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Q: Creating JSON from Alloy UI DataTable I have created a datatable from JSON using alloyUI and I am pushing a new row each time the "Add Row" button is clicked. After all this is complete I need to create a json of this final collection of data on "Submit" click. But I am unable to find a way to convert a datatable/HTML table (either one will do) to JSON using alloyUI
This is my html and js:

YUI().use('aui-datatable','json-stringify', function(A) {

 var data = [
             {Name: 'Bob', Age: '28',Salary: '10000',Department: 'Admin',Address: 'Kolkata'},
             {Name: 'Joe', Age: '42',Salary: '20000',Department: 'Accounts',Address: 'Kolkata'},
             {Name: 'Sarah', Age: '35',Salary: '30000',Department: 'Sales',Address: 'Kolkata'},
             {Name: 'Billy', Age: '24',Salary: '40000',Department: 'Admin',Address: 'Kolkata'},
             {Name: 'James', Age: '36',Salary: '50000',Department: 'Accounts',Address: 'Kolkata'},
             {Name: 'Stark', Age: '51',Salary: '60000',Department: 'Sales',Address: 'Kolkata'}
           ];

 var dtable = new A.DataTable.Base({
  columnset: ['Name', 'Age','Salary','Department','Address'],
  recordset: data
 })
 .render("#container");

 A.one('#addRow').on('click', function() {
  data.push({
   "Name": A.one('#Name').get('value'),
      "Age": A.one('#Age').get('value'),
      "Salary": A.one('#Salary').get('value'),
      "Department": A.one('#Department').get('value'),
      "Address": A.one('#Address').get('value')
  });
  dtable.set('recordset', data);
  A.one('#Name').set('value', '');
  A.one('#Age').set('value', '');
  A.one('#Salary').set('value', '');
  A.one('#Department').set('value', '');
  A.one('#Address').set('value', '');

 });
 A.one('#submit').on('click', function() {
    //Here I need the code to create JSON
    });
});

<link href="http://cdn.alloyui.com/2.0.0/aui-css/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet"></link>

    <input id="Name" style="width:90px" placeholder="Name"></input>
    <input id="Age" style="width:30px" placeholder="Age"></input>
    <input id="Salary" style="width:60px" placeholder="Salary"></input>
    <input id="Department" style="width:90px" placeholder="Department"></input>
    <input id="Address" style="width:100px" placeholder="Address"></input>

  <button id="addRow">Add row</button>
  <button id="submit">Submit</button>

A: You need to use JSON.stringify(). Pass it the data that you want to send to JSON. For your example, you should pass dtable.get('recordset'):
A.JSON.stringify(dtable.get('recordset'))

Here's a runnable example using your code:

YUI().use('aui-datatable','json-stringify', function(A) {

 var data = [
             {Name: 'Bob', Age: '28',Salary: '10000',Department: 'Admin',Address: 'Kolkata'},
             {Name: 'Joe', Age: '42',Salary: '20000',Department: 'Accounts',Address: 'Kolkata'},
             {Name: 'Sarah', Age: '35',Salary: '30000',Department: 'Sales',Address: 'Kolkata'},
             {Name: 'Billy', Age: '24',Salary: '40000',Department: 'Admin',Address: 'Kolkata'},
             {Name: 'James', Age: '36',Salary: '50000',Department: 'Accounts',Address: 'Kolkata'},
             {Name: 'Stark', Age: '51',Salary: '60000',Department: 'Sales',Address: 'Kolkata'}
           ];

 var dtable = new A.DataTable.Base({
  columnset: ['Name', 'Age','Salary','Department','Address'],
  recordset: data
 })
 .render("#container");

 A.one('#addRow').on('click', function() {
  data.push({
   "Name": A.one('#Name').get('value'),
      "Age": A.one('#Age').get('value'),
      "Salary": A.one('#Salary').get('value'),
      "Department": A.one('#Department').get('value'),
      "Address": A.one('#Address').get('value')
  });
  dtable.set('recordset', data);
  A.one('#Name').set('value', '');
  A.one('#Age').set('value', '');
  A.one('#Salary').set('value', '');
  A.one('#Department').set('value', '');
  A.one('#Address').set('value', '');

 });
 A.one('#submit').on('click', function() {
      A.one('#json').set('innerHTML', A.JSON.stringify(dtable.get('recordset')));
    });
});

    <link href="https://cdn.rawgit.com/stiemannkj1/90be22de7f48c729b443af14796d91d3/raw/a9f35ceedfac7fc0559b121bed105eaf80f10bf2/aui-css_css_bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet"></link>

    <input id="Name" style="width:90px" placeholder="Name"></input>
    <input id="Age" style="width:30px" placeholder="Age"></input>
    <input id="Salary" style="width:60px" placeholder="Salary"></input>
    <input id="Department" style="width:90px" placeholder="Department"></input>
    <input id="Address" style="width:100px" placeholder="Address"></input>

  <button id="addRow">Add row</button>
  <button id="submit">Submit</button>

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In this audio extract, Anne Mackintosh, daughter of former Corran Ferry operator, Jimmy Mackintosh, recalls life at the ferry prior to 1934, before the advent of the car ferry.


