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US investigated a deadly attack in Syria, concluded no specific person was to blame.

jeudi 26 mai 2022 à 00:04

The US investigated an attack in Syria that killed and wounded civilians, and concluded that no specific person was to blame. That could be a falsehood to protect the guilty. But not necessarily: it could be true. If so, there are two possibilities:

  1. The system for making decisions was at fault. If so, the US has an obligation to correct it.
  2. It's one of the deadly accidents that tend to happen in war and can't always be prevented.
No system can prevent all the unnecessary killings in war. But officials are often too quick to conclude that any given killing was nobody's fault and impossible to prevent.

Disastrous heat waves in India and Pakistan

jeudi 26 mai 2022 à 00:04

Global heating has made disastrous heat waves in India 100 times more probable.

Formerly they were likely to happen once in 300 years. Now it is once in 3 years, which means they are now part of normal weather.

It's only a matter of time before they reach the level of fatal weather and kill millions of people in a day.

Trump's claims and foreign funding for US campaigns

jeudi 26 mai 2022 à 00:04

*Trump claims immigrants are voting illegally. The real problem is foreign fat cats funding US campaigns.*

That's in addition to the other real problem: American fat cats funding US campaigns.

Environmental toxins are worsening obesity say several scientists.

jeudi 26 mai 2022 à 00:04

Several scientists present reasons to conclude that various chemicals in our environmental pollution are pushing millions of people towards obesity

-- especially as children.

*More than 3,000 potentially harmful chemicals found in food packaging.*

Japanese university told to compensate after exam discrimination

jeudi 26 mai 2022 à 00:04

A Japanese medical school has been found guilty of sex discrimination after it reduced the grades of female applicants to compensate for their superior skills.