GAPLESS
Oct 25, 2015 | First from Kentucky
More at theguardian:
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/25/kentucky-couple-rejected-clerk-marry
July 09, 2015 | Something to Glow in Munich
Traffic lights with Same-sex and Opposite-sex couples holding hands.
More at Advocate:
http://www.advocate.com/pride/2015/07/09/same-sex-couples-simply-glow-munichs-gay-themed-traffic-lights
Jun 26, 2015 | #ProudToLOVE !
The Supreme Court ruled on Friday that the U.S. Constitution provides same-sex couples the right to marry, handing a historic triumph to the American gay rights movement.
More at Reuters:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/06/28/us-usa-court-gaymarriage-idUSKBN0P61SW20150628
Jun 11, 2015 | The First Lesbian Advertisement in India
While homosexuality is still punishable by law in India, is this a new breakthrough? It is, at least a BIG step forward, no fear to express, no fear to admit.
May 25, 2015 | What causes Hunger?
Poverty is the principal cause of hunger- The causes of poverty include poor people's lack of resources, an extremely unequal income distribution in the world and within specific countries, conflict, and hunger itself. As of 2015 (2011 statistics), the World Bank has estimated that there were just over 1 billion poor people in developing countries who live on $1.25 a day or less.
Harmful economic systems - Hunger Notes believes that a principal underlying cause of poverty and hunger is the ordinary operation of the economic and political systems in the world
Conflict - For 2012, the first and latest year for which its estimates are available, the Center for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) estimates that more than 172 million people were affected by conflict worldwide.
Food and agricultural policy - There certainly have been questions raised about the adequacy of food and agricultural policy throughout the world, especially their (lack of) benefit to poor farmers.
Climate change - Climate change is increasingly viewed as a current and future cause of hunger and poverty. Increasing drought, flooding, and changing climatic patterns requiring a shift in crops and farming practices that may not be easily accomplished are three key issues. Another key issue is the future of industrialization and higher standards of living, as the principal cause of climate change appears carbon dioxide produced by high energy use with industrialization and higher standards of living.
More at World Hunger:
May 22, 2015 | Ireland's voters say YES to same-sex marriage!
Remarkable journey from criminal to equal citizen
What a wonderful extraordinary day Saturday was! This is a time for joy and non-triumphalist celebration. I have been privileged in my life to follow a remarkable trajectory from being defined into criminality, challenging the criminal law, losing in the High Court and Supreme Courts, finally winning out by a margin of one vote in Europe, seeing the criminal law changed and then starting to build on this basis for human and civil rights for gay people.
More at Irish Times:
May 21, 2015 | The poor are most definitely not poor because the rich are rich.
By Warren Buffett
The poor are most definitely not poor because the rich are rich. Nor are the rich undeserving. Most of them have contributed brilliant innovations or managerial expertise to America’s well-being. We all live far better because of Henry Ford, Steve Jobs, Sam Walton and the like.
More at the Wall Street Journal:
http://www.wsj.com/articles/better-than-raising-the-minimum-wage-1432249927
May 15, 2015 | Luxembourg's prime minister to marry same-sex partner
Luxembourg’s prime minister is to become the first European Union leader – and only the second worldwide leader – to marry someone of the same sex.
Xavier Bettel, 42, and his partner, Gauthier Destenay, an architect from Belgium, are among the first gay men to wed in the mostly Catholic Grand Duchy since it became the latest EU state to extend full rights to same-sex couples.
More at theguardian:
Mar 03, 2015 | Does Income Inequality Damage Life Span Or Not?
By Tim Worstall
It’s a standard finding that the poor live less long than the rich. Given that access to health care is at least partially dependent upon income everywhere this is as we would expect. It’s also true that the higher income groups tend to be the more educated and thus more likely to change their lifestyles to take account of dietary and smoking advice, as another example. However, it’s also a fairly standard, if more modern, claim, that inequality itself either reduces the lifespans of the poor or, in the extreme version promulgated by Richard Wilkinson, reduces all lifespans. It has to be said that that last is really very difficult indeed to believe given that in-country inequality has been increasing in recent years while lifespans have also been increasing in those same countries.
More at Forbes:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2015/03/03/does-income-inequality-damage-life-span-or-not/
Jan 27, 2015 | Wealth Doesn't Make the Rich Happier, But Poverty Makes the Poor Sadder
By Elizabeth Stoker Bruenig @ebruenig
A recent Oxfam report on soaring global inequality warned that by next year, if current wealth-gap trends hold, the richest 1 percent may own more wealth than the remaining 99 percent. Oxfam’s calculations of the wealth of the most fortunate relied upon Forbes’ annuallist of billionaires, many of whom are American, including eight out of the top ten. The rest of us may fantasize about joining their company—and if reality TV is any indication, we do—but does wealth really make rich people happier in their daily lives?
More at New Republic:
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/120859/money-doesnt-buy-happiness-poverty-increases-sadness-study
July 8, 2009 | Understanding Race, American Anthropological Association (AAA)