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> The Australian government plans to make an area about the size of Germany in the Southern Ocean a marine zone, strengthening protections around Macquarie Island for millions of penguins and seals.

> The environment minister, Tanya Plibersek, announced that the government wants to triple the size of the Macquarie Island marine park, describing it as a globally significant contribution to marine conservation that would put 388,000 sq km under high protection.

> Plibersek said the expansion of the marine park would increase the amount of protected area in Australia's oceans to 48.2%. The announcement was welcomed by conservationists: "If approved it will provide a refuge to help the island's iconic species adapt to the changing climate,'" said Emily Grilly, the Antarctic conservation manager at WWF-Australia.

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There’s an alliance of six parties that are planning to put out a joint candidate to oppose Erdogan, but it’s not clear who they’ll pick yet.

Of the potential candidates, Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu and Ankara mayor Mansur Yavas are probably the strongest candidates. CHP party leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu is another strong possibility.

Polls from mid-2022 show him losing to several different candidates, and I don’t think recent events will boost his chances.

If he wins, it will probably be because he cheated in some way. Since his party controls the Electoral Committee, they could probably get away with a lot of fuckery short of outright fraud.

No and no

Israel acknowledges that Iran acknowledges and starts massive military campaign

>DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran on Thursday directly acknowledged an accusation attributed to international inspectors that it enriched uranium to 84% purity for the first time, which would put the Islamic Republic closer than ever to weapons-grade material.

>The acknowledgement by a news website linked to the highest reaches of Iran’s theocracy renews pressure on the West to address Tehran’s program, which had been contained by the 2015 nuclear deal that America unilaterally withdrew from in 2018. Years of attacks across the Middle East have followed.

>Already Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who recently regained his country’s premiership, is threatening to take military action similar to when Israel previously bombed nuclear programs in Iraq and Syria. But while those attacks saw no war erupt, Iran has an arsenal of ballistic missiles, drones and other weaponry it and its allies already have used in the region.

>Already Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who recently regained his country’s premiership, is threatening to take military action similar to when Israel previously bombed nuclear programs in Iraq and Syria. But while those attacks saw no war erupt, Iran has an arsenal of ballistic missiles, drones and other weaponry it and its allies already have used in the region.

He will not lose, mainly for two reasons. Firstly, Turks love him and secondly, he has no credible opponent.

> ANKARA: President Tayyip Erdogan’s government is inclined to hold Turkiye’s elections as scheduled in June, having cooled on the idea of postponing due to this month’s devastating earthquake, three officials said on Wednesday.

Title is a bit misleading

That's not how that works. When we're 'looking into the past' with telescopes, we're not viewing our own position from the outside. We're viewing a different part of the universe as it was long ago.

On top of that our solar system is probably less than 5 billion years old.

He will try every little excuse he can to somehow make it work out for him. These current dictator wannabes in democracies,in the last 5 years, have tried all the lies and ways to stay in power. Trump, Erdogan and Bosinairo have weaselled their way through government to stay in power but in the end democracy has prevailed. Fingers crossed.

Well, there’s still time for that.

The other candidates are meh at best but it’s a common saying among youth that they would vote for “a slipper” if it was running against Erdogan.

All of his opposing parties (6 in total) have formed a coalition to win against him.

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If Turkey is still in a state of emergency 4 months from now than they definitely shouldn't reelect Erdogan.

I'm not Turkish but some Turkish guy said in a previous discussion that it's illegal to postpone national elections unless the country is at war.

Russia obviously believes in its own messaging about how impossible renewables are, the USA is more pragmatic: It’s impossible until a way has been developed for squillionaires to profit and then It The Right Thing to Do.

Of course. The extreme left are kindred spirits to the extreme right on their own (and also totally infiltrated by TLA operatives who will help them adopt the most regarded causes)!

The projection of own motivations onto Norway sort-of gives away the source - and the factual errors, lack of preparation and care, corroborate it: Russia!

His mom's dildo design probably which happens to be a fire hydrant.

It definitely is. I was assuming he expressed an idea to postpone elections.

No, it didn’t. The watertight compartments were tested exactly as planned from the beginning /s

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His boasts of helping to circumvent building codes and a ham-fisted disaster response should help see him off at the polls.

I truly hope he loses and we got rid of him. Are there any proper candidates available? Or are they forbidden like in any dictatorship.