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A new culture? This is same old snide Australia

  
The Times - 01.12.2021 Original article ›
Matthew Syed
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Disbelief at what happened in the Sydney cricket Test with the comments of Paine to Ashwin and the activity on the crease by Smith, as Indian batsmen held on to save the day. Readers comments are interesting. One reader says Brett Lee is the Australian bowler who should be the role model for Australia. Then again Richie Benaud from the sixties and seventies going far back is what the Australians need to go back to. Other readers say this is not just Australian cricket, it is cultural in Australia.

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Beloved birds take flight from tidy gardens

  
The Times - 01.25.2021 Original article ›
Mark Bridge
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Bird watching during the pandemic from the annual review of BBC Gardeners World. Clean tidy hedges, "tidy" gardening has removed some of the caterpillars on rotten wood for birds such as the blue tit to feed on. Planting flowering plants such as the honeysuckle is suggested to provide birds with more than just food and water, so that birds have something to feed on in a natural setting. Birds need a slightly messy natural setting, including leaves and rotting wood in the back of an hedge.

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Covid-19: UK reports highest one-day tally of new infections since March as Delta variant spreads

  
France 24 - 06.07.2021 Original article ›
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This report in FR24 says the UK reopening by June 21 is at risk as the new delta variant is leading to a rise in covid cases. Covid is growing at 3% a day, with the R ratio at between 1.0 and 1.2 for the second week in a row, says the UK Health Ministry. With new more contagious variants what looks cautiously optimistic in one week can look very different in a 2-3 week period after that especially as complacency creeps in and essential protocols are neglected.

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Le Pen’s far right defeated in local elections shunned by two thirds of French voters

  
France 24 - 06.28.2021 Original article ›
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French regional elections show a defeat by Conservatives of Le Pen's far right party and president Macron's party. Conservatives maintained a lead of 10% of the vote over Le Pen's party. Macron's party failed to make it to double digits in the vote with about 7%. Sixty six percent of voters stayed away from the poll. The Conservatives and the Socialist parties did well holding on to their regions. This changes the landscape for the presidential election in 2022. 

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Skilled Workers Are Scarce, Posing a Challenge for Biden’s Infrastructure Plan

  
NYTimes.com - 09.09.2021 Original article ›
Madeleine Ngo
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Baby boomers are aging and leaving the workforce. Not enough people are expected to replace them to meet the higher demand for infrastructure workers to rebuild America's roads, bridges, airports, rail, and other infrastructure. US president Biden' $1.4 trillion investment planned for renovating infrastructure will mean a large demand for workers that will be difficult to meet, says this report in NYT. Fewer students are going into community colleges, and fewer new workers are replacing older workers who retire in the construction related industries.

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German election: Why the next government wants to overhaul transport | DW | 23.09.2021

  
DW.COM - 09.23.2021 Original article ›
Hardy Graupner
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The transport sector accounts for a third of German energy consumption and a fifth of gas emissions, making it a sector that will come up for major overhaul after elections. The Greens party in Germany is making this a major issue in the elections. The massive flooding in Germany and severe drought conditions are seen as effects of climate change that is moving to the top of the agenda. Greens are polling in the 15-20% range and are likely to be a key partner in a new government.

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No Showers, No Sleep: Van Life Isn’t as Cool as Instagram Makes It Seem

  
WSJ - 03.30.2024 Original article ›
Kailyn Rhone | Photographs By Calla Kessler For The Wall Street Journal
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2.9 million Americans live in vans for most of the year down 6% in 2023, according to one estimate. It is'nt easy as it means finding places to park for the night and doing this day for long periods. Many as shown in this report are young people, some leave their state for travel, some are photographers, some have decided to explore the world outside after being stuck in one place. Others are people who have difficulty finding housing with costs beyond their reach as this engineer in Brooklyn, NY. 

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PM Modi left Isro centre after Chandrayaan-2 setback. He explains why

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Hindustan Times - 09.07.2019 Original article ›
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Tense moments after India's Chandrayan 2 covers 364,000 miles in space, coming close to the lunar surface at the South Pole, as close as 2.1 kilometres before losing communication with the ISRO Space Center. ISRO scientist Sivan and prime minister Modi at the Space Center.  Mr. Modi says he fully supports the space program's mission, saying the need was for continued "prayas" effort and learning from the experience. "Stay steady, look ahead," the prime minister tells ISRO scientists.

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Italy’s Election Winner Will Have to Work With Europe on Economy

  
WSJ - 09.26.2022 Original article ›
Margherita Stancati, Marcus Walker
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The high energy costs and the need for the funding approved by the European Union mean the new Italian government of Giorgia Meloni will work closely with the EU. Italy's difficult fiscal situation with high debt to GDP limit the possibilities for Meloni to carry out policies independent of the EU. Her election campaign was fought mainly on cultural issues, opposing immigration and calling for a return to family and Catholic values, while extending support to the European Union positions on energy and other issues, says the WSJ.