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Ingenious: UnderstandING the sourcEs, traNsformations and fates of IndOor air pollUtantS
Lead Research Organisation: University of York
Department Name: Environment
In developed countries such as the UK, we spend 90% of our time indoors with approximately two thirds of this in our homes. Despite this fact, most air pollutant regulation focuses on the outdoor environment. There is increasing evidence that exposure to air pollution causes a range of health effects, but uncertainties on the causal effects of individual pollutants on specific health outcomes still exist partly due to crude exposure metrics. Nearly all studies of health effects to date have used measurements from fixed outdoor air pollution monitoring networks, a procedure that ignores the modification effects of indoor microenvironments where people spend most of their time. There are consequently large uncertainties surrounding human exposure to indoor air pollution, which means we are currently unable to identify the most effective solutions to design, operate and use our homes to minimise our exposure to air pollution within them.
In the UK, there are virtually no data to quantify indoor air pollutant emissions, building-to-building variability of these, chemical speciation of indoor pollutants, ingress of outdoor pollution indoors or of indoor generated pollutants outdoors, or the social, economic or lifestyle factors that can lead to elevated pollutant exposures. Without a fundamental understanding of how indoor air pollution is caused, transformed and distributed in UK homes, research aiming to develop behavioural, technical or policy interventions may have little impact, or at worst be counterproductive. For example, energy efficiency measures are broadly designed to make buildings more airtight. However, given that the concentrations of many air pollutants are often higher indoors than outdoors, reducing ventilation rates may increase our exposure to air pollution indoors and to any potentially harmful effects of the resulting pollutant mixture. Further, if interventions are introduced without sufficient consideration of how occupants actually use and behave in a building, they may fail to achieve the desired effect. To understand and improve indoor air quality (IAQ), we must adopt a systems approach that considers both the home and the human.
There is a particular paucity of data for the most deprived households in the UK. There is a facile assumption that poorer homes are likely to experience worse IAQ than better off households, although the reality may be considerably more nuanced. Lower quality housing may be leakier than more expensive homes allowing indoor emissions to escape more easily, whilst large, expensive town-houses converted to flats can be badly ventilated following poor retrofitting practices. Differences in cooking practices, smoking rates, internal building materials and the usage of solvent containing products indoors will also be subject to wide variations across populations and hence have differential effects on IAQ and pollutant exposure. In fact, differences in individual behaviour lead to large variations in indoor concentrations of air pollutants even for identical houses, typically driven by the frequency and diversity of personal care product use.
The INGENIOUS project will provide a comprehensive understanding of indoor pollution in UK homes, including i) the key sources relevant to the UK ii) the variability between homes in an ethnically diverse urban city, with a focus on deprived areas (using the ongoing Born in Bradford cohort study) iii) the effects of pollutant transformation indoors to generate by-products that may adversely affect health iv) the drivers of behaviours that impact on indoor air pollution (v) recommendations for interventions to improve IAQ that we have co-designed and tested with community members.
Jul 21 - Jul 25
NE/W002256/1
Nicola Carslaw
Atmospheric phys. & chemistry (20%)
Civil eng. & built environment (20%)
Medical & health interface (20%)
Pollution, waste & resources (20%)
Sociology (20%)
Building Ops & Management (20%)
Environment (20%)
Environment & Health (20%)
Pollution (20%)
Tropospheric Processes (20%)
University of York, United Kingdom (Lead Research Organisation)
Immaterial Labs (Collaboration)
Reckitt Benckiser plc, United Kingdom (Project Partner)
Homelync (Project Partner)
WSP Group plc (Project Partner)
NERC National Ctr for Atmospheric Sci, United Kingdom (Project Partner)
Tincture london (Project Partner)
Born in Bradford Office (Project Partner)
Ricardo AEA, Shoreham (Project Partner)
Immaterial (Project Partner)
Nicola Carslaw (Principal Investigator)
Nicholas Pleace (Co-Investigator)
James Daniel Lee (Co-Investigator)
Terry James Dillon (Co-Investigator)
Sarah West (Co-Investigator) http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2484-8124
Peter Martin Edwards (Co-Investigator) http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1076-6793
Jacqueline Hamilton (Co-Investigator)
David Carlin Carslaw (Co-Investigator)
Alastair Lewis (Co-Investigator) http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4075-3651
Marvin Shaw (Researcher) http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9954-243X
Description Collaboration with Immaterial
Organisation Immaterial Labs
PI Contribution Immaterial manufacture metal organic frameworks, or MOFs, to remove pollutants from air. Immaterial are a start-up company working on proof of concept at the moment, rather than manufacturing their materials at large scale. We invited Immaterial to our project meetings and were able to test the potential of their novel materials to remove air pollutants generated during cooking and cleaning during some of our early experiments. This collaboration has led to a small, additional research project application being submitted to Innovate UK to further test these materials. This proposal was successful and attracted £136K in additional funding (see further funding section).
Collaborator Contribution Members of the Immaterial team have attended some of our project meetings and also provided some of their novel air cleaning materials to test during our early experiments. They contributed towards the preparation of the research project application to Innovate UK. As a result of this collaboration through IMPECCABLE, Immaterial also became involved in another UKRI funded project, INGENIOUS.
Impact Research application (see further funding) Involvement of Immaterial in another UKRI grant for NERC called INGENIOUS, that links indoor air pollution, health and behaviour (see INGENIOUS grant details).
Description Bradford Telegraph and Argus article
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Newspaper article reporting the INGENIOUS project funding.
URL https://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/19465908.bradford-focus-major-air-quality-research-proje...
Description University press release to announce successful funding outcome
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact Press release to announce the new project. Led to some other Radio interviews and some engagement on Twitter.
URL https://www.york.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/2021/research/indoor-ukri-pollution/

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A teenager was arrested on charges of murder Wednesday after two people were shot dead during anti-police demonstrations in US city Kenosha, as President Donald Trump said he was bringing in additional federal forces. Violent protests have erupted in the Midwestern city after police shot several times a black man in his back point-blank, while his kids watched. Two people were shot dead during demonstrations on Tuesday, and a third injured after a man in civilian clothes opened fire on demonstrators with an assault weapon.
Kenosha city leaders ordered a 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. curfew through Sunday in hopes of restoring peace after the violence that took place on Tuesday when armed vigilantes flocked to the protest site saying they were there to protect private property. Videos taken overnight Tuesday shows one of the vigilantes — thought to be the 17-year-old — shooting with an assault rifle at protesters and apparently hitting two who were trying to stop him. Then the man walks confidently down the street, gun slung across his shoulder, as demonstrators scatter and police cars are speeding past him.
Trump said Wednesday he was sending federal law enforcement. Also, national guard troops to Kenosha to "restore law and order" in the northern city. But local authorities said they already had hundreds of police from around the state. So, some 250 national guard troops, and FBI and federal marshals helping them with the crisis. But on Sunday he refused to address the Jacob Blake, 29, police shooting that ignited the unrest.
Shooting Video
The incident specifics remain unclear whilst the police officers involve suspend. Bystander video shows one officer shooting Blake in his back several times. This is as he attempts to reach his vehicle, which contains his three sons. Also, during what numerous witnesses describe as his involvement in a domestic incident. Blake's father Jacob Blake Sr. accused the police of "senseless attempted murder".
So, even after many surgeries he remained paralyzed from the waist downwards. Miskins expressed outrage about the incident's lack of details. But said it was now in the possession of state authorities and he couldn't speak about it.
The latest African American police shooting has sparked renewed outrage. Also, unrest in U.S. cities and fueled the campaign for Black Lives Matter. African Americans lead activist Al Sharpton to expect to become one focal point. It is of a scheduled march on Washington this weekend. But Trump's remarks made it clear that. It is with the election just over two months away and will also be fuel for the ongoing presidential campaign. Trump's campaign has depicted anti-police demonstrations in many cities. Also, as a challenge to the government from the far left. Democratic rival Joe Biden has called for an end to violence following the shooting of Blake.
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The US-based business publication's annual list acknowledges companies that have had a positive social impact through programmes that are both intrinsic to their business strategies and beneficial to the community.
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Democrat pans Republican's "phony talking points"
Michigan Democratic gubernatorial candidate Gretchen Whitmer (left) and Republican Bill Schuette prepare for their second debate Wednesday in the downtown Detroit studio of WDIV (Channel 4).
Michigan gubernatorial rivals Bill Schuette and Gretchen Whitmer clung to the legacy of Gov. Rick Snyder in their final debate Wednesday, with Schuette trying to lay claim to a rising economy and Whitmer emphasizing her bipartisan partnership with Snyder on his signature domestic policy achievement.
Schuette, a Republican from Midland, contrasted Michigan's current economy — which stands at 4 percent unemployment — under Snyder compared to 2010 at the end of Democrat Jennifer Granholm's eight years as governor, when unemployment stood at 11 percent.
"We are better off than we were eight years ago," Schuette said during an hourlong debate televised on WDIV (Channel 4). "And I have the experience to build on the success of the last eight years and drive our state forward."
Schuette later added: "If Gretchen Whitmer is governor, your job is in jeopardy. Your job is in danger."
Schuette's closing argument that he would build on Snyder's "success" comes as the governor has declined to endorse his candidacy — a snub on which Whitmer has tried to capitalize by repeatedly touting her work with Snyder on expanding the Medicaid health insurance program for 680,000 low-income adults.
Whitmer, a Democrat from East Lansing, sought to echo Snyder's repeated calls for civility in politics on a day when the nation was gripped by the discovery of pipe bombs that were mailed to the residences of former Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, other Democratic Party dignitaries and the New York City offices of CNN.
Whitmer said she's "focused on fixing problems" — a message Snyder drove home to independent voters in Detroit's suburbs in his 2010 gubernatorial victory and 2014 re-election.
"I worked with Gov. Snyder when it comes to expanding health care or anti-bullying protections," Whitmer said. "And I think it is time for us to have a civil society where we have robust, but respectful debate."
Wednesday's final debate ahead of the Nov. 6 election came after the Republican political consulting firm Marketing Resource Group's most recent poll on Monday showed voters favoring Whitmer by 14 percentage points and leading in every geographic area but northern Michigan.
Schuette has staked his electoral fortunes on a strategy that attempts to paint Whitmer and her policies as an "extreme" repeat of Granholm's time in office, which was marked by a single-state yearslong recession that hit Michigan long before the 2008 housing crisis caused the national economy to collapse.
At one point during the debate, Schuette called his female opponent "Jennifer" before correcting himself. "It's easy to get them confused," Schuette said as Whitmer laughed in the background.
During the debate, Schuette twice warned voters of their jobs being in "danger" if Whitmer is elected — even when asked about how he would go about preparing Michigan's workforce for a future with more robots automating work previously performed by humans.
"The attorney general has the same talking points for every question. You forgot to use the word 'extreme' in that one, Bill. Give me a break," Whitmer said. "If we're going to get people to work, if we're going connect people to high-wage jobs and be a state that gets investment here, we've got to get serious about fixing infrastructure, closing the talent gap and get busy with regard to economic development."
Whitmer touted her $100 million plan to provide state-paid scholarships for the first two years of college. She also voiced support for universal preschool and early childhood education.
The two candidates sparred at length during the hourlong debate over how to fix the state's crumbling network of roads and bridges. "When she says she wants to fix the darn roads, she's going to raise your darn taxes," Schuette said.
Whitmer hit back, arguing Schuette has not presented a "real plan" for stopping the state's roads from further deterioration. "I want to correct the attorney general: The saying is we're going to fix the damn roads," she said. "I put a real solution on the table. No more of this baloney."
Whitmer has said she will propose unspecified tax or fee increases in her first budget plan presented to the Legislature next winter that would boost annual spending on roads to $2 billion. The current plan signed by Snyder in 2015 will add $1.2 billion to annual road spending by 2021.
When asked how much more money is needed for the roads, Schuette did not directly answer the question during Wednesday's debate other than to say "I want to expand" the $1.2 billion spending target.
Schuette said he would audit the Michigan Department of Transportation, make unspecified cuts to other state agencies and personally lobby U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao for more road money.
"I'll walk right through the front door of the White House because of my relationships ... and be an advocate for more federal dollars coming to Michigan," Schuette said.
Whitmer panned Schuette's plan as "phony talking points."
"Saying you're going to walk through the front door of the Trump White House doesn't fix a single pothole in this state," she said. "And I'm tired of traveling roads that are falling apart. I'm tired of how uncompetitive it makes us."


