Monday, October 9, 2017

In the news, Friday, September 15, 2017


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from Breitbart
RIGHT BIAS, MIXED, American conservative news and opinion website

KASSAM: POTUS Signs ‘Anti-Hate’ Resolution, a Major Assault on America’s First Amendment
DACA wasn’t the biggest win for the swamp-left this week. Blink and you’ll have missed it. In amongst the furore over immigration, news coverage of Hurricane fallout, and North Korea’s latest tub thumping, President Trump signed that anti-free speech resolution I warned about just a few days ago. The Associated Press reports: President Donald Trump has signed a resolution condemning white supremacists, neo-Nazis and other hate groups following a white-nationalist rally in Virginia that descended into deadly violence. The resolution also urged Trump and his administration to speak out against hate groups that espouse racism, anti-Semitism and white supremacy. That’s not entirely accurate. In fact it’s a pretty thoughtless and likely intentional misinterpretation of the breadth of this resolution and its real world implications.

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from Charisma News
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Planned Parenthood Forges Deadly Satanic Alliance
Planned Parenthood in Missouri has a new ally in its battle for increased abortion access: the Satanic Temple. The religious and politically active national Satanist organization is backing the powerful abortion provider with state and federal lawsuits designed to challenge Missouri's informed consent and 72-hour-waiting period laws.

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from The Frankfort State Journal
Newspaper in Frankfort, Kentucky

State Budget Director John E. Chilton warned there will be huge increases in employer contributions to public pension systems unless lawmakers enact reform. Chilton sent out a letter Friday to employers whose workers are covered by the Kentucky Employees’ Retirement System that hikes will range from 66 to 88 percent without pension reform.

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from HumanProgress.org
Education Website

The United States Should Heed the Lessons of 1917
As 2017 enters its final months, leaders in the United Kingdom and in the United States wrestle with some momentous decisions. In Britain, Dr Liam Fox, the Secretary of State for International Trade, is beefing up his department with the intention of negotiating free trade agreements for the post-Brexit era, while Donald Trump, the American President, howls at his White House staff, “I want tariffs. And I want someone to bring me some tariffs.” As our leaders set their sights on reconstituting British and American trade relations with the rest of the world, they should keep two dates – 1817 and 1917 – in mind.

Europe's Anti-GMO Stance Is Killing Africans
The cost of Africa’s refusal to grow GMO crops are incredible in human health and economic terms. Fifteen years ago, The Economist ran an article headlined "Better dead than GM-fed?" It focused on the refusal of some African countries to allow imports of American food aid, because it contained genetically modified organisms (GMOs). This was when extreme hunger threatened some 15 million people, before Africa's decade of economic growth spurred by high commodity prices as well as some economic reforms. Some of the reasons for the refusal of U.S. food aid, such as Zambia's then-president Levy Mwanawasa's statement that GMOs were "poison," were just silly. American's have been eating GMO foods for decades and there is not an iota of evidence that GMOs are detrimental to health. Other reasons were more serious. Much of Africa's agricultural produce is still destined for Europe and the European Union has been waging a war on GMO foods for decades. The reasons for the EU's anti-GMO stance, ostensibly, are health concerns. In reality, the EU is trying to protect its farmers against their more productive American competitors. Thus, were the U.S. food aid inadvertently to "contaminate" Africa's crops, Africans would be in trouble.

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from Miami Herald

Jemele Hill, of ESPN’s “SportsCenter” tweeted last week that President Trump was “a white supremacist who has largely surrounded himself w/ other white supremacists.” The White House wants her fired. But what did she get wrong?

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from Mises Institute
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With a Central Bank, Bank "Deregulation" Can Be a Bad Thing
When a central bank exists, deregulation may make it easier for central banks to create more money "out of thin air."

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from New Statesman
"The leading voice of the British left, since 1913."

Is the EU going to curb free movement after all?
Political support for the Schengen travel zone is eroding among member states. Could there be life in Britain's membership of the European Union yet? Although it wasn't the only reason Britain voted to leave the EU, without the free movement of people, there would have been no Brexit vote.

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from Orthodox Christianity

CHURCHES OF MA'LOULA LOOTED BY MILITANTS BEING RESTORED IN SYRIA
The Ma’loula church complex, looted by Islamic militants, is being restored at an accelerated speed. One of the churches is expected to be ready for parishioners in the near future, RIA-Novosti reports.  “The most difficult was restoring the cave of St. Thekla. It suffered greatly, as did the Church of St. Elias. The specialists faced the difficult task of preserving the historical artifacts. However, some of the architectural monuments had to be built anew, because they were lost,” engineer Elias Hilal told reporters.

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from Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity
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Janet Reno: Saint or Tyrant?
When former Attorney General Janet Reno died last November, the media heaped praise on her as if she had been justice incarnate. Reno had long enjoyed sainthood inside the Beltway; the Women’s Bar Association of the District of Columbia even created a Janet Reno Torchbearer Award. But Reno’s record of deceit, brutality, and power grabs should not be forgotten by any American who cares about freedom.

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from The Spokesman-Review

Idaho unemployment drops to 2.9% in August, a 10-year low

Stargazers eye the nation’s first dark sky reserve in Idaho
Tourists heading to central Idaho will be in the dark if local officials get their way. The first International Dark Sky Reserve in the United States would fill a chunk of the state’s sparsely populated region that contains night skies so pristine that interstellar dust clouds are visible in the Milky Way.

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from Zero Hedge
CONSPIRACY-PSEUDOSCIENCE,  MIXED,  financial blog with aggregated news and opinion

North Korea Fires Ballistic Missile Over Japan; US Demands China, Russia "Take Direct Actions"
According to Yonhap, "North Korea fired an unidentified missile eastward from the vicinity of Pyongyang this morning," the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said. It added that South Korea and the United States are analyzing additional information. On August 29, the North lobbed a Hwasong-12 intermediate-range ballistic missile over the island nation in a similar provocation. US Secretary of State Tillerson has issued a rather aggressive (towards China and Russia) statement.

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