Saturday, October 8, 2016

In the news, Thursday, September 29, 2016


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SEP 28      INDEX      SEP 30
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Information from some sites may not be reliable, or may not be vetted.
Some sources may require subscription.

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from Breitbart

EXCLUSIVE: Linda Tripp Reopens Vince Foster, Filegate, Travelgate, Whitewater Scandals
As a White House staffer who worked directly adjacent to Hillary Clinton’s second floor West Wing office, Linda Tripp was afforded a front row seat to some of the most infamous scandals to rock the Bill Clinton White House.

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from CNSNews.com (& MRC & NewsBusters)

Senators Mock Kerry’s Threat to Stop Talking to Russia: ‘No More Lakeside Tête-à-Têtes’

Why We Don't Trust Moderators: Tim Kaine Prepares for Debate with Spouse of Moderator’s CBS Colleague

Report: Suspected Mall Gunman, a Non-Citizen, Voted in 3 Elections in Washington

Gary Johnson Can't Name a Single Foreign Leader
At an MSNBC town hall on Wednesday, Chris Matthews asked Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson his favorite world leader.

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from Columbia Basin Herald (Moses Lake, WA)

Coach Q makes an impact at ACH
Almira/Coulee-Hartline offensive line coach Qasim Mitchell played six years in the NFL. Now he’s coaching the offensive line in eight-man football.

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from CommonDreams
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]

How the US Armed-up Syrian Jihadists
The West blames Russia for the bloody mess in Syria, but U.S. Special Forces saw close up how the chaotic U.S. policy of aiding Syrian jihadists enabled Al Qaeda and ISIS to rip Syria apart

Economists Keep Getting It Wrong Because the Media Coverup Their Mistakes
At the top of the list of people who need not be competent to keep their job are economists. Unlike workers in most occupations, when large groups of economists mess up they can count on the media covering up their mistakes and insisting it was just impossible to understand what was going on.

The Missed Opportunity On Trade – And What We Must Do Next

The Lost Language of Integration
Has society let go of the belief that disparate communities can be brought together for a common goal without one absorbing the other or both tearing each other apart?

Dakota Access Pipeline and the Future of American Labor
Isn’t it time for the AFL-CIO to pursue the dialogue it proposed about how to build the new fossil-free infrastructure that will indeed create jobs “turning our nation’s economic future in a low carbon emission direction”?

Amid Latest Johnson Gaffe, Critics Destroy Argument for Voting Libertarian

Libertarian presidential nominee Gary Johnson—who's drawing support from former Bernie Sanders supporters—"has an exceptionally low bar to clear. And yet again, he has shown that he's unable to clear it"

Nation Ready to Finally End 'Detrimental and Deeply Unjust' Hyde Amendment

'In the nearly 40 years since Hyde was first passed, how many woman have been pushed into back alleys because of it? How many women were pushed further into poverty?'

Freeing Corporate Profits from Their Fair Share of Taxes Is Not the Deal America Needs
There’s obviously plenty to criticize regarding Donald Trump’s claims and characterizations about the problems facing the U.S. economy during last night’s debate. But one thing that stuck out clearly was his peddling the myth that profits of U.S. corporations are “trapped” offshore by U.S. tax policy, and that these profits “can’t” be returned to the United States “until a deal is struck.”

Groups Slam Republican AGs Big Oil Collusion to Protect ExxonMobil
'This is a smoking gun when it comes to fossil fuel industry corruption'


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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]

Resisting the Dictatorship Mindset
Politics isn’t everything. Though everything has a political dimension, it is never the only dimension. The state, with its monopoly on coercion through physical violence, is the everyday arbiter of politics. We have the ability to create parallel, voluntary, non-violent institutions that can reduce our dependency on state intervention. If we want to “get our country back on track,” our own independent initiatives must go together with trying to pick a suitable head of state.

Legalizing Discrimination Would Improve the Education System
Policy makers should realize that there are types of discrimination that are actually beneficial for teachers, students, and the rest of society. Discrimination in hiring employees increases the likelihood that children are educated by teachers that are aligned with their interests and abilities. Discrimination in enrolling students increases the probability that all students are in a successful, specialized learning environment.

Your Pile of Dishes Proves You Will Fail at Entreprenuership
If you don't wash your dishes, you’ll never make it to become a true entrepreneur. It's the details that make the difference between a successful and unsuccessful business.

Obamacare's Maze Turned Millions into Lawbreakers
Because of the complexity of the ACA, about 3 million households failed to reconcile their 2015 tax credits as of April 28, 2016. Many people were probably unaware they have to file additional forms. $11 Billion more was paid out in subsidies than reported by tax filers.

Keynesianism Is the Real Trickle-Down Economics
Regardless of the label used, no one doubts that the primary mechanism for raising the return to work is providing each worker with better and more numerous tools. Keynesians advocate stimulus programs believing that the spent money will gradually "trickle" through society. This is much closer to the caricature of "trickle-down economics" they always talk about.

Why Was Coffee Drinking Once Scandalous?
The commercial availability of coffee actually contributed to the advance of women’s rights! None other than Johann Sebastian Bach satirized the puritanical fear of coffee in his delightful and witty “Coffee Cantata.”

