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I've encountered several people in the Kagyu and Nyingma traditions who say, "Oh, we, you know 'tukdam,' yeah, people go in 'tukdam,' "but it's like, you know, not that big a deal. It's, we don't care that much." Part of the reason they don't care that much is that the idea that you need to go into this completely, kind of, a state where there's no phenomenal content— that's just a pure clear light mind— actually is something that many of the contemporary practitioners and teachers in those lineages don't agree with.
for - Buddhism - Tibetan - Kagyu and Nyingma schools don't make a big deal out of Tukdam - nondual awareness can emerge with other techniques - key insight - Buddhism - Tibetan - Clear light meditation at time of death - Tukdam - a physiological technique - from Youtube - Between Life and Death: Understanding Tukdam - John D. Dunne
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mankind isn't getting all that much more effective at collectively dealing with complex problems maybe that's what i could concentrate on so that's what i committed to
for - Douglas Engelbart - life purpose - improve our ability to collectively deal with complex problems
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Kurz vor der COP16 zur Biodiversität geht die EU immer deutlicher von ihrer bisherigem Politik zum Schutz der Biodiversität ab. Man nimmt Rücksicht auf konventionelle Landwirt:innen, rechtsradikale und auch zunehmend antiökologisch agierende konservative Parteien. An die Stelle des Green Deal tritt das Bestreben, die Unternehmen im globalen Wettbewerb konkurrenzfähiger zu machen und die Wirtschaft wachsen zu lassen. Ajit Niranjan berichtet zusammenhängend über diese Entwicklungen und verweist auf wichtiger Meilensteine in der Geschichte von Abkommen zum Schutz der Biodiversität. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/09/europe-eu-green-deal-backsliding-nature-biodiversity-farmers-far-right-cop16-aoe
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- Guido Broekhoven
- Špela Bandelj Ruiz
- by: Ajit Niranjan
- David Obura
- Guy Pe’er
- biodiversity loss
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- Global Biodiversity Framework
- Kunming-Montreal pact
- Renaturierungsgesetz
- lowering of climate ambition
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Die rechte italienische Regierung versucht nach wie vor, u.a. durch intensives Lobbying in Brüssel, den Green Deal abzuschwächen. In italien wird die Energiewende z.B. durch Einschränkung der Gebiete, auf denen Photovoltaik installiert werden kann, gebremst. Jetzt hat der Gouverneur der italienischen Zentralbank die Regierung aufgefordert, diese Schwächung der italienischen Wirtschaft einzustellen. https://www.repubblica.it/economia/2024/09/30/news/il_governo_di_eco-ansiosi_rischia_di_far_deragliare_le_imprese_italiane-423522797/
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- Kamela Harris
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paper summary - title: Backfire: How the Rise of Neoliberalism Facilitated the Rise of the Far-Right - author: Jacob Fuller - date: April 2023 - publication: The Compass: Vol.1: Iss. 10, Article 3 - download link: https://scholarworks.arcadia.edu/thecompass/vol1/iss10/3
summary - A good paper that examines the root causes of the ascendency of the far-right in U.S. politics, based on harmonizing two theories - emergence of neo-liberalism - racialized economic anxieties
- NAFTA is complex and is often oversimplified
- See this article that discusses its complexities
to - How Did NAFTA Affect the Economies of Participating Countries? - https://hyp.is/0j7PsjyUEe-LGOsFIWCyWA/www.investopedia.com/articles/economics/08/north-american-free-trade-agreement.asp
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NAFTA free trade deal - complexities - NAFTA was a a very complex trade deal and it's not so easy to calculate its net impacts
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- Jun 2024
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Britische Analyse des green Deal der bisher die erwünschten Ergebnisse nicht gebracht hat. Die EU verfolgt eine marktwirtschaftliche Linie und kann damit nicht mit den USA und China, die protektionistisch agieren, konkurrieren. Zum Erreichen der Klimaziele werden laut EU-Kommission bis 2030 zusätzlich 620 Milliarden Euro an Investitionen erforderlich, das sind 3,7% der Wirtschaftsleistung der EU. https://taz.de/Kompetent-versenkt/!6012533/
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Die taz zum Torpedieren des Green Deal und besonders des EU-Renaturierungsgesetzes durch die EVP und über die Rolle Manfred Webers. https://taz.de/Agrarlobby-gegen-Naturschutz/!6012538/
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- Verabschiedung des Nature Restoration Law durch das Europäische Parlament
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- institution: EASAC
- NGO: NABU
- Gemeinsame Landwirtschaftspolitik
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Der Guardian kritisiert in einem Editorial den Verzicht auf Kernelemente des Green Deal in der europäischen Agrarpolitik, darunter die Nicht-Verabschiedung des Nature Restoration Law. Er verweist auf eine Umfrage, die zeigt, dass eine Mehrheit in Europa eine konsequentere Klimapolitik unterstützt.
