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from Activist Post
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
Starting in June of 2018, Facebook began deleting pages with up to 40 million followers in an unprecedented assault on independent media outlets using the platform.
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from Asia Times Online
News & Media Website
As was the case last night, Treasuries have been following Bunds in response to political headlines – this is a very odd development. The tail wagged the dog again overnight as the 10-year Bund led the US 10-year Treasury.
Spiraling deficit and rhetoric at the World Trade Organization will increase tensions between Washington and Beijing. China’s exports to the United States hit a record high last month.
The present approach has not worked in the past and will not work in the future and Washington needs to travel the road not taken.
The US President's blitzkrieg at the Brussels summit, calling NATO obsolete and for member states to boost spending to defend themselves is correct. After the NATO summit in Brussels, the definitive Decline of the West has been declared a done deal.
Donald Trump may not be a reincarnated Hitler, but Republicans’ acquiescence in every step he has taken away from civilized democratic norms is ominous.
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from The Babylon Bee [Satire]
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from Competitive Enterprise Institute
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS
1. Most of the waste is not from consumers. 2. Studies show the vast majority of plastic waste is due to poor disposal practices outside of the United States. 3. Plastic is more sanitary and safer to use than other alternatives. 4. Plastics have important environmental benefits. 5. Plastics are economical.
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from Crosscut (Seattle)
Affordable health care takes a leap of faith
Self-employed. Contract worker. Small business owner. If your situation ticks any of these boxes, you likely fit the profile of a loser under the Affordable Care Act. Ticking all three boxes made abandoning the insurance industry and joining a health care sharing ministry less a leap of faith and more of a necessity in November 2014. Health care sharing ministries are a faith-based model for how a community takes care of its own. Members pay a monthly fee into the ministry, which then pays for larger medical expenses. It’s the original template for insurance.
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from HumanProgress.org Education Website
Market Has Achieved What Marx Wanted - Less Labor
Even within Marx's own lifetime the average Englishman became three times richer. The overall number of hours worked has declined in tandem with increasing prosperity. Plainly put, the richer the country, the less people work.
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from Miami Herald
They did not have to die. That’s the bitter truth. Katie Sasser and her friend John Hall would likely still be alive if cops and prosecutors in Glynn County, Georgia, had done their jobs. But they were more interested in protecting one of their own. So Sasser and Hall were shot to death in June by Sasser’s estranged husband, Robert C. Sasser. He then killed himself. Consider it the grim coda to a tale told in this space in 2016, about the most troubling police shooting you’ve never heard of. It began in June of 2010 when Caroline Small, a troubled 35-year-old woman, led police on a low-speed chase after being spotted using drugs.
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from Orthodox Christianity
Organization in Moscow, Russia
The head of the Russian Imperial House of Romanov, Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna will take part in the “Royal Days” events in Ekaterinburg for the centenary celebrations of the July 17, 1918 murder of Tsar Nicholas II and his family and faithful servants.
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from Space.com (& CollectSpace)
Towers Toppled at Historic Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 17
The last two launch towers to stand at Cape Canaveral since the dawn of the Space Age are no more. The twin mobile gantries at Launch Complex 17 (LC-17) were imploded Thursday morning (July 12), toppling the oldest remaining launch pad structures at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The United States Air Force's 45th Space Wing oversaw the demolition, which leveled the landmark towers just after 7 a.m. EDT (1100 GMT).
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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US-Led Coalition Pledges 'Stabilization Assistance' to Syrian Areas
The foreign ministers of the US-led coalition against the Islamic State (Daesh, ISIS) terrorist group pledged during a meeting in Brussels "immediate stabilization assistance" to support areas of Syria that had been liberated from Daesh, the State Department said in a press release on Thursday.
Trump ‘Acting Like Tony Soprano’ By Demanding NATO Members ‘Pony Up’ on Spending
US President Donald Trump is tapping into his inner mobster by demanding that NATO allies fork over more money to the organization, anti-war activist and former British parliamentarian George Galloway told Radio Sputnik Thursday.
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from Sputnik
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, MIXED, Broadcasting & Media Production Company out of Moscow, Russia
The foreign ministers of the US-led coalition against the Islamic State (Daesh, ISIS) terrorist group pledged during a meeting in Brussels "immediate stabilization assistance" to support areas of Syria that had been liberated from Daesh, the State Department said in a press release on Thursday.
US President Donald Trump is tapping into his inner mobster by demanding that NATO allies fork over more money to the organization, anti-war activist and former British parliamentarian George Galloway told Radio Sputnik Thursday.
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from Vox
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
US President Donald Trump will meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in Finland next week in one of the most anticipated summits in years. The two leaders will likely discuss Russia’s meddling in the 2016 presidential election; how to wind down the war in Syria; Moscow’s annexation of Crimea and broader incursion into Ukraine; and how to reduce the number of nuclear weapons around the world.
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