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How Britain stole $45 trillion from India | Colonialism | Al Jazeera
▻https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/britain-stole-45-trillion-india-181206124830851.html
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There is a story that is commonly told in Britain that the #colonisation of India - as horrible as it may have been - was not of any major economic benefit to Britain itself. If anything, the administration of India was a cost to Britain. So the fact that the empire was sustained for so long - the story goes - was a gesture of Britain's benevolence.
New research by the renowned economist Utsa Patnaik - just published by Columbia University Press - deals a crushing blow to this #narrative. Drawing on nearly two centuries of detailed data on tax and trade, Patnaik calculated that Britain drained a total of nearly $45 trillion from India during the period 1765 to 1938.
#colonisation #Inde #Grande_bretagne "#civilisés" #voleurs
#United Kingdom
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What Empire Loyalists Are Really Saying When They Bash Julian Assange – Caitlin Johnstone
▻https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2018/11/02/what-empire-loyalists-are-really-saying-when-they-bash-julian-assa
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So when you see some political writer yukking it up about Julian Assange and kitty litter, what they are really saying is, "Hey! Look at me! You can count on me to advance whatever #narratives get passed down from on high! I'll cheer on all the wars! I'll play up the misdeeds of our great nation's rivals and ignore the misdeeds of our allies! I'll literally spit on Assange if you'll give my career a boost!"
They are saying, "I support everything the media-controlling oligarchs support, and I hate everything they hate. I will be a reliable mouthpiece of the ruling class regardless of who is elected in our fake elections to our fake official government. I will say all the right things. I will protect what you need protected. I will hide what you want hidden. I understand what you want me to do without your explicitly telling me to do it. I've got what you need. I have no principles. Look, I'm even joining in the dog pile against a political prisoner who can't defend himself."
#opportunisme #MSM
Sanders Hears the Plight of Workers, but His Amazon Bill is Misguided | Op-Eds & Columns | CEPR
▻http://cepr.net/publications/op-eds-columns/sanders-hears-the-plight-of-workers-but-his-amazon-bill-is-misguided
"Pay-go" rules — rules that say new programs need to be paid for with tax hikes or cuts in other programs — prevented Democrats the last time they were the majority party in Congress from implementing policies to help workers and communities devastated by the offshoring of manufacturing or the collapse of the housing bubble regain their economic footing.
They should not once again buy into the false #narrative that taxes need to be raised before government can spend. There are limits to spending on programs, of course, but these are not set by tax revenue. They are set instead by available resources — workers, equipment, natural resources that can be put to work.
When resources are fully employed, further attempts by companies to expand production or government to expand programs will translate into inflation rather than higher GDP.
At that point, tax increases to reduce demand and bring spending in line with resource capabilities are in order. Rolling back Trump administration tax cuts that benefit the wealthiest would be a good place to start.
How the UAE is destroying #Yemen | Middle East Eye
▻http://www.middleeasteye.net/columns/how-uae-destroying-yemen-421364462
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Et encore une guerre par procuration qui n'intéresse pas du tout les #MSM,
The UAE's rift with Saudi Arabia has also been problematic. Riyadh has supported Islah, Yemen's Muslim Brotherhood branch, as a stable ally on the ground. But the UAE opposes the Brotherhood, instead backing militants who maintain non-hostile relations with al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) - which it is supposed to be fighting - to counteract Islah, researcher Helen Lackner notes in her book Yemen in Crisis. As such, the UAE is in a proxy war with Saudi Arabia in Yemen.
#narrative #arabie_saoudite #e.a.u. #émirats_arabes_unis
Why We Know So Little About the U.S.-Backed War in Yemen – Rolling Stone
▻https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/yemen-war-united-states-704187
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What the U.N. calls the "world's worst humanitarian crisis" is an unhappy confluence of American media taboos
#narrative #propagande #MSM #etats-Unis #yemen
How the Corporate Media Enslave Us to a World of #Illusions
▻https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/06/15/how-the-corporate-media-enslave-us-to-a-world-of-illusions
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For several years now, I have been writing regular posts on my blog with one end in mind: to help open a door for readers and encourage them to step through. I select issues, usually those that dominate western media coverage and represent a #consensus that we might term the Great Western #Narrative, and try to show how this narrative has been constructed not to inform and enlighten but to conceal and deceive.
#fraude #MSM
Twelve Tips For Making Sense Of The World – Caitlin Johnstone
▻https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2018/06/12/twelve-tips-for-making-sense-of-the-world
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In an environment that is saturated with mass media propaganda, it can be hard to figure out which way's up, let alone get an accurate read on what's going on in the world. Here are a few tips I've learned which have given me a lot of clarity in seeing through the haze of spin and confusion. Taken separately they don't tell you a lot, but taken together they paint a very useful picture of the world and why it is the way it is.
1. It's always ultimately about acquiring power.
... all of mankind's irrational behavior can be explained by the basic human impulse to amass power and influence over one's fellow humans, combined with the fact that sociopaths tend to rise to positions of power.
2. Money rewards sociopathy.
The less empathy you have, the further you are willing to go, and the further up the ladder you can climb.
3. Wealth kills empathy.
4. Money is power.
This is because the ability to use corporate lobbying and campaign donations effectively amounts to the legalized bribery of elected officials, which means that money translates directly into political power.
5. This same ruling class controls the media.
... the first thing a new plutocrat does as soon as rising to a certain level of wealth is start buying up media influence, like Jeff Bezos did when he bought the Washington Post in 2013.
6. People are always manipulating each other.
Again, humans are social creatures, and we do what we can to increase our standing within our social circles.
The big problem is when skillful manipulators find their way into positions of large-scale influence like government or media.
7. Society is made of #narrative.
Maintaining an awareness that there is always an unending battle to control the narrative and manipulate it to advance plutocratic interests is an essential part of understanding the world.
8. The lines between nations are imaginary.
Those lines drawn on the map between countries are pure narrative as well; they're only as real as the collective public agrees to pretend they are. The ruling elites know this and exploit this. They don't think in terms of nations and governments, they think in terms of individuals and groups of individuals.
9. Powerful forces are naturally incentivized to collaborate with each other toward mutual interests.
You can be a low-grade millionaire and still live like a relatively normal civilian, but once you start obtaining giant amounts of wealth control you need to start collaborating with existing power structures or they'll snuff you out to prevent you from rocking their boat, because again, money equals power. This is why Jeff Bezos contracts with the CIA and sits on a Pentagon advisory board, and it's why Facebook and Google collaborate extensively with government agencies; they never would have been allowed to grow to their size if they had not. Plutocratic dynasties which have been in place since long before Amazon, Facebook and Google figured this out many generations ago, and have agreed to push forward in a direction of mutual interest that doesn't upset the status quo that their wealth is built upon.
10. There is an immense amount of wealth that can be grabbed in the chaos of war and conflict.
11. The neocons are always wrong.
12. The push towards truth always starts with yourself.
You can't out-manipulate seasoned manipulators. The main error most people make when trying to deal with a sociopath is to try and manipulate them back. Don't even try. They have years of experience on you because they literally have done nothing else. While you were laughing and crying and worrying and connecting and relating to people, they were working out how to play humans like Garry Kasparov worked out how to play chess. And when you have literal teams of sociopaths collaborating together to amass power, you my dear child, do not have a chance. Don't play their game. You will lose.
The only way to win this is to set your compass resolutely to "true." Always be honest with yourself. Find all the different ways that you are manipulating others and see them and acknowledge them. Find your tribal allegiances and your desire to be right, and tip your hat to their existence. The more self-aware we are, the less levers we have to be manipulated by. If you are blindly partisan or loyal to a particular faction, that makes you gullible to propaganda because your wishful thinking and your desire to be right come into play. Get honest with yourself about who you are and what you want, and you will start to become an un-playable piece on the board.
If we can't beat these bastards with truth, we don't deserve to win.
Remi Brulin on Twitter: "A thread about the assassination attempt against the US Ambassador to Lebanon, Gunther Dean, in August of 1980; about new revelations that might finally help reveal who was behind this attack; and a call on US journalists to investigate"
▻https://mobile.twitter.com/RBrulin/status/1001815647842652161
#United States
#Remi Brulin
#ambassador
#dean
U.S. Ambassador Dean Ambushed in Lebanon, Escapes Attack Unhurt - The Washington Post
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U.S. Ambassador John Gunther Dean escaped unharmed tonight after gunmen in a speeding Mercedes attacked his bulletproof limousine as he was leaving his Hazmieh residence in a convoy.
The ensuing battle between the ambasador's bodyguards and the gunmen left the embassy car demolished on the passenger side, with window glass shattered and tires flat, embassy sources said.
Later this evening, Dean appeared at the gate of the embassy and waved to bystanders but refused to make a statement on the incident. He showed no signs of injury. [The Associate Press, quoting security sources, said Dean's wife Martine and daughter Catherine also were unharmed.]
It was the first attempt on an American ambassador's life in Lebanon since June 16, 1976, when ambassador Francis E. Eloy, economic counselor Robert O. Waring and their chauffeur were kidnaped and killed on their way from West Beirut to East Beirut during the civil war.
[Several hours after the attack on Dean, gunmen with automatic rifles dragged the Spanish ambassador and his wife from their car and drove away in the embasy vehicle. Ambassador Luis Jordana Pozas told the Associated Press. Jordana said five men pushed them from the car in mostly Moslem West Beirut. There was no indication whether the theft of Jordana's car was related to the attack on the American diplomat.]
Today's attack came just hours after Dean said the United States was working with Israel and the United Nations to end the violence among Christian militiamen and Palestinian guerrillas in southern Lebanon. It was his first public statement since Aug. 21, when he created an uproar by condemning an Israeli raid on Palestinian guerilla strongholds in the area. The U.S. State Department later disavowed the statement.
There were conflicting reports about the kind of explosive that was aimed at the ambassador's car. Some local radio stations said it was a rocket, while others said it was a rifle grenade. None of the reports could be confirmed.
The shooting took place as Dean was driving to Beirut. Excited security guards outside the U.S. Embassy told reporters that a spurt of machine-gun fire followed the explosion.
The attackers, who abandoned their car, fled into the woods on the side of the highway, Beirut's official radio said.
Lebanese Army troops and internal security forces were quickly moved to the ambush site and an all-night search was begun to track down the would-be killers. Reliable police sources said two Lebanese suspected of being linked to the assassination attermpt were taken in for questioning.
