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from CNN
LEFT BIAS
The United States Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service issued a public health alert Friday for foods that contain whey powder. Whey powder is an ingredient regulated by the US Food and Drug Administration and is used in a number of foods.
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from Competitive Enterprise Institute
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS
As we’ve been saying ever since this issue heated up, tariffs hurt the economy. There’s no way around it. Seeing this harm, President Trump today proposed $12 billion in emergency aid to farmers hurt by his trade policies. This is a bad idea. This round of aid tries to fix one mistake with another mistake. That $12 billion of aid comes from other people, reducing their purchasing power and hurting other industries. Aid recipients will only benefit at others’ expense, meaning the best possible economic impact is zero. Add in Washington’s cut for administering the transfer, plus efficiency losses from lost consumer choice, and President Trump essentially announced that he has decided to counteract the economic harm he has already caused with further economic harm. A better policy would be fix his mistakes. That would mean rescinding all of the tariffs so far enacted, and refraining from enacting new ones.
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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, HIGH, non-profit organization
The veto counts among the storied contributions the ancient Roman Republic gave the world 25 centuries ago. Here are ten of the best examples of it.
#10: George Washington and the first Apportionment Act of 1792
#9: Franklin Roosevelt and the Bonus Bill
#8: Andrew Johnson on Removal of Appointees
#7: Calvin Coolidge and Farm Subsidies
#6: Ulysses S. Grant and the Inflation Bill
#5: James Madison and Separation of Church and State
#4: James Buchanan’s “Originalism” in 1860
#3: Franklin Pierce and the Insane
#2: Andrew Jackson and the Fed of the Day
#1: Grover Cleveland and the Texas Seed Bill
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from The Hill
LEFT-CENTER BIAS, MIXED, newspaper in Washington, D.C.Appeals court rules Constitution protects right to openly carry gun in public
A federal appeals court on Tuesday ruled that the Constitution's Second Amendment grants people the right to openly carry a gun in public for self-defense. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals made the ruling while rejecting a claim from Hawaii officials that the right should only apply to guns kept at home. The ruling was issued by a three-judge panel on the court and came about a year after the Supreme Court decided not to rule on the case.
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from HumanProgress.org
Education Website
Great strides have been made on many fronts when it comes to global education. In 2000 the average child went to school for 7 years. By 2010 it was over 8 years. Literacy rates have gone up from 76 percent to 81 percent over the same period. Millions of children are in school and learning. But, clearly, more progress is needed. Over 617 million children and adolescents are not achieving minimum proficiency levels in reading and mathematics. Globally, 330 million children are in school, but they are not learning. Some 263 million children are not in school at all. Sub-Saharan Africa is particularly deficient when it comes to provision of quality education. But innovative policies are spreading throughout the continent, with dramatic effect. Liberia, for example, is the fourth poorest country in the world and has a literacy rate of less than 50 percent. The majority of children are out of school, with a 43 percent net attendance ratio according to UNICEF, indicating the percentage of those eligible to attend primary school, and who actually do so within that group. So, rather than settle for incremental improvements, the country is trying to leapfrog forward. A few years ago, a public private partnership between the Ministry of Education and non state operators saw the establishment of seven independent school providers, who are running a small number of state elementary schools. These partners are a mix of non-profit and for-profit outfits.
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from Redoubt News
CONSPIRACY-PSEUDOSCIENCE, MIXED, right wing militia movement blog
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LEFT-CENTER BIAS, HIGH, Newspaper in Seattle, WA
Seattle’s new streetcars may be too big to fit tracks, maintenance barn, mayor’s office says
The new streetcars that Seattle ordered to expand the downtown streetcar system are heavier and longer than the ones the city now operates, and it’s unclear if they’ll work on the current track and fit in the maintenance barn, Mayor Jenny Durkan’s office said Tuesday. The Seattle Department of Transportation ordered 10 new streetcars in the fall, at a cost of $52 million, as it planned to link the two existing streetcar lines with a new line along First Avenue through downtown.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
Mars making closest approach to Earth in 15 years
Next week, the red planet is making its closest approach to Earth in 15 years. The two planets will be just 35.8 million miles apart next Tuesday. And on Friday, Mars will be in opposition. That means Mars and the sun will be on exact opposite sides of Earth. That same day, parts of the world will see a total lunar eclipse.
