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from Asia Times
LEAST BIASED, HIGH; News & Media Website based in Hong Kong
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan sounds like a mafioso, and now he lends like one, too
Fearing a massive currency devaluation just before the March 31 municipal elections, Turkey’s government Wednesday forced overnight interest rates up to 1,300%. News reports claim that the Turkish government ordered banks not to lend a single lira to overseas borrowers, making it hard to hedge the beleaguered Turkish currency.
Komodo dragon trafficking ring busted
The traffickers admitted they had already sold more than 40 of the iconic giant lizards
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from DW News (Deutsche Welle)
Broadcasting & Media Production Company in Bonn, Germany
Germany: Muslim kindergarten loses appeal against closure
State officials had ordered "Al Nur" to close following revelations that inappropriate literature had been shared at the kindergarten. The day care center is the only Muslim kindergarten in Rhineland-Palatinate.
Germany: Muslim kindergarten loses appeal against closure
State officials had ordered "Al Nur" to close following revelations that inappropriate literature had been shared at the kindergarten. The day care center is the only Muslim kindergarten in Rhineland-Palatinate.
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from The Heritage Foundation
RIGHT BIAS, MIXED American conservative think tank based in Washington, D.C.
RIGHT BIAS, MIXED American conservative think tank based in Washington, D.C.
The current National Defense Strategy (NDS) represents a substantial departure from the counter-terrorism operations to which the country and the military services have grown accustomed over the past 18 years. As such, to adapt our military to its ends will require deep thinking and substantial changes in how the military services operate and organize themselves. The 2020 defense budget contains much that is necessary, but there are still some areas that require modification—and others where greater explanation from the services is needed. In that endeavor, the main question lawmakers need to ask themselves and the services is: “How does this program help in great power competition against Russia and China?”
By embracing the ideology of “gender identity,” it treats womanhood as a mutable feeling rather than an immutable fact. Under a local gender identity ordinance, a man who identifies as a woman will be free to use whichever bathroom facility he chooses. Women fought hard to be heard so we could have our own spaces, but the Equality Act would roll back this progress.
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from The Hill
News & Media Website in Washington, D.C.Here's what the Paycheck Fairness Act is really about — it's not equal pay for equal work
Despite its cunningly ingenious name, the Paycheck Fairness Act is not about equal pay for equal work. That’s already the law of the land under both the Equal Pay Act of 1963 and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Since pay discrimination already is illegal, you might wonder what the Paycheck Fairness Act really will bring about. The answer, unfortunately, is rigid pay scales, hiring discrimination, lower wages, lower productivity, increased business and consumer costs, and lawyers and judges second-guessing employers’ evaluations. The primary beneficiaries of the Paycheck Fairness Act would be trial lawyers who could data-mine through private employers’ pay information and then include all women in class-action lawsuits seeking unlimited damages.
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from The Jerusalem Post
ISRAELIS LOWER FLAG, GIVE BACK SINAI TO EGYPT - HISTORIC IMAGES
On May 25, 1979 - two months after Israel and Egypt signed a historic peace treaty - the Sinai Peninsula was handed back to Egypt. after 12 years under Israeli occupation. A ceremony took place at El Arish, a dusty coastal town. It became the first still‐inhabited Arab town conquered in the 1967 war to be relinquished.
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from Media Research Center (MRC)
(& CNSNews.com & NewsBusters) RIGHT BIAS, MIXED
(& CNSNews.com & NewsBusters) RIGHT BIAS, MIXED
nonprofit media watchdog for politically conservative content analysis based in Reston, Virginia
After Mueller Report Dud, Nets Hail ObamaCare Fight as ‘Gift’ for Dems
Eager to find a new way to boost Democrats after Robert Mueller’s report did not find President Trump guilty of Russian collusion, on Wednesday, all three network morning shows celebrated the administration’s legal opposition to ObamaCare as a “winning issue” and “political gift” for liberal lawmakers.
MSNBC Host Katy Tur Freaks Out Over Democrats Not Voting for Green New Deal
On Tuesday's MTP Daily on MSNBC, fill-in host Katy Tur fretted over the refusal of many Senate Democrats to vote in favor of the Green New Deal program when Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell brought it up for a vote. At 5:51 p.m. Eastern, during "The Lid" segment, Tur brought up the issue: "Let's talk about the Green New Deal. There was a show vote -- show vote -- McConnell let it in the Senate in order to back the Democrats into a corner -- to make them say yes to a proposal that the Republicans want to hang them by in 2020."
