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goldpixy:

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e-lysium:

because it’s been a long year. counts up to december 20.

january (timeframes will be rough)

• australian bush fires
• persian gulf crisis
• taal volcano eruption
• impeachment trial of donald trump
• covid-19 pandemic what else is there to say?
• the united kingdom’s withdrawal from the european union

february

• delhi riots
• collapse of malaysia’s coalition government
• stock market crash
• luxembourg made public transport free
• conditional peace agreement between the united states and the taliban

march

• afghanistan war crimes inquiry authorised to proceed
• tokyo summer olympics postponed to 2021
• north macedonia joins nato
• russia-saudi arabia oil price war

april

• united states designates a white supremacist group as a terrorist group for the first time
• opec and allies agree to cut oil production by 9.7 million barrels a day
• united states suspends funding to the world health organisation
• nova scotia attacks
• israeli politicians agree to form a unity government
• iran deploys first military satellite
• king salman declares people will not be executed for crimes committed as minors
• the pentagon officially releases three ufo videos
• colombia formalises its membership of the oecd

may

• venezuelan dissidents and american private military attempt to infiltrate venezuela and remove president maduro from office
• scientists discover parasitic microbe blocking mosquitos from carrying malaria
• first black hole discovered in a star system visible to the naked eye
• styrene gas leak in india
• cross-border clash at the nantha lu crossing between chinese and indian soldiers
• konarak vessel incident
• fossil analysis indicates modern humans may have arrived in europe thousands of years earlier than thought
  
• maternity hospital stormed by gunmen in afghanistan
• discovery of millipede fossil as the world’s oldest-known land animal dating c.425 million years
  
• east africa floods
• palestine terminates all agreements with israel and the united states after israel plans to annex the jordan valley
  
• cyclone amphan
• united states announces withdrawal from open skies treaty
  
• mining company rio tinto destroys sacred aboriginal caves at juukan gorge in australia
  
• george floyd is killed, beginning mass global protests against police racism and brutality
• costa rica becomes first central american country to legalise same-sex marriage
• chinese government votes for legislation granting powers to suppress democracy movement in hong kong
• rwandan court sentences former mayor to life imprisonment for role in rwandan genocide
  
• first crewed spacex flight is launched

june

• state of emergency declared by russia after 20 thousand tons of oil leaks into ambarnaya river
• libya’s government claims control of tripoli
• turkish and iranian forces begin air and artillery strikes against kurdish forces in iraqi kurdistan
• north korea demolishes kaesong’s inter-korean liaison office
• solar eclipse
• 7.5 magnitude earthquake in oaxaca, mexico
• historic three-party coalition government formed in ireland
• china passes hong kong national security law

july

• russian voters support constitutional amendment allowing vladimir putin to seek two further six-year terms
• landslide at jade mine in myanmar
• bulgarian protests against boyko borisov’s government
• mass graves uncovered in burkina faso believed to be the result of extrajudicial executions by government forces
• turkish president orders the hagia sophia in istanbul to be reverted from a museum to a mosque
• china floods
• twitter accounts of prominent politicians, ceos and celebrities hacked in bitcoin scam
• flooding of the brahmaputra river
• nasa launches mars 2020 rover mission

august

• barakah nuclear power plant in the uae becomes first commercial nuclear power station in the arab states
• beirut explosions
• belarusian protests sparked by controversial presidential election
  
• vladimir putin announces russia’s approval of world’s first covid-19 vaccine
• israel and uae agree to normalise relations
  
• stranded japanese ship breaks in mauritius and spills one thousand tonnes of oil into the ocean
• coup d'état takes place in mali
  
• africa is declared free of wild polio
• amazon ceo jeff bezos becomes first person ever with a net worth exceeding us$200 billion
• hurricane laura
• japanese prime minister shinzo abe resigns after seven years

september

• an agreement is signed to transition sudan into a secular state
  
• largest find of mammoth skeletons at construction site for airport in mexico city
• pope benedict xvi becomes longest-living pope
• kosovo and serbia announce normalisation of economic relations
• bahrain and israel agree to normalise relations
• typhoon haishen
• announcement of detection of phosphine in venus’ atmosphere
• first discovery of perfectly preserved cave bear remains in siberia, believed to be 22 thousand - 39 thousand years old
• venezuelan government is accused of crimes against humanity by human rights council
• france, germany, and the united kingdom reject china’s claims to the south china sea
• oldest known copy of any work by william shakespeare, a 1634 edition of the two noble kinsman, is found in spain
• documents of the financial crimes enforcement network are released, detailing suspicious transations valued at over us$2 trillion
• microsoft buys zenimax media in the biggest and most expensive takover in the video game industry
  
• deadly clashes erupt between armenian and azerbaijani forces in nagorno-karabakh
  

october

• the european union launches legal action against the united kingdom for overriding sections of the brexit withdrawal agreement
• new caledonia votes against independence from france
• mass protests break out in kyrgyzstan against controversial parliamentary election
  
• thai protests
• new zealand prime minister jacinda ardern’s labour party wins second term in office by a landslide, gaining the first parliamentary majority since introduction of new voting system in the early 90s
  
• nasa’s osiris-rex spacecraft becomes their first probe to retrieve samples from an asteroid
  
• geneva consensus declaration on women’s health and strengthening families is signed by 34 countries
  
• falkland islands declared free of land mines
• israel and sudan agree to normalise relations
• nasa confirms existence of molecular water on the moon
• 7.0 aegean sea earthquake
• typhoon goni

november

• amhara women, children and elderly killed in ethiopia
• tumblr melts down over supernatural ship “destiel” (dean winchester and castiel), causing this site to crash several times
• united states election concludes joe biden as president of the united states, STATES FLIP DATA
• hurricane eta
• united states exits the paris climate change accord
• armenia and azerbaijan sign ceasefire agreement
• hong kong pro-democracy lawmakers resign en masse
• nasa and spacex launch to the international space station
• hurricane iota
• brereton report into australian war crimes during the war in afghanistan released
• indian farmers’ protest
• iranian nuclear scientist mohsen fakhrizadeh is assassinated
• koshobe massacre
• lunar eclipse
• protein folding is solved

december

• arecibo telescope collapses
• the united kingdom approves covid-19 vaccine
• three activists jailed in hong kong for part in democracy protests
• united nations commission on narcotic drugs votes to remove cannabis from dangerous drugs list
• united states announces withdrawal from somali civil war
• russia begins mass vaccination against covid-19
• venezuelan parliamentary election
• the united kingdom begins mass vaccination against covid-19
• report into the christchurch mosque shootings released
• nepal and china officially agree on height of mount everest
• israel and morocco normalise relations
• end of nicolas sarkozy corruption trial in france
• the european union agrees to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 55% over the next decade
• bhutan and israel normalise relations
• the international criminal court accuses the philippines of crimes against humanity in its war on drugs
• the united states accuses switzerland and vietnam of currency manipulation
• a new, highly-infectious strain of covid-19 begins to spread through the united kingdom and europe

leparfumdeladame-en-noir:

“ La poésie se fait dans un lit comme l'amour.
   Ses draps défaits sont l'aurore des choses.”

   André Breton

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philosophybits:

“What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one.”

— Hannah Arendt, On Revolution

phantomhottub:

Sometimes a hypocrite is nothing more than a person who is in the process of changing.

Dalinar Kholin, Oathbringer