11 May
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Jacob Kornbluh, Jewish Insider
After Trump campaign denies earlier report on planned Israel trip, presumptive GOP nominee confirms plan to visit Jerusalem after sealing nomination.
read more: http://www.haaretz.com/world-news/u-s-election-2016/1.719106
Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a rally in Eugene, Oregon, U.S., May 6, 2016.Ted S. Warren, AP
This article was originally published on Jewish Insider.
U.S. presidential hopeful Donald Trump confirmed on Tuesday a report that he’s planning to travel to Israel in the coming months after formally accepting the Republican U.S. presidential nomination at the party’s national convention in July.
The Trump campaign on Monday denied a Friday report by Israel’s Ma’ariv daily that the presumptive nominee is planning to visit Israel, Russia and Germany after the convention. The report cited a close adviser to Trump, who said that the expected trip is a central part of a large effort by Trump to improve his image and cultivate his understanding of foreign affairs.
“Not true,” Trump’s spokeswoman Hope Hicks told several news outlets after the report appeared in English in Jewish Insider’s Daily Kickoff on Monday.
But in an interview with Israel Hayom, in honor of Israel’s 68th Independence Day, Trump confirmed the report.
“I heard you are going to visit us soon, before the election,” the paper’s Boaz Bismuth asked to confirm. “Yes. I will be coming (to Israel) soon,” Trump responded. …………
Future in which global concentration of C02 is permanently above 400 parts per million looms
‘We’re going into very new territory’: James Butler, of the US National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, says the amount of carbon dioxide is locking in future warming. Photograph: John Giles/PA
The world is hurtling towards an era when global concentrations of carbon dioxide never again dip below the 400 parts per million (ppm) milestone, as two important measuring stations sit on the point of no return.
The news comes as one important atmospheric measuring station at Cape Grim in Australia is poised on the verge of 400ppm for the first time. Sitting in a region with stable CO2 concentrations, once that happens, it will never get a reading below 400ppm.
An atmospheric measuring station at Cape Grim in Australia is poised on the verge of 400ppm for the first time. Photograph: CSIRO
Meanwhile another station in the northern hemisphere may have gone above the 400ppm line for the last time, never to dip below it again.
“We’re going into very new territory,” James Butler, director of the global monitoring division at the US National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, told the Guardian.
When enough CO2 is pumped into the atmosphere from burning fossil fuels, seasonal the cycles that drive the concentrations up and down throughout the year will eventually stop dipping the concentration below the 400ppm mark. The 400ppm figure is just symbolic, but it’s psychologically powerful, says Butler……………..
Obama ‘will not revisit the decision to use the atomic bomb’ at the end of the second world war as he makes first visit to city by a sitting US president
Survivors of the attack have encouraged Barack Obama to see for himself the scale of destruction at the peace museum. Photograph: Shawn Thew/EPA
Barack Obama’s historic visit to Hiroshima should not be interpreted as an apology, his spokesman said on Tuesday in the wake of the announcement that Obama would become the first sitting president to visit the site where the US dropped an atomic bomb in 1945, killing an estimated 140,000 people in the final days of the second world war.
Asked if the trip might be seen as an apology, the White House press secretary, Josh Earnest, replied: “If people do interpret it that way, they’ll be interpreting it wrongly.”
Earnest declined to comment on the morality of America’s decision to drop the atomic bomb, for which there have been calls for the country to apologise. He said: “The president intends to visit to send a much more forward-looking signal for his ambition of realising the goal of a planet without nuclear weapons.”
Confirming Obama’s visit in a statement earlier on Tuesday, the White House said it would “highlight [Obama’s] continued commitment to pursuing peace and security in a world without nuclear weapons”.
Earnest acknowledged that the US bore a “special responsibility” for the bombing of Hiroshima but was also quick to pay tribute to the “greatest generation” who fought in the second world war.
“There are a lot of people with a lot of opinions about this trip,” he told reporters on Tuesday. “The president will have an opportunity to visit the peace park and offer up his own reflections about his visit to that city.”………….
Plan to close the world’s largest camp is illogical and illegal – but scores much-needed political points, argues the Daily Maverick
Newly arrived refugees at Dadaab, currently the biggest refugee complex in the world. Photograph: Dai Kurokawa/EPA
Simon Allison for the Daily Maverick, part of the Guardian Africa network
The Kenyan government has announced that it will attempt to close all of the country’s refugee camps, a move that could displace an estimated 600,000 vulnerable people.
However, it’s no coincidence that just a week before the statement the Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta officially began campaigning ahead of elections scheduled for next year.
The two events are closely related. Like leaders all the world over – just look at Donald Trump’s fixation on Mexican immigrants, or how Europe’s far right is capitalising on the migrant crisis – Kenyatta and his advisers know that scapegoating refugees is an easy way to score political points with voters.
It helps too that the refugee problem is inextricably linked with another of Kenyatta’s favourite campaign themes: the ongoing war in Somalia, which has brought with it the threat of terrorist attacks on Kenyan soil.
“Under the circumstances, the government of the Republic of Kenya, having taken into consideration its national security interests, has decided that hosting of refugees has come to an end,” the government said last week, making this link explicit.
It’s clear that by threatening to shut down the refugee camps, Kenyatta wins twice: he can portray himself as tough on terror and tough on refugees. But threats are one thing. The reality of closing down these huge and well-established camps – now de facto cities – is something else entirely……………
The Queen has been caught on camera describing the ‘extraordinary’ behaviour of Chinese officials during President Xi Jinping’s state visit to Britain last year. At a garden party at Buckingham Palace on Tuesday, she commiserated with Commander Lucy D’Orsio, who was in charge of security for the visit and told the Queen officials had walked out of a meeting with her and the British ambassador to China, Barbara Woodward.
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