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Friday, August 2, 2019
Bishop Barron's Gospel Reflection August 2, 2019
Pro-life Democrats reimagine future of their movement, party | National Catholic Reporter
Pro-life Democrats reimagine future of their movement, party | National Catholic Reporter: The party activists gathered in East Lansing for the national conference of the Democrats for Life of America got a hint at the obstacles they face even before their meeting. Less than half a mile fro...
Thursday, August 1, 2019
Sanctioning Zarif Further Undermines U.S. Diplomatic Credibility – LobeLog
Sanctioning Zarif Further Undermines U.S. Diplomatic Credibility – LobeLog: by Robert E. Hunter In the latest tit-for-tat in the battle between the United States and Iran, this week the Treasury Department, at the behest of the State Department, imposed sanctions on the Ir…
FBI uncovered Russian bribery plot before Obama administration approved controversial nuclear deal with Moscow | TheHill
FBI uncovered Russian bribery plot before Obama administration approved controversial nuclear deal with Moscow | TheHill: Before the Obama administration approved a controversial deal in 2010 giving Moscow control of a large swath of American uranium, the FBI had gathered substantial evidence that Russian nuclear industry officials were engaged in bribery, kickbacks, extortion and money laundering designed to grow Vladimir Putin’s atomic energy business inside the United States, according to
PG&E makes deal to cut solar power prices | The Sacramento Bee
PG&E makes deal to cut solar power prices | The Sacramento Bee: PG&E Corp. said Thursday it made deals to cut prices on three solar power contracts. Bankrupt utility had hinted it might sever some contracts because of price, undermining California’s clean energy goals.
FBI Questions American Grads Of China's Prestigious Yenching Academy : NPR
FBI Questions American Grads Of China's Prestigious Yenching Academy : NPR: In the last two years, at least five graduates have been approached by agents to gather intelligence on the program and to ascertain whether they have been co-opted by Chinese espionage efforts.
This Is the Soul of the Democratic Party | The New Republic
This Is the Soul of the Democratic Party | The New Republic: Warren and Sanders easily countered attacks from desperate moderates at Tuesday's debate and delivered compelling visions for America.
National Cathedral questions American’s silence over Trump’s racism - Vox
National Cathedral questions American’s silence over Trump’s racism - Vox: The letter from religious leaders come after Trump’s recent racist attacks.
US federal court exposes Democratic Party conspiracy against Assange and WikiLeaks - World Socialist Web Site
US federal court exposes Democratic Party conspiracy against Assange and WikiLeaks - World Socialist Web Site: The decision exposes the Democratic Party in a conspiracy to attack free speech and cover up the crimes of US imperialism and the two parties of Wall Street.
Demise of US-Russian Nuclear Treaty Triggers Warnings | Voice of America - English
Demise of US-Russian Nuclear Treaty Triggers Warnings | Voice of America - English: In December 1987, U.S. President Ronald Reagan hosted Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev at the White House for a ceremony that signaled the changing times.
Reagan, a Cold War hardliner who'd once labeled the U.S.S.R. "the Evil Empire," was all smiles as he and Gorbachev sat down to sign the latest symbol of growing U.S.-Soviet detente — the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces, known as the INF Treaty.
"It was a momentous occasion," remembers George Shultz, Reagan's Secretary of State from 1982-1988 — and a key figure in crafting the INF deal.
Reagan, a Cold War hardliner who'd once labeled the U.S.S.R. "the Evil Empire," was all smiles as he and Gorbachev sat down to sign the latest symbol of growing U.S.-Soviet detente — the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces, known as the INF Treaty.
"It was a momentous occasion," remembers George Shultz, Reagan's Secretary of State from 1982-1988 — and a key figure in crafting the INF deal.
CTA spent $1 million a month to restrict charter growth | The Sacramento Bee
CTA spent $1 million a month to restrict charter growth | The Sacramento Bee: The state’s biggest teachers union spent more than $1 million a month since April to influence lawmakers as it pushed bills to crack down on charter schools in California.
RCEP expected to be finalised by year-end: ASEAN General Secretary - Economy - Vietnam News | Politics, Business, Economy, Society, Life, Sports - VietNam News
RCEP expected to be finalised by year-end: ASEAN General Secretary - Economy - Vietnam News | Politics, Business, Economy, Society, Life, Sports - VietNam News: ASEAN General Secretary Dato Lim Jock Hoi has expressed his optimism of the likelihood that the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) between 10 ASEAN member countries and six partners will be finalised by the end of the year.
