Code of Hammurabi

A Travesty of Financial History: Bank Lobbyists will Applaud

Edit CounterPunch 15 Jul 2016

This debt forgiveness under extenuating circumstances remained a common legal feature from the Laws of Hammurabi down through Roman law ... When Hammurabi lay dying in 1749 BC, his son Samsuiluna wrote a letter saying that he found the land so burdened by debt that he remitted arrears owed by many types of royal tenants ... Rim-Sin needed their support for his looming fight with Hammurabi, who soon conquered Larsa in 1763....

How Congress can help prevent shootings by police

Edit CNN 09 Jul 2016

(CNN)On Wednesday, the nation awoke to the killing of Alton Sterling. On Thursday, the killing of Philando Castile. On Friday, the apparently retaliatory killing in Dallas of five police officers patrolling an otherwise peaceful protest decrying these, and other, police shootings ... Laura Coates ... Why is that? A powerful little thing the Supreme Court called deference. Read More ... But we cannot become a nation that adheres to Hammurabi's code....

The 5,000-year history of interest rates shows just how historically low US rates are right now

Edit Business Insider 17 Jun 2016

Stele of Narâm-Sîn, king of Akkad, c. 2250 BC. The Federal Reserve continues to keep its benchmark interest rate target pegged to a range of 0.25% to 0.50%. That's low. Interestingly, rates aren't just low within the context of American history. They also happen to be at the lowest levels in the last 5,000 years of civilization ... BAML ... 20% Babylon, Code of Hammurabi, 1772 BC ... ....

And the world's top museum is ....

Edit CNN 15 Jun 2016

(CNN)With Mona Lisa's intriguing smile, the Venus de Milo, the Law Code of Hammurabi and so much more, it's no wonder that the Louvre is the most popular museum in the world. For the fourth year in a row, the Louvre dominated the recently released TEA/AECOM Global Attractions Attendance Report's museum rankings. The Paris museum attracted 8.7 million visitors, according to the 2015 Museum Index. JUST WATCHED. Restoring the Mona Lisa ... 1 ... 2....

You Don’t Care if Someone Is Black, White, Green, or Purple? You Should!

Edit Slate 14 Jun 2016

Last week, Fox sports reporter Emily Austen received an official reprimand for her “insensitive and derogatory” remarks during a live Facebook video. “I didn’t even know Mexicans were that smart,” Austen had marveled, reflecting on the undocumented Texas student who earned a full ride to the University of Texas at Austin ... Green humans do not exist ... Once upon a time, I tried to establish a Hammurabi’s Code of poetry reviewing ... ....

An Ivy League professor explains how a 1980s game theory experiment suggests how morality could have evolved

Edit Business Insider 12 Jun 2016

Relief on the upper part of the stele of Hammurabi's code of laws. Using math and game theory to explain decision making is nothing new. But what's really stunning is that game theory can give some insight into how morality may have "evolved.". Business Insider recently spoke with Steven Strogatz, the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Applied Mathematics at Cornell University and author of "Joy of X ... And it all goes back to game theory ... ....

The Land Below Zero: Where Negative Interest Rates are Normal

Edit Bloomberg 06 Jun 2016

In Copenhagen, bicycles take undisputed priority over cars and even pedestrians ... What happens if negative rates move from medium-term peculiarity to long-term reality, reversing the fundamental principles of debt and savings in a way that makes the change seem permanent? Since the Code of Hammurabi legislated interest rates in the 18th century B.C., and perhaps much earlier, capital has had a cost; in modern Denmark, it often doesn’t....

The Battle for Mosul: the Peshmerga Advances on ISIS Stronghold

Edit CounterPunch 02 Jun 2016

The spokesman for the Zerevani forces Dilshad Mawlood told Rudaw news agency ... “U.S ... Yohanna Towaya, a member of the Hammurabi human rights organisation and a community leader from the small Christian city of Qaraqosh, now empty apart from Isis guards but once home to 50,000 people, said he understood that “the Peshmerga plan to liberate it along with another Christian town called Bartella” ... ....

#notosolitary

Edit The Malta Independent 01 Jun 2016

Yes, even for those who have committed the most heinous, monstrous and odious of crimes, if we are happy to measure all within the principle of retaliation, ‘eye for an eye’ philosophy then we might as well pack up. In that case let’s do away with the Courts and revert to the Code written by Hammurabi where the principle of ......

Humanism and morality have cast off religion

Edit The Guardian 30 May 2016

Your editorial (Imagine no religion – it’s not so easy if you try, 28 May) exposes the problem of the conflation of morality with religion ... Richard Gilyead. Saffron Walden, Essex. • Granted we need “a sense of global solidarity ... You ask ... London ... Human rights were variously encoded long before Christianity and beyond Europe, for example, by Babylonian King Hammurabi 2,000 years before, and in the 6th century BCE by the Charter of Cyrus ... ....

Is Friday the 13th unlucky? Research says no.

Edit Vox 13 May 2016

One of the most widespread superstitions in modern society is the idea that Friday the 13th is unlucky -- a phobia that may stretch all the way back to 1780 B.C and the Code of Hammurabi. We're here to dispel it. There have actually been a number of studies looking at whether enough unfortunate events occur on Friday the 13th to justify "friggatriskaidekaphobia." None of them have turned up any good evidence that they do ... ....

Akufo-Addo & Asiedu Nketia Are What Hypocritical Irony Is 2

Edit Modern Ghana 13 May 2016

By Francis Kwarteng. THE MACHIAVELLIAN POLITICAL CROSS-DRESSER CALLED ASIEDU NKETIA ... Rev ... Rev ... None of them—we repeat—none of them believes in the “law of retaliation,” the so-called Hammurabi’s Code or retributive justice, for they have never found a reason to force them to equate political equalization with political equality in terms of equitable re-distribution of national wealth and retributive justice....

Morro Bay Celebrates Building Safety Month (City of Morro Bay, CA)

Edit Public Technologies 12 May 2016

(Source. City of Morro Bay, CA). To help raise awareness of building safety, the City of Morro Bay Community Development Department proudly celebrates Building Safety Month during May ... This year's theme is Building Codes ... A Smart Investment ... The earliest known code of law-the Code of Hammurabi, king of the Babylonian Empire, written circa 2200 B.C.-assessed severe penalties, including death, if a building was not constructed safely....

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