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Hard Right Comes for Japan POLITICS
Hard-right anti-immigrant politics just got its beachhead in Japan, the land of sleepy, staid consensus politics. The Sanseitō Party, founded just five years ago, broke through from obscurity to claim almost 12.5% of the vote in yesterday’s Upper House election, landing itself a substantial bench of Councillors and proving that the appeal of the populist hard right isn’t confined to the West.
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Israel’s rationale for attacking Syria WAR Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a video message to his country’s Druze minority. He implored them not to cross into southwestern Syria to support Syrian Druze militiamen in their fight against local Bedouin and government forces in Suwayda. As Netanyahu made the statement, his forces bombed Damascus,
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Thailand-Cambodia border clashes escalateWAR/HUMAN RIGHTS
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Vacation and the Art of Presence
THE MARGINALIAN Literature
"Here in Mexico they see only the present. This communion of eyes and smiles is elating. In New York people seem intent on not seeing each other. Only children look with such unashamed curiosity. Poor white man, wandering and lost in his proud possession of a dimension in which bodies become invisible to the naked eye, as if staring were an immodest act. Here I feel incarnated and in full possession of my own body." Image created by Ideogram
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Helen Thompson on Britain's Next Crisis THE RUFFIAN By Ian Leslie Politics |
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There is a growing sense that Britain's fiscal position is unsustainable. We’re spending more than we’re raising in tax, our debt is growing faster than the economy, and bond market scepticism about the government’s ability to fix any of this is driving up our interest payments. |
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Quote of The Week
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miracle of life is that the process of death begins at birth.
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Top Stories from our favourite publications to stimulate your curious mind, |
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The literary genre that was dropped from the canon.
WOMAN OF LETTERS (Literature) By Naomi Kanakia ***
In it, MacDonald claimed that in the last two centuries there had arisen a mass-produced culture that was a bastardized version of high culture. And he described this mass culture in extremely demeaning terms...
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Why did Microsoft sell its Climate AI to Big Oil?
HEATED (Environments) By Emily Atkin ***
Will Alpine had every reason to believe he was about to help save the planet. The software engineer had just landed a job at Microsoft, the climate darling of the technology world. It was 2020, and months earlier, Microsoft made global headlines for its groundbreaking new commitment...
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Memory Is More Powerful Than Time
WIRED (Computer Science)
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2024 - Ryan Williams set out to prove himself wrong since he’d hit upon a startling discovery about the relationship between time and memory in computing. It was a rough sketch of a mathematical proof that memory was more powerful than computer scientists believed: A small amount would be as helpful as a lot in conceivable computes. It sounded so improbable that he assumed something had to be wrong, |
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How Power Shapes the Law
PERSUASION (Politics/Law) ***
In its attacks on the independence of legal institutions, from private law firms to federal judges to the Department of Justice, the Trump administration has simply ignored clear legal rules that unambiguously limit its authority and undermined vital constraints that are the foundations of the rule of law: norms of independence, impartiality, and professional consensus about values, methods of analysis, and modes of interpretation.
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Reading from the Book of Blockchain
The Long Memo (Technology) ***
Addictive. Delusional. Engineered to make the high feel like freedom—right up until your teeth fall out and your future goes up in smoke. I’ve never met a “crypto bro” who didn’t radiate the same manic energy as a tweaker halfway through a Red Bull bender, convinced they’re five minutes from cracking the code to generational wealth. They’re not. They’re five minutes from getting rugged. What’s worse? The next wave isn’t fringe.
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The God Within You: Carl Jung
THE MARGINALIAN (Literature/Art/Psychology) ***
Art is the music we make from the bewildered cry of being alive — sometimes a cry of exultant astonishment, but often a cry of devastation at the collision between our wishes and the will of the world. Every artist’s art is their coping mechanism for what they are living through — the longings, the heartbreaks, the triumphs, the wars within and without. It is these painful convolutions of the psyche — which used to be termed neurosis at the dawn of modern psychotherapy, and which we may simply call suffering — that reveal us to ourselves, and it is out of these revelations that we create anything capable of touching other lives, that contact we call art.
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James King Blog offers valuable resources for students of Arts and Humanities. Particularly those interested in Environments, Literature, Performing Arts, Visual Art, Philosophy, Travel, and Human Rights. The articles provide insights into complex interactions between humans and their environments, and the ethical and moral dimensions of environmental issues. The Blog is relevant to students of all ages and those who are just fascinated by the Arts and Humanities. |
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 Violations of the Geneva Conventions: Revealing Modern Breaches
Violations of the Geneva Conventions take many forms. Such as, maltreating prisoners of war, targeting civilians, and withholding medical supplies and aid. National and international efforts hold responsible parties accountable through legal interventions, prosecutions, and sanctions. |
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THE KENRIGHT CHRONICLES - SERIES
The Kenright Chronicles is a psychological thriller series. Jack Kenright, a young investment banker gets involved in an international art swindle. which cripples his business and threatens his life and his family. He ends up a recluse, working for the FBI undercover and exposes massive corruption in the gambling world. |
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The Second Midnight By Andrew Taylor From the international bestselling author comes a World War Two tale of one boy’s fight for survival in Nazi Europe A secret mission…1939. As Europe teeters on the brink of war, Alfred Kendall is tasked with carrying out a minor mission for the British Intelligence Service. Travelling to Prague, he takes his troubled young son, Hugh, as cover. A terrible choice…When Hitler invades Czechoslovakia, Alfred is given an ultimatum by the Czech Resistance. They will arrange for him to return to England, but only if he leaves his son Hugh behind as collateral.
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UnforgivenBy Sarah Barrie
Once a victim, she's now a vigilante. An addictive and suspenseful thriller for readers of Candice Fox and Sarah Bailey. Lexi Winter is tough, street-smart and has stood on her own two feet since childhood, when she was a victim of notorious paedophile the Spider. All she cares about now is a roof over her head and her long-term relationship with Jack Daniels. She isn't particular about who she sleeps with ... as long as they pay before leaving. Lexi is also an ace hacker, tracking and entrapping local paedophiles and reporting them to the cops. When she finds a particularly dangerous paedophile who the police can't touch, she decides to gather enough evidence to put him away. Instead, she's a witness to his death ...
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