Category: Aggregated

Philippines official proposes Muslim-only ID cards to tackle extremism

EU backs migrant restrictions despite criticism

Human Rights Watch accuses Bangladesh of holding hundreds in secret jails

‘This is an attack on internet, CNN informally declared war on it’ – Reddit moderator

Ukrainian military severely injures journalist who ‘volunteered as perpetrator’ in drills

Virginia executes mentally ill convicted murderer

Egypt hikes electricity prices by more than 40% as demanded by IMF

Cyprus reunification talks collapse

At least 28 killed in Mexico prison fight

President Donald Trump flew off for his first meeting with Vladimir Putin — with instructions from our foreign policy elite that he get into the Russian president’s face over his hacking in the election of 2016. Hopefully, Trump will ignore these people. For their record of failure is among the reasons Americans elected him to the office. What president, seeking to repair damaged relations with a rival superpower, would begin by reading from an indictment? President Eisenhower did not begin his summit with Nikita Khrushchev by berating him for crushing the Hungarian freedom fighters in 1956 — a more grievous … Continue reading →

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US and Poland agree to strike deal on Patriot missile defense systems

As my colleague Adam Garrie has rightly written, the meetings yesterday and today in Moscow between Presidents Xi Jinping of China and Vladimir Putin of Russia are far more important than any of the other bilateral meetings which will be taking place this week during the G20 summit in Hamburg. Unfortunately, that includes the ill-starred meeting between President Putin and President Trump. This is the 21st meeting between Presidents Xi and Putin since President Xi became China’s leader when he was elected General Secretary of China’s Communist Party in November 2012 and became China’s President in March 2013. I do not think … Continue reading →

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“The gates of hell are open night and day; Smooth the descent, and easy is the way: But to return, and view the cheerful skies, In this the task and mighty labor lies.”        Vergil, The Aeneid . Not since Edmund Gosse’s classic memoir, Father and Son: A Study of Two Temperaments, has an estranged son written more nobly of his father than Douglas Valentine. Nobly because, apart from a brief author’s note, the son is absent from the book, except as a faithful and creative amanuensis to his father’s chilling, dark, life-long secret of his WW II years as a … Continue reading →

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There are lots of debates between what is called establishment medicine and alternative medicine. They have very different strategies in conducting research. Their standards of proof are different. DOUBLE BLIND AND MORALLY BLIND Establishment medicine relies heavily on what are called double-blind tests. These tests are subject to statistical analysis. But there is a fundamental moral problem with these tests. That problem is the placebo. The tests have randomness as the criterion of truth. If a particular procedure is going to be proven to be both a safe and effective, it has to be compared with something. It does no … Continue reading →

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Following a swarm of over 1100 earthquakes recorded in the Yellowstone caldera over the past month, prompting scientists to voice concerns about a dormant Yellowstone “Supervolcano” slowly waking up, overnight these concerns escalated after a strong M5.8 earthquake hit western Montana early on Thursday morning – the strongest quake to hit the area in the past 20 years – the U.S. Geological Survey reported, with Reuters adding that the tremor was felt hundreds of miles away, from Missoula to Billings and some surrounding states. The quake appears to be the largest to hit Montana since a slightly weaker M5.6 struck outside of Dillon a dozen years … Continue reading →

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