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- event: renouncement to halve the use of pesticides
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- event: renouncement to reduce agricultural emissions
- 2024-04-08
- country: Europe
- actor: European Commission
- actor: agribusiness
- event: farmers' protests
- process: lowering climate ambition
- event: scrapping of changes to the agricultural policy
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Zusammenfassende Steiner über den Widerstand gegen eine ökologisch orientierte Politik und vor allem den Green Deal in der EU. https://www.derstandard.de/story/3000000208412/in-der-eu-waechst-der-widerstand-gegen-gruene-reformen
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Die Europäische Volkspartei wird Ursula von der Leyen wieder für die Präsidentschaft der EU-Kommission nominieren. Von der Leyen ist aber zu einer sehr deutlichen Kursskorrektur gezwungen. Wirtschaftswachstum soll statt Klimaschutz im Vordergrund stehen. Das Handelsblatt erläutert die Hintergründe der Kandidatur. Der Verzicht auf Maßnahmen zu Klima- und Biodiversitätsschutz in der Landwirtschaft diente von der Leyen offenbar dazu, sich die Unterstützung des Agrarsektors zu sichern. https://www.handelsblatt.com/politik/deutschland/zweite-amtszeit-fuer-eu-kommissionschefin-warum-die-cdu-an-ihrer-gruenen-kommissionschefin-festhaelt/100013966.html
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Die Repubblica fasst in einem Artikel zusammen, was sie das Scheitern des green Deal in der EU nennt. https://www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2024/02/09/news/green_deal_europa_rinnovabili_pesticidi_agricoltura-422091735/
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Sizilien leidet gerade unter extremer Trockenheit, die zu großen Einbußen bei der Orangenernte führt. Sie gehört zu einem anhaltenden Prozess der Aridifizierung, durch den sich die Bedingungen in Sizilien immer mehr denen im heutigen Algerien annähern. Ausführlicher Bericht in der Repubblica über die mangelnde Vorbereitung der Region auf zunehmenden Wasserstress, unter anderem die mangelnde Aufgeschlossenheit für die Regeneration von Böden und Gewässern, wie sie das Nature Restoration Law der EU vorsieht. https://www.repubblica.it/green-and-blue/dossier/siccita--gestione-acqua/2024/02/08/news/siccita_sicilia_arance-422075670/
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Die EU hat 2023 durch die Verbrennung von fossilen Brennstoffen 8% weniger CO<sub>2</sub> emittiert als 2022. Damit liegen diese Emissionen wieder auf dem Niveau der 60er Jahre. Um die Klimaziele der EU zu erreichen, müssen die Emissionen noch schneller reduziert werden. Das European Advisory Board on Climate Change hat dazu in der vergangenen Woche eine Reihe von Vorschlägen gemacht. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/24/eu-fossil-fuel-co2-emissions-hit-60-year-low
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four different types of initiators of new community projectsbased in neighbourhoods:local government,governmental organisations,non-governmental organisations or activists andexisting communities.
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If our interest is to attempt to create a global collective action campaign to address our existential polycrisis, which includes the climate crisis, then how do we mobilize at the community level in a meaningful way?
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I suggest that this must be a cosmolocal effort. Why? Knowledge sharing across all the communities will accelerate the transition of any participating local community.
- This means that we cannot rely on citizens living in small communities to construct an effective coordination framework for rapid de-escalation of the polycrisis. The capacity does not exist within small communities to build such a complex system. The system can be more effectively built before the collective action campaign is started by a virtual community of experts and ready for trial with pilot communities.
- To meet this enormous challenge, it cannot be done in an adhoc way. At this point in time, many people in many communities all around the globe know of the existential crisis we face, but if we look at the annual carbon emissions, none of the existing community efforts has made a difference in their continuing escalation.
- The knowledge required to synchronize millions of communities to have a unified wartime-scale collective action mobilization to reach decarbonization goals that the mainstream approach has not even made a dent in will be a complex problem.
- In other words, what is proposed is a partnership.
