BBC Wrote:The president's announcement on Friday was criticised by some in the tech sector, including former Facebook chief security officer Alex Stamos, who questioned whether the move was spurred by national security concerns.

He tweeted: "This is getting bizarre. A 100% sale to an American company would have been considered a radical solution two week ago and, eventually, mitigates any reasonable data protection concerns. If the White House kills this we know this isn't about national security."

BBC Wrote:Eight other marines were rescued after the accident but one later died. Two others are in a critical condition.
Col Bronzi said the effort would now shift to one aimed at finding the bodies of the missing.

BBC Wrote:The government's own records appear to show almost 42,000 people died with Covid-19 symptoms up to 20 July, versus 14,405 reported by its health ministry.
The number of people known to be infected is also almost double official figures: 451,024 as opposed to 278,827.

BBC Wrote:The video of Mr Ghappar, along with a number of accompanying text messages also passed to the BBC, together provide a chilling and extremely rare first-hand account of China's highly secure and secretive detention system - sent directly from the inside.
Holding the camera with his right hand, he reveals his dirty clothes, his swollen ankles, and a set of handcuffs fixing his left wrist to the metal frame of the bed - the only piece of furniture in the room.

BBC Wrote:The World Bank classifies water scarcity as when there is less than 1,000 cubic metres of fresh water per person a year. In Egypt, the figure is 550 cubic metre per person annually, according to the government.
Just take a look at the map, where 90% of its 100 million population are squeezed into the narrow Nile valley, 6% of the country's total area, beset by vast deserts on both sides.
A triumphalist tweet celebrating the first year's filling of the Gerd by Ethiopia Foreign Minister Gedu Andargachew - which read in part "the river became a lake... the Nile is ours" - particularly inflamed passions.

Quote:The Post Millennial notes: “In June the Minneapolis City Council approved a plan to defund police. Despite this, Minneapolis City Council members have run up a tab of over $63,000 for their own private security. City Council allegedly intends to replace police with a community-led model.”

Oregon Attorney General Billy Williams Wrote:These aren’t late-night demonstrations. This is criminal activity. There’s a difference. What you have failed and the media have failed to distinguish between — you seem unwilling to call people engaged in criminal conduct as criminals, as opposed to lawful protesting.

CSBP Wrote:Ammonium nitrate is not flammable under normal applications and is not considered a fire risk, but will support combustion in an existing fire by liberating oxygen – even if smothered.

Head of the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Seema Verma Wrote:I write today to express my extreme concern for the health and safety of Maryland’s aged population due to your state’s failure to conduct federally required infection control inspections of Maryland nursing homes.

BBC Wrote:A Chinese court has sentenced a Canadian citizen to death on charges of producing the drug ketamine.
A court notice in the city of Guangzhou said Xu Weihong was found guilty after a trial. His alleged accomplice, Wen Guanxiong, was given a life sentence.

BBC Wrote:The French have the unfortunate distinction of being the European "champions" for abandoning pets that have become too cumbersome for their summer trips.
Animal shelters up and down the country are proof of this unique and sad tradition.

Animal Shelter Owner Betty Loizeau Wrote:Owners rarely have the courage to turn up with their unwanted companions. Instead they call up to say where they can be found, or drop them off in boxes outside the shelter under the cover of darkness.

BBC Wrote:The directives include measures to support the unemployed, suspend payroll tax and extend student loans.
Some of them are likely to face legal challenges given that Congress controls federal spending, not the president.
Democratic rival Joe Biden said they were "a series of half-baked measures".
Mr Trump said the measures would provide up to $400 (£306) per week in supplemental unemployment benefits to tens of millions of jobless Americans. This is less than the $600 people had been receiving until 31 July, when the benefit expired.
The president also said states would cover 25% of the new payments - the previous benefit was fully funded by the federal government. He is seeking to divert money from a previously approved disaster aid to states.

BBC Wrote:They condemned a year-long postponement of September's elections as disproportionate.

BBC Wrote:The chief executive of Hong Kong, Carrie Lam, announced the delay at the end of July, blaming a rise in coronavirus infections in the territory.

AP News Wrote:There were no reports of injuries, but some minor structural damage was reported in Sparta, as well as cracks in roads. Images on social media also showed items knocked off of grocery store shelves.

(08-06-2020, 08:18 AM)kyonides Wrote: Facebook and Twitter muzzled Trump once again
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53672893
They claimed Trump published something inaccurate about so they needed to get rid of it asap.
What did the US President actually state?
Well, he said kids were almost immune to the coronavirus.

(08-09-2020, 11:27 PM)kyonides Wrote: Trump signs relief order after talks at Congress collapse
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53712328

BBC Wrote:The directives include measures to support the unemployed, suspend payroll tax and extend student loans.
Some of them are likely to face legal challenges given that Congress controls federal spending, not the president.
Democratic rival Joe Biden said they were "a series of half-baked measures".
Mr Trump said the measures would provide up to $400 (£306) per week in supplemental unemployment benefits to tens of millions of jobless Americans. This is less than the $600 people had been receiving until 31 July, when the benefit expired.
The president also said states would cover 25% of the new payments - the previous benefit was fully funded by the federal government. He is seeking to divert money from a previously approved disaster aid to states.

I guess Wulfo might say here that we couldn't expect more from a bunch of Dems blocking actual efforts to stay clean and don't include additions that aren't -related at all.