Friday, July 31, 2020
In the news, Friday, July 24, 2020
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from Asia Times
LEAST BIASED, HIGH; News & Media Website based in Hong Kong
Cold War-style US-China spat rattles the world
China’s retaliatory move ordering the United States to shut its consulate in Chengdu city days after it was asked to close its consulate in Houston could be more damaging than a trade war to the global economy, reeling from a pandemic that is still spreading. Financial markets panicked, the dollar slid and safe-haven gold surged to near all-time highs after the tit-for-tat moves capped a furious week of Cold War-style diplomacy. ... Markets reacted quickly – Mainland China’s benchmark CSI300 tumbled 4.39%, while the regional MSCI Asa ex-Japan benchmark fell 1.74%. Meanwhile, the dollar dropped to 22-month lows against a basket of currencies and gold jumped 0.4% to 1,894 an ounce. The yuan slipped 0.2% versus the dollar.
China’s retaliatory move ordering the United States to shut its consulate in Chengdu city days after it was asked to close its consulate in Houston could be more damaging than a trade war to the global economy, reeling from a pandemic that is still spreading. Financial markets panicked, the dollar slid and safe-haven gold surged to near all-time highs after the tit-for-tat moves capped a furious week of Cold War-style diplomacy. ... Markets reacted quickly – Mainland China’s benchmark CSI300 tumbled 4.39%, while the regional MSCI Asa ex-Japan benchmark fell 1.74%. Meanwhile, the dollar dropped to 22-month lows against a basket of currencies and gold jumped 0.4% to 1,894 an ounce. The yuan slipped 0.2% versus the dollar.
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from CBS News (& affiliates)
Study identifies six different "types" of COVID-19
A new study of COVID-19, based on data from a symptom tracker app, determined that there are six distinct "types" of the disease involving different clusters of symptoms. The discovery could potentially open new possibilities for how doctors can better treat individual patients and predict what level of hospital care they would need.
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from CNN
Senior US government officials said Friday that a Chinese scientist who had been hiding in the country's San Francisco consulate after accusations of visa fraud is now in US custody and also charged that Beijing has been using its diplomatic outposts to run an espionage network to steal intellectual property from US businesses, universities and research centers. Tang Juan, a researcher who said she was focusing on biology, "was a fugitive from justice until last night," a senior Justice Department official said, but has now been charged in Sacramento. The circumstances of Tang's arrest were not clear, but she has not been charged with espionage.
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from Competitive Enterprise Institute
President Trump is expected to issue an executive order today directing his administration to take a series of actions related to pharmaceuticals and the price of new medicines. Anticipated initiatives include rules addressing drug importation and pharmaceutical price controls, and a key feature of the order reportedly involves adopting an International Pricing Index (IPI) as a reference for the maximum prices drug companies may charge for their products. Imposing price controls on pharmaceuticals may lower drug prices in the short run, but would result in sharply lower investment in medical research and development and reduce the number of innovative new medicines that reach the market in coming years, warns CEI Senior Fellow Gregory Conko.
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from Forbes
As the coronavirus pandemic continues to spread throughout the U.S. despite mask mandates and social distancing measures, more than 150 medical experts, scientists and other health professionals signed a letter organized by a prominent consumer group and delivered to government leaders Thursday calling for new shutdowns to bring case counts down and “hit the reset button” to implement a more effective response.
A detailed view of the contents of Jeffrey Epstein victim Virginia Roberts Giuffre's defamation lawsuit against Ghislaine Maxwell, which Maxwell settled with Roberts Giuffre for an undisclosed amount in 2016, has just been made possible by New York senior district judge Loretta Preska, who, on July 23 in response to a suit brought by the Miami Herald, ordered the trove to be prepared for unsealing next week. The Herald's superb 2018 series of articles on Epstein is credited with triggering his arrest and meticulously planned prosecution last year. All documents in this initial unsealing were part of the discovery phase of Virginia Roberts Giuffre's 2015 suit, which claimed defamation since, in refuting Ms. Giuffre's claims of being groomed and trafficked, Maxwell had accused Ms. Giuffre of lying.
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Society & Culture Website
Baldwin, Buckley, and Berry on Racism and the World Order
By Mark Clavier: Even in grainy black and white film, the atmosphere in the Cambridge Union debating chamber remains palpable. A field of impeccably turned out students packed densely into that grand nineteenth-century theatre; an almost uninterrupted field of white faces directed with eager anticipation towards the gaunt, slightly nervous looking African American sitting on the left-hand side of the central aisle. Across from him, exuding the confidence of a virtuoso in his natural element, sat his blonde-haired opponent. The topic for that evening’s debate was “The American Dream is at the expense of the American Negro.” The two debaters were James Baldwin and William F. Buckley, Jr.
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from The Guardian (UK)
LEFT-CENTER, HIGH, British daily newspaper published in London UK
Sheffield Cathedral to investigate bullying and harassment claims
Sheffield Cathedral, which closed its choir this week to an outcry from parents, former choristers and musicians, is being investigated over allegations of bullying and harassment. The cathedral’s dean, Peter Bradley, ordered an external inquiry after complaints were made to its governing body, the Chapter, over alleged bullying of musical staff and volunteers.
Sheffield Cathedral to investigate bullying and harassment claims
Sheffield Cathedral, which closed its choir this week to an outcry from parents, former choristers and musicians, is being investigated over allegations of bullying and harassment. The cathedral’s dean, Peter Bradley, ordered an external inquiry after complaints were made to its governing body, the Chapter, over alleged bullying of musical staff and volunteers.
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Coronavirus updates: School districts back off in-person learning for fall, Inslee tightens Safe Start rules
Many schools were looking to open this fall with at least partial in-person learning, leaning toward a hybrid model of learning that would combine some social-distance approved in-person learning with online instruction. But with COVID-19 cases on the rise throughout the state once again, school districts are backing off, with many announcing Thursday a move toward exclusively online-learning in the fall to open the 2020-21 school year.
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from HumanProgress.org
Education Website
This week, our heroes are Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace—two 19th century English mathematicians and pioneers of early computing. Babbage is often called “The Father of Computing” for conceiving the first automatic digital computer. Building on Babbage’s work, Lovelace was the first person to recognize that computers could have applications beyond pure calculation. She has been dubbed the “first computer programmer” for creating the first algorithm for Babbage’s machine. Babbage and Lovelace’s work laid the groundwork for modern-day computers. Without their contributions, much of the technology we have today would likely not exist.
