In the news, Friday, April 13, 2018

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APR 12      INDEX      APR 14

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Information from some sites may not be reliable, or may not be vetted.
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from Breitbart

RIGHT BIAS, MIXED, American conservative news and opinion website

Parents’ ‘Sex Ed Sit Out’ Protesting Forced Gender Ideology in Schools Spreads Across Country
Parents across the nation will pull their children out of school on April 23 to protest sex education programs that have become steeped in gender ideology due to an agenda forced by pro-abortion and LGBT rights organizations. Dubbed “Sex Ed Sit Out,” the protest has been organized by parents who want to know why their children are learning graphic details about oral and anal sex and how to masturbate. The protest is taking off from Charlotte, North Carolina, to nearly a dozen other cities, reports the Washington Times, including Austin and San Antonio, Texas; Spokane, Washington; Sacramento, California; Bloomington, Indiana; and Martinsburg, West Virginia.

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from Conciliar Post

GOD’S GRANDEUR

"The earth will flame out, as said earlier, but not because humans win in their rebellion. Rather, their rebellion presses out the essence of the God’s grandeur in the world, gathering it to greatness which reaches its apex in the re-creation of nature, God’s perfecting it in its re-birth."

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from HumanProgress.org

Education Website

Economic Growth from Octavian to Obama
Poor countries can adopt ideas and technologies that took rich countries millennia to develop and leapfrog into abundance.

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from LifeZette (& PoliZette)

Media/News Company in Washington, D. C.

Trump Brings ‘Righteous Power Against Barbarism and Brutality’
President announces coordinated assault on Syrian chemical weapons resources in response to attacks linked to Assad regime

Professor Talks of Heckling — at Free Speech Lecture
Josh Blackman recounts stories of students preparing to become lawyers who were afraid to express conservative views in class

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from Miami Herald

Leonard Pitts Jr.: There’s no excuse for Trump’s inexcusable moral corruption

Our topic for the day: “Excuses for Donald Trump.” Spoiler alert: There aren’t any. Unfortunately, that hasn’t stopped people from trying.

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from Orthodox Christianity

Organization in Moscow, Russia

PATRIARCH OF ANTIOCH CONDEMNS TRUMP’S HASTY SYRIA TWEETS
His Beatitude Patriarch John X of Antioch and All the East has released a short statement in response to recent tweets from President Donald Trump about the possibility of war in Syria. The statement, which condemns the president’s threats of intervention in Syria, has been posted on the Antiochian Patriarchate’s official Facebook page. “We deplore any possible American aggression on our people,” the spiritual head of Antioch states.

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from SPIEGEL International (Der Spiegel)

News & Media Website in Hamburg, Germany

Donald Trump's War Games: Why Intervening in Syria Is the Wrong Move
U.S. President Donald Trump this week issued a Twitter threat to Russia and hinted that America would soon attack Syria. But even if Assad does deserve punishment for again using chemical weapons, the urge to intervene should be resisted.

'Get Ready Russia': Donald Trump Is Stuck In The Syrian Quagmire
Following last weekend's suspected chemical weapons attack, the Syrian conflict could escalate once again. U.S. President Donald Trump's Twitter threat and Russian response show just how dangerous the situation has become.

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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

AC-130J GhostriderFinances Threaten to Blot Out US Gunship’s Laser Cannon
The US Air Force (USAF) wants to put a 60-kilowatt laser gun on its AC-130J “Ghostrider” gunships by 2022, but without more money from Congress the program could fall into the research and development “valley of death.”

Trump, May Agree on 'Vital' Need to Deter Future 'Chemical Attacks' After Call
After speaking by phone, the US and UK government leaders said the countries would cooperate closely on an "international response" to the alleged use of chemical warfare in Syria's Douma, the UK government said Thursday.

