Saturday, March 25, 2017

In the news, Wednesday, March 8, 2017


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from BBC News (UK)

Night-time in America's small towns
Photographer Daniel Freeman made the ultimate road trip across America to follow in the footsteps of photographers such as Stephen Shore, William Eggleston and Robert Frank. Starting in Boston, on the east coast, and ending on the west in Oakland, California, Freeman deliberately avoided the big cities, instead visiting the small towns of everyday America. In order to show the USA in an novel way, Freeman took his photographs at night, often using his car headlights to illuminate details in his nocturnal portraits.

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from Breitbart

Exclusive — Sen. Rand Paul on Paul Ryan’s Obamacare Lite: Speaker ‘Trying to Pull the Wool Over the Eyes of the President’
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), a top conservative in the U.S. Senate, unloaded on House Speaker Paul Ryan’s Obamacare 2.0 replacement plan—that does not repeal Obamacare—in an exclusive interview on Wednesday with Breitbart News.

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from The British Library

Music of the Revolution: the Hymn of Free Russia
"There has been great agitation in Petrograd all day. Processions have been parading the main streets. At several points the mob shouted for ‘Bread and peace!’ At others it sang the Working Man’s Marseillaise. In the Nevsky Prospekt there have been slight disorders." This is how the French Ambassador to Russia Maurice Paléologue recorded 8 March (23 February old style) 1917, the day when the Russian Revolution started.

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from CNSNews.com (& MRC & NewsBusters)
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]

More Than 21 Million Women Miss Work for ‘A Day Without a Woman’
While the liberal media race to count those who miss work for “A Day Without A Woman,” here's a stat you'll never hear them talk about: A staggering 21,000,000 women have been aborted since 1970.

Hypocrisy: Media Outraged Over Carson Slavery Comment, Ignored 11x Obama Said Same Thing
In his first remarks this week to Housing and Urban Development (HUD) employees, Secretary of HUD Ben Carson called slaves “immigrants,” that had hopes for the American Dream, comments that sent the media in an uproar. From print to television to social media, journalists and celebrities alike condemned the remarks as extremely offensive. Yet the media forgot that former President Obama has also compared slaves to immigrants, and not just once, but several times.

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from Digital News Network

JULIAN ASSANGE Reveals the CIA’s Biggest Secret: THE WEEPING ANGEL
JULIAN ASSANGE has published a new cache of leaked documents deep from within the heart of the CIA – Assange calls this latest leak VAULT 7.  It includes hundreds of thousands of lines of HACKING CODE which was developed by the CIA to covertly transform home appliances – such as televisions – into spying devices.  The CIA has yet again been found to be using American taxpayers’ dollars to spy on, er, American taxpayers!

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from EUobserver

EU diplomats warn US of Russian military threat
Poland and Lithuania have called for US troops to stay in eastern Europe and for US arms and communications technology to counter Russian aggression. The EU and Nato states’ ambassadors to the US issued the request at a hearing with the Senate’s armed services committee in Washington on Tuesday (7 March).

CIA used Frankfurt consulate to spy on Europeans
The US intelligence agency, the CIA, has used the American consulate in Frankfurt as a covert base to carry out digital spy operations, Wikileaks revealed on Tuesday (7 March).

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

Japan's Demographic Time Bomb Keeps Ticking
Japanese people are living longer and having fewer children. The combination of demographic changes and redistribution programs is a recipe for fiscal crisis. America will face similar problems if we don’t reform our entitlement programs.

The Prehistory of the Alt-right
The Alt-right is probably better described as a 21st century incarnation of what in the 19th century would have been called right-Hegelianism. Let us not be deceived. Whatever the flavor–whichever branch of Hegel we choose to follow–the cost of government control is human liberty, prosperity, and dignity. Rejecting Marxism is good. But we choose mega-states, strongmen, national planning, or religious and racial homogeneity at our deep peril.

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from The Guardian (UK)
[Information from this site may be unreliable.]

A Fanny Mendelssohn masterpiece finally gets its due
Lost for 150 years – and mistaken for her brother’s after that – some of Fanny Mendelssohn’s bold, complex music is belatedly receiving the attention it merits. Her great-great-great granddaughter tells the story

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from The Heritage Foundation
[Information from this site may be unreliable.]

Supreme Court’s Pass on Transgender Case Will Ignite Further Lawsuits
Transgender advocates may have lost the Justice Department, but they will press their agenda in lawsuits across the country.

Trump Administration Taking the Fight to al-Qaeda in Yemen
The Trump administration has escalated the long-standing U.S. counterterrorism campaign in Yemen, a failed state that has slipped into anarchy amidst a multi-sided war. In recent days, the Pentagon has launched over 40 airstrikes against leaders and bases of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, regarded by U.S. intelligence officials as the most dangerous of al-Qaeda’s many franchises.

It’s Time for Millennial Women to Reject Campus Feminism
Feminism used to be about removing barriers of opportunity for women, but it has taken a disturbing and sad turn. Policies supported by modern feminists have been particularly bad for young women.

