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See the original article here: What Catholic opinion on the death penalty tells you about the encyclical’s future effect
UN’s 2011 Homicide Study – .pdf available here . When comparing two nations, the United Kingdom and Japan, whose populations are for all intents and purposes "disarmed," we still find immense, seemingly inexplicable disparity in the number of homicides. Despite both nations being disarmed and having almost no "gun-related homicides," according to UN statistics , Japan and the UK still have an astronomical gap in homicide rates
Links Who’s Behind Asia-Pacific’s Growing Tensions?
Mal Adapted said… I suppose I’ll acknowledge that not everything 8c says is ranty, strictly speaking (although I’d like to know how to work that click-and-ignore trick). As an atheist I have no personal use for the Pope’s theology either
The Wall Street Journal reports Fed Signals Rate Hikes at a Gradual Pace The Federal Reserve signaled it was moving toward interest-rate increases later this year now that signs of a slowdown in economic activity are waning, but the path of rate increases could be less steep than officials anticipated. The last time the Fed made such projections, its consensus appeared to be building around two rate increases this year
Today we also learned the Syriza Left Demands ‘Icelandic’ Default as Defiance Stiffens .
Housing Starts Decline 11.1%, Underperform Economists’ Expectations, Still Labeled "Solid"; GDPNowcast Ticks Down 0.1% Housing starts underperformed the Bloomberg Econoday Economists’ Consensus Estimate enough for the Atlanta Fed GDPNow Forecast to give back the 0.1% it gained yesterday, yet the report is still considered "solid". Don’t let the headline fool you, the housing starts & permits report points to solid strength for the housing sector.
See the original post: Shifting Sentiment in Spain: 2011 vs. 2015; Could an Anti-Euro Party Win the 2015 Spanish National…
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