Following a meeting with Lebanese Foreign Minister Fuad Butros today, Dean stressed that "American policy includes opposition to all acts of violence which ignore or violate the internationally recognized border between Lebanon and Israel.
Dror@sinehebdo @sinehebdo 30/05/2018
The remarkable disappearing act of Israel's car-bombing campaign in Lebanon or : What we (do not) talk about when we talk about 'terrorism'
Rémi Brulin, MondoWeiss, le 7 mai 2018
La remarquable occultation de la campagne israélienne d'attentats à la voiture piégée au Liban ou : Ce dont nous (ne) parlons (pas) quand nous parlons de terrorisme
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Remi Brulin on Twitter:
"Dean concludes: "I know as surely as I know anything that Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency, was somehow involved in the attack. Undoubtedly using a proxy, our ally Israel had tried to kill me." ( see Haaretz: ▻https://t.co/5qyKzTnS81 ; The Nation: ▻https://t.co/OytBrJPm5r )"
Inside Intel / Assassination by proxy - Haaretz - Israel News | Haaretz.com
▻https://www.haaretz.com/1.5060443
Haaretz 2009,
Did Israel try to kill the U.S. ambassador in Lebanon in the early 1980s?Haggai Hadas' experience is not necessarily an advantage in the talks over Gilad Shalit's release The Israeli intelligence community has committed quite a number of crimes against the United States during its 60-year lifetime. In the early 1950s it recruited agents from among Arab officers serving in Washington (with the help of military attache Chaim Herzog). In the 1960s it stole uranium through Rafi Eitan and the Scientific Liaison Bureau in what came to be known as the Apollo Affair, when uranium was smuggled to Israel from Dr. Zalman Shapira's Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation - in Apollo, Pennsylvania). In the 1980s it operated spies (Jonathan Pollard and Ben-Ami Kadish), and used businessmen (such as Arnon Milchan) to steal secrets, technology and equipment for its nuclear program and other purposes.
Now the Israeli government is being accused of attempted murder. John Gunther Dean, a former U.S. ambassador to Lebanon, claims in a memoir released last week that Israeli intelligence agents attempted to assassinate him. Dean was born in 1926 in Breslau, Germany (today Wroclaw, Poland), as John Gunther Dienstfertig. His father was a Jewish lawyer who described himself as a German citizen of the Jewish religion who is not a Zionist. The family immigrated to the U.S. before World War II. As an adult Dean joined the State Department and served as a diplomat in Vietnam, Afghanistan and India, among other states.
"Bergman himself does not mention the assassination attempt against Dean. But we know that the FLLF took credit for this attack at the time. That Dean's own investigation pointed to Israel & to its Lebanese proxies. And we now know that the FLLF was CREATED and RUN by Israel."
Remi Brulin on Twitter: "Shlomo Ilya was, in the early 1980s, the head of the IDF liaison unit in Lebanon. He is also (in)famous for declaring, at the time, that he only weapon against terrorism is terrorism, and that Israel had options for "speaking the language the terrorists understand." ▻https://t.co/TKx02n2SpA"
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Richard Jackson on Twitter:
"Fascinating story about Israeli state terrorism in the 1980s, and how the US can't face it, no doubt because it unsets all the certainties of its terrorism #narrative..."
▻https://mobile.twitter.com/RJacksonterror/status/1001943151895040000
Feu Bernard Lewis était l'illustration que le rôle de l'#expert MSM n'est pas l'expertise, mais la « #narrative » au service de l'ordre établi ; d'où son adulation par ce dernier.
Une vision orientaliste, par Juan Goytisolo (Le Monde diplomatique, juillet 2002)
▻https://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/mav/64/GOYTISOLO/55898
La prétention de Bernard Lewis à l'impartialité professorale fait problème lorsque, par exemple, il retrace l'histoire du problème palestinien : « Entre 1947 et 1949, une grande partie des habitants arabes des territoires inclus dans le nouvel Etat d'Israël quittèrent leurs maisons et se réfugièrent sur la rive occidentale, dans la bande de Gaza et dans les pays voisins. Les Israéliens prétendent qu'ils s'en allèrent à l'instigation de leurs propres chefs, lesquels leur dirent de partir afin de ne pas gêner les mouvements des troupes et leur promirent qu'ils reviendraient sous peu sur les traces des armées arabes victorieuses. Les Arabes maintiennent qu'ils furent poussés dehors par les Israéliens. Les deux thèses sont vraies : toutes deux sont fausses (p. 176). »
Du chaos irakien à l'escalade contre l'Iran, par Alain Gresh (Les blogs du Diplo, 30 octobre 2007)
▻https://blog.mondediplo.net/2007-10-30-Du-chaos-irakien-a-l-escalade-contre-l-Iran
Ainsi a-t-on entendu l'universitaire Bernard Lewis, qui a servi de caution « orientaliste » à l'intervention américaine en Irak, annoncer le plus sérieusement du monde que Téhéran s'apprêtait à lancer une bombe atomique (qu'il n'a pas !) sur Israël le 22 août 2006 car ce jour correspond, dans le calendrier musulman, au voyage que fit le prophète Mahomet à Jérusalem puis au ciel, le président iranien pensant que l'apocalypse accélérera le retour de l'« imam caché ».
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Espérons seulement qu'il est allé rejoindre MBS...
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شنشون on Twitter: "I remember talking with Kamal Salibi about Lewis one time. Salibi said, you know, there comes a time in your life when you should just stop writing."
▻https://mobile.twitter.com/humanprovince/status/998153015361228801
La Corée du Nord a montré comment jouer au #poker #nucléaire avec Trump – l'#Iran pourrait bien suivre | Middle East Eye
▻http://www.middleeasteye.net/fr/opinions/la-cor-e-du-nord-montr-comment-jouer-au-poker-nucl-aire-avec-trump-l-
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Par Trita Parsi
Tout au long des négociations sur le nucléaire, les deux parties ont dû constamment concilier deux intérêts opposés : d'un côté, le désir de progresser pour parvenir à un accord final – et donc à la fois éviter les fuites et faire le moins de vagues possible – de l'autre, la nécessité de préparer un plan B afin de rejeter sur l'autre camp la responsabilité de l'échec éventuel des pourparlers.
Plus les deux camps s'efforçaient de se rejeter la responsabilité des échecs, par le biais de fuites stratégiques, plus ils sapaient la véritable #diplomatie.
Très tôt, les Iraniens ont opté pour une stratégie qui allait minimiser la tension entre ces deux tendances, affichant un optimisme presque exagéré quant aux avantages de parvenir à un accord et jouant pleinement la carte de la raison.
Cette stratégie a contribué à améliorer le climat des pourparlers, ce qui, à son tour, a accru les chances de succès. Mais elle a également permis à l'Iran d'avoir une longueur d'avance au petit jeu des reproches si les pourparlers étaient venus à échouer. Bref, une situation toujours gagnante pour l'Iran. Une fois l'accord conclu, le pays a poursuivi cette même stratégie.
Le régime iranien a décidé de strictement respecter l'accord afin de regagner la confiance de la communauté internationale et de priver ses opposants de tout prétexte pour le briser, tout en s'arrangeant pour que l'Iran sorte vainqueur si l'accord venait à avorter.
Jusqu'à ce jour, l'Iran a suivi cette stratégie avec beaucoup de discipline et d'implication : l'Agence internationale de l'énergie atomique (#AIEA) a publié dix rapports consécutifs certifiant la totale adhésion de l'Iran à l'accord.
Pourtant, à tant s'efforcer d'adhérer à l'accord, Téhéran s'est trouvée confrontée à une situation imprévue : l'émergence d'un contexte propice à la fabrication d'un faux récit par les opposants à l'accord, pour qui l'Iran en était réduit, en fait, à conserver l'accord à tout prix.
Fil @fil 30/03/2018
Working class in Britain? You must be white | New Internationalist
▻https://newint.org/features/2018/03/01/working-class-in-britain
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Kam Sandhu questions why the British working class is inevitably conceived of as white, despite ethnic minority communities being at the sharpest end of inequality
#inégalités #racisme #médias #narrative #blancs #royaume-uni #must-read
Then They Came for the Globalists
▻https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/03/23/then-they-came-for-the-globalists
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See, the problem for the capitalist ruling classes is that global neoliberalism (i.e., globalism) is a really tough sell to regular folks. They can't just come out and explain to people that national sovereignty is essentially dead, and that political power now resides among a network of global corporations (which couldn't care less about their "nationality") exploiting a globalized labor market (which is why their "good jobs" are not coming back) and a globalized financial market (which is why almost everything is being privatized and their families are being debt-enslaved). Nor can they admit that the "War on Terror" and the European refugee crisis it has caused, and the chaos and slaughter in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, Syria, et cetera, is the predictable result of global capitalism aggressively restructuring the Greater Middle East, which it started doing more or less immediately after the collapse of the Soviet Union (i.e., as soon as the final impediment to its pursuit of global hegemony was removed). This kind of thing doesn't go over very well, not with most regular working class people.
So what the global capitalist ruling classes have to do is … well, they have to lie. They have to disseminate a different #narrative, a narrative that has nothing to do with the hegemony of global capitalism, the dissolution of national sovereignty, and the privatization of virtually everything. Because people aren't total morons, this narrative needs to bear some resemblance to the actual conflict taking place. So, all right, a little rebranding is in order. Global neoliberalism becomes "Western democracy," neo-nationalism becomes "Nazism," and Vladimir Putin becomes Adolf Hitler.
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HCDH | UN expert on extreme poverty and human rights to visit USA, one of the wealthiest countries in the world
▻http://www.ohchr.org/FR/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=22465&LangID=E
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Les #États-Unis exigent des autres pays (ou plutôt des pays qui ne leur sont pas inféodés) le respect de droits humains qu'eux-mêmes refusent formellement de respecter.
"Some might ask why a UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights would visit a country as rich as the United States. But despite great wealth in the US, there also exists great poverty and inequality," said Mr. Alston.
"I would like to focus on how poverty affects the civil and political rights of people living within the US, given the United States' consistent emphasis on the importance it attaches to these rights in its foreign policy , and given that it has ratified the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights."
Why the UN is investigating extreme poverty … in America, the world's richest nation | World news | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/01/un-extreme-poverty-america-special-rapporteur
The US poses an especially challenging subject for the UN special rapporteur because unlike all other industrialized nations, it fails to recognize fundamental social and economic rights such as the right to healthcare, a roof over your head or food to keep hunger at bay. The federal government has consistently refused to sign up to the international covenant on economic, social and cultural rights – arguing that these matters are best left to individual states.
#Ken Roth
Hey Reuters : Ken Roth's Deep Devotion to US Empire Should Be Reported|Opinion|teleSUR
▻http://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/Hey-Reuters-Ken-Roths-Deep-Devotion-to-US-Empire-Should-Be-Reported-20171
Ken Roth wrote in 2015, "For all its faults, the U.S. government remains the world's most powerful proponent of human rights."
Dans les pays ennemis seulement ; dans les pays inféodés leur violation est au contraire fortement encouragée.
#Indonésie #Amérique_latine etc..
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#états-unis #pauvreté
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Dire poverty in US to worsen under Trump, threatening democracy, top UN official says | Article [AMP] | Reuters
▻https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-poverty/dire-poverty-in-us-to-worsen-under-trump-threatening-democracy-top-un-offic
One illustration of horrific poverty and inequality, he said, was the comeback of hookworm, an intestinal parasite, in the South where local governments fail to provide clean water and sanitation and force people to pay for such services themselves.
