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(Total Police Reform) - Deescalation and conversation, Camden, New Jersey, is seeing its lowest crime rate in 50 years - 3 years ago
'Camden, New Jersey, created a brand new police force to forge better ties with its residents. Their aim was for the police to be guardians, not warriors of their community. The city used to have one of the highest crime rates in the United States but now, eight years later, it is seeing its lowest crime rate in 50 years.' - BBC, What happened when a city disbanded its police fby ProjectC - Project C
(The New Alliance)(China is 'threat to world') - Lawmakers in Eight Countries Form New Alliance to Counter China - 3 years ago
' “The time has come for democratic countries to unite in a common defense of our shared values,” Smith, the U.K. lawmaker, said on Twitter.' 'A group of senior lawmakers from eight democracies including the U.S. have launched a new cross-parliamentary alliance to help counter what they say is the threat China’s growing influence poses to global trade, security and human rights.by ProjectC - Project C
'..Shockingly, recent figures show that “the use of wood in domestic combustion activities accounted for 38 per cent of PM2.5 emissions in 2018.” ' - 3 years ago
'Pollution from wood stoves and fireplaces in the home are troubling because people, including young children and pregnant women, may be sat mere feet away from the fire. They also tend to be used more at the weekend when wood-burning families (and their unwitting victims, their neighbours) are likely to be in their homes.' 'Where I live in the UK, the government has reported onby ProjectC - Project C
City Council approves resolution to create transformative new model for cultivating safety in Minneapolis - 3 years ago
'The Minneapolis City Council unanimously approved a resolution today declaring the intent to create a transformative new model for cultivating safety in Minneapolis. The Council resolution acknowledges that George Floyd joins a “tragically long list” of people killed by Minneapolis police and his death has set off a “wave of protests and uprisings across the United States and across theby ProjectC - Project C
'..IBM firmly opposes and will not condone uses of any technology, including facial recognition technology offered by other vendors, for mass surveillance, racial profiling, violations of basic human rights and freedoms..' - 3 years ago
'IBM no longer offers general purpose IBM facial recognition or analysis software. IBM firmly opposes and will not condone uses of any technology, including facial recognition technology offered by other vendors, for mass surveillance, racial profiling, violations of basic human rights and freedoms, or any purpose which is not consistent with our values and Principles of Trust and Transparenby ProjectC - Project C
(Total Police Reform) - Minneapolis police chief takes on union, promises reform - '..the military feel of police forces..' - 3 years ago
'Minneapolis police chief takes on union, promises reform The Minneapolis Police Department will withdraw from police union contract negotiations, Chief Medaria Arradondo said as he announced the first steps in what he said would be transformational reforms to the agency. Arradondo said a thorough review of the contract is planned. He said the contract needs to be restructured to proviby ProjectC - Project C
(Total Police Reform) - The Problem of Policing and Local Public Economics - '..The Ostroms stood against the consolidationist movement and in particular UNIGOV..' - 3 years ago
'..The Ostroms stood against the consolidationist movement and in particular UNIGOV. They championed instead a polycentric system of governance that put more direct authority in local communities and citizens, and held the public entities to be responsive to the demands of the local communities..' 'So we head back to the municipalities debate -- what are the responsibilities ofby ProjectC - Project C
Minneapolis City Council vows to break up police .. 'Our efforts at incremental reform have failed, period.' - 3 years ago
' “It is clear that our system of policing is not keeping our communities safe,” council president Lisa Bender said. “Our efforts at incremental reform have failed, period.” ' 'The Minneapolis City Council took a major step Sunday toward making radical changes in the city's beleaguered police department, as a super majority publicly expressed support for disbanding the forcby ProjectC - Project C
'..Colin Powell said Sunday that President Donald Trump has "drifted away" from the Constitution..' - 3 years ago
'Though few leaders have criticized Trump by name in the wake of the unrest, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said last week that "we are all very concerned about the authoritarian debate and those authoritarian ways that we are seeing as a response to some demonstrations." ' 'Former Republican Secretary of State Colin Powell said Sunday that President Donald Trumby ProjectC - Project C
(Trump Is an Existential Threat to America) - James Mattis Denounces President Trump, Describes Him as a Threat to the Constitution - 3 years ago
'James Madison wrote in Federalist 14 that “America united with a handful of troops, or without a single soldier, exhibits a more forbidding posture to foreign ambition than America disunited, with a hundred thousand veterans ready for combat.” We do not need to militarize our response to protests. We need to unite around a common purpose. And it starts by guaranteeing that all of us are equby ProjectC - Project C
