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On 28 March 1900, Queen Yaa Asantewaa addressed the remnants of the Ashanti government in Kumasi, in modern-day Ghana.
I must say this: if you, the men of Asante will not go forward, then we will. We, the women, will. I shall call upon my fellow women. We will fight! We will fight till the last of us falls in the battlefields.
Her words galvanised the Ashanti Confederacy, starting their final war against British colonialism on the Gold Coast. The Ashanti leaders chose Yaa Asantewaa…

Sent this to the NYTimes editor with my name, address, email.
"To the editor,
Don't rebuild it unless it can be done for under $100 billion and the only vehicles to be able to use it are HazMat vehicles.
Clear the wreckage so the port can function normally.
The traffic will mostly disappear.
Yes. The Hazmat trucks will have
If you rebuild it for $400 billion and it lasts for 100 years then you are subsidizing 4000 trucks to the tune of $2700 each.…

The Business Secretary was very excited about someone volunteering your Rwanda claiming that it proved all the namby-pamby worrying about strangulated gays in the streets was just imagination.
However, it would be interesting to see the glorious prospectus that convinced this person to take the Golden ticket.
Perhaps it was the houses that had already been sold or the enticement to work for less than the equivalent living wage given they cannot work here.

@… There’s multiple distinct ways in which I miss the “good old days”:
1. The feeling of the web not being “serious”, in the sense that nothing in the world seemed to truly *depend* on the web. You could hang out with friends, turn in homework, do banking (Although I wasn’t old enough that it mattered to me yet), all without the web. The web was an *addi…

The EU reinstates funding to UNRWA starting next week:
The @… will ' allocate an additional EUR 68 million to support the Palestinian population across the region to be implemented through international partners like the Red Cross and the Red Crescent. This comes in addition to the foreseen EUR 82 million of aid to be implemented th…

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Highlights, press releases and speeches

re: Cops on campus
I don't really understand why the colleges don't just divest their investments in the arms manufacturing companies and whatnot.
Surely other investments are equally profitable?
Instead they send in jackbooted thugs in riot gear to oppress their own students suggesting that divestment.
I guess they don't have to pay for the oppression and violence against their students themselves, the state will pay for it.
But surely the images are causing more damage to the universities than selling shares in Raytheon or whatever would?

For Black History Month*, I'm finally reading Warmth of Other Suns, about the Great Migration. It's good! Mainly, it traces the lives of 3 people who moved from Mississippi to Chicago in the 1930s, Florida to NYC in the 40s, and Louisiana to Los Angeles in the 50s.
*ok I started in January. close enough

Oh dear the cookers are freaking out about the large hadron collider and the eclipse happening on the 8th

I am fascinated by early suggestions for geoengineering: "In 1791 Erasmus Darwin was proposing plans to artificially engineer and control global climate by sending out the Naval fleets of all nations to lasso every iceberg in the North and South Poles and tow them to the equator, in order to produce more clement weather in the tropics and equalise weather patterns across the world." (from Thomas Moynihan, X-Risk)

re: Cops on campus
I don't really understand why the colleges don't just divest their investments in the arms manufacturing companies and whatnot.
Surely other investments are equally profitable?
Instead they send in jackbooted thugs in riot gear to oppress their own students suggesting that divestment.
I guess they don't have to pay for the oppression and violence against their students themselves, the state will pay for it.
But surely the images are causing more damage to the universities than selling shares in Raytheon or whatever would?