While statistics show 14 percent of Americans live in poverty, so many more people live precariously on the edge that 20 percent is a more realistic figure, he said.
For example, he cited Wal-Mart Stores Inc workers who rely on government-issued food stamps because they cannot survive on what they earn at their fulltime jobs.
The United States has the lowest rate of social mobility among the world's rich countries, meaning "the American dream is rapidly becoming the American illusion ," he said.
"A child who is born into poverty has almost no chance of getting out of poverty in today's United States," he said.
"Current trends in the United States are actually undermining democracy," he added. "Poor people have no chance of having their voices heard, no chance of influencing public policy."
Alston said he was struck by views he encountered across the country that people see the rich as "enterprising, altruistic, hard-working, dedicated" and the poor as "losers, scammers, people trying to profit from the system."
Those views are promoted by politicians to justify cuts in services and tax reforms that benefit the wealthy, he said.
"The spiral downwards is fueled by public policy," he said.
"#rêve_américain" #narrative #guerre_aux_pauvres
Leaked memo schooled Tillerson on human rights - POLITICO
►https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/19/tillerson-state-human-rights-304118
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The May 17 memo reads like a crash course for a businessman-turned-diplomat, and its conclusion offers a starkly realist vision: that the U.S. should use human rights as a club against its adversaries, like Iran, China and North Korea, while giving a pass to repressive allies like the Philippines, Egypt and Saudi Arabia.
Syria, '#Experts,' and George Monbiot - Antiwar.com Original
▻http://original.antiwar.com/cook/2017/11/21/syria-experts-george-monbiot
Par #Jonathan_Cook
That is not to say Assad, or at least sections of the Syrian government, could not have carried out the attack on Khan Sheikhoun. But it is to argue that in a matter like this one, where so much is at stake, the evidence must be subjected to rigorous scrutiny, and that critics, especially experts who offer counter-evidence, must be given a fair hearing by the left. It is to argue that, when the case against Assad fits so neatly a long-standing and self-serving western #narrative, a default position of skepticism is fully justified. It is to argue that facts, strong as they may seem, can be manipulated even by expert bodies, and therefore due weight needs also to be given to context – including an assessment of motives.
This is not "denialism", as Monbiot claims. It is a rational strategy adopted by those who object to being railroaded once again – as they were in Iraq and Libya – into catastrophic regime change operations.
#guerre_contre_la_dissidence #homogénéisation
New Texts Out Now: Nader Hashemi and Danny Postel, eds. Sectarianization: Mapping the New Politics of the Middle East
▻http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/26998/new-texts-out-now_nader-hashemi-and-danny-postel-e
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Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this book?
Danny Postel and Nader Hashemi (DP and NH): Over the last several years, a narrative has taken root in Western media and policy circles that attributes the turmoil and violence engulfing the Middle East to supposedly ancient sectarian hatreds. "Sectarianism" has become a catchall explanation for virtually all of the region's problems. Thomas Friedman, for instance, claims that in Yemen today "the main issue is the seventh century struggle over who is the rightful heir to the Prophet Muhammad — Shiites or Sunnis." Barack Obama has been one the biggest proponents of this thesis. On several occasions, he has invoked "ancient sectarian differences" to explain the turmoil in the region. In his final State of the Union address, he asserted that the issues plaguing the Middle East today are "rooted in conflicts that date back millennia." A more vulgar version of this view prevails among right-wing commentators. But in one form or another, this new sectarian essentialism, which is lazy and convenient — and deeply Orientalist — has become the new conventional wisdom in the West.
Our book forcefully challenges this narrative and offers an alternative set of explanations for the rise in sectarian conflict in the Middle East in recent years. Emphasis on recent: the book demonstrates that the sharp sectarian turn in the region's politics is largely a phenomenon of the last few decades — really since 1979 — and that pundits who imagine it as an eternal or fixed feature of the Middle East are reading history backwards. So the book is an exercise in refutation and ideology critique on the one hand, while also offering a set of rigorous social scientific arguments about what exactly is driving the intensification of sectarian conflict in the Middle East today. Our contributors come from political science, history, anthropology, and religious studies, and it is from this range of disciplines that we present a social and political theory as well as a critical history of sectarianism.
#narrative #orientalisme #sectarisme
#Middle East
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#proche-orient #moyen-orient
Syria the Latest Case of US 'Stumbling' Into War | FAIR
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The US didn't enter the conflict in Syria in September 2014 deliberately; it was forced into it by outside actors. The US didn't arm and fund anti-Assad rebels for four years to the tune of $1 billion a year as part of a broader strategy for the region; it did so as a result of some unknown geopolitical dark matter.
#Etats-Unis #narrative délirante
L'armée américaine prépare ses soldats à la guerre spatiale - Sciences - Numerama
▻http://www.numerama.com/sciences/265175-larmee-americaine-prepare-ses-soldats-a-la-guerre-spatiale.html
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Ces derniers sont une équipe de soldats américains, qui « jouent aux #méchants » pour mettre dans des condition imprévisibles les troupes classiques. Captain Christopher Barnes, directeur de l'entrainement du 26th Space Aggressors Squadron, décrit le travail de cette unité des plus originales : « Notre travail est non seulement de comprendre les différents types de menaces et de potentiels ennemis, mais également d'être capable de les décrire et les reproduire pour les #gentils, notre Air Force. »
#Etats-Unis #narrative #infantilisme
#Israel backs Saudi Arabia in confrontation with Qatar | The Electronic Intifada
▻https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/israel-backs-saudi-arabia-confrontation-qatar
"New line drawn in the Middle Eastern sand," Michael Oren, Israel's deputy minister for diplomacy, proclaimed on Twitter. "No longer Israel against Arabs but Israel and Arabs against Qatar-financed terror."
#narrative #délire
Wolfgang Streeck: The Return of the Repressed. New Left Review 104, March-April 2017.
▻https://newleftreview.org/II/104/wolfgang-streeck-the-return-of-the-repressed
Lies, even blatant lies, have always existed in politics. We need think only of Colin Powell's PowerPoint presentation to the United Nations Security Council, with his aerial photographs proving the existence of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. As to Germany, one still remembers a defence minister, greatly revered up to this time as a social democrat of the old school, who claimed that the German troops sent into Afghanistan at the urging of the US were defending, 'at the Hindu Kush', the security of Germany. However, with the neoliberal revolution and the transition to 'post-democracy' [8] associated with it, a new sort of political deceit was born, the expert lie. It began with the Laffer Curve, which was used to prove scientifically that reductions in taxation lead to higher tax receipts. [9] It was followed, inter alia, by the European Commission's 'Cecchini Report' (1988), which, as a reward for the 'completion of the internal market' planned for 1992, promised the citizens of Europe an increase in prosperity of the order of 5 per cent of the European Union's GDP, an average 6 per cent reduction in the price of consumer goods, as well as millions of new jobs and an improvement in public finances of 2.2 per cent of GDP. In the US, meanwhile, financial experts such as Bernanke, Greenspan and Summers agreed that the precautions taken by rational investors in their own interest and on their own account to stabilize ever 'freer' and ever more global financial markets were enough; government agencies had no need to take action to prevent the growth of bubbles, partly because they had now learned how to painlessly eliminate the consequences if bubbles were to burst.
At the same time, the '#narratives' [10] disseminated by mainstream parties, governments and PR specialists, and the decisions and non-decisions associated with them, became ever more absurd. The penetration of the machinery of government by previous and future Goldman Sachs managers continued apace, in recognition of their indispensable expertise, as if nothing had changed. After several years during which not a single one of the bank managers who had shared responsibility for the crash of 2008 had been brought to justice, Obama's attorney general Eric Holder returned to the New York law firm from which he had come, which specializes in representing financial companies under government investigation—and to a princely million-dollar salary. And Hillary Clinton, who together with her husband and daughter had amassed a fortune in the hundreds of millions in the sixteen years since leaving the White House—from Goldman Sachs speaking fees among other things, far above the earnings even of a Larry Summers—entered the election campaign as the self-designated representative of the 'hardworking middle class', a class that in reality had long since been reduced by capitalist progress to the status of a surplus population.
#mensonge_de_l'expert
#New Left Review
The return of a Shia-order in the Middle East ? | Politics | Al Jazeera
▻http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2017/05/return-shia-order-middle-east-170501104010115.html
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Too much emphasis on the narrative of the "return" of the "historically marginalised Shia communities", however, risks overshadowing the living experience of a region in which religious boundaries were, for most of its history, shifting, blurred, and ambiguous.
Despite what the ongoing debates would seem to imply, Sunnis and Shias, but also Christians, Jews and other religious groups or confessions have in fact lived for centuries in the region, reaching a level of coexistence - a concept that does not erase the existence of boundaries but implicitly acknowledges that such boundaries are negotiable - higher than any registered in most of the rest of the world, Europe included.
This should not suggest that communal conflict was historically unknown. As this article also confirms, instances of Sunni-Shia violence have been documented as early as the Middle Ages. Yet, they don't mirror the actual history of most of the region's past (pdf). More importantly, their nature and scope are hardly comparable to more recent times.
#PhoneStories : bilan et perspectives (itw sur Le Blog Documentaire)
▻http://www.davduf.net/phonestories-bilan-et-perspectives-itw-sur-le
Petite interview fleuve sur L'infiltré, premier volet de notre collection PhoneStories. Attention spoilers.
/ Une, #Akufen, #Narrative_Boutique
The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي الغاضب: Tunisia: the successful model of the "Arab spring"?
▻http://angryarab.blogspot.com/2017/05/tunisia-successful-model-of-arab-spring.html
The Tunisian president threatened to use the Army to quell demonstrations and protests in the country. I knew that this news won't be reported in Western media. It runs counter to the hegemonic #narrative.
#Tunisie
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L'infiltré n'est ni un jeu ni une enquête. C'est votre mission jusqu'au 7 mai 2017, et la première politique fiction en (véritable) temps réel. Premier volet de la collection #PhoneStories, L'infiltré vous plonge dans la peau d'un officier de la Direction générale de la sécurité intérieure. Vous devez guider un de vos agents, au coeur de la machine électorale du Front national. Votre aventure est mise à jour au gré de l'actualité réelle de la campagne présidentielle française. Téléchargez la version App (...)
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#Akufen, #Narrative_Boutique, #Linfiltré #PhoneStories #FN #NouvellesEcritures #mobile #PolitiqueFiction en #TempsRéel #Mobile #LePen
#etats-unis
country: yemen
country: syria
organization: united nations
country: iran
#msm
#akufen
#propagande
#journalisme
#fake_news
region: middle east
organization: central intelligence agency
company: miscellanees.net
city: téhéran
industryterm: media coverage
#spam
person: hillary clinton
organization: pentagon
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#content_farm
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#ferme_contenu
#syrie
#presse