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from NBC News (& affiliates)
LEFT-CENTER BIAS
CDC changes COVID-19 guidance on how long patients need to be isolated
People who have been confirmed with mild to moderate COVID-19 can leave their isolation without receiving a negative test, according to recently revised guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Increasing evidence shows that most people are no longer infectious 10 days after they begin having symptoms of COVID-19. As a result, the CDC is discouraging people from getting tested a second time after they recover. “For most persons with COVID-19 illness, isolation and precautions can generally be discontinued 10 days after symptom onset and resolution of fever for at least 24 hours, without the use of fever-reducing medications, and with improvement of other symptoms,” the CDC says. For people who have tested positive but don't have symptoms, "isolation and other precautions can be discontinued 10 days after the date of their first positive RT-PCR test for SARS-CoV-2 RNA.”
CDC changes COVID-19 guidance on how long patients need to be isolated
People who have been confirmed with mild to moderate COVID-19 can leave their isolation without receiving a negative test, according to recently revised guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Increasing evidence shows that most people are no longer infectious 10 days after they begin having symptoms of COVID-19. As a result, the CDC is discouraging people from getting tested a second time after they recover. “For most persons with COVID-19 illness, isolation and precautions can generally be discontinued 10 days after symptom onset and resolution of fever for at least 24 hours, without the use of fever-reducing medications, and with improvement of other symptoms,” the CDC says. For people who have tested positive but don't have symptoms, "isolation and other precautions can be discontinued 10 days after the date of their first positive RT-PCR test for SARS-CoV-2 RNA.”
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from The News Tribune
News & Media Website in Tacoma, WA
News & Media Website in Tacoma, WA
Coronavirus updates: School districts back off in-person learning for fall, Inslee tightens Safe Start rules
Many schools were looking to open this fall with at least partial in-person learning, leaning toward a hybrid model of learning that would combine some social-distance approved in-person learning with online instruction. But with COVID-19 cases on the rise throughout the state once again, school districts are backing off, with many announcing Thursday a move toward exclusively online-learning in the fall to open the 2020-21 school year.
from New York Post
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, MIXED, Newspaper in New York
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, MIXED, Newspaper in New York
Washington Post settles $250M suit with Covington teen Nick Sandmann
The Washington Post on Friday agreed to settle a monster $250 million lawsuit filed by Covington Catholic High School student Nick Sandmann over its botched coverage of his 2019 encounter with a Native American elder. ... It’s the teen’s second win in a whopping $800 million defamation battle against a number of news outlets including the Washington Post, CNN, ABC, CBS, The Guardian, The Hill and NBC. Sandmann and a group of his Covington classmates were vilified on social media after they were filmed wearing “Make America Great Again” hats after an anti-abortion rally while being yelled at by demonstrators.Sandmann, then 16, was singled out after footage of his confrontation with Native American activist Nathan Phillips was picked up by CNN and other outlets who claimed the incident was racially motivated. Footage released later showed it was the Covington students who were being harassed.
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from NPR (& affiliates)
Nonprofit Broadcasting & Media Production Company
Judge Denies Oregon's Request For Restraining Order Against Federal Officers
A federal judge on Friday denied the Oregon attorney general's request for a temporary restraining order against certain actions by federal authorities in Portland, saying the state lacked the legal standing to seek that relief. Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum filed a lawsuit on July 17 against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the U.S. Marshals Service, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the Federal Protection Service and their agents. In it, she alleged that federal officers in the city of Portland have acted unlawfully by seizing and detaining Oregonians without probable cause, and she sought a restraining order that would temporarily stop them from using such tactics.
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Judge Denies Oregon's Request For Restraining Order Against Federal Officers
A federal judge on Friday denied the Oregon attorney general's request for a temporary restraining order against certain actions by federal authorities in Portland, saying the state lacked the legal standing to seek that relief. Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum filed a lawsuit on July 17 against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the U.S. Marshals Service, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the Federal Protection Service and their agents. In it, she alleged that federal officers in the city of Portland have acted unlawfully by seizing and detaining Oregonians without probable cause, and she sought a restraining order that would temporarily stop them from using such tactics.
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from People
Media/News CompanyRepublican Senate Passes Bill Renaming Bases That Honor Confederacy Despite Trump's Veto Threat
Senate Republicans ignored President Donald Trump's threats to veto a bill over its provision to rename military bases that honor Confederate soldiers. Congress' upper chamber, which is majority Republican, voted 86-14 vote to approve the annual National Defense Authorization Act on Thursday. The bill largely focuses on increasing military spending, including a 3 percent raise for soldiers, but it also features a policy that clears the way for military bases to be renamed.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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from Washington Policy Center
Educational Research Center in Seattle, Washington
Data ignorance is making COVID restrictions worse than they need to be
As Governor Inslee puts Washington back toward lockdown in response to COVID, he is still relying on broad social restrictions that limit the freedom of everyone, rather than targeted protections focusing on those most at risk. For example, the new social restrictions include rules that limit who can be together at a restaurant. A better approach would be to provide treatment and assistance to those who are most at risk or who currently have coronavirus but are asymptomatic and may be spreading the illness. That approach, however, is not possible because we don’t have the information necessary to follow that strategy, in part because governor has failed to take the steps he promised.
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Data ignorance is making COVID restrictions worse than they need to be
As Governor Inslee puts Washington back toward lockdown in response to COVID, he is still relying on broad social restrictions that limit the freedom of everyone, rather than targeted protections focusing on those most at risk. For example, the new social restrictions include rules that limit who can be together at a restaurant. A better approach would be to provide treatment and assistance to those who are most at risk or who currently have coronavirus but are asymptomatic and may be spreading the illness. That approach, however, is not possible because we don’t have the information necessary to follow that strategy, in part because governor has failed to take the steps he promised.
