Ted Johnson wrote:
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The documentary, which debuts on Netflix on August 21, never mentions President Donald Trump by nameā€”but its message is clear: Trumpā€™s promise to reinvigorate the industrial heartland is going to take a lot more than a campaign slogan. There are no easy solutions. And if some manufacturing jobs do come back, theyā€™re going to look nothing like they used to. Americans will have to accept a new reality to stay competitive in the global marketplaceā€”one that they might not like, and one that Trump doesnā€™t acknowledge....

https://tinyurl.com/y4fljf87

I would say the movie was just as much about the dubious advantages of having a Chinese company taking over an American one instead of the United States bringing higher standards of living to the Chinese. more like the Chinese bringing lower standards of living to the United Statesā—šŸ‘Ž

Zak Doffman wrote:
Early on Monday [August 19], I reported that China has been paying Twitter to promote state propaganda against pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong. The same has been true on Facebook, where multiple state-controlled accounts have peddled the same messages. By the end of the day, both social media giants had acted to suspend numerous accounts linked to "disinformation," essentially Chinese state propaganda....
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In my initial report, I suggested that what Twitter (and Facebook) does next will be watched with interestā€”it is clear that promoted tweets from state media outlets at times of popular unrest go to the very heart of the free speech versus propaganda debate. Well, they have acted and the question has been answered....

https://tinyurl.com/y4xrcqq6

Emma Green wrote:
The writer Ben Howe grew up in the world of conservative evangelicalism. When he looks at the religious right now, all he sees is a thirst for power and domination....

Green: Something I noticed throughout our conversation is that youā€™ve struggled a lot with pronouns: we and they.

....

Green: Are you an evangelical?

Howe: I am.

Green: So why they?

Howe: Because when Iā€™m saying they, Iā€™m talking about people who support Trump in the way Iā€™m criticizing.

Green: Are you a conservative?

Howe: ... but I guess thatā€™s why Iā€™m saying my language sounds fluid. At some point Iā€™ve got to accept that what I think ā€œconservativeā€ is is not what others think it is. Iā€™m a little more protective of the word evangelical because I think evangelize is a good and important word and I donā€™t want it to be taken away. But conservatism was called other things in the past, ā€œclassical liberalismā€ and things like that. So sometimes I call myself a libertarian, sometimes I call myself a conservatarian, and then eventually I go, ā€œOh, who needs labels.ā€

https://tinyurl.com/y2jhj3o5

Maayan Jaffe-Hoffman wrote:
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This timing is in accord with estimates of the Philistinesā€™ arrival to the coast of the Levant, based on archaeological and textual records,ā€ he said.

ā€œNot only do we have radio-carbon dating that demonstrates the antiquity of the samples, but we also have stratigraphic evidence,ā€ Masters said. ā€œThese samples come from carefully-excavated contexts, connected to artifacts that can be precisely dated.ā€

archaeologists uncovered the first Philistine cemetery. From those graves, researchers successfully recovered genomic data from the remains of 10 individuals who lived in Ashkelon during the Bronze and Iron ages. This data allowed the team to compare the DNA of the Bronze and Iron Age people of Ashkelon to determine how they were related. The researchers found that individuals across all time periods derived most of their ancestry from the local Levantine gene pool, but that individuals who lived in early Iron Age Ashkelon had a European-derived ancestral component that was not present in their Bronze Age predecessors.....

https://tinyurl.com/yxu2edkm (NSW abortion decriminalisation delayed after conservatives resist)

I would have gone for a more lengthy quote, but I think I've used it in another thread and some users get very upset when I do it more than once.

ABC.net.au wrote:
George Pell has lost his appeal:

ā€¢ By a majority of 2-1, the Victorian Court of Appeal has dismissed Cardinal George Pell's appeal against his child sex abuse convictions.
ā€¢ Pell will continue to serve his sentence of six years' imprisonment.
ā€¢ He will remain eligible to apply for parole after he has served three years and eight months of the sentence.

American Tract Dictionary 1859 wrote:
FORNICATION:

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ADULTERY:

Is a criminal connection between persons who are engaged, one or both, to keep themselves wholly to [from] others; and thus it exceeds the guilt of fornication, which is the same intercourse between unmarried persons. As the highest sin of its kind, and ... including all other sins of the flesh, it is forbidden in the seventh commandment. ... illicit intercourse between a married man and a woman who was married, nor betrothed, constituted not adultery, but fornication.
Fornication may be, in some sense, covered by a subsequent marriage of the parties; but adultery cannot be so healed.

By the way opinion writers in the New York Times have call Trump racist more than onceā— for example:

David Leonhardt wrote:
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No one except Trump can know what Trumpā€™s private thoughts or motivations are. But the public record and his behavior are now abundantly clear. Donald Trump treats black people and Latinos differently than he treats white people.

And that makes him a racist....

https://tinyurl.com/yc8mbmsx

Now this article is written at the beginning of 2018, there was probably an earlier one I think 2016 for instance. I assume that New York Times writers read other articles from other sources such as, the first White president in Atlantic Monthly?

John Yurich USA wrote:
Any Christian who believes that Christians should not be politicians and should not vote have psychological problems because Christians are supposed to be involved in politics to keep Christian morality in this nation.

https://tinyurl.com/mt58unj (Catholic Priests: It's 'Empirical Fact' That Many Clergy Are Gay)

Warning ā— the very first picture for this article is from this work and is used as an illustration. I found it gruesome

Mormonism Research Ministry wrote:
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but, my brethren, if you drink coffee or tea, or take tobacco, are you letting a cup of tea or a little tobacco stand in the road and bar you from the celestial kingdom of God, where you might otherwise have received a fulness of glory?ā€ (Doctrines of Salvation 2:16). Apostle Boyd K. Packer explained, ā€œThe Word of Wisdom put restrictions on members of the Church. To this day those regulations apply to every member and to everyone who seeks to join the Church. They are so compelling that no one is to be baptized into the Church without first agreeing to live by them. No one will be called to teach or to lead unless they accept them. When you want to go to the temple, you will be asked if you keep the Word of Wisdom. If you do not, you cannot go to the house of the Lord until you are fully worthyā€ (ā€œThe Word of Wisdom: The Principles and the Promise,ā€ Ensign (Conference Edition), May 1996, p. 17).

Vincent Yu wrote:
Following weeks of violent clashes with police, a sea of Hong Kong demonstrators defied a police ban and peacefully marched through the streets in one of the biggest rallies the territory has seen so far.

Key points:
ā€¢ More than 1.7 million Hong Kong protesters rallied yesterday, organisers said
ā€¢ It is the biggest turnout since the initial June 16 march more than two months ago
ā€¢ People of all ages, including children and the elderly, demonstrated peacefully

https://tinyurl.com/y32qnyr7