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Tweet Interesting article from a man married to an anti-vaxxer . It reminds me a little about studies showing that a prejudiced people need intense contact with the members of the group they’re biased against before eliminating their prejudice; casual contact can be counterproductive. In the case of the article, overcoming bias was a two-way street, with the author having to abandon his (lazy) belief that anti-vaxxers were just uninformed and stupid.
See the original article here: Plotting the Number of Banks: Is the Goal One "TBTF" Bank?
In yet another oil price crash side effect, Dollar Denominated Loans in Saudi Arabia Jump 600% . Dollar borrowing in Saudi Arabia has surged seven-fold this year as the kingdom’s companies switch out of increasingly expensive local currency-denominated loans. About 65 percent of all loans taken out in Saudi Arabia through Tuesday were in dollars, compared with 13 percent for all of 2014, according to data compiled by Bloomberg
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Tweet John Chait in New York Magazine, has a thumb sucker balancing between glory and despair about the upcoming Paris conference For human to wean ourselves off carbon-emitting fossil fuel, we will have to use some combination of edict and invention — there is no other plausible way around it. The task before the world is best envisioned not as a singular event but as two distinct but interrelated revolutions, one in political willpower and the other in technological innovation. It has taken a long time for each to materialize, in part because the absence of one has compounded the difficulty of the other.
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Brookings would elaborate upon this criminal conspiracy in their more recent report titled, " Deconstructing Syria: Towards a regionalized strategy for a confederal country ." It states (emphasis added): The idea would be to help moderate elements establish reliable safe zones within Syria once they were able. American, as well as Saudi and Turkish and British and Jordanian and other Arab forces would act in support, not only from the air but eventually on the ground via the presence of special forces as well.  The approach would benefit from Syria’s open desert terrain which could allow creation of buffer zones that could be monitored for possible signs of enemy attack through a combination of technologies, patrols, and other methods that outside special forces could help Syrian local fighters set up.