We start right now with Caroline Houck of Vox describing plenty of issues affecting the worldwide transport business.
The Baltimore incident encapsulates one factor rather 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 option 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 — in all probability feels acquainted by now. Bear in mind the vast swath of shopper 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 chronic drought that started in early 2023 — compelled canal officers late final yr to chop the variety of ships that go via every day from the conventional 38 to only 24. That’s left some ships stranded for greater than two weeks, and others taking pricey roundabout routes; main transport corporations are even switching some freight to railroad “land bridges” throughout components of the nation.
And within the Pink Sea, the Houthis, a Yemen-based insurgent group that controls a lot of the nation’s north, have been waging an more and more critical 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 price. In the beginning of this month, the Houthis sank a ship. And whereas the group is reportedly permitting protected 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 connected themselves to the Baltimore tragedy.
A non-exhaustive record of issues which can be getting blamed for the bridge collapse on Telegram and X embody: 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 assist, the CIA, Jewish individuals, Israel, Russia, China, Iran, Covid vaccines, DEI, immigrants, Black individuals and lockdowns.
The Francis Scott Key truss bridge truly collapsed when the MV Dali cargo ship collided with one of many bridge helps. Six development employees, 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 individuals from “asking questions” in regards to the incident, a frequent conspiracist response to main occasions. And although conspiracy theorists are having a tough time pinpointing precisely what conspiracy triggered 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 (sometimes within the monetary markets) that may trigger important harm to a rustic’s economic system. However lately, the time period has been co-opted by the conspiracy minded to clarify an occasion triggered by the so-called deep state that may sign an imminent revolution, a 3rd world warfare, or another apocalyptic disaster.
The tip of the world is nigh says famous oracles Michael Flynn and Andrew Tate.
These two should be inhaling one thing stronger than the vapors utilized by the oracle of Delphi.
Charles Blow of The New York Occasions says that the plagiarism complaints in opposition to Black girls at Harvard proceed.
As The Harvard Crimson reported final week, three different Black girls 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 lecturers concerned within the variety, fairness and inclusion subject.
That is, in spite of everything, a part of Rufo’s plan, having introduced, “Game 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 purpose.
The narrative right here is about innate and pervasive inferiority, ineptitude and fraudulence by girls and minorities, particularly Black girls on this case. And it should be understood that the subtext, the inverse, of minority inferiority is due to this fact white supremacy.
Ken Chitwood writes for Sojourner’s that evangelicals are searching for extra sermons in regards to the utility of biblical ideas to the fashionable politics of immigration.
Because the 2024 election looms, immigration is a prime concern for voters. And in response to latest analysis from Lifeway, a whole lot of evangelicals… wish to hear extra about it from their pastors.
The report — sponsored by evangelical organizations together with the Evangelical Immigration Desk, World Aid, Nationwide Affiliation of Evangelicals, Nationwide Latino Evangelical Coalition, the Southern Baptist Conference’s Ethics & Spiritual Liberty Fee, Council for Christian Schools & Universities, and Bethany Christian Providers — mentioned greater than 4 in 5 (82 p.c) evangelicals say they might worth listening to a sermon that teaches how biblical ideas and examples could be utilized to immigration within the U.S. Amongst self-identified evangelicals, 81 p.c mentioned they might worth listening to such a sermon. That’s larger 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, mentioned the outcomes present an rising curiosity from on a regular basis evangelicals — even urgency — to obtain steering on the difficulty from the pulpit.
“An increasing number of evangelicals wish to scripture and what it has to say in regards to the immigrant, the refugee, and the stranger,” he mentioned. “Evangelicals wish to transfer past simply political speaking factors and be discipled on immigration reform.”
Heh.
I’m wondering why evangelical pastors don’t train their flocks The Phrase about how strangers needs to be handled.
And…waitaminute…I’m a heretic and a heathen (and pleased 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 record of “curses” that can 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, in response to The Phrase, displaying hospitality to the “foreigner” or “stranger”).
In fact, traditions and customs about methods to 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 kind 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 subject 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 Lawyer Normal of the USA,” Chief Decide Priscilla Richman, a George W. Bush appointee, wrote for the courtroom’s 2-1 majority holding S.B. 4 on maintain.
The determination — technically, denying Texas’s request for a keep of the district courtroom’s February injunction of the regulation in the course of the state’s attraction — adopted final week’s arguments and is the most recent ruling in the quick-moving case, however the in a single day opinion was important for 2 causes.
It’s the first ruling of substance analyzing S.B. 4 from an appeals courtroom, which is nice each time courts take actions — however significantly when these rulings are affecting the enforcement of nationwide and state legal guidelines. And, second, that is similar panel of judges that can be listening to the deserves of the S.B. 4 subsequent week, that means we have now a reasonably good concept that the identical final result will possible end result from the complete 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 — beneath each subject and battle preemption ideas.
Anton Troianovski and Milana Mazaeva of The New York Occasions 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 individuals final Friday, there was a recurring theme within the Kremlin’s response: a worry 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 manage 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 major 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 most of the most fervent supporters of Mr. Putin’s invasion are Russian nationalists whose widespread, pro-war blogs on the Telegram messaging app have brimmed with xenophobia within the days for the reason that assault.
“The borders should be shut down as a lot as potential, if not closed,” mentioned one. “The scenario now has proven that Russian society is on the brink.”
Lastly right now, 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 minimize 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 substances, can be used to explain the bowl wherein this dish is served. The culinary use is probably going associated to the Japanese adverb donburi, that means “with a splash”, which “may very well be an allusion to the sound of substances being dropped right into a bowl”, mentioned Danica Salazar, government 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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