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Violence of French thugs

mardi 18 février 2020 à 01:00

The violence of the French thugs was derived from repression in African colonies. Now there is video to prove it, and the state is facing public reprobation.

Las Vegas makes it crime to live on sidewalk

mardi 18 février 2020 à 01:00

Las Vegas has made it a crime to live on the sidewalk. Someone campaigned for this cruelty because he did not like finding excrement on the street.

They could have addressed the ostensible problem by providing proper toilets instead. But if the real goal was to treat homeless people with contempt, that would not have sufficed.

As for squatting, if people suffer from homelessness and a house is uninhabited, I think they should take it.

Big Spill worse than previously believed

mardi 18 février 2020 à 01:00

The oil leaked from the Big Spill in the Gulf of Mexico, in 2010, spread below the surface much farther than was visible on the surface from satellites.

Since fishing was not banned in areas beyond the visible oil slick, that underwater oil could have got into fish which humans then ate.

I wonder if the dispersants that BP poured on the oil, which make the oil mix more with water, played a role in causing that. This response was criticized at the time.

British immigration thugs

mardi 18 février 2020 à 01:00

British immigration thugs held Rahman Mahafuzer’s six-year-old boy for 10 hours, and refused to call a medic even though the boy was vomiting.

They seem to have blamed the father for the vomit, as if he had intentionally made his son sick just to annoy them.

This is probably indirectly related to leaving the EU, because the campaign stirred up bigotry and this look like an instance of that bigotry.

Senate resolution to deauthorize fighting Iran

mardi 18 février 2020 à 01:00

The Senate passed the resolution to deauthorize fighting Iran. However, this is apparently a joint resolution (which requires presidential approval or else a 2/3 supermajority) rather than a concurrent resolution. Why did the Senate choose to do this in a form that won't have legal effect?