Ambrogio Cesa-Bianchi, Alex Haberis, Federico Di Pace and Brendan Berthold To achieve the Paris Agreement objectives, governments around the world are introducing a range of climate change mitigation policies. Cap-and-trade schemes, such as the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS), which set limits on the emissions of greenhouse gases and allow their price to be … Continue reading The heterogenous effects of carbon pricing: macro and micro evidence
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My Dutch friend chose to die a peaceful, painless death at the time of his choosing. Everyone else should be free to make that same choice
A MintPress News study has unearthed a network of former agents of Israeli spying agency Unit 8200 working at TikTok, a company charged with supposedly being a Chinese-owned hub of anti-Semitic content.
The post TikTok isn’t anti-Israel: It’s Hired Unit 8200 Agents to Run its Affairs appeared first on MintPress News.
From the V&A’s blockbuster David Bowie Is to more recent shows dedicated to Taylor Swift, Björk and Amy Winehouse, exhibitions drawn from the archives of pop stars have become a major part of museum programming the past decade or so. When built around a bankable star, fans book tickets in their thousands to experience the […]
Billions of pounds in spending remains unaccounted for, with the National Audit Office unable to sign off the nation's accounts
Thousands of construction workers in Brisbane walked off the job today and marched on the Queensland Parliament.
The post Construction workers’ strike shows the power to beat Crisafulli and administration first appeared on Solidarity Online.
Soil carbon markets are going to collapse. And that’s a good thing. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 21st November 2024 We now face, on all fronts, a war not just against the living planet and the common good, but against material reality. Power in the United States will soon be shared between people […]
Today (November 27, 2024), the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released the latest – Monthly Consumer Price Index Indicator – for October 2024, which showed that the annual inflation rate was steady at 2.1 per cent and is now at the lower end of the RBA’s inflation targetting range (2 to 3 per cent). It…
We’re thrilled to introduce Stella Power, one of the newest members elected to the Drupal Association Board in October. Stella is the Managing Director of Annertech, a digital agency based in Dublin. She holds an MSc in Software Engineering from Dublin City University and a BA in Computational Physics from Trinity College Dublin. Since founding Annertech in 2008, she has grown the company into a team of approximately 40 members spanning the EU and beyond.
A passionate advocate for women in tech, Stella has been featured in numerous publications. In 2021, she was honored with the Women in Digital Award at Ireland’s National Digital Awards and, in 2022, received a Women in Drupal Award in the Scale category.
Amazing how prices have suddenly turned around ever since the election and everything is more affordable now, isn’t it? I guess the whole thing happened in just the last three weeks. We sure didn’t hear about it before November 5th. Imagine that. I heard on Tv that the TSA says that this Thanksgiving will be the biggest travel day in history. Also, that the top ten travel days in history all took place in 2024.
The RBA controls short-term interest rates by offering to lend as many reserves as banks demand at a rate close to its target for monetary policy. At this rate, banks' demand drives the amount of reserves the RBA supplies and subsequently the size of its balance sheet. I estimate a substantial increase in Australian banks' reserve demand since the COVID-19 pandemic. I find an increase in banking system deposits explains a large part of the increase in reserve demand through an associated shift to the right in Australian banks' reserve demand curve. The link between deposits and reserve demand suggests banks are willing to pay for the convenience of holding additional reserves to manage payments between depositors, or that banks hold reserves against deposits as a precaution in case of liquidity stress. The value of collateral also shifts banks' reserve demand curve as it changes the price at which banks can fund reserves through the repo market. The role of collateral in explaining the increase in banks' reserve demand is likely small as its value is little changed since the pandemic.
Biden said that the truce could be a prelude to a ceasefire in Gaza. Netanyahu’s actions seem to indicate otherwise.
The post Israel Agrees to Stop Bombing Lebanon — So It Can Keep Bombing Gaza appeared first on The Intercept.
A defendant who spied on JUlian Assange during his embassy asylum faces criminal charges for falsifying evidence. At the UN the State of Palestine reiterates that despite of labes of ‘terrorism’ Palestinian people have a seven -decade just cause while Piers Morgan interviews Francesca Albanese. In Pakistan, Imran Khan supporters are being brutally attacked, while Continue reading »
A new Justice Department policy update says that even repeat corporate offenders can avoid prosecution if they “make good faith efforts” to come clean.
The functional chassis of all real spirituality are metaphysical statements, often called views. Each view is a way of understanding reality. Every view in real spirituality is connected with a “way”. The way is the path to being that view.
The “I am awareness” view is that of chunks of Hinduism, especially Vedanta and its various offshoots. The best book written from this perspective is “I Am That”, which I recommend highly. A good one, especially the forty percent or so is “The Essence of Enlightenment” by James Swartz.
The “I am awareness argument” is that the only thing which always exists is awareness, and therefor that is what we are. We are not our bodies, or even our consciousness: both can be absent and awareness still exists.
Now that even the Council on Foreign Relations is admitting Ukraine can’t and won’t win its war against Russia, there might be some serious cognitive dissonance for people who’ve not been paying much attention and bought into the official narrative on the war.
If you find yourself faced with the proverbial ignorant uncle at Thanksgiving this year and want to appear fact-based rather than conspiratorial, maybe the following round up of links and sources about the beginnings of the war will help.
It’s bad enough that hundreds of thousands of people have been killed in a losing and pointless effort, but it’s important to rebut the narrative that Russia was the aggressor and not NATO and the US.