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from BBC News (UK)
PM suggests York as Parliament's temporary home
Boris Johnson has suggested Parliament could move to York while the Palace of Westminster undergoes renovation. In a letter, the prime minister said the government was considering establishing a hub in the northern city and "it would therefore make sense to consider this as a potential location". Plans to move MPs out of Westminster are being reviewed due to the impact of coronavirus on public finances.
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from Catholic News Agency
German archdiocese plans to cut parishes from 1,000 to 40
A German archdiocese is pressing ahead with plans to dramatically reduce the number of its parishes despite the Vatican’s decision to block a similar plan in another diocese. CNA Deutsch, CNA’s German language news partner, reported July 15 that Archbishop Stephan Burger intends to turn the archdiocese’s 1,000 parishes into 40 mega parishes.
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A German archdiocese is pressing ahead with plans to dramatically reduce the number of its parishes despite the Vatican’s decision to block a similar plan in another diocese. CNA Deutsch, CNA’s German language news partner, reported July 15 that Archbishop Stephan Burger intends to turn the archdiocese’s 1,000 parishes into 40 mega parishes.
from Forbes856
What Does Disappearing Immunity To Covid-19 Mean For A Vaccine?
The first results of Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine trials were officially published Tuesday and the news was good—patients injected with the mRNA-based vaccine produced antibodies that fight the Covid-19 virus. Just how good is this good news? That depends on whether or not you accept the fundamental assumption underlying this generation of Covid-19 vaccines as fact. To proclaim these trials a success is to take for granted that exposing people to viral proteins will trigger a vigorous, long-lasting immune response. But studies of the molecular biology of SARS-CoV-2, along with the natural history of the coronavirus family, may offer evidence to the contrary.
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from Fox News (& affiliates)
DHS accuses Portland officials of enabling ‘mob,’ posts timeline of damage by ‘violent anarchists’
Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf on Thursday accused Portland politicians of enabling the “mob” of protesters who have besieged the city for more than six weeks -- and posted a lengthy timeline of the damage caused by “violent anarchists.” “The city of Portland has been under siege for 47 straight days by a violent mob while local political leaders refuse to restore order to protect their city,” Wolf said in a statement. “Each night, lawless anarchists destroy and desecrate property, including the federal courthouse, and attack the brave law enforcement officers protecting it.”
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from The Living Churchfrom HumanProgress.org
Education Website
Our seventh Center of Progress is Athens during the Classical era (the 5th and 4th centuries BCE) in general and particularly the golden age of peace and cultural flourishing between the end of the Persian Wars and the start of the Peloponnesian War (449 BCE to 431 BCE). The city-state of Athens greatly valued intellectual pursuits and open inquiry, leading to the development of “philosophy” meaning the love of wisdom. Athenian philosophy encompassed natural philosophy (i.e., an attempt to understand the natural world), as well as moral philosophy or ethics, metaphysics or theories about the fundamental nature of existence, and political philosophy. Athens was also the world’s first (if restricted) democracy, and has been nicknamed “the cradle of Western civilization.”
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from The Independent
LEFT BIAS, Media/News Company in London, UK
Coronavirus: Fishermen test positive despite spending 35 days at sea and testing negative before they left
Argentinian health officials are scrambling to understand how nearly every crew member of a ship which spent 35 days at sea were found to have contracted coronavirus upon returning to land. All 61 sailors aboard the trawler, Echizen Maru, tested negative for the virus upon departure from Buenos Aires in late May.
Coronavirus: Fishermen test positive despite spending 35 days at sea and testing negative before they left
Argentinian health officials are scrambling to understand how nearly every crew member of a ship which spent 35 days at sea were found to have contracted coronavirus upon returning to land. All 61 sailors aboard the trawler, Echizen Maru, tested negative for the virus upon departure from Buenos Aires in late May.
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Magazine of The Living Church Foundation (Anglican)
THROWBACK THURSDAY: COMBATING RACISM IN BRITAIN IN 1983
By Graham Kings: In preparing for our retirement move to Cambridge later this summer, I rediscovered a paper I had written 37 years ago. I prepared it for a workshop which I was leading on “Combating Racism in Britain” for the “Eclectics” conference of 1983. This group of evangelical Anglican clergy, under the age of 40, was founded originally by John Stott. In the light of Black Lives Matter, I shared it for discussion with various friends and family in London. My daughter’s friend said, “I was born in that year. Nothing has changed in my lifetime. Please type it up again and get it published. Then I can share it with my church.”
