I say riots. These bear some of the hallmarks of pogroms. https://www.rte.ie/news/2024/0804/1463392-uk/ It started with the knife attack last week...
In what must surely be a candidate for the largest attack on freedom of expression in its history, it appears that moves are afoot to ban TikTok in...
With the American political system frantically bashing the self-destruct button, it appears increasingly a probability that Mussolini-cosplayer...
I've suddenly discovered a lifelong passion for Rugby... Ireland beat world champions South Africa There's a long way to go but this is looking...
https://www.rte.ie/news/world/2022/0426/1294325-lucio-court/ I've been reading about this one. She's just been granted a stay of execution - but it...
I'm in France. The French are not beer people. You struggle to find a local beer. What they do sell is very expensive, and it's generally very...
Following hot on the heels of Richard Branson, billionaire parasite Jeff Bezos launched into space this week, in a rocket shaped like a giant cock....
https://www.quantamagazine.org/muon-g-2-experiment-at-fermilab-finds-hint-of-new-particles-20210407/ Too early to guess at the consequences yet, but...
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/27/hedge-fund-targeted-by-reddit-board-melvin-capital-closed-out-of-gamestop-short-position-tuesday.html :rofl: I'm...
:weep: I'll just leave this here. RIP. [media] [ATTACH]
Apparently, this will be among the first acts of the Biden Administration. It's a great idea, obviously - which will benefit large numbers of people...
China just enacted a law criminalising a range of protest-related activities in Hong Kong and allowing for extradition to the "mainland". So far...
Link - the process has been greatly accelerated by the pandemic. [img]
Not ideal circumstances to commemorate this, but there you go. There has been a lot of material on TV about it and events leading up to it. In the...
It appears that this crisis is going to persist in some form with attendant economic chaos, for around 18 months. Even if the immediate outbreaks are...
France: Riot Police Beat up Striking Firefighters as Media Looks the Other Way Not a good look. Why are the media (in other countries) virtually...
So, the Russian constitution has a 2-term presidential limit. Vlad initially won the Presidency in 2000 and served two terms. To skirt the issue, he...
Evo Morales is the latest lefty in Latin America to be ousted, after the military ordered him to go. He's now on a plane to Mexico. :( Predictably,...
This question has arisen in the context of the UK general election. Answer the poll question ladies.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/10/netanyahu-vows-annex-large-parts-occupied-west-bank-trump Specifically citing the license granted by...
Remember this piece of shit? Well, he's letting the Amazon rainforest be burnt down to create farmland, has fired the head of space science who...
Consideration is being given to declaring ANTIFA, the gutless Radical Left Wack Jobs who go around hitting (only non-fighters) people over the heads...
Suppose in the afterlife Hitler has been strapped to a device that will set him on fire for all of eternity. All that is needed to start this torture...
Trump Administration to Use Former Japanese Internment Camp to House Migrant Children Thousands of children seperated from their families, housed in...
NYT: White House reviews plan that would send up to 120,000 US troops to Middle East The war drums are beating again and a pretext is being created....
Link In a news-day dominated by Donald Trump's tax return and the birth of the royal baby, it was also reported that the natural world was close to...
Totally unprompted by any external event and in contravention of the long-standing convention against acquiring territory through military conquest,...
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-46982692 Here we go again. Discuss.
I'm tempted to include this in the Axis of Evil thread, since it's just as evil. ICE Arrests 170 Immigrants Trying To Save Babies From Baby Jails...
With the world facing climate catastrophe, even the limited efforts to mitigate it are being actively sabotaged. The saboteurs? Saudi Arabia, Russia,...
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-46016139 Pro-torture, openly racist, wants to destroy the rainforest, threatens to rape reporters......
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45939544 US national security adviser John Bolton is in Moscow for talks after Russia gave a frosty reception...
Link Summary: Dissident Saudi journalist walks into Saudi consulate in Turkey. 15-man hit squad follows. Journalist never leaves. Rumours swirl that...
Link A 500-page environmental statement by the Trump administration predicted that the planet will warm by seven degrees [4 degrees celcius] by...
Earlier this year, Benjamin Netanyahu overseen the designation of Israel as an officially "Jewish state", disenfranchising those from other...
1. Build 10% more birds of prey in preparation for attack on Federation. 2. Ban blood wine. (My head hurts this morning.) 3. Speed up the...
Or is that #6218? So, just for a change, we've moved on from Greece, Portugal, Ireland, Greece, Spain, Cyprus, Greece again... and the latest...
It has long been the case that a significant proportion of practicing Anglicans (and even clergy) didn't believe in God - certainly not in the sense...
Which ones do you listen to? Here are my subscriptions... A History of Ideas (BBC Radio) BBC Inside Science Common Sense with Dan Carlin Dan Carlins...
Do we have a decent Brexit thread? No. Well, the fantasies of Tory right-wingers are being disabused as we speak. Contrary to their "£350 million...
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