In the news, Friday, November 22, 2019

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from The Guardian (UK)

Home of one of first Bibles printed in Welsh saved from flood risk
One of the most important sites in the history of the Welsh language is being protected from the threat of flooding and heavy rainfall by harnessing the element that is putting it at risk. The upland farmhouse Tŷ Mawr Wybrnant in Snowdonia, north Wales, is the birthplace of Bishop William Morgan, whose translation of the Bible in the 16th century was a key moment for the Welsh language. An original copy of Morgan’s Bible is on display at the restored stone house, but both the building and the book have been put in jeopardy by flooding and heavy rainfall. The National Trust, which manages the building near Betws-y-Coed, has now installed a pico (mini) hydropower scheme that will use a stream to run an improved heating system and keep humidity levels in check.

Detectorists jailed for stealing £12m Viking hoard of gold and silver
Two metal detectorists who unearthed an astonishing hoard of gold jewellery, silver ingots and coins buried more than 1,000 years ago by a Viking warrior in Herefordshire have received lengthy jail sentences for theft. George Powell, 38, of Newport, and Layton Davies, 51, of Pontypridd, should legally have declared the find, estimated to be worth as much as £12m, but instead they began showing it to dealers to try to sell some of it off. Sentencing the men on Friday to 10 years and eight and a half years respectively for stealing, Judge Nicholas Cartwright said they had cheated not only the landowner, but also the public of “exceptionally rare and significant” coins. “You cheated the farmer, his mother, the landowner and also the public when you committed theft of these items,” he said. “That is because the treasure belongs to the nation. The benefit to the nation is these items can be seen and admired by others. Stealing the items as you did denies the public the opportunity of seeing those items in the way they should be displayed. When treasure is found it belongs, from the moment of finding, to the nation.”

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from HumanProgress.org  Education Website

Stuff of Progress, Pt. 4: Silicon
Silicon is a key component of virtually all modern electronics.

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from Los Angeles Times

Didn’t watch the public impeachment hearings? Here are the seven biggest surprises
Twelve witnesses, dozens of hours of testimony and thousands of pages of documents — all spread over five long days of historic impeachment hearings. The House is weighing whether to bring articles of impeachment against President Trump for pushing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to open investigations into Trump’s political enemies, including an energy company that once employed the son of former Vice President Joe Biden and a debunked conspiracy theory that Ukraine, not Russia, interfered in the 2016 U.S. election.

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from Orthodox Christianity – orthochristian.com

Religious Organization in Moscow, Russia

JOE BIDEN, OTHER DEMOCRATS PRESSURING PATRIARCH OF JERUSALEM TO RECOGNIZE SCHISMATICS, SAYS SOURCE IN PATRIARCHATE
“Patriarch Theophilos is under pressure from the United States. However, the source of the pressure is not the American embassy and the Israeli Foreign Ministry, as some media reported, but representatives of the U.S. Democratic Party,” the source told RIA-Novosti. “First of all we are talking about diplomats appointed by Hillary Clinton when she was Secretary of State,” the source added. In particular, the Patriarch received a letter from Joe Biden, Obama’s Vice President who personally supervised the Ukrainian direction of foreign policy and whose family’s ties in Ukraine are a major news item at the moment. Joe Biden has met with Patriarch Bartholomew many times, and in 2015 Constantinople’s Order of St. Andrew bestowed upon him the Patriarch Athenagoras Human Rights Award, which it gave to Epiphany Dumenko, the primate of the schismatic OCU, this year.

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from SPIEGEL International (Der Spiegel)

News & Media Website in Hamburg, Germany

'I Would Probably Be Hanged in Brussels'
In an interview with DER SPIEGEL, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic discusses new tensions in the Balkans, his country's efforts to improve relations with Russia and his anger at the European Union.

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from The Spokesman-Review

Newspaper in Spokane, Washington

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In the news, Thursday, November 21, 2019

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from The Guardian (UK)

Detectorists hid find that rewrites Anglo-Saxon history
On a sunny day in June 2015 amateur metal detectorists George Powell and Layton Davies were hunting for treasure in fields at a remote spot in Herefordshire. The pair had done their research carefully and were focusing on a promising area just north of Leominster, close to high land and a wood with intriguing regal names – Kings Hall Hill and Kings Hall Covert. But in their wildest dreams they could not have imagined what they were about to find when the alarm on one of their detectors sounded and they began to dig.