Syria Tensions: 'Some Limited-Scale Engagement Cannot Be Ruled Out' - Analyst
Dr. Mohammed Nuruzzaman, Associate Professor of International Relations at the Gulf University for Science and Technology in Kuwait, commented in an interview with Sputnik on Moscow-Washington relations and the situation in Syria.

'US Will Not Be Withdrawing From Syria, No Matter What Trump Says' - Analyst
US President Donald Trump's pledge to fire "smart" missiles at Syria apparently indicates that a ghost of last year's missile strike on the Arab country is already in the air. Dr. Jon Kofas is a retired history professor at Indiana University at Kokomo; in an interview with Sputnik, he commented on the recent escalation.

US Senators Move to Regulate Facebook in Wake of Zuckerberg Testimony
New legislation will bolster government regulation of social media in light of Facebook’s failure to adequately protect user information, Senators John Kennedy and Amy Klobuchar said in a press release. On Wednesday, during a congressional hearing on protecting consumer data, Kennedy warned Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg that Congress may be forced to regulate the social media giant. "The data breach at Facebook showed the world that the digital promised land is not all milk and honey. We’ve discovered some impurities in the punch bowl," Kennedy said in the release on Thursday. "I don’t want to regulate Facebook half to death, but there are things that need to be changed. Our bill will help protect Americans’ online data fingerprint."

Russia Does Not Engage in Regime Changes Unlike US – Embassy
Russia does not have a record of meddling in other nation’s home affairs, unlike the United States, which has routinely mounted influence operations to change "undesired regimes," the Embassy in Washington said. This comes after Mike Pompeo, the US president’s pick for the secretary of state, accused Russia at his confirmation hearing in the Senate of tampering in the 2016 presidential election.

NY Times Caught Manipulating Public Opinion on Syria Attack — Ex-UN Official
The New York Times has overlooked vital details about the narrative that Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad used chemical weapons to kill his own people, a former high-level United Nations official told Radio Sputnik Thursday, an oversight that amounts to “manipulation of public opinion” in favor of more death and destruction in war-torn Syria.

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from TASS (Russian News Agency)

Putin, Macron discuss situation in Syria — Kremlin
Russian President Vladimir Putin and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron have held a telephone call on Friday, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters. When asked if the two leaders had discussed the situation in Syria, he said: "yes, the conversation touched upon that." The Russian presidential spokesman said that the conversation’s details would be provided later. Putin and Macron ordered the countries’ defense and foreign ministers to maintain a close contact to deescalate tensions in Syria, the Kremlin press service said.

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from Tribal Tribune
Media/News Company in Nespelem, Washington

Tribal elder helps Tribune recover dozens of copies
Tribal elder Simon Edwards answered the call for the Tribune this year. His wife Rose invited us to come to Olympia to retrieve Tribal Tribune copies dating back to the 1960s. We quickly went to work to find which newspapers we didn’t have and ended up with more than 40 issues we had not previously had copies of due to a fire and poor storage.

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In the news, Thursday, April 12, 2018

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APR 11      INDEX      APR 13

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from AP

Associated Press - Media/News Company

Alleged chemical attack brutal end to rebellious Syria town

The suspected chemical weapons attack on Douma was a brutal finale for a town that had haunted Syrian President Bashar Assad for seven years from right on his doorstep. The leafy suburb on Damascus’ outskirts was the bastion of one of the toughest, most disciplined Islamist factions in Syria’s rebellion, raining mortars on Assad’s seat of power and holding out for years under devastating siege. Now destroyed and defeated, it will be the scene of an international fact-finding mission that arrives Saturday to try to determine what happened there.

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from BBC News (UK)

LEFT-CENTER BIAS

Syria: What can Western military intervention achieve?
As the US and UK governments continue to discuss their potential response to the suspected chemical weapons attack in Douma in Syria, what could military intervention achieve? The critical military virtue of surprise has long since disappeared for the United States and its allies in the strikes it is planning against Syrian military facilities.

