[RT] A statue of a dog urinating on New York’s ’Fearless Girl’ bronze cast is causing uproar online ‐ yet the man behind the statue says it’s simply a protest against "corporate nonsense." Artist Alex Gardega provoked the backlash when he positioned his ’Sketchy Dog’ effigy beside the leg of statue symbol of female strength Monday, with many people taking exception to the fact that the dog appears to be relieving itself on the little girl’s leg.
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Dumb tw*t thinking "I'll just keep smiling my cute little girl smile and a bunch of men - whom I'll later berate for being chauvinist pigs - will come and save me."
[FOXNEWS] Organizers for the Baltimore Book Festival announced Tuesday they disinvited Rachel Dolezal, the controversial white woman who represented herself as African American for years, to this year's event after receiving major public backlash. Poor Rachel. She's convinced she's black. I had an aunt once who was convinced she was a chicken. We couldn't tell her otherwise; we needed the eggs.
Festival organizers released a statement on its Facebook page, citing reaction from attendees and authors as the reason for rescinding Dolezal's invitation.
"A top priority of the Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts is to listen to our constituents, and after hearing from a cross-section of opinions on having Rachel Dolezal participate in this year’s festival, we had to consider how her appearance may affect both the audience and the other extraordinary authors we have planned for the Baltimore Book Festival," the statement read.
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A man can become a woman, but a white woman can't become black - why?
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they disinvited Rachel Dolezal. Next people will be de-friending her on FB. Some lefties are just not very tolerant. Maybe Rachel could write a book such as John Howard Griffin, a white man who wrote a book in the 1960s (entitled "Black Like Me.") Griffin colored his skin with methoxsalen (Oxsoralen) in 1959 to darken his skin for his race project. It was rumored that Griffin died from skin cancer but he died from diabetes. He did incur temporary and minor symptoms from taking the drug, especially fatigue and nausea. HIs book chronicled his experiences of traveling in the deep South as a black man.
[RT] Ancient Egyptians were more closely related to people from the Middle East and Europe than those from Central Africa, according to a genetic analysis of mummies’ DNA.
A team of international scientists from the University of Tuebingen and the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Germany analyzed the DNA of 90 Egyptian mummies dating from approximately 1400 BCE to 400 CE. The Egyptians had been around for something over thousand years before 1400 B.C, a date which is contemporary with the Aryan expansion from Central Asia. Breasted, writing in 1905, or published anyway, was of the opinion they were Libyans. Black Lives Matter and such pseudohistorians say they were black, based on an artistic style from one Middle Kingdom reign, ignoring the Egyptians' own representations of themselves (men were dark red, women white) and their representations of Africans.
Amazingly, the team’s findings revealed that the mummies’ closest kin were ancient farmers from the Levant – a historical term for a large geographic area in the eastern Mediterranean that includes Israel and Jordan.
The study, published in Nature, also claims that ancient Egyptians were closely related to Neolithic populations from the Anatolian Peninsula, an area made up of the majority of modern-day Turkey and Europe.
[DW] Humans and great apes parted ways in Africa with the development of the first pre-humans, many experts believe. But there might be a completely different explanation: Are the Balkans the cradle of humanity?
The lines of descent of today's chimpanzees and humans may have split in Europe and not - as is often believed - in Africa, according to researchers at a German university.
What is more, this evolutionary step may have occurred a few hundred thousand years earlier than previously assumed, the researchers say.
The revolutionary theory was presented in the periodical "PLOS One" by a team of researchers led by Madelaine Böhme at the Tubingen-based Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Paleoenvironment (HEP).
Dental root as evidence
The team headed by Böhme examined the only two existing specimens of the "Graecopithecus freybergi" hominid, nicknamed "El Graeco" by researchers.
This tooth of the "Graecopithecus freybergi" was discovered in Bulgaria
The hominid species includes humans and their fossil ancestors as well as some of the great apes. The specimens concerned are a lower jaw found in Greece (above photo) and a tooth discovered in Bulgaria.
After detailed analyses, the research team concluded that Graecopithecus was a pre-human species hitherto unknown. For example, the dental roots were, for the most part, fused - a feature that is characteristic of humans and their extinct relatives. Great apes usually have separate dental roots.
