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from Asia Times
LEAST BIASED, HIGH; News & Media Website based in Hong Kong
Iraq seethes on edge of another social explosion
Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kazemi has a stability problem. Catapulted to power this year amid an outcry over the predecessor government’s mass killing of street protestors agitating against corruption, unemployment and poor state services, Kazemi now faces his own crisis as the nation teeters precariously on the edge of financial and economic collapse.
Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kazemi has a stability problem. Catapulted to power this year amid an outcry over the predecessor government’s mass killing of street protestors agitating against corruption, unemployment and poor state services, Kazemi now faces his own crisis as the nation teeters precariously on the edge of financial and economic collapse.
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from Competitive Enterprise Institute
The good news is that the second quarter’s GDP numbers aren’t nearly as scary as the more dramatic headlines are saying. The economy has not shrunk by a third. The bad news is that yes, we really have just experienced the worst crash in U.S. history. And it’s not over yet. This post gives some context, and some ideas for how to aid the recovery for both the virus and the economy. Several newspapers are reporting a 32.9 percent decline in GDP. This is a projection. It is not what has actually happened. If the economy were to continue shrinking for an entire year at the rate it did last quarter, GDP will have shrunk by 32.9 percent. While normalcy might be years away, that steep of a decline is unlikely to happen. 9.5 percent and 7 percent are more accurate numbers for what has happened to the economy.
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from Fox News (& affiliates)
Supreme Court denies request to halt construction of the border wall
A number of groups, including the ACLU and Sierra Club, had asked the high court to get involved
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from KXLY 4 News (ABC Spokane)
With exceptions in some areas, the COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread at a higher-than-ideal rate across the state of Washington, according to a weekly report put out by the Department of Health on Friday. According to the statewide situation report, COVID-19 transmission continues to increase overall in both parts of our state. “The burden remains at or near peak levels in most counties across the state,” the report says. “Both eastern and western Washington have reached new peaks in cases since our last report.”
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Magazine of The Living Church Foundation (Anglican)
Abraham and Sarah, Slaveholders
Abraham and Sarah were slaveholders. Eliezer and Hagar were their slaves. The following is but a brief reflection on how we have interpreted this uncomfortable fact. It offers no grand claims. But the topic is worth considering , in at a time when the nature of our collective pasts and memories has been subject to rigorous reconsideration. Abraham and Sarah’s slaveholding was biblically notorious. The divine promise of progeny is given to Abraham in the face of the unacceptable possibility of a slave taking possession of his master’s heritage (Gen. 15:2, 24:2); and rivalry over heritage and honor presses Sarah to drive her own Egyptian slave, Hagar — along with Ishmael, Hagar’s son by Abraham — into a fatal wilderness. This happens not once, but twice (Gen. 16, 21:1-21), in narratives depicting bitterness, anger, weakness, desperation, and near death. Only God’s intervention prevents these stories from ending in a brutal double murder.
Norman Rockwell’s Realism: ‘Murder in Mississippi’
Rockwell is easily the most beloved and well-known American illustrator of the 20th century. Celebrated for his charming anecdotal covers for Saturday Evening Post and other periodicals from the 1920s through the 1970s, it is no exaggeration to say that he defined key socially-shared, popular “icons” of each of these decades. His technique and wit are well known. But he had a darker, more serious mode that emerged late in his career.
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from Orthodox Christianity – orthochristian.com
Religious Organization in Moscow, Russia
On the families of the parents of holy Royal Martyrs Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra
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from The Seattle Times
LEFT-CENTER, HIGH, Newspaper in Seattle, WA
Washington has trapped its first Asian giant hornet, the first step toward what state officials hope will be the eradication of the invasive insects from the country. The hornet was found July 14 in a bottle trap set near Birch Bay in Whatcom County, and state entomologists confirmed its identity Wednesday, according to a statement on the Washington State Department of Agriculture (WSDA)’s website. This was the first hornet to be found in a trap instead of out in the wild like the state’s five previous confirmed sightings. That’s good news, said Sven Spichiger, managing entomologist for the department, because it means the traps work.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
Spokane schools unlikely to reopen buildings this fall; officials detail online learning options
The first day of classes in Spokane Public Schools this fall is looking more and more like it will occur in students’ homes, the district’s new superintendent conceded this week. “With each passing day, I am less and less optimistic that the guidance we receive will enable us to open our buildings,” Adam Swinyard told several hundred audience members during a webinar Thursday evening.
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Spokane schools unlikely to reopen buildings this fall; officials detail online learning options
The first day of classes in Spokane Public Schools this fall is looking more and more like it will occur in students’ homes, the district’s new superintendent conceded this week. “With each passing day, I am less and less optimistic that the guidance we receive will enable us to open our buildings,” Adam Swinyard told several hundred audience members during a webinar Thursday evening.
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