But the preachers and pundits advance by telling a select audience what it wants to hear.
Very nice to hear that from a Baptist for once. It is true of course, followers of populists and cult leaders(*) are often seen as victims of manipulation but that is only true to a certain extent. Poison goes where poison is welcome, as Pratchett taught us.
(*Not sure I could define the difference…)
I would post a link to The Blaggers Guide if I had it.
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Yay!!!
ETA: I know we shouldn’t get our hopes up too much, but this is a big step in the legal process.
I know it’s utterly unimportant what Ireland thinks here but it’s a sign of a break in the consensus on how to deal with the illegal annexation of Palestinian land. It now gets said by an EU state. I’ve been pretty critical of Ireland lobbying to get on the UN security council (why? Seriously) but now there is a voice at security council level saying this. Now while the motion was initiated by the opposition Sinn Féin it was voted for by the right wing, Tory like, Fine Gael and their slightly more centre right but more socially conservative coalition partner. They do have a history of anti semitism in the middle of last century but in more recent times have been very anti Muslim and with significant, and rather militant, Jewish members (they would have been more multicultural than the other right wing party).
It should not escape notice that the foreign minister who supported this for the government has only just the other day met the US Secretary of State.
There is no way this wasn’t done in concert with the US.
ETA
Tried to clarify a bit.
GOOD
In a poll of over 700 evangelical Christians between the ages of 18 and 29 that was conducted between March and April, respondents were asked where they place their support in the “Israeli-Palestinian dispute.” Just 33.6 percent said with Israel, 24.3% said with the Palestinians and 42.2 percent said with neither side.
This marked a significant shift from 2018, when 69% young evangelicals — responding to another survey conducted by UNCP professors, Motti Inbari and Kirill Bumin — said they side with Israel, 5.6% said they sided with the Palestinians and 25.7% said they didn’t take either side.
This young woman, a friend of my daughter’s, is about to graduate college but has already written and published this book:
The kids are alright!
Solidarity with our Brazilian Mutantes, and all Brazilian people suffering under this fascist murderer.
He writes: There’s a recent phenomenon in which smart people, mostly white men, parachute down from a higher plane to tell us mere mortals the truth about fighting climate change. Colorfully dubbed “first-time climate dudes” by journalist Emily Atkin of the newsletter Heated, they invariably offer some version of doom and gloom, whether it’s Bill Gates calling any attempt to rapidly reduce greenhouse emissions to near zero “a fairy tale”, or novelist Jonathan Franzen proclaiming in the New Yorker that we must “accept that disaster is coming.”
Sorry, climate dudes, but I think you’re dead wrong.
Wrong too is John Kerry, President Joe Biden’s climate envoy, when he says that half of future emissions cuts will have to come from technologies not invented yet.
He should know better.
In fact, we already have the basic technologies we need to slay the monster of climate change. Moreover, these technologies are not just affordable now, but they continue to get cheaper (and better) at a stunning pace, and new ideas are constantly emerging. In fact, humanity may look back after 20 or 50 years and wonder why we ever thought it was so hard or so expensive to move beyond the era of fossil fuels.