"We were surprised by our results, as pre-humans were previously known only from sub-Saharan Africa," said Jochen Fuss, one of the researchers involved in the study.
After analyzing the sediments from which the fossils had been retrieved, the research team dated the lower jaw to 7.175 million years and the tooth to 7.24 million years ago. That makes the two specimens older than than the hitherto oldest known pre-human from Africa, Sahelanthropus, which is dated to about 6 to 7 million years ago.
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Taking into account that it's PLoSOne (wannabe Nature) the first protohumans in Africa were colonizers?
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This ignoring the later assimilation of the Egyptian upper classes after Alexander the Great's conquest. SOP for the conquered lands under Alexander was the tactical commanders assumed the titles of the existing rulers, and basically pretended to be the old leaders. The commoners never saw the kings, so how would they know.
Oh, and build a new center of commerce and trade. Name it : Alexandria.
(They did this about a dozen times.)
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The Macedonians also had a habit of inter-marriage, I'm sure the Paks would be envious.
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Through eons of hateful adversity
Evolves our pristine university:
"Yo, cuz, where ya from?"
"All them bloods is so dumb."
Such a rainbow of racist diversity.
[NYT] WASHINGTON -- Federal officials, following through on a pledge by President Trump, have drafted a rule to roll back a federal requirement that many religious employers provide birth control coverage in health insurance plans.
The mandate for free contraceptive coverage was one of the most hotly contested Obama administration policies adopted under the Affordable Care Act, and it generated scores of lawsuits by employers that had religious objections to it.
On its website, the White House Office of Management and Budget said it is reviewing an "interim final rule" to relax the requirement, a step that would all but ensure a court challenge by women’s rights groups.
Mr. Trump signaled a change in direction on May 4, when he issued an executive order instructing three cabinet departments to consider amended regulations to "address conscience-based objections to the preventive-care mandate." The order cites a section of the Affordable Care Act that refers specifically to preventive services for women.
[RT] The British commander who led the 1982 task force to the Falkland Islands says he is deeply concerned about the impact a Labour government could have on the security of the South Atlantic islands.
Major General Julian Thompson, the Royal Marines officer who led Britannia’s successful military operation against Argentine forces, believes Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party presents a real risk to the security of the islanders.
The Labour leader apparently once called the war, which cost 255 British lives, "a nauseating waste of money and lives" and "one of those crazy conflicts of flag-waving nonsense."
"I felt irritated, to put it mildly," Thompson told the Times.
"Here is a chap who sets himself up as a socialist, and presumably therefore anti-fascist, who was prepared to see British people consigned to spending their lives under the rule of a fascist junta," he said.
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Conspiracy theories regarding the sinking of the Kursk are rife on the Russian Internet. Many allege that nearby American attack submarines sank the Kursk with Mark 48 torpedoes. While technically possible (in absence of the evidence of an internal torpedo explosion) there is no remotely plausible motive for such an attack during a period of good U.S.-Russian relations. Why attack the Kursk? Why was only the Kursk sunk, and not the Kuznetsov and Pyotr Velikiy? Why would the Russian government cover up the attack?
In the end, the sinking of the Kursk appears to have been caused by a simple, freak accident of chemistry. The tragedy only reinforces how dangerous life aboard a submarine really is, and how important safety is in the underwater realm. Finally, the rush to conspiracy is a warning that, had this incident occurred during a genuine crisis, such an accident could cause a dangerous escalation that could lead to war.
In 2000, a Russian submarine designed to sink aircraft carriers became a victim of its own arsenal. The cruise-missile submarine Kursk suffered a massive explosion and sank after an onboard torpedo accidentally detonated. The accident was the worst naval disaster suffered by post–Cold War Russia.
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Freak accident?! More like the very predictable result of using a very reactive chemical in an environment that begs for trouble as time goes on. But maybe I'm too much of a stickler for honesty.
[NATIONALREVIEW] The old downtown died most places, and, now, the new downtown is dying, too: At the highwater mark, there were about 5,000 malls in the United States, and there are now 1,100, at least 400 of which are expected to close in the next few years. In the 1980s, developers built an average of 60 malls a year -- and more than 100 in some years. Now, cities from San Bernardino, Calif., to High Point, N.C., are dealing with the husks of these dead retail behemoths. There are documentary films and TED talks about dead malls.