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In the news, Thursday, July 23, 2020
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from al.com (Alabama Media Group)
Coronavirus update: Test positive for COVID? CDC changes quarantine rules
The Centers for Disease Control has updated its guidelines for what people should do if they are diagnosed with coronavirus. The revised quarantine guidelines say people who test positive for COVID should quarantine for at least 10 days after the onset of symptoms. Quarantine can end when the patient shows a general improvement in symptoms, including being fever free for at least 24 hours without the aid of fever reducing medicines. Asymptomatic patients can end isolation 10 days after the date of their first positive test.
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from BBC News (UK)
US arrests three Chinese nationals for visa fraud
The US has charged four Chinese nationals with visa fraud for allegedly lying about their membership of China's armed forces. Three are under arrest while the FBI is seeking to arrest the fourth, who is said to be in China's San Francisco consulate. FBI agents have also interviewed people in 25 US cities who have an "undeclared affiliation" with China's military. Prosecutors say it is part of a Chinese plan to send army scientists to the US. Members of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) applied for research visas while hiding their "true affiliation" with the military, US justice department attorney John C Demers said in a press release. "This is another part of the Chinese Communist Party's plan to take advantage of our open society and exploit academic institutions."
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from CNN
Convent outside Detroit lost 13 nuns to Covid-19 with 12 dying in one month
Coronavirus spread so quickly through a convent in Michigan that it claimed the lives of 12 nuns in one month, beginning on Good Friday. They were all members of the Felician Sisters convent in Livonia, outside of Detroit, ranging in ages from 69 to 99, the executive director for mission advancement, Suzanne English, confirmed to CNN on Tuesday. A 13th sister initially survived the virus but passed away from its effects in June.
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from Competitive Enterprise Institute
Policymakers called for price gouging laws in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, when massive shortages—and rising prices—ensued nationwide for hand sanitizer, personal protective equipment, toilet paper, surface-cleaning products, and certain foods. A new Competitive Enterprise Institute report urges those policymakers to resist a rush to a hasty, ill-considered government “solution.” “No one likes price increases when there is a crisis or a shortage,” said Ryan Young, CEI senior fellow and author of the report. “But, unfortunately, price gouging legislation makes the situation worse and for longer. Keeping money prices low has a tradeoff: other, non-money prices go up even more. That means worse shortages, longer lines and shipping times, fewer choices, and lower quality goods and services. Legislation cannot make these problems go away but can make them worse.
The Trump administration has placed a high priority on streamlining the delays and red tape holding back many private sector projects. The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) final rule making changes to its Environmental Appeals Board (EAB) is another useful step toward that goal. Job-creating projects, from pipelines to ports to mines, are routinely subject to years of federal permitting delays. In some cases, these long delays are tantamount to denials, as investors are simply forced to give up and allocate their capital elsewhere, including other countries with less onerous red tape. For example, under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the Environmental Impact Statements required of major projects have averaged four and a half years to complete, and there is no guarantee that there won’t be other non-concurrent federal delays after that. Although the problem has been gradually getting worse for decades, it was exacerbated by the Obama administration’s efforts to impose climate change considerations as yet another hurdle in the permitting process.
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from The Federalist
RIGHT BIAS, HIGH, online magazine
Democratic pundits still don't seem to grasp that demographics both shape and are shaped by politics. It’s not a one-way relationship, it’s symbiotic. Universal theories can have a certain tidy attraction. In science, they can result in revolutionary breakthroughs — Albert Einstein’s Theory of Relativity comes to mind. In the messy realm of human affairs, however, universal theories have a tendency to fall apart. ... Any system aimed at electoral dominance by dividing people into groups then using the power of government to redistribute resources from a disfavored group to the favored group will soon find itself out of groups to take resources from.
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from Fox News (& affiliates)
Portland mayor tear-gassed by federal agents, riot declared
A riot was declared in Portland just after midnight Thursday morning after Mayor Ted Wheeler’s tense visit with protesters-- where he was booed, told to resign, given a list of demands and tear-gassed by federal agents. His visit ended with his security detail engaging in a struggle with protesters late Wednesday night as they worked to get the mayor to safety, a report said. Earlier, he moved with protesters to the fence outside of the federal courthouse where he stood at the front and was tear-gassed along with the crowd, according to New York Times correspondent Mike Baker.
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from Mises Institute
from The Guardian (UK)
LEFT-CENTER, HIGH, British daily newspaper published in London UK
Sheffield cathedral to disband choir to take account of diversity
In a break with centuries of tradition, Sheffield cathedral is to stand down its choir in order to make a “completely fresh start” with a new team of choristers that reflects and engages with an increasingly diverse city. A statement published on the cathedral’s website on Wednesday said “significant change” was needed. The cathedral’s governing body, the Chapter, had decided on “a new model for Anglican choral life here, with a renewed ambition for engagement and inclusion”, it added. Although the cathedral’s music department had been the subject of a review, the closure of the choir was unexpected and is likely to infuriate traditionalists in the Church of England and classical music circles.
Mike Pompeo says free world must change China or 'China will change us'
US secretary of state Mike Pompeo has called on “free nations” to triumph over the threat of what he said was a “new tyranny” from China, in a provocative speech likely to worsen fraught US-China relations. “Today China is increasingly authoritarian at home, and more aggressive in its hostility to freedom everywhere else,” Pompeo said in a speech on Thursday at the Richard Nixon presidential library in Yorba Linda, California. “If the free world doesn’t change Communist China, Communist China will change us,” he said. Pompeo said Nixon’s worry about what he had done by opening the world to China’s Communist party in the 1970s had been prophetic. “President Nixon once said he feared he had created a ‘Frankenstein’ by opening the world to the CCP,” Pompeo said. “And here we are.”
Sheffield cathedral to disband choir to take account of diversity
In a break with centuries of tradition, Sheffield cathedral is to stand down its choir in order to make a “completely fresh start” with a new team of choristers that reflects and engages with an increasingly diverse city. A statement published on the cathedral’s website on Wednesday said “significant change” was needed. The cathedral’s governing body, the Chapter, had decided on “a new model for Anglican choral life here, with a renewed ambition for engagement and inclusion”, it added. Although the cathedral’s music department had been the subject of a review, the closure of the choir was unexpected and is likely to infuriate traditionalists in the Church of England and classical music circles.
