In 1990, Blood in the Face: The Ku Klux Klan, Aryan Nations, Nazi Skinheads, and the Rise of a New White Culture was the first book to uncover the contours, beliefs, leaders, and wider influence of the American racist far right movement. It told their story from the inside out, complete with interviews, recruiting pamphlets, cartoons, rants, sermons, threats, police reports, and more. The accompanying analysis by veteran investigative reporter James Ridgeway detailed the movement 's volatile history and its expansion beginning in the 1980s, insisting that the groups making up this "fringe" culture were too powerful--and too much a part of American culture--to be ignored or dismissed.When the book 's prescience about the dangers of the racist far-right became manifest in the Oklahoma City bombing of 1995, a second edition of Blood in the Face was released with a new introduction charting the rise of the Militia Movement to which Timothy McVeigh and his co-conspirators were connected. Since then, both the book and the documentary film that accompanied its release (also titled Blood in the Face), have earned cult followings.In the past 25 years, Ridgeway 's final warning--that the "fringe was becoming part of the fabric" of American politics and culture, have come to chilling fruition in the rise of the Tea Party, the racist backlash against the presidency of Barack Obama, the resurgence of anti-immigrant Nativism, the growth of racist far-right media, and the election of Donald Trump with the thunderous support of white nationalists.
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31. The Face of God, progressively revealed in the history of salvation, shines in its fullness in the Face of Jesus Christ crucified and risen from the dead. God is Trinity: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit; truly distinct and truly one, because God is an infinite communion of love. God's gratuitous love for humanity is revealed, before anything else, as love springing from the Father, from whom everything draws its source; as the free communication that the Son makes of this love, giving himself anew to the Father and giving himself to mankind; as the ever new fruitfulness of divine love that the Holy Spirit pours forth into the hearts of men (cf. Rom 5:5).
348. The free market cannot be judged apart from the ends that it seeks to accomplish and from the values that it transmits on a societal level. Indeed, the market cannot find in itself the principles for its legitimization; it belongs to the consciences of individuals and to public responsibility to establish a just relationship between means and ends.[728] The individual profit of an economic enterprise, although legitimate, must never become the sole objective. Together with this objective there is another, equally fundamental but of a higher order: social usefulness, which must be brought about not in contrast to but in keeping with the logic of the market. When the free market carries out the important functions mentioned above it becomes a service to the common good and to integral human development. The inversion of the relationship between means and ends, however, can make it degenerate into an inhuman and alienating institution, with uncontrollable repercussions.
390. The profound meaning of civil and political life does not arise immediately from the list of personal rights and duties. Life in society takes on all its significance when it is based on civil friendship and on fraternity.[790] The sphere of rights, in fact, is that of safeguarded interests, external respect, the protection of material goods and their distribution according to established rules. The sphere of friendship, on the other hand, is that selflessness, detachment from material goods, giving freely and inner acceptance of the needs of others.[791] Civil friendship [792] understood in this way is the most genuine actualization of the principle of fraternity, which is inseparable from that of freedom and equality.[793] In large part, this principle has not been put into practice in the concrete circumstances of modern political society, above all because of the influence of individualistic and collectivistic ideologies.
Microtransactions and downloadable content (DLC) have become a major source of revenue for game developers. They are now a common feature in free-to-play games that are free to download but need users to make in-game purchases that can either be cosmetic to enhance the gaming experience or affect the actual gameplay by providing a user an advantage over an opponent. They also feature in freemium games where some portions of the game are free, whereas to access the full content, the users need to pay up.
With the number of users playing video games in the U.S. during the pandemic rising nearly 79%, the time spent on gaming also increased 26% and the money spent increased 33%. It is estimated that children in the US spent more than $100 on in-app purchases in mobile games every month in 2020. Further, 87% percent of gamers in the country purchase downloadable content, which largely comprises in-game currency, cosmetic upgrades, and weapon upgrades.
The widespread resurgence of infectious diseases since the 1970s has stimulated many books about this ancient scourge. Following the lightning strike of HIV/AIDS in the early 1980s and its subsequent spreading wildfires, our sensitivity to threats from the realm of infectious disease has been reawakened. The many recent strikes, mostly from viral respiratory diseases, attest to the rising activity of ever-opportunistic microbes in an interconnected and rapidly changing modern world.
Over the past year, Everytown has been investigating the rise of do-it-yourself, untraceable firearms known as ghost guns. As the below report makes clear, ghost guns undermine federal and state firearm laws and are a fast-growing scourge on the United States.
Three NGO reports, two published just this year, complement the book titles provided above: Conveying the Human Implications of Climate Change (Center for Climate Change Communication 2016), The State of Climate Adaptation in Public Health (EcoAdapt 2019), and Heatwave Guide for Cities (International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent 2019). All three of these reports can be downloaded for free at the webpages to which the embedded links lead. 2ff7e9595c
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