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from The Daily Star

Newspaper in Beirut, Lebanon

Turkey's Erdogan spoke to Putin about Syria: presidential source

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Russian President Vladimir discussed recent developments in Syria in an telephone call on Thursday, a Turkish presidential source said, adding that the two leaders agreed to remain in close contact. The call with Putin came after Erdogan earlier spoke to U.S. President Donald Trump on the phone and also exchanged views on Syria.

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from DW News (Deutsche Welle)

Broadcasting & Media Production Company in Bonn, Germany

Is the Syria conflict an economic war?

Every war has economic impacts. Escalating the conflict in Syria, a multi-sided proxy war involving multiple regional and global powers, will have broad consequences. Higher oil prices may be among the outcomes. A remarkable series of events over the past few weeks have sent commodity markets analysts scrambling to assess how the prices of oil, gas, aluminum, and other commodities might be affected by rising geopolitical tensions between powers on opposing sides of the multi-party proxy war in Syria.

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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)

RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, HIGH, non-profit organization

How Not to Be a Snowflake at Work
Disengaged employees and “snowflake” college students both suffer from the same mindset.

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from FRANCE 24 English

Ukraine probes former PM's 'campaign funding' by Kadhafi
Ukrainian anti-corruption investigators on Thursday told AFP they were looking into whether former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko took cash from Moamer Kadhafi's regime in Libya for a presidential campaign. In France, former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has been charged over suspected illegal financing and corruption involving the former Libyan.

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from Kootenai Valley Times

Media/News Company in Bonners Ferry, Idaho

Obituary: Patrick F. “Pat” McManus

Patrick F. “Pat” McManus, 84, beloved husband, father and New York Times bestselling author, passed away peacefully surrounded by family in Spokane. Private funeral service will be held at the family's request. In lieu of gift fish, donations may be made to Hospice of Spokane.

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from Military Times

and Air Force Times, Army Times, Marine Corps Times, and Navy Times

Here’s how the Army is trying to catch up to Russia and China on missiles, artillery
While senior officials admit that the Army is currently outgunned and outranged in its artillery and missiles programs, the service’s secretary and top general told Congress that fixing that problem at every level is their top priority. “Both China and Russia have passed us up in terms of range and rapid fire,” said Sen. Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma during the Army posture hearing Thursday.

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from Mises Institute

[Information from this site may not be reliable.]

Against War in Syria
President Donald Trump has announced that he plans new missile strikes against the Syrian regime in response to an alleged chemical attack on Syrian civilians in a rebel-held suburb of Damascus. The US has offered no evidence of the attack, since, as the Financial Times has admitted, confirmation of any such attack could take weeks. Moreover, confirming the attack took place at all is not the same thing as confirming that the Syrian regime was responsible for it. 

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from MSN

News & Media Website

Mattis warns Trump on risks of escalating US involvement in Syria
Top military officials, including Defense Secretary James Mattis, warned President Donald Trump during an afternoon meeting Thursday that he risks escalating US involvement in Syria if he goes forward with the type of aggressive bombing campaign he has pressed for over the past week, according to US and western officials briefed on the conversation.

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from NCWLIFE

TV Channel in Wenatchee, WA

Newhouse to Interior Department: Stop Ignoring Local Community on Bringing Grizzlies to Central WA
U.S. Rep Dan Newhouse (R-WA) expressed deep concern regarding the U.S. Department of Interior’s announcement in March of Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s support for transporting grizzly bears into Central Washington. Newhouse wrote in a letter to Secretary Zinke: “Bringing grizzlies to the North Cascades would have grave impacts on my constituents in Washington’s 4th Congressional District. Just as my constituents have consistently expressed their steadfast opposition to this proposal, I will continue to stand in opposition to a plan that threatens the way of life in North Central Washington. I opposed this proposal when it was introduced by the previous administration and will continue to do so if the current administration moves forward with this plan.”

