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from Asia Times Online
The much quoted line by the great abolitionist William Wilberforce that “you may choose to look the other way, but you can never say again that you did not know” now applies as much to the anti-slavery movement itself as to the global society they want to activate. Think slavery is a thing of the past? Think again. It is time to use modern tools to combat an ancient scourge. The power to end exploitation is already in our hands, Liberty Asia's Duncan Jepson says. What holds us back is the lack of basic data needed to make the right decisions.
Obama administration's decision to snub Chinese-led development bank leaves America looking increasingly isolated. Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank President Jin Liqun said the development lender set up by Beijing in part to counter developed nations’ domination of the global financial system remains open to the US becoming a member.
Influence of the nation's elder statesman, who died on Sunday aged 82, is woven into the fabric of the Islamic Republic's history. Former Iranian President Rafsanjani was a Shiite 'kingmaker', he helped elevate Khomeini, Khamenei and Nasrallah.
Former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani died on Sunday at the age of 82, state media reported, a big blow to moderates and reformists deprived now of their most influential supporter in the Islamic establishment.
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from Breitbart
Washington Post Cries Uncle: Stop Using ‘Tainted’ Term ‘Fake News’
Writing at the Washington Post, Margaret Sullivan bemoans the fact that conservatives have flipped the meaning of “fake news” from a term used by the mainstream media to attack stories that are troublesome for progressives to a label to call out the media’s false narratives.
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from CNSNews.com (& MRC & NewsBusters)
Trump Bypasses Biased Media as Tweets Reach 2X Networks, Top 10 Papers Combined
With more than twice as many Twitter followers as both the average network’s audience and the total circulation of the top 10 newspapers combined, maybe, President-elect Trump doesn’t need unbiased traditional media. Trump’s 19+ million Twitter followers give him more than double the primetime audiences of CBS (8.81 million), NBC (8.42 million), and ABC (6.32 million). And, having added 400,000 followers over the past weekend, Trump appears certain to surpass the three networks’ combined average primetime audience of 23.56 million.
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from Competitive Enterprise Institute
The Office of Management and Budget, in its new 2016 Information Collection Budget of the U.S. Government (encompassing fiscal year 2015 data), estimates that 9.778 billion hours was required to complete the federal paperwork requirements from 22 executive departments and six independent agencies that have been historically subject to survey (see p. 7). The vast bulk of that, 7.357 billion hours, is attributable to the Treasury Department (lots of tax compliance). The overall total is up from 9.453 billion hours in FY 2013 (and up from 8.783 billion in 2011, and from 7.4 billion in 2000).
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from Dennis Michael Lynch
Warren And Democrats To Introduce Conflict Of Interest Legislation
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and thirty Congressional Democrats will introduce legislation on Monday that would have President-elect Donald Trump drop any “conflicts of interest” while serving in the White House. The President Conflict of Interest Act would mandate that Trump, Vice President-elect Mike Pence, their spouses and dependent children disclose and divest any conflicts of interest into a blind trust.
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Warren And Democrats To Introduce Conflict Of Interest Legislation
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and thirty Congressional Democrats will introduce legislation on Monday that would have President-elect Donald Trump drop any “conflicts of interest” while serving in the White House. The President Conflict of Interest Act would mandate that Trump, Vice President-elect Mike Pence, their spouses and dependent children disclose and divest any conflicts of interest into a blind trust.
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from EUobserver
The fake hype about fake news in Germany
New German laws on deleting fake news risk accusations of censorship and further loss of trust in the establishment.
Asylum conditions on Greek islands 'untenable'
Germany is making moves to start sending people back to Greece as part of an EU commission plan to resume Dublin asylum transfers. The commission on Monday described conditions in Greece as "untenable" because of the weather.
US warns Europe on Russian election hacking
US intelligence services have warned “allies” that Russia might hack their elections, with France and Germany, among others, already under attack.
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The fake hype about fake news in Germany
New German laws on deleting fake news risk accusations of censorship and further loss of trust in the establishment.
Asylum conditions on Greek islands 'untenable'
Germany is making moves to start sending people back to Greece as part of an EU commission plan to resume Dublin asylum transfers. The commission on Monday described conditions in Greece as "untenable" because of the weather.
US warns Europe on Russian election hacking
US intelligence services have warned “allies” that Russia might hack their elections, with France and Germany, among others, already under attack.
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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
The Media's Fake News about Obamacare
Considering that many Americans are now facing fewer insurer options, higher insurance deductibles, and higher premiums than prior to Obamacare, the need for real cost relief is immense. The first step in providing relief is to quickly repeal the law and then do the legislative work that will allow for patient-centered reforms.
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from First Things
The preaching of the Gospel as a sacramental event is at the heart of Reformation theology. Preaching is also at the heart of Reformation faith—preaching as an indispensable means of grace and a sure sign of the true church.
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from The Guardian (UK)
[Information from this site may be unreliable.]
