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Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
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So, the CBC is the the national broadcaster in Canada, similar to the BBC in Europe. They’re pretty stodgy, they run good radio programs and they are wary of the government, as you’d expect.
They just wrote a really good article in problems in the housing market.
The two graphs that really matter are:
The Bank's Court of Directors acts as a unitary board, setting the organisation's strategy and budget and taking key decisions on resourcing and appointments. Required to meet a minimum seven times per year, it has five executive members from the Bank and up to nine non-executive members.
For over 30 years, American women have largely surpassed men in earning a bachelor’s degree. In this post, we look at how educational attainment and gender manifest themselves specifically in the labor force.
Still more charges for Trump confederates
A 2023 Column Contest grand-prize winner, Laurence Pevsner’s Sorry Not Sorry investigates why we’re sick of everyone apologizing all the time—and how the collapse of the public apology leaves little room for forgiveness and grace in our politics and culture.
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As every university administrator knows, the semester is ending (most places), students will be going home soon, and as is almost always the case with student activities, you can just wait them out for a few weeks and move on. Not doing so is quite the choice!
A Message from the Chancellor on the Recent Student Protest. “But this recent protest is different. These students will never inspire change. Fifty years from now, we will definitely not pretend that we agreed with them the whole time.”
This post is for discussion of the ongoing campus protests against Israel’s response to the October 7th, 2023 attack on it by Hamas, and in support of the Palestinians.
More than 34,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israel in its attack on Gaza, with two-thirds of the dead being women and children, according to the local health ministry, reports the Associated Press.
Hey there, Kinzleigh. Take a seat by my desk, crisscross applesauce. As you may know, this year’s Take Your Child to Work Day coincides with our annual performance review period. We felt it would be right for all employees to be reviewed, no matter how long they’ve been with us or how many teeth they have lost.
Unfortunately, Kinzleigh, after speaking to your manager, a.k.a. “Daddy,” we will need to put you on a PIP, or performance improvement plan.
In today's BCTV Daily Dispatch: Firefly/Nathan Fillion, X-Men '97, Umbrella Academy/Elliot Page, Doctor Who, TikTok, Superman & Lois & more!
LIBE committee raises concerns about Data Protection and Digital Information Bill to UK government and European Commission.
The relentless, punitive legal attacks against Palestine Action activists for disrupting Israel's war machine is a simple lesson about our country today — maintaining injustice abroad requires crushing dissent at home.
Palestine Action activists target Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit Systems.
An Abu Dhabi-backed consortium wants to buy the Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail, News International titles, and some journalists from the Telegraph itself, go mad. Conservative politicians also declare their opposition. Rishi Sunak rushes through legislation to prevent such a takeover from occurring. Deal over.
Burkina Faso’s military summarily executed more than 220 civilians, including at least 56 children, in two villages in late February, according to a new report by Human Rights Watch.
In The Front Room, Michael McMillan examines the significance of domestic spaces in creating a sense of belonging for Caribbean migrants in the UK. Delving into themes of resistance and creolisation, these sensitively curated essays and images reveal how ordinary objects shape diasporic identities, writes Antara Chakrabarty.
Liz Oakes has been appointed and Carolyn Wilkins has been reappointed as external members of the Financial Policy Committee (FPC), the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Jeremy Hunt, has announced today.
For an aspiring nurse, staying in the US holds out the precarious promise of a life far from China’s strict gender norms
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Could civil disobedience be morally obligatory in a society on a collision course with climate catastrophe?
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The latest issue of Doctor Who Magazine marks the return of Doctor Who to Television screens worldwide
Inside this issue
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Previews of the new episodes broadcast this month. Russell T Davies talks Space Babies and The Devil’s Chord and we take a quick peek behind the scenes of Boom with writer Steven Moffat and exec producer Joel Collins.
Prince William recently attended a memorial service at Hereford Cathedral to honour Major Mike Sadler, the last of the wartime Special Air Service (SAS) 'originals'.
Four years ago, Melody Murray started noticing these cute signs in her Portland, Oregon neighborhood of Sullivan’s Gulch. Posted in residents’ front yards, the signs read: “Certified Backyard Habitat” with a drawing of a black, red and white spotted towhee sitting on a leafy branch.
