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from AP Associated Press - Media/News Company
China said Tuesday that it “will not stand idly by” and will take countermeasures if the U.S. deploys intermediate-range missiles in the Asia-Pacific region, which Washington has said it plans to do within months. The statement from the director of the foreign ministry’s Arms Control Department, Fu Cong, follows the U.S.’s withdrawal last week from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, a move Fu said would have a “direct negative impact on the global strategic stability” as well as security in Europe and the Asia-Pacific region. Fu said China was particularly concerned about announced plans to develop and test a land-based intermediate-range missile in the Asia-Pacific “sooner rather than later,” in the words of one U.S. official.
from DW News (Deutsche Welle)
Broadcasting & Media Production Company in Bonn, Germany
China warns US against Asia missile deployment
The Chinese government on Tuesday warned the White House against moving forward with plans to deploy intermediate-range missiles in Asia after the collapse of a key Cold War-era treaty regulating their use. "China will not stand idly by and will be forced to take countermeasures should the US deploy intermediate-range ground-based missiles in this part of the world," said Fu Cong, director of the Chinese Foreign Ministry's arms control department. Fu urged "our neighboring countries to exercise prudence and not to allow a US deployment of its intermediate-range missiles on (their) territory."
China warns US against Asia missile deployment
The Chinese government on Tuesday warned the White House against moving forward with plans to deploy intermediate-range missiles in Asia after the collapse of a key Cold War-era treaty regulating their use. "China will not stand idly by and will be forced to take countermeasures should the US deploy intermediate-range ground-based missiles in this part of the world," said Fu Cong, director of the Chinese Foreign Ministry's arms control department. Fu urged "our neighboring countries to exercise prudence and not to allow a US deployment of its intermediate-range missiles on (their) territory."
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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, HIGH, non-profit organization
Neil deGrasse Tyson Is Right about the Numbers (and Our Emotions)
Science writer Neil deGrasse Tyson says human emotions tend to respond more to spectacle than data. He's right. The kinds of deaths that get attention are not always those with the largest numbers of fatalities. All of the causes he lists above have more. Handguns are close but even those are for any 48 hour period and it’s unlikely that we will have El Paso/Dayton-style mass shootings every 48 hours. It’s precisely the fact that such mass shootings are rare (although, of course, not nearly rare enough) that leads to the publicity they get.
Google Is Burying Alternative Health Sites to Protect People from “Dangerous” Medical Advice
For their unorthodox views, some physicians are being treated as medical heretics. Google’s search engine algorithm has essentially ended traffic to their websites. There are good reasons to be concerned that we are losing access to information with which to evaluate opposing sides of health issues. Google’s search engine algorithm has essentially ended traffic to many websites that question the medical orthodoxy.
Both the US and China Are Being Harmed by Trump's Never-Ending Trade War
America’s negotiating credibility has become yet another casualty of its polarized politics. China’s economic growth has slowed to a 27-year low of 6.2 percent. The problem for the U.S. is that Americans are also increasingly feeling the pinch. Perhaps most notably, farmers—many of whom continue to support Trump—are beginning to tire of the sacrifices they are making for his uncompromising positions.
“Free Everything” and the First Law of Politics
Entrepreneurs do a much better job than politicians at alleviating scarcity through efficient, value-creating production. The economist Thomas Sowell once observed that the first lesson of economics is scarcity: there's never enough to fully satisfy human wants. He also observed that the first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics, a lesson many presidential candidates appear to have learned all too well.
Neil deGrasse Tyson Is Right about the Numbers (and Our Emotions)
Science writer Neil deGrasse Tyson says human emotions tend to respond more to spectacle than data. He's right. The kinds of deaths that get attention are not always those with the largest numbers of fatalities. All of the causes he lists above have more. Handguns are close but even those are for any 48 hour period and it’s unlikely that we will have El Paso/Dayton-style mass shootings every 48 hours. It’s precisely the fact that such mass shootings are rare (although, of course, not nearly rare enough) that leads to the publicity they get.
Google Is Burying Alternative Health Sites to Protect People from “Dangerous” Medical Advice
For their unorthodox views, some physicians are being treated as medical heretics. Google’s search engine algorithm has essentially ended traffic to their websites. There are good reasons to be concerned that we are losing access to information with which to evaluate opposing sides of health issues. Google’s search engine algorithm has essentially ended traffic to many websites that question the medical orthodoxy.
Both the US and China Are Being Harmed by Trump's Never-Ending Trade War
America’s negotiating credibility has become yet another casualty of its polarized politics. China’s economic growth has slowed to a 27-year low of 6.2 percent. The problem for the U.S. is that Americans are also increasingly feeling the pinch. Perhaps most notably, farmers—many of whom continue to support Trump—are beginning to tire of the sacrifices they are making for his uncompromising positions.
“Free Everything” and the First Law of Politics
Entrepreneurs do a much better job than politicians at alleviating scarcity through efficient, value-creating production. The economist Thomas Sowell once observed that the first lesson of economics is scarcity: there's never enough to fully satisfy human wants. He also observed that the first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics, a lesson many presidential candidates appear to have learned all too well.
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from Manhattan Institute for Policy Research
Nonprofit Organization in New York, New York
If You Want ‘Renewable Energy,’ Get Ready to Dig
Building one wind turbine requires 900 tons of steel, 2,500 tons of concrete and 45 tons of plastic. Democrats dream of powering society entirely with wind and solar farms combined with massive batteries. Realizing this dream would require the biggest expansion in mining the world has seen and would produce huge quantities of waste.
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from Manhattan Institute for Policy Research
Nonprofit Organization in New York, New York
If You Want ‘Renewable Energy,’ Get Ready to Dig
Building one wind turbine requires 900 tons of steel, 2,500 tons of concrete and 45 tons of plastic. Democrats dream of powering society entirely with wind and solar farms combined with massive batteries. Realizing this dream would require the biggest expansion in mining the world has seen and would produce huge quantities of waste.
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from Miami Herald
Nine people shot dead in Dayton, 13 hours after 22 shot dead in El Paso, six days after three shot dead in Gilroy. And tears and disbelief and funeral preparations, candlelight vigils and a search for meaning, and talking heads on cable news and T-shirts and hashtags touting resilience in the face of pain: “Dayton Strong,” “El Paso Strong,” “Gilroy Strong.” And people asking “Why?” and Republican officials trotting out explanations noteworthy mainly for their uselessness. They blame mental illness, Colin Kaepernick, Barack Obama, video games, drag queens, gay marriage, TV zombies, immigrants and recreational marijuana. Everything except the gun, everything except the fact that this is a country where the angry and disaffected can buy weapons of mass destruction more easily and with less regulation than you could buy a car.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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from WND (World Net Daily)
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
Typical mass shooter a white male? Think again
Photo montage shows every suspect in 2019 attacks
Typical mass shooter a white male? Think again
Photo montage shows every suspect in 2019 attacks
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