Thursday, August 4, 2016

big news late July/early August 2016

The day after the world learned of the carnage in Nice, there was an attempted coup in Turkey.

As if those dramatic events weren't enough, the reprisals and purges following that saw many more killings and jailings and sackings of generals and soldiers and judges and even teachers.

And two weeks later, Prime Minister Erdogan of Turkey is claiming the west is behind the coup and supporting its leaders.
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The two major parties in the US had their Presidential Nomination Conventions each lasting a week, over late July. This is an age old American tradition where delegates of political parties are supposed to vote to select their nominee. This year was full of contention at the Conventions. Police from all over the country pledged to protect the proceedings and banded together to stand against protesters in Cleveland. There were many arrests, little violence and widely panned as a spectacle with little substance but much pessimism.
Hillary Clinton, former Secretary of State, former Senator of New York, and still the wife of former President Bill Clinton, accept the Democratic Party's Nomination for President of the United States.
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US Airstrikes in Syria reportedly killed several scores of people there July 20. Doctors in Syria report that even the UN cannot regularly deliver milk to children because of the constant turbulence of the war.
US Airstrikes in Libya show a major escalation of US invovlvement in the conflict there.
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With so many other conflicts and problems all over, it's remarkable that the UN has pointed out the escalation of war in Ukraine.
The current scale of very recent attacks seems huge.
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This year is on track to break records again on the deaths of boat migrants heading to Europe.

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The long suppressed 28 pages from the US Congressional Report on the 9-11 attack in NY were finally released detailing what certain Saudi citizens knew.
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The newest virtual reality craze Pokemon Go has reached the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Who will watch the games?

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