Sunday, December 16, 2018

In the news, Tuesday, December 4, 2018


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from Black Community News

Are Americans Who Admire Socialism and Communism Miseducated or Stupid?
Walter Williams: A recent Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation survey found that 51 percent of American millennials would rather live in a socialist or communist country than in a capitalist country. Only 42 percent prefer the latter. Twenty-five percent of millennials who know who Vladimir Lenin was view him favorably. Lenin was the first premier of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Half of millennials have never heard of Communist Mao Zedong, who ruled China from 1949 to 1959 and was responsible for the deaths of 45 million Chinese people. The number of people who died at the hands of Josef Stalin may be as high as 62 million. However, almost one-third of millennials think former President George W. Bush is responsible for more killings than Stalin. By the way, Adolf Hitler, head of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party, was responsible for the deaths of about 20 million people. The Nazis come in as a poor third in terms of history’s most prolific mass murderers.

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from CBC News (Canada)

Last WWII Mohawk code talker honoured by Assembly of First Nations, House of Commons
Louis Levi Oakes is the last of his kind. The 96-year-old veteran from Akwesasne is the last surviving Mohawk code talker, according to the U.S. Congress. During the Second World War, Kanien'kéha (Mohawk language) was one of 33 Indigenous languages used to send encoded messages between Allied forces so that enemies could not understand.

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from HumanProgress.org  Education Website

Introducing the Simon Abundance Index
Marian Tupy, editor of Human Progress, and Professor Gale Pooley from Brigham Young University – Hawaii have used 37 years’ worth of data for 50 foundational commodities covering energy, food, materials, and metals to develop a new framework to measure resource availability. The authors contend that instead of making resources scarcer, population growth has gone hand in hand with greater resource abundance.

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from Miami Herald

If Republicans are really serious about confronting threats to the integrity of American elections, the first step is to get a mirror. The second is to come to terms with reality. America is changing, rapidly, dramatically and irrevocably. And the GOP needs to figure out how to compete in this new nation, how to make itself a party whose appeal extends beyond angry, older white male voters.

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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington

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