We have little control over many circumstances in life as well as in the classroom—the technology suddenly goes on the fritz, a fire drill eats class time, students are grumpy.
Then there are the times when the one thing I do have control over—myself—messes up. When I wrote my volleyball players' numbers in the wrong order on the line-up sheet that I gave to the referee, and the team had to play the game in that confusion. It was a short game. We lost. My fault. When I asked 10th graders to preview the vocabulary list and write down the three least familiar words on a post-it note. The first time I saw sulle written down, I smiled at a student forgetting to write the last letter in sullen. But when that strange word sulle showed up on every list, I realized with chagrin the error was mine.
Concerned about the slow reactions of the volleyball players during a game, I had a sudden idea. At the next timeout, I said, "When the ball is on the other side of the net, you aren't taking a break—you are always thinking, 'Because of what's happening now, where is the ball likely to go next?' It's like reading—you're always making predictions." At that, an 8th grader let out an audible gasp of epiphany. And became miraculously quicker when the game resumed.
Walking through the elementary hallway, I saw a boy twirling a stuffed shark by the fin. A girl challenged him, "What are you doing with a doll?" "It's not a doll—it's a plushy," he retorted. It seemed to end the discussion. I told the story when I got to class to illustrate the power of vocabulary knowledge in controlling connotation.
One of those moments can keep me smiling all week. So keep planning, keep using best practice, keep learning, collecting resources, and networking with colleagues…but also collect and commemorate the random acts of learning that come your way. That, too, will help yourself and your classroom stay positive.
What random acts of learning were you party to this week?


