Indian Supreme Court decision that a politician is also a citizen and is also amenable to the same laws.

04/06/2023

India's Supreme Court rejects a petition by 14 political parties that asked for politicians to have immunity from prosecution. Or that there should be no cases filed against them because there are certain statistics related to the leaders. The court ruled that it cannot lay down law in the abstract. Specific cases need to be filed and the Court would rule in that specific case. The Supreme Court said -"Ultimately a politician is also a citizen, and as a citizen he or she is amenable to the same law."

Linked Articles

Supreme Court rejects petition by opposition parties on alleged misuse of CBI, ED | India News - Times of India

The Times of India 04/06/2023

Hindustan Times 04/04/2023

Deforestation- is the pledge at COP26 Glasgow a bit too late for Indonesian rainforest?

11/02/2021

This is one of the amazing links in Lyrarc because it shows WSJ article from 2007 noted by Lyrarc that year, showing UN maps on deforestation in Borneo island in Indonesia for 2000, 2005, 2020. By 2020 most of the rainforest is shown as gone. Deforestation and climate ecologist Clare Rewcastle Brown, sister in law of former British prime minister Gordon Brown, from Britain, recalls colonial days in Sarawak, north Borneo Island, where her father was a police officer. And how much of the canopy of forest from that part of Malaysia was disappearing. She continued her protests from outside Malaysia in 2013 as reported by NYT and noted in Lyrarc that year. This is an amazing story of how deforestation of some of the last rain forests in the world took place at a time when awareness of climate change was sorely lacking in 2007-2013, and how by 2020 the rain forests in Borneo may have already disappeared from planet earth to combat climate change. One woman's fight and a fight that is still on after world leaders took a pledge to end deforestation on the planet by 2030 including Russia, Brazil, Indonesia, China, and the US, and a UN report that had the foresight to show a rainforest disappearing in 2007 in Tom Wright's WSJ report from Surabaya, Indonesia the same year.

Linked Articles

Indonesia's Logging Fight

WSJ 07/03/2007

Tom Wright

New York Times 08/16/2013

Gerry Mullany, Gerry, Mullany

Pope Francis and the challenge of the modern world in 2020

11/27/2020

Two crises back to back in 2010 and 2020 putting the working class, middle class and poor further behind each ten years. Pope Francis calls this a challenge for the modern world in his new book "Let us Dream- The Path To a Better Future." He says "we cannot return to the false securities of the political and economic systems before the pandemic, we need economies that give access to all of the fruits of creation, to the basic needs of life, land lodging and labor."

Linked Articles

A Humble Pope, Challenging the World

New York Times 09/18/2015

Jim Yardley, Jim, Yardley

NYTimes.com 11/27/2020

Pope Francis

Minneapolis police and calls for defunding police in the U.S.

07/27/2020

Linked Articles

In Minneapolis, Armed Residents Set Up Patrols Amid Calls to Defund the Police

WSJ 07/25/2020

Joe Barrett

WSJ 06/24/2020

Sadie Gurman, Chad Day

French and British preparation for pandemics after SARS and H1N1 and losing interest with Brexit (Britain) eurozone austerity policy (France) by 2019

05/16/2020

Both Britain and France learned and prepared for pandemics all the way to H1N1 in France in 2009, and to the 2016 Cygnus exercize for pandemic in Britain, then lost interest and ditched the efforts. How did this happen, learn why here in extraordinary reports from the Le Mode cited by France 24 and in a report from the Times of London. A must for a dynamic participatory informed mindset needed more than ever today.

