In the news, Saturday, August 29, 2020

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from AP (Associated Press)
LEFT-CENTER BIASED, VERY HIGH, News Agency in New York City

Belarus cracks down on journalists, 2 AP staff deported

Belarus, shaken by three weeks of massive protests against its authoritarian president, on Saturday cracked down hard on the news media, deporting some foreign journalists reporting in the country and revoking the accreditation of many Belarusian journalists. Two Moscow-based Associated Press journalists who were covering the recent protests in Belarus were deported to Russia on Saturday. In addition, the AP’s Belarusian journalists were told by the government that their press credentials had been revoked.

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from Asia Times

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

Vietnam tightens measures after rise in Covid-19 deaths

Given Vietnam’s increasing number of deaths since the most recent wave of Covid-19, there is a huge concern over whether the country can handle this new wave well as it did with the previous two. In fact, the new deaths are having a galvanizing effect on both the government and the people, which, to some extent, increases Vietnam’s momentum for the battle against the virus.

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from The Hill

LEAST BIASED, MOSTLY FACTUAL, News & Media Website in Washington, D.C.

Once a COVID-19 epicenter, Arizona emerges from lockdown

For months, Arizona stood out as one of the world’s worst coronavirus hot spots, suffering through an outbreak that sickened hundreds of thousands of people. Hospitals were so overwhelmed that the state Department of Health enacted crisis standards of care, in preparation for surging capacity. But now, cases have ebbed after major cities implemented new restrictions and lockdowns. Bars, theaters and gyms in Maricopa County, the state’s county, began reopening Thursday as the number of new confirmed cases dropped to less than one-sixth of its zenith in early July. Arizona stands as an example of just how badly the coronavirus can devastate a region — and how aggressive action can bend the case curve down.

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from Orthodox Christianity – orthochristian.com

Religious Organization in Moscow, Russia

MESSAGE OF THE HOLY SYNOD OF THE RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH TO THE EPISCOPATE, CLERGY, MONASTICS AND LAITY ON THE INVASION OF A HARMFUL INFECTION THIS YEAR

Praising Merciful God Who causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous (Mt. 5:45), the Church is ardently praying for the final deliverance of people from the harmful infection that has invaded us this year. The Holy Synod has called upon the bishops, priests, monastics and lay people not to weaken in this prayer and asked the Almighty God to grant His help to all those who are working to overcome the misfortune that has befallen the world. The sacred duty of Orthodox Christians is also to pray for the repose of those who died from the coronavirus infection and its consequences. It is with special grateful love that we will remember those clergy and laity, especially medical doctors, who, in fulfilling their duty to the end, according to the Gospel, laid down their life for their friends (cf. Jn. 15:13).

A SPIRITUAL STRUGGLE FOR OUR HOMELAND IS UNDERWAY

On the feast of the Minsk Icon of the Mother of God, Bishop Benjamin of Borisov and Marinogorsk, elected as Metropolitan of Minsk and Zaslavl and Patriarchal Exarch of All Belarus by the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church on Thursday, August 26, addressed the faithful children of the Belarusian Orthodox Church with an archpastoral word.

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from The Spokesman-Review

Newspaper in Spokane, Washington

Doug Clark: Sweet Old Bob’s no more, but the memories live on

Sweet Old Bob’s is dead and gone. The weekly Saturday karaoke crowd warbled their final notes, a little after midnight. The bartender served a last call. And the doors of this mom-and-pop restaurant at 3234 E. Trent Ave. closed for the last time. Crushed by progress. That’d be the official cause of death for Sweet Old Bob’s if autopsies were conducted on businesses. The building and its 31,000-square-foot land parcel are inconveniently in the way of a southbound off-ramp that is part of the ongoing soap opera we know as the north-south freeway project. Bob and Marlene Nordby can’t claim they weren’t warned. The restaurant’s owners say they first received the news from the state Department of Transportation in 1997, after just a year in operation.

