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from BBC News (UK)
Georgian police have arrested a priest suspected of plotting to poison a top figure in the Georgian Orthodox Church. Prosecutors said cyanide was found in Fr Giorgi Mamaladze's luggage when he was detained at Tblisi airport on Friday, before he could fly to Germany. The head of the Georgian Church, Patriarch Ilia II, is being treated in hospital in Germany. Ilia might have been the target, but that is not clear.
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from Capitalism
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from CNSNews.com (& MRC & NewsBusters)
Pro-Clinton Senators Are Suddenly Concerned About Trump's Smartphone
In a twist ironic enough to send Alanis Morissette reeling in disbelief, the same congressional Democrats who pooh-poohed Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server while Secretary of State have suddenly become terribly concerned over Trump’s use of a hackable smartphone for his Twitter habit.
The Enigmatic Pope Continues to Disappoint
It's difficult keeping up with all the Catholic news these days. Sad to say, a lot of it isn't good. Catholic author and journalist Phil Lawler recently wrote a very good commentary titled "Pope Francis has become a source of division."
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from Competitive Enterprise Institute
Bad class action settlements like this frequently pay class members a pittance while providing disproportionate fees to attorneys.
Deregulate to Grow the Economy Faster
The biggest obstacle to economic growth is regulation. Whether as broad as restrictions on international trade, or as narrow as rules on where to place handrails on staircases, the 1.1 million restrictions in the 238-volume, 178,000-page Code of Federal Regulations hurt people. Federal regulations have a chilling effect on anyone who has a new idea for a product or service that might improve other people’s lives.
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from EUobserver
World on brink of 'post-Western age'
If US president Trump made good on his promises to pursue “nationalistic foreign policy” it could spell the end of the post-WWII era of Western solidarity, a German study has said.
EU must tackle Poland's bad behaviour
Europe seems finally to be waking up to the serious external threats to its values. Developments in Washington highlight the need for positive action in the face of an overtly nationalistic and anti-rights form of populism. But the threats don’t only come from outside the EU’s borders. Poland is a case in point.
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World on brink of 'post-Western age'
If US president Trump made good on his promises to pursue “nationalistic foreign policy” it could spell the end of the post-WWII era of Western solidarity, a German study has said.
EU must tackle Poland's bad behaviour
Europe seems finally to be waking up to the serious external threats to its values. Developments in Washington highlight the need for positive action in the face of an overtly nationalistic and anti-rights form of populism. But the threats don’t only come from outside the EU’s borders. Poland is a case in point.
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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
Steve Bannon Believes Winter Is Coming
Historical determinists are rarely content to sit back and watch history unfurl. Like the Marxists, they often feel compelled to help along and hasten the inevitable. And prophecies of an inevitable war tend to be self-fulfilling when the prophet is in the position to start one. Enter Steve Bannon.
Remembering "We Were Soldiers" Hero, Hal Moore
Harold “Hal” Moore was a retired three-star Army general, but he will forever be remembered for his courageous actions as the commanding officer of the 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry in the Battle of Ia Drang Valley in November 1965.
25 Reasons Why Protectionism Is Taken Seriously When It's Actually a Form of Economic Suicide
It’s a scientifically and mathematically provable fact that all tariffs, at any time and in any country, will harm economic growth, eliminate net jobs, destroy prosperity, and lower the standard of living of the protectionist country because tariffs are guaranteed by the ironclad laws of economics to generate costs to consumers that outweigh the benefits to producers. The reality that tariffs always inflict great economic damage and leave society worse off is not a debatable outcome, rather it’s a provable fact, like the law of gravity.
Marx the Man
Marx's critiques of capitalism have shaped Western thinking about economic intervention and laid the foundation for the tragic practice of socialism in the 20th century. The man behind the ideas was just as despicable as the actualized horror that his vision spawned.
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from First Things
It is an odd fact that St. Valentine’s feast is celebrated (in a deracinated way) by the world but not the Church. Whatever one thinks about the day that bears his name—so unjustly desacralized, in my opinion—it seems fitting that this day still retains a memory of a love which is hidden.
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from Gateway Pundit
California Governor Spends $25 Billion Per Year On Illegals, Officials Warned Dam Failing 12 Years Ago
According to a report from the Washington Times, California Governor Jerry Brown has been spending $25 billion a year supporting illegal immigrants while neglecting the failing Oroville dam.
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from The Guardian (UK)
[Information from this site may be unreliable.]
