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from The American Conservative
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS
Is U.S. Congress Declaring War on WikiLeaks?
The latest Senate Intelligence Authorization Act (SB 1761), which was released by the committee on August 18 when few senators were in town, is in the nature of a routine document. It will almost certainly be approved unanimously. That anyone in the alternative media is paying any attention at all to what the bill says is due to the last section in the document, numbered 623. It reads “SENSE OF CONGRESS ON WIKILEAKS: It is the sense of Congress that WikiLeaks and the senior leadership of WikiLeaks resemble a non-state hostile intelligence service often abetted by state actors and should be treated as such a service by the United States.”
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RIGHT-CENTER BIAS
Is U.S. Congress Declaring War on WikiLeaks?
The latest Senate Intelligence Authorization Act (SB 1761), which was released by the committee on August 18 when few senators were in town, is in the nature of a routine document. It will almost certainly be approved unanimously. That anyone in the alternative media is paying any attention at all to what the bill says is due to the last section in the document, numbered 623. It reads “SENSE OF CONGRESS ON WIKILEAKS: It is the sense of Congress that WikiLeaks and the senior leadership of WikiLeaks resemble a non-state hostile intelligence service often abetted by state actors and should be treated as such a service by the United States.”
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from Asia Times Online
The government and ethnic Rohingya insurgents are competing to command the narrative about recent violence in conflict-ridden Rakhine State
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from The Daily Inter Lake
newspaper in Kalispell, Montana
SPERRY CHALET REMEMBERED AS AN ICONIC GLACIER PARK TREASURE
For many people, Sperry Chalet was their favorite place on earth. Now it’s gone.
The 1914 landmark in Glacier National Park was destroyed by the Sprague Fire early Thursday evening as high winds pushed the blaze over Sperry’s main lodge that accommodated trail-weary guests for more than a century.
SPERRY CHALET REMEMBERED AS AN ICONIC GLACIER PARK TREASURE
For many people, Sperry Chalet was their favorite place on earth. Now it’s gone.
The 1914 landmark in Glacier National Park was destroyed by the Sprague Fire early Thursday evening as high winds pushed the blaze over Sperry’s main lodge that accommodated trail-weary guests for more than a century.
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from Daily Wire
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
WATCH: 'THIS IS CRAZY!' Police Manhandle, Arrest Utah Nurse After She Refuses To Illegally Hand Over Patient’s Blood To Cops
On Friday, NBC News broke tape of nurse Alex Wubbels, who was forcibly manhandled by police officers and arrested for the supposed crime of refusing to give a suspect’s blood to the cops. There are a few problems here. First off, she was following the law. As The Washington Post reports: "The detective didn’t have a warrant, first off. And the patient wasn’t conscious, so he couldn’t give consent. Without that, the detective was barred from collecting blood samples — not just by hospital policy, but by basic constitutional law." Detective Jeff Payne can be seen on the tape openly acknowledging lack of probable cause for a warrant, and telling another police officer, “I’ve never gone this far.” When Wubbels was asked about taking blood, she responded, “The patient can’t consent, he’s told me repeatedly that he doesn’t have a warrant, and the patient is not under arrest.” Finally, Payne grabbed her, cuffed her, and arrested her, as Wubbels hollers, “Help! Help me! Stop! You’re assaulting me!”
Daily Wire is a bit sloppy on this. Other reports make clear that the patient in question is not the fleeing suspect, but rather the innocent driver of the other truck (which is why there was no warrant and he was not under arrest).
WATCH: 'THIS IS CRAZY!' Police Manhandle, Arrest Utah Nurse After She Refuses To Illegally Hand Over Patient’s Blood To Cops
On Friday, NBC News broke tape of nurse Alex Wubbels, who was forcibly manhandled by police officers and arrested for the supposed crime of refusing to give a suspect’s blood to the cops. There are a few problems here. First off, she was following the law. As The Washington Post reports: "The detective didn’t have a warrant, first off. And the patient wasn’t conscious, so he couldn’t give consent. Without that, the detective was barred from collecting blood samples — not just by hospital policy, but by basic constitutional law." Detective Jeff Payne can be seen on the tape openly acknowledging lack of probable cause for a warrant, and telling another police officer, “I’ve never gone this far.” When Wubbels was asked about taking blood, she responded, “The patient can’t consent, he’s told me repeatedly that he doesn’t have a warrant, and the patient is not under arrest.” Finally, Payne grabbed her, cuffed her, and arrested her, as Wubbels hollers, “Help! Help me! Stop! You’re assaulting me!”
Daily Wire is a bit sloppy on this. Other reports make clear that the patient in question is not the fleeing suspect, but rather the innocent driver of the other truck (which is why there was no warrant and he was not under arrest).
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from New Statesman
"The leading voice of the British left, since 1913."
Today marks the day when Albus Severus Potter first boarded the Hogwarts Express.
The scar had not pained Harry for nineteen years. All was well. These are the cruellest last lines in the history of literature, because they are a lie. While all was indeed well when Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was first published in 2007, it only took nine years for it to become spectacularly un-well again. Harry’s scar may not have hurt – but the hearts and minds of Potter fans everywhere trembled with pain upon the release of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child last year.
from Orthodox Christianity
The Significance of Fr. Seraphim Rose for the Christian of Today
In the back of the St. Herman Calendar published by the St. Herman of Alaska Brotherhood, there is a page entitled Remember Your Instructors, on which we find among others the name of Hieromonk Seraphim Rose of Platina. Why do we need to remember our instructors? The purpose of remembering our instructors is, it seems to me, threefold: first, to reverence their memory as holy, wise, and beloved counselors and teachers (as St. Paulinus of Nola said, “Only if the sky can forego its stars, earth its grass, honeycombs their honey, streams their water, and breasts their milk will our tongues be able to renounce their praise of the saints, in whom God is the strength of life and the fame of death”); second, to pray for the repose of their souls and to seek their intercession on behalf of our continuing spiritual warfare here on earth (“Give rest to our fathers and brethren who have departed this life before us, and through the prayers of them all have mercy on my unhappy self in my depravity,” says St. Peter of Damascus in the prayer at the end of Compline); and third, to imitate their example (as St. Basil the Great points out, “The righteous themselves do not want glory, but we who are as yet in this life need remembering them, so as to imitate them”).
GREEK HIERARCHS: “POLITICIANS ARE TRYING TO DESTROY ORTHODOXY IN GREECE”
Several hierarchs of the Greek Orthodox Church have recently spoken out on important topical issues, decrying the current Greek government’s attempts to secularize Greece and move it away from Orthodoxy, reports AgionOros. According to Metropolitan Nicholas of Fthiotida, the authorities “are subverting the spiritual foundations of society and trying to transform our eternal institutional values. Their end goal is the imposition of a secular status and godless state upon Orthodox Greece.” According to the bishop, the authorities aim to “limit and weaken the Church” and expel it to the periphery of public consciousness, under the pretext of protecting religious minorities, whose rights are already guaranteed by the Greek constitution.
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from The Spokesman-Review
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