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Medieval computer
This is a volvelle, a medieval device that allowed you to calculate the phases of the moon and the latter’s position in relation...
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Favorite Food
This week’s blog is from Martha De Laurentiis, one of Hannibal’s executive producers.
Two cannibals are having dinner. “I hate my...
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Heartbreaking and absolutely infuriating. Click through for article and video.
- Hostile but interesting profile of Charmaine Yoest, head of Americans United for Life.
- Terrifying sex organs of male turtles - an overview.
- Various news articles on the ongoing corruption scandal in Quebec. Here’s a guy bragging about how good he was at “cooking contracts.” Here’s the latest assassination.
American Violet is a based-on-true-events movie about a young black woman, played by Nicole Beharie, who becomes the lead plaintiff in a civil rights suit over racially motivated drug sweeps. Beharie in her debut performance is the highlight of the film (and why I watched it in the first place), and I would’ve liked if there were a much tighter focus on her. As it is, too much time is spent with the lawyers who have to provide the clumsy infodump and Big Picture dialogue scenes that are an unfortunate staple in this type of film. Not bad overall though.
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State officials say they have to do what’s in the best interest of the child, but the state does have a financial incentive to remove the children. The state receives thousands of dollars from the federal government for every child it takes from a family, and in some cases the state gets even more money if the child is Native American. The result is that South Dakota is now removing children at a rate higher than the vast majority of other states in the country.
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“They make a living off of our children,” said Juanita Sherick, the tribal social worker for the Pine Ridge reservation.
Some children are removed from their homes for legitimate reasons. But in South Dakota very few are taken because they’ve been physically or sexually abused. Most are taken under a far more subjective set of circumstances. The state says the parents are neglectful. But NPR’s investigation shows that even Native American children who grow up to become foster care success stories, living happy, productive lives, say the loss of their culture and identities leaves a deep hole they spend years trying hopelessly to fill.
The revelations of the Cloyne report have brought the Government, Irish Catholics and the Vatican to an unprecedented juncture.
It’s fair to say that after the Ryan and Murphy Reports Ireland is, perhaps, unshockable when it comes to the abuse of children.
But Cloyne has proved to be of a different order.
Because for the first time in Ireland, a report into child sexual-abuse exposes an attempt by the Holy See, to frustrate an Inquiry in a sovereign, democratic republic…as little as three years ago, not three decades ago.
And in doing so, the Cloyne Report excavates the dysfunction, disconnection, elitism….the narcissism …….that dominate the culture of the Vatican to this day.
The rape and torture of children were downplayed or ‘managed’ to uphold instead, the primacy of the institution, its power, standing and ‘reputation’.