Judge Learned Hand stated that "anyone may arrange his affairs so that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which best pays the treasury. There is not even a patriotic duty to increase one's taxes. Over and over again the Courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everyone does it, rich and poor alike and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands." (Gregory v. Helvering 69 F.2d 809 - 1935)

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from The Free Thought Project.com
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]

8 Years After US Banking Collapse, Implosion of Megabank Poised to Decimate the Global Economy
The most prominent bank in Germany is at risk of failure, with potentially profound effects for the EU, the United States and likely the rest of the world. Deutsche Bank shares have fallen sharply on the news that German Chancellor Angela Merkel won’t bail-out the struggling bank, with shares falling by as much as six percent in early Monday trading, making it the worst performance since 1992. Since January, the bank’s shares have lost over 52 percent of their value.

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from The Heritage Foundation

Obama’s New Death Tax Threatens Family Farms and Businesses
What’s good for the economy is when businesses grow and innovate. They shouldn’t have to plan to liquidate assets to pay the IRS when an owner dies.

We Need to Amend the Johnson Amendment So the IRS Will Allow Free Speech
Since the birth of the nation, our churches and pastors such as Martin Luther King Jr. have been at the forefront of shaping public debate and our choice of public servants.

China's Economy Is on the Way to a Hard Landing
The biggest sign of the slowdown in China’s domestic growth: imports, which fell 12.5 percent in July.

The incident demonstrates that the United States must continue to support Ukraine against Russian aggression. Whoever takes over the White House in 2017 will face an aggressive, revanchist Russia that is a threat to the United States and our allies.

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from The Library of Congress

Making of the Modern Map
Advances in technology continue to transform the ancient art and science of mapmaking.

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from LifeZette (& PoliZette)

Hillary Desperately Tries to Rally Democratic Base
Despite being the handpicked successor to President Obama, the first black president who retains strong approval numbers among African-American and young people, Democrat Hillary Clinton is having trouble attracting the same kind of numbers that Obama pulled with minority voters and millennials.

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from Mises Institute
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]

Wells Fargo or the Federal Reserve: Who’s the Bigger Fraud?
Ron Paul: It's the Fed's creation of money that enables all of this fraudulent behavior in the first place, so why should the Fed remain untouchable?

Seeking Affordable Care, Markets Sidestep Obamacare
Brittany Hunter: Some medical facilities are opting out of the whole health insurance bureaucracy to make care less expensive.

Mises on the Battle between Liberalism and Racism
Matthew McCaffrey: For Mises, racism is not just contrary to liberalism and sound economics, but to reason itself.

The Great Democracy Scam of 2016
James Bovard: A democratic government that respects no limits on its own power is a ticking time bomb, waiting to destroy the rights it was created to protect. No matter who wins the presidential election next month, the media and the political class will whoop up the result as another triumph of American democracy.

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from ScienceDaily

Game theory research reveals fragility of common resources
People are naturally predisposed to over-use "common-pool resources" such as transportation systems and fisheries even if it risks failure of the system, to the detriment of society as a whole, new research in game theory shows.

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from The Spokesman-Review

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from Sputnik
(Russian government-supported propaganda channel)

Obama Authorizes Admission of 110,000 Refugees to US in 2017 - White House
So far in fiscal year 2016, which ends Friday, the United States has admitted 85,000 refugees, including 12,500 from Syria. That total exceeds the government’s goal of 10,000 for the fiscal year.

Facebook Moderators Overwhelmed Under Accusations of Bias
Recently, Facebook blocked pro-Palestine news websites containing anti-Israel posts, including seven pro-Palestine news editors. Sputnik has discovered, however, that there is more behind the bans than initially thought.

Human Migration Lessons: History's Climate Change is Today's Refugee Crisis
Archaeologists believe that the earlierst human migrations across continents began over 2 million years ago. A mass exodus out of Africa has been predicted as a result of climate changes all the way to later years, where populations spilled across Asia and arrived on new continents and islands to make their new homes.

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from UPI News Agency - United Press International
upi.com

Lawmakers realize potential trouble with new 9/11 law as Saudis rethink U.S. alliance  8:18 PM
Some lawmakers who voted to override President Obama's veto began recognizing Thursday the new law might be fraught with trouble.

Obama, Abbas to attend memorial service for former Israeli PM Peres  6:20 PM
Secretary of State John Kerry and former President Bill Clinton will also attend the Friday service.

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from USA Today

USA TODAY's Editorial Board: Trump is 'unfit for the presidency'
In the 34-year history of USA TODAY, the Editorial Board has never taken sides in the presidential race. We're doing it now. This year, the choice isn’t between two capable major party nominees who happen to have significant ideological differences. This year, one of the candidates — Republican nominee Donald Trump — is, by unanimous consensus of the Editorial Board, unfit for the presidency.

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from The Wall Street Journal

U.S. Signed Secret Document to Lift U.N. Sanctions on Iranian Banks
Administration backed measures on the same day Tehran released four American citizens from prison

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from The Washington Post
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from WND (World Net Daily)
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]

MALL SHOOTER NOT A U.S. CITIZEN – VOTED IN 3 ELECTIONS
'We don't have a provision in state law ... to verify someone’s citizenship'

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