Mike Pompeo says free world must change China or 'China will change us'
US secretary of state Mike Pompeo has called on “free nations” to triumph over the threat of what he said was a “new tyranny” from China, in a provocative speech likely to worsen fraught US-China relations. “Today China is increasingly authoritarian at home, and more aggressive in its hostility to freedom everywhere else,” Pompeo said in a speech on Thursday at the Richard Nixon presidential library in Yorba Linda, California. “If the free world doesn’t change Communist China, Communist China will change us,” he said. Pompeo said Nixon’s worry about what he had done by opening the world to China’s Communist party in the 1970s had been prophetic. “President Nixon once said he feared he had created a ‘Frankenstein’ by opening the world to the CCP,” Pompeo said. “And here we are.”
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from KING 5 (NBC)
Broadcasting & Media Production Company in Seattle, Washington
Inslee shuts indoor service at bars, restricts indoor dining
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee said Thursday he is tightening restrictions throughout the state in restaurants and bars, for weddings and funerals, and at gyms in a further effort to stem a surge in COVID-19 cases. “I care about businesses opening and people getting back to work, but public health and economic activity go hand in hand,” Inslee said. “Our suppression of this virus is not at the level it needs to be to continue allowing for more activity. If we let this virus get even more out of control, it will have devastating effects on our health and on our economy.”
Inslee shuts indoor service at bars, restricts indoor dining
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee said Thursday he is tightening restrictions throughout the state in restaurants and bars, for weddings and funerals, and at gyms in a further effort to stem a surge in COVID-19 cases. “I care about businesses opening and people getting back to work, but public health and economic activity go hand in hand,” Inslee said. “Our suppression of this virus is not at the level it needs to be to continue allowing for more activity. If we let this virus get even more out of control, it will have devastating effects on our health and on our economy.”
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The COVID Panic Is a Lesson in Using Statistics to Get Your Way in Politics
Indeed, so unimportant are the deaths and illnesses uncounted in any any government tally, that politicians are now talking about another round of stay-at-home orders and lockdowns. Los Angeles city officials are threatening to impose new lockdown measures, and at least one county in Texas has implemented a stay-at-home order. Those who support these measures need only point to the official statistics: "see, we must do something to keep this COVID-19 number from getting bigger!" The number will be there for all to see. But the child abuse, the suicides, and the cancer deaths? There's no Worldometer number to point to. There's an important lesson here. Since the nineteenth century, government bureaucrats, politicians, and other advocates for more government action have sought greater use of government statistics as a means of justifying government interventions in the marketplace. In this way of thinking, that which is measured is that which merits government planning.
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from NBC News (& affiliates)
LEFT-CENTER BIAS
Former Rep. Ozzie Myers was expelled from the House in 1980 after he was videotaped receiving a $50,000 bribe from an undercover FBI agent.
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from Reason Magazine
Magazine in Los Angeles, California
A wave of hasty firings is sweeping across the country, driven by demands from what some call the "cancel culture." The New York Times editorial page editor James Bennett ran an op-ed from Sen. Tom Cotton (R–Ark.) that displeased the paper's readers and some colleagues, so he lost his job. The chief curator at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Gary Garrels, lost his job, too, after he was accused of being a racist for saying he would still collect art from white men. But the list of those who lost their jobs is much longer, and the rationale is sometimes as stunningly weak as someone liking the wrong tweet.
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from Reuters
International news agency headquartered in London, UK
The Mekong River has become a new front in U.S.-China rivalry, environmentalists and officials say, with Beijing overtaking Washington in both spending and influence over downstream countries at the mercy of its control of the river’s waters. It’s a confrontation in which the Trump administration - which has largely maintained funding for an Obama-era environmental and development programmes in the Lower Mekong - is losing ground. The two powers’ struggle recently moved into the realm of science - with the U.S. and Chinese governments each touting different reports about whether China’s 11 dams on the river were harming nations downstream.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
Sue Lani Madsen: Initiative aims to limit governor’s power to make emergency proclamations
How much emergency power should the executive branch hold? In a system of government designed around checks and balances at every level, state legislators are wondering where they fit in. Initiative 1114, which is sponsored by Restore Washington, an independent political movement focused on keeping government in check through the initiative and referendum process, seeks to provide the answer.
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from Stars and Stripes
VA opposes bill to grant dental care to all veterans
The Department of Veterans Affairs voiced its opposition Thursday to legislation that would require the department to provide dental treatment for all veterans enrolled in VA health care. The bill, introduced by Rep. Julia Brownley, D-Calif., aims to phase in dental care at the VA within four years. Now, the department provides dental treatment only to veterans whose dental issues are related to their military service. Brownley said that is equal to about one in 17 VA enrollees being eligible for dental care. “Current law restricts the VA’s ability to provide dental care to most veterans,” Brownley said. “The cost of private-sector dental care is often too expensive, leaving too many veterans without dental care at all.” The House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs considered the bill during a hearing Thursday. The VA was strongly opposed. ... In response, Brownley cited a 2019 report, in which the VA said “poor oral health can have a significant negative effect on overall health.” She argued providing dental care for veterans would lead to better health outcomes and lower costs in the long term.
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Sue Lani Madsen: Initiative aims to limit governor’s power to make emergency proclamations
How much emergency power should the executive branch hold? In a system of government designed around checks and balances at every level, state legislators are wondering where they fit in. Initiative 1114, which is sponsored by Restore Washington, an independent political movement focused on keeping government in check through the initiative and referendum process, seeks to provide the answer.
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from Stars and Stripes
VA opposes bill to grant dental care to all veterans
The Department of Veterans Affairs voiced its opposition Thursday to legislation that would require the department to provide dental treatment for all veterans enrolled in VA health care. The bill, introduced by Rep. Julia Brownley, D-Calif., aims to phase in dental care at the VA within four years. Now, the department provides dental treatment only to veterans whose dental issues are related to their military service. Brownley said that is equal to about one in 17 VA enrollees being eligible for dental care. “Current law restricts the VA’s ability to provide dental care to most veterans,” Brownley said. “The cost of private-sector dental care is often too expensive, leaving too many veterans without dental care at all.” The House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs considered the bill during a hearing Thursday. The VA was strongly opposed. ... In response, Brownley cited a 2019 report, in which the VA said “poor oral health can have a significant negative effect on overall health.” She argued providing dental care for veterans would lead to better health outcomes and lower costs in the long term.
