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from BBC News (UK)
LEFT-CENTER BIAS
Google has found evidence that Russian agents spent tens of thousands of dollars on adverts in a bid to sway the 2016 US election, media reports say.
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from Bloomberg
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
More older people are living on their own, and fewer have close relatives to help them out as they age.
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from The Daily Caller
RIGHT BIAS
California To Have Harsher Penalty For Pronoun Violations Than For Knowingly Spreading HIV
California To Have Harsher Penalty For Pronoun Violations Than For Knowingly Spreading HIV
Beginning in 2018, California law will have harsher penalties for health care workers who address a senior transgender patient with the “wrong” pronouns than for people who knowingly infect others with HIV. California Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation on Friday lowering the maximum penalty for knowingly infecting or exposing a person to HIV to six months in prison — down from a maximum of eight years. Also last week, Brown signed legislation allowing for penalties of up to one year in jail for health care workers who “willfully and repeatedly” use the “wrong” pronouns to refer to a senior transgender patient.
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from EUobserver
Brexit ping-pong as both sides say 'ball in your court'
The EU hit back at British prime minister Theresa May on Monday (9 October), insisting it is the UK that needs to make a move in Brexit negotiations if she wants to move on to trade talks with the bloc. "The ball is entirely in the UK's court for the rest to happen," European Commission spokesman Margaritis Schinas told reporters at lunchtime. May, meanwhile, said in a speech on Monday to MPs in the Westminster parliament that "the ball is in their [EU] court". "Achieving that partnership will require leadership and flexibility, not just from us but from our friends, the 27 nations of the EU," she said. This latest war of words comes as the fifth round of Brexit talks started on Monday in Brussels.
Spanish constitution needs overhaul to avert Catalonia crisis
Television footage of Guardia Civil officers in riot gear manhandling Catalonian citizens as they tried to vote in Sunday's independence referendum has shocked Europe. But this is not a simple case of a state denying the democratic rights of its people. The crisis in Catalonia is the result of a clash between increasingly radical separatism and a constitutional framework that is too rigid to accommodate those demands. To de-escalate the situation, Mariano Rajoy, Spain's prime minister, needs to urgently reform the country's model of regional government and change the constitution so it can better satisfy the hunger for greater self-determination in parts of the country.
Endocrine legislation could be delayed years after veto
MEPs last week blocked the European Commission's proposal to define hormone-disrupting chemicals, saying it did not go far enough to protect human health. They may inadvertently have kicked EU legislation on the matter into the next parliamentary term.
Far-right political groups miss EU funding deadline
Some six far-right and nationalist European political groups, who largely depend on pubilc grants, will not receive any funding from the EU next year. The move follows the European Parliament's end-of-September registration deadline to access millions of euros in grants ahead of the 2019 elections. The groups either did not register, or failed to meet any number of conditions required by a new oversight authority. Among them is the far-right nationalist Alliance for Peace and Freedom (APF), whose members include politicians from the Greek neo-nazi Golden Dawn party and Germany's NPD, another ultra nationalist political party with a neo-nazi ideology.
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Brexit ping-pong as both sides say 'ball in your court'
The EU hit back at British prime minister Theresa May on Monday (9 October), insisting it is the UK that needs to make a move in Brexit negotiations if she wants to move on to trade talks with the bloc. "The ball is entirely in the UK's court for the rest to happen," European Commission spokesman Margaritis Schinas told reporters at lunchtime. May, meanwhile, said in a speech on Monday to MPs in the Westminster parliament that "the ball is in their [EU] court". "Achieving that partnership will require leadership and flexibility, not just from us but from our friends, the 27 nations of the EU," she said. This latest war of words comes as the fifth round of Brexit talks started on Monday in Brussels.
Spanish constitution needs overhaul to avert Catalonia crisis
Television footage of Guardia Civil officers in riot gear manhandling Catalonian citizens as they tried to vote in Sunday's independence referendum has shocked Europe. But this is not a simple case of a state denying the democratic rights of its people. The crisis in Catalonia is the result of a clash between increasingly radical separatism and a constitutional framework that is too rigid to accommodate those demands. To de-escalate the situation, Mariano Rajoy, Spain's prime minister, needs to urgently reform the country's model of regional government and change the constitution so it can better satisfy the hunger for greater self-determination in parts of the country.
Endocrine legislation could be delayed years after veto
MEPs last week blocked the European Commission's proposal to define hormone-disrupting chemicals, saying it did not go far enough to protect human health. They may inadvertently have kicked EU legislation on the matter into the next parliamentary term.
Far-right political groups miss EU funding deadline
Some six far-right and nationalist European political groups, who largely depend on pubilc grants, will not receive any funding from the EU next year. The move follows the European Parliament's end-of-September registration deadline to access millions of euros in grants ahead of the 2019 elections. The groups either did not register, or failed to meet any number of conditions required by a new oversight authority. Among them is the far-right nationalist Alliance for Peace and Freedom (APF), whose members include politicians from the Greek neo-nazi Golden Dawn party and Germany's NPD, another ultra nationalist political party with a neo-nazi ideology.
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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, HIGH, non-profit organization
The European Union Is Doomed to Fail
How on earth can the European Union unite that which history forced asunder? The European Union, French President Emmanuel Macron has recently declared to almost universal acclaim, needs more unity, including the creation of “a eurozone budget managed by a eurozone parliament and a eurozone finance minister”. On a continent inhabited by a multitude of diverse peoples with no shared identity, Macron’s proposal, if implemented, will surely prove to be the EU’s undoing.
