RationalWiki:What is going on in the world?/June 2019

June 2019
Trump says he might not leave office after two terms. So much for the Constitution, eh? James Fields, the man who drove his car into a crowd of counterprotestors at the Unite the Right rally, has been sentenced to life in prison. NASA Announces New Dragonfly Drone Mission to Explore Titan. In a big surprise, this April the United States generated more electricity from renewable sources, such as solar and wind at 22% of production, compared to 20% from coal. Another piece of news is that coal usage nationally hit a 41-year low this year. The first black female bishop is appointed by the Church of England. The United States Supreme Court rules that it is beyond the federal court's reach to do anything about partisan gerrymandering. It's the responsibility of the states and legislators to oversee how redistricting efforts are carried out. No prizes for guessing how the decision split: 5-4. The United States Supreme Court blocks a citizenship question from the 2020 Census. Mother of teenager beaten unconscious by 13 year old racist sack of shit Millions of refugees have fled Yemen, the US has accepted just fifty. Polygamist accused of scamming the US out of half a billion dollars Good news for a change: NRATV is closed and it appears that Dana Loesch is out of a job. San Francisco has become the first city in the US to completely ban the sale of e-cigarettes. This is despite the city being the home of one of the biggest producers of such devices, Juul Labs. Stephanie Grisham to become the next White House Press Secretary, replacing Sarah Sanders. UN expert says human rights, such as the right to life and the rule of law, may not survive the climate crisis Former Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott is in hospital after suffering a stroke. Admiralty law nut loses court case in UK over refusal to register child's birth and make child "an asset to the country, which has boarded a vessel to sail on the high seas". Militia freaks besiege Oregon legislature, forcing it to shutdown. Where are the national guard? Skaters jump cops in Colombia after being ruthlessly run over by them Oregon Republicans continue to make a mockery of democracy by fleeing the state and denying the 20 senator majority needed to pass important laws, militia movement extremists vow to "protect" senators who refuse to do their fucking jobs from being hauled back to the Oregon legislature. Verbatim headline: "Trump is Giving Up on Regime Change in Venezuela Because it's Complicated and he Got Bored, Report Says." House votes to block Trump's ban on trans people serving in the military. An oil refinery in Philadelphia caught on fire and exploded. Alabama law allows formation of church police Oregonian Republican state senators have used the old-but-rare tactic of not going to work for the second time in two months, with some reportedly having fled the state into Idaho, in order to prevent a quorum and avoid a vote on climate change legislation. Gov. Kate Brown has authorized the use of state police to track the senators down, and at least one -- Sen. (R-12) -- has threatened to shoot any police officers who come to get him, gaining a vow of protection from the sovereign citizen group. New species of cat, called the "cat-fox," discovered in Sardinia Cop murders non verbal man near a Costco, man's parents are injured A by-election has been called in Wales following a Recall petition to unseat Chris Davies, MP, who was accused of forging invoices. Several council members of Kenai Penisular Borough Assembly in Alaska walked out of council prayers, because it was the turn of the local Satanic Temple to deliver the prayers. The final choices for the Tories as to who will be the next prime minister are a racist liar, or. Alabama man fed pet squirrel meth in order to create an "attack squirrel." Will we see battle bunnies next? The UK's three crown dependencies (Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man) have all agreed to open up their company registers to allow anyone to find who the owns the businesses registered in the dependencies by January 2023. Lack of transparency for business registers is one of the reasons these places are known for money laundering and tax evasion. All fifty extremist killings in 2018 were perpetrated by alt-righters, according to recent study. France's health agency is planning to advise the government to scrap all funding for homeopathic "medicines". However, already the country's largest homeopathic pill maker, Boiron, has launched a large PR campaign to stop this from happening. MBS liable to be charged with murder according to UN report The Brazilian construction conglomerate Odebrecht that was involved the Operation Car Wash money laundering scandal, that brought down former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has