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I posted this video on YouTube this morning:
The transcript is as follows:
Freedom from fear is one of the things that every politician should seek to provide. And I don't think it's a priority for any politician, from the major parties at least, in the UK at present. And that, to me, is incredibly worrying.
The FT has offered an an analysis in so-called sick note culture today. Its conclusion is that there is no such thing.
The data on sick notes shows that. The situation now is no worse than in 2019. Short term sickness rates have not changed.
By Bert Hetebry Yesterday I was ignorant. I had received, unsolicited, a YouTube video about the dangers of GMO which is in the Covid vaccinations most of us have had. My ignorance stemmed from not understanding that GMO is different that vaccination. So I spent about three minutes Googling GMO and vaccinations, and Google came…
The post Ignorant. Woke. appeared first on The AIM Network.
Yesterday (April 24, 2024), the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released the latest – Consumer Price Index, Australia – for the March-quarter 2024. The data showed that the inflation rate continues to fall – down to 3.6 per cent from 4 per cent in line with global supply trends. There is nothing in this quarterly…
Labour has said it plans to renationalise almost all of Britain’s railways.
I welcome that. The simple fact that it is willing to acknowledge that in a sector previously privatised the state might be a potentially better supplier of services is clearly good news. It is also very obviously true.
Before we get too excited though there are observations to make.
Firstly, rail is easy to renationalise because all Labour has to do is let rail franchises expire and then not re-let them. There is no similar model elsewhere.
After a very long time with no appearances, I’m pleased to say I’ll be in Juneau, Alaska this weekend with books, trinkets and sketches!
The 2024 Alaska Robotics Minicon takes place on Saturday, April 27 at the APK Libraries, Archives, and Museum building.
We must always condemn violence. There must be no tolerance for brutality, and we must take action to diminish violence whether it is tied to family violence, a chronic lack of support for crucial mental health work or to sectarianism. The stabbing of Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel on the weekend during his church service, days…
The post Violence in our churches appeared first on The AIM Network.
Four years ago today
Q: You were asking your medical experts to look into sunlight and bleach as treatment. Were you being sarcastic?
TRUMP: No. No, no, no, no. To look into whether or not sun and disinfectant on the hands, but whether or not sun can help us pic.twitter.com/HeHBgL8BOC— Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) April 24, 2024
By Frances Goold He asked if we had anything planned for Anzac Day. “A big rest” was all I could come up with. “What about you?” “We’ll go to the Dawn Service.” “Kids too?” “The kids have been coming with us to the Dawn Service since they were babies. Later there’s a few of us…
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Why did Democrats just join Republicans in voting to give a second Trump presidency new authoritarian powers? What newspaper fought to kill a law that would have made it easier for its own reporters to expose political corruption? Who in the Senate is no longer accepting Boeing’s campaign cash? How do undersea fiber optic cables ever get repaired? Why are EV cars so much better for the environment than gas-powered cars? How many homes are threatened by climate change?
Hersh Goldberg-Polin, a US-born Israeli, wishes his parents a good Passover – and says Netanyahu and his far-right government should be ‘ashamed’
The verticality of the 1959 revolutionary process took us by its own logic and dynamism to the extreme authoritarianism and total absence of democracy in today’s Cuba.
The post The Exercise of Power in the Cuban Revolution: From Below or From Above? appeared first on New Politics.
How combined authorities can help to build more inclusive local economies
This is the 44 page decision:
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Arianna Schouten has a summary of the decision in English here:
Bibliography from the 1998 book Money and the Human Condition by Michael Neary and Graham Taylor.
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Chapter 6 from the 1998 book Money and the Human Condition by Michael Neary and Graham Taylor.
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What is he, three?
Chapter 5 from the 1998 book Money and the Human Condition by Michael Neary and Graham Taylor.
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History professor Christopher Brown describes scandal of university president setting riot police on peaceful anti-genocide demo and condemns craven congressional testimony
Wow. You may have seen a short version of the North America Building Trade Union (@NABTU) video endorsement of Biden. The full video is incredible and absolutely devastating for Trump. They did not hold back. A must watch till the end. pic.twitter.com/stL7b7JazP
The American Academy of Arts & Sciences has announced its newly elected members, and a number of philosophers are among them.
