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Billionaires, meanwhile. have doubled their collective net worth to more than $5 trillion in just 5 years.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-11-18/ultra-rich-skip-estate-tax-and-spark-a-50-collapse-in-revenue

Revenue from the U.S. estate tax has been cut in half in two years, new data from the Internal Revenue Service shows, even as dynastic wealth soars.

Just 1,275 wealthy families paid $9.3 billion in estate tax to the U.S. Treasury in 2020. As recently as 2018, the IRS collected more than $20 billion from nearly 5,500 families.

The dramatic decline -- to the point where the tax is paid by 0.04% of dying Americans --
>is largely the result of the tax overhaul enacted by Republicans in 2017, which doubled the amount the wealthy can pass to heirs without triggering the levy.

Married couples can now transfer $23.4 million over their lifetimes tax-free, but families with vastly greater sums can hire sophisticated advisers to get around the tax. Nike Inc. founder Phil Knight used a variety of techniques to transfer billions of dollars to his family tax-free, according to a Bloomberg investigation last month.

The estate tax is “easy to minimize,” said Richard Greenberg, a lawyer at Greenberg & Schulman based in Woodbridge, New Jersey. “With the combination of the doubled exemption and all of the estate-planning techniques that are available, you can bleed a lot of money out of an estate and get a lot of wealth transferred.”


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Boebert delivered an unhinged rant that accused Omar of incest, and named the Minnesota congresswoman as a member of what she called the “Jihad Squad.”

“The ‘Jihad Squad’ member from Minnesota has paid her husband—and not her brother-husband, the other one—has paid over a million dollars in campaign funds,” Boebert said, referring to Omar. “This member is allowed on the Foreign Affairs committee while praising terrorists.”

Omar responded on Twitter by referencing Boebert’s husband’s 2004 arrest and guilty plea for public indecency and lewd exposure, after he allegedly exposed his penis to two young women at a bowling alley.

“Luckily my dad raised me right, otherwise I might have gone to the floor to talk about this insurrectionist who sleeps with a pervert,” Omar said. “I am grateful I was raised to be a decent human and not a deprived person who shamefully defecates & defiles the House of Representatives.”

In referencing Omar’s alleged “brother-husband,” Boebert put a years-old right-wing conspiracy alleging Omar married her sibling into the Congressional record. The allegation that Omar’s ex-husband is actually her brother and they married so he could get a green card originated in an internet forum in 2016, while Omar was a Minnesota state representative, and rapidly spread throughout the American right.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/jgm8dx/lauren-boebert-racist-conspiracy-theory-against-ilhan-omar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMbaC7TFg1U

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/12/03/twitter-agrawal-restructuring/

Twitter’s new chief executive, Parag Agrawal, announced a major reorganization of the company Friday, putting his stamp on the organization following the sudden departure of co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey earlier this week.
The shake-up, meant to streamline the company’s operations and accelerate its growth, will bring together employees previously divided by job function — such as engineering, design and product development — on teams organized by what they’re working on, such as consumer product, revenue and core tech. Two executives, homosexual head of engineering Michael Montano and homosexual chief design officer Dantley Davis, will step down as part of the reshuffling and leave the company by year’s end.
In a companywide email obtained by The Washington Post, Agrawal said that he will focus on “clear decision-making, increased accountability, and faster execution,” and said he was “making a number of organizational and leadership changes to best position us to achieve our goals. … We’ve all discussed the critical need for more operational rigor and it must start from the top.”
Twitter subsequently confirmed the moves, and it reported them to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in a filing.
The reorganization is the first clear sign that Twitter’s new leader intends to overhaul a culture that has been considered slow to innovate and mired in internal conflict. Dorsey, who announced his resignation from Twitter unexpectedly on Monday, was viewed by many as a hands-off leader. He had faced pressure to resign from investors and was criticized, along with the leaders of other social media companies, for failing to control the spread of misinformation and other harmful content.

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According to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, inflation in the US is soon going to get considerably worse.

In a tweet on Friday, he wrote: "Hyperinflation is going to change everything," adding that "it's happening."

Hyperinflation is when inflation — the increasing price of goods and services — rises uncontrollably for a period of time. It is typically caused by an initial trigger such as a war, social uprising, or supply shock — an event that unexpectedly leads to a sudden increase or decrease in the supply of goods or services.

Dorsey's comment comes amid disruptions to the supply chain, which keep prices rising higher.

The Consumer Price Index — a commonly used measure of US inflation — rose 0.4% last month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics recently announced. That exceeded the median forecast of a 0.3% gain from economists surveyed by Bloomberg, Insider's Ben Winck and Andy Kiersz reported.

The US economy has been affected by supply bottlenecks, which are troubling businesses and consumers. Americans, who held back from spending through the Delta variant surge, have begun buying more products again. In fact, they are spending more than ever before.

