Myopic US take. The Israel lobby is all through the western world and has pushed almost every government into the corner of accepting this racist genocidal war lest they be labelled anti-Semitic.
Good article. Shitty title. Also from the article, "The rise of settler militias is not a new phenomenon."
They've been doing this for decades. What's new is them being so emboldened by the rhetoric and backing of the Israeli police state that they've begun attacking IDF soldiers who they deem not supportive enough during their attacks on Palestinians, and raiding IDF bases for supplies and weapons.
I legit do not understand your comment.
My Aussie mate back in England told me that the British killed the First Nations and took their land,
With you this far. Yes your Australian friend (who was in England at the time) told you that the British killed the first nations people and took their land.
like his ancestors just turned up here to find swathes of unoccupied land and were like “crikey, what’s been happening here!” and immediately started doing Acknowledgement Of Country at the start of every office meeting.
Now you're saying your Australian friend was foolish to ideate that his ancestors just turned up in Australia to find swathes of unoccupied land.. and then start making Acknowledgement of Country statements.
First of all - how is this not contradictory to the first part of your analogy? He didn't ideate that.
Second, the Acknowledgement of Country statements didn't start until 200 years after colonisation.. So this is really disingenuous representation you make of your "Aussie mate's" position.
Completely fair. When your neighbour is as untrustworthy and aggressively expansionist as the Russian government I would line the border with mines too.
Nah gotta make the question more pointed: why is your administration, in your own words, giving access to top secret Intel to low-level losers?
As the article mentions, this is not even the first BBC documentary on Palestine that the BBC have pulled from their service after public pressure this year. They pulled one about kids in Palestine in February - after complaints from all the usual Zionist warhawks, including J.K. Rowling.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3374xm65mvo
The BBC have also pulled documentaries over less - merely "possibly upsetting conservative viewers with truth" is enough. Their leadership are spineless.
If China wants to keep escalating skirmishes and expanding ownership claims then it forces world powers to travel via the strait to demonstrate that it's still a regular legal channel of international naval transit, owned by no-one. The channel is 130kms wide at its most narrow section ffs.. the closest passing ships come to land is ~65kms. That's a pretty large buffer.
China just sailed a fleet of their own warships around Australia three months back, crossing into Australian territorial waters a number of times and even conducting live firing tests in the waters between Australia and NZ. None of which was done with permission, or necessary to be done near Australia or NZ. There are enormous uninhabited sections of ocean that would have been less travel (and cost) for them to reach - its just done to flex muscle and could just as easily be framed as "intentional provocation" and "undermining peace and stability". So its 'rules for thee, not for me'.
Caesarian is absolutely not 'much more dangerous' for mother and child, cite some evidence. 32% of all births in the US are caesarian, about the same in the UK, and over 50% of those are emergency c-sections after natural childbirth has proven impossible and the doctors have had to step in to save the mother and baby from death or lifelong injury or disability.
"Delivering a baby via cesarean section is generally considered safe, and in some instances is medically necessary and safer than a vaginal birth"
https://www.healthline.com/health/pregnancy/how-many-c-sections-can-you-have
"The data shocked the study’s head author, Darine El-Chaâr, a perinatal researcher at the Ottawa hospital. In the planned vaginal birth group, there was a higher percentage of negative outcomes compared with the MRC [maternal-request, non-emergency c-section] group, driven by serious vaginal tears and babies admitted to intensive care. “I myself am challenged by the data,” she says, underlining that she believes vaginal birth is natural. “I wanted it to be the other way around.”"
Yes, sadly we have social media access in Australia too, and the same loony shit that glues eyeballs to screens in the US and makes people choose poorly has the same affect here.
50% seems like an overstatement, but who cares if the hospital uses c-sections regularly? Much like people's lower jaws are evolving to be smaller over time and we're experiencing many health issues related to teeth overcrowding (due to people having processed food and needing to chew hard foods less often) - we're experiencing changes in childbirth too. Women are having children much later in life in western nations, which causes narrower pelvises, and they're having heavier babies.. Both of which lead to much higher likelihood of natural birth complications, especially when you factor in the obesity epidemic. So yes, c-sections are becoming more common - to ensure the child and mother are safe through the birth.
TL;DR: what you'd expect. Boring gangster disputes. A gangster laid the blame on him partially for killing an associate of the gangster, with little to no evidence. So they killed him publically to maintain street cred.
I know the writer and editor had a lot of options to go through when choosing a lead photo for this story, but I think they must've simultaneously said "that's the one" when they got to this pic.
So.. You know that leaving the porch lights on 24/7 is part of the light pollution problem that kills insects, right?
Many, many countries have 'historical claims' that mean nothing in current day geopolitics.
Claiming that 'Taiwan is not a country' is enough for me to know that this will not be a fruitful discussion.
Literally the first line of the 'Taiwan' Wikipedia article:
"Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia."
Expecting people to wade through 8000 word articles in the hope of finding mention of your claim is why you're being downvoted.
Imagine someone making the claim, 'Jesus hated gay people, it's obvious' and then when probed for a source, responding, 'this is common knowledge available anywhere:
https://thekingsbible.com/'
More gross than China enabling North Korea to send troops to help Russia attack Ukraine?
Not even close IMO.
It's metaphoric. Macron is saying "if you don't stay out of our geopolitical backyard, we will become more closely involved in yours".
China is increasingly invested politically and financially throughout SEA (Vietnam, Cambodia, Bangladesh, Malaysia, and more).
Because North Korea doesn't make any geopolitical moves without asking China first. They are by far their primary trade partner and arguably closest ally, with literally the only defense treaty to China out of all countries in the world.
Troops getting to Russia in order to fight alongside them in their invasion of Ukraine have to either pass through China for the shorter route, or go through the tiny 17km sliver of Russia-NK border on the far east of the Asian continent that China monitors very closely (more likely). Either way, China is giving their approval to NK for the troop movements.
I don't see how grant immunity, sign documents, transfer them to US - take all documentation and knowledge, higher court later declares the immunity invalid, execute them for war crimes was off the table. It would likely be legal. It would surely be less immoral than letting them free.
What, did the US generals not want to have a bad rep with future war criminals??
'Gosh no we can't do that - we made a pinky swear to some of the worst people who ever lived'.
Personally i wait and see how the institution responds and make my assessment then. Cool heads and all that.
There is a tendancy on the left to become reactionary - spot one bad actor and 'throw the baby out with the bathwater' by personally blacklisting a whole attached group.
While that might feel good and have some short term positive feedback with upvotes on a social post, its also great for the right wing too. They just have to highlight a single problematic incident and watch as their enemy platform/org/service is abandoned by leftist puritans. The same does not happen for right wing groups, as their users are far less likely to baulk over one or two issues, so they don't even need to worry about this attack method being turned inward - no blowback.