Saturday, May 11, 2019

In the news, Monday, April 29, 2019


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from The Catholic Herald (UK)

How to forgive in the midst of genocide
Plough, the publishing house of the Bruderhof Community, which organises the publication of books sympathetic to the evangelical Christian ethos of the Community, has recently brought out From Red Earth: A Rwandan Story of Healing and Forgiveness by Denise Uwimana. It is a heartrending autobiographical account by a Tutsi survivor of the 3-month killing rampage in the 1994 genocide of the Tutsi tribe by the Hutu tribe in Rwanda.

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from the Christian Century

25 years after the Rwandan genocide, Denise Uwimana tells her story
A memoir about survival and the theological questions it raises

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from The Heritage Foundation
RIGHT BIAS,  MIXED  American conservative think tank based in Washington, D.C.

Elizabeth Warren’s Bill Would Punish Corporate Leaders for Wrongs They Didn’t Commit
On April 3, Warren introduced the Corporate Executive Accountability Act. The bill would make it a federal crime, punishable by a years’ imprisonment for a first offense, for corporate executives and anyone else in a position of “responsibility and authority” to “negligently”—that is, by accident—“permit or fail to prevent” employee violations of any federal or state criminal law. So, if a low-level employee defrauds a customer, Warren wants to hold the company’s CEO personally and criminally liable, even if the CEO had no knowledge of the employee’s crime.

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from Idaho Statesman
Newspaper in Boise, Idaho

Petrified watermelons, skunks set the stage for this Idaho funny man’s gas empire
t was the greatest advertising line that originated in Idaho. “Petrified watermelons. Take one home to your mother in law,” read the sign on U.S. Highway 30. Its posts were surrounded by smooth round boulders painted green. The sign was the creation of Farris Lind, an independent Boise gasoline seller tagged in the 1940s by big oil companies as a “stinker” because he undercut their prices. The epithet led to today’s Stinker Stores, a Boise-based chain of 106 convenience stores with gas pumps that employs more than 1,000 people at 65 stores in Idaho, 39 in Colorado and one in Wyoming. In the 1940s and ‘50s, in the days before the interstate highway system, you could go out and plant a sign anywhere on federal property, said Rick Just, a Boise author whose book “Fearless: Farris Lind, The Man Behind the Skunk” was just published. Lind’s signs struck a nerve with travelers.

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from NBC News (& affiliates)
LEFT-CENTER BIAS

These artists want to draw the Chinese railroad workers back into history
In the fourth of five articles about the Transcontinental Railroad anniversary, two Chinese artists explain the inspiration behind their railroad projects.

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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington

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