How One Firm Drove Influence Campaigns Nationwide for Big Oil. To arrive at that conclusion, scientists say, the report tallied data from the Environmental Protection Agency that the agency itself states does not represent overall emissions: The numbers, which are reported by the energy industry about a limited number of compressor stations and other facilities, do not include emissions from the area’s thousands of wells.
The data are “too low by at least a factor of two, and quite likely more,” said Robert W. Howarth, a professor at Cornell University who has researched methane emissions. FTI stood by the report, calling its findings “on track with broader trends in Texas’ oil fields.” Texans for Natural Gas is just one campaign run with the help of FTI employees. Another such organization, the Marcellus Shale Coalition, said of FTI in a statement: “We are proud to have them as a contract partner, especially when it comes to direct and transparent media support.” The Security State, COINTELPRO, and Black Lives Matter : We're History. The revelations reported over the last several weeks that various federal, state, and local authorities have been regularly monitoring individual organizers and protest activities associated with the Black Lives Matter movement may seem unsurprising in light of the expansive American state security infrastructure developed since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
Such covert operations nonetheless remain deeply disturbing. They are embedded in a long history of government officials equating civil rights activism with subversion and of a mindset that understands black leaders and black citizens as dangerous when they demand an end to the racism underpinning the socioeconomic and political order of the United States. Shorthand for Counter Intelligence Program, COINTELPRO formally began in 1956 as a secret program led by FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. The Immigrant Paradox: Why Acculturation Should Not Mean Assimilation.
America has always been described as a "melting pot" — as in this classic Schoolhouse Rock clip — in which immigrants from a variety of cultural and ethnic backgrounds slowly simmer away their differences to become a big, homogenous, all-American stew.
But is that the way it really works, or how it should work? Is total assimilation the only way to be an American? And is it even healthy for individuals to abandon their cultural heritage in order to fully adopt the customs of their new home? We spoke with Seth Schwartz, a professor of public health sciences at the University of Miami, who believes it's time to shelve the melting pot metaphor. Schwartz studies acculturation, the process by which a person's "cultural sense of self" changes after moving to a new country or being raised in an immigrant home, and the effects of acculturation on physical and mental health.
"There's a whole literature that suggests that foreign-born Americans are doing better than U.S. Melt or Else? Advertisement. An “immigrant paradox” for adolescent externalizing behavior? Evidence from a national sample. How a Teenage Sacagawea Guided the Lewis and Clark Expedition Into Immortality. Her image was immortalized on the golden dollar in 2000, and she is recognizable by her forward-looking gaze and the baby she carries on her back.
She's been described as an interpreter for the Lewis and Clark expedition, but relatively little is known about Sacagawea despite that fact that she is one of the few women ever depicted on U.S. currency. For starters, you are probably saying her name wrong, although hopefully not as disrespectfully as General George Armstrong Custer in "Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian. " Today, it may be written Sacagawea (not Sacajawea), but a spelling from the journal of William Clark (as in Lewis and Clark) will get you closer to saying it correctly — Sah-kah-gar-wea.
Although Sacagawea was a Shoshone, her name is given in the Hidatsa language and means "bird woman," according to Carolyn Gilman, author of "Lewis and Clark Across the Divide. " "She was a Native woman who was thrust into history when she accompanied Lewis and Clark," she says. India mulls digital voter ID before assembly elections next year. The electoral commission of India is reportedly considering embarking on a project to digitize photo ID cards to provide a voters’ digital ID in the world’s largest democracy, The Tribune reports.
The report quoted an unnamed senior official as saying the electoral commission was receiving a litany of proposals from various quarters on the subject matter. “We keep getting suggestions and ideas from officers on the field, through working groups of (state) chief electoral officers and the public. This is one such idea we are working on,” the official said. ID2020 Alliance launches digital ID program with Government of Bangladesh and Gavi, announces new partners at annual summit. NEW YORK, Sept. 19, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- The ID2020 Alliance is hosting its annual summit today in New York, where it announced the launch of an ambitious digital identity program with the Government of Bangladesh and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, as well as new partners in government, academia, and humanitarian relief.
ID2020 unveiled its latest good digital identity program in partnership with the Access to Information (a2i) Program of the Government of Bangladesh, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) and Gavi. Recognizing the opportunity for immunization to serve as a platform for digital identity, this program leverages existing vaccination and birth registration operations to offer newborns a persistent and portable biometrically-linked digital identity. To offer a persistent digital identity from birth, the program will explore and assess several cutting-edge infant biometric technologies, unlocking a potential global public good. Earth's Largest Volcano Found.
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