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Why the Western Wall deal is a victory for now, but not forever
By Debra Bennet	February 24, 2016, 7:25 pm 0 Edit
On the morning of Dec. 1, 1988, a group of about 70 Jewish women entered the sacred space of the Western Wall. The women represented all the major streams of Judaism. Some wore prayer shawls or kippahs. Some did not. One woman cradled a Torah in her arms.
Together, their voices rose in prayer, marking the beginning of a movement. From that day until now, the Women of the Wall have fought for the right of women to pray together at Judaism's holiest site — out loud, with tallit, tefillin and the Torah.
It has been no easy task.
For the past three decades, the Women of the Wall have faced down the many who object to their mission. During the women's monthly prayer services at the wall, people have screamed and yelled, blown whistles and hurled rocks and even feces at them.
Critic after critic told the women they were the ones disturbing the peace, causing problems and airing dirty laundry in public. They were commanded to stop and give up their fight without acknowledgement of the injustice they were battling.
But on Jan. 31, some of the Women of the Wall's greatest hopes came to fruition. The Israeli government approved a deal recognizing mixed-gender, egalitarian services at a part of the Western Wall called Robinson's Arch, an archaeological site adjacent to the traditional prayer area.
The government will expand Robinson's Arch and make it accessible from the main plaza, where everyone enters to get to the Western Wall. Those coming to pray will be able to choose between an all-male section, an all-female section and an egalitarian section where anyone can pray however they choose.
An incredible victory, right?
Yes. But much has been lost too.
While Robinson's Arch has been recognized for the first time as a place for Jews of any denomination to pray, the area known as the Western Wall has been officially designated an Orthodox Jewish prayer section ruled by Israel's Chief Rabbinate.
For some — even members of Women of the Wall — this concession makes the deal a defeat rather than a victory. They refer back to the original goals of the movement: demanding room for women to pray with other women out loud, not separate but equal spaces.
Orthodox members of Women of the Wall and others face the same dilemma they always have: Where do you pray at the wall when you feel most comfortable with a separation of women and men but believe in the rights of women to pray out loud and read from the Torah?
Some of these women feel forgotten. Who will fight with them now? Have the Women of the Wall given up who they really are in this compromise?
A recent Torah portion provides some insight. In it, the Hebrews, a newly freed people, escaping the bonds of Egyptian slavery, gather at the foot of Mount Sinai to hear the new laws of the community, to receive the commandments. They listen as Moses relays the following words: "When you acquire a Hebrew slave, he shall serve six years; in the seventh year he shall go free."
Hold on one moment. The Hebrews were just freed from awful, brutal, demoralizing slavery. Why, then, is the Torah so quick to institute a new set of laws for the practice? If slavery was so terrible for us, shouldn't our next step be ensuring that we are not inflicting the same horrific experience on others?
True, the new laws ensure rights for slaves, address them as human beings and even provide for them to be freed after a time. But still: slavery.
We must remind ourselves that in the ancient Near East, a world without slavery was unimaginable. Change could happen, but gradually — one step at a time. You can imagine our ancestors wondering, "Is this enough?"
Then as now, the answer is: "Maybe for now, but certainly not forever."
As we consider the historic compromise on the Western Wall, we should remind ourselves that this is the way of change — as great leaders of social movements have understood.
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. said, "If you can't fly, then run; if you can't run, then walk; if you can't walk, then crawl; but whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward."
We are moving forward. Last month's decision proves that.
The challenge is not to become complacent with this victory. We must continue to challenge the assumption that traditional Orthodoxy is and should be the norm at the Western Wall. We must continue to demand and raise our voices.
Gloria Steinem, another fighter for equality and justice, said, "I'm a realist, but I'm also a dreamer. And I'm not just a dreamer, I'm a hopeaholic."
We Jews are hopeaholics, too. So we hope and pray for a time when every woman and man can pray, raising their voices, wearing the garments that provide meaning to their prayer and speaking the ancient words of our people at our holiest site, the Western Wall.
We grasp this hope while understanding the reality of the world. And we carry this hope with us as we move forward, striving for the next great victory.
Debra Bennet is associate rabbi at Temple Chaverim in Plainview, N.Y.


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Mozilla is not maintaining Mozmill anymore, in fact deprecating it. They are instead using Marionette. We should port our tests to Marionette as well and migrate to that framework in order to avoid weird Mozmill bugs which are not getting fixed anymore.
The announcement was on: https://groups.google.com/d/topic/mozilla.dev.platform/hq5-X0mlIgQ.
This adds a few fixes and convert all selenium tests to marionette.
I have now pushed some commits to the marionette_tests-v3 branch with some fixes to make it work on Windows.
This is now done in commit fabe206d932827663f17af099e4042623cd270d1 in the marionette_tests-v3 branch.
The settings test is now converted in the marionette_tests-v3 branch.
https-everywhere and play_videos tests have been converted to marionette.
Support for OSX has been added to the marionette_tests-v3 branch.
I rebased the marionette_tests-v3 branch and merged it to master. The navigation-timing and resource-timing tests have also been converted to marionette.
The acid3 and searchengines tests are now converted to marionette.
The slider_settings and dom-objects-enumeration are now converted to marionette.
After converting the dom-objects-enumeration test to marionette, we see a DOMConstructor object that we didn't see when using mozmill. I have added it to the list of expected objects to avoid an error.
All Mozmil tests have now been converted to Marionette.


