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pete...
The circus for the next Democrat president hopeful is on.
24, no less, candidates have put their hat in the ring. The TV ringmasters have thus decided that only 20 of them will be allowed to throw mud at one another in various streamlined debates. In the case of Presidential hopefuls, having a large number does not mean quality. All it means is having more sausages to prick. This of course is going to be entertaining as batshit.
And Trump, the clever clumsy heavyweight on the other side — the champion of the unwahsables, the deplorables and of the warmongeringables — will shoot them with sharp funny tweets as they fall off from their own perch for having smoked weed or not.
I took a Gusmocratic short cut and weeded out all the hookies, ninnies, and other geniuses from the past — and obviously taken out the old guys who have passed their used-by-date and could show signs of debility any minute before the final contest. You remember Reagan in his last Presidential days… This would be a bad start.
One character shows more promises than all the other combined. He has the Jack (John) Kennedy looks, the pleasant youth and is more honest, including in his relationship.
Pete is a Christian (as all the US Presidents have to be)
Pete is gay (and not afraid of being overt) and married to his husband.
Pete used to be a soldier (knows courage)
Pete used to be in army "intelligence" (knows the CIA tricks)
Pete is a Rhodes scholar (he is a great orator)
Pete support universal healthcare (who would not except scrooge privateers)
Pete wants to genuinely reduce income inequality
Pete is really pro-environmental policies (who would not, except Ghengis Khan)
Pete wants cooperation between the Democratic Party and organized labour
Pete wants universal background checks for firearms purchases
Pete is a great negotiator
Pete supports the Equality Act (it does not mean everyone has to be gay)
Pete wants to preserve the DACA program for children of immigrants
Pete supports reforms that would end gerrymandering (one person, one vote)
Pete would overturn the Citizens United v. FEC decision (corruption of electoral process with cash)
And Pete would abolish the Electoral College (Hillary would be pleased).
Pete did a popular sterling job as the Mayor of South Bend, Indiana
This is a handful of policies that could upset a "popularly led" Trump re-election.
All the other Democrat candidates are too close to the swamp — are shy Democrats or conservatives in disguise.
At this stage I can't see how the Democrats can win unless they support Pete…
Pete Buttigieg that is. He should change his name to Smith or Jones… Easier to say.
Or Boot, as in boot Trump… Okay Buttigieg will do…
There you have it. Of course Trump can still push his daughter to take the job...
In this case, Representative Tulsi Gabbard (already mentioned on this site) of Hawai might do. Woman vs woman...
By Gus Leonisky at 16 Jun 2019 - 11:21am
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the list...
The debate will be broadcast in prime time on NBC, MSNBC, and Telemundo and be streamed online for free on a variety of digital and social platforms.
Here are the participants:
Senator Michael Bennet of Colorado
Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey
South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg
Former Housing Secretary Julián Castro
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio
Former Representative John Delaney of Maryland
Representative Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York
Senator Kamala Harris of California
Former Governor John Hickenlooper of Colorado
Governor Jay Inslee of Washington
Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota
Former Representative Beto O'Rourke of Texas
Representative Tim Ryan of Ohio
Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont
Representative Eric Swalwell of California
Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts
Author Marianne Williamson
Entrepreneur Andrew Yang
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-debate/democrats-name-20...
justice to operate independently in 2020...?
Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg said that if elected, he would leave the Justice Department to operate independently of the White House during any potential criminal investigations into President Donald Trump.
"Nobody is above the law and prosecution decisions should have nothing to do with politics and should come from the DOJ itself, not from the Oval Office," Buttigieg told CNN's Jake Tapper in a preview of an interview to be aired Sunday.
Buttigieg's remark comes in contrast with his Democratic rival Sen. Kamala Harris of California, who said if she was elected the Justice Department would have "no choice" but to charge Trump with obstruction of justice if he were to finish his term without being impeached. Harris, a former California attorney general, told NPR that former special counsel Robert Mueller had essentially set the stage for criminal charges against Trump, and only a Justice Department policy barring prosecuting sitting presidents got in the way.
Harris, along with a chorus of other candidates from Sen. Elizabeth Warren to former HUD Secretary Julian Castro, has called for Trump's impeachment. Buttigieg has also advocated for impeachment inquiries, but focuses more on beating Trump in 2020.
Buttigieg has also called for criminal inquiries into Trump if he finishes his term in 2021 without impeachment, but the South Bend, Ind., mayor did not go so far as to dictate what the conclusion of those inquiries would be. He also told The Atlantic that he would be hesitant to order his attorney general to directly pursue charges against Trump.
"I would want any credible allegation of criminal behavior to be investigated to the fullest," Buttigieg told The Atlantic on Wednesday.
Trump has also recently come under fire for telling ABC News' George Stephanopoulos that if a foreign agent were to offer him dirt on an opponent, he would hear it out. Buttigieg told CBS' Margaret Brennan in an interview segment published Saturday that any American who receives foreign election help should "just call the FBI".
"And by the way, this isn't hypothetical. This isn't theoretical," Buttigieg said, referring to Russian offers of opposition information to members of Trump's inner circle in 2016.
Speaking with Tapper, Buttigieg specified that that criminal investigation would be conducted by an independent Justice Department without micromanaging presidential oversight.
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/15/buttigieg-justice-trump-136584...
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By Gus Leonisky at 16 Jun 2019 - 4:14pm
a democrat herring, now named warren...
Old Toon from The New Yorker circa 1950?
At this stage, we cannot establish a connection between Elizabeth Warren's (née Herring) first husband and Earl Warren (the subject of the cartoon) — the American politician and jurist who served as the 14th Chief Justice of the United States (1953–1969) and earlier as the 30th Governor of California (1943–1953). Earl Warren was the last Chief Justice to be elected rather than be chosen, thus "could be impeached".
We know that Elizabeth Warren wants to impeach Donald Trump...
Pundits rolled their eyes on New Year's Eve when Elizabeth Warren, a Democratic US senator from Massachusetts, announced she had taken the first steps to run for president.
She was too schoolmarmish, too serious in her focus on policy over personality, especially in the face of bombast from President Donald Trump.
Her decision to take a DNA test to find out whether she had Native American ancestry became a blunder when tribe leaders denounced her.
Conventional wisdom declared that Ms Warren was destined to be a back-of-the-pack candidate, overshadowed by alpha males such as Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders, and far less interesting than people of colour such as Cory Booker, Kamala Harris and Julian Castro.
And, if you wanted a wonk, there was Pete Buttigieg, the multilingual Harvard and Oxford-educated mayor of South Bend, Indiana, who had the added credentials of being gay and a military veteran.
Nevertheless, to quote the expression used about her tactics on the Senate floor, she persisted.
And now, Senator Warren is rising to the top of the presidential pack, seemingly by being herself.
In recent weeks, she's scored the kind of achievements that scorekeepers track in successful candidates.
There have been profiles in Time Magazine and The New Yorker.
The latter declared:
"On many economic issues, Warren has been remarkably prescient. She has spent decades warning Americans about the pernicious effects of income inequality, predatory corporations, and consumer debt, and about the failures of our financial system — issues that are at the heart of the 2020 Presidential campaign".
The profile went on:
"Now, as one of 23 candidates seeking to become the Democratic nominee for President, Warren is betting that the energy behind her ideas can appeal to enough swing-state voters to get her into office".
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-06-18/elizabeth-warren-rivalling-bernie-sanders-joe-biden-2020-race/11215394
Sen. Elizabeth Warren's ex-husband co-founded a DNA testing company and wrote one of the first computer codes for making genetic comparisons.
Jim Warren's career involved him in the kinds of genetic testing that Elizabeth Warren controversially invoked this month to prove that she had Native American ancestry.
One of the two other co-founders of his testing company, FamilyTreeDNA, has worked with Carlos Bustamante, the Stanford University geneticist who administered a DNA test at Elizabeth Warren's request.
Bustamante, a Stanford University geneticist, conducted the test, which Elizabeth Warren used to respond to President Trump's "Pocahontas" taunt and his mockery of her previous claim to be a Native American while a professor at Harvard Law School in the 1990s. Warren's roll-out of the test results was widely seen as a sign that she is running for president in 2020.
Rather than using a commercial service to conduct her DNA test, Warren hired Bustamante, 43, who appears in the video explaining the test and in a scene in which the Massachusetts senator telephones his office and asks to speak with him. Warren received considerable criticism for the test, which found that her Native American heritage stretch back six to 10 generations, making her between 1/64th and 1/1024th Native American.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/congress/elizabeth-warrens-ex-hu...
By Gus Leonisky at 18 Jun 2019 - 12:18pm
giving most people what they need...
There has never been a Donald Trump honeymoon. Nor any meaningful period of national unity under the 45th President's leadership.
He is the most unpopular president in modern American history, with poll approval ratings consistently in the low-to-mid-40s.
He has driven wedges between the United States and its two great neighbours, Canada and Mexico, and between the United States and its historic allies in Europe.
And yet, Mr Trump must be considered favoured to win re-election in 2020.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-06-19/beating-donald-trumps-re-election...
