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Lessons in trust from America's experience with electronic voting
By Richard Buckland
Friday, December 23, 2016 2:36 AM UTC
It reads like a Hollywood movie. Elite hackers, allegedly sponsored by the Russian government, infiltrate the computer systems of the Democratic National Committee. Thousands of emails are stolen and published by WikiLeaks.
And then, suspected Russian hackers attack the voter registration systems of more than 20 American states. Up to 200,000 voter records are stolen from one system.
These seemingly far-fetched cyberattacks actually happened in the lead-up to the US presidential election. The country's intelligence community believes these attacks were "intended to interfere with the US election process", or perhaps even to influence the election outcome.
While there is as-yet no evidence of cyberattacks during the election itself, several states used insecure electronic election systems. This has resulted in many voters losing trust in the electoral process and petitions for recounts.
But would recounts be sufficient to rebuild trust? And what can Australia learn about maintaining trust in the electoral process as technology becomes widespread?
Recounts in the US
Green Party candidate Jill Stein and election security experts called for full manual recounts of the original paper ballots for the presidential election in the states of Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan. Doing it manually would have eliminated the potential for compromised or defective systems to affect the recount.
However, legal action stopped the recounts from going ahead in Pennsylvania and Michigan. And Donald Trump's margin of victory increased in Wisconsin following the recount there.
Each county in Wisconsin decided separately on which recount method it used. This depended on whether voting was by voting machines with audit printouts or by paper with automated scanning and counting.
Voting machines in Wisconsin produced paper audit trails as voters voted. For these systems the paper audit trail is manually counted.
In optical scan voting, voters filled out their votes on optical scan paper ballots, which were then automatically scanned and computer-counted. To recount those, a county must choose to either switch to manually counting the paper ballots, or repeat the automated scan and computer count process.
Simply repeating the automated scan and count process has fundamental problems; fraud and error in the initial count might simply be repeated in the recount. A compromised scanner could make the same fraudulent changes to the tally. A defective scanner could experience the same software or hardware errors – say, by systematically misinterpreting particular ballots.
A reliable recount in Pennsylvania would have been even more difficult. Its voting machines don't print audit trails, and so there is no way to recount or audit the votes cast using them.
Stein's legal action called for the Pennsylvania recount attempt to include a forensic audit to examine voting machines for evidence of tampering. But such an audit could still fail to detect many attacks that hide their tracks.
Consequently, had they been allowed to do a recount, electoral officials would have faced considerable difficulty in providing strong public reassurance that fraud and error can be detected and rectified.
Lessons for Australia
Elections worldwide are becoming increasingly dependent on technology. But, typically, the electronic systems adopted suffer from weak transparency and scrutiny even when the outcome is challenged. This is creating serious risks that citizen trust in electoral processes will be damaged.
Australia also faces these risks. The Senate vote capture system used in the 2016 federal election shares many of the same vulnerabilities as the optical scan voting systems used in US elections.
These risks could be more serious in Australia, because manual recounts would likely be insurmountably costly and slow for complex Senate elections. Electronic data capture and counting are necessary to carry out large-scale preferential counting in Australia.
So, although Australian handwritten ballots provide a paper trail, there is no practical manual fallback alternative for counting them.
Despite these risks, technology also offers the potential to increase accuracy and so actually improve trust. In elections that use simpler preferential counting methods than the Senate and are much smaller in scale, manual counting has traditionally been found to be error-prone.
For example, the recent manual count for the byelection in the NSW seat of Orange (a total of about 50,000 votes) was found to have an error of 75 votes in the "final count" versus the recount. Significantly, this error was larger than the losing margin. These manual errors had continued even after another error in an earlier count had a different candidate winning by 66 votes.
What's missing for elections using technology are careful transparency and scrutiny measures to help mitigate these risks and build trust.
A first step to building trust is to convincingly demonstrate that election systems satisfy the high level of security, reliability and quality appropriate for failure-critical national infrastructure. This is particularly crucial when there can be no practical manual fallback as a Plan B.
For example, a basic transparency measure is to make the design, implementation, testing, operation and auditing of the system and procedures available for broad scrutiny. A basic scrutiny measure is to engage a wide range of experts to rigorously examine the system and procedures before, during and after the election to detect defects, vulnerabilities and other problems.
Building trust also requires the system and procedures to be designed to make fraud and error evident – not just to assert they are unlikely.
One practical scrutiny measure for Senate elections would be to check a random sample of the paper ballots against the output of the scanning machines used in the counting. This would help expose failures in the vote capture system.
A transparency measure already used in Senate elections is to publish the electronic votes so anyone can check the output of the electronic counting program. Implementing both measures would provide stronger public assurance for the entire Senate electronic vote capture and counting process.
The lesson for Australia is the importance of carefully considering what are the appropriate transparency and scrutiny safeguards to build into our systems, in advance of scandals, to ensure continued public trust in the electoral process.
The authors do not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and have disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond the academic appointment above.


Rochester, NY – The Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra (RPO) released its 2016-17 Annual Report at its Annual Meeting for membership yesterday evening. Among the highlights was the news – previously released in October of 2017 – that the Orchestra had achieved a balanced budget for the first time in six years.
Those results reflect the implementation of RPO's five-year financial plan – the first year of which was 2016-17. The foundation of that plan included improvements in fundraising as well as in expanded programming – including concerts involving films, video games, etc. – to bring in new audiences.
RPO musicians also contributed to the success of 2016-17 by continuing to demonstrate their understanding of the business of the RPO and their willingness to invest in the Orchestra's future. They agreed to concessions during contractual re-negotiations in the fall of 2016 that provided relief for the RPO in 2016-17, which continue into and through the current season.
Long also lauded Music Director Ward Stare, along with Principal Pops Conductor Jeff Tyzik and Principal Conductor for Education & Community Engagement Michael Butterman, for building an appealing and eclectic season that attracted audiences across a wide spectrum.
Programs that included the sold-out Raiders of the Lost Ark – Film with Orchestra, Bugs Bunny at the Symphony, Amy Grant, The Legend of Zelda, Jon Nakamatsu on both the Philharmonics and Pops season openers, Women Rock, La Boheme in concert, and – of course – Yo-Yo Ma (which sold out to subscribers eight months prior to the concert) attracted approximately 170,300 audience members to 150 performances (including concerts and broadcasts).
Equally successful were the continued implementation of the RPO's education and engagement goals. For example, Yo-Yo Ma's appearance held very special meaning for a group of young string players from the ROCmusic Collaborative, an urban education program with which the RPO partners, who were invited to attend the Special Concert's rehearsal. Then, Mr. Ma himself joined the group and their founder Alexander Peña in playing at a post-concert reception.
The RPO was one of the first orchestras in the country to create a music education program for children, and it continues to lead in creating age-appropriate, sequential learning programs fully integrated into school curricula. It partners with regional school districts so that each child can be exposed to and enriched by music, and there is scarcely a household in Rochester's nine-county region of that has not been touched by the orchestra's educational programming. In 2016-17, more than 15,000children heard the RPO live in concert through Tiny Tots, Primary, and Intermediate Concert series, including 7,800 Rochester City School District students who attended concerts in Kodak Hall at no charge. In all, the RPO performed for 34,800 youth audience members.
Since its founding by George Eastman in 1922, the RPO has been committed to providing an enriching experience to the community with live music of the highest artistic quality. In 2016-17, the RPO performed in 37 different locations across the state, and more than 25,000 people experienced the Orchestra at no charge through its 10 free public concerts. RPO ensembles also engaged 2,200+ attendees at free concerts including the City-sponsored, summertime Around the Town Neighborhood Ensemble Concerts at Susan B. Anthony Square, the corner of Joseph and Clifford Avenues, and more.
Board of Director news during 2016-17 included a smooth transition of leadership when Jules L. Smith stepped down as Chairperson and was succeeded by Ingrid A. Stanlis. During the Annual Meeting, the RPO announced the election by the RPO membership of six members of the Board of Directors: James Englert, David Lane, Dr. Stephen Rosenfeld, Katherine Schumacher, Sid Sobel, and Alex Yudelson.
Media please note: The RPO's 2016-17 annual report is available at http://www.rpo.org/s_6/s_70/Organizational_Documents/. Photos from the 2016/17 season can be found at http://ow.ly/XTOa6, and for the current season here. Interviews, as well as photo and footage opportunities, can also be arranged.