filed for bankruptcy protection with debts of 51 billion reais ($13 billion). Vatican considers allowing older married men to be ordained as priests in remote regions like the Amazon to deal with priest shortage Two potentially life-friendly planets found orbiting a nearby star. Two teenage neo-Nazis are jailed for terrorism offences as a result of what they posted online, including calls for Prince Harry to be murdered for being a "race traitor". Facebook to launch cryptocurrency called Libra, promising to "innovate" on regulatory fronts. Harvard rescinds acceptance to Parkland survivor Kyle Kashuv over racist comments made in the past Trump sending 1000 additional troops to the Middle East in light of the recent oil tanker attacks Famed American socialite and heiress Gloria Vanderbilt dies at the age of 95 Trial to begin for couple accused of shooting antifa activists during a Milo Yiannopoulos speech at the University of Wisconsin. Ousted Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi dies in court. Investigation reveals the extent of which American plastic waste has utterly devastated the poorer nations of the globe Papua New Guinea snubs Australia as it cancels contract to house potential immigrants in a concentration camp on Manus Island Benjamin Netanyahu renames a settlement in the Golan Heights to "Trump Heights." Kansas poised to use private prisons from now on Israeli court convicts Sarah Netanyahu for misuse of state funds, but she only has to pay a fine. How's that for corruption prosecution? The Empire Strikes Back as Barr decides to "investigate" the origins of the Mueller report. Someone call Nobs. Grayson Fritts, a Tennessee sheriff's office detective and Baptist preacher, gave a sermon in which he called for the execution of LGBTQ people. Gotta love those tolerant, peace loving Christian values. Investigation finds hundreds of active-duty and retired law enforcement officers from across the United States who are members of Confederate, anti-Islam, misogynistic or anti-government militia groups on Facebook. Head of Albania's conservative party faces criminal charges, and an ex-Trump aide is involved. The swamp grows bigger by the day. The UK joins the US in accusing Iran of committing the oil tanker attacks in the Gulf of Oman, apparently the crew are being held hostage. Somewhere, somehow, Jimmy Carter is smirking. Ecuador's highest court legalizes same-sex marriage Prosecutor of Central Park Five resigns from college post In a victory for public welfare, New York repeals religious exemption for vaccinating children Hordes of flies plague rural Russian villages A ban on adverts featuring negative gender stereotypes comes into effect. The Make America Straight Again conference is being held near Orlando, Florida by the New Independent Fundamentalist Baptist Movement on the weekend of June 14-16. It is spitefully being held on the anniversary of the 2016 Pulse Nightclub shooting, and the conference celebrates and calls for the murder of homosexual people. Sarah Huckabee Sanders is leaving the White House at the end of the month, Trump says Pentagon woefully unprepared to fight climate change according to new report A Sweden Democrat-led city council has just prohibited its employees from taking “prayer breaks” during working hours. Although it affects all religions, it is widely interpreted to hit pious Muslims to stop them doing the “” during work. Prolific romance novel writer Nicholas Sparks co-founded a school in North Carolina with an avowedly Judeo-Christian ethos and now he's getting upset about LGBT students wanting rights, staff devoting too much time to diversity instead of "Christian traditions", and allegations of homophobia and racism. Saudi Arabia tracking women that flee the country by use of their cellphones Cops fired 55 times at rapper Willie McCoy who was asleep in his car, an investigation called it "reasonable." The Florida Seminole "go to war" against Florida proper over gambling income. According to the state the tribe is withholding over $350 million dollars from the state according to a revenue sharing deal, and according to the Seminole the state reneged on its deal. We'll see how this clusterfuck plays out in court. Two oil tankers struck in suspected attack on the Gulf of Oman What you should know about the situation along the US-Mexican border. Trump administration to hold migrant children at base that served as WWII Japanese internment camp Oil giant Exxon Mobil made tax exempt donations in the 90's to universities and charities to help overturn environmental regulations new documents show No Más Muertes trial ends in a hung jury German Health Minister Jens Spahn has proposed a ban on conversion therapy Botswana's High Court decriminalizes homosexuality. GOP Rep. Justin Amash, who backs impeachment, resigns from Freedom