Decline of the dentist's drill? Drug helps rotten teeth regenerate, trial shows
Need for fillings could be reduced in future as study reveals natural ability of teeth to repair themselves can be enhanced using Alzheimer’s drug
Decline of the dentist's drill? Drug helps rotten teeth regenerate, trial shows
Need for fillings could be reduced in future as study reveals natural ability of teeth to repair themselves can be enhanced using Alzheimer’s drug
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from The Heritage Foundation
How Trump Can Make Intellectual Property Great Again
America's patent system has steadily drifted away from a robust focus on property rights. As a businessman, Trump understands the damage inflicted by weak patent protections.
from Intellihub
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
The fake news media has continued to alienate the entirely of America, beginning the week’s news cycle by fawning over a clearly deluded liberal Hollywood actress delivering what can only be described as a barely coherent rant directed at president-elect Donald Trump.
In a little covered segment on a hard left anti-Trump MSNBC show, new Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer seemingly threatened incoming President Donald Trump with retaliation for his questioning of intelligence agency “findings” that Russia specifically helped him win the election. “Let me tell you, you take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you,” Schumer told the admittedly hardcore anti-Trump media personality. “So even for a practical, supposedly hard-nosed businessman, he’s being really dumb to do this.”
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from Las Vegas Review-Journal
California storm fells historic sequoia ‘tunnel tree’
An ancient giant sequoia tree, with a hollowed-out tunnel big enough for cars to drive through, was toppled over the weekend by floods following a series of powerful rain storms in central and northern California. The historic Pioneer Cabin Tree, named for the tunnel that was carved out of its base in the 1880s, fell in Calaveras Big Trees State Park in Calaveras County.
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California storm fells historic sequoia ‘tunnel tree’
An ancient giant sequoia tree, with a hollowed-out tunnel big enough for cars to drive through, was toppled over the weekend by floods following a series of powerful rain storms in central and northern California. The historic Pioneer Cabin Tree, named for the tunnel that was carved out of its base in the 1880s, fell in Calaveras Big Trees State Park in Calaveras County.
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from The Living Church
‘DOING GOOD’: THE FUTURE OF CHRISTIANITY IN THE U.K.
Christian activism is increasing, not decreasing, in Britain. Is this the future of Christianity? Nick Spencer of Theos thinktank (UK) on the uptick in Christian social activism as the potential future of British Christian life, amid declining church attendance.
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"These Deeply Momentous Things": United States Intervention into World War I
With 2017 now upon us, we are moving toward the hundredth anniversary of direct American intervention into the Great War in April 1917. Who was winning in December 1916? Arguably, the real losers were simply all normal individuals in the populations of all belligerent countries. But the question of which side was winning is still an important one to ask.
‘DOING GOOD’: THE FUTURE OF CHRISTIANITY IN THE U.K.
Christian activism is increasing, not decreasing, in Britain. Is this the future of Christianity? Nick Spencer of Theos thinktank (UK) on the uptick in Christian social activism as the potential future of British Christian life, amid declining church attendance.
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from Mises Institute
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]With 2017 now upon us, we are moving toward the hundredth anniversary of direct American intervention into the Great War in April 1917. Who was winning in December 1916? Arguably, the real losers were simply all normal individuals in the populations of all belligerent countries. But the question of which side was winning is still an important one to ask.
We’ve lived through another election season, and as with every election year, the candidates competed to tell us about all the ways they were going to use the power of government to make our lives better.
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from National Geographic
Why California’s Ancient Sequoia ‘Tunnel Tree’ Toppled
The drive-through giant was part of a group of trees estimated to be over 1,000 years old.
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from National Review
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
Meryl Streep’s Speech Is Why the Left Wins
If the Left wins the culture, conservatives’ focus on winning elections won’t matter.
Meryl Streep’s Speech Is Why the Left Wins
If the Left wins the culture, conservatives’ focus on winning elections won’t matter.
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from NBC News (& affiliates)
Obama administration lowers government mortgage costs, claims Trump won’t reverse
The Federal Housing Administration, the government insurer of low down-payment home loans, is reducing the annual mortgage insurance premium by 25 basis points, which it says will save FHA borrowers an average $500 this year. "Obama blows more air into what will now be Trump's bubble. Lower insurance costs for subprime borrowers will help more people who can't afford to buy houses to buy them anyway, producing bigger losses for taxpayers once they default." - Peter Schiff
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from New Statesman
"The leading voice of the British left, since 1913."
There has never been a president like this before; and it makes detailed predictions of the total foreign policy ramifications of his presidency near-impossible. Once in office how will Trump’s administration reconcile his isolationist rhetoric with his maverick, often ridiculous, interventionist promises?
Want to know how someone votes? Start by asking if they went to university
In the 2015 general election, the Brexit referendum, the 2016 US presidential election, the 2016 Austrian presidential election and others, the political fight that mattered didn’t begin at the factory gate or the office entrance. It began at the gates to campus.
from The Spokesman-Review
Amid hacking feud, U.S. hits Russia with new sanctions
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Monday denounced last week’s U.S. intelligence report on Russian hacking, calling it a politically motivated “press release” that provided no evidence that Russian actors gave WikiLeaks hacked material.
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from USA Today
Black pastors rally in Washington for AG nominee Jeff Sessions
A group of black pastors Monday criticized African-American opponents of attorney general nominee Sen. Jeff Sessions for demonizing the Alabama Republican, instead characterizing him as someone who shows “respect and care for people of all races.”
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