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Is it so much retail decline as occupancy expectations. See the turn over in IPhones. Maybe the new expectation by business renters is short term store contracts. That means for the consumer, you may not be able to 'bring it back to the store', cause it won't be there.
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There are documentary films and TED talks about dead malls.
However, no film or talks about the long term extreme over-building of retail space in the USA, the real cause of this "decline". After all, "no one could have predicted this."
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I was at a ;almost dead' mall in Aberdeen Wa. last year. This was a booming area until the environmentalists came in with their junk science 'Spotted Owl' crap. Destroyed the entire logging industry in that arean and along with it the local economy and this mall.
Most of the shops were boarded up and empty. Very few people there (and this was a weekend). overgrown parking area. Pretty depressing to look at.
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Many malls around the ATL area have just become the local wanna-be-a-thug hangout on a Friday night. No reason to take my family there.
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There's a *taxation* issue at the heart of this that never generates the right kind of discussion. Even though half of this country routinely votes in charlatans who will continuously reach for more and more of their paychecks, those same people will absolutely order something online (tax-free still in many states) to put some of that money back in their pockets.
Sure, the better solution would be for everyone to wake up and demand a reduction in the size of government (and with it a reduction in taxes). But most folks can't connect the dots in that manner, or are afraid to since its not cool to be unconcerned about "diversity" and "global warming" and other such nonsense.
[FORTUNE] Michael Kors (KORS, -8.52%) is closing up to 125 stores this year as it continues to partially unwind an aggressive expansion that had served it well when its namesake brand was hot.
The upscale brand reported on Wednesday that sales at stores open at least a year (comparable sales) fell 14.1% in its most recent quarter, and continue to fall sharply this year. What's more, Michael Kors' wholesale business, sales largely made to the struggling department store sector, fell 22.8% in the quarter.
Shares fell 6% in premarket trading. The company operates 827 stores, meaning the closings represent up to 15% or so of its fleet.
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Couldn't be because of overpriced merchandise that has lost its panache? (See - Emperor has no clothes)
Germany’s challenger for the chancellorship, Martin Schulz, vowed Thursday to retaliate against U.S. President Donald Trump’s potential withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement by refusing to engage in transatlantic trade talks.
Referring to trade negotiations with the U.S., which ran until the end of last year but are now on ice, Schulz said it would be impossible to grant better market access to the U.S. if it did not respect climate protection rules.
"If the U.S. drops out of the climate agreement ... for European trade policy, this means that American production sites don’t need to abide by the climate goals," said the Social Democratic candidate, who was speaking at the WDR Europa Forum in Berlin. "That is a competitive distortion against which we can only protect ourselves by saying: Whoever wants to have access to our market, and the European market is the biggest market in the world, needs to respect the European standards." European standards are a joke. Also a bit of background from Stephen Green: It's a damn good thing Germany has a trade surplus with us.
Let me explain why.
Germany is lacking in two things: Oil and the ability to print U.S. dollars.
Oil is priced in dollars, everywhere around the world. If you want to buy oil, you have to have dollars. If you want a modern economy, you have to have oil.
So if Germany is going to buy oil, they need to earn dollars from us. One good way to do that is to build cars superior to most of what comes out of American manufacturers, and to charge a premium for them.
This works well for Germany for a couple of reasons.
First, as an exporter Germany can't compete on unit volume. There are only so many imported cars U.S. consumers can buy or are willing to buy.
Second, German automakers can't compete on price. If you think American labor is expensive, check out German rates sometime. Also, to build those cars, Germany has to import a lot of raw materials and energy -- also priced in U.S. dollars.
So Germany sells fewer, higher-margin cars to Americans who want to buy them, in exchange for the dollars they need to keep their First World economy humming along. And a lot of those dollars end up right back here, too -- as foreign investments, an economic safe haven, etc.
And a little perspective is in order. Our trade deficit with Germany last year was about $65 billion -- about one-third of one percent of our GDP, or less than what Washington spends every six days. I don't know about you, but when I look at my tax receipts and I look at the services I actually get, I'm far more worried about my trade deficit with the IRS.
