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very interesting* polling from Germany here!
Comparing left-populism (Linke) with right-populism (AfD), and liberals (Grune) with leftists (Linke again).
So:
Populist left = anti-war, pro-refugee
Liberals** = pro-war, pro-refugee
Populist right = anti-war, anti-refugee
*very subjective, but at least @Sweet Square will read it!
**every thing including the left and right is liberalism
Comparing left-populism (Linke) with right-populism (AfD), and liberals (Grune) with leftists (Linke again).
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So:
Populist left = anti-war, pro-refugee
Liberals** = pro-war, pro-refugee
Populist right = anti-war, anti-refugee
*very subjective, but at least @Sweet Square will read it!
**every thing including the left and right is liberalism
True.
Haven't given this a read yet but looks quite good.
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Build back the wall!
Whoa. Sure as hell hope the church did not or does not delete video evidence of the teacher allegedly striking a child, if true and it exists. There has to be something in this for the woman to attack the other woman, even if not over an incident with the child. May never know the truth. An interesting sidenote from the YouTube vid is the husband of the teacher responded to a yelp review of his business with capitalized buzzwords in a similar manner to Trump/right wing nutters.
https://www.wrdw.com/2021/09/03/georgia-mom-assaults-pre-school-teacher-catholic-chruch/
Mom arrested in attack on Grovetown preschool teacher
https://www.wrdw.com/app/2021/09/04...XFAgg9Qc-iSFMO23sUv6Vs_0A2Xf5cK-D06M7H9AJPCQg
Follow-up on day-care case: ‘No crime occurred,’ authorities say
https://www.theaugustapress.com/st-teresas-issues-statement-on-attack-of-its-preschool-teacher/
St. Teresa’s Issues Statement on Attack of Its Preschool Teacher
(Quite interesting the church elects to brief everyone during mass. Gotta control the narrative. Now, surely a Catholic church would never protect their own, right?)
https://www.theaugustapress.com/5-lingering-questions-in-case-of-pre-school-mom-kasey-brooks/
Five Lingering Questions in Case of Pre-School Mom Kasey Brooks
Kasey Brooks Addresses Charges in Pre-School Teacher Assault (Grovetown, Ga.)
https://www.wrdw.com/2021/09/03/georgia-mom-assaults-pre-school-teacher-catholic-chruch/
Mom arrested in attack on Grovetown preschool teacher
https://www.wrdw.com/app/2021/09/04...XFAgg9Qc-iSFMO23sUv6Vs_0A2Xf5cK-D06M7H9AJPCQg
Follow-up on day-care case: ‘No crime occurred,’ authorities say
https://www.theaugustapress.com/st-teresas-issues-statement-on-attack-of-its-preschool-teacher/
St. Teresa’s Issues Statement on Attack of Its Preschool Teacher
(Quite interesting the church elects to brief everyone during mass. Gotta control the narrative. Now, surely a Catholic church would never protect their own, right?)
https://www.theaugustapress.com/5-lingering-questions-in-case-of-pre-school-mom-kasey-brooks/
Five Lingering Questions in Case of Pre-School Mom Kasey Brooks
Kasey Brooks Addresses Charges in Pre-School Teacher Assault (Grovetown, Ga.)
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Anyone following the missing Florida woman story?
https://abc7ny.com/gabrielle-petito...JIhqJuKKWKBuGI_ND_TVQ7ULtMoTPJLE3YJqCD-h93Mmo
Boyfriend of missing Long Island native issues statement through lawyer
https://www.unilad.co.uk/news/gabby...YMU2tC4woC5y4NNsgr4ec09_CwJmYdt70yhol41tVk_7c
Gabby Petito Allegedly Involved In Domestic Violence Dispute With Boyfriend Before She Disappeared
https://abc7ny.com/missing-woman-gabby-petito-brian-laundrie-person/11024471/
Police release body cam video of intereaction with Petito, Laundrie
https://abc7ny.com/gabby-petito-gabrielle-brian-laundrie-nichole-schmidt/11023104/
PD: Gabby Petito's boyfriend a person of interest, hindering search
https://abc7ny.com/gabrielle-petito...JIhqJuKKWKBuGI_ND_TVQ7ULtMoTPJLE3YJqCD-h93Mmo
Boyfriend of missing Long Island native issues statement through lawyer
https://www.unilad.co.uk/news/gabby...YMU2tC4woC5y4NNsgr4ec09_CwJmYdt70yhol41tVk_7c
Gabby Petito Allegedly Involved In Domestic Violence Dispute With Boyfriend Before She Disappeared
https://abc7ny.com/missing-woman-gabby-petito-brian-laundrie-person/11024471/
Police release body cam video of intereaction with Petito, Laundrie
https://abc7ny.com/gabby-petito-gabrielle-brian-laundrie-nichole-schmidt/11023104/
PD: Gabby Petito's boyfriend a person of interest, hindering search
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Absolutely insane the amount of empty properties in china. 90 million properties.
