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from Anglican Journal
The Rev. Jake Worley, elected bishop of the diocese of Caledonia April 22, will not be consecrated, after a ruling by the House of Bishops of the ecclesiastical province of British Columbia and Yukon. The house’s decision has to do with Worley’s views on his involvement with the Anglican Mission in America (AMiA), a collection of theologically conservative churches that was originally a mission of the Anglican Province of Rwanda. In 2007, Worley, who was born and raised in the U.S., planted a church in Las Cruces, New Mexico, as a missionary for the Anglican Province of Rwanda. (At some point after Worley left, that church joined the Anglican Church in North America, another grouping of conservative Anglican churches.)
Scripture connects environmental destruction with idolatry, says bishop
The environmental threat posed by today’s “principalities and powers” is one of the great spiritual issues of our time, National Indigenous Anglican Bishop Mark MacDonald says. “We live in a society where greed has become normal,” MacDonald said in a keynote address at the daylong, ecumenical Green Churches Forum at Saint Paul University in Ottawa May 11. “In fact, it’s one of the animating factors in the way our culture and the way our economy works.”
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from CNSNews.com (& MRC & NewsBusters)
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
Newly Crowned Miss USA Doesn’t Consider Herself a Feminist, Says Health Care Is ‘A Privilege’
A new Miss USA 2017 was crowned on Sunday, and her answers to questions about health care and feminism is causing an uproar among liberals. When asked whether she thought health care was a privilege or a right, Miss District of Columbia Kara McCullough, a scientist at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, said, “I’m definitely going to say it’s a privilege.
Non-Citizen Voting Drummed Up on Fusion
When it comes to celebrating and encouraging the defiance of U.S. immigration laws, it is hard to think of anyone in America today who can top José Antonio Vargas. The entire business model of the unauthorized immigrant founder of Define American and Emerging US is essentially based on the flagrant violation of the country’s immigration laws, so it should come as little surprise that Vargas, a former reporter at the Washington Post, also now champions non-citizen voting. Vargas is using Fusion to encourage defiance of U.S. immigration laws.
German Gov't 'Confiscating Homes' to House Migrants
It doesn’t matter whether you are for or against the refugee program in Germany. If you live in Germany, your home could be taken from you to accomodate the refugees.
Newly Crowned Miss USA Doesn’t Consider Herself a Feminist, Says Health Care Is ‘A Privilege’
A new Miss USA 2017 was crowned on Sunday, and her answers to questions about health care and feminism is causing an uproar among liberals. When asked whether she thought health care was a privilege or a right, Miss District of Columbia Kara McCullough, a scientist at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, said, “I’m definitely going to say it’s a privilege.
Non-Citizen Voting Drummed Up on Fusion
When it comes to celebrating and encouraging the defiance of U.S. immigration laws, it is hard to think of anyone in America today who can top José Antonio Vargas. The entire business model of the unauthorized immigrant founder of Define American and Emerging US is essentially based on the flagrant violation of the country’s immigration laws, so it should come as little surprise that Vargas, a former reporter at the Washington Post, also now champions non-citizen voting. Vargas is using Fusion to encourage defiance of U.S. immigration laws.
German Gov't 'Confiscating Homes' to House Migrants
It doesn’t matter whether you are for or against the refugee program in Germany. If you live in Germany, your home could be taken from you to accomodate the refugees.
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from CounterPunch
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
The Magic Liberal
The recent firing of James Comey is interesting more for the reaction from liberals than what it means in substance. It is useful to check the notes on the Eisenhower administration and the links to the United Fruit Company. And to the law firm that represented United Fruit, Sullivan and Cromwell…who today, drum roll, represent Goldman Sachs. Now this relates to the current situation because the real delusion among liberals has to do with legitimacy of any of these governmental organizations.
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[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
The Magic Liberal
The recent firing of James Comey is interesting more for the reaction from liberals than what it means in substance. It is useful to check the notes on the Eisenhower administration and the links to the United Fruit Company. And to the law firm that represented United Fruit, Sullivan and Cromwell…who today, drum roll, represent Goldman Sachs. Now this relates to the current situation because the real delusion among liberals has to do with legitimacy of any of these governmental organizations.
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from EUobserver
EU directive falls short in battle against childhood obesity
Health campaigners had high expectations for the Audio Visual Media Services Directive (AVMSD) to protect children and limit their exposure from marketing of food and drinks that are high in fat, salt and sugar (HFSS). What they got instead was watered down legislation that still heavily relies on industry to regulate itself.
