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Kay Bradley

Francis Fukuyama - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 1 views

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  • He is best known for his book The End of History and the Last Man (1992), which argued that the worldwide spread of liberal democracies may signal the end point of humanity's sociocultural evolution and become the final form of human government.
  • also associated with the rise of the neoconservative movement,[2] from which he has since distanced himself.
  • Bachelor of Arts degree in classics from Cornell University, where he studied political philosophy under Allan Bloom.[5][8] He initially pursued graduate studies in comparative literature at Yale University, going to Paris for six months to study under Roland Barthes and Jacques Derrida, but became disillusioned and switched to political science at Harvard University.[5
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  • He is now Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow and resident in the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University.[
  • Fukuyama is best known as the author of The End of History and the Last Man, in which he argued that the progression of human history as a struggle between ideologies is largely at an end, with the world settling on liberal democracy after the end of the Cold War and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Fukuyama predicted the eventual global triumph of political and economic liberalism:[citation needed]
  • As a key Reagan Administration contributor to the formulation of the Reagan Doctrine, Fukuyama is an important figure in the rise of neoconservatism, although his works came out years after Irving Kristol's 1972 book
  • In a New York Times article of February 2006, Fukuyama, in considering the ongoing Iraq War, stated: "What American foreign policy needs is not a return to a narrow and cynical realism, but rather the formulation of a 'realistic Wilsonianism' that better matches means to ends."[14] In regard to neoconservatism he went on to say: "What is needed now are new ideas, neither neoconservative nor realist, for how America is to relate to the rest of the world — ideas that retain the neoconservative belief in the universality of human rights, but without its illusions about the efficacy of American power and hegemony to bring these ends about
  • Fukuyama began to distance himself from the neoconservative agenda of the Bush administration, citing its overly militaristic basis and embrace of unilateral armed intervention, particularly in the Middle East. By late 2003, Fukuyama had voiced his growing opposition to the Iraq War[15] and called for Donald Rumsfeld's resignation as Secretary of Defense.[16]
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    Disagrees with Samuel P. Huntington's thesis
Rory Chipman

A Hit Man At 13 - 1 views

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The Spectator drug cartel hit man

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  • Rory Chipman on 15 Jan 13
     
    This was a very weird article... It was on the front page of The Spectator and I thought it would be interesting to read since there has been so much debate over guns in the US in the past two months. The article was weird because the reporter was very suspicious of the cartel member. It seemed a very odd article to be on the front page because it talked about very gruesome practices.
  • Rory Chipman on 15 Jan 13
     
    I also realize that this article isn't directly related to politics but I think it does a great job of giving insight into a whole world that the general public is ignorant about.
ejeffs

Man arrested in Sydney for 'ISIS-inspired' attack - 0 views

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australia ISIS terrorist

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  • ejeffs on 11 Sep 16
     
    A young man stabbed 59-year-old man multiple times. The victim is in the hospital and remains in critical condition. The attacker was arrested and his actions are linked to terrorist behavior, specifically for ISIS. Australia as a whole has become increasingly "radical" over the past few years.
aidanc2018

Indonesia, Long on Sidelines, Starts to Confront China's Territorial Claims - The New Y... - 0 views

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  • aidanc2018 on 11 Sep 17
     
    In the context of China's man-made islands in contested territory, it is very interesting that Indonesia is resisting China's push for control of the South China Sea. The US has shown that we reject China's "9 dash line" with naval maneuvers, but most countries have reacted passively to China's advances.
axelizaret

Killing of Migrant Forces France to Confront Racism Against Asian People - 3 views

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  • axelizaret on 17 Oct 16
     
    The status quo of racism and the intolerance of immigrants in France is not improving, and islamophobia is just at the surface of the issue. The awareness of racism against Asian communities is increasing in the aftermath of the murder of a 49 year old Chinese man who immigrated to France in 2006. While he was walking around with a couple of old friends, a group of youths beat them and left them lying on the sidewalk, and the man died 5 days later in the hospital. Since, there has been a large scale protest over the governments lack of action (60,000 people marched into Paris). Furthermore, it is coming to light that frequent hate crimes against Asian people have been going on and the government has, for the most part, ignored them. Police make reporting a crime pointless because they reject most reports on grounds that either they can't understand their accent, or they just refuse to take the complaint.
  • aleishaallen on 17 Oct 16
     