There is enough empty property in China to house over 90m people, says Logan Wright, a Hong Kong-based director at Rhodium Group, a consultancy. To put that into perspective: there are 5 G7 countries — France, Germany, Italy, the UK and Canada — who could fit their entire populations into those empty Chinese apartments with room to spare.
https://www.ft.com/content/ea1b79bf-cbe3-41d9-91da-0a1ba692309f
Evergrande and the end of China’s ‘build, build, build’ model
Valued at $41bn in 2020, the spectacular unravelling of the property group exposes deep flaws in Beijing’s growth strategy
There is enough empty property in China to house over 90m people, says Logan Wright, a Hong Kong-based director at Rhodium Group, a consultancy. To put that into perspective: there are 5 G7 countries — France, Germany, Italy, the UK and Canada — who could fit their entire populations into those empty Chinese apartments with room to spare.
https://www.ft.com/content/ea1b79bf-cbe3-41d9-91da-0a1ba692309f
Evergrande and the end of China’s ‘build, build, build’ model
Valued at $41bn in 2020, the spectacular unravelling of the property group exposes deep flaws in Beijing’s growth strategy
Not to downplay it but capacity for 90m people =/= 90m properties.
Out of interest what is the homeless situation like in China?
Wasn't sure where to put this but the difference between this and how much Sarah Everard was in the news (even before an officer was arrested) is stark and all too predictable.
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Absolutely no idea on that. Interesting point though. May do some googling.
Weird story, this. Has a bit of an Eric Ruldolph vibe with the boyfriend apparently taking to the backwoods. He won’t survive in a Florida swamp as long as Ruldolph survived in the western NC forest, that’s for sure.
I don't think he's nearly as prepared as Rudolph was to live there indefinitely. Maybe I'm wrong. Rumors have been flying in Western NC that Laundrie is there. https://abc11.com/brian-laundrie-gabby-petito-update-dog/11064024/
I was just talking about Rudolph today. Growing up, we would go to the mountains near the Nantahala River in the far western tip of NC. After Rudolph went into hiding in that area, we would joke about finding him in the woods when we went hiking. Then one year he was arrested maybe 15 miles away from where we stayed.
Nope, I think you are correct, it doesn’t seem that the two are very equatable. Rudolph was hardcore, Rudolph’s brother even more so especially when considering the table saw incident; Laundrie seems a pussy compared to them. It was just the apparent taking off to inhospitable nature by both that struck a chord with me.
The forest in western NC in the mountains is no joke. Rudolph did have assistance from the local populace, but he did have some quality survival skills to last five years in that part of the world with near constant policing for him.
This will be impactful in this country if successful...
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/heal...ientists-shot-stem-overdose-epidemic-rcna2088
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/heal...ientists-shot-stem-overdose-epidemic-rcna2088
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...-found-living-texas-apartment-brother-remains
Abandoned children found living in Texas apartment with brother’s remains
Three siblings aged 15, 10 and seven discovered in Houston, telling police their brother had been dead a year
The skeletal remains of a child and three surviving siblings who appeared to have been abandoned were found inside an apartment in the Houston area.
The children’s mother and her boyfriend were located, questioned and released without charges being filed, police said on Monday.
The plight of the children came to light on Sunday afternoon when one of them, a 15-year-old, called the Harris county sheriff’s office and said his nine-year-old brother had been dead for a year and the body was inside the apartment, the office said in a statement.
