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from Asia Times Online
China's construction of man-made islands and other military facilities has devastated coral reefs and marine life in the South China Sea.
IMF’s renminbi disclosure shows currency has only small impact on global foreign-exchange reserves. The yuan accounted for just over 1% of global foreign-exchange reserves in the fourth quarter of 2016.
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from First Things
THE CASE AGAINST POLYGAMY
Is polygamy the next same-sex marriage? Fundamentalist Mormons, Muslims, and others argue that federal and state statutes on religious freedom protect the practice. Some liberals have joined the cause, using arguments about sexual liberty, equality, and autonomy. Traditional criminal prohibitions against adultery, fornication, abortion, contraception, and sodomy, they argue, have all now been eclipsed. Criminal prohibitions against polygamy must be repealed, too. History suggests otherwise. Over the centuries, successful societies have consistently migrated from polygamy toward monogamy, but never in the other direction.
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from Indian Country Today Media Network
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Violent Eviction of Indigenous Shuar Clears Way for Copper Mine
Indigenous Shuar in Ecuador had no prior consultation before eviction began
Education Secretary Calls for an End to Corporal Punishment in Schools
School teachers and administrators in 22 states may legally punish children by intentionally causing them physical pain severe enough to leave bruises, cause hematomas, and send as many as 20,000 kids a year to the emergency room. Native American students get hit at higher rates than others.
U.S. Army-built nuclear powered underground city completed, fully staffed by 1960: Project Iceworm
"Camp Century" was used as a cover story for a secret underground Arctic city built by the U.S. Army
PETA is now claiming that milk is a symbol of white supremacy
Group tries to tap into leftist hysteria
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
Violent Eviction of Indigenous Shuar Clears Way for Copper Mine
Indigenous Shuar in Ecuador had no prior consultation before eviction began
Education Secretary Calls for an End to Corporal Punishment in Schools
School teachers and administrators in 22 states may legally punish children by intentionally causing them physical pain severe enough to leave bruises, cause hematomas, and send as many as 20,000 kids a year to the emergency room. Native American students get hit at higher rates than others.
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from Intellihub
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For months we’ve been talking about the massive lending bubble propping up the U.S. auto market. Now, noting many of the same concerns that we’ve highlighted repeatedly, Morgan Stanley’s auto team, led by Adam Jonas, has just issued a report detailing why they think used car prices could crash by up to 50% over the next 4-5 years.
Foreign Policy reports that the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, or NGA, is an obscure spy agency former President Barack Obama had a hard time wrapping his mind around back in 2009. But as the president grew fond of drone warfare, finding a way to launch wars without having to go through Congress for the proper authorization, the NGA also became more relevant. Now, President Donald Trump is expected to further explore the multibillion-dollar surveillance network.
As more of the blame for the world’s exacerbating opiate overdose crisis is now being rightly put on the pharmaceutical industry, the dark side of this epidemic in the fact that the production of opium containing poppies has exploded since the military occupation of Afghanistan beginning in 2001.
The ongoing battle over gender equality has turned the question of the relative pay of women and men into quite the political football. Over the last few years, defenders of markets, including me, have been on the offensive, arguing that the gender pay gap is in some sense a “myth.” More recently, critics have replied that it’s not a myth and that those who think it is a myth are peddling nonsense.
"Camp Century" was used as a cover story for a secret underground Arctic city built by the U.S. Army
Group tries to tap into leftist hysteria
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from The New American Magazine
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]Feds and UN Dumping “Unvetted, Diseased Refugee Men” on Taxpayer
A Missouri woman who has attended official meetings on resettling migrants is blowing the whistle on United Nations and federal schemes that she says are quietly flying in huge numbers of unvetted, diseased “refugees” from across Africa and the Middle East — many of whom do not even have a known name — and immediately handing them passports, Social Security numbers, and a vast array of tax-funded benefits. Noting that the overwhelming majority of the migrants she observed were men, she suggested the schemes were an “intentional device” to “invade the United States of America.”
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from The Spokesman-Review
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from Sputnik
(Russian government-supported propaganda channel)
A woman from El Salvador granted asylum in Sweden has become the first person to be given such political protection over abortion-related persecution.
Russia's Central Bank purchased record amounts of gold in 2016, and plans to accelerate its purchases, retaining its spot as global leader in the growth of gold reserves. That's according to a recent survey by the GFMS analysts at Thomson Reuters. Russian economists explain the thought process behind the Bank's purchases.
Last week, Ankara announced that Operation Euphrates Shield, Turkey's seven-month long military campaign in northern Syria, had come to a successful end. Russian geopolitical analyst and RIA Novosti contributor Gevorg Mirzayan isn't so certain, suggesting that Turkey's gamble has left it stuck in an uncomfortable Catch-22.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will dedicate a strategically important tunnel to the country’s armed forces on Sunday. The tunnel will ensure all-weather passage on a route that often sees heavy traffic jams and disruptions due to landslides, snow, sharp curves, breakdown of vehicles and accidents.
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from Trains Magazine
Q On a recent visit to Montana I saw what appeared to be the remnants of a railroad line from Livingston, Mont., near Yellowstone National Park. Was there once a rail line there?
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