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from Alex Jones (INFOWARS.COM)
CONSPIRACY-PSEUDOSCIENCE, LOW, radio program and website run by Alex Jones
TRUMP ADMIN OFFICIALLY BLAMES NORTH KOREA FOR WANNACRY RANSOMWARE ATTACK
The Trump administration has officially blamed North Korea for the WannaCry ransomware attack that crippled computers across the globe earlier this year. In an article for the Wall Street Journal Monday evening, Tom Bossert, assistant to the president for homeland security and counterterrorism, stated Pyongyang was “directly responsible.”
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from The Cato Institute
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from Christian Today
News & Media Website based in London, UK
Martyn Percy: Why the Church's response to the George Bell inquiry is so shocking
The long-awaited Independent Review of the Bishop George Bell Case, conducted by Lord Carlile of Berriew CBE, QC was published on December 15. As one of the campaigners for transparency in this case - namely for the Church of England to disclose exactly how it reached its decisions in relation to a single complaint of sexual abuse made against Bell, decades after his death - Alex Carlile's Review is a fulsome vindication of the need for a complete overhaul of the practice of the Church. The report shows that justice was not served - either to Bishop Bell, or to the woman known as 'Carol'. The report shows - damningly, alas - that the entire process by the Church of England was conducted through the lens of reputational management. Appropriate legal expertise was not used. Assumptions were made: guilty unless proven innocent. Dreadful and egregious errors of procedure were made, revealing a culture of shoddy amateurism. When challenged on this, the evolving debacle was further compounded by assertions that a 'proper' process and 'robust' investigation had been undertaken. They hadn't. Not remotely.
Martyn Percy: Why the Church's response to the George Bell inquiry is so shocking
The long-awaited Independent Review of the Bishop George Bell Case, conducted by Lord Carlile of Berriew CBE, QC was published on December 15. As one of the campaigners for transparency in this case - namely for the Church of England to disclose exactly how it reached its decisions in relation to a single complaint of sexual abuse made against Bell, decades after his death - Alex Carlile's Review is a fulsome vindication of the need for a complete overhaul of the practice of the Church. The report shows that justice was not served - either to Bishop Bell, or to the woman known as 'Carol'. The report shows - damningly, alas - that the entire process by the Church of England was conducted through the lens of reputational management. Appropriate legal expertise was not used. Assumptions were made: guilty unless proven innocent. Dreadful and egregious errors of procedure were made, revealing a culture of shoddy amateurism. When challenged on this, the evolving debacle was further compounded by assertions that a 'proper' process and 'robust' investigation had been undertaken. They hadn't. Not remotely.
from CNSNews.com (& MRC & NewsBusters)
RIGHT BIAS
Scrooges at Slate Can't Handle Christmas Cheer, Lament 'Grim Vision' of 'Rudolph'
Slate.com is proving that those who believe that far-left progressives have their own brand of puritanism have a point. This puritanism largely, but not totally (because we can never forget their fervent desire to serve as everyone's Thought Police), explains the website's recent ridiculous attacks on the TV show Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and on the Hallmark Channel's runaway success with Christmas-themed movies.
Scrooges at Slate Can't Handle Christmas Cheer, Lament 'Grim Vision' of 'Rudolph'
Slate.com is proving that those who believe that far-left progressives have their own brand of puritanism have a point. This puritanism largely, but not totally (because we can never forget their fervent desire to serve as everyone's Thought Police), explains the website's recent ridiculous attacks on the TV show Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and on the Hallmark Channel's runaway success with Christmas-themed movies.
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from The Heritage Foundation
RIGHT BIAS, MIXED, think tank in Washington, D.C
Analysis of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act
The U.S. tax code is sorely in need of reform. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act is the most sweeping update to the U.S. tax code in more than 30 years. The bill lowers corporate and individual tax rates, doubles the standard deduction, expands the child tax credit, and repeals the individual health care mandate. Congress will have to revisit the tax code in the coming years to make many temporary provisions permanent and to make further improvements to the tax code.
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Analysis of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act
The U.S. tax code is sorely in need of reform. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act is the most sweeping update to the U.S. tax code in more than 30 years. The bill lowers corporate and individual tax rates, doubles the standard deduction, expands the child tax credit, and repeals the individual health care mandate. Congress will have to revisit the tax code in the coming years to make many temporary provisions permanent and to make further improvements to the tax code.
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from Lens
Media/News Company in Bellevue, WA.
Court says Ecology overreached with Clean Air Rule
A Thurston County Superior Court judge ruling on Friday invalidated the state Department of Ecology’s Clean Air Rule due to a lack of statutory authority. For the time being, Ecology says it is weighing its options. It also remains to be seen whether the ruling will have any effect on anticipated carbon tax proposals made in the state legislature this upcoming session. The Clean Air Rule would have required businesses that emitted more than 100,000 metrics tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) and CO2 equivalents annually to reduce their emissions by an average of 1.7 percent annually. Among those effected would have been fuel and natural gas suppliers, pulp and paper plants, metal manufacturers and waste facilities.
