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> Amazon secured naming rights to Seattle arena, but company's name won't be on building.

>Get ready for Climate Pledge Arena, an industry trendsetter:
>+NHL ice made from♻️rainwater
>+"zero waste" events (inspired by Billie Eilish)
> +100% renewable electricity

>and will feature several green initiatives.

>"I think this is going to be a transformative moment in our industry," Tim Leiweke, CEO of the Oak View Group, told ESPN.
> "We spent a lot of time trying to figure it out,
> to get through the complications to pull it off.
> It wasn't easy. But to the credit of Jeff Bezos and Amazon,
> They said, 'We'll act like a naming rights partner, but let's do this the right way.

> I don't need any more branding.
> What I need is to go save the planet.'

> Ice for hockey games will be made from recaptured rainwater. Leiweke said there will be a "massive tank hidden underground next to the building" that can collect rainwater from the roof, but the team is also figuring out a way for people in the community to bring in rainwater from their own backyards.

>not believed to be poachers
>unrelated to the drought
>anthrax has done something similar before but it doesn't seem like the cause
>elephants been seen walking in circles

>$50k a semester for online uni
>Trump suspends international student visa over Covid (higher Ed's most lucrative customer base ie their paypigs)
>Harvard sues to secure the bag

>Trump denies any proofs
>calls it hoax

>Mexico would be willing to sell oil to Venezuela if that country requested it, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Monday.

>In his regular morning press conference, Lopez Obrador stressed that this would be a humanitarian gesture, as the South American nation has been severely affected by the unilateral and illegal United States blockade.

>“If they requested it and it was a humanitarian necessity, we would do it (...) No one has the right to oppress others,” he expressed.

>Venezuela’s government has repeatedly denounced the consequences of the illegal coercive measures imposed by the U.S. against the Venezuelan people. These unilateral actions have threatened fuel supply in this South American country.

>The blockade "is a war,(...)a brutal war. The U.S. is persecuting any company that brings a drop of gasoline to Venezuela,” Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said as Iranian tankers reached the country two weeks ago.

>If Mexico would sell fuel to Venezuela they could face sanctions by the U.S government, as Trump's administration prevents other countries and companies from working with the government of Maduro.

>"Mexico is an independent, sovereign country, we make our own decisions and we do not interfere with the other countries' policies. It is people's self-determination," Obrador pointed out.

>DDOSecrets, short for Distributed Denial of Secrets, published what it said were millions of documents stolen from more than 200 law enforcement groups around the country. Reporter Brian Krebs, citing the organization National Fusion Center Association (NFCA), confirmed the validity of the leaked data. DDOSecrets said the documents spanned at least a decade, although some of the dates in documents suggested a timespan twice as long.

>...

>“It’s the largest published hack of American law enforcement agencies,” Best told the publication in a series of text messages. “It provides the closest inside look at the state, local, and federal agencies tasked with protecting the public, including [the] government response to COVID and the BLM protests.”

>not believed to be poachers
>unrelated to the drought
>anthrax has done something similar before but it doesn't seem like the cause
>elephants been seen walking in circles

>The sergeant major’s nickname was Little Sheep. He was suspected of being a neo-Nazi. Buried in the garden, the police found two kilograms of PETN plastic explosives, a detonator, a fuse, an AK-47, a silencer, two knives, a crossbow and thousands of rounds of ammunition, much of it believed to have been stolen from the German military.

>the extremists appear to be concentrated in the military unit that is supposed to be the most elite and dedicated to the German state, the special forces, known by their German acronym, the KSK.

>Over the past 13 months, far-right terrorists have assassinated a politician, attacked a synagogue and shot dead nine immigrants and German descendants of immigrants.

>“What you basically have is one of the founding commanders of the KSK becoming a prominent ideologue of the New Right,”

>The New Right, which encompasses youth activists, intellectuals and the AfD, worries General Kreitmayr. The lawmaker whose anti-Semitic comments led to General Günzel’s firing all those years ago now sits in the German Parliament for the AfD.

>Beijing will write off all interest-free loans advanced to African countries that are due this year, Chinese President Xi Jinping announced on Wednesday.

>China will also build hospitals and send more medical experts to Africa to aid in the coronavirus fight, Xi said in speaking at the Extraordinary China-Africa Summit on Solidarity Against the Covid-19 Pandemic, which was conducted by video link.

>He said that under the framework of the 2018 Forum on China-Africa Cooperation, “China will forgive the interest-free loans of relevant African countries due to China by the end of 2020.”

>He also urged Chinese financial institutions such as Export-Import Bank of China and the China Development Bank “to conduct consultations with African countries on commercial sovereign loan arrangements”.