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In recent years, Black's 2003 book War Against the Weak and an updated version released in 2012 have helped shine a light on the mostly forgotten survey.
Fortunately, after its completion in 1938, the report seems to have had little impact. It was not published and does not appear to have been widely circulated. More recently, there has been debate about the level of responsibility Cross bears for the direction the survey ultimately took.
In 2014, Linwood Branham Sr., an organizer of the Society of Former Slaves and Freemen, called for a discussion of whether the New Haven high school and parkway bearing Cross' name should be removed. The effort garnered media attention, but the high school and parkway's names remain unchanged.
Even though it went nowhere, the very existence of the survey, along with the forced sterilizations, remain a shameful piece of Connecticut history that deserves to be better remembered. No matter how unsettling that memory might be.
This article appeared in the March 2019 issue of Connecticut Magazine.
The Prime Minister wants to know why the media is criticizing the present government and why it isn’t criticizing the Rajapaksas on whose watch journalists were killed. Perhaps that is because the media recalls that two prominent journalist were killed when the Rajapaksas weren’t anywhere near the room at the top, but ...
The first such journalist was Richard de Zoysa and the second was DP Sivaram (‘Taraki’). The first was killed when the present PM was a powerful Minister and the second when Chandrika was President.
Now this is not to imply that either politician had anything to do with these murders. It is doubtless entirely coincidental that HR Piyasiri, the Minister of Labor of the UNP government of the day, read out extracts from Richard’s diary in Parliament, in the debate on his murder. One wonders how that diary came into h...
It is also perfectly possible, indeed probable that neither Richard de Zoysa nor DP Sivaram were killed because of their journalism i.e. because they were journalists. It is likely that they were targeted because of their perceived affiliations during the times of intense civil wars, South and North.
But all that would be true of the journalists killed on the Rajapaksas watch too. If Ranil Wickremesinghe and Chandrika Kumaratunga can be given the benefit of the doubt about the deaths of Richard de Zoysa and DP Sivaram, then so too should the Rajapaksas about the deaths of journalists.
And if Richard and Sivaram were killed not in their capacity as journalists but for their affiliations and perceived roles, then the same can be said of the journalists who were killed during the Rajapaksa tenure.
All these deaths took place in the decades-long context (during and in the immediate aftermath) of Sri Lanka’s civil wars on two fronts, and civil wars within civil wars. To reiterate: if Ranil and Chandrika, those Yahapalana stalwarts, can be exculpated for Richard and Sivaram, why not the Rajapaksas for the others? W...
Onion scientifically known as Allium Cepa belongs to the family Amaryllidaceae and sub family Allioideae. Bulb Onion or common Onion are the common names of Onion and it is the most widely cultivated form of genus Allium.
India is the second largest Onion producing country in the world after China. Indian Onions are available through the year. There are mainly two crop cycles in India--November-January and January-May.
How does a traditional media company stay relevant in the digital age? For Grupo RBS, a Brazilian media conglomerate that owns newspapers, and radio and TV stations, the answer was to embrace the change and look for opportunities to thrive. Tulio Milman, a journalist at Grupo RBS, explains exactly how the 60-year-old c...
Stop investing in the poison that kills you. This phrase prompted a change of direction that turned Grupo RBS — a Brazilian conglomerate with $1 billion in annual revenues — into a role model for South American media companies. The poison is the technology applied to distribution platforms. This doesn’t mean you should...
Based in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul, RBS was founded when Maurício Sirotsky Sobrinho, a Brazilian of Jewish descent (his parents emigrated from Eastern Europe), affixed a loudspeaker to a light pole in a square. Over the last 60 years, RBS has grown to become one of the top media groups in Brazil. The comp...
Just like most global media companies, RBS was forced to go through a learning curve in the digital age. Eduardo Sirotsky Melzer, 45, president of RBS and grandson of the founder, recalls how experience taught his company to deal with digital disruption. “It’s useless to fight against the market,” he says. First, he ha...
As a result, RBS leaders had to make tough calls, which ultimately led to increased efficiency in operations and sales. Forced to confront reality, they instead focused on the question, “Where are the opportunities?” They found that even within the turmoil of the media industry, opportunities did exist. The decline in ...
Zero Hora newspaper, in an effort to get readers to shift from print to digital, introduced a breakthrough tablet subscription in 2015 for a Samsung device that allowed consumers to access a modern e-paper with two daily editions. It was a successful initiative among print readers who highly value curatorship. In the p...
Belief in shifting to digital subscriptions has reached such a proportion that prices in the print paper industry spiked 20%. The shift from print to digital subscriptions has been working. Digital circulation has been growing 58% year-on-year. “We are building a portfolio of digital products that takes into account th...
Recently, the group has consolidated the commercial operations of all media properties. In the past, all business units vied for advertisements, each of them coming up with independent sales pitches. Such a strategy worked well in a growing and lucrative market. Today, radio and TV stations, newspapers and digital oper...
