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from BBC News (UK)
The poisons released by melting Arctic ice
Pollution, anthrax - even nuclear waste - could be released by global warming
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from Competitive Enterprise Institute
Often, a drips-and-drabs approach to learning an issue over a period of time is as effective as a single intense cram session. To that end, this post inaugurates a series to familiarize readers over time with the basics of antitrust regulation. This is important because the current antitrust revival is reaching a fever pitch. This could have multi-billion dollar consequences in the next few years for everything from the future of 5G networks to online retail to the structure of social networks.
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from KIRO Radio 97.3 FM (MyNorthwest.com)
Media/News Company in Seattle, Washington
According to the mayor of Oak Harbor and a former Naval commander stationed at Naval Air Station Whidbey, Attorney General Bob Ferguson’s lawsuit against the U.S. Navy over noise from expanding the EA-18G Growler program is a step in the direction of a local fringe group’s goal to get NAS Whidbey shut down.
When the Seattle City Council passed a sweetened beverage tax in 2017 — aka a soda tax — it was criticized as a highly regressive source of revenue.
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from The Moscow Times (Russia)
Russian Air Force Receives First New MiG-35 Fighters
Russia’s Air Force has received its first delivery of two MiG-35 fighter jets, the corporation that manufactures the jets has said. Air Force commander-in-chief Viktor Bondarev in 2017 announced the Defense Ministry’s plans to replace its entire fleet of light fighters with the MiG-35, a modernized version of the ship-based MiG-29K fighters which Russia has used in Syria.
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from Reuters
International news agency headquartered in London, England
A Vatican document on Monday said the Church should consider ordaining older married men as priests in remote areas of the Amazon, a historic shift which some say could pave the way for their use in other areas where clergy are scarce.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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from truthdig
Most of us who have followed the long persecution of Assange expected this moment, but it was nevertheless deeply unsettling, the opening of the final act in a Greek tragedy where the hero, cursed by fortuna, or fate, confronts the dark forces from which there is no escape.
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from The Washington Times
News & Media Website in Washington, D.C.
When hypocrisy loses all meaning
The media and Democrats are agog over President Trump’s comment to former Bill Clinton adviser and current “Good Morning America” host, George Stephanopoulos. Mr. Trump said if a foreign power had “dirt” on one of his political opponents he’d “listen” and would not necessarily inform the FBI.
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When hypocrisy loses all meaning
The media and Democrats are agog over President Trump’s comment to former Bill Clinton adviser and current “Good Morning America” host, George Stephanopoulos. Mr. Trump said if a foreign power had “dirt” on one of his political opponents he’d “listen” and would not necessarily inform the FBI.
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