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In the news, Friday, August 28, 2020

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from Asia Times

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

Covid strikes rural India as monthly cases double

Adding to the spread of the virus is relaxation of lockdowns, mask fatigue and absence of social distancing. India has taken the lead in new Covid-19 cases as the virus spreads to smaller towns and villages. Almost half its total of 3.38 million cases came in August and the country is fast narrowing the gap with Brazil’s 3.76 million. The United States remains the worst affected with 6.05 million cases. On Thursday, India added a record 76,826 cases, the second day running with more than 75,000. It accounts for 28% of daily new cases worldwide and 13.7% of the global total of 24.6 million cases.

Erdogan snubs UAE, backs Palestinian resistance

He sees the US-sponsored deal between the UAE and Israel as aimed at a new regional order that sidelines Turkey. Turkey has made its first move on the regional chessboard after the recent peace deal between the United Arab Emirates and Israel. On August 22, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan received in Istanbul a high-level delegation from Hamas, including its leader Ismail Haniyeh and deputy leader Saleh al-Arouri.

South Korea tightens virus curbs in Seoul region

South Korea decided Friday to tighten coronavirus curbs further in the greater Seoul area as it seeks to contain growing clusters in the region. The country largely overcame an early coronavirus outbreak with extensive tracing and testing, but is now battling several outbreaks mostly linked to Protestant churches.

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from Bloomberg

Media/News Company

Belarusian Officials Shut Down Internet With Technology Made by U.S. Firm

The government of Belarus shut down access to much of the internet during a crucial election this month by using equipment manufactured by a U.S. company to block people's access to thousands of websites, according to two people familiar with the matter. ... Initially, those measures were effective in restricting the flow of information on the internet. Police were filmed violently attacking protesters and snatching people from the streets, but the footage couldn’t be immediately circulated on social media websites or livestreamed on YouTube because of the restrictions. But within hours, activists began circulating instructions for how to set up the encrypted chat app Telegram using a proxy service. They created websites that bypassed the deep packet inspection filtering system, and used them to distribute Psiphon, which allows people to connect to the internet without censorship. Psiphon uses proxy servers and methods that disguise internet traffic so that it flies under the radar of deep packet inspection. That allowed protesters to communicate with one another, access the internet and document brutal police violence in the wake of the election, igniting broad-based anger and intensifying calls for Lukashenko’s ouster.

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from Conciliar Post

INTEGRALISM AS DEFAULT

Just as liberty cannot be boundless, there is no such thing as a “secular,” which is to say, purely “civil” state. Whilst our state may claim to be secular, that is really a legal fiction of sorts that itself tells us something about the state’s confession, i.e. it feigns pluralism and is generally non-committal, but finds moral commitments that are historically attached to organized religion distasteful. Denial of moral value judgement is itself a value judgment that requires a positive assertion of something. Our state may be pluralist, but this, more than integralism, is aspirational rather than descriptive. Pluralism is part of the confession and, therefore, part of the public reason. But it does not entail what it claims: namely, neutral, value-free proceduralism and radical toleration across the board. 

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from The Spokesman-Review

Newspaper in Spokane, Washington

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from The Wenatchee World

A 2,500 person town gets tested for COVID-19

BRIDGEPORT — In the middle of a quiet city park, a group of people set up green and red tents. Residents of the town passed the tents and eyed them with wary expressions. The tents were meant to give people a sense of privacy during the voluntary testing for COVID-19, said Rachel Noll, Incident Command Team spokesperson. The Chelan-Douglas Health District asked for the incident command team, because they needed the assistance, Noll said. It was all a part of an effort to test the entire town of Bridgeport, population about 2,500, for the virus, said Charlotte Headley, Incident Management Team commander. People could refuse to get tested, but the Incident Management Team along with the Chelan-Douglas Health District provided free tests Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday at Firemen Park. The organizers, along with volunteers, also went door-to-door in Bridgeport offering testing. The testing was all self-administered. The reason for the mass testing is because earlier testing efforts — that included 32 people — indicated an infection rate of about 30% in the community, Noll said. Chelan-Douglas Health District staff are looking at providing this type of testing for other communities with similar infection rates in the future, she said.

