I like that Macron is raising awareness about the need for rich countries to help vaccinate poor ones. It’s the right thing to do. I don’t like that he positions it as a mere matter of optics:
“It won’t change our vaccination campaigns, but each country should set aside a small number of the doses it has to transfer tens of millions of them, but very fast, so that people on the ground see it happening.”
Part two of a two-column series on a visit to Sri Lanka is up on 3QuarksDaily now. Read it there now, and I’ll post it here to CS&W next week.
And there are a few more Sri Lanka photos like this in the Sri Lanka Gallery at EarthPhotos.com.
“Near bankrupt low-cost airline Norwegian has told over a thousand laid-off employees that it can’t afford to pay them their final wages or other redundancy payments but that it will let them keep their uniforms and branded cabin bags as a “keepsake” of their time with the airline.”
From Paddle Your Own Kanoo.
“No matter how much [Putin] tries to pose as a geopolitician, his main resentment toward me is that he will go down in history as a poisoner. There was Alexander the Liberator and Yaroslav the Wise. Now we’ll have Vladimir the Poisoner of Underpants. The police are guarding me and half of Moscow is cordoned off because we have shown that he is demanding to steal underwear from opponents and smear them with chemical weapons.”
Closing remarks from Alexi Navalny, from rolling Moscow Times coverage of the court session in Moscow underway now.
You wouldn’t want to get through the day without knowing that in honor of Burns Night tonight, a bag of haggis has been floated twenty miles into the air. Would you?
The usual scheme at safari camps is, you go on game drives at sunup and sundown, when the animals are active. Last time in Kenya we got into a bit of a competition to see who could frame wildlife in a rising or setting sun. Click ’em to make them bigger.
Mike Pompeo is no longer Secretary of State. That’s enough for this week. That’s plenty.
Have a guess what large, cold, former-Communist Eurasian country this quote comes from:
“Different statements about someone being afraid of someone else are absolutely nonsense.”
Here is a link to a collection of color photos from (I believe) 1912, taken in the Republic of Georgia. It seems that a photographer named Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky “perfected a complex early method of color photography that required three separate images of each scene to be shot, with color filters placed over the lens. When the three black-and-white photos were sandwiched together and had red, green, and blue light shone through them, a color image could be projected.”
They’re from an article at the RFERL.org website. Here’s one of the photos:
See also a few more up-to-date photos in the Georgia Gallery at EarthPhotos.com, taken on my visit in 2006.
