Friday, July 20, 2018

In the news, Thursday, July 5, 2018


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from Conciliar Post

For some Christians, the church needs to become relevant again, because orthodoxy means staleness. While orthodoxy may have governed the way the Christian Church operated for a time, the challenges of the modern word call for a different approach. Fresh engagement, new ways of things, and an adoption of the language of the “other” are the expectations of this camp. Of course, for other Christians, the desire for relevance distorts the very thing trying to be made relevant. In short, relevance becomes a code word for theological liberalism or heresy. 

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from The Federalist
RIGHT BIAS, HIGH, online magazine

It’s hard to imagine a civil rights movement so indelibly tied to the capitalist marketplace that it could be used to sell fashion, makeup, hormones, surgery, cosmetology services, movies, TV series, mental health treatment, and women’s underwear, while concurrently being invested in by billionaire philanthropists, the technology and pharmaceutical industries, major corporations, and banks. ... We need to look at what transgenderism does, how it functions, and how it is growing in the culture, and to ask why it does what it does, what it is asking of us, why it is so tightly wedded to commerce, and where it is leading. The trans lobby screams civil rights, but transgenderism looks and functions just like the worst of capitalism.

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from Fox News (& affiliates)

Germany willing to cut tariffs on US cars, lifting automakers’ shares
Germany’s chancellor said Thursday she’s willing to back lower tariffs on U.S. auto imports as a potential European Union (EU) concession to the Trump administration – just one day after CEOs of Germany’s biggest carmakers reportedly voiced support for eliminating such tariffs entirely.

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from The Guardian (UK)
LEFT-CENTER BIAS, HIGH, daily newspaper

Charles I's 'message for the future' discovered in poetry book
“While I breathe, I hope.” This “cryptic message” discovered in a copy of The Faerie Queene reveals it to be one of the books Charles I read during his final imprisonment. The volume is just one of the treasures from the library at West Horsley Place that the television presenter Bamber Gascoigne is selling at auction to raise money to turn it into a cultural centre.

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from HumanProgress.org  Education Website

The Reports of the Death of Democracy Are Exaggerated
From a historical perspective, democracy is a relatively new phenomenon. For most of humanity’s recorded history, people have lived under some form of autocracy. Power was concentrated in the hands of one person, such as an absolute monarch, or a small group of people, such as oligarchs.

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from The New American Magazine
RIGHT BIAS: John Birch Society

Polish Official: “We Will Not Receive Even One Muslim” in Poland
A sea change is occurring in Europe — and the continent may never be the same again. Whereas just some years ago immigrationism would not be questioned, the ice is now beyond broken: European nations are increasingly rebelling against globalist, culture-rending European Union migration policies. The latest example is a Polish official who, responding to an attempt at politically correct shaming, unabashedly told a British television host, “We will not receive even one Muslim, because this is what we promised.... This is why our government was elected, this is why Poland is so safe, this is why we have not had even one terror attack.”

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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington

11 people, multiple pets, escape house fire near Gonzaga that’s under investigation as arson
An early-morning house fire in north Spokane that displaced 11 people is being investigated as arson. At about 3 a.m. Thursday morning, multiple crews with the Spokane Fire Department were called to 119 E. Sinto Ave. near Gonzaga University, where they saw heavy smoke and flames coming from the second floor of single-family residence, firefighters said in a news release.

Spokane County’s population passes 500,000 mark following strong job growth
Spokane County’s population has passed the half-million mark, with an estimated 507,950 people living here, according to new state estimates. Over the past 12 months, the county’s population grew by 8,150 people. Hiring in the region and affordable housing costs were likely drivers, local economists say.

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