Closer China and EU cooperation vital for global prosperity
Interconnectivity, investment, innovation: The Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation outlines a potentially winning partnership for the EU and China.
Study: Dieselgate helped cause 6,800 premature deaths in EU
Emissions produced by diesel passenger cars that exceed the EU pollution limit helped cause the premature deaths of 6,800 Europeans in 2015, according to a study published on Monday (15 May) in the renowned scientific magazine Nature.
Edouard Philippe - France's new PM to weaken old parties
The new French president, Emmanuel Macron, has appointed a centre-right politician, Edouard Philippe, as prime minister, in a move to enlarge his political base and weaken traditional parties.
How online activists tried to harm Macron
Trojan horses, smoke screens, framed news, and fake news - the final days of the French election saw an outburst of online violence, most of it against Macron.
Germany and Italy want EU to halt migrants in Libya
German and Italian interior ministers are proposing an EU mission at Libya's border with Niger to curb migration and human smuggling.
Schulz fails to beat Merkel in German home state
Chancellor Angela Merkel's centre-right CDU party won the elections in Germany's largest state on Sunday (14 May), serving as another blow to the centre-left Social Democratic Party (SPD) ahead of the federal elections in September. Former EU parliament leader, Martin Schulz, says defeat of his social-democrats in North Rhine-Westphalia is "difficult". The elections showed that a "Schulz effect" does not (yet) exist.
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EU directive falls short in battle against childhood obesity
Health campaigners had high expectations for the Audio Visual Media Services Directive (AVMSD) to protect children and limit their exposure from marketing of food and drinks that are high in fat, salt and sugar (HFSS). What they got instead was watered down legislation that still heavily relies on industry to regulate itself.
Closer China and EU cooperation vital for global prosperity
Interconnectivity, investment, innovation: The Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation outlines a potentially winning partnership for the EU and China.
Study: Dieselgate helped cause 6,800 premature deaths in EU
Emissions produced by diesel passenger cars that exceed the EU pollution limit helped cause the premature deaths of 6,800 Europeans in 2015, according to a study published on Monday (15 May) in the renowned scientific magazine Nature.
Edouard Philippe - France's new PM to weaken old parties
The new French president, Emmanuel Macron, has appointed a centre-right politician, Edouard Philippe, as prime minister, in a move to enlarge his political base and weaken traditional parties.
How online activists tried to harm Macron
Trojan horses, smoke screens, framed news, and fake news - the final days of the French election saw an outburst of online violence, most of it against Macron.
Germany and Italy want EU to halt migrants in Libya
German and Italian interior ministers are proposing an EU mission at Libya's border with Niger to curb migration and human smuggling.
Schulz fails to beat Merkel in German home state
Chancellor Angela Merkel's centre-right CDU party won the elections in Germany's largest state on Sunday (14 May), serving as another blow to the centre-left Social Democratic Party (SPD) ahead of the federal elections in September. Former EU parliament leader, Martin Schulz, says defeat of his social-democrats in North Rhine-Westphalia is "difficult". The elections showed that a "Schulz effect" does not (yet) exist.
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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
Under Socialism, Morality Is Scarcer than Bread
Socialism is a utopian ideal intended to solve all of humanity’s problems including, above all, poverty and inequality. The theory and practice, alas, have tended to be at odds with one another. The true legacy of socialism is not equality, but immorality.
The Log Tax Is Harming Both Americans and Canadians
What government gives loggers with one hand in British Columbia, it substantially takes with the other by telling them where they can sell their logs. Subsidized logs that can’t go to the U.S. because of export controls end up at Canadian mills at depressed prices. There, they are converted into planks and two-by-fours whose export is not restricted. And it’s those planks and two-by-fours that Trump just slapped a 20% tariff on.
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from First Things
Never mind Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron: The real story of the French presidential race was the rise of the leftwing candidate, Jean-Luc Mélenchon. Starting with negligible support, Mélenchon ended the initial round of the French presidential race in a statistical four-way tie with the major candidates. There are now four roughly even and irreconcilable political forces in France.
The nature of faith and the quality of practice are the major concerns for the newly formed Center for Baptist Renewal, organized earlier this year by two professors, Matthew Emerson of Oklahoma Baptist University and Lucas Stamps of California Baptist University. The Center is a bold initiative calling for “Baptist catholicity”—an open engagement with the Great Tradition of Christian believing and thinking across the centuries. The Center’s leaders want everyone to know that they are not “just Baptists playing Anglican or Roman Catholic. That's not what we mean by Baptist catholicity. Instead, what we are trying to do is to help Baptists better situate ourselves within the broader body of Christ and the historic Christian tradition.”