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Q: How can I get NUnit3TestAdapter to work with .Net Standard 2.0? How can I get NUnit3TestAdapter to work with .Net Standard 2.0?
I receive the following error:

1>C:\Nikeza\Mobile\Nikeza.Mobile\Tests\ExampleBased.fsproj :
warning NU1701: Package 'NUnit3TestAdapter 3.9.0' was restored using
  '.NETFramework,Version=v4.6.1' instead of the project target framework
  '.NETStandard,Version=v2.0'.
This package may not be fully compatible with your project.
  1>ExampleBased ->
  C:\Nikeza\Mobile\Nikeza.Mobile\Tests\bin\Debug\netstandard2.0\ExampleBased.dll

A: You don't provide enough information to diagnose what is wrong with your project file, but it 3.9.0 of the NUnit Adapter does work with .NET Standard 2.0 and F#. I think that your test project is targeting .NET Standard. It needs to target .NET Core or .NET 4.6.1+. Test projects are treated like executables, they need to target a specific framework, not .NET Standard. The code that you are testing can be .NET Standard though.
You should follow the documentation Unit testing F# libraries in .NET Core using dotnet test and NUnit and read the NUnit docs, .NET Core and .NET Standard.
Your project file should look something like this,
<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">

  <PropertyGroup>
    <TargetFramework>netcoreapp2.0</TargetFramework>

    <IsPackable>false</IsPackable>
  </PropertyGroup>

  <ItemGroup>
    <Compile Include="Tests.fs" />
    <Compile Include="Program.fs" />
  </ItemGroup>

  <ItemGroup>
    <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.NET.Test.Sdk" Version="15.5.0" />
    <PackageReference Include="NUnit" Version="3.9.0" />
    <PackageReference Include="NUnit3TestAdapter" Version="3.9.0" />
  </ItemGroup>

  <ItemGroup>
    <ProjectReference Include="..\MathService\MathService.fsproj" />
  </ItemGroup>

</Project>

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We engage with a wide range of patients, members of the public and other local stakeholders to ensure that our vision for the future of health and care services meets local needs and reflect local views. In order to shape a shared vision for health and care, we listen to, understand, and act on what really matters to patients and people in our communities.
Getting your voice heard
We know many of you want to make sure your voice is heard and your concerns, feedback and ideas are communicated to the CCG, and Integrated Care Partnership as a whole, to ensure your views form a key part of our decision-making and service design.
Over the last year we have been developing a residents' panel of 1,500 people who are representative of the population.
We have also begun to use a new digital engagement tool across all six partner organisations in the ICP. This will make it easier for us to engage with you across a range of health and social care topics and also to make sure you know how that feedback shapes our work. You can view this platform at https://yourvoicebucks.citizenspace.com/ We want to make it easier to show you how 'you said, we did'.
Future Arrangements for NHS Commissioning in Buckinghamshire
An engagement exercise to gather views on future commissioning arrangements in Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West ran from October to December 2019.
224 responses received from a wide range of people including GPs, key partners like Healthwatch, Health and Wellbeing Boards, local authorities, patient groups and members of the public.
Views were invited on three proposals. A full engagement report has been produced and is available on the BOB ICS website. Also available is the Board paper which has been considered by the three CCG Governing Bodies in January. This paper includes a summary of local engagement activities, with a table outlining feedback and concerns raised by stakeholders in relation to one proposal in particular (for a joint AO/ ICS post across the three areas). A series of mitigating actions are also listed here, to address the points raised by those taking part in the engagement activities.
Improved Access to GPs
As part of our Improved Access to GPs initiative – which sees more GP appointments being made available to residents at evenings and weekends – we asked people in the south of Buckinghamshire where they would prefer their local base for out-of-hours appointments to be located.
Your preferred choice was Threeways Surgery in Stoke Poges. We have since made this location the base for out-of-hours appointments in the south Buckinghamshire area.
For more information on this engagement, click here. Full details of the report can be viewed here.
Living With and Beyond Cancer
This project engaged with more than 300 people – online, face to face and in groups – who offered their views and experiences on a range of subjects relating to cancer across the current health and social care system. This included the provision and need for better information and communication with patients; health and wellbeing challenges during and after treatment; mental health issues; financial concerns; end of life and issues surrounding returning to work after treatment, all demonstrating the need for an integrated multi sectoral approach.
The views and experiences of people we engaged with is continuing to feed into future service development. The Live Well and Beyond Cancer report can be found by clicking here.
Chiltern House Medical Practice
The primary care contract for the Chiltern House Medical Practice in High Wycombe ended in 2018, with an interim arrangement made to continue services for 12 months. A public consultation presented several options on how registered patients at this practice could continue to receive primary care services. You told us you wanted services to continue to operate from the existing building in High Wycombe, with a new service provider in place. We have arranged this, with Primary Care Management Solutions contracted to operate services from the High Wycombe site from September 2019. Full details of this engagement can be found here.
As part of the procurement process, a survey was created for patients to have their say on what future services should look like and how they should be delivered. A graphic detailing this feedback can be found here.
Children and young people's Mental Health services
Our engagement work told us there needed to be greater focus on early intervention for young people who may be experiencing mental health difficulties, particularly in schools. We also heard there was a need to help raise awareness of mental health as a condition and support young people proactively.
In response to this our mental health provider has developed and run a number of awareness and training sessions that have been well received and attended. This program has been expanded over 2019/20. We have also worked with young people to co-produce posters and business cards designed to steer their peers to the Buckinghamshire CAMHS website for information advice and guidance about their own mental health if required.
Our 'Trailblazer' mental health scheme works transform children's mental health care and ensure those in need get the right support at the right time, with dedicated mental health support teams working with schools and colleges and providing support to pupils. This scheme rolled out to 40 schools in 2018, and is planned to roll out to more schools as it continues to develop.
We also heard concerns about the stigma still attached to mental health issues , which can act as a barrier for young people who need to access services. The Kooth service now offers free, safe, anonymous online support to young people in Bucks, who can access it for support 24/7. You can find out more about this service here.
A multi-agency dementia conference was held to provide an opportunity for people in Buckinghamshire (particularly those living with the condition and their carers) to discuss and share their thoughts and ideas, regarding current services and gaps in provision, to strategic decision makers.
A number of concerns were raised: people are not always aware of what services are available for them to access; they do not want to have to repeat their story to different health and care professionals; there is still a lack of awareness of dementia and it still has a stigma attached; there is not enough training and education on offer for carers of people that have dementia; people do not always know where to turn when they need crisis support.
Feedback from this event is being used to inform both short term improvements in current service delivery and also to shape future developments through the Buckinghamshire All Age Mental Health Strategy.
A report from Healthwatch Bucks (Dignity and Harm), which detailed accounts and opinions of several patients experiencing mental health concerns. The report suggested that further work could be done to ensure all GPs were sufficiently trained to deal with cases of self-harm.
The CCG has continued to arrange and promote training opportunities to GPs and practice staff where suitable (such as Psychological Perspectives in Education and Primary Care, suicide prevention, Mental health study days). It has circulated details of relevant guidelines and made them digitally available to GPs and practice staff and highlighted the importance of familiarisation.
Winter Pressures communications
As part of our 2019/20 winter pressures communications plan, which includes us working to reach as many members of the public as possible to offer health and care advice and guidance, we asked members of the Getting Bucks Involved group. They made a number of helpful suggestions on how to reach people, including the use of radio advertising, and we have adopted several of these approaches in this year's communications strategy.
The Buckinghamshire Oxfordshire and Berkshire West Integrated Care System (BOB ICS), of which NHS Buckinghamshire CCG is a partner, has published an interim report on the development of its five year plan
The report Improving Health and Care in Buckinghamshire Oxfordshire and Berkshire West describes the range of organisations involved in the BOB ICS, how they work together and how they are developing their priorities and plans for the next five years.
Thoughts and comments on the suggested priorities, opportunities and challenges were welcomed and members of the public and stakeholders had the opportunity to give their feedback. This engagement will continue, going forward, as the plan develops.
Healthwatch Bucks Kindness in Care competition
How can you get involved
NHS Buckinghamshire CCG's Inequalities Advisory Group – future meeting dates
Primary Care Commissioning Committee
Access All Areas – a big step towards Annual Health Checks
Asthma bus (2018)
Berryfields Medical Centre and Meadowcroft Surgery – proposed new building
BOB ICS Publishes Update on the Development of its Five Year Plan
Changes to how the NHS prescribes 'over the counter' medicines for minor health conditions
Changes to ordering repeat medication
Chiltern House Medical Centre
GP out-of-hours in South Buckinghamshire
Living With and Beyond Cancer workshop success
Primary Care – Improved Access to GPs
Proposed Merger of Norden House, Whitchurch and Wing surgeries
The Future Arrangements for NHS Commissioning in Your Area
Wye Valley Surgery relocation
Your Voice Bucks – consultation and engagement across the Integrated Care Partnership
Let's Talk Health Bucks
PPG Network Events
Back to Getting Involved

