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This has been a
delightful three days and Tuesday will be the same until late night. Wednesday
according to the reports will be monsoon season.
Since I have not done
much reading on local, national and international events there is little I can
comment on.
However, I did
find an interesting article article in
Monday’s Wall Street Journal about robot traffic cops in Kinshasa
, Congo. This is part of the story: "Traffic in this African city is a daily
death-defying battle between humans and robots. Sometimes the robots lose.
Kinshasa and other cities in Congo rolled
out traffic robots
in recent years to try to manage some of the world’s most chaotic
intersections. Equipped with red-and-green lights and movable arms to direct
vehicles, this small brigade of tin men watches over thoroughfares with six or
more lanes, where cars, trucks and motorcycles skirmish for right of way.
Traffic
is infamous in this sprawling jungle capital of 12 million on the Congo River.
The minibus taxis—known as “Spirits of Life” or “Spirits of Death” depending on
their road-worthiness—chase each other on potholed streets that a downpour can
quickly turn into grimy rivulets. At rush hour, cars caught in traffic jams
jump curbs and roll over sidewalks to get ahead. The few regular traffic lights
are often disabled by power cuts.
The U.S. State Department warns that Congo’s poorly trained
drivers tend to show “indifference…toward the safety of pedestrians and
cyclists,” while “roadside hoodlums” haunt its streets at night. The World
Health Organization estimates that the rate of annual road deaths in the vast,
conflict-torn central African nation is the fourth highest in the world, behind
Thailand, Malawi and Liberia, and more than three times that of the U.S."
And we think NJ
where cars make right turns from the center left lane, or left from the curb
lane at a stop light, or exit on 22 in traffic crossing three lanes from the
center one as normal driving.
One other item in the
Washington Post caught my eye:
“John
Bolton, President Donald Trump’s new national security adviser, chaired a
nonprofit that has promoted misleading and false anti-Muslim news, some of
which was amplified by a Russian troll factory, an NBC News review found.
The group’s
authors also appeared on Russian media, including Sputnik and RT News,
criticizing mainstream European leaders like French President Emmanuel Macron.
From 2013
until last month, Bolton was chairman of the Gatestone Institute, a New
York-based advocacy group that warns of a looming “jihadist
takeover” of Europe leading to a “Great White
Death.”
The group
has published numerous stories and headlines on its website with similar
themes. “Germany
Confiscating Homes to Use for Migrants,” warned one from May 2017, about a
single apartment rental property in Hamburg that had gone into temporary
trusteeship. Another from February 2015 claimed the immigrants, for instance
Somalis, in Sweden were turning that country into the “Rape Capital of the
West.”
