“Myanmar’s military has taken power in a coup and declared a state of emergency, hours after detaining Aung San Suu Kyi and other senior figures from the ruling party,” the Guaridan writes.

More than 700 years after Dante was accused of corruption and condemned to be burned to death, his descendant, Sperello di Serego Alighieri, is looking to clear the poet’s name.

The once so liberal Moderate Party now wants to stop foreign low-skilled workers. I want total deregulation of the labour market. Can’t see any problem with people taking jobs and earning their own living. Protectionism sucks!

The Mayor of London taught me a new word today.

Christopher Snowdon sees the danger in a new EU report. Well, before everybody begins the usual EU-bashing, let me remind you that these ideas will only become law if we continue to allow our politicians to make rules in closed-door meetings.

“It may sound like something out of a futuristic science fiction film, but scientists have managed to engineer spinach plants which are capable of sending emails,” Euronews writes.

The Brexit government in London is marketing CPTPP membership as a replacement for EU membership, but the EU already has free trade with all countries in the CPTPP except Malaysia and Brunei. So much ado about almost nothing.

Perhaps the most despicable Stalinist in Sweden. He wanted a violent revolution, kill the police, and replace democracy with totalitarian communism. And he was a homophobe! Now he’s gone.

The New York Times describes the drama.

The girl’s body was found with her throat slit and teeth smashed after a brutal rape. I wouldn’t be surprised if this was orchestrated by someone in Europe who wanted to watch his fantasy online. Far too common.

The Putin regime hates human rights, democracy, and cicil liberties. That’s why it helped Brexit and supports Eurosceptics. This latest spat oven the fake charges against Navalny only confirms that.

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Swedish newspaper Expressen reveals how two Stockholm lawyers make big money by disclosing classified information to criminal gangs. This is really, really bad!

“Europe must figure out how to be strong and to be benign at the same time,” Caroline de Gruyter writes.

Due to snow!

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Trump gets away with inciting rioters against the US Congress. Shameful.

“President Joe Biden is the first American leader in 40 years not to contact Israel’s leaders as one of his first actions in the White House,” the Washington Free Beacon writes.

Partying is now now illegal in Sweden. I hate Covid-19. Such a bummer.

Love never dies. The Local on a Spanish love story to rival Romeo and Juliet. ♥️

The question was implied by a journalist on Swedish television a while ago. Jeebus! 🤦

Emeka Moses of East Tennessee State University has actually written an essay on Grindr’s gaymojis. 👀

He died five days ago, but I missed it. A champion of free speech and tacky pornography has left us. 🗽

James Meigs in Commentary Magazine:

In the 1980s, Australian medical researcher Barry Marshall believed ulcers were caused by a bacterial infection, an idea most experts found laughable. Unable to get his research published, Marshall finally drank a broth containing the suspect bacteria, developed a raging case of gastritis, and proved his point. Marshall and his partner received the Nobel Prize, and since then millions of ulcer sufferers have found relief through antibiotics.

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If you love to scroll. It’s 19km.

“Irish Sea border protest posters reflect loyalist anxiety in Northern Ireland,” the Guardian writes.

Unfortunately, I don’t think the finding of this British study is restricted to Britain. Suicide is a secret killer we don’t talk enough about.

I love technology and to work from home, but the Zoom meetings are too many nowadays.

OK, the dog walker was shot four times in the chest, but the PETS WERE STOLEN. There’s now a £500,000 reward for whomever finds the person who stole the two dogs.

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This week’s most chocking crime ended well.*

* Entry contains traces of irony.

The Babylon Bee is a right-wing Christian website offering satire. A contradiction in terms, I know, but this is actually funny, in a silly way.

Source: Washington Blade

Share of the US Adult Population
Bisexual	3.1%
Gay Male	1.4%
Lesbian	0.7%
Trans	0.6%

Not that is should matter.

Andrew Sullivan:

I know this is a hot topic, but, seriously, I can’t see this as a big deal. When I was coming out a hundred years ago, we were constantly told that 10 percent—at least!—of the country was gay. “One in ten” was a common buzzword in gay groups, and most gay people believed it. And in what was my first of many heresies as a homosexual, I never bought that. How on earth did I keep recognizing the same people at march after march and parade after parade if there were over 30 million of us? And why should we care how many of us there are?

Read Seth Frantzman in the Jerusalem Post.

The almost perfectly preserved four-wheeled carriage made of iron, bronze, and tin was found some 700 metres north of the walls of ancient Pompeii, Al Jazeera reports.