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If you invested $1,000 in Boeing 10 years ago, here’s how much you’d have now – CNBC

Saturday, March 16, 2019

<!– –> VISIT CNBC.COM Success Money Work Life Video The Beginner’s Guide to Investing The Beginner’s Guide to Investing 6 Hours AgoCNBC.com Shares of aircraft-manufacturing company Boeing took a hit early this week, losing $26.6 billion in market value Monday and Tuesday, following a deadly crash of one of its 737 Max 8 airplanes in Ethiopia. That model has since been grounded by the Federal Aviation Administration, as well as…

New Zealand Shooter Steeped Attack in Dark Internet Culture – Snopes.com

Saturday, March 16, 2019

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The suspected New Zealand shooter carefully modeled his attack for an internet age. He live-streamed the massacre, shouted out a popular meme slogan and published a long, rambling manifesto replete with inside jokes geared for those steeped in underground internet culture. The gunman, who carried out an attack on at least one of two mosques targeted Friday in Christchurch, posted the manifesto online using the name…

Bernie Sanders’ staffers unionize in first for presidential campaign – POLITICO

Saturday, March 16, 2019

“Bernie Sanders is the most pro-union candidate in the field, he’ll be the most pro-union president in the White House,” Sanders’ campaign manager Faiz Shakir said in a statement. | Nam Y. Huh/AP Photo 2020 Elections By BRENT D. GRIFFITHS 03/15/2019 07:02 PM EDT Sen. Bernie Sanders’ 2020 campaign announced Friday it will be the first major presidential campaign to have a unionized workforce, as party activists push Democratic candidates…

A Hate-Fueled Massacre in New Zealand Mosques, Designed for Its Times – The New York Times

Friday, March 15, 2019

Standard white supremacist and far-right nationalist tropes, like fears of a “white genocide,” are sprinkled throughout the statement. There are also elements of a self-flattering reach for larger meaning: references to centuries-ago battles between Christians and Muslims are scrawled on his guns, and on the video he refers to his slaughter of unarmed people as “the firefight.” But the potential clues in the statement appeared to be as much an…

Trump wields first presidential veto to nix border emergency rebuff – Fox News

Friday, March 15, 2019

Video Trump issues the first veto of his presidency President Trump on Friday used the first veto of his administration to reject a bipartisan resolution that sought to block his declaration of a national emergency at the border, a move almost certain to kill the measure. “Today I am vetoing this resolution,” Trump, surrounded by law enforcement officials and families of those killed by illegal immigrants, said in the Oval Office….

Brenton Tarrant: New Zealand terror suspect was personal trainer who espoused Islamophobic tropes and called Trump a ‘symbol of white identity’ – The Independent

Friday, March 15, 2019

The suspected gunman behind the New Zealand mosques terror attack is believed to be a 28-year-old Australian man called Brenton Tarrant. The assault on two mosques in the South Island city of Christchurch has so far claimed the lives of 49 people, with more than 20 others currently in hospital with serious injuries. Tarrant, who is due to appear in court on Saturday, identified himself online before live-streaming himself slaying more…

Photos: Atop the New Hudson Yards’ Vessel Sculpture by Thomas Heatherwick – Untapped Cities

Friday, March 15, 2019

The highlight of the new Hudson Yards, which officially opened today with much fanfare, is certainly the Vessel, the climbable staircase sculpture by British architect Thomas Heatherwick and Heatherwick Studio. At 150 feet tall, with 2,500 steps, 154 interconnected flights of stairs, and 80 landings, with a steel exoskeleton in a beehive shape. There is one mile of vertical climbing to be done, and we can attest, it takes a…

The Latest: Iranian minister says bigotry led to attack – ABC News – ABC News

Friday, March 15, 2019

The Latest on global reaction to the deadly shootings in two mosques in New Zealand (all times local): 3:20 p.m. Iran’s foreign minister says bigotry in Western countries has led to the attacks on Muslims in New Zealand. In a Friday tweet Mohammad Javad Zarif said: “Impunity in Western ‘democracies’ to promote bigotry leads to this.” Zarif also said the prejudice led to “Israeli thugs entering a mosque in Palestine…

