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Murder of anti-apartheid activist

mercredi 18 octobre 2017 à 02:00

A court hearing concluded that South African thugs murdered anti-apartheid activist Ahmed Timol. The thugs said he had killed himself in prison — a story that was implausible at the time.

The murder took place in 1971, but a thug that covered up the truth is still alive to be prosecuted.

Emergency assistance to Puerto Rico

mercredi 18 octobre 2017 à 02:00

The troll complains about how long emergency assistance to Puerto Rico is taking, basically preparing to withdraw aid.

This is while most of the island's electric grid is still down, and a large fraction have no water supply either.

Curbing global heating

mercredi 18 octobre 2017 à 02:00

Caring for forests, peat bogs and agricultural land could do a large part of the job of curbing global heating.

It is easier said than done. It is hard to do large amounts of illegal fossil fuel extraction except in a failed state, but illegal deforestation is going wild in countries including Brazil and Indonesia.

Those governments are corrupt but they are hardly failed states.

Third iteration of troll's Muslim ban

mercredi 18 octobre 2017 à 02:00

The third iteration of the bully's partial ban on Muslim visitors has been blocked by a court.

Canada's methane emissions

mercredi 18 octobre 2017 à 02:00

Canada's methane emissions are 25% or 50% higher than people thought.