If you didn’t know better, you’d think Lloyd Marbet was a dairy farmer or maybe a retired shop teacher. His beard is thick, soft, and gray, his hair pulled back in a small ponytail. In his mid-seventies, he still towers over nearly everyone. His handshake is firm, but there’s nothing menacing about him. He lumbers around like a wise, old hobbling tortoise. We’re standing in the deco lobby of the historic Kiggins Theater in downtown Vancouver, Washington, about to view a screening of Atomic Bamboozle, a remarkable new documentary by filmmaker Jan Haaken that examines the latest push for atomic power and a nuclear “renaissance” in the Pacific Northwest. Lloyd, a Vietnam veteran, is something of an environmental folk hero... Read more
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Trump works every angle Whatever else, Donald Trump is relentless. He works every angle, tries every door knob and checks every window for an opening no matter how remote the chance: ATLANTA — The Georgia Supreme Court shot down Donald Trump’s attempt to derail the 2020 Fulton County election investigation in a unanimous dismissal Monday. The justices wrote that Trump failed to prove the circumstances were extraordinary enough to warrant their interference. The court also ruled that the former president’s legal team didn’t provide the “facts or law” necessary to mandate the disqualification of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. “(Trump) is asking this Court to step in and itself decide the motions currently pending in the superior court,” the order reads. “This is not the sort of relief that this Court affords, at least absent extraordinary circumstances that (Trump) has not shown are present here.” But that doesn’t mean he won’t embarrass his attorneys by making them try, spend others’ money and waste still more people’s time.
When Balwinder Rana came to this country in 1963, aged sixteen, he didn’t expect things to be as bad as they were for South Asians living in Britain. ‘I was one of only five Asian students studying at Gravesend College in Kent,’ he tells me. ‘I remember very clearly when Enoch Powell made the ‘rivers […]
One of his companies, "Muslim Order of the United Kingdom" directs people to donate to a supposed pro-refugee organisation. But it is not a charity and is registered at the same address as seemingly far-right organisations.
An official report reveals why the Conservative Party is unfit to be in charge of the NHS
On this episode of the podcast I speak with Yanis Varoufakis about the role of banks and politicians. Yanis is an economist, politician, author and Secretary-General of MeRA25. He is perhaps best known for his role as the Greek Minister of Finance during the Greek credit crisis. In our discussion we cover some fairly big […]
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Come on, it’s the twenty-first century. I believe in equality between the genders. Or is it equity? Whatever e-word the gals are jabbering about, that’s what I support—100 percent.
Cleaning? I take the living room windows; my wife takes the bedroom windows. I take the closet; she takes the bathroom. I take the kitchen sink; she takes the gutters, basement, and haunted crawl space.
Cooking? Hoo boy, I love to grill. I can’t grill in the winter, but besides that, you can find me outside grilling up enough burgers, brats, and veggies for the whole week, except for the part of spring when it rains. I’m not a huge fan of the humidity in July or August, either, and October is real touch and go in these parts. September and June, though? I’m out there grilling anything and everything, assuming there aren’t any baseball games on the MLB: Every Game Every Night app.
The week started ominously with a French journalist asking me whether the Greeks have turned cold-hearted, alluding to the apparent apathy to the drowning of hundreds of refugees off the coast of the Peloponnese and to the murky role played in this tragedy by our Coastguard. Yes, I replied without a second thought. A population […]
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Humanity has now developed AI algorithms capable of fully decoding a killer bug’s proteins and creating an effective antibiotic. Was there ever any doubt that conglomerates like Amazon would seize upon this opportunity to shrink workplaces along their supply chain where AI predicts a higher probability of unionization? ATHENS – Last week brought a rare good-news […]
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Richard Burgon MP wants MPs to stop taking perks from polluting firms
Doctor Who star Patrick Troughton was awarded a historical blue plaque at last, with former Doctors and companions attending the ceremony.
To keep covering homes amid the ravages of climate change, big insurance companies want California to slash its landmark price-gouging rules.
Economist James K. Galbraith discusses the history of how price controls have successfully addressed inflation.
The MVC team discusses Stanley Kubrick’s timeless Cold War-era satire.
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This analysis examines how changes in death rates for different age groups can affect the average age of the U.S. population.
Read our latest update on issues affecting migrants’ digital rights. Surveillance over saving lives Last month, we were struck by the horrific news of hundreds of refugees drowning off the coast of Greece. Under the watch of Greek and other European coastal guards, 750 people lost their lives as their boats sank. It is worth […]
Lydia Henning, Simon Jurkatis, Manesh Powar and Gian Valentini Autumn 2022 saw some of the largest intraday moves in gilt yields in history. It was then that jargon normally confined to financial stability papers entered into mainstream commentary – ‘LDI’, ‘doom loop’, ‘deleveraging’. And it was then that the Bank of England engaged in an … Continue reading Lifting the lid on a liquidity crisis
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Time for another exercise in mythbusting. It turns out it is very difficult for something that cannot move to fly. Who knew?
Many posts I write aren’t intended to be persuasive if you don’t already agree with me on some axes. Take, for example, the post “some acts are always evil.” I chose rape as my example: it is not possible to have a justified rape. If you agree with this, you’ll agree that some acts are always evil. If you don’t think rape is never justified, then my argument won’t work with you, and indeed it didn’t work with all the commenters for just that reason.
There are three primary elements of persuasion.