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The Land Use Bill signed into law on March 12, 2019, S47, included legislation introduced by U.S. Senators Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) and Dick Durbin (D-IL) and U.S. Congressman Adam Kinzinger (R-IL-16) to honor the legacy of the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, by expanding the Abraham Lincoln National Heritage Area in Illinois to include Livingston County, the city of Jonesboro in Union County and the city of Freeport in Stephenson County. The Abraham Lincoln National Heritage Area Amendment Act, which is part of the Natural Resources Management Act, will increase economic opportunities for Illinoisans working to preserve the historic sites and create new recreation, tourism and educational projects. U.S. Congressman Adam Kinzinger (R-IL-16) was joined by Congressman Mike Bost (R-IL-12), Congresswoman Cheri Bustos (D-IL-17), Congressman Rodney Davis (R-IL-13), Congressman Darrin LaHood (R-IL-18) and Congressman John Shimkus (R-IL-15).
"President Lincoln is a true American hero who expanded liberty and freedom for many and worked tirelessly to steer our country through some of its most challenging times. Our democracy would not be what it is today without his leadership," said Duckworth. "Our bipartisan law honors Lincolns legacy and will bring new opportunities for economic growth to local communities across central Illinois. I'm proud the President signed it."
"Expanding the Abraham Lincoln National Heritage Area will give future generations of Illinois residents and visitors the chance to learn about President Lincolns lasting legacy in our great state," said Durbin. "This bill will also support Illinois communities and help grow the local economy by increasing access to federal grants for preservation and education. I was proud to work with Senator Duckworth to pass this bill in the Senate."
The existing Abraham Lincoln National Heritage Area was established in 2008 and preserves the rich legacy of President Lincoln. The region includes 42 counties across central Illinois, stretching from the Indiana border to the Mississippi River, and is one of the largest heritage areas in the nation. The National Heritage Area generates approximately $260 million in economic impact, supports more than 3,000 jobs and generates $25.5 million in tax revenue.
"I am grateful to our Illinois Congressional delegation for their efforts to pass this legislation and look forward to working with them," said Looking for Lincoln Executive Director Sarah Watson. "By expanding the Abraham Lincoln National Heritage Area to 43 counties in central Illinois and the communities of Freeport and Jonesboro, we continue to increase the economic benefit of Heritage tourism through telling the nationally significant story of the life and times of Abraham Lincoln's 30 years in Illinois."
The parts of Illinois that would be added to the Abraham Lincoln National Heritage Area under this legislation are of special significance to President Lincolns personal and professional life. These areas are where Lincoln developed his legal career within the Eighth Judicial District. They are also home to the sites of the historic Lincoln-Douglas debates.
"I'm proud to be part of the critical lands package legislation, and thrilled that it has officially been signed into law. In addition to protecting and preserving millions of acres of wilderness across our homeland, the Abraham Lincoln National Heritage Area will now expand to include Livingston County, Jonesboro, and Freeport," said Congressman Adam Kinzinger. "This is great news for the Land of Lincoln, as we continue to share the life and legacy of our 16th President with generations to come."

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For authentic Indonesian dishes, you have come to the right place at Indrapura On our menu you will find a rich choice of à la carte dishes. Those who really want to taste the spicy and refined Indonesian cuisine and go for a culinary adventure, opt for a complete rice table. Of course we take into account vegetarian or dietary preferences.
At a traditional Indonesian meal, white rice is the basis. This rice is not only nutritious but has a soothing and softening effect on spicy and hot dishes.
Originally, a fish or meat dish was eaten with this rice, seasoned and flavored with sambal. This is a thick puree of fresh red peppers.
At Indrapura there are various rice table menus to order from.
They are appreciated by our guests but also by culinary reviewers. For example, our restaurant was number 1 in the Rice Table test of "het Parool".
On our menu you will find a large range of dishes. Against each, it is indicated how hot the spices in it are. This way you can make a choice according to your own taste.
 Fried pieces of beef with snowpeas and soya sauce.
 Fried chicken fillet with red pepper sauce and tamarind.
 Red bream in a spicy red curry.
 Fried codfish in a sweet & sour sauce.
Fried shrimps with green beans in an oyster sauce.
Vanilla ice cream with black fermented rice, fresh fruit and cinnamon ice cream.
Where does the term 'rice table' come from? There is a story that the word 'table' refers to the long list of ingredients needed to prepare such an enormous variety of dishes. Another version tells that the origin lies in the 'rice table' used by Dutch families in the former Dutch East Indies.
In colonial times such a simple meal was not sufficient to satisfy the appetite of the Dutch planters. That is why more and more variations on dishes were added. This led to a multitude of tasty dishes of all kinds: the contemporary and richly filled rice table.
Tip: this rice table is also available as Bali Package including a welcome drink, ½ bottle of wine, dessert, coffee and cognac for only € 62.50 pp. (minimum 12 people).
Tip: this rice table is also available as a Java Package including a welcome drink, ½ bottle of wine, dessert, coffee and cognac for only € 47.00 pp. (minimum 12 people).
Tip: this rice table is available as a Sumatra Package with a welcome drink, ½ bottle of wine, dessert, coffee and cognac for only € 52.50 pp. (minimum 12 people).
If you think that one does not drink wine with Indonesian food, you are wrong! Drinking wine is not an Indonesian custom, but neither is drinking beer.
Yet many people think that beer is the ideal companion for spicy food, because it has an extinguishing effect. White rice does that much better.
For your reassurance: of course we serve beer too!
At Indrapura you will discover that a large number of wines are extremely suitable to complement and enrich the delicious taste of Indonesian dishes.
Our wine list was drawn up especially for this purpose. Intensive testing and comparing has led us to recommend wines that go well with our dishes.
To make it easy for you, we allocated a code to the wines that corresponds to the code for the spiciness of the dishes.
During extensive testing under different conditions, we made another, surprising discovery.
Red wine drunk at a slightly cooler temperature than the usual 18 ° Celsius is a better companion to some more spicy dishes.
We therefore serve our red wines significantly cooler than you are used to. Experience how surprisingly enjoyable that is! If you prefer red wine at 'normal' temperature, you can have it that way.
Ask our staff for customized advice.