Gary Cohn: Trump's trade war with China is hurting the US more
Gary Cohn: Trump's trade war with China is hurting the US more: The former top economic advisor to President Trump says tariffs are particularly painful to America's farming and auto sectors.
Ships to sail down great Siberian river, deliver grain to Japan via Arctic route | The Independent Barents Observer
Ships to sail down great Siberian river, deliver grain to Japan via Arctic route | The Independent Barents Observer: It could open a new window to Asia, a regional governor in Siberia argues.
War Party Targets the New EU Foreign Policy Nominee – LobeLog
War Party Targets the New EU Foreign Policy Nominee – LobeLog: by Eldar Mamedov As the drumbeats for war with Iran grow louder, efforts are gaining momentum to discredit those politicians and officials who advocate for diplomatic engagement as a way to resolve…
Allies Push Back Against US Waffling on New START « Breaking Defense - Defense industry news, analysis and commentary
Allies Push Back Against US Waffling on New START « Breaking Defense - Defense industry news, analysis and commentary: "New START was flawed from the beginning," National Security Adviser John Bolton said Tuesday. "It is due to expire in February 2021 and while no decision has been made, it is unlikely to be extended. We need to focus on something better. And we will."
Last federal report says honeybee colonies down in California | The Sacramento Bee
Last federal report says honeybee colonies down in California | The Sacramento Bee: It’s the last federal report on honeybee populations we’ll see — at least for a while — and the numbers for California show the number of colonies are still decreasing, according to a USDA report.
Trump’s new China tariffs target toys, iPhones, and clothing - Vox
Trump’s new China tariffs target toys, iPhones, and clothing - Vox: Trump tweeted that he will impose 10 percent tariffs on $300 billion in Chinse products like iPhones, toys, and clothing.
My First Month As A Priest - Catholic Link
My First Month As A Priest - Catholic Link: My First Month As A Priest - It has been just over six weeks since I was ordained a Catholic priest for the Diocese of Rockford on June 1st, 2019.
Archeologists say they have found Church of the Apostles by Sea of Galilee | Deacon Greg Kandra
Archeologists say they have found Church of the Apostles by Sea of Galilee | Deacon Greg Kandra: Wow: Archaeologists believe they have likely found the Church of the Apostles, which Christian tradition says had been built over the home of Jesus’ disciples Peter and Andrew in the village of Bethsaida, today part of the Bteikha Nature Reserve, by the Sea of Galilee. The archaeologists, from the Kinneret Academic
Archbishop Gregory: ‘Reject language that ridicules, condemns, vilifies another’ | Deacon Greg Kandra
Archbishop Gregory: ‘Reject language that ridicules, condemns, vilifies another’ | Deacon Greg Kandra: The Archbishop of Washington, Wilton Gregory, speaks out in an interview: What is your reaction to the controversy over President Trump’s tweets on some members of Congress, deploring Baltimore and related matters? In my brief time in Washington, I have been doing a lot of listening and learning. I have promised to
Gone Decades of greed, neglect, corruption, and bad politics led to last year’s Paradise fire, the worst in California history. It should never have happened. It will happen again.
Gone
Decades of greed, neglect, corruption, and bad politics led to last year’s Paradise fire, the worst in California history. It should never have happened. It will happen again.
https://story.californiasunday.com/gone-paradise-fire?utm_campaign=the_download.unpaid.engagement&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=75252706&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9CVtKVUmP1Z_F-SrUTLBH-zrcHL4gVnaJfxv_5mbFDz1uMcn8lF9dJx9o28PMPZ7RzOHYeg_E1BDpX8LJiYQbV8IKmbETc9enLs-WplzykOl8KxJg&_hsmi=75252706
Greenland’s Ice Melt a Climate Change ‘Warning Sign’, Scientists Say – Rolling Stone
Greenland’s Ice Melt a Climate Change ‘Warning Sign’, Scientists Say – Rolling Stone: Music, Film, TV and Political News Coverage
Another U.S. City Moves to Ban Face Recognition, Citing Threats to Free Speech and Civil Rights [Corrected]
Another U.S. City Moves to Ban Face Recognition, Citing Threats to Free Speech and Civil Rights [Corrected]
https://gizmodo.com/fourth-u-s-city-bans-facial-recognition-citing-threat-1836858623?IR=T&utm_campaign=the_download.unpaid.engagement&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=75252706&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9CVtKVUmP1Z_F-SrUTLBH-zrcHL4gVnaJfxv_5mbFDz1uMcn8lF9dJx9o28PMPZ7RzOHYeg_E1BDpX8LJiYQbV8IKmbETc9enLs-WplzykOl8KxJg&_hsmi=75252706
It’s Sentient Meet the classified artificial brain being developed by US intelligence programs
It’s Sentient
Meet the classified artificial brain being developed by US intelligence programs
https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/31/20746926/sentient-national-reconnaissance-office-spy-satellites-artificial-intelligence-ai?utm_campaign=the_download.unpaid.engagement&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=75252706&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9CVtKVUmP1Z_F-SrUTLBH-zrcHL4gVnaJfxv_5mbFDz1uMcn8lF9dJx9o28PMPZ7RzOHYeg_E1BDpX8LJiYQbV8IKmbETc9enLs-WplzykOl8KxJg&_hsmi=75252706
Hong Kong and Singapore, so similar yet so different – it’s all about housing, money and politics | South China Morning Post
Hong Kong and Singapore, so similar yet so different – it’s all about housing, money and politics | South China Morning Post: Political power is supreme in Singapore, while money dominates politics in Hong Kong. Why can’t Beijing see how the dreams of Hong Kong youth are being crushed?
