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from BBC News (UK)
'Not enough to say sorry' for slavery links
Companies that benefited from slavery must go further than apologising, the chairman of the Caribbean Reparations Commission has said. Many British and European firms and their predecessors "drank from the well of Caribbean slavery", said Prof. Sir Hilary Beckles in a Reuters interview. The comments came as several financial institutions apologised for their historical links to the slave trade. He called on British firms to fund development projects in the Caribbean.
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from Bloomberg
Media/News Company
When to Wear a Mask and When You Can Skip It
Coronavirus spreads more easily under certain circumstances.
When to Wear a Mask and When You Can Skip It
Coronavirus spreads more easily under certain circumstances.
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from HumanProgress.org Education Website
Matt Ridley: How Innovation Works
In a year marred by economic collapse and the worst pandemic in a century, it is more important than ever that we remember this lesson. Top-down, state organizations from the Chinese Communist Party to the World Health Organization to the Food and Drug Administration to Public Health England have repeatedly misled the public and strangled the experimentation and technological innovation needed to react to the COVID-19 outbreak, or to address the economic consequences of the pandemic. From testing, to cures, to developing a vaccine, to creative and practical methods of physical distancing, the solution to the current crises is more innovation, not less. That means more freedom, not less.
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from New York Magazine
Conservatives get incensed by comparisons between President Trump and fascist regimes, and a recent social media post by first-year Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, describing immigrant detention facilities as “concentration camps” and denouncing Trump’s “fascist presidency,” set them off again. “To suggest that there is anything immoral about [Trump’s border policies], let alone to associate it with some of the worst acts of repression in modern history or even with Nazi death camps is such a profound and grievous error that it would be shocking coming from anyone besides AOC,” complains obviously aggrieved and shocked National Review editor Rich Lowry.
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from The Orca News & Media Website in B.C.
The story of Sylvia Estes Stark’s journey to British Columbia begins with an escape from slavery, adventure travel, and a wilderness homestead. It ends with a murder mystery. Along the way, Sylvia and members of her family met the likes of the notorious Jesse James and the charismatic Mormon leader Brigham Young.
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from POLITICO
LEAST BIASED, HIGH, news and opinion website in Arlington, Virginia
Did Vladimir Putin Support Anti-Western Terrorists as a Young KGB Officer?
Putin has sworn his time as a KGB officer in Dresden was uneventful. There’s a lot of reason to doubt that claim. When Vladimir Putin first arrived in Dresden as a mid-level KGB officer in 1985, East Germany was already living on borrowed time. On the verge of bankruptcy, the country was surviving with the help of a billion-Deutsche Mark loan from West Germany, while voices of dissent were on the rise. All around the eastern bloc, the mood of protest was increasing amid the misery and shortages of the planned economy and the brutality of state law-enforcement agencies. Most of what Putin did during the Dresden years remains shrouded in mystery, in part because the KGB was so effective at destroying and transferring documents before the collapse of East Germany.
Did Vladimir Putin Support Anti-Western Terrorists as a Young KGB Officer?
Putin has sworn his time as a KGB officer in Dresden was uneventful. There’s a lot of reason to doubt that claim. When Vladimir Putin first arrived in Dresden as a mid-level KGB officer in 1985, East Germany was already living on borrowed time. On the verge of bankruptcy, the country was surviving with the help of a billion-Deutsche Mark loan from West Germany, while voices of dissent were on the rise. All around the eastern bloc, the mood of protest was increasing amid the misery and shortages of the planned economy and the brutality of state law-enforcement agencies. Most of what Putin did during the Dresden years remains shrouded in mystery, in part because the KGB was so effective at destroying and transferring documents before the collapse of East Germany.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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