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from Asia Times Online
News & Media Website
Two-day forum will focus on President Xi jinping's Belt and Road Initiative. Amid growing criticism over its debt-heavy approach to foreign aid, China is hosting a summit for African leaders on Monday aimed at promoting Beijing’s vision for development on the continent.President Xi Jinping and Africa’s leaders will participate in the two-day Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC), which is expected to focus on Xi’s “Belt and Road” infrastructure programme, AFP reported.
Saudi-led coalition investigating attack that has sparked international outrage. The Saudi-led coalition fighting insurgents in Yemen admitted on Saturday that “mistakes” were made in an air strike that killed 40 children in August. The Red Cross said the attack on a bustling market in a Huthi rebel-held part of northern Yemen killed a total of 51 people.
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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, HIGH, non-profit organization
Labor Unions Set Workers at War with Each Other
Every Labor Day, unions claim credit for every laborer’s gain, equating union members’ gains with benefits to all workers. However, that is impossible to square with what happens when some special union privilege is threatened, as with “right-to-work” legislation--unions quickly turn to threats, intimidation and violence against other workers. In fact, unions rely on coercion, actual or threatened, at all times to extract gains at the expense of other workers, by lowering the wages they can earn and raising the prices they pay as consumers. If we agree with Emerson’s assertion that immoral means cannot achieve moral ends, such behavior should lead us to re-evaluate unions’ claims of benefitting labor. One excellent guide is philosopher Auberon Herbert, who saw unions’ effects clearly in “The True Line of Deliverance,” over a century ago.
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from Psephizo (Blog)
Why we all need printed Bibles
It’s not uncommon in churches, when the time comes for the Bible reading, to see people reach not for a printed pew Bible, but for their phones, to read the Bible on a phone app. When I was in a session at New Wine this summer, the speaker at the morning Bible study (Miriam Swaffield) commented that she thought it was better for people to read print Bibles than read them from a screen. It made me sit up, since I say this frequently when teaching in different contexts, but this was the first time I had heard someone else say it from ‘up front’. When I commented on this on social media, I was taken back by the torrent of reactions—I hadn’t realised that this was quite such a controversial suggestion!
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
Then and Now: Desert Caravan Inn
The former Desert Caravan Inn on the Sunset Highway, with classic mid-century modern architecture, has been remodeled and rebranded several times since the Dessert family built it in 1951. The construction of Interstate 90 left several motels, including the Caravan Inn, isolated on secondary roads and struggling to stay afloat.
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Then and Now: Desert Caravan Inn
The former Desert Caravan Inn on the Sunset Highway, with classic mid-century modern architecture, has been remodeled and rebranded several times since the Dessert family built it in 1951. The construction of Interstate 90 left several motels, including the Caravan Inn, isolated on secondary roads and struggling to stay afloat.
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from Zero Hedge
CONSPIRACY-PSEUDOSCIENCE, MIXED, financial blog with aggregated news and opinion
Crushing The "Blame Climate Change For Wildfires" Narrative In 1 Simple Chart
Two weeks ago, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke told the Sacramento-based KCRA: “I’ve heard the climate change argument back and forth. This has nothing to do with climate change. This has to do with active forest management.” The virtue-signaling back-lash was deafening, and yet contained little to no actual scientific evidence that 'climate change' had done anything to exacerbate this year's wildfire situation. And then just last week, much to the chagrin of the mainstream media, politicians, and environmental advocacy groups who swing their "climate change" hammer at every statistical anomaly, claiming that anthropogenic global warming has created a new regime of fires and smoke that has never been experienced before, University of Washington veteran climate scientist Cliff Mass posted on his blog that "those making such claims are seriously misinformed." An excellent illustration of our firey and smoky past is found in a graphic produced by the Oregon Department of Forestry (OD) showing acres burned and number of fires from 1911 to 2017.
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