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from ABC News (& affiliates)
TV Network in New York, New YorkTrump falsely blames Obama admin for hurting rollout of coronavirus test kits: Fact Check
President Donald Trump is falsely blaming the Obama administration for the slow rollout of U.S. tests for the new coronavirus, ignoring his administration’s own fumbles in responding to the health crisis and mischaracterizing Obama-era policies.
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from Hoover Institution
Nonprofit Organization in Stanford, California
A Shia ‘Awakening’?
The proponents of America’s ‘maximum pressure’ campaign against Iran have argued that the four-month-long anti-status quo protests that have wracked Iraq, Lebanon and Iran are transnational in character and seek to limit or end the influence of Iran’s current leadership both regionally and internally. These arguments are colored by a teleological expectation on the part of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo—the main advocate in the administration in following this course—that a teetering regime in Tehran is but months away from spontaneous collapse, and that its ‘sister republics’ in Baghdad and Beirut are shuddering and buckling under too. This, however, is a reading of events based on hype, limited insight and gobs of wishful thinking: there is no ‘Shia awakening.’
The Shia Vs. The “Shia Crescent”
On February 15, 2020, Hezbollah organized a ceremony to unveil a statue of Qassem Soleimani in the Lebanese town of Maroun al-Ras, roughly half a mile from the border with Israel. The statue shows Soleimani with his arm stretched out in front of him, pointing toward Israel. While Hezbollah’s officials and supporters were celebrating at the Lebanese-Israeli borders, the Lebanese people were commemorating four months of dynamic but painful protests against the Lebanese political class, whose corruption and failed policies have led to Lebanon’s financial collapse. In Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq, and inside Iran itself – the countries that fall along the Shia Crescent - the people have realized that the enemy is within. It’s their own governments that have allowed the Iranian regime to take over the state and its institutions. Ideologies, resistance rhetoric, sectarian identities and conspiracy theories that have shaped the collective identities and views of the Shia communities across the region, are slowly but surely disintegrating and are being replaced with economic concerns, and strong aspirations towards citizenship and national identifies. The Shia Crescent, which Iran has been investing in for decades, is finally turning against the Iranian regime and its proxies. From Beirut to Baghdad, all the way to Tehran, Iran is facing its most complicated adversary in years – the Shia protestors. For Iran, the enemy is also within, and it’s one that cannot be contained without a drastic upheaval in Iran’s own strategies and political alliances across the region.
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from HumanProgress.org
Education Website
This week, our heroes are Charles Dotter and Andreas Gruentzig–two radiologists who pioneered angioplasty, which is a surgical procedure for widening narrow or blocked blood vessels. If left untreated, arterial atherosclerosis (i.e., plaque buildup in the veins) can cause severe medical problems, including coronary heart disease, heart attacks, strokes, etc. The World Economic Forum estimates that more than 15 million lives have been saved since Dotter’s initial discovery and Gruentzig’s subsequent improvement of angioplasty.
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Magazine of The Living Church Foundation (Anglican)
ANGLO CATHOLIC CHURCH PLANTING: RECOVERING THE TRADITION
Who is the greatest ever Anglo-Catholic parish priest? We’d put forward Walter Hook, vicar of the city of Leeds in northern England. When he arrived in Leeds in the 1830s, it had one church to serve its population of 150,000 (which was swiftly rising). Hook, in a lengthy incumbency, created 17 new parishes, as well as completely rebuilding the one church he’d inherited.
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from NBC News (& affiliates)
LEFT-CENTER BIAS
Rosalind P. Walter, original 'Rosie the Riveter,' dies at 95
Rosalind P. Walter, the original inspiration for "Rosie the Riveter" and longtime PBS supporter, died Wednesday at the age of 95. WNET in New York City, America's flagship PBS station, announced Walter's death in a statement Thursday. Walter was a longtime trustee for the station who gave support for a number of WNET series through the Rosalind P. Walter Foundation. She was an inspiration behind 1943's "Rosie the Riveter," a song about the year she spent as a night-shift welder at the Sikorsky aircraft plant at Bridgeport, Connecticut, at the age of 19.
Rosalind P. Walter, original 'Rosie the Riveter,' dies at 95
Rosalind P. Walter, the original inspiration for "Rosie the Riveter" and longtime PBS supporter, died Wednesday at the age of 95. WNET in New York City, America's flagship PBS station, announced Walter's death in a statement Thursday. Walter was a longtime trustee for the station who gave support for a number of WNET series through the Rosalind P. Walter Foundation. She was an inspiration behind 1943's "Rosie the Riveter," a song about the year she spent as a night-shift welder at the Sikorsky aircraft plant at Bridgeport, Connecticut, at the age of 19.
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from The New American Magazine
RIGHT BIAS: John Birch SocietyMarch 5: 250th Anniversary of the Boston Massacre
You can still see the spot. If you take the Freedom Trail tour in Boston, a uniformed park ranger will let you stand right on the spot where five Americans were killed by British soldiers on the night of March 5, 1770. This bloody encounter came to be known as “The Boston Massacre.” That fateful and fatal clash happened 250 years ago today. However, the fuse that set off that powder keg was lit a couple of years before that night. Here’s the part of the story that is rarely told.
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from New York Post Newspaper in New York
Bill Clinton: Monica Lewinsky affair was to ‘manage my anxieties’
The ex-president, in the upcoming Hulu series “Hillary” about his wife, likens working in the Oval Office to being a boxer “staggering” around after a 15-round prize fight that’s been extended to 30 rounds. “And here’s something that’ll take your mind off it for a while,” Clinton, 73, says of his two-year tryst with Lewinsky that began in 1995 when she was 22.
