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Every human being has a unique story, and all of those stories deserve to be told, but the traditional Hollywood system just isn't doing the job. Many people...
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"The only cure Mike Pence should get right now is a bottle of Clorox and a heat lamp.”
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Judge Bruce Schroeder dismissed the misdemeanor weapons charge against Kyle Rittenhouse today on the grounds that Rittenhouse's rifle was too long to quali...
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Members of the White House Correspondents Association have been banned from covering the Saturday wedding of Naomi Biden on the White House South Lawn.
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Studies suggest that young American males are physically weaker than previous cohorts.
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Talk about sage advice.
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by Jennie Taer House Republican Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy threatened President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro
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Speaking from his 'prison' in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange speaks out about the Trans-Pacific Partnership treaty, which would link his home country of Australia with the U.S. economically. "It is mostly not about trade," Assange says. "Only 5 of the 29 Chapters are about traditional trade."
JULIAN ASSANGE, WIKILEAKS: First of all, it is the largest ever international economic treaty that has ever been negotiated, very considerably larger than NAFTA. It is mostly not about trade, only 5 of the 29 Chapters are about traditional trade.
The others are about regulating the internet, and what information internet service providers have to collect, they have to hand it over to companies under certain circumstances, the regulation of labor conditions, regulating the way you can favor local industry, regulating the hospital, health care system, privatization of hospitals, so essentially every aspect of a modern economy, even banking services are in the TPP.
So that is erecting and embedding new ultramodern neoliberal structure over U.S. law and the laws of other countries. And putting it in treaty form.
By putting it in a treaty form, there are 14 countries involved, that means it is very hard to overturn, so if there is a desire, a democratic desire to do it on a different path. For example, to introduce more public transport. Then you can't easily change the TPP treaty, because you have to go back to the other nations involved.
Now looking at that example, what if the government or a state government decides it wants to build a hospital somewhere, and there is a private hospital has been erected nearby.
Well the TPP gives the constructor of the private hospital the right to sue the government over the expect loss, the loss in expected future profits. This is an expected future loss, this is not an actual loss that has been sustained, this is a claim about the future.
We know from similar instruments where governments can be sued over free trade treaties, that that is used to construct a chilling effect on environmental and health regulation laws. For example, Togo, Australia, Uruguay are all being sued by tobacco company Phillip Morris to prevent them from introducing health warnings on cigarette packaging...
It is not even an even playing field, lets say you were going to let companies, make it easier for companies to sue governments, maybe that is right, maybe the government is too powerful and companies should have the right to sue them in certain circumstances.
But it is only multinationals that get this right. U.S. companies that operate in the U.S. in relation to investments that happen in the U.S. will not have this right.
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Mariam Taha Thompson, 61, suspected of sharing classified information, including the names of American intelligence assets, with a Lebanese love interest tied to terror group
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LGBTQ and feminist activists have spearheaded a movement to use the letter “e” to diverge from the binary structure of masculine "o" or feminine "a" in Spanish. But the Royal Spanish Academy, the leading authority on Spanish grammar and vocabulary, has yet to recognize the need for this shift.
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An Albanian immigrant who fled repressive communism is seeking to oust veteran New York Sen. Chuck Schumer, the powerful Democratic majority leader.
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New Zealand has ruled that the nation's current voting age of 18 is discriminatory against those who are 16 and 17.
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The recent increase in the price of the EpiPen has many critics turning their mob rage toward the philosophical tenets of capitalism. The only problem is that this has nothing to do with free-market capitalism.
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Brigham Young University in Utah reiterated that “same-sex romantic behavior” is not allowed on campus, dashing the hopes of LGTBTQ students.
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It is now an established fact that the numerous naysayers who predicted President Trump could never deliver a vaccine this year were wrong. Thankfully, he did what they insisted couldn’t be done. B…
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Peter Boghossian on why we need new universities to turn the tide on cancel culture.
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Courtesy: Nantucket Current Twitter Several rented vehicles returned by President Joe Biden's Secret Service detail burned in the parking lot of the
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Aiming to blunt an overwhelming edge among African-American voters, Donald Trump has been decrying longstanding black support for Democratic politicians, who he blames for allowing economic inequality and crime to fester in African-American communities. In an Aug. 29, 2016, tweet, Trump wrote,
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As the frontrunner, it is incumbent on Biden to refute his party’s useful idiocy morally as well as politically, but of course he won’t.
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Neil deGrasse Tyson took to Twitter on Christmas Eve to share that, in his view, it isn't scientifically possible for Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer to be male.
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Jacob Chansley, the "QAnon Shaman" whose face became fodder for front-page news spreads when he broke into the U.S. Capitol on January 6 while wearing
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AUSTIN, TX — Amid a storm of controversy over recent antisemitic comments and remarks praising Hitler, Ye West has announced the release of his brand-new album My Struggle.
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Are Donald Trump’s conservative doubters cowards, fools, or -- worse -- secret Hillary supporters?
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Democratic socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez appears to be in danger of losing some of her support among liberals with her decision to increasingly align herself with anti-liberal activist Linda Sarsour.
