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Supreme Court: Home-Care Workers Get Overtime

Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts signed an order paving the way for two million home-care workers to be eligible for minimum wages and overtime pay.

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China Only Has 2 Years of Currency Reserves

With China’s foreign exchange reserves falling by $490 billion in the last twelve months, China is on pace to run out of currency reserves in just two years.

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Apple iOS Attacked by YiSpecter Malware from China

Security site ‘Palo Alto Networks’ put out a warning that an iOS malware that cleverly can infect “non-jailbroken” Apple devices using enterprise certificates and private APIs has been infecting iPhones for 10 months and could herald a new era of iOS threats.

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Saudi Arabia Cash Reserves in Free-Fall

Saudi Arabian cash reserves are in free-fall due to China’s economic crash driving oil prices down to an average of $45 a barrel and the Kingdom becoming the world’s third largest military spender.

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Transgenders Complain about Not Getting Served by Obamacare

Although Americans were expected to accept Obamacare pushing healthcare premiums up by 6 percent of wages after inflation to cover such important medical procedures such as sex reassignment, it now appears that transgenders are not being served.

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Obama Vs. America; President Tries To Get Pacific Trade Deal Through Congress

President Obama faces a fight in Congress, and opposition from Democrat and Republican presidential candidates, as he revs up his campaign for congressional approval of the deeply-unpopular Trans-Pacific Partnership free-trade deal. The deal was finalized Oct. 5 by trade ministers from

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‘Peak Water’: Left’s New Mantra After ‘Peak Oil’ Fails

Twenty years ago, the volatile Persian Gulf supplied 35 percent of U.S. oil consumption and the left’s so-called experts were screaming that the world had hit the “peak oil” extraction point, after which supply would soon dwindle rapidly.

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9th Circuit Dumps Paying College Athletes

The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday that the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) may restrict colleges from compensating athletes beyond the cost of attendance.

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Gashoax: Breitbart Interviews Filmmaker Phelim McAleer

Phelim McAleer, investigative journalist and filmmaker of the new short film Gashoax, sat down with Breitbart News to discuss his rivalry with anti-fracking activist and producer of Gasworks, Josh Fox. McAleer had an outstanding career as a top newspaper investigative journalist with

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Dueling Pro- and Anti-Fracking Movies Debut Oct. 1

With faux-science video producer Josh Fox about to release his Gasworks video on Thursday, it appears his incendiary claims will get same-day competition from a new film called Gashoax by Phelim McAleer, the cinematographer who made Frack Nation.

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Samsung Pay Set to Crush Apple Pay

The newly-introduced Samsung Pay is about to crush Apple Pay, because all newer generation Galaxy mobile phones already work with 85 percent of “swipe-style” credit card machines.

ATR Says Trump Tax Reform Meets “The Pledge”

The anti-tax group, Americans for Tax Reform, said today that Donald Trump’s tax reform proposal meets its “Taxpayer Protection Pledge” to oppose net tax increases. In this Presidential cycle, Grover Norquist’s Americans for Tax Reform got every GOP candidate, except Trump,

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Apple Launch Mania: Selling 50 iPhones Per Second

Apple reported that it sold over 13 million iPhone 6s and 6s Plus in the launch weekend, beating its 2014 iPhone 6 record by 3 million devices. Wall Street analysts had expected Apple to sell up to 12 million smartphones, because the

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Ninth Circuit Upholds Seattle Discriminatory $15 Minimum Wage Law

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled today that Seattle’s minimum wage does not violate the Constitution or existing laws, despite requiring that franchise businesses start paying a higher minimum wage more quickly than non-franchise small businesses.

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El Niño: China, Facing Drought, Accepts U.S. Rice

China’s President Xi Jinping will sign an agreement to open up China’s rice market to U.S. exports as part of his economic charm offensive this week, after signing a $38 billion aircraft deal with Boeing in Seattle.

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Berkeley Firm Invents Glasses to Correct Color-blindness

A Bay Area company named EnChroma has just released glasses that use multi-notched filters that for the first time can correct the red-green color blindness suffered by 8 percent of men and 0.5 percent of women of Northern European ancestry.

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Obama Makes New Push for Minority Mortgages

The Obama administration is demanding that minorities again receive preferences to qualify for mortgages–the same policy that helped trigger the sub-prime mortgage crisis and the 2007-8 financial crash.

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‘Happy Birthday’ Loses Copyright, Hollywood Loses $5K a Day

Warner/Chappell Music will no longer collect about $5,480 per day on royalties for the copyright to “Happy Birthday to You” after federal judge George King ruled Tuesday in Los Angeles that the 1893 lyrics weren’t subject to copyright protection anymore.

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Brookings: Obama Uses Bad Data to Push ‘Preschool for All’

The Brookings Institution found that President Obama is using bad data to justify spending an extra $120 billion on “Preschool for All.” Research by the left-leaning think tank discovered that advocates of the policy, which would extend a new entitlement for all low- and

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CEO Resigns as VW Scandal Could Cost up to $30B

CEO Martin Winterkorn just stepped down as CEO of VW Group after the company admitted that for the last 6 years they had installed sensor “defeat device” software to reduce emissions readings by up to 98 percent in 500,000 diesel-powered cars sold in the United States.

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Skype Worldwide Outage Follows Apple Malware Attack

Microsoft has acknowledged that its free Skype Internet-calling, video and text service suffered a worldwide outage on September 20, 2015. The paid business users’ service is reportedly not suffering the same outages.

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Fracking Productivity Doubling Every Two Years

From fewer than 50 barrels a day in 2009 to 400 barrels today, fracking technology has advanced at a pace that has doubled oil well production every 2 years. That pace of productivity improvement is almost identical to the computer industry’s Moore’s Law, which expects the speed of processing chip to double every 2 years.

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Unions Cringe as Apple Joins Rush for Driverless Vehicle Road Test

The 15 miles that separate Apple and Stanford University now have tech centers for 11 car makers, if you include Apple and Google. Although each company is spending spectacular amounts of money on developing driverless cars, Apple may be about to take the lead by being the first company to gain the state’s DMV permission to test artificial intelligence cars on public roadways.

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HP Dumps 30,000 Jobs, But Still Cranking Up H1B Guest-Workers

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPQ) announced on Tuesday that the company will cut about 10 percent of its 300,000 member workforce, but appears to be moving “forward” with expanding its use of H1-B foreign immigrant visas.

El Niño ‘Tropical Train’ Slams West Coast

California picked up an average of about an inch of rain, with some mountain areas collecting 2 inches, as hurricane Linda brought the first of what is expected to be a “tropical train” of El Niño generated and other storms to the West Coast.

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Aerospace Booms in Alabama, Shrivels in California

Just weeks after Boeing sold off all the equipment at its 1.1 million square foot Long Beach, CA factory, Europe’s Airbus officially opened in Alabama what the company promises will be the most cost-efficient commercial airliner assembly plant in the world.

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India’s Prime Minister Modi Does a Victory Lap in Silicon Valley

With the two hottest stock markets since the March 9, 2009 bottom being India and the United States, it should not be surprising that India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi is headed to California’s Silicon Valley to celebrate Indian/American entrepreneurship.

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