Thanksgiving in the United States is a time to pause, reflect, and give thanks for all that we have. But after a decade of war, financial crisis, and corruption scandals, and with public trust at an all-time low, is there much to give thanks for?
Good news! "The world is not going to hell in a handbasket" according to two recent articles by Allister Heath in the Telegraph. In fact, the world has never had it so good.
"Contrary to what environmentalists, anti-globalization campaigners and other economic curmudgeons like to think, the world is not going to hell in a handbasket….
… [H]umanity as a whole is doing better than it ever has: the world is becoming more prosperous, cleaner, increasingly peaceful and healthier. We are living longer, better lives. Virtually all of our existing problems are less bad than at any previous time in history.”
In fact, according to Danish political scientist Bjorn Lomborg’s book How Much Have Global Problems Cost the World, “on almost all important metrics, the human condition is improving at a dramatic rate; his thesis is backed up by oodles of other data and research.”
Lomborg’s research indicates that from War…
"There were fewer battle deaths (including of civilians) in the first decade of the 21st century than at any time since the Second World War."
"In 1900, one person in 550 globally would die from air pollution every year, an annual risk of dying of 0.18pc. Today, that risk has fallen to 0.04 pc, or one in 2,500; by 2050, it is expected to have collapsed to 0.02pc, or one in 5,000."
… things are getting better. According to Heath, “thanks to capitalism, globalization, technology and a reduced tolerance for violence, humanity has never had it so good.”
While public trust in the financial insitutions is at all time low, Heath hasn’t given up. He has a plan. "My plan to save big business and bring back public trust" outlines a few ways the corporate world can regain the trust of consumers.
This includes focusing on customer service, rejecting corporatism and re-embracing genuine free markets, supporting competition, reforming the tax code, increasing transparency, and address ethics and fraud.
"Crucially, corporate Britain’s response must not be solely defensive. Companies must never apologise for making profits or seeking to enrich shareholders through legal means. They should not give money or cave in to those who seek to undermine them. Instead, they should constantly explain how they contribute economically.
Last but not least, business needs its customers to understand financial concepts. They need to help promote numeracy and an understanding of basic business and economic ideas.
There are no miracle cures; but for all of our sakes British businesses must urgently begin to take their critics seriously, up their game and begin the fightback before it is too late.”
This Wednesday, October 9, Mario Draghi, president of the European Central Bank, spoke at the Harvard Kennedy School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Draghi discussed what the 1999 decision of European policy-makers to create a single market (supported by a single currency, the Euro) implies for national sovereignty and how today’s efforts to form a banking union reinforce the single market.
Draghi emphasized that a single market is not a free trade area because it is a permanent union managed at the supranational level. The supposed loss of sovereignty is of little concern as long as citizens benefit. (Indeed, under the principle of subsidiarity, this idea is embedded in the European Union Treaty.) That the single currency adds to the economic gains from the single market, Draghi simply does not doubt.
Without a banking union, location matters in borrowing and lending. Hence, there is no single market for capital. A banking union is desirable because it helps to break “the two-way interaction between sovereign distress and bank distress.”
Draghi ended his talk with reflections on the current state of the economy in the U.S. and the Euro area. Fiscal and monetary policies are intertwined. In his view, the new right of the European Commission to inspect national budgets —- a power that the U.S. Federal Government does not have over the 50 states —- is a big step forward. Draghi also called attention to the fact that, since 1999, the Euro area has created 600,000 more jobs than the U.S. Many Anglo-Saxon commentators have seriously misjudged the success of the Euro and the commitment of European nations to closer integration.
You can read the transcript of the speech at the European Central Bank’s website below:
“Why does Camelot lie in ruins? Intellectual error .. squarely lies with the economists. The “academic scribbler” who must bear substantial responsibility is Lord Keynes, whose thinking was uncritically accepted .. The mounting historical evidence of the ill-effects of Keynes’s ideas cannot continue to be ignored. Keynesian economics has turned the politicians loose; it has destroyed the effective constraint on politicians’ ordinary appetites to spend and spend without the apparent necessity to tax.”
—James M. Buchanan, 1919-2013, Winner of the Nobel Prize in 1986
Privacy is usually thought of as being a moral issue. But what happens with the value of privacy affects the bottom line?
Alan Holmes ("NSA spying seen risking billions in US technology sales") details the ironic turn of events when the United States own blacklisting of a technology firm over privacy concerns backfires.
A congressional committee’s effective blacklisting of Huawei Technologies Co.’s products from the U.S. telecommunications market over allegations they can enable Chinese spying may come back to bite Silicon Valley.
Reports that the National Security Agency persuaded some U.S. technology companies to build so-called backdoors into security products, networks and devices to allow easier surveillance are similar to how the House Intelligence Committee described the threat posed by China through Huawei.
This concern over back-door NSA spying in U.S. technology may make a huge impact on the United States technology industry:
Just as the Shenzhen, China-based Huawei lost business after the report urged U.S. companies not to use its equipment, the NSA disclosures may reduce U.S. technology sales overseas by as much as $180 billion, or 25 percent of information technology services, by 2016, according to Forrester ResearchInc., a research group in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
“The National Security Agency will kill the U.S. technology industry singlehandedly,” Rob Enderle, a technology analyst inSan Jose, California, said in an interview. “These companies may be just dealing with the difficulty in meeting our numbers through the end of the decade.”
The economic backlash isn’t just theoretical. Several governments are already in the process of banning U.S. backed services.
Germany’s government has called for home-grown Internet and e-mail companies. Brazil is analyzing whether privacy laws were violated by foreign companies. India may ban e-mail services from Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc., the Wall Street Journal reported. In June, China Daily labeled U.S. companies, including Cisco, a “terrible security threat.”
The reports that the NSA built back doors into U.S. technology is just the newest revelation in “the summer of Snowden Leaks.” Kashmir Hill writes in Forbes ("How the NSA revelations are hurting business"):
It’s yet another revelation in the “summer of Snowden leaks” that’s making life difficult for American businesses. Princeton technologist Ed Felten — who used to be government-employed at the Federal Trade Commission — writes, “This is going to put U.S. companies at a competitive disadvantage, because people will believe that U.S. companies lack the ability to protect their customers—and people will suspect that U.S. companies may feel compelled to lie to their customers about security.”
“I can’t imagine foreign buyers trusting American products,” says security expert Bruce Schneier. “We have to assume companies have been co-opted, wittingly or unwittingly. If you were a company in Sweden, are you really going to want to buy American products?”
Hill continues, describing how “it’s not just experts and analysts” weighing in on the financial impact of NSA spying.
“This bodes ill for the US economy, as the rest of the world will turn its back on U.S. Internet companies,” says Phil Zimmermann, the author of Pretty Good Privacy — a form of encryption — and co-founder of Silent Circle, a company that offers secure text and chat. “The NSA policies will cause enormous collateral damage to our economy.”
