Kasich: Forget the Green New Deal. We need climate solutions from free-market moderates.

John R. Kasich, Opinion contributor Published 4:00 a.m. ET March 11, 2019

Our climate change response should be based on free-market capitalism and personal choice, not coercion. We already know that these approaches work.

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There’s a lot of talk these days about the Green New Deal, a progressive Democratic response to the challenge of climate change. While it is intended to improve our environment, many Republicans and even some Democrats fear that it would stifle economic growth and kill jobs, set off a massive redistribution of wealth, and dangerously centralize federal government power.

But for all those problems, the Green New Deal is serving an important purpose by provoking a more vigorous level of public debate. We’ve finally reached a tipping point. Scientists, business leaders, 13 federal government agencies — including the Defense Department — and most of our allies around the world are convinced that climate change is happening and that strong, concerted actions are needed to minimize its effects.

Not all our political leaders have come on board with that consensus, but denial is no longer enough. The time has come for people who understand the need to be good stewards of our economy as well as our environment to put forward a responsible program.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2019/03/11/green-new-deal-climate-change-free-market-solutions-john-kasich-column/3122692002/?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzRss&utm_campaign=usatoday-newstopstories

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Trade ties in focus as Iran's Rouhani begins Iraq visit

Ahmed Rasheed

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has arrived in Baghdad, Iraq’s government said on Monday, on an official visit aimed at shoring up Tehran’s influence and expanding trade ties.

It is Rouhani’s first visit to Baghdad. Prior to his departure he said Shi’ite Iran was determined to strengthen brotherly ties with its neighbour, Iranian state television reported on Monday.

The visit will send a strong message to the United States and its regional allies that, in the face of U.S. sanctions, Iran still plays a dominant role in Iraqi politics.

During the three-day visit a series of agreements will be signed in energy, transport, agriculture, industry and health, Iran’s state news agency IRNA said.

“We are very much interested to expand our ties … particularly our transport cooperation,” Rouhani said at Tehran’s Mehrabad airport.

He will visit a Shi’ite Muslim shrine in Baghdad’s Khadhimiya district prior to a welcome ceremony, the offices of Iraq’s president and prime minister said.

A senior Iranian official accompanying Rouhani told Reuters that Iraq was “another channel for Iran to bypass America’s unjust sanctions…. This trip will provide opportunities for Iran’s economy

The sharp downturn in Iran’s economy since U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision last May to pull out of a 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and six major powers has pushed the country’s leaders to try to expand trade ties with neighbours.

The agreement lifted sanctions that had been imposed by the United States, European Union and United Nations in return for Iran curbing aspects of its nuclear programme.

The Trump administration said the accord was too generous and failed to rein in Iran’s ballistic missile capabilities and its involvement in regional conflicts in Syria and Yemen.

Brexit in peril if PM May's deal is rejected - foreign minister Hunt

Other signatories to the deal have been trying to salvage the pact, but U.S. sanctions have largely scared off European companies from doing business with Iran.

The Europeans have promised to help firms do business with Iran as long as it abides by the deal. Iran has itself threatened to pull out of the 2015 deal unless EU powers demonstrably protect its economic benefits.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-iraq-visit/trade-ties-in-focus-as-irans-rouhani-begins-iraq-visit-idUSKBN1QS0FI?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Reuters%2FworldNews+%28Reuters+World+News%29

Russian Defense Ministry refutes reports about strikes on Idlib de-escalation zone

Military & Defense March 11, 10:51 UTC+3

The Kommersant daily reported on Monday that on March 9 Russian aircraft carried out surgical strikes against militant targets in Syria’s Idlib Governorate

MOSCOW, March 11. /TASS/. Russia’s Aerospace Forces did not carry out any strikes against targets in the Idlib de-escalation zone, the Russian Defense Ministry reported on Monday.

According to the ministry, reports in Russian media outlets on surgical airstrikes against targets in Syria’s Idlib Governorate are untrue.

"Russia’s Aerospace Forces carried out no strikes against targets in the Idlib de-escalation zone," the ministry stressed.

The Kommersant daily reported on Monday that on March 9 Russian aircraft stationed at Hmeymim airbase (Latakia Governorate) carried out surgical strikes against militant targets in Syria’s Idlib Governorate. According to the newspaper’s sources, the strikes were delivered on Idlib’s northwestern area near Jisr ash-Shugur, some 55 km from Hmeymim. The move had been agreed on with Ankara, they said

http://tass.com/defense/1048080

Random entrepreneurs stage minor tax-related demonstrations outside government HQ

YEREVAN, MARCH 11, ARMENPRESS. A small number of random entrepreneurs from various fields are protesting outside the Government headquarters in downtown Yerevan.

