal found.

But unlike their professors, the young people find it more difficult to speak up. The survey found that 53 percent of the students polled often feel "intimidated" in sharing their ideas, opinions, or beliefs if they differ from their professor's. That's an increase of four percentage points from three years ago.

Comment: If you want an indoctrination-free education you might be safer enrolling in YouTube University and getting a library card rather than attending an American college.

Blexit: Kanye West designs t-shirts urging blacks to leave the Democratic Party

RT
Mon, 29 Oct 2018 12:59 UTC

A movement, calling for 'Blexit' or exit of blacks from the Democratic party has been launched, and quickly got designer treatment by a prominent Donald Trump supporter - rapper Kanye West.

The branded merchandise was unveiled at the Turning Point USA's Young Black Leadership Summit (TPUSA), a meeting of young black conservatives held in Washington on Saturday. The shirts feature the word 'Blexit' and 'We free' slogan'.

Comment: Will more and more black Americans stop being 'political chumps' as a result of this campaign? Here's what Malcolm X thought of blacks who voted Democrat:

7 victims after 'First Purge' party ends in shooting at Riverside, California nightclub

RT
Mon, 29 Oct 2018 13:06 UTC

Seven people were hospitalized after a reported shooting at 'The First Purge' party hosted at a nightclub in Riverside, California, police said.

"People started falling to the ground, and I thought people were fighting or dancing at first," a witness of the shooting told CBS Los Angeles. "I heard automatic gunshots, there was like 10 in a row."

The police received a distress call after midnight on Monday. Arriving at the scene, the officers picked up two people with gunshot wounds who were then hospitalized. Another five people, also shot at the venue, had later checked in at different hospitals seeking medical treatment, Riverside Police Department said in a statement.

11-year-old girl raped in New York public bathroom

Fox 5
Mon, 29 Oct 2018 05:23 UTC

The NYPD is looking for a teenager wanted in the rape of an 11-year-old girl in the public bathroom of a Bronx Park.

It happened on Sunday about 11 a.m. at Hilton White Park. The girl met with a boy who is believed to be approximately 14-16 years old. The boy asked the girl to enter a nearby public bathroom and then raped her.

The boy then took off and the girl went home and said what happened. She was taken to Montefiore hospital where she was treated and released for her injuries.

The suspect is described as Hispanic, 5'4" tall and 120 lbs., and he was last seen wearing a gray hoodie, dark shorts and white sneakers.

Anti-vaccine billboards appear in several US states

Yahoo! News
Mon, 29 Oct 2018 12:53 UTC

Anti-vaccine billboards claiming that routine childhood shots are deadly have popped up in several West Virginia cities.

They warn that the son of former Ultimate Fighting Championship fighter Nick Catone died from a vaccine, though the infant's death was officially ruled to be sudden infant death syndrome.

A physician director for the Cabell-Huntington Health Department, Dr. Michael Kilkenny, says the case is tragic but the medical community's consensus that vaccines are safe and effective remains unchanged. The Herald-Dispatch reported Sunday that the messages have appeared this month in Parkersburg, Dunbar and Huntington as part of a national campaign by the nonprofit Learn The Risk group.

More than 30 similar billboards have cropped up in Pennsylvania, New York and other states.

What can we do to keep Amazon from devouring everything?

Neil deMause
gothamist
Tue, 02 Oct 2018 00:00 UTC

© Cliff Owen/AP/Shutterstock
Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and CEO, speaks at The Economic Club of Washington's Milestone Celebration in Washington last month

There are many, many reasons to want to avoid making purchases from Amazon. The company is owned by an anti-union zealot, is largely responsible for the death of brick and mortar stores by selling products at a loss to undercut them, abuses its white-collar employees while outsourcing its blue-collar ones to unaccountable subcontractors, evades collecting sales taxes on its third-party vendors, and has built unprecedented secret databases on you and your shopping habits. (It's unclear as yet how much Amazon's just-announced $15-an-hour minimum wage will ease the pain of toiling in its warehouses.)

And that's without even getting into Bezos's attempts to extort several billion dollars in taxpayer subsidies from whichever city he picks to host his new second headquarters - or in cloying Amazon corporate-speak, "HQ2" - on top of the more than $1 billion in subsidies it's already raked in from local governments.