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from Townhall.com
RIGHT BIAS, MIXED, American conservative website and print magazine
Rolling Stone Editor on Why ‘White Fragility’ May Be the ‘Dumbest Book Ever Written’
If there is one non-conservative writer who you should read right now, it's Matt Taibbi. The Rolling Stone editor has been a surgeon in dissecting the Left's uncontrollable descent into insanity. Even if you disagree with most of his work, which I'm sure you will, his analysis of the Left's "woke" awakening is spot on and devastating. Taibbi torched these clowns for their historically illiterate and unhinged tantrum over Independence Day. Now, he's going off on the institutional Left's latest craze: fawning over Robin DiAngelo's "White Fragility," a cacophony of intersectionality nonsense that appears to have driven Taibbi crazy just reading it.
Rolling Stone Editor on Why ‘White Fragility’ May Be the ‘Dumbest Book Ever Written’
If there is one non-conservative writer who you should read right now, it's Matt Taibbi. The Rolling Stone editor has been a surgeon in dissecting the Left's uncontrollable descent into insanity. Even if you disagree with most of his work, which I'm sure you will, his analysis of the Left's "woke" awakening is spot on and devastating. Taibbi torched these clowns for their historically illiterate and unhinged tantrum over Independence Day. Now, he's going off on the institutional Left's latest craze: fawning over Robin DiAngelo's "White Fragility," a cacophony of intersectionality nonsense that appears to have driven Taibbi crazy just reading it.
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from Zero Hedge
EXTREME RIGHT BIAS, CONSPIRACY-PSEUDOSCIENCE, MIXED, website registered in Bulgaria
St. Louis Prosecutor's Office Busted Altering Evidence; Reassembled Non-Operable McCloskey Pistol To Classify As Lethal
The pistol Patricia McCloskey waved at protesters who broke down a gate to trespass on their private street was a non-operable 'prop' used during a lawsuit they were involved in, so a member of Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner's staff ordered the crime lab to disassemble and reassemble the gun - allowing them to classify it as "capable of lethal use" in charging documents filed Monday, according to KSDK5.
St. Louis Prosecutor's Office Busted Altering Evidence; Reassembled Non-Operable McCloskey Pistol To Classify As Lethal
The pistol Patricia McCloskey waved at protesters who broke down a gate to trespass on their private street was a non-operable 'prop' used during a lawsuit they were involved in, so a member of Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner's staff ordered the crime lab to disassemble and reassemble the gun - allowing them to classify it as "capable of lethal use" in charging documents filed Monday, according to KSDK5.
In the news, Wednesday, July 22, 2020
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from AP (Associated Press)
LEFT-CENTER BIASED, VERY HIGH, News Agency in New York City
LEFT-CENTER BIASED, VERY HIGH, News Agency in New York City
Joe Biden said Wednesday that President Donald Trump was the country’s “first” racist president. The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee’s comments came during a virtual town hall organized by the Service Employees International Union. When a questioner complained of racism surrounding the coronavirus outbreak and mentioned the president referring to it as the “China virus,” Biden responded by blasting Trump and “his spread of racism.”
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from Asia Times
LEAST BIASED, HIGH; News & Media Website based in Hong Kong
Russia aiming to be first to find Covid-19 vaccine
Russia could be only a few weeks away from starting mass production of a vaccine for Covid-19, but the unorthodox approach adopted to speed up the process is likely to reduce the chances of the Russian vaccine gaining worldwide adoption.
China’s new data security law extends sovereignty to cyberspace
Draft law outlines the framework for a dystopian world, as China moves towards being a cashless society; the law will support a digital economy with transactions lodged in blockchain.
Russia could be only a few weeks away from starting mass production of a vaccine for Covid-19, but the unorthodox approach adopted to speed up the process is likely to reduce the chances of the Russian vaccine gaining worldwide adoption.
China’s new data security law extends sovereignty to cyberspace
Draft law outlines the framework for a dystopian world, as China moves towards being a cashless society; the law will support a digital economy with transactions lodged in blockchain.
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from BBC News (UK)
Canada court rules US 'not safe' for asylum seekers
Canada's federal court has ruled that an asylum agreement the country has with the US is invalid because America violates the human rights of refugees. The Safe Third Country Agreement (STCA), in place since 2004, requires refugee claimants to request protection in the first safe country they reach. But on Wednesday, a judge declared the deal unconstitutional due to the chance that the US will imprison the migrants. The ruling marks a major victory for Canadian immigration activists. Lawyers for refugees who had been turned away at the Canadian border had challenged the agreement, arguing that the US did not qualify as "safe" for asylum seekers.
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from HumanProgress.org Education Website
Mounting evidence shows that China has enacted wide‐ranging human rights abuses, including coercive population control, on its Uyghur minority. An Associated Press investigation released in late June showed that while China’s rate of permanent sterilization procedures is falling nationally, the rate in Xinjiang, where many Uyghurs live, has skyrocketed. Many of those surgeries were involuntary. Many Uyghur women are forcibly sterilized after having two children, as third children are illegal in China. The two‐child policy replaced China’s previous one‐child policy in 2016.
Slowly, humans are making amends for our past excesses. What’s clear is that nature’s resilience is stronger than we thought. Many species can adapt to changed circumstances, migrate to different habitats, and more importantly, live and operate where they aren't directly observed by scientists and wildlife biologists.
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from The Jerusalem Post
Key site from biblical kings’ time unveiled near US Embassy in Jerusalem
A 2,700-year-old archaeological site recently uncovered in Jerusalem now offers an extraordinary glimpse into the life of the region at the time of biblical kings. Located in the southern part of the city, between Talpiot and Ramat Rachel, the Arnona neighborhood acquired international fame when two years ago it became home to the US Embassy in Israel. Quiet and green, the area presents many spectacular views over the Judean Desert and even the Dead Sea, which can often be enjoyed from the new multi-story buildings that keep on springing up. It was while preparing the site for a new residential complex that the archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) came across one of the most significant discoveries made in the city in recent years: a major administrative center believed to date to the days when Hezekiah and Manasseh reigned over the Kingdom of Judah.
