Archive du mois : janvier 2018

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Bundesliga, 18. Spieltag: Bayern schlägt Bayer zum Rückrundenauftakt

Bayern München hat die Rückrunde mit einem Auswärtssieg gegen Leverkusen eröffnet. Die Werkself war zuvor zwölf Bundesligaspiele lang unbesiegt. Bayerns Arturo Vidal (l-r), Torschütze James Rodriguez, Jérome Boateng und Sandro Wagner nach dem Tor zum 3:1 © Marius Becker/dpa Bayer 04 Leverkusen – FC Bayern München 1:3 (0:1) Der FC Bayern München ist mit einem Sieg…

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Observe the fallout from Donald Trump’s cancelled UK consult with stay

58 mins ago Here’s the latest from the African Union after President Donald Trump’s reported « s***hole countries » comments. 2 hours ago A US embassy spokesperson has defended the decision to change embassy locations in London,  which President Donald Trump had blamed on his cancelled trip to the UK.   Per PA:  « In 2007, the Department developed…

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My Next Guest Wants No Introduction overview: David Letterman genially interviews Barack Obama

David Letterman used to live between commercial breaks, so there’s a feeling of leisure in his new Netflix series. You could call it rambling. On the series premiere of My Next Guest Needs No Introduction, Letterman talked with former President Barack Obama about the history of the Civil Rights Movement and the alleged Russian interference in…

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U.S. Supreme Court docket to Overview Recount to Receive Web Sales Tax

By Updated on The U.S. Supreme Court will consider freeing state and local governments to collect billions of dollars in sales taxes from online retailers, agreeing to revisit a 26-year-old ruling that has made much of the internet a tax-free zone. Heeding calls from traditional retailers and dozens of states, the justices said they’ll hear…

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Trump waives Iran nuclear sanctions ‘for closing time’

US President Donald Trump has decided he will continue sanctions relief for Iran, keeping the landmark 2015 nuclear deal in place for the time being.  The White House said on Friday that Trump will waive the sanctions on Iran for the « last time », unless an agreement can be reached between the US and Europe within…

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‘Shithole’ nationalism

One thing that is upsetting about the comments that US President Donald Trump made calling African and African-descent nations « shitholes » is that his African and African-descent supporters from the 2016 election period haven’t come out to support him on that. After all, loyalty counts for something, doesn’t it? Some of these people are my friends,…

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We Veteran Broadband Files We Shouldn’t Maintain — Here’s What Went Heinous

Over the summer, FiveThirtyEight published two stories on broadband internet access in the U.S. that were based on a data set made public by academic researchers who had acquired data from Catalist, a well-known political data firm. After further reporting, we can no longer vouch for the academics’ data set. The preponderance of evidence we’ve…

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Iran’s socioeconomic protests are inherently political

« We are workers. We are not political ». This was a slogan that appeared on a series of banners raised by Andimeshk Municipality workers in southern Iran during their protests over unpaid wages earlier this year. At a first glance, the slogan seems to be a confirmation of some of the recent analysis and commentary on…