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from EUobserver
One year later: EU right to open Internet still virtual
Sunday 30 April marks one year of Europeans' right to net neutrality, but activists say that work to protect the Internet has just begun.
EU signals Northern Ireland could join if united with Ireland
EU leaders meet without the UK on Saturday to agree red lines for Brexit talks, with Ireland, citizens' rights, and the divorce bill on their minds.
May accuses EU-27 of 'lining up against Britain'
The rhetoric toughens on both sides of the Channel as EU leaders gather in Brussels to sign off their Brexit negotiating red lines on Saturday.
Rethinking Europe's relationship with Turkey
As Turkey's democracy is in an increasingly troubled state, a new association agreement with the country should replace the current EU accession talks.
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One year later: EU right to open Internet still virtual
Sunday 30 April marks one year of Europeans' right to net neutrality, but activists say that work to protect the Internet has just begun.
EU signals Northern Ireland could join if united with Ireland
EU leaders meet without the UK on Saturday to agree red lines for Brexit talks, with Ireland, citizens' rights, and the divorce bill on their minds.
May accuses EU-27 of 'lining up against Britain'
The rhetoric toughens on both sides of the Channel as EU leaders gather in Brussels to sign off their Brexit negotiating red lines on Saturday.
Rethinking Europe's relationship with Turkey
As Turkey's democracy is in an increasingly troubled state, a new association agreement with the country should replace the current EU accession talks.
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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
When Women Are Free, Economies Thrive
Freedom for women is a proven road out of poverty. In 100 countries the government forbids women from working in some professions. Even today, there remain 18 countries where husbands can legally deny their wives permission to work. They are Bahrain, Cameroon, Chad, Comoros, Congo (Kinshasa), Gabon, Guinea, Iran, Jordan, Kuwait, Mauritania, Niger, Qatar, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, West Bank and Gaza, and Yemen.
The Unfairness of Equal Outcomes
Equality before the law corresponds better with notions of fairness even if the outcomes it produces are unequal. A recent study argued, with evidence, that what bothers people more than inequality per se is “unfairness.” Those of us who think genuinely competitive markets are key to human betterment can use this information to address concerns about inequality.
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from Free Market Central
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
Sometimes, the stereotypes are true. No generation has faced harsher stereotypes than millennials. And while Red Alert has defended young Americans from many baseless criticisms, a new study seems to prove one millennial stereotype to be real. The most popular trades among these undecided millennials are business/management, technology/IT, medical, marketing, and media — none of which are hard labor-intensive. In fact, NAHB further questioned these undecided adults and asked them why they wouldn’t consider construction trades. Half of them said they wanted “a less physically-demanding job.” 32 percent said, “construction work is difficult.” This aversion to hard work fulfills the millennial stereotype that they don’t want to work hard — and that is a reason why this generation is facing economic hardship.
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from The Heritage Foundation
[Information from this site may be unreliable.]
Your Household Share of Federal Spending Keeps on Rising. Here’s the Solution.
If every household in the U.S. paid an equal amount to cover the federal government’s spending in 2016, each household would have paid $30,631 that year alone. Federal government deficit spending—the money it spends beyond what it collects in revenues—amounted to $587 billion in 2016, or $4,665 per household. The average household share of U.S. spending has risen by roughly 15% since 2007.
Bad Intentions: The Immigration Order, the Judicial Power, and the Rule of Law
This spring, President Trump and the courts have clashed over immigration and national security policy. Federal judges in the Ninth Circuit have blocked the President’s executive order seeking temporarily to halt immigration from several countries. Although applauded by many, the actions of these judges are inconsistent with the proper use of the judicial power and with the rule of law itself. By turning to John Marshall, we discover both the reasons why America’s founding jurists resisted judicial inquiry into the personal intentions of the lawgiver and the dangers that arise when judges pursue such a method of interpretation.
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Your Household Share of Federal Spending Keeps on Rising. Here’s the Solution.
If every household in the U.S. paid an equal amount to cover the federal government’s spending in 2016, each household would have paid $30,631 that year alone. Federal government deficit spending—the money it spends beyond what it collects in revenues—amounted to $587 billion in 2016, or $4,665 per household. The average household share of U.S. spending has risen by roughly 15% since 2007.
Bad Intentions: The Immigration Order, the Judicial Power, and the Rule of Law
This spring, President Trump and the courts have clashed over immigration and national security policy. Federal judges in the Ninth Circuit have blocked the President’s executive order seeking temporarily to halt immigration from several countries. Although applauded by many, the actions of these judges are inconsistent with the proper use of the judicial power and with the rule of law itself. By turning to John Marshall, we discover both the reasons why America’s founding jurists resisted judicial inquiry into the personal intentions of the lawgiver and the dangers that arise when judges pursue such a method of interpretation.
