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arjunk2022

African Union health watchdog CDC appeals for calm over Omicron - 1 views

www.aljazeera.com/...-appeals-for-calm-over-omicron

COVID-19 African Union Omicron Variant

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  • arjunk2022 on 04 Dec 21
     
    This article is essentially about the African Union Health Minister saying that there are methods to soften the blow of the Omicron Variant that warrant some optimism. We generally see bad news around COVID, especially with Omicron, so this is good to see.
  • juliam814 on 07 Dec 21
     
    I agree with Arjun's comment, and the criticism of richer nations' booster shots is super valid.
Rick Rodgers

China? Cars? - 0 views

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  • Rick Rodgers on 22 Oct 10
     
    Well, we all know we make cars, and we know Japan makes cars, but China makes cars? Apparently, they actually have the worlds largest auto-market, and the industry is expanding rapidly (just like everything else in China). Thought it might be interesting to know that the family car of the next century may no longer be a Honda or a Toyota, but some Chinese variant. Let's not even think about the environmental impact of the new car needs of China, or the effect even cheaper cars will have on the US auto market.
Kay Bradley

Police Reform Is Necessary. But How Do We Do It? - The New York Times - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...police-reform.html

shared by Kay Bradley on 27 Aug 20 - No Cached
  • The United States spends more on public safety than almost all its peer countries and much less, relatively speaking, on social services
  • Now we’re having a conversation that’s not just about how black communities are policed, and what reforms are required, but also about why we’ve invested exclusively in a criminalization model for public safety, instead of investing in housing, jobs, health care, education for black communities and fighting structural inequality.
  • Budgets are moral documents, reflecting priorities and values.
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  • Garza: In 2018 and 2019, my organization, Black Futures Lab, did what we believe is the largest survey of black communities in America. It’s called the Black Census Project. We asked more than 30,000 black people across America what we experience, what we want to see happen instead and what we long for, for our futures.
  • the No.1 issue facing them, and keeping them up at night, is that their wages are too low to support a family.
  • Imagine that you have a tool chest for solving social problems. It gives you options. Then you lose the tool of mental-health resources. You lose the tool of public education. They take out the tool of job placement. And then all you’ve got left is this one rusty hammer. That’s policing.
  • Simply defunding the police cannot be a legacy of this moment. I want to hear about investing in black communities more than I want to hear about defunding.
  • There has been such a massive disinvestment in the social safety net that should exist to give black communities an opportunity to thrive, whether it’s access to health care or housing or education or jobs.
  • They cause others to be armed, out of fear, who shouldn’t have to worry about defending themselves
  • The dispatcher would route calls that aren’t about crimes or a risk of harm to social workers, mediators and others.
  • In many cities, the police spend a lot of time “on traffic and motor-vehicle issues, on false burglar alarms, on noise complaints and on problems with animals,”
  • When a police report leads to criminal charges — only a subset of the whole — about 80 percent of them are for misdemeanors. Friedman argues that we should hand off some of what the police do to people who are better trained for it.
  • A tiny percentage of people are the ones destabilizing communities
  • There are a host of things that the police are currently responding to that they have no business responding to.
  • If you have a car accident, why is somebody with a gun coming to the scene?
  • Or answering a complaint about someone like George Floyd, who the store clerk said bought a pack of cigarettes with a counterfeit $20 bill?
  • Similarly, if you have a homeless man panhandling at a red light and you say to a cop, “Go fix it,” he’ll arrest the man. And now he has a $250 ticket. And how does he pay that? And what does any of this accomplish?
  • domestic disputes. They’re the subject of 15 to more than 50 percent of calls to the police
  • But might we get further in the long run if someone with other skills — in social work or mediation — actually handled the incident?
  • The women were deeply wary of the police in general, but 33 of them had called them at least once, often for help with a teenager. “Calling the police on family members deepens the reach of penal control,” Bell wrote. But the mothers in her study have scant options.
  • hey knew that if they called the police that real harm could come, and they didn’t want that.
  • When I did investigations for the Justice Department, I would hear police officers say: “I didn’t sign up to the police force to be a social worker. I don’t have that training.” They know they’re stuck handling things because there is a complete lack of investment in other approaches and responses.
  • In Eugene, Ore., some 911 calls are routed to a crisis-intervention service called Cahoots, which responds to things like homelessness, substance abuse and mental illness. Houston routes some mental-health calls to a counselor if they’re not emergencies. New Orleans is hiring people who are not police officers to go to traffic collisions and write reports, as long as there are no injuries or concerns about drunken driving. I’m borrowing these examples from Barry Friedman’s article. The point is that some cities are beginning to reduce the traditional scope of police work.
  • One of the most interesting studies about policing is a randomized comparison of different strategies for dealing with areas of Lowell, Mass., that were hot spots for crime. One was aggressive patrols, which included stop-and-frisk encounters and arrests on misdemeanor charges, like drug possession. A second was social-service interventions, like mental-health help or taking homeless people to shelters. A third involved physical upkeep: knocking down vacant buildings, cleaning vacant lots, putting in streetlights and video cameras. The most effective in reducing crime was the third strategy.
alexandrac22