A shadowy group trying to overthrow Kim Jong Un raided a North Korean embassy in broad daylight – The Washington Post

Friday, March 15, 2019

John Hudson March 15 at 12:39 PM Days before President Trump was set to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Vietnam, a mysterious incident in Spain threatened to derail the entire high-stakes nuclear summit. In broad daylight, masked assailants infiltrated North Korea’s embassy in Madrid, restrained the staff with rope, stole computers and mobile phones, and fled the scene in two luxury vehicles. The group behind the late…

How the Christchurch terrorist attack was made for social media – CNN

Friday, March 15, 2019

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Trump says ‘there should be no Mueller report’ a day after House unanimously votes to make it public – CNBC

Friday, March 15, 2019

<!– –> × SEARCH QUOTES Politics President Donald Trump said Friday that “there should be no” report from special counsel Robert Mueller on his Russia investigation. His comments come a day after the House unanimously passed a symbolic resolution calling for public release of the report Mueller gives to the Justice Department about his probe. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., tried to bring the measure up in his chamber…

Beto O’Rourke’s secret membership in America’s oldest hacking group – CNBC

Friday, March 15, 2019

<!– –> × SEARCH QUOTES Tech (This article is adapted from a forthcoming book, “Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World” by Joseph Menn) Some things you might know about Beto O’Rourke, the former Texas congressman who just entered the race for president: The Democratic contender raised a record amount for a U.S. Senate race in 2018 and almost beat the incumbent…

LIVE: Mass shooting at Christchurch mosque as police respond to ‘active shooter’ situation – TVNZ

Friday, March 15, 2019

Key points: Police confirm there are 49 people dead in the attack, 41 people were killed in the Deans Ave mosque, with seven killed at the Linwood mosque.

LIVE: Mass shooting at Christchurch mosque as police respond to ‘active shooter’ situation – TVNZ

Friday, March 15, 2019

Key points: Police confirm there are 49 people dead in the attack, 41 people were killed in the Deans Ave mosque, with seven killed at the Linwood mosque.

LIVE: Mass shooting at Christchurch mosque as police respond to ‘active shooter’ situation – TVNZ

Friday, March 15, 2019

Key points: Police confirm there are 49 people dead in the attack, 41 people were killed in the Deans Ave mosque, with seven killed at the Linwood mosque.

In New Zealand, Signs Point to a Gunman Steeped in Internet Trolling – The New York Times

Friday, March 15, 2019

The gunman appeared to pair the shooting with the typical trolling tactics of the internet’s most far-right instigators, playing to a community of like-minded supporters online who cheered him on in real time as they watched bodies pile up. And the manifesto states plainly what usually goes unstated by internet trolls: By design, its author wanted to get everyone upset and arguing with each other. [Follow our live briefing on…

Parliament goes chicken on Brexit – Washington Examiner

Friday, March 15, 2019

Every time I think Britain’s MPs have touched bottom, they sink lower. The House of Commons has just resolved that it will not let Britain leave the EU without explicit permission from Brussels, or, as Europhiles absurdly phrase it, that they will not let Britain “crash out” with “no deal.” With one vote, MPs have destroyed any prospect of an equitable outcome. Eurocrats now know that Britain has only two…

North Korea may suspend nuclear talks with U.S., diplomat warns – NBC News

Friday, March 15, 2019

SEOUL, South Korea — Kim Jong Un is considering suspending talks with the United States and may rethink a ban on missile and nuclear tests unless Washington makes concessions, a senior North Korean diplomat was quoted as saying Friday. Vice Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui blamed top U.S. officials for the breakdown of last month’s summit in Hanoi between President Donald Trump and Kim, Russia’s Tass news agency reported. “We…

If you’re considering not having kids because of global warming, then please don’t; IQ is hereditary – Washington Examiner

Friday, March 15, 2019

” Anti-natalism,” or the radically utilitarian opposition to having children, has broken into the mainstream thanks to everybody’s favorite economist, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. In an Instagram livestream from her luxury Navy Yard apartment, the new Democratic #FreshFace entertained the ethics of having children in light of climate change. (Remember: ” like, the world is gonna end in 12 years” if we fail to pass a nonbinding resolution, including a…