We start at the moment with Caroline Houck of Vox describing numerous issues affecting the worldwide transport business.
The Baltimore incident encapsulates one factor very well: simply how globalized the transport business is. The Dali was a Singapore-flagged ship, with an all Indian-nationality crew, operated by the Danish firm Maersk and on its approach to Sri Lanka. (Fortunately, there have been no accidents reported among the many crew of the ship.)
This diploma of interconnectedness — and the way fragile all of it is — most likely feels acquainted by now. Bear in mind the extensive swath of client items that had been subjected to again orders and shortages in 2021 as the worldwide provide chain fell sufferer to a sequence of interconnected issues, together with (however undoubtedly not restricted to) points with container ships and ports?
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Low water ranges in Panama — the results of a protracted drought that started in early 2023 — pressured canal officers late final yr to chop the variety of ships that move via every day from the traditional 38 to simply 24. That’s left some ships stranded for greater than two weeks, and others taking pricey roundabout routes; main transport firms are even switching some freight to railroad “land bridges” throughout elements of the nation.
And within the Purple Sea, the Houthis, a Yemen-based insurgent group that controls a lot of the nation’s north, have been waging an more and more severe marketing campaign of assaults in opposition to transport, purportedly in protest of Israel’s warfare in Gaza. Ships are rerouting right here, too, this time across the Horn of Africa, or going through the chance at added value. Firstly of this month, the Houthis sank a ship. And whereas the group is reportedly permitting secure passage to some ships — these affiliated with Russia and China — that’s not essentially a foolproof assure.
David Gilbert of WIRED experiences on all of the conspiracy theories which have hooked up themselves to the Baltimore tragedy.
A non-exhaustive checklist of issues which might be getting blamed for the bridge collapse on Telegram and X embrace: President Joe Biden, Hamas, ISIS, P Diddy, Nickelodeon, India, former President Barack Obama, Islam, aliens, Sri Lanka, the World Financial Discussion board, the United Nations, Wokeness, Ukraine, overseas help, the CIA, Jewish folks, Israel, Russia, China, Iran, Covid vaccines, DEI, immigrants, Black folks and lockdowns.
The Francis Scott Key truss bridge truly collapsed when the MV Dali cargo ship collided with one of many bridge helps. Six building staff, who had been filling potholes on the bridge on the time, are presumed useless. The ship is owned by Singapore-based Grace Ocean Personal Ltd, and the 22-person crew had been all Indian. The ship was on path to Colombo, Sri Lanka on the time of the accident.
This didn’t cease folks from “asking questions” concerning the incident, a frequent conspiracist response to main occasions. And although conspiracy theorists are having a tough time pinpointing precisely what conspiracy prompted the collapse, the one factor they do agree on is that this incident is a “black swan occasion.”
The time period “black swan occasion” has been round for many years, and is used to explain a serious world occasion (usually within the monetary markets) that may trigger vital harm to a rustic’s economic system. However lately, the time period has been co-opted by the conspiracy minded to elucidate an occasion triggered by the so-called deep state that might sign an imminent revolution, a 3rd world warfare, or another apocalyptic disaster.
The top of the world is nigh says famous oracles Michael Flynn and Andrew Tate.
These two need to be inhaling one thing stronger than the vapors utilized by the oracle of Delphi.
Charles Blow of The New York Instances says that the plagiarism complaints in opposition to Black ladies at Harvard proceed.
As The Harvard Crimson reported final week, three different Black ladies on the college have had nameless complaints of plagiarism lodged in opposition to them since Homosexual’s departure. Christopher Rufo, a right-wing provocateur and instigator, instantly cheered the complaints on social media, claiming they had been a part of a transparent sample for teachers concerned within the variety, fairness and inclusion subject.
That is, in any case, a part of Rufo’s plan, having introduced, “Sport on,” after serving to to push out Homosexual. The veracity of the complaints doesn’t matter; the reputational hurt — to the accused and to the concept of inclusion — is the aim.
The narrative right here is about innate and pervasive inferiority, ineptitude and fraudulence by ladies and minorities, particularly Black ladies on this case. And it should be understood that the subtext, the inverse, of minority inferiority is subsequently white supremacy.
Ken Chitwood writes for Sojourner’s that evangelicals are in search of extra sermons concerning the software of biblical ideas to the fashionable politics of immigration.
Because the 2024 election looms, immigration is a high concern for voters. And based on latest analysis from Lifeway, a variety of evangelicals… need to hear extra about it from their pastors.
The report — sponsored by evangelical organizations together with the Evangelical Immigration Desk, World Reduction, Nationwide Affiliation of Evangelicals, Nationwide Latino Evangelical Coalition, the Southern Baptist Conference’s Ethics & Spiritual Liberty Fee, Council for Christian Faculties & Universities, and Bethany Christian Companies — stated greater than 4 in 5 (82 p.c) evangelicals say they’d worth listening to a sermon that teaches how biblical ideas and examples may be utilized to immigration within the U.S. Amongst self-identified evangelicals, 81 p.c stated they’d worth listening to such a sermon. That’s increased than outcomes from earlier Lifeway research in 2022 (77 p.c) and 2015 (68 p.c).
Gabriel Salguero, president of the Nationwide Latino Evangelical Coalition, stated the outcomes present an growing curiosity from on a regular basis evangelicals — even urgency — to obtain steerage on the difficulty from the pulpit.