Gus: the only candidate that can topple Trump from his perch is not any of his "twins" on the Democrats side. Most of the Democratic candidates are on the same page as Trump in regard to war, social issues and the "economy", except Pete and Bernie.
We know that Bernie is "too socialistic", thus the only alternative would have to be Pete Buttilieg. Just give him the stick so he can a) ignore Trump and b) replace the Trumpo bombast with more humanitarian policies and c) do a far more unifying job that the rabid Donald. Pete is young and willing to give most people what they need.
Trump would make mince meat of most of the other candidates, while he would have to be less clowny and more cautious when having to deal with opposing Pete in debates...
Hopefully Pete would also do what has to be done to protect the planet from global warming.
why we need a "lightweight" president...
In the end Mayor Pete will fall victim to what so far has delivered him to the presidential jamboree—the paper chase of credentialism.
Without Harvard, Oxford, McKinsey, and Afghanistan on his resumé, Mayor Pete would look more like an overly bright Jeopardy! contestant than a presidential candidate. (Alex Trebek: "He's the mayor of a midwestern city and in his spare time he wants to be president. Let's give a big welcome for Pete Buttigieg….")
But with so many golden tickets in his background, after a while, when voters ask about what it will take to cut the $1 trillion blown on Homeland security or the best way to lower carbon emissions, they will want to hear more than Pete's self-directed love songs. Whitman said, "I and this mystery, here we stand," but he wasn't running for president.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/06/19/requiem-for-a-lightweight-the-ma...
The Trump presidency thus has benefitted from the intellectual work of political scientists who yearned for strong party government, conservative constitutional scholars who elevated a dubious theory of a unitary executive to a fashionable legal theory, and a philosophical-journalist line of scholarship that disassembled a belief in objective truth. These were intellectual trends emerging well before Donald Trump became president. In fact, these trends constructed Donald Trump and made is presidency possible.
Trump is simply the latest in a lineage of politainers advantaged by the new rules of journalism. His mastery of the new celebrity, entertainment, for-profit news industry gave him the ability to overcome the strong party government that had been constructed by the political science community. He and interested groups also exploited the weaknesses in party governance by capturing the GOP. Once elected, Trump continues to benefit from the journalism and partisan trends, but also from the powerful intellectual forces creating the modern presidency. These trends are not going away when Trump is no longer president. They are forces that have produced Trumpism, nourished Trumpistas, and which make challenging the power of the current president so difficult. Trumpism is a feature of contemporary America politics, with or without Donald Trump as president.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/06/20/the-intellectual-origins-of-the-...
All the other Democrat candidates are part of the "trumpism" syndrome...
but not so much that you will notice a thing...
From Naomi Klein
It is true that Biden has had a bad week. But if Biden implodes, there's a phalanx of other candidates, recently seen hopping from one $2,800-a-head Wall Street fundraiser to the next, all with variations on the same reassuring message: I'll change things just enough to fend off the pitchforks and to save you from the social embarrassment of Trump, but not so much that you will notice a thing.
"It is important to rotate the crops," David Adelman, a financial industry lawyer, told the New York Times. He was ostensibly explaining why he had co-hosted a fundraiser for Beto O'Rourke, but in doing so, he also summed up precisely how Wall Street sees Washington: as its plantation. It engineers the seeds, plants them, then reaps what it sowed.
These forces, and the think tanks they finance, want the Warren and Sanders camps at each other's throats, demoralizing and weakening each other. Because that's exactly how the progressive bloc stalls or shrinks enough for Biden (or some newer political GMO crop) to walk away with it.
The current political map is confusing, there is no doubt. Progressive vote-splitting is a real possibility down the road — but so is vote-combining, and the more progressive voters there are, the more viable that prospect will become. There are multiple routes by which a progressive majority spread over several candidates can be translated into a Democratic ticket that is more progressive than any we've seen in nearly a century, maybe even ever.
There are also multiple ways that the historic opportunity of this progressive surge can be lost. And that loss begins with scarcity thinking, trying to tear each other down, and fooling ourselves into believing that it's 2016 all over again. When in fact, we are somewhere we have never been before.
https://theintercept.com/2019/06/21/bernie-sanders-elizabeth-warren-prog...
The best candidate could be Pete because, read from top...
trending: up...
South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg:
Trending: Up
The small-city mayor passed a major test. He scored big with his answer on Republican hypocrisy on faith and immigration; and he showed uncommon vulnerability with his contrition on the recent South Bend police shooting.
https://nypost.com/2019/06/28/the-winners-and-losers-from-night-two-of-t...
the new york post is showing its hand...
The New York Post, a Murdoch paper, is full-on for Trump... One could not expect any less sarcasm from NYP front pages so soon. Note the low derogatory "Immigs"...
Buttilieg is still the best bet to beat Trump. So the Trump supporters will do anything to darken his character. Pete will have to be resilient but he has the ingenuity to be...
pessimism of the intellect...
You know, Joe Biden is clearly, I believe, the worst candidate among anybody with a ghost of a chance of winning the Democratic nomination next year. And you know, Kamala Harris is also a corporate creature. So if we don't want those lobbyists—And by the way, most of the superdelegates are simply elected Democrats, so they're establishment people on the whole. If we don't want them to have power over the nomination, we should also move forward now to make sure that the billionaire class doesn't have power over who is the frontrunner. And while Joe Biden is sinking from where he was, he still has a lot of money, a lot of clout, a lot of friendly corporate media behind him. And that's, I think, where activism kicks in. You know, if people organize effectively, we can change the news, we can change history, not just learn about it later on.
I should add one other thing. That the odds structurally are against progressive, genuinely left progressive candidates from being nominated for the presidency. The odds were also against this young activist named Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. And the structure of the rules in New York preregistration requirements and so forth, made the conventional wisdom that this powerful guy named Joe Crowley was simply going to walk back into Congress, and we know the history. That was changed because people had— not to coin a phrase, it's an old phrase— they had "pessimism of the intellect." That they brought to bear not only their optimism of the will, but their organizing to change what had been forecast, and bring about a much better result.
https://therealnews.com/stories/will-dem-party-superdelegates-prevent-a-...
By Gus Leonisky at 13 Jul 2019 - 9:31am
no climate debate at the DNC...
DHARNA NOOR It's The Real News. I'm Dharna Noor in Baltimore, the Democratic National Committee rejected a proposal to hold a candidate debate focused entirely on the climate crisis. At a meeting in San Francisco on Thursday, DNC officials voted 17 to 8 on the proposal and when they did, protesters with the youth live climate organization, the Sunrise Movement interrupted the meeting to ask the question… (singing).
Climate organizers did score a smaller victory. Previously the DNC prohibited all the candidates from participating in climate forums that they hadn't sanctioned. But at this meeting, the resolutions committee voted to reverse that ban, and to sanction a less formal climate forum.
Still every major democratic contender has publicly supported the proposal for a climate debate and polls show that climate policy was actually the number one issue that voters wanted to hear about in the first debate. So what happened? Joining me to talk about this now is sunrise movement trainer Carmen Bouquin, who is joining me from San Francisco. Thank you so much.
CARMEN BOUQUIN Yes, thank you so much for having me.
DHARNA NOOR So I should say, obviously before we get started, the stakes here could not be higher. The Amazon is burning at a record rate. The Amazon's a big carbon sink, so it helps the earth fight climate change. Ice sheets are melting in Greenland of the Arctic, Arctic wildfires are raging and breaking records. So with all that as a backdrop, you were there in the room for this meeting along with some 350 other members of the public. What was it like to be there when the resolution got rejected and why you think it did?
CARMEN BOUQUIN Yeah, it was actually a really painful meeting because it was like two hours of them debating specific clauses within the specific resolution and I think it was really discouraging because this is a campaign that not just Sunrise, but all of these environmental organizations had been working on for the past couple of months and pushing candidates to hold the climate debate. And we have so many candidates and supported it. And so to hear like DNC representatives vote no and so many of them that did was really discouraging. And I think a lot of youth felt unheard and not listened to.
DHARNA NOOR For sure. And of course, you know the DNC did project this resolution, but they did also reverse the ban on candidates participating in non-sanctioned climate forums. DNC chairman Tom Perez instated that ban after he got an open letter from Washington governor Jay Inslee calling for a climate debate instantly just announced that he's dropping out of the democratic primary on Wednesday. But anyway, what exactly will that DNC resolution that past due and is that a victory for y'all in any sense?
CARMEN BOUQUIN Yeah, so that resolution basically allows the CNN town hall and MSNBC town hall that's happening on climate change to exist and for candidates not to be punished for it. It was like kind of a ridiculous rule in the first place that candidates would be punished if there was a climate debate. And so that was a small victory and we're really excited to see how candidates react at those town halls and what their plans are. But we still believe that I'm a climate debate is going to show the full enormity of the plans and we still believe that a climate debate should happen, but we were excited about the small victory for sure.
