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Billy Graham was a pernicious influence on the White House
https://nypost.com/2018/03/03/billy-graham-was-a-dangerous-influence-on-the-white-house/


In Canada, more than 500 doctors and residents, as well as over 150 medical students, have signed a public letter protesting their own pay raises.
The group say they are offended that they would receive raises when nurses and patients are struggling.
"These increases are all the more shocking because our nurses, clerks and other professionals face very difficult working conditions, while our patients live with the lack of access to required services because of the drastic cuts in recent years and the centralization of power in the Ministry of Health," reads the letter, which was published February 25.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/06/canadian-doctor-protest-their-own-pay-raises.html


Former CIA director John Brennan has launched a blistering attack on Donald Trump, branding the US President “unstable, inept, inexperienced and unethical”.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/former-cia-director-says-trump-132000308.html


Alan Turing, a British code-breaker during World War II who was later subjected to chemical castration for homosexual activity, has received a royal pardon nearly 60 years after he committed suicide.
https://www.cnn.com/2013/12/24/world/europe/alan-turing-royal-pardon/index.html


There is talk that the Fed might raise interest rates to counter “wage inflation”. Wages for working people have been depressed for decades, even more so since the Great Recession. If the Fed induces a recession every time wages start to rise, obviously they will stay depressed. The way the Fed counters inflation is by raising interest rates, which causes higher unemployment, which reduces demand for goods and services, and for higher wages. How can working people ever get ahead with the Fed blocking them?


Recently, when I was doing taxes for free for a young man who started his first job last year, I mentioned that when he could he should try to save money, that he could earn interest on it. He asked “What's interest?” And it wasn't because of the current low interest rates, he just didn't know what interest is!


Bonnet Carré Spillway Opens for 12th Time Since 1931 to Protect New Orleans by allowing flood waters from the swollen Mississippi River to flow into Lake Pontchartrain.
https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/bonnet-carr-spillway-opens-12th-time-1931-protect-new-orleans