'A handsome Valentine': May Morris's love letter to George Bernard Shaw
Card whose receipt Bernard Shaw noted in his diary is identified in uncatalogued album and will go on display
'A handsome Valentine': May Morris's love letter to George Bernard Shaw
Card whose receipt Bernard Shaw noted in his diary is identified in uncatalogued album and will go on display
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from The Heritage Foundation
Who Is the ‘Forgotten Man’? A Historical Look
The Forgotten Man has made a comeback in American politics, but he's been our nation's backbone all along. The Forgotten Man takes precautions, saves (even if he earns little), avoids excess, and does not make himself a burden on society. "He is the clean, quiet, virtuous, domestic citizen, who pays his debts and his taxes and is never heard of out of his little circle. … His name never gets into the newspaper except when he gets married or dies."
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from The Hill
Humana to drop out of ObamaCare at end of 2017
Health insurance company Humana announced Tuesday that it would leave the ObamaCare market in 2018. The insurer said it would offer plans through 2017, but that the market has not stabilized enough to participate next year. Humana said it was losing money from taking on too many sick people without enough healthy people to balance the pools.
McCain: Flynn's resignation shows national security 'dysfunction'
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) on Tuesday said the resignation of President Trump’s national security adviser, Michael Flynn, shed light on the “dysfunction” of the country’s national security operation. “General Flynn’s resignation is a troubling indication of the dysfunction of the current national security apparatus,” McCain said.
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from Intellihub
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
What it came down to was a matter of trust,” White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said.
Anonymous intelligence analysts leak calls to corporate media in direct attack on American democracy
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from Jews News
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from Liberty Writers
[Information from this site may be unreliable.]
The leaks in Trump’s white house will lead back to Obama. Obama and his cronies are allegedly targeting Flynn because of Flynn’s opposition to the Iran Nuclear deal. According to the Free Beacon, Obama’s former adviser Ben Rhodes is behind this.
Mike Flynn’s name should not have been aired. This means that there are leaks within the government that are moving to DESTROY President Trump.
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from LifeZette (& PoliZette)
Flynn Flap Brings Out Long GOP Knives for Trump
Hawkish, neocon Sens. McCain, Graham, and Blunt rush to use incident to undermine the president
Transition Chief Floats 50-Percent Cut to EPA
Myron Ebell, who headed President Donald Trump’s transition team at the Environmental Protection Agency, said if it were up to him, the president would reduce agency funding by half and employees by two-thirds.
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from Miami Herald
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from Mises Institute
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]Say's Law: The Antidote to Countless Economic Fallacies
Say's Law essentially tells us that we produce in order to consume. Once we start thinking we can consume before we produce, we get into trouble. To understand the principle that has been called Say’s Law, it is useful to start by thinking about what unhampered exchange is: the mutual offering of goods and services between people. Seeing exchange as a mutual offering shows demand-and-supply is not an unsolvable chicken-or-egg problem. People produce what in their best judgment they think others want, in the expectation that others are producing or will produce what they want. Production, in other words, is always speculative.
The "New Normal" of Ultra-Low Interest Rates
After nine years of outrageous, unwarranted and irrational monetary policy, some people are taking the current monetary regime as normal and natural — the new normal. You can see this on corporate ballot sheets, bank leverage, and the low personal savings rate.
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from New Statesman
"The leading voice of the British left, since 1913."
This isn’t your standard anti-Valentine’s day rant. The truth is that most men in their teens and twenties have not yet learned to treat women like human beings, and some never do.
Each year 17,000 domestic workers accompany wealthy families to the UK – helped by a special visa regime that campaigners call a “recipe for slavery”.
from Rush Limbaugh
The Political Assassination of Michael Flynn
Every bit of this was predicted to you. To show you just how lame the media is and how little they’ve got, they’re already asking what did Trump know and when did he know it, and that’s not the question. The question is, what did Barack Obama know and when did he know it and what has he engineered here?
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from The Spokesman-Review
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from The Vintage News
Zoroastrianism is among the world’s oldest religions. It emerged around two thousand years BC, and it was the official religion of the pre-Islamic empires of Western Asia. Nowadays it is still practiced by around three million people, mostly in India and Iran.
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from The Washington Free Beacon
Former Obama Officials, Loyalists Waged Secret Campaign to Oust Flynn
Sources: Former Obama officials, loyalists planted series of stories to discredit Flynn, bolster Iran deal
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