Thursday, December 8, 2016

In the news, Monnday, November 21, 2016


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NOV 20      INDEX      NOV 22
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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 CNSNews.com (& MRC & NewsBusters)

Notable Quotables: Special Media Meltdown Edition
The media throw a collective fit over the election of Donald Trump.

Trump White House Aims for Party Unity
Mr. Trump has been working hard to smooth over his White House transition. Many GOP stars have met with the president-elect in what are assumed to be discussions on critical positions in the Trump White House.

Schumer Says No to a Border Wall
Sen. Schumer is at odds over President-Elect Trump on immigration before he's even been sworn in.

On CBS, Heilemann Hypes Trump's 'Hardline Group Ideologically'
The liberal media are hyping up Trump's cabinet in yet another attempt to rile up the American public.

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from Coeur d'Alene Press

The grandmother of Idaho history
Ora Hawkins, whose grandson is former Idaho Commerce director, helped establish state museum. During the Great Fire of 1910, which consumed about 3 million acres of North Idaho forests, Ora Hawkins and her family lost their home when St. Joe City burned.

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from CommonDreams
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]

Whose Fake News Gets a Pass? NYT Advocates Internet Censorship
The New York Times wants a system of censorship for the Internet to block what it calls “fake news,” but the Times ignores its own record of publishing “fake news.” The problem is that while some falsehoods may be obvious and clear-cut, much information exists in a gray area in which two or more sides may disagree on what the facts are. And the U.S. government doesn’t always tell the truth although you would be hard-pressed to find recent examples of the Times recognizing that reality. Especially over the past several decades, the Times has usually embraced the Official Version of a disputed event and has deemed serious skepticism out of bounds.

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from Communities Digital News, LLC

American Indian Heritage Month: Democrats and Indians
November was designated as American Indian (or Native American) Heritage Month by Congress in 1990, with the primary purpose of bringing to light memories of the American Indian culture, and one truth that needs to be exposed is how the true origins of the Jacksonian Democrats include the humiliation, dehumanization, and forced death of the American Indians.

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from The Conversation US
Media/News Company in Boston

Mythbusting Ancient Rome – throwing Christians to the lions
The myth of constant persecution largely stems from two works written in the early fourth century A.D., On the Deaths of the Persecutors by Lactantius, a Christian professor of Latin, and the Church History of Eusebius, bishop of Caesarea in modern-day Israel. These authors were living in the reign of Constantine, the first Christian emperor, and tasked themselves with charting the history of Christian suffering up to this glorious moment. In both their works, the torture and execution of Christians in preceding centuries is associated with the emperors under whom they occurred. But the reality is that the punishment of Christians in the first three centuries A.D. was largely haphazard and not directed by imperial policy.

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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]

Liberty on the Rise in Brazil
Overthrowing corruption permanently requires a change in institutions. I don’t speak Portuguese, but there is one aspect of the language I felt more comfortable with here than there. Everyone understands what is meant by the term liberal. It means more trade, secure ownership, privatization, an open society, free enterprise, free press, free speech, and free association. They further understand that the politics of reaction can take both right-wing and left-wing forms. They have experienced both and reject both. The light of liberty represents a third way.

Deputy Secretary of Defense Bob Work appeared recently before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence to address the intelligence community’s support for the Defense Department. The Committee and witnesses addressed many issues, but perhaps the most shocking was the revelation that the Defense Department plagiarized Wikipedia in order to justify its decision to build a Joint Intelligence Analysis Center (JIAC) at RAF Croughton in the United Kingdom rather than utilize the existing infrastructure at Lajes Field in the Azores, a strategic US base from which the Pentagon is currently withdrawing after a decades-long presence. If the best the Pentagon can do is rely on Wikipedia, then it is time to question the bloat at the Pentagon, especially among civilian staffers.

Over the last few years, our country has been embroiled in disagreement between two visions of the right to freely exercise religion. One side claims that this right extends only to a kind of freedom of conscience – the ability to believe whatever religion you chose. The other side argues for an exemption from generally applicable laws. Both sides are misguided. There is a better way based on natural rights that provides both equality and religious protection.

When you add up all forms of trade barriers imposed between 1990 and 2013, the biggest protectionist in the world isn’t China or Mexico, but the United States. The industries supposedly in danger from free trade actually benefit the most from protectionism.

Despite Donald Trump’s recent victory, he and the GOP have no mandate whatsoever to violate the rights of Americans citizens and foreigners alike, no matter how many people voted for them to do so. Politicians can't have a mandate that the voters lacked the ability to give them.

Two years of communism had left alive only a fraction of the original Plymouth colonists. Unable to survive another season like the last two, the elders decided to try something radically different: the introduction of private property rights and the right of the individual families to keep the fruits of their own labor. There would have been no Thanksgiving if private property rights had not saved the colony from extinction. Note: this article makes a common error in confusing Pilgrims with Puritans.

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from First Things

LOSING CONTROL OF HISTORY
Nowhere were delusions about the historical dominance of the Democratic Party more intense, and its presumed political lock on the electoral college more certain, than within Barack Obama’s political circle. The fact that we are now discussing a Trump administration, and the possibility of what it might do to an overconfident liberal establishment, reveals just how foolish historical predictions are.

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from The Heritage Foundation

Trump Outlines 6 Steps He’ll Take to ‘Drain the Swamp’ in Washington
In a video message released Monday, President-elect Donald Trump told Americans the first executive actions he’ll take on Jan. 20 to “drain the swamp” in Washington.