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from KXLY 4 News (ABC Spokane)

Spokane's first Texas Roadhouse is now hiring
The first Texas Roadhouse in Spokane is getting close to opening. The restaurant, which is located at 7611 N. Division Street, is looking to hire a variety of positions ahead of its January opening.

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from National Review  RIGHT BIAS

The Tragedy of the ‘Trans’ Child
In Texas, the case of James Younger points to a disturbing trend in the treatment of gender-confused youth. His mother pulling him by one arm, his father pulling him by the other, seven-year-old James Younger, dressed in a skirt, looks distressed and confused. His mom, Anne Georgulas, wins the struggle and rests him on her hip. His dad, Jeffrey Younger, calls 911. “Why?” asks James. “She was supposed to give me custody,” his father replies. A video recording of this incident, which occurred on March 8, 2018, at James’s elementary-school open house, was played before a jury in Texas last month. It is a larger symbol of how children such as James Younger have become pawns in the transgender debate.

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from The Spokesman-Review

Newspaper in Spokane, Washington

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from UNIAN in English
Ukrainian Independent Information Agency of News
News & Media Website based in Kiev, Ukraine

Spain opens investigation into Russian spies working to destabilize Catalonia – media
The court is probing whether an elite military group known as Unit 29155 carried out actions aimed at destabilizing the region during the separatist push.

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In the news, Wednesday, November 20, 2019

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from AP  Associated Press - Media/News Company

Apple detectives comb US Northwest for ‘lost’ varieties
E.J. Brandt and David Benscoter, who together form the nonprofit Lost Apple Project, log countless hours and hundreds of miles in trucks, on all-terrain vehicles and on foot to find orchards planted by settlers as they pushed west more than a century ago.

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from The Guardian (UK)

100 years of Scottish life - in pictures
Scotland’s Photograph Album: The MacKinnon Collection celebrates Scottish life and identity from the 1840s through to the 1940s. The photographs were amassed by collector Murray MacKinnon and illustrate a century of dramatic transformation and innovation.

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from Hoover Institution

Nonprofit Organization in Stanford, California

American Naval Initiative—The Next Time Around
In November of 1942, the U.S. Navy wrested the warfighting initiative from imperial Japan and set the course toward victory. Less than a year after Japan had attacked Pearl Harbor and proclaimed that all of Asia belonged to Emperor Hirohito, American successes in two naval battles permanently altered the course of the war. In the words of the Naval War College, the “operational initiative” lay with the American Navy.

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from KXLY 4 News (ABC Spokane)

'Game of Thrones' actor filming new movie in Spokane
Local production company North by Northwest is helping shoot a movie called “All Those Small Things.

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from Medium
LEFT-CENTER BIAS,  MIXED, online social journalism publishing platform

William Tecumseh Sherman’s Spot-On Prophecy About the Civil War

A Future Union General Accurately Predicts the South’s Defeat and Devastation in the Civil War

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from The Seattle Times
LEFT-CENTER BIAS,  HIGH,  Newspaper in Seattle, WA

Botanists scour old Northwest homesteads for long-lost apple varieties
E.J. Brandt and David Benscoter, who together form the nonprofit Lost Apple Project, log countless hours and hundreds of miles in trucks, on all-terrain vehicles and on foot to find orchards planted by settlers as they pushed west more than a century ago. The two are racing against time to preserve a slice of homesteader history: The apple trees are old, and many are dying. Others are being ripped out for more wheat fields or housing developments for a growing population.

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from The Spokesman-Review

Newspaper in Spokane, Washington

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from Tri-City Herald

Newspaper in Kennewick, Washington

Apple detectives comb US Northwest for ‘lost’ varieties
E.J. Brandt and David Benscoter, who together form the nonprofit Lost Apple Project, log countless hours and hundreds of miles in trucks, on all-terrain vehicles and on foot to find orchards planted by settlers as they pushed west more than a century ago.

