Thursday, December 8, 2016

In the news, Wednesday, November 16, 2016


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NOV 15      INDEX      NOV 17
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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 Business Insider

The largest oil deposit ever found in America was just discovered in Texas
An estimated average of 20 billion barrels of oil and 1.6 billion barrels of natural gas liquids are available for the taking in the Wolfcamp shale, which is in the Midland Basin portion of Texas' Permian Basin.

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from BuzzFeed
[Information from this site may not be vetted.]

Viral Fake Election News Outperformed Real News On Facebook In Final Months Of The US Election
A BuzzFeed News analysis found that top fake election news stories generated more total engagement on Facebook than top election stories from 19 major news outlets combined.

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from CNSNews.com (& MRC & NewsBusters)

Hypocrisy Watch: Networks Pound Bannon, But Ignore Democrat Ellison’s Radicalism

NYT Defends Incompetent VA, Hails 'Biblical Imperative' of Catholic Bishops, All to Oppose Trump
In “Harsh Critic of the V.A. May Become Its Leader,” by Dave Philipps, who often reports on the military, was a fierce defender of the corrupt and incompetent federal agency and picked the odd target of Rep. Jeff Miller, considered by Trump to run the agency. The same day, religion reporter Laurie Goodstein took the biblical views of Catholic bishops seriously -- at least when they were criticizing Trump and calling for amnesty for illegals, two of the paper’s favorite hobbies.

Christmastime Filth, Courtesy of Hollywood
Few markers are more telling than the way Hollywood entertains us at Christmastime. They like dirt. They like Christian bashing. And they especially like to attack the sensibilities of children at Christmastime.

CAIR Leader Calls for Overthrow of U.S. Government
The head of the Los Angeles office for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), Hussam Ayloush, tweeted out a phrase in Arabic for all of his followers on Twitter to replicate. “The people want to overthrow the regime.”

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

Is Trump Bringing “White Zionism” to the White House?
Tim Kaine, Hillary Clinton’s running mate, has weighed in on the controversy over President-elect Donald Trump’s appointment of the racist former executive chairman of Breitbart News as his chief strategist.  note: Bannon is neither anti-Semitic nor racist.

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from EUobserver

US and UK nationals to be caught in EU border dragnet
US nationals, post-Brexit Brits, and millions of others to be asked dozes of questions and charged €5 each to enter the EU in future, under a new proposal.

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from The Federalist

Sorry Democrats, But Americans Are Remarkably Tolerant People
Democrats are so fixated on the politics of race they’re unable to imagine anything else matters.

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

This is Your Medical System on Government
In the floods of commentary following the election, a gigantic factor is being underreported. Obamacare blew up in the weeks before the vote. It’s one of the great ironies of history that the legislation was called the “Affordable Care Act.” Once it was implemented, we saw several years of sharp increases in premiums, sometimes as much as 50% per year. Insurers sent out millions of notices, just before the election, of coming increases between 20% and 90% starting January 1, 2017. If you are looking for a way to understand the most implausible and shocking election outcome in 150 years, you can talk about big ideological issues and cultural shifts, or the rise and fall of big paradigms. Or you could just look at the terrifying reality of what happened to people's ability to access something so essential to life as health care.

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from The Guardian (UK)
[Information from this site may be unreliable.]

Amazon TV ad features imam and vicar exchanging gifts
Online retailer says campaign in US, UK and Germany is about ‘selflessness and thinking of other people’

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from The Heritage Foundation

Obama’s Contribution to Our Identity Politics Climate
While in Greece this week, President Barack Obama called the anxieties about national, cultural, and ethnic identities that impacted this election a “volatile mix.” He attributed this angst, though, to impersonal forces such as globalization, deindustrialization, and social media. It wasn’t him. For eight years, the president said, he’s been working hard against approaches “that pit people against each other.” The president is being uncharacteristically modest here. While he didn’t himself start the multicultural, identity politics process—we have a long list to blame for that—he’s done more than his share to contribute to the present climate.

DC Metro Wants a Pension Bailout. Here’s Why Congress Must Not Cave.
Like many union-run pension plans, the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Administration—otherwise known as D.C. metro—has promised far more in pension benefits than it has set aside to pay. According to recent reports, the pension shortfall is $2.8 billion. After decades of waste, abuse, and failure, DC's metro wants a bailout. WMATA must learn that it is THEIR responsibility to protect their pensioners—not taxpayers. Only when pension plans know that a federal bailout is off the table will they be incentivized to protect both their pensioners and the taxpayers.

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from The Independent (UK)
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]

Amazon Christmas advert 2016: Imam and priest push festive message of friendship
The company pushes a message of inter-faith friendship at a divisive time in the UK and the US

Eating cheese will make you live longer, study claims

DNA-editing breakthrough could fix 'broken genes' in the brain, delay ageing and cure incurable diseases
‘The possible applications of this discovery are vast,’ scientist says

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from Jews News
[Information from this site may be unreliable.]

from LifeZette (& PoliZette)

Ellison Compared Sept. 11 to Burning of the Reichstag
A video posted online this week shows the front-runner for the Democratic National Committee chairmanship compared the 9/11 attacks to an inside job that Nazis used to consolidate power in Germany in 1933.