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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

Initiative to Break Up California Into 3 States Likely on Fall Ballot
A California venture capitalist is trying to break up the Golden State into three, and he has a good deal of backing, too. Tim Draper authored an initiative, “CAL 3,” to turn California into three separate states and has nearly double the necessary signatures to get it on the ballot in November.

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In the news, Wednesday, April 11, 2018

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from Competitive Enterprise Institute

RIGHT-CENTER BIAS

Facebook Privacy Critics Ignore Benefits of Social Media
Facebook is not a tool designed to violate privacy nor fan the flames of hate. It and other social media platforms have been some of the most transformative innovations in recent memory. Neglect of the benefits that Facebook has conferred may lead to the “danger that Congress will rush in and over-regulate” as mentioned by Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) yesterday. Huge amounts of value have been created by allowing people to reconnect with old friends and relatives. The fostering of these rekindled relationships, and the maintenance of new ones, was unthinkable before the global interconnectivity that social media has enabled. International telephone calling on demand was introduced 50 years ago in 1968, at exorbitant cost by current standards. The widespread adoption of commercial email systems only began in 1995. Less than 10 years later, Facebook was brought into the world, decreasing the cost of communication to negligible levels, and contributing significantly to relationships without barriers.

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from Conciliar Post

THE NON-DENOMINATIONAL REFORMATION
“The spread of non-denominational churches shows no signs of stopping (or slowing down) even as North American culture moves away from treating Christian identity as normative.”

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from EUobserver
Media/News Company in Brussels, Belgium

We need a firewall against vested interests in climate policy-making
From Brussels, civil society is leading the EU-level call for a conflict of interest policy at the UN climate talks. With environment ministers now preparing for the UN climate change conference in May, it's time for the EU to back efforts tackling the vested interests that continue to undermine these negotiations. There are very few decision makers on the international stage who would deny the urgency of halting disastrous climate change. After all, our very survival depends on it. But one blind spot has remained, and it's a big one: despite their large contribution to climate change and resulting conflicts of interest, fossil fuel corporations and their lobby groups continue to be heavily involved in the UN climate change negotiations, where they keep pushing for false solutions and obstruct effective action.

Merkel: Nord Stream 2 is 'political'
Germany has for the first time acknowledged allies' concerns on the "political" and "strategic" aspects of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline. German chancellor Angela Merkel made the statement after meeting Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko in Berlin on Tuesday (10 April). "It cannot be the case that Nord Stream 2 means Ukraine no longer has any significance with regard to the transit of natural gas," she said. "It has strategic importance for Ukraine," she added.

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from LifeZette (& PoliZette)

Media/News Company in Washington, D. C.

Jordan Blasts ‘Pathetic’ Document Response by DOJ, FBI
The Ohio Republican said he is skeptical that U.S. Attorney John Lausch can speed up the subpoena compliance process ahead of looming deadlines. Department of Justice (DOJ) officials’ response to congressional subpoenas “has been pathetic” and “terrible,” Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) said Wednesday on Fox News’ “America’s Newsroom.” Jordan, a member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, chastised DOJ and the FBI for failing to deliver thousands of documents “we’re entitled to as a separate and equal branch of government,” and in the process preventing lawmakers from doing their jobs.

With White House Visit, Alabama Football Team Leads by Example
Crimson Tide players bucked the trend of pouty athletes protesting visits to America's most important house — more should follow in their footsteps

Why Conservatives Better Think Twice Before Regulating Facebook
Republican senators joined the pile-on during the Mark Zuckerberg hearing, but former campaign adviser for Ted Cruz urges caution

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from Mises Institute

[Information from this site may not be reliable.]

"Ability to Pay" Is a Lousy Way to Judge Tax Policy
The ability-to-pay rationale has been elevated as unquestioned dogma in the realm of taxation justice. Indeed, progressives are so enamored of the ability to pay principle of taxation, one Daily Beast article last year described it as “the basic principle of all successful income and wealth tax systems going back nearly 2,500 years to ancient Athens where democracy and progressive taxation were invented as foundational twins of Western civilization.” But the ability-to-pay doctrine falls short of providing a logical or ethical justification for progressive tax rates, for multiple reasons.