Overseen by The Business Institute Of Washington
A Thurston County Superior Court judge ruling on Friday invalidated the state Department of Ecology’s Clean Air Rule due to a lack of statutory authority. For the time being, Ecology says it is weighing its options. It also remains to be seen whether the ruling will have any effect on anticipated carbon tax proposals made in the state legislature this upcoming session. The Clean Air Rule would have required businesses that emitted more than 100,000 metrics tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) and CO2 equivalents annually to reduce their emissions by an average of 1.7 percent annually. Among those effected would have been fuel and natural gas suppliers, pulp and paper plants, metal manufacturers and waste facilities.
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from The Living Church
Magazine of The Living Church Foundation (Anglican)
Reconciled bodies: recasting race in Catholic ecclesiology
Herewith the first part of “Reconciled Bodies: Recasting Race in Catholic Ecclesiology,” a paper delivered at the conference “Anglo-Catholicism: Uncovering Roots,” Church of the Advent, Boston, November 15-16.
Bob Dylan: Advent songwriter?
Bob Dylan’s Trouble No More: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 13, 1979-1981, released in November, covers the recording and touring from his gospel period. While many Dylan purists find this music and its lyrics derivative and preachy, and some in Covenant’s readership may differ with Dylan’s seemingly dispensational millennialist eschatology, there’s no doubting his fervor, or the strength of his lyrical skills.
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More than 200,000 Puerto Ricans fled to Florida. Their housing aid could soon run out
As Puerto Rico continues to recover from the devastation of Hurricane Maria, Florida legislators are calling on Gov. Ricardo Rosselló to seek additional federal aid for the hundreds of thousands of evacuees that have come to the state. The lawmakers sent a letter Monday urging Rosselló to request that FEMA extend the federal hotel voucher program, known as the Transitional Sheltering Assistance program, so evacuees can continue to receive the assistance for hotel stays across the state. The program is set to end Jan. 15.
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Magazine of The Living Church Foundation (Anglican)
Reconciled bodies: recasting race in Catholic ecclesiology
Herewith the first part of “Reconciled Bodies: Recasting Race in Catholic Ecclesiology,” a paper delivered at the conference “Anglo-Catholicism: Uncovering Roots,” Church of the Advent, Boston, November 15-16.
Bob Dylan: Advent songwriter?
Bob Dylan’s Trouble No More: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 13, 1979-1981, released in November, covers the recording and touring from his gospel period. While many Dylan purists find this music and its lyrics derivative and preachy, and some in Covenant’s readership may differ with Dylan’s seemingly dispensational millennialist eschatology, there’s no doubting his fervor, or the strength of his lyrical skills.
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from Miami Herald
As Puerto Rico continues to recover from the devastation of Hurricane Maria, Florida legislators are calling on Gov. Ricardo Rosselló to seek additional federal aid for the hundreds of thousands of evacuees that have come to the state. The lawmakers sent a letter Monday urging Rosselló to request that FEMA extend the federal hotel voucher program, known as the Transitional Sheltering Assistance program, so evacuees can continue to receive the assistance for hotel stays across the state. The program is set to end Jan. 15.
from The New American Magazine
RIGHT BIAS: John Birch SocietyPentagon Program Investigated “Anomalous Aerospace Threats” — UFOs
The Defense Department launched a program in 2007 to study reports of UFOs, videos of encounters between military pilots and unknown objects, and interviews with people who said they had “experienced physical effects” from encounters with the unidentified flying objects. The program ended in 2012.
Venezuela’s Socialism Is Killing Its Children; NY Times Blames “Economic Mismanagement”
For five months investigative journalists from the New York Times sought and uncovered the truth about Nicolas Maduro’s socialist paradise in Venezuela, and then blamed the horror they found on “economic mismanagement.” This is a lie of the first magnitude, as expressed by Alfred Lord Tennyson: “A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.” The half-truth referred to by Tennyson assumes that the Times got their story at least half right: that “economic mismanagement” had something to do with the quadrupling of infant deaths due to malnutrition it found during its investigation. Students of socialism in history know better: Such mismanagement is one of the inevitable fruits of socialism. Once price information is removed through price controls and the division of labor is disrupted through government intervention, the end is predictable.
