An adviser to the secret court that oversees a powerful spy authority is warning that a House-passed reauthorization of the contentious law contains “overly broad” language.
Prior to passage, the House failed to adopt a bipartisan amendment to curtail warrantless surveillance inside the U.S. Section 702 of the law expires on April 19 unless it's renewed.
The Afghanistan arm of the Islamic State is targeting Chinese nationals in a bid to “avenge” Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang.
What is the context of the phrase "Heil Hitler" now? Context is everything and you can't just point at the history books and twist the meaning of what someone said.
Languages change and morph over time. They always have.
why is democracy the goal? democratic nations have pretty much universally profited from the plunder and destruction of poor nations.
the british empire, the french empire, the german empire, the american empire. democracy is a tool of imperialism and colonialism. when those avenues for extracting wealth fail, what's left? increasing concentration of power and wealth to the rich, privatization of public goods, right-wing extremism, and societal stagnation through a return to conservative values.
The real boost is SOEs. Competition is good, it just needs a single large-scale player more concerned about the public good than private profits to push the industry in the right direction. There's a reason SWCC works so well while the Soviet system failed. Deng Xiaoping was a genius.
why is democracy being seen as an end and not a means? isn't the goal supposed to be to raise the standard of living of people in developing or emerging economies, to reduce income inequality, to combat climate change, and/or to improve support and infrastructure for disadvantaged people and their communities?
in a state with limited political goodwill, why isn't more effort spent on actually benefiting the people instead of maintaining institutions that evidently degrade the minute attention shifts away from them?
yes but my freedum
yes but political pandering
communist country executes bourgeois, capitalists horrified
$12 billion dollars is the equivalent of the 1.3 million years of work in vietnam. that's the livelihoods of more than 34000 people, stolen to profit one person.
yes but see china bad
and yet coal power plant utilization is dropping like a rock
turns out that when profit isn't the only driving factor behind infrastructure, you can afford to do what's best for the people (stable power supply by ramping coal production up/down to smooth supply from renewables) rather than what's best for profits (running new coal plants at full bore)
Taipei's omission of the key detail at the time, changed timeline, and absence of video recording cloud the deadly incident in "the most dangerous place on Earth."
By Western standards, China's record on human rights with respect to Uyghurs is not clean. However, it's no more dirty than China's record on human rights with respect to Han.
Turns out, Western standards look down on things like collectivism and the common good in favour of individual rights and privileges.
Western criticism of the one child policy, for example, is the exact same thing as Western criticism of government-imposed family planning on Uyghurs: by Western standards, the government should only impose family planning policy through economic levels, never legally enforceable ones.
The CHIPS Act’s current identity as a jobs program for favored minorities means companies are forced to recruit heavily from every population except white and Asian men already trained in the field…
The phrase is a linguistic atrocity, while the concept draws attention to American hypocrisy, in the Middle East and beyond. There’s an alternative.
The Associated Press found goods linked to prisoners wind up in the supply chains of everything from Frosted Flakes to Coca-Cola.
The absolute disregard for Palestinian lives.
Nancy Pelosi was caught on camera asking Israel protesters outside her home to “Go back to China” and claiming that was where their “headquarters” were located
As foreigners leave, people from the mainland are taking their place
Beijing must share more of the burden of protecting sea lanes that are vital for its trade interests.
Senator Marco Rubio had this to say on the issue:
The Chinese Communist Party continues to expand its unlawful and aggressive maritime presence throughout the Indo-Pacific.
The U.S. must continue to strengthen our partnerships w/ nations in the region and advance our capabilities to counter China’s aggression.
The Maldives government has confirmed giving clearance to a Chinese ship to dock in its port, a move which could further irk India with whom the tiny archipelago nation is involved in a diplomatic spat.
And it diverts attention from the real humanitarian crisis in Gaza
There are speculations that Ukraine could get F-16 fighter jets as early as the spring of 2024. To operate these cutting-edge warplanes, Kyiv must prepare ‘customized’ airfields to fly the fighting falcons. As Ukraine tirelessly works to bring the F-16s home, First Deputy Defense Minister of Ukraine...
New evidence points to Israeli security forces, not Hamas, for causing the most fatalities at the music festival - civilian deaths that were then utilized to justify Tel Aviv's Gaza genocide.
If anything, this makes the A-50U downing less likely given that there's been no indication that any A-50U crew are dead and Russia clearly isn't censoring reports on such.
The co-pilot was wounded | Obozrevatel
NATO has warned that the West should step up preparations for the unexpected,including a war with Russia, as Moscow's full-scale invasion of Ukraine is nearing the two-year mark amid worries over possible political fatigue among some of Kyiv's Western allies.
They're different stories about different statements from different countries. Estonia, Germany, and Poland all independently made statements, not as a single joint statement.
If this is a policy going forward, it should be listed as a rule.
Won't stop the reports, but thanks for checking!