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from Asia Times Online
The second of a three-part series looking at the possible direction of the US economy under Donald Trump. Gary Clyde Hufbauer tells Orla O'Sullivan there are grounds both for optimism and pessimism with regard to whether or not productivity can be boosted
Russia is making stronger ties with India, China and other Asian countries a priority in 2017.
China’s high-speed trains turn into ‘smoggy gold’
Even railway transport cannot escape the scourge of smog now blanketing the northern region
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from CFACT
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
In a ruling that provides compelling evidence that Virginia is in dire need of judicial reform, 20th Circuit Court Judge Jeffrey W. Parker (Fauquier County) Dec. 21 dismissed charges brought by farmer Martha Boneta against the Piedmont Environmental Council (PEC) while allowing Boneta’s case against her neighbors, Phillip and Patricia Thomas, to proceed.
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from CNSNews.com (& MRC & NewsBusters)
MSNBC Host Admits: ‘Bigger Issue’ If ‘Races Swapped’ in Facebook Torture
Anchoring MSNBC’s 1 p.m. ET hour on Thursday, host Craig Melvin acknowledged that had the races been reversed in the brutal Chicago kidnapping and assault broadcast on Facebook Live, the media coverage would be very different.
Krauthammer: Trump Quoting WikiLeaks Founder Assange a ‘Big Mistake’
Despite claims by the U.S. intelligence community, Trump in a series of tweets on Wednesday and Thursday seemed to suggest that he agrees with Assange that Russia did not meddle in the presidential election.
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from Competitive Enterprise Institute
Lawmakers should avoid imposing new mandates and prohibitions in response to new technologies that might seem threatening, absent exceptional circumstances. Instead, lawmakers should focus their efforts on modernizing—and, in many cases, eliminating—obsolete regulatory regimes that were devised decades ago and depend on the discretion of independent agencies such as the Federal Communications Commission.
Yesterday afternoon the House of Representatives passed the Midnight Rule Relief Act, which would allow Congress to repeal multiple executive branch rules with a single piece of legislation.
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from Conservative Tribune
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BREAKING: Dems in Congress Look to Challenge Election Results
In their ongoing attempt to delegitimize President-elect Donald Trump’s presidency, Democrats in Congress are reportedly considering challenging Trump’s electoral victory.
BREAKING: Dems in Congress Look to Challenge Election Results
In their ongoing attempt to delegitimize President-elect Donald Trump’s presidency, Democrats in Congress are reportedly considering challenging Trump’s electoral victory.
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from EUobserver
Populism is not a coherent transatlantic trend
Analysts have been keen to bundle together the election of Donald Trump in the US and the rise of right-wing populists in Europe. Pew research suggests this is premature.
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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
We are finally getting what we always wanted – the universal right and opportunity to reach the universe of humanity in an instant with thoughts of our own choosing. And it turns out everyone hates it. Freedom creates conditions under which truth stands a chance to emerge from the clamor. How can we tell truth from untruth in such a chaotic environment? There is no substitute for trusting the individual human mind to sort out what is true news or fake news, valuable information or valueless information, meritorious or useless communication. No authority can substitute for the activity, creativity, and adaptability of the human mind. Welcome to freedom, friends. This is how it works. And it’s beautiful.
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from First Things
I was taught in school that free trade was inherently good, because it provided the most efficient method of producing material goods and services, taking advantage of each country’s comparative advantage. But, what if our modern global economy has erased any notion that a comparative advantage exists today? I contend that three major developments have rendered the idea of comparative advantage obsolete. These three developments are: logistics, communications, and computer-aided everything.
THE JOHN THE BAPTIST OF POST-TRUTH POLITICS
Bill Clinton ushered in the post-truth political world he now decries—the world that made Trump possible. More than any other politician, Clinton prepared the public for the devil’s bargain Trump would later make with his supporters. Having sold their own souls first, the Clintonites are in a poor position to object.
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from The Heritage Foundation
California’s Embarrassing Hire of a Failed Attorney General to Take on Trump
The California Legislature is hiring former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to represent the state in expected fights with the new Trump administration over environmental, immigration, and criminal justice issues.
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from Indian Country Today Media Network
From Serra to Syrah: The Bloody Roots of California’s Vineyards
Mexicans and Americans were worse for Indians in many ways in California
Leftists news outlet declares tens of millions of Trump voters racist in new piece arguing for attacking them at every level.
Obama has seized over 500 million acres in massive federal government land grabs
In 8 years President Obama has taken enough land and water to fill Texas three times over. President Obama’s use of executive land grabs under the Antiquities Act now makes up almost 20 percent of the entire amount of times any president has used the act to bring state land under federal control.
