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#UN rules that #climate #refugees cannot be sent back to their home countries, a decision with a likely wide impact going forward https://edition.cnn.com/2020/01/20/world/climate-refugees-unhrc-ruling-scli-intl/index.html

#Malaysia declines to be White folks garbage dump, returns 1000s of tons of plastic waste to source countries https://www.cbsnews.com/news/plastic-waste-malaysia-return-tons-trash-wealthy-countries-refuses-to-be-garbage-dump/

If you are in S. Florida, you may want to don a hard hat, as the National Weather Service is warning of falling frozen iguanas https://edition.cnn.com/2020/01/21/weather/miami-freeze-falling-iguana-forecast-trnd/index.html

Because I'm not especially hip, internet acronyms often confuse me and I have to go look them up (I am rather antique). Be that as it may, I instantly knew what t4t means, and that's my thing

#UK: Jess Phillips has dropped out of the race for #Labour Party leader; Lisa Nandy wins support of GMB labour union, and is likely to gain ballot position to oppose Starmer. A woman as party leader seems very likely https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-51195059

#Lebanon has announced the formation of a new government, which it has been without since October 2019. Hezbollah agrees to enter the cabinet. Issue of #corruption remains and the citizenry may not be too taken by this gov't https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/01/lebanon-announces-formation-government-200121200947113.html

#Thailand's seemingly progressive Future Forward Party found not guilty of sedition, specifically trying to overthrow the monarchy, charges brought by the monarchist/militarist claque https://www.reuters.com/article/us-thailand-politics/thailands-opposition-future-forward-party-not-guilty-of-opposing-monarchy-court-idUSKBN1ZK0DQ

Hillary Clinton: "Bernie Sanders is just a career politician and nobody likes him". Cripes, the projection. Mutate nomine, Hillary https://www.thedailybeast.com/hillary-clinton-says-bernie-sanders-is-just-a-career-politician-and-nobody-likes-him

#AOC (Congresswoman #Ocasio Cortez, if you've been living in a cave), says we don't have a left party in the US (we knew that) and the right wing US press goes bonkers when she calls the Democratic Party 'Center-Conservative'. I'd have said center right.

On the state of jurisprudence in the #Philippines (if it is not absurd to use such a term). Senator and prior Justice Mimister Lila DeLima was arrested when she had the temerity to investigate #Duterte's #drugwar, and has been held without trial since 2017. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/01/charges-bullst-philippines-jailed-de-lima-defiant-200120061152430.html

In one of Patrick O'Brien's Aubrey‐Marurn novels, the midshipmen's berth amuse themselves by repeatedly singing:

The admiral is good to us,
He dips his cock in phosphorus
And safely guides the way for us
In stormy weather

until collapsing in a paroxism of laughter

Spent 2 hours scouting the ladies fashion retailers at Central Plaza, Bangkok Metro. Only H & M could offer anything to fit my apparently freakish body, by Asia standards. Phillipines Volleyballer Kat Tolentino is 2 inches taller than me and always looks smashing, if you'll excuse the pun

#Ireland Nationalist band the Wolfe Tones (whose name is a pun) performance of the rousing 19th century classic 'A Nation Once Again' (youtube) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6O0hl6xYd0