Wednesday, October 8, 2014

In the news, Monday, September 22, 2014


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SEP 21      INDEX      SEP 23
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Information from some sites may not be reliable, or may not be vetted.
Some sources may require subscription.

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from ACLJ (American Center for Law and Justice)

Pushing Back Against Palestinian Attempt to Target Israel at the International Criminal Court

Helping to Spread the Good News of the Gospel
Today, the American Center for Law & Justice filed a “friend of the court” brief with the United States Supreme Court in a First Amendment case of great importance: Reed v. Town of Gilbert.

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from Al Jazeera

US and allies strike ISIL targets in Syria
US and Arab coalition attacks ISIL in northern Syria, as Washington conducts separate strikes on Al-Nusra Front ally.

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from AMAC - The Association of Mature American Citizens
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from Bloomberg

Mechel Sinks 30% as Russia Expects Bankruptcy
OAO Mechel sank 30 percent to a record low as Russia’s economy minister said he saw no alternative but bankruptcy for the mining company after nine months of unsuccessful efforts to refinance its debt.

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from Breitbart
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from Carnegie Moscow Center

Don’t Call It a Comeback
Leonid Kuchma deserves credit for stepping forward at a moment of national peril. A realist and truth-teller of Kuchma’s calibre is a strikingly rare commodity in Kyiv and the West these days.

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from CNSNews.com (& MRC & NewsBusters)

Islam-Indulging NPR Touts One Kind of Modesty: The Hijab 'May Aid Women's Body Image'

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from Conciliar Post

JULIAN OF NORWICH, MARGERY KEMP, AND ENGLISH VERNACULAR MYSTICISM
Most historians of Christianity will note that mysticism peaked in the later centuries of the Middle Ages. Christian mystics experienced direct encounters with God, often through ecstatic visions of heaven and the divine. In relation to the increase in literacy of the laity during these centuries, many mystics wrote in their vernacular languages and gained followings among the laity. Thus mysticism itself bears different traits depending upon the region and language. Furthermore, while there were male mystics, most mystical writings came from women, who found mysticism as a manner in which they could participate in theology. In this post, I wish to examine Christian mysticism of two English women of the later Middle Ages—Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe, particularly the role of prayer in experiences of encounters with God.

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from The Daily Caller
from Forum for Middle East Understanding
(FFMU) (Shoebat.com)  [Information from this site may be unreliable.]

What “Turn The Other Cheek” Really Means
Turn the other cheek , I would argue, is one of the most abused verses in the entire Scripture. It is used incessantly to justify cowardice, indifference, and laziness, in the face of evil people slaughtering Christians. When Christians rise up with militias to defend themselves against Muslim jihadists, we have the Starbucks drinkers screaming “turn the other cheek!”

from KXLY 4 News (ABC Spokane)

ISIS calls for attacks in US and allies
Western allies reject ISIS leader's threats

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from National Review

The Problem(s) with Madam Secretary 
New show's politics turn out to be highly usual.

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from RT (Russia Today)
(Russian government-supported propaganda channel)

CDC to airlines about Ebola: Treat all body fluids as though they are infectious

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from Space.com (& CollectSpace)

NASA Hails Mars Probe's 'Flawless' Arrival at Red Planet

Cosmic Inflation: Q&A with the Theorists

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from The Spokesman-Review

Global marches draw attention to climate change

Younger people more likely to ride transit, report finds

Afghan presidential candidates agree to share power

NASA’s Maven orbiting explorer arrives at Mars

March for peace held in Moscow
Thousands protest fighting in Ukraine

In brief: Citywide Ebola lockdown concludes
Frustrated residents complained of food shortages in some neighborhoods of Sierra Leone’s capital on Sunday as the country reached the third and final day of a sweeping, unprecedented lockdown designed to combat the deadly Ebola disease.
Bombs, mortar fire kill 13 in Iraq
China says two killed in explosions
Multiple explosions in a county in China’s western region of Xinjiang have killed at least two people and injured many others, regional authorities said today.
Pope to Muslims: Condemn extremism

100,000 Syrian refugees flee to Turkey ahead of Islamic State advance

Yemen, Shiites agree to deal
Yemeni government officials and Shiite rebels signed a peace agreement on Sunday following days of violence that left more than 140 people dead and sent thousands fleeing their homes.

Secret Service discussing White House checkpoints

Relatives say vet arrested at White House needs help

India, China and U.S. boost carbon emissions

In brief: Ambush suspect’s rifle found in woods
Nine days after a gunman went on a deadly ambush at a state police barracks, authorities said Sunday they have recovered one of the weapons he was carrying and believe they are hot on his trail as he travels on foot through rugged forests in northeastern Pennsylvania.
Wildfires destroy 32 buildings
Light rain and cooler temperatures helped firefighters make advances Sunday against a huge Northern California wildfire that has destroyed nearly three dozen structures.
Delaware bus crash leaves one dead
3 Afghan soldiers missing from base
Police and military officials were searching Sunday for three soldiers from the Afghanistan National Army who went missing during a training exercise at a Cape Cod military base.

1890: The Ziegler Building
Then and Now: The Ziegler Building
The Ziegler Building was completed within months of the massive 1889 fire that destroyed most of downtown Spokane, including the original Ziegler hardware store. The Fidelity Building, housing the Bank of Fairfield, now stands on the northeast corner of Riverside and Howard where it was built in 1952, replacing the Ziegler Building.

Latinos have high hopes for Cupich
Chicago parishes hope he’ll advocate reform

Leonard Pitts Jr.: Spanking does not equal abuse

A demographics anomaly in the works
In the United States there are now more 23-year-olds than people of any other age, an anomaly more than 50 years in the making. According to U.S. Census data, since 1947, the most represented age in the United States has always been a member of the group born in the 20 years after World War II, the baby boomers. In 1950, it was age 3. In 1990, it was 29. In 2010, it was 50.

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from The Telegraph (UK)

Tony Blair: People should listen to my advice on Isis as I have been to war in Iraq before
The former Prime Minister says that the lessons he learnt taking decisions about the fall out from the 2003 war are worth 'appreciating'

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from The Washington Post (DC)

Google: We’re parting with the climate change skeptics at ALEC
Google is going to stop funding a key conservative group because of its stance on climate change, executive chairman Eric Schmidt revealed Monday. In an interview with NPR's Diane Rehm, Schmidt said that the American Legislative Exchange Council had been "literally lying" about the reality of climate change — a fact that led Google to reconsider its financial contributions to the organization.

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from The Western Center for Journalism
(Western Journalism)

Sarah Palin Credits Her Daughter’s Strength In Indirect Reference To Reported Family Brawl

Watch: The Shocking Reason Why Obama Says ‘ISIL’ Instead Of ‘ISIS’ Just Got Exposed

What Embattled Dem Senator Landrieu Is Doing In This Viral Pic Could Cost Harry Reid Big Time
In a picture that’s gone viral, embattled Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu is seen helping to force beer down the throat of a football fan at a tailgate gathering.

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from Yahoo News

S. Leone faces 'overflow' of Ebola dead as curfew ends

Read Hillary Clinton's 1971 letter to Saul Alinsky
In it, Clinton, then a 23-year-old law school graduate living in Berkeley, Calif., informs the radical community organizer that she had “survived law school, slightly bruised, with my belief in and zest for organizing intact.”

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