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Sex and World Peace
Sex And World Peace: How The Treatment Of Women Affects Development And Security
Kate Diamond
“What we have discovered is that the very best predictor of how insecure and unstable a nation is not its level of democracy, it’s not its level of wealth, it’s not what ‘Huntington civilization’ it belongs to, but is in fact best predicted by the level of violence against women in the society,” said Valerie Hudson, co-author of Sex and World Peace, at an April 26 book launch at the Wilson Center. [Video Below]
Co-author Chad Emmett joined Hudson, along with Jeni Klugman, the World Bank’s director of gender and development, and Richard Cincotta, demographer-in-residence at the Stimson Center, to discuss the security implications of gender inequality and potential policy responses.
The Paradox of Missing Women
The basis of the book – applying a gender lens to international security – followed from early feedback from her colleagues at Brigham Young University, who suggested that if her goal was to understand the reasons for “blood spilt and lives lost,” she would do better to look at ideological conflict rather than women’s security.
In response, she made a simple comparison of deaths from conflict and the number of “missing women” in the world. Looking at “as many [conflicts] as I possibly could,” Hudson said she totaled 152 million deaths in 20th century fighting. By comparison, the United Nations Population Fund reported that at the turn of the century – just “one generation, if you will, of the century” – 163 million women went missing from Asia alone.
More plus additional video at the link.
https://www.newsecuritybeat.org/2012/05/sex-and-world-peace-how-the-treatment-of-women-affects-development-and-security/
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Your gut is directly connected to your brain
Your gut is directly connected to your brain, by a newly discovered neuron circuit
The human gut is lined with more than 100 million nerve cells—it’s practically a brain unto itself. And indeed, the gut actually talks to the brain, releasing hormones into the bloodstream that, over the course of about 10 minutes, tell us how hungry it is, or that we shouldn’t have eaten an entire pizza. But a new study reveals the gut has a much more direct connection to the brain through a neural circuit that allows it to transmit signals in mere seconds. The findings could lead to new treatments for obesity, eating disorders, and even depression and autism—all of which have been linked to a malfunctioning gut.
The study reveals “a new set of pathways that use gut cells to rapidly communicate with … the brain stem,” says Daniel Drucker, a clinician-scientist who studies gut disorders at the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute in Toronto, Canada, who was not involved with the work. Although many questions remain before the clinical implications become clear, he says, “This is a cool new piece of the puzzle.”
In 2010, neuroscientist Diego Bohórquez of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, made a startling discovery while looking through his electron microscope. Enteroendocrine cells, which stud the lining of the gut and produce hormones that spur digestion and suppress hunger, had footlike protrusions that resemble the synapses neurons use to communicate with each other. Bohórquez knew the enteroendocrine cells could send hormonal messages to the central nervous system, but he also wondered whether they could “talk” to the brain using electrical signals, the way that neurons do. If so, they would have to send the signals through the vagus nerve, which travels from the gut to the brain stem.
... more at link.
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/09/your-gut-directly-connected-your-brain-newly-discovered-neuron-circuit
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Just heard on Amanpour and Company
The Saudi arms sale has NOT been signed off on. The link to the video hasn't been posted yet. I'll update my post when it is.
Thanks for the post, lindysalsagal.
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Check this out.
PBS Newshour
Video and Transcript
How the U.S. should respond to Jamal Khashoggi’s disappearance
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/how-the-u-s-should-respond-to-jamal-khashoggis-disappearance
I just watched The Circus on PBS's The American Experience
Who doesn’t remember the bearded lady, Siamese twins, high wire acts and the acrobats? All he needs to do is pitch a "Big Top" on the front lawn and there you have it, circus legit. It wasn't that far from a freak show today.
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AMERICAN EXPERIENCE
S30 E3007: The Circus, Part 1
Aired: 10/8/2018 | 1:51:36 | Expires: 11/6/2018 | Episode
Explore the early days of this popular, influential and distinctly American form of entertainment during an era when master showmen P.T. Barnum, James Bailey and the Ringling Brothers transformed the nation’s popular culture
https://www.pbssocal.org/programs/american-experience/the-circus-part-1-intzsl/
The Circus, Part 2
Season 30 Episode 8 | 1h 53m 21s
Revisit the heyday of this distinctly American form of entertainment when former rivals Barnum, Bailey and the Ringling Brothers joined forces to present the “greatest show on earth” in big cities and small towns across the country.
https://video.kpbs.org/video/the-circus-part-2-q0ikac/
Enjoy.
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Eyeball_Kid, you slay me with your creative thinking. Can it be poision tipped yard darts or blow darts instead of firearms? Plus can we forget the apple and get him a large, red, bullseye tie? It'd be closer to the heart.
Love, peace and shelter,
lmsp
My heart breaks for his fiance and family.
Did anyone else see the PBS Newshour interview on the Magnitsky Act? I'm looking forward to seeing if it gains any traction in this case. We can only hope. I'm so tired of the men in my government appearing to be hopelessly castrated by a con man.
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Here's a bit about it from Al Jazeera:
What is the Magnitsky Act? How does it apply to Khashoggi's case?
Senators trigger act requiring Trump to determine if foreign person committed rights violations against the Saudi writer
After the disappearance of prominent Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, US Senators triggered the terms of the Global Magnitsky Act, which requires the president to investigate and determine if a foreign person is responsible for a extrajudicial killing, torture or other gross violation of internationally recognised human rights.
In a letter, signed by a bipartisan group of 22 Senators on Wednesday, Bob Corker, the Republican chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, demanded President Donald Trump probe any violations committed against Khashoggi.
The writer disappeared on October 2 after entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul to obtain documents needed to get married. Turkish police believe Khashoggi was killed inside the consulate, according to a number of media outlets, citing unnamed Turkish sources. Saudi officials maintain Khashoggi left the consulate before disappearing.
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More at link.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/10/magnitsky-act-apply-khashoggi-case-181011184312416.html
Thanks for the post, triron.
Love, peace and shelter,
lmsp ♡
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