Anglo-French Wars

Civil rights leader James Lawson, who learned from Gandhi, used nonviolent resistance and the ‘power of love’ to challenge injustice

Retrieved on: 
torsdag, juni 13, 2024
Reconciliation, Rain, AP, Love, Baldwin Wallace University, Sanitation, Roman Empire, Freedom, Methodism, Reconciliation (United States Congress), Racial equality, Violence, Policy, Hip, Confederacy, Student Christian Movement, Student, Human rights movement, Associated Press, Society, Justice, Anglo-French Wars, Movement, African Methodist Episcopal Church, History, Black, Racism, Death, Fellow, A. J. Muste, Congress, Philosophy, African Americans, Civil rights movement, Map, African, Teaching, Pharmaceutical industry

Lawson is best known for piloting two crucial civil rights campaigns – one in Nashville in 1960 and the other in Memphis in 1968.

Key Points: 
  • Lawson is best known for piloting two crucial civil rights campaigns – one in Nashville in 1960 and the other in Memphis in 1968.
  • In Nashville, Lawson trained students in the systematic use of nonviolent pressure.
  • Following the example of Mahatma Gandhi, who used nonviolent resistance to challenge the British occupation of India, students engaged in collective nonviolent direct action.
  • By 1968, Lawson had established himself as the leading authority on nonviolent conflict, a fact to which King himself attested.

Early influences

  • His father, James M. Lawson Sr., was an African Methodist Episcopal minister who carried a pistol on his hip, perhaps an odd influence for an advocate of nonviolence.
  • Lawson also closely followed the work of the Congress of Racial Equality as it challenged segregation laws with nonviolent direct action in the early 1940s.
  • Lawson began to see that he had an opportunity: He could challenge segregation, and he could use nonviolence to do it.
  • He said: “I made the commitment that … I’m not going to be disciplined, contorted into something that I’m not.”

Nonviolence and segregation laws

  • Required to register for the draft, Lawson concluded he would not cooperate: “There were certain laws that the Christian had to disobey: the laws of segregation and the laws of conscription.
  • So then I sent back my draft cards and said I could no longer cooperate with it.” He felt that conscription laws had the same fundamental problem as segregation laws.
  • Lawson sought to better understand Gandhian principles so he could apply them to battling Jim Crow segregation, racism and violence.
  • Lawson taught his students that Jim Crow laws were designed to make Black Americans both feel and act like second-class citizens.

Lawson’s influence lives on

Could a green investment deal help Indonesia and Australia overcome their past tensions?

Retrieved on: 
måndag, juni 3, 2024
Partnership, Paper, Export Finance Australia, EV, Lithium, Politics, Anglo-French Wars, Electricity, Foxconn, G20, Utility, Reflexive relation, University, Doctor of Philosophy, Coal, Foreign Affairs, Hyundai, Mining, Government, LG, Growth, Climate, Nickel, Pacific Ocean, CC, MMES, Movement, Fire blanket, Climate change, Renewable energy

While the politics have long been challenging, there’s reason to believe a change may be coming.

Key Points: 
  • While the politics have long been challenging, there’s reason to believe a change may be coming.
  • One of the fastest-growing economies in the world, Indonesia has long been powered by coal.
  • Now, it’s endeavouring to go green through renewables, grid modernisation, electric vehicles and geothermal.

Why has the relationship been rocky?

  • During the Cold War, Australian agencies backed the Indonesian army’s bloody purges of communists.
  • In 1998, Australian Prime Minister John Howard wrote to Indonesia’s President, B.J Habibie, pushing for East Timorese independence.
  • Before Howard and Indonesia’s next president, Megawati Soekarnoputri, had time to restore the relationship, tensions ramped up again after the 2002 terrorist bombings in Bali which killed 88 Australians.
  • Since then, Australia has been diplomatically silent on other Indonesian territorial issues, such as the separatist movement in Papua.

Could the green transition help the relationship?

