What does democracy mean, under governments like this? By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 18th January 2023 Don’t let them talk to you about freedom. This government is stripping out fundamental liberties with the speed and determination you would expect in the aftermath of a military coup. Knowing that their days in office are […]
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Maioria dos novos clubes na região está em áreas rurais – e pelo menos seis estão em unidades de conservação da floresta.
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Recent reports of kidnap highlight the Home Office's failure to protect vulnerable young people who have made the dangerous journey to the UK for sanctuary, reports Lauren Crosby Medlicott
The Autons are closing in on 1970s London in the second half of the political spy-fi full-cast audio adventure, Torchwood: Double, released today by Big Finish Productions. Louise Jameson returns as the deeply flawed but brilliant ex-MI5 agent Roberta Craven – investigating murders, the Nestene Consciousness and the oil crisis in the climactic finale of […]
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An investigation by Byline Times has uncovered shocking new figures on the presence of the dangerous mineral in places of education
Martina Fazio and Gary Harper During recessions, and indeed pandemics, housing prices usually fall. Yet between March 2020 and December 2021 (‘the pandemic’), housing prices grew in the UK, reaching at the time their highest growth rate in a decade. During this pandemic, many more people could work from home, which potentially influenced their housing … Continue reading Location, location, location? How UK housing preferences shifted during the pandemic
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Encountering the final boss of government programs.
The M&Ms abandon their "spokescandies."
Obama is the most likely hidden hand behind the Biden documents reveal. That fact confirms America having reached banana republic status.
The One Thing That Would Make Elections Better For Everyone
Are you sick of the onslaught of negative political ads that air on your TV every election season?
The fear-mongering. The half-truths.
Believe it or not, there’s a simple reform we can enact to make elections more bearable for voters.
It’s called ranked choice voting, or RCV, and it could change our politics for the better.
When you head to the ballot box under ranked choice voting, instead of voting for just one candidate, you have the option to rank candidates in order of preference: first, second, third and so on.
So if you’re stuck between two preferred candidates for a position, you can spread your preferences out in hopes that one of them wins.
Its been around 9 months since the central banks of the world (bar Japan) started to push up interest rates. This reflected a return to the dominant mainstream view that fiscal policy should aim to support monetary policy in its fight against inflation and thus be biased towards surpluses, while central banks manipulated interest rates to deal with any inflationary pressures. The central banks would somehow form a ‘future-looking’ view that inflation was about to spring up and they would push rates up to curb the pressures. The corollary was that full employment would be achieved through price stability because the market would bring the unemployment rate to a level consistent with stable inflation. So full employment became defined in terms of inflation rather than sufficient jobs to meet the desires of the workforce. This is the so-called NAIRU consensus that has dominated the academy and policy makers since the 1970s.
Its been around 9 months since the central banks of the world (bar Japan) started to push up interest rates. This reflected a return to the dominant mainstream view that fiscal policy should aim to support monetary policy in its fight against inflation and thus be biased towards surpluses, while central banks manipulated interest rates…
Its been around 9 months since the central banks of the world (bar Japan) started to push up interest rates. This reflected a return to the dominant mainstream view that fiscal policy should aim to support monetary policy in its…
Tucker Carlson has been busily rehabbing (checks notes) …. Richard Nixon these days, saying that he took on the Deep State and they chased him out of office. Seriously. I guess this is what he meant by “taking on the Deep State”. This is the transcript that proved President Richard M. Nixon guilty of obstruction of justice. For more than a year the President had told the American people that he had done nothing to interfere with the FBI investigation of the Watergate break-in. But the release of this transcript by the White House in August 1974 prompted large numbers of congressional Republicans to switch from defending the President to calling on him to step down or face impeachment by the House and conviction by the Senate. Less than a week after the break-in, the FBI would discover that a check in the bank account of one of the Watergate burglars had been written to Nixon’s Midwest finance chairman. It was evidence that the burglars had been paid from Nixon campaign contributions—a potentially explosive revelation. “[T]he FBI is not under control.” H. R. Haldeman White House chief of staff H. R.
A recently identified stage of sleep common to narcoleptics is a fertile source of creativity.
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Extraterrestrial life doesn’t need to be intelligent to be worth finding.
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