chapotraphouse FuckyWucky • 16 hours ago • 100%

https://x.com/ByYourLogic/status/1836218385606283715

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chapotraphouse FuckyWucky • 3 days ago • 100%

This guy is so unhinged https://voteryanrouth.com/viewtopic.php?t=68

chapotraphouse FuckyWucky • 3 days ago • 100%

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fudan_poisoning_case

chapotraphouse FuckyWucky • 4 days ago • 100%

https://archive.is/EgYTB

chapotraphouse FuckyWucky • 6 days ago • 99%

I wouldnt call it "degrowth".

chapotraphouse FuckyWucky • 7 days ago • 100%

[Second](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nguy%E1%BB%85n_Ph%C3%BA_Tr%E1%BB%8Dng) General Secretary to die this year. Tbf they were both quite old.

chapotraphouse FuckyWucky • 7 days ago • 99%

And the Iran citation is a news article of them denying it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somali_Civil_War_%282009%E2%80%93present%29

chapotraphouse FuckyWucky • 1 week ago • 100%

I see the "Haitians are eating cats" bullshit anecdote. https://scholars.unh.edu/unh_lr/vol17/iss1/18/ *"The Department of Justice estimates that American police officers shoot 10,000 pet dogs in the line of duty each year."* *" It is impossible to ascertain a reliable number, however, because most law enforcement agencies do not maintain accurate records of animal killings. The tally may be substantially higher, and some suggest it could reach six figures."* https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/israels-forced-starvation-in-gaza-affects-both-humans-and-animals/3126734 **Palestinian veterinarian Aid Ebu Necm built a shelter for abandoned cats in southern Gaza's Rafah. Ebu Necm, stating that many cats have died either due to Israeli attacks or hunger, said, "The war Israel unleashed on Gaza killed not only people but also animals. Animals have also been affected by this great injustice."**

chapotraphouse FuckyWucky • 1 week ago • 99%

I think English signs itself isn't always sus. But Israeli flags? Come on.

music FuckyWucky • 1 week ago • 100%

Unironically a bop 

memes FuckyWucky • 2 weeks ago • 100%

https://x.com/realwow_mao/status/1832398274474733818

chapotraphouse FuckyWucky • 2 weeks ago • 100%

www.scmp.com

never trust the private sector.

urbanism FuckyWucky • 4 weeks ago • 100%

Imma be honest, these should be for storage or something, not residential.

