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from AP (Associated Press)
LEFT-CENTER BIASED, VERY HIGH, News Agency in New York City
LEFT-CENTER BIASED, VERY HIGH, News Agency in New York City
Schwan’s Co, a food distributor with deep roots in Minnesota known for its gold home-delivery trucks, has been sold to South Korea’s largest food manufacturer. Seoul-based CJ CheilJedang will pay $1.8 billion for an 80 percent stake in Schwan’s and gain control of its businesses that serve restaurants, grocery stores and other retailers, the companies said in a statement Thursday. The deal is expected to close early next year. The Schwan family will retain 20 percent ownership in the businesses being sold to CJCJ. The family will keep 100 percent ownership of Schwan’s Home Service Inc., the home-delivery business that Marvin Schwan began in Marshall in 1952.
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from Competitive Enterprise Institute
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS
United Kingdom Prime Minister Theresa May recently announced a tentative deal for the UK’s exit from the European Union after a 2016 national referendum ended in a vote to leave the EU. In the wake of the announcement, two cabinet ministers – Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab and Work and Pensions Secretary Esther McVey – resigned their positions after concluding they could not support May’s proposed deal. Americans should be concerned by the amount of power the UK cedes to the EU in the agreement – including over the UK’s military. It is not an exaggeration to say that the deal reduces the UK to the status of an EU colony.
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from Faith & Freedom blog.faithandfreedom.us
Fox News Joins CNN's Lawsuit Against the White House
Fox News announced yesterday that they will support CNN's lawsuit against the White House over the temporary suspension of CNN's Jim Acosta "hard pass" press credentials. Fox issued a statement explaining their action. NBC then announced that they, along with the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, will also be supporting CNN in the suit.
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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, HIGH, non-profit organization
The NYT's Specious Claim That "Economic Bigness" Leads to Dictatorship
When big business is the target, the standards of proof for op-eds seem to decline.
The U.S. Air Force Found a 50-Cent Fix for Those $1,200 Coffee Cups
The Air Force developed a solution for those outrageously expensive coffee cups. Replacement handles can be 3-D printed for just 50 cents.
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from The Hill
LEFT-CENTER BIAS, MIXED, newspaper in Washington, D.C.Time for a regulatory budget
America’s regulatory burden has thrived in solitude because it’s uncounted, and therefore uncontrolled.The first step to addressing it is to begin counting. America needs a federal regulatory budget. According to the Competitive Enterprise Institute, which valiantly tries to quantify the officially uncounted, federal regulations cost the U.S. $1.9 trillion in 2016. That staggering figure equals half 2016’s federal spending ($3.853 trillion) and almost 60 percent of federal revenues ($3.268 trillion). The regulatory burden has grown tremendously. Unable to count long-past costs, we count pages: In 1936, The Federal Register had 2,620 pages; in 2016, it had 95,894. Ominously, that nearly 40-fold increase will likely continue — without official counting.
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from Hoover Institution
Nonprofit Organization in Stanford, California
Regional Bipolarity, The New Global Model
The United States’ superpower monopoly endures, but only in the western hemisphere. There is no regional military or economic competitor, and ideological challengers have failed or remain strategically marginal. Elsewhere, the emerging model is regional bipolarity coincident with global economic tri-polarity (United States, China, European Union).
America on Top
Since the end of the Cold War, the United States has been the lone superpower that, if it’s so willing, can exert preponderant influence over the global, geostrategic, and geopolitical order. In a true sense, a bipolar or multi-polar world order whereby the U.S. is of equal status and influence with another “pole” or “poles” does not really exist.
A Different Path to Global Stability
The global strategic landscape is clearly evolving beyond U.S. hegemony, presenting both challenges and opportunities for our national leaders. With growing economies and/or formidable military might and a desire to play on the world stage, China, India, and Russia are on the rise and they offer the other nearly 200 nations around the world alternatives as they seek trading partners, economic aid, and security arrangements. For over the past 25 years, the United States has enjoyed a near monopolistic position in these areas, but increasingly these emerging global powers are contesting us in that space. Consequently, preserving our desired relationships will be more difficult.
A Wobbling Goliath
Describing the balance of power by way of “poles,” the analytical framework so favored in recent decades by professional political scientists, is no longer that useful. The polar concept earned undue acclaim through the writings of the late Charles Krauthammer, whose 1990 Foreign Affairs article, “The Unipolar Moment,” was a succinct way to capture the extent of American geopolitical influence at the end of the Cold War, but is an inadequate yardstick for understanding the present moment or the future of—wait for it—“the American-led liberal international order.”
