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- 2020-09-17 11:09pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Positive Environmental news thread
- Replies: 61
- Views: 74699
Re: Positive Environmental news thread
https://www.euractiv.com/section/energy/news/china-considers-going-carbon-neutral-peaking-emissions/ Summary * EU pledges to go carbon neutral by 2050. *EU tells China if you don't go carbon neutral by 2060 you might face tariffs *China says, we will look at possibly going carbon neutral by 2050. No...
- 2020-09-16 03:22am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Trump Dump: Foreign Policy (Thread I)
- Replies: 1448
- Views: 580454
Re: Trump Dump: Foreign Policy (Thread I)
So had a bit of a look in more detail at this quota business. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/aluminum-tariffs-trade-trump-trudeau-1.5724391 Washington's declared limit varies from 70,000 to 83,000 tons per month of non-alloyed, unwrought aluminum. Statistics published by industry, gathered from th...
- 2020-09-15 10:14pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Trump Dump: Foreign Policy (Thread I)
- Replies: 1448
- Views: 580454
Re: Trump Dump: Foreign Policy (Thread I)
Tribble is completely wrong that Canada signed away the option of target retalitory tariffs. That's exactly what Ottawa did in response to the ridiculous aluminium tariffs and guess what, the White House folded right away. So much for vassal state. So it seems tariffs have been replaced with a quot...
- 2020-09-15 09:16pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: COVID-19 ongoing thread part 2
- Replies: 737
- Views: 267143
Re: COVID-19 ongoing thread part 2
Now we know where all those COVID was manufactured by the Chinese military rumours came from. Steve Bannon. https://www.thedailybeast.com/steve-bannon-linked-groups-push-study-claiming-china-manufactured-covid Steve Bannon Is Behind Bogus Study That China Created COVID STUDY BUDDY The study goes aga...
- 2020-09-15 11:09am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Trump Dump: Foreign Policy (Thread I)
- Replies: 1448
- Views: 580454
Re: Trump Dump: Foreign Policy (Thread I)
Bloomberg U.S. Violated Trade Rules With Tariffs on China, WTO Says By Bryce Baschuk 15 September 2020, 22:06 GMT+8 Updated on 15 September 2020, 22:49 GMT+8 WTO panel upholds a complaint filed by China over U.S. tariffs The U.S. imposed levies over intellectual rights violations The World Trade Or...
- 2020-09-14 10:19pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: An ICE Nurse Revealed That A Georgia Detention Center Is Performing Mass Hysterectomies
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4595
An ICE Nurse Revealed That A Georgia Detention Center Is Performing Mass Hysterectomies
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/ice-nurse-revealed-georgia-detention-215816246.html An ICE Nurse Revealed That A Georgia Detention Center Is Performing Mass Hysterectomies Izzie Ramirez September 14, 2020, 2:58 PM PDT·3 mins re On Monday, a nurse at a private immigration detention center in Georgia ...
- 2020-09-14 07:04am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Controversy over USC professor’s use of Chinese word that sounds like racial slur in English
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5073
Re: Controversy over USC professor’s use of Chinese word that sounds like racial slur in English
The professor took note and say he will change the way his course is taught. That's good enough for me. Otherwise, I'm going to be very upset over Naboo (Nabu), which in Singapore means fuck your mom. IIRC, there's actually one utterance in the movies that sounds like the complete curse word . Hey,...
- 2020-09-14 02:19am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Indigenous affairs and Settler-Colonial Decolonization News Megathread
- Replies: 52
- Views: 61320
Re: Indigenous affairs and Settler-Colonial Decolonization News Megathread
Australian mining company destroy Indigenous cultural site. Investors fire the chief execute and two others. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-09-12/rio-tinto-jean-sebastien-jaques-sacked-juukan-gorge-caves/12655942?section=analysis Has Rio Tinto learnt its lesson from the destruction of the Juukan G...
- 2020-09-13 11:47pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Controversy over USC professor’s use of Chinese word that sounds like racial slur in English
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5073
Re: Controversy over USC professor’s use of Chinese word that sounds like racial slur in English
Here is a video of the professor in question, Greg Patton saying Nei Ge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgVRwfk5yuQ
You can judge for yourself, but IMO his pronunciation nowhere sounded like the N word.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgVRwfk5yuQ
You can judge for yourself, but IMO his pronunciation nowhere sounded like the N word.
- 2020-09-13 08:25pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: COVID-19 ongoing thread part 2
- Replies: 737
- Views: 267143
Re: COVID-19 ongoing thread part 2
In Australia, the chief health officer in Queensland is now getting death threats for their tough border stance. Qld and WA have tough border stances, which is still being opposed by the Federal government who aims to get things open by Christmas. The above states seem to be taking a more cautious a...
- 2020-09-12 07:30pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: COVID-19 ongoing thread part 2
- Replies: 737
- Views: 267143
Re: COVID-19 ongoing thread part 2
https://www.straitstimes.com/world/united-states/un-adopts-covid-19-pandemic-resolution-despite-objections-from-us-israel UN adopts Covid-19 pandemic resolution despite objections from US, Israel PUBLISHEDSEP 12, 2020, 12:46 PM SGT FACEBOOKTWITTER NEW YORK (AFP) - The United States was supported onl...