On the other hand, there are lots of reasons why we continue to select one-click payment. Amazon Prime is a huge lure, bundling free shipping and free TV and movies and music for just $119 a year, all without the hassle of having to comparison-shop your way across the internet or risk of accidentally ordering your underwear from a Chinese scam operator. It's why nearly half of online shoppers don't even bother to use a search engine, but just type their desires directly into Amazon. (Dear reader, it has happened to me.)

NPC meme deserves 'Person of the Year 2018' award for exposing liberal automatons

Robert Bridge
Strategic Culture Foundation
Thu, 25 Oct 2018 09:57 UTC

Nothing hurts more than the truth, and that adage goes far at explaining why the Liberals self-imploded upon being confronted by their hideous reflection in the NPC avatar.

First conjured to life on 4Chan and Reddit message boards, the NPC meme, represented by a crudely sketched stick figure that comes in a variety of persona, was designed as a method for portraying those well-known character traits the right has come to associate with their leftist alter-ego. The term 'social justice warrior,' while loaded with mockery, derision and cynical overtones, failed to nail the dark heart of the matter. What was needed was a meme that exposed the left's superiority complex that is so out of control it lets them believe that by just getting out of bed and showing up for a protest legitimizes their cause and anything that follows.

Thus, the right, which still enjoys the weapon of comic genius combined with computer prowess, supplanted the SJW tag with an innocuous-looking meme that eventually burrowed its way under the fleshy underbelly of the left until it was writhing on the pavement in painful spasmodic convulsions. The arrow was deadly because it carried the ultimate poison known as truth.

For the uninitiated, NPC stands for 'nonplayable character' or 'nonplayer character,' a term borrowed from the gaming community that describes those characters in video games whose only pre-programmed function is to wander about the screen eliciting generic, robotic remarks. Sound familiar? This meme successfully captured the essence of the left to such a degree that it forced Twitter to go on another search and destroy mission, suspending hundreds of accounts thought to be associated with the army of dangerous stick figures.

Comment: See also:

'Beastly' woman stabs ex-husband in alleged fight, takes selfie while he bleeds

RT
Sun, 28 Oct 2018 15:37 UTC

A woman in Siberia stabbed her ex-husband with a knife and - instead of calling the emergency services - took a selfie with her blood-soaked victim and sent the picture to friends, admitting that it made her look like "a beast."

The story unfolded in the Siberian city of Surgut this October, following a boozy argument between the former couple, who have been identified by media only as Olga and Oleg.

The row escalated and, at some point of the alcohol-fueled discussion, "the man attempted to strangle" his ex-wife, police said in a statement published by local media. In an attempt to defend herself, Olga grabbed a knife and stabbed Oleg.

Comment: The police may very well be relying completely on the account of the 'beast' in describing the stabbing as self defense. Notice the lack of any marks on the woman's neck in the highly disturbing selfie she took. The disturbed character of a person who would take such a photo, and then boast about it with her friends, is a clearly dangerous one who should not be allowed to care for a child.

Public bus plunges nearly 200 ft into river in China, two confirmed dead

Reuters
Mon, 29 Oct 2018 00:10 UTC

Rescuers recovered two bodies after a public bus plunged nearly 60 meters (197 ft) into a river after colliding with a car in southwestern China's Chongqing city on Sunday, state television reported.

The bus collided around 10 am (0200 GMT) into a private car that was driving against the flow of traffic on a four-lane bridge in the city's Wanxian area. The bus then veered, broke through the bridge fence and plunged into the Yangtze river.

The bus sank some 50 meters under the water, state television reported, adding it was not immediately clear how many passengers the bus was carrying.

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Society's Child

They're in the money: Wealth of world's billionaires surges 20 percent in 2017

What free speech? 53% of college students are too intimidated to disagree with their professors

Blexit: Kanye West designs t-shirts urging blacks to leave the Democratic Party

7 victims after 'First Purge' party ends in shooting at Riverside, California nightclub

11-year-old girl raped in New York public bathroom

Anti-vaccine billboards appear in several US states

What can we do to keep Amazon from devouring everything?

NPC meme deserves 'Person of the Year 2018' award for exposing liberal automatons

'Beastly' woman stabs ex-husband in alleged fight, takes selfie while he bleeds

Public bus plunges nearly 200 ft into river in China, two confirmed dead

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