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from ABC News (& affiliates)
TV Network in New York, New York
When historians try to appraise Russia’s interference in the 2016 election, which historical artifacts will they use? Then-candidate Donald Trump’s speech imploring Russia to find Hillary Clinton’s emails, perhaps. The soccer ball Vladimir Putin gave President Trump at their summit in Helsinki probably merits inclusion. And then there are the tweets — millions of them.
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from AGDAILY
Media/News Company in Troy, Michigan
6 farming myths we wish the public would stop clinging to
Most people don’t know a real commercial farmer, and it can be easy to fall victim to myths if you don’t get to fact check. Here are six of the biggest myths spread on social media and in the mainstream media, and some stuff we as farmers are frankly really sick of hearing. 1. GMOs are bad. 2. “Factory farms” wreck the environment. 3. Farmers all love Donald Trump. 4. Farmers are rich and get government subsidies. 5. Agriculture is run on illegal immigrants who aren’t treated fairly. 6. Food safety concerns.
Most people don’t know a real commercial farmer, and it can be easy to fall victim to myths if you don’t get to fact check. Here are six of the biggest myths spread on social media and in the mainstream media, and some stuff we as farmers are frankly really sick of hearing. 1. GMOs are bad. 2. “Factory farms” wreck the environment. 3. Farmers all love Donald Trump. 4. Farmers are rich and get government subsidies. 5. Agriculture is run on illegal immigrants who aren’t treated fairly. 6. Food safety concerns.
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from Asia Times Online
News & Media Website
Officials in the Trump administration and counterparts in Beijing have finally reopened a line of communication for talks on an escalating trade conflict, according to a report on Tuesday, though plans for formal negotiations have not been finalized. US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has already begun speaking with Chinese Vice-Premier Liu He, Bloomberg reported, adding that high-level talks are taking place this week. At various points in recent rounds of trade negotiations, Mnuchin and He were tapped as point men for the two sides. US stocks and offshore yuan both gained following the news.
Major media outlets, military critics and pro-democracy activists were all pressured and intimidated before the election.
US ‘could end up doing projects with China’, analyst tips
The Trump administration’s decision to get into infrastructure projects in the Indo-Pacific region – similar to China’s massive Belt and Road Initiative but on a smaller scale – could end up with the US and China working together on some projects, an analyst in Hong Kong has said.
For more than two decades, China was the poster child of economic development and during the past 10 years a major driver of global growth during the Great Recession in the West after the financial crisis in 2008. But as Europe and the United States gradually recovered, cracks in Beijing’s progressive image started to appear. The program of reforms, which had turned the country into the world’s second-largest economy, started to slow, and government subsidies for key industries and state-owned enterprises gathered pace, despite a cosmetic headline-grabbing approach to shrink the bloated SOE sector.
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from CBN News
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One day after Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the Justice Department is creating a "religious liberty task force," some are concerned after the FBI admitted to working with the controversial Southern Poverty Law Center.
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from Hoover Institution
Nonprofit Organization in Stanford, California
The phrase “the struggle for Turkey’s soul” once served as shorthand for the perceived conflict between the country’s secular democratic values and Muslim religious values. With the July 8, 2018 inauguration of Recep Tayyip Erdogan as Turkey’s President, democratic values and Muslim values now struggle with hyper-empowered Erdogan’s personal political goals and his devilish acquisition of authoritarian power. Pity Turkey’s soul and its citizens. Pity NATO. The political torque Erdogan’s power grab generates could crack the NATO alliance.
Almost a century has passed since the Ottoman Empire was dismembered and Mustafa Kemal set out to build the modern Turkish state on its ruins. Twenty years ago, no one in the West would have called into question the achievement of the man who eventually, with considerable justice, styled himself Atatürk (“Father of the Turks”). But many now fear that the political and cultural revolution he instigated in the 1920s will be overturned and that Turkey will cease to function as normal nation state, turn on the West, and try to upend the existing order in the eastern Mediterranean, the Balkans, and the Middle East.
The failed coup of July 15, 2016 has irreversibly transformed Turkish politics. Although the coup attempt was thankfully thwarted, the path that Erdogan chose to take after the coup—using the state of emergency powers he was given to go specifically after coup plotters, to embark instead on a much broader campaign against all dissidents, many of whom possessed no ties to the coup in any form—highlights an unfortunate truth about the country: Turkey is in a deep crisis.
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from Nerdist
Media/News Company
Dune is one of the world's most beloved books, but also one of its most cursed projects when it comes to the matter of film adaptation. Nevertheless, a new version of the hit sci-fi story is on its way, and it looks like this time, all the stars are aligning to get it just right.
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from Patrick Wood (Technocracy News)
Journalist in Mesa, Arizona [Information from this site may not be reliable]
Former NATO Supreme Allied Commander James L. Jones and retired Air Force Major General Robert Wheeler were both optimistic that the next wave of wireless technology will be the safest. The fifth generation of wireless technology has the potential to upend the way cities work, but it’ll all be for naught if 5G networks can’t be properly secured, James L. Jones, a former U.S. national security adviser, said Thursday.
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from Psephizo (Blog)
What does it mean to be human?
What do you think is the biggest question facing our culture? Is it to do with Brexit, and questions of national identity? Is it about social media, and questions of truth? Is it to do with sex and gender identity? Or are you facing personal questions and challenges that dwarf these? My conviction is that, underlying all these questions is one, much bigger one: What does it mean to be human? All the questions we currently face can be trace to this, larger, underlying question. And this question, in turn, has two parts to it: who counts as human? What really sets us apart and makes us distinctive?
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from Reuters
International news agency headquartered in London, England
Iran rejects Trump offer of talks as a dream, without value
Senior Iranian officials and military commanders on Tuesday rejected U.S. President Donald Trump’s offer of talks without preconditions as worthless and “a dream”, saying his words contradicted his action of reimposing sanctions on Tehran. Separately, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said Trump’s repudiation of an international nuclear deal reached in 2015 was “illegal” and Iran would not easily yield to Washington’s renewed campaign to strangle Iran’s vital oil exports.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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from Washington Examiner
Mismanaged, overcrowded forests provide fuel to historic California wildfires, experts say
Neglect and mismanagement have left western U.S. forests overcrowded, firefighting experts say, leaving them more susceptible to the kinds of major wildfires that are currently ravaging California. California state and federal officials have responded to about 4,500 fires this year that have burned nearly 400,000 acres of land, easily outpacing last year's record burns.
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