Apparently David Marquand died yesterday. He wrote this with which I entirely concur… The evisceration and anti – democratic suppression of local authorities continues apace and although most of us object, the Tories in Devon, for example, entirely agree…... Read more
At the levels of public ritual and private observance, the ANZAC narrative is much about processing loss and assuaging grief. But let us recall here its nature as an imperial romance, and what that might mean for our place in the multi-polarity of the current world order? With its genesis in imperial war, the Anzac Continue reading »
Perhaps it is my imagination, but in the days immediately preceding Anzac Day 2024, there seems to be less media exhortation to observance than has been usual in recent years. I think that we can take it as given that those who march and attend at dawn will participate again this year with undiminished spirit Continue reading »
Anzac Day. We mark it respectfully. True respect demands that we also not forget the essential question about the first ‘Anzac Day’ – 25 April 1915. Why were Australian soldiers at Anzac Cove in the first place? In fact, Gallipoli provides a stunning lesson in the disasters that can follow from unwavering loyalty to a Continue reading »
The non-violence training to join the Freedom Flotilla Coalition’s ships to Gaza has been intense. As hundreds of us from 32 countries gathered in Istanbul, we were briefed about what we might encounter on this voyage. “We have to be ready for every possibility,” our trainers insisted. The best scenario, they said, is that our Continue reading »
The director of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, a lobby group for big tech and foreign agencies, claims that China’s alleged targeting of the agency “should be of concern to all Australians”. In an op-ed written for the Canberra Times, Justin Bassi said the “revelation” of a foreign government taking aim at an Australian institution “should be Continue reading »
The 100 000 or so dead men and women in Australia’s overseas wars are symbolised by red poppies, on the Roll of Honour at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra, in shrines around the nation, on the more than 5000 war memorials in our towns and suburbs, in war cemeteries overseas, and worn on Anzac Continue reading »
Check out these new preview images of Ncuti Gatwa (Fifteenth Doctor) & Millie Gibson's (Ruby Sunday) from the new season of Doctor Who.
Chapter 4 from the 1998 book Money and the Human Condition by Michael Neary and Graham Taylor.
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I have no idea what the conservative Supremos are really plotting with Trump's immunity case, but there are fascinating possibilities.
The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has opened an investigation into the University of Massachusetts Amherst in response to a complaint that alleges that the school took months to address the harassment of Palestinian and Arab students.
Think about this:
Writing is an often solitary process, but it rarely happens alone. This brief email, which I hemmed and hawed over for seven weeks before finally dashing it off and sending it in a thoroughly uncharacteristic burst of un-self-conscious productivity, could not have happened without the support of countless others. While it might be only my name in the sender field, I would be remiss not to acknowledge and thank the many people who helped make it all possible.
What happened to the excitement of creativity?
Can't wait for the start of LibrePlanet 2024: Cultivating Community? Same here. To sweeten the wait, we have interviewed David Wilson, one of the keynote speakers and the creator of the System Crafters channel and community.
It’s difficult to overestimate the importance of the operation launched by Hamas and factions of the Palestinian Resistance on October 7, which forever annihilated the prestige of the Israeli army. Yet the strikes launched by Iran on April 13 and 14 are also truly historic.
Social Security benefits for recipients’ spouses and ex-spouses often help women, who tend to earn less than men and are likely to have fewer retirement resources.
Social Security benefits for recipients’ spouses and ex-spouses often help women, who tend to earn less than men and are likely to have fewer retirement resources.
Elon's big new idea is that a fleet of Teslas can be used as distributed computing power in their idle time and yah whatever buddy.
The dumbasses who buy stocks love it though!
(Text of a talk I delivered at the Neubauer Institute in Chicago on April 5, 2024.)
My goal in this talk is to convince you that there is a Keynesian vision that is much more radical and far-reaching then our familiar idea of Keynesian economics.
Avia Pasternak, currently associate professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto Scarborough will be moving to the Department of Philosophy at the University of Maryland, where she will be associate professor.
Find out who "Emily in Paris" star Paul Forman is set to play in the upcoming sixth episode of BBC & Disney+'s Doctor Who Season 1, "Rogue."
A lot is incredibly stupid and offense in the McWhorter piece (as always) , but wow is he dumb.
Let me count the ways
Barely a tenth of voters who lack photo ID are likely to have applied for the Government’s free form of identification ahead of next week’s local elections, according to analysis of official figures.