history FuckyWucky • 4 weeks ago • 100%

www.csmonitor.com

The dark clouds gathering this summer between Moscow and the West have some experts concerned that the world is on the brink of a new cold war. They point to two flash points. One, the ex-Soviet state of Georgia, is largely driven by Moscow's fear of NATO expanding into its traditional sphere of influence. The other is a proposed US missile-defense shield in Eastern Europe. Russia has promised to retaliate – possibly by basing nuclear-capable bombers in Cuba, according to an unofficial news report quoting unnamed top security officials last week. "It's no longer just rhetoric, it could start to get quite serious," says Dmitri Trenin, an analyst with the Carnegie Center in Moscow. "The message being put out by Moscow is that the West needs to realize that it's approaching a line, beyond which there could be a real showdown." But Russian President Dmitri Medvedev, has a plan to arrest the slide by creating an alternative to NATO. Though it has yet to gain traction in the West, Mr. Medvedev's plan, announced in Berlin last month, has been much discussed in the Russian media. In short, it would redesign Europe's security system from the bottom up – but this time, Russian would participate as an equal partner and founder of the new bloc. Russian experts are dubbing the concept "EATO" – Euro-Atlantic Treaty Organization – a big-tent security grouping that would replace NATO – the North Atlantic Treaty Organization – and say it is likely to become the signature foreign policy theme of Medvedev's presidency. It would also, say supporters, remove the main irritant in Russia's relations with the West today. Unlike the former cold war, Russian officials argue, today's growing rift between Moscow and the West is not based on irreconcilable ideological or geopolitical hostility. The main problem, they say, stems from the West's failure to work with Russia to re-imagine global security architecture following the USSR's collapse. Confidantes of former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev say that US leaders reneged on pledges to build a "new world order" after Soviet troops withdrew from Eastern Europe and the Communist military alliance – the Warsaw Pact – was disbanded. "Gorbachev made deep concessions to the West in order to break out of the vicious cycle of the arms race. But later, when Russia was going through a painful economic transition and we needed support, the West turned away," says Andrei Grachev, who was a Kremlin adviser and Gorbachev's presidential spokesman at the time. "Despite promises that had been given to us, the West decided to use [Russia's weakness and economic turmoil] in order to expand NATO to the east. I believe that the anti-Western moods present in Russian society today can be explained by the fact that the West treated Russia as a vanquished enemy," rather than a potential partner, he says. The sorest point is the inexorable advance of NATO into the USSR's former sphere which could soon see inclusion of the ex-Soviet states of Georgia and Ukraine. Little has come from past attempts to develop a NATO-Russian partnership, and Moscow views the Western alliance as a cold war artifact that unites European countries against Russia. "Russia's view is that NATO creates new divisions in Europe," says Tatiana Parkhalina, director of the official Center for European Security Studies in Moscow. Unlike the previous cycle of NATO expansion, which took in Eastern European states of lesser strategic concern to Russia, the new candidates are part of the core of the former USSR. "Ukraine is felt by Russians as part of traditional Russian lands. To many Russians it's just unthinkable for it to become part of an outside military alliance," she says. Mr. Trenin argues that if Ukraine is admitted to NATO's membership action program, which could happen as early as December, "that would start a political warfare campaign in Ukraine," he says. "I see Russia ceasing to value the sovereignty of Ukraine now that it's dropping into the US lap. I see a harshening of the tone in Moscow. The whole foreign policy of Russia will change." Another looming flashpoint is US determination to install antimissile installations in Eastern Europe to counter what it sees as a nuclear missile threat from rogue states such as Iran and North Korea. At the Group of Eight summit in Japan earlier this month, Medvedev promised to "retaliate" if the scheme to build radars in the Czech Republic and deploy interceptor rockets in Poland is finalized. In what experts say were a series of calculated leaks to Moscow newspapers last week, the Kremlin let the world know what such retaliation might look like. It could come in the shape of medium-range nuclear missiles based in the Russian Baltic enclave of Kaliningrad and targeted on European capitals. Or, according to a detailed report in the daily Izvestia that cited top military sources, Russia might revive an old Soviet-era airfield in Cuba as a base for its Tu-95 and Tu-160 long-range nuclear bombers. Russian officials denied the stories, but experts say there's little doubt they were Kremlin-approved. "I don't think Russian bombers in Cuba is something to be seriously discussed at the moment, but the leak was clearly designed for psychological impact," says Fyodor Lukyanov, editor of Russia in Global Affairs, a leading foreign-policy journal. "These stories say to the West: 'You'd better start thinking about this, because we are very, very serious.' " The Russian alternative, outlined by Medvedev in various statements, is a vague project that would be kicked off by a pan-European meeting of government leaders and security experts to develop a new concept that would include all the post-Soviet states, including Russia. One of the main aims of his presidency, he said, will be to establish a strategic partnership with the European Union that could be the mainstay of a "big Europe without dividing lines." "The issue of rejoining Europe will be the central theme for Medvedev, whether his proposal is accepted or not," says Gleb Pavlovsky, a longtime Kremlin adviser. "The existing architecture is in crisis, and it isn't working. We need a new design, with an emphasis on security for all countries in Europe."

chapotraphouse FuckyWucky • 1 month ago • 100%

itif.org

>Indeed, as industry analyst Kenneth Luongo commented, “They don’t have any secret sauce other than state financing, state supported supply chain, and a state commitment to build the technology.”

chapotraphouse FuckyWucky • 1 month ago • 100%

www.context.news

>The ability to tax such new revenue streams is enticing for state and city officials dealing with post-pandemic economic upheaval, said Richard C. Auxier, principle policy associate with the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center, a think tank. 

