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Mercy

https://larspsyll.wordpress.com/2023/02/10/mercy/
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Sat, 11/02/2023 - 05:58
. If thou hast shown mercy unto man, o man, that same mercy shall be shown thee there; and if on an orphan thou hast shown compassion, that same shall there deliver thee from want. If in this life the naked thou hast clothed, the same shall give thee shelter there, and sing the psalm: […]

A Tale of Two Davids

https://adamcroom.com/2023/02/a-tale-of-two-davids/
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Sat, 11/02/2023 - 05:55
In undergrad, I decided to major in Advertising on a whim. I am now a faculty member at that same school. And I owe it all to two guys named David. When I originally came to OU, I had settled on pre-pharmacy as my field of study. In high school, I had a knack for […]

Trump puts the squeeze on the emerging GOP field

https://digbysblog.net/2023/02/10/trump-puts-the-squeeze-on-the-emerging-gop-fi…
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Sat, 11/02/2023 - 05:30
He hits them from the right … and the left Dark Brandon aimed his death ray at the congressional Republicans in front of the whole country this week and in the process seems to have banished all thoughts of a primary challenge should he decide to seek a second term. Unless something dramatic changes, it appears that the Democrats are not going to have a nomination fight on their hands. The Republicans, on the other hand, look to be gearing up for a knockdown, drag-out, bare-knuckled brawl — and the dynamics already taking shape are fascinating. It was always a good bet that Donald Trump would run again for no other reason than he is the sorest loser in world history and he simply cannot accept that he lost the last election. He didn’t expect to have any rivals, however, assuming that he would receive the nomination by acclamation and not really even have to campaign until the general election. He didn’t realize that his epic pout after the 2020 election would turn off so many GOP suburban voters and no doubt believed that he would be a kingmaker in the 2022 election, reaffirming his position as the only possible candidate.

Your Health Insurance Is Now Supermarket Cake

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Sat, 11/02/2023 - 05:00

Dear Employees,

We are pleased to officially roll out the company’s new health benefits. Supermarket Cake is an innovative insurance option that allows you to skip tedious, traditional healthcare procedures such as “seeing a doctor,” “making a lifestyle change,” and “surgery” to get straight to what makes you feel better: shoveling cheap grocery store cake into your cake hole.

Here’s how it works: Each month, a premium will be deducted from your paycheck, and, in exchange, your Supermarket Cake coverage will pay for 80 percent of your expenses every time you encounter a medical issue, so long as your expenses are limited to a $27.99 supermarket cake that you bought to comfort-eat while worrying about how you’ll afford to fix your medical issue.

The US sees China through the dark mirror of its own unbridled aggression

https://johnmenadue.com/us-elites-believe-that-china-will-be-as-aggressive-as-t…
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Sat, 11/02/2023 - 04:58
As China grows and prospers many in the US want us to believe that China will follow the same path that the US itself pursued- global military aggression, the overthrow of numerous governments around the world and persecution of minorities at home. But the record so far suggests that China is different. As former US senior diplomat Chas Freeman Continue reading »

Wong surrenders to Canberra hawks, rejects war powers reform

https://johnmenadue.com/pre-empting-the-process/
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Sat, 11/02/2023 - 04:56
Australia’s Foreign Minister, who advocates international law and better relations with Asian countries, has surrendered to the hawks in Canberra. Penny Wong told Parliament on 9 February that the way Australia goes to war will not change. She was responding to a question from Greens Senator Jordon Steele-John, whose bill for reform of the war Continue reading »

Weekly roundup: After 50 years, Medicare needs resuscitating

https://johnmenadue.com/weekly-roundup-saturday-11-february/
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Sat, 11/02/2023 - 04:55
Bipartisanship on the wrong issue – asylum-seeker policy; Chalmers’ essay – is it really just mainstream economics?; and, after 50 years, Medicare needs resuscitating. Read on for the weekly roundup of links to articles, reports, podcasts and other media on current political and economic issues in public policy. Australian politics More on the Voice, including Continue reading »

