In the news, Saturday, June 23, 2018

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from Asia Times Online

Europe’s left turns right on immigration
Faced with a sustained influx of refugees and migrants, primarily from the Middle East and Africa, European voters have transformed a series of recent elections into popular referenda on immigration. Right-wing populist movements have skillfully played on blue-collar voters’ fears by convincing them that traditional labor parties will allow immigrants to flow in virtually unchecked.

World Bank shrugs off responsibility for hydro project in Laos
The US$1.3 billion worth hydropower project in Laos led to the involuntary resettlement of 6,200 indigenous people, and to widespread impacts on downstream communities.

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from LifeZette (& PoliZette)

Media/News Company in Washington, D. C.

‘Everyone Who Recognizes Me Before Men, I Will Recognize Before My Father in Heaven’
To deal squarely with those who persecute Christians for their faith, recall how St. Francis of Assissi quoted the Lord.

Five Really Bad Reactions by Liberals to the Border Crisis
Some people actually suggested 'all white American parents' should put their kids in cages and leave them there for a time.

11 Members of MS-13 Are Accused in Murders of Two Teens
Ten of the 11 individuals are here illegally — and they face life in prison after being charged in the kidnappings and deaths of two teens whose bodies were dug up in a Virginia park last year.

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from The Spokesman-Review

Newspaper in Spokane, Washington

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In the news, Friday, June 22, 2018

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from Aeon

Media/News Company

Philosophy shrugged: ignoring Ayn Rand won’t make her go away
Philosophers love to hate Ayn Rand. It’s trendy to scoff at any mention of her. One philosopher told me that: ‘No one needs to be exposed to that monster.’ Many propose that she’s not a philosopher at all and should not be taken seriously. The problem is that people are taking her seriously. In some cases, very seriously.

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from The Guardian (UK)

LEFT-CENTER BIAS, HIGH, daily newspaper

Are Church of England’s dabbing deacons and jumping bishops a leap too far?
As Petertide approaches – the run-up to St Peter’s Day on 29 June, and traditionally the time for Church of England ordinations – the Church Times and social media circles of the devout are braced for the usual avalanche of celebratory photographs of new members of the clergy. But the stern, decorous images that used to mark these occasions are being replaced by a trend for more frivolous action shots – with dabbing deacons showing up alongside priests leaping, baring their knees and even wearing L-plates. Their defenders see the new informality as a sign of holy joy. But hardcore traditionalists, along with casual curmudgeons, are less than elated.

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from HumanProgress.org

Education Website

Middle East Shows Free Exchange Is Old as Civilization

The Middle East has a very long history of enterprise. The first entrepreneurs, enterprises, early banks and financial speculators had already emerged 4,000 years ago in ancient Babylonia and Assyria – in the countries known today as Iraq and Syria. Over time, a large number of clay tablets from these civilizations have been found and deciphered. Many of these clay tablets are receipts of economic transactions, and they paint a clear picture: Middle Eastern civilizations prospered and fostered human progress because they were largely market-driven. Surviving accounts even tell us how the market prices in ancient Babylon fluctuated from month to month, and even week to week.

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from LiveScience

Summer Could Trigger Major Earthquakes (It's Not Why You Think)
On Aug. 24, 2014, an earthquake ripped through Northern California's Napa-Sonoma Valley. It was the largest in the San Francisco Bay Area in 25 years, leaving two dead and hundreds injured and causing damage that cost half a billion dollars.

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from Miami Herald

Leonard Pitts Jr.: His crime was horrendous, but so was the reason jurors sentenced him to death. He’s gay.

So it looks like Charles Rhines is going to executed — and it’s probably because he’s gay. Well, not only that. There’s also the matter of his committing an especially heinous murder in 1992. Rhines, caught burglarizing a doughnut shop in Rapid City, South Dakota by an employee named Donnivan Schaeffer, stabbed the 22-year old in the abdomen and back. Then, as Schaeffer pleaded for his life, Rhines thrust the blade into the base of his skull. Point being that this guy is no hero or martyr. He is undeserving of pity. That said, the circumstances of his case — more specifically, his sentencing — ought to concern anyone who believes in equal justice under the law. It seems that, in deciding what sentence to impose — death or life without parole — jurors worried that, as a gay man, Rhines might enjoy prison. They thought condemning him to that all-male environment would be like the old folk tale about Br’er Rabbit tricking Br’er Fox into throwing him into the briar patch where he wanted to be all along.

