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2 dead, 250+ injured in Pakistan as police try to clear massive protests - CNN - 0 views

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pakistan police terror Crisis

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  • A long-term plan to create a world-class, centralised healthcare system in the UAE.
  • About 100 protesters were arrested Saturday, said Fakhar Sultan, a police officer in Rawalpindi city.
  • The government has apologized and denied making such a change, calling it a clerical mistake.
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  • Qadri allegedly killed Taseer because the governor spoke out against the country's blasphemy law, which makes insulting Islam a crime punishable by death.
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Tesla has built the world's biggest battery in Australia - Nov. 23, 2017 - 0 views

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Australia battery US history politics

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  • A group of experts showed us which questions are most important when looking for and working with a financial advisor.
  • "An enormous amount of work has gone in to delivering this project in such a short time."
  • South Australia's population of 1.7 million people suffer regular power cuts and energy shortages.
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Tillerson's senior team planning to skip Ivanka Trump's India trip - CNNPolitics - 0 views

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trump US history Crisis

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  • "No one higher than the deputy assistant secretary is allowed to participate.
  • The Department is committed to supporting women's economic empowerment and entrepreneurship,
  • The official added that he was unaware of tensions or the internal chatter over supporting the first daughter, who serves as a senior White House advisor.
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Why Democrats Must Regain the Trust of Religious Voters - The Atlantic - 0 views

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democrats religion US

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  • Democrats ignored broad swaths of religious America in the 2016 election campaign and the nation has suffered because of it.
  • We know faith outreach works, because it has worked before.
  • In 2012, Barack Obama—the first president in American history to endorse same-sex marriage, the target of a massive campaign accusing him of waging a “war on religion”
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  • Ignoring faith voters will always be abhorrent from the perspective that elected officials ought to represent and speak to all of the people they represent.
  • Women, who are far from uniformly pro-choice, may begin to ask if it is worth putting policies like the ACA’s coverage for maternal health at risk just so the Democratic Party can take symbolic stances on policies that have no reasonable expectation of passage in the short-term (like repeal of the Hyde Amendment).
  • They can do this through returning to the faith community with direct engagement, rhetoric, and policy commitments.
  • Many religious voters believe they are hated by Democrats, because many Democrats seem disinterested, at best, in engaging them.
  • On religious freedom, Democrats should draw clear lines where they can to stem the fear-mongering that flourished in 2016 because of their silence.
  • emocrats should rule out taking away church’s tax-exempt status.
  • The Democratic Party can regain its footing in the Trump era if it will choose to once again tell the story of a nation where people of faith have a positive, contributing role to play, too.
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Education Programs That Pay People As They Learn - The Atlantic - 0 views

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people education US

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  • Just before President Trump took office, Ammar Campa-Najjar wrote him a memo urging him to support apprenticeship
  • “You should just put your name on it, like everything else, and take credit for it.”
  • Congress, however, has taken action on the model, recently increasing federal funding for apprenticeships from $90 million to $95 million per year.
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  • 87 percent of participants finish their programs having already secured a job.
  • a simple fix to the country’s $1.3 trillion student-debt crisis
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The Nationalist's Delusion - The Atlantic - 0 views

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politics Robert Mugabe Zimbabwe policy Crisis

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  • David Duke, the former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan
  • he came within striking distance of defeating incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator J. Bennett Johnston, earning 43 percent of the vote.
  • Duke picked up nearly 60 percent of the white vote.
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  • He even tried to appeal to black voters, buying a 30-minute ad in which he declared,
  • “I’m not your enemy.”
  • He was a former Klan leader who had showed up to public events in a Nazi uniform and lied about having served in the Vietnam War, a cartoonishly vain supervillain whose belief in his own status as a genetic Übermensch was belied by his plastic surgeries.
  • Birtherism is rightly remembered as a racist conspiracy theory, born of an inability to accept the legitimacy of the first black president.
  • American history as glorious idealism unpolluted by base tribalism
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How Robert Mugabe Held On - The Atlantic - 0 views

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politics Robert Mugabe Zimbabwe Africa policy history Crisis culture economic

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  • To put his tenure in perspective, consider this: He withstood the end of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, as well as its not-so-cold manifestations in Africa, where each superpower supported a litany of armed groups and dictators;
  • “It’s hard to understate his wiliness, his understanding of how to keep hold of the levers of power. He’s 93, and has allegedly dementia, but can still outmaneuver almost everybody.”
  • Mugabe at first seemed reluctant to go, but ultimately the father of modern Zimbabwe knew it was time for his country to turn the page.
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Jobs Report: Economy Adds 261,000 Jobs - The Atlantic - 0 views

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politics Crisis trump policy economics

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  • The slump was primarily felt in restaurants, bars, and construction operations.
  • Wages, which jumped 12 cents in September likely because of a drop-off in low-wage jobs in the South after the Hurricanes, declined by one cent.
  • Economists expected an addition of over somewhere between 300,000 to 325,000 jobs during the month
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26 People Were Killed in a Texas Church Shooting - The Atlantic - 0 views

