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Trash Talk how twitter is shaping the new politics

mercredi 3 août 2016 à 02:00

Trump is an exampe of how Twitter is lowering the level of thoughtfulness of political debate. It is more of a playground argument than a debate.

Crescent dunes concentrated solar power

mercredi 3 août 2016 à 02:00

A new concentrated solar power system stores solar energy as heat and can dispense electricity later as needed.

Canada protest after police brutality

mercredi 3 août 2016 à 02:00

Witnesses say that Ottawa thugs beat Abdirahman Abdi so badly while arresting him that he died shortly after.

Armenia hostage police station

mercredi 3 août 2016 à 02:00

In Armenia, a sort of uprising/protest has a lot of support for the resignation of the president, who is considered corrupt.

I visited Armenia a few years ago. It was a sort of Russian satellite state, but Armenians seemed to appreciate Russia's support against Armenia's principal enemies, Turkey and its ally, Azerbaijan. (Azeris are ethnically closely related to Turks.) The Sassoun region was under Turkish rule 100 years ago, and was subjected to the genocide; no Armenians remain there.

Tim Kaine wants to ban US funding for abortions

mercredi 3 août 2016 à 02:00

Tim Kaine is so nonprogressive that he wants to maintain the Hyde and Helms amendments which ban US funding for abortions.