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In the news, Tuesday, November 19, 2019

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from The Archive

The Bold Pirate Plan To Bring Napoleon To The United States
On Chartres Street in New Orleans's French Quarter, you can find the best muffuletta sandwich and the best Pimm's Cup cocktail at a place called Napoleon House—so named because it was meant to be the residence of L'Empereur, just as soon as the pirates could rescue him from his exile in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.

Hal Moore: Soldier, Veteran, Author

Hal Moore was a remarkable Korean and Vietnam war veteran with unmatched courage and love for his fellow soldiers. Moore’s famous mantra was “Hate war, love the American soldier.” This strong dedication to his brothers in arms came through not only during his time in the military, but long after his active service came to an end. Best remembered by civilians for his retelling of the Battle of Ia Drang, Moore was and is beloved by veterans across the country.

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from The Guardian (UK)

LEFT-CENTER, HIGH, British daily newspaper published in London UK

Sweden drops Julian Assange rape investigation
Swedish authorities have discontinued an investigation into a rape allegation against the WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, after a review of the evidence. The deputy chief prosecutor, Eva-Marie Persson, said the complainant’s evidence was deemed credible and reliable, but that after nearly a decade, witnesses’ memories had faded.

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from Journal of the American Revolution

IMPEACHMENT: THE FRAMERS DEBATE AND DISCUSS

July 20, 1787, a clear and pleasant Friday afternoon. Delegates to the Federal Convention, known now as the Constitutional Convention, are addressing a clause in the working draft of what will become the Constitution of the United States. The “National Executive,” the draft says, will be “removeable on impeachment and conviction of malpractices or neglect of duty.” Gouverneur Morris of New York and Charles Pinckney of South Carolina “moved to strike out” the provision.[1] Debate is vigorous, and the consequences enormous. At stake is the critical balance of powers among three branches of a new governmental edifice, which could potentially tumble down if that balance is irrevocably disrupted.

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from The Spokesman-Review

Newspaper in Spokane, Washington

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from The Vancouver Sun

Wendy Wickwire: B.C.'s missing anthropologist could finally get the recognition he's due

Opinion: It is past time for anthropologists to set the record straight and acknowledge B.C.'s James Teit as a grounded scholar decades ahead of his time. For Canadians, it is time to expand their collective memory and rescue a human legacy long missing in history.

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In the news, Monday, November 18, 2019

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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)

RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, HIGH, non-profit organization

Solar Panels Produce Tons of Toxic Waste—Literally

A closer look at solar panels opens a wide array of questions that need answers.

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from The Nation Magazine
LEFT BIAS

Vexed and Troubled Englishmen
How should we remember the Puritans?
“Every generation imagines its own version of the Puritans’ errand.” Andrew Delbanco reviews Daniel T. Roders’s recent work “As a City on a Hill: The Story of America’s Most Famous Lay Sermon,” and discusses how historically we’ve misappropriated the Puritans for our own uses."

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from Rasmussen Reports

Impeachment Hearings Haven’t Swayed Voters; Many Ask, ‘Where’s Biden?’
The House impeachment hearings haven’t moved voters so far, with a plurality still expecting President Trump to be reelected next November. The number who thinks the president’s impeachment is likely hasn’t changed, but there’s sizable support for expanding the hearings to include the activities of Joe Biden and his son. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 18% of Likely U.S. Voters think Trump will be impeached before serving his full term in office. Seventeen percent (17%) felt that way in September, down from a high of 29% when Rasmussen Reports first asked this question in late December 2017. Forty-five percent (45%) still believe the president will be reelected in 2020, basically unchanged in surveys over the past year. Twenty-six percent (26%) say he will be defeated by the Democratic nominee, but this finding has been trending down from 33% in late July to 28% two months ago. Meanwhile, 46% of voters think the House hearing should be expanded to look at the involvement of Biden and his son Hunter in Ukrainian political affairs. Forty-three percent (43%) disagree, while 11% are undecided.

