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NỀN DÂN CHỦ ... HỐI LỘ?

Ở Mỹ tranh cử như vầy có hợp pháp không ta?

5 thấy nó y chang hối lộ đấy, ví như những chuyện đi biểu tình được trả tiền bên Đức của đảng AfD. Nó mất đi hết ý nghĩa một nền dân chủ lành mạnh rồi. Đây gọi là mua chuộc chứ không còn là tranh cử thuần túy đứng trước đám đông, hùng biện rồi tự người ta thấy thích chủ trương, kế hoạch, chương trình của mình rồi tự nguyện bỏ lá phiếu cho mình.

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Tranh cử là mua chuộc nhân tâm, bằng lời hứa mai sau hay là bằng lợi ích trước mắt, cũng giống như đi hỏi vợ phải có lễ vật, có cà rá năm bảy ly thì mới có người chịu gả. Quảng cáo trên đài, trên mạng hay trên đường phố cũng là bỏ tiền ra dụ ngọt cử tri.

Tờ phiếu cũng mất tiền mua
Lựa giá mà nói cho vừa lòng nhau
(Ca dao)

Coi bộ anh Y lon này có tham vọng chánh trị, nay mai có thể ra tranh cử thống đốc hay nghị sĩ của Tét xịt, cọp dê y khuôn bài bản dân tuý mỵ dân của Trâm là dụ khị đám cực hữu làm bậc thang leo lên đỉnh cao chánh trị.

Ảnh thấy làm xe hơi, làm phi thuyền, làm kỹ nghệ gì cũng hông khoái bằng làm dư luận, làm dòng chảy chánh trị. Được ăn được nói được đám đông hưởng ứng hà rầm.

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Lênh đênh chiếc bách giữa giòng…

man clinging to ice box 48km off Florida coast after Hurricane Milton
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...rricane-milton

The man was aboard a fishing vessel that became disabled on Wednesday off Madeira Beach, Florida, hours before the hurricane made landfall, said coast guard press officer Nicole Groll. The man, who was not identified, was able to radio the coast guard station in nearby St Petersburg before contact was lost about 6.45pm.

But on Thursday searchers located the man about 30 miles (48km) off Longboat Key, Florida, clinging to an open cooler chest, a video clip provided by the coast guard shows. In the video, a coast guard diver was lowered from a helicopter and swam to the man to pick him up.

The man rescued off the coast clinging to the ice box was taken to Tampa general hospital for medical treatment, the coast guard said. The agency estimated he had survived winds of 75-90mph (121-145km/h) and waves up to 25 feet (7.6 meters) high during his night on the water. The fate of his boat was unknown.

Đờn ông đi biển mồ côi một mình.
(Ca dao)

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Đờn ông đi biển mồ côi một mình.
(Ca dao)

Quá nguy hiểm, mùa này lạnh rồi. Chắc sau trận này ông đó phải nằm than 2 tháng.

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after Hurricane Milton

Miu tân đã qua tới Anh rồi. Ghê quá.

BBC apologises after weather forecast of hurricane winds in UK - and 404C temperatures
Bex May
Thu 10 October 2024 at 10:41 am CEST·2-min read




BBC Weather has forecast temperatures of a blistering 404°C and hurricane winds in the UK - but don’t panic, as it’s the result of a forecasting blunder.

In a rare and bizarre glitch, BBC Weather sent its users into a frenzy this morning after the BBC Weather app forecasted hurricane force winds and overnight temperatures of 404°C in Nottingham - hot enough to melt lead, and similar to the average surface temperature of Venus , which is around 464°C.

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Bởi rứa nên dân Mỹ mói tin hơ ri kền là nhân tạo, do nha khí tượng gây ra. Artificial Weather.

US meteorologists face death threats as hurricane conspiracies surge
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...misinformation

Katie Nickolaou, a Michigan-based meteorologist, said that she and her colleagues have borne the brunt of much of these conspiracies, having received messages claiming there are category 6 hurricanes (there aren’t), that meteorologists or the government are creating and directing hurricanes (they aren’t) and even that scientists should be killed and radar equipment be demolished.