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from Orthodox Christianity – orthochristian.com
Religious Organization in Moscow, Russia
All activities and events in the city of Bethlehem have been canceled and all educational and religious institutions have been temporarily closed for 14 days according to an order from the Palestinian Ministry of Health after a number of suspected cases at a Bethlehem hotel. In accordance with the order, the Church of the Nativity of Christ, built on the very site where Christ was born, will also be closed.
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Responding faithfully to the Coronavirus
In the US, according to a recent survey, 38% of citizens would not buy a Corona beer because of concern about the Coronavirus. (It is probably not true, but it is still not good news for the Mexican brand.) More seriously, fears about the virus have led to ‘ political and economic instability… xenophobia and racism against people of Chinese and East Asian descent, and the spread of misinformation about the virus, primarily online. So it is perhaps worth offering some sobering reflection, from a medical, psychological, historical and theological point of view.
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from Reason Magazine
Magazine in Los Angeles, California
Coronavirus Will Be Deadly To Your Liberty
Nothing makes government grow like a crisis. People get scared, politicians respond to that fear with promises that the state will step in and make everything better, and government ends up larger and more powerful. The pandemic of COVID-19 coronavirus threatens a world-wide wave of sickness, but it's the healthiest thing to happen to government power in a very long time. As it leaves government with a rosy glow, however, our freedom will end up more haggard than ever.
Coronavirus Will Be Deadly To Your Liberty
Nothing makes government grow like a crisis. People get scared, politicians respond to that fear with promises that the state will step in and make everything better, and government ends up larger and more powerful. The pandemic of COVID-19 coronavirus threatens a world-wide wave of sickness, but it's the healthiest thing to happen to government power in a very long time. As it leaves government with a rosy glow, however, our freedom will end up more haggard than ever.
from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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3-part series focuses on ‘Geology of the Okanogan’
Okanogan Highlands Alliance and Okanogan Land Trust are presenting a three-part series of geology-focused educational events that start in March and wind up with a field trip in July. Friday’s event is at 6:30 p.m. at the Community Cultural Center of Tonasket. Karl Lillquist returns to Tonasket for the Highland Wonders presentation, exploring “the origins and evolution of landscapes and landforms in the Okanogan Highlands.” Lillquist is a geography professor at Central Washington University. His area of expertise is geomorphology, a field focusing on landforms and how they originated. The March 18 event, part of the OLT’s OkaKnowledgy lecture series, is at 6 p.m. at PUD No. 1 of Okanogan. Ice Age Floods Institute geologist Bruce Bjornstad, an expert in geomorphology, will present how ice and floods carved Washington’s landscape. The July 18 event is a day-long adventure through the Okanogan Highlands to learn about the geologic processes that created the land forms seen today. It will be led by Lillquist, Wenatchee Valley College earth sciences professor Ralph Dawes, geologist Cheryl Dawes and local amateur geologist Mike Ward. U.S. Geological Survey researcher Steve Box is also helping to plan the event.
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from The Wenatchee World
3-part series focuses on ‘Geology of the Okanogan’
Okanogan Highlands Alliance and Okanogan Land Trust are presenting a three-part series of geology-focused educational events that start in March and wind up with a field trip in July. Friday’s event is at 6:30 p.m. at the Community Cultural Center of Tonasket. Karl Lillquist returns to Tonasket for the Highland Wonders presentation, exploring “the origins and evolution of landscapes and landforms in the Okanogan Highlands.” Lillquist is a geography professor at Central Washington University. His area of expertise is geomorphology, a field focusing on landforms and how they originated. The March 18 event, part of the OLT’s OkaKnowledgy lecture series, is at 6 p.m. at PUD No. 1 of Okanogan. Ice Age Floods Institute geologist Bruce Bjornstad, an expert in geomorphology, will present how ice and floods carved Washington’s landscape. The July 18 event is a day-long adventure through the Okanogan Highlands to learn about the geologic processes that created the land forms seen today. It will be led by Lillquist, Wenatchee Valley College earth sciences professor Ralph Dawes, geologist Cheryl Dawes and local amateur geologist Mike Ward. U.S. Geological Survey researcher Steve Box is also helping to plan the event.
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from WND (World Net Daily)
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
China responds to virus-investigation demand by demolishing 'ground zero,' report says
After a growing demand for an investigation into the origins of the novel coronavirus, China has reportedly demolished what they claim is ground zero for the deadly disease. Months after being shuttered following an outbreak of a new strain of coronavirus, the Wuhan wet market was torn down Tuesday, journalist Jennifer Zeng reported. Meat from exotic animals is suspected to have been contaminated by the virus, which made the jump to humans in the unsanitary conditions of the market. Not everyone is buying China's official story, however.
China responds to virus-investigation demand by demolishing 'ground zero,' report says
After a growing demand for an investigation into the origins of the novel coronavirus, China has reportedly demolished what they claim is ground zero for the deadly disease. Months after being shuttered following an outbreak of a new strain of coronavirus, the Wuhan wet market was torn down Tuesday, journalist Jennifer Zeng reported. Meat from exotic animals is suspected to have been contaminated by the virus, which made the jump to humans in the unsanitary conditions of the market. Not everyone is buying China's official story, however.
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