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from Asia Times Online
US Supreme Court threw out an appeals court ruling that the South Korean firm had to pay a $399 million penalty to Apple for copying iPhone designs.
Foreign exchange stockpile has fallen by almost 25% since its peak of US$4 trillion in 2014, as domestic bond yields spike.
Shares of SoftBank Corp soared to their highest in more than a year after Chief Executive Masayoshi Son said he would invest $50 billion in the U.S.
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from Breitbart
Obama Urges Soldiers to Question Trump’s Authority, ‘Criticize Our President’
In his final address to America’s armed forces, President Barack Obama reminded troops that once Donald J. Trump becomes president, soldiers have a duty to question his authority and criticize him. Obama also said the Second Amendment and global warming can be blamed for terrorism.
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from The Catholic Register
'Unbelievable' – Persecuted Christian bishops denied UK visas
U.K. officials drew strong criticism for denying visas to Middle East bishops from regions that have suffered Islamic State group persecution, preventing them from attending a cathedral consecration. Martin Parsons, head of research at the U.K.-based Christian aid agency the Barnabas Fund, was among the critics of British officials. “It’s unbelievable that these persecuted Christians who come from the cradle of Christianity are being told there is no room at the inn, when the U.K. is offering a welcome to Islamists who persecute Christians,” he charged.
'Unbelievable' – Persecuted Christian bishops denied UK visas
U.K. officials drew strong criticism for denying visas to Middle East bishops from regions that have suffered Islamic State group persecution, preventing them from attending a cathedral consecration. Martin Parsons, head of research at the U.K.-based Christian aid agency the Barnabas Fund, was among the critics of British officials. “It’s unbelievable that these persecuted Christians who come from the cradle of Christianity are being told there is no room at the inn, when the U.K. is offering a welcome to Islamists who persecute Christians,” he charged.
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from CNSNews.com (& MRC & NewsBusters)
GOP Bill Proposes No Funding For Schools That Ban the Flag
After Hampshire College recently decided to remove the American flag from campus, 54 House Republicans proposed a bill that would take away federal funding schools that ban the American flag.
Trump to Lauer: Posting on Twitter Better Than ‘Dealing With Dishonest Reporters’
In an exclusive phone interview with Donald Trump on Wednesday’s NBC Today, co-host Matt grilled the President-elect on his use of Twitter.
Worried NY Times Alerts: ‘Ally of Fossil Fuel’ Picked for EPA
Just hours after President-elect Donald Trump picked Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to run the Environmental Protection Agency, the New York Times on Wednesday quickly expressed concern. The online headline fretted, “Donald Trump Picks Scott Pruitt, Ally of Fossil Fuel Industry, to Lead E.P.A.”
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from Coeur d'Alene Press
Monte Miller: He’s always gone up in Coeur d’Alene
Meet one of the men who helped change the face of downtown Cd'A
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from Counter Current News
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
From January 2012 – September 2013, these pipeline spills were just a part of approximately 750 “oil field incidents” that took place in the state without the public’s knowledge, according to a report by The Associated Press. It’s estimated that around 4,328 barrels worth of oil were spilled in this period.
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from EUobserver
Trump and Erdogan haunt Nato meeting
Donald Trump's administration will not abandon Nato, according to US secretary of state John Kerry, who says that the president-elect is already doing U-turns on other issues, such as immigration and climate. Events in Turkey and Italy have also caused tension in the Western club.
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Trump and Erdogan haunt Nato meeting
Donald Trump's administration will not abandon Nato, according to US secretary of state John Kerry, who says that the president-elect is already doing U-turns on other issues, such as immigration and climate. Events in Turkey and Italy have also caused tension in the Western club.
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from The Federalist Papers
Blue State ‘Depression’ – And Not Just The Psychological Kind
Of the ten states that Democrats won by the largest margins, California, Massachusetts, Vermont, Hawaii, Maryland, New York, Illinois, Rhode Island, New Jersey and Connecticut — every single one of them lost domestic migration (excluding immigration) between 2004 and 2014, economist Stephen Moore writes. “Nearly 2.75 million more Americans left California and New York than entered these states.”
