________
________
________
from BBC News (UK)
Russian President Vladimir Putin says he has formed a police reserve force to intervene in Belarus if necessary, but that point has not yet been reached. Speaking on Russian state TV, he said Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko "asked me to set up a certain police reserve" and "I have done so". "We also agreed that it won't be used until the situation gets out of control," he told Rossiya 1TV.
________
from Competitive Enterprise Institute
Opponents of nicotine vapor products like to claim the scientific high ground. For years, they have asserted there isn’t enough evidence on the long-term risks associated with e-cigarettes or their effectiveness for smoking cessation. But, even as evidence supporting the relative safety and effectiveness of e-cigarettes emerged, opponents balked. Each study was dismissed for having flaws, limitations, or authors with real or imagined conflicts of interest. They suddenly forget their commitment to high quality evidence when it comes to studies that say what opponents want to hear.
________
from Forbes
A little over a year has passed since mostly young people began appearing in U.S. hospitals, complaining of a serious and mysterious lung ailment. That means it’s been just shy of a year since U.S. regulators and public health officials started banning flavored nicotine vaporizer pods—the main policy response to the “vape-lung crisis,” the outbreak of “e-cigarette or vaping product use associated lung injury,” or “EVALI.” And not only was that exactly the wrong thing to do—once-legal products like flavored JUUL pods, banned in the wake of EVALI, have not been linked to the crisis—such bans can make vaping more dangerous, recent research from the Yale School of Public Health has found.
________
from The Heritage Foundation
RIGHT BIAS, MIXED American conservative think tank based in Washington, D.C.
RIGHT BIAS, MIXED American conservative think tank based in Washington, D.C.
It doesn't have to make sense, because "cultural revolutions are incoherent and nihilist."
________
from The Hill
LEAST BIASED, MOSTLY FACTUAL, News & Media Website in Washington, D.C.Three Democratic governors say they will not follow new CDC testing guidance
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) called the move by the health agency “indefensible” and said his state would not follow the guidance. California Gov. Gavin Newsom followed suit later Wednesday saying his state will not abide by the changes. Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (D) said the recommendations would cause his state to miss thousands of new cases and exacerbate the spread of the coronavirus.
________
from Hoover Institution
Nonprofit Organization in Stanford, California
Cleopatra Sails Again
September 2 marks 2050 years since the Battle of Actium (31 B.C.), the naval engagement that made Imperial Rome and shaped the future of western civilization. The anniversary reminds us that navies have had a massive impact on the history of the Mediterranean. That, in turn, throws a spotlight on the ominous rise in naval tensions in the region today. Greece and Turkey are locked in a dispute over fossil fuel exploration rights in the Eastern Mediterranean, both off the coast of Cyprus and elsewhere. Since the discovery not long ago of undersea gas and oil reserves in the area, the stakes have grown high. Greece and the European Union claim that Turkey is drilling illegally in the region, while Turkey asserts its rights. Each side has claimed an exclusive economic zone. In recent years, Turkey has built up an impressive navy, but Greece is no slouch at sea, and it has important allies in France and Israel as well as Egypt and the UAE. Together, they may give pause to the ambitions of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
________
from HumanProgress.org
Education Website
Our tenth Center of Progress is Tang dynasty-era Chang'an, the easternmost stop along the Silk Road, once the world's longest trade route. Many historians regard the Tang dynasty (618 to 907 CE) as a high point in Chinese civilization—a golden age of cosmopolitan culture. The Tang dynasty's capital Chang'an was among the most prosperous and populous cities in the world, with over a million inhabitants by the end of the dynasty. While many places featured as Centers of Progress owed their prosperity at least in part to robust trade, perhaps no city in the ancient world better epitomized the enriching effects of trade than Chang'an.
________
LEFT-CENTER, HIGH, Newspaper in Seattle, WA
Father of 19-year-old fatally shot in Seattle’s CHOP zone files claims seeking $3 billion in damages
The father of a 19-year-old Seattle man fatally shot in the Capitol Hill Organized Protest (CHOP) zone in June filed wrongful-death claims totaling $3 billion this week, seeking $1 billion each from the City of Seattle, King County and the state of Washington. “We are looking at this as an exemplary award,” Seattle attorney Evan M. Oshan, who is representing Horace Anderson, said Thursday of the claims he filed Wednesday. Horace Anderson is the father of Horace Lorenzo Anderson, who was shot June 20 and bled out for 20 minutes before volunteer medics transported him to Harborview Medical Center, where he died.
________
from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
________
Voting isn’t hard, but it takes effort. Most elections officials and poll workers are honest and competent. Voter suppression and voter fraud are rare. And none of those statements makes an attention-grabbing headline. Sowing seeds of distrust in our election system most recently started in 2016, when Hillary Clinton falsely claimed voter suppression cost her the election. President Trump responded with false claims of rampant voter fraud. It was irresistible catnip for pundits hyping partisan positions. And they were both wrong.
________
No comments:
Post a Comment