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from Anglican Church in North America
Dr. JI Packer died today at the age of 93. Dr. Packer was a founding member of the Anglican Church in North America, and helped develop the official catechism titled “To Be a Christian.” Christianity Today described Dr. Packer as one of the most famous and influential evangelical leaders of our time: “When asked late in life what his final words to the church might be, Packer replied, ‘I think I can boil it down to four words: Glorify Christ every way.’”
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LEFT-CENTER BIAS, HIGH, news website
FDA approves pooled testing for coronavirus
The Food and Drug Administration said Saturday it granted the first emergency use authorization for pooled coronavirus testing to speed up the process. The agency said pooling up to four samples at one time can help confirm whether people are infected with fewer resources, easing testing backlogs caused by a recent spike in infections. If a pooled sample comes back negative, all patients are presumed coronavirus free. If a test is positive, each sample must be individually tested to find out which was positive.
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from BBC News (UK)
Cadbury accused of 'shrinkflation' as packs get smaller
All Cadbury chocolate bars sold in multipacks will shrink by the end of 2021 to reduce their calorie count, owner Mondelez has announced. Popular treats including Crunchie, Twirl and Wispa bars will contain no more than 200 calories each when sold in a four-pack. However, the price will stay the same. Bars sold individually will not change. Chocolate fans took to Twitter to denounce the latest example of what has become known as "shrinkflation".
Nantes: Arson suspected in fire at Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul cathedral
A fire at the cathedral in the French city of Nantes is believed to have been started deliberately, prosecutors say. Three fires were started at the site and an investigation into suspected arson is under way, Prosecutor Pierre Sennes said. The blaze destroyed stained glass windows and the grand organ at the Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul cathedral, which dates from the 15th Century. It comes a year after the devastating fire at Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris. But the local fire chief said the fire in Nantes had been contained and was "not a Notre-Dame scenario".
What do Medieval carved stones and Celtic crosses in Wales symbolise?
You may not have spotted them but there are more than 500 early medieval carved stones in Wales. The majority are Christian, and range in date from the Roman withdrawal in 410 to the Norman Conquest in 1066. Most are memorials to important people of the day. But a few, such as a cross-carved stone from Marloes, Pembrokeshire, may give thanks for a successful sea crossing or in the case of the Pillar of Eliseg, Denbighshire, mark meeting places. However, what is most fascinating about them is the variety of languages used for their inscriptions, according to Prof Nancy Edwards, Chair of Commissioners for the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales (RCAHMW). "These stones show the development of language in what we now call Wales," she said.
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from CNN
A swarm of flying ants stretched for miles over the UK and looked like rain on weather radar
You can add giant swarms of flying ants to your 2020 scary-sounding insects Bingo card alongside murder hornets and hordes of noisy cicadas. The UK's Met Office shared radar imagery that showed the ants flying over the southeast part of the country. "It's not raining in London, Kent or Sussex, but our radar says otherwise," it said in a tweet on Friday.
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A Dystopian Novel That Foreshadowed Our Present Moment
Our officials lack moral strength, which is what disappeared from the world that D. Keith Mano evoked in his novel The Bridge. ... In the progressive world Mano describes, the values of the politically incorrect are anathema. Seemingly innocent activities that appeared fine until just recently are verboten.
The Revolution Is Winning
Radicals from the 1960s and 1970s now hold powerful positions in government and academia. Weather Underground terrorists, who made no secret of being anti-AmeriKKKan “small-c” communists, are having more success than they could have dreamed of in the 1960s. They are dominating the language. You know that whole “white privilege” nostrum that we’re paying universities $60K per year to drum into our children’s brains? It is derived from their lamentation of “white skin privilege.” In their ideology, the revolution to overthrow the capitalist, racist, imperialist system summoned them — lily white radicals — to abandon their privilege and embrace the armed struggle. ... The principal organizational framework for BLM is the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, run by three women: Opal Tometti, Alicia Garza, and Patrisse Cullors — the last of whom, in a 2015 interview, observed, “Myself and Alicia in particular are trained organizers. We are trained Marxists. We are super-versed on, sort of, ideological theories.