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Dean Godson is the Director of the London-based think tank Policy Exchange.
In 2016, the Evening Standard named Godson one of London's most influential people, saying that "Fiercely bright Godson, formerly chief leader writer at the Daily Telegraph, has been described as Britain's acknowledged expert on the problem of social cohesion."[1] Commentator Iain Dale also named Godson as one of the 100 most influential people on the right of British politics, in his annual rankings in 2016[2] , 2017[3] and 2018[4].
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Godson was educated at three independent schools for boys: at Edinburgh Academy preparatory school, while his father was US Consul General in Scotland,[5] Sussex House School in Cadogan Square in Chelsea, London[6] and St Paul's School in Barnes, London, followed by Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge[7] from which he graduated with a second class degree (receiving a 2-2 in part I and a 2-1 in part II).[8]
Life and careerEdit
During the 1980s, Godson was Research Assistant to Sir Ray Whitney, MP for Wycombe. He also held the position of Assistant to Hon John Lehman, US Secretary of the Navy, Washington DC, and was a Research Fellow at both Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis, Cambridge, Massachusetts and the Institute for European Defence and Strategic Studies. From 1990–92, Godson worked as Librarian to Sir James Goldsmith.
From 1992–1995, he worked for The Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph as an obituary writer, leader writer and feature writer. From 1995–2004, he was Chief Leader Writer of The Daily Telegraph, writing largely about mainland domestic politics and Northern Ireland. From 1997–2004, he also worked as Associate Editor of The Spectator under Boris Johnson's editorship (before the latter became Mayor for London), was a Contributing Editor for Prospect magazine and a Consultant Editor on the New York Sun.
In his political career, Godson stood as candidate in Great Grimsby in 1997 and served as first Deputy Chairman of Kensington and Chelsea Conservative Association from 1995–98.
Godson is author of Himself Alone: David Trimble and the Ordeal of Unionism[9] (Harper Collins, 2004) which was short listed for the Christopher Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize. Andrew Marr called it "a great act of political reporting – instant history, if you like – about the drama of Northern Ireland's search for peace".[10] He was a visiting Professor at the University of Ulster.
Work at Policy ExchangeEdit
Main article: Policy Exchange
Godson joined Policy Exchange in 2005 and initially headed up its research into security policy, before becoming its Director in 2013.
In 2005, Godson edited Replacing the Routemaster: how to undo Ken Livingstone's destruction of London's best ever bus. The study, which featured contributions from Colin Cramphorn, Simon Jenkins, Andrew Gilligan and many others, was the first major critique of Ken Livingstone's policy of scrapping the Routemaster bus. The report heavily influenced Boris Johnson's subsequent 'New Routemaster' policy in the 2008 London Mayoral elections.[11] and was attacked by outgoing Labour mayor Ken Livingstone in his memoirs.
Godson founded the Colin Cramphorn Memorial Lecture, to celebrate the life of the late Chief Constable of West Yorkshire. The inaugural lecture was delivered by Peter Clarke, then head of the Metropolitan Police Counter Terrorism Command. In 2009, the lecture was delivered by Charles Farr, Director General of the Office of Security and Counter Terrorism in the Home Office. In September 2009, it was delivered by General David Petraeus, then Commander, United States Central Command.[12]
In 2011, Gen James N. Mattis, then head of CENTCOM, gave the sixth Colin Cramphorn Memorial Lecture.
As head of Policy Exchange's security unit, Godson produced a number of reports examining the views of British Muslims. This included, in 2009, "Choosing Our Friends Wisely: Criteria for Engagement with Muslim Groups"[13] by the ex Hizb ut-Tahrir radical Shiraz Maher and Dr Martyn Frampton of Peterhouse, Cambridge. The report was praised by Lord Guthrie of Craigiebank, former Chief of the Defence Staff, as "remarkable".[14]
In June 2011, columnist Matthew D'Ancona wrote in the Evening Standard that the Government's review of its counter-terrorist strategy was "a tribute to an intellectual battle fought over the years by the modernising think tank, Policy Exchange... and, specifically, the head of its foreign policy and security unit, Dean Godson".[15]
In October 2007, Policy Exchange published a report entitled The Hijacking of British Islam: How extremist literature is subverting mosques in the UK. Godson became embroiled in controversy when Newsnight put out a broadcast on 12 December 2007[16] that suggested some of the receipts purporting to prove the sale of extremist material had been forged, and that some of the material had come from bookshops purportedly unconnected to the mosques named in the report.
Policy Exchange's rebuttal[17] maintained that the receipts were not mentioned in the report, and that the report's findings were not dependent on them. On 15 August 2008, The Independent[18] reported that two mosques mentioned in the report, the Al-Manar Muslim Cultural Heritage Centre and the North London Central Mosque, were preparing to take legal action against the Policy Exchange. Subsequently, the Al Manaar Muslim Cultural Heritage Centre, following a clarification but no apology from Policy Exchange, withdrew its threatened legal complaint.
On 26 November 2009, Mr Justice Eady struck out the claim brought against Policy Exchange by the North London Central Mosque. The six mosque trustees who had advanced the claim were ordered to pay Policy Exchange's costs of defending the action. The High Court made a further Order that £75,000 of those costs be paid by the North London Central Mosque within 28 days.[19]
Godson's work on combating extremism was praised in a speech in 2014 by the then UK Prime Minister, David Cameron, calling it "incredibly important" and stating it "has had a huge influence".[20]
In April 2017, Godson published a lengthy article on the ConservativeHome website, setting out Policy Exchange's call for evidence on the contingency plans needed in the event that the UK is unable to secure a deal with the EU when it leaves the bloc.[21] ConservativeHome's editor, Paul Goodman, called this "a thought-provoking list of questions... Policy Exchange is early out of the traps seeking answers".[22]
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^ "Iain Dale's 100 Most Influential People On The Right". LBC. Retrieved 5 May 2017.
^ Dale, Iain (2 October 2017). "The Top 100 Most Influential People On The Right: Iain Dale's 2017 List". LBC. Retrieved 11 March 2018.
^ "Iain Dale's the Top Most Influential People on the Conservative Right".
^ Joseph Godson, The New York Times, 12 September 1986
^ About The School - Old Cadogans, Sussex House School
^ Once a Caian... Archived 5 June 2016 at the Wayback Machine 9–12 Issue 12 - Gonville and Caius College
^ The Historical Register of the University of Cambridge, Supplement 1981-1985. Cambridge University Press. p. 274.
^ Himself Alone: David Trimble and the Ordeal of Unionism, Harper Perennial, 2011
^ Ulster's tough man Andrew Marr reviews Himself Alone: David Trimble and the Ordeal of Unionism by Dean Godson, The Daily Telegraph, 27 June 2004
^ Hill, Dave (3 July 2008). "Will Boris Johnson's Routemaster dream reach its terminus?". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 1 May 2010.
^ "Gen David Petraeus: 'Everything in Afghanistan is hard'". The Daily Telegraph. London. 17 September 2009. Retrieved 1 May 2010.
^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 18 March 2009. Retrieved 26 August 2009. CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^ Guthrie, Charles (24 March 2009). "This is no way to counter Islamic terror". The Times. London. Retrieved 1 May 2010.
^ "For Cameron, terrorism is the new Cold War". Evening Standard. 8 June 2011. Retrieved 5 May 2017.
^ https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/newsnight/2007/12/wednesday_12_december_2007.html
^ Browne, Anthony (22 December 2007). "Extremist literature and British mosques". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 1 May 2010.
^ Rajan, Amol (15 August 2008). "Tories' favourite think-tank sued by Muslim group". The Independent. London. Retrieved 1 May 2010.
^ http://www.policyexchange.org.uk/
^ PolicyExchangeUK (24 April 2017), David Cameron's speech at the 2014 Policy Exchange Summer Party, retrieved 24 April 2017
^ "Dean Godson: Deal or No Deal. What happens if we leave the EU without a comprehensive agreement? A call for evidence. | Conservative Home". Conservative Home. Retrieved 5 May 2017.
^ "The Brexit negotiation – and why the importance of tariff-free trade has been over-hyped | Conservative Home". Conservative Home. Retrieved 5 May 2017.
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The article offers news briefs of events during November 7 to November 13, 2014. On November 7, 2014, Japan resumed nuclear power generation by restarting two reactors on the island of Kyushu. The US Department of Agriculture has decided on November 10 not to regulate the transgenic variety of potato. The US National Institutes of Health has sponsored a trial to research if babies infected by HIV in the womb can be treated with the antiretroviral therapy offered immediately after birth.
The article discusses a research study on the increase in highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) administration among HIV-infected adults in the U.S., conducted by Keri N. Althoff and colleagues and published in an issue of "Annals of Internal Medicine" journal.
The article reports on the plan of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to issue a fact sheet about Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) and its impact on the sexual transmission of HIV infection.