Governments Have Been Corrupt Since Before Christ
How prevalent has political corruption been over recorded history—and how did it originate? Quite an inkling as to its prevalence and origin can be found in a book written by H. J. Haskell and published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1939. The book is The New Deal in Old Rome.

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from Reuters

International news agency headquartered in London, England

Trump signs law to punish websites for sex trafficking
U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed legislation aimed at penalizing website operators that facilitate online sex trafficking and chipping away at a legal protection for the technology industry. The law is intended to make it easier for state prosecutors and sex-trafficking victims to sue social media networks, advertisers and others that kept exploitative material on their platforms, although victims would be required to show websites knowingly facilitated sex trafficking.

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from The Spokesman-Review

Newspaper in Spokane, Washington

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In the news, Tuesday, April 10, 2018

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APR 09      INDEX      APR 11

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Information from some sites may not be reliable, or may not be vetted.
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from The Federalist

RIGHT BIAS, HIGH, online magazine

It’s Time For The United States To Divorce Before Things Get Dangerous
This idea of breaking up the country may seem a bit outlandish now, but you won’t think so once real domestic unrest comes to your town. Divorce is hard, but it’s easier than cutting the brake lines on your wife’s car. It is long past time for an amicable divorce of the United States of America. There is simply no common ground with the Left anymore. We are now the couple screaming at each other all night, every night as the kids hide in their room. We cannot come together, but we do not have to live like this. The history of the world is nations breaking up and redrawing their borders. If we want to avoid this political divide turning into a deadly one, we should do likewise. The GOP has many problems, but the Democratic Party has turned into something completely un-American. The United States was founded on two things: Judeo-Christian values and a limited federal government. The entire platform of modern Democrats stands completely opposite both of those.

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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)

RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, HIGH, non-profit organization

FEE Study Reveals How Youth Concerns Shift with Age
The Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) has identified current priority issues and attitudes among Millennials and members of Generation Z in a new survey of American youth taken in 2017. Regardless of ideological labels, young people have prioritized a concern with government corruption. The survey also confirmed a high degree of interest among most ideological groups in environmental issues, the cost of higher education, terrorism, and poverty alleviation.

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from The Irish Times
Newspaper in Dublin, Ireland

Why Goethe matters: The case for ‘a new schooling of attention’
Unthinkable: Germany’s giant of literature had a view of science that still appeals to many. Goethe is to Germany what Shakespeare is to England or James Joyce to Ireland, a towering literary figure and the author of scores of poems, plays and novels. But Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) did not limit his interests to literature. He was deeply involved in the scientific debates of his day and even advanced his own theory of colours, opposing no less a figure than Isaac Newton.

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from Mises Institute

[Information from this site may not be reliable.]

How the 1960's Made Everything Worse
Fifty years separate us, now, from 1968 and the two momentous legacies of the then soon to ending failed presidency of Lyndon Johnson: The declaring of war on America’s supposed domestic ills in the form of the “Great Society” programs, and the aggressive military intervention in a real war in Vietnam. Both of these “wars” reflected the arrogance and hubris of the social engineer who believes that he has the power and ability to remake and direct society in his own preferred image.

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from The Spokesman-Review

Newspaper in Spokane, Washington

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In the news, Monday, April 9, 2018

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from Atlantic Council

Nonprofit Organization

Assad’s Chemical Attack: Why Now?
World leaders once again accused the Syrian regime of resorting to a chemical weapons attack, killing dozens in Douma on April 8. While the regime regularly uses chlorine—a choking agent that causes respiratory problems, vomiting, and death—this attack involved something deadlier. Witnesses described symptoms that mirror those who fell victim to sarin gas, but this likelihood remains unconfirmed. Syrian regime supporters have questioned these accusations, rhetorically wondering why Bashar al-Assad would risk another international backlash against the war effort at a time when the international community appears resigned to his eventual victory. The answer lies in the urgency Assad faces in ending the conflict as quickly as possible.