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Regardless of how careful you are, there are times that you simply cannot get them completely clean. This is particularly true in households with pets and children. Read these tips to see how to find a professional carpet cleaning sydney service.
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Ask around for recommendations for a professional carpet cleaning sydney service.
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There are many different ways to clean carpet, and each company may differ. One company might use a special cleaning treatment that targets the carpet pad. This equipment resembles that of a floor buffer. It uses pads that spin and are absorbent, which soaks up a lot of germs and mold that may be hiding in your carpets.
Talk to a company before hiring them what particular procedures they have. You want to make sure they vacuum your carpet prior to actually doing any steam cleaning. The carpets will look much cleaner, so if the professionals don't vacuum, think about working with a different one.
Look at the work a company did on your carpets as soon as you can. Call the company if the cleaning crew has failed to clean the entire carpet. Waiting too long to call may result in the company denying you the right to get things done over to your satisfaction.
There is no law stating that you must be subjected to filthy, ugly carpet. Regardless of how dirty your carpets are, you might be able to salvage all of it. Follow these tips to locate the best carpet cleaning sydney professionals to revive your carpet.
Ask up front about the services that are offered by your carpet cleaning company. Some companies might try to upsell you or charge extra for services you thought were included. Avoid this trick. You want to know everything ahead of time and have it in writing.


Mike has been a commissioner since November 5, 2012 and has been a resident of Pend Oreille County since 1985. Mike was born and raised in Bonners Ferry, Idaho and graduated from Bonners Ferry High School. Mike worked at Safeway during high school and continued his Safeway employment after attending the University of Idaho. Mike joined the Army National Guard in 1972. Mike was promoted to Safeway Store Manager in 1977 and managed numerous stores including the store in Newport from 1985 to 2003 when he retired. He is married to his lovely wife Kim, has 3 beautiful daughters (Jenny, Kimberly and Val), and numerous grandchildren and great grandchildren.
Mike is a past President of Newport Chamber of Commerce and has served on many boards throughout his life. Mike's current capacity includes serving on Pend Oreille Health Coalition, Pend Oreille County Economic Development Council, Better Health Together Leadership Council, Tri County Economic Development District, and the Emergency Medical Services Board.


text: Q: Какой доступ пользователю попросить у системного администратора, если решить размещать калькулятор самостоятельно? Есть такой вопрос:"Пользователь занимается  поддержкой сайта. Его попросили получить у поставщика код для вставки калькулятора расчёта конструкций. Калькулятор берет параметры, делает расчет цены и показывает картинку будущей конструкции. Что должны предоставить пользователю? На каком языке должен быть написан код? Как его разместить? Какой доступ пользователю  попросить у системного администратора, если решить размещать калькулятор самостоятельно?"


The Pound has made some small gains vs the US Dollar even though we are once again experiencing a lack of progress when it comes to the latest Brexit talks.
The Brexit extension has been granted to 31st October and also allows the UK to leave the European Union if the UK can approved a Withdrawal Agreement between now and then.
I personally think that it is still highly unlikely owing to what has been happening in recent months with the House of Commons clearly opposed to the number of options currently on the table.
On Friday afternoon the US Dollar fell against the Pound owing to lower than expected US consumer sentiment figures which showed a fall compared to the expectation.
As we move in to next week the focus will move towards what is happening in the jobs market in the UK as well as inflation data.
UK Unemployment and Average Earnings have both been performing well in recent months so another strong movement could see the Pound making gains vs the US Dollar if we continue to see an improvement compared to the expectation.
If both sets of economic data show an improvement this is likely to put pressure on the Bank of England to consider raising interest rates sooner than expected and this often results in the Pound improving against the US Dollar.
UK inflation figures are also due out next week on Wednesday so if you have a currency transfer to make involving US Dollars then it would be prudent to keep a close eye out on these economic data announcements as they could have an impact on GBPUSD exchange rates.
As we have seen the Brexit news appears to have died down since the announcement of the extension so I think the market, at least in the short term, will be impacted by what is happening in terms of economic data releases.
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Dubai, Dec 21 (IANS) Indian women's team left-arm spinner Ekta Bisht emerged the lone Indian to feature in both the International Cricket Council (ICC) ODI and T20I teams of the year with Englands Heather Knight named as captain of the 50-over side and West Indian Stafanie Taylor appointed captain of the 20-over side.
India captain Mithali Raj was included in the ODI team of the year while her deputy Harmanpreet Kaur found a place in the T20I team.
Mithali, who became the highest run-getter in the history of women's ODI cricket during the ICC Women's World Cup earlier this year, led India to their second final appearance in the showpiece event, where her girls went down fighting against hosts England.
The two sides were selected by the same panel, which had voted for the annual individual awards, and included Chloe Saltau, Mel Jones, Lisa Sthalekar (Australia); Charlotte Edwards, Kalika Mehta, Alison Mitchell, Alan Wilkins (England and Wales); Anjum Chopra, Snehal Pradhan (India); Olivia Caldwell (New Zealand); Firdose Moonda, Natalie Germanos (South Africa); Sa'adi Thawfeeq (Sri Lanka) and Ian Bishop, Fazeer Mohammad (Windies).
The panel took into consideration player performances from September 21, 2016 to date.
Knight was named captain after she inspired her side to a stunning ICC Women's World Cup victory in front of a packed Lord's in July.
The world's top-ranked T20I batter Taylor was given the nod as captain of the inaugural ICC Women's T20I Team of the Year, introduced as part of the ICC's commitment to enhance the profile of women's cricket and bring greater equity with the men's game.
The ODI side comprises players from five countries, including two Australians (Meg Lanning and Ellyse Perry), four England players (Tammy Beaumont, Heather Knight, Sarah Taylor and Alex Hartley), two Indians (Mithali Raj and Ekta Bisht), two South Africans (Dane van Niekerk and Marizanne Kapp) and one New Zealander (Amy Satterthwaite).
The T20I side is made up of three Australians (Beth Mooney, Megan Schutt, Amanda-Jade Wellington), three West Indians (Stafanie Taylor, Deandra Dottin and Hayley Matthews), two Indians (Harmanpreet Kaur and Ekta Bisht), two New Zealanders (Sophie Devine and Lea Tahuhu), and one from England (Danni Wyatt).


