Funny events in anti-woke world
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Unless he was lying about what they told him, or he lied about their names to protect them, or they didn't tell him their real names in the first place, or the name the police had was an alias. None of that requires a terrible imaginative leap, and seems at least as likely as "ICE pulled a guy over looking for undocumented migrants and left with two people in custody by coincidence."
Russia has the best of Ukraine's arable land in terms of agricultural inputs, similar to potash and a lot of Ukraine's rare earths in that region.
Sorry, but that is trash.
Japan's basically a medium-sized country. It does in a sense lack resources, if by "resources" you mean people, although one might argue people is to some degree related to land, and it is, after all, just a medium-sized country. Obviously, pop growth stalled for the same reason it has done all over the developed world. In terms of money, it's common enough knowledge what happened to Japan in the 1990s: a financial scerw-up and debt crisis. This is nothing to do with natural resources. Never mind that fundamentally the richer a country is relative to others, the relatively slower its growth is likely to be in the long term: poorer countries have competetive advantages with cheaper production costs and can copy to improve productivity rather than having to innovate.
There was never any possibility of Japan taking over the world: not enough people, and it was never, ever, going to be able to amass enough money to make up for that lack of people. Americans felt one of their pangs of shock and worry about Japan back then just because Japan became close to US wealth (GDP/capita), and for some reason the USA seemed to think that was some sort of mini existential crisis.
Sure, if you disregard whatever information we've been given on the basis that it could all be lies, you can sort of reach whatever conclusion you want.
I see little reason to extend ICE that much benefit of doubt. Their litany of abuses is as long as my arm already.
Due to the effects of tariffs targeting steel and aluminium, here in Alberta there are some pretty severe anti-American feelings at the moment. I've seen a number of major projects completely cancel American steel orders to swap to Canadian suppliers here, and that is almost unheard of. The whole have/have-not issue gets brought up periodically, and then the price of oil drops, or there is a bad harvest year, or the US decides to impose tariffs on softwood lumber, again, and then the issue is promptly dropped. Provinces use it as a talking point but never act on it.
No, it failed because Japan didn't have the natural resources to sustain its population growth indefinitely without US Navy-backed trade, and the US knew this. You can argue it's financial all you want, but that's not the case. Why did they have an asset bubble? It's because everyone moved to the cities to find work. Why do people move to cities? It's because of the absence of well-paying blue-collar work(resource extraction), like what you see in China, Russia, and the US, there was no other way for Japan's citizens to get good-paying jobs.
Japan is a case study of why small island nations like Japan, Taiwan, and Singapore depend on free trade, and will never become a super power unless they start to conquer, which they can't do because they have no land borders with anyone as of right given current technology.
The US could have done this due to the Liberal Party's ineptitude. Pierre was by far more competent than anyone in the Liberal Party save for Chrystia Freeland who Trudeau fired. By allowing Canada's decline to continue via more liberal party rule, and by announcing he is willing to 'annex Canada'. US policymakers may be squeezing Canada to extract concessions from them for as I mentioned the Arctic, and this was a course is standard US practice to play hard ball. China will go to Singapore behind closed doors, and say the strong do what they can, the weak suffer what they must, while Trump is brazen, and direct about it. It's standard superpower policy.
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Well yeah, this whole 'let's try fascism again' thing is just one of the stages in the inevitable collapse of this whole human experiment.
Trump 'goes full fascist' by saying CNN and MSNBC criticizing him is 'illegal'
This is not the first time rump has publicly levied attacks against the free press. Prior to the election, Trump filed a lawsuit against CBS, claiming that a 60 Minutes interview with then Democratic Presidential Nominee Kamala Harris was edited in a way to give her an advantage.
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The birth rates of developed countries have obviously not declined because of lack of natural resources. This claim is bonkers-level absurdity. For instance, Canada surely has one of the best ratios of resources to population in the whole world, and it's birth rate is around 1.5 children per woman. There is patently no meaningful relationship between birth rate and natural resources.
Do you know how many people are directly employed in the oil industry in the USA? It fluctuates around 100,000 - 200,000, and is currently at the lower end of that scale. That's about 1/1000th of the US workforce. Also bear in mind that the USA is the world's largest oil producer. I'm just trying to give you an idea of how few jobs there are in resource extraction.
I'm not sure what on earth you are doing by talking about urban and rural. An extraction industry in an area results in an urban development to cater for the workers, so they end up living in cities. Is there any meaningful relationship between urban/rural populations and resource extraction? I'm going to hazard a guess no.
Let's consider immigration. Are immigrants coming to Western countries to work in resource extraction industries? Quick answer, mostly no. In fact, where do they go generally? They move to the cities, because the cities are the places which tend to be most vibrant and provide jobs for them to do. It's been like that for around 300 years, ever since technology started to drastically reduce the labour requirements for agrliculture. People do move to cities because of a lack of economic opportunities outside them, but that's not because there aren't enough decent iron / lithium / diamond mines in the sticks.
