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Venezuela

dimanche 2 avril 2017 à 02:00

Venezuela reversed the ruling that stripped Congress of its powers.

Tom Price

dimanche 2 avril 2017 à 02:00

Tom Price, Saboteur of Health and Human Services, seems to have committed insider trading when he was a congresscritter.

Sabotage of our climate defense plans

dimanche 2 avril 2017 à 02:00

The troll's sabotage of our climate defense plans has now been fully launched.

Global heating is likely to kill billions of people. We have no way to estimate more precisely than that, but it is clear that this sabotage is likely to increase the death toll by hundreds of millions if not more. It could make the difference between killing two billion and killing nine billion. (The current population is around seven billion, but humans, madly, are still increasing it.)

His saboteurs are steadily deleting scientific data collected by years of Arctic research, while also planning to stop the research itself.

Even if the research is resumed in 4 years, which won't be easy if the equipment has been destroyed and the teams dispersed, the loss of the past data would spoil some possible uses of the future data. Even the interruption will make that difficult.

I can imagine denialists' arguing, "Your conclusions are wrong because you tweaked the data from before 2017 when comparing them to the post-2020 data", a step which will be necessary because the new equipment constructed in 2021 won't be exactly identical to what the saboteurs are tossing in the trash now.

If you are thinking about having children, meditate on the fact that the troll's attack on our ecosphere is likely to kill them before they are old.

Putting dissidents in mental hospitals

dimanche 2 avril 2017 à 02:00

Russia is putting Tatar dissidents in mental hospitals by force, and accusing them of "terrorism" based on no evidence.

Murder of people accused of being witches

dimanche 2 avril 2017 à 02:00

100 men in Papua New Guinea are on trial for murdering people they accused of being witches.

Americans stopped doing this around 300 years ago, but superstition about witchcraft are still dangerous to people in many parts of the world.