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Country diary: Redstarts are a master of the cover version | Mark Cocker
(theguardian.com)
W. Warde Fowler
,
A Year with the Birds
“
The
Redstart
was not a very common bird about us until about three years ago, but now its gentle song is heard in May in almost every garden and well-hedged field. In August and September the young birds are everywhere seen showing their conspicuous fire-tails as they flit in and out of the already fast-browning hedges
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Ukraine war live: deadly Russian attacks continue after Turkey peace talks end with no significant breakthrough
(theguardian.com)
Volodymyr Zelenskyy
,
Address by the President of Ukraine to the Parliament of the United Kingdom
(2022)
“
On the thirteenth day, a child died in
Russian-occupied
Mariupol. Died of dehydration. They do not allow food or water to people. They just blocked it - and people are in the basements. I think everyone hears: people don't have water there!In 13 days of the
Russian
invasion, 50 children were killed. 50 great martyrs. This is dreadful! This is emptiness. Instead of 50 universes that could live, they took them away. They just took them away.Great Britain!Ukraine did not strive for that.
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Half of Asians Americans and Pacific Islanders faced hate in 2024, study finds
(theguardian.com)
Joseph Robinette Biden
,
Fact Sheet: President Biden Announces Additional Actions to Respond to Anti-Asian Violence, Xenophob...
(2021)
“
To ensure transparency in the nation’s
hate
crimes data, and to support community-led efforts to shine a spotlight on acts of anti-Asian violence, the Federal Bureau of Investigation will publish a new interactive
hate
crime page on its Crime Data Explorer website, which will spotlight reports of anti-Asian
hate
crimes. This online tool will help communities, researchers, and advocates study and measure national
hate
crimes statistics.
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Who are the real wealth creators? And does inheritance tax really put off entrepreneurs? | Letters
(theguardian.com)
Otto H. Kahn
,
Government Ownership of Railroads, and War Taxation
“
The same observations hold good in the case of our proposed
inheritance
taxation (maximum proposed here forty per cent., as against twenty per cent. maximum in England and much less in all other countries) . And again there are to be added to Federal taxation the rates of state legacy and
inheritance
taxation.Inheritance
taxation, moreover, has that inevitable element of unfairness that it leaves entirely untouched the wastrel who never laid by a cent in his life, and penalizes him who practiced industry, self-denial and thrift.
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Wheel of 20th-century Italian cheese smashes record for oldest parmesan
(theguardian.com)
Bob Brown
,
The Complete Book of Cheese
“
Parmesan,
Romano, Pecorino, Pecorino
RomanoParmesan
when young, soft and slightly crumbly is eaten on bread. But when well aged, let us say up to a century, it becomes Rock of Gibraltar of
cheeses
and really suited for grating. It is easy to believe that the so-called "Spanish
cheese"
used as a barricade by Americans in Nicaragua almost a century ago was none other than the almost indestructible Grana, as
Parmesan
is called in Italy.
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Issues in social housing that Labour must tackle | Letters
(theguardian.com)
Arthur Shadwell
,
1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 13 — Housing
(1911)
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HOUSING.
The
housing
of the poorer classes has become a pressing problem in all populous Western countries, and has engaged, in a varying but constantly increasing measure, the attention of legislative and administrative bodies and of philanthropic individuals and societies. The general interest was signalized by an International Congress held in London in 1907. The recognition of the problem is due in the first instance to the science of public health, the rise of which dates from the second quarter of the 19th century
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At least 20 Planned Parenthood clinics shutter amid political turbulence
(theguardian.com)
Floyd Robert Gibson
,
Planned Parenthood of Minnesota, Inc. v. Citizens for Community Action — Opinion of the Court
“
We advance from the premise that Planned Parenthood's abortion
clinic
is to perform only first trimester abortions. Therefore, by denying to pregnant women the opportunity to use Planned Parenthood's unique abortion facility, the ordinance interfered with the pregnant woman's right to secure and Planned Parenthood's ability to provide first trimester abortion services in the St.
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Italy’s Mount Etna, Europe’s largest active volcano, spews plumes of ash
(theguardian.com)
Sir William Hamilton
,
Observations on Mount Vesuvius, Mount Etna, and Other Volcanos
“
Padre Torre, who has wrote so much and so well upon the subject of Mount Vesuvius, is also of my opinion. And indeed it is natural to imagine, that there may be rain-water lodged in many of the caverns of the mountain; as, in the great eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 1631, it is well attested, that several towns, among which Portici and Torre del Greco, were destroyed, by a torrent of boiling water having burst out of the mountain with the lava, by which thousands of [Pg 31] lives were lost. About four years ago, Mount
Etna
in Sicily threw up hot water also, during an eruption.
