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from Asia Times Online
The BRICS summit in Xiamen, a port city on China’s southeast coast, was supposed to be another important moment for China to present itself as a global power and its president, Xi Jinping, as a great world leader. But on Sunday, just hours before Xi delivered a keynote speech at the annual gathering of the five emerging powers – Brazil, Russia, China, India and South Africa – North Korea detonated its sixth nuclear test, the biggest yet. The hydrogen-bomb test embarrassingly overshadowed the carefully choreographed summit. Worryingly for China, this was not the first time – and very likely not the last – its junior communist neighbor had deliberately chosen a key moment to humiliate its leadership.
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from Breitbart
RIGHT BIAS, MIXED, American conservative news and opinion website
GOP Rep: Paul Ryan Will Not Let Congress Touch Concealed Carry Reciprocity
GOP Rep: Paul Ryan Will Not Let Congress Touch Concealed Carry Reciprocity
During the September 7 of Armed American Radio with Mark Walters, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) said his concealed carry legislation is stalled because Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) does not want Congress to touch it. National reciprocity legislation—H.R. 38—would treat concealed carry permits like driver’s licenses, making a permit from one state valid in the other 49. Massie is the sponsor of H.R. 2909, which covers a blind spot in the national reciprocity legislation by mandating that Washington DC recognize concealed carry permits from all 50 states.
Jeff Sessions’ DoJ Will Not Investigate IRS Suppression of Tea Party Groups
Republicans slammed the Friday announcement by President Donald Trump’s justice department that it will not investigate the official who allegedly oversaw the IRS’ secret sabotage of Americans’ civic groups before the 2012 election.
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Jeff Sessions’ DoJ Will Not Investigate IRS Suppression of Tea Party Groups
Republicans slammed the Friday announcement by President Donald Trump’s justice department that it will not investigate the official who allegedly oversaw the IRS’ secret sabotage of Americans’ civic groups before the 2012 election.
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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, HIGH, non-profit organization
Trump’s Embargo on North Korea Is the Precursor to a War
Not even President Trump’s harshest critics blame him for creating the North Korean problem. The Kim Jong-Un regime’s nuclear weapons capabilities and willingness to brandish them goes back over a decade, to when Kim’s father was still the ruler. And while each successive U.S. administration has approached North Korea slightly differently, one thing has remained constant: tens of thousands of U.S. troops on North Korea’s border, maintaining a standoff that just passed its sixty-fourth year. The other constant, since North Korea’s first nuclear weapons test in 2006, has been economic sanctions imposed on the regime under the auspices of the U.N. Security Council. President Trump is sincere about what would “make America great again.” Unfortunately, he sincerely believes many things that simply aren’t true. At the core of these beliefs is his mercantilist outlook on trade. Trump truly believes trade is a zero-sum game, with winners and losers. Thus, his constant campaign refrain, “We don’t win anymore,” regarding trade deals. Protectionism was the traditional conservative position for hundreds of years before 20th-century American conservatives built an alliance with disaffected classical liberals and libertarians against progressive liberalism.
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from Indian Country Today Media Network
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Pocahontas had a Native husband and Native child; never married John Smith
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from LifeZette
Media/News Company in Washington, D. C.
There’s a “huge” rate of fraud in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, a former insider warns, and many of the people who are in the DACA program have provided false information in order to escape deportation and remain in the U.S. As many as half of the approximately 800,000 people who now have work permits under DACA may have lied on their applications to get approved, said Matt O’Brien, an attorney and until last year a manager in the investigative unit of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS).
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from New Statesman
"The leading voice of the British left, since 1913."
from Orthodox Christianity
Bishop Alexander (Mileant): Everyone, whether or not he is a Christian, must expect a certain amount of sickness and discomfort to enter his life. Physical pain is universal; no one escapes it. Therefore, how much we suffer from illness, or how intensely, does not matter so much as how we understand these infirmities. The understanding is all. If a man supposes that life should be one long, luxurious "vacation," then any amount of suffering that comes to him is unbearable. But if a man views life as a time of sorrows, correction, and purification, then suffering and pain become not only bearable, but even useful.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Spokane County commissioners in stalemate over selection of third member
A rift in the Spokane County Republican Party has resulted in a stalemate between two county commissioners who are running out of time to choose a new colleague. Republican Commissioners Al French and Josh Kerns are seeking to fill a vacancy left by former Commissioner Shelly O’Quinn, who resigned partway through her term eight weeks ago. French and Kerns must choose one of three people nominated by the county GOP. If they can’t agree on someone by Sept. 15, Gov. Jay Inslee, a Democrat, will get to pick a new commissioner from the same list of nominees.
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from YES! Magazine
My White Friend Asked Me on Facebook to Explain White Privilege. I Decided to Be Honest
He wanted to know how institutional racism has made an impact on my life. I’m glad he asked, because I was ready to answer.
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