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In the news, Sunday, July 23, 2017


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from Allen West
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Dan Bongino Blows Trump-Russia Investigation Out Of The Water
Bongino appeared on Fox News and blew it away! Straight up calling the Russia robe “a ridiculous X-files conspiracy theory.” He went on to reiterate, stating that there is no crime, and the investigators are people who actually donated to Hillary Clinton, President Trump’s primary opponent during the presidential rune in 2016 calling the proceedings and “embarrassment to our justice system.”

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from Asia Times Online

The protocols of Donald J Trump
In the age of social media, left and right accuse long-established media outlets of 'faking' news. If the spread of misinformation is thought of as a virus, a natural equilibrium between truth and falsehood is hard to imagine. It must, therefore, be checked by inoculation. Will the unprecedented ease of access to information liberate people from thought control, or will it strengthen it to such an extent that democracy simply drowns in a sea of manipulation?

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from CFACT
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Former Vice President Al Gore explained why he routinely compares the fight against global warming to the civil rights, anti-apartheid and abolitionist movements during a live SiriusXM radio town hall Thursday.

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from The Daily Caller
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EXCLUSIVE: FBI Seized Smashed Hard Drives From Wasserman Schultz IT Aide’s Home
FBI agents seized smashed computer hard drives from the home of Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s information technology (IT) administrator, according to two sources with knowledge of the investigation.

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from Gateway Pundit

Anthony Scaramucci Warns WH Communications Staff: ‘Stop the Leaks, or I’ll Stop You’
In a Sunday morning interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper, newly-minted White House Communications Director, Anthony Scaramucci, continued to lay out his plans to strengthen the administration’s messaging.

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from KBZK TV (CBS Bozeman)

Canadian aircraft help battle Montana wildfires
Four super scoopers on lease from Canada are now in Montana and ready to help battle wildfires. The planes arrived a week ago and have already been deployed to the Lewistown fire burning in eastern Montana. The Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation is hosting two Canadian CL-215 water scooping planes stationed in Kalispell as well as two based out of Lewistown.

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from KPAX-TV (Missoula)

Several active wildfires and extreme fire danger across the state have prompted Gov. Steve Bullock to issue an executive order declaring a fire emergency in Montana. Prior to signing the executive order, the governor was briefed by the Department of Natural Resources and Conservation and Disaster and Emergency Services at the Department of Military Affairs. He also spoke with Rick Connell, the Incident Commander at the Lodgepole Complex area, which is currently the state’s largest fire.

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from Mises Institute
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A Mixed Hero: A Libertarian Reassessment of Elon Musk
Many libertarians seem to love to hate Elon Musk these days. His crime is to live off the public purse. His companies would be bankrupt without green subsidies and cheap government loans and contracts. He seeks out favorable terms from governments and angles to capture subsidies and cheap loans with no reservation and with vast success at doing so. This situation, along with certain financing practices and relationships among his companies, has led to it becoming fashionable to disdain Musk as a public figure and to characterize him with sweeping put-downs. The fact that the state hands out money to entrepreneurs like Elon Musk is a problem that is best solved by focusing our ire not on people like Musk — but on the state itself.

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from Reason Magazine
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"People use information however they like. It's confirmation bias"
Humans of FreedomFest 6: Candid portraits from the largest annual gathering of libertarians and free-market supporters.

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from Religion News Service

Houses of worship do some soul searching as their neighborhoods change
A nearly 90-year-old church now stands across the street from a new luxury apartment complex, illustrating how redevelopment has altered its neighborhood. It also shows that places of worship, like First Baptist Church East Nashville, are not immune to the changes in their communities. The church’s predominately black congregation once mirrored the neighborhood’s demographics. But today hip and eclectic East Nashville with its rising property values and trendy restaurants draws white millennials, said the Rev. Morris Tipton Jr., the church’s pastor. Given the neighborhood’s shift, is Tipton worried about the church’s future? “If I think about it outside of the confines of God, I am,” Tipton said. “Most of the black churches in this community are leaving. They are selling their churches to land developers who are turning them into restaurants and bars and condos and apartments and any number of things.” Similar stories are playing out across the USA. Buildings that once held worship services have been repurposed or bulldozed and redeveloped into bars, restaurants and other secular spaces.

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from The Spokesman-Review

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from Sputnik
(Russian government-supported propaganda channel)

The Fine Print: IMF Backs Down on Ukraine Land Reform Ultimatum, But at a Price
The International Monetary Fund has slightly relaxed its conditions for the provision of a new loan tranche to Ukraine, removing the demand that Kiev first revise the country's laws on the privatization of agricultural land. Ukraine watchers Vladimir Zharikhin and Alexander Dudchak say that the IMF's move is just a ploy designed to entrap Ukraine.

Three Good Reasons Why Russia May Not Actually Need a Supercarrier
Russia has adopted a new Navy Policy Framework up to the year 2030. The document devotes considerable attention to creating high-precision long-range cruise missiles, hypersonic weapons, robotics, and more, but does not elaborate much on plans to build a new aircraft carrier. Military observer Vladimir Tuchkov explains why this may be a good thing.

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