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from Orthodox Christianity

Religious Organization in Moscow, Russia

EXHIBITION ON ROYAL MARTYRS TO OPEN IN NEW ZEALAND
A photo exhibition dedicated to the holy Royal Martyrs, “The Family of the Last Russian Emperor. The Romanovs: Imperial Service,” will be on display in the Vicktoria Park Market shopping center in Auckland, New Zealand from July 14-21.

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from Phys.org

Research team uncovers lost images from the 19th century
Art curators will be able to recover images on daguerreotypes, the earliest form of photography that used silver plates, after a team of scientists led by Western University learned how to use light to see through degradation that has occurred over time.

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from The Spokesman-Review

Newspaper in Spokane, Washington

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from Think Progress

[Information from this site may not be reliable.]

Meet the favorite philosophers of young white supremacists
A new book explores how philosophers like Nietzsche and Heidegger have inspired a new generation of fascists.

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In the news, Thursday, June 21, 2018

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from Commentary

Magazine in New York, New York

Social Justice vs. Human Nature
Last Friday, the New York Times revealed that a lawsuit targeting Harvard University claims the school has systematically discriminated against minorities. That is, one particular minority. The school, it was alleged, has handicapped Asian-American students. Otherwise, they’d have to accept too many qualified Asian-Americans. For a peculiar type of activist for social equality, this was the good kind of prejudice–the kind that privileges accidents of birth over individual merit and achievement. Or, in the soft, docile Newspeak that suffices to comfort the enlightened elites charged with keeping the deserving down: “racial balancing.”

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from Competitive Enterprise Institute

CEI on Supreme Court's Wayfair Ruling That Will Devastate Small Online Businesses and Consumers
The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling today in South Dakota v. Wayfair cuts against the longstanding American ideal of “no taxation without representation.” This ruling will devastate many small online businesses, likely result in a tax hike on Americans who buy online, and leave us with fewer choices and less money in our pockets.

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from Daily Mail (UK)

RIGHT BIAS, MIXED, British tabloid newspaper

EXCLUSIVE: 'They're together and safe': Father of Honduran two-year-old who became the face of family separation crisis reveals daughter was never separated from her mother, but the image of her in tears at U.S. border control ‘broke his heart’

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from First Things

“DIVERSITY” AND DISCRIMINATION AT HARVARD
In November 2014, the activist organization Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) brought suit against Harvard College for its undergraduate admissions policies, claiming that this most elite of American colleges was discriminating against Asian-Americans. The case will likely go to trial in federal court in early 2019. Along the way, the lawsuit has squeezed out confidential details regarding Harvard’s admissions process, with its differential impacts on students of different races.

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from LifeZette (& PoliZette)

Media/News Company in Washington, D. C.

Returning to ‘Abstinence’ Sex Education in Schools Is Critical
A mom, physician and educator shares the need to protect the 'hearts, minds and bodies' of our kids — and to teach dignity.

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from The Spokesman-Review

Newspaper in Spokane, Washington

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from Sputnik

RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, MIXED, Broadcasting & Media Production Company out of Moscow, Russia

Immigration: Crime Rates in EU Are Going Up - Analyst
A fresh poll by a sociological institute for Die Welt newspaper says over 70% of German citizens doubt that Angela Merkel can find a solution to the migration issue within two weeks. That deadline was given by the CSU party on June 18 to mitigate the migration policy dispute.

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from True Pundit

CONSPIRACY-PSEUDOSCIENCE, MIXED, Media/News Company in Philadelphia, PA

BUSTED: Sen. John McCain’s Top Aide Coached the IRS and Lois Lerner on How to Harass & “Ruin” Conservative Groups

Judicial Watch today released newly obtained internal IRS documents, including material revealing that Sen. John McCain’s former staff director and chief counsel on the Senate Homeland Security Permanent Subcommittee, Henry Kerner, urged top IRS officials, including then-director of exempt organizations Lois Lerner, to “audit so many that it becomes financially ruinous.” Kerner was appointed by President Trump as Special Counsel for the United States Office of Special Counsel.

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In the news, Wednesday, June 20, 2018

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from Conciliar Post

THE SHEEP AND THE GOATS

[This is an adaptation of Matthew 25:31-46]: When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his glorious throne. All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left. Then the King will say to those on his right, “Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. For I was devalued and you affirmed my dignity, I was in prison and you insisted on my freedom, I was animalized and you called me ‘human’, I was declared illegal and you called me a person, I was fleeing oppression and you invited me in. ...” 

