These people are heroes if something like that exists. China must not only be called out more on that, Beijings ignorance of universal human rights must also have direct real-world consequences. Trade and investment agreements (such as WTO rules and China's infamous Belt and Road Initiative) make only sense if and when rights issues are part of these international rule sets. China's policies are manifestly unjust as its government permanently makes decisions in complete disregard of anyone else - its own people, its Asian neighbours, and the wider global community. There appears to be a slight, timid change in this respect, but much more must be done to adequately address the crimes against humanity committed by China.
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Hurricane Helene continues to unleash its fury across the Southeast after leaving 49 people dead in multiple states, leveling communities and stranding many in floodwaters after the historic storm made landfall in Florida’s Big Bend region Thursday night as a monstrous Category 4 hurricane with roaring 140 mph winds.
This is just another blatant propaganda campaign by China. The government in Beijing obscures its domestic supply chains, and there is much evidence for grave human rights violations and crimes against humanity in China, particularly in Xinjiang and Tibet.
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Read Trump's Project 2025. It's aiming at the same things.
You have not been alone with this if I may say so :-))
Jan. 6 investigator says he has ‘receipts’ on Clarence and Ginni Thomas -- (archived version)
A former House GOP lawmaker says Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas should be removed from the bench over his “unethical” behavior and taunted people to challenge him.
“Come at me. I got receipts,” Denver Riggleman posted to X, calling Thomas’ wife, Ginni Thomas, “disturbed.”
Riggleman posted in response to a clip of Donald Trump saying at a rally that “people should be put in jail for the way they talk about our judges and justices.”
“Clarence Thomas is, at the least, unethical. Should be removed from the bench. His wife, Ginni Thomas, is disturbed. Come at me. I got receipts.” Riggleman said.
Just stumbled upon this blog post: Elsevier selling access to an open access article, again (2024 edition)
Addition: It's really time to change this system.
As parts of the U.S. prepare for the landfall of the Hurricane this week, a friendly reminder that Donald Trump's Project 2025 would eliminate the National Weather Service and NOAA.
J.D. Vance Admits He’s Telling Racist Lies for Attention -- [archived version]
“Nobody is disputing that the town of Springfield, Ohio, needs help. But, you’re not just a bystander,” [CNN's Dana] Bash said. “You’re the senator from Ohio, so instead of saying things that are wrong, and actually causing the hospitals, the schools, the government buildings to be evacuated because of bomb threats, because of the cats and dogs thing, why not actually be constructive, in helping to better integrate them into the community? Because there are a lot of employers there who say that the Haitians workers are helping fill jobs that they need desperately filled.”
Rather than take any ownership of his role in spreading false claims and incendiary rhetoric, Vance recoiled, saying that any suggestion that he’d been responsible for inciting the bomb threats in Springfield was “disgusting.” The Ohio senator scolded Bash for sounding like a “Democratic propagandist” as she called him out on his reckless lying.
Here comes Saul Justin Newman: 'The data on extreme human ageing is rotten from the inside out’
In general, the claims about how long people are living mostly don’t stack up. I’ve tracked down 80% of the people aged over 110 in the world (the other 20% are from countries you can’t meaningfully analyse). Of those, almost none have a birth certificate. In the US there are over 500 of these people; seven have a birth certificate. Even worse, only about 10% have a death certificate.
I'm not a lawyer, but one reason could be that there's not (yet?) a clear criminal case that would convince a judge. It's not clear whether a crime is committed, maybe?
For example, Mr. McCabe says, "“I don’t know that I would characterize it as [an] active, recruited, knowing asset in the way that people in the intelligence community think of that term" (and similar comments), but 'don't know' could mean there's nit enough for prosecution? This is not China or Russia, where people are sentenced to.prison in closed-door trials and often not even their lawyers know what exactly their clients are accused of. Maybe we could call it another 'weakness' of democracy (which non-democratic state actors try to exploit)?
But I say 'could' and conclude I don't know either.
Quick reminder on Hurricane Matthew which passed North Carolina in 2017, when Trump was U.S. President:
North Carolina denied 99 percent of federal recovery funds for Hurricane Matthew (May 2017)