Deputies found the teenager and two siblings aged 10 and seven living alone in the apartment, said the sheriff, Ed Gonzalez, adding that the other child’s skeletal remains were located.
“It appears that the remains had been there for an extended period of time,” Gonzalez told reporters. “And I emphasise extended.”
In tweets on Monday morning, Gonzalez said: “It is believed the parents have not lived in the unit for several months. The mother of the children and her boyfriend were located late last night … interviewed and released. [Child Protective Services] is assisting with the children. Our investigation remains ongoing. No charges have been filed.”
Gonzalez said the investigation was being conducted by sheriff’s office homicide, child abuse and crime scene units.
Speaking on Sunday, Gonzalez said the children had been “living in pretty deplorable conditions” which he said were “very disturbing”.
“We definitely want some answers for these children,” he said. “It appears that they were caring, basically fending for each other, which is very sad … I think the older sibling was basically doing the best he could to take care of the others.
“And again … it appears the skeletal remains have been there for an extended period of time. So just connecting all the dots at this point it seems that [the children] were in there while the body was deteriorating.”
The younger children appeared malnourished and had physical injuries, Gonzalez said. All three were taken to hospital to be assessed and treated.
Gonzalez said: “There appears to be some food, so we don’t know where they were getting that food or who was leaving it.”
He added: “The initial information that we’ve gotten leads us to believe that this isn’t just something that’s been unfolding over a period of months, but it’s been perhaps as long as the entire year or many, many months. So we’ll tighten up that timeline, but that’s why we need some answers. These kids deserve answers, and the public should never tolerate anything like this.”
In a statement on Monday, the Texas department of family and protective services said it was seeking emergency custody of the 15-year-old and his two siblings “to ensure the safety of the children”.
The agency also said: “Child Protective Services does have history with the family, but there was no active CPS investigation at the time the children were discovered alone in their apartment.”
Neighbours expressed shock and disbelief. One, Kayla Williams, told the Houston Chronicle she had two children but did not plan to tell them what happened.
“I don’t need to put this in their heads,” she said. “This is crazy.”
Abandoned children found living in Texas apartment with brother’s remains
Three siblings aged 15, 10 and seven discovered in Houston, telling police their brother had been dead a year
The skeletal remains of a child and three surviving siblings who appeared to have been abandoned were found inside an apartment in the Houston area.
The children’s mother and her boyfriend were located, questioned and released without charges being filed, police said on Monday.
The plight of the children came to light on Sunday afternoon when one of them, a 15-year-old, called the Harris county sheriff’s office and said his nine-year-old brother had been dead for a year and the body was inside the apartment, the office said in a statement.
Deputies found the teenager and two siblings aged 10 and seven living alone in the apartment, said the sheriff, Ed Gonzalez, adding that the other child’s skeletal remains were located.
“It appears that the remains had been there for an extended period of time,” Gonzalez told reporters. “And I emphasise extended.”
In tweets on Monday morning, Gonzalez said: “It is believed the parents have not lived in the unit for several months. The mother of the children and her boyfriend were located late last night … interviewed and released. [Child Protective Services] is assisting with the children. Our investigation remains ongoing. No charges have been filed.”
Gonzalez said the investigation was being conducted by sheriff’s office homicide, child abuse and crime scene units.
Speaking on Sunday, Gonzalez said the children had been “living in pretty deplorable conditions” which he said were “very disturbing”.
“We definitely want some answers for these children,” he said. “It appears that they were caring, basically fending for each other, which is very sad … I think the older sibling was basically doing the best he could to take care of the others.
“And again … it appears the skeletal remains have been there for an extended period of time. So just connecting all the dots at this point it seems that [the children] were in there while the body was deteriorating.”
The younger children appeared malnourished and had physical injuries, Gonzalez said. All three were taken to hospital to be assessed and treated.
Gonzalez said: “There appears to be some food, so we don’t know where they were getting that food or who was leaving it.”
He added: “The initial information that we’ve gotten leads us to believe that this isn’t just something that’s been unfolding over a period of months, but it’s been perhaps as long as the entire year or many, many months. So we’ll tighten up that timeline, but that’s why we need some answers. These kids deserve answers, and the public should never tolerate anything like this.”
