Japan’s ruling party set for strong election showing after Abe killing – Reuters.com

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  1. Japan’s ruling party set for strong election showing after Abe killing  Reuters.com
  2. Polls open in Japan election overshadowed by Shinzo Abe’s killing  Al Jazeera English
  3. Voting under way in Japan’s upper house election  Kyodo News Plus
  4. Japan votes for key election in shadow of Abe assassination  NPR
  5. Japan votes in election billed as ‘defense of democracy’ as police admit security ‘problems’ during Shinzo Abe assassination  CNN
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How ‘woke’ went from a social justice term to a pejorative favored by some conservatives – erienewsnow.com

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In linguistic terms, the idea of “staying woke” is actually just using the African American English aspectual marker “stay,” which can be used in any context to signal a habitually occurring event. For example, the salutation, “Stay up.” And then “woke” being the past tense of “wake.” The term is drawing on a broader conceptual … Read more

How ‘woke’ went from a social justice term to a pejorative favored by some conservatives – CNN

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The new season of “United Shades of America with W. Kamau Bell” kicks off in Arizona with an investigation into the origins of “woke” and the debate over critical race theory in schools. The series premieres Sunday at 10 p.m. ET. Washington CNN  —  A version of this story appeared in CNN’s Race Deconstructed newsletter. … Read more

Vivek Ramaswamy: ‘Woke capitalism is a cultural cancer’ – The Telegraph

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Throughout his childhood, Vivek Ramaswamy’s Brahmin-caste parents, immigrants from Kerala to Cincinnati, Ohio, took Ramaswamy and his brother back to the family home in the village of Vadakkanchery, which – in the 1990s – still lacked air conditioning, indoor flush toilets or proper refrigeration.  These trips were uncomfortable at first for an American kid, but … Read more

Biden’s woke attack on energy – msnNOW

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© (AP Photo/John Bazemore) Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden speaks during the I Will Vote Fundraising Gala Thursday, June 6, 2019, in Atlanta. Saule Omarova, whom President Joe Biden picked to regulate the banking industry, opened a new front in the relentless campaign of woke capital last May. Speaking about oil and … Read more