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from HumanProgress.org
Education Website
Markets Are Setting Washerwomen Free
Has anything changed the world more than the internet? South Korean economist Ha-Joon Chang thinks so. He would argue that one invention – an engine of liberation – has had a far more powerful effect on daily lives. He means the washing machine, of course, which the late Hans Rosling called the greatest invention of the industrial revolution. It freed women from the chore of laundry – or at least from spending one full day a week every week doing it.
Markets Are Setting Washerwomen Free
Has anything changed the world more than the internet? South Korean economist Ha-Joon Chang thinks so. He would argue that one invention – an engine of liberation – has had a far more powerful effect on daily lives. He means the washing machine, of course, which the late Hans Rosling called the greatest invention of the industrial revolution. It freed women from the chore of laundry – or at least from spending one full day a week every week doing it.
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from The Independent (Chewelah, WA)
The drawdown of Lake Roosevelt has allowed the Kettle Falls waterfalls to rise up from their usual watery covering, affording a unique historical view that is best seen from an overlook behind the St. Paul Mission. The mission is located nearby the Kettle Falls Historical Center (KFHC), just north of the town of Kettle Falls off HWY 395.
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from Independent Sentinel
[Information from this site may be unreliable.]
Jesse Watters Takes a Sudden Vacation After Attack by Leftist Lawyer Who Brought Down O’Reilly
U.S. Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Oregon) says Trump’s behavior is erratic and that has prompted him to introduce legislation that offers an alternative method for removing presidents from office. Oregon Congressman Blumenauer Introduces “No Trump Act”
Mexico Says Trump Cannot Build the Wall, It’s a “Hostile Act”
CNS News reports that Mexico’s foreign secretary is planning a legal war against any future constructions of a border wall in the U.S., to include filing lawsuits in the U.S. and in internationals courts. The basis for the suits will be on the environment, human rights and international treaty violations.
[Information from this site may be unreliable.]
Jesse Watters Takes a Sudden Vacation After Attack by Leftist Lawyer Who Brought Down O’Reilly
U.S. Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Oregon) says Trump’s behavior is erratic and that has prompted him to introduce legislation that offers an alternative method for removing presidents from office. Oregon Congressman Blumenauer Introduces “No Trump Act”
Mexico Says Trump Cannot Build the Wall, It’s a “Hostile Act”
CNS News reports that Mexico’s foreign secretary is planning a legal war against any future constructions of a border wall in the U.S., to include filing lawsuits in the U.S. and in internationals courts. The basis for the suits will be on the environment, human rights and international treaty violations.
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from Indian Country Today Media Network
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
Sea Lions Gobble Up Salmon in NW
New bill would save endangered Columbia River salmon from a few insatiable sea lions
The sea lions’ exponentially increasing population has frustrated efforts to recover the river’s endangered fish populations, say U.S. Representatives Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-Washington) and Kurt Schrader (D-Oregon). The lawmakers introduced a bipartisan bill, the Endangered Salmon and Fisheries Predation Prevention Act, that builds on previous versions of legislation to remove permanently a limited number of predatory California sea lions that cause the most harm.
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
Sea Lions Gobble Up Salmon in NW
New bill would save endangered Columbia River salmon from a few insatiable sea lions
The sea lions’ exponentially increasing population has frustrated efforts to recover the river’s endangered fish populations, say U.S. Representatives Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-Washington) and Kurt Schrader (D-Oregon). The lawmakers introduced a bipartisan bill, the Endangered Salmon and Fisheries Predation Prevention Act, that builds on previous versions of legislation to remove permanently a limited number of predatory California sea lions that cause the most harm.
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from The Library of Congress (& Medium)
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from Miami Herald
Leonard Pitts Jr.: Ann Coulter is right. Period.
It wouldn’t matter if it were Louis Farrakhan at Ole Miss or Bernie Sanders at the High School of Economics and Finance just off Wall Street. The right to free expression is either secured for all or it’s guaranteed to none.
It wouldn’t matter if it were Louis Farrakhan at Ole Miss or Bernie Sanders at the High School of Economics and Finance just off Wall Street. The right to free expression is either secured for all or it’s guaranteed to none.
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from Mises Institute
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]The Colorado House of Representatives voted 56-7 on Wednesday to pass legislation mandating that "the state, a state agency, or an agency of a political subdivision of the state shall not knowingly assist or aid a federal agency or agency of another state in arresting a Colorado citizen for committing an act that is a Colorado constitutional right."