In a statement on Monday, the Texas department of family and protective services said it was seeking emergency custody of the 15-year-old and his two siblings “to ensure the safety of the children”.
The agency also said: “Child Protective Services does have history with the family, but there was no active CPS investigation at the time the children were discovered alone in their apartment.”
Neighbours expressed shock and disbelief. One, Kayla Williams, told the Houston Chronicle she had two children but did not plan to tell them what happened.
“I don’t need to put this in their heads,” she said. “This is crazy.”
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Insanely fecked up country.
We certainly are exceptional.
Germany Set To Legalize Marijuana Nationwide After Major Parties Reach Agreement
Six year old on heard crying 'no-one loves me', 'Nobody is going to feed me' hours before his murder.
Arthur Labinjo-Hughes: Six-year-old warned that his father ‘was going to kill him,’ court told
Just thought this was heart breaking.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...hes-murder-trial-court-solihull-b1967128.html
Arthur Labinjo-Hughes: Six-year-old warned that his father ‘was going to kill him,’ court told
Just thought this was heart breaking.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...hes-murder-trial-court-solihull-b1967128.html
Christ, ever since I became a dad these stories just kill me. And I can only read the fecking intro since it's behind a region wall.
Blegh.
A six-year-old boy had warned people “for well over a year” before his death that his father would kill him but “nobody listened”, a murder trial has heard.
Arthur Labinjo-Hughes died in June last year after suffering an “unsurvivable” head injury while solely in the care of his step-mother.
His father Thomas Hughes, 29, and step-mother Emma Tustin, 32, are on trial at Coventry crown court accused of murder – which they both deny.
Medical evidence shows Arthur would not have been able to inflict the injuries on himself, but Tustin maintains that she is innocent of murder.
The step-mother has pleaded guilty to two counts of child cruelty, specifically intimidation and assaults.
In her closing remarks on Monday, defence barrister Mary Prior QC said Tustin “let that little boy suffer and she accepts that, and she will pay a heavy price for that”.
Hughes regularly abused his son at their home in Solihull, she said, adding that Arthur – whose biological mother is in prison for murder – had also told people that his “dad was going to kill him”.
Since he was five-years-old, before his father and step-mother got together, Arthur had told relatives, his school, and his doctor that his father had been making death threats – Ms Prior told the court.
Arthur had warned a number of adults “for well over a year and nobody listened,” she added.
Ms Prior went on: “He was going to die and he was going to die because Thomas Hughes was in charge of Arthur’s life and Arthur’s life consisted of nothing other than misery.”
The court previously heard Hughes had made threats towards Arthur, such as to “put him six feet under”.
He had also sent Tustin messages such as “[the] kid’s getting ended when I get back”.
Although he was not present at the time of the injuries that led to his son’s death, Hughes is being accused of being equally culpable for having “encouraged” violence and been physically abusive himself.
In his closing speech, prosecuting barrister Jonas Hankin QC said Arthur was “persecuted” and “dehumanised” by Hughes and Tustin who then “murdered” him.
Also on Monday, it was revealed by Tustin’s cellmate Elaine Pritchard that Arthur had 137 bruises on his body at one point.
She told the jurors that she read about the injuries on Tustin’s paperwork inside the HMP Eastwood Park cell in November 2020 while Tustin was awaiting trial, before kicking her out of the shared room.
A heartbreaking recording has also emerged in court of Arthur crying while saying “no one loves me” and “no one is going to feed me”.
Jurors have been told that Tustin would send Hughes voice notes of Arthur crying whenever the boy’s father was not home, and that Hughes would reply with messages such as “dig Arthur’s grave”.
The pair deny a count of child cruelty relating to allegations such as that they had poisoned Arthur with salt in his drinks and food, and had made him stand for 12 to 14 hours a day in their hallway.
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The barrister added that Hughes ignored advice from Arthur’s school and doctors to treat his son kindly and without harsh punishment, and that he also did not share this advice with his partner.
