GENEVA (AP) — A U.N.-backed panel of independent experts focusing on racial discrimination says racist hate speech by U.S. President Donald Trump and other American political leaders, along with a crackdown on immigration in the United States, have led to “grave human rights violations.”
The Geneva-based Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination issued its decision Wednesday and urged the U.S. to suspend immigration enforcement operations at, and near, schools, hospitals, and faith-based institutions.
Long video filled with technical military stuff; skip to the last 60 seconds or so to hear a somewhat dry and very pointed closing remark aimed at those who think only BEARDLESS MANLY MEN ON THEIR OWN win wars...
In more local British polictical news, Nigel is playing the "WOKE NONSENSE!" card about the proposed use of British wildlife on new British banknotes; this would mean replacing Sir Winston Churchill on the £5 note. Presumably Nigel has somehow never noticed, when acquiring current £50 notes, the presence of Alan Turing on them - the famous computer scientist who happened to be gay (at a time when that was illegal in the UK) and - I mention this purely by coincidence - a person who played an important role in defeating a far right fascist regime...
I think France was already on the way.
And this morning I heard something about some of the EU countries also sending ships to escort the oil tankers and other cargo vessels.
January: “We have never needed them (NATO). We have never really asked anything of them... ”
March: "It's only appropriate that people who are the beneficiaries of the strait will help to make sure that nothing bad happens there... " . "If there’s no response, or if it’s a negative response, I think it will be very bad for the future of NATO."
If only you'd taken your own advice, oh Genius Level I.Q. One...
And, basically, it's Meta. Spending some $26 million on lobbying.
It's believed that the gist of it is that Meta wants to shift the burden of age verification from itself onto apps and app stores. Dump that problem on Apple, Google and Microsoft to fund. Plus, of course, this is Meta - so personal data collection is their primary business.
"Words ought to be a little wild - for they are assaults of thought on the unthinking."
- John Maynard Keynes
Meta are at risk of being held accountable for the harm they have cause over the years and want to head it off, and want their competitors to also be limited by the same bare minimum effort.
If they think you're crude, go technical; if they think you're technical, go crude. I'm a very technical boy.
"All you, sucker DJs, who think you're fly
There's got to be a reason, and we know the reason why
You try to put on those airs and act real cool
But you got to realise that you're acting like some fools... " [1]:
The irony in all this is that until a short while ago I used to hear oftenthat we going to fast in switching from fossil energy to renewables and that could cause the collapse of the economy.
Now the war can cause the collapse of the economy because of the dependence on non-renewable energy.
I was wondering how he was ignorant of Pearl Harbour. Having just watched the video clip I think he was using "me" instead of "us" as though he is the United States itself.
Either way the whole thing is cringe.
If they think you're crude, go technical; if they think you're technical, go crude. I'm a very technical boy.