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Climate Hysteria Is A Backdoor For Imposing Personal Interests On The Public.
January 10, 2020 /in Articles /by Hunter Hastings
The "fight" against global warming is not a selfless movement wholly focused on saving our world but a means for activists to impose their personal desires on the rest of us. They want to shut down farms, stop homebuilding, dictate what we can eat, and are eager to financially reward politically favored groups.
Our first stop on this tour of private crusades is in the United Kingdom, where Ian Boyd, a former chief scientific adviser for the government, is claiming, according to a recent British Guardian report, that "half of the nation's farmland needs to be transformed into woodlands and natural habitat to fight the climate crisis and restore wildlife."
"We need a large, radical transformation and we need to do it quickly, in the next decade" said the good professor.
Continued Boyd: "If anybody asked me: 'If there is one thing I can do to help save the planet, what would it be?' I would say just eat a lot less meat. It's the easiest thing to do. I've done it."
And we are therefore supposed to be impressed by his commitment and inspired to follow the great man.
Of course he's not making the sacrifice alone. Others have chosen to cut back or eliminate their meat intake in the name of saving us from global warming. None were easily found at the last United Nations climate conference in Madrid, where "U.N. bureaucrats chow(ed) down on burgers – while attacking meat."
While some alarmists have gone to war against meat consumption, a UCLA urban planning professor apparently wishes housing was a communal rather than an individual or family affair.
"If we want to keep cities safe in the face of climate change, we need to seriously question the ideal of private homeownership," says the subhead of piece published in The Nation two days before Christmas.
Professor Kian Goh, who is teaching young minds vulnerable to radical thinking, is also critical of property rights in general. He prefers "government-planned and -built public housing," as well as "new or reconstituted forms of cooperative housing."
"The idea of cooperative living," (which clearly means "communal" living and therefore is socialism-based) "in both financial and social terms," writes Goh, "needs room to breathe and grow."
Obviously there's no room for the freedom to choose in Goh's world.
Finally, we move on the reparations crowd, which skipped the steps of Eric Hoffer's progression of causes and jumped directly to the racket level.
"Shout out if you want to destroy fossil fuel capitalists," a woman described as an "environmental strategist" told the crowd gathered last week at Fire Drill Friday, a Capitol Hill climate protest held each week.
"We will demand reparations for the harm that they caused," she tweeted. "Together we will redistribute trillions of dollars to fund a #GreenNewDeal."
According to Townhall, the woman – who was given a microphone and stage clearly to stir up emotions, and has common ground with Joe "Put Fossil Fuel Executives In Jail" Biden – also said "let me hear your vigor for ending racism while you do it" and "we need to make them pay today." So again we find evidence that the goal isn't to stop Earth from overheating, but to fulfill a left-wing wish list.
Even Greta Thunberg, the Swedish teen who is supposedly a prophetess warning that we're burning through our blue rock, has tapped into the wider agenda. Last month, she told her thrilled-to-be-scolded followers that "the climate crisis is not just about the environment. It is a crisis of human rights, of justice and of political will. Colonial, racist and patriarchal systems of oppression have created and fueled it. We need to dismantle them all."
Sounds much like the warming alarmists who dream of taking down capitalism without firing a shot.
We should be appalled at the dishonesty that's at the rotten core of climate fanaticism. But we're not, because its disciples learned from some of the most deceitful and vicious characters throughout history.
This article first appeared at Issues & Insights (issuesinsights.com)
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The Politicians Who Rig Our System Learn How To Make "The System Is Rigged" Trend On Social Media.
December 17, 2019 /in Articles /by Hunter Hastings
It's crazy season, that special time on the American calendar when aspiring candidates for the nation's highest office try to outdo each other in an effort to attract more voters to their platforms. This time around, background support is provided by a virtual anvil chorus of anti-capitalism clatter. Senator Elizabeth Warren, for example, frequently unleashes criticism of American capitalism by asserting that the "system is rigged," a complaint that seems to resonate with meaningful populist appeal. It's an old refrain that has echoed across the years from Karl Marx onward.
Nobel Laureate Robert J. Shiller explains why this may be the case in his new book, "Narrative Economics." As Shiller points out, when a story is repeated enough, the viral message may be accepted as conventional wisdom, more like an article of belief than a matter of reason.
I'll also emphasize that for a message to prevail, it helps if its content rests on a preexisting and inherently moral foundation that reflects our tribal instincts as an evolved human species. And what works for a small tribe doesn't necessarily work so well for a huge industrialized nation.
Consider this: Some may inquire, "Do you believe in capitalism?" almost as if the position one takes is a matter of religion. When answering, we reflect on our tribal preferences, and cooperating and sharing with our family and neighbors is often a key to success. Thus, many people will almost instinctively answer "no," or at least "yes, but …" followed by some serious caveats and exceptions.
Yes, the beneficial-but-invisible hand of commerce driven by self-interest has never been an instinctually lovable idea. Gains from trade, while well-documented since the days of Adam Smith, can be more elusive than we may first realize. Given the widespread negative views on the subject, politicians' calls for greater accountability and government intervention may not be welcomed by all, but they're understandable.
Shiller adds another dimension to his narrative economics story by using data from Google's Ngram Viewer. The viewer produces charts based on the frequency of particular words and phrases in Google Books, which include some 8 million downloaded volumes in various languages.
Consider an Ngram we might apply to Senator Warren's comments. The nearby figure contains one for "system is rigged" that shows the frequency of the phrase's occurrence from 1940 through 2008, the final year in the database. I have smoothed the data by using a three-year running average:
The data show four viral periods: 1940-1950, 1960-1985, 1990-1998, and 2000-2008. The first period encompasses World War II, a time of draft, rationing, price controls, defense contracting, and related cronyism that may in some cases have been highly profitable for hand-picked firms.The second viral period is much longer and encompasses a period including the Vietnam War and related draft, Watergate and significant social unrest.The third period includes the first Iraq war, and the fourth contains anti-capitalism protests and budding expressions of concern about income inequality as a version of the economy closer to what we know today took shape.The Ngram suggests that in seeking to communicate to her base, Senator Warren artfully chose a phrase that had gone viral before—which is to suggest that there may be an embedded tribal norm that reacts during periods when a relatively small number of people are able to build large fortunes or avoid burdens, such as the draft, as a result of government actions and favors.Oddly enough, Senator Warren and other capitalism critics seldom ask how the system got rigged and what might be done to undo the rigging. But of course, the rigging is done in Washington, sometimes when special interest groups—including corporations—lobby congress for favorable treatment.
And how might that be undone? By trimming away uneven regulation and adopting policies that expose all business firms to the refreshing winds of competition. Put another way, by forcing capitalists to act like capitalists and not lobbyists.
Capitalism Promises Hope And Requires Responsibility. Politicians, Intellectuals And Critics Promote Only Envy.
May 27, 2019 /in Articles /by Hunter Hastings
Presidential aspirant Kamala Harris promises to compel private companies with more than 100 employees to disclose what they pay employees to the Equal Opportunity Employment Commission. Companies that don't pay women "enough" will pay fines until they demonstrate an acceptable level of gender parity. South Bend, Indiana's "Mayor Pete" Buttigieg thinks America needs a federal "Equality Act" to make up for past racism, sexism, and homophobia. Senator Elizabeth Warren champions direct cash payments to black Americans as reparations for slavery. And all of the 2020 hopefuls take great pains to characterize income and wealth disparity as the defining issue of our time.
