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from Atlas Obscura
Railyards Were Once So Dangerous They Needed Their Own Railway Surgeons
Railway work was so dangerous that an entire medical specialty developed to deal with it. In the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, companies hired “railway surgeons” to staff private hospital and health care systems. An on-call doctor could rush to the scene of an accident, or be ready to receive a bleeding, injured worker sent to them by train. They were pioneers in emergency medicine and specialized in amputations and prosthetics. Some consider them the world’s first trauma surgeons.
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from Competitive Enterprise Institute
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from The Daily Beast
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Henry Kissinger Pushed Trump to Work With Russia to Box In China
Henry Kissinger suggested to President Donald Trump that the United States should work with Russia to contain a rising China. The former secretary of state—who famously engineered the tactic of establishing diplomatic relations with China in order to isolate the Soviet Union—pitched almost the inverse of that idea to Trump during a series of private meetings during the presidential transition, five people familiar with the matter told The Daily Beast. The potential strategy would use closer relations with Russia, along with other countries in the region, to box in China’s growing power and influence.
Henry Kissinger Pushed Trump to Work With Russia to Box In China
Henry Kissinger suggested to President Donald Trump that the United States should work with Russia to contain a rising China. The former secretary of state—who famously engineered the tactic of establishing diplomatic relations with China in order to isolate the Soviet Union—pitched almost the inverse of that idea to Trump during a series of private meetings during the presidential transition, five people familiar with the matter told The Daily Beast. The potential strategy would use closer relations with Russia, along with other countries in the region, to box in China’s growing power and influence.
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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, HIGH, non-profit organization
The High Cost of Solar Mandates
By focusing on reducing the current barriers to deploying solar panels, regulators can make a positive contribution to furthering solar technology across California without further limiting access to housing.
Will a New Stadium Make Your City Richer?
When construction starts on a new stadium or convention center, local leaders congratulate themselves like they've won some kind of great economic victory. They haven’t. They’ve simply fleeced the taxpayers for the benefit of construction companies, team owners, and other special interests by saddling them with white elephants for which they’ll pay for decades.
Aid for Farmers Hurt by Tariffs Only Doubles-Down on Bad Policy
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 to fix his mistakes. That would mean rescinding all of the tariffs so far enacted, and refraining from enacting new ones.
Cal and the Big Cal-Amity
When Coolidge left office in March 1929, the federal budget was smaller than it was six years earlier. Knowing that fact is key to understanding why progressives either ignore him or smear him but never rank him high.
What Would Happen If Government Didn’t Handle That?
Those who defend liberty are often challenged to supply exhaustive descriptions of what would happen were some aspect of our increasingly government-dictated lives returned to individuals’ voluntary arrangements. What would happen if government didn’t educate our children? If Social Security didn’t provide for retirement? If Medicaid and Medicare didn’t provide health care? If the USDA, FDA, FAA, etc., didn’t ensure our safety? If the EPA didn’t deal with pollution? Anyone put on the spot with such questions must recognize that they are rhetorical traps. They are used to put an impossible burden of proof on voluntary arrangements, to allow proponents to dodge having to defend against criticisms of coercive policies.
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from The Guardian (UK)
LEFT-CENTER BIAS, HIGH, daily newspaper
Conservatives? No – Brexit has shown us what they really are
It’s a remarkable thing to witness: senior Conservatives attacking big business. It is not just Boris Johnson exclaiming “fuck business” – it is their furious and sustained response to the corporations threatening to disinvest after Brexit, exemplified by the resignation of the Welsh Conservative leader after his attack on Airbus.
Conservatives? No – Brexit has shown us what they really are
It’s a remarkable thing to witness: senior Conservatives attacking big business. It is not just Boris Johnson exclaiming “fuck business” – it is their furious and sustained response to the corporations threatening to disinvest after Brexit, exemplified by the resignation of the Welsh Conservative leader after his attack on Airbus.
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from HumanProgress.org Education Website
From Palace to Parlor, the Surprising History of Ice Cream
Britain’s blistering heatwave has created a record-breaking demand for the treat that, over the course of the last century, has become a summer favourite the world over: ice cream. Sales have increased 100 per cent year on year, and London is even hosting an ice-cream themed pop-up exhibition, fittingly titled ‘Scoop’. Just 350 years ago, ice cream was a rare delicacy, reserved for kings and the richest of aristocrats. To enjoy it a person had to be able to afford refrigeration, which in the pre-industrial world was arduous and expensive.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
Highways aren’t the answer, traffic jams can’t be stopped, says Washington transportation chief
Highways won’t cure Washington state’s traffic woes and preventing congestion is impossible, said Roger Millar, head of the Washington state Department of Transportation.
