The Rubber Plantations were run as corporate states, and 10 - 15 million people were killed. One of the biggest mass murders in the history of Colonial Capitalism.
Roughly equal to the numbers caused by the British East India company when they caused various famines in Bengal and India by exporting all their grain.
It’s not global. Go get the Wikipedia page of “homelessness by country”. It’s not global. It’s not the case in Finland or Vietnam for instance.
A decade of electing right wing governments, even AFTER the direct lies about Brexit - made things worse? NOWAY! \s
They went to Romania because of it’s excellent legal system right? No wait, they went there because they thought it was a highly corrupt system in which they could pay their way out of their crimes.
…and now they’re going to get prosecuted because they’re a highly visible case.
Vienna is right next door where %60 of people live in public housing, and it apparently works well because in Vienna, public housing isn’t kist for the poor.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-04/vienna-s-social-housing-and-low-rent-strategy/102639674
He would be easier to support if he had just kept releasing important news/evidence when it was morally justified, and not got into the more questionable activities of private intelligence - such as election meddling.
Bad move on his part, makes him a lot harder to defend.
A million people died in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, despite global protests and outrage. Sometimes it feels like there must be better systems than the current set up of “democracy”.
The guy who passed hacked intelligence from a Russian agent to the Trump campaign whilst pretending it was from DNC staffer Seth Rich (which was an alt-right conspiracy theory) even when he knew that wasn’t true, and even after Seth Rich was dead and he knew it wasn’t true?
The guy who meddled in election outcomes because he thought he had a better shot at being pardoned by Trump?
The guy who was originally on charges for slipping a condom off whilst having sex?
Israel has done so many things that are untenable in the modern age, yet the support from the west has not budged an inch, and it’s bringing the West’s claims to be post-colonial and anti-genocide into question…
…as well as raising some questions that previously only nazi leaning conspiracy theorists would entertain.
The level of unwavering support makes it look like Israel is in-charge, and Western leaders need to explain why this is.
I wouldn’t be surprised if western support is cited in future terrorist attacks. It’s highly unpopular among the public, yet so uniform to the point of being incredibly questionable.
The entire Western world has zero moral standing, and it’s very odd how they all support Israel. It seems Israel is the boss, and that raises a lot of questions.
I suspect we’re risking an increase in terror attacks in the west and should they reference Israel, leaders will really have no defence. What Israel is doing and has done has nothing to do with democracy. It’s nothing less than a repeat of the wars of colonialism, just in a modern settling, and supporting it casts Western progress away from its colonial history to being highly questionable.
The western world is losing it’s legitimacy by supporting Israel like this, and it makes so little overt sense.
Ahh great, now we’ve got drones AND AIs killing the species. Good fucking job ya Zionist bastards.
Immigration… See the Japanese housing market, which has an abundance.
But also your argument can be made about literally anything but the exact status quo in this current moment.
What’s that someone just quit there fast food - less meals available, scarcity all around!
It’s not a realistic understanding of the world.
Roughly the same as Argentina but accumulated over a much larger time period.
Of course as a nominal figure I suspect American debt is larger (eg. in name or denomination value, not as a percentage of GDP).
However this will only be a problem for Argentina, as America and Japan are sovereign currencies, mostly in debt to themselves. The main risk of their position is lending downgrades, and buying power downgrades, but they probably won’t matter all that much in any defacto sense.
So if inflation and deflation aren’t important, just pay elder care workers an amount that makes the job more attractive than most others.
A country can’t default on bonds to its self. It doesn’t make sense, and out of all the countries in the world the US owes Japan more money than anyone else.
No country on earth has ever gone into hyper inflation due to owing it’s self, there has always been an external force draining it of money… This was not the case with Japan, and so the situation continued for three decades and is called a miracle.
Fear of deflation shouldn’t be more powerful than having a rational decline. After all Japan had deflation for 30 years thanks to negative interest rates and still managed to keep a western quality of life, so it’s not impossible…
… it’s just Capitalists hate anything that isn’t an infinite growth, infinite demand model.
The only way to liberate everyone is to work less, and hence have some decline in growth. We shouldn’t preach fear around that.
Because between declining birth rates and increasing automation a decline is coming whether we’re ready to accept the role of managing it rationally or not.
UNRWA is doing an investigation, and has already fired around 4 or so people. The numbers involved are far fewer than Israel has claimed.
Europe finds new way to mock America.
Hey, maybe space your election out a bit more rather than trying to squeeze it all into one day, come up with like - a different process.
Here’s a pitch; have a long weekend just for the election.
The Official title of Taiwan is The Republic of China.
They still allowed the KMT (aka The Chinese Nationalist Party), to participate in their Democracy even though it ran the country as an anti-democracy Authoritarian state for 40 years.
Taiwan and China do a lot of trade together, a war would be difficult for both of them.