Government is neither slavery or freedom: It’s a system that rules beings
Government is neither slavery or freedom; it is a system invented or created to rule human beings by human beings If you have no rules, then someone or somebody has to create them, and then have methods of teaching them and enforcing them and changing them, whether that be physically...
Facebook’s oversight board to decide whether to give Trump bullhorn back
In the wake of this month’s violent insurrection at the US Capitol, Facebook suspended the account of the inciter-in-chief Donald Trump. On January 7, citing the danger that the president’s posts might incite further violence, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company would keep Trump off the platform “indefinitely and for...
Decathlon named official licensee of US basketball league
Decathlon, one of the world’s largest sporting goods retailers, and the National Basketball Association (NBA) has announced a new multiyear merchandising partnership that makes it an official licensee of the NBA in Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East and Latin America. The partnership marks Decathlon’s first partnership with a North...
African Free Trade Area now the largest free trade zone in the world ‘by participation’
The start of trading under the African Continental Free Trade Area (ACFTA) agreement on January 1 has created the largest free trade zone in the world by country following the ratification of the agreement by 34 countries. After years of haggling, suspicion and uncertainty the realisation ACFTA has been hailed...
Scientists grapple with what new coronavirus variants mean for schools
The emergence of fast-spreading coronavirus variants has once again put a spotlight on the role of children in the Covid-19 pandemic. Early data on one new variant had suggested that it was spreading more in children than in adults compared with other lineages. But researchers now suggest the variant is...
