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from Anglican Journal
Shareholders of the oil giant ExxonMobil pushed through a resolution on climate change at the company’s annual general meeting yesterday despite strong opposition from the board of directors. The motion, tabled by the Church Commissioners, the financial arm of the Church of England, with the New York State Comptroller, will require the company to provide annual reports showing how the business will be affected by global efforts to reduce climate change.
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from Asia Times Online
Whatever the outcome of a fresh trial over BJP stalwarts' role in sparking riots that left some 2,000 people dead, the ruling party stands to benefit electorally if the Ayodhya issue is kept alive. Muslims, opposition parties and rights groups in India have reason to cheer. A special court in Lucknow has finally framed criminal conspiracy charges against three veterans of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) over their alleged role in the demolition of the Babri mosque 25 years ago. Rebuilding the Ayodhya Ram temple is the aspiration of millions of Hindus and the BJP is committed to it.
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from BBC News (UK)
President Donald Trump has announced that the US is withdrawing from the 2015 Paris climate agreement. He said moves to negotiate a new "fair" deal that would not disadvantage US businesses and workers would begin.
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from CNSNews.com (& MRC & NewsBusters)
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
Petition Demands LSU Change ‘Racist’ Tigers Mascot
A Change.org petition is urging Louisiana State University to replace its Tigers mascot because it allegedly “honors confederate militantism.”
Petition Demands LSU Change ‘Racist’ Tigers Mascot
A Change.org petition is urging Louisiana State University to replace its Tigers mascot because it allegedly “honors confederate militantism.”
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from The Daily Beast
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
Trump Fans, Foiled by Google Translate, Believe ‘Covfefe’ Was a Secret Arabic Message
Pro-Trump media invented a heroic myth that Trump’s typo was an elaborate code to take on the Kabul car bombers. Turns out they were using Google Translate wrong.
Trump Fans, Foiled by Google Translate, Believe ‘Covfefe’ Was a Secret Arabic Message
Pro-Trump media invented a heroic myth that Trump’s typo was an elaborate code to take on the Kabul car bombers. Turns out they were using Google Translate wrong.
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from Defense One
The future battles of Eastern Europe will be fought with lasers, cheap missile-drones, and surgical strike units.
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from EUobserver
US leaves Paris climate deal
The United States is pulling out of the international climate treaty signed in Paris in 2015, its president Donald Trump announced. “In order to fulfil my solemn duty to protect America and its citizens, the US will withdraw from the Paris climate accord,” Trump said. The US president said the Paris deal “punishes the United States”, but added that he was open to negotiations on a new or revised environmental accord. Trump said he was “someone who cares deeply about the environment”, but said the “Paris accord is very unfair ... to the United States”.
US billionaire Soros warns EU of 'existential danger'
The European Union is in "existential danger" because of "dysfunctional" institutions, a persistent austerity policy and outdated treaties, American billionaire George Soros warned in Brussels. The Hungarian-born philanthropist, who was speaking at the Brussels Economic Forum, said the EU should use the Brexit negotiations to introduce far-reaching reforms and be "radically reinvented", otherwise it risks ceasing to exist. "If the European Union carries on with business as usual, there is little hope for an improvement," he said, adding that the bloc was surrounded by "hostile powers", such as Russia, Turkey, Egypt, and, possibly US president Donald Tru
US leaves Paris climate deal
The United States is pulling out of the international climate treaty signed in Paris in 2015, its president Donald Trump announced. “In order to fulfil my solemn duty to protect America and its citizens, the US will withdraw from the Paris climate accord,” Trump said. The US president said the Paris deal “punishes the United States”, but added that he was open to negotiations on a new or revised environmental accord. Trump said he was “someone who cares deeply about the environment”, but said the “Paris accord is very unfair ... to the United States”.
