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from BBC News (UK)
A series of sackings and appointments - with rumours of more to come - has created a sense of deep uncertainty around the US intelligence and national security community. While some outside that world have raised fears that this is part of an attempt by the president to hold on to power, many on the inside see it more as driven by a desire for personal revenge and the latest stage of a conflict that has done much to define Donald Trump's presidency. But there remain fears that the uncertainty of a divisive transition could hold real dangers.
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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, HIGH, non-profit organization
Median household incomes increased from $64,300 to $68,700 in 2018 alone—an increase of $4,400. To put it another way, US incomes increased more in 2018 than the previous 20 years combined. (Household incomes were $61,100 in 1998 and $64,300 at the end of 2017.) The question, of course, is why did US incomes suddenly explode after decades of tepid growth? The answer is not difficult to find. ... If a Biden administration rolls back Trump’s tariffs while leaving the corporate tax rate in place, the US economy could build on the gains made prior to the arrival of the lockdowns. That would be a winning formula for US workers, businesses, and the US economy.
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from HumanProgress.org
Education Website
It is no simple matter for a diverse democratic community to sustain itself despite inevitable internal conflicts.
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Magazine of The Living Church Foundation (Anglican)
BOOKS: FORGOTTEN FRIENDS
Books are not yet going out of fashion. In fact, more books are published each year than ever before. But, in the face of a very different culture of knowledge, mostly tied to the swarming and evanescent images and accessibility of the internet, books are rapidly losing their profound role in human life, especially in the Western world of the last 1700 years. The main challenge brought by the information culture is to undermine, through the values of speed and consumption, the quite specific virtues that owning and reading books have in fact provided over the centuries. They are virtues that, if they disappear — and they are disappearing even among book owners and readers today — will seriously impoverish us, our culture, and our future.
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from Orthodox Christianity – orthochristian.com
Religious Organization in Moscow, Russia
A great tragedy occurred at St. Stephen of Sourozh Monastery in Crimea over the weekend, as a fire wiped out several buildings, including the brothers’ cells.
Yesterday, Sunday, November 15, Metropolitan Ioannis of Langadas of the Greek Orthodox Church reposed in the Lord at the age of 62 due to complications from the coronavirus. The Metropolitan was hospitalized in Thessaloniki on Friday after testing positive for the virus.
A recent report by Alexander Shchipkov1 on the new encyclical of Pope Francis, Fratelli Tutti (“All Brothers”), gives an overview of this Vatican “manifesto” and draws quite unambiguous conclusions that I cannot refrain from sharing with you. This Catholicism is no longer the Catholicism which was criticized by the Holy Fathers and apologists of the past. It is not even the Catholicism that, as Dostoevsky said, had given in to all three temptations the devil used to test the Lord in the wilderness.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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