Zimmermann says the encryption used by Silent Circle has not been cracked by the NSA. “If you do a good job on the design, like we did, the crypto will be safe,” he says. He notes that PGP was acquired bySymantec SYMC +0.16% in 2010, that all of his friends subsequently left the company, and that he doesn’t know who is taking care of it these days. “I think they still publish the source code, so it’s probably OK,” he says by email.
Meanwhile, Google, Yahoo and Facebook have all filed petitions with the government asking for the right to be more transparent about the requests for information they are getting from the intelligence community. Their argument is not that NSA activity itself is hurting their businesses but that the agency’s secrecy is leading them to be hung out to dry in the press as “misleading” articles get published.
Advocates for these technology companies are fighting back, detailed in an article in the Huffington Post and the Guardian by Dominic Rushe ("Melissa Mayer, Mark Zuckerberg sound off about NSA surveillance.")
Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook and Marissa Mayer, the CEO of Yahoo, struck back on Wednesday at critics who have charged tech companies with doing too little to fight off NSA surveillance. Mayer said executives faced jail if they revealed government secrets.
Yahoo and Facebook, along with other tech firms, are pushing for the right to be allowed to publish the number of requests they receive from the spy agency. Companies are forbidden by law to disclose how much data they provide.
Perhaps in yet another twist of irony, Zuckerberg—whose own Facebook is no stranger to privacy concerns and criticisms—said that “the government had done a ‘bad job’ of balancing people’s privacy and its duty to protect.”
"Frankly I think the government blew it," he said.
He said after the news broke in the Guardian and the Washington Post about Prism, the government surveillance programme that targets major internet companies: “The government response was, ‘Oh don’t worry, we’re not spying on any Americans.’ Oh, wonderful: that’s really helpful to companies trying to serve people around the world, and that’s really going to inspire confidence in American internet companies.”
"I thought that was really bad," he said. Zuckerberg said Facebook and others were pushing successfully for more transparency. "We are not at the end of this. I wish that the government would be more proactive about communicating. We are not psyched that we had to sue in order to get this and we take it very seriously," he said.
The degree to which economics is isolated from the ordinary business of life is extraordinary and unfortunate. .. It is no longer firmly grounded in systematic empirical investigation .. A modern market economy with its ever finer division of labor depends on a constantly expanding network of trade. It requires an intricate web of social institutions to coordinate the workings of markets and firms .. The reduction of economics to price theory is troubling enough. It is suicidal for the field to slide into a hard science of choice, ignoring the influences of society, history, culture, and politics .. [K]nowledge will come only if economics can be reoriented to the study of man as he is and the economic system as it actually exists.
Ronald Coase, 1911-2013
Nobel Laureate in Economics
Harvard Business Review (December 2012)
In honor of Labor Day, we comment on what is happening in the U.S. labor market. It is a frightening place.
Robert Samuelson says in the Washington Post ("In today’s world, workers are scared," September 2.) that
.. American workers face a buyers’ market. Employers have the upper hand .. What looms, at best, is a sluggish descent from high unemployment (7.4 percent in July) and a prolonged period of stagnant or slow-growing wages. Since 2007, there has been no gain in average inflation-adjusted wages and total compensation .. The weak job market has a semi-permanence unlike anything seen since World War II.
Samuelson offers a historical synopsis. He references three labor regimes since 1900. The first regime was nearly devoid of regulation:
[It] featured “unfettered labor markets,” as economic historian Price Fishback of the University of Arizona puts it. Competition set wages and working conditions. There was no federal unemployment insurance or union protection.
The second came after World War II and, as a Hegelian anti-thesis of the first regime, saw increased regulation:
[L]abor relations became more regulated and administered .. The Wagner Act of 1935 gave workers the right to organize; decisions of the National War Labor Board also favored unions. By 1945, unions represented about a third of private workers, up from 10 percent in 1929.
Finally, the current regime is a confusing mix of old and new:
The private safety net is shredding, though the public safety net (unemployment insurance, Social Security, anti-poverty programs, anti-discrimination laws) remains. Economist Fishback suggests we may be drifting back toward “unfettered labor markets” with greater personal instability, insecurity — and responsibility. Workers are often referred to as “free agents.”
Karen McVeigh in the Guardian ("Fast food workers continue fight against low wages," The Guardian, August 29) discusses the movement to increase the minimum wage, and notes how the U.S. lags behind the U.K.
..where the minimum wage is £6.11 ($9.50), Australia, where it is 15.96 Australian dollars, ($16.91), France, €9.43($12.68), and Tokyo,$9.10. And while the U.S.’s nearest neighbour, Canada, doesn’t have a minimum wage, the lowest provincial wage in Alberta is $9.73 in US dollars.
According to those striking in a nationwide protest, this is a question of social justice. Pastor WJ Rideout the III of Detroit is part of a campaign for a minimum wage of $15. He says that
People can’t survive off $7.25 an hour .. A gallon of milk is almost $5 today .. Every thing has gone up significantly but the minimum wage has not. People are crazy to think you can live on minimum wages. Fast-food jobs are no longer starter jobs, they are mom-and-pop jobs, even senior citizens jobs. We call them survivor jobs now, because all people are doing is surviving.
For a statistical profile of the working poor, we refer our readers to an April 2013 US Bureau of Labor report.
In sharp contrast to McVeigh, the August 30 editorial of Investor’s Business Daily ("Doubling fast-food workers’ wages will kill jobs," ) focuses on economic efficiency, not justice.
With last week’s one-day strike, fast-food workers sent a clear message .. But they should be careful what they wish for; they just might get it. .. It isn’t hard to see what a doubling of the minimum wage would do in an industry that pays out an estimated 70% of revenue to workers: Hundreds of thousands would lose their jobs overnight.
So who will do their jobs, you ask. A more apt question is what will do their jobs. Because they may go to robots. Or computers. Don’t laugh. When labor costs rise, technological substitutions suddenly make economic sense.
It’s already happening in Europe, where it costs a lot to hire a worker, McDonald’s has installed 7,000 new ATM-style machines that take orders and payments. No muss, no fuss, no arguments, no misunderstandings — and no minimum wage ..
"The U.S. government may trust the U.S. government. That is not a trust the world shares, and recent polls indicate that it may not be a trust American people share as well."
Center for Strategic and International Studies
Financial Times, August 29, 2013
Since the start of the financial crisis, much has been said about inequality in income and wealth, how the 1% earn and possess so much more than average Americans. Less has been said about the societal mechanisms that are a barrier to equal opportunity and that keep economic mobility low, e.g., admission policies to Ivy League universities, and cronyism in hiring.
