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Wednesday, June 12, 2019

China extradition clashes plunge Hong Kong into historic violence
Hong Kong was rocked Wednesday by the worst political unrest since its handover to China as police fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse protesters who tried to storm parliament and blocked roads in the financial hub. The violent protests were the latest expression of widespread public anger

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Clashes in Hong Kong escalate as police use tear gas on demonstrators blocking major roads in the financial hub and protesting against a China extradition law

Thousands of protesters have rallied in central Hong Kong, seizing two main highways in a defiant show of strength against government plans to allow extraditions to mainland China.

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Why is Hong Kong's China extradition plan so controversial?

Hong Kong witnessed its largest protest since the city's 1997 handover to China on Sunday as hundreds of thousands came out to oppose plans to allow extraditions to the mainland.

The crowds wanted the city's pro-Beijing leaders to scrap the proposals -- but there is little sign of that happening, and the issue has plunged the city into a political crisis.

Huge protest crowds thronged Hong Kong on Sunday as anger swells over plans to allow extradition to China, a proposal that has sparked the biggest public backlash against the city's pro-Beijing leadership in years.

Hong Kong's leaders, who are not popularly elected, say the law is needed to plug loopholes and stop the city being a bolthole for mainland fugitives.

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A GREEN NEW DEAL DIVORCED FROM SOCIAL JUSTICE CONCERNS AND JOBS WILL ONLY APPEAL TO ELITES

Now that the provincial NDP has been ejected from power in Alberta, it needs to think about what set of policies might allow it to return to office in 2023. The debate in the United States between elite, well-off greens and social justice advocates who want to place environmental concerns inside a bigger envelope of concerns about social justice and jobs is one that is already finding an echo in Canada. That debate needs to be expanded. For Alberta, the "what comes next" question is the elephant in the room.

The federal parties that are most green, that is the Greens and the NDP, are so far saying nothing about what they think the feds should do to help create a new Alberta in the transition from fossil fuels to renewables. They open themselves up to the claim from Albertans of all political perspectives that they see us as roadkill as they seek seats elsewhere. The Tories, of course, see no need for a transition from fossil fuels. The Liberals do but have no timetable and no plan, particularly now that the provincial NDP government, which they tacitly supported, has been defeated.

Perhaps none of this is surprising. The provincial NDP government did have a modest plan for transition of the Alberta economy from fossil fuels to renewables that involved using a carbon tax to fund renewables and general revenues to fund economic diversification. It was too radical for most Albertans, it seems, since faith in fossil fuels in Alberta is easily the #1 religion of the province. Too bad then that the rest of the world is losing that religion quickly and all the climate change deniers that the UCP can muster won't affect that.

By 2023, however, the NDP's supposedly radical plan--which didn't look radical at all to environmentalists inside and outside the province--will look too modest because the world is moving away from fossil fuels whatever Tories might think.

In the meantime, however, it is the federal parties that need to have an "Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Newfoundland and Labrador chapter" to their platforms. What do these parties plan for our future? Yes, they cannot do that much as long as we have a climate-change-denying Oil Religion provincial government but surely they should be proposing SOMETHING. Alberta is not going to move overnight from Alberta=Oil to Alberta=Many Things with Fossil Fuels Moving Down the List to Eventually Shrink to Near Nothing without some firm, and may I say, radical plans. Perhaps we should hire Alexandria Ocasio-Cortes to help us out???

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Tokyo Detention House, in spotlight after Carlos Ghosn's extended stay, rejects criticisms
With a total floor space of 154,671 square meters, the prison in Katsushika Ward, Tokyo, currently houses 1,758 inmates.

Take a look inside the prison where Carlos Ghosn was held for over four months.

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The most famous recent inmate at the Tokyo Detention House, ex-Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn, is no longer a resident, but the prison has thrown open its doors hoping to answer critics.
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