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from Allen West
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At his inauguration, Trump will be the FIRST president since Reagan to…
It’s been 30 years since a Jewish rabbi has been invited to pray during a presidential inauguration. The last one was Rabbi Alfred Gottschalk, head of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, during Ronald Reagan’s 1985 ceremony.
At his inauguration, Trump will be the FIRST president since Reagan to…
It’s been 30 years since a Jewish rabbi has been invited to pray during a presidential inauguration. The last one was Rabbi Alfred Gottschalk, head of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, during Ronald Reagan’s 1985 ceremony.
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from Asia Times Online
Asia goes into 2017 with many unknowns, with Trump perhaps representing the biggest question mark of them all. There will be winners and losers. Only time will tell who falls into which category.
All roads — and belts for that matter — lead to the British Isles. Or at least, they have since the Chinese president's visit sparked a scramble for a share of Beijing's pot of investment gold. China's ambitious 'One Belt, One Road' program started in Asia and the Middle East. Now it is heading to Europe.
America’s military tentacles are in three-quarters of world
US Special Operations Forces deploy to 138 nations, 70% of the world’s countries, according to figures supplied by US Special Operations Command. This total, one of the highest of Barack Obama’s presidency, typifies what has become the golden age of, in SOF-speak, the “gray zone” – a phrase used to describe the murky twilight between war and peace. The coming year is likely to signal whether this era ends with Obama or continues under president-elect Donald Trump’s administration.
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from BBC News (UK)
The Queen attends church on her Sandringham estate after missing two services over the festive period.
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from BizPac Review
Seattle mayor preps for Trump, earmarks $250K taxpayer funds to protect illegals from deportation
The mayor of one of America’s five most liberal large cities is setting aside as much as a quarter-million taxpayer dollars to protect its illegal immigrant residents from the boogeyman — President-elect Donald Trump. Seattle, Washington Mayor Ed Murray has earmarked the $250,000 to defend students from families with undocumented immigrants, The Settle Times reported. Trump has said his efforts would be concentrated on building a border wall and deporting criminal illegal immigrants.
from Breitbart
VIDEO: U.S. Diplomat Shot in Mexico
GUADALAJARA, Jalisco — A U.S. diplomat was shot in this city when he was leaving a shopping center in a failed murder attempt. The suspected gunman was able to ran away after the attack. Police later apprehended the shooter.
Fake News Plus Fascism: New York Times Urges Boycott of Breitbart
In two op-ed articles for the New York Times‘ Sunday Review, the Gray Lady attacks Breitbart News and its founder, Andrew Breitbart, and encourages an effort to “destroy” the company by appealing directly to advertisers not to support the website.
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from Dennis Michael Lynch
City Mayor Pushes Expensive Plan to Counter Trump’s Proposed Deportations
On Friday, Democratic Mayor Ed Murray of Seattle revealed a $250,000 plan to benefit children of illegal immigrant and refugee families to counteract President-elect Donald Trump’s proposed deportations.
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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
Louis XIV of France Founded the Nation-State, But How and Why?
Stop being a snob about Netflix! A new series explores a period in the late Middle Ages when two huge events happened in rough succession. Feudalism – land-owning aristocrats trading shelter and security services for serf-provided food production and other work – was displaced by a new model of consumer choice and mass mobility. At the same time, the personal state came to be displaced by a new thing called the nation-state. The questions the series raises are intriguing, and better than school.
Foreign Policy Makers and Fund Managers Are the Same
Stockbrokers and politicians both operate on incomplete and inaccurate information. Just like active financial managers, foreign policy leaders do not always live up to expectations. Stockbrokers are starting to realize that limited predictive power mitigates their ability to actively manage stocks. They are beginning to accept their limitations.
Celebrated Teacher Explains Why Schools Don't Produce Well-Educated Minds
Former New York school teacher of the year John Taylor Gatto identified four different connections that good education will enable in students. Perhaps unsurprisingly, public schooling not only fails at all of them, but actually seeks to do just the opposite. Meanwhile, homeschool families are doing quite well with the four connections.
At the Heart of Protectionism is a Fear of Prosperity
Policies based upon a fear of superabundance are extremely destructive. One of the gravest economic mistakes that humans can make is to forget that ours is unavoidably a world of scarcity. In a world of superabundance, those who mistake their world as being one of scarcity will pay no price. But in the real world, people who mistake their world as being one of superabundance will pay a high price. It is a very costly error.
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from Mises Institute
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]We’ve lived through another election season, and as with every election year, the candidates competed to tell us about all the ways they were going to use the power of government to make our lives better. Unfortunately, many voters appeared quite sympathetic to the idea that government action can improve living standards and generally make markets work better. One of the most important things we can do is explain how markets, and not government intervention, are our best hope for a prosperous society.
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from The Olympian
SPSCC prepares to offer craft brewing and distilling degree
South Puget Sound Community College’s request to offer a degree in craft brewing, distilling and cider-making was recently endorsed by the state. The college has six months to develop curriculum and meet other requirements for state approval.
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South Puget Sound Community College’s request to offer a degree in craft brewing, distilling and cider-making was recently endorsed by the state. The college has six months to develop curriculum and meet other requirements for state approval.
from Republican National Committee (GOP)
Democrat Hypocrisy On Cabinet Confirmations
Democrats Engage In Reckless, Partisan Tactics To Delay President-Elect Trump's Nominees
from The Spokesman-Review
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from Sputnik
(Russian government-supported propaganda channel)
Nearly half of the highly-anticipated US Intelligence Community’s report is dedicated to Sputnik and RT, which are accused of influencing the US public during the 2016 presidential race. Radio Sputnik talked to political commentator and the host of the daily radio newscast "CPR news" Don DeBar. “The interesting thing about this report is that it is only conclusions, not evidence or even a statement of a case. The very beginning of the report says ‘sorry, we can’t show you any of the evidence.’ The case that they make, the conclusions they arrive at are that Sputnik and RT provide platforms for voices other than that coming out of the mainstream media, that they view the mainstream media’s treatment of Trump as biased, that they published materials that created unfavorable feelings towards Clinton, such as the WikiLeaks releases,” Don DeBar said.
'Embarrassment': How Foreign Journalists Reacted to Report on 'Russian Hacking'
The declassified version of the US intelligence report on the Kremlin's supposed meddling in the 2016 presidential campaign in the US through high-profile cyberattacks has apparently left many journalists, including some of Moscow's harshest critics, puzzled, with many saying that the document lacks the evidence to back up its assertions.
Syrian Truce Agreed by Russia, Turkey Leaves Obama, Kerry 'Completely Sidelined'
As the nationwide ceasefire brokered by Moscow and Ankara has been generally holding in Syria for ten days now, it is largely considered as the best news from the war-torn country in years, giving every chance for the conflict to be finally resolved.
'The Next Aleppo': This is Where Daesh's Fate 'Will Be Decided'
Mosul is expected to share the fate of Aleppo, one of the largest cities in Syria which has gradually returned to peaceful life after its long-awaited liberation. Political analyst Catherine Shakdam asserted that Daesh will be "flushed out" of the second largest city in Iraq the same way radical armed militias were kicked out of Aleppo.
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from Stars and Stripes
It wasn't the Civil War's Gettysburg, where Americans died on both sides of the battle lines. It wasn't the notorious Battle of the Bulge, when Germany broke out with an offensive late in World War II. It wasn't D-Day. It was a month-long battle in World War I -- the Battle of the Argonne Forest that claimed 26,277 American lives and left 95,786 wounded, astronomical figures compared with battles today. It took an entire campaign to take Normandy in World War II to amass more American dead.
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