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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
The Myth of Clean Politics
The game of politics is about favors and special interests, money exchanging hands, deals being made, sometimes under the table and other times in plain sight. Powerful people have always had an advantage in influencing the process. But when it comes to politics, people claim to not want competition; rather they demand fairness, equality, and virtue. The most common argument for achieving this goal is an equal democratic playing field, the classic hope of “getting money out of politics.” On its face, this seems like an obvious and effective solution to the problem. I hope to convince you otherwise. If you want politics to be less corrupt, the solution isn’t to shrink corruption. It's to shrink the state.
Another Week, Another 65 New Regulations
As the Federal Register climbed above 87,000 pages for the first time in its 81-year history, agencies issued new rules ranging from landfills to movie theaters.
The Left's War on Grandma
Want to ban Uber or Airbnb? Maybe you should ask your grandmother first. This fable of our modern times is extraordinary – but it demonstrates who are the real winners of the sharing economy. It is those who have been marginalised from society and the economy for far too long.
From Violence to Reason: An Insider's Account of the Arab Spring
What needs to be done is not to bomb the Arab world back into the stone age. What needs to be done is to support the subversive liberal intelligentsia. Nothing short of an intellectual revolution will change the Islamic world.
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from First Things
The problem with the contemporary discipline of history: Put simply, it is not history. It is politics dressed up as history, and rather skimpily dressed up at that.
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from The Guardian (UK)
[Information from this site may be unreliable.]
Dinosaur tail trapped in amber offers insights into feather evolution
Fragment complete with fossilised bones and traces of muscles, ligaments and mummified-looking skin dates from around 99 million years ago
Dinosaur tail trapped in amber offers insights into feather evolution
Fragment complete with fossilised bones and traces of muscles, ligaments and mummified-looking skin dates from around 99 million years ago
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from The Heritage Foundation
Senators Vow to ‘Use Any Means Necessary’ to Ensure Taxpayer Bailout of Private Union Pension Plan
As Congress closes up shop for 2016, a group of four Democratic senators is determined to “use whatever means necessary” to secure a special-interest taxpayer bailout for the United Mine Workers of America union. According to the senators, those “means” will include “blocking other bills” until the bailout is secure.
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from Hot Air
This “Laura Ingraham for Press Sec” thing might actually be happening
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from LifeZette (& PoliZette)
TIME’s Smear of the Year
Magazine uses 'Person of the Year' issue to repeat tin-eared media attacks on Trump
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from The Living Church
DESTRUCTION & BEAUTY IN AN ICELANDIC LANDSCAPE
Mark Clavier: "We are taught that Christ tore down the gates of Hell. My memorable trek by Hekla, the Icelandic “gateway of Hell” has left me convinced that when he did this, not only were the souls of the faithful released, but so too was beauty. And like those souls, beauty so redeemed can never again be contained."
AN ENGINEER LOOKS AT PRAYER: ‘GETTING STUFF DONE’
Charlie Clauss asks what prayer is all about: "What if this whole get-it-done perspective is missing the point?"
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from New York Times
An Enemy of the E.P.A. to Head It
Had Donald Trump spent an entire year scouring the country for someone to weaken clean air and clean water laws and repudiate America’s leadership role in the global battle against climate change, he could not have found a more suitable candidate than Scott Pruitt, the Oklahoma attorney general, whom he picked on Wednesday to run the Environmental Protection Agency.
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from Open Culture
George Orwell Tries to Identify Who Is Really a “Fascist” and Define the Meaning of This “Much-Abused Word” (1944)
Whether we “recklessly fling” the word “in every direction” or use it in more precise ways, we always mean “roughly speaking, something cruel, unscrupulous, arrogant, obscurantist, anti-liberal, and anti-working class.
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from Oregon Public Broadcasting- OPB
The 50-Year Story Of Creating Idaho's New Wilderness Area
Castle Peak is so hidden from view that you can’t see it from any highway. But it just might be the most important mountain in Idaho. Castle Peak and the surrounding Boulder-White Cloud Mountains have stirred up fights over mining, recreation and conservation — fights that have changed the course of political careers, including that of a self-described “Democratic lumberjack from North Idaho” named Cecil Andrus who became governor after taking a stand over the future of this rugged, mineral-rich wilderness. And now, a generation later and the efforts of Idaho’s Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Simpson and others, it is part of the Northwest’s newest wilderness area.
