Sir Veerasamy Ringadoo, GCMG, GCSK, QC, (born வீரசாமி ரிங்காடு Vīracāmi Riṅkāṭu; 20 October 1920 – 9 September 2000) was a Mauritian politician. He was the Governor-General of Mauritius from 1986 until 1992. In 1992, he became the 1st President of Mauritius.
Paradise Now
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Masiyiwa holds a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Wales.
Agnes Kalibata
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Kalibata was born in Rwanda to a refugee in Uganda to parents who were smallholders. She holds a bachelor's degree in entomology from Makerere University and biochemistry, master's degree in agriculture, also from Makerere University in Uganda. She obtained her Ph.D. in entomology from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
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SLAPP Suits
"SLAPP Suits" is a part of the funny HBO show "Last Week Tonight with John Oliver." It is focused on strategic lawsuits against public participation, known as SLAPP suits–lawsuits made to scare people out of saying anything bad about someone else. It was first played on November 10, 2019, as part of the twenty-ninth episode of the series's sixth season. During the twenty six-minute clip, comedian John Oliver talked about the result of a lawsuit against him from mining businessman Robert E. "Bob" Murray. He also talked about the harmful effects of lawsuits like that. Oliver then ended the clip with a song entitled "Eat Shit, Bob!" in honor of winning his lawsuit. The song was generally well-liked.
On June 18, 2017, John Oliver aired a segment on his show, entitled "Coal". The segment focused on practices in the coal mining industry. Oliver began the piece by showing Donald Trump's fondness for the coal industry. He played clips of him when he was running for president in 2016 in a coal miner's hat and talking to a crowd that had miners in it. In the speech, he told the miners to prepare to work their "asses off" when he became President. Oliver then introduced Bob Murray, who is the head of Murray Energy.
Oliver explained that he and his team talked to Murray Energy about this segment before showing it. He said that he received a letter from Murray Energy telling him that he should cease and desist from–or stop–"any efforts to [...] injure Mr. Murray". Oliver also said that Murray has sued people before. Oliver ignored this letter. He called Murray a "geriatric Dr. Evil" who was "on the same side as black lung". Oliver also talked about other errors in the way Murray's miners were told to do their jobs. Oliver particularly talked about the Crandall Canyon Mine collapse that killed 9 people. Bob Murray argued that it was the fault of an earthquake. However, the federal government concluded that it was the fault of the dangerous way miners were told to do their jobs. The government told Murray Energy that they had to pay . This is the highest amount possible the federal government can make someone pay for doing a dangerous thing like this. Oliver then talked about Murray's program for coal miners to earn more money. The workers did not like the program. They said that it might encourage them to do dangerous things for more money. The company told the workers that they could return their money if they felt they were being encouraged to do risky things. Two miners gave back the money, writing the words "KISS MY ASS BOB" and "Eat Shit Bob" on their checks. Oliver also talked about Murray also sharing a story that he received the idea to start a coal mining business from a talking squirrel. Drawing on the two stories from before, Oliver ended the episode by introducing a squirrel mascot known as "Mr. Nutterbutter" (played by Noel MacNeal). Mr. Nutterbutter taunted Bob Murray by holding up an big check–a piece of paper making a promise to pay money–for "three acorns and eighteen cents". The money was addressed to "Eat Shit, Bob!"
On June 22, 2017, some companies owned by Bob Murray said that they had filed a lawsuit–a complaint to a court about something wrong someone else has done to them. The lawsuit was against John Oliver, HBO, and others close to Oliver. Bob Murray said that Oliver had defamed them–said untrue and bad things about Murray and his company. The plaintiffs said that they didn't like the way Oliver talked about the Crandall Canyon Mine collapse. They repeated what they had said before about the mine collapse–that it was because of an earthquake and that Oliver was lying. They also said that because so many people watch Oliver's show, that he was unfairly hurting Murray. Murray wanted money from Oliver, as well as a gag order–a court telling someone not to say something–stopping people from watching the segment.
Someone who talks for HBO said that HBO was happy with the show. They that they did not believe that "anything in the show this week violated Mr. Murray’s or Murray Energy’s rights".
On February 24, 2018, the case was thrown away. This was because the judge agreed with HBO's argument that Murray hadn't shown that anything was wrong with what Oliver did. Bob Murray asked another court to reconsider the case. Before they could, all the justices on that court were fired. The case was dropped soon after. Oliver later said that this was a relief to him. This was because he had made a joke on his show a few years before. He said that the head Justice on the court, Allen Loughry, referred to his penis as "The Gavel".
The ACLU–an activist group of lawyers–wrote a letter to the court for Oliver. People liked the letter because it was funny and sarcastic. This is not common in that type of letter. The paper had lines such as "You Can’t Sue People for Being Mean to You, Bob" and "A Brief History of Plaintiffs’ Attempts to Chill Speech by Abusing the Legal System." The letter said that Oliver's segment did not say anything that was bad for Murray. They said some of the statements were jokes, and the rest were true. The letter said that Murray was using the court as a way to force people not to say things. The argument was helped by a list of Murray's other lawsuits. The ACLU listed lawsuits thrown out by the courts against HuffPost, a newspaper in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, Bloomberg News, and other papers and activists.