While I don't agree with illegal immigration, it's good to see that at least the ones that have kept their head down, contributed to society and community, and have essentially made themselves part of us at least have the option to make it official without having to split up their family in the meantime.
Spain is a particularly interesting one. They're not normally too keen on recognising any sort of breakaway region so as not to legitimise the Catalan independence movement. Take a look at a map of recognition of Kosovo for an example. Not that I'm complaining by any means; it's a welcome surprise
Haven't NATO forces been doing something similar recently? At least I've heard of a UK sub failing to launch a missile in a test recently.
I get it that this is saber rattling, but these tests are ideally regular so everyone - both you and your enemies - know your nukes work. I wonder if Russia's nukes work? I wonder if they are wondering that too?
Even if half of Russias nukes don't work they still have enough to destroy the entire planet 10 times over. People like Macron need a reminder why threatening a ground invasion is a bad idea.
To be honest, if France put soldiers into Ukraine, you could make the same argument the other way.
Continuing the war against Ukraine is a very bad idea since France has nukes, and they might do tactical strikes against Russian formations, so it's better to get out of France's way. France has enough nukes to destroy the planet 10 times over, or at least enough to destroy Moscow 100 times over, for sure.
Either way, people should stop killing people, Russian soldiers should stay in Russia.
I'm really wondering if accidents like this happened all the time and the press just started to highlight it more often or if Boeing planes are actually just falling apart after take off...
Both. Small issues always happened that went unreported by corporate media, but the frequency and severity increased exponentially lately. The real catalyst was the 1997 merger. McDonnell Douglas basically bought Boeing with its own money, since all the Boeing engineers that had management positions were fired or demoted and McDonnell Douglas executives moved into executives positions in Boeing. So it went from an engineer focused company to stocks are the only metric that matters company.
The reason for the issues not cropping up immediately is that airlines still used older places, since manufacturing a new plane takes a long time. And then different variants gets built and verified over time. Boeing MAX lineup, is the first real lineup that was built without old engineers and their focus on safety.
I think there are plenty of areas where the EU says one thing and does another, but in this case they purely object to a death penalty, which is the universal EU stance.
And the western world could learn a thing or two about what punishments for financial crimes should be. Instead of a slap on the wrist and a fine, it will make others stop and think before doing the same again in Vietnam.
I'm firmly against the death penalty and I hope that the appeal court overturns it and makes it life without parole, but when I see proper punishment for those that ruin millions of lives by stealing money, I feel envy.
You would lose that bank account. They despise France and the rest of the West for reasons that has nothing to do with Russia. Russia is taking advantage of that hate.
Israel Ganz, head of the Binyamin Regional Council that governs Israeli settlements in the central West Bank, said thousands of volunteers had joined in the search.
And their response is more violence.
Israeli settlers violently attacked Palestinian residents following the boy's disappearance on Friday.
One Palestinian died and 25 were injured in an attack by settlers on the al-Mughayyir village on Friday, according to Palestinian health officials. The village lies around 18 kilometers (11.18 miles) northwest of Ramallah.
Israeli settlers returned to the outskirts of the village on Saturday and burned 12 homes and several cars. The Palestinian Health Ministry in the West Bank said three people from al-Mughayyir were injured in the attack, one critically. Border police fired tear gas towards villagers, trying to disperse them.
Will the murder of Palestinian and arson attacks will be prosecuted too?
Go Germany! Meanwhile dutch politicians chickened out and decided to vote on if they would rather not vote on our version of this law. Because they're all fucking cowards.
I mean yes that was practically the situation for the last 40 years here.
Late 70s the constitutional court said that government must enact a legal framework for name changes, that then happened in 1980. The court then over time went ahead and voided more paragraphs of that law than they left intact, here's a list. The socdems back then basically only did it because they had to, then came a long conservative government, the next socdem government did civil partnerships, then another long conservative government (with, surprisingly, gay marriage), and now another socdem government with the rest of the country having moved sufficiently forward for them to actually just do it.
It's Germany in a nutshell: Certain things take ages but once they're done they're actually done and only the fringes of the fringes of society are opposed. Opposition from the conservatives is mostly pro forma and details, opposition from fascists (i.e. AfD) is, as always, tactical/populist, the only actual opposition I'm seeing is from TERFs like Alice Schwarzer. Probably should be called an *ERF, TBH, it's almost easier to list whom she doesn't exclude.
Lawmakers in Germany on Friday approved a law to make it easier for transgender, intersex, and nonbinary people to change their name and gender in official records.
The law, supported by Chancellor Olaf Scholz's three-party coalition and the socialist Left Party, eventually passed on a vote of 374 to 251.
"As trans people, we experience time and again that our dignity is made a matter of negotiation," Green lawmaker Nyke Slawik, herself a transgender woman who changed her legal gender, told parliament.
"You have to imagine not to be able to pay with your [debit] card in a store, not to be able to go to your doctor with your insurance without being accused of fraud or, depending on the situation, having the police called on you," said Nox-Koenig.
The law has come under fire from conservatives and most notably from the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, which has said it will allow people to arbitrarily change their genders.
The deputy chair of the conservative CDU/CSU bloc, Andrea Lindholz, told broadcaster WDR 5 that the new law could be abused for criminal purposes, as it no longer required those changing their names and genders to register them with police.
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The way it's written made it sound like the application was voted down or stalled somehow, but it's not real clear, and it looks to me like there wasn't a specific objection made (which would usually mean it continues). Right? Or am I misunderstanding?
Yes, it was basically a meeting to decide if the formal vote would pass. Two thirds of the members agreed with it, while 5 members disagreed.
It can still be brought to the formal vote by any Council member, but since the US is likely one of the countries that disagreed, and they have a veto power, it's doomed to fail.
Got it. Yeah, I reread it and it finally started to click; IDK why they wrote it in such a convoluted manner. So presumably the exact breakdown of voting is secret for some reason, but we know 10 members voted yes, and at least one of the permanent members was in the 5 that voted no -- so it goes nowhere now. I wonder who might have done the veto.
Oh US, you double faced hypocrite. When it suits, you pretend to be for peace, when it doesn't, you happily support and finance a genocide. You have no credibly anymore. You are a fucking joke.
Suprise, politicians are hypocrites. I agree with everything you said.
But this is about Sudan, and it's gotten very bad. I think the most significant difference between Sudan and Israel/Palestine is that Sudan will still exist when the war ends. If Israel cannot defend itself, it is surrounded by enemies that will happily wipe it off the map. But if Israel is not stopped, they will happily wipe out every Palestinian in Gaza.
The Sudanese conflict is about control. The Israel/Palestine conflict is about existence.
The situation in Sudan is bad, and it needs attention, but not from the US. They only fuck things up.
Israel can end the violence today. All they need to do is agree to a two-state solution, and then Palestinians themselves and the world will support their fight against Hamas. It's that refusal that is making them unsafe. Because while Palestinians doesn't support the violence, they will not go against the one group that fights for them even if they don't agree with their ideology. They have been backstabbed too many times, just look at what's happening in the West Bank. Right now, all they are doing is accelerating the Hamas recruitment. Father who's all family was bombed or a mother who lost 30 family members has nothing left to live and a lot of hate.
It is a often forgotten low point in German history but during the colonization of Africa the Germans were extremely cruel. The German Empire employed a extrem scorched earth strategy against the rebelion of the maji maji people, modern day Tanzania. The rebellion was followed by a extreme famine cause by it. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maji_Maji_Rebellion
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