DHARNA NOOR You said that there were a bunch of other resolutions that were on the table today too. Were there any others that you were looking for? Were there any other major ones that passed or didn't?
CARMEN BOUQUIN Yeah, there was another resolution that we were really excited for. It was like a resolution 30 and it was about the platform of the DNC and making it so that the DNC could mandate single issue debates based on the platform of the DNC and that was something that Christina Pelosi had reformed during the meeting to kind of adhere to some feedback from the climate debate resolution that said that if we debate climate change, then we should be able to have a debate about healthcare and immigration.
And Christina Pelosi was like, "Absolutely, we should have those and we should have them based on the DNC platform." Unfortunately, that resolution was also the… the aspect of the resolution about making parts of the platform of the DNC into a debate, that was voted down. And so that was discouraging as well. Because we want to see the candidates debate as many things as possible and as many issues as possible. And so that was also discouraging.
DHARNA NOOR Yeah, it's interesting. So speaking of that, that talking point that if you sanctioned this debate, will we need to sanction other single issue debates. That was something that Simone Sanders took up. So I was watching the live stream of this DNC conference today and Simone Sanders talking, which is kind of a really wild moment for me. She's a top advisor to Joe Biden's campaign who today came out staunchly. She came out staunchly against the climate debate resolution.
SIMONE SANDERS To call for a public in and of itself may sound good, but at the end of the day, we actually cannot exert the power over the network to do what we would like to do.
DHARNA NOOR So a couple of things going on here. She said that networks might not comply with the DNCs call for a climate debate if they did support it. She said a town hall's a better format. As you just said, both MSNBC and CNN have already planned climate town halls, but way fewer people watch those than debates, obviously. Simone Sanders works for Joe Biden who publicly endorsed the call for a climate debate. What did you make of her comments today?
CARMEN BOUQUIN Yeah, I think that was pretty confusing because Biden has come out in favor of a climate debate and it seems like a lot of folks at the table today got caught up in process and precedent. And didn't really focus on the emergency at hand of the climate crisis and the fact that the climate crisis impacts every aspect of our society and every issue.
And so that was kind of confusing to hear that coming from her because Biden had had endorsed the climate debate. And it also is just not true. Climate change is an intersectional issue that impacts all of our lives and it needs to be discussed in full and we need to know what the presidential candidates think and what their plans are.
DHARNA NOOR Could you talk a little bit more about what you mean by saying that the climate crisis is so intersectional? Talk a little bit more about how this crisis impacts every facet of human life.
CARMEN BOUQUIN Yeah, and we're seeing this right now with like the refugee crisis. We're seeing mass immigration because of climate refugees. We're seeing wild weather patterns and natural disasters, fires, hurricanes. And they're mostly impacting vulnerable communities in the global South and communities of color in the North. And so this is impacting so many people and we're seeing this also in the Midwest with extreme flooding. It's impacting our agricultural systems industry, our transportation.
Every realm of society is going to be impacted by climate change. And the people that are being most impacted are the most vulnerable. And it seems like it's being ignored and it has been ignored for so long that we thought that the climate debate could be something that they actually draw attention to that. But obviously they aren't recognizing that.
DHARNA NOOR Yeah, it's interesting in sort of a poetic, sort of display of difference here, Simone Sanders used to work for Bernie Sanders, who today put out this really huge ambitious green new deal proposal. And it calls to decarbonize the U.S. Completely by 2050, which that's a deadline that a lot of other candidates have said they'd stick to.
But it also calls to decarbonize transportation and energy sectors by 2030. It calls to ban nuclear energy. Those proposals aren't so common in other candidates plans. So it seems like there are still some pretty big differences that need to be hashed out between these candidates, especially on climate policy. So is a town hall forum enough to do that? Is that sort of informal forum like the one that the DNC voted for today, sufficient to take on all of those huge questions?
CARMEN BOUQUIN Yeah, no. And that's why we wanted a climate debate is because we want candidates to be able to debate in full all of those plans and be able to push each other and develop plans like Bernie Sanders. We even saw that today, DNC representatives were saying that, that just having a discussion on climate change is not enough. We need a debate and we need to see how candidates stack up and what their plans are.
There was a lot of discussion on how we can change how debates are run and not have them run by large new sectors like CNN, but having them more controlled by the people. And that was like also a focus of the climate debate is we wanted that to happen.
DHARNA NOOR Sure. I should disclose here for viewers of The Real News Network, I did donate 27 dollars to Bernie Sanders campaign, so if that makes you take nothing that I'm saying here seriously, that's your prerogative.
But anyway, so what is the next move for Sunrise Movement now that a DNC sanction climate debate seems to kind of be off the table. What do you all plan to do now to encourage real debate amongst candidates on how they'll address the climate crisis and could these town halls or these multi issue forums play into that at all?
CARMEN BOUQUIN Yeah, we're definitely going to encourage candidates to debate in full at those forums and all candidates to go. Kamala Harris had originally said that she wasn't going to go and some of our people and environmental activist pushed her to go. And so we're making sure that all of these candidates are being pushed in the biggest way possible. But the Sunrise Movement is going to keep going. We have three huge summits planned around the country, including one this weekend in the Bay area for all of the West.
We're going to be training up young people to strike on September 20th and 27th as part of the global strike. And we're going to be continuing to push these candidates up until 2020 and then when a candidate gets elected in 2021, we're going to not stop pushing the candidates and also pushing for the green new deal.
DHARNA NOOR Got it. And I guess I'll just close by asking you, today was just an initial meeting for the DNC. This coming weekend, they're going to be taking on final votes on all these resolutions. What do you expect to see from that meeting this weekend and what do you hope that the DNC votes up votes down?
CARMEN BOUQUIN Yeah, so we're hoping that the climate debate also gets proposed again and it can be voted in front of the general body and we'll also be continuing pushing candidates and DNC reps throughout the weekend to vote yes on that and that should happen on Saturday or Friday. And so those are some… We're still hoping that there is a vote on the climate debate and then we're also just hoping that the DNC keeps voting on resolutions that really show the climate crisis and kind of crisis resolutions.
DHARNA NOOR All right. Well as we see what comes out of this weekend and continue to follow the candidates proposals and plans to take on the climate crisis, we'd love to talk to you again. Carmen Bouquin, you're a trainer and an organizer with the Sunrise Movement based in California. Thank you so much for being on today.
CARMEN BOUQUIN Yes, thank you so much.
DHARNA NOOR And thank you for joining us on the real news network.
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By Gus Leonisky at 24 Aug 2019 - 8:57am
religious fruitcakes...
From the American Conservative:
I did read, with no little interest, an op-ed published in The New YorkTimes late last month by Bianca Vivion Brooks called "To Take On the Religious Right, We Need a Religious Left." Ms. Brooks asks her readers:
What do we relinquish as a society when a cooperative faith dissipates? Beyond spiritual guidance, the church was my earliest exposure to effective social organization, people rallying around collective belief to create lasting material change in the lives of those who needed it most. Collective belief demands social cooperation and interdependence bound to a principled obligation with expectations of self-sacrifice.
The flaw in this thinking is obvious right from the title. Progressives will never be able to engineer an effective rival to the Religious Right, if only because spirituality itself can't be engineered.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/pete-buttigieg-and-the-...
So, what is the religious right? Would Jesus be on the left or the right? Is this a question of forgiveness, sin definition, uptightness — or cash? Have the religious thoughts evolved away from the original teachings of Christ? Why did Noah get pissed after the biblical floods ordeal?
What and how did engineer the religious right? The popes? Luther? Lucifer? The Mormons? Let's be frank here. The religious right was NOT engineered by Christ. Its "spirituality" was engineered by various invented traditions created to satisfy a hierarchical social system in which kings would rule with the "gift of god"… So what are the major subterranean different tenets (please let's not mention "spirituality") of the religious right and the religious left?
The right:
We don't like gays.
We hate abortion.
We're in it for the money (traditional hierarchy).
And this is about it.
The left:
Progressives accept gays as Christians.
They are not sternly opposed to abortion.
Christ leads the way to a social conscience (equality).
Note Gus is a fierce atheist and only present the loony views of religious bigotry in all its formats, including Islam. Both right and left Christian views are a restriction on understanding of reality as both lead to delusion and systematic deception in their dependance to deeper organisms such as the "deep state" and "political machineries" that are only there for the psychopathic kill: elect a loony deceptive president.
But you can see that the religious right is worried about Pete, the Christian gay, thus a sinner. Hence the title of this article mentioned at top, by a Catholic, Michael Warren Davis:
Pete Buttigieg And The Mercenary Religious Left.
"If progressives think they can enlist Christianity just to win politically, they're in for a rude awakening."
In the USA, evangelicalism is a distortion of belief into a narrowing of the social and racial arteries. Evangelicalism has taken many formats, as to whom has the best telephone line to god through the best interpretation of a few lines in the bible, while ignoring reality. And we are also told by Rod Dreher: Black Evangelical: 'White People, Chill Out'. Letter from a conservative black Christian reader on the rise of a minority within a minority…