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from Mises Institute
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, MIXED
Antonio Gramsci: The Greatest Political Strategist in History
Hollywood’s New Era of McCarthyism
This time, anyone who deviates in his politics, skepticism, or principles from Hollywood’s progressive culture is suspect. In 2017, Stephen Galloway described the possibility of a new era of McCarthyism in Hollywood. Writing in The Hollywood Reporter, where he then served as executive editor, Galloway compared the treatment of conservatives in the film industry to the Hollywood Ten — the ten blacklisted professionals, mostly screenwriters, who served prison time and suffered professional and personal alienation for refusing to name names before the House Un-American Activities Committee. “Back then it was fear of Communism; now it’s fear of an amorphous enemy that’s all the more potent to some for being unseen. Call it the fear of fear itself.” Galloway continues, “In an astonishing reversal of Hollywood history, just as liberals here once considered themselves an endangered species, so do conservatives today.”
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, MIXED
Antonio Gramsci: The Greatest Political Strategist in History
We live in a narrative. The West had a narrative. There will always be a narrative. Destroying the traditional narrative will not leave a void; a new narrative will take hold. We see it on the street: kneeling, the washing of feet, sitting with arms raised to heaven, the sainting of a Minneapolis martyr. Once we lose our story, our narrative, our tradition, we are lost. We are easily manipulated, not having any foundation of meaning. With no foundation, we blow freely in the direction of the new, loudest narrative.
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from National Review RIGHT BIAS
Hollywood’s New Era of McCarthyism
This time, anyone who deviates in his politics, skepticism, or principles from Hollywood’s progressive culture is suspect. In 2017, Stephen Galloway described the possibility of a new era of McCarthyism in Hollywood. Writing in The Hollywood Reporter, where he then served as executive editor, Galloway compared the treatment of conservatives in the film industry to the Hollywood Ten — the ten blacklisted professionals, mostly screenwriters, who served prison time and suffered professional and personal alienation for refusing to name names before the House Un-American Activities Committee. “Back then it was fear of Communism; now it’s fear of an amorphous enemy that’s all the more potent to some for being unseen. Call it the fear of fear itself.” Galloway continues, “In an astonishing reversal of Hollywood history, just as liberals here once considered themselves an endangered species, so do conservatives today.”
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from NBC News (& affiliates)
LEFT-CENTER BIAS
The Food and Drug Administration has expanded the list of hand sanitizers — some sold at Walmart, Costco and other national chains — being recalled to at least 75 recently, saying toxic levels of wood alcohol in them can cause injury or death. The FDA said that there has been an increase in hand sanitizers that are labeled to contain ethyl alcohol, or ethanol, but have tested positive for methanol, or wood alcohol. If methanol is absorbed through the skin, it can cause blindness and hospitalizations, or death if ingested. For the complete list, go to FDA hand sanitizer updates
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from New York Post
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, MIXED, Newspaper in New York
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, MIXED, Newspaper in New York
Planned Parenthood finally admits that its founder was a horrific bigot
Planned Parenthood is finally removing the name of Margaret Sanger, its founder, from its Manhattan clinic — ending decades of denial about her horrid, racist views. Just four years ago, the Planned Parenthood Federation of America did admit it was wrong of Sanger to speak to the Ku Klux Klan in 1926. And to support the sterilization of the disabled and “placing so-called illiterates, paupers, unemployables, criminals, prostitutes and dope fiends on farms and in open spaces as long as necessary for the strengthening and development of moral conduct.”
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from New York Times
Newspaper in New York
Newspaper in New York
Can You Get Covid-19 Again? It’s Very Unlikely, Experts Say
Reports of reinfection instead may be cases of drawn-out illness. A decline in antibodies is normal after a few weeks, and people are protected from the coronavirus in other ways.
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from South China Morning Post
LEFT-CENTER BIAS, MIXED, Media/News Company in Hong Kong
Hong Kong stocks tumbled in late trading on Wednesday as US-China tensions escalated after the US ordered China’s consulate in the city of Houston to close within 72 hours. In quickly moving news, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said the United States had demanded Beijing close its consulate in the Texas city, calling the move “unprecedented escalation” and threatening retaliation. It was the latest instance of friction between the world’s two largest economies on everything from trade to the South China Sea and Beijing’s tightening grip over Hong Kong.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
HISTORIC DINER SALES DOWN DURING USUALLY BUSY SEASON
[C1] Mary Lou’s Milk Bottle usually sees its busiest days during the summer, as customers walk in to get ice cream on a hot day or to enjoy a burger. But this year is different. Pandemic restrictions and health concerns surrounding in-person dining have slowed business, said Tom Ritchie, owner of the historic diner shaped like a Milk Bottle in Spokane’s Garland District. “Normally, every day would be busy, so now it’s just a guess,” Ritchie said. “Now it’s like, ‘OK, well, cross your fingers.’ It’s hard.”
White Elephant’s iconic elephant will reunite with long lost animal friends at Looff Carrousel
The owners of the White Elephant may be closing the curtains on their family business, but the show will go on for their iconic elephant ride. After the Division Street location of the White Elephant closes permanently on Sunday, its mascot will travel to a new home at Riverfront Park’s Looff Carrousel building, according to a Wednesday news release from Spokane Parks and Recreation. The two attractions are reuniting after decades apart. Looff Carrousel and the elephant ride, named Isidore, were both originally fixtures of Natatorium Park, Spokane’s amusement park attraction founded at the turn of the 20th century.
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President Trump Shuts Down Chinese on U.S. Soil
President Trump shut down the communist Chinese consulate in Houston, Texas today because of their heavy espionage/counterintelligence activities inside the United States. The Houston Fire Department was dispatched to the consulate because the Chinese were burning documents. Concurrently, the FBI announced the communist Chinese consulate in San Francisco is harboring at least one fugitive member of the Chinese military – Tang Juan. In court documents, the FBI says Tang Juan was charged along with other Chinese nationals, including Chen Song, who “is an active duty People’s Liberation Army (“PLA”) military scientist who lied to get into the United States, attempted to destroy evidence, and lied extensively to the FBI when interviewed.” The FBI believes Tang Juan has been in the Chinese consulate in San Francisco since the end of June. China has six (6) total consulates inside the United States.
