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djsunyc
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2/10/2017 10:54 AM
http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/pdf/2017/PPP_Release_National_21017.pdf
some interesting results (many more in the link): Trump voters in PPP poll (Clinton % in parenthesis) Bowling Green Massacre Statement Ban Muslims Trust More: Judges or Trump DeVos Favorability Pence or Trump as POTUS Millions Voted Illegally in 2016 Black History Month Favorability White History Month |
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djsunyc
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2/10/2017 3:12 PM LAST EDITED: 2/10/2017 3:13 PM
holfresh wrote:Betty Devos blocked from entering a Washington middle school by protesters..I can't ever remember seeing stuff like this..
http://www.snopes.com/photos/signs/sciencetest.asp this is a real quiz from blue ridge christian academy, a private school in south carolina. devos wants schools like these to be funded by taxpayers... |
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holfresh
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2/10/2017 6:27 PM
Russia eyes sending Snowden back to US as a gift for Trump..
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holfresh
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2/10/2017 8:37 PM
US investigators corroborate some aspects of the Russia dossier
http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/10/politics/russia-dossier-update/ Washington (CNN)For the first time, US investigators say they have corroborated some of the communications detailed in a 35-page dossier compiled by a former British intelligence agent, multiple current and former US law enforcement and intelligence officials tell CNN. As CNN first reported, then-President-elect Donald Trump and President Barack Obama were briefed on the existence of the dossier prior to Trump's inauguration. None of the newly learned information relates to the salacious allegations in the dossier. Rather it relates to conversations between foreign nationals. The dossier details about a dozen conversations between senior Russian officials and other Russian individuals. Sources would not confirm which specific conversations were intercepted or the content of those discussions due to the classified nature of US intelligence collection programs. |
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holfresh
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2/12/2017 8:31 AM LAST EDITED: 2/12/2017 9:44 AM
fi·du·ci·ar·y
fəˈd(y)o͞oSHēˌerē,fəˈd(y)o͞oSH(ə)rē/ adjectiveLAW 1. involving trust, especially with regard to the relationship between a trustee and a beneficiary. "the company has a fiduciary duty to shareholders" The Fiduciary Rule perfectly illustrates what the Trump administration has in store for us. It's a rule that puts INVESTOR'S interest first ahead of Wall Street interest. The Trump administration wants to reverse it. IF THIS ATTEMPTED CHANGE OF A RULE YOU CAN PLAINLY SEE, AND UNDERSTAND, DOESN'T REMOVE THE BLINDERS ON THEIR THINKING, I DON'T KNOW WHAT WILL.... https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/09/opinion/putting-clients-second.html?_r=0 Mr. Cohn, most recently the president of Goldman Sachs, called it “a bad rule” and likened it to “putting only healthy food on the menu, because unhealthy food tastes good but you still shouldn’t eat it because you might die younger.” Comparing healthy and unhealthy food to healthy and unhealthy investments is an interesting analogy. The now-endangered fiduciary rule is based on a simple — and seemingly unarguable — principle: that in giving advice to clients with retirement funds, stockbrokers, registered investment advisers and insurance agents must act in the best interests of their clients. Honestly, it seems counterproductive to go to war against such a fundamental principle. It simply doesn’t seem like a good business practice for Wall Street to tell its client-investors, “We put your interests second, after our firm’s, but it’s close.” The annulment of the government’s fiduciary rule would clearly be a setback for investors trying to prepare for retirement. But the fiduciary principle itself will live on, and even spread. The truth is, the existing proposal doesn’t go nearly far enough. It is limited to retirement plan accounts and ignores the other three-quarters of the assets owned by individual investors. Any effective rule must encompass all investors. It is widely agreed that the fiduciary rule would give impetus to the growing use of lower-cost, broadly diversified index funds (pioneered by Vanguard, the company I founded), such as those tracking, with remarkable precision, the S&P 500 stock index. But even without the rule, there has already been a tidal shift to index funds — actually, more like a tsunami. Since 2008, mutual fund investors have liquidated more than $800 billion of their holdings in actively managed equity mutual funds and purchased about $1.8 trillion of equity index funds. Low-cost index funds are almost certainly what Mr. Cohn means when he refers to the “healthy food on the menu.” Several major brokerage firms have already embraced the fiduciary principle, announcing plans to comply with the rule by eliminating front-end commissions (known as loads) on retirement plan accounts in favor of an annual asset charge. And dozens of companies have reacted to the proposed rule by creating a class of generally less costly mutual fund shares with initial loads of 2.5 percent followed by annual charges of 0.25 percent of total assets. I do not envision these responses to the fiduciary rule being reversed. With or without regulation by the federal government, the principle of “clients first” is here to stay. In the debate about the fiduciary rule, one basic fact has been largely ignored. Investment wealth is created by our public corporations and reflected in stock prices. Stock market returns are then allocated between the financial industry (Wall Street) and shareholders (Main Street). So when the consulting firm A. T. Kearney projected that the fiduciary rule would result in as much as $20 billion in lost revenue for the industry by 2020, it meant that