from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, HIGH, non-profit organization
The list of extinct countries includes the better known ones like the USSR (aptly dubbed “the Evil Empire” by Ronald Reagan) and Yugoslavia, as well as hundreds of largely forgotten others like Majapahit, Assyria, Babylonia, Burgundy, and the Ottoman Empire. Far more countries are long gone, in fact, than the 195 on the map today. As a history lover, I’ve never yet discovered a country whose inhabitants’ experience was devoid of interesting facts and lessons. Take Khazaria, for example. It lasted over 300 years (650 to 965 AD) and covered more territory than the combined Scandinavian nations of our time. It spanned the eastern half of modern-day Ukraine, the steppes of the Volga-Don region of present Russia, the entire Crimean Peninsula, and the northern Caucasus. Its southern portion took in most of the shorelines of three seas: the Black, the Caspian and the Aral. It’s my thesis that for a country to be “successful” for a considerable period—success being defined loosely here as economically prosperous, politically stable, and militarily defensible—it must possess substantial TTD. That’s not a pronounceable acronym, unfortunately, but it stands for trade, tolerance and decentralization.
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from National Review RIGHT BIAS
A Dystopian Novel That Foreshadowed Our Present Moment
Our officials lack moral strength, which is what disappeared from the world that D. Keith Mano evoked in his novel The Bridge. ... In the progressive world Mano describes, the values of the politically incorrect are anathema. Seemingly innocent activities that appeared fine until just recently are verboten.
The Revolution Is Winning
Radicals from the 1960s and 1970s now hold powerful positions in government and academia. Weather Underground terrorists, who made no secret of being anti-AmeriKKKan “small-c” communists, are having more success than they could have dreamed of in the 1960s. They are dominating the language. You know that whole “white privilege” nostrum that we’re paying universities $60K per year to drum into our children’s brains? It is derived from their lamentation of “white skin privilege.” In their ideology, the revolution to overthrow the capitalist, racist, imperialist system summoned them — lily white radicals — to abandon their privilege and embrace the armed struggle. ... The principal organizational framework for BLM is the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, run by three women: Opal Tometti, Alicia Garza, and Patrisse Cullors — the last of whom, in a 2015 interview, observed, “Myself and Alicia in particular are trained organizers. We are trained Marxists. We are super-versed on, sort of, ideological theories.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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Iran President Says Up to 25 Million Might Have Been Infected With COVID-19 Since Pandemic Began
Iran’s president Saturday estimated as many as 25 million Iranians could have been infected with the coronavirus since the outbreak’s beginning, and urged the public to take the pandemic seriously, the state-run IRNA news agency reported. ... Iran has seen the worst outbreak in the Middle East, with more than 270,000 confirmed cases and at least 13,979 deaths. ... In recent weeks, Iran has seen daily death tolls spike to their highest-ever levels, sparking increasing fear even as government officials say they can’t lock the country back down for fear of cratering its sanctions-hit economy. Health officials have reported 2,166 new cases and 188 deaths in the last 24 hours.
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Coronavirus updates: Global fatalities pass 600,000; virus on track to become a leading cause of worldwide deaths
The world hit yet another grim milestone on Saturday in its fight against the coronavirus pandemic as the global death tally surpassed 600,000, according to Johns Hopkins University. Of the 188 countries tracked by the university, only 17 have not yet reported a virus-related death. The United States has the highest number of fatalities and is the only country reporting more than 100,000 deaths.
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from Time Media/News Company
Iran President Says Up to 25 Million Might Have Been Infected With COVID-19 Since Pandemic Began
Iran’s president Saturday estimated as many as 25 million Iranians could have been infected with the coronavirus since the outbreak’s beginning, and urged the public to take the pandemic seriously, the state-run IRNA news agency reported. ... Iran has seen the worst outbreak in the Middle East, with more than 270,000 confirmed cases and at least 13,979 deaths. ... In recent weeks, Iran has seen daily death tolls spike to their highest-ever levels, sparking increasing fear even as government officials say they can’t lock the country back down for fear of cratering its sanctions-hit economy. Health officials have reported 2,166 new cases and 188 deaths in the last 24 hours.
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from USA Today
The world hit yet another grim milestone on Saturday in its fight against the coronavirus pandemic as the global death tally surpassed 600,000, according to Johns Hopkins University. Of the 188 countries tracked by the university, only 17 have not yet reported a virus-related death. The United States has the highest number of fatalities and is the only country reporting more than 100,000 deaths.
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