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from EUobserver
Media/News Company in Brussels, Belgium

How to get around the EU posted workers directive
Some EU careworkers in Belgium receive around €400 a month - despite their carers paying €2,500 a month and paying for flights and accommodation. The answer lies in how firms can skirt the safeguards in the EU's posted workers directive.

EU needs comprehensive 'sexuality education'
The subject is mandatory by law in some form in nearly all EU countries - but it is mostly reproduction- and biology-centred, covering topics such as unwanted pregnancy and sexually-transmitted infections.

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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)

RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, HIGH, non-profit organization

The US Drug War Started 47 Years Ago. Some Commentary from Milton Friedman on That Failed and Shameful War
June 17 marked the 47th anniversary of America’s War on Drugs Otherwise Peaceful Americans Who Voluntarily Choose To Ingest or Sell Intoxicants Currently Proscribed by the Government, Which Will Put Users or Sellers in Cages if Caught. To bring awareness to this immoral, failed, costly, and shameful war on the American people, here’s some commentary below from Nobel economist Milton Friedman.

The US Tax Code Punishes Entrepreneurship
Though the recent tax reforms have helped a little, the US needs to become more competitive on the global stage.

Why a State Typically Promotes Its Own Official Language
When a national subject—call him a citizen if you wish—speaks one or many foreign languages and especially a lingua franca like English is today, he gains an improved ability to move to other countries if he wants to escape obligations or prohibitions that his own government imposes on him. The cost of exit is lower. If, on the contrary, he speaks only his own state’s official language and it is not the lingua franca, the cost of exit is higher; the national state thus gains a powerful means of keeping its clientele captive. Language is a sort of invisible Berlin Wall enhancing the national state’s capacity to levy taxes and mold society as it wishes. Hence, we would expect national states—or regional quasi-states such as Québec—to promote their languages at the expense of other languages.

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from Psephizo  (Blog)

Who really wrote the Qur’an?
The debate about eating Iftar meals last week highlights the need for a better understanding of Islam amongst many Christians. Here, Will Jones explores one important area of misunderstanding. Who wrote the Qur’an? You may think the answer to this is obvious: Muhammad wrote the Qur’an. And the crucial difference between Muslims and non-Muslims is whether they believe he was inspired by God to do it. But if you did give that answer, you’d be completely wrong.

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from The Spokesman-Review

Newspaper in Spokane, Washington

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from Forbes

Obama cyber chief confirms 'stand down' order against Russian cyberattacks in summer 2016

The Obama White House’s chief cyber official testified Wednesday that proposals he was developing to counter Russia’s attack on the U.S. presidential election were put on a “back burner” after he was ordered to “stand down” his efforts in the summer of 2016. The comments by Michael Daniel, who served as White House “cyber security coordinator” between 2012 and January of last year, provided his first public confirmation of a much-discussed passage in the book, “Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin’s War on America and the Election of Donald Trump,” co-written by this reporter and David Corn, that detailed his thwarted efforts to respond to the Russian attack.

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from Sputnik

RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, MIXED, Broadcasting & Media Production Company out of Moscow, Russia

Trump Signs Executive Order on Immigration to End Separation of Parents and Kids
US President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday that he claims will end the highly-criticized practice of separating families at the border who are trying to enter the country illegally. Pictures of the immigrant detainment facilities have drawn comparisons to concentration camps and internment camps.

Canadian Prime Minister Says Marijuana Will Be Legal Nationwide Starting October
On Wednesday, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that marijuana will become legal nationwide starting October 17. Canada’s Senate passed the federal government’s bill to legalize marijuana nationwide Tuesday.

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In the news, Tuesday, June 19, 2018

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from Asia Times Online

A neocon Senate coup against Trump’s foreign policy?
The US president's opponents in the the upper chamber aim to overturn his carefully constructed compromise with Beijing over the Chinese telecom giant ZTE

Biggest foreign investor exodus from Asia since 2008
$19 billion has been withdrawn from from India, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, South Korea and Taiwan since January

Cryptocurrencies are essentially worthless, claims report
The Swiss-based Bank for International Settlements says Bitcoin and similar fintech projects are merely Ponzi schemes

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from Conciliar Post

LOVE THY (ILLEGAL) NEIGHBOR

Last time, I covered approaching the topic of illegal immigration (specifically the recent surge of unaccompanied minors across the U.S.-Mexico border) with compassion rather than fear. Today I will discuss turning that compassion into action and what that looks like on a local level.