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from Competitive Enterprise Institute

RIGHT-CENTER BIAS

Zuckerberg Testimony Hints at Devil's Bargain with Big Government
Much of the political class in Washington, D.C. is currently holding its breath for the big event of the week: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s long-awaited Capitol Hill testimony, starting tomorrow morning before a joint session of the Senate Judiciary and Commerce Committees and continuing the next day before the House Energy and Commerce Committee. His prepared remarks have already been posted, so we at least know where the conversation with lawmakers is going to start. Any new set of rules that comes with a congressional seal of approval, however, can be expected to lead eventually to more government-enforced definitions of what counts as “fake,” and denials of the ability of individuals to post on social media anonymously.

Congress Impatient for Zuckerberg Privacy Testimony
This week, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will testify before three congressional committees to answer questions about the privacy scandal that’s engulfed the social media platform since mid-March, when The New York Times and The Observer of London reported that a British voter-profiling company had obtained and analyzed data on 50 million or more Facebook users in attempt to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

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from The Guardian (UK)

LEFT-CENTER BIAS, HIGH, daily newspaper

'Social media has poisoned us': young Britons on why they are unhappy
From student debt to loneliness, young people in Britain share their reasons for why the happiness of 16 to 25-year-olds is so low.

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from Hoover Institution
Nonprofit Organization in Stanford, California

Time To Celebrate Munich
And so here we are with the eightieth anniversary of the Munich agreement to look forward to this coming September. Of course, it represents the best in the great liberal tradition that one can find a reasonable solution to any major international dispute, based on the common threads of humanity and disgust at the myths of military preparedness. Recognizing that Czechoslovakia was far away and that the country’s geographic position and industrial strength were irrelevant to any serious strategic considerations, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed away its citizens’ freedom. Moreover, in one of the great political and humanist gestures of history, he signed an agreement with Adolf Hitler that, as he told the British people on his return to London, “guaranteed peace in our time.” And in spite of the urgings of Winston Churchill, Chamberlain’s government undertook no serious efforts to repair the dreadful weaknesses that existed in the British armed forces until the following March, when public outcry demanded that the prime minister do something in the wake of Hitler’s trashing of the Munich agreement.

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from HumanProgress.org

Education Website

Ridley: Nuclear Fusion Could Provide Unlimited Energy

Unlimited cheap energy would transform society. To be valuable, any conversion technology must produce reliable, just-in-time power that greatly exceeds — by a factor of seven and upwards — the amount of energy that goes into its extraction, conversion and delivery to a consumer. It is this measure of productivity, EROEI (energy return on energy invested), that limits our choice.

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from Mises Institute

[Information from this site may not be reliable.]

The Disaster of Federal Farm Policy
Someone once defined metaphysics as searching in a dark room for a black cat that isn’t there. For the last 35 years in Washington, I have been searching for rational government policies. And, like that black cat, I’m starting to doubt that it is actually there.

Why the President Said "No" | Grover Cleveland

February 16, 1887:  I return without my approval House bill No. 10203, entitled "An act to enable the Commissioner of Agriculture to make a special distribution of seeds in the drought-stricken counties of Texas, and making an appropriation [of $10,000] therefor." 