Capitol Hill’s Misleading Claims on Tax Credits for Health Care
Rather than listening to constructive feedback, House Republicans appear to want to replace Obamacare by ramming a flawed health care plan through Congress.

Assimilation, Not ‘Integration,’ Prevents Young Immigrants From Turning to Terrorism
It is often the second generation of male immigrants to Western nations that is most prone to being radicalized. A study found that over time, immigrant children experience a shift in identification “toward a more militant reaffirmation of the immigrant identity" - corresponding to a diminishment in American self-identity.

How Close-Minded Liberals Have Ruined Higher Education
Our renowned institutes of higher education have become academies for indoctrination. While college administrators and professors accept disgraceful behavior, we as taxpayers, donors, and parents should not foot the bill.

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

“Vault 7” release is a game changer — here’s why!
With this technology in the public sector, there is no telling how this will all turn out as the script can now be flipped if you know what I’m saying. The technology is a dual-edged sword and Wikileaks release of “Vault 7 Part 1” is a game changer that’s sure to balance the playing field. The C.I.A.’s Center for Cyber Intelligence has been forced to deal with the repercussions of their secrets being made public and has gone on a public propaganda campaign to contain the damage.

The CIA’s BIGGEST secrets could soon be revealed
Tuesday’s shocking release of CIA documents revealing the agencies global covert hacking operations was actually less than 1% of the total documents Wikileaks plans to release, the whistleblowing agency revealed Wednesday. Yesterday’s now viral release of classified CIA documents detailing a plethora of shady operations including the hacking of smart phones, Samsung TVs, and even the ability to pin the blame on foreign nations for supposed hack attacks has shocked the world despite the fact that only a tiny fraction of the documents have been released. Considering what we learned in the first Vault 7 release, one can only imagine what is next and whether or not this could actually bring the agency down.

Deep State unleashes propaganda campaign on Late Show
What we essentially have here is a propaganda campaign, it’s plain and simple. Former C.I.A. Director Michael Hayden joined Stephen Colbert on the Late Show Tuesday night to discuss spying and downplay the government’s role publically. When asked if Trump’s allegations of a wiretap in Trump Tower are possible Hayden replied, “No.”

Marijuana industry expected to create 300K jobs in 3-years — provided it stays legal
According to data published by New Frontier Data and highlighted by a recent article from High Times, the marijuana industry could wind up creating 300,000 new jobs by the year 2020. That would be more jobs than are expected to be created by the manufacturing sector. It’s also more jobs than are expected to be generated by utilities or the government. Marijuana sales are expected to grow to the tune of $13.3 billion by the year 2020, $11.2 billion of which will be recreational sales.

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from New Statesman
"The leading voice of the British left, since 1913."

Rise of the nationalists: a guide to Europe’s far-right parties
Ten political parties leading the far-right surge on the continent.

GDP is not fit for purpose any more. To save democracy, we need new economic metrics
In 2008, the world missed a huge opportunity to transform how we think about the economy. This culminated in two political earthquakes eight years later that have rocked the global order to its core.

Patrick had turned 19 – but his father was still keeping him from independence
The notion that some adults can be as vulnerable as children to abuse is now well established.

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from The Spokesman-Review

Oil cleanup agreement opens path to North Spokane freeway through Hillyard
A big road block in the path of a new North Spokane freeway may be coming down under an agreement announced this week. A major oil spill from historic rail operations in Hillyard has threatened to force a redesign of the freeway’s preferred path in the vicinity of Wellesley Avenue. The state departments of Transportation and Ecology have agreed to a preliminary plan that would allow for cleanup of the oil at the same time the state moves ahead with design and construction on its original plan. The agreement is with BNSF Railway and Marathon Oil, the responsible parties under cleanup laws.

Franklin Elementary up for historic listing as part of Spokane school bond improvements
Students at Spokane’s historic Franklin Elementary School on the South Hill will soon have an updated building with new additions, but first they will have to go to school somewhere else while the building is remodeled. Next school year, Franklin students will attend “Camp Franklin” at the old Jefferson Elementary School building at Grand Boulevard and 37th Avenue.

Spokane’s season total for snow tops 60 inches for first time in six years
Spokane’s winter snow total topped 60 inches late tuesday after 4.2 more inches fell at Spokane International Airport, the National Weather Service reported. The new total puts the city over 60 inches for the first time since 2011.

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from US National Archives

History buffs love trivia and making connections between historical figures. Like, how many degrees of separation are there between George Washington and Albert Einstein? Answer is two! (They both have materials at the Columbia University Libraries.) Or did Eleanor Roosevelt and Shirley Chisholm ever connect? There is now a way to easily find these connections, and it’s through a cooperative called Social Networks and Archival Context (SNAC). While part of its name is Social Network, SNAC is not a social networking or social media tool like Facebook or Twitter, although we sometimes joke that SNAC is the Facebook for dead people. Rather, it is a way to connect the scattered archival collections of important people, places, and events.

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