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I’m writing an open access textbook on homelessness, with a focus on high-income countries. Each chapter gets uploaded to my website as it is completed. The latest chapter, on health, is now available. A ‘top 10’ overview of the chapter can be found here:https://nickfalvo.ca/health-and-homelessness/ All information pertaining to the book can be found here:https://nickfalvo.ca/book/
Open Rights Group has warned that the Data Protection and Digital Information (DPDI) Bill could allow Meta to get around the suspension of data transfers from Europe to the United States, which was imposed by Ireland’s data protector regulator today. The Data Protection Commission issued Meta with a fine of €1.2bn (£1bn) for mishandling Facebook […]
Time again to defend the ancien régime America does not negotiate with terrorists.* Unless, of course, they’ve been elected to Congress. The terrorists threatening to blow up the U.S. and world economy over paying debts the country has already incurred have demands. And hostages. “House Republicans decided to hold the economy hostage to slash assistance for low-income Americans while protecting tax cuts for the wealthy,” asserts E.J. Dionne in The Washington Post. “That’s a factual statement, not a partisan complaint.” The rest of Dionne’s Monday column details the hypocrisy at the heart of conservative backsliders’ demands for deficit reduction. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) wants the Trump-era tax cuts made permanent, “adding $3.5 trillion to the deficit over a decade.” McCarthy demands cuts to domestic discretionary spending that impact poorer Americans. Republicans want work requirements before The Irresponsibles may receive government benefits or they’ll trigger their MAGA suicide vests.
We are all realists and we all — Mäki, Cartwright, and I — self-consciously present ourselves as such. The most obvious research-guiding commonality, perhaps, is that we do all look at the ontological presuppositions of economics or economists. Where we part company, I believe, is that I want to go much further. I guess I […]
The Police — The Firemen
Foo Fighters — Foo Non-Violent Conflict Resolvers
Grateful Dead — Grateful We Got On the Right Dose of Antidepressants Before We’re Dead
Maroon 5 — Maroon 4 Because That One Guy Was Actually Super Toxic
The Jesus and Mary Chain — Jesus and Mary Are No Longer Chained to Gender Norms
The Killers — The Weaponized Incompetence Killers
Tom Waits — Tom Waits for Women to Finish Talking Without Interrupting Them
The Allman Brothers — Not All Men But Enough of Them Brothers
Red Hot Chili Peppers — Evenly Tempered Chili Peppers
Sting — It Stings When You Ignore My Feelings
The Rolling Stones — The Ethically Non-Monogamous Stones
Ween — Now We Know Not to Take Out Our Ween When No One Asked for It
The Strokes — The No Longer Need Ego Strokes
Steely Dan — Emotionally Available Dan
The explosive growth of Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT threatens to disrupt many aspects of society. Geoffrey Hinton, the former head of AI at Google, recently announced his retirement; there is a growing sense of inevitability and a concomitant lack of agency. An initial humanistic hope might be that people would simply reject […]
As the world shifts away from Western dominance, China demands substantive reforms to the UN Security Council, challenging the archaic power structure and advocating for fair representation, signaling a crucial moment for global diplomacy and the future of the UN.
The post Led by China and India: The Global South Is Trying To Fix the UN appeared first on MintPress News.
TigerSwan worked with law enforcement to fight an information war against the Indigenous-led water protectors.
The post Pipeline Company Spent Big on Police Gear to Use Against Standing Rock Protesters appeared first on The Intercept.
The debate on inflation in Government, in Parliament and in the Bank of England is dominated by the need to curb workers’ wages. But this approach has ignored the elephant in the room: the role that corporations are now playing in driving up inflation through price hikes designed to boost their profits. There is mounting […]
Now, more than ever, we need people willing to verbally tear down the set and bring reality into the play of broadcasting, writes Reverend Joe Haward
In a bonus episode for supporting subscribers, we discuss the skyrocketing rent prices in cities across the country.
ingredients: 1 cup chick-peas1 pound carrots½ pound turnips1 small celery root2 onions1-2 pound chicken2 pounds mutton neck, boned breast or shoulder, cut into pieces4 tomatoes1 sprig thyme, or ½ teaspoon dried1 bay leaf2 cloves1 pinch saffron2 cups semolina3 cups salt water2 cups zucchini1 Tablespoon oil1 handful raisins (optional)1 teaspoon harissa sauce instructions: A vegetable steamer […]
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The debate on inflation in Government, in Parliament and in the Bank of England is dominated by the need to curb workers’ wages. But this approach has ignored the elephant in the room: the role that corporations are now playing in driving up inflation through price hikes designed to boost their profits. There is mounting […]
Recent St. Louis Fed research examined shipping costs and inflation, the COVID-19 shock worldwide, emerging markets, and teens in the U.S. labor force.
The people spoke. Unlike in 2019, when MeRA25 won nine seats in Greece’s Parliament, in yesterday’s election we failed to clear the 3% hurdle, thus, electing no MPs. However, this freshly minted Parliament was condemned before it got a chance to convene. Kyriakos Mitsotakis, the conservative party leader, who won handsomely, is about to dissolve […]
The post Our defeat in context: Greece’s Erdogan-isation is almost complete appeared first on Yanis Varoufakis.
The Government has yet to take any action to address evidence that firefighters are more likely to die of cancer than the general population, Andrew Kersley reports
Stephanie Kelton har blivit en fixstjärna för vänstern och kritiker till gängse nationalekonomisk teori. I helgen besökte hon Stockholm. Hon är kritisk till hur inflationen bekämpas: ”Räntehöjningar är ett väldigt trubbigt verktyg” … Kelton besöker Stockholm mitt under en internationell inflationskris. Första frågan till henne under intervjun ett par timmar före hennes medverkan på konferensen blir […]
Neo-classical economists getting their models to fit the data. pic.twitter.com/DxvmhR6eil — Rethinking Economics (@rethinkecon) May 20, 2023
It is too often said that it is difficult to make new friends when you’re an adult; yet social connection … More
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