news FuckyWucky • 1 month ago • 100%

apnews.com

Died young, 

videos FuckyWucky • 1 month ago • 100%

“If you can do that to an animal, then why not a human being”

chapotraphouse FuckyWucky • 1 month ago • 100%

But Ukraine is invading Russia now, they're going to win!!!! ::: spoiler article KYIV, Ukraine—As soon as the military draft officers limped into an outdoor shopping center here, young men began moving away from them. The first man they tried to stop held a phone to his ear and kept walking past. “They’re afraid to go fight,” one of the recruiters, a 36-year-old who goes by the call sign Fantomas, said. Ukraine is in the midst of a massive mobilization drive, with the goal of adding hundreds of thousands of new troops to the country’s forces. New laws have lowered the age of conscription from 27 to 25, and imposed harsh new penalties on men who fail to update their draft registration. But unlike in the early days of the war—when so many Ukrainians volunteered after Russia’s invasion that the army had to turn some away—many men of fighting age are trying to avoid the military by any possible means. The Ukrainian military recruiter, known by the call sign Fantomas, began working as a draft officer after injuries forced him off the battlefield. Photo: Joseph Sywenkyj for WSJ Applications for postgraduate education programs, which traditionally came with an exemption from the draft, reached record highs this year. Smugglers charge up to $15,000 to get men out of the country illegally. Some men have effectively gone into hiding. Their efforts to avoid fighting highlight an uncomfortable reality for Ukraine in the third year of full-scale war: Most men who wanted to join the armed forces have already done so, and enlisting more men is likely to become increasingly difficult the longer the war goes on. Already, troops at the front in eastern Ukraine complain that their battalions are short of men and in desperate need of reserves. Draft dodgers list a host of reasons for trying to stay out of the military. Many have heard stories of men who were sent to the front with minimal training, and they fear that commanders will use them as cannon fodder. In addition, once they are drafted, the only currently available ways to leave the military are injury, death or the end of the war. “It’s a big deterrent for me,” Oleksandr, a 25-year-old in Kyiv, said of indefinite enlistment. “If you die, what happens to your family?” In June, Oleksandr quit his job at a bakery, worried that he would eventually be caught by draft officers if he kept commuting to work. Now, he is living off savings and hardly leaving his apartment. “It’s very dangerous,” Oleksandr said of going outside. “I go to the nearest store for groceries. I don’t go out for walks.” (Like others who are trying to avoid the draft, Oleksandr requested that his last name not be used.) A recruitment poster for a Ukrainian army battalion hangs in Kyiv where the police, working with military recruiters, check the documents of young men. Justyna Mielnikiewicz for WSJ Dmytro Lazutkin, a spokesman for the Defense Ministry, said the mobilization drive is going well: 4.6 million men have updated their data since the new law was passed, and more than 3,000 people have voluntarily applied to join the armed forces over the last three months, a sharp increase. He declined to comment on how many men had been added to the armed forces overall. Lazutkin told Ukrainian media that stories of people being sent directly to a trench are untrue. “First, there’s basic military training,” often followed by more specialized training, he said. “The percentage of those who participate in assault operations, out of the total number of servicemen, is actually not that high.” Still, there are indications that huge numbers of people are trying to avoid the draft. More than 90,000 men of conscription age applied this year to enroll in postgraduate programs, which had previously come with a draft exemption. That exemption has now been largely eliminated, the Ministry of Education said, “so that postgraduate study does not turn into a corrupt tool to avoid mobilization.” Avoiding conscription is growing tougher by the day. Draft officers have fanned out across the country handing out summonses. After receiving a summons, men must appear at a recruitment office within days, or a warrant goes out for their arrest. Military recruiter Fantomas checks draft documents as he walks around the streets of Kyiv. Joseph Sywenkyj for WSJ Nazar, 39, was living in Uzhhorod, in western Ukraine, when the new mobilization law was approved earlier this year. Soon after, he said, draft officers began blanketing the city. Several of his friends were arrested after failing to respond to summonses. “They were everywhere—especially at the entrances