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from CNN
Rwanda genocide survivor: 'Not every Hutu wanted us dead'
Nine-months pregnant and hiding under a bed, soaked in blood from her murdered relatives, Denise Uwimana's waters broke. She had no safe place to give birth. Her eldest son whispered, "Mama, is this the end of the world?" While a quarter of a century has passed since the Rwanda genocide, it feels like yesterday for survivors. "I breathed in the blood," Uwimana told CNN's Christiane Amanpour in an interview airing Friday. It was April 16th, 1994. Ten days earlier, President Juvenal Habyarimana's plane was shot down, ending the cease-fire in Rwanda's civil war and igniting 100 days of slaughter. Hutu extremists targeted the minority ethnic Tutsis and other moderate Hutus, murdering between 800,000 and a million people, with clubs, machetes, and their bare hands. Neighbors turned on neighbors. Husbands turned on wives. Churches became abattoirs and schools became graveyards. Not even the young were spared.
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from Competitive Enterprise Institute
President Donald J. Trump issued an executive order on April 10th that is intended to limit the misuse of the Clean Water Act of 1972 (CWA) by governors in several states to stop fossil fuel infrastructure projects, particularly pipelines. The CWA was drafted with federalism in mind, giving both states and the federal government a say in its implementation. Specifically, section 401 gives a state whose waters are impacted by a proposed project the authority to stop it for failing to meet the water quality protections in the law. This provision has recently been misused by some states as a means to veto fossil fuel infrastructure projects. In the case of a proposed coal export facility along the Columbia River rejected by Washington state, Governor Jay Inslee (D) has made little effort to hide the fact that his opposition is based on the commodity the port would handle rather than any legitimate water quality concerns. In fact, the state’s justification for its veto went far afield from the water quality focus of section 401, and even included concerns over the eventual combustion of the exported coal in Asia.
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from Mises Institute
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, MIXED
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, MIXED
It is political ambition and the greed of politicians that helps to perpetuate the idea that government has a right to confiscate property in the name of the common good. And politicians bank on it, using it to boost political clout.
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from Psephizo Blog
Have you ever sat and read through the gospel accounts of Passion Week, and tried to work out chronologically what is happening? And have you done that with the four gospels? (It is easiest to do that latter using a synopsis, either in print or using this one online.) Why not do it as part of your Holy Week devotions this year?
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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