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Iran War Is So Trump Can Bring About “Armageddon”Troops have logged more than 110 complaints about such comments with the Military Religious Freedom Foundation. Without any clear message coming from the White House with regard to the purpose of the Iran war, U.S. military commanders have turned to Jesus, apparently telling American troops that the war is “biblically sanctioned.” The U.S. joined Israel in striking Iran. The Military Religious Freedom Foundation, or MRFF, was “inundated” with complaints, receiving more than 110 grievances from U.S. military personnel stationed at dozens of sites across the Middle East, reported independent journalist Jonathan Larsen.
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The Food Shock Is Coming.
The Long Memo(Politics/Economics)
The oil price headlines have been running for two weeks now and you’ve absorbed them. Brent crude above $85. WTI whipsawing on false reports about Navy escorts. Goldman’s $135-per-barrel scenario if the closure persists for four months. The graphs go vertical, then partially correct, then climb again. You understand the story
The food shock is a physical event. It doesn’t move in real time. It moves through supply chains, through planting decisions made in the next thirty days, through harvest yields in September, through price adjustments that show up in grocery stores next winter. It doesn’t respond to reserve releases. It doesn’t care about press secretaries or G7 coordination calls. It operates on agricultural time, which is slower than financial time and has more permanent effects.
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The Largest Deregulatory Action in US History
Evergreen (Politics/Environment) This could lead to higher rates of pollution in the country
There is an international scientific consensus that climate change is primarily caused by burning fossil fuels. Still, the United States Environmental Protection Agency has decided it should no longer play any part in protecting the public from those emissions. That’s the stark reality of a decision announced earlier this month by President Donald Trump and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin. Standing in the White House’s Roosevelt Room, the two said the federal government will eschew the EPA’s own 2009 “endangerment finding”—based on mountains of scientific evidence—that carbon emissions pose severe health risks and therefore must be regulated under the Clean Air Act.
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Human Rights Foundation calls for Concert Cancellation
In a a letter, HRF Calls on Doja Cat to Cancel Move Afrika’s Dictator-Sponsored Concert in Rwanda The Rwandan regime supports and deploys its own troops alongside the March 23 Movement (M23), a rebel group sanctioned by both the US and UN. With Rwanda’s backing, M23 has been linked to serious human rights violations in the DRC, including the killing of civilians, the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war, and the recruitment of child soldiers.
This event is part of a broader initiative to stage a series of international music festivals across the African continent, with Kigali serving as the tour’s anchor city, in partnership with the Rwanda Development Board. ...we urge you to cancel your concert in Kigali to stand in solidarity with the people of the DRC.
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Quote of The Week When I look in the mirror and don’t like what I see. I guess it’s just the devil in me.
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Top Stories from our favourite publications to stimulate your curious mind, |
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The War That Didn’t Require Permission You Just Watched the USA start a War. Now Count the Hands That Approved It.
There was no vote. No debate. No authorization from the body constitutionally charged with declaring war. The strikes launched on February 28th — Operation Epic Fury, in case the branding wasn’t sufficiently cinematic — targeted the Iranian supreme leader’s compound, nuclear facilities, IRGC military bases, and what the Pentagon described as “command and control infrastructure” across multiple cities. Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei is dead. So are hundreds of others, including what Iranian officials say were schoolchildren in the southern city of Minab — a claim supported by circulating footage but not yet independently verified.
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Creative Spirit and the Meaning of Life
THE MARGINALIAN (Literature/Philosophy)
"There are monstrous changes taking place in the world, forces shaping a future whose face we do not know. Some of these forces seem evil to us, perhaps not in themselves but because their tendency is to eliminate other things we hold good. - ...some nations have substituted the idea collective for the idea God. This in my time is the danger. There is great tension in the world, tension toward a breaking point, and men are unhappy and confused."
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Measuring Everything Ruins Everything
Why metrics both help and harm institutional decision-making, how game design principles can improve classroom learning, and whether some aspects of human life are inherently unmeasurable. We need some metrics in order to be able to have productive processes, to be relatively efficient, to make sure that we actually are achieving something. When you’re trying to bake bread for your neighborhood, whether at the end of this process you have two loaves of bread and most people starve or a hundred loaves of bread and most people can have breakfast makes an obvious difference. |
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Every Picture
Every picture tells a story because every artist – painter or photographer – has created that picture, either from observation or imagination or a combination of both.
The painter starts with a blank canvas and adds what he sees or visualises in the way it appears to him. The landscape photographer is presented with a scene which he must manipulate to create the picture he sees in his mind’s eye.
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The Future of Opera
Pointing to a much larger problem in how many art forms are being preserved and taught today, Timothée Chalamet made some waves after criticizing opera and ballet for feeling disconnected from contemporary culture. A lot of people in the classical arts world were quick to dismiss the comment, but the more I think about it, the more I believe he’s actually right. Before going further, I should say where I’m coming from. I’m a musician, and I study music at the university level. I understand the value of tradition and preservation. Learning the history and language of an art form is important. But the same problem Chalamet pointed out in opera and ballet has also happened in jazz.
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Why top climate reporter resigns
If you google “NBC climate reporter,” the first person to come up is Chase Cain.
For nearly eight years, the veteran meteorologist covered the most existential threat to humanity for one of the country’s biggest broadcast networks, traveling to Antarctica, reporting from inside the Palisades fire, and earning lots of big awards along the way. But Cain isn’t an NBC climate reporter anymore, he tells HEATED in an exclusive interview. Last week, the veteran journalist resigned, citing burnout from near-constant internal fighting to get important climate stories on air—stories that he says were routinely deprioritized, buried late in newscasts, or cut entirely.
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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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 Literary vs Genre Fiction – The Revealing of Distinct CharacteristicsLiterary vs genre fiction often sparks debates among readers and writers about two different types of fiction. Understanding literary fiction vs genre fiction can help aspiring writers choose which path to take and enable readers to grasp the nuances of different works. |
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INVISIBLE ENEMY - a Short Story
A psychological thriller – Short Story - that will change the way you look at humankind. It’s 2021 and the world is paralysed by Covid-19. The invisible microscopic organism looks on, astonished at Man’s inability to solve his problems. Despite the warnings and having all the resources available to do so, humans run in circles desperate to escape the clutches of an invisible enemy. Commissaire Pascal de Gaulle is focused on other pressing matters, when a man falls to his death in the centre of Paris, carrying a secret. De Gaulle discovers the Drug Squad, a syndicate of drug traffickers, and the virus itself are all part of the puzzle he must solve. Is it suicide or is it murder? And how will he save his orphaned godchild from leukemia? Do not read Invisible Enemy if you don’t like puzzles.
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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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