"Why Does China Own So Much of Ukraine?: Other countries should be careful about allowing sales of farmland to hostile powers." (Braw). "Bill Gates wins legal approval to buy huge swath of North Dakota farmland worth $13.5M after outcry from residents who say they are being exploited by the ultra-rich" (Griffith).
The US, currently militarily occupying 1/3 of Syria to steal the war-ravaged country’s oil and wheat, accuses the Syrian government of “disdain for international norms of behavior and hypocrisy regarding claims of sovereignty.” https://t.co/pMAgmPWrUa
— Aaron Maté (@aaronjmate) July 1, 2022
"The insufferable hypocrisy of Western governments hell-bent on destroying Julian Assange" (Lhatoo).
If the US military actually already has something like that, operational units numbering at least 10k; long-range/long-duration; impregnable to electronic counter-measures ... then they might be able to defeat Russian AD in a putative war.
— Will Schryver (@imetatronink) July 1, 2022
But I don't believe they do.
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"Overview of U.S. Military Supplies to Ukraine" (South Front).
"Google will start removing abortion clinic visits from users’ location history" (Bell). Will they, though? "Police sweep Google searches to find suspects. The tactic is facing its first legal challenge." (Schuppe).Absolutely absurd and offensive from the British Foreign Secretary. Breath-taking arrogance.
— Fiona Edwards - #NoToNATO (@Fio_edwards) July 1, 2022
Britain colonised Hong Kong. There was no "democracy" or respect for "human rights" in the 150 years of British colonial rule over Hong Kong. https://t.co/Iv3gzgNN6I
"What the parliamentarians didn’t mention: The world cannot mine and refine the vast amounts of minerals that go into batteries—lithium, nickel, cobalt, manganese, palladium, and others—at anywhere close to the scale for this rapid transition to electric vehicles (EVs) to occur. The dirty secret of the green revolution is its insatiable hunger for resources from Africa and elsewhere that are produced using some of the world’s dirtiest technologies. What’s more, the accelerated shift to batteries now threatens to replicate one of the most destructive dynamics in global economic history: the systematic extraction of raw commodities from the global south in a way that made developed countries unimaginably rich while leaving a trail of environmental degradation, human rights violations, and semipermanent underdevelopment all across the developing world."