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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.
North Korea launches ferocious verbal attack against US Democratic presidential candidate
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 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)
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
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
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
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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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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“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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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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