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from Al Arabiya English
Saudi Arabia signs agreement to manufacture Russian weapons locally
The Saudi Arabian Military Industries (SAMI) signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Russia's state company for exporting military products ROSOBORONEXPORT to manufacture high-grade military equipment in the kingdom. The agreement, SAMI announced, includes the transfer of technology for the local production of the Kornet-EM anti-tank guided missile (ATGM) system, the TOS-1A advanced multiple rocket launcher and AGS-30 automatic grenade launchers with grenades.
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from The Blaze (& Glenn Beck)
RIGHT BIAS
The Freedom from Religion Foundation — a national atheist activist group — has demanded that an Alabama high school marching band stop its “religious” halftime performances at football games, AL.com reported. The First Amendment forbids Congress from establishing a state religion. A "religious" half time show does not establish a state religion.
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from Business Insider
LEFT-CENTER BIASAmazing images of London show the city's evolution over nearly 2,000 years
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from CNN
LEFT BIAS
He seemed so ordinary, just another house-hunting retiree, when he strolled with his girlfriend into the sales office of the Sun City development in late 2014. The agents had just what Stephen Craig Paddock was looking for -- a 2,000-square-foot, two-bedroom stucco rambler on a cul-de-sac. Other houses might offer bigger floor plans, but the one on Babbling Brook Court had two big selling points: a commanding hilltop view and, perhaps most importantly, privacy. Neighbors lived to the left and right, but none behind the home. Paddock quickly said he'd take it.
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from EUobserver
History of the agencies (re)shuffle
The scramble among member states to host EU agencies is a feature of European integration that dates back to the founding of the first decentralised bodies. A dive into the archives shows that time and again, political deal-making, not logic or objective criteria, is the decisive factor for determining the seat of an EU agency.
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History of the agencies (re)shuffle
The scramble among member states to host EU agencies is a feature of European integration that dates back to the founding of the first decentralised bodies. A dive into the archives shows that time and again, political deal-making, not logic or objective criteria, is the decisive factor for determining the seat of an EU agency.
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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
October 1 showed the US why we need civilian guns.
I was raised around guns and was taught about responsible gun ownership at a very young age. When I turned 21 years old and was legally able to carry a gun, I immediately felt safer. Nothing could harm me because my firearm was the great equalizer. There was one minor issue: my Second Amendment rights didn't exist on my college campus. I was naïve and believed what they told me during orientation: that there was no need to worry because campus police are only a phone call away. All was well until that fateful evening when I became another statistic.
In the wake of the mass shooting in Las Vegas, which left dozens dead and hundreds wounded, a great number of people have laid the blame on America’s relatively lax gun laws and alleged unwillingness to adopt “common sense” gun control. In particular, gun control advocates tell us America could eliminate mass shootings if only we followed Australia’s lead. The case of gun control advocates for the US to move to the Australia model for gun ownership is faulty at best.
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from The Guardian (UK)
LEFT-CENTER BIAS, HIGH, daily newspaper
'Our minds can be hijacked': the tech insiders who fear a smartphone dystopia
Google, Twitter and Facebook workers who helped make technology so addictive are disconnecting themselves from the internet. Paul Lewis reports on the Silicon Valley refuseniks alarmed by a race for human attention.
'Our minds can be hijacked': the tech insiders who fear a smartphone dystopia
Google, Twitter and Facebook workers who helped make technology so addictive are disconnecting themselves from the internet. Paul Lewis reports on the Silicon Valley refuseniks alarmed by a race for human attention.
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from Miami Herald
The movie quote goes, "You can't handle the truth!" These days one wonders, do we even want the truth?
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from Mises Institute
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]Philipp Bagus and Andreas Marquart explain why a world of small states would be more peaceful and more free.
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from New York Post
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from New York Times
How Europe’s Last Dictatorship Became a Tech Hub
Minsk, the capital of Belarus, is home to more than 30,000 tech workers, and many of them are creating mobile apps used across the world.
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from Orthodox Christianity
His Beatitude Patriarch of Antioch and All the East John X is arriving in America at a particularly tragic time, marked by the destruction of numerous churches and monasteries and murder of Christians in Syria. “The purpose of the visit is to meet with the leadership of the United Nations as well as members of the current administration of the United States to: 1) promote a peaceful solution to the Syrian crisis, 2) highlight the current humanitarian crisis, and 3) discuss the future of Christians in Syria and the Middle East,” the official website of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America reports. His Beatitude will also be an honored guest at the “In Defense of Christians” Summit in Washington, D.C., from October 24–26. The Summit is entitled “American Leadership and Securing the Future of Christians in the Middle East.” At the same time, the Maronite (Catholic) Patriarch Bechara Peter Cardinal Rai will be in the United States with a similar mission.
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from Reuters
How the Las Vegas shooter foiled a well-drilled counter-terrorism plan
Las Vegas had spent years planning for the worst: training its police force according to an anti-terrorism protocol it adopted in 2009 to respond to mass shootings, chemical attacks, suicide bombings, and planes flying into buildings, according to city officials and security professionals. But when it came to Sunday night’s attack that killed 58 people and wounded hundreds more at an open-air concert in the city, police found themselves with few options to stop the gunman quickly, they said. It underscored the difficulty American cities face in protecting citizens from attacks that can take unpredictable forms.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Plans for parking garage move forward at Wonder Bread building
The Wonder Bread bakery just north of downtown Spokane used to pump out 5,000 loaves of bread an hour. Soon it’ll produce urban appeal, with space for a restaurant, retail, offices and an artisan food market. The $15 million project will bring a new, three-story parking garage to the area – which has only grown more popular with the development of Kendall Yards – plans to build a $60 million, 13-story tower on the old YWCA site, and a newly unveiled proposal for a 5-acre sports complex on the north end of Riverfront Park.
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