Lately, I have been reading a lot about the contributions South Asians made for the Allied cause in the Second World War. Over two million south Asians, many of them Muslim, served fought on the behalf of the British Empire against the Nazis and Japanese in countless theatres, such as Italy, North Africa, Burma and the like. Over 80,000 died fighting the Axis, yet we often forget about their sacrifice. Indeed, it's ironic in a way, because they were fighting on the behalf of the British…

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It has been several years since Norma Lyon, the pre-eminent practitioner of a uniquely American art form–butter sculpture–died, and the deep impact of her demise becomes more clear with each passing day.

“I can’t believe it’s not Jesus and the 12 Apostles!”

 

Lyon’s death was noted in The New York Times and on the front page of The Wall Street Journal.  She had appeared on the Today…

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or else, terrorUSt$' "regime change"* investments and crimes against Humanity will continue. 

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AUGUST 3, 2017

Venezuela’s Elections: Resurgent Chavismo and Unrecognized Democracy

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Trump Tells Golfing Buddies White House is a Real Dump:  Many are up in arms after President Donald Trump reportedly told a group of his golfing buddies at his New Jersey golf club that the reason he frequents his properties so often is because "the White House is a real dump.”…

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"Now everyone feels my rage!" I proudly proclaimed.



I was surrounded by reporters as I was being taken in for my first day in court. They were condescending in their questions, filled with smug superiority, secretly… Continue

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The United States is going backwards into what Robert I. Weiner terms "The Long 19th Century: 1789 to 1917" because 1789 was the point at which the masses and modern nationalism first presented themselves, in Europe's…

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The further the Democrats insist upon the Robert Mueller led “Witch Hunt” into the Russian collusion caper the further the DNC and Democrats themselves will be implicated. Mueller, who should have recused himself from a wide spectrum investigation that should have had specific limits to the scope…

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Whenever you tune in to a news program discussing taxation, government debt, and the “Middle Class” invariably the subject shifts to entitlements and more federal taxes. President Obama, in typical form, continually alleged that his anemic economic policies…

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Artificial Intelligence is Creating Languages Humans Can't Understand



Artifical Intelligence being developed by Facebook hasinvented its own language system to convey detailed information with greater efficiency; however, to human eyes, the messages are completely nonsensical.



Facebook engineers who had been working on the A.I. systems realized that they had made a mistake in their programming. “There was no reward for sticking to the English language,” said Dhruv Batra,… Continue

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HO-HO-KUS, New Jersey.  This borough of Bergen County has an identity problem according to Mayor Tony Latanzio.  “Ever since I was a little kid,” he says ruefully, “we’ve been in the shadow of Paramus,” an adjacent municipality that skyrocketed to national prominence in the 1960s as a result of “Make That Spare,” a televised bowling show.

“Forget about New York,” says local Department of Public Works Supervisor Mike Dibasi.  “How’d you like to have some mook from…

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