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Banks are closing credit cards and slashing credit limits amid the pandemic, survey finds
As the economic fallout of the pandemic continues to unfold, banks are rushing to close credit card accounts or slash credit limits to curb their risk. One in 4 Americans with credit cards said they had an account involuntarily shut down from mid-May to mid-July, while 1 in 3 said their credit limit was reduced, according to a new report from CompareCards.com that surveyed 1,003 credit cardholders. This follows a similar rate of reductions in April and comes as many Americans battle joblessness and uncertain economic futures, but now with reduced access to credit.
HISTORIC DINER SALES DOWN DURING USUALLY BUSY SEASON
[C1] Mary Lou’s Milk Bottle usually sees its busiest days during the summer, as customers walk in to get ice cream on a hot day or to enjoy a burger. But this year is different. Pandemic restrictions and health concerns surrounding in-person dining have slowed business, said Tom Ritchie, owner of the historic diner shaped like a Milk Bottle in Spokane’s Garland District. “Normally, every day would be busy, so now it’s just a guess,” Ritchie said. “Now it’s like, ‘OK, well, cross your fingers.’ It’s hard.”
White Elephant’s iconic elephant will reunite with long lost animal friends at Looff Carrousel
The owners of the White Elephant may be closing the curtains on their family business, but the show will go on for their iconic elephant ride. After the Division Street location of the White Elephant closes permanently on Sunday, its mascot will travel to a new home at Riverfront Park’s Looff Carrousel building, according to a Wednesday news release from Spokane Parks and Recreation. The two attractions are reuniting after decades apart. Looff Carrousel and the elephant ride, named Isidore, were both originally fixtures of Natatorium Park, Spokane’s amusement park attraction founded at the turn of the 20th century.
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from Understanding the Threat
EXTREME RIGHT BIAS, QUESTIONABLE SOURCE, Media/News Company in Dallas, TexasPresident Trump Shuts Down Chinese on U.S. Soil
President Trump shut down the communist Chinese consulate in Houston, Texas today because of their heavy espionage/counterintelligence activities inside the United States. The Houston Fire Department was dispatched to the consulate because the Chinese were burning documents. Concurrently, the FBI announced the communist Chinese consulate in San Francisco is harboring at least one fugitive member of the Chinese military – Tang Juan. In court documents, the FBI says Tang Juan was charged along with other Chinese nationals, including Chen Song, who “is an active duty People’s Liberation Army (“PLA”) military scientist who lied to get into the United States, attempted to destroy evidence, and lied extensively to the FBI when interviewed.” The FBI believes Tang Juan has been in the Chinese consulate in San Francisco since the end of June. China has six (6) total consulates inside the United States.
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from Yahoo Finance (Yahoo Money)
LEFT-CENTER BIAS, HIGH, news website owned by Verizon Media
As the economic fallout of the pandemic continues to unfold, banks are rushing to close credit card accounts or slash credit limits to curb their risk. One in 4 Americans with credit cards said they had an account involuntarily shut down from mid-May to mid-July, while 1 in 3 said their credit limit was reduced, according to a new report from CompareCards.com that surveyed 1,003 credit cardholders. This follows a similar rate of reductions in April and comes as many Americans battle joblessness and uncertain economic futures, but now with reduced access to credit.
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In the news, Tuesday, July 21, 2020
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from Asia Times
LEAST BIASED, HIGH; News & Media Website based in Hong Kong
Three Gorges Dam deformed but safe, say operators
In a rare revelation, Beijing has admitted that its 2.4-kilometer Three Gorges Dam spanning the Yangtze River in Hubei province “deformed slightly” after record flooding. The official Xinhua News Agency quoted the operator of the the world’s largest hydroelectric gravity dam as saying that some nonstructural, peripheral parts of the dam had buckled.
CEI Urges House To Vote No on Massive Federal Land Acquisition Bill
The House of Representatives is expected to vote on the Great American Outdoors Act (H.R. 1957), which previously passed the Senate. Director of CEI’s Center for Energy and Environment Myron Ebell said: “The Competitive Enterprise Institute urges Members of the House to vote No on the Great American Outdoors Act, H. R. 1957. Only part of the bill is objectionable, but that part is highly objectionable in a number of ways. The first title that would begin catching up on the $20 billion maintenance backlog on our federal parks and public lands is long overdue. It was originally introduced by Rep. Rob Bishop with wide bipartisan support as a separate bill (H. R. 1225) and should be considered by the House as a separate bill. However, we strongly oppose the second title, which would turn the Land and Water Conservation Fund of 1965 into a trust fund not subject to annual congressional appropriation. It would authorize $900 million annually in perpetuity to be spent mostly on federal and state government acquisition of private land. The federal government already owns far too much land – 640 million acres or more than one-quarter of the country. It owns far more land than it can adequately manage and maintain, as is evidenced by the need for a special appropriation of $9.5 billion to address half the maintenance backlog. ..."
In a rare revelation, Beijing has admitted that its 2.4-kilometer Three Gorges Dam spanning the Yangtze River in Hubei province “deformed slightly” after record flooding. The official Xinhua News Agency quoted the operator of the the world’s largest hydroelectric gravity dam as saying that some nonstructural, peripheral parts of the dam had buckled.
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from Competitive Enterprise Institute
The House of Representatives is expected to vote on the Great American Outdoors Act (H.R. 1957), which previously passed the Senate. Director of CEI’s Center for Energy and Environment Myron Ebell said: “The Competitive Enterprise Institute urges Members of the House to vote No on the Great American Outdoors Act, H. R. 1957. Only part of the bill is objectionable, but that part is highly objectionable in a number of ways. The first title that would begin catching up on the $20 billion maintenance backlog on our federal parks and public lands is long overdue. It was originally introduced by Rep. Rob Bishop with wide bipartisan support as a separate bill (H. R. 1225) and should be considered by the House as a separate bill. However, we strongly oppose the second title, which would turn the Land and Water Conservation Fund of 1965 into a trust fund not subject to annual congressional appropriation. It would authorize $900 million annually in perpetuity to be spent mostly on federal and state government acquisition of private land. The federal government already owns far too much land – 640 million acres or more than one-quarter of the country. It owns far more land than it can adequately manage and maintain, as is evidenced by the need for a special appropriation of $9.5 billion to address half the maintenance backlog. ..."
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from KGMI News/Talk 790 (Bellingham)
Washington added to New York, New Jersey, Connecticut quarantine list
Washington residents must quarantine for 14 days after arriving in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut as COVID-19 activity spikes. It’s one of 31 states on the quarantine list.