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from RT (Russia Today)

(Russian government-supported propaganda channel)

Several killed & injured in ‘missile attack’ on airbase in Homs – Syrian state media
A military airport in Homs province has been targeted in a “missile attack,” SANA reports. Although Syrian air defense systems allegedly intercepted at least eight projectiles, several people were reportedly injured and killed. Several missiles struck Syria's Tiyas Military Airbase in the Homs governorate (also known as T-4 Airbase) on Sunday night, SANA reports, citing a military source. As a result of the strike, there were several “martyrs [killed] and wounded ,” the agency added, without specifying the number of casualties. The attack has “probably” been carried out by the United States, the agency said, but US officials have firmly denied such allegations. While the US Defense Department is "aware" of reports of an alleged missile strike, it has dismissed the reports of any US involvement.

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from The Spokesman-Review

Newspaper in Spokane, Washington

Davenport Hotel doorman John Reed dies after 75-year career
John Reed, the dapper doorman who greeted generations of visitors to the historic Davenport Hotel during an astonishing 75-year career, has died at age 88. Reed died in his sleep Sunday night or Monday morning at his home in northeast Spokane. His niece, Susan Wilmoth, said he had reluctantly taken the past few weeks off from his job at the Davenport to nurse a foot ulcer, a complication of diabetes. Reed never dreamed of retiring from the hotel, where he started working as a bus boy on June 1, 1942. Until recently, he was a fixture at the doors, greeting visitors and passersby four days a week, looking like a ringmaster in his black top hat and red three-piece suit.

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from Sputnik

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

Swedish Navy Finds Fault With Poor Maps That 'Obstruct Submarine Hunting'
In 2014, the Swedish Navy turned its painfully unsuccessful hunt for a "Russian submarine" into an international thriller. Today, Navy experts are blaming substandard maps of the challenging and difficult-to-navigate seascape for reducing the nation's submarine hunting capacity. Poor measurement of the seabed poses extra problems for the country's Naval Forces, making it particularly challenging to discover naval mines or hostile submarines. 

Russian Prosecutor General Threatens to Release May's Secret Correspondence
Deputy Russian Prosecutor General Saak Karapetyan has addressed the case, surrounding the alleged poisoning of former spy Sergei Skripal, who reportedly is no longer in critical condition.

Billionaires Betting on Bitcoin: Rockefellers, Soros Send Prices Soaring
After a precipitous fall from record highs in December amid valuation debates and threats of regulation, digital coins are showing signs of a strong rebound.

Russian MoD: Two Israeli Warplanes Attacked Syrian Airbase
Israel has yet to confirm the information, while local media reports suggested that the IDF spy jet had been spotted in the area. The Russian Defense Ministry has stated that it had been two Israeli warplanes that had attacked a Syrian government T-4 airbase in the Homs province early on Monday. "On April 9, from 03:25 to 03:53 Moscow time, two Israeli Air Force F-15 jets, carried out an airstrike by two guided missiles on the T-4 airfield from the Lebanese territory and without entering Syria's airspace."

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from The Weekly Standard

Homeless in Seattle
The inexorable rise in Seattle's homeless population has coincided, seemingly paradoxically, with an extraordinary economic boom in this city. With great prosperity have come great rent increases, however. As of February, the average monthly tab for a one-bedroom apartment within a 10-mile radius of central Seattle is above $2,100, according to Rent Jungle, which monitors real estate trends. The growth rate in rents has been among the nation's highest for years.

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In the news, Sunday, April 8, 2018

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Information from some sites may not be reliable, or may not be vetted.
Some sources may require subscription.

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from Clio et cetera  (Blog)

Why can’t undergraduate historians read and write?

The biggest academic challenges students face at university were reading and writing. In terms of reading, students struggled to make the transition to reading papers in scholarly journals and monographs, particularly in terms of ‘reading for argument’. In terms of writing, students struggled to construct extended analyses in their essays.

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from Reuters

International news agency headquartered in London, England

U.S. not conducting air strikes in Syria 'at this time': Pentagon
The Pentagon said on Sunday it was not conducting air strikes in Syria “at this time,” formally denying a Syrian state television report that the U.S. military had fired missiles at a Syrian government air base.

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from The Spokesman-Review

Newspaper in Spokane, Washington

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