    I think this situation is reminiscent of what is going on all over Europe right now. Although many people have focused their attention on the refugee crisis and how islamophobia may be an issue, more and more situations are being brought to light that suggest a deep underlying racism that was there even before refugees started arriving. I think the comment about one death not being nothing is very important. With so much death and destruction, it is easy to say "well it was only that one time", but it is important to realize that even one death has a profound impact on a community and certainly a family. I also think that racism within the government is a large problem. The comments people made about the police not wanting to see (or being unable to see) the severity of a situation, seems to be a problem many are facing. On a more specific note, I was not aware that there is such a large Chinese population in France.
Kay Bradley

Police Reform Is Necessary. But How Do We Do It? - The New York Times - 0 views

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  • The United States spends more on public safety than almost all its peer countries and much less, relatively speaking, on social services
  • Now we’re having a conversation that’s not just about how black communities are policed, and what reforms are required, but also about why we’ve invested exclusively in a criminalization model for public safety, instead of investing in housing, jobs, health care, education for black communities and fighting structural inequality.
  • Budgets are moral documents, reflecting priorities and values.
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  • Garza: In 2018 and 2019, my organization, Black Futures Lab, did what we believe is the largest survey of black communities in America. It’s called the Black Census Project. We asked more than 30,000 black people across America what we experience, what we want to see happen instead and what we long for, for our futures.
  • the No.1 issue facing them, and keeping them up at night, is that their wages are too low to support a family.
  • Imagine that you have a tool chest for solving social problems. It gives you options. Then you lose the tool of mental-health resources. You lose the tool of public education. They take out the tool of job placement. And then all you’ve got left is this one rusty hammer. That’s policing.
  • Simply defunding the police cannot be a legacy of this moment. I want to hear about investing in black communities more than I want to hear about defunding.
  • There has been such a massive disinvestment in the social safety net that should exist to give black communities an opportunity to thrive, whether it’s access to health care or housing or education or jobs.
  • They cause others to be armed, out of fear, who shouldn’t have to worry about defending themselves
  • The dispatcher would route calls that aren’t about crimes or a risk of harm to social workers, mediators and others.
  • In many cities, the police spend a lot of time “on traffic and motor-vehicle issues, on false burglar alarms, on noise complaints and on problems with animals,”
  • When a police report leads to criminal charges — only a subset of the whole — about 80 percent of them are for misdemeanors. Friedman argues that we should hand off some of what the police do to people who are better trained for it.
  • A tiny percentage of people are the ones destabilizing communities
  • There are a host of things that the police are currently responding to that they have no business responding to.
  • If you have a car accident, why is somebody with a gun coming to the scene?
  • Or answering a complaint about someone like George Floyd, who the store clerk said bought a pack of cigarettes with a counterfeit $20 bill?
  • Similarly, if you have a homeless man panhandling at a red light and you say to a cop, “Go fix it,” he’ll arrest the man. And now he has a $250 ticket. And how does he pay that? And what does any of this accomplish?
  • domestic disputes. They’re the subject of 15 to more than 50 percent of calls to the police
  • But might we get further in the long run if someone with other skills — in social work or mediation — actually handled the incident?
  • The women were deeply wary of the police in general, but 33 of them had called them at least once, often for help with a teenager. “Calling the police on family members deepens the reach of penal control,” Bell wrote. But the mothers in her study have scant options.
  • hey knew that if they called the police that real harm could come, and they didn’t want that.
  • When I did investigations for the Justice Department, I would hear police officers say: “I didn’t sign up to the police force to be a social worker. I don’t have that training.” They know they’re stuck handling things because there is a complete lack of investment in other approaches and responses.
  • In Eugene, Ore., some 911 calls are routed to a crisis-intervention service called Cahoots, which responds to things like homelessness, substance abuse and mental illness. Houston routes some mental-health calls to a counselor if they’re not emergencies. New Orleans is hiring people who are not police officers to go to traffic collisions and write reports, as long as there are no injuries or concerns about drunken driving. I’m borrowing these examples from Barry Friedman’s article. The point is that some cities are beginning to reduce the traditional scope of police work.
  • One of the most interesting studies about policing is a randomized comparison of different strategies for dealing with areas of Lowell, Mass., that were hot spots for crime. One was aggressive patrols, which included stop-and-frisk encounters and arrests on misdemeanor charges, like drug possession. A second was social-service interventions, like mental-health help or taking homeless people to shelters. A third involved physical upkeep: knocking down vacant buildings, cleaning vacant lots, putting in streetlights and video cameras. The most effective in reducing crime was the third strategy.
taylorw2021

