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Hundreds dead as quake, tsunami hit Indonesia's Sulawesi
Nearly 400 people have been killed after a powerful earthquake triggered a tsunami that hit Indonesia's central Sulawesi island.
The national disaster agency put the current death toll at 384, all of them reported in the tsunami-struck city of Palu, but warned the number was likely to rise as rescue efforts continued on Saturday.
In Palu - home to around 350,000 people - partially covered bodies lay on the ground near the shore, the day after tsunami waves triggered by a 7.5 magnitude earthquake came ashore.
[...] Indonesia's meteorological and geophysics agency BMKG issued a tsunami warning after the earthquake, but lifted it 34 minutes later. The agency was widely criticised for not informing a tsunami had hit Palu on Saturday, though officials said waves had come within the time the warning was issued. The Palu area was hit by a less powerful quake earlier on Friday, which destroyed some houses, killed one person and injured at least 10 in Donggala, authorities said.
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(Score: 2) by Reziac on Wednesday October 03 2018, @02:25AM (1 child)
From that page:
In a 1947 interview that surfaced via the British Pathe, Sanger described her desire for women in the developed world to cease completely from reproduction. When asked by the reporter whether this would be impractical to ask women who desire children, but would no longer be able to conceive in 10 years, Sanger said, “I should think instead of being impractical, it is really very practical and intelligent and humane.”
Which considering at the time the "developed world" meant white people... the idea that it's aimed at whites is not entirely wrong. Seems in fact to have been aimed at everybody, with varying selectivity.
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday October 03 2018, @02:32AM
1947 is 8 years later than 1939. One might deduce that Sanger had somewhat cleaned up her act, and was less blatantly racist by that time. Someone sat her down, and explained, "Margaret, if you openly campaign to eliminate black people, you're going to be assassinated!"