In the news, Friday, June 28, 2019

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from Asia Times

LEAST BIASED, HIGH;  News & Media Website based in Hong Kong

Canada moves to ban ‘inhumane’ shark fin trade
But critics say ban is largely insignificant and will do little to save the ocean’s endangered shark population.

Trade war hangs over the G20
All the early statements and gossip in Osaka revolve around the year-long China-US dispute

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from The Hill

News & Media Website in Washington, D.C.

Las Vegas allows drivers to pay parking fines by donating school supplies
The city of Las Vegas is allowing drivers to pay their parking tickets with school supply donations in place of cash. Earlier this month, the city council members unanimously voted to greenlight the program, which applies to parking tickets issued from June 19 to July 19.

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from Hoover Institution

Nonprofit Organization in Stanford, California

The 100th Anniversary Of The Treaty Of Versailles
Today the world celebrates one of the final centenarian milestones of the Great War, the signing by the victorious Allied Powers and defeated Germany of the Treaty of Versailles, which brought to an end the First World War. Although U.S. President Woodrow Wilson had hoped to conclude a peace based on his “14 Points” speech to Congress delivered on January 8, 1918, the blood debt incurred by the allies made such an idealistic peace impossible. Allied politicians had to justify to their constituencies the slaughter of a generation of young men in the trenches. One way to do this, in their eyes, was to ensure German militarism would never rise again.

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from HumanProgress.org  Education Website

Heroes of Progress, Pt. 21: Alfred Sommer
Introducing the scientist who saved tens of millions of people from blindness and more than twelve million children from an early death.

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from Liberty Nation
[Information from this site may be unreliable.]

Democratic Debate Awards: Picking Through The Rubble
About this time, Donald Trump’s political advisors are likely begging the president to follow the time-tested truism first uttered by Napoleon: Never interfere with an enemy while he’s in the process of destroying himself. Not that Trump will listen.

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from PRI Public Radio International

Why the Supreme Court asked for an explanation of the 2020 census citizenship question

On June 27, the last day of the term, the Supreme Court decided Department of Commerce v. New York, a case exploring legal issues surrounding the addition of the question, “Is this person a citizen of the United States?” on the 2020 census. The court held that the proposed citizenship question does not violate the Constitution, which vests broad discretion in the US government in deciding how to conduct the census. They also ruled that Ross’ decision did not violate the Administrative Procedure Act. This act requires that certain procedures are followed in administrative decisions and that agency officials offer reasoned and rational explanations for their decisions. However, Roberts, in a part of the opinion joined by Justices Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor and Kagan, ruled that the Department of Commerce needed to provide further explanation for adding the question. The court said that the Department of Commerce’s claim that the citizenship question was solely designed to help Voting Right Act enforcement seemed “contrived.”

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from The Spokesman-Review

Newspaper in Spokane, Washington

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In the news, Thursday, June 27, 2019

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from ABC News (& affiliates)

TV Network in New York, New York

Risk belongs to Trump when he meets with Putin in Japan: ANALYSIS

President Donald Trump is set to meet with Russia’s president Vladimir Putin at the G20 summit in Japan on Friday, in another encounter that Kremlin officials have suggested they were enthusiastically seeking out, but which for Trump comes fraught with potential political dangers at home.

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from Anglican Journal

Rio Grande bishop: U.S. asylum crisis ‘a moral issue, and not a complicated one’
“Two basic factors are exacerbating each other. The first is that the system was designed to catch and detain illegal migrants, not legal asylum seekers; adult men, not families and children. The second is that there have been thousands more people presenting themselves for asylum, and the sheer numbers are overwhelming the capacity of the system,” Episcopal Church Bishop Michael Hunn says. “Unaccompanied children who arrive at the border are refugees, and they deserve immediate care as refugees.”