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from la Republica

A massive scandal: how Assange, his doctors, lawyers and visitors were all spied on for the U.S.
It sounds like a James Bond movie, but it really happened. Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks journalists and every single lawyer, reporter, politician, artist and physician who visited the founder of WikiLeaks at the Ecuadorian embassy over the last seven years was subjected to systematic espionage. Meetings and conversations were recorded and filmed, and all the information was sent to US intelligence. Sometimes the espionage operations were truly off the wall: at one point spies even planned to steal the diaper of a baby brought to visit Assange inside the embassy. The purpose? To gather the baby's feces and perform a DNA test to establish whether the newborn was a secret son of Julian Assange.

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from The Spokesman-Review

Newspaper in Spokane, Washington

Getting There: Wellesley closure just another chapter in avenue’s history tied to growth of Spokane
This Wednesday, Wellesley Avenue between Market and Freya streets will close for three years as crews with the state transportation department begin building an interchange for the north-south freeway. When complete, the North Spokane Corridor still won’t be finished, but the long curve of the ramp will, and it will avoid the dreaded, heavily polluted black tank property, where a 50-foot wide black tank stored petroleum products from 1910 to 1988. Officials from the city, state and BNSF Railways will surely celebrate the construction – it took years of negotiations to work around the black tank site, not to mention decades of lobbying to build the $1.5 billion freeway. But they should all breathe a sigh of relief that Grace McDonald isn’t around anymore, especially if they aren’t Spokanites, born and raised.

Historic building advocates fear Chancery building will be demolished
Spokane Preservation Advocates is warning that a building that housed the Catholic Diocese of Spokane for 53 years “may fall to the wrecker’s ball despite its historic significance.” Betsy Cowles, chairman of the Cowles Co., told the group last month that it would be “extremely challenging” to save the Chancery building in downtown Spokane. Cowles, who runs a company that owns the Chancery and a multitude of other buildings downtown, suggested the 109-year-old building on the corner of Riverside Avenue and Madison Street was not part of a major redevelopment planned for the block.

No reported damage from 3.5 magnitude earthquake near Coulee City
The U.S. Geological Survey reported a 3.5 magnitude earthquake near Coulee City at 8:48 a.m. Monday. The earthquake was 2.6 miles deep.

Then and Now: Latah Creek Bridge
In 1911, less than a year after the city completed the Monroe Street Bridge, work began on the Sunset Boulevard Bridge, now better known as the Latah Creek Bridge, in West Spokane. Part of the impetus for the new structure was the importance of wheat farming in central Washington and growing traffic of a new form of transportation, automobiles, on the roadways that would eventually stretch to Seattle. The bridge originally was fitted with rails for interurban trains.

Russia returns 3 seized ships to Ukraine, talks about summit
Three Ukrainian naval ships that were seized by Russia nearly a year ago have been returned, Russia’s Foreign Ministry said Monday. The two gunboats and a tug were taken by the Russian coast guard on Nov. 25, 2018, as they maneuvered near the Kerch Strait that connects the Black Sea with the Azov Sea. The Kerch Strait runs between mainland Russia and Russia-annexed Crimea.

Leonard Pitts Jr.: Barriers zigzag across America like a scar
A few words about walls. Unsurprisingly, the one Donald Trump is trying to build on the southern border – the one he swore Mexico would pay for – has proven, like most things he touches, an embarrassing failure. ... In the meantime, and with much less fanfare, construction continues on a wall of much further-reaching consequences. You see, while the wall on the border is supposed to repel immigrants and smugglers, this one repels something many of us find even more threatening: contradictory opinions.

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from US National Archives

Historian Examines How 13 Documents Defined ‘America’s Exceptional Idea’
Liberty is a concept that requires constant care and maintenance to persist, according to Richard Brookhiser, award-winning historian and author of Give Me Liberty: A History of America’s Exceptional Idea.  More than 243 years after the signing of foundational documents like the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution, the application of the idea of liberty has changed to address specific human struggles across generations, Brookhiser noted during a November 12 presentation in the William G. McGowan Theater of the National Archives Building in Washington, DC. Brookhiser explored the evolution of the idea of liberty in the United States by highlighting the 13 documents he examined in his book. The collection comprises works that are both little known and world renowned, authored by ordinary men and women and celebrated heads of state. Brookhiser’s chronological examination begins with the minutes of the first meeting of the General Assembly of Jamestown in 1619 and concluded with Ronald Reagan’s “Tear Down This Wall” speech at the Berlin Wall in 1987.