Coronavirus live updates: European Union says 70 percent of adults are fully vaccinated... - 1 views

www.washingtonpost.com/...vid-delta-variant-live-updates

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  • tobiasc2022 on 31 Aug 21
     
    Interesting seeing this vs the US
  • anonymous on 31 Aug 21
     
    A little sad to see that in comparison, only 55% of California adults are full vaccinated
ershai

The Social Democrats have defeated Merkel's party by a narrow margin, initial results s... - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...german-elections

Germany Elections

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  • ershai on 27 Sep 21
     
    Center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD) narrowly defeated Chancellor Angela Markel's center-right Christian Democratic Party, officially marking the end of Merkel's 16 years of leadership. The narrow outcome means the SPD must collaborate with other parties to form the new government, a process that could take weeks, if not months, leaving Europe's largest democracy in a state of uncertainty. This election signals an end to an era for Germany, a longtime leader in Europe with Merkel at the helm.
juliam814

Pfizer to Vaccinate Entire City of Toledo in Brazil As Part of Study - The New York Times - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...entire-city-toledo-brazil.html

Brazil NYTimes Covid-19 Vaccinations

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  • Pfizer announced that it would fully vaccinate everyone in the city over the age of 12 so it can carry out a study of the safety and effectiveness of the vaccine.
  • Brazil has suffered one of the world’s highest death tolls from the pandemic.
  • The study will follow participants for up to one year to investigate how long vaccine protection lasts against Covid-19 and new virus variants.
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  • Many Brazilians have expressed anger at how slowly their government acquired vaccines and a corruption scandal involving vaccine deals.
  • juliam814 on 20 Oct 21
     
    To contrast with President Bolsonaro's Covid-19 response, this town in Brazil is allowing Pfizer to test the lasting effects of an entirely vaccinated (ages 12 and up) city.
anays2023

Russian Troops Will Stay to Finish Job in Kazakhstan, Putin Says - The New York Times - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...putin-russia-kazakhstan.html

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  • resource-rich Central Asian
  • resource-rich Central Asian
    • anays2023
      anays2023 on 11 Jan 22
       
      Follows the trend that China and Russia are doing...exploiting areas to procure natural resources
  • set no deadline for the withdrawal of the forces his country sent there.
    • anays2023
      anays2023 on 11 Jan 22
       
      This is unusual and could signal a long term occupation
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  • rising gas prices that began peacefully and then turned violent.
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      anays2023 on 11 Jan 22
       
      I wouldnt be surprised if we later found out Russia had its hands in turning these protests violent
  • But he did not give any deadline for a withdrawal, saying that they would stay as long as President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev of Kazakhstan “considers it necessary,” raising the possibility they could be in the country indefinitely.
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      anays2023 on 11 Jan 22
       
      So this leads me to beleive Russia has plans to occupy indefinitely...practically launching an invasion under a humanitarian guise.
  • 2,000 troops his country had sent as “peacekeepers” would leave only once their mission was complete.
  • The Russian president said the unrest was indicative of foreign attempts to intervene in a region the Kremlin sees as its sphere of influence,
    • anays2023
      anays2023 on 11 Jan 22
       
      Colonialism
  • Those protests also helped precipitate Russia’s annexation of Crimea and invasion of the Donbas region in eastern Ukraine that year.
    • anays2023
      anays2023 on 11 Jan 22
       
      Signals that Kazakhstan would be next
  • color revolutions,” a term that has been used for the pro-democracy movements that swept many countries of the former Soviet Union.
    • anays2023
      anays2023 on 11 Jan 22
       
      Reminds me of de-stalinzation era
  • Sign up for updates on the unrest in Kazakhstan:  Every evening, we will bring you a roundup of our latest Kazakhstan coverage. Get it sent to your inbox.
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      anays2023 on 11 Jan 22
       
      Heartless corporate pedaling
  • At least 5,800 people have been detained and more than 2,000 injured after several days of violence last week in Kazakhstan, according to the president’s office.
  • “brotherly Kazakh people” —
    • anays2023
      anays2023 on 11 Jan 22
       