The ostensible thread connecting all of these public policy ideas is equality. Millions of Americans firmly believe the proper role of government is to make us more equal and thereby make society more just. Old-fashioned liberal ideas about private property and natural rights barely register in this worldview. And it won't be changed by an election or politician; egalitarianism as an animating political, economic, and social principle is firmly entrenched across the West today.
Are these proposals rooted in justice, or hatred and envy? Are they presented as an appeal for restitutionary justice, however far-fetched and far-removed? Or do they represent a gross display of cynical politics, an appeal meant to divide? We hate to play amateur psychologist. But after more than a century of progressive claims of good intentions, the results speak for themselves: capitalism and markets increase freedom and prosperity, while political engineering is zero-sum and antagonistic.
Ludwig von Mises explained so much of what still plagues us today in his underrated classic The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality. Written in the early 1950s, toward the end of Mises's long career, this short book exhibits easier language and faster pace than his earlier works. Having been in the US for more than a decade at this point, one senses a change in Mises's written English. He's more comfortable in his diction and syntax, and utterly unconcerned with staying in his lane as an economist.
For Mises, capitalism is private property and markets. It is the engine of civilization, and the hallmark of any society with a natural and healthy "urge for economic betterment." It is the only way to organize society that comports with human nature, promotes peace and social cohesion, and advances material well-being.
So what accounts its constant vilification? Capitalism's critics, no less self-interested than anyone else, must be explainable by their unease and dissatisfaction with life. And envy, no less than a biblical sin, is the source of that unease and dissatisfaction. So while Mises much earlier advanced the concept of "felt uneasiness" in his explanations of praxeology, he goes much further here into an outright examination of the psychological source of that uneasiness.
Why do intellectuals, particularly university professors, resent capitalism? Simple, Mises explains: they resent the higher incomes and prestige of the risk-taking, entrepreneurial widget makers they look down upon.
Why do working-class voters resent capitalism? Capitalism provides freedom, Mises tells us, but also imposes responsibility for one's lot in life (a suggestion for which Jordan Peterson is deeply resented on the Left). A more successful sibling or neighbor serves as a reminder of one's failings, and every day presents an opportunity to advance or fall back. This is hardly comforting.
Why do literary and artistic elites, including Hollywood and Broadway, resent capitalism? The consuming public's taste is fickle and fleeting. The sensitive artist's work may go completely unappreciated by middlebrow mass audiences, and even the successful actor may become forgotten after a poorly received film or two.
Capitalism produces bad art? Who is to say, Mises asks, how the tired working class spend their leisure time and money? And with the plenitude capitalism provides, every taste is satisfied. Over time, particular genius like Shakespeare tends to emerge and prevail—albeit not always in time for wealth and fame in the artist's lifetime.
But doesn't capitalism result in other kinds of impoverishment, by making us less happy, more unequal, and crassly materialistic? Again, Mises unapologetically stands his ground: materialism is worthy of celebration; as today's luxuries are tomorrow's affordable middle-class necessities. Inequality is meaningless until we grapple with scarcity, the starting point for any economic analysis. Capital accumulation is the only way to alleviate the scarcity that defines our natural world. Happiness is perhaps undefinable and un-measurable, but who among us should have the right to deny an automobile or refrigerator to satisfy a consumer's wish? Why do the anti-capitalists want to forbid the common man his "daily plebiscite"?
Of course, Mises's account of the anti-capitalist mindset did not go unchallenged by critics. The infamous former Soviet spy Whittaker Chambers took to the pages of National Review for a denunciation of the book's "know-nothing conservatism." The Economist magazine (was it ever good?) lambasted Mises's "sad little book" and its caricature of liberalism by a debater of "Hyde Park standard."
But in the intervening 65 years, has Mises's identification of "envy, conceit, ignorance, and dishonesty" among western anti-capitalists proved correct? Did events in the second half of the 20th century, particularly the collapse of Soviet communism, tend to vindicate him?
Certain sentences like "Under capitalism…everybody's station in life depends on his own doing," and "Under capitalism, material success depends on the appreciation of a man's achievements on the part of the sovereign consumers" will strike some readers as depicting an overly rosy view of American meritocracy. But again, Mises's conception of capitalism is unfettered, not the mixed system of political patronage in the US then and now. His larger point stands: markets and property present the individual with opportunities never before known in human history, while state planning makes us all cogs in a wheel.
Ultimately, The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality is a defense of dynamic capitalism against the doctrines of both progressives and conservatives. The former would deny average people that most unique and cherished American opportunity, the chance for upward class mobility. The latter seek to protect their own status against the nouveau riche the market disruptors. Both seek to keep people in their place, whereas unbridled capitalism—warts and all—gives them hope with responsibility.
Mises understood this. Politicians should read him.
Jeff Deist is president of the Mises Institute.
Climate Change Activist Admits: Being Green "Requires the End Of Capitalism".
March 30, 2019 /in Articles /by Hunter Hastings
Well, at least they're now being honest about it. A headline this week in The Guardian reads: "Ending climate change requires the end of capitalism. Have we got the stomach for it?"
The article, by Phil McDuff, goes on the discuss the "Green New Deal" currently being peddled in the US Congress, and declares a radical turn toward socialism is really at the heart of saving the planet from climate change:
The radical economics isn't a hidden clause, but a headline feature. Climate change is the result of our current economic and industrial system. GND-style proposals marry sweeping environmental policy changes with broader socialist reforms because the level of disruption required to keep us at a temperature anywhere below "absolutely catastrophic" is fundamentally, on a deep structural level, incompatible with the status quo.
The "status quo," we have now is a form of capitalism that is highly regulated by states, manipulated by immensely powerful central banks, and distorted by global NGOs like the World Bank. Nevertheless, this system contains enough of a semblance of market-based freedom that many leftwing ideologues regard it as a type of radical laissez-faire capitalism marked by unrestrained and fossil-fuel powered consumption.
Not surprisingly, they think this system must be abolished.
Unfortunately for the billions of human beings who have benefited from what market freedom exists, the new green-socialist global state imagined by McDuff will undo decades of gains against grinding poverty — gains enjoyed by the world's most at-risk and poorest populations.
The Decline of Poverty — and Its Effects — In the Developing World
Quality of life indicators have been consistently moving upward in recent decades.
Global life expectancy is increasing, especially in the poorest parts of the world. Child mortality is going down. Malnourishment is down. Access to clean water and sanitation is increasing. Literacy is increasing. Extreme poverty is rapidly declining. Access to electricity has grown.
The biggest gains tend to be in Africa and South Asia where the world's worst poverty has been historically found.
Moreover, we have yet to observe evidence that these trends will be reversed due to climate change.
This doesn't stop advocates for climate-change socialism like McDuff from predicting disaster. Indeed, in a July 2018 article, McDuff predicts the effects of climate change will be so disastrous that not even oil companies will benefit from their rapacious fossil fuel mongering.
