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Trump, Proper Property Investors Rep Final-Minute Perk in Tax Bill

Lawmakers scrambling to lock up Republican support for the tax reform bill added a complicated provision late in the process — one that would provide a multimillion-dollar windfall to real estate investors such as President Donald Trump. The change, which would allow real estate businesses to take advantage of a new tax break that’s planned…

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Fabricate now no longer fall for Netanyahu’s unhealthy distraction

Donald Trump’s Jerusalem decision revived an interest in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, after seven years of Arab revolutions and armed conflicts taking centre-stage. There is something about the Palestinian people’s predicament that still deeply moves Arab hearts and minds, as well as global supporters of justice. As Palestinian-American historian Rashid Khalidi wrote, « whatever Arab dictators and absolute…

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1/2 of UK sees The Solar tabloid as ‘detrimental affect’

Half of Britons see one of the UK’s largest tabloids, The Sun, as a negative influence on society, according to a new poll. The YouGov survey published on Monday, commissioned by the campaign group Stop Funding Hate, comes amid concerns the media is stirring up anti-Muslim, anti-migrant, and anti-EU sentiment. The poll said just five percent…

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Mining Bitcoin with pencil and paper: 0.sixty seven hashes per day

I decided to see how practical it would be to mine Bitcoin with pencil and paper. It turns out that the SHA-256 algorithm used for mining is pretty simple and can in fact be done by hand. Not surprisingly, the process is extremely slow compared to hardware mining and is entirely impractical. But performing the…

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Trump to label China as a strategic ‘competitor’

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Trump Names China as ‘Strategic Competitor’ in Nationwide Safety Approach

President Trump will clearly name China as a “strategic competitor” in the forthcoming National Security Strategy to be unveiled Monday, according to senior administration officials who previewed the document in a call with reporters. “The strategy refers to China as a strategic competitor. So I think China is seen as a strategic competitor because China…

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Turkey ‘seeks UN Total Meeting vote’ on Jerusalem

Turkey is concentrating efforts on passing a resolution at the UN General Assembly against the US decision to recognise occupied Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. Ankara is leading the push in the General Assembly because a draft resolution to be voted on by the UN Security Council on Monday is expected to be vetoed by Washington, Turkish officials…

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Will the 2010s be the ‘wasted decade’ of Arab hopes?

At the turn of the 20th century, three ageing intellectuals with extensive knowledge of the Middle East looked back at the previous hundred years and published their thoughts in a book entitled Un Siecle Pour Rien (A Wasted Century). Revolutionary ideas, hopes and sacrifices did not produce anything but despair. Assessing the Arab world in the…