and reasonable as possible. and i got rid of the. of thejunked. ijunked many of the. the arrangements for the functional constituencies which were sort of rotten pocket boroughs, and increased by about two million the number of people who could vote in them. so it was limited. but i think what most annoyed the chinese wasn t that i d made the elections a bit fairer, but that i d actually consulted people in china before doing it. in hong kong before doing it. because they thought that any agreement, anything done in hong kong should be agreed between the sovereign powers, between britain and china. and they thought it was nothing to do with hong kong. but i insisted, for reasons we can discuss if you like later, that it should be discussed first of all with people in hong kong and they should know what was going to happen. indeed. but you re saying you were
governments in its force and its clarity. i m thinking of the economic force that has hit the russian economy. i m also thinking of some striking decisions in western europe about the military side. but to answer your question. yes, all right, well, we ll get to the levels of support, both economic and in terms of military assistance. but the bottom line to your answer is that the responsibility to protect is a dead letter, it means nothing. mostly because russia is a permanent member of the security council, and all responsibility to protect interventions would have to go through the un. and of course, russia has a veto power, so that whole doctrine needs to be junked, doesn t it? well, no, ithink a better way of looking at it would be that the nations should live up to the doctrine. i ve talked over the last five years about the growing age of impunity in international affairs, which is a direct rebuttal of the responsibility to protect and frankly, a direct rebuttal of the un charte
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junked. the water got up to five feet. if you look at that yellow backpack, that s how high the water got inside. needless to say everything here is going to have to be junked. emergency workers in westchester going house to house by boat rescuing people from their homes. the devastation left behind after ida dumped several inches of rain in some parts of the northeast including new york and new jersey, some spots getting up to nine inches. we believe the storm took 43 lives in the northeast. some of new york s most critical highways came to a stand still after floodwaters swallowed cars, stranded drivers. now the cleanup and towing continues as the water recedes. after the historic rainfall turned lethal with storm waters rushing into apartments, subways, buildings, the nypd moved to put a task force together where the floodwaters came high to search for people. we went through a lot of pain in the last 48 hours but
everything for elections after trump republicans in the state senate forced them to turn over their entire voting system and all the ballots from the presidential election to a random uncertified totally inexperienced one-man-band company called cyber ninjas, even though it s just really one guy, so it should be cyber ninja. and he s a trump conspiracy theorist qanon promoter who has literally done anything like this before in his life. he s the one that got all the voting equipment from the fourth most populous county in the country. arizona taxpayers will, therefore, be shelling out millions of dollars to replace all the equipment, which will now have to be junked because those guys have been doing lord knows what with it since they got it in april. they started that scam audit thing in april. they said it would take three weeks. it s july and nobody seems to know what they re up to anymore. they don t really feel the need to update anybody anymore because they re like we re