Hazy Disaster Metrics
But what exactly will this global disaster look like? McDuff can point to no details or examples. He can only predict the coming disasters will be measured in "the lives lost, the homes flooded, the farms wasted away to drought."
Yet, the observed trends suggest this simply isn't happening. Moreover, McDuff can't even point to rising deaths from natural disasters, which we are so often told are the chief currency of the coming climate apocalypse.
In reality, deaths from climate-caused natural disasters have gone into steep decline. This is why efforts to predict coming natural-disaster-fueled doom rely on dollar amounts and property damage, which naturally grow over time as homes and machines become more complex and more expensive.
But any growth in human casualties simply can't be found, and this is largely a byproduct of the wealth surpluses fueled by what moderate amounts of market freedom we have. Thanks to centuries of capital accumulation in market societies, even ordinary people increasingly have access to better medical care, infrastructure, and disaster aid undreamed of in previous generations.
Do What We Say: Or Face Total and Utter Extinction
"So what?" proponents of carbon taxes and climate regulation will say. "Sure, the standard of living may decline, but what's that compared to total global destruction?"
This sort of hyperbolic language, isn't an exaggeration on my part. Advocates for climate-change regulations routinely rely on this sort of language precisely because they know the cost of implementing their policies comes at a very high cost. Thus, the choice between their policy and alternatives must be framed as a choice between climate socialism or total extinction.
Indeed, when we examine the proposals in more detail, such as October's report released by the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), we find that the costs of implementation are immense.
After all, the fundamental premise behind most climate-change-prevention schemes is to regulate energy production, reduce access to cheaper forms of energy, and then replace part of that lost capacity with subsidized new forms of green energy. These subsidies require pulling wealth out of the productive economy and funneling it into special government-favored "green" industries which will receive subsidies — after the state bureaucracy takes its cut, of course. The more expensive products offered by these industries would not have been purchased without the subsidies, and without the coercive regulations designed to reduce choice in energy consumption.
We're told this sort of extensive state control of one of the economy's most fundamental resources — i.e., energy — must happen because the only alternative is the total destruction of planet earth.
One does not need to be some sort of hard-core laissez-faire libertarian to see the problem. Even economist William Nordhaus, who has been hailed as a champion of climate-change policies, found that recent carbon-tax and regulatory schemes were so costly, that it would be better to do nothing.
It's also important to remember these costs are not mere aggregate numbers on a spreadsheet somewhere.
Declaring War on Rising Standards of Living
The effects of these climate-control schemes would come down hardest on people in the poorer parts of the world. Energy consumption is high in the rich world, but the demand for growing access to electricity, personal transportation, and heating-and-cooling technologies are highest in the developing world.
Access to these technologies will be increasingly important as climate change occurs. People the world over will need heating and air conditioning. They'll need water filtration technology. They'll need better insulated homes. They'll need appliances that improve sanitation and free human beings to engage in higher-productivity labor.
But the new green socialism is an immense obstacle to all of this.
Moreover, people in the developing world are still in the process of gaining access to labor-saving and life-changing machines like washing machines. Electric devices such as these improve daily life — an improvement felt especially by women — in ways modern westerners forgot about long ago. Yet, manufacturing and powering machines such as these is costly, and the more affordable energy is available, the more people will gain access.
First-World Chauvinism
This is why statistician Hans Rosling saw a fundamental conflict between well-meaning first-world activists and ordinary people in the developing world.
When speaking to environmentally-conscious audiences, Rosling noted many in the audience insisted that "No, everybody in the world cannot have cars and washing machines." For these activists, the imperative of lowering energy usage simply demands it.
But, pointing to a photo of a low-income women slaving over a wash basin, Rosling asks: "How can we tell this woman that she isn't going to have a washing machine?"
It's a good question, and it's also a reminder that much of the talk over carbon taxes and climate regulations smack of first-world chauvinism. The rich world already has its cars and its washing machines. Sure, a global climate scheme would reduce the wealth of people in the rich world, but the impact in China, India, Africa, and South America — where most live closer to subsistence levels —would be far more devastating.
For many environmentally-minded suburban upper-middle class people in North America and Europe, this is just tough luck and bad timing for everyone else.
Ryan McMaken (@ryanmcmaken) is a senior editor at the Mises Institute.
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BNM on Forex Trading
May 9, 20130295
Malaysia's central bank, Bank Negara Malaysia or BNM has finally came up with a stand on digital currencies.
Rising concern on crytocurrencies in Malaysia
Issuing the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Financing of Terrorism Policy for Digital Currencies (Sector 6) shows how serious BNM is. This came about after the rising concerns on the legitimacy and other important issues, particularly in money laundering from the general public. In fact, a public consultation period was conducted in mid-December 2017 to gather such information.
BNM's policy on digital currency
The policy from BNM is aimed at there are proper action plans when it comes to money laundering and terrorism financing in Malaysia. This is more prominent and more crucial with the advent of digital currencies. With the policy in place, it will help to improve not only effectiveness but also on the transparency of how cryptcurrencies are carried out in the country.
Feedback from experts
What makes the policy so effective is that the input came from industry experts. Those who were called in to give their takes include:
Members from academia
Law and legal representatives
Digital currency exchanges
Members of the public and individuals who are interested
What the feedback entailed include very pressing issues on cryptocurrencies. This includes the type of obligations and roles of digital currency exchanges and covered those that offer intermediary services as well. BNM claims that it does not condone to the services in its role but all information will be clearly stipulated in the policy's document. This means that anyone involved must read the policy so as to protect the interests of those related and themselves as well.
Still not legal tender in Malaysia
Ultimately, the golden question is whether digital currencies are legal tender in Malaysia. According to BNM, digital currencies ARE NOT legal tender. This is because businesses that use them are not regulated using the industry standards as enforced and guided by BNM. Unlike other legal tenders which are very much controlled (or under the purview) of BNM, digital currencies are not. Hence, BNM is advising members of the public to be fully aware of the risks involved and all liabilities before investing into digital currencies.
In fact, they should look into the policy to ensure that they are properly and accurately informed of the compliance and any other issues involving digital currencies. For the meantime, BNM will be constantly monitoring the updates of digital currencies in the world and whether it is suitable for the Malaysian market. There are more than enough information in the policy that might be able to help answer any concerns, queries or issues that the public might have. As this is an ongoing process, there will be constant updates as and when there are new developments from BNM not only on digital currencies but on the threats, security and other related matters.
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Introducing Infinity Girl, now and forever
Sound in waves
By MICHAEL MAROTTA | August 29, 2012
LUSHLIFE "We're very influenced by [shoegaze], but there's more to Infinity Girl than that," says Sebastian Modak (third from left, with Mitch Stewart, Nolan Eley, and Kyle Oppenheimer).