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breakdowns love
noun Plural form of breakdown.
Train breakdowns improved by 26% compared to last year's report and subway cars improved their cleanliness rating from 91% to 95%.
Subways Improve
All week, Behind the Numbers will feature additional breakdowns from the poll.
New Post-Kaiser-Harvard poll on role of government
Many of them have breakdowns from the pressure to have careers, which they were not physically created for in the first place.
Better At Home
I would emphasize as strongly as I can that the percentage of such breakdowns is extremely small.
Labour's Prime Concerns Today
A common recourse when it comes to trying to explain these kinds of outcomes is to refer to various "breakdowns" -- breakdowns of the traditional family, of schools, of religion, of community organizations, or of public values.
Disaffected youth
Since 1971, Breakdown Services has shuttled role descriptions known as "breakdowns" and other audition materials between casting directors and actors, first by courier, mail and then fax.
In everything I've ever seen the actors are arranged pretty specifically by the number they're given in the breakdowns, which is related to the number of scenes they're in (typically).
Tom Hanks Reveals Larry Crowne Casting But Leaves Us With Another Puzzle | /Film
He was now and then on a couch, as Leon recalled his breakdowns, his sadness, his panic attacks, how he could not bear to be alone.


Timmapur is a village positioned in Badami Block of Bagalkot district in Karnataka. Positioned in rural region of Bagalkot district of Karnataka, it is one among the 149 villages of Badami Block of Bagalkot district. According to the government records, the village number of Timmapur is 598719. The village has 190 houses.
According to Census 2011, Timmapur's population is 960. Out of this, 498 are males whereas the females count 462 here. This village has 141 kids in the age group of 0-6 years. Out of this 85 are boys and 56 are girls.
Literacy rate in Timmapur village is 59%. 568 out of total 960 population is literate here. In males the literacy rate is 67% as 338 males out of total 498 are educated whereas female literacy rate is 49% as 230 out of total 462 females are literate in this Village.
The dark side is that illiteracy rate of Timmapur village is 40%. Here 392 out of total 960 people are illiterate. Male illiteracy rate here is 32% as 160 males out of total 498 are uneducated. In females the illiteracy ratio is 50% and 232 out of total 462 females are illiterate in this village.
The count of working person of Timmapur village is 532 yet 428 are un-employed. And out of 532 working person 198 peoples are completely reliant on cultivation.


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La sèrie Flight Design CT és una família d'avions ultralleugers biplaça, d'ala alta i tren d'aterratge tricicle dissenyats i fabricats per l'empresa alemanya Flight Design. El rang de models inclou l'original CT així com les versions millorades CT2K, CTSW, CTLS i el nou model MC.

Disseny i desenvolupament

Tot els models compten amb motors Rotax 912 en configuració tractora (frontal) i potències d'entre 80 i 100 CV. L'aeronau està fabricada amb materials compostos, majoritàriament fibra de carboni, permetent formes molt aerodinàmiques i una elevada resistència en relació al seu pes.

Models

CT
Composite Technology - model original, la producció del qual va començar el 1997.
CT2K
Model de segona generació amb diverses millores, introduït el 1999 per satisfer les obligacions de la normativa d'ultralleugers del Regne Unit: BCAR Section S
CTSW
Short Wing versió del CT2K amb una envergadura alar menor i puntes alars modificades. Permet una major velocitat de creuer tot mantenint una velocitat mínima de sustentació semblant.
CTLS
Model Light Sport, anunciat el 2008, amb múltiples millora respecte al CTSW: sistema d'injecció de combustible millorat, disseny de la cua modificat, tren d'aterratge reforçat i diverses modificacions aerodinàmiques.
Flight Design MC
Metal Concept és un CTLS de fabricació predominantment metàl·lica, amb estructura de tubs d'acer i superfície d'aliatge d'alumini. Dissenyat especialment per al mercat de les escoles de pilotatge i introduït el juliol de 2008.
CTLS-Lite
CTLS amb prestacions i equipament reduït. Així s'aconsegueixen un pes i un preu de venda 20.000 dòlars inferior. Introduït l'any 2010.
CTLSi
Versió del CTLS introduïda el 2012 i propulsada pel motor Rotax 912 iS. Aquest motor compta amb injecció electrònica i disminueix el consum de combustible respecte al model amb carburadors en un 21%. Aquest model té un preu 12.800 dòlars superior però inclou el nou motor, ajust elèctric i bateria d'ions de liti.

Especificacions (model CTSW)

Referències

Vegeu també
 Ikarus C42

Enllaços externs

 Pàgina oficial de Flight Design
 Manual d'operació per al pilot

Avions per a ús civil
Avions de la dècada del 1990

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Back in 1988, DJ George Misirlis, founded Wedding DJ, after his long and rich experience in many Wedding ceremonies as well as many well-known night clubs in Athens. The last 10 years, DJ George Misirlis, is showing up as the resident DJ in Aquarela Restaurant Bar in Arachova during the winter season, a top destination for VIP andmany more well-known celebrities. DJ George Misirlis has studied Electrical Engineering, a fact that allows him to be always in the cutting techonological edgeavailable for any sound or visual needs that may be needed, ensuring that he will always provide the absolute best results in your wedding ceremony, in sound and lights performance.
Plan the perfect party! Let our experienced DJs take the wheels and live the party of a lifetime!
The perfect wedding calls for the perfect music coverage! Make it one-of-a-kind.
Spectacular fireworks will light up the sky, to celebrate the happiest moments of your life.


