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WhatAmLemmy , in US-Backed Philippine Government Committed War Crimes, People’s Tribunal Finds

The "land of the free" has been committing crimes against humanity in the Philippines for over a century. Exerts from Wikipedia:

Tensions arose after the United States annexed the Philippines under the Treaty of Paris at the conclusion of the Spanish–American Warrather than acknowledging the Philippines' declaration of independence.

The war resulted in at least 200,000 Filipino civilian deaths, mostly from famine and diseases such as cholera.[21][22][23] Some estimates for civilian dead reach up to a million.[8] Atrocities were committed during the conflict by both sides,[24] including torture, mutilation, and executions. In retaliation for Filipino guerrilla warfare tactics, the U.S. carried out reprisals and scorched earthcampaigns and forcibly relocated many civilians to concentration camps, where thousands died.

The U.S. annexation and war sparked political backlash from anti-imperialists in the U.S. Senate, who argued that the war was a definite example of U.S. imperialism, and that it was an inherent contradiction of the founding principles of the United States contained in the Declaration of Independence.

Skua , in Spain, Ireland poised to back Palestinian state

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

Beaver , in Spain, Ireland poised to back Palestinian state
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Smart countries

Beaver , in Can a U.S. Ally Actually Be Held Accountable for War Crimes in the ICC?
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No-one should be immune to justice that includes western officials

BaroqueInMind , in California is imposing a new tax on guns. Will it impact sales?

All this does is allow the state to further discriminate against low income people.

Increasing the tax to make purchasing weapons become cost prohibitive does not affect wealthy people buying guns. It also does not affect gun crime rates.

apfelwoiSchoppen , in US-Backed Philippine Government Committed War Crimes, People’s Tribunal Finds
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Almost as if there is a longstanding theme to US geopolitical influence.

cerement , in US-Backed Philippine Government Committed War Crimes, People’s Tribunal Finds
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KillerTofu , in The US food industry has long buried the truth about their products. Is that coming to an end?

The fuck? Food nutrition labels weren’t REQUIRED until 1993?

theareciboincident ,

The US lives in a weird food bubble where they eat absolute cancer inducing garbage and pretend their Cheetos Asbestos Blasted Quattro Dioxin dinner is somehow better lmao.

The US allows all sorts of fucked up processing steps and ingredients that are straight up banned in Europe.

Every time an American leaves the country they gush about how good the food in (destination) was - but they only ate tourist trash the whole time.

Like they genuinely don’t realize it, it’s incredible.

Jaysyn , in Israel Gaza war: ICC prosecutor seeks arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Hamas leaders
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Good. The leaders on both sides need to end the days in a cell in the Hague.

deft ,

Together. Let them solve their issues while the world moves the fuck on

Rapidcreek OP , in London court rules WikiLeaks founder Assange can appeal against an extradition order to the US

And the beat goes on...

gAlienLifeform , (edited ) in German star at Cannes condemns ‘madness’ of protective culture for UK child actors
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“It feels a bit off-balance,” said Rogowski, who went on to point out that children already have many other damaging freedoms online where they are more exposed to danger and not protected.

So, there's a chance something could be getting lost in translation and I don't know the context here, but just taking this article's description at face value,

[Paraphrasing], "Kids can voluntarily be exposed to explicit content on the internet, so why do we need guardians around when I act creepy towards them (it's my job, no really)" seems like both a tellingly weird rant trigger for this guy and first line of argument in defense of it

e; I should have kept reading the article,

For Rogowski, though, the efforts now made in Britain are in danger of inhibiting creativity. His scenes in Bird involve several small children and teenagers who are depicted in situations of social neglect and even imminent harm. “It’s true that Andrea is very careful and respectful, but it would have been great sometimes if there was a bit more trust – and I think that’s a cultural thing,” Rogowski told the industry journal Variety this weekend. “We are so scared nowadays to expose our kids to maybe a swear word – which is ridiculous, because we allow them to use social media and YouTube.”

Ok, yeah, so maybe spoilers for the movie Bird (I haven't seen it but I've read a few things about it now), but it seems like this actor plays an abusive father figure type, and I could kind of imagine how doing that work would have you running into these regulations a lot and they might get kind of annoying, but a) they are there for a really good reason b) if I was your publicist I'd be writing a profanity filled resignation email right now, because you just created a PR headache for yourself

That all said, I think this guy is more dumbass than creep at this point

card797 , in German star at Cannes condemns ‘madness’ of protective culture for UK child actors

I don't see the problem. Protect the children. I suppose this fellow is fine with child abuse. It seems to be rampant in acting and entertainment.

1984 , in Severe flooding wreaks havoc across northern Europe
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Sweden has very warm weather right now, 20+ degrees with strong sun. That used to be happening in mid July for a country that is so far north. Now it's in May, and it was the same last year. Very early summers that goes away earlier too.

Global warming or whatever but weather has changed significantly during my lifetime, that's very obvious.

juicy , in Australians stranded in New Caledonia 'running out of food' amid civil unrest

The riots have been sparked by anger among indigenous Kanak people over a new bill, adopted by MPs in Paris, that give French people who have lived in New Caledonia for at least 10 years the right to vote.

Fuck colonialism. Fuck France. Viva New Caledonia.

gramie , in Australians stranded in New Caledonia 'running out of food' amid civil unrest

I have a family member in New Caledonia. He said that things have settled down somewhat. He also sent an interesting article describing how Azerbaijan is using unrest in the Pacific to punish France for supporting Armenia in a territorial dispute. The article said that the leaders of the violence in New Caledonia were trained by Azerbaijani security forces.

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