Businessmen engaged in soft drink production are demonstrating against a planned amendment in the tax code whereby the beverages produced in Armenia will be taxed under the excise system.

They claim this will lead to lowered demand of their products and that factories will be shut down.

Also among the protesters were entrepreneurs operating pawnshops and currency exchange offices.

Pawnbrokers and currency exchange operators are protesting against planned changes in the law on state duty that envisages raising the pawnshop duty 60 times. The current state duty is 100,000 drams, and the changes will make it 6,000,000. The currency exchange operators are protesting against a similar tax change.

They are demanding a revision of the planned changes and involvement in discussions.

The demonstrators are also demanding audience with Finance Minister Atom Janjughazyan.

Edited and translated by Stepan Kocharyan

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ONLY REGARDING THE ROYAL WEDDING IN THESE TWO

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>>5620760

I THINK JOHN PERRY BARLOW MAY HAVE BEEN TIME TRAVELER

started to post why it thought then chickened out for now

>>5620771

WHAT IF NOT SO MUCH TIME TRAVELERS BUT ….. WAIT FOR IT

REINCARNATED BUT NOT THE WAY WE UNDERSTOOD OR COULD HAVE COMPREHENDED. HOW COULD WE, IT WAS HIDDEN FROM US TO KEEP US IN FEAR OF 'DEATH'

WHEN I HEAR IT'S PRETTY SKOOKUM POPPING IN AND OUT HERE AND THERE, DIMENSIONS,SPACE, TIME, FREQUENCIES

>>5620779

I WILL BUT IT WAS THE AUTIST IN ME SO GO FROM THERE….. which is why i didn't go further at this time …

let me go look then

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well this is from the day he died….. whatever date they decided on

an index of interviews with him….. image 1

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TEDxMarin - John Perry Barlow - The Right to Know

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John Perry Barlow is a retired Wyoming rancher (and native), a former lyricist for the Grateful Dead, and the co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a civil liberties organization which has been protecting the free flow of information on the Internetsince 1990. He remains on the board of that organization. He has been writing about society in Cyberspace since 1988 and was first to apply that name to the global social space it presently describes. He was a founding Fellow at Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet and Society and is presently engaged in starting a company, Algae Systems, that aspires to turn sewage into carbon negative jet fuel. He is the father of three daughters and his primary aspiration is to be a good ancestor. In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized. (Subject to certain rules and regulations.)

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Bob Weir Sings Cassidy To John Perry Barlow On His Deathbed

u Jake Feinberg Show

⇑ Feb 12 2018

John Perry Barlow Dead: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

ohn Perry Barlow, the Grateful Dead lyricist, poet, writer, and Internet freedom activist, has died at the age of 70.

The sad news was confirmed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation that Barlow founded. “With a broken heart I have to announce that EFF’s founder, visionary, and our ongoing inspiration, John Perry Barlow, passed away quietly in his sleep this morning. We will miss Barlow and his wisdom for decades to come, and he will always be an integral part of EFF,” the site reported, labeling Barlow an “Internet pioneer.”

In the article A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace, Barlow famously argued that the Internet should be free of government control: “Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather.” As Wired recalled it, Barlow was ahead of the times, as he wrote the essay in 1996 on “a clunky Apple laptop.”

The Electronic Frontier Foundation focused on Barlow’s contributions to Internet freedom, which is one of his most lasting legacies and, in many people’s minds, he was ahead of the curve on it.

“Barlow knew that new technology could create and empower evil as much as it could create and empower good. He made a conscious decision to focus on the latter,” the site wrote, quoting him as saying, “I knew it’s also true that a good way to invent the future is to predict it. So I predicted Utopia, hoping to give Liberty a running start before the laws of Moore and Metcalfe delivered up what Ed Snowden now correctly calls ‘turn-key totalitarianism.’”

According to the Berkman Klein Center, “His manifesto, A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace has been widely distributed on the Net and can be found on more than 20,000 sites. Partly as a consequence of that, he was called ‘the Thomas Jefferson of Cyberspace’ by Yahoo Internet Life Magazine back when such cyber-hyperbole was fashionable.”

The EFF wrote in a tribute to Barlow that “Barlow’s lasting legacy is that he devoted his life to making the Internet into ‘a world that all may enter without privilege or prejudice accorded by race, economic power, military force, or station of birth . . . a world where anyone, anywhere may express his or her beliefs, no matter how singular, without fear of being coerced into silence or conformity.'”

Barlow co-founded the Freedom Of The Press Foundation as well.

https://heavy.com/news/2018/02/john-perry-barlow-dead-death-cause-of-wife/

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Bob Weir is a founder of the iconic rock band, The Grateful Dead. It was through high school that Weir and Barlow became acquainted. According to Variety, “Barlow graduated from Wesleyan University in 1969. He operated a livestock company in Wyoming before selling it.”