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More Than 20 Dead in Athens Wildfires - Greek Government
The Greek government announced that more than 20 people have been killed in relation to wildfires that broke out near the capital, Athens, on Monday. Initially, two large forest fires broke out on either side of the capital early Monday destroying homes and sending people fleeing towards the sea where they were evacuated by Greek Coast Guard boats. Attica, the larger region surrounding Athens, declared a state of emergency in both is eastern and western portions.
Toronto Resident Faisal Hussain Identified as Suspect in Danforth Mass Shooting
Canadian police identified Faisal Hussain of Toronto on Monday as the person responsible for the Sunday shooting in the Danforth area of the city. According to the National Post, Ontario's Special Investigations Unit revealed that 29-year-old Hussain was found dead on the scene from an apparent gunshot wound following an exchange of fire with police. It's unclear if the fatal shot came from police. An autopsy is scheduled for Tuesday.
NEXT-GEN NUCLEAR IS COMING—IF SOCIETY WANTS IT
Back in 2009, Simon Irish, an investment manager in New York, found the kind of opportunity that he thought could transform the world while — in the process — transforming dollars into riches. Irish saw that countries around the globe needed to build a boggling amount of clean-power projects to replace their fossil fuel infrastructure, while also providing enough energy for rising demand from China, India, and other rapidly growing countries. He realized that it would be very hard for renewables, which depend on the wind blowing and the sun shining, to do everything. And he knew that nuclear power, the only existing form of clean energy that could fill the gaps, was too expensive to compete with oil and gas. But then, at a conference in 2011, he met an engineer with an innovative design for a nuclear reactor cooled by molten salt. If it worked, Irish figured, it could not only solve the problems with aging nuclear power, but also provide a realistic path to dropping fossil fuels. “The question was, ‘Can we do better than the conventional reactors that were commercialized 60 years ago?” Irish recalled. “And the answer was, ‘Absolutely.’”
Mars making closest approach to Earth in 15 years
Next week, the red planet is making its closest approach to Earth in 15 years. The two planets will be just 35.8 million miles apart next Tuesday. And on Friday, Mars will be in opposition. That means Mars and the sun will be on exact opposite sides of Earth. That same day, parts of the world will see a total lunar eclipse.
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from Sputnik
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, MIXED, Broadcasting & Media Production Company out of Moscow, Russia
The Greek government announced that more than 20 people have been killed in relation to wildfires that broke out near the capital, Athens, on Monday. Initially, two large forest fires broke out on either side of the capital early Monday destroying homes and sending people fleeing towards the sea where they were evacuated by Greek Coast Guard boats. Attica, the larger region surrounding Athens, declared a state of emergency in both is eastern and western portions.
Toronto Resident Faisal Hussain Identified as Suspect in Danforth Mass Shooting
Canadian police identified Faisal Hussain of Toronto on Monday as the person responsible for the Sunday shooting in the Danforth area of the city. According to the National Post, Ontario's Special Investigations Unit revealed that 29-year-old Hussain was found dead on the scene from an apparent gunshot wound following an exchange of fire with police. It's unclear if the fatal shot came from police. An autopsy is scheduled for Tuesday.
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from WIRED
Media/News Company
Back in 2009, Simon Irish, an investment manager in New York, found the kind of opportunity that he thought could transform the world while — in the process — transforming dollars into riches. Irish saw that countries around the globe needed to build a boggling amount of clean-power projects to replace their fossil fuel infrastructure, while also providing enough energy for rising demand from China, India, and other rapidly growing countries. He realized that it would be very hard for renewables, which depend on the wind blowing and the sun shining, to do everything. And he knew that nuclear power, the only existing form of clean energy that could fill the gaps, was too expensive to compete with oil and gas. But then, at a conference in 2011, he met an engineer with an innovative design for a nuclear reactor cooled by molten salt. If it worked, Irish figured, it could not only solve the problems with aging nuclear power, but also provide a realistic path to dropping fossil fuels. “The question was, ‘Can we do better than the conventional reactors that were commercialized 60 years ago?” Irish recalled. “And the answer was, ‘Absolutely.’”
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