Monday, July 06, 2020

Explosive potential’: Victoria sends 500 police to contain coronavirus in public housing high-rises

Sudden lockdown has left some of its 3,000 Melbourne residents without food and unable to attend work


Thousands of public housing tenants under hard lockdown as COVID-19 spreads The Age. Australia


The risk remains': Sydney hotel guards under microscope as NSW records 14 new cases



Coronavirus: ‘Crystal clear’ drunk people will not socially distance BBC


Vitamin D promoted as potential defence against coronavirus FT



Books disappear from Hong Kong libraries after new law




Boris Johnson to pull Huawei out of 5G network within months

Beijing’s Hong Kong takeover is a masterclass in creating fear FT

China has HSBC’s taipan in a vice with few options but to fall in line with the security law for Hong Kong in the bank’s biggest market South China Morning Post

Libraries pull off some books by political figures RTHK

Exclusive: Illegal protest slogan ‘immortalised’ by Hong Kong gov’t, says co-author HKFP

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US sends 2 aircraft carriers to South China Sea During PLA Drills Times of India

Did China miscalculate the rise of India? South China Morning Post


About the Declaration there is a finality that is exceedingly restful. It is often asserted that the world has made a great deal of progress since 1776, that we have had new thoughts and new experiences which have given us a great advance over the people of that day, and that we may therefore very well discard their conclusions for something more modern. But that reasoning can not be applied to this great charter. If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction can not lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient, than those of the Revolutionary fathers.

Calvin Coolidge, Address at the Celebration of the 150th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia on July 5, 1926.

Related: Take this 4th of July to reject all the America-haters.