The myth of meritocracy: Resisting the Strengthening Medicare Taskforce Report

https://johnmenadue.com/the-myth-of-the-meritocracy-and-the-resistance-to-the-s…
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Sat, 11/02/2023 - 04:51
The vehemence with which the medical profession opposes any moves on behalf of nurses and other health professionals to move legitimately into Primary Health Care in their own right is telling. A system in which some professional groups spend an inordinate amount of time propping up the work of another is not to be abandoned Continue reading »

How much blood are we prepared to let extremists spill?

https://johnmenadue.com/how-much-blood-are-we-prepared-to-let-extremists-spill/
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Sat, 11/02/2023 - 04:50
JK Rowling recently tweeted a defence of her bigotry, conflating trans people with, in her words, “violent, duplicitous rapists”.The massive, unsupported generalisation in this message stinks of the worst dehumanising propaganda, the kind which foments hatred, and leads to atrocities. When one part of the population has its bigotry activated, particularly to fear for the Continue reading »

A sovereign SSN capability and Australia’s national security strategy

https://johnmenadue.com/australias-national-security-strategy-part-4/
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Sat, 11/02/2023 - 04:49
There is no way that the UK or the US would ever contemplate surrendering sovereignty over the control of its military operations to any other power. Australia should not either. If Australia is to acquire a fleet of SSNs, the government needs to negotiate an agreement that avoids counter-productive short cuts and ensures sovereign control Continue reading »

Amartya Sen’s Work Shows Us the Human Cost of Capitalist Development — Benjamin Selwyn

http://mikenormaneconomics.blogspot.com/2023/02/amartya-sens-work-shows-us-huma…
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Sat, 11/02/2023 - 04:24
What happens when capital (ownership, property accumulation, "growth") is favored over the other factors of production, labor (workers, people, welfare) and land (the environment, ecology).

Developing Economics 
Amartya Sen’s Work Shows Us the Human Cost of Capitalist Development
Benjamin Selwyn, professor of international relations and international development at the University of Sussex.

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Menina do PI: 14 Defensorias Públicas afirmam que nomear defensor para feto ameaça direito ao aborto legal

https://theintercept.com/2023/02/10/menina-do-piaui-defensoria-publica-curador-…
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Sat, 11/02/2023 - 04:07

Após reportagem do Intercept sobre criança estuprada, defensorias emitem nota técnica ressaltando que nomeação esvazia direito ao aborto legal.

The post Menina do PI: 14 Defensorias Públicas afirmam que nomear defensor para feto ameaça direito ao aborto legal appeared first on The Intercept.

What could go wrong?

https://digbysblog.net/2023/02/10/what-could-go-wrong-9/
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Sat, 11/02/2023 - 04:00
Sarah Huckasanders said the other night that there’s no left and right, there only normal and crazy. I cannot imagine that any sentient being doesn’t automatically understand into which category to put these loons who want to allow children to walk the streets with Ar-15s because they have constitutional rights too —– is stark raving mad. The Republican-controlled Missouri House of Representatives rejected a proposal Wednesday that would have banned children from being able to openly carry firearms on public land without adult supervision. The proposal, which was part of a long debate in the chamber on how to fight crime in St. Louis, was defeated by a vote of 104-39, with just one Republican voting in support of the ban. After the amendment on the open-carry restrictions for minors was initially supported by the Republican legislator sponsoring a broader crime bill, GOP lawmakers on a committee that he leads removed the firearms provision last week. “Every time we talked about the provision related to guns, we knew that was going to be difficult on our side of the aisle,” state Rep.

Exclusive: TSSA suppressed earlier merger approach from RMT too

https://skwawkbox.org/2023/02/10/exclusive-tssa-suppressed-earlier-merger-appro…
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Sat, 11/02/2023 - 03:05
Documents show RMT’s Lynch requested talks when talks with US IBB union collapsed – and before that too, as well as in January as Skwawkbox revealed yesterday Skwawkbox revealed yesterday that the TSSA – which has been rocked this week by sexual harassment and bullying scandals yet is in merger talks with another union with […]