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    Oil wars are good and easy to win.

    in The Political Re-Education Camp

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    He may yet exert his influence even more openly. Analysts predict that if petrol prices continue to rise ahead of the mid-terms, Mr Trump will use a release of up to 30m barrels from the SPR to flood the market. That would be tantamount to launching an oil war against OPEC and Russia, in addition to the trade war. But it cannot be ruled out.

    https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2018/07/05/the-american-president-is-stirring-up-trouble-in-a-volatile-oil-market?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/ed/theamericanpresidentisstirringuptroubleinavolatileoilmarketdonaldvtheopecdons

    U.S. Opposition to Breast-Feeding Resolution Stuns World Health Officials

    in The Political Re-Education Camp

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    A resolution to encourage breast-feeding was expected to be approved quickly and easily by the hundreds of government delegates who gathered this spring in Geneva for the United Nations-affiliated World Health Assembly.

     

    Based on decades of research, the resolution says that mother’s milk is healthiest for children and countries should strive to limit the inaccurate or misleading marketing of breast milk substitutes.

     

    Then the United States delegation, embracing the interests of infant formula manufacturers, upended the deliberations.

     

    American officials sought to water down the resolution by removing language that called on governments to “protect, promote and support breast-feeding” and another passage that called on policymakers to restrict the promotion of food products that many experts say can have deleterious effects on young children.

     

    When that failed, they turned to threats, according to diplomats and government officials who took part in the discussions. Ecuador, which had planned to introduce the measure, was the first to find itself in the cross hairs.

     

    The Americans were blunt: If Ecuador refused to drop the resolution, Washington would unleash punishing trade measures and withdraw crucial military aid. The Ecuadorean government quickly acquiesced.

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    In the end, the Americans’ efforts were mostly unsuccessful. It was the Russians who ultimately stepped in to introduce the measure — and the Americans did not threaten them.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/08/health/world-health-breastfeeding-ecuador-trump.html

    Update: North Korea claims that it "tragically ruined" a joint liaison office with South Korea with a "terrific explosion"

    in The Political Re-Education Camp

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    2 hours ago, Scape Zero said:

    How do you open a news station in Pyongyang?


    News bureau. She wasn't distributing news within the DPRK, she was reporting on the DRPK from within the DPRK for a non-DRPK audience:

     

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    Jean H. Lee is a Pulitzer-nominated veteran foreign correspondent and expert on North Korea. Lee led the Associated Press news agency’s coverage of the Korean Peninsula as bureau chief from 2008 to 2013. In 2011, she became the first American reporter granted extensive access on the ground in North Korea, and in January 2012 opened AP’s Pyongyang bureau, the only Western text/photo news bureau based in the North Korean capital. She has made dozens of extended reporting trips to North Korea, visiting farms, factories, schools, military academies and homes in the course of her exclusive reporting across the country.

    https://www.wilsoncenter.org/person/jean-h-lee

    Categories look like shit

    in The Help Desk

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    12 hours ago, Wild said:

     

    That explains the weird deactivation message I got. Man, fuck those guys. Thankfully I only use firefox for casual browsing and not any financial or business stuff.

     

    Thanks for the heads up!

     

    :thumbup:

     

    If you didn't read through to the end of the article, this is apparently the recommended replacement right now: https://www.ghacks.net/2017/05/16/stylus-is-a-stylish-fork-without-analytics/

     

    And I'm seeing that you're supposed to be able to export your Stylish settings and reimport them into Stylus without any hiccups.

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