Monday, May 18, 2020

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Competitive Enterprise Institute

  • Buried in the recent announcement by the Bureau of Economic Analysis that real gross domestic product (GDP) decreased at an annual rate of 4.8 percent in the first quarter of...
  • View Full Document as PDF Dear Secretary Mnuchin, Director Kudlow, Leader McConnell & Leader McCarthy: We write in opposition to any proposal to impose “Buy American” mandates...
    • Location: na Washington, DC 20005 United StatesEvent Date: Google Outlook MAC/iOS Some of the most helpful policy responses to the coronavirus pandemic loosen rather than...
  • Contact isolation is a pathway to social reopening. We can be safe together again. The post The key tool to a safe opening is not social distancing appeared first on Niskanen Center...
  • The Niskanen Center, in conjunction with the Woods Hole Research Center (WHRC), is seeking a postdoctoral researcher and writer to join our growing climate department for a two-year...
    • Together with Matt Zwolinski of the University of San Diego’s Center for Ethics, Economics, and Public Policy, Ed Dolan discusses why our social safety net was woefully unprepared...
  • No government could have been completely ready for the pandemic, but taking the public for fools has destroyed all trust Waves of panic radiate from the government. Each day ministers...
  • The public deserves to know what happened in the secretive scientific debates that have informed government policyCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageA...
    • Coronavirus policies to help the vulnerable are already being jettisoned. Those who want change need to be up for the battleIt is now certain. We will emerge from lockdown grieving...

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  • As an investigation into the crash of a Snowbird jet unfolds, some are calling for the permanent grounding of the iconic Tutor jets that have served the military aerobatics team for...
  • The death of Capt. Jennifer Casey in a Canadian Forces Snowbirds crash on Sunday is just the latest blow for Nova Scotia.
    • The crash of a Snowbird plane in Kamloops, B.C., on May 17 claimed the life of Capt. Jenn Casey, a public affairs officer with the Canadian Forces aerobatic team...

      Tallbloke's Talkshop

  • Wikipedia says: LHS 1140 is a red dwarf in the constellation of Cetus…The star is over 5 billion years old and has 15% of the mass of the Sun. LHS 1140’s rotational period is 130 days…LHS...
  • Planet Of The Greens 

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  • Standard green response to criticism: ‘Shoot the messenger!’ They like to travel around the world telling people it’s a bad idea to travel around so much, due to some flaky climate...
    • Like pumped hydro or any gravity-based system it uses more power than it stores. Euan Mearns and Roger Andrews did an interesting analysis on this idea in 2018, comparing it to batteries...
  • After the weird naming of his son, this time Twitter was in splits over Musk’s explanation of Bitcoins to celebrated author JK Rowling.
  • Both the products will be launched via an online event and will be live-streamed via Realme's YouTube channel and other social media platforms.
    • GTA V will be available for free on the Epic Games Store between May 14 and May 21.
  • The finding published on the PNAS journal, showed that the tiny, less than 10-celled parasite Henneguya salminicola lives in salmon muscle.
  • The wandering pole is driven by unpredictable changes in liquid iron deep inside the Earth.
    • The Eta Aquarid meteors make up the debris trail of Halley’s Comet, which passes by Earth every 76 years.
  • In the last 24 hours, there were around 56,910 new COVID-19 confirmed cases in the world along with 1,855 new deaths.
  • Fake tweets attributed to Suhail Shaheen and Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid have been doing rounds saying "friendship between Islamic Emirate and India is impossible"...
    • According to United Aircraft Corporation (UAC), the  Russian aerospace and defence corporation of which Sukhoi Company is a part of, the 5th Generation's fighter's name had a simple...
  • An encounter broke out between a joint team of security forces and terrorists in Nawakadal area of Jammu and Kashmir's Srinagar in the wee hours of Tuesday (May 19)...
  • Extremely severe cyclonic storm 'Amphan' on Monday turned into a super cyclonic storm, only the second over the Bay of Bengal in two decades, and is spiralling towards Indian shores...
    • The channel noted that they have 2,500 employees and that they are committed to the safety of each one of them.

      Channel NewsAsia World News

  • The novel coronavirus is spreading so fast among the indigenous people in the furthest parts of Brazil's Amazon rainforest that doctors are now evacuating critical COVID-19 patients...
  • Qatar confirmed 12 cases of COVID-19 at a jail on Tuesday as campaign group Human Rights Watch warned other prisoners could be at risk of contracting the disease...
    • BAGHDAD: One rocket hit near the US embassy in Baghdad early Tuesday (May 19) morning, security sources told AFP, the first to land in the high-security zone in weeks. The blast could...

      Channel NewsAsia Asia Pacific News

  • WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday (May 18) demanded that China reveal "immediately" the whereabouts of the Panchen Lama chosen by the Dalai Lama, 25 years after...
  • In a buyers’ market, Asian countries can seize the moment to develop oil contracts that give the Iraqi industry a much-needed boost, says Mohammed Abdul Shihab...
    • It hasn’t been easy since the city was hit with its first coronavirus case in January but we’re taking it slow, says Doris Lam.

      Channel NewsAsia Front Page News

  • The novel coronavirus is spreading so fast among the indigenous people in the furthest parts of Brazil's Amazon rainforest that doctors are now evacuating critical COVID-19 patients...
  • Qatar confirmed 12 cases of COVID-19 at a jail on Tuesday as campaign group Human Rights Watch warned other prisoners could be at risk of contracting the disease...
    • Borussia Dortmund's young stars Erling Braut Haaland and Jadon Sancho will be hunting more goals on Saturday in "the most unusual derby in history" against Schalke as the German Bundesliga...

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