Saturday, March 25, 2017

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from Anglican Journal

Ottawa ministry to provide affordable housing for women
Cornerstone Housing for Women—a community ministry of the diocese of Ottawa—has launched a $6.8 million project to convert the former “Mother House” of a Roman Catholic religious community into a home for 42 women needing safe, affordable housing.

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from Asia Times Online

Some counterterrorism tips for the UN secretary general
On February 22, United Nations Secretary General António Guterres came up with a proposal to create a new office for the purpose of rendering assistance to UN member states in implementing the Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy. Guterres asked member states to submit their suggestions on this issue within two weeks.

What’s behind Trump’s disturbing allegations?
Roger L Simon points out that, while there has to date been no evidence presented proving collusion between Trump's camp and the Russians, there are reports to support some variation of Trump's early-morning assertion that Obama wire-tapped Trump tower.

Unraveling the complexity of Communist acronyms
Asia Times has prepared a handy guide to navigate the official jargon around China’s ‘two sessions’

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from Bloomberg

Trump's Wiretap Tweets Raise Risk of Impeachment
The sitting president has accused his predecessor of an act that could have gotten the past president impeached. That’s not your ordinary exercise of free speech. If the accusation were true, and President Barack Obama ordered a warrantless wiretap of Donald Trump during the campaign, the scandal would be of Watergate-level proportions. But if the allegation is not true and is unsupported by evidence, that too should be a scandal on a major scale. This is the kind of accusation that, taken as part of a broader course of conduct, could get the current president impeached.

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from Competitive Enterprise Institute

Financial CHOICE Act Must Keep Durbin Repeal
The Durbin Amendment, introduced at the last minute of passage of the Dodd-Frank Act, has nothing to do with the financial crisis, which Dodd-Frank was supposed to be about. It introduced an unwarranted price control on the fees banks can charge merchants for customers using bank debit cards to buy goods and services. The Durbin Amendment proved disastrous for many American consumers, which is why Congress should repeal it in the Financial CHOICE Act.

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

Liberty and "Social" Justice for All Is Impossible
We must recognize that the only justice that can be “for all” involves the defense of negative rights—prohibitions laid out against others (especially the government) to prevent unwanted intrusions. We do not have a right to be given things, and only the justice of negative rights can be reconciled with liberty “for all.” That is why negative rights are what the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were meant to protect. But those foundational freedoms have been, and continue to be, eroded by the ongoing search to “discover” (i.e., invent) ever-more positive rights. There is no way to square coercive “social justice” with “liberty and justice for all.”

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from Global Research (Centre for Research on Globalization)  [Information from this site is not reliable.]

Three Years Ago: The U.S. has Installed a Neo-Nazi Government in Ukraine
This article first published in March 2014 at the very outset of the Ukraine crisis explains the nature of the Kiev proxy regime. We are dealing with a Neo-Nazi government supported by “Western democracy” and the “international community”.

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from The Heritage Foundation
[Information from this site may be unreliable.]

Why Trump’s Revised Executive Order Is Constitutional, Legal, and Common Sense
The revisions will make it tougher for activist judges to justify any injunction orders they might be inclined to issue against it—yet there is little doubt that progressive groups will seek such orders.

Trump’s Historic Chance to Dismantle the Administrative State
President Donald Trump, who promised to "drain the swamp," could put significant restraints on federal agencies by signing three pieces of legislation.

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

Baseless FISA warrant issued in Oct. targets Trump and associates
FISA wiretap warrant on Trump Tower is real, sources say. The FISA warrant was flagrantly granted from within the Obama Administration in Oct. 2016 after an initial request was turned down by the court in June which listed Donald Trump as a specific target.

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

How the Market Creates Jobs and How the Government Destroys Them
Instead of praising jobs for their own sake, we should ask why employment is so important. The answer is, because we exist amidst economic scarcity and must work to live and prosper. That's why we should be of good cheer only when we learn that this employment will produce things people actually value, i.e., are willing to buy with their own hard,earned money. And this is something that can only be done in the free market, not by bureaucrats and politicians.

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from National Geographic

These Photos Show the Pollution That Kills One in Four Children
A new report from the World Health Organization found that nearly a quarter of children under five die from preventable environmental conditions.

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from The Seattle Times

Sewage spill reveals double standard in environmental priorities
Rural counties can’t rely on septic systems, but it’s OK for King County to continue to sweep its ongoing sewage treatment problems under the rug?

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from The Spokesman-Review

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from Sputnik
(Russian government-supported propaganda channel)

CNN Calls Indian Holy Site City of Death
There was widespread outrage in India after CNN aired a program that said Banaras, the holiest city in Hinduism, was a "city of death". Many took to Twitter and other social media to denounce CNN for airing the episode and said it amounted to airing fake news.

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from The Wall Street Journal

‘Attack by President’ Is Big Business for PR Agencies
Public relations agencies are seeing an influx of business as companies brace for an unexpected tweet

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