We find that the most generous welfare states in Europe do not perform better than other less comprehensive welfare state regimes.--a paper
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Reuters reports the German government, Siemens AG, and other parties will provide billions of euros in project-related guarantees to support Siemens AG's struggling wind turbine division. This financial assistance comes just weeks after the company warned about mounting losses amid a meltdown across wind and solar industries.
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The average Puerto Rico number of births per woman was 0.9 in 2021.
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Bigotry and Madness
Three Palestinian students were shot in Burlington, Vermont in late November. Initial reports were that the attack was a textbook case of Islamophobia: the shooter, James J. Eaton, had allegedly “harassed” the students and then opened fire on them because they were wearing keffiyehs and speaking Arabic.
But that description did not fit the shooter, who was a known “progressive” who had made social media posts in support of Hamas in the aftermath of Oct. 7. Nor did he say anything to the students before the incident. The shooting probably wasn’t political at all: According to Eaton’s mother and his girlfriend, he had a “history of violence and mental illness.” Probably, he simply picked his targets at random in his moment of lunacy. (from don)
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Reuters reports the German government, Siemens AG, and other parties will provide billions of euros in project-related guarantees to support Siemens AG's struggling wind turbine division. This financial assistance comes just weeks after the company warned about mounting losses amid a meltdown across wind and solar industries.
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The average Puerto Rico number of births per woman was 0.9 in 2021.
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Bigotry and Madness
Three Palestinian students were shot in Burlington, Vermont in late November. Initial reports were that the attack was a textbook case of Islamophobia: the shooter, James J. Eaton, had allegedly “harassed” the students and then opened fire on them because they were wearing keffiyehs and speaking Arabic.
But that description did not fit the shooter, who was a known “progressive” who had made social media posts in support of Hamas in the aftermath of Oct. 7. Nor did he say anything to the students before the incident. The shooting probably wasn’t political at all: According to Eaton’s mother and his girlfriend, he had a “history of violence and mental illness.” Probably, he simply picked his targets at random in his moment of lunacy. (from don)
I try to keep current on these things but I never heard that. Just as I haven't heard the motives of so many of these murderers. It is as if the generalities society demands we make of the subsets that we are told divide and separate us suddenly do not apply--or are mailable for some larger, unspoken purpose.
But should the culture allow these random mad acts to be translated by motivated people as bigoted animosity? Can a free people tolerate that?
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