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'Big Day': US, EU to Develop 'Zero Tariff' Trade Agreement
The United States and the European Union have agreed to a framework for bringing tariffs and trade barriers down to zero for goods traded between the US and Europe, US President Donald Trump announced Wednesday. Automobiles will be excluded from the intended zero-tariff, zero-subsidy and zero-barrier agreement.
Pompeo: US Will Never Recognize Crimea as Part of Russia
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Wednesday that the US will never recognize Crimea as part of Russia. According to Pompeo, in annexing the peninsula, Russia "acted in a manner unworthy of a great nation and has chosen to isolate itself from the international community."
Bolton: Trump Wants to Meet Putin Next Year, 'After Russia Witch Hunt is Over'
US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold their next meeting after January 1, 2019, due to the ongoing Russia probe, National Security Adviser John Bolton said in statement on Wednesday.
Juncker at Talks With Trump: EU, US Are 'Close Partners, Not Enemies'
Ahead of their meeting between European Comission President Jean-Claude Juncker and US President Donald Trump, the latter noted that it would be better if the US and the EU abandon all tariffs and other trade barriers on one another's markets. Before the talks with the US president in the White House, Juncker told reporters that Europe and Washingtons are "close allies, not enemies" and they should work together.
Iran Unlikely to 'Roll Over' in the Face of Trump's Threats – Analyst
President Trump suggested that he may be open to striking a fresh nuclear deal with Iran, just two days after exchanging hostile rhetoric with President Hassan Rouhani.
US Sanctions Five Entities Linked to Alleged Syrian Chemical Weapons Program
The United States imposed sanctions on five entities and eight individuals recently blacklisted by France for allegedly helping to acquire electronics for the agency in Syria that develops chemical weapons, the US Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) said in a press release on Wednesday.
Highways aren’t the answer, traffic jams can’t be stopped, says Washington transportation chief
Highways won’t cure Washington state’s traffic woes and preventing congestion is impossible, said Roger Millar, head of the Washington state Department of Transportation.
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from Sputnik
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, MIXED, Broadcasting & Media Production Company out of Moscow, Russia
The United States and the European Union have agreed to a framework for bringing tariffs and trade barriers down to zero for goods traded between the US and Europe, US President Donald Trump announced Wednesday. Automobiles will be excluded from the intended zero-tariff, zero-subsidy and zero-barrier agreement.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Wednesday that the US will never recognize Crimea as part of Russia. According to Pompeo, in annexing the peninsula, Russia "acted in a manner unworthy of a great nation and has chosen to isolate itself from the international community."
US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold their next meeting after January 1, 2019, due to the ongoing Russia probe, National Security Adviser John Bolton said in statement on Wednesday.
Ahead of their meeting between European Comission President Jean-Claude Juncker and US President Donald Trump, the latter noted that it would be better if the US and the EU abandon all tariffs and other trade barriers on one another's markets. Before the talks with the US president in the White House, Juncker told reporters that Europe and Washingtons are "close allies, not enemies" and they should work together.
President Trump suggested that he may be open to striking a fresh nuclear deal with Iran, just two days after exchanging hostile rhetoric with President Hassan Rouhani.
The United States imposed sanctions on five entities and eight individuals recently blacklisted by France for allegedly helping to acquire electronics for the agency in Syria that develops chemical weapons, the US Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) said in a press release on Wednesday.
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from 6sqft
Local & Travel Website in New York, NY
Men of steel: How Brooklyn’s Native American ironworkers built New York
The Empire State Building. The George Washington Bridge. The United Nations. The Woolworth Building. 30 Rock. The Seagram Building. Lincoln Center. The Waldorf Astoria. Virtually all of New York’s most iconic structures were raised in part by Mohawk Native American ironworkers. Since 1916, when Mohawk men made their way to New York to work on the Hell Gate Bridge, ironworkers from two Native communities, Akwesasne (which straddles Ontario, Quebec, and New York State) and Kahnawake (near Montreal), have been “walking iron” across the city.
The Empire State Building. The George Washington Bridge. The United Nations. The Woolworth Building. 30 Rock. The Seagram Building. Lincoln Center. The Waldorf Astoria. Virtually all of New York’s most iconic structures were raised in part by Mohawk Native American ironworkers. Since 1916, when Mohawk men made their way to New York to work on the Hell Gate Bridge, ironworkers from two Native communities, Akwesasne (which straddles Ontario, Quebec, and New York State) and Kahnawake (near Montreal), have been “walking iron” across the city.
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