On Thursday, the spread between two-year and ten-year Treasuries dropped to just 79 basis points. According to Business Insider, this is almost the tightest that the yield curve has been since 2007...
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On Thursday, the spread between two-year and ten-year Treasuries dropped to just 79 basis points. According to Business Insider, this is almost the tightest that the yield curve has been since 2007...
A central street of Donetsk – the Donetsk Palace.
Having previously investigated the Crimean reunification with Russia, this May I turned my attention to the birth of two new government formations in Eastern Ukraine, the Donetsk People's Republic (DNR) and the Lugansk People's Republic (LNR). Americans only hear either what Kiev "reports", or the US propaganda machine puts out - these are puppet regimes born of "Russian aggression" and forcibly kept in place by "occupation". Not being a brave "war correspondent", I admittedly undertook my journey with some trepidation - not from fear of "Russian aggression", but the Kiev regime's ongoing shelling of civilian targets.
I am eternally grateful to my newfound colleague Konstantin Dolgov for showing me the sad "Alley of Angels" - a deeply touching memorial to children killed to date by Kiev-regime forces. Further, my virtual contact with Patrick Lancaster, an American journalist who now resides there, and Alexander Sladkov, a Russian correspondent who largely lives there, but, more importantly, "run toward the sound of gunfire" have allowed me to counteract the information-war blockade by Western media.
You load sixteen tons, what do you getEvery now and then a story appears in the national media that causes a lightbulb to start flashing incessantly in my head. For me, such a story came to my attention today and relates to how Google is manufacturing housing for some of its employees due to the ridiculous cost of housing in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Another day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the new Google modular home
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Protesters demanded May step aside following the disastrous election campaign of the Conservative Party, which now needs the support of the DUP to guarantee a majority vote in parliament.
The hashtag #MayMustGo trended on social media as thousands of protesters attended the march in central London.
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Canada's Senate passed Bill C-16, which puts "gender identity" and "gender expression" into both the country's Human Rights Code, as well as the hate crime category of its Criminal Code by a vote of 67-11, according to LifeSiteNews. The bill now only needs royal assent from the House of Commons to pass into law.
"Great news," announced Justin Trudeau, Canada's prime minister. "Bill C-16 has passed the Senate - making it illegal to discriminate based on gender identity or expression. #LoveisLove."
Comment: The demise of Western Civilization: "Gender fluidity" as a harbinger for Postmodernist Hell
Oh, Canada... Read it and weep: excerpts from the Ontario Human Rights Commission recommendations on identifying discrimination, upon which Canada's new C-16 law is leveraged:
Discrimination is not always direct and is often hard to detect. The claimant must show on a "balance of probabilities" (more likely than not) that adverse or negative treatment happened. The analysis should be flexible and look at all relevant factors in the situation including circumstantial evidence as well as the full impact on the affected person or group. While there may be evidence of "intent," this is not needed to prove discrimination. Gender identity, gender expression or other protected characteristics need only be one of the factors in the negative treatment for discrimination to exist.
Once prima facie discrimination is established, the burden then shifts to the organization or person responsible to either provide a credible non-discriminatory explanation, or justify the conduct or practice using one of the defences available under the Code.
Many trans people are vulnerable to harassment because of their gender identity and gender expression. Trans people also experience harassment that is sexual in nature (sexual harassment) that may be because of their gender identity, gender expression and/or sex.
Gender-based harassment can involve:
- Derogatory language toward trans people or trans communities
- Insults, comments that ridicule, humiliate or demean people because of their gender identity or expression
- Behaviour that "polices and or reinforces traditional heterosexual gender norms"
- Refusing to refer to a person by their self-identified name and proper personal pronoun
- Comments or conduct relating to a perception that a person is not conforming with gender-role stereotypes
- Jokes related to a person's gender identity or expression including those circulated in writing or by email or social media
- Spreading rumours about a person's gender identity or expression including through the Internet
- "Outing" or threatening to "out" someone as trans
- Intrusive comments, questions or insults about a person's body, physical characteristics, gender-related medical procedures, clothing, mannerisms, or other forms of gender expression
- Other threats, unwelcome touching, violence and physical assault.
