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Guaranteeing mortgages with racist criteria

mardi 20 juillet 2021 à 02:00

In the New Deal, the US government started guaranteeing home mortgages, using explicitly racist criteria. This policy continued into the 1960s. The segregation of suburbs thus established persists to this day.

In cases where the government discriminated against people based on race, it owes reparations to the victims of that discrimination, and their descendants. That includes those who were discriminated against by aid programs like these.

Test for long covid

mardi 20 juillet 2021 à 02:00

A new test may be able to determine whether a patient has long covid.

This would at least put an end to the problem that doctors may not believe what the patient says. However, it won't help treat patients unless researchers discover a treatment.

Cornel West

mardi 20 juillet 2021 à 02:00

Cornel West resigned from Harvard University after he was denied tenure because of his support for Palestinians.

England's Covid unlocking

mardi 20 juillet 2021 à 02:00

*England's Covid unlocking is threat to world, say 1,200 scientists.*

In Spain and Italy I've seen people gather close together as if Covid-19 no longer existed. Most of them were not old enough to have been offered vaccine yet in Europe. Even outdoors, such extended and close proximity is not safe.

Guilty of blocking news printers

mardi 20 juillet 2021 à 02:00

*Six Extinction Rebellion protesters found guilty of blocking news printers.*

If only the UK valued freedom of the press when it's Wikileaks reporting on government crimes.