Red Mosquito

E.H. Ruddock wrote:The Fenn treasure has been found.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/07/us/forre ... index.html

(CNN)Prime Minister Scott Morrison has apologized for saying earlier this week that there was "no slavery" in Australia, after his comments provoked outrage and accusations that he was ignoring the country's history of forced labor.

Speaking at a news conference in Canberra Friday, Morrison said he was referring specifically to the fact that the first Australian colony of New South Wales was set up without the widespread use of slave labor.

96583UP wrote:What an embarrassment, get a real leader who is not blind to atrocity

(CNN)Prime Minister Scott Morrison has apologized for saying earlier this week that there was "no slavery" in Australia, after his comments provoked outrage and accusations that he was ignoring the country's history of forced labor.

Speaking at a news conference in Canberra Friday, Morrison said he was referring specifically to the fact that the first Australian colony of New South Wales was set up without the widespread use of slave labor.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/12/australi ... index.html

Spoiler: show

Fabricated may not be true.

Until now. Over the month ­until June 7 — including the crucial Memorial Day weekend — New York’s murder rate more than doubled, to 42 murders, from 18 the year before — a jolt of 133 percent. Shooting victims, including wounded, are up 45 percent. Stabbings are up, too.

To be clear: Going back to the early ’90s, New York has never seen a sustained increase of this magnitude. Nothing close: The nearest spike in the early summer month was a short-lived 63 percent hike in 2006, just half ­today’s increase. And that ­increase did portend an 11 percent murder hike for all of 2006, the second-highest in three decades.

This isn’t an aberration coming off a good spring. For the year, murder is up 25 percent. If these rates hold, New York would end 2020 with an increase in murders twice as high as we’ve seen since 1990.

bart wrote:I haven’t noticed more fireworks than usual, and the county I live in is basically the South Carolina of Maryland. So seems like it’s just a city thing

bart wrote:I haven’t noticed more fireworks than usual, and the county I live in is basically the South Carolina of Maryland. So seems like it’s just a city thing

bart wrote:I haven’t noticed more fireworks than usual, and the county I live in is basically the South Carolina of Maryland. So seems like it’s just a city thing

96583UP wrote:

bart wrote:I haven’t noticed more fireworks than usual, and the county I live in is basically the South Carolina of Maryland. So seems like it’s just a city thing

Charles?

BurtReynolds wrote:Pretty interesting read.
https://damagemag.com/2020/06/17/the-tr ... -idealism/

I've always thought the obsession with the U.S. was strange, but the BLM protests took it to a bizarre new level.

VinylGuy wrote:Its also funny that the article talks about north america as AMERICA. First super common mistake made by someone from USA. That and not caring about anything that happens in the world.