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MP asks for rail Xmas presents for constituents
Transport minister unable gift wrap promises
Transport minister Andrew Jones says he is unable to give a firm date when Oyster cards will be rolled out on the Welwyn Garden City line, but says it will be by the autumn of 2019, or sooner if possible.
He was responding during a debate about the local rail service, called by Welwyn Hatfield MP, Grant Shapps. You can view the debate below.
During the half hour Westminster Hall debate Shapps spoke of a service that has "gone backwards" in terms of the number and speed of trains.
He said he had been "inundated" by concerned and upset constituents, some of whom had been forced to give up their jobs because of the poor level of service.
And he asked the transport minister to give his constituents a Xmas present in the form of an exact date when the Oyster cards would be introduce. A present the minister was unable to deliver.
Shapps had a second request to put to the minster. He said he had been in continuous discussion with Transport for London (TfL) who, he said, are keen to take over the franchise.
The MP said that for this to happen Govia needed to supply TfL with research data so they could provide a service. He said that data is required before February 2019. Jones said he would follow up the request for data with his department.
The minister also announced that new trains would be introduced on the Welwyn Garden City to Moorgate line which would carry 943 passengers as opposed to the current rolling stock's capacity of 640.
Regarding off-peak passenger numbers from Brookmans Park and Welham Green, there appeared to be differences in the data gathered by Shapps and the minister's department.
The minister said that there was not the level of demand from the two stations to justify three trains an hour during off peak with "very few passengers boarding at these stations".
Shapps questioned the minster's figures saying passenger numbers from both stations were increasing.
The minister said he would take the MPs data back to his department and "compare and contrast" the numbers.
Relevant sections in the video (above)
11:10:40 - Shapps asks the transport minister for the date when Oyster cards will "actually be introduced" saying "this will be his Xmas present to my commuters".
11:11:08 - Shapps asks the transport minister to encourage Govia to provide data to TfL before the end of February 2019, saying "I invite the minister to make my constituents' Xmas".
11:25:05 - Jones: "I am afraid I can't give him the exact Xmas present of the date but can confirm it will happen in 2019 and the target date is in the autumn".
11:27:25 - Jones: "the point about data I will follow up with my department".
11:28:25 - Shapps: "I didn't hear a commitment there. We need a decision on the data ... by the end of February next year".
Posted on Tuesday, December 18, 2018
Labels: Andrew Jones MP, Brookmans Park Station, Department for Transport, Govia, Grant Shapps MP, Oyster Card, TfL, Transport for London, Welham Green Station


The combination of cocoa paste and cocoa powder to make African Gateau Cake specials. It's perfect eaten with hot tea or coffee.
Whisk egg yolks, egg whites, coarse grain sugar, and salt with high speed until they expanded, then mix it with flour, chocolate powder, corn starch and whisk them evenly. Turn off the mixer.
Melt margarine (gold), margarine (cake), chocolate pasta, and vanilla essence and then add it to the dough and stir them evenly.
Pour ½ part of the dough into the baking sheet and steam it for 10 minutes.
Whisk instant custard, fresh cream, whole eggs, cheese cream, and fresh milk evenly, and then pour it to the same baking sheet and then steam it for 10 minutes.
Lastly, add the rest of the chocolate dough and steam it for 15 minutes, and then remove it from the baking sheets.
Sprinkle the cake with chocolate powder and cut it into pieces.


The visible mending exhibition which I touched on briefly here, has been making it's way around the country, and will be on display at the Jo Aylwin Studio & Gallery in Farnham from 17 - 26 July.
The exhibition is a self-funded, social media project which has been driven by social artist Carol Parker. It has the aim of connecting communities through the traditional craft of darning and the contemporary craft of visible mending.
I have listed the contributors to date at the end of this post - the images shown here are all from the National Centre of Craft & Design at the end of May (and were taken by Amylee Handmade).
There's still time to join in with the exhibition, visit Carol's blog for more details. Other images of the touring exhibition can be seen on it's Pinterest board. Contributors so far: Kay Stevens (Northumberland), Carole Miles (Northants), Anna (Sweden), Cassandra Harrison (Berwick on Tweed), Rosie Moore (West Sussex), Jeni Atkinson (Lincolnshire), Jane Pullan, Enid Lechie, Helen Porter and Particia Ward of Unique Cottage Studios Textile Group (Lincolnshire), Fiona Gurney (Lincolnshire), Gillian Wing (Lincolnshire), Suu Wernham (Lincolnshire), Anonymous (Yorkshire), Carol Parker (Lincolnshire), Lorena Hodgson (Lincolnshire) and yours truly.


Applying Illinois law, a federal district court has held that ten lawsuits against an anatomical donation company for alleged mishandling and sale of human body parts are "related" and constitute a single "Claim" under a professional liability policy. Lloyd's Syndicate 3624 v. Biological Res. Ctr. of Ill., LLC, 2018 WL 4489589 (N.D. Ill. Sept. 19, 2018).
Several individuals sued the donation company in ten underlying lawsuits alleging that it "sold, mishandled, and/or desecrated" the remains of decedents after inducing them to donate their remains for medical or scientific purposes. The donation company's insurer provided a defense for all ten lawsuits subject to a reservation of rights. When defense costs exhausted the $2 million "Each Claim" limit of liability, the insurer sought a declaratory judgment that the lawsuits alleged "related Wrongful Acts or Accidents" and constituted a single Claim.


