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Australia recognizes west Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, will move embassy when city’s final status has been determined, but trade and defense offices will open there, Prime Minister Scott Morrison says, confirming Australia’s support for two-state solution with Palestinian capital in East Jerusalem
Canadian businessman Michael Spavor detained in China days after former Canadian diplomat Michael Kovrig was apprehended in Beijing, both being investigated on suspicion of harming China’s security, diplomatic experts says no doubt case linked with arrest of Chinese executive Meng Wanzhou in Vancouver
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Miscellaneous
IOC allow transgender athletes to compete in women’s sport if they can show Testosterone levels below the arbitrary level of 10nM for 12 months, "the acceptance of athletes that were born men, developed muscle mass, bone mass, lung and air capacity as men" a threat to the virtue of women’s competitions, writes former Brazilian Olympian Ana Paula Henkel
Media
The Weekly Standard shutters after 23 years, the magazine which espouses traditional conservatism and has been deeply critical of Donald Trump publish its final issue on December 17, outlets on the right critical of Trump have lost influence, while media organizations supportive of the President have flourished
Politics
Proposal to ban alcohol discounts and to raise prices on soda and cigaretts causes internal strife in the Dutch government, three out of four coalition parties opposes what they say is the move towards a Dutch nanny-state, anonymous source says that the legislation is going after people that just wants to have a drink and that raising the price of cigaretts would mean the closure of small businesses
Opinion
Andy Duncan: Hans-Hermann Hoppe's collection of essays explores the failures of public provision of security and theorizes about private alternatives, it presents a compelling case with which minarchist libertarians must contend, also offers unique perspectives from other anarchist writers and theorists that represent singular value
Rorate Caeli: pedophile rings in the American Catholic Church call into question the sainthoods of Popes John XXIII and John Paul II, the poor judgment demonstrated by the heinous crimes which occurred on their watch reflect poorly on many other administrative questions of the modern Catholic Church
Martin Cothran: Putin gathers political strength in Russia by instituting Christianity as an official cultural religion, understands that every strong nation requires a unified religion to create social cohesion, ironically Western social bonds are disintegrating as Christianity is replaced with abstract liberal shibboleths
Paul Brian: French writer Houellebecq predicted the modern "incel" phenomenon as the necessary consequence of liberal social and economic thought, sexual value between men and women is also being exchanged on a "free market" but biology dictates that women's value is higher than men's, both sexes suffer but young men most of all because they can not find economic or social footing in these volatile circumstances
Peter Wolodarski: Sweden Democrats polling at record 20% behind ruling Social Democrats will have a hard time forming a governing coalition, they are obsessed with categorizing Jews, Muslims, Sami and other minority groups as non-Swedish and thus are pursuing a repulsive agenda, my own family history of a Jewish mother who had to flee Communist Poland demonstrates one can be a minority and a national at the same time