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In the news, Sunday, November 17, 2019

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from The Atlantic  Magazine

The Electoral College’s Racist Origins
More than two centuries after it was designed to empower southern white voters, the system continues to do just that. [Cousin Sam does not agree]

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from CNN

The flat-Earth conspiracy is spreading around the globe. Does it hide a darker core?

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from Coeur d'Alene Press

MANSION ON THE MOVE
At the crack of dawn Saturday, a mighty truck turned several corners and one huge page in the city’s history. The majestic J.C. White House traveled from 8th and Sherman to 8th and Young. From its new home at the base of Tubbs Hill, the house will be the centerpiece of a new state-of-the-art Museum of North Idaho.

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from The Spokesman-Review

Newspaper in Spokane, Washington

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In the news, Saturday, November 16, 2019

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from BBC News (UK)

In pictures: Havana celebrates 500 years of foundation
Cuba's capital, Havana, is one of Latin America's architectural treasures, boasting a fascinating mix of colonial, Baroque and Art Deco styles. Many of its jewels have suffered from decades of deterioration but, slowly, complex renovation works are bringing some of them back to life. As the city celebrates 500 years of its foundation on 16 November, here is a look at some of its most famous buildings and sights.

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from Gateway Pundit  News & Media Website

Questionable Source, Extreme Right, Propaganda, Conspiracy, Nationalism, Some Fake News

HUGE! Dems Went All-In on Schiff Impeachment and Now It’s a SCHIFF SHOW – Unconstitutional, No Crimes and 73% of Americans DON’T TRUST DEMOCRATS!
Uh-Oh – The Democrats are in real big trouble. Pelosi and gang went all-in on the Schifty Schiff and his sham impeachment inquiry and it is quickly turning into a Schiff Show. Speaker Pelosi and her band of socialist Democrats went ‘all-in’ on an impeachment of President Trump. They’ve wanted this since before the 2017 Inauguration. However, in their rage they forgot and are missing a couple of key points – one, there must be high crimes, misdemeanors, treason or bribery – and two, there must be public support. Unfortunately for the Dems, they have neither.

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from The Spokesman-Review

Newspaper in Spokane, Washington

Sue Lani Madsen: Buyer beware, some health insurance isn’t as portable as it may seem
Health insurance portability has to be part of the conversation, and not just between employers. Between countries, between states and even between counties.

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from Zero Hedge

Everything You Need To Know About Trump (But Were Afraid To Admit You Wondered)
The timing is right for everyone to understand what Donald Trump is doing, and try to decrypt the ambiguity of how he is is doing it. The controversial President has a much clearer agenda than anyone can imagine on both foreign policy and internal affairs, but since he has to stay in power or even stay alive to achieve his objectives, his strategy is so refined and subtle that next to no one can see it. His overall objective is so ambitious that he has to follow random elliptic courses to get from point A to point B, using patterns that throw people off on their comprehension of the man. That includes most independent journalists and so-called alternative analysts, as much as Western mainstream fake-news publishers and a large majority of the population.

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In the news, Friday, November 15, 2019

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from Asia Times

LEAST BIASED, HIGH;  News & Media Website based in Hong Kong

‘Rabid dog’ Biden ‘must be beaten to death’
North Korea launches ferocious verbal attack against US Democratic presidential candidate

The case for de-dollarization
An alternative payment system could enhance and stabilize world trade and financial markets, writes Ken Moak. A major reason the global trading and financial system is at risk is US dollar hegemony, allowing Washington to impose sanctions on any nation that does not toe America’s line or that carries out activities that the US government deems threatening to its national interests.

Erdogan may have scored pyrrhic victory in Washington
Erdogan received a warm welcome at the White House but this facade of good relations between the two countries is highly deceiving writes Ömer Taşpınar. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan received a warm welcome at the White House on Wednesday. But this facade of good relations between the two countries is highly deceiving. Indeed, any sense of victory Turkey might claim from the outwardly friendly visit with Donald Trump is an illusion. In reality, the two countries are wide apart on substantive issues, and the two presidents are very lonely at the top.

