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from ABC News (& affiliates)
Decades after catastrophic 1980 eruption, Mount St. Helens is 'recharging'
Mount St. Helens erupted on May 18, 1980, after two months of increasing volcanic activity. Since its most recent eruption in 2008, there has been a swarm of earthquakes, which are thought to be a result of the magmatic system's "recharging," according to the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network.
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from Aeon
Media/News Company
The empty brain
Your brain does not process information, retrieve knowledge or store memories. In short: your brain is not a computer. No matter how hard they try, brain scientists and cognitive psychologists will never find a copy of Beethoven’s 5th Symphony in the brain – or copies of words, pictures, grammatical rules or any other kinds of environmental stimuli. The human brain isn’t really empty, of course. But it does not contain most of the things people think it does – not even simple things such as ‘memories’.
Your brain does not process information, retrieve knowledge or store memories. In short: your brain is not a computer. No matter how hard they try, brain scientists and cognitive psychologists will never find a copy of Beethoven’s 5th Symphony in the brain – or copies of words, pictures, grammatical rules or any other kinds of environmental stimuli. The human brain isn’t really empty, of course. But it does not contain most of the things people think it does – not even simple things such as ‘memories’.
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from AlterNet
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
The Republican Party platform lays out an agenda that could sail through Congress.
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from Anglican Journal
A group of Episcopalians and Methodists has released its proposal for full communion between the two denominations. Full implementation of the proposal will take at least three years. The Episcopal Church General Convention and the United Methodist Church General Conference must approve the agreement, which comes after 15 years of full communion talks and more than 50 years of formal dialogue between the two churches, will have to be approved by their governing bodies, and will take at least three years to fully implement.
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from Breitbart
Dershowitz Questions Purpose of Special Counsel — ‘What Is the Crime?’
Thursday on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360,” Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz called into question the purpose of the Department of Justice naming Robert Mueller as a special counsel to investigate Russian involvement in the 2016 presidential election.
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from The Catholic Herald (UK)
We need to start taking these blessed creatures seriously again
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from CNSNews.com (& MRC & NewsBusters)
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
Advocate Condemns ‘Underreported’ Christian Genocide, ‘War on Women’
While the media readily report the U.S. “war on women,” they oddly refrain from covering the real war on women abroad – that of women tortured for their faith by terrorists like ISIS. Last week, Open Doors USA Advocacy Director Kristin Wright spoke with MRC Culture about the “underreported” Christian persecution worldwide and the media’s hesitancy to call it out as genocide. As she told the story of one Iraqi woman fleeing ISIS, she stressed that women even face a “double-persecution” in many countries.
Bi-Partisan Group of Attorneys General File Brief Supporting CEI’s Challenge of ProFlowers’ Worthless Coupon Settlement
A bi-partisan group of attorneys general agree with us that this settlement is a rotten deal. It paid attorneys a large sum, while harmed class members were left with nearly worthless flower-delivery service coupons.
Advocate Condemns ‘Underreported’ Christian Genocide, ‘War on Women’
While the media readily report the U.S. “war on women,” they oddly refrain from covering the real war on women abroad – that of women tortured for their faith by terrorists like ISIS. Last week, Open Doors USA Advocacy Director Kristin Wright spoke with MRC Culture about the “underreported” Christian persecution worldwide and the media’s hesitancy to call it out as genocide. As she told the story of one Iraqi woman fleeing ISIS, she stressed that women even face a “double-persecution” in many countries.
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from Competitive Enterprise Institute
A bi-partisan group of attorneys general agree with us that this settlement is a rotten deal. It paid attorneys a large sum, while harmed class members were left with nearly worthless flower-delivery service coupons.
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from Daily Wire
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
This AMAZING Chart Shows Just How Capitalism Has Alleviated Global Hunger
truly remarkable chart has surfaced that reveals that capitalism has sharply curtailed the scourge of global hunger. The chart, provided by Human Progress, shows that the number of undernourished persons sharply declined from nearly 960 million to under 700 million.
This AMAZING Chart Shows Just How Capitalism Has Alleviated Global Hunger
truly remarkable chart has surfaced that reveals that capitalism has sharply curtailed the scourge of global hunger. The chart, provided by Human Progress, shows that the number of undernourished persons sharply declined from nearly 960 million to under 700 million.
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from First Things
There is a saying, variously attributed, that journalism is the first rough draft of history. There is some truth to this, even in an age when much of what passes for journalism is “fake news.” Reading newspapers published several decades ago—especially looking beyond the main headlines, at minor stories and advertising—gives us a sense of the culture of a particular time, and helps us place past and current events in historical perspective.
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from The Heritage Foundation
[Information from this site may be unreliable.]
President Trump’s Middle East Trip: An Opportunity to Reset Relations
President Trump has an opportunity to reset relations with key Middle Eastern allies and restore confidence in American leadership. He can capitalize on the fact that Israel and the Sunni Arab gulf states, alarmed by what they regarded as the Obama Administration’s feeble and disastrous policy toward Iran, found themselves cooperating under the table to protect their own security. The President should use this Middle East trip to repair bilateral relationships undermined by his predecessor and build multinational coalitions to unite Arab leaders against ISIS, al-Qaeda, Iran, and other Islamist totalitarian threats.