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What is Boris Johnson’s new Brexit plan and where are the sticking points?

  
The Times - 10.03.2019 Original article ›
Oliver Wright, Bruno Waterfield
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Boris Johnson's new Brexit plan leaves Northern Ireland out of the customs union with the European Union which could be a sticking point for Ireland and the European Union. The plan has other issues that will require to be resolved including the lack of adequate customs checks for goods entering Britain from the European Union. Northern Ireland's government can change any association with the European Union in 4 years is another sticking point that could put at risk the peace agreement in Northern Ireland.

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How Brexit is pushing even loyalists towards a united Ireland

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The Times - 10.05.2019 Original article ›
Oliver Wright, Brian Mahon
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There is now emerging sentiment for a united Ireland. Boris Johnson's Brexit proposals do not take into account the sentiment of Irish people on both sides of the border who want a free flowing border. Even some hard core loyalists are shifting their opinion to favor a united Ireland, says this report in The Times. The Unionist DUP  party no longer reflects the views of the people of Ireland. Some polls show that for the first time a majority of the Irish people favor a united Ireland.

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Royal Mail relying on skeleton staff as 115,000 postal workers strike

  
The Guardian - 08.26.2022 Original article ›
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The strike at Royal Mail in the UK as workers reject a 2% raise not enough to cover inflation, higher costs for food and energy. Royal Mail has 140,000 workers. A similar strike over a 2% raise is affecting Britain's transportation sector with rail employees on strike on certain days. This is the result of Tory Conservative policies. In France there is a cap on energy costs, no such cap exits in Britain which has inflation exceeding 10%, and workers struggling after years of austerity cuts.

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WSJ News Exclusive | China and the U.S. Are Arranging an In-Person Meeting Between Heads of Defense

  
WSJ - 05.29.2022 Original article ›
Keith Zhai In Singapore, Alastair Gale In Tokyo
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China's Defense Minister Gen. Wei and Mr. Austin, US Defense Secretary are to meet on the sidelines of a conference in Singapore in 2022. Mr. Wei last met Defense Secretary Mark Esper in 2019 in Bagkok. No meetings have taken place since then. Gen. Wei is seen as an outspoken leader who told a conference in 2019 that the use of the military to stop the Tiananmen protests in Beijing in 1989 was the right step as this gave Chine three decades of peaceful development.

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Cheetahs return to India Live Updates: 70 years after extinction, PM Modi releases ‘India’s guests’ to MP’s Kuno National Park

  
The Indian Express - 09.17.2022 Original article ›
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Prime minister Modi spends the morning of his birthday at the Kunho National Park in Madhya Pradesh, a region known for its tigers. The cheetah population had disappeared in India and in this park over years of poor park management. Cheetahs were flown in from Namibia in Africa to Gwalior by special plane to give the cheetahs a new chance in their old habitat. Biodiversity is considered a big part of climate change action, in restoring habitat for animals in national parks a similar goal is achieved for restoring national parks.

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Opinion | Donald Trump Sides With Disney

  
WSJ - 04.22.2023 Original article ›
The Editorial Board
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This editorial in the WSJ shows that culture wars distract even the major candidates of the Republican party from providing the American public with positions on serious issues of cost of living, healthcare, education, infrastructure, new technologies such as EV's, and renewable energy transition. The wars in remote parts of the world acted as a distraction during the Bush, Obama and Trump administrations from these serious issues. As the WSJ points out much of it ends up being effort to gain personal advantage in some way.

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On Scotland’s Haunting Coast, a Village Dreams of Space

  
WSJ - 01.22.2022 Original article ›
James Hookway | Photographs By Robert Ormerod For The Wall Street Journal
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The Scottish coastline as a good location for rockets into space and space exploration. It is at the right altitude to shoot rockets up into space and into orbit quickly and accessible from Glasgow. Consider that Sweden uses facilities deep in the Arctic circle and Germany uses barges in the North Sea. Glasgow now produces more satellites than any other place in Europe. Newer technologies in use make the impact on the Scottish coastline minimal bringing life to communities in decline and at a dead end.

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Flooding Hits American Towns Far From Oceans and Big Rivers

  
WSJ - 06.19.2023 Original article ›
Arian Campo Flores, Cameron Mc Whirter | Photographs By Jon Cherry For The Wall Street Journal
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Flooding moves inland in the US to areas never exposed to flooding, as shown in this WSJ report on areas in Kentucky. Climate scientists says this is a threat from climate change that is overlooked, the effects of flooding more inland, away from big rivers. Storms in the mountains of eastern Kentucky dumped 16 inches of rain over a 5 day period resulting in severe flooding and 44 deaths, homes swept away. Storms of this type are seen in other places such as Germany with fast floods.

