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from ABC News (& affiliates)
TV Network in New York, New York
When two full salaries, including her own as a lead nurse at a major hospital, weren't enough to get through one week in Venezuela, Karen Hurtado decided the time had come to leave her country for an uncertain -- but perhaps better -- future abroad. The thought of leaving first came when eating meat became an increasingly rare luxury, and her full salary wasn't enough to cover her son's transportation to school. Hurtado is one of more than half a million Venezuelans who have made their way to Ecuador through Colombia this year alone -- and one of many who plans to continue onward to Peru or Argentina, according to a recent report from the United Nations. "The exodus of Venezuelans from the country is one of Latin America's largest mass-population movements in history," United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees' spokesman William Spindler said.
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from Breitbart
RIGHT BIAS, MIXED, American conservative news and opinion website
Delingpole: Former Marxist Speaks Out on Death of Free Speech
Broadcaster Claire Fox, director of the Academy of Ideas, is one of James’s doughtiest comrades in the Culture Wars. Oddly, she is also a self-confessed leftist – formerly of the Marxist Revolutionary Party. But on free speech, they are in total agreement on this week’s episode of Delingpole.
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Delingpole: Former Marxist Speaks Out on Death of Free Speech
Broadcaster Claire Fox, director of the Academy of Ideas, is one of James’s doughtiest comrades in the Culture Wars. Oddly, she is also a self-confessed leftist – formerly of the Marxist Revolutionary Party. But on free speech, they are in total agreement on this week’s episode of Delingpole.
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from CNSNews.com (& MRC & NewsBusters)
RIGHT BIAS
Court Documents: ISIS Fighter Killed an Iraqi Police Officer Days After Being Approved for US Refugee Status
An Iraqi refugee arrested in California Wednesday is accused of murdering a man in Anbar province on behalf of ISIS – less than three weeks after U.S. officials in Turkey approved his application for asylum in the United States.
Court Documents: ISIS Fighter Killed an Iraqi Police Officer Days After Being Approved for US Refugee Status
An Iraqi refugee arrested in California Wednesday is accused of murdering a man in Anbar province on behalf of ISIS – less than three weeks after U.S. officials in Turkey approved his application for asylum in the United States.
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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, HIGH, non-profit organization
The FDA Thinks You Don't Know That Soy Milk Doesn't Come from Cows
After a Senate bill to make it a federal crime to use the word "milk" in labeling plant-based beverages like soy milk failed, unelected bureaucrats at the FDA have decided to legislate via regulation.
Running for Liberty in Brazil
Lawrence Reed talks with Kim Kataguiri, Marcel van Hattem, and Priscila Chammas—candidates for National Congress. Brazil is the number 1 country in the world, after the U.S., for translations and postings of FEE literature, reflecting a significant and growing interest in free-market economics in that nation of nearly 210 million people.
in Every Political Argument
Odds are good that, in any given political argument, your dispute is about relevant facts, not moral positions.
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from HumanProgress.org Education Website
Famines have all but disappeared outside of war zones. Although the human population has shot up, the area of farm and forestland [needed] to feed, heat, and house them is shrinking.
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from Intellectual Takeout
Nonprofit Organization in Bloomington, Minnesota
Both jazz and classical art forms require not only music literacy, but for the musician to be at the top of their game in technical proficiency, tonal quality and creativity in the case of the jazz idiom. Jazz masters like John Coltrane would practice six to nine hours a day, often cutting his practice only because his inner lower lip would be bleeding from the friction caused by his mouth piece against his gums and teeth. His ability to compose and create new styles and directions for jazz was legendary. With few exceptions such as Wes Montgomery or Chet Baker, if you couldn’t read music, you couldn’t play jazz. In the case of classical music, if you can’t read music you can’t play in an orchestra or symphonic band. Over the last 20 years, musical foundations like reading and composing music are disappearing with the percentage of people that can read music notation proficiently down to 11 percent, according to some surveys.
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from NBC News (& affiliates)
LEFT-CENTER BIAS
FDA approves first generic competitor to EpiPen
The Food and Drug Administration approved the first direct generic competitor to the EpiPen on Thursday, setting the stage for cheaper competition that may lower prices. The new generic, which won’t carry the EpiPen name, will be made by Israeli generic manufacturer Teva Pharmaceuticals. It was approved after the FDA issued new guidance for generic copies of products like the EpiPen, which combines a drug with a specialized device to deliver it fast when people have life-threatening allergic reactions. “This approval means patients living with severe allergies who require constant access to lifesaving epinephrine should have a lower-cost option, as well as another approved product to help protect against potential drug shortages," FDA Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb said in a statement. Alternatives to the EpiPen, sold by Mylan, already exist, and Mylan also sells an "authorized' generic copy of the product. It's simply an unbranded version of EpiPen, the FDA said.
FDA approves first generic competitor to EpiPen
The Food and Drug Administration approved the first direct generic competitor to the EpiPen on Thursday, setting the stage for cheaper competition that may lower prices. The new generic, which won’t carry the EpiPen name, will be made by Israeli generic manufacturer Teva Pharmaceuticals. It was approved after the FDA issued new guidance for generic copies of products like the EpiPen, which combines a drug with a specialized device to deliver it fast when people have life-threatening allergic reactions. “This approval means patients living with severe allergies who require constant access to lifesaving epinephrine should have a lower-cost option, as well as another approved product to help protect against potential drug shortages," FDA Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb said in a statement. Alternatives to the EpiPen, sold by Mylan, already exist, and Mylan also sells an "authorized' generic copy of the product. It's simply an unbranded version of EpiPen, the FDA said.