The court has heard that Arthur and his father were living at Tustin’s home for more than a year because they were there when the coronavirus lockdown was announced in March 2020.
The trial continues.
Arthur Labinjo-Hughes died in June last year after suffering an “unsurvivable” head injury while solely in the care of his step-mother.
His father Thomas Hughes, 29, and step-mother Emma Tustin, 32, are on trial at Coventry crown court accused of murder – which they both deny.
Medical evidence shows Arthur would not have been able to inflict the injuries on himself, but Tustin maintains that she is innocent of murder.
The step-mother has pleaded guilty to two counts of child cruelty, specifically intimidation and assaults.
In her closing remarks on Monday, defence barrister Mary Prior QC said Tustin “let that little boy suffer and she accepts that, and she will pay a heavy price for that”.
Hughes regularly abused his son at their home in Solihull, she said, adding that Arthur – whose biological mother is in prison for murder – had also told people that his “dad was going to kill him”.
Since he was five-years-old, before his father and step-mother got together, Arthur had told relatives, his school, and his doctor that his father had been making death threats – Ms Prior told the court.
Arthur had warned a number of adults “for well over a year and nobody listened,” she added.
Ms Prior went on: “He was going to die and he was going to die because Thomas Hughes was in charge of Arthur’s life and Arthur’s life consisted of nothing other than misery.”
The court previously heard Hughes had made threats towards Arthur, such as to “put him six feet under”.
He had also sent Tustin messages such as “[the] kid’s getting ended when I get back”.
Although he was not present at the time of the injuries that led to his son’s death, Hughes is being accused of being equally culpable for having “encouraged” violence and been physically abusive himself.
In his closing speech, prosecuting barrister Jonas Hankin QC said Arthur was “persecuted” and “dehumanised” by Hughes and Tustin who then “murdered” him.
Also on Monday, it was revealed by Tustin’s cellmate Elaine Pritchard that Arthur had 137 bruises on his body at one point.
She told the jurors that she read about the injuries on Tustin’s paperwork inside the HMP Eastwood Park cell in November 2020 while Tustin was awaiting trial, before kicking her out of the shared room.
A heartbreaking recording has also emerged in court of Arthur crying while saying “no one loves me” and “no one is going to feed me”.
Jurors have been told that Tustin would send Hughes voice notes of Arthur crying whenever the boy’s father was not home, and that Hughes would reply with messages such as “dig Arthur’s grave”.
The pair deny a count of child cruelty relating to allegations such as that they had poisoned Arthur with salt in his drinks and food, and had made him stand for 12 to 14 hours a day in their hallway.
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The barrister added that Hughes ignored advice from Arthur’s school and doctors to treat his son kindly and without harsh punishment, and that he also did not share this advice with his partner.
The court has heard that Arthur and his father were living at Tustin’s home for more than a year because they were there when the coronavirus lockdown was announced in March 2020.
The trial continues.
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Remember the crazy crash scene in Fort Worth, TX last February?
This guy did a excellent summary on it and how changes can and should be implemented. His video is fantastic.
https://icyroadsafety.com/blog/february-2021-fort-worth-pileup-analysis-march3021a.shtml
This guy did a excellent summary on it and how changes can and should be implemented. His video is fantastic.
https://icyroadsafety.com/blog/february-2021-fort-worth-pileup-analysis-march3021a.shtml
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The full quote is cropped, and is significantly worse than the first paragraph.
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Politics for All and the other For All accounts have been permanently suspended by Twitter as has their creator and maintainer Nick Moar’s account.
No idea what the reasoning is.
No idea what the reasoning is.
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I saw that the Kazakh president asked Russia and the other Eurasian coalition members for military aid.
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Of course there will be a violent crackdown on civilians by Kazakh and especially Russian soldiers. It'll be like Hungary in 1956 or Prague in 1968.
Putin can't have another neighbor looking for more independence while he's trying to annex all of Ukraine. Maybe it will require him to move some troops from the Ukrainian border to Kazakhstan and impact his potential invasion plans/saber-rattling?
From what I was reading, the long dictatorship of Nazarbayev and repression of dissidents means there are no national opposition figures who could unite the whole country in revolution against the government so there isn't much hope for any real change.
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