Saturday, November 3, 2018

In the news, Monday, October 15, 2018


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from Anglican Communion News Service

The former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams led an Anglican delegation to the Vatican this weekend for the canonisation of Oscar Romero. The current Archbishop, Justin Welby, sent a letter to Pope Francis in which he described the former Archbishop of San Salvador, who was assassinated as he celebrated Mass in March 1980, as “a true example to all Christians, and particularly to our fellow bishops.” The weekend’s service at St Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican, also saw the canonisation of Pope Paul VI and five other saints: Francesco Spinelli, Vincenzo Romano, Maria Catherine Kasper, Nazaria Ignazia of Saint Teresa of Jesus, and Nuncio Sulprizio.

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from Conciliar Post

Perhaps the hottest thing going in American evangelicalism is the enneagram (pron. “any-a-gram”). In the past five years, the personality typing system has exploded exponentially in popularity, as evidenced by church conferences, church retreats, popular podcasts, widely successful book sales, feature articles in magazines, and, anecdotally, many a dinner conversation with fellow evangelicals. The enneagram is a personality system of nine types, including the reformer, helper, achiever, individualist, investigator, loyalist, enthusiast, challenger, and peacemaker. To my knowledge, the enneagram is unique among personality systems in that it doesn’t primarily seek to categorize your actions but to understand the unconscious motivations behind why we do what we do. The enneagram also makes a number of moral claims; (1) these motivations are survival mechanisms, masks that seek to hide our true selves, (2) each type has a specific vice and corresponding opportunity for virtue, and (3) each person vacillates between times of health and un-health, security and stress.

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

Universal Basic Income Has Been Tried Before. It Didn’t Work.
This has been tried before—and the results weren’t pretty.

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from Hoover Institution
Nonprofit Organization in Stanford, California

The Space Force’s Value
Inevitably, sooner or later, one will bid for the comprehensive capacity to control that space. Better that America be first. Establishing the U.S. Space Force will endow people with the mission—the goal, the will, and the interest—to make U.S. control of space happen.

Winning the Space Race
On June 18, 2018, President Trump announced a new branch of the military: the United States Space Force. Control of space already underlies the United States’ predominance in nuclear and conventional warfare. Intercontinental and submarine launched ballistic missiles, the heart of the U.S. nuclear deterrent, pass through space to reach their targets. Reconnaissance satellites monitor rival nations for missile launches, strategic deployments, and major troop movements. Communications satellites provide the high-speed data transfer that stitches the U.S. Armed Forces together, from generals issuing commands to pilots controlling drones. With economic rivals such as China and India, and rogue states like Iran and North Korea developing space programs that pursue similar missions, the importance of space technology to U.S. interests and international peace will only increase.

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from HumanProgress.org  Education Website

Globalization's Great Triumph: The Death of Extreme Poverty
Even though world population increased by more than two billion people, the number of extremely poor was reduced by almost 1.2 billion.

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from LifeZette (& PoliZette)
Media/News Company in Washington, D. C.

Elizabeth Warren and the Nine Most Incredulous Twitter Reactions to Her DNA Reveal
After Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) revealed the results of her recent DNA test on Monday and triumphantly proclaimed that she did, indeed, have anywhere from one-64th to one-1,024th Native American ancestry — let’s just say that Twitter users were quick to ridicule her.

Maybe Nevada’s Sen. Dean Heller Is Not a Goner After All
For much of 2018, Sen. Dean Heller (R-Nev.) was a dead man walking, politically speaking. But Heller, by far the most vulnerable Republican incumbent in this year’s Senate races, is showing signs of life. An Emerson College poll released Monday suggests Heller is leading his Democratic opponent, Rep. Jacky Rosen, by 7 percentage points among likely voters.

’60 Minutes’ Shows ‘Reason 3,642’ Why Trump Won, Conway Says
President Donald Trump’s interview with CBS News’ “60 Minutes,” which aired Sunday, represented “reason 3,642 why the American people wanted him” instead of 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, White House counselor Kellyanne Conway said Monday on Fox News’ “Fox & Friends.”

’60 Minutes’ Tried to Nail Donald Trump and Fed Right into His ‘Dishonest Media’ Claims
President Donald Trump covered a lot of ground, but didn’t give any in a contentious “60 Minutes” interview that aired Sunday night, railing against the “dishonest media,” defending his relationships with Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un, expressing mistrust in unnamed aides and pointing out to Lesley Stahl that “I’m president and you’re not.”

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from The New American Magazine
RIGHT BIAS: John Birch Society

Lawmaker Exposes Islamist and Marxist “Counter-States” in U.S.
Senior Republican lawmaker Matt Shea (shown) of Washington State, speaking at a conference in Montana this weekend, warned that Islamists from the Muslim Brotherhood, as well as Marxists and communists, were setting up what he described as “counter-states” in the United States.

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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington

U.S. eyes West Coast military bases for coal, gas exports
The Trump administration is considering using West Coast military bases or other federal properties as transit points for shipments of U.S. coal and natural gas to Asia as officials seek to bolster the domestic energy industry and circumvent environmental opposition to fossil fuel exports, according to Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke and two Republican lawmakers.

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