16 Government Types - Infographic Facts 16 Government Types The Way Governments Works A Federal Budget Crisis Months in the Planning Out of that session, held one morning in a location the members insist on keeping secret, came a little-noticed “blueprint to defunding Obamacare,” signed by Mr. Meese and leaders of more than three dozen conservative groups. It articulated a take-no-prisoners legislative strategy that had long percolated in conservative circles: that Republicans could derail the health care overhaul if conservative lawmakers were willing to push fellow Republicans — including their cautious leaders — into cutting off financing for the entire federal government. “We felt very strongly at the start of this year that the House needed to use the power of the purse,” said one coalition member, Michael A. Needham, who runs Heritage Action for America, the political arm of the Heritage Foundation. Last week the country witnessed the fallout from that strategy: a standoff that has shuttered much of the federal bureaucracy and unsettled the nation. To many Americans, the shutdown came out of nowhere. Mr. Mr.
CRRJ Reproductive Justice Virtual Library - CRRJ Reproductive Justice Virtual Library Now, there's a simple way to begin or deepen your understanding of reproductive justice You can introduce yourself to RJ or deepen your understanding of it right here. Search for a specific resource, skim titles covering a particular topic, or take a crash course by reading all the annotations. However you use the Reproductive Justice Virtual Library, we hope you will find it easy, useful, and informative. Enter the Research Hub Explore a broad range of topics or search in specific categories, like author, year, etc. New to RJ? We've collected a handful of resources that we think will lay a solid foundation of understanding for anyone new to reproductive justice. Feedback Thank you for sharing your thoughts. Featured Topic Area Native Americans and Indigenous communities have survived various forms of reproductive oppression. Click Here for Race ethnicity: Native American Indigenous Featured Resource About the Library About the curator Dr. About the Center
Calais, Chypre, Estonie… Les murs envahissent peu à peu notre planète Les cloisons se dressent sur la planète, marquant les frontières, séparant les populations. Mais pourquoi mettons-nous autant d’énergie à nous emmurer ? Donald Trump n’est pas le seul à rêver d’un mur hermétique pour fermer ses frontières. Depuis la chute du mur de Berlin, une quarantaine de pays ont construit de telles barricades. Alors qu’on dénombrait 16 murs en 1989, on en compte près de 70 aujourd’hui. Au moins 30 constructions ont été décidées après le 11 septembre 2001 et 15 depuis 2015. A Nicosie, le plus vieux mur d’Europe « Le jeu, c’était de bien se cacher et de ne jamais être vue par les soldats, ni les grecs ni les turcs. « A l’école, on n’apprend qu’une seule version de l’histoire. Nicosie, la capitale de Chypre, est coupée depuis 1974 par la « ligne verte » tracée par les Nations unies à la suite de l’invasion par l’armée turque de la partie nord du territoire, après que la Grèce a tenté de forcer son annexion. Estonie, une cloison en gestation
5 Tiny Common Sense Changes That Would Save the World #2. A Ban on Pharmaceutical Ads Pfizer Considering that most people are unable to tell the difference between their pancreas and their liver, you would figure that the decision of what drugs to give a person would be best left to someone who has spent the better part of a decade learning about the human body. In most countries, you would be right. mj0007/iStock/Getty Images "I'll give you my boner pills when you pry them from my hot, sticky hands!" If you live in the US, then you have seen firsthand that pharmaceutical companies disagree, electing to let the market decide what is and is not the best drug out there -- thus the invention of Direct to Consumer Advertising (DTCA). The sheer power of marketing means that doctors, frequently less charismatic than Don Draper, are under pressure to prescribe the drugs that patients (sorry, "consumers") demand, rather than those which medical professionals recommend. The Seemingly Obvious Solution: Consider banning DTCA, like the rest of Earth. #1.
Terrorisme en Europe : moins de morts au XXIe siècle que dans les années 1980 et 1990 Le Monde.fr | • Mis à jour le | Par Les Décodeurs Malgré les attentats survenus le 13 novembre en France, qui rappellent de tristes précédents (attentats de Madrid en 2004, de Londres en 2005, d’Uttoya en 2011...), on ne peut pas dire que l’Europe occidentale est plus touchée par le terrorisme ces dernières années qu’à la fin du siècle précédent. En réalité, on décompte moins de morts liés à des attaques entre 2001 et 2015 que dans les quinze ans précédents (1986-2000). L’année 1988 a notamment été endeuillée par l’attentat de Lockerbie. Au XXIe siècle, l’Europe a dénombré 592 morts dus à des attentats terroristes, dont 168 en France, selon la Global terrorism database. A l’échelle de la France en revanche, 2015 est de loin l’année la plus meurtrière depuis la fin de la seconde guerre mondiale.
The Speech That Could Make Elizabeth Warren the Next President of the United States | Miles Mogulescu Early Friday evening Sen. Elizabeth Warren took to the Senate floor and gave a plain-spoken, barn-burning speech that could make history and put her into serious contention to be the next President of the United States. There are only a handful of political speeches that have such historic impact. Barack Obama's keynote speech at the 2004 Democratic Convention comes readily to mind. It's what catapulted an obscure Illinois state Senator into the national limelight and put him on the path to becoming President. Warren's Senate speech was different, but just as electrifying. Obama's rhetoric was lofty, high-minded, and general, with a feel-good unifying message that there's no blue America or red America but only the United States of America. Here's the heart of Warren's speech: Democrats don't like Wall Street bailouts. Please take less than 10 minutes of your time to watch the speech below. Watch Warren's 9:43 second speech below.