'Thread on how China kept WHO in the dark.' - Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding - 3 years ago
'Thread on how China kept WHO in the dark. It’s starting to emerge what really happened in Jan, via AP investigation. Chinese officials failed to share the virus genome for >1week after decoding it and failed to reveal microbe had H2H for a further 2 weeks.' - Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding, (Source, June 2, 2020) Context The Pandemic Isn’t a Black Swan but a Portent of a Moreby ProjectC - Project C
We're back (in black) - 3 years ago
Back In Black Context BBC, Nasa astronauts make history with SpaceX launch, May 30, 2020 (Earth Shield - Earth Defence) - '..planetary defense budget .. dealing with hazardous asteroids.' (Earth Shield - Earth Defence)(Starlink network) - 'The SpaceX company has begun the roll-out of its orbiting broadband system.' (2020 - 2050 - Becoming a spacefaring civby ProjectC - Project C
(China is 'threat to world') - India’s external affairs ministry blamed China for provoking the military escalation - 3 years ago
'The high-altitude border has been aggressively contested and heavily militarised since 1962 when China launched an offensive into Indian territory, sparking a short but bloody war. .. On Tuesday India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, held a meeting with his national security adviser, Ajit Doval, plus his chief of defence staff and three security chiefs to discuss “bolstering India’s mby ProjectC - Project C
'..prepare for economic and technological containment of Communist China.' - 3 years ago
'In order to win this competition with China there are three things that America must do: First, build the next ten trillion in US GDP. Second, build an Alliance-based trading system. Third, prepare for economic and technological containment of Communist China.' - Rewinding the Tape, May 23, 2020 Context 'Henry Kissinger warned several months ago that he sees the U.S.by ProjectC - Project C
(Banking Reform) - '..my basic definition: A Bubble is a self-reinforcing but inevitably unsustainable inflation.' - 3 years ago
' “Bubble” is commonly understood to describe a divergence between overvalued market prices and underlying asset values. And while price anomalies are a typical consequence, they are generally not among the critical aspects of Bubbles. I’ll start with my basic definition: A Bubble is a self-reinforcing but inevitably unsustainable inflation. Bubbles, at their core, are fueled by Credit –by ProjectC - Project C
(BBC) - 'In order to prevent an excessive use of private cars, with the consequent increase in air pollution, the city of Milan will encourage the use of bicycles.' - 3 years ago
'We have the opportunity to see what would our cities look like when we are designing for people, not cars.' – Samu Balogh 'It is with this in mind that Milan announced its plan to make changes in the wake of the pandemic that support alternatives to driving. “In order to prevent an excessive use of private cars, with the consequent increase in air pollution, the city of Miby ProjectC - Project C
'..Mises .. his analysis of the monetary system and the problems association with the manipulation of money and credit..' - 3 years ago
'Richard Ebeling has an essay on Mises the policy economist that is an invaluable resource to start with. It is not Mises the theorist and not Mises the philosopher, but Mises trying to take that theoretical perspective and apply in a way consistent ultimately with his liberal philosophy to address the pressing issues of a demented time. We must, I would argue, do a similar thing in our tiby ProjectC - Project C
(Banking Reform) - 'Deceived by ultralow interest rates, Americans borrow and lend in the kind of false economy..' - 3 years ago
'Negative nominal bond yields are a 4,000-year first, according to Sidney Homer’s “A History of Interest Rates,” republished for a fourth edition with co-author Richard Sylla in 2005. Topsy-turvy investment-grade bond markets aren’t without precedent, but the extent of the upheaval today is startling. If adversity is the test of the quality of a senior security, as old-time doctrine held, seby ProjectC - Project C
Obama says White House response to coronavirus has been 'absolute chaotic disaster' - 3 years ago
'(CNN) - Former President Barack Obama delivered a blistering critique of the Trump administration's response to the coronavirus crisis, describing it as "an absolute chaotic disaster" during a private call Friday night with people who worked for him in the White House and across his administration. The searing comments, confirmed to CNN by three former Obama administrationby ProjectC - Project C
'Issing argues that, if countries had followed the EU fiscal rules and built up fiscal surpluses in good times, they would not be in the position to needed a bail-out now.' - 3 years ago
'..the ECB is going far beyond what Bagehot asked the central bank to do in times of panic..' - Otmar Issing (Context: '..present violation of law..' - Otmar Issing) 'Issing argues that, if countries had followed the EU fiscal rules and built up fiscal surpluses in good times, they would not be in the position to needed a bail-out now. It is not the role of theby ProjectC - Project C