Now, Andrew Ross Sorkin writes in the New York Times that the recent SEC investigation whether JPMorgan Chase hired the children of Chinese government officials “to help the bank win business” is “sending shudders through Wall Street.”
"[If] JPMorgan Chase is found to have violated [1977 Foreign Corrupt Practices Act] by hiring the children of the elite, then the entire financial services industry is probably in a heap of trouble,”
Sorkin says, listing numerous examples of how common the hiring of the children of the elite really is. Access to a network of powerful friends and relatives has obvious value. So, profit-maximizing firms pay for it. In the process, the market system reproduces past disparities. It also joins the economic and political elites, since wealth buys political influence, and influence can be cashed out.
But, if cronyism is a “time tested practice here in the United States,” Sorkin asks, what’s the problem?
"[In] truth, it is the way of the world. It is hard to fault a business for hiring someone who has better contacts than someone else .. As hard to defend as the phrase may be, it is a reality of life, “It’s not what you know, but whom you know.”
Sorkin’s wraps this type of nepotism up in a form of meritocracy:
"… Given that many of the children of the elite have some of the best educations and thriving networks of contacts, it is hard to see how businesses are supposed to not seek them out, let alone turn them away."
In other words, if the market system has an inherent tendency to produce great inequality, then it is less objectionable. Recent papers by Gregory Mankiw, Steve Kaplan and Joshua Rauh, published in the Journal of Economic Perspectives, appear to follow a similar line of reasoning.
One more academic companion piece to Sorkin’s article is a recent empirical study in the American Sociological Review by Lauren Rivera, a cultural psychologist at Northwestern University, titled “Hiring as cultural matching: the case of elite professional service firms.”
Rivera finds that "[h]iring is more than just a process of skills sorting: it is also a process of cultural matching between candidates, evaluators, and firms… Evaluators implicitly gravitated toward and explicitly fought for candidates with whom they felt an emotional spark of commonality… Moreover, evaluators tended to favor extracurricular activities associated with the white upper-middle class and that were acquired through intense, prolonged investment of material and temporal resources not only by job applicants but also by their parents…. In many respects, they hired in a manner more closely resembling the choice of friends or romantic partners than how sociologists typically portray employers selecting new workers.”
Rivera notes the long-run dangers of these practices. Perhaps, we should not be surprised that, as Charles Murray states in Coming Apart (Crown Forum, 2012), the upper and lower classes in American society have diverged so far in core values and behaviors that they barely recognize one another.
“No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless our government, our corporations, our media, and our religious & charitable institutions may become, the music will still be wonderful.”
— Kurt Vonnegut
Paul Volcker writes a lengthy opinion piece in the New York Review of Books.
"I have been struck by parallels between the challenges facing the Federal Reserve today and those when I first entered the Federal Reserve System as a neophyte economist in 1949.
Most striking then, as now, was the commitment of the Federal Reserve, which was and is a formally independent body, to maintaining a pattern of very low interest rates, ranging from near zero to 2.5 percent or less for Treasury bonds. If you feel a bit impatient about the prevailing rates, quite understandably so, recall that the earlier episode lasted fifteen years.”
He continues to draw strong parallels between the past and the present, and it is precisely a need for this “reading of history” that Volcker believes is critically at issue.
I do not doubt the ability and understanding of Chairman Bernanke and his colleagues. They have a considerable range of instruments available to them to manage the transition, including the novel approach of paying interest on banks’ excess reserves, potentially sterilizing their monetary impact. What is at issue—what is always at issue—is a matter of good judgment, leadership, and institutional backbone. A willingness to act with conviction in the face of predictable political opposition and substantive debate is, as always, a requisite part of a central bank’sDNA.
Those are not qualities that can be learned from textbooks. Abstract economic modeling and the endless regression analyses of econometricians will be of little help. The new approach of “behavioral” economics itself is recognition of the limitations of mathematical approaches, but that new “science” is in its infancy.
A reading of history may be more relevant. Here and elsewhere, the temptation has been strong to wait and see before acting to remove stimulus and then moving toward restraint. Too often, the result is to be too late, to fail to appreciate growing imbalances and inflationary pressures before they are well ingrained.
It is a thought provoking article and well worth a read.
Watching the SEC victory celebration last week, one may think that Fabrice Tourre, a 34-year old Frenchman, now a Ph.D. student at the University of Chicago, almost single-handedly caused the 2008 global financial crisis. In reality, Tourre was a minor player merely trying to advance his career. He was one of many employees in the structured finance division of Goldman Sachs. If Tourre did not follow orders, he was likely to be fired.
Abacus, the toxic security at the center of the civil suit brought by the SEC, was designed in cooperation with John Paulson, the hedge fund billionaire. Tourre described it as a “monstrosity.” The security blew up as intended, to the benefit of Mr. Paulson, with IKB Deutsche Industriebank of Germany as one of the big losers. No senior executive at Goldman has been charged, either by the SEC or the U.S. Justice Department. In a settlement with the SEC, Goldman’s shareholders (or is it, the U.S. taxpayers?) paid $550 million to let the firm and its CEO, Lloyd Blankfein, walk free.
Goldman Sachs put Tourre in a moral dilemma. In retrospect, it seems that Mr. Tourre’s main crimes were that he was born in France, therefore an unpopular defendant, easy to bring down, and that he had some (but surely insufficient) moral scruples. In deeply sarcastic e-mails that became his downfall, the young man, still fresh out of Stanford University, repeated the sham argument that “the real purpose” of his job was “to make capital markets more efficient and ultimately provide the U.S. consumer with more efficient ways to leverage and finance himself.” So, Tourre joked with his girlfriend, he “did not feel too guilty.”
The SEC’s courtroom victory does nothing to remedy structural immorality inside too-big-to-fail U.S. financial institutions. Yet, poor regulatory oversight and enforcement have greatly contributed to the economic crisis. People around the world will also read the Tourre verdict as one more black eye for the U.S. system of “justice.” Evidently, in America, the powerful architects of evil —-in business and government—- are forgiven, and receive endless second chances, while the (relatively) powerless are held accountable to the full extent of the law.
“I can’t remember when I last heard someone genuinely optimistic about the future of this country. I know that when I get together with friends, we make a conscious effort to change the subject [from the state of the country] and talk about grandchildren, reminisce about the past and the movies we’ve seen, though we can’t manage it for very long. We end up disheartening and demoralizing each other and saying goodnight, embarrassed and annoyed with ourselves, as if being upset about what is being done to us is not a subject fit for polite society.”
Poet, Winner of the Robert Frost Medal in 2011
The idea that Europe should be – or even can be – led by a single country is wide of the mark. Germany’s restraint does not just reflect the burden of its history. The truth is that the unique political structure that is Europe does not lend itself to a leader–follower dynamic. Europe signifies the equal coexistence of its member states. At the same time, however, Germany does feel a special responsibility towards the mutually agreed strategy for resolving the crisis in the eurozone.