Synarchism Synarchism generally means "joint rule" or "harmonious rule". Beyond this general definition, both synarchism and synarchy have been used to denote rule by a secret elite in Vichy France, Italy, China, Hong Kong and Mexico.[1] Origins[edit] The earliest recorded use of the term synarchy is attributed to Thomas Stackhouse (1677–1752), an English clergyman who used the word in his New History of the Holy Bible from the Beginning of the World to the Establishment of Christianity (published in two folio volumes in 1737). The attribution can be found in the Webster's Dictionary (the American Dictionary of the English Language, published by Noah Webster in 1828). Webster's definition for synarchy is limited entirely to "joint rule or sovereignty". Rule by a secret elite[edit] In Vichy France[edit] This theory allegedly originated with the discovery of a document called Pacte Synarchique following the death (May 19, 1941) of Jean Coutrot, former member of Groupe X-Crise, on May 15, 1941.
Cable Proudly Declares Smart Shoppers A 'Lower Quality' Of Customer They Have No Interest In If you live in a broadband and TV market with anything even closely resembling competition, you've probably learned that the only way to get the best rates is to pit ISP retention departments against one another. Often only by seriously threatening to cancel can users force ISPs to bring out their best promotional offers, something you'll have to repeat every few years if you don't want to get socked with higher rates. The ideal consumer then, from the broadband and cable industry's perspective, is one that grumbles a little bit but can't be bothered to do a little extra legwork to secure better rates (read: the vast majority of users). Of course pitting ISPs against one another assumes you even have the choice of more than one decent broadband provider, something that's certainly not a given. While Verizon and Cablevision did compete intensely for a short while in New York, the two sides have in recent years declared what can only be called a competitive cease fire.
Left–right political spectrum The left–right political spectrum is a system of classifying political positions, ideologies and parties, from equality on the left to social hierarchy on the right.[1] Left-wing politics and right-wing politics are often presented as opposed, although a particular individual or group may take a left-wing stance on one matter and a right-wing stance on another; and some stances may overlap and be considered either left- or right-wing depending on the ideology.[2] In France, where the terms originated, the Left has been called "the party of movement" and the Right "the party of order".[3][4][5][6] The intermediate stance is called centrism and a person with such a position is a moderate or centrist. History of the terms[edit] By 1914, the Left half of the legislature in France was composed of Unified Socialists, Republican Socialists and Socialist Radicals, while the parties that were called "Left" now sat on the right side. Ideological groupings across the spectrum[edit] See also[edit]
Some Online Journals Will Publish Fake Science, For A Fee : Shots - Health News hide captionYou could do all that brain work. Or you could make it up. iStockphoto.com Many online journals are ready to publish bad research in exchange for a credit card number. That's the conclusion of an elaborate sting carried out by Science, a leading mainline journal. The business model of these "predatory publishers" is a scientific version of those phishes from Nigerians who want help transferring a few million dollars into your bank account. To find out just how common predatory publishing is, Science contributor John Bohannon sent a deliberately faked research article 305 times to online journals. "This sting operation," Bohannan writes, reveals "the contours of an emerging Wild West in academic publishing." Online scientific journals are springing up at a great rate. (It should be noted that Science is among these legacy print journals, charging subscription fees and putting much of its online content behind a pay wall.) These sleazy journals often look legitimate. Science
Terror management theory Social and evolutionary psychology theory Terror management theory (TMT) is both a social and evolutionary psychology theory originally proposed by Jeff Greenberg, Sheldon Solomon, and Tom Pyszczynski[1] and codified in their book The Worm at the Core: On the Role of Death in Life (2015). It proposes that a basic psychological conflict results from having a self-preservation instinct while realizing that death is inevitable and to some extent unpredictable. The most obvious examples of cultural values that assuage death anxiety are those that purport to offer literal immortality (eg, belief in the afterlife through religion).[3] However, TMT also argues that other cultural values – including those that are seemingly unrelated to death – offer symbolic immortality. Terror management theory was developed by social psychologists Greenberg, Solomon, and Pyszczynski. Background[edit] Ernest Becker, 1973[11] Evolutionary backdrop[edit] Self-esteem[edit] Self-esteem as anxiety buffer[edit]
utopian questionnaire Hoo. I'm temporarily befuddled and dazed by all the hard thinking I and others have put into large questions related to building the New Nice Totalitarian World State. Eden figured largely in the question, as alternative, source, hope, antonym, etc. The best thinker about Eden in a practical way, I think, is W.H. Auden in his essay "Dingley Dell and the Fleet" included in The Dyer's Hand (Vintage edition, 1968 [speaking of Eden], the one I have.) In addition to the thoughts in that essay, Auden opened the book with a roundup of ideas about writing and reading, in which he asserts that "the judgments, aesthetic or moral,that we pass, however objective we try to make them, are in part a rationalization and in part a corrective discipline of our subjective wishes. " So long as a man writes poetry or fiction, his dreams of Eden are his own business, but when he writes criticism he ought to describe his Eden so that others can judge it and him. Landscape Climate Ethnic origin of inhabitants
Swarmwise – The Tactical Manual To Changing The World. Chapter Two. Launching a swarm is an intense event, where you can get hundreds or thousands of new colleagues in less than a day. You have a very short window for appreciating their interest, or they will take it elsewhere. OK, so you have a provocative idea. A traditional method would be to go about an advertising campaign to generate interest. On the other hand, a swarm will form as long as you present a compelling enough idea that people feel that they can be part of. To traditional marketers, this sounds ridiculous. When I started the Pirate Party in Sweden, I took its website online and wrote two lines in a file-sharing hub’s lobby chat. Hey, look, the Pirate Party has its website up after New Year’s. The site had a manifesto which was rough and unpolished, but which came across as credible, tangible, inclusive, and world changing. The first website of the Pirate Party, translated for reference. And that’s it. Don’t worry about advertising. Onward to chapter 3 >>