The Vagaries Of World Power
By traditional measures—military strength, economic wealth, population size—the United States remains the world’s preeminent superpower. Its economy continues to expand; it deploys the largest military in the world; it is home to a growing population; and American laws and capital flows encourage a vibrant ecosystem for innovation. But in a world of determined competitors, asymmetric threats, and networked technology, those traditional measures of power are no longer sufficient to ensure the ability of the United States to preserve peace and promote prosperity at home or abroad. The prevailing assumption in the post-Cold War period was that America’s superpower status was the principal determinant of world order. Today, that assumption is no longer valid. We are facing, as Henry Kissinger observed, “a period in which forces beyond the restraint of any order determine the future.”1 The postwar world order built and defended by the United States and its allies is crumbling. World order no longer conforms to traditional sources or uses of American power.
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from LifeZette (& PoliZette)
Media/News Company in Washington, D. C.CNN’s Van Jones Offers Stunning Praise for Trump — Here’s Why
CNN’s Van Jones — a reliably anti-Trump pundit — reversed course by actually praising President Donald Trump for his decision on Wednesday to back the bipartisan First Step Act offering sweeping criminal justice and sentencing reform. If passed, the bill would allow judges to use more discretion in lowering the sentences of nonviolent offenders and support increased rehabilitation efforts, among other items.
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from Orthodox Christianity - orthochristian.com
Organization in Moscow, Russia
Any plans towards creating a new autocephalous Church in Ukraine without the participation or consent of Philaret Denisenko, the head of the schismatic “Kiev Patriarchate” (KP), are doomed to failure. The “Patriarch” is not out of the game yet, says Evstraty Zorya, the speaker for the KP. “Let everyone—both friends and foes—be sure and know: All ‘plans’ to do something without the patriarch [Philaret—OC], without his consent and participation, are doomed to failure,” Zorya wrote on his Facebook page yesterday. Philaret will not nominate himself to lead the new church, but he could accept the nomination of others, Zorya explains.
The director of the Serbian-Russian school in Belgrade Boško Kozarski speaks concerning these difficult times for Serbs, about the correct approach for studying history, and the paradoxes of real hope in Christ.
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from Science (& News from Science)
sciencemag.org
Why 536 was ‘the worst year to be alive’
Ask medieval historian Michael McCormick what year was the worst to be alive, and he's got an answer: "536." Not 1349, when the Black Death wiped out half of Europe. Not 1918, when the flu killed 50 million to 100 million people, mostly young adults. But 536. In Europe, "It was the beginning of one of the worst periods to be alive, if not the worst year," says McCormick, a historian and archaeologist who chairs the Harvard University Initiative for the Science of the Human Past. A mysterious fog plunged Europe, the Middle East, and parts of Asia into darkness, day and night—for 18 months. "For the sun gave forth its light without brightness, like the moon, during the whole year," wrote Byzantine historian Procopius. Temperatures in the summer of 536 fell 1.5°C to 2.5°C, initiating the coldest decade in the past 2300 years. Snow fell that summer in China; crops failed; people starved. The Irish chronicles record "a failure of bread from the years 536–539." Then, in 541, bubonic plague struck the Roman port of Pelusium, in Egypt. What came to be called the Plague of Justinian spread rapidly, wiping out one-third to one-half of the population of the eastern Roman Empire.
Why 536 was ‘the worst year to be alive’
Ask medieval historian Michael McCormick what year was the worst to be alive, and he's got an answer: "536." Not 1349, when the Black Death wiped out half of Europe. Not 1918, when the flu killed 50 million to 100 million people, mostly young adults. But 536. In Europe, "It was the beginning of one of the worst periods to be alive, if not the worst year," says McCormick, a historian and archaeologist who chairs the Harvard University Initiative for the Science of the Human Past. A mysterious fog plunged Europe, the Middle East, and parts of Asia into darkness, day and night—for 18 months. "For the sun gave forth its light without brightness, like the moon, during the whole year," wrote Byzantine historian Procopius. Temperatures in the summer of 536 fell 1.5°C to 2.5°C, initiating the coldest decade in the past 2300 years. Snow fell that summer in China; crops failed; people starved. The Irish chronicles record "a failure of bread from the years 536–539." Then, in 541, bubonic plague struck the Roman port of Pelusium, in Egypt. What came to be called the Plague of Justinian spread rapidly, wiping out one-third to one-half of the population of the eastern Roman Empire.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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from Stars and Stripes
U.S. troops “battled” enemy armor and motorized infantry units in northern Poland while simultaneously engaging armed civilians probing their positions during this year’s Anaconda 18 war games in northern Poland. The biannual drills at the Drawsko Pomorskie Training Area involve almost 18,000 troops from 10 NATO allies, including the Army’s 1st Cavalry Division’s 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, making it the largest exercise so far designed to defend Poland’s Eastern border.
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