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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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