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from Asia Times Online
News & Media Website
With help from Beijing, Erdogan is hoping to find an alternative to IMF loans, one that could turn Turkey into 'an economic satrapy of China'.
Region stands to benefit from dueling sources of economic and security assistance but could quickly become a proxy theater in any conflict scenario.
The Competition Commission of India (CCI) on Thursday gave its approval to Walmart International Holdings’ purchase of a 77% stake in Flipkart, the Indian e-commerce giant.
Animal rights groups have called on the United Kingdom to ban the consumption of dog meat amid rising concerns that Asian migrants may bring their canine-eating culture to the country. Lisa Cameron, the chair of the All-party Parliamentary Dog Advisory Welfare Group and a Scottish National Party MP for East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow, has demanded UK Prime Minister Theresa May make eating dog meat illegal to sustain the UK’s position as a leader in animal welfare.
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from EUobserver
Media/News Company in Brussels, Belgium
UK poll suggests Brits would now vote Remain
The majority of people in the UK would now vote to remain part of the European Union, according to a new poll. A YouGov survey on Friday (10 August) suggests 53 percent of voters would choose to stay in the EU, if a referendum was held now, as opposed to 47 percent who would opt to leave.
Some EU states face delays in 5G preparation
National governments secured a one-year extension for publishing plans to make radio frequencies available for mobile communications - but some were nevertheless unable to meet the deadline.
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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, HIGH, non-profit organization
Dear Democratic Socialists: Entitlements Are Not Rights
The only way anyone can have a right to something that has to be produced, is to force someone else to produce it for him..
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from The Heritage Foundation
RIGHT BIAS, MIXED, think tank in Washington, D.C
Thank God for ‘Avocados From Mexico’
Experts expected 350 million pounds of avocados from California this year, but now Americans will see 320 million or less. As the avocado fad has grown, so has the domestic demand. Each person now eats more than 70 avocados a year. America’s many free trade partners are here to save us. In fact, importing avocados is how Americans usually sate their obsession.
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Thank God for ‘Avocados From Mexico’
Experts expected 350 million pounds of avocados from California this year, but now Americans will see 320 million or less. As the avocado fad has grown, so has the domestic demand. Each person now eats more than 70 avocados a year. America’s many free trade partners are here to save us. In fact, importing avocados is how Americans usually sate their obsession.
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from Intellectual Takeout
Nonprofit Organization in Bloomington, Minnesota
5 Reasons to Avoid Ad Hominem Arguments
Despite the proliferation of the ad hominem, there are serious reasons it should be avoided.
Does the Arc of History Bend Towards Justice ... or Madness?
In today’s society, conscientious people’s livelihoods are deliberately destroyed merely because they unknowingly give others offense — even when they were only doing their jobs. A progressive bakery in Portland fired two of its employees after they followed the bakery’s own policy by declining to serve a woman who came into the bakery after it had already closed — because the woman in question is black, and took offense based on the erroneous assumption that it was due to her race. As journalist Andy Ngo noted, “the woman, a professional equity activist, took out a video camera & claimed she was a victim of racism.”
5 Reasons to Avoid Ad Hominem Arguments
Despite the proliferation of the ad hominem, there are serious reasons it should be avoided.
Does the Arc of History Bend Towards Justice ... or Madness?
In today’s society, conscientious people’s livelihoods are deliberately destroyed merely because they unknowingly give others offense — even when they were only doing their jobs. A progressive bakery in Portland fired two of its employees after they followed the bakery’s own policy by declining to serve a woman who came into the bakery after it had already closed — because the woman in question is black, and took offense based on the erroneous assumption that it was due to her race. As journalist Andy Ngo noted, “the woman, a professional equity activist, took out a video camera & claimed she was a victim of racism.”
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from Investor's Business Daily
Amid all the media hoo-ha over President Trump's latest tweets, tariffs and the Russia investigation, you might have missed a significant report — the Environmental Protection Agency says ethanol made from corn and soybeans and added to our gasoline has become an environmental disaster. So why do we continue to make it?
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from Miami Herald
It was an act of moral equivocation that will forever soil his presidency and it left many observers righteously outraged. But when it comes to moral equivocation, Trump is hardly alone. No, we’ve seen it with reporters who obscure hard truth with soft euphemisms, turning white supremacists into “the alt-right,” and racism into mere “racial insensitivity.” We saw it when Twitter awarded its coveted blue check mark — something appended to the accounts of journalists, celebrities and public figures to assure followers that they are authentic — to a handful of white supremacists. We saw it when Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who is Jewish, said his company would not close its platform to Holocaust deniers.
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from Orthodox Christianity
Organization in Moscow, Russia
Christians in Turkey were recently pressured by Erdogan’s government to sign a declaration that they face no religious persecution in the nation, according to a representative of the Ecumenical Patriarchate. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared last Wednesday that Turkey has no problems with religious minorities. “Turkey has no problems related to [religious] minorities. Threatening language of the U.S. evangelist, Zionist mentality is unacceptable,” he said, according to the Andalou Agency. His statement comes on the heels of the signing the day before of a joint declaration by every non-Muslim community, including Greek Orthodox, Armenian, and Jewish leaders, denying allegations of “pressure” on minority faith groups. However, the Order of St. Andrew, Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate has denied the statement, its National Commander, Anthony J. Limberakis, MD, writing that the statement was signed under duress.
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from PJ Media
News & Media Website
Death by Entitlement
On August 7, the New York Times ran a story by Rukmini Callimachi about Jay Austin and Lauren Geoghegan, a young American couple, both graduates of Georgetown University, who decided to quit their humdrum office jobs and go on an epic bike ride and camping trip that would take them all over the world. Austin was willing to wager not only his own life but that of Geoghegan, a woman he purportedly loved, on the belief that people are all good – or, at least, that bad people are so rare as to be not worth worrying about. He apparently prepared for their trip by studying maps; he appears not to have bothered to examine any of the comprehensive human-rights reports that are issued annually by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and the U.S. State Department about every one of the countries along their route (except, perhaps, Monaco).
Death by Entitlement
On August 7, the New York Times ran a story by Rukmini Callimachi about Jay Austin and Lauren Geoghegan, a young American couple, both graduates of Georgetown University, who decided to quit their humdrum office jobs and go on an epic bike ride and camping trip that would take them all over the world. Austin was willing to wager not only his own life but that of Geoghegan, a woman he purportedly loved, on the belief that people are all good – or, at least, that bad people are so rare as to be not worth worrying about. He apparently prepared for their trip by studying maps; he appears not to have bothered to examine any of the comprehensive human-rights reports that are issued annually by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and the U.S. State Department about every one of the countries along their route (except, perhaps, Monaco).
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from Psephizo (Blog)
Jesus came…to destroy the works of the evil one
What are the 'works of the evil one' and what does it mean that Jesus has come 'to destroy them'?
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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