You Owe I. China and Russia are now deeply invested in maintaining an incompetent regime in Venezuela. The Venezuelans are caught between two fires. The head of U.S. Southern Command says Beijing is using disinformation and debt diplomacy to dig in as Maduro clings to power. … As U.S. President Donald Trump’s national security team …
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What went through Noor’s mind?
This shooting is a case about motive and state of mind. The facts seem simple. Assistant Hennepin County Attorney Patrick Lofton told jurors that Noor fired across his partner, Matthew Harrity, through an open driver’s side window “without saying a word.”A Minneapolis police officer acted recklessly when he fatally shot a woman who had called …
Thirty Minutes over Tokyo
Retired Air Force Lt. Col. Richard “Dick” Cole, the last surviving member of World War II’s Doolittle Raiders, died Tuesday in Texas at the age of 103. The president of the Doolittle Tokyo Raiders Association told The Air Force Times that Cole died in San Antonio on Tuesday morning with his son and daughter by …
“He may be pro-life”
The online fashion magazine [Nylon] warns readers that Strange Planet’s Nathan Pyle is maybe pro-life and “we should be more careful with what we’re sharing.” Reason Cartoonist Nathan Pyle, whose Strange Planet alien drawings you’ve definitely seen everywhere, was discovered to be anti-abortion today, which serves as a valuable reminder that you should know about …
Suppose the climate could either warm OR cool?
My own personal view is that we don’t know enough to literally bet the farm on it. The key feature of all these climate change solutions is they require total commitment. The therapeutic dose has to be global, massive and expensive or else it’s no good. Listen to Beto O’Rourke: “Let us all be well …
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They didn’t know better
College admission scandals yields guilty pleas Felicity Huffman and a dozen other wealthy parents swept up in the far-reaching college admissions scandal have agreed to plead guilty after being charged in the scheme, according to court records. The actress and 12 other parents, including Los Angeles marketing guru Jane Buckingham, will plead guilty to one …
Do-over of Erdogan’s electoral loss
Turkey’s ruling party said Sunday it will appeal for a full recount of all votes cast in Istanbul’s mayoral election, which the opposition narrowly won in a major setback for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The opposition’s mayoral candidate urged the ruling party to accept defeat. In the March 31 local elections, the opposition not only …
We remember to forget
That the UN was warned about the Rwanda massacre and told the peacekeepers not to intervene. Rwanda’s president said the country had become “a family once again”, while marking the 25th anniversary of the genocide that killed 800,000 people. Paul Kagame, who led a rebel force that ended the slaughter, lit a remembrance flame in …
We lied
Three American service members and one contractor were killed Monday after a bomb exploded near Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, Defense Department officials said. In a statement, the Defense Department said that three additional troops were wounded in the blast. They were evacuated and are being treated. A United States military official said that the …
Putin’s Stalingrad
Yo soy un perdedor … I’m a loser baby A beleaguered dictator barely hanging onto power against a rising tide of popular unrest. An economy in shambles, both from years of economic mismanagement and the crushing weight of U.S.-imposed sanctions. With a long-time client on the brink of collapse, the Kremlin injects troops and supplies …
The socialist paradise at the end of the earth
We’ll give Cuba our last barrel of oil. Venezuela will “fulfill its commitments” to Cuba despite United States sanctions targeting oil shipments from the South American country to its ideological ally, Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza said on Monday. Reuters If you’re the last airport on earth Iran’ll fly to you. An Iran airline blacklisted by …
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The compliment vice pays to vice
An overconfident Joe Crowley opted against using negative ammunition against Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez because he believed that he had the Democratic primary locked up and didn’t want to look weak in a race he was expected to walk away with. Crowley, a longtime political power broker from Queens, was widely considered to be perfectly situated to …
UK plan steps up global crackdown on social media
The British plans would create a statutory “duty of care” for social media companies such as Facebook and Twitter to protect people who use their sites. The plan, which includes an independent regulator funded by a levy on internet companies, will be open for public comment for three months before the government publishes draft legislation. …
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Nuclear Power Can Save the World
This is obvious but it is blasphemy. NYT
Baroness Bryan interview: Brexit gives us a chance to make Britain a truly federal country | Scotland | The Times
The Marxist baroness of Partick is a mild-mannered woman with an immodest aim. She seeks the dismantling of the British state and a socialist reordering of the constitution. You may scoff, but if Jeremy Corbyn becomes prime minister she will be midwife to a new United Kingdom. Times
Brexit countdown
As it stands, if the EU refuses to grant the U.K. an extension to June 30 (or counter-propose a longer extension) the U.K. could be faced with a stark choice on Friday April 12 — leave the EU without a deal in place or revoke the whole departure process (known as Article 50) entirely. CNBC …
Obama warns against obsession with progressive purity
“One of the things I do worry about sometimes among progressives in the United States —maybe it’s true here as well — is a certain kind of rigidity where we say, ‘Uh, I’m sorry, this is how it’s going to be,’ and then we start sometimes creating what’s called a ‘circular firing squad,’ where you …
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Big oil to create CO2 removal machines
Chevron, Occidental Petroleum and the Australian mining giant BHP this year have invested in Carbon Engineering, a small Canadian company that claims to be on the verge of a breakthrough in solving a critical climate change puzzle: removing carbon already in the atmosphere. At its pilot project in Squamish, an old lumber town about 30 …
O’Rourke on Netanyahu
Democratic presidential hopeful Beto O’Rourke on Sunday described Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a “racist” whose outreach to far-right interests as he seeks to hang onto political power has seriously damaged the chances of peace in the Middle East. … His comments came one day after President Trump played up his pro-Israel agenda in …
Chinese investment into Australia plunges
as China’s Government limited both developers and individuals from getting money out of the country for this purpose ABC Australia