Williams may have to readjust his view after the Terps' starting guard trio of Anthony Cowan Jr., Eric Ayala and Darryl Morsell combined for 56 points in a convincing 104-67 win over Marshall before an announced 11,711 at Xfinity Center.
The Terps scored in triple figures since a 100-65 win over Ohio State on Jan. 16, 2016.
Maryland improved to 6-0 for the fourth time in five years, but much of the talk among the players after the win was about Williams' musings.
Sophomore forward Bruno Fernando said Williams gave the players the inspiration they needed before the game.
Junior guard Anthony Cowan Jr. scored a game-high 26 points as Maryland defeated a previously undefeated Marshall squad, 104-67, Friday night at Xfinity Center.
Maryland (6-0) scored in triple digits for the first time since a 100-65 win over Ohio State on Jan. 16, 2016.
Cowan ended the night just one point shy of his career high of 27 points from a 92-91 overtime win at Illinois on Dec. 3, 2017. He did make a career-best 10 field goals, tied a season-high in assists with six, and helped limit Thundering Herd senior guard Jon Elmore to six points on 2-for-14 shooting.
Ayala, a freshman, scored a career-best 20 points, eclipsing his previous career best of 14 points from an 80-69 win against Hofstra on Nov. 16. He notched career highs in 3-pointers (five) and total field goals made (six).
At one point during the game, he asked coach Mark Turgeon if he trusted him.
Morsell, a sophomore from Baltimore who graduated from Mount Saint Joseph, chipped in 10 points and five rebounds and has now reached double figures in each of his past five games.
Marshall coach Dan D'Antoni praised the Terps' guard play.
Entering the game, the Terps had shot 27.4 percent from 3-point range. Against the Thundering Herd (4-1), they shot 56.3 percent (9-for-16), including 6-for-7 from Ayala and Cowan.
All five of the Terps' starters finished with double digits in points. Fernando had 18 points, a career-high-tying 16 rebounds and a career-high-tying four blocks. Freshman forward Jalen Smith (Mount Saint Joseph) contributed 10 points and five rebounds.
The Terps broke open a close game with about four minutes left in the first half, embarking on a 15-4 run to enjoy a 53-38 advantage at halftime. They further distanced themselves from Marshall by scoring the first 13 points of the second half, and the rout was on.
Turgeon was pleased with his team's performance, but also understood that the next four games against No. 4 Virginia, Big Ten foe Penn State, No. 24 Purdue and 2017-18 Final Four Cinderella Loyola Chicago will be a tougher test.
Williams scored a career-best 24 points on 9-for-11 shooting, including 6-for-7 from 3-point range, to lead Thundering Herd.
Notes: The Terps improved to 4-2 all-time against Marshall and have won the past four meetings. … The Terps' 104 points were the most scored under Turgeon and the highest total since Feb. 9, 2011 in a 106-54 thrashing of Longwood. … Elmore moved into third place in program history in scoring and is 14 points shy of reaching 2,000.


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Economy Economics
Neoclassical Economics
What is Neoclassical Economics
Neoclassical economics is an approach to economics that relates supply and demand to an individual's rationality and his ability to maximize utility or profit. Neoclassical economics also uses mathematical equations to study various aspects of the economy. This approach was developed in the 19th century, based on books by William Stanley Jevons, Carl Menger and Léon Walras, and became popular in the early 20th century.
BREAKING DOWN Neoclassical Economics
The term neoclassical economics was officially coined in 1900. Neoclassical economists believe that a consumer's number one concern is to maximize personal satisfaction, and that everyone makes decisions based on fully informed evaluations of utility. This theory coincides with the idea of rational behavior theory, which states that people act rationally when making economic decisions.
Further, neoclassical economics stipulates that a good or service often has value that goes above and beyond its input costs. For example, while classical economics believes that a product's value is derived as the cost of materials plus the cost of labor, neoclassical practitioners say that consumers have a perceived value of a product that affects its price and demand.
Finally, this economic theory states that competition leads to an efficient allocation of resources within an economy. This resource allocation establishes market equilibrium between supply and demand.
As opposed to Keynesian economics, this school of economics states that savings determine investment and is primarily concerned with equilibrium in the market and growth at full employment rather than the underemployment of resources.
Arguments Against Neoclassical Economics
Since its inception, neoclassical economics has grown to become the primary take on modern-day economics. Although it is now the most widely taught form of economics, this school of thought still has its detractors. Most criticism points out that neoclassical economics makes many unfounded and unrealistic assumptions that do not represent real situations. For example, the assumption that all parties will behave rationally overlooks the fact that human nature is vulnerable to other forces, which can cause people to make irrational choices.
Therefore, many critics believe that this approach cannot be used to describe actual economies. Neoclassical economics is also sometimes blamed for inequalities in global debt and trade relations because the theory holds that matters such as labor rights will improve naturally, as a result of economic conditions.
An Example of Neoclassical Economics
Followers of neoclassical economics believe that since the value of a product is driven by consumer perception, there is no upper bound to income or profits that can be made by smart capitalists. This difference between the actual costs of the product and the price it is sold for is called the "economic surplus."
However, this thinking led in part to the 2008 financial crisis. During this time, modern economists believed that synthetic financial instruments had no ceiling and that they insured the market against risk and uncertainty. These economists were wrong, and the same financial products that they lauded led to the housing market crash of 2008.
Walras' Law Theory Defined
Walras' law is a theory that the existence of excess supply in one market must be matched by excess demand in another market so that it balances out.
Microeconomics Definition
Microeconomics is the branch of economics that analyzes market behavior of individuals and firms in order to understand their decision-making processes.
Is Economics Really a Dismal Science?
Economics is a branch of social science focused on the production, distribution and consumption of goods and services.
How General Equilibrium Theory Works
General equilibrium theory studies supply and demand fundamentals in an economy with multiple markets, showing that all prices are at equilibrium.
Heterodox Economics
Heterodox economics is the analysis and study of economic principles considered outside of mainstream or orthodox schools of economic thought.
Ceteris paribus is a Latin phrase usually rendered as "all other things being equal."
The Austrian School of Economics
How can marginal utility explain the 'diamond/water paradox'?
How does a monopoly contribute to market failure?
Who Created Economics?
What Role Does the Government Play in Capitalism?
Inflation for Dummies


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As of 1901, Chamberlain street had a number of vacant lots on its north side. These empty properties would not be developed until a quarter century, or longer, had come and gone. For a time in the late 1920 and early 1930s, it was spelled Chamberlen before the conventional spelling returned to the earlier form. As of 1920, the properties on the street were numbered up to 620. In the early 1940s, Vaughan Glover ran a store and Post Office from the address of 612 Chamberlain. In error, this remained the Post Office address for the first few years in which the store changed ownership. However, it soon was corrected to show the Post Office being in the same place as the little grocery store, now located at 634 Chamberlain Street.
Aubrey Elwood Doxsee was born in the village of Hastings, Northumberland County, on 17 June 1886. A son of Franklin B. Doxsee and Sarah E. Thomson, Aubrey grew up in the village and as a young man met Jennie Lee Short. Jennie was the daughter of John Short and Martha Jane Spear and had been born in September 1883. At the time of her marriage, Jennie's parents lived in Port Hope, thus her wedding took place in that location on 23 June 1909.
After their marriage, Jennie and Aubrey lived for some years in Hastings. In 1921, they moved to the town of Peterborough, making their home at 164 ½ Simcoe Street. Aubrey was a manager for Dominion Stores Limited, a position he held for a number of years. Jennie and Aubrey had two sons, Elwood Short Doxsee born 3 March 1910 and Howard Franklin Doxsee born 3 May 1911. The boys spent their growing up years in town. Elwood married and lived in Peterborough. Howard married and eventually lived in Guelph, Ontario.
As a young man, in the early 1940s, Elwood took employment as a clerk for the Canadian Department Stores Limited. He married Helen and they set up their home at 872 George Street, Peterborough. Elwood continued working for this company until the close of 1948. That year his father, Aubrey, opened a small Mom & Pop grocery store at 160 Simcoe Street and made his home next door at 162 ½ Simcoe. In 1949, he employed William E. Conway as a clerk. Donald Guthrie also worked in the store.
That same year, 1949, Elwood also began running a small grocery store at 634 Chamberlain Street. This store had previously been in operation, for a number of years, under the proprietorship of Vaughan Glover. Elwood became the Postmaster for No. 1 Sub Post Office which operated from his store location. George L. Cunningham ran the meat counter at the store and Harold Wainman was a sales clerk that year.
Elwood Doxsee continued operating his Mom & Pop style grocery store for the next twenty-two years, until 1971 when he retired. In 1972 it was managed by Kenneth King and went by the name of Ken King's Food Market. A couple of years later it was changed to Ken King's Foodmaster operating under that name until 1976. In 1977 the little store became Kent's Variety, a name it held for almost forty years. In recent times it has operated under the name of Daisy Mart.
Aubrey Doxsee, who began running a Mom & Pop grocery store at 160 Simcoe Street, in 1948, continued at that location only a couple of years before moving his store to 599 George Street. There the store continued under Aubrey's operation until 1960. In 1961, it became a drug store under the name of North George Sundries. Aubrey Doxsee died in 1961. His wife, Jennie Lee (Short) Doxsee, died in 1970.