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from The Heritage Foundation
[Information from this site may be unreliable.]
‘Be Prepared to Defend Truth,’ Heritage’s Ryan Anderson Advises Graduates
"We will face this challenge everywhere our lives take us: in government service, in the marketplace, within our families, and in service to the church. And we must be prepared to defend truth as never before. … When faced with secularist ideologies, we have the responsibility to show the world the harmony of faith and reason. And this only intensifies as you graduate today and enter a world that is simultaneously hungry for and resistant to your message."
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‘Be Prepared to Defend Truth,’ Heritage’s Ryan Anderson Advises Graduates
"We will face this challenge everywhere our lives take us: in government service, in the marketplace, within our families, and in service to the church. And we must be prepared to defend truth as never before. … When faced with secularist ideologies, we have the responsibility to show the world the harmony of faith and reason. And this only intensifies as you graduate today and enter a world that is simultaneously hungry for and resistant to your message."
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from HumanProgress.org Education Website
Does the Free Market Help or Hurt Women?
Does capitalism help or hurt women? A fascinating book from Cambridge University Press, Capitalism, For and Against: a Feminist Debate, seeks to answer that question. Philosophy professors Ann Cudd of Boston University and Nancy Holmstrom of Rutgers University both want more freedom and higher material living standards for women. But they disagree on how to achieve that goal. One thinks capitalism is the answer; the other socialism. Their differences boil down to two points: how capitalism has affected women to date, and the viability of alternative systems to improve a woman’s lot. The professors may disagree – yet the data sides overwhelmingly with capitalism. Capitalism has given women around the world better lives and greater freedom.
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from Indian Country Today Media Network
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
Comey Had It Coming: The FBI and Its Destructive History With Native People
For some, James Comey is a martyr or a hero right about now. Even though many of those same folks hated him just a few months ago. Hell naw. Just like the rest of the FBI, there is nothing heroic about Comey—there is plenty of blood on his hands. At least in regard to Native people or people of color. In the words of Native rights superhero and historian Hank Adams, “the modern-day FBI is still anchored in the J. Edgar Hoover tradition, probably identified best by intimidation and blackmailing of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.” In fact, according to Adams, Comey and (former FBI Director) Louis Freeh are the chief reasons that Leonard Peltier never received a commutation of his sentence.
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
Comey Had It Coming: The FBI and Its Destructive History With Native People
For some, James Comey is a martyr or a hero right about now. Even though many of those same folks hated him just a few months ago. Hell naw. Just like the rest of the FBI, there is nothing heroic about Comey—there is plenty of blood on his hands. At least in regard to Native people or people of color. In the words of Native rights superhero and historian Hank Adams, “the modern-day FBI is still anchored in the J. Edgar Hoover tradition, probably identified best by intimidation and blackmailing of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.” In fact, according to Adams, Comey and (former FBI Director) Louis Freeh are the chief reasons that Leonard Peltier never received a commutation of his sentence.
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from New York Times
David Brooks: When the World Is Led by a Child
Reports that President Trump betrayed an intelligence source reveals the dangerousness of an immature man.
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from The Spokesman-Review
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from Trains Magazine
Montana Rail Link creation
Montana Rail Link’s main line was leased for 60 years from Burlington Northern in 1987.
Montana Rail Link’s main line was leased for 60 years from Burlington Northern in 1987.
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from The Wall Street Journal
How Trump Can Save Europe
When Donald Trump boards Air Force One on Friday for his first presidential trip abroad, he will no doubt be glad to leave behind the Nixon allusions and calls for impeachment that have followed his ouster of FBI Director James Comey. Most attention remains focused on the first part of his trip, which will take Mr. Trump to Saudi Arabia, Israel and the Vatican, seats of three great world religions. But the European leg of the trip—and especially his stop in Brussels May 25 for a North Atlantic Treaty Organization summit—offers the president far more than momentary escape from his domestic political woes. That’s because the disruptions caused by Britain’s exit from the European Union are now working to his advantage. If he plays his Brexit cards wisely, Mr. Trump could shore up a faithful American ally at a time when it could use the help, reverse an arrogant Obama initiative aimed at intimidating the British public, and nudge the European Union in a better direction. Better yet, he could do it all in a way consistent with his assertions that he’s not against trade, just against America being taken advantage of. The key to everything is reaching a free-trade deal with British Prime Minister Theresa May. [Subscription required to read full article.]
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