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Social Security Privatization

I just ran my personal numbers over at the Social Security Privatization Calculator. I retired from the navy after 20 years. Navy officers aren’t millionaires, not even close. You can look those pay numbers up. During the 37 years that I was employed (including high school, college, navy, and civil service), my employers and I paid

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Thermometer in world’s coldest village breaks as temperatures plunge to -62C (-76°F)

Record high temperatures prove global warming. Record cold temperatures is just weather. The thermometer in a remote Siberian village known as the coldest inhabited place on earth has broken as temperatures plunged to near-record depths, reports the Daily Telegraph. The public device, which was installed in Oymyakon as a tourist attraction, recorded -62C, before malfunctioning

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Firm Behind Trump Dossier Offered Stories About Trump to Media – Reports

Earlier this year, Fusion GPS issued a dossier first published by BuzzFeed on Donald Trump, which later turned out to be funded by the Hillary Clinton campaign. Fusion GPS, the company behind the infamous dossier on Donald Trump’s alleged ties with Russia, has been pitching defamatory information about the US president to media outlets in Washington, including a story linking him

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Telegraph: Don’t call us snowflakes – it damages our mental health, say young people

Snowflakes. Perfect term. Via the UK Telegraph:  Being called a “snowflake” is damaging to mental health, young people say. Figures show that the majority of young people think the term is unfair – and even more think it could have a negative effect of its own.  The “snowflake generation” is a disparaging term now commonly used

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