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People displaced by climate crisis to testify in first-of-its-kind hearing in US

samedi 2 mars 2024 à 21:46

*People displaced by climate crisis to testify … Inter-American Commission on Human Rights will hear how climate is driving forced migration across the Americas.*

Protesters accused of intimidating MPs

samedi 2 mars 2024 à 11:45

UK ministers accuse protesters of trying to intimidate MPs with threats.

Indeed, a democracy must not tolerate that. Some senators reported that threats to their lives and their families' lives convinced them not to vote to convict the insurrectionist after his second impeachment.

The neighborhood Notting Hill

samedi 2 mars 2024 à 11:45

How the film Notting Hill damaged the neighborhood Notting Hill — through gentrification.

At that time, I was dating a woman who lived in Notting Hill. I told her I had enjoyed the film, and she said that she resented it for forcing her to move to a farther part of London. Indeed, gentrification is shown right on the screen. I still enjoy it despite that, perhaps because it's a romantically inept bookish man's perfect romantic fantasy.

At the end of the first encounter between the two main characters, Ms Scott steals a kiss from Mr Thacker. Would you call that a "sexual assault" and comparable to rape? Do you think she should be prosecuted for that? I can imagine the scene in which Thacker testifies at Scott's trial and falsely claims to have given verbal consent in advance, thus sparing her a prison term. After hearing the verdict, she runs over to him and kisses him, and they arrest her again.

Starmer's plans of seizing Labour Party

samedi 2 mars 2024 à 11:45

Starmer planned to seize the Labour Party before the 2019 election.

Intensity of Russian repression

samedi 2 mars 2024 à 11:45

A Russian journalist, exiled abruptly when Putin attacked Ukraine because she was reporting from there, describe how his repression in Russia is so intense that it tears apart families.