In defense of defending Japan | The Japan Times
In defense of defending Japan | The Japan Times: Both Japan and the U.S. must make efforts to ensure the long-term stability of the security alliance.
The Syrian Civil War Grinds On, Largely Forgotten
The Syrian Civil War Grinds On, Largely Forgotten
https://worldview.stratfor.com/article/syrian-civil-war-grinds-largely-forgotten-us-russia-turkey-iran-assad-kurds
Greetings from Fr. Warren ENews August 2019
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I receive many letters in the course of a month, and I have to admit that most of them are sad. Good people tell me their problems—loss of a job, serious illness, divorce—and inevitably, there is always a reference to carrying ones cross. It seems part of the human condition that at some time in life we will all carry a cross just as Jesus did. But I ask you to remember that even Jesus had someone help Him carry His cross, and He will help us carry ours. What kind of cross will you have to carry? Do you carry now? I do not know. I do know that the cross is not just for the elderly. It touches all of us. Pain of body or spirit, disappointments, the death of a loved one, the insecurities of youth and the trembling of old age. The cross hangs over all of our lives and with all my years of Theology, I still do not know why. What I do know, what I have experienced, is that there is no human pain that cannot be touched to the cross of Christ. The only thing that can help us carry the crosses that are so much part of life is our relationship with God. Hopefully, a loving relationship, but you will not love God because you have studied Him. You will love Him because you have touched Him and He has touched you. The questions why suffering, why pain, why do bad things happen to good people, those questions will not wear away. But you will come to know that your Gethsemane is His garden, your Calvary is also His cross. We all shudder a little when Christ warns us that life can get tough and that we have to face up to it. None of us likes cross carrying. We are somewhat like those disciples on the road to Emmaus. Remember them? They were walking away from Jerusalem. Away from the suffering, away from the cross and the resurrected Christ joins them on the road. They do not recognize Him. They tell Him of all their disappointments, frustrations and that they are leaving Jerusalem going to Emmaus. We all like to do that—walk away from our own Jerusalem, away from suffering and the cross. There is a danger when we do that. We always miss the Resurrection. |
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5G enthusiasm abounds from tech CEOs: Is it warranted? | ZDNet
5G enthusiasm abounds from tech CEOs: Is it warranted? | ZDNet: Qualcomm CEO Steve Mollenkopf says 5G is ramping much faster than 4G did at a similar point in its history. Other tech execs agree. But that doesn't mean tech buyers will go ga-ga just yet for 5G.
On Iran, Trump is shoving Israel out into the cold - Iran - Haaretz.com
On Iran, Trump is shoving Israel out into the cold - Iran - Haaretz.com: Trump's apparent pivot towards the 'America First' isolationism of Rand Paul and Tucker Carlson is a bitter shock for his Jewish and evangelical donors and supporters - and for Netanyahu
Trump's no longer enough: Netanyahu selling Israelis 'a different league' with Putin and Modi - Israel Election 2019 - Haaretz.com
Trump's no longer enough: Netanyahu selling Israelis 'a different league' with Putin and Modi - Israel Election 2019 - Haaretz.com: In an unusually positive campaign style, Netanyahu has brought in a dangerous trio, hoping voters won't notice their close ties to Iran
Triumph and Disaster: The Tragic Hubris of Rudyard Kipling’s ‘If—’ | by Christopher Benfey | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books
Triumph and Disaster: The Tragic Hubris of Rudyard Kipling’s ‘If—’ | by Christopher Benfey | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books: For these next two weeks, the best tennis players in the world will enter Wimbledon’s fabled Center Court under two lines of poetry inscribed in capital letters above the tunnel that leads from the locker room: “IF YOU CAN MEET WITH TRIUMPH AND DISASTER / AND TREAT THOSE TWO IMPOSTORS JUST THE SAME…” The passage is from Rudyard Kipling’s “If—,” once voted Britain’s most popular poem. It might surprise the poem’s many enthusiasts to learn that Kipling, who lived for several years in Vermont and built himself a tennis court there (reputedly the first in the state), originally used “If—” as the epilogue to a story about George Washington and his resistance to public opinion. Today, it is Kipling himself who often faces the public’s wrath.