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from Observer
Newspaper in New York
Jim Clapper Just Nuked the Trump Presidency
The most jaw-dropping statement ever uttered about any American president by any serious commentator. Clapper said, "I think this past weekend is illustrative of what a great case officer Vladimir Putin is. He knows how to handle an asset, and that’s what he’s doing with the president … You have to remember Putin’s background. He’s a KGB officer. That’s what they do. They recruit assets. And I think some of that experience and instincts of Putin has come into play here in his managing of a pretty important account for him, if I could use that term, with our president."
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Jim Clapper Just Nuked the Trump Presidency
The most jaw-dropping statement ever uttered about any American president by any serious commentator. Clapper said, "I think this past weekend is illustrative of what a great case officer Vladimir Putin is. He knows how to handle an asset, and that’s what he’s doing with the president … You have to remember Putin’s background. He’s a KGB officer. That’s what they do. They recruit assets. And I think some of that experience and instincts of Putin has come into play here in his managing of a pretty important account for him, if I could use that term, with our president."
from The Seattle Times
LEFT-CENTER BIAS, HIGH, Newspaper in Seattle, Washington
Two of the men killed in Monday’s Amtrak train derailment near Olympia were longtime rail advocates, who worked in transportation, spent their free time pushing for better train service and traveled the country and the world to ride on new train lines. Zack Willhoite, 35, and Jim Hamre, 61, close friends, were riding on the inaugural trip of Amtrak’s new Seattle-to-Portland service along a rebuilt inland track when it derailed Monday morning. They’d also ridden last week on what was to be the last service on the old coastal route.
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from Smithsonian Magazine
The Winter Solstice Begins a Season of Storytelling and Ceremony
In the Northern Hemisphere, December 21 will be the year’s day of least sunlight, when the sun takes its lowest, shortest path across the sky. North of the Arctic Circle, it will be the midpoint of the period of darkness, when even twilight doesn’t reach the horizon. As we did before the solar eclipse in August, this December we asked our Native friends to share traditions they’ve heard about the winter solstice. Their answers highlight winter as a time for storytelling.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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‘Tremendous Success:’ US Air Force Shells Out Largest Bug Bounty Payment Ever
A pair of hackers recently won $10,650 after uncovering a major vulnerability in US Air Force software that allowed them to access the US Department of Defense’s unclassified network. The payout is the largest ever in the US government's bug bounty program, which encourages hackers to hunt down and flag system vulnerabilities in return for cash prizes.
US House Republicans Push Through Major Tax Reform Bill
Led by Wisconsin Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan, the US House of Representatives passed the final version of a tax reform bill on Tuesday. The bill now goes to the Senate. The final measure passed with 227 yes votes and 203 no votes. Two House members did not vote. No Democrats voted for the tax bill, but the Republican majority in the chamber allowed the legislation, which some are calling the most impactful tax policy change since the 1980s, to squeak through. A dozen Republicans voted against the tax bill.
Geoffrey Rowell on the Oxford Movement and the modern English celebration of Christmas
This article, published in HISTORY TODAY on 21st December, 1993, was written by Geoffrey Rowell (1943-2017), who was at the time Fellow, Chaplain and Tutor in Theology at Keble College, Oxford. He eventually became the Church of England Bishop of Europe. Widely renowned as a specialist in 19th century Church history in general, and the Oxford Movement in particular, Geoffrey Rowell was a loving and orthodox bishop, and a member of The Society of St Wilfred and St Hilda. In this article he gives us a fascinating thumbnail sketch of the modern English observance of Christmas, emphasising the role of the Oxford Movement in its development.
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from Sputnik
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, MIXED, Broadcasting & Media Production Company out of Moscow, Russia
A pair of hackers recently won $10,650 after uncovering a major vulnerability in US Air Force software that allowed them to access the US Department of Defense’s unclassified network. The payout is the largest ever in the US government's bug bounty program, which encourages hackers to hunt down and flag system vulnerabilities in return for cash prizes.
Led by Wisconsin Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan, the US House of Representatives passed the final version of a tax reform bill on Tuesday. The bill now goes to the Senate. The final measure passed with 227 yes votes and 203 no votes. Two House members did not vote. No Democrats voted for the tax bill, but the Republican majority in the chamber allowed the legislation, which some are calling the most impactful tax policy change since the 1980s, to squeak through. A dozen Republicans voted against the tax bill.
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from Streams of the River (blog)
This article, published in HISTORY TODAY on 21st December, 1993, was written by Geoffrey Rowell (1943-2017), who was at the time Fellow, Chaplain and Tutor in Theology at Keble College, Oxford. He eventually became the Church of England Bishop of Europe. Widely renowned as a specialist in 19th century Church history in general, and the Oxford Movement in particular, Geoffrey Rowell was a loving and orthodox bishop, and a member of The Society of St Wilfred and St Hilda. In this article he gives us a fascinating thumbnail sketch of the modern English observance of Christmas, emphasising the role of the Oxford Movement in its development.
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