Email reveals how Hunter Biden introduced Ukrainian biz man to dad - 1 views

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  • taylorw2021 on 19 Oct 20
     
    This article made national news last week when it reported alleged ties between Hunter Biden and a Ukrainian gas company. It was written by the New York Post, which has a somewhat conservative bias. There are still a lot of question marks about its findings (for example, it recovered emails from a laptop delivered to a repair shop in Delaware that was never picked up) and it seems like an attempt by conservatives to stir up controversy right before Election Day.
  • Kay Bradley on 15 Nov 20
     
    Also, the Post is owned by Rupert Murdoch and is rated "mixed" by https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/new-york-post/ "These media sources are slightly to moderately conservative in bias. They often publish factual information that utilizes loaded words (wording that attempts to influence an audience by using appeal to emotion or stereotypes) to favor conservative causes. These sources are generally trustworthy for information, but may require further investigation. See all Right-Center sources. Overall we rate the New York Post on the far end of Right-Center Biased due to story selection that typically favors the Right and Mixed (borderline questionable) for factual reporting based on several failed fact checks."
Brian Call

Understanding India - 1 views

India is a very diverse country. There are over 400 spoken languages of which 20 are official languages used in parliament. There is a also huge religious and ethnic diversity in India. The majorit...

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Kay Bradley

As Scorn for Vote Grows, Protests Surge Around Globe - NYTimes.com - 12 views

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NYTimes.com wealth inequality WTO globalization protests vote surge

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  • income inequality
  • these protesters share something else: wariness, even contempt, toward traditional politicians and the democratic political process they preside over.
  • they have little faith in the ballot box.
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  • high unemployment
  • social spending
  • cuts in social spendin
  • protesters say they so distrust their country’s political class and its pandering to established interest groups
  • their political leaders, regardless of party, had been so thoroughly captured by security concerns, ultra-Orthodox groups and other special interests
  • could no longer respond to the country’s middle class.
  • anticorruption measure
  • less hierarchical, more participatory
  • the political system has abandoned its citizens.”
  • That consensus, championed by scholars like Francis Fukuyama in his book “The End of History and the Last Man,” has been shaken if not broken by a seemingly endless succession of crises
  • continuing European and American debt crisis —
Kay Bradley

Samuel P. Huntington - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 2 views

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Huntington clash of civilizations terrorism

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  • graduated with distinction from Yale University at age 18
  • he was denied tenure in 1959
  • he began teaching at age 23
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  • completed his Ph.D.
  • associate professor of government at Columbia University
  • Deputy Director of The Institute for War and Peace Studies
  • invited to return to Harvard with tenure in 1963
  • co-founded and co-edited Foreign Policy
  • became prominent with his Political Order in Changing Societies (1968), a work that challenged the conventional view of modernization theorists, that economic and social progress would produce stable democracies in recently decolonized countries
  • In 1993, Huntington provoked great debate among international relations theorists with the interrogatively-titled "The Clash of Civilizations?", an extremely influential, oft-cited article published in Foreign Affairs magazine. Its description of post-Cold War geopolitics contrasted with the influential End of History thesis advocated by Francis Fukuyama.
  • Critics (for example articles in Le Monde Diplomatique) call The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order the theoretical legitimization of American-led Western aggression against China and the world's Islamic and Orthodox cultures.
  • Huntington's last book, Who Are We? The Challenges to America's National Identity, was published in May 2004. Its subject is the meaning of American national identity and the possible cultural threat posed to it by large-scale Latino immigration, which Huntington warns could "divide the United States into two peoples, two cultures, and two languages".
  • In 1986, Huntington was nominated for membership to the National Academy of Sciences, with his nomination voted on by the entire academy, with most votes, by scientists mainly unfamiliar with the nominee, being token votes. Professor Serge Lang, a Yale University mathematician, disturbed this electoral status quo by challenging Huntington's nomination. Lang campaigned for others to deny Huntington membership, and eventually succeeded; Huntington was twice nominated and twice rejected
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One Paris Attacker Entered Europe in Wave of Migrants, Officials Confirm - 0 views

