Children are far more likely to be killed by rubber and plastic bullets because of their height. Of the 17 people killed by them in Northern Ireland 8 of them were children, plastic bullets alone seriously wounded 615 people from 1988-98 in NI.
Rubber and Plastic Bullets were invented by the British forces for use in Northern Ireland and killed 17 people, over half of whom were children, while seriously injuring over 615 people between 1988-98 including permanent blindness and loss of eyes.
If you post a paywalled article please post a archive link: https://archive.ph/jAKpa Lot of people doing this with SCMP in particular.
They will most likely be made to turn around like the last two ships before the one that was bombed.
I think this might be a miscalculation here. Dr Yueh is an extremely sympathetic character whose wife was being held hostage and helped Jessica and Paul escape while also providing Leto with the poison to potentially kill the Baron. If it was some yellow peril bullshit then why would they show Paul speaking mandarin too? Why use it to establish the protagonists close relationship with Dr Yueh. Dune has so many brainworms (I stopped halfway through God Emperor of Dune because of all the fucking Homosexual Suicidal Urges stuff that was clearly Herbert lashing out at his own gay son) but I do not think this is one of them.
I am merely stating that the historical knowledge of the practicalities remain and that the sort of fanatical anti-communism that infested the rest of Eastern Europe when NATO swept in has not taken strong roots. The truth is most of our theory and all of our historical analysis is based on societies that have always been capitalist before being overthrown by a revolution. We dont have any sort of precedent for a former socialist society that is now capitalist returning to socialism.
I don’t have any answers. All I am saying is that the reason that a peaceful revolution is impossible in most societies is because the forces of capital would not allow it. But in Russia the unbroken chain of capital that exists in most countries does not exist, their forced opposition to capital forces from the west have isolated and weakened them. Putin brought them back from the brink, and he will remain in power for as long as he wishes. But once he is gone then who knows. Probably Nothing Happens™, but maybe something does.
Russia is capitlaist. We are capitlaist. There is no reason to not do business together.
Russia is, and always will be, America’s enemy. They can provide all the resources and services America can to the rest of Europe at much cheaper and efficient rates. This is why even after the USSR collapsed instead of absorbing them into NATO they continued to be seen as the enemy, its why Nordstream was blown up and its why the proxy war in Ukraine is happening right now. America has to keep the rest of Europe separated from Russia whether they are capitalists or not.
This will also, I believe, potentially blowback on the US. Unlike the rest of the Eastern bloc they could not simply pour in and wipe the last 80 years of history away. Russia today still holds the muscle memory of the practicalities of a communist state and when Putin goes there will be the possibility for a return to it. See my below comment for clarification.
You called it a week ago congrats : https://hexbear.net/comment/6106194
This was easy to see coming. I think alot of Kneecap’s international audience don’t understand that their personas, songs and whole aesthetic are making fun of the post-troubles west Belfast hoods. People who were (like Kneecap) born in or after the 90s and are aping an exaggerated form of surface level republicanism that lingered beyond the ceasefire especially in Nationalist strongholds like West Belfast. When talking about the influence of the Troubles on the post-GFA generations I am often reminded of a quote from Marx; “The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living”. These hard lads who run around pretending they’re in the IRA because they sell drugs and spray slogans on walls are really just using the aesthetics of resistance to mask the fact that they are actively harming their own communities.
I believe Kneecap’s popularity abroad stems from this mask of resistance that they initially put on to mock destructive elements in their own community but that people missing the local context see as genuine and are using to LARP as revolutionaries. I don’t personally know them so I wont make judgements but sometimes it seems like the lads in Kneecap have also fallen for this trap themselves.
At the end of the day they are really just like any other successful band, and they will prioritise their income above their empty slogans any day.
Kneecap are Northern Irish, so they could definitely be prosecuted under those laws. This is also why there was all that stuff about them getting art grants from the UK and the south.
