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from Conciliar Post
America is at war. Worldviews are clashing and the culture is divided. The rift penetrates even Christianity. Last week, Archbishop Wilton Gregory spoke out against recent actions of President Trump. Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò then wrote a letter in support of President Trump. The left sees God on the side of justice, equality, systemic change, liberation, and progress. The right sees God on the side of law, order, hard work, family, morality, and traditional values. Whose side is God really on? Whose side are you on? I fear that given the current state of society, Christians do indeed have to pick sides. However, I think the sides are not as they seem. I think that the left and the right, Democrats and Republicans, socialists and capitalists, CNN and Fox News, are largely on the same side, namely the side of advancing their own power and securing their own interests. Christians are deceived in thinking that the culture war is a battle of good against evil; it is more nearly a battle among evils. Christians have failed to recognize that the City of God is not the American City, let alone a faction within it.
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from DW News (Deutsche Welle)
Broadcasting & Media Production Company in Bonn, Germany
Trump says US cutting troops in Germany over NATO spending
US President Donald Trump has announced a reduction in American troops stationed in Germany. He faulted Berlin for failing to meet its NATO spending obligations and accused it of treating the US "unfairly" on trade. German Ambassador to the US, Emily Haber, responded to Trump's announcement saying that the US troops were in Europe to defend trans-Atlantic security and help the US project its global power. "US troops...are not there to defend Germany. They are there to defend the trans-Atlantic security. They are also there to project American power in Africa, in Asia," Haber said at a virtual event hosted by the Council on Foreign Relations.
Trump says US cutting troops in Germany over NATO spending
US President Donald Trump has announced a reduction in American troops stationed in Germany. He faulted Berlin for failing to meet its NATO spending obligations and accused it of treating the US "unfairly" on trade. German Ambassador to the US, Emily Haber, responded to Trump's announcement saying that the US troops were in Europe to defend trans-Atlantic security and help the US project its global power. "US troops...are not there to defend Germany. They are there to defend the trans-Atlantic security. They are also there to project American power in Africa, in Asia," Haber said at a virtual event hosted by the Council on Foreign Relations.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
Judge upholds Inslee emergency proclamation, business closures
Gov. Jay Inslee’s stay-home order and system of reopening businesses in phases is within his authority to protect the public, a federal judge has ruled. U.S. Judge Thomas Rice refused to issue a temporary restraining order requested by a Lake Chelan waterslide park that was seeking to reopen for summer business. The economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic is “extremely challenging” especially for small businesses, he agreed. “However, the public interest in mitigating and combating the significant danger posed by the spread of COVID-19 outweighs individual business interests in continued operations,” Rice wrote. “It is not the court’s role to second-guess the reasoned public-health decisions of other branches of government.
Sew EZ-Too closing in Garland District
Giving up the commute from Colville to Spokane will make Vickie Black’s car happy, but the customers of Sew E-Z Too will be sad because they will be losing a local niche business that knew how to deliver. Sew E-Z Too, which has been meeting sewers’ needs for about 19 years at 603 W. Garland Ave., has already started a clearance sale for its pending closure sometime in July. But unlike other small businesses that were killed by loss of business because of the coronavirus pandemic, this sewing shop got a deal its owner couldn’t refuse, Black said.
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Judge upholds Inslee emergency proclamation, business closures
Gov. Jay Inslee’s stay-home order and system of reopening businesses in phases is within his authority to protect the public, a federal judge has ruled. U.S. Judge Thomas Rice refused to issue a temporary restraining order requested by a Lake Chelan waterslide park that was seeking to reopen for summer business. The economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic is “extremely challenging” especially for small businesses, he agreed. “However, the public interest in mitigating and combating the significant danger posed by the spread of COVID-19 outweighs individual business interests in continued operations,” Rice wrote. “It is not the court’s role to second-guess the reasoned public-health decisions of other branches of government.
Sew EZ-Too closing in Garland District
Giving up the commute from Colville to Spokane will make Vickie Black’s car happy, but the customers of Sew E-Z Too will be sad because they will be losing a local niche business that knew how to deliver. Sew E-Z Too, which has been meeting sewers’ needs for about 19 years at 603 W. Garland Ave., has already started a clearance sale for its pending closure sometime in July. But unlike other small businesses that were killed by loss of business because of the coronavirus pandemic, this sewing shop got a deal its owner couldn’t refuse, Black said.
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