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True.*very subjective, but at least @Sweet Square will read it!
Haven't given this a read yet but looks quite good.very interesting* polling from Germany here!
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
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Build back the wall!**every thing including the left and right is liberalism
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Not to downplay it but capacity for 90m people =/= 90m properties.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
Absolutely no idea on that. Interesting point though. May do some googling.Not to downplay it but capacity for 90m people =/= 90m properties.
Out of interest what is the homeless situation like in China?
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.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
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/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.
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.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.
that's true. after this series of incidents, there are no more policemenIt must be really annoying to be the great grand child of people who actually lived through slavery to see your words about trans gender people take up more pages and airtime than news that police dragged a paraplegic black man named Clifford from a car after he pleaded with them that he didn't have the use of his legs and couldn't comply with the "step out of the vehicle" commands from police.
Can you imagine if police dragged a paraplegic trans gender woman from a car. The police would be cancelled.
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We certainly are exceptional.Insanely fecked up country.
Party leaders in Germany’s incoming government coalition have reached an agreement to legalize marijuana nationwide.
The legalization legislation is expected to be introduced during the upcoming legislative session. It will also provide broader drug harm reduction services and restrict advertising of tobacco and alcohol, along with cannabis.
As it stands, personal possession of marijuana is decriminalized in Germany, and there is a medical cannabis program in place. But this forthcoming proposal would seek to establish a regulated market for adult-use marijuana.
The governing coalition—comprised of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), the Free Democratic Party (FDP) and the Greens—said that it will be “introducing the controlled distribution of cannabis to adults for recreational purposes in licensed shops,” according to a translation of a multi-party working group report first noted by Funke Media and circulated by Der Spiegel.
The so-called “traffic light coalition” is making the case that regulating marijuana sales will help drive out the illicit market. That will be revisited four years post-implementation, when a review of the social impact of the reform will be required.
And while the lawmakers emphasized that the objective of the reform is not to boost tax revenue for the country, FDP said in its election manifesto that taxing cannabis like cigarettes could generate €1 billion annually.
The new report, which was agreed to by the coalition’s working group on health and care, also discusses how the legislation would promote harm reduction, in part by allowing drug-checking services where people could have illicit substances tested for contaminants and other harmful products.
There will also be provisions related to advertising, with the intent being to restrict the promotion of marijuana, tobacco and alcohol to deter youth use, Der Spiegel reported.
“We measure regulations again and again against new scientific findings and align measures for health protection,” the report states.
Bloomberg noted earlier this month that the parties were nearing a deal on the issue.
This reform has been a long time coming in Germany. It was 2017 when members of the Christian Democratic Union and its ally the Christian Social Union entered into talks with Free Democrats and Greens about advancing legalization.
Police unions in Germany have come out against plans to legalize marijuana.
https://www.marijuanamoment.net/ger...tionwide-after-major-parties-reach-agreement/
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.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
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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Ms Prior said that Arthur had showed anxious and clingy behaviour, and suffered nightmares, after his mother Olivia Labinjo-Halcrow was imprisoned for 11 years for killing her boyfriend in 2019.
- Father alleged to have murdered son, 6, sent texts threatening to ‘take his jaw off his shoulders’
- Boy, 6, cried ‘no one loves me’ hours before being murdered by father and stepmother, court hears
- Murder-accused stepmother pleads guilty to second child cruelty offence
- ‘Cruel’ father and stepmother ‘poisoned boy, 6, with salt before murdering him’
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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I saw that the Kazakh president asked Russia and the other Eurasian coalition members for military aid.
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