Being labeled "shoegaze" is a tricky thing for a fledgling band. On one hand you immediately catch the attention of fans of the genre, who tend to devour anything that gets tagged with the fairly lazy depiction. But on the other hand, the term is often a repellant, turning off those who had enough of the ear-piercing sound by the 48th minute of My Bloody Valentine's landmark 1991 record, Loveless. And that latter group comprises a demographic several times that of the former.
For better or worse, shoegaze is one of the first tags hung around the collective neck of Cambridge quartet Infinity Girl. Arriving pretty much out of nowhere in May with brilliant self-released full-length debut Stop Being on My Side and boasting a pretty-fucking-shoegaze-sounding moniker, the band shrugs at the label, acknowledging it with the same ease with which they unleash their furious sound, but also quickly adding that the band is more than just carefully calculated noise-pop. "It makes it sound like we're in the business of mimicking bands that existed years ago," offers drummer Sebastian Modak over lunch at Mariposa Bakery in Central Square. "We're very influenced by them, but there's more to Infinity Girl than that."
Indeed. Dreamy, blissed-out, reverb-drenched '90s rock is the foundation here, but the complexity, breadth, and layered texture of Infinity Girl's wall of sound is startling. With only a handful of low-exposure shows around Cambridge venues to their credit, they released Stop Being on My Side, an 11-track album that runs without a break, includes several instrumentals, and spans the sonic platter from whip-smart jangle-pop and sludgy slouch-rock that echoes Pavement and late-'90s Blur ("Cellophane and Gold," "Blood And Dirt") to the jaw-crushing, concrete-thick guitar work that's brought out the shoegaze obsessives ("By Now," "Please Forget"). It's music to get completely lost in.
Infinity Girl formed less than a year ago when vocalist/guitarist Nolan Eley was performing solo at Monkey Rock, a songwriter circle at All Asia Café in Central Square. With just an Orange amp and a distorted vocal mic, Eley gave a glimpse of the future on eventual Infinity Girl standout track "Please Forget." Relentless on record, Eley performed it stripped down, sounding a bit like Blur's "You're So Great." "I said 'I want to play drums on that,' " says Modak. "I was watching and thinking, 'This needs a loud band behind it.' "
Soon, the first phase of Infinity Girl was formed: former punk drummer Modak, a University of Pennsylvania transplant who grew up in Indonesia; Virginia native and Berklee College of Music's Eley on guitar and vocals; fellow Berklee student Kyle Oppenheimer, from New Hampshire, on guitar; and Andrew Ransom, of hardcore band Integrity, on bass. Having a rhythm section come from more intense music circles only enhanced Infinity Girl's fury. "A lot of the songs were written beforehand — in my bedroom on my own — last summer," says Eley. "Half of those became Infinity Girl songs. As we started playing together, the personality started getting into the sound. Sebastian's aggressive drumming, Kyle's feedback in the pedals. We started becoming more of a band."
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Sitting around the kitchen table listening to music with Autochrome bassist/singer Jeff Bartell and guitarist Richard Murillo, I realize that before we even started talking, we certainly agreed on this: when the guitar kicks in on "Senses" from their forthcoming self-released album, Separation Realms, it sends chills down the spine.
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Airman punk
Perhaps the clearest sign that Afghanistan is not your father's war comes in the person of Airman First Class Peter Bourgeois, who, while deployed at Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan, has been busy managing the career of his former band, Jodi Explodi.
Even with all the promise of the new year ahead, it's hard not to feel a little stiffed in the Future of Mankind department. Here it is, 2010, and there's nary a flying car to be seen.
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With a semi-sober face I'll claim that hip-hop in 2010 might deliver more than just posthumous Dilla discs, Dipset mixtapes, and a new ignoramus coke rapper whom critics pretend rhymes in triple-entendres.
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The Big Hurt: The decade ahead
As a new decade dawns, it's time to cast a curious eye toward the future.
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KISSIMMEE, Fla. -- Tomorrow at noon, the Sabercats Women's Soccer Team takes on the stage they have coveted for the last three years: the NCCAA DII National Tournament and the chance to call themselves national champions.
In one sense, the Sabercats are ordinary. After all, every team wants to win a title. Every team wants to go to Nationals. Every team wants the chance to make new memories and etch their name in the record books for years to come. But when you have had heartbreak in each of your last three postseasons, your chance at the national title hits differently.
For seniors Sarah Bagin, McKenna Massey, and Alexis Sponable, the 2020 National Tournament isn't just a chance to win a title - it's a chance to rewrite some of the most painful memories they've lived out as athletes.
In each of the last three years, these three have had their Nationals hopes end in sheer heartbreak at the hands of Providence University College at NCCAA Regionals. In 2017, Maranatha was winning the championship game 1-0 with a minute left before allowing a dramatic equalizer. Then in the ensuing sudden-death overtime, they had their regional hopes crushed.
The very next year in the very same game, the same exact situation transpired with agonizing familiarity. On their home field, the Sabercats were winning in the championship game 2-1 before conceding in the final minute of regulation and then again in sudden-death overtime. The year after that, the emotions were simultaneously raw and weathered when Providence won the regional semifinal 1-0, once again in sudden death.
Three years. Three different scorelines. Three overtime losses. Three straight heartbreaks.
The Sabercats know what the regional banner felt like because in each of the last three years, they had one hand on it before it was snatched away as if in a recurring nightmare.
But now, they clutch the regional banner tightly with a conviction that can only come through knowing the pain of letting it go. Now, they're at Nationals. To get there, these three seniors didn't have the chance to get their revenge on Providence directly, but they don't really care about that at this point. After a gritty 1-0 win over Faith Baptist in the North Region Championship, the Sabercats had finally conquered their regional fears and had paved a way to the national finale for the first time since 2016. For these seniors, being in Florida at this time of year is the first of two major goals they are eagerly looking to accomplish.
"Getting over the same exact situation for the last three years in a row and knowing we don't have to face that any more," said Massey. "[Then] coming to Nationals is a completely different mindset for me. We can still play. We're still here. We might as well do whatever we can to finish strong."
Massey knows a thing or two about changing her mindset. The senior was sidelined with a major injury in 2018 and had a surgery on her road to get here. Capping it all off with winning a national title? That would be something special.
In order to do that, the Sabercats know the gameplan to make the dream become a reality. They've learned the hard way. They've learned how to win. Through three years of pushing, they have developed muscle. And they are eager to put the strength into motion - not only to show well, but also to win the national crown.
"In the past three years we've lost the exact same way," Bagin said. "And so going into [Nationals], we have a lot more drive. We need to work together and we need to have drive - if we win, we will have done what we've been setting out to do for four years now."
"I think we just have to play like we've been training the last couple of weeks," Sponable said. "And that's playing fast-paced, running hard, and running for each other. And ultimately we just need to put the ball in the back of the net."
The seniors know what's behind them. They know what their job is now, and they know what lies ahead. In their minds, it's time to rewrite the heartbreaking script of the past three years and finish their four years of playing in the way every college athlete dreams of - with the championship banner draped around their shoulders.
"It's obviously been really hard the last three years," Sponable said. "But the mindset is that we're not going to let anything stop us now. We're determined to win it all."
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November 18, 2020 Hansel Honored
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