Why Private Equity Should Not Exist
Why Private Equity Should Not Exist: Hi, Welcome to Big, a newsletter about the politics of monopoly. If you’d like to sign up, you can do so here. Or just read on… Today I’m going to discuss address the nascent political attack on private equity, the financial model in commerce which more than any other defines the Western political landscape. The most important signal of this attack is in the Democratic Presidential campaign, where candidates are being pressured on what they will do about PE. Sure enough, Senator Elizabeth Warren, the standard bearer for sophisticated policy thinking, recently announced a
California lost $866 million to energy traders since 2009 | The Sacramento Bee
California lost $866 million to energy traders since 2009 | The Sacramento Bee: California electricity customers have lost $866 million since 2009 to energy firms trading financial contracts with the Independent System Operator, which manages the state’s power grid.
Why millennials still live at home with parents in Sacramento | The Sacramento Bee
Why millennials still live at home with parents in Sacramento | The Sacramento Bee: The number of millennials in their 20s and 30s living at home with parents and grandparents in Sacramento, California, is growing. Job salaries aren’t as high and rents and home prices are less affordable.
California pension costs grew six times as fast as nation | The Sacramento Bee
California pension costs grew six times as fast as nation | The Sacramento Bee: Median pension costs for local governments grew nearly six times as much in California as the rest of the country over a decade, reaching $7,022 per employee in 2016, according to a new UC Berkeley study.
Ask And You Shall Receive (How It Really Works…)
Ask And You Shall Receive (How It Really Works…)
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/benotafraidwithgaryzimak/2019/07/ask-and-you-shall-receive-how-it-really-works/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=FBCP-CAT&utm_content=August2019&fbclid=IwAR0MTWdvoVljAW925u5D9gystjscHGuhDraGFMOhqVbFNycDiTGH1aY1z5MCatholic bishops join ecumenical letter on Trump's tweets about Baltimore
Catholic bishops join ecumenical letter on Trump's tweets about Baltimore: Two Catholic bishops joined almost a dozen leaders of various Christian groups in Baltimore denouncing tweets by President Donald Trump, who in late July called Maryland's 7th Congressional District a "disgusting, rat and rodent infested" place where "no human being would want to live."
US poised to formally abandon INF missile treaty
US poised to formally abandon INF missile treaty: Washington (AFP) Aug 1, 2019 - The United States will officially withdraw from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty on Friday, clearing the way for a new arms race with Russia - and throwing China into the mix.
Cupich: 'Never forget' policies that led to Holocaust began with words | National Catholic Reporter
Cupich: 'Never forget' policies that led to Holocaust began with words | National Catholic Reporter: Adolf Hitler's rise to power and the policies that led to the Holocaust all began with words, including words that targeted "the other," Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago wrote in a July 24 commentary ...
Amid Climate-Linked Drought, Farmers Turn To New Water Sources. Those Are Drying Up Too.
Amid Climate-Linked Drought, Farmers Turn To New Water Sources. Those Are Drying Up Too.: As already-hot summers heat up with climate change, how will farmers adapt to protect their crops? Faced with an historic climate-driven drought that dried up surface water resources, farmers are forced to rely on another scarce resource: groundwater.
US presidential hopeful Tulsi Gabbard accuses Trump of supporting
US presidential hopeful Tulsi Gabbard accuses Trump of supporting: Controversial Democrat presidential hopeful Tulsi Gabbard, who has repeatedly been criticised over her alleged support for Bashar al-Assad, has accused Trump of supporting al-Qaeda.
Bishop Barron's Gospel Reflection August 1, 2019
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The Virtues of Reform - The Catholic Thing
The Virtues of Reform - The Catholic Thing: Stephen P. White: Where are the bishops with the courage to say things in public that their brother bishops don’t want said in public?
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