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from First Things

TAKING ON THE BIG-MONEY LEFT
Religious conservatives have no organizations to rival those of the Left in money and power—but we do have on our side the truth of our beliefs and the laws of nature and of nature’s God. We just need to articulate them forthrightly in the public square.

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from Gizmodo

The End of All That's Good and Pure About the Internet
Public Service Announcement : if this law passes the European Parliament next month, we will have to BLOCK all 28 EU countries, or cease operation altogether, as will many others. Europeans, contact your MEPs and urge them to vote against this dumb law. Nearly everyone who knows anything about the internet, including the people who built it, are opposed to it.

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from Intellectual Takeout

Nonprofit Organization in Bloomington, Minnesota

Pew: 3 in 4 Americans Have Trouble Discerning Between Fact and Opinion
A few years ago, the ACT released a study showing that K-12 teachers and college instructors believe discerning between fact and opinion is one of the most important things students can learn. Unfortunately, less than 20 percent of first-year college students are able to tell the difference between these two items. As it turns out, discerning between fact and opinion doesn’t appear to be the sole problem of millennials. According to a recent Pew report, other Americans struggle with this task as well. Pew explains: “A new Pew Research Center survey of 5,035 U.S. adults examines a basic step in that process: whether members of the public can recognize news as factual – something that’s capable of being proved or disproved by objective evidence – or as an opinion that reflects the beliefs and values of whoever expressed it.”

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from LifeZette (& PoliZette)

Media/News Company in Washington, D. C.

Gowdy Shreds IG’s Reasons for Ignoring ‘Textbook’ Bias
Oversight committee chairman leads penetrating critique of watchdog's rationale for saying FBI partiality kept Clinton out of jail

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from Miami Herald

Leonard Pitts Jr.: They look so much like ‘real’ children that even Republicans are appalled — some of them, anyway

Illegals” have faces. This is what Republicans are learning to their chagrin amid mounting international outrage over the new policy of separating immigrant children from their families at our southern border. For years, the party has pretended otherwise. It has denied undocumented immigrants their personhood, casting them instead as an abstract threat — rape! gangs! murder! — against anyone who makes the mistake of compassion. Now reality is blasting through that xenophobic fiction like a comet through a sandcastle. The president lies about whose fault the policy is because he has no honor. The secretary of Homeland Security defends it because she has no shame. The attorney general uses scripture to justify it because he has no soul. But none of it is a match for the agonized cries and anguished faces of little kids being torn from their families — by us. The sounds and sights are so painful, even Republicans are turning away.

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from The Spokesman-Review

Newspaper in Spokane, Washington

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from Sputnik

RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, MIXED, Broadcasting & Media Production Company out of Moscow, Russia

Russian Embassy in DC Slams US Demands to Release People Convicted of Terrorism
The United States has no "moral right" to demand from Russia a release of people convicted of terrorism, taking into account the fact Washington has been conducting continuing "hunt" for the Russians in third countries, the Russian Embassy in the United States said on Tuesday.

Palestinian Migrant Who Attacked Jews in Berlin Over Kippas Faces Court
A young man is on trial in Germany after a video filmed back in April emerged on the web showing him attacking people wearing kippas — traditional Jewish skullcaps – in the middle of Berlin.

2,192 Days of Confinement: Assange's 6 Years in Ecuadorian Embassy in Numbers
June 19 marks six years since the founder of WikiLeaks entered the building of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. He hasn't stepped foot outside it since.

Trump's Approval Rating Hits Record High - Poll
US President Donald Trump's approval rating hit record high level of 45 percent during his presidency, a new Gallup Poll revealed on Tuesday.

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In the news, Monday, June 18, 2018

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from Angelus News
Publisher in Los Angeles, California

Embracing the 'Scandal of Redemption'
Every once in a while a book comes along that reawakens our excitement in the Gospel. For me, that book was The Long Loneliness by Dorothy Day. Her life story showed me an authentic Catholic life that I hadn’t experienced before. It was a life filled with sacrificial love, otherworldly compassion, and an authentic grittiness that set me back on fire for the faith. When I finished Day’s autobiography, I felt compelled to action. After reading about her life, it seemed impossible for me to go on living the same way I had lived prior to picking up the book. I wanted more. ... I took to social media to get some ideas for my next read and was encouraged to pick up another book that would come to change my life, The Violence of Love by Blessed Oscar Romero. This book, a collection of various homilies from the soon-to-be saint and Archbishop of San Salvador, blew my doors off.