Schäuble continues, outlining that Europe has a desperate need for sound fiscal policy that helps address the overdue consolidation of public budgets and encourages economic competitiveness across the Eurozone, alongside reforming the welfare state and modernizing the labor markets.
From the very beginning of the crisis we Europeans have pursued a joint strategy. This strategy aims to achieve the overdue consolidation of public budgets. But even more, it aims to overcome economic imbalances by improving the competitiveness of all eurozone countries. This is why the adjustment plans for countries that are receiving financial support call for fundamental structural reforms that aim to put them back on track towards long-term growth and thus secure sustainable prosperity for all. Sound public finances create confidence.
But sound public finances are not enough to ensure sustainable growth. In addition, we need to reform and modernise our labour markets, our welfare state, and our legal and tax systems. We have to make sure that all citizens of Europe enjoy working and living conditions that are not based on artificial growth bubbles.
Schäuble warns that “without these reforms there can be no sustainable growth. Stimulus programmes based on even more government debt will only shift higher burdens on to our children and grandchildren, and will have no lasting benefits.”
Instead of funding debt-piling stimulus programmes, Schäuble suggests that Europe should instead strive to “create conditions that are conducive to successful economic activity, in the context of global competition and demographic trends that pose a challenge for the whole of Europe. None of these things are German ideas. They are the tenets of forward-looking policies.”
Finally, Schäuble stresses that these policies are not simply a German obsession, imposed on unwilling partners. Instead, these programs and reforms are something that the majority of Europeans desire.
We do not want a German Europe. We are not asking others to be like us. This accusation makes no more sense than the national stereotypes that lurk behind such statements. The Germans are joyless capitalists infused with the Protestant work ethic? In fact, some economically successful German regions are traditionally Catholic. The Italians are all about dolce far niente (delicious idleness)? The industrial regions in northern Italy would not be the only ones to bristle at that. All of northern Europe is market-driven? The Nordic welfare states, with their emphasis on social solidarity and income redistribution, certainly do not fit this caricature.
Those who nurture such stereotypes should look at recent surveys that show a clear majority of people – not just in northern Europe, but also in the south – in favour of combating the crisis through reforms, public spending cuts and debt reduction.
“Of the tendencies that are harmful to sound economics, the most seductive and, in my opinion the most poisonous, is to focus on questions of distribution [of income and wealth]. In this very minute, a child is being born to an American family and another child, equally valued by God, is being born to a family in India. The resources of all kinds that will be at the disposal of this new American will be on the order of 25 times the resources available to his Indian brother. This seems to us a terrible wrong, justifying direct corrective action, and perhaps some actions of this kind can and should be taken. But of the vast increase in the well-being of millions of people that has occurred in the 200 year course of the industrial revolution to date, virtually none can be attributed to direct redistribution of resources from rich to poor.”
Robert E. Lucas, Jr.
University of Chicago


Powder coating is a process that enhances the appearance of your wheels while reducing the general cost of your vehicle aesthetics. Refinishing your wheels with powder coating makes them look brand and is cheaper than acquiring new custom rims when they start to appear worn out.
Powder coating uses ground particles made of specific resin and pigments. These particles get electrostatically charged during spraying enabling them to adhere to the rims. The wheels then get baked to make the surfaces blend to produce a hard cure. The process produces a high-quality, long-lasting surface that is reliably fantastic.
Although there are several other ways to improve the general durability and appearance of the rims that require a new finish, rim powder coating has advantages and disadvantages.
ADVANTAGES OF RIM POWDER COATING
High level of resistance
Your vehicle’s rims encounter a lot of action. Depending on the time of the year, you could begin addressing corrosion, chipping, or flaking issues that the road grime, salt, and other elements can bring with every rotation. The gravel on streets, or even debris on roads, may cause damage that needs debris on the road repaired.
Automotive powder coating produces a non-porous surface that protects your wheels better than conventional paint.
The powder coating process involves spraying particles onto your wheel rims and then baking in an oven at a high temperature. This process makes the coating adhere to the surface properly, enhancing the product’s durability
When you apply a powder coating to the rims appropriately, the product can last close to three times longer than the conventional painting that some people prefer.
Many of the products applied to the rims nowadays have volatile compounds in them. These volatile organic compounds not only harm your lungs if you inhale them but are also harmful to the ozone layer.
When using a powder coating instead, you can address the risks of VOCs fully. Moreover, you will not require dealing with the excess paint you may have, which is often impossible to reuse after you are through with painting, unlike powder which you can easily recycle.
Although you might pay more for a powder coating initially, it can save you a lot of money in the long run if you go for this option for your rims. Research shows that the average cost of doing a whole set of rims is between $400 and $700. Some providers might offer the service for less if the demand for the product is minimal.
DISADVANTAGES OF POWDER COATING
Color application issues
When you go for powder coating in place of paint, there might be problems with the final hue you get when you take the rims out of the oven. The process of baking often produces a consistent product. Nevertheless, there are times when recycled products get into what you are using, which might cause cross-contamination.
Thickness can be a problem
When you require a thick finish to address some situations powder coating is an ideal option for rims. However, if your need a thin surface for a specific appearance, this is not for you. It is almost impossible to produce thin surfaces with a powder coating option.
Rims need grinding before coating
Your rims need proper grinding for the baking process. This implies that you have to remove any paint from the wheels before you begin the process.


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How To Show A Cat – Cat-Care Tips For Ensuring Your Furry Companion Is Happy.
Do you have a cat that appears to be a little on the chunky side? Does your cat feel heavy and is hard to lift? There are numerous fat felines out there that could use a little weight loss. If you desire to get your fat feline back in shape, look at the suggestions in this article.
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MBC announced on Monday, April 24, 2023, that Lee Je-hoon has been cast as the lead in the forthcoming drama The Chief Inspector 1963. The legal drama focuses on Park Young-han and his life in the 1960s, when he was on his way to become the chief inspector.
The planned drama will depict the main character’s hardships and hurdles during his journey. Fans of K-dramas are delighted to see Lee Je-hoon return as an inspector after a long absence since he was last seen as a police officer in the blockbuster Netflix series Signal.
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Lee Je-hoon will play the part of Inspector Park Young-han In The Chief Inspector 1963
The new criminal and legal drama is a remake of the legendary South Korean series Chief Inspector, which aired for over a decade on South Korean television screens. From 1971 through 1989, the iconic daily soap Chief Inspector was shown on television. The original series achieved the greatest total audience ratings of 70%, according to Nielsen Korea. There were almost 880 episodes in the original series.
Lee Je-hoon, who played Taxi Driver, will play Chief Inspector Park Young-han. According to MBC, Park youthful-han believes he can defeat evil and is portrayed as innocent and youthful. In the play, he must meet and conquer a number of hurdles on his way to becoming an inspector. He wants to be an inspector who can assist people and give justice.