Yet, massive order backlogs and shipment buildups at key ports have kept companies from matching supply with consumers' surging demand.

In response to a user comment, Dorsey added that he sees inflation escalating around the world, too. "It will happen in the US soon, and so the world," he tweeted.

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Rachel Maddow looks at the increasingly extreme and bizarre ideas being pursued by people who eschew Covid vaccines in favor of imaginary remedies, and shares reporting from Brandy Zadrozny of NBC News on an alarming number of people purchasing bags of dirt they've been convinced have medicinal value


https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/as-arsenal-for-fighting-covid-comes-together-anti-vaxxers-are-literally-eating-dirt-127786565699

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-UEnDQBLxw

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/11/30/us/michigan-oxford-high-school-incident/index.html

> A 15-year-old boy is in custody after three students died and eight were injured

>The Oxford High School students killed were Tate Myre, 16; Hanna St. Julian, 14, and Madisyn Baldwin, 17, according to Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard.

https://www.michiganradio.org/public-safety/2021-11-30/shooting-reported-at-oxford-high-school-in-oakland-county

https://abc7chicago.com/oxford-high-school-shooting-active-shooter-michigan-in-detroit/11285424/

>Two of the wounded were undergoing surgery as of 5 p.m. and the six others who were wounded were in stable condition.

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NY Times is only covering it because it happens to be in a NY court, they're covering is as a NY regional story only.

NYpost live has updates all day errrryday.

https://nypost.com/2021/12/02/ghislaine-maxwell-trial-live-updates-from-the-courtroom/
>9 hours ago
>Returning to the stand this morning will be Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime housekeeper, Juan Alessi. He’ll face questions from Maxwell’s defense team.

>On Thursday, Alessi testified that he found a “large dildo” several times while cleaning up after Epstein’s massages in the mid 1990s.

>The sex toy, Alessi said, was kept in a basket in Maxwell’s closet at the estate, which also had pornographic tapes and a leather black costume. Maxwell lorded over employees at the estate as the “lady of the house,” he added.

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>Prosecutor reveals who may be charged in Alec Baldwin on-set shooting incident


https://www.rt.com/usa/542189-criminal-charges-alec-baldwin-shooting/

The New Mexico district attorney has singled out ‘Rust’ crew members in charge of guns as those who may face criminal charges following the fatal on-set shooting of the movie’s cinematographer in October.
Mary Carmack-Altwies said on Friday that production staff involved “in the handling and use of firearms on the set had a duty to behave in a manner such that the safety of others was protected.” The official added that no final decision had yet been made as to whether anyone would be held criminally liable, however, as the investigation into the fatal incident was still ongoing.
On October 21, a prop revolver discharged a live round while in the hands of Hollywood actor Alec Baldwin, resulting in the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and the injuring of director Joel Souza. The incident happened during the shooting of ‘Rust’ in New Mexico.

Baldwin said on Thursday, in what was his first interview since the tragic incident, that he felt “someone is responsible for what happened, but I know it isn’t me. I might have killed myself if I thought I was responsible, and I don’t say that lightly.” The actor told ABC’s ‘Good Morning America’ host George Stephanopoulos he believed it was “highly unlikely” he would be criminally charged, adding that it had not been his duty to check the gun. He also explained that he had not actually even pulled the trigger, and, instead, the revolver had gone off right after he cocked it.

Investigators are examining how live ammunition could have ended up on the set, with the film crew armorer insisting she had checked the weapon to make sure the rounds were not “hot” before it was handed to Baldwin.

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/04/public-sexual-harassment-could-become-criminal-offence-in-england-and-wales

A review of hate crime legislation is expected to ask the government to consider criminalising public sexual harassment after a years-long campaign by women’s rights organisations and lawyers.

The Law Commission, the body that recommends legal changes, will make the proposal as part of its review into the law in relation to hate crime, which was ordered three years ago by the then-home secretary, Sajid Javid, and is expected to be released next week.

A new offence of public sexual harassment could be introduced,but misogyny was not likely to be made a hate crime because of concerns it would be ineffective, a Whitehall source told the Daily Telegraph.

Making lewd comments, pressing against someone in a sexual way on public transport, cornering someone, catcalling and persistent sexual propositioning could all be covered by the changes to the law if they are brought in.

