-Rice Rebukes Bush Envoy Who Criticized Policy on North Korea - Jay Lefkowitz, President Bush’s special envoy on North Korean human rights said the current Bush Admin policy will not solve the nuclear issue in North Korea before Bush leaves office. Well, he is right, that is obvious to someone of the meanest intelligences.
-Roadblocks on the Great Asian Highway - Interesting article about overcoming infrastructural barriers between Thailand, Laos, and China to create more efficient trade; and some immediate negative externalities for the local Laotian people.
-Corruption-fighting Vietnamese granny gets award - Transparency International awards Vietnamese grandma for fighting the good fight for 25 years against death threats from local government officials. This woman is 150 cm (4′11″ inch) tall and 40 kilograms (88 lbs) and has more “balls” than 99% of the politicians in Washington D.C., unfortunately for us Americans.
- China closes 44,000 pornographic websites in 2007 - The Chinese government is not fond of “adult entertainment”. This is part of the increasingly common crackdown on various facets of the sex industry in China. I’m sure shutting down 44,000 websites has kept the thought police quite busy.
-Science with Africa: Accelerating Science and Technology in Africa - Information on a conference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from 3 to 7 March. The themes of the conference will be science and innovation policy, science themes and innovation and will consist of plenary sessions and workshops.
-Africa: ‘U.S. Recession a Threat to Third World Exports’ - There has been a recession fear going through North America, Europe, and East Asia lately but any economic downturn for the United States will also significantly effect some of the world’s poorest nations, which are already on the margin. This will not just hurt trade but also aid revenues.
Hey, I came across this link and posted it at Blackprof for Tolo in the latest reparations discussion. I don’t think I found a better article to talk about the history of the crack war legislation. Its an article from Ebony March 1989.
see what you think:
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1077/is_n5_v44/ai_7405467/pg_1
Funny how a lot of the CBC say that the drug war is racist now although many of them were the primary backers. I remember clearly and I was only in junior high in Chicago…a lot of folks have short memories. It was them, not the Republicans who pushed for a war on drugs in the inner-cities and also the crack/cocaine disparity because crack dealers were shooting up the hood and the violence during the ‘crack wars” as the trade consolidated in the mid to late 80’s was outrageous. Say that on blackprof, even with clear evidence and people just deny it. Amazing.
I know it was argued before and links were put up, but I thought this article from Ebony was strong, because it appeared to be really praising Rangel for taking the lead to bring this about. All the other arguments (links) used, seemed to be other conservatives making the point. Those links are credible and good enough for me, but not strong enough to convince the liberal mind. This one may slow them down a bit. Anyway, I know I have seen you argue this before and I thought you may want to tuck this article away and use it when you need it. I know I will.