When he became Chief Inspector, he discovered that he wanted the world to be filled with vicious individuals and that falsehoods persisted and often obscured realities. The new drama will feature Lee Je-hoon’s character Park Young-ha doing all he can to overcome his difficulties. Kim Sung-hoon, known for his dramas such as My Little Hero, Rampant, and Confidential Assignment 1, will direct The Chief Inspector in 1963. Fans are looking forward to Je-hoon’s return as Chief Inspector and anticipate a great comeback where they will be able to observe the action, suspense, and legal.
More information about Lee Je-hoon
Lee Je-hoon is a well-known and well-known actor in the South Korean entertainment business. He is well-known for his roles in dramas such as Taxi Driver Seasons 1 and 2, Signal, Where Stars Land, Tomorrow With You, and others.
After 12 years with Saran Entertainment, the actor joined the Company On agency, which he founded. He also assisted with the directing of the frameless film. Meanwhile, his recent vengeance and thriller drama Taxi Driver has been renewed for a third season, and he’s excited about the opportunity.


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BJP emulates Congress’ ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ in Assam with ‘Rath Yatra’ in SC areas
Called the Gaon Sampark Abhiyan, the initiative by the scheduled caste (SC) ‘morcha’ (unit) of the BJP started on November 9 and aims to cover 3,200 SC-dominated villages in Assam
Close on the heels of the Congress’ ongoing Bharat Jodo Yatra in Assam that began earlier this month, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party has undertaken a ‘Rath Yatra’ in order to connect with voters, especially those in rural areas.
Called the Gaon Sampark Abhiyan, the initiative by the scheduled caste (SC) ‘morcha’ (unit) of the BJP started on November 9 and aims to cover 3,200 SC-dominated villages in Assam.
It touched Golokganj in Dhubri district on Thursday led by state BJP president Bhabesh Kalita. All yatras will culminate in Barpeta district on November 26.
“Since its launch, the rath yatras have covered 1,200 villages that are dominated by people from the SC communities,” Kalita mentioned on his Facebook page.
“The primary aim of this yatra is to connect with members of SC communities and know about their lives and also to find out performance of central and state welfare schemes targeting them,” he added.
The Congress is already undertaking a 70-day statewide walk as part of its nationwide Bharat Jodo Yatra, where party leaders will cover 834 km in 13 districts of Assam by foot to connect with voters. The yatra started from Dhubri on November 1.
“We are overwhelmed by the response our yatra has received since its start in Assam. This will go a long way in uniting the people against the divisive politics of BJP, not just in Assam but across the country,” Assam Congress in-charge Jitendra Singh told journalists.

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The World's Most Ineffective Government Program (brought to you by your friendly neighborhood Arizona Republican legislator)
This week's column is more Arizona political fun and games. I think based on the emails letters to the editor, I'll get another column out of it next week, too. The 'wingers love this stuff; if only there were gay marriages by illegal aliens, they'd be ecstatic.
I may ask people to join me in monitoring the polls in Rep. Pearce's home precinct for the 2006 election, so we can reject voters there who show up without the now-required forms of proof of citizenship and identity--and explain to them that their own state representative wanted to take away their right to cast a provisional ballot if their ID was challenged. It would serve them, and him, right.
The opening line wasn't in the column originally, but instead was a joke for my editor, who thought it was a better lede.
PROPOSITION 200 SO INEFFECTIVE IT'S COMICAL
East Valley Tribune, June 12, 2005
If Prop. 200 were a government program--wait, Prop. 200 IS a government program!
State Rep. Russell Pearce is the proud author of a government program that works as promised between zero and 0.04 percent of the time. He’s so proud of that result that he’s considering running for higher office.
Apparently, failure is not merely an option; in certain East Valley ‘winger circles, it’s a prerequisite.
The government program with the astounding record of failure is Pearce’s Proposition 200. Pearce claimed that he had co-written a law that would stop vote fraud. And since Prop. 200’s voter registration mandates took effect, one-third of voter registration in Maricopa, Pinal, and Pima counties have indeed been rejected for lacking the now-required documentation (an Arizona driver’s license issued after 1996, U.S. naturalization number, copy of a U.S. passport, birth certificate, or tribal card number.)
All that paperwork must be worth the hassle, right? Maybe you heard on the radio, or read on the Internet, that hordes of non-citizens were attempting to vote, so it must be true!
Wrong, photocopy breath. Of the more than 5,000 registrations rejected, the county recorders believe all are from U.S. citizens here legally. Not one was from an illegal alien. Zilch. Zippo. That’s zero percent, or in decimal terms, 0.00. When Russell Pearce dreams up a government program, “success” means catching no bad guys while hassling thousands of actual citizens.
To Pearce’s credit, Prop. 200 has resulted in the discovery of illegal aliens who applied for state-sponsored utility-bill assistance. Both of them were reported to the federal authorities. Yes, both -- a grand total of two.
Pearce and GOP National Committeeman Randy Pullen wrote this misbegotten law, but you’d never know they had any responsibility for it. Instead, all the problems are because Gov. Napolitano or Attorney General Goddard aren’t “interpreting” it correctly or “implementing” it sufficiently.
Of course, if their law needs “interpretation” and “implementation” or anything other than “strict construction,” then Pearce and Pullen needed better lawyers. If Pearce now complains about law enforcement wriggling out of enforcing his grand plan, then maybe he shouldn’t have written such a sodden legal mess with so much room to wriggle in the first place.
Normally, if you take credit as an author, then you take blame when what you wrote doesn’t work as you promised. But not Russell Pearce; he blames everybody else when the law he wrote doesn’t work. Pearce’s sense of responsibility is exactly as accurate as Prop. 200’s voter registration requirements. That is, it functions accurately zero percent of the time.
But if Pearce’s Prop. 200 has set the standard for effectiveness, I have an even better plan. Pearce proves that being “tough” only means sounding tough; the actual remedies can be completely ineffective as long as your soundbites work. So if Pearce’s program is zero percent effective, I guarantee my ideas can meet, or beat, Prop 200 -- with much less inconvenience to actual U.S. citizens.
First, let’s create a state Department of Illegal Alien Rhetoric. We’ll have an entire bureaucracy dreaming up tough-sounding slogans. Putting these slogans on billboards, or just asking people to concentrate about them while wearing tinfoil hats, will prove every bit as effective as Prop. 200’s new voter registration requirements. If zero’s the new standard, we can meet it.
Then the Department can give every Arizona voter a bumper sticker with an anti-illegal-immigration slogan. Every taxpayer gets a choice of irked, angry, furious, nuclear, and Limbaugh, just like ordering chicken wings. If bumper stickers on cars stops just 2 illegals, that’s just as effective as Prop. 200 -- and much less expensive.
