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Varinia Swicegood
The political disinformation we are seeing in this campaign being employed is disheartening. That it is being used to discredit a candidate who is certainly well-qualified for the job seems unfair. It all brings dirty politics right into our own backyard.
As the issues became more relevant to my life, I realized that politics are important and that I should at least make an effort to understand the political system. I have almost completed my internship at the state Capitol, where I am working as a legislative aide for Rep. Ralph Hudgens.
Now everyone loves our beloved Speaker of the House, Thomas B. Murphy. Not only is he a grumpy, little old man with a gavel and a smart mouth, but he's also been speaker of the house longer than any other in the entire nation.
Now, the committee chairman is free to act however he decides to, but if the chair does not comply with the committee's decision, then the speaker of the house will remove him from his seat as committee chairman and will replace him with another puppet who will comply.
Smathers used body language and tone to make audiences assume the worst about these words which were apparently unfamiliar to many at the time. Note: The New York Times ran an article that quoted Smathers as saying he never made the remarks. The story offered it was a well-circulated joke that the Smathers campaigners helped spread.
The brothers eventually made peace. Earl was a three-time governor and Huey was a senator and presidential candidate before he was assassinated. Their shenanigans in politics are well-documented and will probably appear in a future History Pie segment.
Sometimes politics devolves into a state of so-called affective polarization, in which groups not only disagree over policy, but maintain and express a visceral dislike of the other side. This deep aversion serves as a ready breeding ground for ugly rhetoric.
Behind the boring name, the EU Taxonomy Regulation sets out a classification system created to provide businesses, investors, and policy-makers with guidance around sustainable financial products and energy resources. The main objective of the act is to direct capital towards activities the Commission deems environmentally sustainable. In other words, the taxonomy was designed to address greenwashing by identifying those economic activities which are sustainable as well as by introducing reporting obligations on companies and financial market participants.
In autumn 2021, the Commission started consulting with member states on the draft proposal which kicked off months of heated debates and negotiation. Two groups with opposing stances on whether the EU should label fossil gas and nuclear power green formed on an informal basis, led by two major actors: France and Germany, highlighting the strong divergence between the countries when it comes to energy targets.
When it comes to nuclear, it gets a bit more complicated. While it may be regarded as an emissions-free fuel, unlike fossil gas, the life cycle of nuclear power plants including the construction, uranium extraction, transport, and processing releases significant amounts of CO2. Moreover, the construction phase is highly expensive and too slow, certainly to contribute to short-term emissions reductions and the 2030 climate goals set by the EU. While France strongly backs nuclear power as its beloved energy resource for electricity, even the financial label of the French government does not consider nuclear a sustainable investment. Funnily enough, the European Commission Vice-President responsible for the European Green Deal Frans Timmermans has stated publicly that nuclear cannot be classified as green. Finally, there are concerns that the inclusion of nuclear power as a green activity could divert capital away from renewables, despite renewable energies being cheaper than nuclear and gas, ultimately slowing down the energy transition.
Activists have been very clear that in addition to worsening the climate crisis, the expansion of the EU taxonomy will have a crucial impact on the war in Ukraine. Allowing more investment into gas and nuclear makes it harder for Europe to secure energy independence from Russia. The decision is therefore a gift to Putin that will ultimately continue financing his war machine.
The EU has already paid 57 billion euros to Russia for fossil fuels since the war started as imports of Russian fossil gas, gas turbines, uranium, and other nuclear services have been exempted from the sanctions imposed by the EU on Russia in response to the invasion. According to a new Greenpeace study, Russia is expected to be one of the main beneficiaries of the expansion and would earn an extra 4 billion euros per year thanks to the expansion, adding up to 32 billion by 2030.
In recent years, citizens have been taking their governments to court to hold them accountable for failing to take sufficient measures to meet their own climate commitments. The promising success of ground-breaking cases such as the State of the Netherlands v Urgenda Foundation and Notre Affaire Tous and Others v France showed how climate litigation can be an instrument to fight climate injustice and a powerful tool to tackle dirty politics or slow political progress, as well as paving the way for further lawsuits.