Oh, and our trade deficit with Germany isn't even as large as the official data suggest. BMW for one actually exports more American-made BMWs to the rest of the world than BMW imports from Germany to American buyers. (The same is true of Honda and Japanese imports, and may be true of other "foreign" automakers as well.) But BMW's exports from America don't get deducted from the tally of Germany's imports into America. We would cut off that trade to spite our face.
A little more perspective? The typical American family has a trade deficit with King Sooper or Albertson's of about 10% of every paycheck, but nobody seems to worry much about that, even though most of that money goes to corporate headquarters in entirely different states.
So what do we get out of trade with Germany? American consumers get more choices, American manufacturers get some much-needed (and in the case of Detroit, I do mean MUCH-needed) competition, Americans get jobs, and two wealthy countries with well-paid workers get to enjoy all the benefits of friendly trade. So, Germany has a lot more to lose then we do by closing off their markets or getting into a trade war with the US.
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American manufacturers get some much-needed (and in the case of Detroit, I do mean MUCH-needed) competition
BS. When the oil embargo hit, it was the Japanese that was on board to give Detroit competition, not the Germans. It's the Japanese and now Koreans that are the competition, not the emission rigging Germans.
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President Trump's statement was the opening of a negotiation. Instead of whining about how he hurt their feelings, if Chancellor Merkel came back with Stephen Green's explanation, the discussion would be very different. But they've just been trying to bully him into signing on to their Paris agreement, the one President Obama so grandiosely signed with his presidential pen without submitting to the Senate for approval, and a great many insulting things have been said by all and sundry over there -- "he acted like a drunken tourist" not being the worst of it.
It won't do anyone any real harm to maintain the status quo for a year -- unchanging conditions make corporate planning easier, and allows all parties time to figure out what they really want and are willing to pay for it.
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Trump should drop that it was the German emission rigging (and tepid German response) that convinced him that even the Germans aren't serious about the climate game.
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Rand Paul said "I think it would be terrible for our country. We have the potential of losing 6 million jobs and it would cost $3 trillion...and nobody gets to vote on it—I think that’s outrageous."
[Reuters] U.S. President Donald Trump talked trade with Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc during a White House visit on Wednesday and welcomed the signing of business deals worth billions of dollars and the jobs they would create.
The U.S. Commerce Department announced 13 new transactions with Vietnam worth $8 billion, including $3 billion worth of U.S.-produced content that would support more than 23,000 American jobs.
These include deals for General Electric Co (GE.N) worth $5.58 billion for power generation, aircraft engines and services, its largest-ever combined sale in Vietnam.
Caterpillar Inc (CAT.N) and its dealer in Vietnam also agreed to provide generator management technology for more than 100 generators in Vietnam, the company said.
"They (Vietnam) just made a very large order in the United States - and we appreciate that - for many billions of dollars, which means jobs for the United States and great, great equipment for Vietnam," Trump told reporters at the White House.
The Commerce Department estimate of the deals was considerably less than the $15 billion figure given by Phuc during a speech at the Heritage Foundation, adding that most of the total involved the import of U.S. equipment.
The Commerce Department estimate of the deals was considerably less than the $15 billion figure given by Phuc during a speech at the Heritage Foundation, adding that most of the total involved the import of U.S. equipment.
Communist Vietnam has gone from being a Cold War enemy to an important partner for the United States in the Asia-Pacific, where both countries share concerns about China's rising power.
Phuc told Trump the relationship had undergone "significant upheavals in history" but that the two countries were now "comprehensive partners."
Phuc's meeting with Trump makes him the first Southeast Asian leader to visit the White House under the new administration.
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Vietnam actually has a great dislike for the Chinese. China is not a good neighbor. Products shipped to Vietnam have problems. This may be difficult to believe but Americans are well received there. I can easily see Trump having a good relationship that can only grow. Good things ahead.
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I'd rather have a trade deficit with Vietnam than China.
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Vietnam is fairly friendly with the US and talking about allowing a US naval base there. Another good ally against China.
I'll take the trade deficit for all of that.
Just when you thought Huma Abedin finally had enough, the Hillary Clinton aide has invited her admitted sex offender hubby back home again, The Post has learned.