“Buy American” Laws: A Costly Policy Mistake That Hurts Americans
Proponents of domestic content requirements for goods procured by federal, state, or local governments, commonly referred to as “Buy American” laws, argue that these laws promote economic growth and national security and create jobs in sectors like the steel industry. Contrary to these claims, domestic content requirements create additional, costly regulatory burdens for producers, increase costs for American taxpayers, and are unlikely to yield job growth in target industries. Rather than strengthening domestic content requirements, Congress and the Administration should eliminate all such laws currently on the books. Such a move would result in more than 300,000 additional private-sector jobs (net) and contribute $22 billion to U.S. GDP.
Who Wins and Who Loses Under These 8 Big Government Policies
It’s clear that many big government policies are creating winners and losers in America. The story has been the same for decades. Government makes friends with a company or an industry, blocks out the competition with regulation, and in some cases gives the company subsidies. Such cronyism is bad for innovators and for consumers. But fewer people realize that it’s also bad for the poor.
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President Trump’s Middle East Trip: An Opportunity to Reset Relations
President Trump has an opportunity to reset relations with key Middle Eastern allies and restore confidence in American leadership. He can capitalize on the fact that Israel and the Sunni Arab gulf states, alarmed by what they regarded as the Obama Administration’s feeble and disastrous policy toward Iran, found themselves cooperating under the table to protect their own security. The President should use this Middle East trip to repair bilateral relationships undermined by his predecessor and build multinational coalitions to unite Arab leaders against ISIS, al-Qaeda, Iran, and other Islamist totalitarian threats.
“Buy American” Laws: A Costly Policy Mistake That Hurts Americans
Proponents of domestic content requirements for goods procured by federal, state, or local governments, commonly referred to as “Buy American” laws, argue that these laws promote economic growth and national security and create jobs in sectors like the steel industry. Contrary to these claims, domestic content requirements create additional, costly regulatory burdens for producers, increase costs for American taxpayers, and are unlikely to yield job growth in target industries. Rather than strengthening domestic content requirements, Congress and the Administration should eliminate all such laws currently on the books. Such a move would result in more than 300,000 additional private-sector jobs (net) and contribute $22 billion to U.S. GDP.
Who Wins and Who Loses Under These 8 Big Government Policies
It’s clear that many big government policies are creating winners and losers in America. The story has been the same for decades. Government makes friends with a company or an industry, blocks out the competition with regulation, and in some cases gives the company subsidies. Such cronyism is bad for innovators and for consumers. But fewer people realize that it’s also bad for the poor.
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from Indian Country Today Media Network
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
The Downside to Impeaching Trump
Is America, let alone Indian country, comfortable with the line of succession after President Trump?
Patriot Nations Exhibit Honoring Native American Armed Forces Opening at Fort Snelling
Native Americans get in free at the Patriot Nations Exhibit honoring the service of Native American veterans
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
The Downside to Impeaching Trump
Is America, let alone Indian country, comfortable with the line of succession after President Trump?
Patriot Nations Exhibit Honoring Native American Armed Forces Opening at Fort Snelling
Native Americans get in free at the Patriot Nations Exhibit honoring the service of Native American veterans
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from Mises Institute
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]During the 2016 presidential election, Bernie Sanders refused to answer questions about Venezuela during an interview with Univision. He claimed to not want to talk about it because he's "focused on my campaign." Many suggested a more plausible reason: Venezuela's present economy is an example of what happens when a state implements Bernie Sanders-style social democracy. Similarly, Pope Francis — who has taken the time to denounce pro-market ideologies for allegedly driving millions into poverty — seems uninterested in talking about the untrammeled impoverishment of Venezuela in recent years. This virtual silence comes in spite of the fact that the Catholic bishops who actually live in Venezuela have denounced the regime as yet another illustration of the "utter failure" of "socialism in every country in which this regime has been installed." As with Sanders, it may very well be that Francis has nothing to say about Venezuela precisely because the Venezuelan regime has pursued exactly the sorts of policies favored by Bernie Sanders, Pope Francis, and the usual opponents of market economics.
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from New Statesman
"The leading voice of the British left, since 1913."
Two books by Evan Davis and Matthew d’Ancona explore the concept of post-truth.
If we are living in a post-truth era, it must have started a very long time ago. The very phrase “fake news” dates from more than a century ago, and “false news” existed in the 16th century. Nor was political lying invented by Donald Trump or Tony Blair, or even Richard Nixon. This is demonstrated by The Art of Political Lying, John Arbuthnot’s splendidly sarcastic pamphlet published in 1712: “The People may as well all pretend to be Lords of Manors, and possess great Estates, as to have
Truth told them in matters of Government.”
The truth is I don’t want to be a full-time carer, any more than I wanted to be a full-time mother. And I don’t want to live with my ma any more than she wants to live with me.
A newly proposed requirement to show ID before casting a vote could reduce the number of people who vote Labour.
from The Spokesman-Review
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