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from The Living Church
Magazine of The Living Church Foundation (Anglican)
ON JUSTICE
By Daniel Martins: The brutal murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officers on May 25 triggered an explosive response across the nation (and beyond) that has riveted attention on the issue of racism — both personal and systemic. This has profoundly affected the Christian community as well as the larger secular culture. Pastors and lay leaders, bloggers and editors, have felt constrained to make unambiguous statements condemning the social cancer that tends to take the basic human right to move about publicly free and unmolested and turn it into a privilege that tends to be denied to persons of darker skin, a privilege that persons of lighter skin tones enjoy without even being aware of it. It’s too soon to tell with certainty, but it looks like this may turn into a watershed moment, when public opinion reaches the sort of tipping point that can effect permanent structural change in the direction of justice. ... What the opponents of the phrase “Black lives matter” seem not to grasp is that it’s not that Black lives matter more than other lives, but since Black lives are inordinately in jeopardy in our society, their value needs to be overtly affirmed. But if Black lives matter, do unborn lives also matter? One could hardly imagine a category of human life more vulnerable than babies in the womb (unless it’s unborn Black babies, who make up a disproportionate percentage of the lives lost to abortion).
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from Military.com
News & Media Website
Marine Corps Begins Shutdown of All Tank Battalions
The end of the Marine Corps' tank missions has officially begun. Marines with 1st Tank Battalion recently watched the last of their unit's tanks depart Twentynine Palms, California. Photos taken of the event show Marines surrounding an oversized flatbed as the tanks were loaded up onto the vehicle and driven away.
from The Living Church
Magazine of The Living Church Foundation (Anglican)
ON JUSTICE
By Daniel Martins: The brutal murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officers on May 25 triggered an explosive response across the nation (and beyond) that has riveted attention on the issue of racism — both personal and systemic. This has profoundly affected the Christian community as well as the larger secular culture. Pastors and lay leaders, bloggers and editors, have felt constrained to make unambiguous statements condemning the social cancer that tends to take the basic human right to move about publicly free and unmolested and turn it into a privilege that tends to be denied to persons of darker skin, a privilege that persons of lighter skin tones enjoy without even being aware of it. It’s too soon to tell with certainty, but it looks like this may turn into a watershed moment, when public opinion reaches the sort of tipping point that can effect permanent structural change in the direction of justice. ... What the opponents of the phrase “Black lives matter” seem not to grasp is that it’s not that Black lives matter more than other lives, but since Black lives are inordinately in jeopardy in our society, their value needs to be overtly affirmed. But if Black lives matter, do unborn lives also matter? One could hardly imagine a category of human life more vulnerable than babies in the womb (unless it’s unborn Black babies, who make up a disproportionate percentage of the lives lost to abortion).
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from Military.com
News & Media Website
The end of the Marine Corps' tank missions has officially begun. Marines with 1st Tank Battalion recently watched the last of their unit's tanks depart Twentynine Palms, California. Photos taken of the event show Marines surrounding an oversized flatbed as the tanks were loaded up onto the vehicle and driven away.
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from The North American Anglican
Media/News Company: "A journal of orthodox theology in the Anglican tradition"
ANGLICAN ORDERS OF MINISTRY PART II
By Drew Keane: In sixteenth-century England, unlike in much of Europe, circumstances allowed for reformation through the ecclesiastical hierarchy, rather than in (total) defiance of it. This has created a unique, sometimes confusing, but, as I hope to show, beneficial position for the Church of England. The Church of England both maintained her historic structure and embraced the Reformation, including a reform of how ordained Christian ministry is understood. [PART I]
By Drew Keane: In sixteenth-century England, unlike in much of Europe, circumstances allowed for reformation through the ecclesiastical hierarchy, rather than in (total) defiance of it. This has created a unique, sometimes confusing, but, as I hope to show, beneficial position for the Church of England. The Church of England both maintained her historic structure and embraced the Reformation, including a reform of how ordained Christian ministry is understood. [PART I]
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from Orthodox Christianity – orthochristian.com
Religious Organization in Moscow, Russia
The Holy Synod of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church issued a statement on the recent lamentable events surrounding the Agia Sophia cathedral in Istanbul, joining its voice “in the calls of our sister Local Orthodox Churches.” ... The Churches of Jerusalem, Romania, Georgia, Cyprus, and Russia, and the Greek Archdiocese of America have all made statements on the tragic fate of Agia Sophia, as have a number of individual hierarchs from throughout the Orthodox world.
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from Q13Fox (KCPQ) (Seattle)
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from Reuters
International news agency headquartered in London, UK
South Korean epidemiologists have found that people were more likely to contract the new coronavirus from members of their own households than from contacts outside the home. A study published in the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on July 16 looked in detail at 5,706 “index patients” who had tested positive for the coronavirus and more than 59,000 people who came into contact with them. The findings showed that less than 2% of patients’ non-household contacts had caught the virus, while nearly 12% of patients’ household contacts had contracted the disease.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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from Tri-City Herald
Newspaper in Kennewick, Washington
Hacking discovered at Hanford uncovers theft linked to COVID research
Hackers working with the Chinese government targeted firms developing vaccines for the coronavirus and stole hundreds of millions of dollars worth of intellectual property and trade secrets from companies across the world, the Justice Department announced Tuesday. The hacking was first discovered on computers at the Department of Energy’s Hanford nuclear reservation near Richland. A federal grand jury in Spokane returned an indictment earlier this month charging that computer systems of many businesses, individuals and agencies throughout the United States and worldwide have been hacked and compromised with a huge array of sensitive and valuable trade secrets, technologies, data and personal information stolen.
Hacking discovered at Hanford uncovers theft linked to COVID research
Hackers working with the Chinese government targeted firms developing vaccines for the coronavirus and stole hundreds of millions of dollars worth of intellectual property and trade secrets from companies across the world, the Justice Department announced Tuesday. The hacking was first discovered on computers at the Department of Energy’s Hanford nuclear reservation near Richland. A federal grand jury in Spokane returned an indictment earlier this month charging that computer systems of many businesses, individuals and agencies throughout the United States and worldwide have been hacked and compromised with a huge array of sensitive and valuable trade secrets, technologies, data and personal information stolen.
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