      VERY PUTIN LOL
  • 164 people had died in the violence, including 103 in the country’s economic center, Almaty.
  • killed
  • injured
  • 1,300.
  • “The main goal was obvious: the undermining of the constitutional order, the destruction of government institutions and the seizure of power,” he said.
    • anays2023
      anays2023 on 11 Jan 22
       
      De-legitimization and then annexation...the way Russia did with Crimea
  • The rapid evolution of peaceful protests in the Kazakhstan’s west to countrywide demonstrations that quickly descended into violent chaos has led observers to speculate that the unrest was fanned by infighting within the Kazakh elite.
  • Until now, the oil-rich country has been regarded as a pillar of political and economic stability in an unstable region. The protests are also significant for Vladimir Putin, who views Kazakhstan as part of Russia’s sphere of influence.
    • anays2023
      anays2023 on 11 Jan 22
       
      Similar pattern of resource exploitation was seen with the Ukrain pipeline
  • Officials have instituted a state of emergency and shut off internet access.
    • anays2023
      anays2023 on 11 Jan 22
       
      Why would they cut off Internet access? Thats really sus
  • The comments from Mr. Putin came as American and Russian diplomats gathered in Geneva in the hopes of negotiating a drawdown of the 100,000 troops the Kremlin has positioned on the border with Ukraine in recent months.
  • number
  • In a sign, perhaps, of the power imbalance between them, Mr. Putin forgot Mr. Tokayev’s name during the video meeting Monday, mangling it as “Kemal Zhomartovich,” instead of Kassym-Jomart.
    • anays2023
      anays2023 on 11 Jan 22
       
      Subtle but a noteworthy sign of domination
  • Kazakh officials said on Sunday that order had been restored and that the foreign troops would “probably” be gone by the following week.
    • anays2023
      anays2023 on 11 Jan 22
       
      LETS SEE
  • anays2023 on 11 Jan 22
     
    I hope my annotations saved
  • Kay Bradley on 13 Jan 22
     
    Great use of Diigo annotation tool, Anay!
kylany

Italy Proposal to Add Female Statue to Square of Men Stirs Debate - The New York Times - 4 views

www.nytimes.com/...e-padua-prato-della-valle.html

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  • kylany on 09 Jan 22
     
    In Padua, Italy, there is much debate over a proposal to include a female philosopher in a monument whose sculptures are all men. Some people even saw the proposal as an example of "cancel culture".
  • anays2023 on 14 Jan 22
     
    I don't know much about Italy but I know their current leaders are quite conservative and unwavering so this largely makes sense.
samuelws

Covid Live Updates: W.H.O. Warns of 'Very High' Risk From Omicron as Questions Remain - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...omicron-variant-covid

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  • samuelws on 29 Nov 21
     
    I'm very curious to see how this situation plays out: how much governmental control will people put up with. Do you think there could be another lockdown if the strain is virus resistant? Or do you think this could be runious to current political regimes?
juliam814

As World Shuts Borders to Stop Omicron, Japan Offers a Cautionary Tale - The New York T... - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...omicron-japan-border.html

NYTimes economy Japan Covid-19

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  • Japan has gone further than most other countries so far, announcing on Monday that the world’s third-largest economy would be closed off to travelers from everywhere.
  • Over the many months that Japan has been isolated, thousands of life plans have been suspended, leaving couples, students, academic researchers and workers in limbo.
  • The government’s decision to close again reflects its desire to preserve its successes battling the virus and to prevent the kind of strain on the health care system that it experienced over the summer during an outbreak of the Delta variant.
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  • “Trust should be put in Japan’s success on the vaccination front,” the council said. “And Japan and its people are now firmly in a position to reap the economic rewards.”
  • “I don’t know what else to do,” he added. “This pandemic seems endless.”
  • juliam814 on 29 Nov 21
     
    I wonder if the seemingly perpetual nature of this pandemic will cause the people to question government legitimacy. Japan's isolation, while drastic compared to most places, has been beneficial to health, but it may hinder many other areas of potential growth.
audreybandel

Who Owns a Recipe? A Plagiarism Claim Has Cookbook Authors Asking. - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...theft-cookbook-plagiarism.html

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  • audreybandel on 30 Nov 21
     
    Posting this because we were talking about intellectual property.
Kay Bradley

What Is Going on in Peru and Why Are People Protesting? - The New York Times - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...esident-castillo-boluarte.html

Peru Political Violence

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  • Kay Bradley on 23 Dec 22
     
    "What Is Behind the Political Turmoil in Peru?"
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