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Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Firewall is Now Available for Download!

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Sat, 03/12/2022 - 00:53
Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Firewall is an eight part radio serial on BBC Radio 4 that starts today, Friday, 2nd December at 2.15pm, and will be on every Friday in that same slot.  I’ve written episodes #3, #4, #7 and #8 and the highly accomplished Sebastian Baczkiewicz has written the other half of the series. But you can ... Read More

Speech on “Ukraine: Tactical Nuclear Weapons”

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Fri, 02/12/2022 - 23:38
My Lords, I am grateful, as we all are, to the noble and right reverend Lord, Lord Harries, for initiating this debate and for drawing attention to the real danger of nuclear escalation. I am in profound disagreement with the Government’s policy on Ukraine—I have said it before in this House and I shall say … Continue reading Speech on “Ukraine: Tactical Nuclear Weapons”

Does Bank Monitoring Affect Loan Repayment?

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Fri, 02/12/2022 - 23:00
Banks monitor borrowers after originating loans to reduce moral hazard and prevent loan losses. While monitoring represents an important activity of bank business, evidence on its effect on loan repayment is scant. In this post, which is based on our recent paper, we shed light on whether bank monitoring fosters loan repayment and to what extent it does so.

i feel a lot of ways about emotions

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Fri, 02/12/2022 - 19:00
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The Misguided Forces Driving Conflict Escalation Between the US and China

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Fri, 02/12/2022 - 05:46

Yale Law School Fellow Stephen Roach, discusses his just-released book, Accidental Conflict. Roach explores how much of the adversarial nationalist rhetoric in both China and the USA is dangerously misguided and more a reflection of each nation’s fears and vulnerabilities than a credible assessment of the risks they face.

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Rob Johnson:

Welcome to economics and beyond. I'm Rob Johnson, president of the Institute for New Economic Thinking.

The Blue Crystal

https://www.davidrevoy.com/article943/the-blue-crystal
Created
Fri, 02/12/2022 - 04:04

I continue my drawing training and sometimes I push the rendering of a test and finalize it, like in this one. I'm using almost no ref' to train my ability to predict color and light by imagination. Among my new skill, I'm now more confident at drawing and designing men. I can also better predict overexposed light areas and strong sunlight.

It feels great to do progress.

Process:

Source and high resolution (4K): Uploaded here.

A Primer on Economic Growth and Biodiversity Conservation for COP15

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Fri, 02/12/2022 - 03:30
by Brian Czech

With COP15 coming up, it’s time to don the old conservation biologist hat and proffer a primer on the relationship between economic growth and biodiversity conservation. The last thing we want is a COP15 devoid of discussion about the fundamental conflict between growing the economy and conserving biodiversity. In fact, the 800-pound gorilla—GDP growth—ought to be front and center.

For the uninitiated, COP15 is the UN Biodiversity Conference,

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