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How Margaret Fuller Set Minds on Fire
(newyorker.com)
Margaret Fuller
,
At Home and Abroad; Or, Things and Thoughts in America and Europe
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We trust a new, compact, and cheap edition or selection, of
Margaret
Fuller's
writings will soon be given to the public, prefaced by a Memoir. It were a shame to us if one so radiantly lofty in intellect, so devoted to human liberty and well-being, so ready to dare and to endure for the upraising of her sex and her race, should perish from among us, and leave no memento less imperfect and casual than those we now have.
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How Margaret Fuller Set Minds on Fire
(newyorker.com)
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
,
Margaret Fuller Ossoli
(1884)
“
Apart from every word she ever wrote,
Margaret
Fuller
will always be an important figure in American history, for this plain reason: that she was the organizer and executive force of the first thoroughly American literary enterprise. The intellectual and spiritual excitement, popularly called “Transcendentalism,” had at least this one merit, that, whatever else it was, it was indigenous. To determine its real worth and weight, beyond this, we must go back to the “Dial.” That is its only authentic record. To know what Emerson individually was, we can go to his books
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UK swings behind Morocco’s autonomy proposal for Western Sahara
(theguardian.com)
by the United Nations
,
United Nations Security Council Resolution 1754
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Before the Council was the Secretary-General’s report on the situation concerning
Western
Sahara
(document S/2007/202) dated 13 April 2007 and covering developments since his report of 16 October 2006 (document S/2007/817) . They include the 6 November 2006 confirmation by Morocco’s King Mohammed VI of his Government’s development of an autonomy proposal with respect to the Territory and of his country’s continuing strong commitment to working with the United Nations to find a consensual political solution to which all parties concerned with the dispute could adhere.
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Amelia Earhart’s Reckless Final Flights
(newyorker.com)
Jr. Paul L. Briand
,
Daughter of the sky
(1960)
“
Amelia once said. “He worried too much. The time to worry,” she added, “is three months before a flight. Decide then whether or not the goal is worth the risks involved. If it is, stop worrying. To worry is to add another hazard. It retards reactions, makes one unfit.”Contrary to her injunction, AE, like the melancholy Dane, worried, but only for two months before she reattempted the world flight. In May the
Electra
would be repaired and ready again.
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Starwatch: Venus will be unmistakably brilliant in the predawn sky this week
(theguardian.com)
The story of the Universe, Volume I (of 4)
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THE PLANET
VENUS.—Camille
Flammarion Revolving round the sun in 224 days,
Venus
has its motion combined with ours in such a manner that it passes its inferior conjunction, between the sun and us, every 584 days; but the plane in which it revolves is inclined 3° 23′ to that in which the earth itself moves. When
Venus
attains its greatest elongations from the sun it shines in the west in the evening, then in the morning in the east, with a splendid brightness which eclipses that of all the stars. It is, without comparison, the most magnificent star of our
sky.
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Republican cuts to food and health benefits ‘will kill’, advocacy groups warn
(theguardian.com)
William Jefferson Clinton
,
Presidential Radio Address
(1995)
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But the
Republican
plan repeals
Medicaid's
guarantees, and that spells disaster for families in the middle class who are caught unprepared.
Medicaid
helps millions of children who are disabled or who suffer from chronic illnesses or who have the AIDS virus. But the
Republican
plan could pull this lifeline from millions of children.In education, the
Republican
plan eliminates Head Start for 180,000 preschoolers. It cuts our efforts to keep drugs and violence out of our schools. It undermines our efforts to help schools meet national standards of excellence for the first time.
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Tell us about a poem that reminds you of someone you’ve lost
(theguardian.com)
Eugene Field
,
Hoosier Lyrics
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So tenderlike 'nd low That it almost seemed like a dream I dreamed, Or an echo of long ago; An' sometimes on my forehead There falls a soft caress, Or the touch of a hand—you understand— I'm gettin' on, I guess. [16] MINNIE LEE.Writing from an Indiana town a young woman asks: "Is the enclosed
poem
worth anything?"We find that the
poem
is as follows: She has left us, our own darling— And we never more shall see Here on earth our dearly loved one— God has taken Minnie Lee.