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The myth of the "woke corporation"
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In the pages of the New York Post on Monday, Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) engaged in one of the Republican Party's new favorite pastimes — decrying "woke" corporations. Rubio, without citing any evidence, claims that corporate leaders no longer value "love of country, free speech, and traditional faith." But what really grinds Rubio's gears is that some corporations are speaking out in favor of voting rights, which Rubio compares to dumping toxic waste in a river.
And taking aggressive positions on woke cultural issues that tear at our national fabric might seem like an easy way to avoid boycotts from activists. But those of us charged with keeping America strong recognize that these positions are the greatest threat to our long-term viability.
No policymaker would allow a company to dump toxic waste into a river upstream of a thriving town he is charged with governing. Yet corporate America eagerly dumps woke, toxic nonsense into our culture, and it's only gotten more destructive with time. These campaigns will be met with the same strength that any other polluter should expect.
But the notion that corporations have cast aside their alliance with the Republican Party and are using their power to protect voting rights — or other progressive policies — is a myth. Yes, some corporations have affirmed their commitment to voting rights and expressed a broad opposition to unnecessary voting restrictions. And a few have taken more substantive action. But, for the most part, it's still business as usual.
To find out what is really important to corporations, pay more attention to what they do than what they say.
Hundreds of corporations and CEOs, for example, signed a letter stating that they "believe the very foundation of our electoral process rests upon the ability of each of us to cast our ballots for the candidates of our choice." Further, the signatories said they "oppose any discriminatory legislation or measures that restrict or prevent any eligible voter from having an equal and fair opportunity to cast a ballot." But the letter did not express support or opposition to any specific legislation.
Patagonia took a different course. The company announced it was taking a series of actions to support voting rights and called on other companies to join them.
1. "Fund the activists working to challenge the recently passed laws in Georgia." Patagonia gave $1 million to the New Georgia Project and Black Voters Matter.
2. "Send a letter to the senators that represent the state(s) where you conduct business, calling on them to pass the For the People Act (H.R. 1) and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (VRAA)." Patagonia is advocating for federal legislation that could permanently protect voting rights in Georgia and across the country.
3. "Commit to reaching out to business partners to facilitate speaking out against further state laws that would restrict voting access." Patagonia is asking businesses to use their connections to oppose specific bills, not sign onto general statements.
How many companies have followed Patagonia's lead? So far, just one. Bad Robot, JJ Abrams' production company, announced it was donating $1 million to the Democracy Docket Legal Fund, an organization that challenges voter suppression laws in court.
Patagonia has no PAC. But no corporation with a PAC has pledged to withhold support from state legislators pushing voter suppression legislation.
Instead, most corporations, while publicly claiming to support voting rights for all Americans, are using their power to defeat federal legislation to protect voting rights.
What business does when they mean business
The Chamber of Commerce (the Chamber) is the lobbying organization for nearly all major businesses in the United States. It spent more than $81 million to influence federal policy in 2020. And on the same day that hundreds of companies signed onto a vague letter supporting voting rights, April 13, the Chamber issued a letter to the United States Senate with a lot more bite.
The Chamber announced that it "strongly opposes S.1, disingenuously named the 'For the People Act of 2021.'" It warned that it "will consider including votes related to this bill in our annual How They Voted scorecard." In other words, Senators that vote to protect voting rights and reform the electoral process may be deemed enemies of the business community.
Note that the Chamber does not speak in general terms. When businesses want to impact an outcome, they know to be very specific. The Chamber's letter focuses on new disclosure requirements for dark-money groups and how it might impact the ability of corporations to engage in politics.
But S.1 would provide fundamental protections for voting rights including, national no-excuse voting by mail, a minimum of 14-days early voting, and automatic voter registration in every state. The Chamber does not discuss these provisions. Instead it asserts that "changes enacted on a partisan basis are the most likely to erode access and security and undermine public confidence and the willingness of the American people to trust and accept future election outcomes."
In place of actual protections for voting rights, the Chamber calls for a "bipartisan national commission" to study the issue. It is a cliche that when Congress does not want to do something, it creates a bipartisan commission to study it.
Accountable.us, an advocacy group, identified 25 companies — including Citi, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, American Express, and Deloitte — that signed the letter in support of voting rights and are members of the Chamber.
Asked about the contradiction by CNN, most companies refused to comment. Ford downplayed its relationship with the Chamber. "We work with many coalitions, trade groups, and industry associations on a broad range of topics," a company spokesperson said.
This is the point of the Chamber. It allows big businesses to spend millions lobbying for specific outcomes while each individual company gets to avoid responsibility.
Defeating a strawman
In practice, corporate executives are using their support for vague principles to avoid substantive conversations about voting rights. For example, on a shareholder call, a right-wing operative asked Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla about why the company "condemned" Georgia's new law restricting voting.
Pfizer has joined the rush to condemn Georgia's voter-integrity law, a law designed to stop election fraud, as by requiring voters to provide ID. Could you explain in detail how requiring voters to show ID when they vote undermines any voting access or voting rights, and which other specific provisions of the bill you object to and why?
The questioner, Davis Soderberg of the Free Enterprise Project (FEP), had his facts wrong. Pfizer had never "condemned" Georgia's law. Few companies have done so in Georgia — and those that did waited until after the legislation was signed into law. (Soderberg was also wrong about the impact of Georgia's law.)
Bourla dealt with the question by supporting the concept of voting in the broadest possible terms and declaring the company neutral on any specific legislation.
I firmly believe that all eligible voters should be afforded equal access and opportunity to cast their ballots… We are not taking a position on specifics, on specific laws, but we are clearly stating our basic principle that access to vote is very important for democracy and it's very important for us as a company that operates in the health care sector.
Bourla is articulating the public position of nearly every corporation in America. Corporations are not "woke" and seeking to impose their left-wing vision on America. They are using platitudes and trying to avoid controversy, while supporting Republican efforts to block reform through trade associations.
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I detest Marco Rubio, an unkind thing to say about the animal, but he is a scripture quotin' Weasel.
A pox on the US Chamber of Commerce.
Corporate America is waiting for the heat to die down. You have used propane to keep it hot. Keep it roasting.
Thanks for all you are doing, Judd.
Thank you again, Judd. I am sharing as usual, and I hope your fine report gets picked up by MSM
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It's a question so predictable it's become rhetorical in nature – did you read the entire sprawling 5000-word Terms of Service agreement you agreed to the last time you downloaded an app? With our clients drowning in self-doubt about the process, our OXO Digital Organizing team's need to help Central Florida navigate the virtual maze of winding Terms of Service agreements has led us to professional organizer and APPO member Caroline Gunter's guide on our digital rights.
Join us below for an in-depth look on who and where our digital rights go – and what, if anything, you can do about it.
What Are My Digital Rights?
According to Caroline and sources like Techopedia, digital rights are the copyright rules that govern a piece of digital work, including our documents, films, music, and photos, both on technological devices and online networks. In other words, anything that can be posted or saved using your phone, tablet, computer, or social media platforms like Pinterest and Facebook are subject to digital rights governance. In 1996, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), which protects unauthorized duplication or posting to websites of original content, put these rules into motion.
Regardless of the act's provisions, however, when you sign a Terms of Service agreement, you may not retain the rights to the picture, including the ability to repost, post to another site, or to save for your own use. Even though digital rights seem similar to traditional copyrights, which hold clout offline, some digital agreements supersede the usual rules of thumb.
Unsure if you own the picture that you want to post or share on Instagram or Twitter? Check the government's copyright information site to be sure. For further, more detailed information about copyrights and just what you can share online, also check out Stanford's Fair/Use site.
Which digital images do you have the right to?
Caroline asks us to into consideration many popular websites destinations such as our hometown hero, Disney, in addition to other giants like Amazon, Flickr, Yahoo, and of course, Google. In reading quotations from their Terms of Service Agreements, one must wonder just what they own. If your family picture is taken at Disney, who has the right to distribute it?
Now that you know how tricky these terms can be, let's join Caroline in looking more into depth at Google and Amazon, where you can buy, sell, and post items or ideas. The question is: How safe are you posting and maintaining your copyrights for the two services?
It's evident that anything on their site, whether published by them or anyone else, is under their control. Like Disney, they can use your information for anything they want to.
Compared to Amazon, Google lets you keep all of the privileges of your copyright. Anything you write or photograph and post to store or email remains yours. Put simply, if you're the original owner of the content, you stay the original owner. Finally, a statement we can live with. How about our social media accounts?
According to the Huffington Post, it would take the average person 76 work days to fully read all of the Terms and Conditions for all of the sites they join. Their article shows pictures of some of Facebook's Terms and Conditions. Reading through can be frightening for your personal security because they reserve the right to do anything they want with the information you post online. This means that if they have the rights to your profile and your photos, they also have the rights to sell the information to companies to target advertisements to try to get you to buy their products.
Through every site you could possibly join, there are plenty of options to take, including the choice to refuse to sign. Just be sure that next Terms of Service agreement you engage in, you're aware of what you're getting into.
For more information about your digital life and important considerations for the entire family, read our guides on Preparing for the Worst: A Millennial's Digital Legacy and the implications of the Digital Afterlife.


