In Germany, the AfD are weaponising climate change
Continue reading A fresh wave of hard-right populism is stalking Europe
In Germany, the AfD are weaponising climate change
Continue reading A fresh wave of hard-right populism is stalking Europe
– Gwynne Dyer is a UK-based Canadian journalist and historian who writes about international affairs
This week’s real news is the discovery of life on another planet. As Cambridge University’s Nikku Madhusudhan said in the first sentence of his report: “The search for habitable environments and biomarkers in exoplanetary atmospheres is the holy grail of exoplanet science.” And he has probably found the Holy Grail.
Continue reading Is This for Real? Life in space discovered?? Gwynne Dyer Says, “Maybe Yes.”
A former Kentucky county clerk must pay $100,000 to a gay couple she denied a marriage license, a federal jury decided on Thursday.
Kim Davis, formerly the Rowan County clerk, attracted international attention when she refused to issue the license after the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage in 2015, landing her in jail on a contempt of court charge for five days.
Continue reading Kim Davis, Antigay Kentucky Clerk, Must Pay $100K for Refusing Same Sex Marriage License
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Supposed aliens landed in Mexico’s Congress but there were no saucer–shaped UFOs hovering over the historic building or bright green invaders like those seen in Hollywood films.
The specter of little green men visited Mexico City as lawmakers heard testimony Tuesday from individuals suggesting the possibility that extraterrestrials might exist. The researchers hailed from Mexico, the United States, Japan and Brazil.
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Michael Ayers Trotti’s The End of Public Execution: Race, Religion, and Punishment in the American South opens with a short transcription of a newspaper article about an Atlanta hanging. The report is about the 1891 execution of Frank Danforth, a Black man who had been convicted of the murder of his wife. The report mentions preachers saying prayers and singing, Danforth swaying to religious music, his repeated testimony to his belief in his own salvation, and white women who stood on a jailhouse fence to watch his execution. Trotti observes that the report describes Danforth’s execution as private because it was done behind jailhouse walls, even though hundreds of people were in attendance.