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Portugal, which usually attracts huge mounds of rubbish from other European states because of its low waste management fees, has suspended imports of trash until the end of 2020 to protect domestic landfill capacity, the government said on Saturday.
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The long read: As the coronavirus continues to kill thousands each day, tech companies are seizing the opportunity to extend their reach and power
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COVID-19 offers governments no attractive policy options. Those in power are in a no-win situation. The choice is not between good and bad, nor even between bad and worse, but between grim and catastrophic. On one hand, there is the “butcher’s bill” of death that results from inaction or inadequate action in the face of the virus. On the other, there is the “banker’s bill” of bail-out and bankruptcy that results from quarantine measures. The “butcher’s bill” that results from delay or inaction in the face of the virus is grim. The butcher bills fortnightly. Two weeks of inaction or delay in the face of COVID-19 can kill thousands. The banker moves at a more leisurely pace, billing quarterly. Most businesses can survive without revenue for a fortnight. Fewer can survive one quarter let alone three or four without income. “Stay home: Save lives” is the message promoted by New Zealand’s prime minister Jacinda Ardern, the Western leader whose response to COVID-19 has been among the most successful. The secret of this success? Ardern also …
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COVID-19 offers governments no attractive policy options. Those in power are in a no-win situation. The choice is not between good and bad, nor even between bad and worse, but between grim and catastrophic. On one hand, there is the “butcher’s bill” of death that results from inaction or inadequate action in the face of the virus. On the other, there is the “banker’s bill” of bail-out and bankruptcy that results from quarantine measures. The “butcher’s bill” that results from delay or inaction in the face of the virus is grim. The butcher bills fortnightly. Two weeks of inaction or delay in the face of COVID-19 can kill thousands. The banker moves at a more leisurely pace, billing quarterly. Most businesses can survive without revenue for a fortnight. Fewer can survive one quarter let alone three or four without income. “Stay home: Save lives” is the message promoted by New Zealand’s prime minister Jacinda Ardern, the Western leader whose response to COVID-19 has been among the most successful. The secret of this success? Ardern also …
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Corporate media display their class bias by spinning a titanic upward redistribution of wealth as a “rescue plan” for the US economy.
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Por Cesar Fonseca Imperialismo explícito Só não vê quem não quer. Os Estados Unidos, sem maiores disfarces, intervêm no Brasil – na economia, na diplomacia e na política, em momento crucial da vida nacional, quando a população se encontra ameaçada pelo novo coronavírus. Começando, pelo vírus, o ultraneoloiberal Paulo Guedes reafirma o interesse americano ao … Continue lendo Tio Sam intervém no Brasil para fortalecer Guedes, minar plano Pró Brasil e garantir apoio à guerra contra Venezuela →
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A review of The War of Return by Adi Schwartz and Einat Wilf, All Points Books (April 2020) 304 pages In a story that may be apocryphal, the late Christopher Hitchens claimed that he had once seen legendary Israeli diplomat Abba Eban comment that the most striking aspect of the Israeli-Arab conflict is how easily it can be solved: It is simply a matter of dividing the land of Israel into a Jewish state and an Arab state. The only thing standing in the way of this solution is the intense religious or nationalist attachment of both sides to the idea of an undivided nation between the River Jordan and the Mediterranean Sea. Indeed, this assumption that partition alone can bring peace has been the foundation of all of the international community’s peace efforts since the 1967 Six Day War. The only difficulty, it is believed, is persuading the two sides to agree to it. Not so, argue former Israeli Knesset Member Einat Wilf and journalist Adi Schwartz in their new book The War of Return. …
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Onde ouvir Jazz & Blues no Porto - Os melhores sitios para ouvir Jazz & Blues na Invicta. Bares e Clubes de Jazz no Porto Hoje
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Current and former staff members of the OPCW have denounced the organization’s IIT report alleging Syrian government sarin use at Ltamenah, criticizing its reliance on rumor, hearsay, “scientifically flawed” claims and the influence of unqualified, secret “experts” aligned with the Western-backed opposition. By OPCW Insiders Editor’s note: On April 8, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons released a report by its newly formed Investigation and Identification Team, a unit ostensibly established to identify alleged perpetrators of chemical weapons […]
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Abstract: Neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups in the United States and Europe have become more active and dangerous in the last decade and have developed a much deeper online presence. This has helped them establish closer transnational contacts. One common preoccupation for both individuals and groups has been the conflict in Ukraine, where a well-established far-right … Continued
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Although the Muslim Brotherhood had existed in Syria since about 1937, it was not until 1963 that it began to develop into an opposition party. [...]
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The Western media’s poor reporting of the Ukraine famine of 1932-33 that killed nearly 4 million shines a light on contemporary UK reporting of the Middle-East.
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Dr Christy Huff wants people to hear warnings she was never given, writes Margaret Jennings
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In its annual 2020 budget, Portugal introduced a 10% tax on the foreign-source pension income for ”non-habitual residents.” This in response to concer
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In its annual 2020 budget, Portugal introduced a 10% tax on the foreign-source pension income for ”non-habitual residents.” This in response to concer
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The coronavirus pandemic has halted trafficking in Peru and sent cocaine prices soaring, but drug seizures continue in the border department of Ucayali, a
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Buried under a global pandemic is the most important Brazil story for decades. Unless the role of the United States in Brazil’s democratic collapse is acknowledged and understood, no useful sense can be made of its present, or its future, and no honest appraisal can be made of bipartisan U.S...