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Anthology Highlights the Value of Pathways as Cultural Heritage
September 13, 2022

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(EurekAlert) Human history and cultural heritage in various places are often well researched and documented.

A new anthology edited by three Swedish researchers explores what ties these places together – footpaths.

“They are unobtrusive remains, but with a very significant cultural footprint,” says Daniel Svensson, historian at Malmö University.

Pathways lead us forward as we walk along them and also take us back in history. These narrow thoroughfares are found the world over and are as old as humankind itself. But they are only preserved while they remain in use.

“Look but don’t touch is often the name of the game in museums that depict history or cultural heritage. But with pathways it’s the other way around: as long as we keep walking along these remains, they will still be there. Movement becomes part of a living cultural heritage,” says Daniel Svensson.
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India’s Economy Has Outpaced Pakistan’s Handily Since Partition in 1947
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September 20, 2022

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(The Convresation) India and Pakistan inherited the same economic legacy of underinvestment and neglect from Britain when they became independent states following the Partition on Aug. 15, 1947. Their colonial economies were among the poorest in the world.

For both nations, independence almost immediately led to strong growth and fueled significant gains in education, health care and other areas of development. But it was Pakistan that saw faster growth rates during the first four decades or so, while India lagged behind.

Something began to change around the 1990s as their roles reversed and India vaulted ahead of Pakistan, eventually becoming the world’s third-biggest economy by purchasing power and the “I” in BRICS – an acronym referring to a bloc of five key emerging market countries.
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India, on the other hand, has managed to maintain a steady democracy. Though it’s far from perfect, it has kept leaders more accountable to the people and led to more inclusive growth and less reliance on foreign institutions or governments. In one decade alone, India lifted over 270 million people out of poverty.

At a time when democracy is under threat in so many parts of the world, this history, in my view, reminds us of the value of democratic institutions.
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Russia Won’t Congratulate CIA on its Diamond Jubilee
by M.K. Bhadrakumar
September 25, 2022

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(Janata Weekly) In the Russian journal Natsionalnaya Oborona (National Defence), the chief of Russia’s foreign intelligence Sergey Naryshkin has written a riveting essay on the 75th anniversary of the Central Intelligence Agency, which falls on Sunday. It is an unusual gesture, especially in the middle of the hybrid war in Ukraine.

Probably, it serves a purpose? Most certainly, it serves to remind the Russian people and foreigners alike that nothing has been forgotten, nothing forgiven.

The title of the essay — 75 candles on the CIA Cake — is somewhat misleading, as Naryshkin’s concluding remark is that “Anniversary congratulations and wishes there will not be. As there can be no compromise in assessing its (CIA’s) role in history and ‘merits’ to humanity.”

Naryshkin’s essay will be closely studied by the western intelligence for any “clues.” Indeed, what is he messaging? Naryshkin and President Vladimir Putin go back some 40 years. Naryshkin had just graduated from one of Moscow’s most prestigious institutions, the Felix Dzerzhinsky Higher School of the KGB and Putin was already working in the foreign intelligence department of the Leningrad KGB when they bumped into each other in the corridors of the Big House (as KGB’s regional headquarters in Leningrad was known).

Unsurprisingly, Naryshkin writes about the CIA with an easy familiarity. As he put it, “The CIA was created at the beginning of the Cold War era in order to conduct intelligence activities around the world as a tool to counteract the existence and strengthening role of the USSR in the world, the formation of a bloc of socialist states, and the rise of the national liberation movement in Africa, Asia, and South America.”
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"We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward, are dreams."

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The Right to Vote is Not in the Constitution
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(Conversation) The Bill of Rights recognizes the core rights of citizens in a democracy, including freedom of religion, speech, press and assembly. It then recognizes several insurance policies against an abusive government that would attempt to limit these liberties: weapons; the privacy of houses and personal information; protections against false criminal prosecution or repressive civil trials; and limits on excessive punishments by the government.
But the framers of the Constitution never mentioned a right to vote. They didn’t forget – they intentionally left it out. To put it most simply, the founders didn’t trust ordinary citizens to endorse the rights of others.

After the Civil War, the 15th Amendment, ratified in 1870, guaranteed that the right to vote would not be denied on account of race: If some white people could vote, so could similarly qualified nonwhite people. But that still didn’t recognize a right to vote – only the right of equal treatment. Similarly, the 19th Amendment, now more than 100 years old, banned voting discrimination on the basis of sex, but did not recognize an inherent right to vote.
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caltrek’s comment: Actually, I am not sure I agree with this analysis. The 15th Amendment clearly states:
Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous conditions of servitude-

Section 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
The 19th amendment reads
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race.
Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation
That certainly sounds to me like an implied right to vote. Admittedly, the actual circumstances and details of how that right to vote manifests itself are details that are left to Congress and the states. For example, there is no inherent right to present ballot measures to the public. Perhaps that is what the author is getting at in the conclusion that the “right to vote is not in the Constitution.”
What worries me is that the Supreme Court will use this kind of loophole to in fact deprive of us of the right to vote, arguing that is something that is best left to state legislators. They have already shown a proclivity toward doing this with their partial evisceration of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
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The remarkable thing to me about this "historic" footage is that it could just as easily have been shot in 2015. That is how little aspects of the crop- dusting technology has changed over the years. Even in 2022, the main thing that has changed is that the planes are of a somewhat more modern design.

This video was included in an article noting the 6oth anniversary of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring: https://theconversation.com/silent-spri ... nt-192232
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