The Legislature also can provide televisions with optional foreign-language blockers, which skip over the Spanish-language stations so you’ll never even know they’re there (unless some ‘winger’s dental fillings start receiving broadcasts). Having a state where people can English-only channel-surf will be every bit as effective as Prop. 200, without disenfranchising American citizens moving here from Illinois or California.
If Russell Pearce’s Prop. 200 sets the grading curve, I guarantee my plan gets an “A.” Zero percent: It’s not just a goal, it’s a platform.


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11 Nepalis among migrants in Guatemala rescue
Guatemalan police said that there were 11 Nepalis among the 126 US-bound migrants who were rescued from a shipping container abandoned by a roadside in Guatemala.
They were believed to have been left there by traffickers after being paid to take them to Mexico and onwards to the United States. Most of the 126 were from Haiti, while 9 were from Ghana.
Police were notified after hearing banging from inside the container, which was abandoned near the town of Nueva Concepcion, reports said.
"We heard cries and knocks coming from inside the container. We opened the doors and found inside 126 undocumented people: 106 from Haiti, 11 from Nepal and nine from Ghana," police spokesman Jorge Aguilar told news agencies.
The group has been taken to a shelter, and will be sent back across the border to Honduras, the last country from which they entered Guatemala.
Although there have been harrowing tales of Nepalis being among migrants from Central America and Haiti trying to get into the United States, this is the biggest rescue of people from Nepal.
Nepalis stranded in Mexico have said that they paid human traffickers tens of thousands of dollars to take them on an arduous journey from Kathmandu to Bolivia and then overland across the Darien Gap in Panama through Central America to Mexico.
Before the pandemic flight restrictions, the migrants were usually taken via Kuala Lumpur or Moscow to Sao Paolo and La Paz, where Nepalis get visa on arrival. Most do not make it, and are deported from transit airports en route.
Last month, nearly 30 Nepalis en route to Sao Paolo and Bolivia via Moscow were detained at Frankfurt airport after suspicions that they were being trafficked. Some of them have been deported back to Nepal.
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) says that more than 90,000 migrants mostly from Haiti have crossed over from Colombia through the jungles to Panama this year, hoping to reach the United States or Canada via Mexico.
The figure is said to be three times higher than the estimates for 2016, and probably show a backlog of migrants who were not able to travel during the pandemic.
"Border closures and economic contractions due to the Covid-19 pandemic led to an increase in irregular migration,'' said Santiago Paz, International Organisation for Migration (IOM) Chief of Mission in Panama.
The Darien Gap is said to be the most dangerous part of the months-long trek across the Americas to Mexico for the migrants.
Nepali migrants who managed to reach the United States or have been speaking to families back home from Mexico say they have paid more than Rs5 million to traffickers, or bribes to immigration officials along the way to get there.
There are said to be hundreds of Nepali migrants in Mexico who are trying to find ways to cross over into the United States at a time when the plight of Haitians at the Mexico-Texas border is making headlines in the US and around the world. The US is deporting many of them on flights back to Port au Prince.
OCHA says that nearly 60,000 people who left Haiti four years ago have crossed Panama between January and September 2021, many of them are children who were born during their journey,
It says the migrants passing through Panama also included nearly 13,000 from Cuba, 1,500 from Venezuela, as well as dozens from Bangladesh, Senegal, Ghana, Uzbekistan, India and Nepal.
"The situation faced by irregular migrants in transit in the Latin American and Caribbean region must be addressed from a regional approach and cannot be the responsibility of a single country,'' said the IOM’s Paz. "The Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration recommends cooperation among States to respond quickly and coherently to the needs of migrants in vulnerable conditions, and this need for cooperation is especially evident in the Darien Gap."

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Postal News: Stamp celebrates African American history, culture
The U.S. Postal Service recently issued the Celebrating African American History and Culture commemorative Forever stamp as a tribute to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture during a first-day-of-issue dedication ceremony.
The stamp art is based on a photograph by Alan Karchmer. Text in the upper left corner reads “National Museum of African American History and Culture.” Art director Antonio Alcal designed the stamp.
“The Postal Service is honored to issue a new commemorative Forever stamp acknowledging the important role African American history plays in American history,” Deputy Postmaster General and Chief Government Relations Officer Ronald A. Stroman said. “The National Museum of African American History and Culture is an American treasure that serves as a repository for the history of suffering, struggle and triumph of African Americans.”
Customers may purchase the stamp at usps.com/stamps or usps.com/shop, by calling 800-STAMP24 (782-6724) and at post office locations nationwide. Stamps and collectibles also is available at ebay.com/stamps.
Customers have 60 days to obtain first-day-of-issue postmarks by mail.
They must affix the stamps to envelopes of their choice, address the envelopes to themselves or others and place them in envelopes addressed to: FDOI – Celebrating African American History and Culture, USPS Stamp Fulfillment Services, 8300 N.E. Underground Drive, Suite 300, Kansas City, MO 64144-9900.
After applying the first-day-of-issue postmark, the USPS will return the envelopes through the mail. There is no charge for postmarks up to a quantity of 50. For more than 50, customers are charged 5 cents each. All orders must be postmarked by Dec. 13.
The USPS also offers first-day covers for new stamps and stationery items postmarked with the official first-day-of-issue cancellation.
Each item has an individual catalog number and is offered in the quarterly “USA Philatelic” catalog, online at usps.com/shop or by calling 800-782-6724.
Customers may request a free catalog by calling 800-782-6724 or writing to: U.S. Postal Service, Catalog Request, P.O. Box 219014, Kansas City, MO 64121-9014.
Many of this year’s other stamps may be viewed at facebook.com/USPSStamps or via Twitter @USPSstamps.
Phil Wiebold is a spokesman for U.S. Postal Service.


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Train the whole body optimally with the medicine ball
If you are looking for a device that allows you to train the whole body, a medicine ball is the best choice. Already 120 years, the differently weighted ball is back in vogue. Another advantage: It is suitable for beginners and professionals alike.
What makes the medicine ball so valuable
It comes in different sizes and weights. Formerly made of leather, it is now made of non-slip plastic material. It was used mainly for medical reasons for a long time until it finally arrived in sports. Especially among boxers, the unique ball enjoyed great popularity. In the meantime, the more or less heavy ball has become an integral part of many fitness programs.
A few buying tips
If you don’t have a medicine ball yet but are thinking about buying one, you should consider the following things: It comes in different sizes and weight classes. Regarding the size, handling plays a decisive role. It should lie well in the hands. This is usually the case with small balls, but specific exercises, such as the extended arm support, are more challenging due to the small surface area. Large balls are harder to hold, regardless of the weight. Here you also have to find a compromise in terms of your body size.