  • In 2022, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese visited Indonesia, where he promised A$200 million to kickstart climate and infrastructure projects.
  • The two nations already trade $18 billion of goods and services yearly, centred on Australian coal and beef and Indonesian fertilisers and petrol.
  • The agreement builds on a memorandum of understanding on electric vehicles and another between Export Finance Australia and Indonesia’s State-owned Electricity Company last year.

What are we likely to see as tangible outcomes?

  • This also means the archipelago nation has huge geothermal resources, estimated at 40% of the world’s total.
  • The best underground heat resources tend to be located in mountains or in isolated areas.
  • The KINETIK partnership could help through connecting Australian mining expertise to Indonesia’s deep heat resources.
  • Indonesia has already secured commercial deals with EV and battery manufacturers such as Hyundai and LG from South Korea, as well as Foxconn from Taiwan.

Will this be enough?

Does the US have a planned economy? You might be surprised

Retrieved on: 
söndag, juni 2, 2024
COVID-19, Sale, Walmart, SKU, Stock, Automation, Ambiguity, Anglo-French Wars, Ship, Knowledge, History, Getty, Retail

Did the “planned” economy of the USSR or the “free market” economy of the U.S. allocate resources more productively?

Key Points: 
  • Did the “planned” economy of the USSR or the “free market” economy of the U.S. allocate resources more productively?
  • Arguments against planned economies centered on the limits of information processing, the feasibility of production forecasts and the inflexibility of centralized plans.
  • The Soviet Union’s collapse seemed to relegate the economic planning concept to the dustbin of history.
  • For these companies, planning – particularly the coordination of activities across global supply chains – represents a significant strategic focus.

Thousands of products, millions of transactions

  • It integrates a range of decisions across different time horizons, from longer-term optimization of global supply networks to near-term scheduling of deliveries.
  • They do this not just once but across thousands of products and millions of transactions each day.
  • Planners attempt to coordinate this vast network of people, products and places to profitably match supply and demand.

The best-laid plans

  • Sometimes plans work; sometimes they don’t.
  • The most obvious signs of planning dysfunction are empty shelves and long wait times.
  • And even more deeply hidden are innovation delays and massive waste across the supply chain.

Automation’s potential

  • Automation, especially when it incorporates learning algorithms, has enormous potential for overcoming technological challenges.
  • Solving that problem for a global supply chain requires extremely high-quality data coupled with sophisticated analytics.
  • The need for planning talent comes at a time when labor shortages and training issues plague the supply chain.

Challenges and solutions for supply chain management

  • Finally, the global scope of today’s supply chains creates daily challenges for planning.
  • So, in addition to solving a complex demand-supply matching problem, planners must execute that solution with planes, trains, trucks and ships.
  • Companies are slowly shifting their supply chains to lower-risk places and establishing more regional networks.

A brave new-ish world

United States Mint Begins Shipping 2024 American Women Quarters™ Honoring Dr. Mary Edwards Walker on June 3

Retrieved on: 
tisdag, maj 28, 2024
AWQ, TRUST, Science, Anglo-French Wars, Humanities, Medal, Government, Life, Mint, United States Mint, Left–right political spectrum, Army, Mellon, Woman, Treasury, Portrait, Clothing, History, United States Army

Washington, DC, May 28, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The United States Mint (Mint) will begin shipping the third coin in the 2024 American Women Quarters™ (AWQ) Program on June 3.

Key Points: 
  • Washington, DC, May 28, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The United States Mint (Mint) will begin shipping the third coin in the 2024 American Women Quarters™ (AWQ) Program on June 3.
  • The Mint facilities at Philadelphia and Denver manufacture these circulating quarters honoring Dr. Mary Edwards Walker.
  • Dr. Mary Edwards Walker was the first woman United States Army surgeon, and the only woman to be awarded the Medal of Honor.
  • “The third coin of the 2024 American Women Quarters Program celebrates the life and legacy of Dr. Mary Edwards Walker,” said Mint Director Ventris C. Gibson.