Sometimes, life can be rather simple and straight forward. Like the way how a toasted sandwich can do just the trick for me. Recently, I found myself craving for some toasted goodness, so I decided to treat myself to a lunch at Toastable.
Toastable. I guess the name gives it away already. Toastable is known to have real good toasted sandwiches. But not just ordinary ones, or "just" exceptional good ones (which they also do), but giant triple-decker toasted sandwiches, in the wildest combinations possible. Imagine ingredients like guacamole, zucchini, hummus, brie and almonds. But of course, they also offer classic options as ham and cheese or mozzarella, tomato and pesto. Personally, I'd like to take a walk on the "wild side", so I tried one of their more adventurous options, and I was very pleased about how well that decision turned out, once again. Additionally, you have the possibility to customize the toasted sandwiches by adding your favourite toppings or ingredients.
Next to their infamous toasted sandwiches, the menu includes fresh and healthy juices, cakes, salads, soup and some great breakfast options. Currently, there are two locations where Toastable daily serves its yumminess to the people. One shop is located on the 'Nieuwendijk' and the other on the 'Koningsplein'. Which makes me an even happier man, as both are not too far from my home. Lastly, the interior is very much my cup of tea: retro, cozy and just very lovely (like the staff;)).


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Let Nature Play: A Possible Pathway of Total Liberation and Earth Restoration
By Dan Fischer - Green Theory & Praxis, April 2022
Many argue that we are running out of time, but perhaps the problem is time itself. Or rather, it is the alienated time that we spend working on the clock, obsessively looking at screens, letting consumption of commodities dominate our free time and even invade our dreams. And it is the perception we often have of the universe as a giant clock, an inert machine to be put to work. Too often, there is no sense that nature, ourselves included, has a right to relax, a right to be lazy, a right to play.
While Autonomist Marxists define capitalism as an "endless imposition of work" on human beings (van Meter, 2017), we could add that the system also imposes endless work on nonhuman animals and nature. Moving even beyond van Meter's broad conception of the working class as inclusive of "students, housewives, slaves, peasants, the unemployed, welfare recipients and workers in the technical and service industries" in addition to the industrial proletariat, Jason Hribal (2012) describes exploited animals as working-class. He points to animals' labor for humans' food, clothing, transportation, entertainment, and medicine. Corroborating such a perspective, capitalists themselves label exploited ecosystems as "working landscapes" (Wuerthner, 2014), exploited farm animals as "labouring cattle" (Hribal, 2012), genetically modified crops as "living factories" (Fish, 2013), and extracted hydrocarbons as "energy slaves" (Fuller, 1940). As summarized by Indigenous Environmental Network director Tom Goldtooth (2015) the dominant worldview posits that "Mother Earth is a slave." This endless work has been disastrous for the planet. Humans' long hours of alienated labor contribute to deeply destructive economic growth (Hickel & Kallis, 2019; Knight et al., 2013). So does the exploited labor of animals, with livestock taking up some 76% of the world's agricultural land (Poore & Nemecek, 2018). Working landscapes "suffer losses in biological diversity, soil health, and other ecological attributes" (Wuerthner, 2014). And even the cleanest "energy slaves," wind and solar power, can require large amounts of resources and land in the context of a growing economy (War on Want & London Mining Network, 2019).
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"That's So F**king Imperialistic": Responding to a Supporter of Cuba's Government
By Daniel Fischer - New Politics, November 1, 2021
Following Cuba's July 11th protests, University of Houston professor Bob Buzzanco posted on social media a strongly worded attack on New Politics, to which Lois Weiner and I responded with September's "NP on Cuba: Consistent Opposition to US Imperialism and Support of Democratic Rights." Buzanco's subsequent critique titled "Doing Miami's Dirty Work (Wittingly or Not): Responding to 'New Politics'" asked the following questions of us anti-authoritarian and Third Camp leftists: "What will Left criticism of Cuba accomplish? How will it benefit the people in the streets of Cuba protesting? Where's your solidarity?" These are fair questions, and they should be mainly asked to Cubans on the island. As a non-Cuban who hasn't experienced Cuba's everyday realities, I will respond with humility and with attention to local voices.
While Buzzanco claims that criticizing Havana aids Miami, a consistent defense of democratic rights actually makes our anti-imperialist movements more credible and strengthens our case for ending the unconscionable blockade. As critical leftists, we can provide a credible socialist alternative, both to the state-capitalist regime and to the neoliberal tendencies trying to co-opt the Cuban opposition. We can argue that respecting Cuba's self-determination will not only improve the humanitarian situation but will also strengthen Cuba's democratic dissidents by removing President Miguel Díaz-Canel's ability to blame all his failures on Washington.
I actually agree with many of Buzzanco's points, including his acknowledgement of Cuba's accomplishments in ecology and health care. But I have my own questions for people like Buzzanco who stand fully behind the Cuban government. What is his message for Cubans who are becoming increasingly disillusioned with their leaders? What do you offer them beyond the bleak, Orwellian view that they should not protest until the U.S. blockade is lifted? Here is what he writes:
"[A]ny protest inside Cuba, no matter the intention, was going to have U.S. and Miami fingerprints on it and serve the interests of the Miami mafia and the American 'National Security' establishment […]
[A]ny disaffection in Cuba is generally engineered and absolutely and inevitably exploited by Calle 8 [8th Street in Miami's Little Havana neighborhood]"
I know that if I were Cuban, I would not take kindly to such condescending statements coming from a U.S. professor. I sent Buzzanco's article to an Anarchist contact in Havana, and here was his response:
"That's so fucking imperialistic in a pretty twisted way. We Cubans don't owe shit to anyone. Not in Miami, not in Beijing, or in some office in Havana."
Whatever a genuinely anti-imperialist approach toward Cuba might look like, it cannot be to rally behind a regime that denies Cubans some of their most basic rights. The most strategic way to build a socialist world, in fact the only way, is through critical though unwavering solidarity with the world's oppressed. In consultation with Cuban leftists, we should explore what solidarity must mean when applied to a population that is suffering, firstly, from more than a century of U.S. imperialism, and secondly, from an authoritarian bureaucracy.
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Living As If Another World Were Possible: Goodbye, David Graeber!
By Daniel Fischer - New Politics, September 9, 2020