Yes "we" (religions) are in trouble, when the religious beliefs break up in a multitude of expressions, to be seen a bit like in an elastic museum exhibiting Botticelli to Picasso — plus present personal artistic navel-gazing, as a development of individualism, from the birth of Venus to tattoo parlours.
And yes we can enjoy our varied stylistic expressions as an extension of our ability to create a new "reality" delusion — as long as our scientific understanding develops and maintains our deeper relationship with the evolution of nature, and its complexity. Sciences are the future.
But fighting between religious right and left? It's like arguing the spirituality between an apple tart and an apricot tart. They're still tarts…
Pete is more like a mixed fruit tart... This worries the appletarters...
Gus Leonisky
Atheist about spiritual tarts...
See also: why do I feel warren is deluded in her russophobia, as if the USA have been honest in dealing with Russia?...
By Gus Leonisky at 10 Dec 2019 - 8:10am
the love guru gets out of the race...
Marianne Williamson wanted to beat Donald Trump with love, but her 2020 presidential run is over.
Who is Marianne Williamson?
The 67-year-old had run for office once before, also unsuccessfully. In 2014, she finished fourth in a highly competitive race for a congressional seat in California.
But it's hardly what she's known for.
In her 38-year career before politics, she served as an adviser to Oprah Winfrey and officiated the last of Elizabeth Taylor's eight weddings.
Seven of her 12 self-help books were New York Times best sellers, and even if you think you'd never be associated with a spiritual guru, you'd no doubt recognise a few quotes from them. Quotes like:
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure."
But if you do know about Ms Williamson from her politics, it's probably because of quotes like:
"If you think any of this wonkiness is going to deal with this dark psychic force of the collectivised hatred that this President is bringing up in this country, then I'm afraid that the Democrats are going to see some very dark days."
On a campaign stage crowded with career politicians and prepared remarks, she spoke to voters who felt that the country was experiencing a crisis of conscience of such seismic proportions that politics was beside the point.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-01-11/marianne-williamson-leaves-us-dem...
By Gus Leonisky at 11 Jan 2020 - 12:55pm
liar, liar...
In politics, there's nothing quite like a hot mic.
Whether it's Donald Trump boasting about grabbing women by the crotch, Peter Dutton chuckling at Pacific islands being swamped by rising seas or former British PM Gordon Brown calling a voter he'd just met "bigoted", a forgotten microphone peels back the highly orchestrated public veneer of politics and, for a few seconds, reveals something real and (often) ugly.
This week it was the turn of Presidential contenders Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren to be very publicly overheard.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-01-17/root-of-elizabeth-warren-bernie-s...
why do I feel warren is deluded in her russophobia, as if the USA have been honest in dealing with Russia?...
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FirstNet Authority, UMMC to Innovate for Rural Response
By April Ward Senior Media Relations Advisor First Responder Network Authority
Gov. Bryant, US. Sen. Wicker, U.S Sen. Hyde-Smith and U.S. Commerce Sec. Ross Commend Effort for Rural First Responders
March 20, 2019 (Jackson, MS) – The First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet Authority) and University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) today signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate on innovation for emergency medical care and response as well as mobile broadband for rural first responders in Mississippi and nationwide.
Governor Phil Bryant, U.S. Department of Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith joined executives from the FirstNet Authority and UMMC officials at a signing ceremony this morning on the UMMC campus to unveil the agreement.
"Emergencies can happen anywhere at any time – and in rural areas, communications is often a challenge," said Secretary Ross. "FirstNet is designed to help meet these challenges and modernize public safety communications. With this collaboration, the FirstNet Authority and the Mississippi Center for Emergency Services are coming together to drive innovation for first responders in Mississippi and nationwide to help them save lives and protect communities."
"The University of Mississippi leads the nation in advancing telehealth technology and emergency services. Through our collaboration with the FirstNet Authority, we will share our expertise and knowledge to help connect and innovate for first responders throughout the state and nationwide," said Governor Bryant. "Mississippi's first responders are dedicated to serving our communities every day and in every emergency. I am excited about this collaboration and the benefits that it will deliver to our public safety community, as well as to first responders across the country - especially those in rural areas."
"The collaboration with the FirstNet Authority shows UMMC will continue its leadership in telemedicine and emergency response to help those in need throughout the state," said U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith. "I'm proud of UMMC's work to improve the health of rural Mississippians, and commend Secretary Ross for tapping the expertise of our medical center to provide the broadband connections needed to power the most advanced life-saving tools to keep Mississippians safe."
"The collaboration announced today is well deserved for the University of Mississippi Medical Center," U.S. Senator Roger Wicker said in a statement supporting the collaboration. "After years of strategic planning and investment, the Center for Emergency Services at UMMC will become a national resource on emergency communication in rural areas. The expertise we develop in Mississippi will help improve medical response and patient outcomes throughout our country."
The FirstNet Authority, within the U.S. Department of Commerce, is responsible for ensuring the buildout of FirstNet, the only dedicated nationwide broadband network for America's first responders. As part of its mission, the FirstNet Authority is working to better understand the needs of first responders operating in rural communities, where communications are often a challenge.
UMMC, Mississippi's only academic health sciences center, established the Mississippi Center for Emergency Services to help the state maintain medical services during emergencies and disasters. Supporting that mission is UMMC's extensive telehealth network, which in 2017 was designated one of two Telehealth Centers of Excellence by the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration.
Together, the FirstNet Authority and the Mississippi Center for Emergency Services will drive innovation for rural emergency medicine and response and share case studies, lessons learned and best practices related to public safety's use of mobile broadband in rural areas.
"We established the Mississippi Center for Emergency Services in part to help improve the knowledge and capabilities of first responders statewide, especially those serving the most remote areas," said Dr. LouAnn Woodward, UMMC vice chancellor for health affairs and dean of the School of Medicine. "We can handle the medical support training and emergency response communications, but we need partners to help us with the technology necessary for every part of the state to be connected to potential life-saving support in real time.
"A collaboration with FirstNet will have a dramatically positive effect across the state during a disaster or other emergency event."
Through this collaboration with UMMC, the FirstNet Authority will gain critical insight into how medical incidents are handled in rural communities— specifically, how first responders can leverage innovative technologies to improve medical response and patient outcomes. The FirstNet Authority and the Mississippi Center for Emergency Services plan to create demonstrations related to rural first responders' use of broadband to be incorporated into the FirstNet Authority's new experience program. This program aims to introduce first responders to current and future technologies through hands-on educational and learning experiences.
"Technologies for tele-emergency medicine will be transformative for our nation, equipping first responders with critical information when they need it most," said FirstNet Board Chair Edward Horowitz. "Through this collaboration with UMMC, the FirstNet Authority will be better prepared to advance the public safety broadband capabilities for emergency services in our nation's rural communities and help public safety operationalize technology for rural emergency response as the network evolves."
"This collaboration will allow FirstNet Authority to draw on the expertise of one of our nation's leading academic medical centers so that we can improve the FirstNet experience for first responders in Mississippi and across the country," said FirstNet Authority Acting CEO Ed Parkinson. "We are thankful for this opportunity to work with the Mississippi Center for Emergency Services as we focus our efforts on public safety officials serving in rural areas and providing them with tools they need to help improve patient outcomes."
"Technology is the key addition we need to improve emergency care in rural America," said Dr. Damon Darsey, associate professor of emergency medicine and medical director of the Mississippi Center for Emergency Services. "This collaboration will help Mississippi share lessons learned and allow FirstNet to bring new technology and opportunities to challenge what is possible."
The agreement also represents the first step toward establishing the FirstNet Authority's University Program. The FirstNet Authority plans to partner with universities with expertise in different aspects of public safety communications to enhance the network and educate public safety employees on how best to use cutting-edge technologies.
The First Responder Network Authority is an independent authority within the U.S. Department of Commerce. Created in 2012, its mission is to ensure the building, deployment, and operation of the nationwide broadband network that equips first responders to save lives and protect U.S. communities. Learn more at FirstNet.gov/mediakit and follow the FirstNet Authority (@FirstNetGov) on Facebook and Twitter for updates.
About the University of Mississippi Medical Center
A campus of the University of Mississippi, UMMC is the state's only academic medical center. Located in Jackson, it encompasses seven health science schools, including medicine, nursing, health related professions, dentistry, pharmacy, graduate studies and population health. The Medical Center's health care enterprise includes the state's only Level I trauma center and its only children's hospital. UMMC's education, research and health care missions share the objectives of improving the health of the state's population and eliminating health disparities. For more information, visit http://www.umc.edu and https://www.umc.edu/PublicAffairs
