Three women charged over newborn’s death in female genital mutilation case
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Three women in Gambia have been charged over the death of a one-month-old girl who had undergone female genital mutilation, the police said.
The child’s death is the first such case since the country stopped short of reversing a ban on the practice last year.
The West African nation banned female genital cutting in 2015, but the country was rocked by a renewed debate about the practice last year following the first prosecutions of female cutters. It was the first time the practice — also known as female circumcision and outlawed in many nations — was publicly discussed.
Eventually, the Gambian parliament upheld the ban, but many say the practice continues in secrecy.
Three women were charged on Tuesday under the ban, the Women’s (Amendment) Act 2015. One woman is facing life imprisonment, and the other two were charged as accomplices.
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Barbarian savages.
Corporate America is eating its seed corn — and our future
https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/corporate-america-is-eating-its-seed-corn-and-our-future
Has a paywall.
Excerpt:
Private equity firms are devouring healthy businesses, stripping assets, firing staff, hiking prices, and leaving nothing but debt and broken customer service behind.
“Don’t eat your seed corn.” Every farmer gets it. Every American with common sense gets it. The only people who don’t? The people who run corporate America.
A farmer keeps part of this year’s crop for planting next year. He could sell it now and pocket more cash — but then there’s nothing to plant, nothing to harvest, nothing to live on later. That’s obvious to anyone who works the land.
Capitalism creates wealth. But when wealth is extracted at the expense of the product, the people, and the future — that’s not capitalism. That’s predatory ransacking.
But in today’s boardrooms, the rule is reversed. Short-term profit is all that matters. Strip the future bare, cash out, and leave the mess for someone else to clean up.
The rewards for this corporate vandalism are massive: fat bonuses, stock windfalls, golden parachutes. The damage — lost jobs, gutted industries, shoddy products — is someone else’s problem.
And the fastest way to pull it off? Slash costs to the bone. Ship jobs overseas. Push out the people who know the business best. Kill innovation. Downgrade quality until the product barely passes as the same thing you used to make.
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Wall Street has been doing this since the late ‘90’s which coincides to when Glass Steagal was gutted. Private equity, hedge funds et al are thieves that have destroyed American business, spending their money on stock buybacks, golden parachutes instead of product development. There needs to be a reckoning for what these ‘vampires’ have done to America. They are as crooked as the DC swamp. Bringing manufacturing back to the US is a good start but more needs to be done to destroy, yes destroy, the current Wall Street and its thieves. It’ll take more than the CB collapsing to do it IMO.