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from Psephizo (Blog)
What signal was given by the Ely Pride flag?
Last weekend, Ely Cathedral flew a rainbow Pride flag in order to signal support for the Ely Pride festival taking place (for the first time) over the weekend. The decision was made on the recommendation of the Dean, Mark Bonney, and the cathedral chapter voted to accept his recommendation—though this was not a decision by the diocese or the diocesan bishop, Stephen Conway, since (like local churches) cathedrals have no formal need to consult.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
As smoke blankets Northwest, National Weather Service says Washington air quality worst in the country
The air quality in Spokane and across the Northwest teetered between unhealthy and moderate most of Wednesday as smoke from local and Canadian wildfires blanketed the region. The National Weather Service’s Seattle branch tweeted early Wednesday afternoon that Washington had the worst air quality in the country, posting a graphic that showed most of the state had air quality levels at either dangerous for sensitive groups or unhealthy for everyone. The Spokane Regional Clean Air Agency predicts that the air will remain unhealthy today due to the hot weather, wildfires and wind, but conditions could improve. In Chelan and Wenatchee, the air quality Wednesday reached hazardous levels, prompting Chelan County officials to distribute masks.
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As smoke blankets Northwest, National Weather Service says Washington air quality worst in the country
The air quality in Spokane and across the Northwest teetered between unhealthy and moderate most of Wednesday as smoke from local and Canadian wildfires blanketed the region. The National Weather Service’s Seattle branch tweeted early Wednesday afternoon that Washington had the worst air quality in the country, posting a graphic that showed most of the state had air quality levels at either dangerous for sensitive groups or unhealthy for everyone. The Spokane Regional Clean Air Agency predicts that the air will remain unhealthy today due to the hot weather, wildfires and wind, but conditions could improve. In Chelan and Wenatchee, the air quality Wednesday reached hazardous levels, prompting Chelan County officials to distribute masks.
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from WND (World Net Daily)
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
Does 'Unite the Right' have leftist roots?
According to an aggregate of press and online media accounts, the original “Unite the Right” rally was a white supremacist demonstration that occurred in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Aug. 11 and 12, 2017. The organizers had ostensibly mobilized to oppose the removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee from Charlottesville’s Emancipation Park, and by extension, a campaign of the removal of other Confederate monuments throughout the South. Far-left counter-protesters claimed that the rally’s organizers were proponents of fascism and racism.
CHARLOTTESVILLE: MEDIA PROVE TRUMP RIGHT, AGAIN
The media wanted last August’s “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville to be the next “Bridge to Selma,” an iconic civil rights moment honored by the entire country every year. All week, there were excited announcements of the coming anniversary this past Sunday. Assured of fawning media coverage, thousands of leftists descended on Charlottesville and Washington, D.C., to march against nonexistent “Nazis.” But we haven’t heard so much about the anniversary since then. Last year, President Trump blamed “both sides” for the bedlam at the rally to defend Confederate statues – sending the media into a moral panic. Naturally, Trump also denounced white supremacy, for anyone who missed it the first million times he did so. But the part of his remarks that sent a shock wave through the media was this: “You had a group on one side, and you had a group on the other, and they came at each other with clubs – and it was vicious and it was horrible. And it was a horrible thing to watch. … Yes, I think there’s blame on both sides. You look at both sides – I think there’s blame on both sides. And I have no doubt about it, and you don’t have any doubt about it either.”
Couple out to disprove 'evil' killed by ISIS
A young American couple who quit their jobs and embarked on an around-the-world bicycle tour to demonstrate “evil is a make-believe concept” were killed in an ISIS-claimed terrorist attack.
Does 'Unite the Right' have leftist roots?
According to an aggregate of press and online media accounts, the original “Unite the Right” rally was a white supremacist demonstration that occurred in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Aug. 11 and 12, 2017. The organizers had ostensibly mobilized to oppose the removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee from Charlottesville’s Emancipation Park, and by extension, a campaign of the removal of other Confederate monuments throughout the South. Far-left counter-protesters claimed that the rally’s organizers were proponents of fascism and racism.
CHARLOTTESVILLE: MEDIA PROVE TRUMP RIGHT, AGAIN
The media wanted last August’s “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville to be the next “Bridge to Selma,” an iconic civil rights moment honored by the entire country every year. All week, there were excited announcements of the coming anniversary this past Sunday. Assured of fawning media coverage, thousands of leftists descended on Charlottesville and Washington, D.C., to march against nonexistent “Nazis.” But we haven’t heard so much about the anniversary since then. Last year, President Trump blamed “both sides” for the bedlam at the rally to defend Confederate statues – sending the media into a moral panic. Naturally, Trump also denounced white supremacy, for anyone who missed it the first million times he did so. But the part of his remarks that sent a shock wave through the media was this: “You had a group on one side, and you had a group on the other, and they came at each other with clubs – and it was vicious and it was horrible. And it was a horrible thing to watch. … Yes, I think there’s blame on both sides. You look at both sides – I think there’s blame on both sides. And I have no doubt about it, and you don’t have any doubt about it either.”
Couple out to disprove 'evil' killed by ISIS
A young American couple who quit their jobs and embarked on an around-the-world bicycle tour to demonstrate “evil is a make-believe concept” were killed in an ISIS-claimed terrorist attack.
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