The travails of the global world and an international “rule based order” The U.S. is not a party to the treaty that created the international court. Instead of joining the organization when it was founded, the U.S. adopted the American Service-Members’ Protection Act, which broadly prohibits the U.S. from facilitating any ICC investigation of U.S. …
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First, it was Hamas, and then Hezbollah. Now, Syria is threatening to undermine Israel with tunnels. In fact, a Syrian general claims that the Syrian Civil War has turned Syrian soldiers into “experts” at digging holes in the ground. … In its seventy-five-year history, the Syrian military has rarely had a reputation for being expert …
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, said Hayabusa2 dropped a small explosive box which sent a copper ball the size of a baseball slamming into the asteroid, and that data confirmed the spacecraft had safely evacuated and remained intact. JAXA later confirmed the impact from images transmitted from a camera left behind by the …
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Taxman kept quiet while £8bn fraud helped fund Osama bin Laden. For years a UK gang infiltrated government agencies and funnelled cash to al-Qaeda but the watching HMRC kept MI5 in the dark Times of London Plus a Pakistan connection. The files reportedly also show that the gang enjoyed links with a top politician in …
If price doesn’t set the level, the government does. That’s why a combination of private (price set) and government (rationed to indigents and subsidized for low income) is often the policy mix of choice. Nearly a quarter of a million British patients have been waiting more than six months to receive planned medical treatment from …
Following his remarks at Al Sharpton’s National Action Network Conference, Sanders was asked whether he would support a bill, introduced by Representative Sheila Jackson Lee (D., Texas), that would form a commission to study the institution of American slavery and devise a plan to compensate living descendants of slaves. “If the House and the Senate …
Ohio could decide to hand its votes in presidential elections over to the Democratic Party if a proposed ballot measure passes in November. If approved, the proposed constitutional amendment would award Ohio’s electoral votes to the candidate who wins the national popular vote. The language of the ballot measure would enshrine the following in the …
Former FBI Director James Comey on Tuesday condemned President Donald Trump’s calls for a possible investigation into how special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia inquiry started, adding that it creates a troubling precedent. During an interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, Comey was asked about whether he feared possible counterinvestigations. “I don’t fear it personally. I fear …
Ancestry Testing Company: It’s Our ‘Moral Responsibility’ To Give The FBI Your DNA The company seems to be embracing this partnership with law enforcement with their new campaign called, “Families Want Answers.”
British police warn vs intemperate Brexit debate. You might be talking about the end of Britain as an independent country, treason or betrayal. But always remember to be polite. “I am thinking about disorder and people being responsible in the way they speak,” he said. “There’s a responsibility on those individuals that have a platform …
Forget Cambridge Analytica. Facebook has been leaking like a sieve beyond that well known incident. a Mexican digital publisher called Cultura Colectiva, openly stored 540 million records, including comments, names, likes, and reactions to posts, in a publicly accessible database hosted by Amazon Web Services. … Just yesterday Facebook was forced to stop asking users …
Who knew that the economy would need people? Were it not for immigrants, the labor crunch would be even more intense. In 2016, immigrants accounted for one in four construction workers, according to a study by Natalia Siniavskaia of the home builders’ association, up from about one in five in 2004. In some of the …
Libya has been plunged into chaos since the ouster of the dictator Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi in 2011, with rival cities and militias competing for power. The bedlam has slashed the country’s oil production, drained much of its sovereign wealth, offered havens to Islamist militants and turned its long Mediterranean coast into a major point of …
Does Biden invade people’s personal space? The NYT writes: We each reserve around us a zone of about 18 inches — “intimate space,” he called it — for close friends and family. “Personal space,” from 18 inches to about 4 feet, is open to acquaintances and colleagues. And “social space,” from 4 feet to 12 …
The rival empires are no longer Britain and Russia but the US and China. The Indian Ocean is where America can blockade China’s energy supplies from the Middle East. Three major powers — which together account for nearly half of the global economy — are vying for influence in the Indian Ocean arena. India, China, …
Now – as in the Soviet Union – making a joke can be a dangerous, life-changing mistake. Spectator
The Greens weren’t the first to call for the elimination of cattle to save the universe.
And if that doesn’t work try a third. London Times
Or do they fear the irate Brexiteers?
Gut punch.
