Friday, September 22, 2017

In the news, Sunday, August 27, 2017


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from Axios
LEFT-CENTER BIAS,  HIGH,  news website

Scoop: Trump frustration with Tillerson rising fast
We've been hearing for weeks, from sources who've spoken to the president, that Trump is getting more and more fed up with Tillerson, who has still yet to staff his agency.

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from BBC News (UK)
LEFT-CENTER BIAS

Harvey: Too poor to flee the hurricane
Rockport was founded as a cattle abattoir and meat-packing port after the American civil war of 1861-1865. Named after its geology - it sits on a solid rock ledge - the town and its adjoining neighbour, Fulton, did well for many years, first on the beef trade and later thanks to fishing and shrimping. By the time the 20th Century had dawned, a railway was bringing in tourists too. They still come, spending time and money boating and birdwatching, with ornithologists keen to see whooping cranes and hummingbirds. But their money does not seem to have done much for the people of the port or of its wooded suburbs. "Hardscrabble" is the word Americans use to describe a place like Rockport. It is overwhelmingly white (88.7% at the last census in 2010) and voted decisively for Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election. "We're the ones who go to the restaurants and wait on you and pick up your trash and do all that work. We don't have a lot of money."

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from Billings Gazette
Newspaper in Billings, Montana

Northern Cheyenne remains returned to reservation after 138 years
It took 138 years, but the remains of what researchers believe were two Northern Cheyenne killed during the historic Fort Robinson Breakout of 1879 have been reunited with their ancestral homelands in southeastern Montana.

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from The Daily Astorian
Newspaper in Astoria, Oregon

Doctors needed in rural areas like Pendleton and Astoria
Young physicians often flock to big cities



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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, HIGH, non-profit organization

What Gave Bitcoin Its Value?
The wedge between money and payment method has always been with us, except for the case of physical proximity. A major, if not a primary, purpose of developing Bitcoin was to solve this problem. Those who use the work of Mises to challenge bitcoin should think again.

Money Isn't a Gift from the State
The claim that state power is essential for any currency to become a commonly accepted medium of exchange is plainly at odds with historical fact. P rivately issued banknotes without sovereign backing were the dominant media of exchange in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries—where they were allowed.

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from The Inquisitr
LEFT-CENTER BIAS,  MIXED, aggregate news and media website

JACOB ROTHSCHILD AGGRESSIVELY TRIMS HIS EXPOSURE TO RISKY U.S. CAPITAL MARKETS
Jacob Rothschild has aggressively minimized his exposure to what he views as a risky U.S. capital market. Rothschild is the founder and chairman of Rit Capital Partners. In the half-year financial report for Rit Capital Partners, Rothschild explained the companies significant exposure reduction to U.S. assets. Rothschild stated, “We do not believe this is an appropriate time to add to risk. Share prices have in many cases risen to unprecedented levels at a time when economic growth is by no means assured. ”

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from Medium

It has been nearly three weeks since The Nation pushed an explosive memo from the Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity into mainstream consciousness with an article detailing the evidence that the DNC leaks last year could not have been the result of a Russian hack. By continuing to ignore it, the US intelligence community and all the pundits and politicians who have advanced the Russian hacking narrative are tacitly admitting that they lied.

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from MSN News

A group of pagans has written to the Archbishop of Canterbury demanding two churches to make amends for those it says were stolen 1,300 years ago. The Odinist Fellowship, which represents 1,000 members of the pagan religion, wrote to the Church of England last month asking for two churches to be returned to make up for actions which took place during the Christianisation of England.

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from New York Post

Trump wants to lift ban on giving military equipment to police
President Trump wants military weapons and armored vehicles to start rolling back to local police departments, according to a new report. The Trump administration is prepared to lift an Obama-era ban on repurposing military equipment from the battlefield for community policing, according to USA Today. President Barack Obama’s executive order in 2015 blocked the transfer of Defense Department armored vehicles, large-caliber weapons and ammunition to local police officers. The program was popular with local police departments but was blamed, in part, for creating an adversarial relationship between the police and the community after the deaths of Mike Brown and Eric Garner.

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from Reason Magazine
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]

Why Trump's Wall Is Not Going to Happen
Plenty of GOP members would rather put Barack Obama on Mount Rushmore than underwrite this addled project. Donald Trump has served one-seventh of his constitutionally allotted term of office, and given his talent for self-destruction, there is no guarantee he will get to serve the remaining six-sevenths. But whether he does or not, one thing is a safe bet: When he leaves the White House, there will not be a wall running the length of our southern border.

Out of the Way, Texas, Federal Hurricane Rescue Is Coming
If history is any indicator, it's going to be a long and very expensive siege. "No government screwup is so colossal that it can't be used to justify yet more government," we wrote in our 2005 roundup of the coverage, "After the Storm." "For most liberals, Katrina merely proved that Washington needs more resources to prevent and respond to such disasters; for many conservatives, it proved that society is a fragile construct that can collapse into chaos at any moment, and that only police or military force can hold it together in times of stress."

Trump Sticks to Status Quo With Idiotic Afghanistan Plans
The great disrupter of the establishment turns out to be—surprise, surprise—a man of the establishment. Steve Bannon's Brietbart and others notwithstanding, that was Trump being Trump when he announced he would not be quitting Afghanistan, despite the manifest futility and counterproductivity—that is, idiocy—of America's 16-year war there. He is not a captive of "my generals," bad as they are. He is his own man.

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from The Spokesman-Review

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from USA Today

Sheriff Joe Arpaio is no conservative and no hero, no matter what President Trump says
Convicting Arpaio of contempt of court was like busting Al Capone on tax evasion. It was the tip of an iceberg of misdeeds I saw my longtime sheriff commit.

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from Zero Hedge
CONSPIRACY-PSEUDOSCIENCE,  MIXED,  financial blog with aggregated news and opinion

YouTube "Economically Censors" Ron Paul, Labels Videos "Not Suitable" For All Advertisers
Former US Congressman Ron Paul has joined a growing list of independent political journalists and commentators who’re being economically punished by YouTube despite producing videos that routinely receive hundreds of thousands of views. In a tweet published Saturday, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange tweeted a screenshot of Paul’s “Liberty Report” page showing that his videos had been labeled “not suitable” for all advertisers by YouTube's content arbiters.

Congress Quietly Passed A Bill Allowing Warrantless Searches of Homes - Only 1% Opposed It
A bill that will allow homes to be searched without a warrant was passed with overwhelming support by the United States Congress, and signed into law by President Trump—and it happened with no media coverage and very little fanfare. On the surface, House Joint Resolution 76 looks harmless. The title of the bill claims that its purpose is “Granting the consent and approval of Congress for the Commonwealth of Virginia, the State of Maryland, and the District of Columbia to enter into a compact relating to the establishment of the Washington Metrorail Safety Commission.” When the bill was brought to a vote in the House of Representatives, there were only five Congressmen who voted against it: Representatives Justin Amash, a Republican from Michigan; Walter Jones, a Republican from North Carolina; Thomas Massie, a Republican from Kentucky; Alex Mooney, a Republican from West Virginia; and Mark Sanford, a Republican from South Carolina.

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