"This is not a policy crafted out of fiscal responsibility, it is a policy crafted out of spite and vindictiveness. It is a policy so cruel that it violates the United Nations “Mandela Rules”, the basic standard for treatment of #prisoners, adopted unanimously by the #UNGeneralAssembly in 2015." https://www.jakelandau.ca/p/why-doesnt-carney-want-prison-inmates

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Timewasting thread #5883

Where would it be better to relocate the UN General Assembly to?

(Trick question there - just about anywhere outside the USA and active warzones would be better.)

I'll leave the obvious location aside and start the ball rolling by proposing "somewhere in Africa on the coast with a climate that both Lapplanders and Berbers can be moderately comfortable in".

#UN #UNGeneralAssembly #FascistUSA

‘What Hitler did’: Colombia President Gustavo Petro’s feud with Trump deepens; how it all began

Donald Trump and Gustavo Petro (ANI image) Tensions between Colombia and the United States have escalated sharply after…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #ColombiaPresidentGustavoPetro #DonaldTrump #drugtrademargins #DrugTraffickinginColombia #HitlerandJewsComparison #ungeneralassembly #UnitedStates #UnitedStates-ColombiaRelations #Us #USA
https://www.newsbeep.com/200419/

After New York, a Shake-Up in Astana: Tokayev Resets His Foreign Policy Team

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://timesca.com/after-new-york-a-shake-up-in-astana-tokayev-resets-his-foreign-policy-team/

Afghanistan Absent, Not Forgotten – Central Asia’s UNGA Strategy

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://timesca.com/afghanistan-absent-not-forgotten-central-asias-unga-strategy/

(2) A Japanese research team won the Ig Nobel Prize in biology for studying whether zebra-like stripes painted on cows reduce fly bites.

(3) Japan's Prime Minister Ishiba went to the UN General Assembly, even though last week government sources said that he would probably not attend.

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