According to the Berkman Klein Center, Barlow was “educated… in a one-room schoolhouse” and “In 1971, he began operating the BarCross Land and Livestock Company, a large cow-calf operation in Cora, Wyoming where he grew up. He continued to do so until he sold it in 1988.”

“He attended the Fountain Valley School in Colorado Springs, Colorado starting at age 15. There, he met fellow student Bob Weir. John Perry Barlow and Bob Weir forged a friendship that lasted through Barlow’s death,” JamBase reported.

Greek NPO boss on his way to UN assembly saved from Ethiopia crash by being late

2019-03-11 11:12

Athens – A Greek man said on Sunday he would have been the 150th passenger on the Nairobi-bound Ethiopian Airlines Boeing plane that crashed and killed all on board, except he arrived two minutes late for the flight.

"I was mad because nobody helped me to reach the gate on time," Antonis Mavropoulos said in a Facebook post entitled "My lucky day" in which he includes a photo of his ticket.

Mavropoulos, president of the International Solid Waste Association, a non-profit organisation, was travelling to Nairobi to attend the annual assembly of the UN Environment Programme, according to Athens News Agency.

ALSO READ - UPDATE: Several UN staffers die in Ethiopian Airlines crash

https://www.news24.com/Africa/News/greek-npo-boss-on-his-way-to-un-assembly-saved-from-ethiopia-crash-by-being-late-20190311

If you're safe from cholera, thank my dad, a plumber (and thank the ancient Romans)

Lindsay Denny, Opinion contributor Published 5:00 a.m. ET March 11, 2019

I come from a family of plumbers, and we've heard our share of plumber's crack jokes. But there's nothing funny about sanitation in public health.

My father once told me that plumbers were the original public health professionals. Growing up, I never gave the sentiment much thought. Mostly, I just heard a lot of plumber’s crack jokes as a kid, and our family’s vacation photos were punctuated with unique toilets my dad came across on our travels. That’s because plumbing is our family business — quite literally.

He and all of his brothers are plumbers, just like their father and uncle. Many of my cousins have worked for the family’s company at some point. Yet, even as I pursued a degree in global health, I never paused to consider the long-standing health impact of their work.

So I will never forget the look on my dad’s face when I told him that I had been hired to bring awareness to a newly recognized, massive gap in health care — the lack of clean water and sanitation, and by extension hygiene, inside tens of thousands of hospitals in developing countries.

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He was absolutely aghast. How could this still be the case? The technology, the skills, even the building codes had existed for years. The singular effectiveness of clean water, toilets and soap in preventing the spread of disease is clear.

Plumbing, sanitation are older than you think

The earliest examples of sanitation date back 5,000 years to the Orkney Islands of Scotland. From Babylonia to Egypt, China to Greece, civilizations understood the fundamental importance of human hygiene, and complex infrastructures still stand as monuments to it. Rome’s famous aqueducts distributed collected water through lead pipes, while its sewage system called Cloaca Maxima was connected throughout the entire city (parts of which are still functional 2,000 years later!).

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2019/03/11/world-plumbing-day-water-sanitation-public-column/3102889002/?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzRss&utm_campaign=usatoday-newstopstories

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Donald Trump wants allies to pay much more for hosted US troops

US President Donald Trump wants countries hosting US troops to pay 150 percent of the cost or more, a report says. Germany could be one of the countries asked to pay the most.

Countries hosting US forces could in future be asked to cough up five or six times the money they pay now for the privilege if the US Trump administration gets its way, according to reports in US media.

The Bloomberg news agency reported last week that the administration was working on plans to demand that countries such as Germany and Japan pay the full costs of the deployment plus 50 percent or more.

Germany, which hosts the second-largest US military presence abroad after Japan, could be hard-hit by the demand.

There are some 35,000 US military personnel in Germany, as here in Bamberg

Persistent calls for more defense spending

The reportedly planned move ties in with President Donald Trump's repeated demands since taking office that NATO allies, including Germany, boost defense spending to take some of the financial burden from the US.

His persistent complaints have raised fears among Washington's key allies that the US is lessening its commitment to international security.

Any demand for more money from Germany could boost resistance to the presence of US troops there, something that has long been a source of controversy in the country.

Read more: How does Germany contribute to NATO?

https://www.dw.com/en/donald-trump-wants-allies-to-pay-much-more-for-hosted-us-troops/a-47848232?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-xml-mrss

hello….. ya he's been saying that since before he decided to run

John Barlow wine from Normandy since were talking wines recently

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just john happier times

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