Besides requiring a change in business models, the new reality of the digital transformation brought along some benefits as well. One of them was the strengthening of free and independent journalism, increasingly detached from the commercial interests of major advertisers.
In this new scenario, what was a scale disadvantage has turned into a competitive advantage. Only local media can cover on a daily basis what happens in the realms of culture, economics, street traffic and local soccer clubs. Game scores are now a commodity; what really attracts the audience is what happens in the lock...
Over 60 years of history, RBS had accumulated enough expertise in managing operations, logistics and brand building, in addition to developing a good brand and consolidating wide networking in several areas of the country. For it to thrive again, the company must use its expertise in new and profitable areas. In this c...
Do wine and media mix? Why not? RBS’s expertise includes brand building, curatorship, managing and, above all, accumulated logistical know-how thanks to daily distribution of 200,000 newspapers in a geographical area more than twice as large as Pennsylvania.
Today, RBS Media and e.Bricks may appear to be worlds apart — but in fact, they are not. The first has its headquarters in Porto Alegre, a city in the south of Brazil; the second, in São Paulo, Latin America’s economic powerhouse. Despite their geographical distance of 749 miles, both companies are focused on the same ...
At the same time, our belief in journalism goes on unshaken. A month ago, we launched a new product: digital consolidation of newspaper and radio platforms, which now operates based on the same product online, while keeping each one’s traditional distribution format — paper and live radio. That is our answer to the mar...
RBS realized it was time to go back to basics. Except that square one is digital, a hub for information, exchange of ideas and transformation for the 12 million people in Rio Grande do Sul, RBS’s headquarters. “It was time to leave traditional business routine and introduce a process of confidence and horizontal contac...
In this sort of digital gold rush, one thing is for sure: Change is the only option. Former GE CEO Jack Welch once said that when the external change is faster than the internal change, the end is near. Believe it or vanish.
The transformation stage means that digital usages inherently enable new types of innovation and creativity in a particular domain, rather than simply enhance and support traditional methods.
In a narrower sense, “digital transformation” may refer to the concept of “going paperless”, which affects both individual businesses and whole segments of society, such as government, mass communications, art, medicine, and science.
In 1703 Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz explained and envisioned the concept that would be known as “digitalization” in his publication Explication de l’Arithmétique Binaire. Initially developed as a base-2 numerical system, representing two values: either a 1 or 0, the system was further developed and complemented by sc...
Today, Stibitz is considered one of many pioneers of the digital computer, through the development of the first electromechanical computer from his discovery of the automatic computing relays as well as the term ‘digital’. The first electronic computer was introduced by John Atanasoff in 1939. The process of digitaliza...
With the introduction of the World Wide Web, the scope, dimension, scale, speed as well as effects of digitalization fundamentally changed, resulting in the increased pressure on the societal transformation process.
In 2000, digitalization began to be used more widely as a concept and argument for an overall governmental introduction of IT, increased usage of internet and IT on all levels. A similar development began in the general business climate in order to raise awareness regarding the issue and opportunity. In the EU for inst...
The debate surrounding digitalization has therefore gained increased practical importance for politics, business and social issues, and is linked to political work issues for community development, new changes in the practical business approaches, effective opportunities for organizations in operational and business pr...
In political, business, trade, industry and media discourses, digitization is defined as “the conversion of analog information into digital form” (i.e. numeric, binary format). Digitizing is technically explained as the representation of signals, images, sounds and objects by generating a series of numbers, expressed a...
Unlike digitization, digitalization is the actual ‘process’ of the technologically-induced change within these industries. This process has enabled much of the phenomena today known as the Internet of Things, Industrial Internet, Industry 4.0, Big data, machine to machine communication, blockchain, cryptocurrencies etc...
The academic discussion surrounding digitalization has been described as problematic as no clear definition of the phenomena has been previously developed. A common misconception is that digitalization essentially means the usage of more IT, in order to enable and take advantage of digital technology and data. This ear...
Finally, digital transformation is described as “the total and overall societal effect of digitalization”. Digitization has enabled the process of digitalization, which resulted in stronger opportunities to transform and change existing business models, consumption patterns, socio-economic structures, legal and policy ...
Digitization (the conversion), digitalization (the process) and the digital transformation (the effect) therefore accelerate and illuminate the already existing and ongoing horizontal and global processes of change in society(Wikipedia).
When planning for digital transformation, organizations must factor the cultural changes they’ll confront as workers and organizational leaders adjust to adopting and relying on unfamiliar technologies.[ Digital transformation has created unique marketplace challenges and opportunities, as organizations must contend wi...
The drumbeat of dire reports about climate change has grown so rhythmically regular over the past few years that it’s almost surprising that someone hasn’t set it to song, at least within the confines of a musical. That day has now come. If you’ve long been hankering to hear the bad news about global warming given the ...
