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from CFACT
Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow
The warming wind turbines of climate change
Wind turbines continue to be the most controversial so-called “renewable” energy source worldwide. Yet, you say, wind is surely renewable. Really? Sure, the wind blows intermittently, but what if wind power actually contributes to global warming?
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from DW News (Deutsche Welle)
Broadcasting & Media Production Company in Bonn, Germany
Officials in Belarus, Germany react to SOBR killings report
Calls for a comprehensive inquiry have followed DW's exclusive interview on the disappearing of Belarusian opposition leaders in the 1990s. The man said to have ordered their killings denies the account of DW's source. On Monday, DW reported the detailed account of Yuri Garavski, who says he participated in the killings of three opposition figures in Belarus two decades ago. In 1999, former Interior Minister Yuri Zakharenko, former election commission head Viktor Gonchar and the businessman Anatoly Krassovsky disappeared without a trace. Their fates have remained unclear.
US Senate approves Nord Stream 2 Russia-Germany pipeline sanctions
US lawmakers on Tuesday approved sanctions on companies and governments working on the controversial Nord Stream 2 pipeline that will link Germany with Russian gas. Companies providing services such as pipe-laying are being targeted, as Washington tries to halt the completion of the $10.5 billion (€9.6 billion) pipeline, which would transport gas under the Baltic Sea. The sanctions, which overwhelmingly passed in the House last week, are expected to be signed into force as part of a defense spending bill by US President Donald Trump later this week. US officials believe the pipeline will increase Europe's reliance on Russian energy, put billions of dollars in Moscow's coffers, and increase Russian President Putin's influence.However, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas has urged the US not to meddle in European energy policy.
Officials in Belarus, Germany react to SOBR killings report
Calls for a comprehensive inquiry have followed DW's exclusive interview on the disappearing of Belarusian opposition leaders in the 1990s. The man said to have ordered their killings denies the account of DW's source. On Monday, DW reported the detailed account of Yuri Garavski, who says he participated in the killings of three opposition figures in Belarus two decades ago. In 1999, former Interior Minister Yuri Zakharenko, former election commission head Viktor Gonchar and the businessman Anatoly Krassovsky disappeared without a trace. Their fates have remained unclear.
US Senate approves Nord Stream 2 Russia-Germany pipeline sanctions
US lawmakers on Tuesday approved sanctions on companies and governments working on the controversial Nord Stream 2 pipeline that will link Germany with Russian gas. Companies providing services such as pipe-laying are being targeted, as Washington tries to halt the completion of the $10.5 billion (€9.6 billion) pipeline, which would transport gas under the Baltic Sea. The sanctions, which overwhelmingly passed in the House last week, are expected to be signed into force as part of a defense spending bill by US President Donald Trump later this week. US officials believe the pipeline will increase Europe's reliance on Russian energy, put billions of dollars in Moscow's coffers, and increase Russian President Putin's influence.However, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas has urged the US not to meddle in European energy policy.
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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, HIGH, non-profit organization
In his book "Liberty in Peril," Randall Holcombe challenges the presumption that liberty and democracy are complementary.
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from Great Falls Tribune (Montana)
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from Hoover Institution
Nonprofit Organization in Stanford, California
In late November, President Trump announced that peace talks with the Taliban had resumed. “The Taliban wants to make a deal—we’ll see if they make a deal.” Mr. Trump said. The president has said he is tired of American soldiers acting as policemen in a remote country of scant strategic significance. Afghans are tribal, with little loyalty toward the Kabul government awash in factionalism and corruption. The Taliban are unified and sustained by the vast heroin trade. They control the countryside along the porous 1,500-mile border with Pakistan. With Pakistan providing a sanctuary, they cannot be militarily defeated.
Discussing America’s stake in the Middle East has increasingly become a shell game where our “interests” can quickly disappear depending on the changing sentiments of the president. The trajectory for American foreign policy in the Middle East is clear: down if not out. And although Democrats can occasionally give the impression that they are in favor of a more vigorous presence, that is probably just an anti-Trumpian reflex: if the president is in favor of abandoning the Kurds and leaving Syria, then Democrats are in favor of staying and reinforcing the alliance. The odds are high, however, that the left, following Barack Obama’s lead, wants much less of the Middle East, not more.
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from Orthodox Christianity – orthochristian.com
Religious Organization in Moscow, Russia
The Orthodox Times outlet began as the English edition of the widely-read Greek Orthodox outlet Romfea in late December last year, with its official launch in January of this year, with the backing of the U.S. government. The U.S. State Department has also been open about its support for Patriarch Bartholomew’s creation of the “Orthodox Church of Ukraine,” and “Metropolitan” Epiphany Dumenko personally thanked Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for the U.S.’s support in the creation of the OCU.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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