Caucus. , half brother of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, was an informant for the CIA according to a new report New York introduces country's first state bill decriminalizing sex work Succuss Meds, Live Better?: The Center for Inquiry has filed a lawsuit against Walmart for consumer fraud in D.C., alleging the sale of name-brand and Equate store-brand homeopathic "remedies" alongside traditional medicines implies effectiveness. Facebook bans Natural News. New Zealand Chinese-language media told to support Communist Party initiatives amidst increasing concern about self-censorship of China-critical articles and use of overseas media as propaganda tools by the CCP.........but it doesn't affect the neutrality of news coverage... honest. More than 1 million protest in Hong Kong, organizers say, over Chinese extradition law. The protest was held to oppose a proposed bill that would allow the Chinese government to extradite fugitives from Hong Kong. Chinese media blame "foreign forces" for trying to "create havoc". The small Himalayan country of Bhutan has made movements to decriminalise homosexuality, after its lower house of parliament has passed a bill to repeal provisions that said “unnatural sex” is illegal. The 9 June 2019 New York Times Front Page, features the images of over a dozen right wing YouTube personalities, including Sargon of Akkad, Stefan Molyneux, Milo Yiannopoulos, Jordan Peterson, Steven Crowder and Paul Joseph Watson with the headline: "The Making of a YouTube Radical". Russian and American warships almost collide in brazenly stupid show of naval brinkmanship in the East China Sea Mohamed Noor, the cop who killed Justine Damond, sentenced to 12 years in prison The Vatican, approved by Pope Francis, has rewritten the Lord's Prayer to put God in a better light, at least in the Italian translation. In an example of utter irony, creationists mock flat earthers for not understanding science. The U.S. Catholic Church spent $10.6 million on lobbyists between 2011 and 2018 to prevent victims of clerical sex abuse from suing for damages. [https://wiadomosci.dziennik.pl/wydarzenia/artykuly/599438,lesbijki-dziecko-akt-urodzenia-wyrok-precedens-lgbt.html A court in the city of Kraków has given the five-year-old son of a British-based Polish lesbian couple Polish citizenship. Previously, it was denied by the Polish Civil Registry Office on the grounds that both parents could not be on a birth certificate and the child's certificate was invalid, thus he could not be Polish.] D Day veterans in their 90s parachute into Normandy once more YouTube has demonetized Steven Crowder's account unless he (in addition to other issues with the channel) removes links to his store, where he sells "socialism is for fags" T-shirts, among other items. This comes amidst a new policy change promising a crackdown on extremist content. Oldest flaked stone tools point to the repeated invention of stone tools throughout human evolution Homeless population reaches 36,000 in Los Angeles, the total being 50,000 in the county at large Human Civilization Will Crumble by 2050 If We Don't Stop Climate Change Now, New Paper Claims, An investigation by a local newspaper journalist in the English city of Bristol over a prolific green pen writer has found that the person is, in fact, a Russian disinformation project aimed at local newspapers. Nigel Farage faces a ban from entering the European Parliament after he was set a 24-hour deadline to explain why he allegedly failed to declare almost half a million pounds in gifts from tycoon Arron Banks. The Brexit Party finds itself in its second scandal in as many weeks, when MEP Anne Widdecombe reminds the public exactly who she is. The Trump-sponsored US-UK free trade deal is in jeopardy following his insistence the NHS be part of any version of the trade deal. Six MPs have quit Change UK (more than half the party) over whether or not to merge with the Liberal Democrats. In a sad moment for history, the last of the WWII Mohawk code talkers has died after finally being hailed as a war hero. The efforts of the code talkers during the war was secret for many decades, and some of these men died before they ended up being vindicated by history. Rest in peace. Some good news for once as New Jersey couple sell piece of an old Native American reservation back to the Lenape Great Britain went for two weeks without burning coal for electricity, a new record. This was mainly because it went without rain for two weeks - also a new record. The Philippines is sending imported trash back to Canada. Malaysia, another majort importer of trash, is also sending some of it back to the countries of origin. Shock of all shocks as Bill Cosby's defamation suit against sexual assault victims is dropped Yet another shooting took place at a government building in Virginia Beach.