- I recommend 4 pounds for untrained women and 8 pounds for trained women.
- Untrained men take 6 or 8 pounds, trained men best 10 or 12 pounds.
- Good medicine balls are available from 20 dollars.
- If you want to train with them regularly, you should think about two or three balls of different weights.
Your training could look like this
There are many ways to train with the unique ball. You can perform a training program exclusively with the medicine ball or integrate medicine ball exercises into your program. If you want to train solely with the ball, you can choose some or all exercises listed below.
- For beginners, 5 exercises are sufficient at first. However, advanced exercisers can do more exercise.
- Be careful not to train the same muscle groups in two exercises in a row. Unless you want to burn them out.
- You can train according to the traditional scheme. So 3 x 8 to 12 repetitions with 30 to 60 seconds rest. Or you do intervals. 30 seconds load and 30 seconds rest or 40 to 20 or 45 to 15.
- You can find excellent programs for free at Fitnessblender, Juice & Toya and other sources on Youtube.
The best medicine ball exercises
Here now is my selection of exercises with the medicine ball. I can’t repeat it often enough in the articles: Pay attention to correct movements. If you are working out alone, watch yourself in front of a mirror. If technique starts to slip during the workout, you should reduce the weight or intensity.
Upper body rotation while standing
Stand upright and shoulder-width apart. Grasp the medicine ball with your hands in a hammer grip and extend your arms forward to about shoulder height. From this position, turn to the right and left side in a controlled manner. Try to stand as stable as possible and work out of the upper body.
You sit on the floor with your legs bent and take the ball in a hammer grip. Then bring your straight upper body back and lift your heels off the floor. Move the ball to the right and left with arms slightly bent forward from this position. The more you lean back with your upper body straight, the more difficult it becomes. It becomes easier with your heels up.
You stand upright with a medicine ball lying in front of you. Then you take the ball in both hands, straighten up and slam the ball with full force on the floor. This is a great full-body exercise that can also reduce aggression and stress.
You stand hip-width and place the medicine ball on one shoulder side. Then do squats. Take a short break and then do squats with the medicine ball on the other side.
Lunges with medicine ball above the head
A challenging exercise. You stand upright, hold the medicine ball in both hands and bring it over your head. Then you take turns making lunges forward.

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Airbus predicts United will buy A380 superjumbo jet
Ever since it made its first commercial passenger flight in 2007, aviation industry observers have been skeptical that a U.S. airline would decide to add the world's largest commercial passenger aircraft to its fleet.
But Airbus apparently thinks that's about to change.
United Continental Holdings is contemplating an Airbus A380 order, and while a final deal will take some time, Airbus expects the U.S. airline to adopt the double-decker for its extensive Asian network.
That came from Airbus COO John Leahy, who told Aviation Week he believes United Continental CEO Jeff Smisek has softened in his thinking that the A380 isn't a good fit for the route networks of U.S. carriers.
FULL STORY: Airbus expects United to place A380 0rder (Aviation Week)
ARCHIVES: Will the A380 fly for U.S. airlines? (July 10, 2011)
ARCHIVES: Miami joins 'elite' airports with A380 superjumbo service (June 14, 2011)
PHOTO GALLERY: First Chinese airline gets the A380 -- see the photos
Still, Aviation Week writes that "when pressed on a pending United deal," Leahy said:
I'm not saying there is an order soon, but United understands that if it wants to have a major presence in Asia it needs the A380.
Leahy, who says Airbus views current Boeing 747 customers as potential A380 buyers, is quoted by Reuters as saying:
There are only two operators of the 747 in the U.S.: United and Northwest-Delta. And yes, those guys are in my sights, particularly United. Everyone in Asia-Pacific has A380s now... If you want to compete in Asia-Pacific, at some point in time United is going to have to get on board with the A380.
Airbus' A380s have sold well in Middle East and Asia, but have not been purchased by airlines in the Americas.
Nonetheless, Leahy was optimistic, telling Aviation Week he thinks the A380 will find its way to U.S. airlines as air traffic here puts an ever-increasing strain on the handling capacity of the nation's air traffic control system.
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Action 1.1: Develop and implement CFA’s Engagement Framework and Volunteer Engagement Plan incorporating a monitoring, evaluation and continuous improvement process
Action objective: CFA’s Engagement Framework and Volunteer Engagement Plan is developed, implemented and remains fit for purpose
Lead agency: CFA
|Year Two to Five Plan (November 2021) completion date
|Year Two to Five Plan (updated May 2023) completion date
|Agency reported status as at 30 June 2023
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This action requires CFA to develop and implement the CFA Engagement Framework a strategic overarching document that will set the foundations for how CFA engages with its stakeholders. The CFA Engagement Framework is central to CFA’s successful delivery of its mission, vision and strategy. This framework also includes a Volunteer Engagement Plan, Staff Engagement Plan, CFA Community Engagement Approach and Stakeholder Engagement Approach. The CFA Engagement Framework and associated plans and approaches will be implemented into CFA organisational practice and will have embedded monitoring, evaluation, and continuous improvement processes by June 2025.
CFA have provided evidence to confirm the progress of the CFA Engagement Framework and its associated plans and approaches. The Victorian Government Public Engagement Framework 2021-2025 informs this work.
FSIM notes that CFA is a large organisation with many stakeholders that span across the state of Victoria and nationally. Developing tailored stakeholder engagement approaches and plans informed by a consistent set of engagement principles will provide guidelines that CFA members can use to prepare, manage, monitor and evaluate fit-for-purpose engagement initiatives. This guideline development is an important piece of work that has the potential to improve outcomes for CFA and the broader community by bringing volunteers, staff, external stakeholders and the community into the CFA decision-making process.
As at 30 June 2023, the progress of the CFA Engagement Framework, associated plans and approaches are as follows:
1. CFA Engagement Framework
The CFA Engagement Framework is in draft form. Further work will be required to complete the framework including stakeholder consultation and CFA executive approval.
2. CFA Volunteer Engagement Plan
The CFA Volunteer Engagement Plan is in draft form and on track for completion by June 2025. At the end of the reporting period, CFA was engaging with volunteers and the Volunteer Fire Brigades Victoria (VFBV) and will continue to consult to develop the plan.
3. CFA Community Engagement Approach
The CFA Community Engagement Approach is complete and published on the CFA website. This approach demonstrates CFA’s capability and commitment to engage with local communities and empower them to prepare for fire. To develop this approach, CFA has consulted with external stakeholders to identify how CFA can work with community members, government, corporate and other emergency management sector agencies. CFA’s engagement approach includes, but is not limited to, public awareness campaigns and fire safety programs.
4. CFA Stakeholder Engagement Plan/Approach and Staff Engagement Plan
CFA has yet to develop the CFA Stakeholder Engagement Plan/Approach and Staff Engagement Plan.