Linked Articles

Pandemic disarmament: Why France was ready for Covid-19 a decade too soon

France 24 05/17/2020

The Times 05/16/2020

Insight | Jonathan Calvert, George Arbuthnott, Jonathan Leake

Donald Trump Jr, Donald Trump, and the investigation by Special Counsel Mueller in 2017- the Republican Party position in WSJ and the Trump response

07/20/2017

Linked Articles

The Trumps and the Truth

WSJ 07/18/2017

The Editorial Board

The New York Times 07/19/2017

Peter Baker, Michael S. Schmidt, Maggie Haberman

Saudi Arabia- politics and the economy under Prince Salman 2016-2017

06/22/2017

Linked Articles

The Saudi Shake-Up Has One Goal: Drag the Country Into Modern Era

WSJ 06/22/2017

Summer Said In Dubai, Justin Scheck In Riyadh, Michael Amon In London

The New York Times 06/21/2017

Ben Hubbard

Emmanuel Macron and the challenge of reviving France's economy

05/08/2017

France's central bank chief Noyer points out that once the public sector crosses the line of 55% of the economy France loses ground. Jobs created are from an earlier period, and fewer new technology jobs of the future are created. The challenge for Macron is to rein in the public sector and revive French industry so new jobs are created for young people.

Linked Articles

Macron's presidency: It's the economy, stupid! | Business | DW.COM | 08.05.2017

DW.COM 05/08/2017

Timothy Rooks

Wall Street Journal 05/29/2013

Wsj Editorial, Wsj, Editorial

Two views on populist politics in the U.S. and Europe in 2017- getting started or at their crest and declining

04/25/2017

Linked Articles

Populism, Far From Turned Back, May Be Just Getting Started

The New York Times 04/25/2017

Max Fisher, Amanda Taub

The New York Times 04/24/2017

Steven Erlanger, Alison Smale

How German security services, Federal criminal Police (BKA), and Berlin police handled the case of Anis Amri before the attack at Breitscheidplatz

12/23/2016

Linked Articles

After the attack: Tangle of bureaucracy, not failure of government | Germany | DW.COM | 22.12.2016

DW.COM 12/22/2016

Volker Wagener

DW.COM 12/22/2016

Marcel Fürstenau

Speaker Paul Ryan's House seat in Janesville, Wisconsin- improving economy in a U.S. midwestern factory town and the debate on trade, help for working class families

08/10/2016

The unemployment rate in Janesville, Wisconsin drops to 4.4% in May 2016, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. It was over 9% following the closing of the GM plant and the recession from the 2008 financial crisis. A working class town Janesville was hit hard by the closing of the GM plant in 2008. Amy Goldstein of the Washington Post describes the impact of losing about 5000 jobs at the GM plant, and the problems typical of most manufacturing dependent towns. Throughout the period since being first elected to Congress in 1998 Ryan has continued to be able to get elected on the basis of faith, family and public service, even though some of his policies may not have helped the poor and elderly or laid off workers. Ryan voted for rescuing the auto industry and worked hard to keep the GM plant, and listens to his constituents, and as the economy recovered by 2016 won easily in this old industrial midwestern town. His influence in national politics gives Janesville an opportunity to be heard, as it tackles problems common to many midwestern towns in the U.S.

Linked Articles

Could Paul Ryan’s ideas help his struggling home town? - The Washington Post

Washington Post 08/19/2012

Amy Goldstein, Amy, Goldstein

The Guardian 08/10/2016

David Smith

How the few Oxford educated politicians forming an old boy's club and their infighting by 2016 led to the vote for Brexit

07/08/2016

How Cameron, Osborne, Gove and Johnson, a few Oxford educated politicians put their narrow interests and party politics ahead of the interests of Britain and the interests of the European Union.

Linked Articles

British Politics Gives a Sense of Government by Old School Chums

The New York Times 07/07/2016

The New York Times 07/05/2016

The pause in the U.S. economy with the May 2016 U.S. jobs report showing 38,000 jobs added

06/06/2016

Krugman discusses the U.S. May 2016 jobs report from the Labor Department. He says it will be harder to come up with a response to the political uncertainty in an election year, especially now that rates are near zero.

Linked Articles

Sharp Fall in U.S. Hiring Saps Chance of Fed Rate Increase in June

The New York Times 06/03/2016

The New York Times 06/06/2016