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from The Guardian (UK)

Flood barriers go up around Shakespeare sites as River Avon rises
Heavy rain has led to 107 flood warnings across much of England and parts of Wales
Flood barriers have been erected in the historic town of Stratford-on-Avon after more than 100 warnings were issued across the country as a result of wet weather. The Environment Agency (EA) took steps to protect some of the key sites associated with William Shakespeare, including the Royal Shakespeare Theatre on the banks of the Avon.

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from HumanProgress.org  Education Website

Heroes of Progress, Pt. 31: Willem Kolff
This week our hero is Willem Kolff, a Dutch physician who invented the world’s first kidney dialysis machine. Kolff also played an instrumental role in developing the world’s first artificial heart and, later, the first artificial eye. The World Economic Forum has estimated that since its invention, Kolff’s kidney dialysis machine, or what he liked to call “the artificial kidney,” has saved more than 9 million lives.

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from Publishers Weekly

10 Things You (Probably) Didn't Know About C.S. Lewis

C.S. Lewis gained acclaim as a children’s author for his classic series The Chronicles of Narnia. He also gained acclaim for his popular apologetics, including such works as Mere Christianity and The Screwtape Letters. What is more, he gained acclaim as a science fiction writer for his Ransom Trilogy. Furthermore, he gained acclaim for his scholarly work in Medieval and Renaissance literature with The Allegory of Love and A Preface to Paradise Lost. Many writers have their fleeting moment of fame before their books become yesterday’s child – all the rage and then has-been. Remarkably, Lewis’s books in all of these areas have remained in print for seventy, eighty, and ninety years. Over the years, the print runs have grown. Even though several movies and stage plays have told the story of Lewis, along with a handful of biographies, many people who know of his work may be surprised by the Lewis they do not know.

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from The Seattle Times

LEFT-CENTER BIAS,  HIGH,  Newspaper in Seattle, WA

Was the language voters saw on their ballots for Initiative 976 wrong? Sure seems like it.

When I pulled out my ballot to vote last week, I had already decided to vote against Tim Eyman’s Initiative 976, which ended up passing. I don’t feel strongly about car tabs either pro or con. But I do about transit. Seattle is woefully lacking in rapid mass transit, like any real city ought to have. I’m against pretty much anything that delays or monkey wrenches with voter-approved transit projects. So I was surprised when I got to that section of my ballot, because it sure seemed to imply that voter-approved projects were exempt from the tax-slashing.

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from The Spokesman-Review

Newspaper in Spokane, Washington

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from The Washington Post

Newspaper in Washington, D.C.

How Democrats purged ‘safe, legal, rare’ from the party
The party’s absolutist stance on abortion is out of step with voters’ views.
That abortions should be “safe, legal and rare” was, until fairly recently, a common Democratic talking point. Coined by President Bill Clinton, the phrase signaled his desire to protect the supposed constitutional right to abortion while acknowledging the views of people with moral qualms about the practice and perhaps even winning a few of them over to his side. It helped cement Clinton’s reputation as a moderate. Today, Democrats use the phrase at their peril. The party’s base appears unwilling to tolerate a slogan that suggests abortion ought to be “rare,” hearing in it too much of a concession to abortion opponents. As a result, most Democratic candidates have erased from their rhetoric any hint that abortion might be a subject on which reasonable people can disagree, and they’ve altered their policy proposals to match — endorsing the repeal of all restrictions on paying for abortions with federal money, for example. These moves might excite the party’s progressive base, but they put candidates out of step with the average American and even with many of their own voters.

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from We the Governed

“We’re coming for You” – a typical threat from Leftist leader directed at all who disagree
If you dare to be an activist doing anything not in solidarity with the Seattle Left, you always run the risk of being personally threatened.  Leftists just can’t help themselves. I was reminded of how tolerant the political establishment in Washington State has become with threats like this when I watched the video linked below of a Leftist threatening Tim Eyman outside Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan’s office a week ago.  “We’re coming for you,” with her finger pointing at Eyman and glaring in his face.