Pro-Russian breakaway region Transnistria shows limits of domino theory in international relations

Retrieved on: 
tisdag, maj 28, 2024
Partnership, Second, Metaphor, Kremlin, Risk, Union, Air force, House, Congress, Representative, Face, 7th Congress, Anglo-French Wars, Public opinion, Perception, European, The

On 28 February, the leader of Moldova’s breakaway region of Transnistria, Vadim Krasnoselski, held the Seventh Congress of Deputies to discuss the implications of Moldova’s latest customs duties on Transnistrian businesses.

Key Points: 
  • On 28 February, the leader of Moldova’s breakaway region of Transnistria, Vadim Krasnoselski, held the Seventh Congress of Deputies to discuss the implications of Moldova’s latest customs duties on Transnistrian businesses.
  • Far from the international uproar, reactions on the domestic front were much more measured.
  • What we can say with certainty is that Tiraspol does not want to be involved in this conflict.

What is the domino theory’s purpose?

  • Since February 2022, the hypothesis of the Ukrainian war’s expansion has resurfaced regularly: if Ukraine falls, other countries will inevitably become targets for Russia.
  • None seems more likely than Moldova, a neighbouring neutral country whose president, Maia Sandu, has openly defied Russia since the beginning of the war in Ukraine.
  • Russian president Vladimir Putin notably justified the invasion on the grounds of protecting the two latter pseudo-states.

Why doesn’t it apply to Transnistria?

MegaWatt Metals Comments on US Ban of Russian Uranium Imports & Forecast of Increased Uranium Production from Canada

Retrieved on: 
fredag, maj 24, 2024
Lithium, Metal, Legislation, Uranium, Void coefficient, Watt, United Nations Security Council, NSC, Anglo-French Wars, Power plant engineering, Electricity, Citizenship, Uranium mining

Vancouver, British Columbia, May 24, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- MegaWatt Lithium and Battery Metals Corp. (CSE:MEGA) (FSE: WR20) (OTCQB: WALRF) (the "Company", "MegaWatt Metals" or “MegaWatt”) provides additional commentary on America’s May 14, 2024 ban on Russian imports of enriched uranium, the primary fuel used in nuclear power plants. The bipartisan bill will ban uranium imports from Moscow beginning 90 days after its enactment. Despite the pending need for America to shift its uranium supply, uranium prices continued to hold the increases gained during the late 2023 rally, possibly due to the forecast that global uranium production will grow by over 11% in 2024, with most of that increase coming from America’s largest uranium suppliers: Kazakhstan and Canada.[1]

Key Points: 
  • The bipartisan bill will ban uranium imports from Moscow beginning 90 days after its enactment.
  • [1]
    ‎Data Source BusinessInsider.com May 21, 2024
    America’s dependence on imported Russian uranium dates back to a 1993 nuclear disarmament program soon after the end of the Cold War.
  • Fortunately, at the same time that Russian imports are being taken out of the equation, global uranium production is expected to grow by over 11% this year.
  • While we’re excited that Canada is among the 2 countries where most of that increased uranium production will come from, we’re not surprised.

Greenridge Exploration Provides Regional Review of its Nut Lake Uranium Project, Thelon Basin, Nunavut

Retrieved on: 
tisdag, maj 21, 2024
News, Phanerozoic, Quartz, Geology, Dubawnt Lake, APS, Uranium, Lorado Mine, Athabasca, Complex, Coffinite, Gunnar Mine, Abbreviation, Sissons, Mining, Project, Eldorado Mine (Saskatchewan), PD, Orano, Acquisition, U3O8, GXP, Anglo-French Wars, Uranium mining

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, May 21, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Greenridge Exploration Inc. (“Greenridge” or the “Company”) (CSE: GXP | FRA: HW3), is pleased to provide a regional review of its Nut Lake Project (“Nut Lake Property” or the “Project”) located in the Thelon Basin, Nunavut Territory.

