Author: barry.belmont
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A march in March in Ann Arbor
About three dozen people walked from the steps of Hatcher Graduate Library through downtown Ann Arbor and back to the Diag on March 13 to call attention to systemic racism in policing and the mattering of black lives. The march began at about 2:45 p.m. local time. The participants walked through E. William St. up…
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The names of journalists killed in 2020
Safaa Ghali, killed in Iraq, January 10 Ahmed Abdul Samad, killed in Iraq, January 10 Amjad Anas Aktalati, caught in crossfire in Syria, February 4 Lourenço Veras, murdered in Paraguay, February 12 Abdiwali Ali Hassan, murdered in Somalia, February 16 Abdul Nasser Haj Hamdan, caught in crossfire in Syria, February 20 Maria Elena Ferral Hernández,…
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Hundreds of people have been slaughtered in Mai-Kadra
Approximately one month ago, hundreds of civilians in a market town in the Mi’irabawi Zone of the Tigray Region were murdered with axes, machetes, knives, and ropes.1 Witnesses from the Amhara populated area claim ethnic Tigrayan forces and allies are responsible for the attack. Tigrayan refugees claim Ethiopian federal forces and their allied Amhara groups…
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Children in America will miss 9 million vaccination doses in 2020
With all this talk of soon™-to-be-approved Covid vaccines and their extra half a percent of efficacy, we might miss data recently published by Blue Cross Blue Shield indicating a 26% decline in childhood vaccinations year over year in the United States. The current pandemic was cited as a common reason for missing routine medical care.…
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Memory of a forgotten future
I write this sitting on the steps of The Big House, near the Northeast entrance of Crisler Center. Three flags hang on three poles: the United States, Michigan, and the University. History was meant to bring the three together tonight not too far from where I sit. The site of the original second presidential debate…
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Now that’s what I call vertical integration
Megaconglomerate and borderline-evil corporation, Nestle, seeking to expand its health sciences unit (it has one of those!?), is reported to acquire Aimmune Therapeutics – maker of the first FDA approved treatment for peanut allergy – in an all cash deal whose U.S. dollar amount is equivalent to the total number of seconds a healthy human…