StraponStratos

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For months, the tips had been appearing on a Facebook page. There was a mass grave hidden in a rural village outside Guadalajara, in western Mexico, the messages said.

 

Polish border guards detained a Ukrainian woman who was sentenced in Kazakhstan to 12 years in prison for participating in an organised criminal group trading in human organs and selling 56 kidneys, prosecutors said on Tuesday.

 

Calin Georgescu had been leading in opinion polls with around 40% of the vote. He is expected to appeal the decision to exclude him from the election.

 

TORONTO (AP) — Ontario’s premier, the leader of Canada’s most populous province, announced that effective Monday it is charging 25% more for electricity to 1.5 million Americans in response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war.

 

TORONTO (AP) — Canada’s initial retaliatory tariffs against the U.S. will remain in place despite President Donald Trump postponing 25% tariffs on many imports from Canada for a month, two senior Canadian government officials said.

Trump said Thursday that he has postponed 25% tariffs on many goods from Canada and Mexico for a month, amid widespread fears of a broader trade war.

 

ANKARA, March 6 (Reuters) - Turkey, with the second largest army in NATO after the United States, could contribute to a potential peacekeeping mission in Ukraine, a Turkish defence ministry source said on Wednesday.

"The issue of contributing to a mission will be considered if deemed necessary for establishing regional stability and peace, and will be assessed mutually with all relevant parties," the source told reporters in Ankara.

 

The European Commission is figuring out how it could help Ukraine secure satellite communication capacity in the wake of Elon Musk reportedly threatening to pull Kyiv's access to his Starlink network. Space-based communication systems are a critical tool for Ukraine, but it remains unclear whether Musk will continue to offer Starlink as the war grinds on. Ukraine said last year it has about 42,000 Starlink terminals in operation in the country; about half are financed by Poland.

 

UNITED NATIONS, Feb 21 (Reuters) - The United Nations Security Council on Friday called on Rwanda's military to stop supporting the M23 rebel group in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and immediately withdraw all troops from Congolese territory "without preconditions." The 15-member council unanimously adopted a French-drafted resolution urging the DRC and Rwanda to return to diplomatic talks to achieve a lasting peaceful resolution.

 

While in custody, Brafman spontaneously told detectives that while he was driving his truck, “he saw two Palestinians and shot and killed both”, arrest documents said.

Further complicating the incident, one of the injured men reportedly posted “death to the Arabs” in a message on social media after the shooting. “My father and I went through a murder attempt against antisemitic background,” he wrote.

“It is deeply ironic and telling that both the alleged pro-Israel perpetrator and the pro-Israel victim in the Miami Beach shooting reportedly hold racist anti-Palestinian views,” said Cair’s national executive director, Nihad Awad

 

A contraception debate is gripping one of Argentina’s most notable luxury neighbourhoods – not for its wealthy residents, but for its original occupants, the capybaras.

 

Europe will not hesitate to retaliate if Donald Trump imposes any new tariffs, the European Commission and EU national leaders have said, after the US president announced another escalation of his aggressive trade policy at the weekend.

[–] StraponStratos 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I’ve lived in China. I’ve had Chinese live with me. I actually know shit without going on social media and being fed propaganda.

[–] StraponStratos 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Name a government that’s not terrible and I’ll find you some articles showing the state being terrible.

Statism is unjust.

[–] StraponStratos -2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

You know you can tune out when they mention Zenz. He is to tankies as Soros is to Republicans.

[–] StraponStratos -2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Anything negative of China is propaganda says the .ml tankie.

Gee, you wouldn’t happen to be utterly biased at all.

[–] StraponStratos -2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Anecdotal evidence means nothing, doubly so from a .ml troll.

[–] StraponStratos 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (32 children)

Tradition is big. E.g TCM crap over science

You cannot disagree with the state

Stokes fear and hatred of outsiders

Blames social frustrations on those outsiders

Appeals to restore past glory

Han ethnic supremacy

You could go through all of Eco’s points and apply them to China pretty fittingly.

[–] StraponStratos 0 points 2 months ago (3 children)

lol protesting. Yeah that’s going to achieve so much.

[–] StraponStratos 1 points 2 months ago

Makes sense, why do dangerous and hard work if you can support yourself in better ways.

More interested to hear if they used any of those funds to help improve their education or start a business etc.

[–] StraponStratos 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Is looking the same as staring? Do women not notice attractive men?

There’s a respectable amount of notice one can take of another person.

[–] StraponStratos 0 points 2 months ago

Mostly first world countries are shit rather than dogshit.

[–] StraponStratos 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Citizens of dog shit countries are the most qualified to talk about others being dog shit.

[–] StraponStratos 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

We all know the Israelis weren’t suffering like they have done to the Palestinians.

Hamas unlike Israel actually has some shred of humanity it seems.

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