Yes, they have already sent bricks made of a volcanic material similar to lunar regolith to Tiangong a few months ago to study their exposure to space. Chang’e 7 will use a unique hopping rover to hopefully scout Shackleton in ways a conventional rover ever could. It almost sounds like one of those stupid venture capital buzzword baits that NASA might fund a feasibility study on and then shelve. But that is just a sign of how much more advanced China’s lunar exploration program is, they are doing quite literally what NASA can only dream of.
Of course this will not stop American so-called “Space enthusiasts” from completely ignoring these facts and claiming that because they sent some guys there in the 70s and then completely gave up for 50 years that anything done in space from now unto the heat death of the universe is second place.
SP500 drops 10%
Ironically these types of guys are usually French, or English. Both will mock you for attempting to speak their language but also expect everyone to understand them. Often they will use the laziest of stereotypes to try and insult you because, despite living their entire lives within spitting distance of your country, they have an extremely narrow history education that boils down to “Why we were so great from 1000s to WW2 and then history ended”. You find them everywhere but in western Europe its those two nationalities disproportionately.
Fitting given that Tolkien was inspired by the industry in the midlands when creating Mordor
Genuinely surprised there was any steel manufacturing happening in the UK still.
Why are all these guys so weird. This particular guy Braun got fired from UCD for harassment and is now an “independent researcher” who thinks Nordstream was blown up with nukes.
Dr Ní Shúilleabháin related how Braun had regularly shown up in her office at UCD, asked her out on dates, made persistent phone calls and in one incident followed her to a hotel in Cork where she was staying.
Braun (58), who worked in UCD until 2019, was issued with a court order in late 2019 barring him from contacting her for five years after she had reported the matter to gardaí.
His website where he talks about the Nordstream stuff: https://www.geophysical-forensics.ch/nordstream.html
Academia is rife with the most unhinged of conspiracy theorists, there is something about the in-depth knowledge in one specific field combined with the culture that creates the same irrational self-confidence you see like flat earthers (of which there are many in STEM, I’ve even met a NASA Engineer who is a flat earther) I know top level academics who believe the pyramids are an ancient geomantic power source.
This can also be seen in the works of Christopher Busby, whose work was linked here a few months ago regarding the use of depleted uranium by Israeli forces in Lebanon. He also has several nuke conspiracy theories that devolve into him claiming that several of his fellow researchers where assassinated because of their research into cold fusion and that Kennedy was shot because of the Kennedy Kruschev test ban. This is a man who was appointed to government advisory councils and top scientific boards, then went on to try and grift people with anti-radiation pills after Fukishima.
These particular theories are just believable enough that if you see a guy in a labcoat with a doctorate and some nice graphs you might just believe it if you never google them or meet them in person. Because the other thing about these guys is they are not shy about their theories either. They will gladly get up and talk about these things at conferences if you let them because of that air of self-confidence that arises inside the bubble of academia.
At least this will get all those “Ireland and America has a special relationship” people to shut up. Fun Fact: Viagra is produced in Ireland.
The UK wouldn’t survive even something as mild as a return of national service IMO. If they ever did try and bring it back it would probably be for England only, because anything else would just speed up the glacial breakup of the UK that is already occurring. I’ve stopped trying to predict when reunification would happen ever since Brexit, but I wouldn’t be surprised if there was a referendum 10 years from now. Once NI goes then Scotland is only a matter of time, potentially a very long matter of time, but still inevitable.
There is a reason that Northern Ireland is the birthplace of the term “recreational rioting”. “Prominent Members of the Community” (read: paramilitary drug dealers) start them and then the recreational rioters roll in no matter the reason for the riot in the first place. Loyalists start these riots for the same reason they march through nationalist neighbourhoods every year, intimidation. Like all settler cultures the Unionist (with a big U) is now completely detached from the origins that they base their culture on. Ignored by the British, who just see them as Irish anyway, they have adopted a siege mentality that requires periodic shows of force to stop themselves from becoming completely irrelevant. Racism is a fundamental part of the culture because without it they would have to admit that they are, after 400+ years of living here, identical to the Nationalist cultures they discriminate against.