US billionaire Soros warns EU of 'existential danger'
The European Union is in "existential danger" because of "dysfunctional" institutions, a persistent austerity policy and outdated treaties, American billionaire George Soros warned in Brussels. The Hungarian-born philanthropist, who was speaking at the Brussels Economic Forum, said the EU should use the Brexit negotiations to introduce far-reaching reforms and be "radically reinvented", otherwise it risks ceasing to exist. "If the European Union carries on with business as usual, there is little hope for an improvement," he said, adding that the bloc was surrounded by "hostile powers", such as Russia, Turkey, Egypt, and, possibly US president Donald Tru
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Why did God disperse the men who built the Tower of Babel? The ancient rabbinic texts uncovered several vices that justified their punishment: A tower intended to reach heaven manifests the ambition to challenge God, the desire to “make for ourselves a name” expresses the sin of pride, and so forth. Yet the text of Genesis 11 is not very explicit. In fact, the project is not actually called a sin, and the divine disposition toward it is critical but not outraged. The commentators had good reasons to ponder. Do we need latter-day towers of Babel? We are told that European ideological conformity under the watchful eyes of liberal bureaucrats is necessary to prevent the renewal of wars between nations there. Is that true?
Eugene Vodolazkin: Many regard Russia as backward, lagging behind the West. This is not so. Our shared civilization is changing, and because of our raw experience of the twentieth century, my country is in some respects ahead of the West. I have described the coming epoch as a new medievalism. But it is too early to outline this new epoch in detail. We can only dimly see its outlines, which are best expressed as a turn toward inner strengthening and social reconsolidation. I call this “concentration.”
The greatest writer of English prose in the last century, P. G. Wodehouse excepted, was not Lytton Strachey or Logan Pearsall Smith or the E. M. Forster of Pharos and Pharillon or Hugh Trevor-Roper. It was certainly not John Updike or William Faulkner, who did not always write English. It was not, alas, Evelyn Waugh. Nor, one is forced to admit, somewhat reluctantly, was it Dom David Knowles, the golden-voiced singing-master of monastic history. It is Msgr. Ronald Knox who must take the silver medal.
The one thing we know about Barack Obama—at least, we think we know it—is that he is a great orator. From the moment he entered the nation’s consciousness in the summer of 2004, when he delivered a stirring oration at the Democratic convention in support of John Kerry’s presidential candidacy, Obama was thought to be modern America’s golden-tongued prophet, a kind of Patrick Henry and Martin Luther King in one voice. For the white liberals who idolize him, Obama has only one rhetorical gift: His words are supremely pliable.
Today all but forgotten, Roberta and Albert Wohlstetter were once the First Couple of Armageddon. During the Cold War, with World War III seemingly just around the corner, they played a leading role in pioneering the largely fraudulent enterprise known as nuclear strategy. In their heyday, the Wohlstetters were the twin stars around which the universe of defense intellectuals revolved.
When my liberal friends call the Church rigid and outdated, I don’t argue. I praise it for those very virtues.
For the Holy Father, for faithful priests, and for the truth about marriage, we offer up our grateful prayers. When my wife, Elizabeth, and I were married a quarter century or so ago, she was a practicing Christian in a mainline Protestant denomination, and her pastor married us. (N.B.: Neither of our true names, nor anyone else’s, appears in this piece.) I was decidedly non-practicing, a self-described agnostic whose Catholic upbringing was, I thought, behind me for keeps. But when Elizabeth said to me more than a decade later that she was thinking about becoming a Catholic and wanted to know if I would return to the faith with her, I answered immediately, “Yes, I would.” My prompt response—no struggle, no fuss—surprised her, and I suppose it surprised me, too. Something was definitely at work in both of us—the Holy Spirit, perhaps—and her question and my answer were timed perfectly for one another.
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from The Heritage Foundation
[Information from this site may be unreliable.]
4 Reasons Trump Was Right to Pull Out of the Paris Agreement
The Paris Agreement was a truly bad deal—bad for American taxpayers, American energy companies, and every single American who depends on affordable, reliable energy. The Paris Agreement is highly costly and would do close to nil to address climate change.
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4 Reasons Trump Was Right to Pull Out of the Paris Agreement
The Paris Agreement was a truly bad deal—bad for American taxpayers, American energy companies, and every single American who depends on affordable, reliable energy. The Paris Agreement is highly costly and would do close to nil to address climate change.