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from Competitive Enterprise Institute

More to Like in Zuckerberg's Aspen Talk Than Not
Yesterday at the Aspen Ideas Festival, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg touched on some of the most pressing issues facing his company and big tech as a whole. While his continued calls for government regulation of social media companies and other online services are dismaying, many of the principles Zuckerberg laid out represent exactly why such government intervention is not necessary and likely won’t produce better results.

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from Financial Times

Vladimir Putin: friendship with China, ‘Donald’ and the rise of national populism
As he heads to the G20 in Japan, the Russian leader believes he is back at the top table. During a 90-minute interview in the Kremlin’s cabinet office, with statues of four of Imperial Russia’s most revered rulers looking on from each corner, the former KGB officer turned statesman took on all subjects. He ranged from the breakdown of the international rules-based order, the rise of China and the end of liberal ideology to the prospect of improved relations with the UK. Ahead of the G20, Mr Putin highlights multiple risks to global stability. He singles out American unilateralism, starting with the tariff war against China and the threat of conflict in the Gulf. “To put it bluntly, the situation has definitely become more dramatic and explosive,” he says.  Just before midnight, Vladimir Putin perks up at the mention of the word “risk”. It encapsulates the man and his 20 years in power. Latterly, Russia has embarked on a growing number of foreign policy gambles, from the military intervention in Syria, the annexation of Crimea and the attempted meddling in the US presidential election. Is his appetite for risk increasing with each passing year?“It did not increase or decrease. Risk must always be well-justified,” he replies. “But this is not the case when one can use the popular Russian phrase: ‘He who doesn’t take risks, never drinks champagne’.”

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from PRI Public Radio International

Supreme Court ruling leaves citizenship question for the 2020 census in doubt

A citizenship question is off the 2020 US census form — for now. The US Supreme Court sent back to the lower courts a case looking at whether the federal government has the right to ask a person's citizenship status on the census. The 5 to 4 ruling said that the federal government needs to provide clearer justification for asking the question. In its opinion, the court found that federal officials’ reasoning was “incongruent with what the record reveals about the agency’s priorities and decision-making process” and that there was a “disconnect between the decision made and the explanation given.”

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from Psephizo  Blog

Does bullying happen in our churches?
"In 2011, when speaking on bullying at the Catholic National Justice and Peace Conference, I received an interview request from the Catholic weekly The Tablet. Church bullying must be very rare, the journalist postulated. It is not: figures from the Faithworkers’ branch of the trade union Unite show that 30% of its helpline calls are about bullying. People who have been the subject of past bullying may not wish to speak of the humiliation and abuse they have experienced, usually over a prolonged period of time, but during the course of writing this book, numerous people have commented on bullying in church life."

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from The Spokesman-Review

Newspaper in Spokane, Washington

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from Time  Media/News Company

The U.S. and Iran are Already at War Online
When a U.S. Navy surveillance drone was shot down over the Strait of Hormuz on June 20, the U.S. blamed Iran. The commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said his country was “ready for war,” and President Donald Trump responded by declaring that Iran had made a “very big mistake.” Around the world, observers worried that the two countries were headed for battle. In a sense, however, they were already at war.  There are no international rules governing digital conflict; tracing attacks is notoriously difficult, and targets can include industry, infrastructure and ordinary citizens. “There is not even an agreed-upon definition of what constitutes a cyber ‘act of war,’ assuming the term itself is still relevant,” former U.S. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper tells TIME. The U.S. has powerful capabilities in this new area. Military hackers and coders at Fort Meade, Md., maintain a long list of potential targets. The command, created in 2009, has played a larger role in war planning since the Trump Administration granted commanders new authority and Congress quietly issued a declaration defining online operations as a traditional military activity.

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In the news, Wednesday, June 26, 2019

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from The Epoch Times

Climate Change Narrative is Driven by Agenda of Political Control: Myron Ebell
Is climate change actually causing a crisis, as many are saying? In the global warming debate, what is the actual “settled science” that most scientists agree on, and what exactly is being contested? And how will climate change factor into 2020?

