Thursday, December 21, 2017

In the news, Saturday, November 25, 2017


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from Asia Times Online

Militants kill hundreds at Sinai mosque in Egypt’s deadliest attack
Some observers said the attack showed that the president’s hardline policies against militancy in the Sinai may have made the situation worse

Inconvenient truths about migration
Poking a few holes in the economic and political arguments for open national borders
If the make-up of a community is changed too fast, it cuts people adrift from their own history, rendering them rootless. Liberals’ anxiety not to appear racist hides these truths from them. An explosion of what is now called populism is the inevitable result.

Farmers wary of Indonesian land reform program
Under the program, indigenous and other rural communities will gain greater control over roughly 15% of the country's total land area. There are doubts, however, about its sustainability

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from BBC News (UK)
LEFT-CENTER BIAS

A 100-year-old US riot only now being talked about
It's almost 100 years since 19 African-American soldiers were executed following a violent mutiny in Houston,Texas. Why is the US only now coming to terms with what happened?

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from Houston Chronicle
Chron.com from the Houston Chronicle : News & Media Website in Houston, Texas

Religion and art: So, how Jewish was Modigliani?
During time of great anti-Semitism, artist delved into his identity. Modigliani was raised in Livorno in northern Italy, which had welcomed Jews for centuries. The Modiglianis, cultured and upper-class, identified both as Italians and Jews and followed the teachings of the rabbi Elia Benamozegh, who preached a utopian universalism looking ahead to the uniting of all faiths in one Jewish-flavored brotherhood. Although Modigliani's religious education was traditional - he would sometimes chant the kaddish prayer for mourners when he was depressed - he was essentially secular, spoke fluent French and looked gentile: He easily could have "passed." But he chose not to.

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from New York Times
Newspaper in New York

Is There an Evangelical Crisis?
"Baylor professor Alan Jacobs responded to a question about where younger evangelical intellectual life is going by saying that “as far as I can tell, where young evangelicals are headed is simply out of evangelicalism.” Meaning that they will either go along with the drift of their elders and become church-of-American-greatness heretics, or else they will return to “older liturgical traditions,” Catholic and Orthodox and Anglican, and cease to identify with evangelicalism entirely."

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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington

U.S. Pavilion plans with temporary shade structure, no permanent cover approved by Spokane park officials
Temporary, sail-like fabric shading and cabana umbrellas will stretch above the new U.S. Pavilion during the summer, according to plans approved this month by the Spokane Park Board.

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