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from Bloomberg
Media/News Company
The attack by Chinese spies reached almost 30 U.S. companies, including Amazon and Apple, by compromising America’s technology supply chain, according to extensive interviews with government and corporate sources.
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from Crosscut
News & Media Website in Seattle, WA.
Why blocking Kavanaugh may be worse than the alternative
Sue Lani Madsen: Memory is a tricky thing in trauma. A few thoughts on the lose-lose situation facing the US Senate. And why #ConfirmKavanaugh is the better choice for the country. She said, he said. It’s hard to get excited about translating stupid things a boy says in his high school yearbooks, or debating the propriety of throwing ice at a college bar. There are holes in a girl’s story, more questions than answers about the past. I'm so done with the whole thing. Watching from a ranch in central Washington meant too much time on C-SPAN, Twitter and Facebook. A common reaction to Dr. Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony last Thursday has been “something happened, we just don’t know who, when, what or where.”
Why blocking Kavanaugh may be worse than the alternative
Sue Lani Madsen: Memory is a tricky thing in trauma. A few thoughts on the lose-lose situation facing the US Senate. And why #ConfirmKavanaugh is the better choice for the country. She said, he said. It’s hard to get excited about translating stupid things a boy says in his high school yearbooks, or debating the propriety of throwing ice at a college bar. There are holes in a girl’s story, more questions than answers about the past. I'm so done with the whole thing. Watching from a ranch in central Washington meant too much time on C-SPAN, Twitter and Facebook. A common reaction to Dr. Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony last Thursday has been “something happened, we just don’t know who, when, what or where.”
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from Faith & Freedom
blog.faithandfreedom.us
blog.faithandfreedom.us
China And America's Religious Left Re-Writing The Bible
The Chinese government is supervising a 5-year plan to make Christianity more compatible with socialism---including Buddhist "scripture" and Confucian teachings, and new commentaries for the New Testament. America's religious Left is also re-writing the Bible. When not discrediting evangelicals, Jim Wallis' so-called "religious Left" or "Christian Left" is finding ways to use reinterpreted sacred Scripture to justify their liberal, leftist, socialist, progressive beliefs.
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from Hoover Institution
Nonprofit Organization in Stanford, California
China & Middle East: Regional Rebalancing
The Middle East, a region once embroiled in the Cold War struggle of east and west, is now bearing witness to new geopolitical shifts. The emergence of Beijing on the Middle Eastern landscape where it is quenching its thirst for energy resources and forging regional relationships through its One Belt One Road Initiative (OBOR) with countries as diverse as Egypt, Iran, Jordan, Oman, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) comes at the expense of Washington’s longstanding primacy.
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from Miami Herald
Let’s get something straight: Men are not the victims here. It is a foolish and offensive line of reasoning, so naturally it has caught traction on the political right. Indeed, for some, it is an article of faith as the confirmation of would-be Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh becomes ever more deeply mired in accusations that, as a high school boy, he committed attempted rape. For them, Kavanaugh is every man — and every man is in danger.
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from Orthodox Christianity
Organization in Moscow, Russia
His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia has written to all the primates of the world’s 15 Local Orthodox Churches to inform them about the ongoing crisis in Ukraine and to propose opening a pan-Orthodox discussion on the matter, Fr. Nikolai Balashov, the Deputy Head of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, told RIA-Novosti. “The Russian Orthodox Church’s position on so-called Ukrainian autocephaly and on the possible negative consequences of the Patriarchate of Constantinople’s actions for the unity of universal Orthodoxy is outlined in the letters. They also contain a proposal to start efforts to start a pan-Orthodox discussion on the situation,” Fr. Nikolai said.The Russian Orthodox Church’s position on so-called Ukrainian autocephaly and on the possible negative consequences of the Patriarchate of Constantinople’s actions for the unity of universal Orthodoxy is outlined in the letters. They also contain a proposal to start efforts to start a pan-Orthodox discussion on the situation,” Fr. Nikolai said.
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from Psephizo Blog
Is this the solution to our missional challenge?
At the last Archbishops’ Council, I was rather startled to come across a slide in a presentation on some background issues about funding and mission. The slide offered an analysis of the proportion of the population attending Church of England churches against another factor, and there was a striking correlation. So, if you could guess what one factor correlated with increased attendance, what would you guess it would be? My instinctive response was to do with social context. Hereford, Carlisle and Gloucester are substantially rural dioceses, whereas Manchester, Chelmsford and Birmingham are substantially urban. But it turns out that the correlation in question actually applies within dioceses, and in the comparison between areas of similar social context. The answer is: number of stipendiary clergy. Here is the graph with the axis labelled. And for me it raises a series of questions.
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from Reason Magazine
Magazine in Los Angeles, California
L.A. Mayor Says Gas Taxes Are Needed to Fix Roads While Standing in Front of Rail Station Funded By Gas Taxes
Opponents of Proposition 6, a California ballot initiative that would repeal the state's recent $5-billion-a-year gasoline tax increase, are playing a difficult double game. They argue that any additional money motorists pay at the pump is needed to fix the state's dilapidated roads and bridges, while insisting that eliminating the revenue will jeopardize mass transit projects those motorists don't use. Whatever hope gas tax proponents have of getting these motorists to vote for keeping their gas taxes so high rests on convincing them that the new money will pay for road repair and maintenance. Highlighting the billions of dollars of gas tax revenue being siphoned away from these repairs to pay for mass transit does not make that task any easier. At the same time, getting urban liberals, environmentalists, and other members of the pro-transit coalition to show up and vote no on the gas tax repeal requires occasional references to all those rail and bus projects.
L.A. Mayor Says Gas Taxes Are Needed to Fix Roads While Standing in Front of Rail Station Funded By Gas Taxes
Opponents of Proposition 6, a California ballot initiative that would repeal the state's recent $5-billion-a-year gasoline tax increase, are playing a difficult double game. They argue that any additional money motorists pay at the pump is needed to fix the state's dilapidated roads and bridges, while insisting that eliminating the revenue will jeopardize mass transit projects those motorists don't use. Whatever hope gas tax proponents have of getting these motorists to vote for keeping their gas taxes so high rests on convincing them that the new money will pay for road repair and maintenance. Highlighting the billions of dollars of gas tax revenue being siphoned away from these repairs to pay for mass transit does not make that task any easier. At the same time, getting urban liberals, environmentalists, and other members of the pro-transit coalition to show up and vote no on the gas tax repeal requires occasional references to all those rail and bus projects.
from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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