The news that the shooter had a list of names suggests the shooting was not a random outburst, but instead appears to be a premeditated political assassination.
The list was written out on notepad paper and found in the shooter's pocket, according to multiple sources with intimate knowledge of the situation, who spoke on condition of anonymity, citing the sensitivity of the investigation. The list of names included Alabama Rep. Mo Brooks, South Carolina Rep. Jeff Duncan and Arizona Rep. Trent Franks, TheDC has confirmed. Fox News reportedafter this story that Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan, Tennessee Rep. Scott DesJarlais and Virginia Rep. Morgan Griffith are also on the list. All six congressmen are members of the House Freedom Caucus, which contains the lower chamber's most conservative members.
The FBI has contacted the congressmen to inform them of their inclusion on the list. Rep. Franks confirmed to Fox News that law enforcement officials have told him he is on the list.
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Police are searching for Maranda Hakimi Harvey who they say abandoned her 4-year-old daughter and left town in a rented white Nissan Versa.
Police are searching for Maranda Hakimi Harvey who they say abandoned her 4-year-old daughter and left town in a rented white Nissan Versa.
Maranda Hakimi Harvey, 29, of Odenton, Maryland drove from her home and arrived at the airport Thursday evening, Atlanta police Sgt. Warren Pickard said at a news conference. When she got to the airport atrium, Pickard said Harvey left asked a couple to watch her child while she shopped.
Harvey left and never returned. About 7:15 a.m., the couple called police.
"It's very strange," Pickard said. "Who would leave a child with strangers? Even if you're going to shop, it wouldn't be a wise decision."
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A woman sings in support of Philando Castile during a rally on the capitol steps after a jury found St. Anthony Police Department officer Jeronimo Yanez not guilty of second-degree manslaughter in the death of Castile, in St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S. June 16, 2017.
A woman sings in support of Philando Castile during a rally on the capitol steps after a jury found St. Anthony Police Department officer Jeronimo Yanez not guilty of second-degree manslaughter in the death of Castile, in St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S. June 16, 2017.
Police holding wooden batons formed a line to block the crowds protesting on I-94, ordering them to disperse, as heavily armed troops with armored vehicles were positioned nearby. Police have also reportedly closed off the adjacent bridges, leaving the protesters only one way to leave. At least three police buses were reported to have been dispatched.
St. Paul Police have started Facebook live video, showing officers and protesters. No arrests have been made so far, according to police.
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Former NBA basketball player Dennis Rodman leaves Beijing airport after arriving from North Korea's Pyongyang, China June 17, 2017.
Former NBA basketball player Dennis Rodman leaves Beijing airport after arriving from North Korea's Pyongyang, China June 17, 2017.
"Everybody's going to be happy. It was a good day. It was a good trip. A really good trip," Dennis Rodman said upon his return. Wearing a black T-shirt bearing the PotCoin.com logo - a crypto-currency used by legal marijuana dealers. Rodman appeared at Beijing Capital International Airport on Saturday.
Rodman, 56, did not disclose whether he had met with North Korean ruler Kim Jong-un, who he once called "a friend for life," only saying: "You'll find out."
The retired basketball player said before leaving for Pyongyang last week that his mission was to try to build bridges between the US and the reclusive state.
"That's the main reason why we're going," Rodman said in a video clip posted on his Twitter. "We're trying to bring everything together. If not, at least we tried," he said, adding "we're trying to open doors between both countries."
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The daycare facility on Camp Shaheen, Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan.
The daycare facility on Camp Shaheen, Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan.
The US military command in Kabul confirmed that an unspecified number of American soldiers were injured in an incident at a base in northern Afghanistan on Saturday, but denied that there were any fatalities among US service members.
Abdul Qahar Araam, spokesman for the Afghan Army's 209th Corps, said earlier that the Americans were "shot and killed" by an Afghan solider, Reuters reported.
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