The latest production from the frisky, inquisitive theater company the Civilians, this witty but unwieldy show features some hilariously depressing tunes about the decaying state of the world and its beleaguered creatures, with music and lyrics by the company’s gifted in-house songwriter, Michael Friedman. Grim dispatc...
Written and directed by Steve Cosson, “The Great Immensity” stuffs thick binders of information about man’s trampling of nature into a pulpy story about a documentary filmmaker’s mysterious disappearance. (The portentous title is actually the name of a Chinese cargo ship that figures in the plot.) The approach is unusu...
Karl (Chris Sullivan) was trailing after botanists on an island in the middle of the Panama Canal when he apparently vanished. His wife Phyllis (Rebecca Hart) arrives to try to put the puzzle pieces together with the help of the sympathetic crew on the island, the married couple Allie (Cindy Cheung) and Rob (Trey Lyfor...
They do recall that he came into contact with representatives of the Earth Ambassadors, an international group of gung-ho youth who are determined to wake the world up to the planet’s impending doom. The kids have been on a public relations pilgrimage in the run-up to the Global Climate Summit, set to take place in Par...
That said, many passages are written with enlivening humor. A scene in which Karl interviews Julie (Erin Wilhelmi), one of the bright-eyed, big-brained Earth Ambassadors, captures the way youth today can smoothly combine activism with media savvy.
“Do you want the usual talking points or do you want me to get real?” she crisply asks before the camera clicks on. She’s “been on CNN like nine times,” but has begun to feel that even cute kids clanging the alarms about the ailing earth have lost their appeal in a constantly channel-changing world.
Karl himself recently had a come-to-Jesus moment on the subject after he was demoted from his position at the Nature Channel when he failed to deliver the usual shivery sensationalism with a documentary for the annual shark-o-rama. Newly radicalized, he might be just the man to help Julie and her cohorts as they plan a...
Other highlights include a saucy song about the allure of “charismatic megafauna” (“I want a cute strong predator to fawn upon”), and a sad tune about the extinction of two species: the lemur and the passenger pigeon, the last of which, Martha, died in 1914 at the Cincinnati Zoo. Mr. Friedman’s limber melodies are the ...
The seven-member cast is also at its best in the musical sequences. Ms. Hart has the toughest chore, of carrying the plot forward as she plays detective, while Mr. Sullivan has a bearish gloominess, showing just a few glints of hope, as the elusive Karl. As the young activist Julie, Ms. Wilhelmi looks a bit like an exo...
As it winds toward a somewhat preposterous conclusion, Mr. Cosson’s text is pocked with speeches about the urgent necessity of mending man’s rapacious ways. While sincerely felt and factually indisputable, these nevertheless feel like sermons we’ve all heard many times before. What’s truly enticing in “The Great Immens...
"If you've got a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen." Mitt Romney fell on this Obama quote like an NFL lineman on an end zone fumble during the Super Bowl. And understandably so.
For this was no gaffe, said Romney, this is what Obama believes. This is straight out of the catechism. Obama thinks that had not the government created the preconditions, none of us could succeed. We all depend on government. None of us can make it on our own.
Had Obama been channeling Isaac Newton—"If I have seen further than others it is because I am standing on the shoulders of giants"—or John Donne—"No man is an island, entire of itself"—many would have nodded in agreement.
But what Obama seemed to be saying—indeed, was saying—was that, without government, no business can succeed.
Realizing that statement rubs against a deeply ingrained American belief—that the people built the nation—Obama and his acolytes are charging that Romney ripped his words out of context.
"If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business, you didn't build that. Somebody el...
Even with this preamble, Romney seems to have it right. Obama sees government as indispensable. Without the roads and bridges that government builds, without the teachers government provides, no one succeeds. It takes a village.
Yet Obama's narrative does not tell us why some succeed and others fail. Does Obama understand America? For he surely does not seem to understand her history as once taught to every schoolchild.
From Jamestown in 1607 to Yorktown in 1781, there was no federal government. There was no United States. Yet generations of colonists had built forts, cleared lands, created farms, established workshops. Americans fed, clothed and housed themselves, creating one of the highest standards of living on earth for 3 million...
How could the U.S. government have built the roads and bridges if the U.S. government did not exist before 1789? There were no public schools until the 19th century. Colleges were the creations of religious denominations. The Pell grant had not yet been invented.
Was government indispensable to Eli Whitney's invention of the cotton gin, Robert Fulton's invention of the steam boat, Alexander Graham Bell's invention of the telephone, Guglielmo Marconi's invention of the radio and Thomas Edison's invention of the light bulb, and just about everything else?
Did Wilbur and Orville Wright learn how to build bicycles in a CETA program? Were the feds responsible for the flight at Kitty Hawk?
