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Infamousblt , in Alabama inmate executed with nitrogen gas was ‘shaking violently’ for 22 minutes, witnesses say
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Jesus fucking christ. Totally normal country we have here in the US huh

Gork , in Ecuadorian government seizes and destroys over 20 tonnes of cocaine

Authorities used a technique known as encapsulation to destroy the drug, pulverising the seized blocks with waste before mixing the resulting fine powder with cement, sand and glass.

Great, now the buildings are getting high.

Aussiemandeus , in Israeli officials accuse international court of justice of antisemitic bias
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Smart, they're following the internets playbook.

"Dont agrees with me and my opinion? You're a racist homophobic fascist bigot."

MrCookieRespect , in Oil tanker on fire after Houthi missile attack, firm says

Sounds like a great reason to invade Iran and Yemen...

BrikoX OP Mod ,
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Even if they wanted, the US can't afford the invasion in terms of human resources. Too much of their fleet is focused on Taiwan at the moment.

Tolstoshev , in NSA finally admits to spying on Americans by purchasing sensitive data

I am shocked!

Not that they’re doing it, but that they’re admitting it.

Mojave , in NSA finally admits to spying on Americans by purchasing sensitive data

The NSA is buying this data from normal data broker companies. They aren't even the ones collecting the data here.

That means that private companies are spying on you more than the NSA is now, and the NSA just wants a piece of the pie.

MrCookieRespect , in UN chief calls for donor countries to restore funding for Gaza relief agency

Won't happen. They participated in causing that war.

They need to be shut down.

BrikoX OP Mod ,
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Do you have proof or just your speculation?

MrCookieRespect ,

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/26/unrwa-investigation-staff-7-october-attack-israel

Do you live behind the moon? Basically all important countries stopped funding because of that.

BrikoX OP Mod ,
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I read, "suspected" and "investigates". That is just Israel's accusation at this point, not a proof of wrongdoing.

MrCookieRespect ,

But when south Africa makes up a case of genocide its of course true...

The Israeli accusations are definitely more valid.

BrikoX OP Mod ,
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It's pending a full decision, not yet decided either way. They only ruled that:

  1. (15-2 vote) The state of Israel shall take all measures to prevent the commission of genocide to Gaza
  2. (15-2 vote) The state of Israel shall ensure that the military not commit any acts of genocide
  3. (16-1 vote) Israel shall take all measures to punish all public solicitations to genocide
  4. (16-1 vote) Israel shall take immediate and effective measures to address adverse conditions to life in the Gaza Strip
  5. (15-2 vote) Israel shall take effective measures to preserve evidence of actions impacting the Genocide convention
  6. (15-2 vote) Israel shall submit to the court a report all measures taken to follow the orders of this court within one month
flathead , in Mona Lisa: Protesters throw soup at da Vinci painting

Cue the outrage and two minutes hate.

GONADS125 ,

Given that the painting is protected by glass, I don't really mind this protest. But I do hate when people destroy historical pieces in protest or like some stupid tourists have done in places like Italy.

flathead ,

Right but these are climate change activists, not stupid tourists. The internet is going to hate on them anyway. The Mona Lisa! Sacre bleu!

GONADS125 ,

No, they were farming advocates. From the article:

The French capital has seen protests by farmers in recent days, calling for an end to rising fuel costs and for regulations to be simplified - on Friday they blocked key roads in and out of Paris.

And I was not indicating that protesters and dumb tourists destroying precious art are on the same level. But there are other ways to draw attention to crises than destroying historic artifacts.

I don't support that, regardless the cause.

flathead ,

I stand corrected, thanks. I assumed they were climate activists, since all the previous soup throwing was about climate.

Do you know of any instances where climate protestors have destroyed historic artifacts?

GONADS125 ,

Just to play devils advocate, I decided to try to see if there were many instances of artwork actually being damaged. I found this article documenting the many "attacks" on artwork by climate protesters.

It does an excellent job illustrating how unjustified the outrage is, documenting how the attacks don't damage the artwork.

flathead , in Italian net closes in on 'Fleximan' - vigilante destroyer of speed cameras

So they have more cameras than anywhere else but also a higher rate of road deaths. Evidently the cameras aren't effective and are mainly a regressive tax collection mechanism.

voight , in Ukraine says corrupt officials stole $40 million meant to buy arms for the war with Russia
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I'm still going to shoot you a youtube video about how western media is structured (i don't really watch youtube but sending ppl online books is a bit much) don't worry but in the meantime TBT

https://web.archive.org/www.euronews.com/2022/07/17/jordan-bound-ukrainian-cargo-plane-carrying-weapons-crashes-in-greece

remember the CNN documentary they pulled interviewing that guy saying 30%+ of the weapons go missing

then later he got drunk in an interview and started talking abt them torturing people and shit lmao

BrikoX OP Mod ,
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The article mentions that all the crew died in the crash, and is there any evidence that the shipment was secretly headed to Ukraine instead of Jordan?

As far as interview and torture, I'm not sure which party are you talking about, since the crew is dead.

sleen , in Aeromexico passenger opens plane door and walks on wing

Thought he opened it mid flight until I read the article. Changes the whole perspective when you take time and read something.

kcuf ,

You also generally can't open the wing in flight due to pressurization. At lower altitudes, where maybe they could open the door, they'd be going fast enough that there's no way they could stay on the wing.

cobra89 , in Aeromexico passenger opens plane door and walks on wing

If there was a maintenance issue, why did they sit on the tarmac for over 3 hours instead of returning to the gate? If they weren't able to taxi then get a damn tug.

No excuse to leave passengers sitting on the tarmac for over 3 hours with no air or water. In fact in the US it's illegal, not sure what Mexico's laws are.

Sounds like Aeromexico needs to review their policies that allowed this to happen.

BrikoX OP Mod , in Red Sea: UK navy ship shoots down Houthi drone
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Defence Secretary Grant Shapps said the UK remains "undaunted" by the attacks.

I wonder how long can they continue this cat and mouse game before regular people start understanding the cost of this.

The average cost of a single missile used by US and UK is between $80k - $100k while Houthis drone costs about $1000.

yeather ,

It’ll end with the Houthis in a crater and the UK down a few missiles.

BrikoX OP Mod ,
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Saudi Arabia tried that for years with US help, spend $100 billions (yes, billions) on it in fact, and it resulted in a failed operation. I wouldn't hold my breath.

Aquilae , in Red Sea: UK navy ship shoots down Houthi drone
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They... shot down a drone? :0

Nerd02 , in Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger quit ECOWAS
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I guess we could all see this one coming. IIRC all three nations had been suspended after their respective military coups, so it's understandable that the dictators had little simpathy for ECOWAS

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