net investment returns for investors would increase by $20 billion. By any definition, that’s a social good. One must wonder how Wall Street, broadly defined, has been able to defy the interests of its millions of clients for so long. After all, 241 years ago, Adam Smith concluded that “consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.” In other words, it is in Wall Street’s interest to promote the interests of its clients. As Smith put it: “The maxim is so perfectly self-evident that it would be absurd to attempt to prove it.” Make no mistake. The demise of the fiduciary rule would be a step backward for our nation, allowing Wall Street to continue to profit by providing conflicted advice at the expense of working Americans saving for retirement. But the principles of fiduciary duty are strengthening. Investor awareness grows with each passing day. The nation’s investors are already awakening to the role of low costs and broad diversification, and understand that long-term investing is a far more profitable strategy than short-term trading. The fiduciary rule may fade away, but the fiduciary principle is eternal. The arc of investing is long, but it bends toward fiduciary duty. |
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holfresh
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2/13/2017 9:46 AM
Elon Musk: Humans must merge with machines or become irrelevant in AI age
http://www.cnbc.com/2017/02/13/elon-musk-humans-merge-machines-cyborg-artificial-intelligence-robots.html Billionaire Elon Musk is known for his futuristic ideas and his latest suggestion might just save us from being irrelevant as artificial intelligence (AI) grows more prominent. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO said on Monday that humans need to merge with machines to become a sort of cyborg. "Over time I think we will probably see a closer merger of biological intelligence and digital intelligence," Musk told an audience at the World Government Summit in Dubai, where he also launched Tesla in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). "It's mostly about the bandwidth, the speed of the connection between your brain and the digital version of yourself, particularly output." Musk explained what he meant by saying that computers can communicate at "a trillion bits per second", while humans, whose main communication method is typing with their fingers via a mobile device, can do about 10 bits per second. In an age when AI threatens to become widespread, humans would be useless, so there's a need to merge with machines, according to Musk. "Some high bandwidth interface to the brain will be something that helps achieve a symbiosis between human and machine intelligence and maybe solves the control problem and the usefulness problem," Musk explained. The technologists proposal would see a new layer of a brain able to access information quickly and tap into artificial intelligence. It's not the first time Musk has spoken about the need for humans to evolve, but it's a constant theme of his talks on how society can deal with the disruptive threat of AI. 'Very quick' disruption During his talk, Musk touched upon his fear of "deep AI" which goes beyond driverless cars to what he called "artificial general intelligence". This he described as AI that is "smarter than the smartest human on earth" and called it a "dangerous situation". While this might be some way off, the Tesla boss said the more immediate threat is how AI, particularly autonomous cars, which his own firm is developing, will displace jobs. He said the disruption to people whose job it is to drive will take place over the next 20 years, after which 12 to 15 percent of the global workforce will be unemployed. "The most near term impact from a technology standpoint is autonomous cars … That is going to happen much faster than people realize and it's going to be a great convenience," Musk said. "But there are many people whose jobs are to drive. In fact I think it might be the single largest employer of people ... Driving in various forms. So we need to figure out new roles for what do those people do, but it will be very disruptive and very quick." |
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holfresh
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2/13/2017 8:21 PM
Mar-a-Lago Guest Can Pose and Post Photo with ‘Nuclear Football’ and Aide -
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holfresh
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2/13/2017 11:21 PM
Mike Flynn resigns!!!
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JesseDark
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2/14/2017 6:19 AM
What did the president know and when did he know it?
Bring back dee-fense
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holfresh
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2/14/2017 9:44 AM
North Korean leader’s half-brother killed by poison in Malaysia, reports claim
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/north-korean-leaders-half-brother-killed-by-poison-in-malaysia-reports-claim/2017/02/14/7324f8c6-f2af-11e6-8d72-263470bf0401_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-more-top-stories_nkorea-730a%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.2ed2815d0a3f TOKYO — The older half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has been killed in Malaysia by two female agents with “poison needles,” South Korean media outlets reported Tuesday. The reports — which could not be immediately be verified — said Kim’s half-brother, Kim Jong Nam, was attacked at Kuala Lumpur airport Monday by two women who fled the scene, according to accounts by South Korea’s TV Chosun, a cable channel. The report cited an unidentified government source detailing the death of the 45-year-old, who was once considered the next in line for power but apparently fell from favor after trying to enter Japan on a false passport to visit Tokyo Disneyland. |
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holfresh
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2/14/2017 11:39 AM
Elizabeth Warren destroying Trump administration questioning Yellen during Senate hearings...
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