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What is CARE, the anti-abortion lobby group that launched Kate Forbes’s political career? | openDemocracy

openDemocracy revealed this week that Forbes’s first job in the Scottish Parliament had been funded by Christian Action, Research and Education (CARE), known for its opposition to abortion, sex education and LGBTIQ+ rights. The findings have put a spotlight on the group, which claims it has placed more than 300 interns trained to take a “biblical approach” to political issues into MPs offices.

Source: What is CARE, the anti-abortion lobby group that launched Kate Forbes’s political career? | openDemocracy

India and Argentina: what do they have to do with each other?

Happiness Between Tails by da-AL

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Goodness, I hope my incredible ennui isn’t infectious. I’m still getting over a bad cold. While I’m technically well and I’ve been able to make significant inroads on the eventual podcast of my novel-in-progress, Flamenco & the Sitting Cat, my brain hurts, probably due to an ongoing hacking cough that just now caused a stranger to jump.

And maybe it also has to do with an earlier yet still recent bittersweet trip to my mothers homeland of Argentina?

And maybe it has to do with all the vaccines my husband and I had to take before our recent visit to India?

Okay, okay — I’ll address each of those one-by-one: 1. Enough said about the cold. 2. I haven’t processed the Argentina trip thoroughly enough to…

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Marii Freire

Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

” A resposta apressada é sempre um equívoco. Isso é tão verdadeiro que, as pessoas tendem sempre- se curvar sobre suas dores por conta de falas inadequadas. Mediante isso lhes digo: ” pondere antes de abrir a boca”. Instrua-se, eduque seus pensamentos para depois falar.”

Marii Freire

https://Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

Santarém, Pá 3 de março de 2023

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Why the fuss about ESG investing?

Darcy Hitchcock

Congress recently voted to overturn a rule allowing fund managers from taking into account environmental, social and governance issues when they invest in companies.

The U.S. Senate voted 50-46 to adopt a resolution to overturn a Labor Department rule making it easier for fund managers to consider environmental, social and corporate governance, or ESG, issues for investments and shareholder rights decisions, such as through proxy voting.

https://www.reuters.com/business/us-senate-poised-consider-blocking-biden-esg-investment-rule-2023-03-01/

Through the Republican lens, these look like liberal issues: climate change, social justice, transparency. They think integrating ESG into investment decisions pushes that liberal agenda at the expense of returns. Here’s what they don’t understand.

  • Many studies have shown that ESG screened portfolios perform as well or better than ones that don’t.
  • ESG investing is actually more about managing risk, not returns. By not allowing pension managers to take these issues into consideration, they’re making the pensioners take on more risk. Do you…

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