World Politics

Leaders of the countries of the world and global issues.

Andrzej Duda, President of Poland

In June 2020, Duda said that he would not allow gay couples to marry or adopt children, while describing the LGBT movement as "a foreign ideology" and comparing it to indoctrination in the Soviet Union. He also pledged he would ban LGBT teaching in schools --wikipedia

Eva Vlaardingerbroek

Dutch political commentator making the rounds on Fox News and other conservative news outlets

Russian invasion of Ukraine

began on the morning of 24 February, when Putin announced a "special military operation" to "demilitarise and denazify" Ukraine. Minutes later, missiles and airstrikes hit across Ukraine, including the capital Kyiv. A large ground invasion followed from multiple directions --wikipedia

Emperor Meiji

he presided over the Meiji era, and was the figurehead of the Meiji Restoration, a series of rapid changes that witnessed Japan's transformation from an isolationist, feudal state to an industrialized world power --wikipedia

Switzerland's constitution

"In the name of Almighty God! The Swiss People and the Cantons, mindful of their responsibility towards creation... determined to live together with mutual consideration and respect for their diversity..."

Boris Johnson, UK Prime Minister

While it has been widely reported that Boris Johnson has resigned as the United Kingdom’s prime minister, he has instead resigned as leader of the Conservative Party. Johnson has stated he will remain in office as prime minister until a new party leader is chosen --theconversation.com

global minimum tax

OECD countries (including the EU and the US) want to obligate big companies to pay a 15% tax all around the world. Would it do more good than harm? —request

New draft of the Chilean constitution

Is the new draft an improvement over the 1980 constitution and its amendments? Chileans will soon vote whether to adopt it.

abortion law in Poland

Abortion in Poland is legal only in cases when the pregnancy is a result of a criminal act or when the woman's life or health is at risk --wikipedia

UK plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda

The government insisted the program was aimed at disrupting people-smuggling networks and deterring migrants from making the dangerous sea journey across the Channel to England from France --edition.cnn.com

Olavo de Carvalho

Brazilian polemicist, self-proclaimed philosopher, political pundit, former astrologer, journalist... --wikipedia

T/F: the planet is overpopulated

Overpopulation... is a phenomenon in which a species' population becomes larger than the carrying capacity of its environment —Wikipedia

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

34-year old UN panel responsible for advancing knowledge on human-induced climate change --wikipedia

Neoliberalism

ideas associated with free-market capitalism... [However] the term is rarely used by proponents of free-market policies. Some scholars reject the idea that neoliberalism is a monolithic ideology and have described the term as meaning different things to different people --wikipedia

Ukraine war status: 7 calibrations

Results for various war crimes, whether genocide was committed, Putin's nuclear deterrence, and whether Putin has incriminating information on Western leaders.