Thursday, June 04, 2020

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Competitive Enterprise Institute

  • Recently a controversy arose over a CBS News shot of a supposed line for coronavirus testing that turned out to include staged medical staff posing posing as patients. But this kind...
  • Today the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) released a report urging state and local governments to end bans and restrictions on single-use plastics, like shopping bags and...
    • View Full Document as PDF Since the COVID-19 pandemic hit, lawmakers have finally begun considering the unintended impacts of bans on single-use plastics, particularly the potential...
  • At the Niskanen Center, we believe that election security must transcend partisan divisions and advance a practical policy vision that addresses the urgent needs of states in administering...
  • Can protests change election outcomes or the future of the parties? The post How Protests Change Parties and Elections appeared first on Niskanen Center...
    • Do vice-presidential picks matter? Conventional wisdom argues they have limited electoral impact. The post Op-Ed: Why a Biden Victory Hinges on Picking the Right Running Mate appeared...
  • This is not just ‘horrible stuff that happens in America’. Black people know we need to dismantle the same system herePay attention to African Americans.  Related: The perils...
  • The internet eased lockdown life for millions. But millions more still can’t get online, and that’s fundamentally unfairMy 100-zip black backpack, previously the logistical...
    • The state wants us to forget, but those of us who were there in 1989 cling to our memories – and worry for Hong KongTo commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre...

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  • Demonstrations in cities across the U.S. to condemn racism and police abuses remained large but turned notably more subdued on the eve of a Thursday memorial service for George Floyd...
  • A New York City police officer on an anti-looting patrol was ambushed Wednesday by a man who walked up behind him and stabbed him in the neck, police said, setting off a struggle in which...
    • Canada has had more than 93,000 cases of COVID-19 with nearly 7,500 associated deaths.
  • Making the insanity obvious is one thing, but getting UK political leaders to take any notice is another matter altogether. Most of them won’t be in office anyway when their climate/energy...
  • Originally posted on PA Pundits - International: By David Wojick, Ph.D. ~ If Greta Thunberg is an alarmist princess then Katherine Hayhoe is the queen of climate alarmism, at least...
    • The Global Warming Policy Forum (GWPF) brings this critique of the big beasts of social media to our attention. Fake impartiality and bullying tactics get exposed again. – – –...
  • The “anti-China” application had gathered about a million users rapidly via the Google Play Store, where it also quickly became the top free application...
  • South Korean electronic giant Samsung launched its much-awaited Galaxy A31 in India on Thursday (June 4). The Galaxy A31 is the successor of Galaxy A30, which was released by Samsung...
    • Elbrus 8CB, can be said to be pitted against AMD and Intel.
  • The mission is significant as it marks the first spaceflight of NASA astronauts from American soil after a gap of over nine years (2011).
  • It also marked the first time that commercially developed space vehicles - owned and operated by a private entity rather than NASA - have carried Americans into orbit...
    • The launch pad is the same one used by NASA`s final space shuttle flight, piloted by Hurley, in 2011.
  • On Wednesday, the US government said it would bar Chinese passenger carriers starting from June 16, pressuring Beijing to let US airlines to resume flights...
  • Syrian forces have started to carry out missions on the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-29 fighters which they received from Russia a few days ago. Confirming the delivery of the MiG-29s, the...
    • After long refusing to explicitly criticize a sitting president, former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis accused President Donald Trump on Wednesday of trying to divide America and...
  • In a major decision, the Union Home Ministry on Thursday blacklisted at least 2000 foreign members of Tablighi Jamaat from traveling to India for ten years. According to the sources...
  • Join ZEE NEWS campaign to bring Kerala elephant's barbaric killers to book by tweeting #JusticeForElephant to us.
    • The Rajya Sabha elections are scheduled to fill as many as 18 seats from seven states, including four seats in Gujarat, which will be held on June 19. ...

      Channel NewsAsia World News

  • European countries cautiously emerging from the onslaught of the coronavirus pandemic are looking to a second generation of contact tracing apps to help contain further outbreaks...
  • India and Australia sealed a deal on Thursday to grant access to each other's military bases, a pact that will clear the way for more military exchanges and exercises in the Indo-Pacific...
    • Battered by crisis after crisis, President Donald Trump appears to be in political peril as never before.

      Channel NewsAsia Asia Pacific News

  • India pledged to investigate Thursday the death of a pregnant elephant that ate explosives-filled fruit, as cricket and Bollywood stars joined a chorus of outrage over the incident...
  • India and Australia sealed a deal on Thursday to grant access to each other's military bases, a pact that will clear the way for more military exchanges and exercises in the Indo-Pacific...
    • NEW DELHI: Rural parts of India have begun to see a surge in novel coronavirus infections, as millions of migrant workers returning from big cities and industrial hubs bring the virus...

      Channel NewsAsia Front Page News

  • The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits dropped below 2 million last week for the first time since mid-March, but remains astonishingly high as companies adjust...
  • American Airlines Group Inc said Thursday it will boost its U.S. flight schedule next month over dramatic reductions since the coronavirus pandemic, planning to fly more than 55per...
    • Investors eyeing a turnaround in the U.S. economy are piling into U.S. bank stocks even as some caution that positive stress test results and an abatement of loan losses will be needed...

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