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from Asia Times Online
Speech in India is governed by an amalgamation of legal mandate, social norms, and often-florid rhetoric largely propounded by those who are privileged and those who echo the privileged. It is they who almost exclusively determine when the law is invoked and how social norms should be shaped, whether through their socio-economic ability to approach courts or through the clout they wield within patriarchal social structures. India’s constitution guarantees the right of free speech, and it is possible to argue that the right accrues not just to Indian citizens but to all human beings. That said, although freedom of speech is recognized as a fundamental and inalienable right, even within the constitution it is recognized along with other rights such as those to life, liberty, and religious freedom, over which it cannot claim primacy.
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from HumanProgress.org
Education Website
Since he published his bestselling book, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress, Steven Pinker has been criticized for excessive optimism. Jeremy Lent, for example, argues that Pinker is insufficiently concerned about depletion of the planet’s natural resources, including freshwater reserves. He faults the Harvard University psychologist for embracing a “neoliberal, technocratic belief that a combination of market-based solutions and technological fixes will magically resolve all ecological problems.” As Israel’s desalination efforts show, however, technological fixes and market-based solutions are an important part of humanity’s efforts to overcome environmental challenges.
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from Independent Sentinel
RIGHT BIAS
Trump Supporters Are “uneducated, lazy POS…f***ing idiots”, Says FBI
The FBI’s top officials think Trump supporters are “lazy POS, retarded, uneducated, “f***ing idiots” but let us not dare their excellence in all matters. Until earlier this year, a Mueller team attorney continued to work on the Russia probe although he was a member of the RESISTANCE. He worked on the Hillary email investigation and was FBI lead attorney into the Russia probe. He goes unnamed but was transferred out this year. After information about his emails was going to be made public, what choice did Mueller have?
Anti-Trump ‘Nasty’ Mayor Cruz Under Investigation for Corruption
Partisan San Juan Mayor Yulin Cruz continuously tried to demean the President in the wake of Hurricane Maria. As it happens, she might be guilty of the very thing she accused the President of doing. Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz and her administration are under FBI investigation themselves after reports that corruption in San Juan. She is accused of keeping critical supplies from reaching victims of the hurricane.
The Economy Is Not An Engine — So Stop Describing It Like One
When the Fed signaled two more interest rate hikes this year, virtually every story talked about preventing the economy from "overheating." The real danger to the economy is the constant use of engine metaphors. Every conversation about the economy invariably compares it to a mechanical device.
RIGHT BIAS
Trump Supporters Are “uneducated, lazy POS…f***ing idiots”, Says FBI
The FBI’s top officials think Trump supporters are “lazy POS, retarded, uneducated, “f***ing idiots” but let us not dare their excellence in all matters. Until earlier this year, a Mueller team attorney continued to work on the Russia probe although he was a member of the RESISTANCE. He worked on the Hillary email investigation and was FBI lead attorney into the Russia probe. He goes unnamed but was transferred out this year. After information about his emails was going to be made public, what choice did Mueller have?
Anti-Trump ‘Nasty’ Mayor Cruz Under Investigation for Corruption
Partisan San Juan Mayor Yulin Cruz continuously tried to demean the President in the wake of Hurricane Maria. As it happens, she might be guilty of the very thing she accused the President of doing. Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz and her administration are under FBI investigation themselves after reports that corruption in San Juan. She is accused of keeping critical supplies from reaching victims of the hurricane.
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from Investor's Business Daily
The Economy Is Not An Engine — So Stop Describing It Like One
When the Fed signaled two more interest rate hikes this year, virtually every story talked about preventing the economy from "overheating." The real danger to the economy is the constant use of engine metaphors. Every conversation about the economy invariably compares it to a mechanical device.
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from Miami Herald
No policy of any previous administration justifies this act of state-sponsored cruelty. No concern over border security excuses it. What we are doing is not 'wrong,' it is not 'bad,' it is not 'misguided.'
No, this is evil.
No, this is evil.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
Man on life support after Hillyard shooting
Caleb Tipton, 28, was in critical condition Friday, June 15, 2018 after he was shot in the head near Rowan Avenue and Cook Street in northeast Spokane.
Glover Field, which honored Spokane’s third mayor, renamed Redband Park
For more than a century, a patch of grass in Peaceful Valley carried the name of one of Spokane’s founding fathers. Now it has a new title, taken from an even more ancient resident. The Spokane Park Board voted unanimously Thursday afternoon to name the green spaces along the banks of Spokane River “Redband Park,” a tribute to the native species of trout that spawn in the area. The decision includes the area previously known as Glover Field, named in 1917 for the pioneering Spokane businessman James Glover, who served as mayor and helped plot the early town. Glover, however, also has also sparked controversy in recent years for the treatment of his first wife.
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Trump Is 'No Fool,' Peace Possible With North Korea, Independent Strategist Says
On the heels of his historic summit with Kim Jon-un, President Trump declared this week that DPRK no longer poses an existential nuclear threat. Trump’s proclamation has been met with applause in some political quarters, and suspicion in others.
Watchdog Says FBI Wasn’t Politically Biased in 2016, But Texts Reveal Otherwise
The office tasked with reviewing the US Justice Department and FBI released a report Thursday that found a litany of mistakes in how the FBI handled a number of sensitive investigations leading up the 2016 US elections – but that came to the possibly dubious conclusion that the FBI was not in the end politically biased in its actions.
Leaked Video: IDF General Warns Iran Is Preparing to Attack Israel from Syria
Leaked video from a meeting between Israel’s head of Military Intelligence, Maj. Gen. Tamir Hyman, and a number of foreign security ministers shows him warning them that Iran’s presence in Syria isn’t meant to support Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s battle against terrorists, but instead to threaten Israel.
Man on life support after Hillyard shooting
Caleb Tipton, 28, was in critical condition Friday, June 15, 2018 after he was shot in the head near Rowan Avenue and Cook Street in northeast Spokane.
Glover Field, which honored Spokane’s third mayor, renamed Redband Park
For more than a century, a patch of grass in Peaceful Valley carried the name of one of Spokane’s founding fathers. Now it has a new title, taken from an even more ancient resident. The Spokane Park Board voted unanimously Thursday afternoon to name the green spaces along the banks of Spokane River “Redband Park,” a tribute to the native species of trout that spawn in the area. The decision includes the area previously known as Glover Field, named in 1917 for the pioneering Spokane businessman James Glover, who served as mayor and helped plot the early town. Glover, however, also has also sparked controversy in recent years for the treatment of his first wife.
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from Sputnik
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, MIXED, Broadcasting & Media Production Company out of Moscow, Russia
On the heels of his historic summit with Kim Jon-un, President Trump declared this week that DPRK no longer poses an existential nuclear threat. Trump’s proclamation has been met with applause in some political quarters, and suspicion in others.
The office tasked with reviewing the US Justice Department and FBI released a report Thursday that found a litany of mistakes in how the FBI handled a number of sensitive investigations leading up the 2016 US elections – but that came to the possibly dubious conclusion that the FBI was not in the end politically biased in its actions.
Leaked video from a meeting between Israel’s head of Military Intelligence, Maj. Gen. Tamir Hyman, and a number of foreign security ministers shows him warning them that Iran’s presence in Syria isn’t meant to support Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s battle against terrorists, but instead to threaten Israel.
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