- Since we are faced with global commons problems that pose existential threats if not mitigated in 5 to 8 years, the scope of the problem is enormous.
- Super wicked problems require unprecedented levels of collaboration at every level.
- The downscaling of global planetary boundaries and doughnut economics seems the most logical way to think global, act local.
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Building such a collaboration system requires expert knowledge. Once built, however, it requires testing in pilot communities. This is where a partnership can take place
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- SRG has long entertained a collaborative open science project for grassroots polycrisis / climate crisis education - to measure and validate latest climate departure dates
- This would make climate change far more salient to the average person because of the observable trends in disruption of local economic activity connected to the local ecology due to climate impacts
- This would be a synergistic project between SRG, LCE, SoNeC, My Climate Risk hubs, ICICLE and U of Hawaii
- Our community frameworks need to go BEYOND simply adaptation though, which is what "My Climate Risk" focuses exclusively on. We need to also engage equally in climate mitigation.
- My Climate Risk Regional Hubs
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- suggestion - collaboration with My Climate Risk
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- question - SONEC - framework for anthropocene community projects
- suggestion - collaboration with DEAL
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there are sort of 00:17:41 two broad um programs or ideas that deal with this or that try to engage with this issue they have pockets of support 00:17:52 one is the idea of a green New Deal or a global Green New Deal and the other one is degrowth and and I don't think that either of those work for different reasons
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Der Critical Raw Materials Actt wird von Industrie-Lobbies benutzt, um Einschränkungen beim Zugang zu Rohmaterialien abzubauen, und zwar auch dann, wenn es nicht um die Energieversorgung geht. IT-, Rüstungs- und Raumfahrtindustrie versuchen von der Krisensituation bei den neuen Energien zu profitieren. Die Libéation berichtet über einen neuen Report von Lobbying-Warchdogs. Die Liste der kritischen Rohmaterialien wurde bereits von 15 auf 34 Stoffe erweitert. https://www.liberation.fr/international/europe/ue-le-critical-raw-materials-act-un-open-bar-pour-lindustrie-miniere-20231112_HZUR6376QJCZVBM5IGIUR6V2QE/
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- 2023-11-12
- country: Australia
- topic: Mining
- country: EU
- law: Critical Raw Materials Act
- country: Ukraine
- country: Kasachstan
- country: Chile
- institution: Center for European Policy Analysis
- expert: Lora Verheecke
- expert: Erik Jönsson
- institution: Observatoire des multinationales
- country: Canada
- process: energy transition
- program: Green Deal
- institution: Iris
- actor: Marie Toussaint
- mode: legislation
- institution: Corporate Europe Observatory
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In dem sogenannten Trilog-Verfahren haben sich Vertreter:innen des europäischen Parlaments und der europäischen Kommission auf eine endgültige Version des Nature Restoration Laws geeinigt, durch die bis 2030 20% der Land- und Wasserflächen der-unter Schutz gestellt bzw. wiederhergestellt werden sollen. Vor allem aufgrund des Einflusses der europäischen Volkspartei wurde die von der Kommission vorgelegte Version des Gesetzes stark verwässert. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/10/eu-strikes-landmark-deal-nature-restoration-law
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- expert: Sofie Ruysschaert
- expert: Katrin Böhning-Gaese
- process: nature conservation and restoration
- country: EU
- 2023-11-10
- institution: Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
- NGO: BirdLife Europe
- expert: Guy Pe’er
- law: nature restoration law
- expert: Josef Settele
- actor: EVP
- program: european green deal
- institution: Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre
- mode: legislation
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Der Standard zeigt an zehn Beispielen wie wichtig das Abkommen zum Schutz der Biodiversität von Montreal/Kunming ist und wie schwierig es ist, es in die Praxis umzusetzen. https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000192855/vom-globalen-artensterben-und-jenen-die-es-bekaempfen
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Die Europäische Union befindet sich bei der Umsetzung ihrer Klimaziele in einem entscheidenden Moment. In einem Bericht des European Council on Foreign Relations werden die politischen HIndernisse für die Dekaarbonisierung analysiert, Dabei wird detailliert auf die geopolitische Situation und auf die Bedingungen in den EU-Staaten eingegangen..