Seeing government as antecedent to enterprise, Obama has it backward. In America, individuals, families, communities came first. Hardworking men and women built the society. Only after that did they send their best and brightest off to the House of Burgesses to discuss colonial issues.
The Founding Fathers who created the U.S. government were deeply distrustful of the centralized power Obama seems to worship. They had had enough of the beneficent big government of George III. Obama notwithstanding, government does not create wealth. Government collects wealth, redistributes wealth, consumes wealth.
Even when government "builds" something like a Golden Gate Bridge, it does not really build it. It commissions it. Architects, engineers and construction companies build the bridge, not bureaucrats from HUD.
As Arthur Herman writes in Freedom's Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II FDR immediately turned to GM's Big Bill Knudsen to corral the leaders of American industry to stop making Fords, Packards, Lincolns and Chryslers, and start making jeeps, tanks, guns and aircraft engines.
"Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon," said Winston Churchill.
Obama belongs to category two.
But perhaps he cannot be blamed for not understanding the real America. His mother and father, his role models like Frank Marshall Davis and Saul Alinsky, his neighbors like Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers, all came out of the anti-capitalist left.
From academia to community organizing to an Illinois legislature that milked so much money from the people the state may beat Jerry Brown's California into bankruptcy—Obama's life has been spent in tax-exempt, tax-subsidized and tax-supported institutions.
Yet this Obama-Romney collision frames the great issue of 2012.
Which is the true creator of wealth and engine of prosperity?
Is it, as Obama believes, government?
Or is it, as Romney believes, people and their institutions and businesses that, though carrying the immense burden of government that consumes 37 percent of the economy, still employs six of seven Americans still working? That's the choice.
Patrick J. Buchanan needs no introduction to VDARE.COM readers; his book State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America, can be ordered from Amazon.com. His book Churchill, Hitler, and "The Unnecessary War": How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World, is reviewed here by Paul Craig Ro...
An inquest has found that a bomb disposal expert from Cornwall was unlawfully killed in Afghanistan.
Capt Daniel Read, 31, from Newquay, was killed in January in north Helmand.
Kent-born Capt Read from 11 Explosive Ordnance Disposal Regiment had cleared three improvised explosive devices (IEDs) when he was killed by a fourth.
The Coroner at Truro Council Chambers said Capt Read, from 11 Explosive Ordnance Disposal Regiment, Royal Logistic Corps, was unlawfully killed.
The officer had been clearing an area in north Helmand that had been chosen as a new patrol base, which was said to have been littered with IEDs.
The inquest heard from Capt Read's wife who raised concerns about his fitness after he returned to his unit following injury.
Lorraine Read said she was worried about her husband's ability to hear orders, but he had been passed fit.
The inquest in Truro also heard how a helicopter called to evacuate Capt Read hit a tree on landing and was unable to take off.
But a medic on the helicopter said it had no bearing on the outcome as Capt Read would not have survived the blast injuries.
Before his death in the Musa Qala area in the north of Helmand province on 11 January, Capt Read had dealt with 32 IEDs in Afghanistan.
West will say anything, wear anything, tweet anything, do anything — just to be in the public eye. That is narcissism at its finest.
Maybe you haven’t heard, but Yeezy is dropping a new album next month.
That’s right, Kanye West — Pablo, Yeezus, Ye, Mr. Kardashian, the Louis Vuitton Don — took to Twitter in late April to inform us that he will release a seven-song album on June 1.
So last week West decided to boost his profile by stirring the pot. He aligned himself with Donald Trump by tweeting his support of the president, posted a photo of his Trump-signed “Make America Great Again” hat, and has been seen sporting the MAGA hat around town.
Well that got people talking.
Predictably he ruffled feathers among African Americans and liberals who questioned how a black man could profess his love for Trump given the president’s questionable stances on issues related to race and ethnicity. And conservatives quickly jumped to West’s defense because why can’t a free-thinking black man like Tru...
Last week, I laughed off all of this as typical pop-culture drama — simply West's attempts to play both sides as political chumps in an effort to once again become a household name. After all, those records don't sell themselves, folks.
"When you hear about slavery for 400 years... for 400 years?! That sounds like a choice."
West's comments were ignorant and hurtful, to be sure. He gave power to those who want to minimize the centuries of oppression that blacks suffered and the systemic racism that still exists in part because of slavery. And he insulted every generation of African-American ancestors who gave their blood, sweat, tears and ...
But what really struck me is the length West will go to get attention. It's vile. He will say anything, wear anything, tweet anything, do anything — just to be in the public eye. That is narcissism at its finest.
West was on every morning news show Wednesday. Hot takes are being written in just about every publication (this one included). Celebrities are coming forward to condemn his remarks. West is being chatted about around the water coolers at work and on the basketball courts around America. The egomaniac that he is, I'm s...

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