to the city and the train station,” Nazar said. Nazar said he didn’t want to fight, adding that his cousin and several friends had already been killed in the war. So he quit his job at a shop in Uzhhorod, moved to Kyiv and started working on a construction crew. For much of the war, Kyiv was seen as a place of relative safety from the draft, with far fewer officers doling out summonses. But that has changed over the past few months. In May, Nazar and three co-workers were waiting for a train after finishing work when an officer approached them on the platform and handed them all summonses. He quit several weeks later and has since holed up at his apartment, going outside as little as possible and trying to find a job that will give him an exemption from the draft. He realizes that a warrant is likely out for his arrest. “I love my country. I have no problem with the authorities. I understand the need for mobilization,” he said, but added, “I hope that the war will be over soon and I won’t have to go. I’m not ready.” Many Ukrainian soldiers—who, in many cases, have fought for more than two years with little rest—have grown resentful toward compatriots who are hiding or fleeing the country. “I don’t understand people who don’t want to protect their mothers, their wives, their kids,” Fantomas, the draft officer, said. At the start of the full-scale invasion, he said, he quit his finance job and stood in line for two weeks to join the military. Young men are notably few on the subway in Kyiv. Recruitment posters for Ukraine's army appear in the streets. Joseph Sywenkyj for WSJ On a recent Thursday afternoon, The Wall Street Journal accompanied Fantomas and his partner on their rounds in Kyiv. A police officer trailed behind them—when recruiters find a man who already failed to respond to a summons, only the police can arrest him and take him to a draft office. Both men began working as draft officers after injuries forced them off the battlefield. They didn’t chase after the men who ran away—Fantomas has a metal plate in his leg and walks with a distinct limp. A group on social media, with more than 200,000 members, tracks the movements of draft officers in Kyiv to help people avoid them. The first man they successfully stopped was a heavyset 46-year-old, who said he had left his draft documents at home. Fantomas wrote him a summons and told him he had three days to appear at a draft office. Fantomas took a photo of the man holding the summons to prove he hadn’t mistreated him. Videos online show draft officers forcibly hauling men into cars. In a typical day, Fantomas said, he usually speaks to about 100 men and issues a dozen summonses; the police take several others, who have outstanding warrants, to draft offices. The results are now reshaping life in much of Ukraine. Young men are notably few on the subway in Kyiv and the seaside resorts in Odesa. Some villages in western Ukraine have been effectively emptied of men. Businesses complain that it has grown more difficult to find workers in recent months, especially in traditionally male fields such as construction. Yaroslav, 28, left his job at a graphic-design firm in May, when the company told him that all employees would have to prove that they had updated their draft registrations. Now, he is living with his ex-girlfriend in Kyiv and working freelance design jobs from home. He no longer takes the subway or goes out jogging, and he has gained about 15 pounds in the past three months. “My father condemns me for my anxiety of being mobilized,” he said. “But I’m simply afraid.” People in Dnipro in southeastern Ukraine at a cemetery where Ukrainian soldiers are buried, and by the city's river. Justyna Mielnikiewicz for WSJ :::

chapotraphouse FuckyWucky • 1 month ago • 100%

"The students rely upon the power of the mass demonstrations for their legitimacy. What they do not have is an agenda for Bangladesh, which is why the old neoliberal technocrats are already swimming like sharks around the interim government. In their ranks are those who favor the BNP and the Islamists. What role they will play is yet to be seen. If the student committee now formed a bloc with the trade unions, particularly the garment worker unions, there is the possibility that they might indeed form the opening for building a new democratic and people-centered Bangladesh. If they are unable to build this historical bloc, they may be pushed to the side, just like the students and workers in Egypt, and they might have to surrender their efforts to the military and an elite that has merely changed its jersey."

chapotraphouse FuckyWucky • 1 month ago • 100%

Full debate https://youtu.be/Amz2Sf1JMDE Benny Morris is such a piece of shit.

chapotraphouse FuckyWucky • 1 month ago • 100%

www.aljazeera.com

Please no right-wing rule