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Death Crown: A Passion Sunday Sermon
In a moving short story called "Death Crown" North Carolinian Robert Morgan writes about a woman named Ellen from the mountains of western North Carolina who comes to stay with her great aunt who is in the last hours of her life. In her eighties she was dying, and Ellen had come to sit there by the bed with her so she'd know she was not alone. Sitting there with this little old woman she so much loved, Ellen stared down at her and thought to herself:
The way her head sinks into the pillow kind of reminds me of the old story of the death crown. Old-timers used to say that when a really good person is sick for a long time before they die, that the feathers in the pillow will knit themselves into a crown that fits the person's head. The crown won't be found till after they are dead, of course, but it's a certain sign of another crown in heaven, my daddy used to say. I've never seen one myself but the old-timers say they're woven so tight they never come apart and they shine like gold even though they're so light they might just as well be a ring of light.
A "death crown" visible only on the other side of death, turning what was only a moment before an ultimate defeat into a triumphant victory.
"Death…crown." Do you get the irony, the paradox, of that? What an amazing transformation of images!
It's a transformation, I think, John would have understood. With his typical irony, John, in 11:45-53, lets us tiptoe into the Sanhedrin in Jerusalem and listen in on the conversation between Caiaphas the High Priest and the Sanhedrin as they plot Jesus' demise. It's a drama played out on two levels.
Fred Craddock, in his fine commentary on John, describes the scene in cinematic perspective. On the ground level, in which events are described as they are experienced by the participants, the story is played out on a small stage with puppet characters – marionettes, "people on a stick." You only need puppet actors because these pathetic little men are puppets holding onto their pathetic little power base at the whim of a capricious Roman governor who lives on the seacoast at Caesarea. Disturb the great lion, Rome, and it all could come crashing down around them. And disturb it, Jesus had! Just a few days before, He had done the unthinkable, the unimaginable – He had raised Lazarus from the dead! "You can't have that! You can't have Jesus running around emptying tombs. What if Rome hears? They might come in and throw us all out!" And Jesus, this gentle man whose commitment to God is not for sale, threatens their "perceived power," and so it is decided that it must be death for the One who opposes death – the One who opens tombs and sends shouts of life down the grim, empty hallways of institutional justice must Himself now fill one. In a brilliant stroke of sarcasm, John twice calls Caiaphas "high priest that year." John knows that high priests were elected for life! But he knows too, even if Caiaphas doesn't, that the high priest's pathetic little power, to which the anxious Caiaphas tenuously clings, can be cut off in a heartbeat. And so, "Caiaphas, who was high priest that year…" decides that Jesus the Lifegiver must die. But ever the bureaucrat, Caiaphas puts the best face on it all: "Oh, it's tragic, regrettable, of course, but in the long run…for the good of the people, you know…it's better for us all this way." And so the arrest warrants go out and the wanted posters go up: "Anyone having information as to the whereabouts of this Jesus of Nazareth…."
But as John pans the camera back slowly, we get a new perspective on this little scene. On another level, these pathetic little bureaucrats, spinning their little webs and hatching their little plots, and trading their little lies, are unwittingly playing a part in a drama so big, so grand that they haven't even a clue! Caiaphas says: "It's better, expedient that one should die for the people" not realizing that he'd just spoken more truth than he ever could have imagined. Jesus had said it himself: "And if I be lifted up, I'll draw all men unto me!" As long as Jesus remained "The Word Made Flesh," as John's Prologue calls Him, He remained limited, localized to one particular place, one particular time, among one particular people. But the Word glorified – read it crucified, "lifted up," get it? – is the Word present everywhere, at every time, in every place, among everyone! Without even realizing it Caiaphas, in plotting Jesus' death, had unwittingly given Jesus the means to turn defeat into final victory. Caiaphas thought he was planning a crucifixion; he wasn't. He was planning a coronation, and he didn't even know it! Five times in just nine verses John will call Jesus "King" on the cross! In dying, Jesus will wear a Death Crown, for there is a Council of which Caiaphas knows nothing, and there is a Power that is not Rome's!
And on this Sunday when the Church struggles with Palms or Passion, Crown or Cross, I'm not sure, but I think I heard in John's little drama a word from God. You see, the Church has always preferred to call this Sunday "Palm Sunday" rather than "Passion Sunday," though it's never quite been comfortable doing so. Don't get me wrong. It's great fun to wave palms and shout "Hosanna! Blessed is He Who comes in the name of the Lord!" with all the others who welcomed Jesus through the Eastern Gate on that first Palm Sunday. But may I remind you that by week's end, those same people were shouting "Crucify Him! Crucify Him!" Remembering that, the Church throughout the ages has somehow almost instinctively understood that Palm Sunday is too soon to crown Him Messiah. Not yet; not on that side of the Cross.
I find it interesting that not a single NT writer, save one, does anything theologically with the Triumphal Entry of Jesus. Not a word in Paul's Letters; not a paragraph in the great Epistle to the Hebrews; not even a mention in the Letters of Peter. Only John, the author of the Revelation, picks up on the imagery of the Triumphal Entry and interprets it theologically. Oh, they interpret other events in Jesus life – His baptism, Gethsemane, the Cross, and of course the Resurrection. But when it comes to the theological development of the theme of the Triumphal Entry, not a word, not a word. Why? I don't know for sure. But I'll tell you what I think. Because somehow they knew that the crowd waving palms and shouting Hosanna on that side of the Cross was wrong! The Messiah wears a crown all right, but it's a Death Crown. And so John, in Revelation 7, describes his great vision of the Lamb and his Army going out to engage Satan in the Final Battle, and the Messiah's army of 144,000 wave palm branches before their Leader, the Crucified Lamb. Palm Branches – did you get that? It's the ancient Jewish symbol of victory, on all the Jewish coins from the Maccabean Period of Jewish independence. And note: the army of the Crucified Lamb John describes in this scene is an army of martyrs! Now, it seems, it's safe to wave palms!
Don't get me wrong. I don't want to spoil your fun on Palm Sunday. The Christian faith is a thing of great joy and comfort. But it doesn't begin in joy and comfort; it begins in pain and suffering and death.
"I gave my back to those who smite; I gave my cheeks to those who pulled out the beard; I gave my face to those who spit; and I gave my ear to God and He opened my ear, dug out my ear, to hear as those who are taught."
I remind you: you can't have Easter without the Passion, because there can be no Resurrection until somebody dies!
And therein is our hope! Without the Cross, our faith wouldn't be a comfort to anybody. What would you say to the terminal cancer patient? What would you say to the mother who just buried her baby? What would you say to the eighty-five year old man, alone and forgotten, in cold storage in some nursing home with no one to care? "Smile, God Loves You!" No. But I'll tell you what you can say. You can say that I believe in a God Who's been there before you, in the pain, in the darkness, in the loneliness, in the death. And I believe in a Christ Who has come through it – not around it, but through it – and Who lives and reigns now on the far side of the Cross. That's what you can say!
A few years ago I got an email that changed my plans, rearranged my schedule. It simply said: "Mary Lou is in Hospice. She hasn't eaten in ten days, so weak she can only whisper. She whispered, 'How's Wayne?'" Plans changed. Mary Lou and her husband had been members of a church where I had served as interim pastor. I was only there a year; I don't remember folk all that well in churches where I was interim pastor. Too many churches; too many people. I remember Mary Lou.
She was in her late 60's at the time. Charming, gracious, attractive, always immaculately groomed with an infectious smile and ice blue eyes, she was the picture of poise and grace. She had raised three sons, helped her husband launch a successful furniture business, and still found the time to be a pillar of her church. A natural leader, Mary Lou at one time or another had directed WMU, Sunday School, Discipleship Training, and the church's Strategic Planning Committee. After retirement, she and her husband had traveled all over the world with the Mission Board as volunteer missionaries. There's hardly a darkened corner of the world that has not been illumined by the sparkle of her blue eyes and her winsome smile. And she and her husband traveled with me all over the Middle East on one occasion or another – Israel, Egypt, Greece, Turkey.
Then, a few years ago, I heard she'd been diagnosed with colon cancer. Hadn't seen her in several years, but when she whispered my name, I had to go.
Cheryl and I walked into the room and found her lying on her side asleep. I thought I was in the wrong room at first – she'd lost so much weight, her hair gone, her skin white, thin, and bleeding. I walked over by the bed, sat down, took her hand in mine and whispered, "Mary Lou?" But when I saw those blue eyes, I knew it was she. "Oh, Wayne," she said. Her husband came in while Cheryl and I were there. The four of us laughed and cried and remembered. "Remember that time," I said to Mary Lou, "When we left him (pointing to her husband) on the temple mount in Jerusalem because he was still dickering with that street vendor?" She laughed, "I remember. He never could resist a deal."
I prayed with her; we said "goodbye." Actually, we said "au revoir," "Until I see you again." She said, "Don't say goodbye."
And as I turned to walk out of the room, I noticed the sun streaming in the window was creating a crown-shaped glow on her pillow. Strange.
I thought about the picture of Revelation chapter 5 as I left – John's vision of the Victorious Lamb of God. He pulls back the curtain to let his suffering, persecuted, bleeding church get a glimpse of how it will all end. And he shows them a picture of a bloody, beaten, bruised, battered, dying Lamb. And John recoils and says, "Thanks a lot! That's just how I feel! How's that gonna help?" And a Voice says, "Look again, John." And he looks again, and he sees a bloody, beaten, bruised, bleeding, dying Lamb…seated on a throne!


