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from Asia Times Online
India is finally acting tough with Hurriyet leaders in Kashmir by conducting raids to cut terror funding from Pakistan. A move long overdue to end violence in Kashmir Valley by choking terror funding should have been widely welcomed. Instead, individuals, groups and even some mainstream political parties condemned the raids by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Hurriyet leaders, the key players behind terror funding in Kashmir.
India's Reserve Bank is expected to keep interest rates unchanged at its forthcoming monetary policy committee meeting
Frantic speculation about the end of the American century is idle. What matters is the facts, which spell out progressive, and inexorable, integration across much of the world
To the surprise of economists, Europe, not America, is this year’s success story, a reality that the ECB will grapple with at Thursday’s meeting. The euro zone economy beat all expectations in the first quarter of the year, expanding by 0.5%, or an annualized growth of 1.8%. Meanwhile, the US, despite the optimism at the outset of the Trump administration, posted an annualized growth figure of just 0.7% to start the year.
Already fed up Qatar’s diplomatic dealings, Gulf rivals are finally taking action.
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from Business Insider
These haunting photo overlays capture the horrors of D-Day
The D-Day invasion, code named Operation Overlord, was the largest seaborne invasion in history. Almost 5,000 landing and assault craft accompanied by 289 escort vessels and 277 minesweepers from Canada, the US, Britain, and Australia took part in the operation. The Allies suffered 226,386 casualties, but it proved a decisive moment in the war. Suddenly, the Nazis were fighting a two-front war in Europe, leading to a division in their forces across multiple flanks. But the cost of D-Day, in both human lives and devastation of the surrounding regions of France, was immense.
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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
School Kids Fidget Because They Feel Trapped
Boston College psychology professor and author of Free To Learn, Peter Gray, writes that all children love to learn and eagerly explore their world with enthusiasm and great dedication – until they go to school. In his research on unschoolers and others who have rejected mass schooling for alternative forms of education, Dr. Gray discovered that human curiosity and commitment to learning endure beyond early childhood. He writes: "This amazing drive and capacity to learn does not turn itself off when children turn 5 or 6. We turn it off with our coercive system of schooling. The biggest, most enduring lesson of our system of schooling is that learning is work, to be avoided when possible."
Rather than complaining about this latest fad, and banning these fidget toys from schools across the country, we should look more closely at what the toys reveal: Children and adolescents who are bored with and frustrated by the irrelevance of mass schooling and who crave education freedom and autonomy.
This "Privatization" Is a Fake
New era for infrastructure? Please. It's nothing like that. The public relations element of this administration’s actions is wildly outstripping the reality. That is both good and bad. The unwelcome parts of the Trump agenda (protectionism, drug warriorism, travel restrictions) have so far proven to be as overblown as the welcome parts (health care reform, tax cuts, and privatization). The memo Trump signed was an endorsement of an idea to “privatize” Air Traffic Control, but the word is in quotes because that’s not actually what the legislation does – and yes, there is legislation, pushed by Bill Shuster, the Republican chair of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. The idea itself has been around since the 1970s. Some form of spinning off Air Traffic Control has already been successfully adopted by 50 other nations. The US, with air traffic control as part of a huge regulatory bureaucracy, is an anomaly at this point.
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from First Things
Russia is turning inward. As the fabric of purpose and identity seems to fray among Western nations, the Russian people have set out to consolidate their culture and revive the national spirit. The glory of the Motherland is something to behold—her literature, art, music, and science are among the treasures of the earth. But this introspection has a cost.
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from The Hill
Congressional Republicans must stop trying to please everyone
If Republicans are going to keep their promises, those in the moderate ranks are going to have to wake up. Their attempts to govern from the middle and appease their Democratic constituents are futile.
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from The Independent (UK)
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
I'm a British Muslim man of the same age as the London and Manchester terrorists – and I know why we turned out so different
The answer to preventing extremism is encouraging real education about Islam from a young age, and focusing on the Saudi-funded Wahhabi mosques where some literature promotes dangerous ideals
I'm a British Muslim man of the same age as the London and Manchester terrorists – and I know why we turned out so different
The answer to preventing extremism is encouraging real education about Islam from a young age, and focusing on the Saudi-funded Wahhabi mosques where some literature promotes dangerous ideals
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from Independent Journal Review
Hank Williams Jr. Will Return to Monday Night Football 6 Years After Being Booted for Obama Comment
Six years after being forced into retirement, ESPN announced when viewers tune in on September 11, they'll see Williams on the screen.
PHOTOS: Fire department's viral photos show importance of closing your doors
Smoke detectors and escape plans save lives, but in the slideshow you can see how simply closing your doors can not only buy you time from heat and toxic gases during a fire, but also dramatically increase your chances of survival.