The war was precipitated by the Awami League, the main Bangladeshi party, winning almost every seat in what was then East Pakistan in a Pakistan general election in December 1970. As the population of East Pakistan was bigger than that of West Pakistan the Awami League should have formed the government of the whole country, but this was completely unacceptable to Yayha Khan, the president of Pakistan. Those in West Pakistan, Urdu speakers, looked down on the Bengalis of East Pakistan.
Months of negotiation followed, but in March 1971 a brutal crackdown began. Sheik Mujib-ur-Rahman, the leader of the Awami League, was imprisoned, and the Pakistan army began killing Bengalis. They killed all the intellectuals they could find, and they singled out Hindus. But hundreds of thousands, possibly millions, were killed, including women and children. The Pakistani army also used systematic rape as a weapon of war. Over the next nine months as many as 10 million people fled East Pakistan for India, putting huge strain on refugee camps in West Bengal. This was genocide.
From the moment the killing began Archer Blood, the US consul in Dacca (as it was then), and his team sent back to the US detailed accounts of the killing. They expected that the US, the champions of democracy, would speak out against the killing. The opposite happened.
Nixon and Kissinger were not willing to sacrifice their chance of reaching China for the sake of Bengalis, and they saw the whole conflict through the prism of the Cold War: India, the leader of the Non-Aligned Nations, they saw as pro-Russian, whereas Pakistan was on the side of the Americans.
So not only did Nixon and Kissinger turn a blind eye to what their own diplomats were telling them, they actively and illegally armed Pakistan. American arms were used to kill Bengalis. And when Blood and his staff in Dacca sent a telegram (the telegram of the title of the book) saying what was going on and opposing US policy they were not only ignored but punished. Blood was removed from Dacca in March, and his career faltered never to recover.
The Indian government, parliament, media, and people were united in being appalled by what was happening in East Bengal, and Pakistan was anyway a longstanding enemy. Almost from the beginning they recognised the need for an invasion to support the East Bengalis, but they need to wait until at least November to prepare, avoid the monsoon, and be sure that the Himalayas were blocked with snow to stop the Chinese becoming involved. But they did support the Mukti Bahinin, the freedom fighters as they are now known. While doing this the Indians denied it.
On December 16 the Pakistanis surrendered, and Bangladesh was born. It began in a state of chaos with millions refugees in India, most of its intellectuals killed, and much of its infrastructure destroyed. Bangladesh has since made remarkable progress in education and health, but politics remain unstable with the country now being effectively a one party police state. The war still looms large.
Dear Richard
Painful reading this, but sadly while the genesis of the Bangladesh independence and related conflict is a lot more nuanced, the human suffering was indeed immense. I remember all of it first hand as I spent 6 months in what was then East Pakistan in 1968 as a young high school student on a Rotary Scholarship (see attached), and witnessed firsthand the enormous inequity that was the genesis of much of the 6 points agenda of the Awami League. We even met Shaikh Mujib and some of his close aides during our stay, and were also exposed to the varied views from the Jamaat i Islami. East Pakistan even then had higher literacy and political awareness than West Pakistan and much less feudal baggage, and are now certainly better off.
Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore says he's going to "take off the gloves" with two weeks left in the campaign. Moore made his first public appearance in 11 days at a rally Monday night where he denied allegations of groping teenage girls, including a 14-year-old, decades ago.
Outside, members of Moore's team confronted reporters covering the rally. At one point, a campaign official shoved a cameraman. Moore's campaign has not commented on the altercation with the cameraman.
"Why don't you be honest with yourself? Why don't you look at yourself in the mirror and come clean with what you've done?" Gray said.
Polls show Moore's core supporters, about a third of Alabama voters, remain solidly behind him. People like Stacy Griffin.
"He's not guilty, and I whole-heartedly believe what he said," Griffin said.
Columnist Steve Flowers, who writes about Alabama politics, says he doesn't think Moore's core supporters will leave him.