Saturday, October 17, 2020

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Competitive Enterprise Institute

  • A new Competitive Enterprise Institute report examines what employers, businesses, and political leaders can and should do to help people get vaccinated against the coronavirus...

  • ( Help  - nice euphemism for enthusiastically 'encourage' compliance to reckless endangerment )

  • View Full Document as PDF Executive Summary The COVID-19 pandemic has already infected more than 7 million Americans, claiming over 200,000 lives in the U.S. Since the disease is...

    • The catastrophic wildfires raging up and down the West Coast should force a radical reversal of 30 years of disastrous government policies. Instead, the politicians and environmental...

  • To be clear, the blackouts experienced in California this summer were not caused by variable renewable energy. Rather, they were the result of both the failure to build the wider grid...

  • Moderated by Niskanen's Matthew La Corte, the panel will explore the policy and politics of improving and expanding our refugee resettlement system, and how to rebuild bipartisan...

    • Yergin’s The New Map inflates the future importance and ongoing contribution of fossil fuels. The rapid evolution of consumer priorities and clean energy innovations spurred...

  • Covid-19 is being used to give the state more powers. No 10 will one day see how they work• Coronavirus – latest updates• See all our coronavirus coverageChristopher Hitchens...

  • The EU should thwart the meat industry trying to ban certain labels on veggie productsThe meat lobby may be powerful, but is it entitled to cultural ownership of the burger? The European...

    • Forget your troubles and watch the interior designer work his magic in the reboot of Changing RoomsSomeone I know has a rule about dating: never go out with someone who did not watch...

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  • A First Nations leader is calling for military support in the wake of a suspicious fire that gutted the lobster pound in Middle West Pubnico, N.S.

  • Thousands of mostly young women in masks rallied Saturday in the nation's capital and other U.S. cities, exhorting voters to oppose U.S. President Donald Trump and his fellow Republican...

    • CTV’s W5 investigates serial killer Bruce McArthur, who took the lives of eight men in Toronto’s Gay Village, and interviews Mark Henderson, his first known survivor. Watch...

  • Originally posted on PA Pundits - International: By Vijay Raj Jayaraj ~ “Eco-anxiety” is now a popular term. It is being increasingly used in the media to describe an anxiety condition...

  • The mythology of human-caused climate change is leading the world up the garden path, and renewables are at the forefront of the visible evidence of that. The hardware itself is expensive...

    • Originally posted on Science Matters: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”–George Santayana 1905 Interesting that Svante Arrhenius was elevated...

  • The attacker used several networks to spoof 167 Mbps (millions of packets per second) to 180,000 exposed CLDAP, DNS, and SMTP servers, which would then send large responses to Google...

  • Twitter Inc said its social networking site was down for many users due to an inadvertent change it had made to its internal systems.

    • FRINZA was founded by Praveen Singh Rajput who holds an MBA from SIBM, Bengaluru and is also one of the youngest Penguin India authors of the book titled “Locha 20+”...

  • 'Planet-Based Diets' will help human beings in reversing nature loss, halt deforestation, reduce water use and pollution, reduce emissions and will provide everyone with healthy...

  • Jitendra Singh said this is also a part of the Narendra Modi-led government's 'AtmaNirbhar' roadmap towards self-reliant India.

    • India has also been awarded the 3rd prize by the International Jury under the 'International Best Practices' for pollution control in coastal regions.

  • Both sides had accused each other earlier of fresh attacks in violation of a week-old Russian-brokered truce that had failed to halt the worst fighting in the South Caucasus since...

  • Women are more likely to perceive the pandemic as a very serious health problem and to agree and comply with restraining measures. 

    • Jacinda Ardern's left-leaning government will face a looming economic hangover from COVID-19.

  • Maharashtra government on Saturday (October 17, 2020) announced to reopen gyms and fitness centres across the state from Dussehra, which will be celebrated on October 25. ...

  • The 7th Corps Commander level meeting between India and China had lasted for over 12 hours at Chushul on October 12.

    • "News reports about accident of Helicopter carrying Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad are not correct. He is safe and sound," said Ravi Shankar Prasad's office.  ...

      Channel NewsAsia World News

  • WASHINGTON: Thousands took to the streets across the United States for women's marches on Saturday (Oct 17), many wearing pink protest hats while issuing fervent calls against President...

  • RICHMOND, Virginia: An investigation is underway into the cause of an explosion and large fire at a shopping center in Harrisonburg, Virginia, that injured at least five people on...

    • Iran said it was self-reliant in its defense and had no need to go on a weapons buying spree as a United Nations conventional arms embargo was due to expire on Sunday despite strong U.S...

  • About 1.5 to 2.4 million more Malaysians could fall into poverty by one estimate. The programme Insight takes a look at the struggle to stay afloat at the bottom rungs of the country...

  • KUALA LUMPUR: Di kala wabak COVID-19 menjejaskan banyak perniagaan di Malaysia, kedai-kedai buku selera khas masih mampu bertahan dengan sokongan para penggemar buku yang masih...

    • KUALA LUMPUR: While COVID-19 has hurt the viability of many businesses, independent bookstores in Malaysia are holding on to their customers, thanks to loyal bibliophiles...

      Channel NewsAsia Front Page News

  • WASHINGTON: Thousands took to the streets across the United States for women's marches on Saturday (Oct 17), many wearing pink protest hats while issuing fervent calls against President...

  • Santos scored two first half goals to overcome struggling Coritiba on Saturday and secure a vital three points away from home.

  • RICHMOND, Virginia: An investigation is underway into the cause of an explosion and large fire at a shopping center in Harrisonburg, Virginia, that injured at least five people on...

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