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Killers of Maltese journalist charged

mardi 2 mars 2021 à 01:00

Malta says all those who masterminded killing of Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia have now confessed or been charged.

More info about her.

Definition of antisemitism

mardi 2 mars 2021 à 01:00

The faculty at University College London rejected the UHRA definition of antisemitism.

It was not designed to be used as a basis to judge people for their actions.

Business supremacy treaty for energy infrastructure

mardi 2 mars 2021 à 01:00

A special business supremacy treaty specifically for energy infrastructure has a ISDS clause. Under this treaty, countries must pay for permission to adopt climate policies that make foreign-owned fossil fuel infrastructure less useful.

All business-supremacy treaties are instruments to crush democracy. Countries should refuse to sign them, withdraw from them, ideally join together to cancel them out entirely.

For this treaty, one possible last-resort solution would be for countries to declare war on each other and bomb each other's fossil fuel infrastructure, disabling it from functioning. Then they could decline responsibility on the grounds that the damage was an act of war.

I don't suggest bombing the power plant into rubble — that would cause pollution — just destroying some key part of it, without which it does not operate.

Is this idea shocking? There are better ways to stop burning fossil fuels, but it is good to have this fall-back method if the others prove too difficult. Don't say it can't be done!

Trump inauguration

mardi 2 mars 2021 à 01:00

QAnincompoops now claim that Trump will be inaugurated as president on March 4.

When this fails to occur, they may pretend that it did.

Exaggerating support for democracy

mardi 2 mars 2021 à 01:00

Western countries, no longer as powerful as in the past, are exaggerating what they might do to support democracy in Burma.

This is leading some Burmese to expect an armed rescue. They might start a rebellion which would be crushed.