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Let’s Talk About Genocide

·March 14, 2024
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Genocide has a very specific definition, which has become muddied in the waters of the Gaza conflict. The best illustration of why this conflict does not meet the legal standards of a genocide was provided by the Jan. 26 International Court of Justice ruling in the case South Africa brought against the government of Israel. In that ruling, they were careful to *not* rule that Israel is committing genocide. Indeed, while the court expressed concern that some of the acts alleged by South Africa (who filed the suit) taken by Israel, “appear to be capable of falling within the provisions of the Genocide Convention,” the ICJ didn’t even go as far as to order a ceasefire. The ICJ abides by the United Nations Genocide Convention of 1948 and the definition of the term therein. Here’s that definition as laid out in Article II of the Convention:

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Bad Faith: The Narrowgate Cult

·March 11, 2024

None of them realized they were in a cult until it was too late. It started in late 1993 as a Bible study group composed of students from Messiah College in Pennsylvania. By the time it shattered in February of 1997, most of the group’s members had lost their individual identities and many of their worldly possessions. Some had lost their marriages. The leader, the man who they say slowly wove a web of control around their minds and around their lives, had lost his wife and child: they fled in the night, afraid that he might kill them.

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Colorado’s PK-12 Enrollment Declines While Billionaires Fund Charter Schools

·February 29, 2024

In January 2024, the Colorado Department of Education announced that “PK-12 student enrollment reached the state’s lowest mark in a decade.” The declines are across the state, as “forty-three of the 64 counties had an absolute decline in the under-18 population over the last decade,” according to state demographer Elizabeth Garner. “It doesn’t matter where you were — Eastern Plains, San Luis Valley, West Slope, Denver metro.” She predicts the declines will continue through the 2028-29 school year.

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