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Who Gets to Be an American?
(newyorker.com)
T. Iyenaga
,
Japan and the California Problem
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You have just taken an oath of allegiance to the
United
States.
Of allegiance to whom?... to a great ideal, to a great body of principles, to a great hope of the human race.... You cannot dedicate yourself to America unless you become in every respect and with every purpose of your will thorough Americans. You cannot become Americans if you think of yourselves in groups. America does not consist of groups. A man who thinks of himself as belonging to a particular national group in America has not yet become an American....
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The USSR occupied eastern Europe, calling it ‘liberation’ – Russia is repeating the crime in Ukraine | Sergei Lebedev
(theguardian.com)
Antony J Blinken
,
The Stakes of Russian Aggression for Ukraine and Beyond
(2022)
“
The war in eastern Ukraine, orchestrated by
Russia
with proxies that it leads, trains, supplies, and finances – well, that’s killed more than 14,000 Ukrainians. Thousands more have been wounded. Entire towns have been destroyed. Nearly one and a half million Ukrainians have fled their homes to escape the violence. For Ukrainians in Crimea and the Donbas, the repression is acute.
Russia
blocks Ukrainians from crossing the line of contact, cutting them off from the rest of the country. Hundreds of Ukrainians are being held as political prisoners by
Russia
and its proxies.
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Patricia Lockwood on Fairies and Putting the Writing Mind Back Together
(newyorker.com)
John Thackray Bunce
,
Fairy Tales, Their Origin and Meaning; With Some Account of Dwellers in Fairyland
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Now this is
Fairy
Land, the dear sweet land of Once Upon a Time, where there is constant light, and summer days, and everlasting flowers, and pleasant fields and streams, and long dreams without rough waking, and ease of life, and all things strange and beautiful; where nobody wonders at anything that may happen; where good fairies are ever on the watch to help those whom they love
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Supreme court to hear birthright citizenship dispute that could expand Trump’s power
(theguardian.com)
Potter Stewart
,
Kennedy v. Mendoza-Martinez Rusk — Dissent
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Brownell, the
Court
pointed out that the provision of the Fourteenth Amendment that 'All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States * * *' does not restrict the power of Congress to enact denaturalization legislation. It was there stated that 'there is nothing in the terms, the context, the history or the manifest purpose of the Fourteenth Amendment to warrant drawing from it a restriction upon the power otherwise possessed by Congress to withdraw
citizenship.'
356 U.S., at 58, n.
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Trump news at a glance: top court divided on White House’s birthright citizenship restrictions
(theguardian.com)
Horace Gray
,
United States v. Wong Kim Ark — Opinion of the Court
“
To hold that the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution excludes from citizenship the children, born in the
United
States,
of citizens or subjects of other countries would be to deny citizenship to thousands of persons of English, Scotch, Irish, German, or other European parentage who have always been considered and treated as citizens of the
United
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Capitalism and Its Critics by John Cassidy review – brilliant primer on leftwing economics
(theguardian.com)
Thames Williamson
,
Problems in American Democracy
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CLASS
STRUGGLE.—Marx
declared that the capitalistic system was doomed to destruction. He maintained that as time went on, wealth would tend to concentrate more and more in the hands of the capitalist or employing class. Trusts and monopolies would become more common, and gradually
capitalism
would become so unwieldy and so unworkable a mechanism that it would finally fall to pieces of its own weight.
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Feargal Sharkey reveals prostate cancer diagnosis and urges men to get checked
(theguardian.com)
George W. Bush
,
Proclamation 7700
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Early detection is important in successfully treating
prostate
cancer. Preventative screenings can reveal a man's current health status and identify whether he needs to adjust his diet or behavior. I urge men, particularly those over 50, to learn more about the disease and to talk to their doctors about when to start preventative screening. Healthcare providers can advise men as to which tests are most appropriate. Through early detection and treatment, we can reduce the number of deaths caused by
prostate
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High court judge blocks UK from concluding Chagos Islands deal
(theguardian.com)
United States. Central Intelligence Agency
,
The 2004 CIA World Factbook
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Diego
Garcia, largest and southernmost island, occupies strategic location in central Indian Ocean; island is site of joint US-UK military facilityPeople British Indian Ocean TerritoryPopulation: no indigenous inhabitants note: approximately 1,200 former agricultural workers resident in the Chagos
Archipelago,
often referred to as Chagossians or Ilois, were relocated to Mauritius and the Seychelles in the 1960s and 1970s, in November 2000 they were granted the right of return by a British High Court ruling, though no timetable has been set
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US chip export controls are a ‘failure’ because they spur Chinese development, Nvidia boss says
(theguardian.com)
State Council Information Office of the People's Republic of China
,
The Facts and China’s Position on China–US Trade Friction
“
The US boasts huge competitive strength in high-tech trade. Yet, haunted by the cold-war mentality, it imposes strict
export
controls on
China,
thereby limiting the potential of advantageous US
exports,
causing significant lost
export
opportunities, and widening its trade deficit with
China.