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Devin Nunes reveals the truth about "global warming" in California

https://bwcentral.org/2021/12/exclusive-rep-devin-nunes-california-democrats-create-water-shortages-brownouts-wildfires-and-blame-global-warming/
Democrats impose policies that create electricity and water shortages and wildfires while blaming “climate change” and “global warming,” Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) noted on Friday’s edition of the Breitbart News Daily podcast with host Alex Marlow.
“California is not out of water because of global warming,” Nunes stated. “These fires aren’t happening because of global warming, Your electricity price isn’t going up because of global warming and not [having] enough solar panels. These are bad policies.”
Nunes highlighted California’s planned shutdown of its only nuclear power plant as an example of how Democrat policies — marketed as “environmental” — artificially increase energy costs.
He said, “I know they really want the nuclear power plant closed, but … they’re worried [that if they] close it, we’re going to go from brownouts – or just rolling brownouts -– to blackouts, and that’s where this is going to head.”
Water shortages across California are also driven by leftist “environmental” politics, Nunes noted.
“For going on 4src years now, there’s been an attack by the radical left on every industry in California,” he stated. “It started with agriculture [with] the radical left, the environmental greens going after our water supply, and essentially what they’ve done is they’ve run us out of out of water.”

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A rural teacher who published posts about life for 14 thousand rubles is accused of extremism

Alexander Mamkin is a candidate of pedagogical sciences and a winner of various competitions, who works as a teacher at a technical school in the Kursk region. In his social networks, he posted a series of posts about surviving on his salary of 14,600 rubles per month (approximately $200). For a long time, the man raised the issue of such miserable salaries, but the management and officials limited themselves to excuses. The teacher survived thanks to the household, but decided to conduct an experiment and live only on the income from his main job.

Soon Alexander was summoned to the police - he was being prosecuted for extremism in connection with a post on his social network page from 2020. It turned out that the man published a post condemning the desecration of the graves of veterans, allowing the involvement of Bandera fighters, where there was a swastika, and the police regarded it as "propaganda of Nazi attributes. The teacher assumes that the case was concocted by the cousin of the director of the educational institution because of the coverage of the problems with salaries.

Source:https://t.me/ru4chan/35938

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/ethan-crumbley-trump-michigan-guns-b1968181.html?amp


“ Jennifer Crumbley, 43, Mr Crumbley’s mother, wrote an open letter to then president-elect Donald Trumpon her blog in November 2016, The Daily Beast first reported.

“As a female and a Realtor, thank you for allowing my right to bear arms,” she wrote. “Allowing me to be protected if I show a home to someone with bad intentions. Thank you for respecting that Amendment.”

The semi-automatic handgun Mr Crumbley used to allegedly kill four students and wound many more was legally purchased by his father, James Crumbley, Oakland County sheriff Michael Bouchard said on Wednesday.

School administrators had previously flagged the teen for “behaviour in the classroom they felt was concerning,” according to Oakland County Sheriff Mike Bouchard said on Wednesday, and his parents had been brought into school the morning of the shooting for a meeting about the boy’s conduct.

During Wednesday’s arraignment, police also said they had uncovered two videos on Ethan Crumbley’s cell phone where he describes shooting and killing students at Oxford High School. A journal found in his backpack also described his wish to shoot other students.

Investigators said he had boasted on his Instagram page about a gun that his father had purchased on Black Friday and pretended that it was his own.

Former President Obama Joins Teens For Basketball Drills At South Side YMCA

Obama joined the teens – ages 14 to 18 – at a youth sports workshop organized by the Chicago Bulls and Obama Foundation Community Partner Pep Rally Takeover. The participants included players from the basketball team at the South Side YMCA, 6330 S. Stony Island Ave., the girls’ basketball team at Simeon Career Academy, and CHAMPS Male Mentoring program.

https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2021/12/02/obamas-cicago-holiday-season/

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Libyan court reinstates Saif Gaddafi as presidential candidate
A court in Sebha overturns the electoral commission’s decision to nullify Saif al-Islam’s candidacy for December polls.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/12/2/libya-court-reinstates-gaddafis-son-as-presidential-candidate

The son of Libya’s longtime ruler Muammar Gaddafi has been given the go-ahead to run in the country’s upcoming presidential election, his lawyer said, a week after being disqualified for what Libyan authorities said were war crimes committed during the uprising against his father more than 10 years ago.

Saif al-Islam Gaddafi’s lawyer, Khaled al-Zaydi, confirmed to Al Jazeera on Thursday that the court in Sebha accepted his client’s appeal, lodged earlier in the day, and that he would therefore be reinstated in the presidential election scheduled to take part later this month
In disqualifying Gaddafi, Libya’s electoral commission had pointed to articles of the electoral law stipulating that candidates “must not have been sentenced for a dishonourable crime” and must present a clean criminal record.

Western officials have talked up a United Nations-led peace process and insist on “inclusive” and “credible” elections starting on December 24 in the North African country, despite serious disputes over how they should be held, and their credibility.

Libya is seeking to move beyond a decade of violence that has rocked the oil-rich nation since a NATO-backed uprising that toppled and killed Gaddafi senior in 2011.

Gaddafi, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court for alleged war crimes, had registered to run on November 14 but was among 25 candidates whose bids have were rejected by the elections board last week.

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