Pretty much everything you are saying is wrong.
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maybe listening to a bit of humour could take a tad of the edge off reading UN report highlighting that projection happens for reactionary RW even (or especially) at the geopolitical neo-colonial level, cos otherwise it ain't gonna be pleasant
Rights probe alleges sexual violence against Palestinians by Israeli forces used as ‘method of war’
Senior human rights investigators reporting to the UN Human Rights Council alleged on Thursday that sexual and gender-based violence by Israeli security forces against Palestinians – including children - have been increasingly used “as a method of war” following the 7 October 2023 attacks that...
reporting on this has been anemic at best.
Rights probe alleges sexual violence against Palestinians by Israeli forces used as ‘method of war’
UN News Much of Gaza remains in ruins.
13 March 2025 Human Rights
Senior human rights investigators reporting to the UN Human Rights Council alleged on Thursday that sexual and gender-based violence by Israeli security forces against Palestinians – including children - have been increasingly used “as a method of war” following the 7 October 2023 attacks that sparked the Gaza war.
“Israel has increasingly employed sexual, reproductive and other forms of gender-based violence against Palestinians as part of a broader effort to undermine their right to self-determination,” maintained Chris Sidoti from the Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT).
‘Increasingly used’
Speaking in Geneva, the human rights lawyer said that “the frequency, prevalence and severity of sexual and gender-based crimes perpetrated across the OPT leads the Commission to conclude that sexual and gender-based violence is increasingly used as a method of war by Israel to destabilize, dominate, oppress and destroy the Palestinian people”.
Established by the Council in May 2021, the Commission has a mandate to investigate and report on alleged violations of international law in the OPT, including East Jerusalem - and in Israel.
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Terror attacks in Israel
Previous reports have covered in detail the terror attacks on Israeli villages and towns on 7 and 8 October by Hamas-led Palestinian armed fighters that killed around 1,250 people and left more than 250 taken as hostages back to Gaza.
Publication of the Commission’s report followed two days of public hearings held in Geneva from 11 to 12 March, featuring victims and witnesses of sexual and reproductive violence and medical personnel who assisted them, as well as civil society representatives, academics, lawyers and medical experts.
Mr. Sidoti said that the Commission had made several requests to the Israeli authorities for information on specific, serious cases of sexual and gender-based violence against Palestinian prisoners taken from Gaza.
But no information has been provided about prosecutions of members of the Israeli security forces or Israeli settlers for sexual and violence committed since October 2023, he told journalists.
Explicit orders and ‘implicit encouragement’
In a statement accompanying the release of the Commission’s report, it asserted that “forced public stripping and nudity, sexual harassment including threats of rape, as well as sexual assault” were “standard operating procedure” of the Israeli Security Forces toward Palestinians.
“Other forms of sexual and gender-based violence, including rape and violence to the genitals, were committed either under explicit orders or with implicit encouragement by Israel’s top civilian and military leadership,” the report maintained.”
“We heard evidence - you would have heard it if you were looking at our hearings during the last two days - where men and boys were forced to strip wholly or almost wholly, that is down to underpants and then were kept in that condition, often having to sit on stones on the ground in the cold in winter for up to three days.”
Embryos destroyed
The Commission also asserted that Israeli forces had systematically destroyed sexual and reproductive healthcare facilities across Gaza, including Gaza's largest fertility clinic, Al Basma centre, in December 2023.
Tank shelling destroyed about 4,000 embryos at the clinic that reportedly assisted 2,000-3,000 patients a month.
“There is a question about whether those who were firing the tank shell - because our conclusion is that it was destroyed by a tank shell - knew at that time that it was a fertility clinic,” Mr. Sidoti said.
“But certainly, their commanders knew and the commanders would have known that there were tanks operating within that vicinity and firing on buildings and fired on a healthcare facility that was clearly marked.”
The Commission’s report finds that the destruction amounts “to two categories of genocidal acts in the Rome Statute and the Genocide Convention, including deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about the physical destruction of Palestinians and imposing measures intended to prevent births”.
Head of the Commission, Navi Pillay, said in a statement that the targeting of reproductive healthcare facilities including “direct attacks” on maternity wards and the IVF clinic, “combined with the use of starvation as a method of war, has impacted all aspects of reproduction.”
She added that the violations “have not only caused severe immediate physical and mental harm and suffering to women and girls, but irreversible long-term effects on the mental health and reproductive and fertility prospects of Palestinians as a group.”
Israel ‘categorically rejects’ allegations
In a press release published on Wednesday, the Israeli mission in Geneva said their Government “categorically rejects the unfounded allegations” made in the commission’s report.
Israel accused the COI of instrumentalising sexual violence “to advance its predetermined and biased political agenda, setting back the important work of international institutions to combat the perpetration of these abhorrent acts as a weapon of war.”