Boise Mayor Dave Bieter declares disaster emergency for next 7 days
Boise Mayor David Bieter signed an emergency declaration on Thursday morning in response to the unprecedented amount of snow the city received. The declaration of local disaster emergency goes into effect immediately and will continue through the next seven days.
From Serra to Syrah: The Bloody Roots of California’s Vineyards
Mexicans and Americans were worse for Indians in many ways in California
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from Intellihub
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
Obama has seized over 500 million acres in massive federal government land grabs
In 8 years President Obama has taken enough land and water to fill Texas three times over. President Obama’s use of executive land grabs under the Antiquities Act now makes up almost 20 percent of the entire amount of times any president has used the act to bring state land under federal control.
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from KBOI2 (CBS Boise)
Boise Mayor David Bieter signed an emergency declaration on Thursday morning in response to the unprecedented amount of snow the city received. The declaration of local disaster emergency goes into effect immediately and will continue through the next seven days.
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from LifeZette (& PoliZette)
Leading Cancer Center Lays Off 1,000
The reasons given on Thursday for laying off nearly 1,000 people at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas, one of the nation’s leading cancer centers, are these: Escalating health care costs, the implementation of an electronic health record system, reductions in the reimbursement of care — and expanding health care needs due to the aging of Americans. The layoffs exclude doctors and clinical-care nurses. Some of the jobs will be lost through natural attrition and retirement, while the remaining 800 to 900 job cuts will affect support staff behind the scenes. Research labs may also be affected.
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from New Statesman
"The leading voice of the British left, since 1913."
Over the last 2.5m years the Earth has undergone more than 50 major ice ages, each having a profound effect on our planet’s climate. But what causes them and how do we predict when the next big ice age will hit?
from Religion News Service
Norway and its national church part ways
On Jan. 1, the Scandinavian country cut some ties with its Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Norway, rewording the national constitution to change the denomination from “the state’s public religion” to “Norway’s national church.” The change means the nation of just over 5 million people — about 82 percent of them Evangelical-Lutherans — will still fund the church but will no longer appoint its clergy, who will still be considered civil servants.
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from Tribal Tribune (Nespelem, WA)
In early December, a number of news agencies reported seaborne radiation from Japan’s Fukushima Nuclear plant was detected in the Pacific Ocean along on the West Coast. Last year, the Okanagan Nation Alliance found Cesium-134, the so-called fingerprint of Fukushima, in sockeye that had migrated up the Okanogan River to British Columbia. Now, a study by Upper Columbia United Tribes has found trace amounts of radiation in Columbia River sockeye as well as Chinook salmon, UCUT biologist Marc Gauthier said Tuesday to the Colville Business Council’s Natural Resource Committee.
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from Zero Hedge
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
White House: "Too Early To Tell If Chicago Beating Was A Hate Crime"
White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest told reporters at the daily White House briefing that it’s “too early to tell” if the four Chicagoans who kidnapped and tortured a mentally challenged teenager committed a hate crime.
Looting, Riots In Mexico Spiral Out Of Control Over 20% Gas Hike; Hundreds Arrested
Four days after the first sporadic protests emerged in Mexico City, following the infamous "gasolinazo", or mandatory 15%-20% increase in Mexican gas prices which went into effect on January 1, the mood across the country has significantly deteriorated, with hundreds of demonstrators blocking highways, snarling traffic, raiding gas stations, jeopardizing critical supplies, and looting stores as angry but impotent motorists lashed out at the price surge, which is only going to get worse as inflation spikes even more following the record plunge in the Mexican Peso.
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from 100 Percent FED Up
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
HE WAS SO CLOSE: We Were “Obamerica”…We Were More Tolerant…More Guilty…The End Of The 1st And 2nd Amendments Were Only A Clever Campaign Away…And Then America Woke Up
Barack Obama promised hope. He promised change. It took America long enough to figure it out, but when we finally did, we discovered he didn’t have America’s best interests in mind. Outside of the race wars and hate he inspired in our youth, Barack Obama didn’t accomplish a single worthwhile or notable act.
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HE WAS SO CLOSE: We Were “Obamerica”…We Were More Tolerant…More Guilty…The End Of The 1st And 2nd Amendments Were Only A Clever Campaign Away…And Then America Woke Up
Barack Obama promised hope. He promised change. It took America long enough to figure it out, but when we finally did, we discovered he didn’t have America’s best interests in mind. Outside of the race wars and hate he inspired in our youth, Barack Obama didn’t accomplish a single worthwhile or notable act.
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