FSIM finds that action 1.1 is progressing, noting that the CFA Community Engagement Approach is complete and published on the CFA website.
 Victorian Government, 2021, Public Engagement Framework 2021-2025, Department of Premiere and Cabinet, viewed 25 May 2023, https://www.vic.gov.au/public-engagement-framework-2021-2025
 Country Fire Authority, 2022, Community Engagement Approach, Country Fire Authority, viewed 25 May 2023, <https://www.cfa.vic.gov.au/about-us/what-we-do/community-engagement-approach#:~:text=CFA's%20Community%20Engagement%20Approach%20outlines,them%20to%20prepare%20for%20fire


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Claudio Pavone: contrasting pro-fascist revisionism in the realm of public memory
Claudio Pavone, historian and outstanding figure of Italian intellectual life, passed away on 29 November at the age of 96. In 1943, as a young man, in the wake of the Italian armistice of 8 September and the subsequent German occupation of Central and Northern Italy, he joined the resistance movement. The experience of Resistenza contributed to developing his left-leaning political views as well as his strong social and civic commitment, of which he conceived as a service for the political community of citizens rather than a matter of party politics. Pavone was aware that the 1943–48 period he had witnessed and actively participated in represented a crucial passage of Italy’s contemporary history. His future work would often return to those years of struggle and transition. However, in doing so it would make no concession to self-celebration, but follow the guidelines of methodological rigorousness, meticulous documentation, and reflexivity.
After the war Pavone worked as an officer of the Central State Archives, where he contributed to the acquisition and conservation of the then recent documents of the fascist and war period. Later he started publishing historical studies by his own and in the 1970s began teaching at the University of Pisa, from where he retired in 1991. His first major work was Amministrazione centrale e amministrazione periferica of 1964, where he analyzed the establishment of institutional and administrative equilibria in the early days of the Kingdom of Italy. As Raffaele Romanelli has recalled in these days of mourning, Pavone’s pioneering in-depth exploration into such a “topic of perennial relevance for the history of Italy” offered a stimulating input to his own and other scholar’s studies.
Pavone’s work gained particularly far-reaching resonance in a period that coincided with another important transition in Italy’s history. In the early 1990s, the party system that had ruled the country’s political life since the end of the Second World War succumbed because of the implosion of the Communist experience and the explosion of corruption scandals that dragged the Christian Democrat and Socialist parties down to the political mud. The emergence of the so-called “Second Republic” and Silvio Berlusconi’s rise to power brought about revisionist narratives regarding fascism and resistance that referred (often inappropriately) to earlier scholarly studies, like those by Renzo De Felice; politically, they were instrumental for the reintegration of neo-fascist movements into Italy’s power game. Pavone’s 1991 book Una guerra civile. Saggio storico sulla moralità nella Resistenza highlighted the complex variety of motivations behind the partisans’ struggle. From his study, Resistenza emerged as a war for national liberation and as a civil war against fascist political thought. In addition, its numerous Marxist elements invested great hope into their fighting of the class enemy that they saw pulling the strings behind the Fascist and Nazi regimes. In his work, Pavone strenuously defended the moral worth of resistance, because the unselfish and highly risky choice by so many thousands of Italian citizens restored dignity to the nation in a moment of moral disaster and political uncertainty. At the same time, his work infringed on a taboo of previous “partisan history” through the recognition of the 1943–45 struggle as a civil war. As the documents unmistakably told him, it was also a war between consistent portions of the Italian society, rather than one that an almost compact nation moved on alien occupying forces who were assisted by just a handful of treacherous puppets.
Actually, already since the 1970s a younger generation of historians linked to the institutes for the study of the history of the Italian liberation movement had begun to challenge the “official” narrative of the partisan associations by investigating elements of structural continuity and interpreting fascism and neo-fascism as phenomena that genuinely rooted in national history. The work of a widely esteemed historian of the elder generation and former partisan like Pavone definitely validated their effort. It also helped contrasting more convincingly the accreditation of blatantly pro-fascist revisionism in the realm of public memory, which however would remain an open battlefield. For all these reasons as well as for their intrinsic scholarly value, Una guerra civile and other works by Claudio Pavone will remain an important reference also for future students of Italian contemporary history.
(first published in CHRONOS magazine, 1 Dec. 2016)
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Rolf Petri (1957) is the author of a number of books and articles on Italian and German economic history as well as studies in cultural history and the history of emotions. He is professor of contemporary history at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. He studied at the Philipp University of Marburg and the European University Institute of Florence. He has worked at the German Historical Institute in Rome and the universities of Bielefeld and Halle-Wittenberg.
Pavone’s work gained particularly far-reaching resonance in a period that coincided with another important transition in Italy’s history. In the early 1990s, the party system that had ruled the country’s political life since the end of the Second World War succumbed because of the implosion of the Communist experience and the explosion of corruption scandals that dragged the Christian Democrat and Socialist parties down to the political mud.
Το δίκτυο που με απασχόλησε είναι εκείνο των στρατιωτικών που προσέρχονται στον ελληνικό Αγώνα κυρίως μετά το 1824, όταν τα άλλα διεθνή μέτωπα της επανάστασης έχουν κριθεί και ο θάνατος του Byron στο Μεσολόγγι έχει αναθερμάνει το ενδιαφέρον για τους μαχόμενους Έλληνες. Η δημόσια και σχολική ιστορία στη χώρα μας έχει όμως κωφεύσει στον τύπο του περιπλανώμενου επαναστάτη με τις προσωπικές προτεραιότητες και βλέψεις και έχει καθιερώσει τον τύπο του ρομαντικού και ανιδιοτελούς ιδεολόγου φιλέλληνα που ήταν πιο καθησυχαστικός, ακόμα και κολακευτικός.
Τα δύο δάνεια που έλαβαν οι Έλληνες κατά τη διάρκεια του πολέμου της Ανεξαρτησίας το 1824 και το 1825, είναι σημαντικά και από πολιτική άποψη γιατί ουσιαστικά αποτελούν την πρώτη διεθνή αναγνώριση της Ελληνικής Πολιτείας. Αντίστοιχα δάνεια είχαν λάβει προηγουμένως οι χώρες της Λατινικής Αμερικής που αγωνίζονταν για την ανεξαρτησία τους, όπως το Περού και το Μεξικό.

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After 20 years and over $2 trillion dollars, the Afghanistan War is finally over. Does that mean our massive defense budget will finally be trimmed? Nope.
Congress is actually on the verge of passing an increase to the Pentagon’s budget, preparing to allocate $740 billion for the fiscal year 2021-2022. That’s more than President Joe Biden even requested. In fact, it’s $37 billion more.
The National Defense Authorization Act, better known as the NDAA, is passed annually and allocates funding for our military
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