Month: March 2022

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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know - Listener Mail: Trouble at the Post Office, the Center of the Universe, and the Halifax Toe Tickler

Why do so many people have a problem with the current leader of the US Postal Service? What's it like to visit the Center of the Universe (the Tulsa version) firsthand? Will anyone ever catch the Halifax Toe Tickler? All this and more in this week's listener mail.

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State of the World from NPR - The Negotiations, Impacts on Germany, Escaping the War

Mixed signals surround the negotiations that happened earlier this week in Turkey. Bill Taylor, a former ambassador to Ukraine, discusses the Russia-Ukraine peace talks.
Germany relies on Russia for around half its natural gas and its companies do extensive business with both Russia and Ukraine. The effects of those ties fraying is being felt on the ground in Germany.
And Sofia Bretl lives in New York City but was born and raised in Kharkiv, Ukraine - about 25 miles from the Russian border. As conditions in Kharkiv worsened, Bretl's family faced a difficult decision.

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The Phil Ferguson Show - 415 Bitcoin & ETF

ETFs - discussion of how ETFs work. Why does a company advertise their ETF. How do they make money. Also, an explanation of NAV (net asset value).

Bitcoin - More information on how it functions and why it will fail

Eye glasses - $800 for a pair of glasses. NOPE! I shopped on-line and saved a ton of money.

Also, Trump's hole in one and bonds and the yield curve (yield curve inversion).
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Headlines From The Times - In praise of long-scorned Black women’s hair

When Will Smith slapped Chris Rock during the Oscars for a joke the latter made about the hairstyle of Smith’s wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, it brought forth the politics of Black hair, especially the hair of Black women. Long maligned, it’s getting more attention than ever, from the sisterlocks of prospective Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson to anti-discrimination bills passed on the state and local level.

Today, we talk about the issue with two L.A. Times writers who bring their own personal history to the subject.

Host: L.A. Times D.C. reporter Erin B. Logan

Guests: L.A. Times columnist Erika D. Smith

More reading:

Column: Will Smith’s Oscars slap of Chris Rock settles it. We’re done with Black hair jokes

California becomes first state to ban discrimination based on one’s natural hair

The world of Black hair magic, according to an icon of L.A.’s hair avant-garde

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The Daily Detail - The Daily Detail for 3.31.22

Alabama

  • Employees at Southern Poverty Law center hold protest, Will Blakely reports
  • 2 casino gambling bills are pulled from this years legislative process
  • Four men in Dekalb County are facing federal drug charges
  • A Mountain Brook man is charged with setting 2 fires in Elmore County
  • Garth Brooks to hold concert this June in Birmingham
  • Birmingham hits the 100 days or less until World Games begin

National

  • US Defense officials say that Russian troops are moving out of Chernobyl 
  • Contents of Hunter Biden's laptop are officially on Congressional record
  • Journalist Peter Schweizer weighs in on change in media reporting on Biden story
  • ME Senator Susan Collins  will vote to confirm Kentaji Jackson Brown to SCOTUS
  • Maine lawyer who ran for governor twice is busted for possession of child porn
  • Poll shows FL voters are in favor of new law despite the label "Don't Say Gay"
  • Actor Bruce Willis diagnosed with Aphasia, will leave acting as a result
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The Intelligence from The Economist - Oil and vodka: Russia’s resilient economy

After Russia invaded Ukraine, Western businesses pulled out and governments imposed punishing sanctions. But Russia’s economy is proving surprisingly resilient. In the instalment of our French election series, we travel to Provence to better understand the campaign of the hard-right candidate Eric Zemmour, who has tapped into and stoked anti-Muslim sentiment. And why Lebanon’s plastic surgeons are thriving amid an economic mess.

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