Tuesday, February 11, 2020

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  Niskanen Center

  • Pellentesque faucibus commodo metus sed cursus. Curabitur a metus non libero pretium facilisis. Nam congue purus non tortor eleifend gravida. Aenean sollicitudin, sem pulvinar...
  • Republicans who want to compete with Democrats on climate change have a tremendous opportunity. With that party’s leftward move on climate, significant space has been opened...
    • As MPP continues operation into its second year, it’s time to call the crowded MPP regions what they are—refugee camps—and allow UNHCR to provide basic needs to these asylum...

    Competitive Enterprise Institute

  • National Review cites senior fellow Iain Murray on democratic socialism: Murray, talking about his forthcoming book The Socialist Temptation at a CEI event in New Orleans...
  • Location: Russell Senate Office Building 2 Constitution Ave NE Room 188 Washington, DC 20002 United StatesEvent Date: Google Outlook MAC/iOS Teaser: The Competitive Enterprise...
    • CEI applauds today’s decision by U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero to approve the $26 billion merger of T-Mobile US Inc. with Sprint Corp. over the objection of a group of state...
  • ‘Getting tough’ on migration is just wilful cruelty. It is entrenched, but it can also be beatenEven as the Windrush scandal was being exposed, there were signs that the bad headlines...
  • The River Calder flooded this weekend, days after fires on the peatlands above. The government said it would ban the practice but it has done nothingLast Friday, campaigners in Calderdale...
    • Boris Johnson won’t help to solve Brexit Britain’s problems by ploughing on with big projects like HS2 and a fantasy Scottish bridgeBuild bridges, not walls. It’s an evergreen...

      CTVNews.ca - Top Stories - Public RSS

  • Via Rail is cancelling all train service from Toronto-Montreal and Toronto-Ottawa due to the ongoing blockade just east of Belleville, Ont.
  • Another 39 positive cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed on a quarantined cruise ship in Japan, but it’s unclear if any of those new infections involve Canadians...
    • Bernie Sanders held a narrow lead over Pete Buttigieg in the New Hampshire Democratic primary Tuesday night as the two ideological opposites battled it out for front-runner status...

      Tallbloke's Talkshop

  • No great surprise there. As usual the idea is to demonize the essential trace gas carbon dioxide, paving the way to useless ‘solutions’ to an imaginary problem. Note: Attenborough...
  • Originally posted on PA Pundits - International: From the team at CFACT ~ By Joanne Nova ~ So much for the “hotter drier” Australian future they were warning us about 3 weeks ago...
    • Enormous expense, twenty times more wind turbines, hydrogen production, much less meat eating, carbon capture, hard ‘lifestyle changes’ and so on. Maybe travel to work on a...
  • According to the company, its automatic Gmail spam and phishing filters block 99.9 percent of suspicious or dangerous emails before they reach users.
  • Google Chrome has announced that it will now ensure that secure pages only download secure files by blocking mixed content downloads or non-HTTPS downloads, which start on secure...
    • The utilization of 3D printing-like techniques to combine cells, growth factors that imitate natural tissue characteristics is known as bioprinting.
  • Planetary scientist and researcher James O'Donoghue, in a remake of a 12-year-old National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) video, explains how would the Earth looked...
  • Named Vyommitra, the robot is a prototype of humanoid and will go as a trial before the Gaganyaan goes up with the astronauts.
    • In a slight relief to the Delhiites, the national capital has shown marginal signs of improvement compared to the last two years. Delhi is the tenth most polluted city in India now as...
  • He will be buried there on Wednesday.
  • The hearing is scheduled for three days until Thursday, with a verdict unlikely right away but it would depend on how the hearing progresses.
    • In 2017, a crackdown by Myanmar`s military drove more than 730,000 Rohingya Muslims to flee to neighbouring Bangladesh.
  • Days ahead of his scheduled visit to India, US President Donald Trump on Wednesday (February 12) said that he is looking forward to his February 24-25 visit to India. ...
  • The Congress party, in a repeat of 2015 assembly elections, drew a blank by managing to not win even a single seat.
    • The petition has been filed Nirbhaya's parents, the court issued notice to the convicts seeking their reply by Wednesday.

      Channel NewsAsia World News

  • Pope Francis is on Wednesday to release a much-anticipated text about the Amazon, which is not expected to open up the priesthood to married men in the region despite an appeal from...
  • LONDON: David James Roach, suspected of robbing a Standard Chartered bank in 2016, has been ordered extradited to Singapore, according to a Canadian media report on Wednesday (Feb...
    • Australia is on track to meet just two of its targets aimed at improving the lives of its Indigenous people, including increasing life expectancy and improving literacy, Prime Minister...

      Channel NewsAsia Asia Pacific News

  • BEIJING: China's Hubei province on Wednesday (Feb 12) reported its lowest number of new coronavirus cases since January, lending credence to a prediction from the country's senior...
  • SEREMBAN: A two-year-old boy was flung out of a vehicle on Tuesday (Feb 11) after a road accident on a Malaysian highway.  The boy was injured on his forearms and head, said Negeri...
    • WASHINGTON: Tech entrepreneur Andrew Yang, who campaigned on giving every adult American US$1,000 a month, suspended his campaign for president on Tuesday (Feb 11) after failing...

      Channel NewsAsia Front Page News

  • Pope Francis is on Wednesday to release a much-anticipated text about the Amazon, which is not expected to open up the priesthood to married men in the region despite an appeal from...
  • BEIJING: China's Hubei province on Wednesday (Feb 12) reported its lowest number of new coronavirus cases since January, lending credence to a prediction from the country's senior...
    • The air cargo market is unlikely to grow this year because of the challenges posed in the China market due to the coronavirus, a senior executive at Boeing Co said on Wednesday...

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