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Yellen: Inlfation Reduction Act resources aided collection $1.3B from wealthy tax delinquents – UPI.com

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said in prepared remarks Friday that the IRS has collected $1.3 billion from wealthy non-filers due to assistance from Inflation Reduction Act Resources. File Photo by Ken Cedeno/UPI
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said in prepared remarks Friday that the IRS has collected $1.3 billion from wealthy non-filers due to assistance from Inflation Reduction Act Resources. File Photo by Ken Cedeno/UPI | License Photo

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UK vs USA – What the British Do Better! | beetleypete

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This is a 4 minute 40 second video from an American lady who lives in London. She is just giving her own opinion after living here for two years. It may be of interest to my American friends, and to anyone thinking of visiting London or anywhere else in the UK.

Source: UK vs USA – What the British Do Better! | beetleypete

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Hungry ghost festival ‹ Chen Song Ping ‹ Reader — WordPress.com

Pray

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when ghosts and spirits

all set to roam aimlessly

wandering,  hungry

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eerie festival

yet well-celebrated here

feed the neglected

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When I was a child, I was afraid of ghosts. When I grew up, I realized people are more scary.

– Kat Blackthorne, Ghost

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“Where the Mind is Without Fear” by Rabindranath Tagore | From Behind the Pen

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To embrace today’s poetry, we have to sometimes reach back and embrace the lessons learned from poets of the past. Today, I am presenting a poem that I felt was right for our day and time. It comes at a moment when fear tries to consume our every being and we have to stop that from happening.

 

Poet Rabindranath Tagore (May 7, 1861 – August 7, 1941) was ahead of his time. He was a Bengali polymath, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer, and painter. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Tagore reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as, Indian art with Contextual Modernism.

 

As one of Tagore’s most anthologized poems, Where the Mind is Without Fear is the 35th poem of Gitanjali. This poem is an expression of the poet’s reflective spirit and contains a simple prayer for his country, the India of pre-independence times. I am just so intrigued by how relevant Tagore’s poem is today and how his words still speak to the world, our hearts, and our spirits.

 

Where the Mind is Without Fear

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;
Where knowledge is free;
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments
By narrow domestic walls;
Where words come out from the depth of truth;
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection;
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Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way;
Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit;
Where the mind is led forward by thee;
Into ever-widening thought and action;
Into that heaven of freedom,
My Father, let my country awake.

— Rabindranath Tagore

Source: “Where the Mind is Without Fear” by Rabindranath Tagore | From Behind the Pen

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White House condemns Tucker Carlson ‘Nazi propaganda’ interview as ‘disgusting and sadistic insult’ | CNN Business

The Biden administration is denouncing Tucker Carlson after the far-right personality hosted a guest this week who suggested the Holocaust happened by accident, calling the interview “a disgusting and sadistic insult to all Americans.”
— Read on www.cnn.com/2024/09/05/media/white-house-condemns-tucker-carlson-nazi-propaganda-interview/index.html