Lawsuit: YouTube recruiters instructed to cancel interviews w/ applicants who weren’t female, black or Hispanic, and “purge entirely” applications of people who didn’t fit those categories

YouTube last year stopped hiring white and Asian males for technical positions because they didn’t help the world’s largest video site achieve its goals for improving diversity, according to a civil lawsuit filed by a former employee. The lawsuit, filed …

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East Coast Bomb Cyclone Danger

So this is what a ‘Red Alert for heavy snowfall’ actually looks like @DublinAirport. We’ll have further updates in the morning. Stay safe. #StormEmma #BeastFromTheEast #Snow pic.twitter.com/ENajr7xaFX — Dublin Airport (@DublinAirport) March 2, 2018 Dangerous nor’easter targets East Coast with …

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Fed’s QE Unwind Marches Forward Relentlessly

Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter During the sell-off, it ignored the whiners on Wall Street. The fifth month of the QE-Unwind came to a completion with the release this afternoon of the Fed’s balance sheet for the week ending February 28. The QE-Unwind …

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Internet Giants: Who Owns Who on the Web

by visualcapitalist View a high resolution version of this graphic In the brick and mortar world, decades of consolidation has led certain conglomerates to wield massive amounts of control in the banking, consumer goods, alcohol, and auto sectors. And although the internet is incredibly vast in scale and …

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California's About To Go Venezuela

CA Dems are moving further to the left: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/think-california-politics-is-on-the-far-left-fringe-just-wait-for-the-next-elections/2018/02/04/80e679c2-05e5-11e8-8777-2a059f168dd2_story.html   h/t FuzzieMuff

The 100 Most Dangerous Cities in America

by Dr. Eowyn Using the most up-to-date FBI crime data for the 2016 year (the 2017 year total crime data are still incomplete), Neighborhood Scout compiled a list of the 100 most dangerous cities in America with 25,000 or more people, based on the …

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Here we just have an example of literally the richest man on Earth, Jeff Bezos worth over $100 billion, and his company, the biggest retailer on Earth, didn't pay 1 cent in income tax to the US government.

I don’t think we should be giving Jeff Bezos a medal for figuring out how to fuck over the system so bad, that one of the world’s largest companies didn’t pay any income taxes last year. And that was before the massive …

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