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Concrete case of voter fraud

jeudi 16 juillet 2020 à 02:00

Finally, a concrete case of voter fraud occurs. The accused is a Republican congresscritter.

It is standard Republican practice to accuse others of the wrongs that they are familiar with by personal experience.

Extradition of dissident

jeudi 16 juillet 2020 à 02:00

*Egypt asks Spain to extradite dissident [who is also a whistleblower] who sparked protests.*

Egypt accuses him of tax fraud, but it is hard to trust that evidence from the Egyptian state is honest.

Some doctors in Egypt have been jailed for complaining that they don't have PPE.

Tracking opted out

jeudi 16 juillet 2020 à 02:00

*Google faces lawsuit over tracking in apps even when users opted out.*

Sentenced to death after tortured into false confessions

jeudi 16 juillet 2020 à 02:00

Iran has sentenced three protesters to death after reportedly torturing them into false confessions to various crimes.

They fled to Turkey, which sent them back to Iran.

Iran's government is violently unjust to people in Iran, but it does not lean to aggression internationally. The US should be able to make peace with Iran.

Decreasing population

jeudi 16 juillet 2020 à 02:00

Some scientists predict that nearly all countries will have decreasing populations by the end of this century, due to falling birth rates. This is very good news, as it will reduce the climate disaster (thought it will nonetheless be very bad).

However, they predict a population explosion for sub-Saharan Africa which will be caught in a trap of poverty and population growth.

While I am not a demographer, I doubt that Nigeria could accommodate 800 million people without disaster, and the climate disaster will exacerbate that. We need to help sub-Saharan Africa stabilize its population long before that point.