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from Asia Times Online
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has released the World Economic Outlook, October 2017: Seeking Sustainable Growth: Short-Term Recovery, Long-Term Challenges. The report, released on October 10, has dedicated an entire chapter to the impact of weather shocks and climate change on global economic activity. It warns that rising global temperatures could wreak havoc in parts of the world, particularly those with hotter climates, and calls on the global community to limit carbon emissions to levels consistent with an acceptable increase in temperature, one of the “fundamental challenges” of the 21st century.
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from Bloomberg
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Catalan President Carles Puigdemont has until 10 a.m. to tell the Spanish government whether he did, indeed, declare independence last week. If he says yes on Monday -- or even just ignores the deadline -- Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy may start the process to seize control of the rebel administration during the coming weeks. Catalan television station TV3, which is controlled by the regional government, said Puigdemont will deny Rajoy the clear ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ that he seeks.
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from Catholic Journal
In early September 2017, 47 conservative leaders in the U.S. signed an open letter accusing the Southern Poverty Law Center of pursuing a political agenda of equating conservatives with neo-Nazis. There are good reasons for these accusations. SPLC has gone from a respected information source to just another partisan political misinformation machine.
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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, HIGH, non-profit organization
The Source of America's Divisiveness Isn't What You Think
Pundits today are fond of saying that Americans are divided because of a broad slate of reasons, race, and gender being two primary ones. But according to a new Pew survey, these reasons may not be dividing America nearly as much as we’ve been led to believe. In fact, it appears that political party may hold a good share of the blame on that front. As Pew explains, the differences between Republicans and Democrats on various hot-button issues have widened from 15 points to 36 points in the last two decades. By contrast, division due to race, religion, age, and gender has remained fairly stable.
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from Independent Sentinel
RIGHT BIAS
Terror Attack on Civil War Reenactors, Crickets from Media
A potential terrorist attack on a Civil War reenactment encampment was foiled days after threats were made. A pipe bomb was found and the FBI is investigating according to reports.
Time to Cut Off Ungrateful NFL’s Corporate Welfare Payments
The NFL players are kneeling, not to simply protest police, but to show their disrespect for the flag and country or they would kneel in front of police stations. The players’ union is working with leftist Soros groups and their goal is to tear down our institutions and all pillars of society. It’s the same movement that’s behind tearing down our statues, attacking Christians, promoting lawlessness, pushing immorality in the media and entertainment industries, demanding open borders, and glorifying communists like Cesar Chavez.
RIGHT BIAS
Terror Attack on Civil War Reenactors, Crickets from Media
A potential terrorist attack on a Civil War reenactment encampment was foiled days after threats were made. A pipe bomb was found and the FBI is investigating according to reports.
Time to Cut Off Ungrateful NFL’s Corporate Welfare Payments
The NFL players are kneeling, not to simply protest police, but to show their disrespect for the flag and country or they would kneel in front of police stations. The players’ union is working with leftist Soros groups and their goal is to tear down our institutions and all pillars of society. It’s the same movement that’s behind tearing down our statues, attacking Christians, promoting lawlessness, pushing immorality in the media and entertainment industries, demanding open borders, and glorifying communists like Cesar Chavez.
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from Newsmax
Despite Trump's Plea, Lagarde Says IMF Will Not Change Policy Toward Iran
Barely 24 hours after President Donald Trump called on the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank to stop lending to Iran, IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde firmly said no. Asked her response to Trump on Iran, Lagarde told reporters Saturday at the IMF/World Bank meetings in Washington that "we operate with 189 members and we only provide support and enter into program negotiations when a country asks for it."
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from The Spokesman-Review
Saving Salish: Regional tribes aim to increase fluency for future generations
The languages we speak and the words we choose have the ability to change the way we see the world. A year ago, the Kalispel Tribe opened the Salish immersion school and they aren't the only ones. Tribes from all over Washington state are working to save the Salish language and pass it on to future generations.
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from Sputnik
(Russian government-supported propaganda channel)
With the Czech Premier rooting for the adoption of the euro as the only way for the country’s export-oriented economy to stay afloat, energy expert Zdenek Zbytek warned of the negative impact this could have on the country. With the precipitous economic climate in Greece, and serious and endemic structural problems across the Mediterranean, Eastern European countries, which once appeared enthusiastic to join the Eurozone, are now having second thoughts. “A switch to the euro would be good news for export-oriented businesses as it would stabilize prices. Not so for ordinary people whose salaries will not be able to match the European prices we are going to have here if we adopt the euro,” Zdenek Zbytek, chairman of the Czech Energy Technologies consortium, said in an interview with Sputnik Czech.
Damascus calls the recent deployment of the country's troops to the Syrian Idlib province an invasion, while Turkey defines it as a move coordinated with other states. The deployment of Turkish troops to the northern Syrian Idlib province was a joint decision by the Astana process guarantor states, taken as a follow-up to the peace talks, Ismail Kahraman, a speaker of the Turkish Grand National Assembly, told Sputnik on Sunday. The speaker of the Turkish Grand National Assembly also commented on the recent diplomatic tensions in Ankara's relations with Washington, saying that they have a temporary nature and the crisis would be settled before it becomes a real problem for the two states.
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from Zero Hedge
CONSPIRACY-PSEUDOSCIENCE, MIXED, financial blog with aggregated news and opinion
Meet The 31-Year-Old Austrian Anti-Immigrant Who Just Became The World's Youngest Leader
Austria's young conservative star, Sebastian Kurz, is now assured of becoming the country's next leader, projections of Sunday’s parliamentary election result showed, but his party is far short of a majority and is likely to seek a coalition with the resurgent far right. To his supporters, Kurz is Austria’s Macron: a one-man political phenomenon who is the only thing standing between the country’s resurgent nationalists and power. But to his detractors he is the Austrian Trump, who has hijacked one of the country’s two main parties and refashioned it in his own image. His critics say he is only holding the populists back by adopting their anti-immigrant rhetoric and policies. Kurz now has a mandate to form a coalition, replace Social Democrat Christian Kern as chancellor and become the world’s youngest government leader.
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