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Posted on July 8th, 2021
Shenali D Waduge
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is in the name of the Queen that horrendous crimes have been committed and
continue to be. As Jamaica orders the Queen to pay billions in slavery
reparations committed during British imperial rule. God cannot save the Queen
for every atrocity committed in her name by the British Empire. Reparation
request involves Jamaica’s National Council of Reparation & its Cultural
Minister and Jamaica’s Attorney General will be filing the petition. Between
1640 and 1807, about 70% of all Africans were transported as slaves to the
Americas. When the Caribbean Reparations Commission has presented its case why
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Evidence used to charge an Indian man with plotting to assassinate India’s Prime Minister and inciting violence at a 2018 protest was planted on his laptop, according to US digital forensics consultancy Arsenal Consulting.
The man in question, Surendra Gadling, is an activist and human rights lawyer and a frequent critic of India’s government. He was arrested in June 2018 after the commemoration of the Battle of Koregaon. The battle, which took place in 1818, saw British East India Company troops emerge victorious and contributed greatly towards British rule of India. The battle involved combatants from many different nations, castes, and religions, some of whom fought alongside the British. It remains controversial to the present day, with a traitorous tinge sometimes applied to those who fought with the British. The 2018 events marking the bicentenary saw violence erupt and at least one person killed.
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Caffeine makes us more energetic, efficient and faster. But we have become so dependent that we need it just to get to our baseline
Tue 6 Jul 2021 01.00 EDT
After years of starting the day with a tall morning coffee, followed by several glasses of green tea at intervals, and the occasional cappuccino after lunch, I quit caffeine, cold turkey. It was not something that I particularly wanted to do, but I had come to the reluctant conclusion that the story I was writing demanded it. Several of the experts I was interviewing had suggested that I really couldn’t understand the role of caffeine in my life – its invisible yet pervasive power – without getting off it and then, presumably, getting back on. Roland Griffiths, one of the world’s leading researchers of mood-altering drugs, and the man most responsible for getting the diagnosis of “caffeine withdrawal” included in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DS