Chaos at College in Washington State as Leftists Roam Campus With Bats, Assault Trolling Chalker
Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington has faced closures, protests, and even vigilante “justice” in recent days in the wake of student demonstrators forcing a professor off campus due to his dissenting views on a race-based event at the school. Professor Bret Weinstein had voiced his objection to the planned “Day of Absence” that would have asked whites to leave the school for a day. As a result, the student protesters branded the liberal academic a “racist,” and demanded his firing. Weinstein had to hold his class in a nearby park, and the undergraduate activists held regular protests decrying “racism” at the institution.
Native American D-Day monument dedicated near Omaha Beach
On the 73rd anniversary of the Allied invasion of Normandy, the Native Americans who landed on Omaha Beach finally have a monument, according to an Army release. The granite, turtle-shaped memorial was dedicated to retired Master Sgt. Charles Norman Shay in a ceremony on June 5. Shay was a teenager when he served as a platoon medic for Fox Company, 2 nd Battalion, 16 th Infantry Regiment. He is now 93 years old. So far, 55 of the 175 Native Americans who participated in the D-Day invasion have been identified, Dutch anthropologist Dr. Harald E. L. Prins says in the release.
Will the Crazy Global Debt Bubble Ever End?
We've been playing two games to mask insolvency: one is to pay the costs of rampant debt today by borrowing even more from future earnings, and the second is to create wealth out of thin air via asset bubbles. If the debt burden is large enough, at some point, even a 0.1% interest rate becomes unaffordable.
London Mayor Sadiq Khan Says Trump’s U.K. Visit Should Be Canceled After Tweets
Donald Trump’s planned state visit to Britain should be canceled, London’s mayor said Tuesday after the president repeatedly criticized him following the latest terrorist attack. Sadiq Khan said Trump was “wrong” about “many things” and should not be welcomed to the United Kingdom. The president is expected to make an official visit in October following an invitation from Prime Minister Theresa May.
Feds To Waive Penalties For Some Who Signed Up Late For Medicare
Each year, thousands of Americans miss their deadline to enroll in Medicare, and federal officials and consumer advocates worry that many of them mistakenly think they don't need to sign up because they have purchased insurance on the Affordable Care Act's marketplaces. That failure to enroll on time can leave them facing a lifetime of penalties.
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Hear Bob Dylan’s Newly-Released Nobel Lecture: A Meditation on Music, Literature & Lyrics
The furor surrounding Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize win in Literature last October now seems several ages away. What was all that about again? Could it possibly have meant, as many a disgruntled writer suggested, that “people don’t care about books anymore”? Was this an “ill-conceived nostalgia award,” as Irvine Welsh bitterly proclaimed, bestowed by a committee of “senile, gibbering hippies”? Even Dylan himself seemed confused and embarrassed.
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Patriarch Theophilos of Jerusalem spoke on Pentecost Sunday at the patronal feast of the main church of the Moscow Patriarch in the Holy Land, the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Jerusalem, reports the press service of the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission (Moscow Patriarchate) in Jerusalem. Condemning the continual attempts by the schismatic and non-canonical “Kiev Patriarchate” to take over the churches of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church in the Ukraine, His Beatitude said, “The unity of the Church is a gift of the Holy Spirit, and we are called to preserve and strengthen it. The destruction of this unity is a serious crime.”
Americans' Lifespans High Without Single-Payer or Nanny State Health Interventions
Lack of single payer hasn't seemed to hinder superior progress made in terms of life expectancy gains in the U.S. since UN records start in 1960.
The TSA Turns Harassing Travelers Into a Fine—and Pointless—Art
Security officials who fail every test thrown their way, plan to inflict the punishment for those shortcomings on airline passengers.
Portland Reeling: Dozens Arrested After ‘Anti-Racist’ Protesters Attack Police
Fourteen people were arrested Sunday after protests in Portland, Oregon, threatened to devolve into riots and urban warfare between demonstrators, counter-demonstrators, and police. Portland law enforcement claims that protesters were throwing bricks and other objects at officers.
Hank Williams Jr. Will Return to Monday Night Football 6 Years After Being Booted for Obama Comment
Six years after being forced into retirement, ESPN announced when viewers tune in on September 11, they'll see Williams on the screen.
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from KHQ Local News (NBC Spokane)
PHOTOS: Fire department's viral photos show importance of closing your doors
Smoke detectors and escape plans save lives, but in the slideshow you can see how simply closing your doors can not only buy you time from heat and toxic gases during a fire, but also dramatically increase your chances of survival.
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from Miami Herald
Bill Maher is a poster boy for privileged, white, male, liberal entitlement. Yes, the business of laughter is the business of crossing that completely subjective, always moving line of decorum and propriety. And yes, occasional failure is inevitable. Ask Kathy Griffin.
