Vancouver up in arms as Trump family launches high-rise tower

Vancouver is bracing for protests as the Trump family prepares to launch its latest venture in Canada amid a growing backlash from local residents. The US president’s sons, Donald Jr and Eric, will attend the launch on Tuesday of the Trump International Hotel and Tower, a C$360m ($273m) development where one-bedroom apartments start at around C$1m and hotel rooms go for at least C$300 a night.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/28/vancouver-donald-trump-hotel-tower-opening-protests?source=Snapzu

No, you're not crazy. Part of the internet *is* broken

One of Amazon Web Services' most popular features was on the fritz Tuesday. The cloud-computing business' S3 service, which provides on-demand storage for companies large and small, began experiencing service disruptions at its northern Virginia site around 11:45 a.m. PT. The issue was resolved by 2:08 p.m. PT, with Amazon saying its S3 service was "operating normally."
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Rachel Dolezal Is Flat Broke, But Unapologetic About Identifying as Black

Rachel Dolezal, the former civil rights activist whose claim to be black caused outcry in 2015, has said she is living in penury and facing the prospect of losing her home in a new interview Yet Dolezal, who was a N.A.A.C.P. branch president when it was discovered she had been born to white parents, said in the interview with the Guardian that she will not "apologise and grovel" for her actions. She generated global headlines after questions from a local reporter led to her parents releasing childhood photos of her and denouncing her as a fraud.
Read more: http://time.com/4683633/rachel-dolezal-race-naacp-activism/?source=Snapzu

They waved the Confederate flag and a shotgun at a black child’s party. Now they’re headed to prison on terrorism charges.

In July 2015, a group of 15 people calling themselves “Respect the Flag” boarded several pickup trucks, each outfitted with Confederate and American flags, and embarked on a drive around Douglasville, Ga., a small city west of Atlanta. Tensions around displaying the Confederate flag were already high. Barely a month had passed since Dylann Roof, the avowed white supremacist who had posed with the Confederate battle flag, killed nine black Americans at a church in Charleston.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/02/28/they-waved-the-confederate-flag-and-a-shotgun-at-a-black-childs-party-now-theyre-headed-to-jail-on-terror-charges?source=Snapzu

Warren Buffett bullish on economy as Wall Street looks for more records

U.S. stock futures were indicating a bit of caution this morning, with President Donald Trump scheduled to address a joint session of Congress tomorrow night. But the Dow is riding an 11-session win streak for the first time since 1992, and 11 record closes in a row for the first time since 1987. Billionaire investor Warren Buffetttold CNBC he more than doubled his holdings in Apple between the start of 2017 and the tech company's most recent earnings report. At this point, Buffett owns $17 billion worth of Apple stock.
Read more: http://www.cnbc.com/2017/02/27/warren-buffett-bullish-on-economy-as-wall-street-looks-for-more-records.html?source=Snapzu

Racists blubber in court as judge jails them for threatening black child's birthday party with shotgun

Racists blubber in court as judge jails them for threatening black child's birthday party with shotgun
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‘I’m open-minded, you’re not’: Tucker Carlson melts down after Bill Nye schools him on climate change

Fox News host Tucker Carlson bit off more than he could chew Monday night when he tried to go head to head with ‘Science guy’ Bill Nye over climate change. The combative Fox host pressed Nye to explain why people shouldn’t be skeptical about climate change, with the popular science explainer telling Carlson, “Climate change denial is denial.”
Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2017/02/im-open-minded-youre-not-tucker-carlson-melts-down-after-bill-nye-schools-him-on-climate-change/?source=Snapzu