Anthony Weiner’s long-suffering wife filed for divorce earlier this month, the same day the disgraced ex-congressman pleaded guilty to sexting with a 15-year-old girl.
But Abedin has since renewed the lease on their pricey Union Square duplex -- and invited back home the man who has repeatedly heaped humiliation upon her, sources told The Post.
The luxury three-bedroom, 1,500-square-foot pad at 1 Irving Place features an "expansive, panoramic view of Union Square Park and the midtown skyline," according to a Corcoran listing.
The sext-crazed pol, who had been sleeping on his mother’s couch in Park Slope, was to move out Tuesday, a source said.
"He was supposed to move," the building source explained. "But they just signed for another year."
Another source said, "She still hasn’t served him with the divorce papers." She won't either. As long as he has a wife, he cannot be forced to testify against her. They have an...understanding.
Weiner, who will have to register as a sex offender as part of the plea deal with the Manhattan US Attorney’s Office, was spotted Tuesday at about 9 a.m. strolling out of the building with his and Abedin’s 5-year-old son.
A pal of the couple said Weiner has been the primary caretaker for the boy, especially while Abedin worked on Clinton’s failed presidential bid.
And she will continue to be the primary income as long as the Clintons are in funds, while dear Anthony doesn't seem to have any salable skills that don't involve being a connected politician. But Huma's life certainly will be more convenient with a live-in babysitter.
[Daily Caller] President Trump signed a waiver Thursday that delayed moving the U.S. embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. He was required to make a decision by Friday because a six-month waiver signed by President Obama was set to expire.
Trump signed the same waiver that every has president has signed twice a year since 1995 when a law was passed requiring the embassy to be located in Jerusalem. It will expire in six months, when the president will be faced with the decision of moving the embassy again.
[RT] At least 170 million pieces of rapidly-moving space junk are now circulating in Earth’s orbit and this debris may even lead to a "catastrophic avalanche of collisions" and destroy all working satellites and even threaten economies, scientists said. Some people have no idea how big a globe of twenty five thousand miles diameter is (196.9 million mi² just off the top of Google's head.) The fact that satellites have to be positioned up from the surface adds another couple or three hundred miles. So that's space for how many satellites, boys and girls, assuming each gets a square mile of overhead room?
"The space junk problem has been getting worse every year," head of Australia's Space Environment Research Centre, Ben Greene, told AFP. "Terrible! Just terrible!"
Some 170 million pieces of debris or ’space junk’ are currently orbiting Earth and only 22,000 are tracked, said Greene, who’s currently hosting a conference among international space scientists in Canberra. There have been about 8000 man made objects launched into space - only a handful left Earth orbit. Some have decayed and reentered. There are about 3000 satellites currently in orbit. Of course, that's just Google's opinion and you know how they lie.
"We're losing three or four satellites a year now to space debris collision. We're very close, NASA estimates, of within five to 10 years of losing everything," Greene said, adding that "a catastrophic avalanche of collisions which could quickly destroy all orbiting satellites is now possible." "And then three thousand satellites and 170 million other rocks and bits of dust and dust rags and buckets and mops will fall on our heads!"
Some people have no idea how big "up" is, possibly because it's unimaginably big, possibly because they're dumb.
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Tragedy of the commons. Some things never change.
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Seen the movie, really dumb. Co-orbiting objects wouldn't pick up speed like that or suddenly be moving in the opposite direction. Typical Hollywood physics.
[Guardian] The storm around Donald Trump is about to shift a few miles west of the White House, to a conference centre in Chantilly, Virginia, where the embattled president will be getting his end-of-term grades from the people whose opinion really matters: Bilderberg.
The secretive three-day summit of the political and economic elite kicks off on Thursday in heavily guarded seclusion at the Westfields Marriot, a luxury hotel a short distance from the Oval Office. The hotel was already on lockdown on Wednesday, and an army of landscapers have been busy planting fir trees around the perimeter, to protect coy billionaires and bashful bank bosses from any prying lenses.
Perched ominously at the top of the conference agenda this year are these words: "The Trump Administration: A progress report". Is the president going to be put in detention for tweeting in class? Held back a year? Or told to empty his locker and leave? If ever there’s a place where a president could hear the words "you’re fired!", it’s Bilderberg.
