Evacuating might seem like the obvious move when a major hurricane is bearing down on your region, but that choice is not always as easy as it may seem. Evacuating from a hurricane requires money, planning, the ability to leave and, importantly, a belief that evacuating is better than staying put. A research associate at the Natural Hazards Center at University of Colorado Boulder examined years of research on what motivates people to leave or seek shelter during hurricanes. She found three main reasons for why people stay instead of leave. https://lnkd.in/eKAim2XA
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A March survey by independent pollster PRRI found that 68% of voters will take LGBTQ rights into consideration at the polls, and fully 30% stated that they would vote only for a candidate who shares their views on the issue. So, where do Kamala Harris and Donald Trump stand on LGBTQ rights? A legal scholar who has written extensively on the history of LGBTQ rights says the clearest indication of how a politician will act once in office is not what they promise on the campaign trail but what they have done in the past. Here are their records: https://lnkd.in/ePq6EDjg
Where do Harris, Trump stand on LGBTQ rights? - UPI.com
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A professor of geography at the University of South Carolina says Helene was by far the deadliest inland hurricane on record, exceeding Hurricane Agnes in 1972. Some hurricanes are remembered for their wind damage or rainfall, professor Cary Mock writes in today’s Voices. Others, he says, are remembered for their coastal flooding. But Hurricane Helene was a stew of all of that and more, and its near-record-breaking size, storm surge, winds and rainfall together turned it into an almost unimaginable disaster that stretched more than 500 miles inland from the Florida coast. Helene's devastation, Mock also says, is an important reminder that hurricanes can't be judged by wind speed alone. https://lnkd.in/e9whi5ZU
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U.S. Special Envoy for North Korean Human Rights Issues Julie Turner and Ambassador-at-Large for Global Criminal Justice Beth Van Schaack are scheduled to co-host an international workshop in South Korea that will examine human-rights violations by North Korea. The event is scheduled in Seoul Monday through Oct. 11. Turner and Van Schaack also will meet with South Korean officials, civil-society leaders and escapees from North Korea. In a statement Wednesday, the U.S. State Department also said, "The United States remains steadfast in working with our allies, including the Republic of Korea, to amplify the voices of North Korean escapees and ensure their stories are heard.” https://lnkd.in/emCceSuQ
U.S. officials to host Seoul workshop focused on North Korea's human rights violations - UPI.com
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On Tuesday, the Department of Justice published a 93-page report on Georgia’s prison system that found that the system subjects inmates to "horrific and inhumane" conditions in violation of the Eighth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. "People are assaulted, stabbed, raped and killed or left to languish inside facilities that are woefully understaffed," Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke said in a press release. "Inmates are maimed and tortured, relegated to an existence of fear, filth and not-so-benign neglect." Georgia inmates are subjected to an "unreasonable risk of harm from sexual abuse" throughout the state's prison system, including LGBTQ inmates, the report said. https://lnkd.in/eNfrbmue
DOJ: 'Horrific and inhumane' Georgia prisons violate Constitution - UPI.com
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The Pentagon has said that China is building up its ICBM armory as it modernizes its military's deterrence capabilities amid growing competition with the United States. As such, it might not be surprising that China's military test-fired an intercontinental ballistic missile Wednesday morning, according to defense officials. It was the first public test of the weapon in decades and comes after the U.S. military said last year it expects China to have more than 1,000 nuclear warheads by 2030. https://lnkd.in/g3732_Uz
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During World War II, American author John Steinbeck wrote the short novel "The Moon is Down" at the request of General William J. Donovan of the U.S. Office of Strategic Services. This work of fiction was designed to inspire resistance against Nazi occupation in Europe. Translated into multiple languages and covertly distributed, it helped fuel underground resistance movements. Today, says one geopolitical expert, people in North Korea face a similarly oppressive regime, and a similar literary work could play a crucial role in empowering the North Korean people to seek that universal human right that eludes them: self-determination. Such a work could provide a framework for resistance, counter regime propaganda and offer hope, among other beneficial things for those in the region, says David Maxwell, a retired U.S. Army Special Forces colonel, vice president of the Center for Asia Pacific Strategy, and a senior fellow at the Global Peace Foundation, where he focuses on a free and unified Korea. https://lnkd.in/exc67KUr
The power of fiction: Why North Korea needs its own 'Moon is Down' - UPI.com
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In today’s Voices: There are more than 3,000 sheriffs elected at the county level in the United States, each of whom has authority and autonomy to both set and enforce law enforcement policy. And most of these law enforcers are White Republican men. Sheriffs have a long history of using their power to maintain a particular, unequal balance of power in society, two professors at Texas universities say, adding that the power often is maintained along racial and class lines. And a recent example of this arose this month when Bruce Zuchowski, the Republican sheriff of Portage County, Ohio, was accused of voter intimidation after he posted a message on a Facebook page calling for the public to write down the addresses of people who have campaign signs supporting Democratic nominee Vice President Kamala Harris in their yards. https://lnkd.in/e4PeG5t5
Sheriffs define law and order for their counties -- and most are White Republican men - UPI.com
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Georgia's state election board is dominated by supporters of former President Donald Trump. So it might not be surprising that the board approved a controversial measure that requires, in addition to a machine count, hand-counting of ballots on the night of the Nov. 5 election or the next day. The board passed into the control of a pro-Trump majority after the Republican-dominated state Legislature passed sweeping election reform laws in 2021. Since then its newer GOP members appointed by the Legislature — including two who previously spread falsehoods about Trump's 2020 loss — have issued a series of new rules that critics say amount to a thinly disguised effort to create nationwide chaos and delays in the event that Vice President Kamala Harris wins the crucial battleground state over Trump. The hand-counting measure was passed over the objections of many county-level election directors and that of Chris Carr, Georgia's Republican attorney general. https://lnkd.in/ezzshkpJ
Georgia election board institutes controversial hand-counting requirement - UPI.com
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In today’s Voices: A retired U.S. Army Special Forces Colonel who has spent more than 30 years in the Asia Pacific region says a sophisticated and holistic information campaign is essential for supporting the Korean people in North Korea in their pursuit of freedom and unification. https://lnkd.in/eTRcNNYS
ROK-U.S. alliance needs public diplomacy, information campaign aimed at North Korea - UPI.com
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