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In the news, Thursday, November 14, 2019

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from The Living Church
Magazine of The Living Church Foundation (Anglican)

Katherine Hepburn and Zeal
By Sarah McCullough Cornwell: This is the fourth post in a series in which I explore what classic film actresses in iconic roles can teach us — and, more particularly, my fast-growing daughter — about the seven classic virtues. These posts follow the order of the virtues that Dante encounters in his journey up through Purgatorio. Katherine Hepburn’s character in Adam’s Rib builds upon Dante’s two exemplars of zeal in Purgatorio, enabling her to combat the sloth of the modern judicial system (which, in some ways, can be understood through Dante’s examples of this same vice). This conversation between a 1320 text and a 1949 film provides an odd but potentially insightful window into the nature of zeal and sloth. It’s also a means of better appreciating the complementary — as opposed to antagonistic — relationship between men and women, particularly in a marriage.

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from The Spokesman-Review

Newspaper in Spokane, Washington

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In the news, Wednesday, November 13, 2019

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from Asia Times

LEAST BIASED, HIGH;  News & Media Website based in Hong Kong

Israel-Jordan relations suffer setback
The Israel-Jordan peace treaty of 1994 suffered a blow this month, when King Abdullah of Jordan announced an end to a lease arrangement made between his father, the late King Hussein, and the late Israeli prime minister, Yitzhak Rabin, that permitted Israeli farmers and tourists open access to two small zones of Jordanian sovereign territory. It’s important not to exaggerate the significance of Jordan’s decision, but its symbolic value reveals a lot about the gradual erosion of trust and optimism in the bilateral relationship.

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from BBC News (UK)

Venice floods: The historic sites affected
Extensive damage has been reported in areas of Venice after severe flooding hit the Italian city this week. More than 80% of the city, a Unesco world heritage site, was under water when tides hit their highest, leading Mayor Luigi Brugnaro to declare a state of emergency. Images show roads and famous attractions submerged in floodwaters, and authorities have reported two deaths as a result. Just how badly the city has been damaged is not yet clear.

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from LifeZette

Media/News Company in Washington, D. C.

‘Dems Should Shut This Down Now and Get Back to Doing the Country’s Business’
Jenny Beth Martin of the Tea Party Patriots Action shared her opinion — as did many others about the House impeachment inquiry

Jim Jordan and Others Reveal the Problematic Testimony of Two Witnesses
It took mere moments of direct questioning by Republicans to poke big holes in televised statements

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from Public Discourse

Society & Culture Website

New Data Show “Gender-Affirming” Surgery Doesn’t Really Improve Mental Health. So Why Are the Study’s Authors Saying It Does?
Data from a new study show that the beneficial effect of surgery for transgender people is so small that a clinic may have to perform as many as 49 gender-affirming surgeries before they could expect to prevent one additional person from seeking subsequent mental health treatment. Yet that’s not what the authors say. That the authors corrupted otherwise-excellent data and analyses with a skewed interpretation signals an abandonment of scientific rigor and reason in favor of complicity with activist groups seeking to normalize infertility-inducing and permanently disfiguring surgeries.

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from The Spokesman-Review

Newspaper in Spokane, Washington

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In the news, Tuesday, November 12, 2019

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from AIER | American Institute for Economic Research

The Case for Globalism, So-Called
The global economy seems to be coming under attack from a variety of directions. On one side, there are the reborn “democratic socialists” and other “progressives” who insist that the international capitalist system exploits workers and minority groups. On the other side, there are nationalists and other nativists who fear the loss not just of jobs but the cultural character of their societies from foreign investors and immigrants looking for new homes. The fact is, for almost everyone, everywhere, things are getting better all the time due to the greater openness of the entire globe to trade, investment, and a peaceful movement of people. We have become so used to such things that we have little or no appreciation of how relatively new all of this is in terms of the sweep of human history on planet Earth. In terms of the meaning of the “modern world” and all these changes in the human condition, modern really only means the last 200 or 300 years, out of many thousands of years of our recorded history.