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from Center for a New American Security - CNAS  Nonprofit Organization in Washington, D.C

More Than Burden Sharing

Five Objectives for the 2018 NATO Summit
In early-July, NATO will host the first full-length summit at its new headquarters in Brussels. It will also be the first NATO summit for President Donald Trump’s foreign-policy team. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has laid out the following goals for the summit: to further strengthen the transatlantic bond, to build on NATO’s work with partner nations to fight terrorism, to strengthen NATO’s Black Sea presence, and to step up efforts against cyberattacks and hybrid threats. 

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from Conservative Intelligence Briefing

Food Stamp Use Declining Due to Fraud Crackdown, Healthier Economy
An unnamed official who works for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which oversees the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (commonly referred to as SNAP), told the outlet that enrollment in the program is declining and almost 9 million will leave the program in the next decade. Currently, almost 40 million Americans receive SNAP benefits, so this would be a sizable shift downwards.

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from Independent Sentinel
RIGHT BIAS

The Truth About Family Separation at the Border
The detention of illegal child immigrants is nothing new. It has happened since 2006. The difference now is the media only cares because Trump is President. The media is manipulating Americans.

80k Migrants Head for Europe as Merkel Fights to Survive
There are currently about 80,000 Muslim migrants enroute to Western Europe, The New York Times is reporting. “Countries along a new Balkan migrant route pledged on Thursday to work together to prevent a repetition of the 2015 influx that brought over a million ‘refugees’ into Europe from North Africa and the Middle East. Security and police officials from the region met in Bosnia to discuss their response to growing traffic along a new smuggling route from Greece through Albania, Montenegro and Bosnia to Croatia and western Europe.

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from The Spokesman-Review

Newspaper in Spokane, Washington

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In the news, Sunday, June 17, 2018

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from Competitive Enterprise Institute

Solar 'Incentives' Are Busting Out All Over
Ever wonder why installations of household solar photovoltaic (PV) systems and utility-scale solar power have surged since 2014? The declining cost of solar technology is part of the reason. But a bigger factor may be the profusion of state and federal “incentive” programs, i.e. subsidies.

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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)

RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, HIGH, non-profit organization

Trump’s Zero-Tariff Proposal: Throwaway Line or Serious Offer?
It’s good news that Trump floated a zero-trade-barrier offer, but I’m not holding my breath it will ever happen.

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from Hot Air

The Tipping Wars Come To DC
This year, voters in the District of Columbia will be asked to decide the fate of a proposal called Initiative 77. This bill would phase out wages for restaurant and bar industry servers which are below minimum wage. The change would take place over seven years, with all servers earning a $15 per hour minimum wage by 2025. Of course, if you ask most of those workers, it will also phase out their tips as customers have to pay more for food and drinks while learning that the servers are no longer earning below scale. The unions are pushing mightily to pass this measure but they’re getting surprisingly little support from the actual workers it’s supposed to benefit.

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from Rorate Caeli

International Traditional Catholic Web Log

The Traditional Mass: It's not about politics -- it's about Truth and Beauty
Commonweal is a journal known, at least since the age of the last Council, for its extreme liberal positions. So it was not without considerable surprise that this past week readers witnessed the journal publish a text favorable to the Latin Mass: it is a personal account of the author's discovery of the Latin Mass.

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from The Spokesman-Review

Newspaper in Spokane, Washington

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from Sputnik

RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, MIXED, Broadcasting & Media Production Company out of Moscow, Russia

Real Reason Iraq's 35th Mechanized Brigade Swapped Abrams Tanks for T-90s
The 35th Brigade of the Iraqi Army's 9th Armored Division has replaced its M1A1M Abrams main battle tanks with Russian T-90s. The US media have claimed that the decision was the result of Pentagon concerns about the Abrams falling into the hands of Iranian-backed militias. However, Russian observers say the T-90 is simply a better tank for Iraq.