(Bloomberg) - 'EU judges ‘overstepped’ their powers when backing ECB in 2018' - 3 years ago
'The German court said the EU judges’ December 2018 ruling that QE was in line with EU rules was “objectively arbitrary” and is “methodologically no longer justifiable.” It gave the ECB a three-month ultimatum to fix flaws in the measure.' 'Germany’s highest court rebukes ECJ in ruling on QE program In a long-awaited ruling on the European Central Bank’s quantitative easing pby ProjectC - Project C
(Bloomberg)(SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19)) - ‘False Dawn’ Recovery Haunts Virus Survivors Who Fall Sick Again - 3 years ago
'This so-called false-dawn phenomenon is puzzling health experts as they try to come to grips with the mysterious pathogen that emerged only five months ago.' 'It had been over a month since Mirabai Nicholson-McKellar was infected with the coronavirus, and the 35-year-old filmmaker thought she was on her way to recovery. Then the shortness of breath came back, followed by chestby ProjectC - Project C
(DOD)(Pentagon) - Statement by the Department of Defense on the Release of Historical Navy Videos - '..air space incursions by unidentified aerial phenomena.' - 3 years ago
'The Department of Defense has authorized the release of three unclassified Navy videos, one taken in November 2004 and the other two in January 2015, which have been circulating in the public domain after unauthorized releases in 2007 and 2017. The U.S. Navy previously acknowledged that these videos circulating in the public domain were indeed Navy videos. After a thorough review, the deby ProjectC - Project C
The Pandemic Isn’t a Black Swan but a Portent of a More Fragile Global System - '..a severe restriction of lobbying..' - 3 years ago
'We should discourage the concentration of power in big corporations, “including a severe restriction of lobbying,” Taleb told me. “When one per cent of the people have fifty per cent of the income, that is a fat tail.” Companies shouldn’t be able to make money from monopoly power, “from rent-seeking”—using that power not to build something but to extract an ever-larger part of the surplus.by ProjectC - Project C
(Global Healing 2020 - 2050)(BBC) - Oceans can be successfully restored by 2050, say scientists - 3 years ago
'"We now have the skills and expertise to be able to restore vital marine habitats such as oyster reefs, mangrove swamps and salt marshes - which keep our seas clean, our coasts protected and provide food to support entire ecosystems," said co-author Prof Callum Roberts from the University of York, UK. "Science gives us reason to be optimistic about the future of our oceansby ProjectC - Project C
'..EVs had lower CO2 emissions than gasoline and diesel cars in most of the world..' - 3 years ago
'Amid a global transport industry crisis brought about by the coronavirus pandemic, a study from clean energy nonprofit Transport and Environment has added strength to the argument that EVs emit far less CO2 than internal combustion engine vehicles do over their lifetimes. The UK nonprofit said in its report that it had taken into account all relevant factors, including the carbon dioxideby ProjectC - Project C
(SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19)) - 'Missouri is suing the Chinese government and other top institutions for the role they played in the coronavirus pandemic..' - 3 years ago
'Chinese authorities deceived the public, suppressed crucial information, arrested whistleblowers, denied human-to-human transmission in the face of mounting evidence, destroyed critical medical research, permitted millions of people to be exposed to the virus, and even hoarded personal protective equipment—thus causing a global pandemic that was unnecessary and preventable.' (CNN) -by ProjectC - Project C
Why worry about China’s leadership at the U.N.? - 3 years ago
'..This ‘centralisation’ ethos of the Chinese Communist Party, was encapsulated in Xi’s recent statement that: “Government, military, civilian, and academic, east, west, south, north, and centre, the Party leads everything.” ' - Simon Watkins (Source, April 20, 2020) 'Wu Hongbo, former undersecretary general for the U.N. Department of Economic and Social Affairs, said thby ProjectC - Project C
(BBC) - '..a possible link between high levels of air pollution and Covid-19 deaths in northern Italy.' - 3 years ago
'A US study suggests Covid-19 death rates rise by about 15% in areas with even a small increase in fine-particle pollution levels in the years before the pandemic. "Patterns in Covid-19 death rates generally mimic patterns in both high population density and high PM2.5 exposure areas," the Harvard University report says. These particles, one-30th the diameter of a human hairby ProjectC - Project C
(Bloomberg) - Virus Shows Signs of Easing as Germany Opens, Spain Deaths Slow - 3 years ago
'..Germany is allowing smaller stores, car dealerships, bike shops and book stores to reopen on Monday, and schools will begin readmitting some students in early May in the first few steps to normalcy. In Spain by contrast, a lockdown that’s been in place since mid-March could be extended well into May, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said, and Italy won’t do any significant easing before May 4by ProjectC - Project C