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from MEDIAite
Chaos at College in Washington State as Leftists Roam Campus With Bats, Assault Trolling Chalker
Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington has faced closures, protests, and even vigilante “justice” in recent days in the wake of student demonstrators forcing a professor off campus due to his dissenting views on a race-based event at the school. Professor Bret Weinstein had voiced his objection to the planned “Day of Absence” that would have asked whites to leave the school for a day. As a result, the student protesters branded the liberal academic a “racist,” and demanded his firing. Weinstein had to hold his class in a nearby park, and the undergraduate activists held regular protests decrying “racism” at the institution.
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from Military Times
and Air Force Times, Army Times, Marine Corps Times, and Navy Times
On the 73rd anniversary of the Allied invasion of Normandy, the Native Americans who landed on Omaha Beach finally have a monument, according to an Army release. The granite, turtle-shaped memorial was dedicated to retired Master Sgt. Charles Norman Shay in a ceremony on June 5. Shay was a teenager when he served as a platoon medic for Fox Company, 2 nd Battalion, 16 th Infantry Regiment. He is now 93 years old. So far, 55 of the 175 Native Americans who participated in the D-Day invasion have been identified, Dutch anthropologist Dr. Harald E. L. Prins says in the release.
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from Mises Institute
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]Will the Crazy Global Debt Bubble Ever End?
We've been playing two games to mask insolvency: one is to pay the costs of rampant debt today by borrowing even more from future earnings, and the second is to create wealth out of thin air via asset bubbles. If the debt burden is large enough, at some point, even a 0.1% interest rate becomes unaffordable.
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from NBC News (& affiliates)
London Mayor Sadiq Khan Says Trump’s U.K. Visit Should Be Canceled After Tweets
Donald Trump’s planned state visit to Britain should be canceled, London’s mayor said Tuesday after the president repeatedly criticized him following the latest terrorist attack. Sadiq Khan said Trump was “wrong” about “many things” and should not be welcomed to the United Kingdom. The president is expected to make an official visit in October following an invitation from Prime Minister Theresa May.
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from NPR (& affiliates)
Feds To Waive Penalties For Some Who Signed Up Late For Medicare
Each year, thousands of Americans miss their deadline to enroll in Medicare, and federal officials and consumer advocates worry that many of them mistakenly think they don't need to sign up because they have purchased insurance on the Affordable Care Act's marketplaces. That failure to enroll on time can leave them facing a lifetime of penalties.
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from Open Culture
Hear Bob Dylan’s Newly-Released Nobel Lecture: A Meditation on Music, Literature & Lyrics
The furor surrounding Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize win in Literature last October now seems several ages away. What was all that about again? Could it possibly have meant, as many a disgruntled writer suggested, that “people don’t care about books anymore”? Was this an “ill-conceived nostalgia award,” as Irvine Welsh bitterly proclaimed, bestowed by a committee of “senile, gibbering hippies”? Even Dylan himself seemed confused and embarrassed.
from Orthodox Christianity
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from Reason Magazine
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
Lack of single payer hasn't seemed to hinder superior progress made in terms of life expectancy gains in the U.S. since UN records start in 1960.
The TSA Turns Harassing Travelers Into a Fine—and Pointless—Art
Security officials who fail every test thrown their way, plan to inflict the punishment for those shortcomings on airline passengers.
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from The Spokesman-Review
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from Sputnik
(Russian government-supported propaganda channel)
Fourteen people were arrested Sunday after protests in Portland, Oregon, threatened to devolve into riots and urban warfare between demonstrators, counter-demonstrators, and police. Portland law enforcement claims that protesters were throwing bricks and other objects at officers.
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from WND (World Net Daily)
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
NEWS BLACKOUT ON REFUGEE BOYS WHO SEXUALLY ASSAULTED IDAHO GIRL
A judge sentenced three Muslim refugee boys in the sexual assault of a 5-year-old girl in Idaho, but nobody knows the length or terms of the sentence because the judge has barred everyone in the courtroom, including the victim’s own parents, from speaking about the case. The three boys — two from Iraq ages 7 and 10, and one from Sudan aged 14 — pleaded guilty in juvenile court in April to multiple counts of sex crimes in an incident that occurred last June in Twin Falls. The assault occurred at Fawnbrook Apartments, when 5-year-old Jayla, who is developmentally disabled, was lured into a laundry room, stripped of her clothing and sexually assaulted while the oldest boy filmed the entire incident.
NEWS BLACKOUT ON REFUGEE BOYS WHO SEXUALLY ASSAULTED IDAHO GIRL
A judge sentenced three Muslim refugee boys in the sexual assault of a 5-year-old girl in Idaho, but nobody knows the length or terms of the sentence because the judge has barred everyone in the courtroom, including the victim’s own parents, from speaking about the case. The three boys — two from Iraq ages 7 and 10, and one from Sudan aged 14 — pleaded guilty in juvenile court in April to multiple counts of sex crimes in an incident that occurred last June in Twin Falls. The assault occurred at Fawnbrook Apartments, when 5-year-old Jayla, who is developmentally disabled, was lured into a laundry room, stripped of her clothing and sexually assaulted while the oldest boy filmed the entire incident.
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