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Deporting Uyghurs, THA

lundi 3 mars 2025 à 05:38

*Thailand deports dozens of Uyghurs to China despite torture fears.     Rights experts say group who have been detained for more than 10 years face high risk of torture and imprisonment.*

Not deporting people to countries likely to persecute them is a basic principle of the international system of asylum, but many countries are visibly treating that system with contempt, including Australia, the US, the UK and various EU countries.

When Clinton cut gov't jobs

lundi 3 mars 2025 à 05:38

Musk claimed that his abrupt firing of thousands of federal workers is just like Clinton's job cuts in the 1990s. Robert Reich, who carried out part of those cuts, lays out the fundamental differences.

*When you hear Musk say his effort is similar to what I and others did in the 1990s, know he’s lying. When you see him call people who benefit from public programs "parasites," know he’s a hypocrite.*

To avoid painting an exaggeratedly favorable picture of Bill Clinton as a champion of the people, let it be known also that he did many things that transferred wealth from the poor to the rich. This included his "welfare reform" that reduced government aid to the poor.

US power in EU

lundi 3 mars 2025 à 05:38

George Monbiot: *So much of [UK] intelligence and military systems are shared [with] or reliant on the US — if it becomes the enemy, it is already inside the gates.*

The idea of NATO, like that of "five-eyes" intelligence sharing, was predicated on the idea of an alliance that would never end, as well as on the idea of shared principles of democracy and human rights that would certainly continue (albeit occasionally deniably betrayed by the various governments).

Nowadays, for the US in a Tr-ance, "cooperation with" other countries is a euphemism for making them submit and obey, or recruiting them into the gang. It is trying to recruit Putin, Europe's main existing enemy.

Will the wrecker share the UK's intelligence with Putin? I don't think any principles or loyalties would hold him back.

State pensions in cryptocurrency

lundi 3 mars 2025 à 05:38

Some Democrats running for state governor receive campaign support from cryptocurrency schemes. They earn that money by saying they will put pension fund money into those schemes.

Pension funds should choose investments that are pretty low in risk. The only way "investment" in cryptocurrency can have low enough risk not to be considered speculation is if corruption ensures its value can't decrease much.

It follows that any candidate who suggests putting some state pension funds into a cryptocurrency is either incompetent or bent.

US military gender ideation

lundi 3 mars 2025 à 05:38

The wrecker ordered the US military to find and discharge all transgender servicemembers.

The supposed justification for this is a bald assertion that being trans is incompatible with military service. Saying so does not make it true.

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