In 2006, These Democrats Still in Office Voted to Build a Wall
Democrats are already grumbling about Donald Trump’s proposed border wall, though Barack Obama and other leaders in their party voted not so long ago for George W. Bush’s proposal to build a major wall on the border with Mexico. Bush signed the proposal into law in 2006, after it was passed by huge bipartisan majorities in the House and Senate. Senator Chuck Schumer was one of the Democrats to support construction of a wall in 2006.

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from Huffington Post
[Information from this site may be unreliable.]

The Queen Has Paid For The Palace Many Times Over
At the time of writing, over one hundred thousand people had succumbed to the latest convulsion of faux outrage by signing a petition demanding that the Royal Family “pays for Palace renovation”.

Injustice At Standing Rock
The mainstream media is missing quite a remarkable story.

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from Indian Country Today Media Network

Grand Canyon Escalade: ‘There’s a Lot of Unknowns’
When Navajo lawmakers unanimously voted down legislation allowing a developer to erect a 420-acre mega-resort on the rim of the Grand Canyon, they sided with local landowners, at least 18 tribes with ties to the area and more than 66,000 people around the globe--many who have never visited the Grand Canyon—who signed petitions opposing the development.

Amnesty International USA Derides ND for Subfreezing Water Onslaught
In the wake of a night of the latest onslaught by militarized police against unarmed water protectors at the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), Amnesty International is sending its fourth delegation out to Standing Rock since August, the international human rights organization announced on Monday November 21.

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from LifeZette (& PoliZette)

Gergen: Ingraham Controversial According to ‘Media Matters’
CNN commentator backtracks after admitting talking points came straight from pro-Clinton group

Surge of Immigration from Nations with Anti-Western Values
Immigration to United States from countries with values antithetical to those of the West is surging at an alarming rate, new analysis from the Center for Immigration Studies shows.

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from Mises Institute
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]

Austrians at the Fed?
Coverage of central banks and monetary policy in popular financial media outlets like Bloomberg, Financial Times, Forbes, Wall Street Journal, and The Economist is almost uniformly bad. The reporting and analysis are superficial, and the writers tend to assume facts not in evidence. Even if a Joe Salerno or a Jeffrey Herbener  magically were appointed as Fed board members, the mechanics of the Open Market Committee require manipulation of the monetary base and interest rates. At most, an Austrian at the Fed could serve as an uber-hawk and urge the Committee to mimic a gold standard (as Allen Greenspan once claimed it did) to the extent possible. If there is such thing as an Austrian policy on money, it is this: money is a market commodity, it derives its initial value from some use independent of any exchange value, and the price of borrowing it-- interest rates-- should be determined by the relative time preferences of borrowers and lenders. That's it. But all of these views are conceptually at odds with central banking altogether, much less as it is practiced today.

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from National Review
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]

Hillary Voters: The Minority in 37 StatesHillary Clinton won a majority of the popular vote in only thirteen states, the fewest of any major-party nominee since Bob Dole in 1996.

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from The New American Magazine
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]

Trump: Why He Won
Trump won because he promised to defeat the globalists’ vision, which is eroding in the face of populist calls to protect borders, jobs, and cultures, but they won’t give up without a fight — if ever.

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from New Statesman
"The leading voice of the British left, since 1913."

How Nadiya Savchenko became Ukraine's Joan of Arc
She was her country's first female combat pilot, and stood trial in Moscow after being captured in eastern Ukraine. Now, she's taking on political corruption.

To learn from their European counterparts, UK cities must compare like-with-like
For cities to better understand their strengths and weaknesses, and what policies might help them to grow, it is crucial that they can compare themselves to the performance of other places. However, making these comparisons can be very difficult, especially at an international level, as cities often struggle to find data that covers comparable urban geographies. And there's another more basic problem, given the hundreds of cities in the world that could be used as potential benchmarks: knowing where to look.

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from On Pasture

Of the 200,000,000 turkeys that are raised annually, only about 25,000 are heritage breeds. The reason for this is economics. The modern hybrid variety (Broad Breasted Bronze or Giant White) grows much more quickly. It is ready for market at 14 to 16 weeks compared to 25 to 30 weeks for a heritage breed.
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from Open Culture
from The Spokesman-Review

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from Washington Examiner

Native Americans after 'easy money' in pipeline fight
Even though the pipeline never crosses the Standing Rock Sioux reservation, Energy Transfer Partners has attempted to be a good neighbor by offering water testing and monitoring, as well as significant community support to the tribe," the source said. "But time and again the tribe rebuffed or ignored the company's offers demanding, instead, a toll on the crude that passed through the pipeline, an ultimatum that showed the tribe's true desire — easy money.

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from WND (World Net Daily)
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]

STATE OFFICIALS MISTREAT GIRL, 5, RAPED BY MUSLIM MIGRANTS
Exclusive: Pamela Geller says Idaho family 'has suffered almost every kind of injustice'

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from Young Conservatives
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]

Trump’s Media Meeting Today Was a Setup! He Brought Them All to One Room, and THEN…
The media did the American people a disservice during this election cycle. They carried water for Hillary at every turn and refused to do their jobs correctly. Donald Trump didn’t like that very much and today the media finally got what was coming to them. Trump gathered up key members of the mainstream media at a meeting in Trump Tower that was allegedly going to be about access to Trump during his administration. He then proceeded to call them all out one by one for the awful job they did covering him.

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