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Comment Re:so now criminals are independent researchers? (Score 2) 9

According to laws of which country? Problem is, most of UN presence in Internet is extraterritorial. This is very important for the UN to maintain its authority and not necessarily comply with local laws (e.g. UN agencies in Europe do not comply with GDPR). At the same time, the UN has no possibility to create laws and prosecution of its own, beyond administrative and HR rules. So the side effect of extraterritoriality is that there may be no law that you are breaking when attacking the UN, unless you are unlucky enough to do it from a country where laws allow authorities to prosecute attacks _from_ its territory regardless of the location of the target.

Comment Re:de-industrialisation in Eastern Europe (Score 3, Informative) 164

All here: https://rt.unfccc.int/ What you are looking for is a variable called [Sectors/Totals][Total (without LULUCF)][Emissions][Aggregate GHGs][kt CO2 equivalent]. For all former Soviet bloc countries you will observe a severe (sometimes 2x and more) free fall in the 1990s, even before they have joined the EU, after which some of them have maintained their level of emissions and some grew/fell somewhat. So I am not saying that eastern EU countries are in economic collapse _now_, but they had been in the early 1990s which is documented through their emissions. 1990 is not a meaningful baseline to to look at for EU in 2020.

Comment de-industrialisation in Eastern Europe (Score 4, Insightful) 164

The reduction observed is attributable to a significant extent to the rapid de-industrialisation that happened in ex-USSR and satellite states, some of which are EU states now. Portraying economic collapse as achievement is an interesting tactic. But the general idea is one needs to clean one's economy, not destroy it.

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