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Americans Startled by Spectacle of President Who Can Speak English

The article below is satire. Andy Borowitz is an American comedian and New York Times-bestselling author who satirizes the news for his column, “The Borowitz Report.”

Americans who were watching television on Wednesday morning witnessed the startling spectacle of an English-speaking President, viewers have confirmed.

All of the major cable news networks interrupted their regularly scheduled programs to cover the phenomenon, as a man who was identified as “President” spoke in complete, grammatically correct English sentences with no visible sign of strain or discomfort.

Just minutes into the telecast, thousands of viewers called the networks to inquire if they were witnessing a hoax.

“I couldn’t believe what I was seeing,” Carol Foyler, a viewer in Akron, Ohio, said. “It had to be special effects or something.”

While the spectacle might have appeared jarring to many, cable news insiders reported that the networks had in fact aired several hundred speeches by an English-speaking President between the years 2009 and 2017.

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• Reed Johnson discusses reasons behind the drastic decline of global bee population

 

 

On the Cusp: The Yale College Class of 1960 and a World on the Verge of Change: Daniel Horowitz

How did the 1950s become “The Sixties”? This is the question at the heart of Daniel Horowitz’s On the Cusp. Part personal memoir, part collective biography, and part cultural history, the book illuminates the dynamics of social and political change through the experiences of a small, and admittedly privileged, generational cohort.

A Jewish “townie” from New Haven when he entered Yale College in fall 1956, Horowitz reconstructs the undergraduate career of the class of 1960 and follows its story into the next decade. He begins by looking at curricular and extracurricular life on the all-male campus, then ranges beyond the confines of Yale to larger contexts, including the local drama of urban renewal, the lingering shadow of McCarthyism, and decolonization movements around the world. He ponders the role of the university in protecting the prerogatives of class while fostering social mobility, and examines the growing significance of race and gender in American politics and culture, spurred by a convergence of the personal and the political. Along the way he traces the political evolution of his classmates, left and right, as Cold War imperatives lose force and public attention shifts to the civil rights movement and the war in Vietnam.

Throughout Horowitz draws on a broad range of sources, including personal interviews, writings by classmates, reunion books, issues of the Yale Daily News, and other undergraduate publications, as well as his own letters and college papers. The end product is a work consistent with much of Horowitz’s previously published scholarship on postwar America, further exposing the undercurrent of discontent and dissent that ran just beneath the surface of the so-called Cold War consensus.

See related:

• Class Divide: Yale ’64 and the Conflicted Legacy of the Sixties: Howard Gillette Jr.

and with reference to the class of Yale ’68:

• Earth Day & Class Reunions: What Do We Choose to Celebrate? What Do We Prefer to Ignore? What Will Be Our “Class Legacy” to Future Generations?
• The Yale Class of 1968 – Marked by Memories of Pain and Suffering   and
• Fifty years on…What ever happened to the “Class of 1968?”

 

 

Class Divide: Yale ’64 and the Conflicted Legacy of the Sixties: Howard Gillette Jr.

Members of the Yale College class of 1964―the first class to matriculate in the 1960s―were poised to take up the positions of leadership that typically followed an Ivy League education. Their mission gained special urgency from the inspiration of John F. Kennedy’s presidency and the civil rights movement as it moved north. Ultimately these men proved successful in traditional terms―in the professions, in politics, and in philanthropy―and yet something was different. Challenged by the issues that would define a new era, their lives took a number of unexpected turns. Instead of confirming the triumphal perspective they grew up with in the years after World War II, they embraced new and often conflicting ideas. In the process the group splintered.

In Class Divide, Howard Gillette Jr. draws particularly on more than one hundred interviews with representative members of the Yale class of ’64 to examine how they were challenged by the issues that would define the 1960s: civil rights, the power of the state at home and abroad, sexual mores and personal liberty, religious faith, and social responsibility. Among those whose life courses Gillette follows from their formative years in college through the years after graduation are the politicians Joe Lieberman and John Ashcroft, the Harvard humanities professor Stephen Greenblatt, the environmental leader Gus Speth, and the civil rights activist Stephen Bingham.Although their Ivy League education gave them access to positions in the national elite, the members of Yale ’64 nonetheless were too divided to be part of a unified leadership class. Try as they might, they found it impossible to shape a new consensus to replace the one that was undone in their college years and early adulthood.

See related:

• On the Cusp: The Yale College Class of 1960 and a World on the Verge of Change: Daniel Horowitz

and with reference to the class of Yale ’68:

• Earth Day & Class Reunions: What Do We Choose to Celebrate? What Do We Prefer to Ignore? What Will Be Our “Class Legacy” to Future Generations?
• The Yale Class of 1968 – Marked by Memories of Pain and Suffering   and
• Fifty years on…What ever happened to the “Class of 1968?”

 

Reed Johnson discusses reasons behind the drastic decline of global bee population

CGTN America    Published on Apr 27, 2018

CGTN’s Rachelle Akuffo spoke to Reed Johnson from the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center about bee decline and impact on global food chain.   Listen as well to BBC report on EU action against neonicotinoids:

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• The Bayer and Monsanto deal | DW Documentary
• Bayer-Monsanto merger plan protests
• Monsanto’s Failure in Agriculture | Brainwash Update

Tim Weiskel – YouTube Channel

This weblog presents information and discussion about the transitions that we are going to have to undertake as a human community to survive the forthcoming changes in our global climate. As the old saying has it, “If you don’t change direction, it is likely you will end up where you are headed.” There is no doubt we are headed now toward a non-sustainable future. We can, however, change direction if we learn about the transitions we will need to make. These conversations on numerous environmental topics have been used as a means of convening public discussions on a variety of topics. See http://transition-studies.net They are presented by the Cambridge Climate Research Associates (CCRA) as part of the CITIZEN-SCIENCE ONLINE LEARNING INITIATIVE (CSOLI)

The goal of the CSOLI is to facilitate new forms of citizen-scientist collaboration for human survival.

Click “About” tab above or http://wp.me/P2iDSG-2   or for an extended description see:

• What Are Transition Studies? Steps Toward a Just and Sustainable Future

The work of the CCRA is often contrasted with that of CERA and Daniel Yergin.

 

Daniel Yergin – YouTube Channel

Daniel Yergin is a leading authority on energy, geopolitics, and the global economy, bestselling author, and a winner of the Pulitzer Prize. He is Vice Chairman of IHS and founder of IHS Cambridge Energy Research Associates (initially known as CERA). His newest book is the New York Times bestseller The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World. He is the author of the Number 1 bestseller The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize. The Commanding Heights describes the battle for the world economy and the struggle between governments and markets.

Mr. Yergin’s remarks are published frequently on IHS CERAweek.

CERA has been contrasted with CCRA,  the Cambridge Climate Research Associates — another Cambridge, Massachusetts organization — which has focused its attention not upon the continued use of fossil fuels but instead upon the need for industrial civilization to make the transition away from its current dependence upon fossil fuels toward a more stable and reliable solar-sustainable world.  See:

• “What if Big Oil (and their Consultants) Hadn’t Deceived Us for Decades?
• Why the 1% Can’t See What’s Coming: The “Institutional Contradiction” of Finance Capital and
• Conversations in Transition Studies – YouTube Channel  and
• What Are Transition Studies? Steps Toward a Just and Sustainable Future