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Intellectual curiosity can takes us in unexpected directions. This particular journey started with my learning that the word “Cajun” is a contraction of “Canadian”. Nine years after Culloden, 300 British troops under Lt Col John Winslow entered the town of Grand Pre in Acadia, Nova Scotia. They constructed a palisade fort which enclosed both the […]
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Big Midterm Victories That Give Me Hope For The Future
While it’s still too soon to know the full results of the midterms, there were some major victories on Tuesday night that spanned the entire country.
Numerous election denying candidates in key battleground states lost their races for both Secretary of State and Governor.
This One Thing May Stop Trump From Running For Re-Election
Far-right politicians are dragging America back to the 19th century.
Reproductive rights in Wisconsin are now governed by an abortion law passed in 1849 — and in Arizona, a judge recently reinstated a ban on abortion first adopted in 1864.
Well, if Republicans are so keen to wind back the clock, I suggest reviving a different 19th century provision of the Constitution : Section Three of the 14th Amendment.
I have not been this excited about federated social networks since we published ActivityPub. The shift has started. Get a Mastodon account as soon as you can. Set up servers for your companies, your clubs, your families, your friends. We’re doing this. Don’t be on the wrong side of history.
I am pleased to announce that Juraj Nemec (poker10) has accepted our invitation to become a provisional Drupal 7 core maintainer!
Juraj is based in Slovakia and has been working with Drupal for more than 12 years. He works at ActivIT as the Tech Lead and Senior Drupal developer. As a backend specialist, he most likes optimizing large-scale systems, performance tuning and digging into what can be improved to bring the best user experience.
He recently contributed to fixing Drupal 7's PostgreSQL tests, helped to improve PostgreSQL performance with several important backports, and is actively working on improving Drupal 7's compatibility with PHP 8.1 and 8.2. He is also helping to get the jQuery Update module ready for its first big update in several years.
Major red flags in Australian grants administration must be addressed to prevent pork barrelling, according to a submission by the Australia Institute to the parliamentary inquiry into Commonwealth grants administration. Key Findings: 11 different pork-barrelling red flags were highlighted, the most significant include: funds not allocated in line with grant objectives, lack of personal consequences for Ministers
The post Major Red Flags: Reforms Needed to Stop Politician Pork-Barrelling appeared first on The Australia Institute.
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New research from the Centre for Future Work quantifies the dramatic risks faced by workers whose employers unilaterally terminate enterprise agreements during the course of renegotiations. This aggressive employer strategy, which became common after a precedent-setting 2015 court decision, would be curtailed by new industrial relations legislation proposed by the Commonwealth Government.
The post IR Reforms To Close Off The ‘Nuclear Option’ Will Protect Wages and Entitlements appeared first on The Australia Institute.
The hospitality industry is one of the world’s biggest energy consumers. Hotels, restaurants, and other businesses use much more electricity than the average household. However, these businesses can also be leaders in energy conservation by adopting smart solutions that will help them reduce their carbon footprint and save money at the same time. Let’s explore…
The post 5 Energy-Saving Tips for Your Hospitality Business appeared first on Peak Oil.
As control of the Senate hangs in the balance, once again, the balance of power may be decided in Georgia. And once again, as in 2020, Reverend Raphael Warnock [D] is headed for a runoff race — but this time the rules have been changed. ... READ MORE
A couple of weeks before the midterm elections, a man broke into the San Francisco...
For years, in addition to writing about it numerous times for RD, I’ve included a...
Since the start of the pandemic, home prices in the U.S. have increased by an astonishing 40 percent. The New York-Northern New Jersey region saw a similar meteoric rise, as home prices shot up by 30 percent or more almost everywhere—even in upstate New York, where economic growth was sluggish well before the pandemic hit. New York City is the exception, where home price growth was less than half that pace. Indeed, home prices actually declined in Manhattan early in the pandemic, though they have rebounded markedly since. Much of the region’s home price boom can be traced to the rise in remote work, which increased the already strong demand for housing at a time when housing inventories were low and declining. Home price increases have largely outpaced income gains through the pandemic boom, resulting in a reduction in housing affordability in the region. However, with mortgage rates rising, it appears that the region’s housing boom is waning, as it is for the nation as a whole, with prices leveling off, though the inventory of available homes remains historically low.
Quels sont les problèmes à long terme qui doivent être résolus et quelles sont les solutions disponibles?
Pr Kako Nubukpo, Commissaire à l’Agriculture, aux Ressources en eau et à l’Environnement de l’Uemoa, et ancien Ministre de la Prospective et de l’Evaluation des politiques publiques du Togo est l’auteur du récent ouvrage « Une solution pour l'Afrique. Du néoprotectionnisme aux biens communs » publié aux éditions Odile Jacob. Dans le cadre de cet entretien, il revient sur l’impact économique et social de la guerre en Ukraine sur la sécurité alimentaire en Afrique.
Les économies africaines font face à une inflation suite à une hausse des prix des matières premières induite par la guerre en Ukraine. En quoi pensez vous que cette crise présente une opportunité pour repenser les politiques agricoles en Afrique ?
What are the long-term problems that need to be addressed and what solutions are out there?
Professor Kako Nubukpo is Commissioner for Agriculture, Water and Environment at the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU, also known by its French acronym UEMOA) and a former Minister of Prospective and Evaluation of public policy in Togo. He recently authored, Une solution pour l'Afrique. Du néoprotectionnisme aux biens communs, published by Odile Jacob Press. In this interview, he considers the economic and social impacts of the Ukraine conflict on food security in Africa.
African economies are facing high levels of inflation due to big price increases for many basic goods, following the invasion of Ukraine. How far might this crisis represent an opportunity to rethink agricultural policies in Africa?
by Greg Mikkelson
Brian Czech once likened modern economic growth to a runaway train. This metaphor drives home the point that to save nature and humanity from an ecological train wreck, the most important thing is to decelerate the global economy. Unfortunately, much writing on environmental protection neglects this imperative and fixates instead on what we must accelerate.
For example, the must-read Living Planet Report,
The post Slow is Beautiful: The Need to Decelerate appeared first on Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy.
"In these times of hyper-geopolitical competition, the arming of police forces with assault weapons could result in dangerous outcomes in the future."