Hiking around Joshua Tree National Park, we came upon a field of cholla cactus, nicknamed teddy bear cholla. So cuddly you could hug them, but don't! I liked the small light flare in the photo, lending a alien-like beam to an alien landscape of prickly characters.


dha (docosahexaenoic acid) is a fatty acid discovered inside the meat of cold-water fish, including mackerel, herring, tuna, halibut, salmon, cod liver, whale blubber, and seal blubber. it may additionally be made by way of algae.
don't confuse dha with epa (eicosapentaenoic acid). they are both in fish oil, however they are now not the same. dha may be transformed into epa in the body in very small amounts. see separate listings for fish oil and epa.
dha is used as a supplement for premature toddlers and as an factor in child components at some stage in the first 12 months of lifestyles to promote better intellectual improvement. it's also utilized in little one formula to save you lung diseases, allergic illnesses such as eczema or hay fever, and diarrhea. this practice probable began due to the fact dha is located obviously in breast milk. in some cases, dha is used in aggregate with arachidonic acid.
dha is also taken by using mouth alone or in conjunction with epa to enhance mental feature in healthy people or people with intellectual impairment. it's also used to enhance intellectual characteristic in humans with dementia or age-related intellectual decline. it is also taken through mouth for attention deficit-hyperactivity ailment (adhd), melancholy, aggressive conduct, alzheimer's ailment, autism, and to prevent relapse in schizophrenic sufferers who forestall taking antipsychotic medication.
dha is likewise taken by using mouth for diabetes, coronary artery sickness (cad), stroke, excessive levels of cholesterol and fat in the blood, high blood stress, and most cancers which includes breast and prostate cancer. it's also used for a form of fatty liver now not associated with ingesting alcohol, weight problems, ear infections, and getting to know troubles in children.
a few humans use dha is for enhancing imaginative and prescient, stopping a watch disorder referred to as age-associated macular degeneration (amd), treating a watch condition called retinitis pigmentosa, and growing dha tiers in humans with cystic fibrosis.
dha is taken by using mouth in aggregate with eicosapentaenoic acid (epa) for a selection of conditions, which includes the prevention and reversal of heart sickness, stabilizing heart rhythm, preventing extraordinary heart beats after heart surgical operation, painful menstrual periods, lupus, and sure kidney diseases. epa and dha also are used in aggregate for preventing migraine headaches in young adults, behcet's syndrome, psoriasis, raynaud's syndrome, rheumatoid arthritis, bipolar sickness, and ulcerative colitis.
it is also used in combination with evening primrose oil, thyme oil, and vitamin e (efalex) to improve motion issues in kids with a circumstance referred to as dyspraxia.
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clogged arteries (coronary artery disease). increased consumption of dha within the food regimen may lower the risk of demise in people with coronary artery disorder.
high cholesterol. research shows that taking 1.25 to 4 grams of dha daily can lower triglyceride levels in human beings with high cholesterol or excessive triglyceride degrees. it'd also improve cholesterol levels in human beings with at the least one hazard issue for coronary heart sickness. but, dha does no longer appear to decrease overall cholesterol in people with excessive cholesterol levels. also, most research suggests that it does not boom excessive-density lipoprotein (hdl or "exact") cholesterol, even though a few conflicting research exists. dha may boom low-density lipoprotein (ldl or "horrific") ldl cholesterol. but this impact may not be clinically large. dha does now not appear to improve cholesterol in youngsters with high cholesterol levels.
greater proof is wanted to charge dha for these makes use of.


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Introduction to Philippians
Bible Commentary / Produced by TOW Project
Work requires effort. Whether we do business or drive trucks, raise children or write articles, sell shoes or care for the disabled and aged, our work requires personal effort. If we don't get up in the morning and get going, our work won't get done. What motivates us to get out of bed each morning? What keeps us going throughout the day? What energizes us so that we can do our work with faithfulness and even excellence?
There are a wide variety of answers to these questions. Some might point to economic necessity. "I get up and go to work because I need the money." Other answers might refer to our interest in our work. "I work because I love my job." Still other answers might be less inspiring. "What gets me up and keeps me going all day? Caffeine!"
Paul's letter to the Christians in Philippi provides a different sort of answer to the question of where we find strength to do our work. Paul says that our work is not the result of our own effort, but that God's work in us is what gives us our energy. What we do in life, including on the job, is an expression of God's saving work in Christ. Moreover, we find the strength for this effort by the power of God within us. Christ's work is to serve people (Mark 10:35), and God empowers us to serve alongside him.
Almost all scholars agree that the Apostle Paul wrote the letter we know as Philippians sometime between AD 54 and 62.[6] There is no unanimity about the place from which Paul wrote, though we know it was written during one of his several imprisonments (Phil. 1:7).[7] It is clear that Paul wrote this personal letter to the church in Philippi, a community he planted during an earlier visit there (Phil. 1:5; Acts 16:11–40). He wrote in order to strengthen his relationship with the Philippian church, to update them on his personal situation, to thank them for their support of his ministry, to equip them to confront threats to their faith, to help them get along better, and, in general, to assist them in living out their faith.
Philippians uses the word work (ergon and cognates) several times (Phil. 1:6; 2:12–13, 30; 4:3). Paul uses it to describe God's work of salvation and the human tasks that flow from God's saving work. He doesn't directly address issues in the secular workplace, but what he says about work has important applications there.
Gerald F. Hawthorne, Philippians, rev. and exp. by Ralph P. Martin, in vol. 43 of the Word Biblical Commentary (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2004), xxvii–xxix, xxxix–l.
See Gerald F. Hawthorne, Ralph P. Martin, and Daniel G. Reid, eds., "4.3. Place and Date" of "Philippians, Letter to the," in Dictionary of Paul and His Letters (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1993).
Overview of Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians and Work
Galatians and Work
Introduction to Galatians
Understanding Life in Christ (Galatians 1:6–4:31)
Living in Christ (Galatians 5–6)
Life in the Spirit (Galatians 5:13–23)
Working for the Good of Others (Galatians 6:1–10)
The Center of the Gospel (Galatians 6:11–18)
Summary & Conclusion to Galatians
Ephesians and Work
Introduction to Ephesians
God's Grand Plan: A Theological Vision (Ephesians 1:1–3:21)
God's Grand Plan: A Practical Guide (Ephesians 4:1–6:24)
Working Hard for Good and for Giving (Ephesians 4:28)
Mutuality in Working for the Lord (Ephesians 5:21–6:9)
Slaves of Christ (Ephesians 6:6–8)
Christian Masters (Ephesians 6:5–11)
Summary & Conclusion to Ephesians
Philippians and Work
The One Who Began a Good Work Among You Will Bring it to Completion (Philippians 1:1–26)
Do Your Work in a Worthy Manner (Philippians 1:27–2:11)
3 Examples of Following Christ as Ordinary Christians (Philippians 2:19–3:21)
Everyday Applications (Philippians 4:1–23)
Resolving Conflict (Philippians 4:2–9)
Supporting Each Other in Work (Philippians 4:10–11, 15–16)
Handling Poverty and Plenty (Philippians 4:12–13, 18)
Conclusion to Philippians
Key Verses and Themes in Galatians, Ephesians, and Philippians
Contributors: Mark Roberts
Adopted by the Theology of Work Project Board Sept. 27, 2010. Revised Nov. 23, 2010. Image by Used under license from Veer.
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