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from National Catholic Reporter
Pope Francis' trip to Egypt was marked Friday, April 28, by a significant step forward in ecumenical relations between the Roman Catholic and Coptic Orthodox Churches. In a joint declaration signed April 28 by Francis and Coptic Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria during Francis' visit to the Orthodox St. Mark Cathedral in Cairo, the two churches agreed that they would not hold baptisms for members of one church wishing to join the other. The declaration carries significance because Catholics and many Christian churches teach that people can only be baptized once in their lives. Re-baptizing someone is seen as a way of lessening the significance of the person's original baptism and faith community.
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from NPR (& affiliates)
U.S. Supply Of Yellow Fever Vaccine Will Run Out By Midsummer
The U.S. supply of the yellow fever vaccine will run out by about midsummer, the CDC reported Friday in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. Officials are working on an emergency importation of an alternative vaccine, which is already licensed Europe, but is not currently licensed in the U.S. Even then, there will be a limited number of doses, available at only a small number of clinics.
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from Orthodox Christianity
On Wednesday, April 26, His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew left Geneva, where he had addressed the World Council of Churches the day before, for Cairo, where he attended and addressed an interreligious conference at Al-Azhar University on Thursday. His address, “Religions and Peace,” focused on the importance of religions and interreligious dialogue in today’s world, and his view of the equally peaceful nature of all religions.
Orthodox Christianity teaches that a person finds happiness and meaning only in God. Such a life has a positive effect on a person, his family and in fact the state he lives in. But this ideal can be replaced with the notion of service to another god, in this case, revolution. Devoting one’s life to revolution might at first bring a degree of satisfaction, but in the end delivers sorrow and tragedy both to the revolutionary and to his family and entire nation.
From January 27 to March 26 the exhibition “Holy Mountain: Icons from Mount Athos and Photographs by Frank Horlbeck” was on display in the Oscar F. and Louise Greiner Mayer Gallery of the Chazen Museum of Art at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
from Rare America
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Why President Donald Trump’s tax plan is brilliant politics and even better economics
What I love most about this plan is its real-world economic foundation. It embraces a truth that so many want to avoid. If you want jobs, rising wages and economic growth, you have to stop the war on capital. You have to go the other way. You need to celebrate capital and allow rewards to flow to those who are driving forward economic progress. It’s a simple but brilliant point. Finally, we’ve got a tax proposal that embraces it.
Why President Donald Trump’s tax plan is brilliant politics and even better economics
What I love most about this plan is its real-world economic foundation. It embraces a truth that so many want to avoid. If you want jobs, rising wages and economic growth, you have to stop the war on capital. You have to go the other way. You need to celebrate capital and allow rewards to flow to those who are driving forward economic progress. It’s a simple but brilliant point. Finally, we’ve got a tax proposal that embraces it.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Kendall Yards developer sees ‘enormous potential’ for residential neighborhood on downtown’s east end
Since breaking ground at Kendall Yards eight years ago, Greenstone Corp. has made creating an urban village almost look easy. Could another Spokane site magically morph into a thriving urban neighborhood? Kendall Yards is? Developer Jim Frank believes so. When asked, Frank immediately began typing on his laptop and conjured a downtown map framed by Washington Street, Spokane Falls Boulevard, Pine Street (one block east of Division) and the railroad tracks. “This whole area has enormous potential,” he said. “It could become the (Portland) Pearl District of Spokane. Another (Seattle) Belltown!”
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from Sputnik
(Russian government-supported propaganda channel)
A new dating of mastodon remains discovered in Southern California has decisively proved that hominins have roamed the Americas since at least 130,000 BC, a full 115,000 years earlier than previously confirmed.
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from The Vintage News
This paramilitary training complex was once situated on the shores of Lake Ontario and was known by several different official names. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police had it filed under the name S25-1-1.The Canadian military referred to it as Project-J, and the Special Operations Executive (SOE), a branch of the UK’s MI6, called it STS-103 (Special Training 103). During WWII, the compound was run both by the British Security Coordination (BSC) and the Government of Canada. Under great secrecy, it helped the Allies in winning the war. Camp X was opened on December 6, 1941, by Sir William Stephenson, the chief of the BSC. Sir William was a Canadian coming from Winnipeg, Manibota, and he had close connections with Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt. The initial purpose of the camp was to promote and facilitate a relationship between Britain and the US at a time when the US was still not allowed to be directly engaged in the happenings of the WWII.
The Father of Psychoanalysis: Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud was born in 1856 to Jewish Galician parents in the town of Freiberg, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Bishop’s Waltham Palace was once one of the most exceptional residences of the Bishops of Winchester
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