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from HumanProgress.org  Education Website

Are Americans Really Worse off Than in the 1970s?
Back in May, a young American called Akki caused a minor twitterstorm by seemingly showing what many pundits in the U.S. media frequently assert – that ordinary Americans are worse off today than they were in the late 1970s. A number of better educated twitterati soon pointed out that Akki, a self-declared member of #TheResistance, engaged in what former U.S. President George W. Bush once referred to as “fuzzy math.” In the meantime, Akki’s misleading claim scored over 197,000 likes on Twitter. It seems that in addition to the U.S. dollar, Americans have come to crave a new kind of currency: victimhood. Many Americans of all political persuasions relish the feeling of aggrievement and the accompanying sense of moral superiority, and if that means that they have to pretend that their lives are worse than those of their ancestors, so be it.

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from The Nation

Will US Elites Give Détente With Russia a Chance?
The Trump-Putin meeting in Japan is crucial for both leaders—and for the world.

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from The Spokesman-Review

Newspaper in Spokane, Washington

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In the news, Tuesday, June 25, 2019

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from The Spokesman-Review

Newspaper in Spokane, Washington

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In the news, Monday, June 24, 2019

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from Hoover Institution
Nonprofit Organization in Stanford, California

Operation Bagration And The Destruction Of The Army Group Center
Two and a half weeks ago the nations of Europe, the United States, and Canada joined together in commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Normandy invasion, which initiated the Great Crusade—the liberation of western Europe from Hitler’s grip. This week marks the anniversary of another major event in World War II that, though it will be little noticed outside of Russia, was just as important a piece in the mosaic of Allied victory as was D-Day. Operation Bagration, the Red Army offensive into Byelorussia from June 23 to August 19, 1944, resulted in the destruction of 28 of 34 divisions of the German Third Panzer, Fourth, and Ninth Armies of Army Group Center. The gutting of German forces in the East liberated the last parts of the Soviet Union and positioned the Red Army on the Vistula River, just across from Warsaw and within striking distance of Berlin.

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from Mises Institute
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, MIXED

How to Destroy a Civilization
Rome fell because the dictators ruined the Roman economy and the institutions that had made it prosperous. Rome was falling apart before the barbarian invasions.

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from The Spokesman-Review

Newspaper in Spokane, Washington

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In the news, Sunday, June 23, 2019

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from Asia Times

LEAST BIASED, HIGH;  News & Media Website based in Hong Kong

Erdogan’s party loses replay of Istanbul poll
Turkey’s president suffers massive blow as opposition mayoral candidate emerges victorious once again.

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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)

RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, HIGH, non-profit organization

What Murray Rothbard Could Teach Bernie Sanders about Rights
There are no rights “to” economic goods or services, but rights involve freedom of action absent unwanted interference from others.

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from HumanProgress.org  Education Website

Hollywood's Apocalypse Obsession Ignores Reality
On his immensely popular HBO show last Friday, the host of Real Time with Bill Maher observed, “Not every movie set in the future has to be a super clean utopia or a smouldering post apocalypse.” “Isn’t there something in between,” he asked. “It’s always either the earth is a giant Apple store or burning man got way out of control.” Maher is onto something. There is a strange disconnect between Hollywood’s dark vision of humanity’s future and a much more palatable reality of human existence.

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from The Spokesman-Review

Newspaper in Spokane, Washington

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In the news, Saturday, June 22, 2019

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from Asia Times

LEAST BIASED, HIGH;  News & Media Website based in Hong Kong

The war over who won World War II
In the years since Hitler’s downfall, Hollywood’s victory has been history’s defeat – and recent events point to churlish politics in the West. To this day, Western public is ignorant about the geographic scale of World War II and the differing contributions made by the main combatants – most critically, the Soviet Union.

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from The Spokesman-Review

Newspaper in Spokane, Washington

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