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Some sources may require subscription.
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from Asia Times Online
Beijing can no longer wait to prepare contingency plans for the worst, says Chinese scholar
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from BBC News (UK)
LEFT-CENTER BIAS
A writer who became notorious for peddling "fake news" during the 2016 US election campaign has died at 38. Paul Horner was found dead in his bed in Laveen, Arizona, on 18 September, after a suspected drug overdose, officials said.
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from CNSNews.com (& MRC & NewsBusters)
RIGHT BIAS
Chuck Todd: Roy Moore ‘Doesn’t Appear to Believe in the Constitution as It’s Written’
MSNBC’s MTP Daily host Chuck Todd led off Wednesday’s show with an asinine, pants-on-fire assertion that Alabama Republican senatorial candidate Roy Moore “doesn't appear to believe in the Constitution as it's written” because Moore said our rights come from God. For any non-revisionist individual who’s read the Constitution or commentaries on it, they would know that Todd’s slam against Moore is pure and utter fake news. Why? It’s because the Constitution ensures that our God-given rights aren’t hinged upon by the government.
Tim Allen Blasts High Taxes, Says Show Business 'Is All Prostitution’
In a new interview with Norm MacDonald, “Last Man Standing” star Tim Allen talked about politics and show business. While Allen has been pegged as a conservative, he said that he’s more of an anarchist who is suspicious of all forms of authority and big government.
Super Bowl Champ Endorses MRC's NFL Boycott: 'Sign Me Up'
If the National Football League (NFL) doesn’t respect the American flag, “Let’s show them how important it is,” former NFL star safety Burgess Owens told CNSNews.com in an exclusive interview. Owens, who played for the Oakland Raiders and the New York Jets, winning a Super Bowl with the Raiders, in his ten-year (1973-82) NFL career, is now a co-host of the Conservative Commandos Radio Show.
Left-Wing Protesters Arrested At Berkeley For Rioting and Assaulting People Inside An ‘Empathy Tent’
At least four left-wing activists were arrested while protesting a free speech event at the University of California, Berkeley. Part of the chaos at the event included a scuffle inside an “empathy tent” directed towards opening up dialogue between right-wingers and left-wingers.
from Eurozine
Arts & Entertainment in Vienna, Austria
Between post-truth and epistemocracy: Positioning a democratic politics
From dialectical materialism to neoliberalism, any politics that lays claims to the truth is both illusory and dangerous. But does this mean that democracy is simply rule by opinion, without recourse to facts? And does the rejection of absolute relativism mean abandoning the postmodernist critique of truth and power?
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Chuck Todd: Roy Moore ‘Doesn’t Appear to Believe in the Constitution as It’s Written’
MSNBC’s MTP Daily host Chuck Todd led off Wednesday’s show with an asinine, pants-on-fire assertion that Alabama Republican senatorial candidate Roy Moore “doesn't appear to believe in the Constitution as it's written” because Moore said our rights come from God. For any non-revisionist individual who’s read the Constitution or commentaries on it, they would know that Todd’s slam against Moore is pure and utter fake news. Why? It’s because the Constitution ensures that our God-given rights aren’t hinged upon by the government.
Tim Allen Blasts High Taxes, Says Show Business 'Is All Prostitution’
In a new interview with Norm MacDonald, “Last Man Standing” star Tim Allen talked about politics and show business. While Allen has been pegged as a conservative, he said that he’s more of an anarchist who is suspicious of all forms of authority and big government.
Super Bowl Champ Endorses MRC's NFL Boycott: 'Sign Me Up'
If the National Football League (NFL) doesn’t respect the American flag, “Let’s show them how important it is,” former NFL star safety Burgess Owens told CNSNews.com in an exclusive interview. Owens, who played for the Oakland Raiders and the New York Jets, winning a Super Bowl with the Raiders, in his ten-year (1973-82) NFL career, is now a co-host of the Conservative Commandos Radio Show.
Left-Wing Protesters Arrested At Berkeley For Rioting and Assaulting People Inside An ‘Empathy Tent’
At least four left-wing activists were arrested while protesting a free speech event at the University of California, Berkeley. Part of the chaos at the event included a scuffle inside an “empathy tent” directed towards opening up dialogue between right-wingers and left-wingers.
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from Eurozine
Arts & Entertainment in Vienna, Austria
Between post-truth and epistemocracy: Positioning a democratic politics
From dialectical materialism to neoliberalism, any politics that lays claims to the truth is both illusory and dangerous. But does this mean that democracy is simply rule by opinion, without recourse to facts? And does the rejection of absolute relativism mean abandoning the postmodernist critique of truth and power?
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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, HIGH, non-profit organization
The Best Fantasy Has Roots in History
It turns out that we need familiarity in our most escapist fiction. And we need to believe (or be reminded) that the fantastic is not so distant from our history and our experience.