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    The French authorities said on Monday that one of the terrorists who struck Paris on Friday evening was the same man who entered Europe through Greece on a Syrian passport last month, providing new evidence that the attackers used the flow of hundreds of thousands of migrants to further their plot.
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JSTOR: Signs, Vol. 29, No. 2 (Winter 2004), pp. 325-355 - 0 views

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  • hy education should be thought to be a key for women
  • cond, I shall describe the sources of resistance to educating women and argue that objections from the side of traditionalism are misplaced and incoherent.
  • Development theorists who focus only on maximizing economic growth, assuming that growth alone will provide for other central human needs, are very likely to shortchange female education
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  • f there was a time when illiteracy was not a barrier to employment, that time has passed. The nature of the world economy is such that illiteracy condemns a woman (or man) to a small number of low‐skilled types of employment. With limited employment opportunities, a woman is also limited in her options to leave a bad or abusive marriage
  • hus states such as Gujarat and Haryana that have done well in fostering economic growth often do quite poorly in basic education,7 and Kerala, whose economy has not grown well, can boast 99 percent literacy for both boys and girls in adolescence, against a background of 35 percent female and 65 percent male literacy for the nation as a whole.
  • growth‐oriented policies do not improve the quality of education, particularly female education,
  • While in the family, an illiterate woman has a low bargaining position for basic resources such as food and medical care because her exit options are so poor and her perceived contribution to the success of the family unit is low.16 Where women have decent employment options outside the home, the sex ratio tends to reflect a higher valuation of the worth of female life.
  • No single factor has a larger impact on the birth rate: for as women learn to inform themselves about the world they also increasingly take charge of decisions affecting their own lives. And as their bargaining position in the family improves through their marketable skills, their views are more likely to prevail.23
  • specially important is the role that female education has been shown to have in controlling population growth.
  • This is the region of India in which child marriage (illegal) is the most common. Large groups of girls are married off at ages four or six. Although they do not live with their husbands until age twelve or so, their course in life is set. Their parents must keep them indoors or watch over them constantly to guard their purity, so that they can not really play outside like little boys. In addition, the parents know that these girls will not support them in their old age—they already “belong” to another family. So their development and health are typically neglected.
  • lunch
  • d take the education money without establishing schools or teachers are corrupt and take government money without showing up.
snow2020

Mixing Politics and Piety, a Conservative Priest Seeks to Shape Poland's Future - 0 views

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  • snow2020 on 22 Sep 19
     
    Interesting article describing the influence of the "Father Director", a famous conservative priest on the politics of Poland, and how a man who is so xenophobic and homophobic can have such power and following in such a large country.
julianp22

A Louisiana Man Is Missing After an Alligator Attacked Him - The New York Times - 2 views

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Alligator Louisiana

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  • julianp22 on 31 Aug 21
     
    He just gone 0_0
  • samueld2022 on 31 Aug 21
     
    We live in a society. smh
  • Kay Bradley on 29 Sep 21
     
    I feel ignorant. What does smh stand for?
davidvr

6 Stabbed in New Zealand Supermarket 'Terrorist Attack' - The New York Times - 1 views

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  • davidvr on 07 Sep 21
     
    A man stabbed 6 people with a knife in a grocery store; the knife was from the store. This is New Zealand's first terrorist attack since the Christchurch shooting in 2019 which prompted stricter gun regulation. It would be interesting to compare different levels and effectiveness of terrorism across different countries, especially ones with different levels of gun control.
samueld2022

A Cure for Type 1 Diabetes? For One Man, It Seems to Have Worked. - The New York Times - 0 views

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  • samueld2022 on 29 Nov 21
     
    Diabetics could be booking their appointments to get these stem cells in 8 months but due to bureaucracy and the unnecessarily paperwork-filled and politicized FDA process, diabetics probably won't receive this treatment for 3 years. This perfectly shows America's complex bureaucratic system that is often much more complicated than many other nations.
anays2023

Jamal Khashoggi: France releases Saudi man held over journalist's murder - BBC News - 0 views

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  • anays2023 on 09 Dec 21
     
    I've followed this story since the break in 2018...its quite sad to see it end in this way but more shows still the problems of major US allies. We just watch as human rights violations poor in from Saudi Arabia to maintain our oil relations. Khashoggi's death should stand as a desplay that freedom of the press, even internationally, does not exist.
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