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from Asia Times Online
News & Media Website
It is refreshing to hear an American president call the Europeans out for the sybarites and deadbeats they are.
Bitcoin is harder to value, more volatile, less liquid and costlier to sell than any other asset. It is also part of one of the biggest market bubbles ever. The Bitcoin bubble has to be put in the shade of the 17th-century tulip mania, the South Sea bubble of 1720, and the more recent dot-com bubbles.
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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, HIGH, non-profit organization
George Eastman: The Greatest Tech Entrepreneur in U.S. History
The technologies of today are built upon those of the past, and the superstars of our era would be nothing without the great leaders of the past. We often discuss our favorite “tech” entrepreneurs. Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Elon Musk, and many other names arise. Too often these discussions lack historical perspective. Here we build a case for George Eastman as the greatest technology entrepreneur.
More People Use a Gun in Self-Defense Each Year Than Die in Car Accidents
In the USA there are between 2.1 and 2.5 million defensive gun uses every year. How is it that so many kids raised on “Harry Potter”, “The Hunger Games”, “Star Wars”, and all the Marvel action figure movies manage to miss a critical point of the stories? The lesson being: If you want to prevail over evil villains, you must have the proper tools to fight back. Millions of people protect themselves and their families with guns every day in the United States. They choose guns as a means of self-defense for the same reason the Secret Service uses them to protect the president: guns stop bad people from doing bad things to good people. It’s absurd to speak about the right of self-defense in theory but then deny people the tools they need to exercise that right.
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from HumanProgress.org
Education Website
The ocean covers seven tenths of the earth’s surface, and yet unlike land it largely remains a wilderness, with little of it cultivated or sensibly managed. It has enormous potential. A 2009 report for the World Bank by Professor Ragnar Arnason and other leading experts, The Sunken Billions, estimates that economic losses in marine fisheries resulting from poor management, inefficiencies, and overfishing add up to at least US$50 billion a year. The reason is of course that the ocean is for most purposes a commons, where the absence of private property rights to its fish stocks and other resources predictably leads to wasteful exploitation. At about the same time, in the early 1980s, two small countries, Iceland and New Zealand, both islands out in the ocean, however hit on what can be regarded as the best, or the least bad, solution to the ‘tragedy of the commons’, as overexploitation of open-access resources is often called. It is a system of individual transferable quotas, ITQs, in the fisheries.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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Puigdemont Vows to 'Fight Until The End' After German Court Extradition Verdict
Carles Puigdemont, the ex-head of the Catalan government, said on Thursday he would fight to prove his innocence after a German court ruled that extraditing the politician to Spain on charges of misusing public funds to organize last year's campaign for Catalan independence, not rebellion, which he was accused of, was possible.
How China is Emerging as the Leading Global Player in the Arab World
China is stepping up cooperation with the Arab world. The recent China-Arab States Cooperation Forum (CASCF) was aimed at deepening economic and security cooperation between Beijing and Arab countries of the Middle East and North Africa within the framework of the One Belt, One Road project, analysts told Sputnik.
Divide Over Iran Nuclear Deal May Limit Putin-Trump Summit's Progress – Analysts
The result of the upcoming meeting between Putin and Trump is hard to predict, but there is potential for a thaw in relations between the two states and an in-depth discussion of the Iran nuclear deal, the Syrian and Ukrainian crises, the New START treaty and Pyongyang's denuclearization, politicians and analysts told Sputnik.
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from Sputnik
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, MIXED, Broadcasting & Media Production Company out of Moscow, Russia
Carles Puigdemont, the ex-head of the Catalan government, said on Thursday he would fight to prove his innocence after a German court ruled that extraditing the politician to Spain on charges of misusing public funds to organize last year's campaign for Catalan independence, not rebellion, which he was accused of, was possible.
China is stepping up cooperation with the Arab world. The recent China-Arab States Cooperation Forum (CASCF) was aimed at deepening economic and security cooperation between Beijing and Arab countries of the Middle East and North Africa within the framework of the One Belt, One Road project, analysts told Sputnik.
The result of the upcoming meeting between Putin and Trump is hard to predict, but there is potential for a thaw in relations between the two states and an in-depth discussion of the Iran nuclear deal, the Syrian and Ukrainian crises, the New START treaty and Pyongyang's denuclearization, politicians and analysts told Sputnik.
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from The Washington Post
Newspaper in Washington, D.C.
Partisans assail historians for judging the past by today’s standards. Here’s why they’re wrong.
Even by the standards of their day, many heroes of Western civilization engaged in immoral acts.
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from The Washington Times
News & Media Website in Washington, D.C.
Plastic straw bans won't save oceans: 'We're trading a lot for nothing'
The rush to clean up the oceans by deep-sixing plastic straws is swelling as big corporate fish like Starbucks jump aboard, even as skepticism builds over whether the campaign is more trouble than it’s worth.
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Plastic straw bans won't save oceans: 'We're trading a lot for nothing'
The rush to clean up the oceans by deep-sixing plastic straws is swelling as big corporate fish like Starbucks jump aboard, even as skepticism builds over whether the campaign is more trouble than it’s worth.
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