The White House is taking no chances, sending along some big hitters from Team Trump to defend their boss: the national security adviser, HR McMaster; the commerce secretary, Wilbur Ross; and Trump’s new strategist, Chris Liddell. Could the president himself show up to receive his report card in person?
Henry Kissinger, the gravel-throated kingpin of Bilderberg, visited Trump at the White House a few weeks ago to discuss "Russia and other things", and certainly, the Bilderberg conference would be the perfect opportunity for the most powerful man in the world to discuss important global issues with Trump.
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I've always thought that we would get really serious about Islamic terror if the jihadists hit a meeting like this one.
Could it be that KSA has made it clear that such gatherings are way off limits?
Wonder how many of the elite would just vote to surrender?
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If the world were still the right way up they would be Trump's people, the Bilderbergers.
A certain amount of the hatred has him down as a class traitor.
(apologies for marxist terminology)
The New York Times Co. NYT, +0.00% on Wednesday offered buyouts aimed at cutting the number of editors in the newsroom.
It's not like all those layers of editing ever caught any of the deliberate errors of fact and interpretation anyway, and NYT journalists are hired with high level grammar and spelling skills, so the cost savings is easy.
In a memo to staff, Executive Editor Dean Baquet and managing editor Joseph Kahn said the paper's current system of two separate groups of editors performing different tasks would be replaced with one group of editors responsible for all aspects, according to the Times. "Our goal is to significantly shift the balance of editors to reporters at the Times, giving us more on-the-ground journalists developing original work than ever before," they wrote in the memo. According to the memo, reporters and other staffers in the newsroom are free to apply for the buyout. The number of positions targeted was not revealed.
The Times hopes the buyout will let it hire 100 additional journalists, it said. Also on Wednesday, the Huffington Post reported that the paper would be eliminating its public-editor role. That position, currently held by a former Washington Post managing editor, Elizabeth Spayd, was created to hold the paper accountable after the Jayson Blair plagiarism scandal in 2003.
The news comes a day after the Times announced it was establishing a "reader center" to improve engagement with its readers. Shares of New York Times Co. were down less than 1% shortly before noon on Wednesday. Shares have gained more than 31% in 2017 and more than 44% over the past 12 months, while the S&P 500 index SPX, -0.05% is up nearly 8% in the year and 15% in the last 12 months.
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Also on Wednesday, the Huffington Post reported that the paper would be eliminating its public-editor role. That position, currently held by a former Washington Post managing editor, Elizabeth Spayd, was created to hold the paper accountable after the Jayson Blair plagiarism scandal in 2003.
"After further review, we decided we are never wrong. So the position is not needed"
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NYT journalists are hired with high level grammar and spelling skills
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"Our goal is to significantly shift the balance of editors to reporters at the Times, giving us more on-the-ground journalists developing original work than ever before,"
So more people to develop more works of fiction? What ever happened to true reporting?
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[FOXNEWS] Organizers for the Baltimore Book Festival announced Tuesday they disinvited Rachel Dolezal, the controversial white woman who represented herself as African American for years, to this year's event after receiving major public backlash. 
Excellent point g(r)om. Everyone is Irish at least one day per year, right ? 
You're telling me this is bullshi* ? 
[NYT] WASHINGTON -- Federal officials, following through on a pledge by President Trump, have drafted a rule to roll back a federal requirement that many religious employers provide birth control coverage in health insurance plans.
[RT] The British commander who led the 1982 task force to the Falkland Islands says he is deeply concerned about the impact a Labour government could have on the security of the South Atlantic islands.
Germany’s challenger for the chancellorship, Martin Schulz, vowed Thursday to retaliate against U.S. President Donald Trump’s potential withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement by refusing to engage in transatlantic trade talks.
[RT] At least 170 million pieces of rapidly-moving space junk are now circulating in Earth’s orbit and this debris may even lead to a "catastrophic avalanche of collisions" and destroy all working satellites and even threaten economies, scientists said.
[Guardian] The storm around Donald Trump is about to shift a few miles west of the White House, to a conference centre in Chantilly, Virginia, where the embattled president will be getting his end-of-term grades from the people whose opinion really matters: Bilderberg.