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- report: Ends of the earth: How EU climate action can weather the coming election storm
- expert: Susi Dennison
- institution: European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR)
- process: lowering of climate ambition
- 2023-08-28
- process: decarbonization
- country. EU
- plan: European Green Deal
- expert: Max Engström
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Hintergrundinformationen zum Renaturierungsgesetz der EU. In der vergangenen Woche wurde der Entwurf der EU-Kommission vom europäischen Parlament mit Modifikationen verabschiedet. Das Gesetz verpflichtet die EU-Staaten zu Wiederherstellungsplänen und zur Orientierung an Indikatoren, wobei die konkreten Vorgaben vom Parlament aus dem Entwurf gestrichen wurden.
Bericht der EU-Kommission zur Situation der Ökosysteme in der EU: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/DE/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX%3A52020DC0635&from=DE
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Der Kommentar des Guadian gibt einen Überblick über die Ergebnisse des Green Deal in Europa sowie über die wachsende Opposition dagegen. Angesichts der ökonomischen Vorteile der Energiewende drohen vor allem anderen Komponenten des Green Deal an dieser Opposition zu scheitern, etwa die Renaturierung.
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- Aug 2022
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All you need is 50 people at $20,000 and you’ve got a million-dollar business that can operate from your bedroom.Obviously there’s some nuance to it. But it’s definitely possible if you’re willing to lean into your expertise, or develop deep expertise in one area by consuming loads of free Youtube and Twitter content.
obviously there is some nuance to it? what is the nuance of these zoom or facebook groups? what is it you can do there?????? :/
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- Jul 2022
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Lowering these risks and adapting to those we can no longer avoid will require a mobilisation of resources on the scale of a war economy.
A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency by Seth Klein
We did it for the Second World War. We can do it again.
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- Sep 2021
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Remeikis, A. (2021, September 3). Scott Morrison unveils ‘dose swap’ deal with UK to provide extra 4m Pfizer vaccines | Australian politics | The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/sep/03/scott-morrison-unveils-dose-swap-deal-with-uk-to-provide-extra-4m-pfizer-vaccines
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- Jun 2021
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this is kind of a blocker for me
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This is a blocker for me as well, as I don't really understand how to interact with my backend while it's not implemented within sveltekit and uses cookie-based authentication.
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- May 2021
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stackoverflow.com stackoverflow.com
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this is incomplete. Yes you get a load of commits, but they no longer refer to the right paths. git log dir-B/somefile won't show anything except the one merge. See Greg Hewgill's answer references this important issue.
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- Jan 2021
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www.zdnet.com www.zdnet.com
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I think some of the design details are insane (I dislike the binary logs, for example), but those are details, not big issues.
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There's a lot of advice online showing how to get rid of snap. (e.g.: https://cialu.net/how-to-disable-and-remove-completely-snaps-in-ubuntu-linux/ worked for me) so the only result (so far, a few months later) is that Chromium has lost a user, and having upgraded Ubuntu since the original Warty, if snap becomes obligatory I'll have to take a look at Mint, or Devuan.
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- Nov 2020
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github.com github.com
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Got hit by this issue too, and it’s unfortunately a blocker for releasing a component in my case.
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It kind of makes creating web components from svelte unusable atm
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Ausführliche Sendung mit Text zum Green New Deal, mit Nennung von Diem25 und Extinction Rebellion. Zitat von Roosevelt zu Anfang, das zeigt, dass es auch beim ersten New Deal nicht um Wachstum sondern um eine Umsteuerung geht.
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- Oct 2020
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www.nature.com www.nature.com
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Nkengasong, J. N., Ndembi, N., Tshangela, A., & Raji, T. (2020). COVID-19 vaccines: How to ensure Africa has access. Nature, 586(7828), 197–199. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02774-8
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mtlynch.io mtlynch.io
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To get the best performance for my dollar, I restricted my search to used CPUs, released four to eight years ago.
🙇 boom
didn't realize that the modern era had expanded as such. this is way more modern than i knew was accessible.
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- Sep 2020
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Thank you, but this answers the question and means I will be unable to use svelte.
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- Jul 2020
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science.sciencemag.org science.sciencemag.org
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Rosenbloom, D., & Markard, J. (2020). A COVID-19 recovery for climate. Science, 368(6490), 447–447. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abc4887
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Mark Zuckerberg & Thierry Breton: Towards a post COVID-19 Digital Deal between tech and governments? (2020, May 18). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZfi6WkIfgU&feature=youtu.be
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- Apr 2020
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Varoufakis stammelt vom Untergang der Europäischen Union. Wir werden alle betroffen sein, selbst die Reichen. Alarmismus, abgeschmackte Bildsymbolik. Völlig unkonkret. Er hält dagegen, was die EU ganz ohne ihn schon vorhat: Eurobonds und nahhaltige Fonds. Und ein BGE.
