When will there be equal pay? How about 217 years. Plus other news and views

For the first time since the World Economic Forum’s records began in 2006, the global gender gap is widening again. ... So much so, the WEF says, that the economic gender gap will now not be closed for 217 years.

Trump drives the news, all day and every day, a human fire hose of hyperbolic tweets, insults, oversimplification and bragging. Keeping track of it is hard enough. Making sense of it almost impossible. ...
When there’s no agreed-upon reality — no Walter Cronkite as the most trusted man in America — we’re all in trouble.
This feeling of mistrust and disagreement on facts is backed up by public opinion polls: One reported last month that 46 percent of Americans believe the news media simply makes things up about Trump.
The network persuades through repetition. Some people think that Fox News poisons the minds of viewers, like a drug slipped into an unwitting victim’s food. It’s more accurate to say that the network wears them down. Even the dumbest conspiracy theories can start to sound plausible when you hear them again and again and again—especially if you are not listening very carefully to begin with. 
A Lesson in Russian Strategic Deception - How Moscow tries to throw us off the trail. - Slate

The Russian Hacking Scandal Is Way Bigger Than Donald Trump - New YorkMagazine

Climate talks open amid anger over Trump's coal support - BBC
Over the next two weeks, negotiators hope to clarify the rulebook of the Paris climate agreement.
It is the first major meeting since President Trump announced plans to take the US out of the Paris pact last June.
Many delegates are unhappy with White House plans to promote fossil fuels here as a "solution" to climate change.
An adviser to the president is expected to take part in a pro-coal presentation in the second week of this conference, which is officially known as COP23,
 Australia to attend UN climate talks - SBS

 Farmer Peter Mailler making Barnaby Joyce by-election contestable - Farmonline
Local farmer and founding Grain Producers chairman Australia Pete Mailler has thrown his hat into the ring to take on embattled Nationals leader Barnaby Joyce in the New England by-election, for CountryMinded.
Mr Mailler founded CountryMinded, aiming to hold traditional core conservative rural political factions like the Nationals and Liberals to better account and make safe country seats more contestable, rather than bring taken for granted by voters.
Norwegian man jailed for buying child-like sex doll - The Local No


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