Key Points: 
  • VANCOUVER, British Columbia, May 21, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Greenridge Exploration Inc. (“Greenridge” or the “Company”) (CSE: GXP | FRA: HW3), is pleased to provide a regional review of its Nut Lake Project (“Nut Lake Property” or the “Project”) located in the Thelon Basin, Nunavut Territory.
  • The Nut Lake Property has the potential to host unconformity vein and breccia type uranium bearing systems.
  • The boundary between these Proterozoic basins and the Archean marks an unconformity that has garnered global attention for uranium exploration, characterized as "unconformity-style uranium" deposits.
  • Discovery and Exploration: Uranium deposits in the Beaverlodge area were discovered in the late 1940s, sparking a rush of exploration and development.

NANO Nuclear’s Executive Advisory Board Member General (ret) Wesley K. Clark, former NATO Supreme Allied Commander, Congratulates Company on Becoming the First Portable Microreactor Company to Publicly List in the U.S.

Retrieved on: 
måndag, maj 20, 2024
Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Clark, Bronze Star Medal, NNE, Pentagon, Associate, Chief of staff, Defense, Policy, Anglo-French Wars, Injury, Silver, Knowledge, NANO, Renewable energy

With its public listing on May 8, 2024, NANO Nuclear became the first portable nuclear microreactor company to be listed in the U.S. General Clark is one of several distinguished members of NANO Nuclear’s Executive Advisory Board, which includes accomplished military, scientific and governmental experts.

Key Points: 
  • With its public listing on May 8, 2024, NANO Nuclear became the first portable nuclear microreactor company to be listed in the U.S. General Clark is one of several distinguished members of NANO Nuclear’s Executive Advisory Board, which includes accomplished military, scientific and governmental experts.
  • “I congratulate NANO Nuclear and everyone involved in this achievement.
  • The U.S. Department of Defense needs deployable power, and NANO Nuclear can meet this need in a safe, clean and sustainable manner,” said General Clark, who serves as Chairman of NANO Nuclear’s Executive Advisory Board for Military and Defense.
  • In 2000, General Clark received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Bill Clinton for his service to the nation.

Presidential Candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and American Values 2024 File Lawsuit Against Meta for Election Interference and Censorship

Retrieved on: 
måndag, maj 13, 2024
Partnership, Meta Platforms, Pressure, Supreme court, Anglo-French Wars, Apple TV, Culture, The Morning Show, Speech, Civil Rights Act, Complaint, Social media, Meta, Left–right political spectrum, Support

Meta brazenly censored "speech by and supportive of Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr."

Key Points: 
  • Meta brazenly censored "speech by and supportive of Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr."
    The lawsuit accuses Meta et.
  • of violating Plaintiffs First Amendment rights, "civil rights law dating back to the Civil War," and "the American people's fundamental right to a presidential election decided by voters, not by trillion-dollar corporations."
  • According to the complaint, Meta brazenly censored "speech by and supportive of Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and lying to the public about it."
  • American Values 2024 released the thirty-minute film, "Who is Bobby Kennedy?"

The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) Files Brief in the Ohio Supreme Court to Defend Children against Transgender Operations

Retrieved on: 
måndag, maj 6, 2024
Physician, Constitution of Ohio, Supreme court, Female, Human, Legislation, Athlete, AAPS, Anglo-French Wars, Save

TUCSON, Ariz., May 06, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --  The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) has filed an amicus brief in the Supreme Court of Ohio to defend children against transgender operations.

Key Points: 
  • TUCSON, Ariz., May 06, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --  The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) has filed an amicus brief in the Supreme Court of Ohio to defend children against transgender operations.
  • The AAPS brief supports the Saving Ohio Adolescents from Experimentation Act and the Save Women’s Sports Act, enacted in January as H.B.
  • The brief argues that transgender operations on children further violate the requirement of medical ethics to do no harm.
  • Founded in 1943, the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons is a pro-patient association of physicians in the practice of private medicine.