“I have had a bunch of people saying I created and steered the hurricane, there are people assuming we control the weather. I have had to point out that a hurricane has the energy of 10,000 nuclear bombs and we can’t hope to control that. But it’s taken a turn to more violent rhetoric, especially with people saying those who created Milton should be killed.”

One post aimed at Nickolaou said: “Stop the breathing of those that made them and their affiliates.” She responded: “Murdering meteorologists won’t stop hurricanes. I can’t believe I just had to type that.”

Hồi đó có phim Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs nói xạo cho con nít Mỹ tưởng thiệt.

Hurricane With a Chance of Conspiracies.

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Cuba cúp bình thiết ...

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Cuba suffers third setback in restoring power, millions still in the dark

HAVANA, Oct 20 (Reuters) - Cuba's efforts to restore power to the island were derailed for a third time late on Saturday, Cuban authorities said shortly before midnight, leaving millions in the dark and raising fresh questions over the viability of the government's bid to reestablish electrical service.

Cuba's national electrical grid first crashed around midday on Friday after the island's largest power plant shut down. The grid collapsed again on Saturday morning, state-run media reported.

By early evening, authorities reported some progress restoring power before announcing the grid had once again collapsed.
"Tonight at 10:25 p.m. the total disconnection of the national electro-energetic system occurred again," the Havana Electric company said on Telegram late on Saturday.

The post was later removed from the company's Telegram feed. It was not immediately clear why the post was removed, but millions were still without power on early on Sunday.

Cuba's energy ministry said shortly after the Havana Electric post that it was working to reestablish service, adding that "another disconnection" had occurred in the "western sub-system," which includes the capital Havana.

"The process of reestablishing the electrical system continues to be complex," the ministry said on X.

A third grid collapse marks a major setback in the government's efforts to quickly restore power to exhausted residents already suffering from severe food, medicine and fuel shortages.

Reuters reporters witnessed two small protests overnight, one in Marianao and the other in the Cuatro Caminos area of Havana. Various videos of protests elsewhere in the capital began to crop up on social media late on Saturday, though Reuters was not able to verify their authenticity.

Internet traffic dropped off sharply in Cuba on Saturday, according to data from internet monitoring group NetBlocks, as vast power outages made it all but impossible for most island residents to charge phones and get online.

"Network data show that Cuba remains largely offline as the island experiences a second nationwide power outage," Netblocks said on Saturday.

Even before the grid failures, a dire electricity shortfall on Friday had forced Cuba's Communist-run government to send non-essential state workers home and cancel school for children as it sought to conserve fuel for power generation.

The government has blamed weeks of worsening blackouts - as long as 10 to 20 hours a day across much of the island - on deteriorating infrastructure, fuel shortages and rising demand.

Cuba also blames the U.S. trade embargo, as well as sanctions instituted by then-President Donald Trump, for ongoing difficulties in acquiring fuel and spare parts to operate and maintain its oil-fired plants.

The U.S. has denied any role in the grid failures.

/* src.: https://www.reuters.com/world/americ...rk-2024-10-20/

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cần nhiều thời gian ghê há...

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cần nhiều thời gian ghê há...

Biết dùng lời rất khó để mà nói rõ
Ôi biết nói gì tội tình lớn quá…
(Phạm nhân)

Sorry seems to be the hardest word.
(Elton John)

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Ứng cử viên gốc Mít ở quận Cam:

once-red Orange county
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...nty-california

Derek Tran is hoping to become the first Vietnamese American member of Congress, in an area with the largest ethnic Vietnamese population outside Vietnam. To succeed, he will have to unseat Michelle Steel, a powerful, well-funded Republican incumbent with deep roots in county politics and who, as a Korean American, has her own Asian bona fides.

Tran has not shied away from calling Steel a “Trump lackey” and a “complete fraud” for withdrawing her support for the strict anti-abortion Life at Conception Act, a bill she previously co-sponsored.

Tran’s candidacy has generated genuine excitement in Little Saigon, a staunchly conservative area in northern Orange county at the centre of Steel’s C-shaped district, where Tran campaign signs are now prominent even among the names of other much more conservative candidates for local office.

Mít làm Cam chịu.
(Tục ngữ)