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from Indian Country Today Media Network
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
Blackhorse: Kathy Griffin Trump Head? Be Disgusted by Decapitated Indians, Too
People are appalled that Kathy Griffin posted a photo of a faux decapitated Trump — but we see 'decapitated' Indians all the time
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
Blackhorse: Kathy Griffin Trump Head? Be Disgusted by Decapitated Indians, Too
People are appalled that Kathy Griffin posted a photo of a faux decapitated Trump — but we see 'decapitated' Indians all the time
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from KLEW News (CBS Lewiston, ID)
Rep. McMorris Rodgers tours Eastern Washington addressing Farm Bill
Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers said she’ll do everything she can to make sure local farmers have crop insurance. Congresswoman Rodgers has been touring Eastern Washington once again talking to constituents about the Farm Bill and Health Care Reform. One of the biggest issues that could affect many residents in the region as well is President Trumps proposed budget.
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from LifeSiteNews.com
Ontario passes ‘totalitarian’ bill allowing gov’t to take kids from Christian homes
Ontario’s Kathleen Wynne Liberals have passed what critics describe as “totalitarian” Bill 89 by a vote of 63 to 23 on the last day before Queen’s Park adjourns for the summer. Pro-family advocates warn Bill 89 gives the state more power to seize children from families that oppose the LGBTQI and gender ideology agenda, and allows government agencies to effectively ban couples who disagree with that agenda from fostering or adopting children. Bill 89, or the Supporting Children, Youth and Families Act, 2017, repeals and replaces the former Child and Family Services Act that governs child protection services, and adoption and foster care services. It adds “gender identity” and “gender expression” as factors to be considered “in the best interests of the child.”
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Ontario passes ‘totalitarian’ bill allowing gov’t to take kids from Christian homes
Ontario’s Kathleen Wynne Liberals have passed what critics describe as “totalitarian” Bill 89 by a vote of 63 to 23 on the last day before Queen’s Park adjourns for the summer. Pro-family advocates warn Bill 89 gives the state more power to seize children from families that oppose the LGBTQI and gender ideology agenda, and allows government agencies to effectively ban couples who disagree with that agenda from fostering or adopting children. Bill 89, or the Supporting Children, Youth and Families Act, 2017, repeals and replaces the former Child and Family Services Act that governs child protection services, and adoption and foster care services. It adds “gender identity” and “gender expression” as factors to be considered “in the best interests of the child.”
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from Mises Institute
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]In response to the Trump administration's announcement that it was pulling out of the Paris Climate Accord, some of his critics declared that anyone who likes "science" would have supported the accord. Not surprisingly, Neil deGrasse Tyson rushed to declare that Trump supported the withdrawal because his administration "never learned what Science is or how and why it works." But what does "Science" (which Tyson capitalizes for some reason) have to do with it? Agreement or disagreement with the accord might hint at one's opinions about climate science. Or it might not. One can agree that climate change exists and that human beings have a large role in the phenomenon. Agreement on this matter, however, does not dictate that one must also agree with the political policies outlined in the Paris document.
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from NBC News (& affiliates)
Self-driving cars will double as security cameras, says Intel CEO Brian Krzanich
"The next time an Amber alert comes up and they're looking for a license plate, the cars should be able to find that license plate quite rapidly," said Krzanich. The idea could bring up concerns about privacy, but Krzanich has already thought of how to minimize those worries.
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from New York Times
When the Left Turns on Its Own
Bret Weinstein is a biology professor at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Wash., who supported Bernie Sanders, admiringly retweets Glenn Greenwald and was an outspoken supporter of the Occupy Wall Street movement. You could be forgiven for thinking that Mr. Weinstein, who identifies himself as “deeply progressive,” is just the kind of teacher that students at one of the most left-wing colleges in the country would admire. Instead, he has become a victim of an increasingly widespread campaign by leftist students against anyone who dares challenge ideological orthodoxy on campus. This professor’s crime? He had the gall to challenge a day of racial segregation.
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from NPR (& affiliates)
West Coast Ocean Acidification Rates Among Highest In World
Carbon emissions aren’t just causing climate change, they’re having a profound effect on ocean chemistry. Our oceans are becoming more acidic and this is a major threat to fisheries. Researchers have now recorded some of the highest levels of ocean acidification in the world, right off the coast of the Pacific Northwest. When oceans absorb carbon, they become more acidic, preventing oysters and tiny marine snails at the base of the food chain from forming shells.
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from The Spokesman-Review
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from USA Today
GOP congressman on climate change: God will 'take care of it' if it's real
Michigan GOP Rep. Tim Walberg isn’t concerned about the effects of climate change — if it exists — because God will “take care of it.”
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