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“I remember Pearl Harbor,” Trump said, despite being born five years later as he went on a bizarre tangent about Pearl Harbor during a phone call with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in June, The Washington Post reports.
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Anyone that thinks America can unite…
Anyone that thinks America can unite while Fox News is allowed to operate is dreaming. Every single day millions of people form their political opinion based on Fox News lies. This criminal outfit needs to be shut down.
China’s Debt Traps
China’s debt-trap diplomacy is giving the country greater control over developing nations across Asia and Africa, like Angola, Sri Lanka and Djibouti. This is all part of Xi Jinping’s grand strategy to make China the global superpower by 2050.
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France Is Going to Ban Stores From Throwing Away Unsold Clothing
France has been ahead of the eco-friendly curve for years. From a solar-powered road to upcycled installations, the country has continuously found creative ways to make environmentalism its mission. Following in the footsteps of a 2015 food waste law, the French government has turned its attention to textiles, making it illegal for retailers to throw away unsold clothing.
In the past, French clothing stores would typically discard any leftover apparel. Before being thrown away, these perfectly good pieces of clothing were often defaced in an attempt to deter dumpster scavenging, culminating in four million tons of unwearable, wasted clothes. Thanks to this new law, however, stores will now be required to donate any unsold articles of clothing to charity—a move that will eliminate unnecessary refuse while also helping those in need.
For months, this initiative has been a priority for Emmaus—a Paris-based organization focused on ending homelessness. In February, a Facebook photo depicting destroyed clothing went viral, causing public outcry and bringing the issue to Emmaus’ attention. Since then, the charity has worked tirelessly to fix the problem, which French Prime Minister Édouard Philippe has vowed to tackle with this new law in 2019. “For the time being, there are no specific indications,” Emmaus’ Deputy Director Valérie Fayard explains. “It’s a preliminary road map, but it’s good news.”
In an effort to prevent clothing waste, France will ban retailers from throwing away unsold apparel next year.
h/t: [Green Matters]
“In America, people with pre-existing mental health issues have access to firearms but not healthcare. Thanks, Republicans!” ― Oliver Markus Malloy, Inside The Mind of an Introvert
“More Americans have died from guns in the United States since 1968 than on battlefields of all the wars in American history.” — Nicholas Kristof on Thursday, August 27th, 2015 in his column in the New York Times
“Congressmen who willfully take action during wartime that damages morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled, or hung” ― Abraham Lincoln
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