Could you explain please why another election is not allowed in France? I though Macron dissolved the parliament early for a new election, which brought us to this situation in the first place.

Flak organizations… I recently came across this term in Manufacturing Consent. 40 years later it is scary how everything in that book is still relevant today.

These two are intertwined though. And the main alternative Meta also has its fair share of allowing criminal content, fake news and propaganda. The question is, who gets to control it.

Saruman also had his Uruks pillage and murder throughout Rohan long before the battle of Helms Deep

Hindustan times is a genocidal hindufascist propaganda outlet under control of the Indian president Modi. They advocate for Pogroms against muslims in India.

The moment they “report” anything in relation to Muslims it is heavily skewed at best.

Thank you. I didn’t know about the ecological compensation measures to be this proper.

Or it could have been turned into an actual diverse forest over the next decades by deliberate measures like they are taken in many forests/plantations in the area. Almost all “Forests” in Germany are “plantations” because of the wood cut after WW2 to rebuild.

Add increasing penalties to that.

That this is even legal in the first place is insane. Digital communication is at least as vital, if not more vital that postage. Image someone is just banned form getting post delivered or he gets throttled to only once every other week…

If that was a genuine consideration you would not have eaten a Pizza

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel–Saudi_Arabia_relations

Reports in Arabic-language media suggest that there have been several meetings between Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Israeli officials over the last two years, with at least one of them taking place in Eilat in 2015 and another on the sidelines of the Arab summit in Jordan in March 2017. It has also been reported that Saudi and Israeli officers have been regularly meeting in a joint war room serving as a coordination center for Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and the United States.

After the Arab Spring, Israel views the Saudi government as “guarantor of stability”, according to the New York Times. In 2011, Israel approved a German sale of 200 Leopard tanks to Saudi Arabia.[12] The approval came from Uzi Arad, the national security advisor to Benjamin Netanyahu.

The Times has reported that Saudi Arabia has tested the ability to stand down their air defenses to allow an Israeli strike on Iran to pass through their airspace.[22] Both nations have denied this.[23][24]

In November 2018, Netanyahu publicly defended Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman in the wake of the killing of Jamal Khashoggi, stating “it is very important for the stability of the region and the world that Saudi Arabia remain stable”, and privately urged the U.S. administration to maintain its strong security relationship with Saudi Arabia.[31]

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They egg around but work together closely militarily and in intelligence. And Saudia Arabia could exert control over the Red Sea. Finally Saudi Arabia actively supports Israel militarily, like by shooting down missiles heading to Israel from Yemen.

Cutting all economic and diplomatic ties, putting sanctions and blocking ships headed to or from there passing through the red sea would indicate he means it.

If the arab leaders had made a stance, the genocide would have ended in November and Israel would be back in 1967 borders by end of next year.

Also she holds no political offices right now. She isn’t even an MP anymore. I think few politicians in the UK have demolished themselves this fast and spectacularly.

Problem is they seemed all to happy to go back to “business as usual” when Biden got elected. Trump is a symptom of the US problems. Even without him the underlying problems stay and the next demagogue can pick up his position. The last 8 years should have been used to make Europe stand on its own feet much stronger.

I just read a German article warning that the oil-price could increase, but that a decrease would also be bad…

It seems like after 2008 all we did was pile even more cards on top of the fragile house, to make sure the next collapse will be even bigger.

How to implement correctly is not the same as advise on how to interpret to your own advantage.

From what a Greek friend told me, the Greek far right government tries to spin up support for Zionism, but the country remains deeply against Zionism across the entire political spectrum.

I am worried that they will try to combine it with anti-immigrant sentiments and with heating up tensions with Turkey. If Israel manages to drag in more countries in its goal to create a war with Lebanon and Iran, we could see things spiral into another global war.

With the IOC it is very much endemic. There is no way to improve the olympic games without snatching them from their corrupt hands first. However which countries would take care of the games, without just putting their own political messaging in? The Games always have been a means of politics.

Boxing has weight classes. As do most other martial arts.

The problem is not a 50kg men fighting a 70kg women in terms of injuries and power imbalance. And in that set up the women most likely wins. The problem is the typical situation of a 80-100 kg men smacking down on a 50-60kg women. And that is the image the demagogues try to conjure.

So if your full blown men is a 60kg feather to be able to compete against another 60kg women, the whole trope falls apart.

If you think your dad was sent to fight against the Nazis for ideological opposition, i have bad news for you. Maybe he personally fought out of that motivation, but must countries at the time were either fascist themselves or on the edge to fascism.

If you look at the US there was the ongoing genocide against native Americans, the racial segregation, eugenics, despicable human experimentation carried out on minorities, concentration camps for Japanese during WW2… Even the pledge to the flag in the schools was something Hitler admired and copied. Until the German Nazis became unpopular in the US the pledge to the flag with done with the “Bellamy Salute” that is the same as the Nazi salute. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellamy_salute

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The truth is, they never left.

What is different though is that after WW2 it was understood which social problems, in particular fucking over the lower and middle class, create the breeding ground for fascism to be successful. Since the 1980s with Thatcher and Reagan and then the neoliberal wave over Europe, we had 40 years of deliberately empowering fascism. Now they reap what they sew.