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from Flathead Beacon
Broadcasting & Media Production Company in Kalispell, Montana
An evacuation warning will be issued for a large part of the west side of Glacier National Park as firefighters prepare for a cold front on Sunday night that is forecast to bring a dramatic shift in winds. Firefighters are concerned wind from the east will push the Sprague Fire west toward Lake McDonald. As of Saturday morning, the Sprague Fire had scorched more than 5,100 acres and destroyed the Sperry Chalet, a national historic landmark built in 1913.
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from Mises Institute
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]The greatest intellectual accomplishment of the laissez-faire liberal theorists was the recognition of the “hard” and “soft” institutions that are crucial prerequisites of productive accomplishment and material prosperity. The prevalence of welfare-statist “redistribution” spells the death of sound economics.
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from New York Times
Trump Returns to Texas, With Words of Encouragement and Triumph
Shortly after Air Force One landed at a base in Houston midmorning, an upbeat Mr. Trump declared himself “very happy” with efforts to assist residents left homeless by lashing rains and a storm surge that rendered an estimated 100,000 houses there uninhabitable. “They’re really happy with what’s going on,” he told reporters after talking with local residents at the NRG Center, a convention building serving as a temporary shelter for nearly 1,200 people. “It’s something that’s been very well received. Even by you guys, it’s been very well received.”
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from The Spokesman-Review
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from Sputnik
(Russian government-supported propaganda channel)
Four attackers have carried out a bombing at a power station in the Iraqi city of Samarra, leaving at least seven employees dead and 12 others injured, local media reported Saturday, citing Iraqi officials. Three to four individuals stormed into the energy facility north of Baghdad, opening gunfire on the security guards before blowing up suicide belts they were wearing in several areas of the power station, the Rudaw news outlet reported. The attack took place around 2 a.m. local time on Saturday [23:00 GMT on Friday], the news outlet added.
(PHOTO, VIDEO) Over 34,500 residents of three municipalities within the Spanish autonomous community of Madrid received a warning not to leave their homes because of the spread of a cloud of toxic smoke, El Pais reported. The cloud was created by a fire in an industrial warehouse in Fuenlabrada; one life was claimed as a result of the fire. According to the reports, at least 40 tons of magnesium and aluminum are burning in the warehouse.
It appears that the EU mainstream media deliberately focuses on the alleged threat posed by Russia while ignoring far more tangible and pressing concerns like terrorism, according to a Polish political analyst. As Polish political analyst Aleksander Kwasniewski told Sputnik Polska, there’s no room for space for a clear-headed debate because of the "militarized atmosphere that is being fanned by mass media." The analyst explained that the latest attack in Italy, where a young Polish woman was reportedly raped by four North African migrants in front of her boyfriend, confirms that "the government of babblers" refuses to see the real problem while protecting itself with government agencies and security measures bought with taxpayer money. He pointed out that the daily news is "filled with Russia and Putin, and lately by North Korea as well" so that the audience remains focused on these alleged threats, adding that lately Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orban was also added to this list because "independent thinking became a sin." "And no one even bothers to think that the demonized Russia and the imaginary threat it allegedly poses haven’t claimed a single European’s life, which cannot be said about the "guests" of EU leader Angela Merkel."
The Syrian Arab Army backed by the Russian Air Forces has liberated the Uqayribat settlement east of Hama province, the Russian Defense Ministry stated on Saturday. By liberating this settlement the government forces destroyed the last major area where terrorists are putting up resistance in central Syria. The Syrian armed forces and popular units backed by the Russian aerospace forces have liberated the strategically important city of Uqayribat in Hama province from Daesh terrorists.
The scandal around the closure of the Russian Consulate in San Francisco continues to escalate, Moscow warning that it would reciprocate if Russian properties were subjected to search by US security services. Radio Sputnik contributor Vladimir Filippov says that the US has turned diplomacy into a farce, and argues that Russia mustn't back down.
Commenting on a petition imploring Kiev to approve construction of a canal between Ukraine and Crimea which would cut the peninsula off from the mainland, Russian experts told Sputnik that the project will never be implemented by the Ukrainian government.
A petition on a White House website asking to declare billionaire financier and investor George Soros a domestic terrorist for acts of "sedition" has reached the threshold needed for an official response by the White House. Political scientist Alexander Gusev explained to Sputnik why it spells serious trouble for the 87-year-old heavyweight.b
On the occasion of the 72nd anniversary of Japan's surrender to the Allies in World War II, military journalist Alexander Evdokimov explains why Imperial Japan never did end up invading the Soviet Far East during the Great Patriotic War. On September 2, 1945, Japan signed the act of surrender aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, formally bringing World War II to a close. The Soviet Union was represented by Lieutenant-General Kuzma Derevyanko, who signed Japan's Instrument of Surrender, and went on to serve as the Soviet representative at General Douglas McArthur's headquarters during the US occupation of Japan.
Commenting on the recent US refusal to heed Ankara's request for F-16 training pilots to help replace airmen dismissed after last year's military coup attempt and Washington's move to prevent Pakistan from assisting Turkey, retired Turkish Lieutenant General Erdogan Karakus explained to Sputnik Turkiye what might be the reasons for this decision. The US has rejected Ankara's request to send F-16 training pilots to prepare new airmen in the wake of an array of dismissals following after last year's military coup attempt in the country, saying that it has "no program regarding training pilots abroad."
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has blasted the Polish government for inculcating anti-Russian attitudes among the population. Speaking to Sputnik, political observer Eduard Popov said that while Warsaw regularly uses Russophobia for political reasons, there's no evidence to suggest that Poles have a sort of natural hostility toward Russia.
A growing number of commentators in Ireland are urging Dublin to follow London out of the EU; such a move would be beneficial because the EU has become more of a hindrance than a help to Ireland, Dr. John Anthony Coughlan told Radio Sputnik.
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from The Telegraph (UK)
Victorian Society criticises evangelical group for keeping churches 'shuttered and barred'
An evangelical group is sending a message that its churches are "shuttered and barred" by failing to follow advice to keep them open, a heritage charity has claimed. The group, which promotes and preserves Victorian and Edwardian buildings, said the public were being denied the chance to experience the interiors of buildings run by the Holy Trinity Brompton group because they were too often closed outside of service times. Christopher Costelloe, its director, said: "These churches are an important part of our heritage. They should be open both for visitors to appreciate their architecture, history and beauty, and for people who want to pop in and pray.
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