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16th April 2012 - 30th June 2013
On 16th April 2012, Uli Forte took over as manager of Grasshopper Club Zürich, seven rounds before the end of the 2011/12 championship. These remaining seven matches resulted in just two draws and led to the team achieving eighth place overall.
However, Forte then had the chance to help reshape and prepare the team for the coming 2012/13 season – which was to become the most successful season in Forte's career as a young manager. He started by successfully integrating many talented young U21 players who have now moved on to major European leagues (Bürki at Borussia Dortmund; Zuber at 1899 Hoffenheim; Hajrovic at Werder Bremen, on loan at SD Eibar; Abrashi at SC Freiburg; and Michael Lang at FC Basel). At the end of the season, this resulted in the team – the youngest in the 2012/13 season – winning the Raiffeisen Super League U21 Trophy. Grasshopper Club Zürich finished the championship as the runner-up, three points behind the series champion, FC Basel. The team's biggest success, however, was in the Swiss Cup, where they brought their first cup title in 19 years back to Zurich after the final against FC Basel.
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Influenza Pathogenesis: The Effect of Host Factors on Severity of Disease
Anshu P. Gounder and Adrianus C. M. Boon
J Immunol January 15, 2019, 202 (2) 341-350; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4049/jimmunol.1801010
Anshu P. Gounder
Department of Internal Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63110;Department of Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63110; and
Adrianus C. M. Boon
Department of Internal Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63110;Department of Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63110; andDepartment of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63110
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Influenza viruses continue to be a major global health threat. Severity and clinical outcome of influenza disease is determined by both viral and host factors. Viral factors have long been the subject of intense research and many molecular determinants have been identified. However, research into the host factors that protect or predispose to severe and fatal influenza A virus infections is lagging. The goal of this review is to highlight the recent insights into host determinants of influenza pathogenesis.
This work was supported by National Institutes of Health (NIH) Grants R01- AI118938 and R21-AI137450 (to A.C.M.B.) and NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Training Grant T32-AI007172, which supported A.P.G.
CPTII
carnitine palmitoyltransferase II
DBR1
debranching RNA lariats 1
hemagglutinin
IAV
influenza A virus
IFITM3
IFN-induced transmembrane protein 3
neuraminidase
tissue resident memory T cell.
Received July 20, 2018.
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The aircraft involved in the incident is the same model as the Boeing 737 Max 8 that was involved in the Lion Air disaster earlier this year. Following the tragedy, Ethiopian Airlines announced that it will temporarily ground its fleet of four 737 MAX 8 planes as a "safety precaution".
Air traffic control lost contact with the Boeing 737-800MAX six minutes after taking off from Bole International Airport in Addis Ababa, according to Ethiopian airlines.
"It is confirmed it happened 8.44am (local time)", the spokesman said.
Ethiopian Airlines identified the flight number as ET 302/10 and said the crash took place around Bishoftu, formerly known as Debre-Zeit.
China's aviation regulator on Monday grounded almost 100 Boeing Co 737 MAX 8 aircraft operated by its airlines, more than a quarter of the global fleet of the jets, after a deadly crash of one of the planes in Ethiopia.
Ethiopian Airlines, at a press conference on Sunday, said the victims included 32 Kenyans, 18 Canadians, nine Ethiopians, eight Americans, and others from China, Italy, France Britain, Egypt, theNetherlands and other countries.
"At this time search and rescue operations are in progress and we have no confirmed information about survivors or any possible casualties".
AU Envoy Raila Odinga said, "My deeply felt condolences to the people of Ethiopia following the crash of the Ethiopian Airlines plane".
While the aircraft was relatively new, a Lion Air plane of the same model was involved in a crash about five months ago, crashing into the sea near Indonesia with nearly 190 on board.