Beijing Has Not Yet Deployed 'King Card' in Trade Spat With US – China Analyst
President Trump has announced a 25% tariff on $50 billion worth of Chinese goods, with the measures set to go into effect next month. The move prompted an immediate proportional response from Beijing. Speaking to Sputnik, China-US relations expert Yun Sun explained what would have to take place for China and the US to become mired in a trade war.

Top 5 Mysterious Military Bases (PHOTO)
Secret military installations housing terrible secrets and powerful superweapons have long been the staple of action movies, spy thrillers and videogames. And while such “secrets” and “superweapons” usually reside in the realm of fiction, there are a number of mysterious military installations around the world.

Dozens Detained in Istanbul Over Suspected Links to Daesh - Reports
At least 30 foreign nationals were detained in the Turkish largest city of Istanbul over suspected links to the Islamic State terror group, (Daesh)*, local media reported. Turkish security units conducted simultaneous counterterrorism raids in seven districts of the largest city of the country to detain people, who were suspected of plotting terrorist attacks, the Anadolu news agency reported Saturday citing a police source.

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from The Washington Free Beacon

Website in Arlington, Virginia

After Three Decades Couple Prevails over Union
When David and Shirley Pirlott filed a federal labor complaint against Teamsters Local 75 on Nov. 8, 1989, the day before the Berlin Wall fell, they did not imagine they would have to wait 30 years to resolve the dispute. The Pirlotts were finally vindicated in March 2018 when the Wisconsin-based Teamsters local mailed them separate checks of about $3,000 for failing to allow them to opt out of union dues.

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from The Washington Times

News & Media Website in Washington, D.C.

'Alt-right' reeling after string of setbacks
Led from a courtroom in handcuffs Tuesday, one of the nation’s most recognizable white nationalists will have 38 days behind bars to ponder the dizzying demise of the group he led before his arrest exposed a bizarre sex scandal. Matthew Heimbach’s jail sentence for a probation violation is just the latest setback for the “alt-right” fringe movement that appears to be reeling after becoming emboldened and energized by Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and election.

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In the news, Saturday, June 16, 2018

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from Asia Times Online

Trade war looms as Trump announces China tariffs
Beijing poised to retaliate after US issues initial list of over 800 affected imports. US President Donald Trump announced on Friday a 25% tariff on $50bn of imports from China, escalating a trade row with the Asian powerhouse just a day after Beijing warned Washington that it was preparing to retaliate. Defending the decision, Trump said the US’s trade relationship with China was “no longer sustainable.” Beijing responded to the move by saying that it intends to impose similar tariffs on US imports, raising the specter of a full-blown trade war between the two economic giants.

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from LifeZette (& PoliZette)

Media/News Company in Washington, D. C.

The Political Money That’s Keeping the D.C. Swamp Full
The maverick Republican from North Carolina, Rep. Walter Jones, believes the influence of special-interest money in politics stops lawmakers from debating critical issues and draining the Washington swamp.

California Breakup Plan ‘Dead on Arrival,’ Says GOP Leader
Californians will vote this fall on a proposal to split itself into three states, but a Republican Party leader in the Golden State dismissed the idea Friday. “It’s dead on arrival, but it does spark some interesting conversations about what’s wrong with California, what’s wrong here with the big cities that are very liberal here in California,” Republican National Committeewoman Harmeet Dhillon said Friday night Fox News’ “The Ingraham Angle.”

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from PJ Media

News & Media Website

The Deep State Is an Organism, Not a Conspiracy

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from The Spokesman-Review

Newspaper in Spokane, Washington

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from Sputnik

RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, MIXED, Broadcasting & Media Production Company out of Moscow, Russia

Belgium Receives 60 Reports on Potential Terrorists Daily - Media
The Belgian Coordination Unit for Threat Analysis, operating under the authority of the Federal Public Service Interior, started receiving about 60 reports daily from citizens about individuals who pose a potential terrorist threat after the deadly knife and shooting attack in the city of Liege, De Morgen reported Saturday.

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from Tri-City Herald

Newspaper in Kennewick, Washington

Just north of Richland is one of state's most endangered historic places
A building made of Columbia River cobble stones, surrounded by a fence topped with barbed wire, has been named one of Washington state's most endangered historic places. The long warehouse along the Columbia River north of Richland was once owned by Paul and Mary Bruggemann, one of the most successful farming families in the region, according to the Washington Trust for Historic Preservation. But in 1943 the family was given 30 days to leave the land Paul had purchased in 1937. They were told the government needed it for a secret World War II project.

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