The headline says “Europe” not the EU.
Well the UK just cut disability benefits.
France is cutting support for chronically ill people.
The swiss government is planning on removing disability benefits for young people…
Those banker goblins were a bit of a jew face.
Bezos just looks like terrible rich person.
It’s funny though, because despite some leftover socialist aesthetic its hard to get more capitalist. I mean it’s pretty obvious state capitalism. You can’t have billionaires 80 years into your “socialist project”.
There’s no US military stationed in Taiwan. The closest US bases are in Okinawa and the Philippines.
The only “military” the US has in Taiwan are some training consultants for the taiwan army, there’s no boots on the ground.
What’s so sad about Hong Kong is I know we’re probably all going to watch this go down again in Taiwan.
The United Kingdom government has just published draft legislation seeking to “reform” key disability-related aspects of its complex social security system. While the government claims its moves “will protect the most vulnerable,” in reality its plans to cut £4.5 billion in disability-linked benefits by 2030 will have a devastating impact on people’s rights.
The government’s own analysis shows that up to 800,000 people will no longer be eligible to receive PIP and that the changes could lead to 200,000 more people (50,000 of them children) in poverty by 2030. Organizations working on social security and disability rights, including Citizens Advice, the Disability Charities Consortium, and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, have warned of the poverty the cuts will create.
García Soto is the second mayor to be killed in Oaxaca state this year. In May, the mayor of Santiago Amoltepec was shot dead in an ambush along with two other people who were in the car with him at the time of the attack.
*she/her, the mayor was a women.
Pussy Riot’s founder built a ‘police state’ in an LA art gallery. Then the national guard arrived
So much respect for Pussy Riot
I don’t think being poor made me more empathetic. I was always empathetic.
I was just a priviledged fuck that didnt realise how bad it could get. Now that I do, my empathy extends further because I understand how much worse it is than I previously realised.
I don’t think it made me more inherently empathetic though.
Kabul gets about 50 cm of rain a year. That’s low, but well high enough to start to apply water harvesting to collect significant amounts of sustainable drinking water.
I guess the Soviet then US infrastructural inertia doesn’t help. And I’m dubious the Taliban are much use either. Really feel bad for the people of Afghanistan they got fucked over so much.
Our operation Spider's Web… even though they the Russians – ed.] are furious, they understand everything – that if there are cases like the one involving 20,000 rockets that the US had planned to send to Ukraine but redirected to the Middle East – ed.], then we'll rely on our own strength… We don't want the war to continue, but we'll fight for ourselves if that is the only way out.
We're very close. We need strong support from the United States. The US needs unity with Europe and still needs to put pressure on Putin. He doesn't want to end the war, but he can end the war under pressure from partners. In my opinion, that gives us a chance. And this doesn't sound pessimistic at all – I'm talking about reality."
I think it’s more the kind of person you have to be to get that much wealth in the first place selects for unethical people.
It’s not like they were good people before they had the money.
If you read the Epstein article in wikipedia you really just realise how they are all part of one social group.
“It’s a big club and you ain’t in it” - George Carlin
No no. According to ML colonialism is a thing only done by America and Western Europe.
When Russia or China do it, it’s “helping others”.
The news site is reposting an Article written by Agence France Presse which the French government owns 20% of. (And majorly subsidised). The French government like most western governments is pro-Israel biased. So I’m not too suprised by the slanted reporting.
(Yes of course the AFP claims “editorial independence”, but is any news site “independent” when the funder has the power to cut the money if it says something the funder doesn’t like).