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module Contract
  class Contract
    attr_accessor :amount, :price, :instrument

    def initialize(amount, price, instrument)
      @amount = amount
      @price = price
      @instrument = instrument
    end
  end

  module Simple

    class SimpleBase < Contract
      attr_accessor :party

      def initialize(party, amount, price, instrument)
        super(amount, price, instrument)
        @party = party
      end
    end

    class Long < SimpleBase
      def initialize(party, amount, price, instrument)
        super(party, amount, price, instrument)
      end
    end

    class Short < SimpleBase
      def initialize(party, amount, price, instrument)
        super(party, amount, price, instrument)
      end
    end
  end

  class ShortLong < Contract
    attr_accessor :short_party, :long_party

    def initialize(short_party, long_party, amount, price, instrument)
      super(amount, price, instrument)
      @short_party = short_party
      @long_party = long_party
    end
  end

  class Instrument
  end
end

module SimpleContract
end

module ShortLongContract
  class Contract
    attr_accessor :short_party, :long_party, :amount, :price, :instrument

    def initialize(short_party, long_party, amount, price, instrument)
      @short_party = short_party
      @long_party = long_party
      @amount = amount
      @price = price
      @instrument = instrument
    end
  end

end


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Yemen: Release of Hisham al-Omeisy must be followed by release of all prisoners of conscience
16 January 2018, 10:28 UTC
Responding to the news that Yemeni journalist Hisham al-Omeisy was released after being detained incommunicado by Huthi forces in Sana'a since August 2017, Samah Hadid, Director of Campaigns for Amnesty International in the Middle-East Amnesty International said:
The release of Hisham al-Omeisy today is a welcome step, however, Huthi authorities must also immediately and unconditionally free all prisoners of conscience languishing in detention.
Samah Hadid, Director of Campaigns in the Middle-Eas
"Since 2016, Yemen has witnessed a surge in arbitrary arrests, detentions and enforced disappearances by Huthi forces. Those targeted include people whose only crime is exercising their right to freedom of expression, such as journalists, critics, human rights defenders and members of the minority Baha'i community."
Hisham al-Omeisy is a political activist who rose to fame during the Arab Spring and the ongoing Yemeni conflict. He became a leading and reputable voice on the ground, providing commentary and analysis in the media on Yemen's ever-shifting armed conflict.
Amnesty International also has information that ten other Yemeni journalists have been arbitrarily detained without charge or trial for over two and a half years.
The organization also documented the persecution of Baha'is by the Huthis on account of their faith, including some who have been subjected to enforced disappearance. Earlier this month, Hamid Haydara was sentenced to death by the Specialized Criminal Court in Sana'a.
Censorship and Freedom of Expression


Fall is here. As the seasons change outside, it is the perfect time to also refresh your interior space. Switching out things like pillows, artwork, or adding a throw is a great way to make your home feel updated when heading into the fall and winter months. For more daring design lovers, making bigger changes like reupholstering a chair or adding a new area rug can be the perfect way to shift the focus from outside in.
Here at Urban Source we love the fall transition from lightweight cottons and billowy sheers to rich velvets and woven textures. Bright color palettes get exchanged for deeper tones. Metallics have a chance to shine against the darker hues.
We decided to make a fall inspired scheme for a living room. We combined furniture and accessories from some of our favorite retailers and paired them with Urban Source fabrics and materials. It is surprisingly easy to combine store bought pieces with more unique, specialty fabrics and patterns to make a special space for yourself.
For flooring we chose a warm mahogany with a wide wood grain pattern. Soften wooden floors by adding a colorful area rug.
To coordinate, we selected an option of a soft neutral cream (Benjamin Moore's Mt. Rushmore Rock) or a vivid, creamy brown (Benjamin Moore's Van Buren Brown).
We are in love with plaids as a classic fall pattern. Here we chose one of our favorite plaids, Dulcie, in a color way that pulls in a pumpkin and is offset by an icy blue. We paired this plaid with the GORGEOUS woven texture, Napoleon, in the same pumpkin color mixed with a warm metallic gold. These fabrics would make amazing throw pillows mixed together on the West Elm seating.
The next grouping of fabrics could be mixed in the scheme in various ways. Here at Urban Source, everything we fabricate is made to order and will be customized to your space. Therefore, any fabric you select in our showroom can be made into drapery, shades, upholstery, pillows, or even bedding. The materials shown here can be interjected into our fall scheme in so many different ways!
We love the idea of the black and cream pattern, Kasuri, as a flat roman shade to infuse the space with pattern. As an alternative idea, we pulled a soft linen, (top right) 02115 Copper, which would make soft, romantic drapery. Middle left is our Tundra fabric which is a faux leather upholstery fabric. We can envision this fabric constructed into a chic pouf to place next to the coffee table. And last, but not least, is the tweed fabric on the bottom right. Of course, this would make the most cozy throw! Throws are definitely a must-have for any interior in the cooler months!
Wallpaper is another option for bringing in pattern and style. For this space we chose the classic wallpaper 'Woods' for an accent wall. We think this is a great way to bring the outside in!
Let us know what you think of this scheme and the materials we selected for this project. We put together fabric and wallpaper combinations all day long! If you are working on a scheme of your own, feel free to bring in pictures and talk with one of our in-house designers.


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August 1, 2021 July 23, 2021 Carl Robert Keyes Daily Advert UpdateGoldsmith, Jeweler, John Carnan, Pennsylvania Gazette, Sign of the Golden Lion, Woodcut
Pennsylvania Gazette (August 1, 1771).
"At the GOLDEN LION."
In the early 1770s, John Carnan, a goldsmith and jeweler, ran a shop at the corner of Second and Chestnut Streets in Philadelphia. He promoted his "GOLD, SILVER and JEWELLERY WORK" in advertisements in the Pennsylvania Gazette, assuring prospective customers that he made his wares "in the best and newest taste." Like many other purveyors of goods, he provided an overview of his inventory in a dense paragraph of text. Carnan listed everything from "TANKARDS, cans, tea, coffee and cream pots" to "gold, silver, gilt, enamelled, Scotch pebble, moco, chrystal, paste and glass sleeve buttons" to "silver and enamelled snuff-boxes [and] silver mounted decanter corks." In addition, he offered customers the opportunity to select among "sundry other articles, too tedious to mention." In terms of advertising copy, Carnan's notice very much resembled others placed by purveyors of goods and services in Philadelphia and other American towns and cities.
The woodcut that adorned Carnan's advertisement, however, distinguished it from others. Carnan marked his location with a sign depicting a golden lion. A woodcut that also depicted a lion appeared in the upper left corner of his advertisement. (Regular visitors to the Adverts 250 Project will likely recognize this lion as the image that has appeared on its home page since its inception.) The woodcut in the advertisement may have replicated Carnan's shop sign, serving as a logo or brand that identified his business. Even if the woodcut did not resemble the sign, incorporating an image of a lion likely helped consumers associate the regal animal with the goldsmith and jeweler, making his shop all the more memorable. Unlike the woodcuts depicting ships at sea, the only other images in the August 1, 1771, edition of the Pennsylvania Gazette beyond the masthead, the woodcut of the lion belonged to the advertiser rather than the printer. Carnan invested in an image reserved for his sole use. Over time, he included the image in other advertisements, providing consistency via the image even as he generated new copy for his notices. Inserting the same woodcut in multiple advertisements also allowed him a greater return on his investment. Not every advertiser who commissioned unique woodcuts used them more than once. Carnan, however, recognized the potential for enhancing his marketing efforts with an image that represented his business and attracted attention among prospective customers.
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From the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY.
A 26-year-old African American woman was admitted for intractable nausea and vomiting during her third trimester of pregnancy. The patient had been diagnosed with Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease (KFD) a year prior, when she presented with high fevers and cervical lymphadenopathy. Lymph node biopsy revealed necrotic foci of predominantly CD8-positive T cells and myeloperoxidase-positive histiocytes consistent with necrotizing lymphadenitis. The patient became pregnant within months of the diagnosis. At 33 weeks' gestation, the patient was given a short course of steroids for myalgias and joint pains that were thought to be due to KFD. This improved her symptoms. Three weeks later, she was admitted for headaches, hypertension, nausea, and intractable vomiting. A diagnosis of preeclampsia was made, labor was induced, and she had an uncomplicated vaginal delivery. The following day, the patient complained of "shaky" and "jumpy" vision, severe headache, weakness, and paresthesias in the lower extremities. Her blood pressure was 170/100 mm Hg. Examination revealed rapid, involuntary eye movements with both horizontal and vertical components consistent with opsoclonus, severe paraparesis, absent reflexes in the lower extremities, and a possible T10 sensory level. Brain MRI revealed hyperintensities in bilateral occipital lobes suggestive of posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES) along with a lesion in the medulla (figure, A and B). Spine MRI revealed an extensive cord lesion spanning from C5 to T10 spinal segments consistent with transverse myelitis (figure, C). CSF and serum IgG–neuromyelitis optica antibodies, otherwise known as aquaporin-4 antibodies, were positive; rheumatologic markers, serum and CSF viral markers, cultures, and paraneoplastic autoantibodies were negative. The patient's complaints of abnormal vision and headache resolved with blood pressure control. However, the paraparesis did not improve despite treatment with high-dose IV Solu-Medrol and IVIg. She slowly regained strength over several weeks after receiving treatment with plasmapheresis and continued high-dose prednisone 60 mg/d.
(A, B) Axial T2 fluid-attenuated inversion recovery and nonenhanced T2 MRI demonstrating bioccipital and medullary T2 hyperintensities (arrows). (C) Sagittal T2 MRI demonstrating confluent T2 hyperintensity (arrows) extending from C7 to T5 vertebral level.
Our patient's case represents a unique and previously unreported association between neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder (NMOSD) and KFD. In retrospect, her initial presentation of intractable nausea and vomiting, originally ascribed to pregnancy symptoms, was likely secondary to her medullary lesion as described by a group that demonstrated high concentrations of aquaporin-4 in the medulla and area postrema of postmortem tissue.1 NMOSD flares occur more frequently in the third trimester and post-partum period. The patient's delivery and postpartum state may have contributed to the acute worsening of symptoms. It has been hypothesized that the worsening of NMOSD activity is due to an imbalance between the TH1 and TH2 cytokine profiles. NMOSD, a TH2-mediated autoimmune disease, is worsened by pregnancy, which increases the TH2 cytokine profile2. Of note, our patient's eye movements appeared to coincide with episodes of severe hypertension and PRES-like changes seen on brain MRI. The association between NMOSD and PRES has been previously well described.3 Both the patient's visual symptoms and brain MRI changes resolved with blood pressure control.
Although the relationship between NMOSD and autoimmune disorders remains elusive, they both share a commonality in an abnormal immune state. The case of coexisting KFD and NMOSD adds to the ever-growing list of conditions associated with NMOSD. Physicians should be aware of these associations and must consider demyelinating disease in patients with autoimmune disorders who present with neurologic symptoms. An accurate diagnosis is crucial for clinical management. We are hopeful that the mechanisms of autoimmunity may be clarified with more research into these conditions that may help identify potential genetic, environmental, and biomarkers of disease.
Author contributions: Michelle Kaku: drafting/revising the manuscript. Susan Shin: drafting/revising the manuscript, analysis or interpretation of data, acquisition of data, study supervision. Martin Goldstein: drafting/revising the manuscript. Julia Pleet: drafting/revising the manuscript. Michelle Fabian: drafting/revising the manuscript, study supervision.
Disclosure: The authors report no disclosures. Go to Neurology.org/nn for full disclosure forms. The Article Processing Charge was paid by the authors.
Accepted in final form February 18, 2016.
. Neuromyelitis optica and pregnancy. Neurology 2012;78:875–879.
. Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome in neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders. Neurology 2009;72:712–717.
. The emerging relationship between neuromyelitis optica and systemic rheumatologic autoimmune disease. Mult Scler J 2012;18:5–10.
. Enigmatic Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease a comprehensive review. Am J Clin Pathol 2004;122:141–152.
. Kikuchi–Fujimoto disease: analysis of 244 cases. Clin Rheumatol 2007;26:50–54.
. A case of fever of unknown origin: co-existence of Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease and acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM). Intern Med 2009;49:1823–1826.