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In the news, Thursday, August 27, 2020

 

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from BBC News (UK)

Putin says he could send police to Belarus if necessary

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.

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from Competitive Enterprise Institute

Anti-Nicotine Zealots Only Care about Science When it Says What They Want

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.

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from Forbes

Banning Flavored JUUL Pods Is Actually Dangerous: Study Shows How Lawmakers Bungled Vape-Lung Crisis Response

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.

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from The Heritage Foundation
RIGHT BIAS,  MIXED  American conservative think tank based in Washington, D.C.

Cultural Revolution: What the Violence in American Cities Is All About

It doesn't have to make sense, because "cultural revolutions are incoherent and nihilist."

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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.

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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.

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from HumanProgress.org

Education Website

Centers of Progress, Pt. 10: Chang'an (Trade)

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. 

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from The Seattle Times
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.

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from The Spokesman-Review

Newspaper in Spokane, Washington

Sue Lani Madsen: Notion of voter suppression has been wielded as a political weapon

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.

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In the news, Wednesday, August 26, 2020

 

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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

Beijing Says US Spy Plane Entered China's Airspace During Army Drills

The day before, the Chinese Defence Ministry reported that a US U-2 reconnaissance plane flew into a no-fly zone of China's Northern Military District during military drills. A spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, Zhao Lijian, stated on Wednesday that the recent incident with a US spy plane occurred in China's airspace.

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from USA Today

Singer, songwriter Carole King and ‘Educated’ author Tara Westover among influential Idaho women

No list of incredible Idaho women is complete without a discussion of Sacagawea, the Shoshone teen who helped guide the Lewis and Clark expedition in 1805. Technically, this list doesn't include Sacagawea. It focuses on Idaho women alive between 1920 and 2020, as the USA TODAY Network marks the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment when women in the U.S. gained the legal right to vote. In commemoration, the USA TODAY Network is naming 10 American women from all 50 states and the District of Columbia who’ve made significant contributions to their respective states and country as Women of the Century.

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In the news, Tuesday, August 25, 2020

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from Competitive Enterprise Institute

Are Scandinavian Countries Socialist?

by Iain Murray: One of the odd things about the modern resurgence of socialism is that its most fervent advocates seem confused about what socialism actually is. I discuss this problem in my new book, The Socialist Temptation, but I thought it worthwhile to expand on one particular aspect of the question—are modern Scandinavian countries actually socialist? This question must be asked because it is a common rhetorical device of “democratic socialist” politicians to wave away objections about the horrors of past socialist regimes. ... Socialism, in its simplest definition, is popular control of the means of production, distribution, and exchange, either by public ownership or through bureaucratic oversight and control.

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from Forbes

What Comes After Trillion? Coming To Terms With The Impenetrable Costs Of Government Intervention

“We print it digitally,” Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said of money. They sure do. Real fiscal debt levels and unreckoned-with entitlements present obligations beyond even today’s record corona-bolstered $26 trillion debt and $4 trillion deficit.

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from HumanProgress.org

Education Website

Luck or Insight? The Simon-Ehrlich Bet Re-Examined

Julian Simon once bet Paul Ehrlich that five certain metals would become more affordable over time.

Simon won the bet—and based on this new time price analysis of data going back to 1900, it seems that Simon's victory was no fluke.

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from KOMO News (ABC Seattle)

Seattle rioters caught on camera trying to trap police in East Precinct, set it on fire

Some officers with the Seattle Police Department said the recent unrest unfolding in the city are turning into direct attacks on police. One police spokesperson said the protesters were deliberate in their efforts to trap officers inside the East Precinct building Monday night before setting fires. New SPD surveillance video from the East Precinct shows rioters setting fires around the precinct, after trying to cement the door shut, while officers are inside.