Having grown up hearing his father recount experiences in Anarchist-run Barcelona as a Lincoln Brigade volunteer, David Graeber, a renowned anthropologist and organizer, lived according to a lifelong belief that a far fairer world was possible. His father and his mother, a garment worker who was briefly the lead singer in the union-produced Broadway musical Pins and Needles, were Jewish working-class bookworms who filled their shelves with books about radical possibilities. Graeber, born in 1961, recalled:
"There were a lot of books around the house when I was growing up, but almost no books of critique. I mean I'm sure my parents had Capital, at least volume one, but very few books about how awful the world was. They had lots of science fiction, lots of history, and lots of anthropology. I think their attitude was 'I spent my nine to five working, experiencing how this system sucks for myself; I don't need to read about that; I want to read about what other ways of existing might be like.'"
This is interesting, because as a public intellectual (who taught at Yale and London School of Economics), Graeber was probably most well known for his social critiques. Heavily influenced by the autonomist Marxist tradition, Graeber viewed neoliberalism as primarily a political project masquerading as an economic one, and he exposed the system's convoluted methods of keeping people demoralized, resentful, and hopeless about building a better world. These instruments of hopelessness included debt (Debt: The First 5,000 Years), corporate bureaucracy (The Utopia of Rules) and pointless work (Bullshit Jobs: A Theory). Graeber aptly described that last book as "an arrow aimed at the heart of our civilization." It argued that most of our working hours are not producing anything useful, and that the workweek could easily be reduced to fifteen or even twelve hours if it weren't for capitalists' drive to keep us perpetually busy. "The ruling class has figured out that a happy and productive population with free time on their hands is a mortal danger," he wrote, "Think of what started to happen when this even began to be approximated in the sixties."
To me, however, Graeber's more inspiring works focused on discovering and building alternatives. He had a keen eye for spotting utopia in seemingly unlikely places. During field work in highland Madagascar in 1989 to 1991, he found that the IMF-weakened state performed only nominal functions, and communities actually governed themselves with consensus decision-making on most matters. His study of the Iroquois League's Constitution challenged notions that democracy, feminism, and anarchism are of exclusively European origin. And in contrast to the mass media's dismissal of "incoherent" U.S. protesters, Graeber's Direct Action: An Ethnography and The Democracy Project explained how the horizontal structure of the alter-globalization and Occupy Wall Street movements prefigured the world they sought to build. Over the last few years, Graeber championed the direct democracy experiments in Northen Syria (Rojava). And, with co-author David Wengrow, he dismantled the widespread assumption that early civilizations were uniformly hierarchal. To the contrary, "Egalitarian cities, even regional confederacies, are historically quite commonplace."
You can read in other obituaries how much of an intellectual giant he was. Within his field, Maurice Bloch called him "the best anthropologist of his generation" and his advisor Marshall Sahlins called him "the most creative student I ever had." When Yale decided to end his contract in 2004, it was clearly due to his involvement in radical direct action, not the quality of his scholarship and teaching.
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Going Slowly to 100% Renewables … by 2025?
By Dan Fischer - Peace News, April 5, 2020
It has been 55 years since the social ecologist Murray Bookchin argued that "wind, water, and solar power" (hereafter, WWS) could "amply meet the needs of a decentralized society" and eventually replace all fossil, nuclear, and bioenergy sources. The alternative, he warned, would be a future of "radioactive wastes," "lethal air pollution," "rising atmospheric temperatures," "more destructive storm patterns," and "rising sea levels." Having declined to tear down its smokestacks, society has entered Bookchin's dreaded scenario and, according to today's scientists, accelerates toward "hothouse Earth," "doomsday," and even an "annihilation of all life."
The urgency for reaching 100% WWS can't be overstated. Leading climate scientists report that "tipping points could be exceeded even between 1 and 2°C of warming," and today's level is already at 1.2° and rapidly climbing. Moreover, society has pushed Earth past four other "planetary boundaries." While all energy sources have an impact, small-scale WWS sources are by far the cleanest option available, and they also doesn't involve nuclear power's existential weapons proliferation risks.
It's no wonder, therefore, that many Green New Deal supporters call for 100% WWS by 2030 or sooner. Activists in the United States and the United Kingdom are calling for zero emissions nationally by 2025, a stringent deadline that requires a very rapid phase-out of fossil and bioenergies and that necessarily excludes the lengthy construction of new nuclear power facilities and large-scale hydroelectric dams. The journalist Hazel Healy has even written about achieving zero emissions worldwide by 2025. To be sure, these targets are mind-bogglingly ambitious compared to, say, Joe Biden's mid-century target. But if anything, 2025 is already pushing our luck from a climate and ecological perspective.
Wondering about the potential for rapidly reaching 100% renewable energy, I reached out to two of the most optimistic and two of the most pessimistic scholars on the technologies. Based on these conversations, I offer the following suggestion. Achieving 100% WWS within five to ten years, if it can be done at all, would likely require slowing down the industrialized world. It would mean abandoning what Michelle Boulous Walker calls today's "culture of haste" and "relentless demand to decide, respond and act." Instead of a frantic construction of hydrogen-powered airplanes and concrete-intensive high-speed rail, it would mean making most production local and most travel leisurely-paced. It would mean switching from full-time jobs to part-time crafts and hobbies, from patenting technology to sharing it, and from GDP to something like the Indigenous Environmental Network's proposed "Index for Living Well." While it's common to read of "roadmaps" to WWS, we would probably get to the destination sooner with maps of biking trails and bus routes.
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Answering Annihilation: Some Notes on Earth's Execution
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By Dan Fischer - Dragonfly Collective, July 17, 2017
Half of all wild animals on Earth have been wiped out. You may have missed the news. It came from a scientific study mentioned on page 5 of last Wednesday's New York Times. You had to flip past the usual stories of Trump regime scandals, four jewelry advertisements, and an ode to a slain officer from the New York Police Department.
"'Biological Annihilation' Said to Be Underway." The article took up only as much space as a Sootheby's ad on the same page announcing jewelry sales in New York City.