I've got that Wolves feeling!
Some refs would give that.
Ritchie vs Slabheed, only one winner there.
Huge win that. And f***ing much needed! Howay the lads!
Hooray! I put a fiver on us at 9/2. Nice 27 squid back. Good start to the weekend! Gotta love FNF!
If Newcastle do win this they will be up to 13th on 38 points and surely safe for another year in the Premier League. Mike Ashley can celebrate by going out and buying Dorothy Perkins or something.


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EdSurge Nabs $400K From Washington Post, NewSchools To Be A Resource For All Things EdTech
Rip Empson	@ripemp / 7 years
When I decided to begin covering the intersection of technology, entrepreneurship and education more seriously, my first goal was to seek out the best resources, or community watering holes, for edtech information. Anyone who has embarked on a similar quest will tell you that, while sites like Inside Higher Ed do a great job of carrying the torch, traditionally the market for edtech news and info has been seriously fragmented, with (thin) coverage scattered across a number of small, niche sites.
However, beginning last year, veterans of the space like Jon Bischke increasingly began pointing me to a new site called EdSurge, which was reportedly on a mission to glue the fragmented market back together.
Founded in February 2011 by long-time journalists and veterans of education technology, EdSurge set out to create an online hub through which entrepreneurs could better connect with the educators using their products and vice versa. By way of its popular weekly eNewsletter and website, the startup provides insiders and outsiders with an alternative to Consumer Reports or Yelp — a source of unbiased information on the people, products and companies working to bring some innovation (and funk) to the crossroads of education and technology.
The startup grew to a team of seven thanks to early financial support from Bill Gates (through grants from The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation) and others. But, now more than a year removed from launch, EdSurge is looking to expand the breadth of its coverage and further develop independent reviews of edtech startups and products. To do so, the startup is today announcing that it has secured $400K in seed funding from institutional and angel investors, including the Washington Post Company, NewSchools Venture Fund, Allen & Co. execs Nancy Peretsman and Gillian Munson, O'Reilly Media exec Dale Dougherty, and Judy Estrin.
But why should you care about some niche edtech resource? For a long time, the infrastructure and policy of the educational system (and those institutions overseeing it) has been so tangled and resistant to change that many investors have balked at sinking capital into edtech startups. Just ask Marc Andreessen.
However, that psychology has begun to flip — along with classrooms. Over the last 18 months in particular, venture capital has begun flowing into education, and the edtech ecosystem is now emerging at a breakneck pace, with successful consumer and gaming-focused entrepreneurs increasingly making the jump to education. The emergence of edtech-focused VC funds like NewSchools is another indication of the growing interest.
On more than one occasion, I've been known to mutter about the lack of entrepreneurial focus on problems or areas where technology can actually affect real change — not just give people a better way to share photos or find a dog walker. (Peter Thiel and Max Levchin spoke about this issue at Disrupt last year.)
Today, the cost of education — something that most people spend the first quarter of their life working towards — is ridiculous and unsustainable. Student loan dept in the U.S. hit the trillion-dollar threshold this year, pushing past most other forms of consumer debt (namely credit cards and car loans). The educational system is a mess, and now more than ever the industry is in need of talent and entrepreneurial energy to help solve these far-reaching problems.
Whenever entrepreneurs interested in learning more about the edtech landscape (and the startups that comprise it), I often recommend checking out EdSurge. (And that's not just because the startup has been called the "TechCrunch for Education," though there are a obviously a number of parallels in terms of founding mission statements.)
That's because, through its website, newsletters, events and by sharing best practices for blended learning and beyond, EdSurge is trying to bring timely, independent info to educators, entrepreneurs, investors and policy makers to help them make more informed decisions. And create products and tools that teachers and students actually use and will actually help optimize the learning process.
As an edtech resource, EdSurge has also become attractive to investors and entrepreneurs because of its founding team. For example, its CEO, Elizabeth Corcoran, is a long time technology journalist and previously the executive tech editor at Forbes (and a staff writer for the Washington Post). The company's president, Nick Punt, is the former product VP at Gates Foundation-backed Inigral, a private social network for higher ed. Based on these connections (and the site's journalistic/repertorial coverage), the participation of WaPo and the Gates Foundation in the startup's seed funding gain some context.
"We believe that great journalism has a big role to play in spurring companies to build the best products," says Washington Post Chairman Don Graham, and one of the main reasons why the company decided to support Edsurge, he said. Entrepreneurs want a place where they can share their experience building educational tools and find up-to-date information about a landscape that's evolving quickly.
Plus, teachers have become an increasingly vocal and connected group. Many don't realize that teachers are active (some might even say aggressive) early adopters and social media users. But as teacher and blogger Melissa Kaplan points out, Google search results for edtech questions often just end up serving content that can be overly academic or bland market analysis. Adding a bit of blogging to its content production means that EdSurge is readable and actually produced for humans, by humans.
What's more, as more and more startups and products pop up (it now seems like there's a new one every week), schools and educators want a better way to sift through the BS and find, say, a review that can help them determine whether it's something they should consider adopting for their classroom.
As it moves forward, this will become critical for EdSurge. Being a cheerleader only goes so far (and so does linking out to other sources), so supplementing content with stories from the other side to help entrepreneurs and educators better separate the wheat from the chafe, the goldrushers from the real innovators, is key. And having veteran journalists on board helps inspire confidence among its tens of thousands of readers that this will continue.
For more, find EdSurge at home here.