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Bloomberg and fossil fuels

mardi 12 novembre 2019 à 01:00

Presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg Backs Fracking and Invests in Fossil Fuels.

He is not the worst of the worst, but he is also not a good choice for president, or any political office that influences energy policy.

Turkey allies attacking ambulances

mardi 12 novembre 2019 à 01:00

Turkey's proxy forces in Syria attacked an ambulance carrying Kurdish medics.

Not-exactly-mistakes from UK's immigration agency

mardi 12 novembre 2019 à 01:00

The UK's immigration agency regularly stretches its rules so as to deny visas. The only way to get it to correct these not-exactly-mistakes is to create a media scandal.

It won't be easy to teach them better habits. I fear that the staff of that agency have been rendered unfit to work in any job where their decisions would affect people's lives.

Morales resignation

mardi 12 novembre 2019 à 01:00

OAS observers reported manipulation in Bolivia's election. Morales agreed to replace the electoral agency and hold a new election.

It appears that the protesters' accusations were valid. Then he resigned as president, apparently pressured by the military.

All his constitutional successors resigned too, until the first one who was from a right-wing opposition party, who will now become president.

I don't know enough to reach conclusions now.

Threat of peaceful protesters

mardi 12 novembre 2019 à 01:00

The US government has done a "threat assessment" on a group of peaceful protesters the way the government treats minors that cross the border.

It also calls protesters against the border wall "anti-border wall extremists".