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from The Living Church
Magazine of The Living Church Foundation (Anglican)

“PAST ITS TEEMING TIME”: LESSONS FROM COLONIAL BARBADOS ABOUT ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM

By Mark Clavier: When John Atkins, a British royal navy surgeon, visited Barbados in 1722, he was astonished by what he found. He had heard about the wealth and fertility of the island, then a leading producer of sugar in the British Empire. Instead, he saw a colony in decline: “the Crops of late years have very much failed… The Soil fertile in the Age past, seems now growing old, and past its teeming time.” Forty years later, the land was so exhausted from monocropping that planters briefly imported soil from South America until it became clear that transporting earth swarming with wood ants in wooden ships was not the wisest strategy.

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from The New American Magazine

RIGHT BIAS: John Birch Society

With UN Discredited, Globalists Pursue “League of Democracies”
With the scandal-plagued United Nations increasingly marginalized and ridiculed as a “dictators club” in the United States, Deep State globalists appear to be pursuing a “Plan B” of sorts to move their agenda forward. Meet the proposed “League of Democracies,” a decades-old plot being rehabilitated and peddled by the global-government-promoting Council on Foreign Relations, the powerhouse Carnegie Foundation, U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, and various propaganda organs of the globalist establishment. If successful, globalists hope the proposed alliance of 10 “democracies” will quickly become a European Union-style entity advancing globalist goals. The scheme for creating this planetary league of “democracies,” known as “D-10” among supporters, was first reported publicly in May. However, despite being reported as a novel idea, the plan to develop an alternate mechanism for advancing globalism has been on the Deep State's agenda for decades. According to news reports, British Prime Minister Johnson's government had already approached Washington, D.C., about it. The Times of London reported that the proposed alliance would include all of the Group of 7 (G-7) governments — United Kingdom, United States, Italy, Germany, France, Japan and Canada — representing more than half of global wealth. Also involved would be the governments of Australia, South Korea, and India.

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from The Spokesman-Review

Newspaper in Spokane, Washington

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from USA Today

I'm Billy Graham's granddaughter. Evangelical support for Donald Trump insults his legacy.

By supporting Donald Trump, evangelical leaders are failing us and failing the Gospel. Christian women must step up where our church leaders won't.

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In the news, Monday, August 24, 2020

 

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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)

RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, HIGH, non-profit organization

Google’s Plan to Disrupt the College Degree Is Exactly What the Higher Education Market Needs

In July Kent Walker, Google’s Senior Vice President for Global Affairs and Chief Legal Officer, announced on Twitter that the company was expanding its education options. It was a direct salvo at America’s higher education industry. “College degrees are out of reach for many Americans, and you shouldn’t need a college diploma to have economic security,” Walker wrote on Google’s blog. “We need new, accessible job-training solutions—from enhanced vocational programs to online education—to help America recover and rebuild.”

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from HumanProgress.org  Education Website

The Great Decline in Poverty Over Time

Between 1800 and 1900, industrialization gradually improved the standards of living in the West, driving down poverty and increasing access to everything from clean water to food and from education to healthcare. As standards of living rose, so did our definition of poverty change. Today, it is possible to be poor in the United States, Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, and other developed nations while having access to a mobile phone, a sheltered home with heating and air-conditioning, an inexpensive car, a refrigerator, television, laptop, access to the internet and advanced healthcare.

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from The Nation

It’s Time to Abolish Nursing Homes

If three out of four Americans want to spend their final years at home, why do so many of us end up in institutional care?

Albert P. died alone in a nursing home from Covid-19. because of new safety regulations, his daughter, Gita, was not allowed to visit. In the days before his death, she told me, the nursing home staffers “spoke to my mom at length about how great my dad was doing…. [They] said, ‘He’s eating. He’s drinking water. He’s smiling. He’s doing really well.’” Gita wasn’t so sure. She said there were previous issues with her father’s care: hours spent sitting in soiled bedsheets, medication mismanagement, and missed meals. On May 6, a staff member called to tell her that Albert, 79, had died. She had never been told that her father was even ill. Then she was asked, “When are you going to come to claim the body?”