Obama’s Ode to Globalization
President pushes back against popular movement in favor of sovereign nations in pompous Athenian address. President Obama warned against seeking “comfort in nationalism, or tribe, or ethnicity or sect” during a speech in Athens on Wednesday. The entirety of Obama’s nearly hour long speech could be distilled into “I hear you, but I don’t care.”

IRS Targeted Conservative Groups for ‘Guilt by Association’
Watchdog uncovers agents' scheme to waylay Tea Party orgs with superfluous questions

Picking Trump’s Pentagon Chief: Sessions Over Bolton
Alabama senator ideal to implement 'America first' at DOD, former U.N. ambassador would be a neocon retread

The Left’s New Trump Red Herring: Stephen Bannon
Former Breitbart CEO becomes target of media smear campaign designed to trip Trump transition

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from The Living Church

Two Versions of Assisi
Assisi, the hillside birthplace of St. Francis, comes alive every Oct. 3, which marks the saint’s death in 1226. For many tourists the celebration may involve nothing more than parties that last late into the night. But piety and refreshment await pilgrims.

THE GREAT WAR’S DAMAGE TO THE ENGLISH SOUL AND CHURCH
The English church is still wrestling with the consequences of a terrible demographic, psychic, spiritual, cultural, and philosophical catastrophe.

Still Time to Show Grace
I planned to be a gracious winner the week after the election. I wasn’t going to rub it in the faces of folks who had been Donald Trump supporters. My social media presence would be demure, and while I expected to dance a little jig inside, my public persona would call for unity and broad arms to encircle the disenfranchised. I didn’t expect to be the one needing the arms.

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

Progressives Show Why Planned Parenthood Doesn’t Need Government Funding
The left's reaction to Trump's election shows that voluntary charity can replace government funding.

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

The Democratic party looks eerily like Labour in 2015
British Labour members have seen this movie before: a terrible, unexpected electoral defeat, followed by the toppling of a discredited party elite and the installation of a far-left leadership swept to power by a coalition of enthusiastic new recruits and older radicals.

“Aberdeenshire business owner wins election”: Scottish local press is chill about Trump
A few local papers in Scotland have gone for a lower-key description of Donald Trump’s presidential win.

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from New York Times

U.S. Companies to Trump: Don’t Abandon Global Climate Deal
Hundreds of American companies, including Mars, Nike, Levi Strauss and Starbucks, have urged President-elect Donald J. Trump not to abandon the Paris climate deal, saying a failure by the United States to build a clean economy endangers American prosperity.

Donald Trump, Help Heal the Planet’s Climate Change Problem
Please revisit your claim that climate change is a hoax. Nothing would get the attention of your opponents more than if you declared your intent to take a fresh look at the climate issue. It would force many of them to give you a second look — and virtually none of your supporters would care, because few voted for you on this issue and they all know that their kids understand the climate is changing and would be heartened if you did, too.

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from Qpolitical

It’s fair to say that until recently, most Americans had never heard of “Mike Pence.” But ironically, this relatively unknown man will soon take the second-highest office in the country.

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from Ravi Zacharias

The Story and the Song: A Tribute to Cliff Barrows
The man who got the world to sing, “This is my story, this is my song,” is now face to face with the One whose story he sang around the world. Cliff Barrows, Billy Graham’s song leader, died at the age of 93, having lived a life of preaching and music, the likes of which very few have lived.

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from Space.com (& CollectSpace)

NASA, Russia Set Flights for Trimmed-Down Space Station Crew
With Thursday's (Nov. 17) launch of three new crewmembers, the International Space Station (ISS) will be returned to full staffing — but not for long. Beginning with the next Soyuz launch, in March 2017, Russia is cutting one cosmonaut post from the station crew and doesn't plan to restore the job until a new module is launched, in 2018.

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from The Spokesman-Review

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from Sputnik
(Russian government-supported propaganda channel)

Germany Launches Crackdown on 'Unacceptable' Islamist Radicals
Germany's decision to ban a group of Salafist extremists will break the organization's structure and stop it financing and recruiting Islamist militancy, CDU deputy Wolfgang Bosbach told Sputnik Deutschland.

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from The Vintage News

Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, known as Caligula, was born on the 31st of August, AD 12, in Antium (now Anzio), Italy. He was one of six children of Germanicus and Agrippina the Elder, with siblings named Nero, Drusus, Agrippina the Younger, Julia Drusilla, and Julia Livilla.  His father, Germanicus, was the nephew and adopted son of Emperor Tiberius, his great-great-grandfather was Julius Caesar and his great-grandfather was Augustus.

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from Zero Hedge
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]

Fed's Kashkari Releases Plan To End "Too Big To Fail", Compares Banks To Terrorists
In the latest reminder that 7 years after the financial crisis, the US banking system still remains a systemic risk, Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari today released four-step plan to end too-big-to-fail problem. In his speech to the economic club of New York, the former Goldman banker said that while significant progress has been made to strengthen U.S. financial system, biggest banks continue to pose a significant, ongoing risk to our economy.

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