Posts Tagged ‘precarious’

A pandemic of fallacious thinking and civic irresponsibility: The precarious state of reason

Given that life and death literally rest on the validity of the “arguments”—if they are even worthy of the term–that have been bandied about in favor of not getting vaccinated for Covid19, they deserve the most intense scrutiny we can muster. Each is bad enough in itself, but taken together, they reinforce one another. They bunch together […]

Young People Leading Growing Movement Against Low Pay And Precarious Work

Young People Leading Growing Movement Against Low Pay And Precarious Work Above: TGI Friday’s employees are joined by McStrikers during a demo in Covent Garden. Wil Chivers, Author provided. Strikes have taken place at McDonald’s and TGI Friday’s restaurants across the UK in recent months. These strikes are the first of their kind in the UK, instigated by a new generation of trade union […]

Precarious Communications: Julian Assange, Internet Access And Ecuador

Precarious Communications: Julian Assange, Internet Access And Ecuador Above Photo: From Countercurrents.org Being a netizen, to use that popular term of sociological derivation, can be a difficult business. It presumes digital engagement, often of the sharper sort.  To become a fully-fledged member of such citizenry, however, presumes access, a degree of Internet speed and appropriate platforms. […]

Jewish Nation-State Bill: Israel’s Precarious Identity Is Palestine’s Nightmare

The Israeli Knesset (parliament) has hurriedly passed a new bill that defines Israel as the national home of the Jewish people. Although the association between Jewishness and Israel goes back to the foundation of the state, the new law also carries clear discriminatory elements that target the countrys Arab communities, numbering nearly two million people. […]

Epic dad #FAIL: Family snow games go horribly wrong (VIDEO)

It starts off so innocently. A family playing in their snowy garden, with mom recording the precious memories on video. Things then take a controversial, yet hilarious turn when the dad hoists a giant, rolled snowball above his head and launches at it his small child as they run away, knocking them face-first into the […]

Epic dad #FAIL: Family snow games go horribly wrong (VIDEO)

It starts off so innocently. A family playing in their snowy garden, with mom recording the precious memories on video. Things then take a controversial, yet hilarious turn when the dad hoists a giant, rolled snowball above his head and launches at it his small child as they run away, knocking them face-first into the […]

Epic dad #FAIL: Family snow games go horribly wrong (VIDEO)

It starts off so innocently. A family playing in their snowy garden, with mom recording the precious memories on video. Things then take a controversial, yet hilarious turn when the dad hoists a giant, rolled snowball above his head and launches at it his small child as they run away, knocking them face-first into the […]

EU gives Greece 3 months to fix borders or risk Schengen suspension

A list of 50 recommendations for Greece was drawn up on the basis of a report compiled by the EU Commission last week. When the proposal was tabled in Brussels on Friday, among the 26 Schengen states, only Greece voted against, with Cyprus and Bulgaria abstaining. “It is of utmost importance that Greece addresses the […]

Astronaut to carry text of Paris climate deal into space

When times are good, it pays to be the big fish in the sea; in the aftermath of disaster, however, smaller is better. Source Article from http://phys.org/news/2015-11-astronaut-text-paris-climate-space.html

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