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Crisis trump policy politics US

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  • Church of Christ at the end of its Sunday service, killing one woman and injuring seven others.
  • FBI and the Texas Rangers were on the scene, and that police have confirmed the shooter’s death.
  • “People who do this, they think they’ve got problems, but they destroy so many other people’s lives.”
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  • “Americans will do what we do best: We pull together and join hands and lock arms and through the tears and sadness we stand strong.”
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Trump Is Turning the Fed Pick Into a Reality Show - The Atlantic - 0 views

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US trump policy Crisis politics

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  • the president announced that he’d had meetings with four potential candidates for the head of the Fed,
  • only 24 percent of Americans can correctly identify,
  • Trump spent much of his campaign deriding the choices of the Fed under her tenure,
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  • The two share many of the same ideas on monetary policy and the potential direction of the Fed in the next few years.
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HISTORY OF GERMANY - 0 views

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German European history

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  • Only to the east is there no natural border
  • associated with the name Germany in the 1st century BC
  • conquest of Gaul
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  • Celts
  • Augustus Caesar
  • subdued up to the Danube
  • the Roman empire has some natural boundaries
  • France and Spain - prosperous and stable parts of the Roman empire
  • Tacitus
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Philosophy, history and sociology of science: Interdisciplinary relations and complex s... - 0 views

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psychology knowledge history science philosophy

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  • Sociology and philosophy of science have an uneasy relationship, while the marriage of history and philosophy of science has—on the surface at least—been more successful.
  • Interdisciplinary relations between these disciplines will be analysed through social identity complexity theory in order to draw out some conclusions on how the disciplines interact and how they might develop.
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Out of Tragedy, An Opportunity for Somalia's Government - The Atlantic - 0 views

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US politics Goverment

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  • more are certain to die in the city’s few under-resourced and over-crowded hospitals.
  • The most persistent lag with which the political elite will be forced to reckon is security reform.
  • The Islamic State, for one, has tried to infiltrate the country from the northeast.
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  • Somalis tend to expect little from from their government, ever since the formal state collapsed more than two decades ago, brought down by internal power struggles and clan politics.
  • and set milestones, including due dates for an accurate tally of all the members of the army, navy, or police, as well as a payroll system and legislation on countering violent extremism.
  • Somalia’s Internal Security Ministry spokesman has left office, though rumors in national media say he was fired.
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The Quixotic Effort to Get a Better Brexit Deal - The Atlantic - 0 views

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US Brecit policy politics history

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  • the U.K. leaves the EU without first securing a trade deal and instead becomes subject to trade barriers
  • Still, such a move is unlikely—May has previously stated that she “does not intend” to reverse Brexit.
  • we cannot damage our country in this way,”
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The Threat of Polio in the Badlands of Boko Haram - The Atlantic - 0 views

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Crisis US Badlands Boko

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  • one orchestrated to both distribute and increase awareness of the polio vaccine.
  • Poliovirus is so cunning, so contagious, so devastating, that a single case of poliomyelitis, the paralysis-inducing disease it causes, sends up the flares as a public-health emergency, which quickly ignites international concern.
  • it can be spread by coughing or kissing or sharing food or shaking hands. Peak season comes with the annual rains that send it coursing through the city.
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  • All of the most recent victims were children who had been huddling with their families in crowded, unsanitary camps where they had fled to escape the violent jihadists.
  • By the mid-20th century, epidemics of polio terrorized industrialized nations. Stricken children lost the use of their limbs and sometimes their lungs.
  • Together with the CDC, they make up the full choir of the GPEI push.
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The War on ISIS Held the Middle East Together - The Atlantic - 0 views

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ISIS Crisis US MIDDLE EAST

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  • No longer will ISIS plant severed heads on stakes in the main town square and spew hate from repurposed churches and government buildings, painted black.
  • Just as the dispute between Iraqi Kurds and Baghdad simmered in the background while everyone’s eyes were on ISIS,
  • the U.S. decision not to back Kurdish aspirations vindicates the view that the United States isn’t secretly agitating to break the Middle East into a patchwork of feuding statelets.
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  • The conflict will continue, to murderous and destabilizing effect, until and unless these Arab states change their entire approach and self-definition
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Negotiating With Al-Shabaab Will Get America Out of Somalia - The Atlantic - 0 views

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Crisis US

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  • a huge section of the city, previously considered relatively safe, now lies in ruins.
  • Ghastly as al-Shabaab is, negotiating with the group may be the only road to peace.
  • Within Somalia, al-Shabaab continued to control much of the countryside and has proved all but impossible to dislodge.
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  • al-Shabaab began receiving support from enraged Arab supporters and the group has since become a member of the al-Qaeda network.
  • AMISOM troops, particularly Ugandan ones, have committed numerous human rights violations, including the sexual abuse of Somali girls and women, and are notoriously corrupt.
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