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from The Archive

Battle of Ia Drang: The United States Army’s Brutal Entry into the Vietnam War
By the official start of the Vietnam War, the United States had long been engaged in an attempt to restrain the spread of communism. Although the Battle of Ia Drang was the first major physical conflict between U.S. and the People’s Army of Vietnam, it was the culmination of years of U.S. aid to South Vietnamese forces. Hoping to stop communism’s spread, the United States entered the Vietnam War in March 1965. 3,500 US Marines came ashore at Da Nang to aid South Vietnam in their fight against North Vietnam; their first real fight on the ground didn’t take place until November 14, 1965, when the US Army engaged in battle with the North Vietnam Army (NVA) in the Ia Drang Valley. Notable as one of the first instances in which large-scale helicopters were used for air assault, as well as B-52 strategic bombers, the battle marks a bloody initial conflict between the troops in which both sides claimed victory. Read on for an excerpt from We Were Soldiers Once...and Young.

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from Church Times

Newspaper in London, United Kingdom

Music review: Brecon Baroque Festival
Roderic Dunnett hears a Zelenka Mass and other rare repertoire
HOW many festivals have emerged in this century with a Fringe that features music by Zelenka, Quantz, Finger (who, you ask), Fux, and Telemann? The Fringe that I describe is in fact integral in spirit to the five-day Brecon Baroque Festival, which lights up Mid-Wales each autumn, and features the 13-strong Brecon Baroque Orchestra and music of the 17th and 18th centuries, played on early instruments by performers including several of the finest players in the land. This festival, founded in 2006 by the violinist Rachel Podger, who is one of them, this year had the courageous title “Bohemia: From Biber to Mozart” — yet another inspired idea of the founder.

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from Coeur d'Alene Press

SATURDAY IS WHITE HOUSE MOVING DAY
The historic J.C. White House will move to its final home at the base of Tubbs Hill on Saturday. The house will be moved from 8th and Sherman to 8th and Young beginning at 6 a.m. It will serve as the centerpiece for a new state-of-the-art Museum of North Idaho.

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from HumanProgress.org  Education Website

Anti-Capitalism: Trendy but Wrong
Most modern critics of capitalism don't know what it is, or simply choose to ignore the data.

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from LifeZette

Media/News Company in Washington, D. C.

Alan Dershowitz Says Dems Are ‘Making Up Crimes,’ Just as KGB Did
All Americans, suggested the legal scholar, 'should be frightened by efforts to try to create crimes out of nothing'

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from Public Discourse

Society & Culture Website

Dear Senator Warren: Don’t Penalize Moms Who Choose to Stay Home with Their Kids
Senator Warren, please don’t compromise what you know to be true for the sake of political expediency. Don’t hurt American families by pushing them farther and farther into the two-income trap. Most of all, please don’t create a system that penalizes moms who choose to stay home with their children.

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from RAND Corporation

Fighting Disinformation Online
A Database of Web Tools

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from The Spokesman-Review

Newspaper in Spokane, Washington

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from US National Archives

The War after the War: the American Indian Fight for the Vote after WWII
On May 6, 1946, two former United State Marine Corps Navajo Code Talkers, Jimmie King and Howard Nez, walked into the Shiprock Public School in New Mexico to register to vote. They were denied. Three days prior in Apache County, Arizona, the same scene played out for James Manuelito, one of the original 29 Code Talkers. At two o’clock that same day, May 3, Army veteran Watson Gibson walked into New Mexico’s McKinley County Clerk’s office and asked to be registered to vote. County clerk Eva Sabin denied him. The men who had stormed beaches throughout the Pacific during WWII were now storming local county offices for the right to vote.

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In the news, Monday, November 11, 2019

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from The North American Anglican

Media/News Company: "A journal of orthodox theology in the Anglican tradition"

SEABURY AND THE SCOTTISH LITURGY
Drew Keane asks what obligation American Anglicans, TEC, ACNA, or Continuing, have to Samuel Seabury and the Scottish Bishops over the Communion Office. It will soon be the anniversary of the consecration of the first American bishop, 14 November, which prompts reflection on the effects of that momentous occasion.

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from The Spokesman-Review

Newspaper in Spokane, Washington

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