- 2020-09-12 07:26pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: The cost of the US war on terror
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3001
- 2020-09-11 08:11pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: COVID-19 ongoing thread part 2
- Replies: 737
- Views: 267143
Re: COVID-19 ongoing thread part 2
https://www.newsweek.com/teachers-die-covid-south-carolina-mississippi-missouri-iowa-oklahoma-schools-reopen-1531147?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1599779147 Teachers Die of COVID in South Carolina, Mississippi, Missouri, Iowa and Oklahoma As Schools Reopen B...
- 2020-09-11 01:19pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: On this date in 1973..
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2866
On this date in 1973..
Nothing of note happened in Chile according to CNN, WaPo and the NYT (no I checked). However according to Venezuela's mouthpiece, this happened. Apparently the United States being the champion of democracy decided what better way to promote and spread democracy than by overthrowing a democratically ...
- 2020-09-11 11:26am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: COVID-19 ongoing thread part 2
- Replies: 737
- Views: 267143
Re: COVID-19 ongoing thread part 2
Is there any evidence that Woodward actually wants Trump to lose, as opposed to trying to sell his book? A quick search doesn't show him to be a registered democrat or a republican currently, although Bernstein, his collaborator in investigating Nixon stated Woodward was a registered Republican (at ...
- 2020-09-11 08:41am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: The worst I've seen – trauma expert lifts lid on 'atrocity' of Australia's detention regime
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2784
Re: The worst I've seen – trauma expert lifts lid on 'atrocity' of Australia's detention regime
This article is from 2016, not sure about any update. However personal information, I caught up with an old colleague from a certain hospital while doing a course. Said colleague at that time like me had left the hospital system and was working as a GP and had seen refugees in Australian run camps, ...
- 2020-09-11 05:59am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: The cost of the US war on terror
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3001
The cost of the US war on terror
At least 37 million displaced At least 37 million people have been displaced by America's 'war on terror' in less than 20 years JOHN HALTIWANGER SEP 9, 2020, 7:12 AM At least 37 million people have been displaced by America’s “global war on terror,” according to a new report from Brown University’s...
- 2020-09-11 05:55am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: COVID-19 ongoing thread part 2
- Replies: 737
- Views: 267143
Re: COVID-19 ongoing thread part 2
I mean. One's a government and the other is a private citizen. People who trusted Trump at that point weren't likely to listen to anyone contradicting him, recordings or no. There were other sources available telling people why they needed to be concerned about the pandemic. Anyone who hadn't gotte...
- 2020-09-10 10:49pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: COVID-19 ongoing thread part 2
- Replies: 737
- Views: 267143
Re: COVID-19 ongoing thread part 2
Let me get this right. China takes a few weeks to work out the characteristics of this new virus, eg human to human transmission etc. They are criticise for downplaying or outright withholding information. Meanwhile Woodward takes a much longer time of 6 fucking months before he reveals this revelat...
- 2020-09-10 09:30pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Harry Dunn's parents file U.S. lawsuit against diplomat's wife over fatal U.K. crash
- Replies: 0
- Views: 9037
Harry Dunn's parents file U.S. lawsuit against diplomat's wife over fatal U.K. crash
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/harry-dunn-s-parents-file-u-s-lawsuit-against-diplomat-n1239691 Harry Dunn's parents file U.S. lawsuit against diplomat's wife over fatal U.K. crash Anne Sacoolas showed a “conscious disregard for the safety of Harry,” lawsuit states. Sept. 10, 2020, 3:52 AM AWST B...
- 2020-09-10 09:21pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: COVID-19 ongoing thread part 2
- Replies: 737
- Views: 267143
Re: COVID-19 ongoing thread part 2
https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2020-09-10/the-coronavirus-may-have-reached-los-angeles-even-before-china-announced-its-outbreak The coronavirus may have reached Los Angeles even before China announced its outbreak By KAREN KAPLANSCIENCE AND MEDICINE EDITOR SEP. 10, 20207:45 AM Was the novel c...
- 2020-09-10 09:09pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: COVID-19 ongoing thread part 2
- Replies: 737
- Views: 267143
Re: COVID-19 ongoing thread part 2
An argument could be made for a strategic release of the information. “Donald Trump is lying about COVID” was known at the time, and the confirmation wouldn’t really have meant much. Same number of people (maybe more, if he tantrumed) would be dead and it wouldn’t be a release that had the impact i...
- 2020-09-10 12:00am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: COVID-19 ongoing thread part 2
- Replies: 737
- Views: 267143
Re: COVID-19 ongoing thread part 2
Parts of Brazil are now claiming they could produce a Chinese vaccine for mass distribution as early as December, which seems quite optimistic. https://www.scmp.com/news/world/americas/article/3100930/brazil-could-launch-chinese-coronavirus-vaccine-year-says To give the salient points 1. Brazil's pr...
- 2020-09-09 10:42pm
- Forum: Science Fiction
- Topic: Time Lord Victorious story arc
- Replies: 3
- Views: 10492
Re: Time Lord Victorious story arc
More on this story arc https://www.doctorwho.tv/news/?article=daleks-the-animated-series-coming-soon-time-lord-victorious DALEKS! The animated series joins Time Lord Victorious The Daleks are taking over with their own animated series! The final, missing piece in Time Lord Victorious is announced to...
- 2020-09-09 08:50pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Brexit and not very united kingdom politics II
- Replies: 807
- Views: 389209
Re: Brexit and not very united kingdom politics II
Apparently this Bill which allows the UK to ignore parts of the Brexit withdrawal agreement it doesn't like might break international law.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-09-10/ ... n=business
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-09-10/ ... n=business