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from First Things
For my father’s generation, the key sign of advancing years was the fact that the policemen started to look far too young to be entrusted with the task of keeping law and order. For my generation, the advent of old age is signaled by the fact that some of the feared wild feminists of my youth start to make admirable sense even when opining on matters relating to the battle of the sexes. Transgender ideology depends upon a distinction between the male and female genders, even while denying the only grounds for maintaining that distinction: genetic and physiological difference. Women’s colleges, like women’s sports, are an anachronism in the world of gender fluidity.
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from Huffington Post
[Information from this site may be unreliable.]
Are You Gay? Che Guevara Would Have Sent You To A Concentration Camp
Today, after 50 years of his death, many people still remember Ernesto “Che” Guevara as a warrior for social justice. For so many celebrities, politicians, and activists, Che Guevara is a kind of Good Samaritan who fought against oppression and tyranny. It is unfortunate, though, that these people ignore some of their idol’s defining character traits. Che Guevara was in fact an intolerant and despicable man.
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Are You Gay? Che Guevara Would Have Sent You To A Concentration Camp
Today, after 50 years of his death, many people still remember Ernesto “Che” Guevara as a warrior for social justice. For so many celebrities, politicians, and activists, Che Guevara is a kind of Good Samaritan who fought against oppression and tyranny. It is unfortunate, though, that these people ignore some of their idol’s defining character traits. Che Guevara was in fact an intolerant and despicable man.
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from Mises Institute
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]On Columbus Day, it's helpful to remember that the American Indians have always been rational users of private property, just like everyone else. One of Ayn Rand's most notorious claims is that Europeans and their descendants were justified in driving Indian tribes off their lands because aboriginal Americans "did not have the concept of property or property rights," and because they "wish[ed] to continue a primitive existence." Rand also claims the Indian tribes had no right to the land they lived on because "they didn't have a settled society," and "had predominantly nomadic tribal 'cultures.'" Rand even uses scare quotes around "cultures" to perhaps imply that Indian culture was not any type of culture at all.
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from MSN News
The 50 Safest Cities in the World
One of the biggest concerns for potential vacationers is whether or not the place they've chosen to visit will be safe. This concern has only grown in recent years, and it's a good one to have. Travel safety is important. Depending on where you travel, you might have to consider any number of security concerns as a traveler. Even something as minor as having your pocket picked could ruin an entire vacation, and some attractive destinations carry with them much more serious risks.
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from New York Times
How Russia Harvested American Rage to Reshape U.S. Politics
YouTube videos of police beatings on American streets. A widely circulated internet hoax about Muslim men in Michigan collecting welfare for multiple wives. A local news story about two veterans brutally mugged on a freezing winter night. All of these were recorded, posted or written by Americans. Yet all ended up becoming grist for a network of Facebook pages linked to a shadowy Russian company that has carried out propaganda campaigns for the Kremlin, and which is now believed to be at the center of a far-reaching Russian program to influence the 2016 presidential election.
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from Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
Dennis Kucinich: We Must Challenge the ‘Two-Party Duopoly’ Committed to War
In a new interview with host Jesse Ventura at RT, former United States presidential candidate and House of Representatives Member Dennis Kucinich stressed the importance of the American people challenging the “two-party duopoly that’s committed to war.” In the interview, Kucinich discusses his work to expose the misinformation used to argue for US government interventions overseas before and during the Iraq War and, later, concerning the US effort to assist in the overthrow of the Syria government.
Dennis Kucinich: We Must Challenge the ‘Two-Party Duopoly’ Committed to War
In a new interview with host Jesse Ventura at RT, former United States presidential candidate and House of Representatives Member Dennis Kucinich stressed the importance of the American people challenging the “two-party duopoly that’s committed to war.” In the interview, Kucinich discusses his work to expose the misinformation used to argue for US government interventions overseas before and during the Iraq War and, later, concerning the US effort to assist in the overthrow of the Syria government.
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from The Spokesman-Review
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from Sputnik
(Russian government-supported propaganda channel)
On Saturday, an indigenous woman supported by the Zapatista movement her intention to run as an independent candidate in next year’s presidential election in Mexico. Candidate Maria de Jesus Patricio Martinez of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation — a left wing political and militant group from the southernmost Mexican state of Chiapas — is a spokeswoman for the National Indigenous Congress, an organization that claims on their website to be "a space of unity, reflection and organization of the indigenous peoples of Mexico." Martinez, who was selected in May 2017 to run in the July 1, 2018, election, has pledged to run her campaign with no government funding, Reuters reported.
No longer a spectator sport, referring to the strikingly unpopular US President Donald Trump as a moron - or worse - has become popular enough to make it more than just a simple internet meme. Two days before being awarded the 2017 Nobel Peace prize — considered by many to be the world's most prestigious accolade — the International Campaign Against Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), in the form of its executive director Beatrice Fihn, tweeted what many have expressed in one way or another before her, that the US is saddled with a president who is a "moron."
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from The Washington Free Beacon
Dissident Reveals Secret Chinese Intelligence Plans Targeting U.S.
Guo Wengui calls China communist system a 'kleptocracy,' vows reform. China earlier this year ordered the dispatch of 27 intelligence officers to the United States as part of a larger campaign of subversion, according to a leading Chinese dissident.
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