She's doing a great job of pointing out how antiquated our laws are when dealing with this stuff, while also pointing out the police really don't care about you.
There are countless others who undoubtedly acquiesced to the blackmailers' demands, and countless more who will in the future. Just putting one thief in jail without trying to understand the wider criminal network does little to help actual people
This says nothing about Saudi Arabia deliberately ending the deal or wanting to opt-out, as OP's article implies. At best, they're saying the deal reached some natural expiration date. There have been no public comments either way to suggest that the deal has expired, anything out of the ordinary has happened or that it will not be renewed if this is the case.
More importantly, this is an opinion piece on the stock tip section of a website that is notably not a news agency. If this were true, it would represent a massive Geo-political shift and would have been widely reported by now.
No news agencies are reporting on this and I can't find another source for what would be one of the most consequential stories in the world if it were true
I apologise for these old comments and withdraw them unreservedly and the upset that they have caused.
A Reform UK spokesman initially said: "Through offence archaeology the BBC has found that Mr Gribbin has made a series of comments about a number of subjects.
They keep making this sound like something that happened a long time ago but he wrote all this stuff in 2022! Next they'll tell us he was a younger man and it was actually socially acceptable in those days to be neutral on Hitler.
No. I had no idea about this instance's reputation when I joined Lemmy but it's nothing like the other instance you mentioned.
It gets very tiring trying to have a conversation with contrarians who think everything Western is bad and anything Chinese/USSR is good. Or worse, that their highly suspicious news sources (some random blog usually) are telling you the real truth, while using any mainstream news media source makes you a deluded Lib
English is the current lingua francia because the dominant nation has been speaking English for the past two hundred years and created a pop culture market
Cute that you think it's the U.S. and it's little movies that are responsible for English being widely spoken, and not the bloody history of British imperialism being forced on half the planet
Do you even hear yourself? A million people put into camps unlawfully as collective punishment, and you're siding with that government over the reports of the people who were imprisoned?
Birth rates are up now, because they halved between 2017-19 when the Chinese government started targeting Uyghurs.
I'm sure you can see people practicing their religion in public. You can still see First Nations people in Canada wearing their traditional garb, selling their cultural artifacts etc. But that doesn't mean that the Canada didn't commit cultural genocide against them with the Residential Schools. The parallels are actually striking in both cases: China isn't trying to kill all 15 million of these people just as the Canadian government didn't try to kill all their Indigenous people. They just kidnapped a subset of them and tried to brainwash and torture them. The details differ (children vs adults), but in both cases the intent to destroy a people and their culture is there and that's what makes these crimes genocidal.
Africa: Liberates itself from imperialist colonisation in the decades after after WWII
USA: Takes advantage of the post-war European Imperialist vacuum to go and do some imperialism for itself in Latin America, Asia and later the Middle-East
I think we disagree on what constitutes a credible source. You're critical of the sources I'm using but you're citing Max Blumenthal's Grayzone three times, and a Swiss Businessman whose claim to fame is being 'a capitalist in North Korea.' Zenz is a clown and a grifter, but we have first hand survivor accounts and reports from human-rights groups. Even socialist outlets like Jacobin have covered this, and I think those denying human rights violations have taken place are in the minority. I'm sure you'll dismiss all of these sources but they're credible enough for me and I'd rather not spend any more time debating the indefensible
Well we know why they're lying about what's happening in Palestine. Geo-political interest, wider Imperialist aims etc. I think we can apply a similar level of critical thinking to recognise they're also threatened by China, but that doesn't mean the claims are unfounded. A broken clock is right twice a day after all. I also don't think all of the reports from survivors are fabricated.
Genocide denialism is bad either way. But if you really believe what you're saying and it's not just a reactionary take against the mainstream media, I would like to see what credible sources anyone has that the genocide of the Uighurs is all fabricated
The fresh prince is an ancient text now. It's a few lines on the wikipedia page of the guy who slapped that other guy at the Oscars