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RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, MIXED
STILL SEARCHING FOR THAT V-SHAPED RECOVERY
New tax revenue data released by the Treasury Department on Monday shows that tax revenue further worsened in June (compared year over year) from May's already cratering total. On the plus side, neither May nor June has returned to April's historic plunge in revenue. As shown in June's Monthly Treasury Statement, June's total tax receipts were $240.8 billion. That was down 27.8 percent year over year, a decline from May's year-over-year drop of 25 percent. This was nonetheless less of a plunge than April's multidecade low in revenue growth, which hit –54.8 percent.
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from New York Post
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, MIXED, Newspaper in New York
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, MIXED, Newspaper in New York
Critical race theory — the far-left academic discourse centered on the concepts of “whiteness,” “white fragility” and “white privilege” — is coursing through the federal government’s veins. Under a GOP administration, no less.
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from The North American Anglican
Media/News Company: "A journal of orthodox theology in the Anglican tradition"
THE BITE.
A poem by Drew Keane
The bite. That one bite. That defiant crunch —
“Oh God!” She begg’d as knowledge ravish’d her.
That old cliché that ignorance is bliss
Was in this act conceiv’d, but none can know —
Not really — know how knowledge felt at first
To pure primeval innocence of mind. ...
A poem by Drew Keane
The bite. That one bite. That defiant crunch —
“Oh God!” She begg’d as knowledge ravish’d her.
That old cliché that ignorance is bliss
Was in this act conceiv’d, but none can know —
Not really — know how knowledge felt at first
To pure primeval innocence of mind. ...
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from The Oregonian - oregonlive.com
Newspaper in Portland, OR
Up to 100 gallons of turbine oil spilled from the Bonneville Dam into the Columbia River over the last week, according to an environmental advocacy group. Between July 6 and 14, between 70 and 100 gallons of oil spilled into the river from a faulty turbine, Columbia Riverkeeper said in a statement. The turbine thought to be the source of the spill was shut down, and an investigation is ongoing, said Lauren Goldberg, legal and program director for the group.
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from Slate
LEFT BIAS; HIGH
The Supreme Court all but guaranteed that nearly 1 million Floridians will be unable to vote in the 2020 election because of unpaid court debts in a shattering order handed down on Thursday. Its decision will throw Florida’s voter registration into chaos, placing a huge number of would-be voters in legal limbo and even opening them up to prosecution for casting a ballot. The justices have effectively permitted Florida Republicans to impose a poll tax in November. Florida’s ex-felons have a right to vote under both the state and federal constitutions. In 2018, a supermajority of residents approved a constitutional amendment that abolished a Jim Crow–era law permanently disenfranchising convicted felons. GOP lawmakers promptly sabotaged this amendment by passing a law that compelled formerly incarcerated people to pay all fines and fees associated with their sentence. Florida imposes a mind-boggling array of fees on defendants to fund its criminal justice system, and the new law would disenfranchise almost a million of the roughly 1.4 million voters who were poised to regain their voting rights.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
4 candidates vie for Spokane Valley seat previously held by Matt Shea for 12 years
Three Republicans and one Democrat are vying for a Spokane Valley legislative seat held by controversial Republican state Rep. Matt Shea, who opted not to run for re-election. The most well-known is incumbent state Rep. Bob McCaslin, who holds state House position 2 but opted to run for Shea’s seat, position 1, in this election. He did not respond to repeated interview requests. The other Republicans in the field are Mike Conrad, the CEO for the Savory Butcher, an online meat company, and Mt. Spokane High School teacher Dave Whitehead.
Veteran Kreidler faces two newcomers
By Jim Camden: When Washington voters pare down the field of insurance commissioner candidates in the Aug. 4 primary, they will have three very different options from which to choose. An incumbent seeking a sixth term in the statewide position or two insurance agents who are making their first runs for political office.
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4 candidates vie for Spokane Valley seat previously held by Matt Shea for 12 years
Three Republicans and one Democrat are vying for a Spokane Valley legislative seat held by controversial Republican state Rep. Matt Shea, who opted not to run for re-election. The most well-known is incumbent state Rep. Bob McCaslin, who holds state House position 2 but opted to run for Shea’s seat, position 1, in this election. He did not respond to repeated interview requests. The other Republicans in the field are Mike Conrad, the CEO for the Savory Butcher, an online meat company, and Mt. Spokane High School teacher Dave Whitehead.
Veteran Kreidler faces two newcomers
By Jim Camden: When Washington voters pare down the field of insurance commissioner candidates in the Aug. 4 primary, they will have three very different options from which to choose. An incumbent seeking a sixth term in the statewide position or two insurance agents who are making their first runs for political office.
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from We the Governed
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