Human Freedom Waning in Many Countries
This article originally appeared on theFraser Forum on January 2, 2020. (Source: Cato-at-liberty)
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 10, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Tanja Por čnik Source Type: blogs
New Human Freedom Index: U.S. Is 15, New Zealand and Switzerland Freest
Ian V ásquezThe United States ranks 15 in theHuman Freedom Index 2019 released today by the Cato Institute, the Fraser Institute in Canada, and the Liberales Institut at the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom in Germany. The five freest jurisdictions are New Zealand, Switzerland, Hong Kong, Canada, and Australia.The annual Index uses 76 indicators of personal, civil, and economic freedom in 162 countries for 2017, the most recent year for which sufficient, globally comparable data are available. The report finds that global freedom has declined slightly since 2008, with more countries (79) seeing a fall in their lev...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 18, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Ian V ásquez Source Type: blogs
All I Wanted for Christmas Was a National Defense Authorization Act
Brandon ValerianoWe finally have an NDAA! This is exciting news for many, mainly because operating under a Continuing Resolution is detrimental to national defense, since it funds past priorities without updating our outlays in light of evolving events and challenges.The FY 2020NDAA includes some provisions that might excite us, such federal parental leave, more support for child care within the military, and a pay increase for the military to retain the best and increase social services. Other contributions are less than enthralling (a paragraph on firefighting foam?!?).AsChris Preble notes, one of the main failings of ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 10, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Brandon Valeriano Source Type: blogs
The Pensacola Mass Shooting and Terrorism
Alex NowrastehEarlier today, Second Lt. Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani of the Royal Saudi Airforcemurdered three people and injured eight others in a mass shooting at the Naval Air Station in Pensacola, Florida. Alshamrani was at the Naval Air Station learninghow to fly. The FBI and other law enforcement agencies are currently investigating whether Alshamrani ’s mass shooting was a terrorist attack, but they have notreached a conclusion yet.According to theGlobal Terrorism Database, terrorism is the threatened or actual use of illegal force and violence by a non-state actor to attain a political, economic, religious, or socia...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 7, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
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Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - November 23, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: LiveONLINE Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Eppie
I ' ve considered writing about Jeffrey Epstein for a long time, but I kept expecting more information about the sordid case to be forthcoming from the Southern District of New York. So far however we have seen no additional indictments or any investigative report. This surprises many people because there are strong indications that there is ample basis for additional indictments, despite Epstein ' s death. I ' ll get to that.I don ' t have any information to add to what is publicly known, obviously, but many people don ' t fully understand the story and the mysteries connected with it, so I figured I ' d provide a summary...
Source: Stayin' Alive - November 6, 2019 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
The Worst Crime
Not obstructing justice, not holding up military aid to Ukraine to force the country to gin up a smear of the Biden family, not profiting from the office, not condoning the murder of a Saudi journalist, not even inciting racist violence or anything else but this:Denying the reality of anthropogenic climate change and doing everything possible to reverse Obama era action to combat it.More than 11,000 climate scientists from all over the world have signed on to this article in Bioscience, a peer-reviewed publication of the American Institute of Biological Sciences. Yeah yeah, I know, all 11,000 of them are in on the hoax for...
Source: Stayin' Alive - November 5, 2019 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Trump ’s Needlessly Dangerous Saudi Arabia Deployment
Ted Galen CarpenterThe Trump administration has approved the deployment to Saudi Arabia of Air Force F-15s, new air defense systems, and other military hardware, along with U.S. troops to operate and maintain those weapons systems.These new measures the Pentagon announced on October 11 will bring the total U.S. troop deployment to the kingdom to 3,000 since a mid-September attack on Saudi oil facilities.Speaking to reporters after the announcement,Secretary of Defense Mark Esper said that it is now “clear that Iranians are responsible” for the attacks and warned that Washington has additional units “on alert” that ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 14, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Ted Galen Carpenter Source Type: blogs
Brain Training And Counting Bees: This Week ’s Best Psychology Links
Our weekly round-up of the best psychology coverage from elsewhere on the web
There’s not much evidence that brain training apps really improve our cognitive abilities – so why do so many people use them? Sabrina Weiss at Wired has the answers.
More colour-related research this week: people who live in grey, rainy countries far away from the equator are more likely to associate yellow with joy, reports Eva Frederick in Science. Most people in Finland, for instance, felt that yellow was related to the feeling of joy, while very few of those in countries like Egypt and Saudi Arabia made that association.
Humans can...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - October 11, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Weekly links Source Type: blogs
What Happens When Genomics Meets Politics?
The number of people having their genomes sequenced
could reach more than 100 million by 2025, researchers estimated. Policy-makers around the world started to realize
the incredible potential in genomics for population health in the last 3-5
years, but there are huge question marks whether they can manage the use of this
incredibly useful pool of data in an appropriate framework, with well-thought-out
means, for the right purposes, meaning for the well-being of humans and
communities in the present and the future. Here, we launched an article series
to look at the countries with the most experience. Let’s start with a t...
Source: The Medical Futurist - September 28, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine Genomics Healthcare Policy data data privacy data security Estonia ethics Gene genetic genetics Genome genome sequencing health data personal genomics Personalized medicine population population genomic Source Type: blogs
Sunday Sermonette: Us and Them
As I have said many times, the chapter divisions were added by medieval scribes and often don ' t seem to make a lot of sense. Exodus 23 is obviously three different segments which may well come from entirely different original sources. It starts out ascribing moral principles which, in contrast to much of what we have seen so far, are largely consistent with what we think of as virtuous today. Then it prescribes some religious practices which include some of God ' s odd obsessions but whatever. Then it turns really, really ugly. (I ' ve gone back to the New International Version for this one, it seems clearer in some plac...
Source: Stayin' Alive - September 22, 2019 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Interventionists Evade Responsibility for Their Policy Disasters
Ted Galen CarpenterAs I point out in a newNational Interest Onlinearticle, a multi-sided struggle for power in Libya continues to fester more than eight years after the United States led an air war to help rebels oust longtime dictator Muammar Qaddafi.Libya joins Iraq and Syria as a classic example of the failed U.S. regime-change strategy.Fighting between Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar ’s so-called Libyan National Army (LNA) and the even more misnamed Government of National Accord (GNA) has intensified in and around the capital, Tripoli. The LNA boasted on September 11 that its forces had routed troops of the Sarraj milit...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 20, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Ted Galen Carpenter Source Type: blogs
The Macro View – Health, Economics, and Politics and the Big Picture. What I Am Watching Here And Abroad.
September 19, 2019 Edition.-----As I type the Iranians seem to have attacked some major oil facilities in Saudi Arabia and we await the US response. I suspect Trump will not be happy! Otherwise US foreign policy is now in the hands of one man so we have to wait and see what he decides to suggest Trump does and to see what other changes now happen over all the other issues – North Korea, Middle East etc. As of Thursday we still don't know what the Trump will do in response...The Brexit fiasco drags on…too confusing for words and now totally unpredictable. The UK Supreme Court presently is considering what was legal with...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - September 18, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Saudi Schmaudi
It seems to me that the politicians, pundits and people in general are largely overlooking the most important implications of the recent attack on Saudi oil processing facilities. I can ' t judge the credibility of recent U.S. and Saudi claims that the attack was launched from Iranian territory, but I will accept that Occam ' s razor supports the conclusion that the perpetrator was some faction allied with Iran, with or without the endorsement of Ayatollah Kahmenei. Let ' s leave that aside for the moment.Here ' s the geography:Notice that if the attack was launched from Iranian territory, the devices flew over the Gulf (c...
Source: Stayin' Alive - September 18, 2019 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