Russia-Crazed Maddow’s Ratings Tank in Wake of Mueller Dud
Rachel Maddow, MSNBC’s premiere Russia conspiracy theorist, has begun to hemorrhage viewers following Attorney General William Barr’s anticlimactic summary of the Mueller report. Meanwhile Fox News’s Hannity, which occupies the same 9:00 p.m. Eastern timeslot as The Rachel Maddow Show, has skyrocketed in the ratings.
Scarborough Tells DCCC Chair He's Worried Freshman Dems Are Giving Trump 'Ammunition'
MSNBC's Morning Joe invited Illinois Congresswoman and chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Cheri Bustos to talk about the Democratic strategy for 2020 in a segment that involved in Bustos receiving some free advice from co-host Joe Scarborough.
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After Mueller Report Dud, Nets Hail ObamaCare Fight as ‘Gift’ for Dems
Eager to find a new way to boost Democrats after Robert Mueller’s report did not find President Trump guilty of Russian collusion, on Wednesday, all three network morning shows celebrated the administration’s legal opposition to ObamaCare as a “winning issue” and “political gift” for liberal lawmakers.
MSNBC Host Katy Tur Freaks Out Over Democrats Not Voting for Green New Deal
On Tuesday's MTP Daily on MSNBC, fill-in host Katy Tur fretted over the refusal of many Senate Democrats to vote in favor of the Green New Deal program when Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell brought it up for a vote. At 5:51 p.m. Eastern, during "The Lid" segment, Tur brought up the issue: "Let's talk about the Green New Deal. There was a show vote -- show vote -- McConnell let it in the Senate in order to back the Democrats into a corner -- to make them say yes to a proposal that the Republicans want to hang them by in 2020."
Russia-Crazed Maddow’s Ratings Tank in Wake of Mueller Dud
Rachel Maddow, MSNBC’s premiere Russia conspiracy theorist, has begun to hemorrhage viewers following Attorney General William Barr’s anticlimactic summary of the Mueller report. Meanwhile Fox News’s Hannity, which occupies the same 9:00 p.m. Eastern timeslot as The Rachel Maddow Show, has skyrocketed in the ratings.
Scarborough Tells DCCC Chair He's Worried Freshman Dems Are Giving Trump 'Ammunition'
MSNBC's Morning Joe invited Illinois Congresswoman and chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Cheri Bustos to talk about the Democratic strategy for 2020 in a segment that involved in Bustos receiving some free advice from co-host Joe Scarborough.
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from Mises Institute
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, MIXED
Study Estimates the Green New Deal to Cost $93 Trillion — That's a Conservative Estimate
Both fans and foes of the so-called Green New Deal (GND) agree that it is a wildly ambitious set of proposals, which—by design—will involve the federal government spending boatloads of money. In fact, the GND is so expensive that Rep. Ocasio-Cortez has cited the inflationary doctrine of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) to deflect the issue; we don’t need to worry about the cost of the Green New Deal, so the argument goes, because the Federal Reserve can create an unlimited number of dollars. Even so, more sober-minded policymakers, as well as the general public, should be aware of just how ludicrously expensive the GND really is. A recent analysis by the American Action Forum puts the initial 10-year cost at a staggering $93 trillion. Although the reader might understandably assume that this is an inflated figure designed to discredit the GND, it actually rests on a few conservative assumptions. The figure of $93 trillion is admittedly absurd, but that’s only because the planks of the GND are absurdly expensive. The American Action Forum estimate is entirely fair.
Both fans and foes of the so-called Green New Deal (GND) agree that it is a wildly ambitious set of proposals, which—by design—will involve the federal government spending boatloads of money. In fact, the GND is so expensive that Rep. Ocasio-Cortez has cited the inflationary doctrine of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) to deflect the issue; we don’t need to worry about the cost of the Green New Deal, so the argument goes, because the Federal Reserve can create an unlimited number of dollars. Even so, more sober-minded policymakers, as well as the general public, should be aware of just how ludicrously expensive the GND really is. A recent analysis by the American Action Forum puts the initial 10-year cost at a staggering $93 trillion. Although the reader might understandably assume that this is an inflated figure designed to discredit the GND, it actually rests on a few conservative assumptions. The figure of $93 trillion is admittedly absurd, but that’s only because the planks of the GND are absurdly expensive. The American Action Forum estimate is entirely fair.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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