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from Redoubt News
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
WA School District Spends Remaining Budget on Pro-LGBT Safe Space Training
A month ago, FPIW reported on the Snohomish School District‘s payment of over $14,000 to a group that advocates transgenderism in children. Now, according to documents obtained through a public records request, FPIW has learned that North Thurston Public Schools (NTPS) spent money last year on “safe space training,” provided by the Gay, Lesbian, & Straight Education Network (GLSEN).
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
WA School District Spends Remaining Budget on Pro-LGBT Safe Space Training
A month ago, FPIW reported on the Snohomish School District‘s payment of over $14,000 to a group that advocates transgenderism in children. Now, according to documents obtained through a public records request, FPIW has learned that North Thurston Public Schools (NTPS) spent money last year on “safe space training,” provided by the Gay, Lesbian, & Straight Education Network (GLSEN).
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from Republican National Committee (GOP)
from Right Wing News
John Kasich Makes Surprise Electoral College Announcement – No One Saw This Coming…
I have to give it to Kasich… this was the right thing to do and very statesman-like. He has now told all Electors to not cast their votes for him. He says he is not running for President and now is the time to come together behind President-elect Trump. He’s calling for unity and to stop this nonsense before it destroys us. The Columbus Dispatch is reporting that Kasich is enjoying a high approval rating as Ohio’s governor, which, coupled with the fact he won the Ohio primary over Trump, makes him a good alternative to the President-elect. But he’s nipping that in the bud because he knows that Trump won the election fair and square and for us to recover as a nation, we must rally behind one leader. For better or worse, that leader is Donald Trump.
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from Space.com (& CollectSpace)
US Air Force Launches Advanced Military Communications Satellite
The Wideband Global SATCOM-8 spacecraft, or WGS-8, lifted off atop a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV Medium rocket today (Dec. 7) at 6:53 p.m. EST (2353 GMT) from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. As its name suggests, the $425 million WGS-8 satellite is the eighth member of the WGS constellation to reach orbit. The network, which will eventually consist of 10 spacecraft, is "the backbone of the U.S. military's global satellite communications," Air Force officials have said.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Pearl Harbor anniversary ceremony draws thousands
Thousands observed a moment of silence before fighter jets streaked across the sky during a ceremony Wednesday at Pearl Harbor marking the 75th anniversary of the attack that plunged the United States into World War II and left more than 2,300 service people dead.
Cheney rail depot closer to being moved, saved
The historic Northern Pacific Railway depot in Cheney is a big step closer to being moved and saved. The Cheney Depot Society has purchased a residential lot at First and I streets while at the same time a group of investors has offered adjacent land to the west as a donation.
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from Sputnik
(Russian government-supported propaganda channel)
Following a new direction in cultural policy, the conservative government of Poland has fired the director of the Polish Cultural Institute in Berlin, Katarzyna Wielga-Skolimowska, allegedly for focusing too much on Jewish topics, German media reported Tuesday.
Spitak Earthquake: How Half of Armenia Was Wiped Out Within 30 Seconds
Twenty-eight years ago, one of the worst disasters in the history of Armenia struck northwest of the country. As result of the devastating earthquake, the town of Spitak was almost completely destroyed within 30 seconds. 25,000 people were killed, while 140,000 more were injured.
New US Secretary of Commerce Has a Long Story of Business Ties With Russia
Last week, United States President-elect Donald Trump announced Wilbur Ross as the new chief of the US Commerce Department. The 79-year-old billionaire is well-known to Russian business elites.
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from Time
Donald Trump on Russia, Advice from Barack Obama and How He Will Lead
Donald Trump spoke with TIME’s Nancy Gibbs, Michael Scherer and Zeke J. Miller on Nov. 28 at Trump Tower in New York City. The following excerpts are from an interview for TIME’s Person of the Year issue.
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from War History Online
The Exiled Billionaire Queen Of Holland Had A Role To Play In The Pearl Harbor Attacks
Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Maria was the longest-serving queen of the Netherlands, having reigned from 1890 to 1948. Her keen business instincts made her the first female billionaire (in US dollars), while her political astuteness helped keep her country together during WWII.
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from The Washington Post
Donald Trump insulted a union leader on Twitter. Then the phone started to ring.
Chuck Jones uses a flip phone, so he didn’t see the tweet. His friend of 36 years called him Wednesday night and said: The president-elect is smearing you on Twitter.
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