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from The Raw Story

FAR LEFT BIAS, MIXED, Media/News Company in Washington DC

‘Evil’: Lincoln Project hammers Donald Trump and Jared Kushner in blistering new ad

The Lincoln Project denounced President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner as “evil” in a blistering new ad. The anti-Trump conservative group premiered the ad Monday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” warning that Kushner, a senior White House adviser, was responsible for many of the most immoral, inhumane and corrupt policies to come out of the administration.

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from The Spokesman-Review

Newspaper in Spokane, Washington

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In the news, Sunday, August 23, 2020

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from Asia Times

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

S. Korea ‘on brink of nationwide pandemic’

South Korea reported its highest daily number of coronavirus cases since early March on Sunday as authorities warned the country was “on the brink of a nationwide pandemic” and tightened social distancing rules. The majority of the 397 new infections were in the greater Seoul region – home to half the country’s 51 million people, the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.

Smooth Biden boxes clever on ‘China Question’

Joe Biden’s acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention on Thursday has been widely acclaimed in the US and it enhances the growing perception that he is likely to prevail in November’s general election, while President Donald Trump’s support continues to wane because of his perceived failings in addressing the pandemic and the country’s economic problems. Elections are hard to predict and Trump has a reputation of digging himself out of deep holes that would end the careers of most other politicians. Nonetheless, sans something entirely untoward happening before November, Biden may well be the next president of the United States. This poses some important policy questions to consider, Biden’s China policy in particular. What stands out from Biden’s speech is that he cleverly mentioned China only once. Possibly, he refused to take Trump’s bait to sound “tougher” on China. 

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from BBC News (UK)

Belarus: Nato denies foreign troops are on border

Allegations by Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko that "foreign powers" are organising a build-up of troops on the country's border are baseless, says Nato.

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from DW News (Deutsche Welle)

Broadcasting & Media Production Company in Bonn, Germany

Russian dissident Alexei Navalny 'stable' after arrival in Berlin for medical treatment

Vladimir Putin critic and prominent Russian dissident Alexei Navalny is being treated in Germany after being moved by air ambulance from Siberia. His supporters believe he was poisoned; the Kremlin denies this.

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from The Spokesman-Review

Newspaper in Spokane, Washington

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In the news, Saturday, August 22, 2020

 

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from Asia Times

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

Socialist or capitalist: What is China’s model, exactly?

The hallmark of capitalism, what distinguished it from feudalism (lord/serf) and slavery (master/slave), was the employer/employee relationship structuring its enterprises. In Stalin’s USSR and since, the employer/employee relationship became, instead, a necessary, unquestioned presumption common to any and all “modern” economies, capitalist and socialist alike (rather like machinery or raw materials). That Stalinist view of the universality of the employer/employee relationship was also the view of all major strains of economic thought in the capitalist world outside the USSR. China’s Communist Party largely replicated the USSR’s history in terms of constructing a state capitalism overseen by the party and the government it controls. One key difference from the USSR has been China’s ability to engage with the world market in ways and to degrees the USSR never could. China also allowed a far larger component of private enterprises, foreign and domestic, alongside state-owned and -operated enterprises than the USSR did. Yet China today, like the USSR a century ago, faces the same transition problem: Transition to a post-capitalist society has been stalled.

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from DW News (Deutsche Welle)

Broadcasting & Media Production Company in Bonn, Germany

Alexei Navalny: Russian doctors refuse permission to fly comatose dissident to Germany

A German NGO has sent an air-ambulance with a coma-specialist team to pick up Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny. But Russian doctors say he is too ill to move.

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from New York Post
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, MIXED,  Newspaper in New York

Asteroid heading our way day before presidential election

Scientists recently spotted an asteroid on a direct collision course to Earth — projected to hit a day before the presidential elections in November. The flying space object, known as 2018VP1, is expected on Nov. 2, according to the Center for Near Objects Studies at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The asteroid is 6.5 feet in diameter, according to NASA data, and first identified at the Palomar Observatory in California two years ago.

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from The Spokesman-Review

Newspaper in Spokane, Washington

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