While "biological annihilation" sounds like an evil plot thought up by a Bond villain, the term actually comes from a peer-reviewed study in the prestigious Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). The authors Gerardo Ceballos, Paul Ehrlich, and Rodolfo Dirzo use it to describe the ongoing destruction of local populations within different species.
Due to the pressures of habitat destruction, pollution, and climate change, species are going extinct at 100 times the rate they normally would. The PNAS study shows that populations within species are disappearing much, much faster.
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Governor Malloy, Singin' in the Methane
By Dan Fischer - Capitalism vs. the Climate, March 29, 2016
Fracked-gas pipeline projects and power plants receive stamp after stamp of approval from governor Dannel "Methane" Malloy. With such a friend of fracking in power, gas companies are in paradise. Welcome to CH4 Connecticut!
CH4—that's scientific shorthand for methane, the climate-cooking main component of natural gas. It's made of one atom of carbon and four of hydrogen. Malloy has known the substance is deadly since at least 2010, when he travelled across the state campaigning to be governor. That February, a gas plant exploded in Middletown, killing six workers and injuring dozens. "As towering plumes of dark smoke poured into a dazzling blue sky, scores of ambulances, fire engines, police cars and helicopters streamed to the scene on the west bank of the Connecticut River," the New York Times reported.
For some, that deadly explosion may have been a wake-up call, but drowsy Dannel hit the snooze button. Once elected, Malloy went ahead with his plan to vastly expand gas infrastructure, despite these projects being backyard bombs and greenhouse-gas grenades. In 2013, Malloy signed into law the Comprehensive Energy Strategy, committing the state government to "expanding natural gas across Connecticut," in the executive summary's words. In 2015, Malloy signed Senate Bill 1078, making ratepayers pay subsidies to corporations expanding gas pipelines.
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Paul Krugman's Sorry Salvation
By Dan Fischer - CounterPunch, March 8, 2016
Paul Krugman has been writing about "salvation". When it comes to global warming, the normally hard-headed economist puts aside his skepticism and awaits the fall of solar panels from heaven. Or rather, from Democratic politicians and polluting industries that dominate their climate policies. In a 2014 piece "Salvation Gets Cheap," Krugman contended that thanks to price drops in renewable energy, small policy changes could put salvation "within fairly easy reach." In last month's "Planet on the Ballot," Krugman argued that electing Hillary Clinton president would mean "salvation is clearly within our grasp".
"So is the climate threat solved? Well, it should be." The progressive pundit offers countless feel-good predictions along these lines. A deeper look at Krugman's words, however, reveals a disturbing indifference to the loss of millions of lives, livelihoods, and homes. Currently, an estimated 400,000 people die each year from climate change, 98 percent of them in the Global South, according to the Climate Vulnerability Monitor, a study commissioned by twenty governments. Krugman looks away, instead seeing salvation in pathways that increase global warming far above today's already genocidal amount.
While he mocks conservative climate change deniers, Krugman himself is in denial about the necessary solutions. A fast-paced transition, while technologically possible, is not compatible with economic growth. This presents a problem for Krugman, who has spent his career defending a capitalist economic system requiring infinite growth. "All that stands in the way of saving the planet,"the Nobel prize winner declares in "Salvation Gets Cheap," "is a combination of ignorance, prejudice and vested interests." Unfortunately, his own columns offer a vivid illustration. Krugman's liberal climate denialism has five basic steps.
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Jim enjoyed woodworking, fishing and watching every Minnesota professional team. He belonged to the Al Kadar Shrine, Masonic Lodge, Albany Woodpeckers and Post 10 Legion. Survivors are his wife, Karen; daughter, Heidi; son, Hans; and step-daughter, Kari.
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In an October 10 article in the Hollywood Reporter, Stephen Miller's former third-grade teacher from Franklin Elementary School compared Trump's Senior Advisor to the beloved "Peanuts" character Pig-Pen.
How dare she?
"Do you remember that character in 'Peanuts,' the one called Pig Pen (sic), with the dust cloud and crumbs flying all around him?" Miller's onetime teacher, Nikki Fisk asked. "That was Stephen Miller at 8. I was always trying to get him to clean up his desk — he always had stuff mashed up in there."
This is nothing short of character assassination — and of a child no less! Pig-Pen deserves better.
Stephen Miller is a xenophobic, chest-beating, neo-nationalist who does harm to our national security and moral fabric every day. What is Pig-Pen's crime? Being good at whaling on the upright bass or thrashing on the drums with Schroeder's band? Good at music!
Ok, let's say it's hygiene. Filth clings to Pig-Pen, but it's not for lack of trying. Since Charles Schulz first introduced Pig (we're tight like that) in 1954, the boy has demonstrated a preternatural inability to stay clean. Kinda like those human magnets that can attach spoons to their always-sweaty skin, Pig can't quite shake off the grime. Is he proud of it? Sure, because he accepts himself for who he is and what he can't change. Admirable! To be celebrated!
Stephen Miller clearly hasn't accepted himself; otherwise he would be able, as the descendant of refugees, to spot the philosophical inconsistency of him striving to shut asylum-seekers out of the country. By contrast, Pig-Pen trumpets his own connection to history, claiming his perennial dirt tumbleweed is the dust of ancient civilizations. Cultured!
In the Hollywood Reporter piece, Fisk also refers to the young Miller as "a loner and isolated and off by himself all the time." The same cannot be said of Pig who, while not accepted by all his peers, is often included in their activities, enjoys their company, has a sometimes love interest in Peppermint Patty and a staunch ally in one Charlie "Chuck" Brown, who, in his defense, invokes the great culture Pig carries along with his pet schmutz.
"Think of it as the dirt and dust of far-off lands blowing over here and settling on Pig-Pen!" Brown said in a comic strip from November 27, 1959. "It staggers the imagination! He may be carrying the soil that was trod upon by Solomon or Nebuchadnezzar or Genghis Khan!"
Miller, who laughably dismissed the Emma Lazarus poem at the base of the Statue of Liberty as having been "added later," would object to the intrusion of such invasive, foreign dirt spilling over our borders on the person of Pig. Pig: Friend to the Immigrant!
And finally Miller's former teacher reports that he ate glue. There is no evidence in Pig-Pen's over 64 years in grade school of him ever doing something that disgusting.
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PJ Grisar is the Forward's culture intern. He can be reached at Grisar@Forward.com.
This story "Don't Compare Stephen Miller To Pig-Pen!" was written by PJ Grisar.
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