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Senate Republicans try to shield Mueller from criticism of his Russia probe

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Washington Post - 12.15.2017 Original article ›
Karoun Demirjiankaroun Demirjian
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Senators Grassley, Graham, Risch, Blount, are some of the senators on the Judiciary and Intelligence Committees of the U.S. Senate who believe that Special Counsel Mueller's investigation should stay on track and complete its job, even though texts showing bias between Peter Strzok and Lisa Page led to their removal from the investigation. The senators say Mueller is a very capable guy and he has fired the officials expressing the bias against president Trump. The mood in the House is different where Republican Congressmen have called for Mueller to be removed.

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Opinion | South Africa’s Zuma Leaves Behind a Broken Democracy

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The New York Times - 02.14.2018 Original article ›
The Editorial Board
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This editorial in the New York Times points out that the new president of the ANC party -that runs South Africa and has a monopoly of power in the post Apartheid years, under Mandela, Mbeki and Zuma- faces a uphill task as the ANC remains deeply divided after supporting Mr. Zuma in office till the very end. Apart from the stagnant economy, there are challenges the ANC faces in the lethargy of the post Apartheid years, and the culture of corruption, and patronage management that led to mismanagement of state enterprises.

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Xi Jinping Aims to Rebrand China—as an Importer

  
WSJ - 11.05.2018 Original article ›
James T. Areddy
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China's president Xi Jinping visiting a trade fair in Shanghai, says China will shift to larger imports as it responds to calls from the U.S. and Europe to further open its markets, and buy more rather than focus on selling to the world. He said "it is China's sincere commitment to open the Chinese market." More than 80% of China's trading partners have trade deficits with China with severe complaints and tariffs imposed on Chinese goods by the U.S. president Trump.

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Tension With Russia Rises as U.S. Halts Syria Negotiations

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The New York Times - 10.03.2016 Original article ›
Michael R. Gordon, Andrew E. Kramer
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A complete breakdown in negotiations between the U.S. and Russia happens after Russia continues its bombing campaign in Aleppo. About 275,000 people and 100,000 children are in the war torn area in northern Syria. The U.S. had called on Russia to stop the bombing campaign, but Secretary of State Kerry failed to persuade Russia to commit to a ceasefire. The result has been international criticism of the Russian role in the war, and speculation on what president Putin sees Russia gaining from this intervention in DW.com and other sites. 

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PMQs verdict: 'Jeremy Corbyn has an adequate serve, but no return'

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The Guardian - 10.12.2016 Original article ›
Andrew Sparrow
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Andrew Sparrow of The Guardian describes the prime minister's questions in the British parliament in October 2016. Opposition leader Corbyn brings up Brexit after avoiding the topic for some time. Sparrow uses a tennis analogy that Corbyn as usual has a good serve, asks good questions, but fails to follow up, and so lacks a return of serve. With the pound falling, and more uncertainty about the economy, May says yes to a Brexit debate in parliament, but makes no commitment for a vote.

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On the heels of Trump and Brexit, Italy becomes the next populist battleground | News | DW.COM | 18.11.2016

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DW.COM - 11.18.2016 Original article ›
Elizabeth Schumacher
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Schumacher of DW.com provides insights into the referendum in Italy in which the "no" vote has a lead. Some aspects of the constitutional reforms are not positive and reduce representation, Renzi's failure to guage public frustration especially after the failure of Mayor Marino in Italy to improve services and infrastructure, the coalescing of different strands of public opinion from right to left in a referendum such as in Brexit especially with a failure to improve economic conditions for the middle class, make a "no' vote likely.

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Obama Rallies Democrats Behind Hillary Clinton at Convention

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WSJ - 07.28.2016 Original article ›
Carol E. Lee, Janet Hook
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U.S. president Obama calls Hillary Clinton more qualified for the job of president than himself or Bill Clinton, in his speech at the Democratic National Convention. He made a strong effort to rally the party behind Hillary Clinton in his speech, and thanked Bernie Sanders in a separate phone call for helping bring party unity. Vice President said that Trump did'nt have a clue to what would help the middle class, that the truly passionate supporter for the middle class was Hillary Clinton. Kaine and Bloomberg built on this theme.

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‘Yellow Vest’ Protests Shake France. Here’s the Lesson for Climate Change.

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New York Times - 12.06.2018 Original article ›
Alissa Rubin And Somini Sengupta
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The France fossil fuel tax increases were part of the annual increase since 2014 to meet France's effort to reduce climate change. Instead in 2018 the fossil fuel tax increase was seen in a different light, touching a nerve with rural French who were struggling financially to make ends meet. The yellow vest protests across France show the need to take climate change action that takes into account the needs of the financially vulnerable families. Even supporters of climate change action joined the protests in this report in the NYT.

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