“Increasingly evangelicals want to scripture and what it has to say concerning the immigrant, the refugee, and the stranger,” he stated. “Evangelicals need to transfer past simply political speaking factors and be discipled on immigration reform.”
Heh.
I’m wondering why evangelical pastors don’t educate their flocks The Phrase about how strangers ought to be handled.
And…waitaminute…I’m a heretic and a heathen (and happy with it), however I’m additionally my Auntie L.’s oldest nephew, raised, largely, by her and raised within the church, and I can’t let this “Brian Clark” Fb posting of Scripture that opens Mr. Chitwood’s story go with out remark.
By custom, the twenty eighth chapter of Deuteronomy is a set of directions from God delivered by Moses to the Israelites simply earlier than they entered the Promised Land. about the rewards of being obedient to God and the penalties of failing to be obedient to God. Verses 1-14 covers the rewards and blessings of those that “observe and to do all his commandments.”
Verses 15-68 covers a prolonged checklist of “curses” that will probably be introduced upon the Israelites if “thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God.”
So…Deuteronomy 28:43-44 solely applies to you, Brian, if you don’t “observe and to do all his commandments.”
So my recommendation to “Brian Clark” is to cease worrying about “foreigners” and to MYOB (which incorporates, based on The Phrase, displaying hospitality to the “foreigner” or “stranger”).
After all, traditions and customs about how you can deal with the stranger aren’t simply biblical; each tradition of the traditional world that I’ve ever examine had these codes of hospitality.
What sort of Bible studying are these evangelicals doing?
Chris Geidner of LawDork experiences that Texas regulation S.B.4 stays on maintain.
“The Texas legal guidelines at situation allow state authorities to prosecute a person for being unlawfully current and take away people who’re unlawfully current or detachable, with none session or cooperation with the Legal professional Basic of the USA,” Chief Choose Priscilla Richman, a George W. Bush appointee, wrote for the courtroom’s 2-1 majority protecting S.B. 4 on maintain.
The resolution — technically, denying Texas’s request for a keep of the district courtroom’s February injunction of the regulation through the state’s attraction — adopted final week’s arguments and is the newest ruling in the quick-moving case, however the in a single day opinion was vital for 2 causes.
It’s the first ruling of substance analyzing S.B. 4 from an appeals courtroom, which is nice every time courts take actions — however notably when these rulings are affecting the enforcement of nationwide and state legal guidelines. And, second, that is identical panel of judges that will probably be listening to the deserves of the S.B. 4 subsequent week, that means we have now a reasonably good concept that the identical end result will possible end result from the total attraction. […]
The majority of Richman’s intensive opinion…is about preemption itself and makes a robust case for why Texas’s regulation is clearly preempted — albeit written about Texas’s “possible” success in gentle of the procedural posture of the case, a keep request on a preliminary injunction attraction — underneath each subject and battle preemption ideas.
Anton Troianovski and Milana Mazaeva of The New York Instances report that the Kremlin fears that the response to the Crocus Metropolis Corridor bloodbath may spark ethnic tensions inside Russia.
Within the wake of the assault close to Moscow that killed 139 folks final Friday, there was a recurring theme within the Kremlin’s response: a concern that the tragedy may spur ethnic strife inside Russia. Whereas Mr. Putin and his safety chiefs are accusing Ukraine — with out proof — of getting helped arrange the killing, the truth that the 4 detained suspects within the assault are from the predominantly Muslim Central Asian nation of Tajikistan is stoking anti-migrant rhetoric on-line.
For Mr. Putin, the issue is magnified by the competing priorities of his warfare in Ukraine. Members of Muslim minority teams make up a big share of the Russian troopers combating and dying. Migrants from Central Asia are offering a lot of the labor that retains Russia’s economic system operating and its navy provide chain buzzing.
However lots of the most fervent supporters of Mr. Putin’s invasion are Russian nationalists whose standard, pro-war blogs on the Telegram messaging app have brimmed with xenophobia within the days because the assault.
“The borders need to be shut down as a lot as potential, if not closed,” stated one. “The state of affairs now has proven that Russian society is on the brink.”
Lastly at the moment, Ella Creamer of the Guardian experiences that 23 Japanese phrases have been added to the Oxford English Dictionary.
Greater than half of the borrowed phrases relate to meals or cooking. Santoku, a knife with a brief, flat blade that curves down on the tip, and okonomiyaki, a kind of savoury pancake, had been each added. Okonomiyaki is derived from okonomi, that means “what you want”, mixed with yaki, that means “to fry, to sear”.
Katsu – a chunk of meat, seafood, or vegetable, coated with flour, egg, and panko breadcrumbs, deep-fried, and lower into strips – is taken into account a boomerang phrase, a case of reborrowing: katsu is the shortened type of katsuretsu, which is a borrowing into Japanese of the English phrase “cutlet”.
Donburi, a Japanese dish consisting of rice topped with different elements, can also be used to explain the bowl by which this dish is served. The culinary use is probably going associated to the Japanese adverb donburi, that means “with a splash”, which “might be an allusion to the sound of elements being dropped right into a bowl”, stated Danica Salazar, govt editor of OED World Englishes.
Omotenashi, which describes good hospitality, characterised by “thoughtfulness, shut consideration to element, and the anticipation of a visitor’s wants”, was additionally added to the dictionary.
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