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from The Guardian (UK)
LEFT-CENTER BIAS, HIGH, daily newspaper
Ads don't work so websites are using your electricity to pay the bills
Pirate Bay and Showtime turned to forcing unknowing visitors to mine cryptocurrency, using computers rather than eyeballs on ads to generate money.
Ads don't work so websites are using your electricity to pay the bills
Pirate Bay and Showtime turned to forcing unknowing visitors to mine cryptocurrency, using computers rather than eyeballs on ads to generate money.
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from Hoover Institution
Islamism In Southeast Asia
The rise of radical Islam in the Middle East over the past few decades now may be reaching the Far East. This appears along a scale of seriousness from new levels of political concern to the reality of enhanced tensions and violence from west to east along an archipelago of national territories from Thailand’s Isthmus of Kra, down the Malaysian peninsula into Indonesia’s Sumatra, Java, and eastern islands, and up into Mindanao in the Philippines. Taken together, indeed with Indonesia alone, these lands hold by far the largest Muslim population in the world.
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Islamism In Southeast Asia
The rise of radical Islam in the Middle East over the past few decades now may be reaching the Far East. This appears along a scale of seriousness from new levels of political concern to the reality of enhanced tensions and violence from west to east along an archipelago of national territories from Thailand’s Isthmus of Kra, down the Malaysian peninsula into Indonesia’s Sumatra, Java, and eastern islands, and up into Mindanao in the Philippines. Taken together, indeed with Indonesia alone, these lands hold by far the largest Muslim population in the world.
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from RAND Corporation
new RAND report proposes that despite their differences, Russia, China and the United States should act jointly to head off a little-recognized security threat—the proliferation of hypersonic missiles beyond the three nations. The spread of this new class of weapons would increase the chance of strategic (missile-based) wars and would jeopardize nations small and large—including the three nations that now have the technology, according to the study, which is the first-ever detailed examination of the issue.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Taliban target Mattis’ plane at Kabul airport; woman killed
The Taliban unleashed a barrage of rockets at the Kabul international airport on Wednesday in a brazen attack that the insurgents said targeted the plane of visiting U.S. Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis. In response, the U.S. said it launched two missiles, one of which missed its intended target and killed at least one Afghan civilian. Afghan officials said one Afghan woman was killed and 11 civilians were wounded in the Taliban attack. Afghan special forces managed to repel the attackers, killing four in an ensuing gunbattle, officials said.
Governor taps Mary Kuney to fill vacancy on Spokane County Commission
Gov. Jay Inslee on Wednesday tapped Mary Kuney to fill a vacancy on the Spokane County Commission, less than two weeks after the sitting commissioners announced they could not agree on selecting a new colleague themselves. Kuney, the county’s chief deputy auditor, was one of three people that the county Republican Party nominated for the commission seat. The others were County Treasurer Rob Chase and marketing consultant John Guarisco. The seat was previously held by Shelly O’Quinn, who resigned in June to lead a local nonprofit.
Lincoln County residents fight biosolids on nearby farm
Fight over plans to use treated sewer sludge as fertilizer on a Lincoln County farm highlights the controversy over what to do with the left overs from the state’s waste water treatment plants.
Knezovich warns North Monroe road project would impede evacuation of downtown Spokane during emergencies
Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich waded into a contentious discussion about street design earlier this month by officially coming out against the planned street renovation on North Monroe, saying its redesign will “decrease the public safety for the entire region.”
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from Sputnik
(Russian government-supported propaganda channel)
The final files pertaining to the 1963 assassination of then-US President John F. Kennedy will be released on October 26, but forces within US intelligence may intend to appeal to US President Donald Trump to keep the files from ever seeing the light of day.
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from Washington Examiner
Trump preparing executive order to let Americans purchase health insurance across state lines
President Trump is preparing an executive order to allow people to purchase health insurance across state lines, a reform conservatives have long championed as a way to bring costs down and stir greater competition in the national marketplace. A Senate GOP source told the Washington Examiner the executive action is considered "a done deal" and likely to be announced "in the next few weeks."
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from Zero Hedge
CONSPIRACY-PSEUDOSCIENCE, MIXED, financial blog with aggregated news and opinion
JPMorgan Ordered To Pay Over $4 Billion To Widow And Family
A Dallas jury ordered JPMorgan Chase to pay more than $4 billion in damages for mishandling the estate of a former American Airlines executive. Jo Hopper and two stepchildren won a probate court verdict over claims that JPMorgan mismanaged the administration of the estate of Max Hopper, who was described as an airline technology innovator by the family’s law firm. The bank, which was hired by the family in 2010 to independently administer the estate of Hopper, was found in breach of its fiduciary duties and contract. In total, JP Morgan Chase was ordered to pay at least $4 billion in punitive damages, approximately $4.7 million in actual damages, and $5 million in attorney fees.
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