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This is not the first time that the US “common man” has embraced populism. Who said the following? “What are the real issues that exist today in these United States? It is the trend of pseudointellectual government where a select elite group have written guidelines in bureaus and court decisions… looking down their noses at the average man on the street … the auto workers, … the little businessman…” (quoted in Cowie: http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1919&context=articles) This was George Wallace, in 1972, the year he scored a victory in the Democratic primary in Michigan, due primarily to “working-class” opposition to school busing on the heels of white flight to the suburbs. His “populist” message of “anti-elitism”, “anti-crime” and anti-busing wasn’t openly racist, but that was its content. Dewey Burton, the young male symbol of the 1970s (white) working class followed for years by the US media (as told by Cowie, above) was not a racist in his personal attitudes, but his alienation from ossified New Deal politics within a Fordist economic model that provided “only” high-wage job security (and for fewer and fewer people) manifested itself in a form that is fairly indistinguishable from the suddenly new “revolt” of the white working class in the rust belt in 2016 – and this well before Fordism entered into its terminal crisis later in the 70s.
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- Oct 2018
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Jaitley also asserted that the fighter jet deal would not be scrapped. “Koi prashna nahin uthta. Ye fauj ki avashaktya hai. Ye desh main aana chahiye, aur ye aayega (There is no question of scrapping the deal. These fighters are needed by the defence forces. They should come and they will come),”
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Irwin Consulting Services Review - How to deal with holiday decorations safely
It is already the month of December and to those individuals having a weak heart saying it is too late to put holiday decorations at their home, don’t be. Filling your home with pretty and lovely decorations would not take a very long time so gear up and begin beautifying your house right now. Knowing that you’ll apply your personal style and preferences in designing your house will give you an exciting feeling, but together with that sentiment, you need to be very careful in designing especially when it comes to electric materials.
Some don’t have to feel lonely walking at night in their neighborhood because a lot of houses were so bright and even sparkles the night with their decorative lights and other holiday-themed decorations. Irwin Consulting Services agrees that the holiday season can indeed spread love and joy all around the world.
However, the holiday season also calls for a cold weather, which is an unavoidable circumstance leading to every household use a lot of heat sources. You need to be careful in decorating your home since many heat sources are around. You will also have to deal with some electrical connections when putting your holiday decorations like the Christmas lights into place. Double check the extension cords or power strips along with all the wirings if each is safe to use and has no damage at all. Learn how much current is running through the cords and determine if those were the proper and right numbers. Keep the Christmas tree at least 3 feet away from heat sources such as space heaters and fireplaces.
Irwin Consulting Services would like you to choose properly on what kind of Christmas tree you’re going to put in your house. You can settle with a real or live tree or an artificial one, but most importantly, remember to avoid very dry trees because they are weak to fires. Before placing a live tree on its stand, make sure to cut 1-2 inches from the base of the trunk to ensure good water absorption when filling it with water.
Outdoor decorating should be done with proper caution. Each equipment and decoration you’re going to use must be labeled for outdoor use. Follow the careful guidelines provided especially on electrical products. The amperage rating of the extension cords should match the power needs of the electrical items (amperage). Your electric lights and decorations should be plugged into circuits protected by ground fault circuit interrupters or GFCIs. Maintain distance from power lines while doing outdoor decorating as well. Keep electrical outlets organized to prevent overloading. Do not plug a lot of electrical decorations or devices all at once. You must not let overheating to happen and start a fire.
Confirm if there’s also a proper insulation on electrical cords by checking if they were not pinched in windows, doors or under heavy objects. Be careful about installing the decorative lights as well to ensure that there would be no damage to its cord’s insulation. Unplug electrical decorations when replacing bulbs or fuses. In addition, turning off all indoor and outdoor electrical decorations must be practiced before going to bed or leaving the house.
Candles with a good scent can indeed illuminate the night of the holiday season, but these real candles must not be left unattended for a long period of time to avoid fire accidents. Keep them in a spot that is also safe from the reach of little children and was away from combustible objects. Put out its fire if ever you’re going to sleep or going outside your home for a long time.
Irwin Consulting Services promises to remain committed to helping companies, professionals, or individuals in maintaining public safety and would also like to encourage each household to do the same and be dedicated to their own safety this holiday season.
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