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from Business Insider
China spent the crucial first days of the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak arresting people who posted about it online and threatening journalists
In the early days of the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak, Chinese officials arrested citizens they accused of spreading rumors about the illness online Journalists have also reported being detained and threatened by Chinese authorities while covering the outbreak. Experts are now faulting the Chinese government for its harsh crackdown on the flow of information about the virus.
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from Church Times
Newspaper in London, United Kingdom
THE 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz should be used “to come before God in worship, conscious of our need for forgiveness, but committed to action that would seek the common flourishing of all”, the Archbishop of Canterbury has said. In a statement released this week, in advance of Holocaust Memorial Day on Monday, Archbishop Welby said: “The Holocaust, the Shoah, remains a unique stain on the history of Europe, and a chilling reminder to me of how millennia of Christian anti-Jewish hatred could provide a seedbed for such evil.”
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from HumanProgress.org
Education Website
This week, our hero is Wilson Greatbatch, the American engineer and inventor who created the first implantable pacemaker. The implanted pacemaker uses electrical pulses to ensure that the patient’s heart beats at a normal pace. The life expectancy for people with a pacemaker is the same as that for the general public and receiving a pacemaker is generally considered a low-risk operation. Every year, hundreds of thousands of people are implanted with a pacemaker and the World Economic Forum has estimated that since its invention, the pacemaker has already saved 8 million lives.
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from KOMO News (ABC Seattle)
The ongoing drug and crime problems at Third and Pine have been part of our KOMO News' extensive Project Seattle coverage. We heard Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan Thursday talk about keeping people safe, how what happened Wednesday night is unacceptable. How this can't be the new norm. But if you've been downtown, if you've seen what happens on that Third Avenue corridor, then you know it is the new norm, and has been for some time.
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Magazine of The Living Church Foundation (Anglican)
As the waters cover the Sea: Hooker, Baptism, and the Nature of the Church
During the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, when many of us turn our attention to the twin subjects of ecumenism and ecclesiology, it is helpful to hear a variety of voices on the nature of the church, especially pertaining to baptism.
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from Mises Institute
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, MIXED
ECONOMICS: THE "OTHER SIDE" OF POLITICS
The realm of politics is to coordinate solutions beyond what decentralized actors and organizations can themselves achieve. This is done through the power of the state (coercion). Thus, the scope and use of politics as a means is strictly limited to where it is the better solution for society and its constituents. The underlying problem, especially in democracies, is widespread economic illiteracy: if we do not (or will not) understand how markets work and how beneficial orders can arise spontaneously out of the actions of self-interested actors, whether individuals or families or businesses, then we undermine, expand, and will even dissolve the boundary of the proper realm for politics.
What We Really Mean When We Talk About Values and Prices in the Marketplace
In the popular way of thinking, people are characterized as if a scale of preferences is hardwired in their heads. Regardless of anything else, this scale remains the same all the time. This thinking does not characterize human beings but robots. The humanoid robot chooses goods because the valuation scale has told him to. The valuation scale somehow knows which good offers the best utility without letting us know how it knows that.
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from NBC News (& affiliates)
LEFT-CENTER BIAS
The government is building a hospital for patients infected with the virus that has killed 26 people and prompted unprecedented shutdowns.
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from One America News Network
RIGHT BIAS; MIXED Broadcasting & Media Production Company
OAN’s Jack Posobiec sat down with Michael Caputo to discuss his new special, “One America News Investigates – The Ukraine Hoax: Impeachment, Biden Cash, Mass Murder.” In the documentary, Caputo exposes the cover-up that led to the impeachment of President Donald Trump and mass murder. The Democrats’ crusade to kick our duly elected president out of office didn’t start with a phone call. It began with Ukrainian corruption, election meddling and a bloody coup that cleared a path for Hunter Biden to get rich.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
Former Hugo’s on the Hill building to be demolished
Nearly six months after its abrupt closure, former South Hill bowling alley Hugo’s on the Hill will be demolished to make way for a new retail space. The 30,000-square-foot property at 3023 E. 28th Ave. in the Lincoln Heights Shopping Center, which opened in the 1950s, had 16 vintage bowling lanes, a bar, dining room, casino, banquet area and a game room.
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Former Hugo’s on the Hill building to be demolished
Nearly six months after its abrupt closure, former South Hill bowling alley Hugo’s on the Hill will be demolished to make way for a new retail space. The 30,000-square-foot property at 3023 E. 28th Ave. in the Lincoln Heights Shopping Center, which opened in the 1950s, had 16 vintage bowling lanes, a bar, dining room, casino, banquet area and a game room.
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