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America’s immigration detention centres are at capacity
(economist.com)
George W. Bush
,
Presidential Radio Address
(2005)
“
Our
border
patrol and immigration agents are doing a fine job, but we still have a problem. Too many illegal immigrants are coming in, and we're capturing many more non-Mexican illegal immigrants than we can send home.
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Pete Hegseth calls on Asia to boost military spending in face of ‘imminent’ threat from China
(theguardian.com)
Wikipedia:en:Policy Planning Staff
,
The Elements of the China Challenge
(2020)
“
After World War II, the United States helped to develop the
Indo-Pacific’s
free and open order. The PRC seeks to diminish U.S. influence by fostering a sense in the region’s nations that China’s dominance is inevitable. Prime targets include U.S. treaty-based allies — Japan, South Korea, Australia, Thailand, and the Philippines — as well as emerging strategic partners such as India, Vietnam, Indonesia, and Taiwan.
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Talks to start on British recognition of state of Palestine
(theguardian.com)
Mahmoud Abbas
,
Mahmoud Abbas's Speech to the 78th UN General Assembly
(2023)
“
Ladies and gentlemen, in the face of all that
Israel
is doing, systematically destroying the two-state solution, it has become necessary, in order to save this solution, to call on the Member States of your esteemed organization, each State, in its national capacity, to take practical steps on the basis of the relevant resolutions of international legitimacy and international law. I also call on the States that have not yet recognized the State of
Palestine
to declare their recognition and for the State of
Palestine
to be admitted to full membership in the United Nations.
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Women and girls ‘not safe anywhere’ as Darfur suffers surge in sexual violence
(theguardian.com)
by the Council of Europe
,
Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violenc...
“
Recognising, with grave concern, that women and girls are often exposed to serious forms of
violence
such as domestic
violence,
sexual harassment, rape, forced marriage, crimes committed in the name of so-called “honour” and genital mutilation, which constitute a serious violation of the human rights of women and girls and a major obstacle to the achievement of equality between women and men
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Hong Kong authorities trying to disrupt independent press with ‘strange’ tax audits
(theguardian.com)
the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs
,
2021 Hong Kong Policy Act Report
(2021 | edition)
“
Impact on Freedom of the Press The Basic Law provides for freedom of the press, which is guaranteed under the Sino-British Joint Declaration, but actions by the police and security services increasingly threatened it. Local and international media outlets operating in
Hong
Kong
were active and expressed a wide range of views, but there were credible reports the HKPF and PRC national security forces harassed, threatened, and arrested some journalists and media organization employees.
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Pete Hegseth calls on Asia to boost military spending in face of ‘imminent’ threat from China
(theguardian.com)
Joseph Robinette Biden and Suga Yoshihide
,
Remarks by President Biden and Prime Minister Suga of Japan at Press Conference
(2021)
“
And today, Prime Minister Suga and I affirmed our ironclad support for U.S.-Japanese alliance and for our shared security. We committed to working together to take on the challenges from China and on issues like the East China Sea, the South China Sea, as well as North Korea, to ensure a future of a free and open
Indo-Pacific.Japan
and the United States are two strong democracies in the region, and we’re committed — we’re committed to defending and advancing our shared values, including human rights and the rule of law.
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My Days: Orlando Gibbons and Nico Muhly album review – a luminous tribute
(theguardian.com)
Ernest Ford
,
A Short History of English Music
“
Now, there are always men who are constitutionally averse to change, and of these was the great, but not too amiable, Mr. William Byrd. We can, therefore, quite appreciate his feelings on this particular innovation and understand the frame of mind in which he writes, in a preface to his "Songs of Sadness," thus: "There is no music of instruments whatever to be compared to the voyces of men, when they are good, well-sorted and
ordered."Orlando
Gibbons
was the impersonator of the new spirit; William Byrd was the jealous guardian of the old.
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