Former Supreme Court senior associate justice Antonio Carpio yesterday urged the Philippine government to challenge China to submit to arbitration its territorial dispute over Panatag (Scarborough) Shoal to finally settle which country has sovereignty....
Since October 7, more than 3,257 children have been reported killed, including at least 3,195 in Gaza, 33 in the West Bank, and 29 in Israel, according to the Ministries of Health in Gaza and Israel respectively. The number of children reported killed in just three weeks in Gaza is more than the number killed in armed conflict...
Since #electronics have been on my mind lately, I've been thinking of this ... story? situation? anecdote might be the best fit.
Doing anything every vaguely #niche, like #hobby electronics, in a small #city in the middle of #nowhere used to be quite difficult in terms of obtaining #supplies and #parts. Before the #internet, if you could plan ahead and order enough stuff at once from a big #distributor to make the #shipping charges worthwhile, #catalogs from DigiKey etc were life savers.
The other place was a branch of a #regional#chain that served most of western #Canada. They used to have branches in 7 or 8 cities throughout the #west. They still exist, but they only have a head office in #Calgary and a branch in #Saskatoon now.
Back in the day, my friends and I had a name for them. We called it "Two weeks, ten bucks". "Hey, I gotta go to two weeks, ten bucks on Thursday when I get off work. Do you need anything?"
#StuttgartParktFair - Gemeinsam für eine sichere und lebenswerte Stadt! (#1 Wissenswertes)
Auf dem Foto ist es gut zu erkennen: Eine Kreuzung in #Stuttgart-#West, im Halteverbot "5-Meter-Bereich" steht in der Kreuzung ein #Falschparker. Es gilt "rechts vor links". In dem Moment, in dem die/der Radfahrende an die Engstelle heranfährt und einen Schulterblick machen muss, um sich wegen des rückwärtigen Verkehrs zu versichern, biegt von rechts kommend, ein Auto in Richtung Engstelle ab. (1/x)
Destroying Hamas is a political objective, not a military one.
Even if Israel claims success after assassinating senior Hamas figures, destroying their arsenal and tunnels, and dismantling their administration, they have not said what they will do the day after “victory”.
The Gaza strip will still be there, albeit mostly in ruins. The population who survive the war will still be there, mourning new losses of loved ones and their homes. And the poverty and other deprivations that fed Hamas will only have intensified.
The national rage, the massing of military might, looked disturbingly familiar to US president Joe Biden, who warned Israel last week:
“Justice must be done. But I caution this – while you feel that rage, don’t be consumed by it. After 9/11, we were enraged in the United States. While we sought justice and got justice, we also made mistakes.”
Even if the #Palestinian#Authority could be pressured or bribed into considering taking control, it is far from clear if they would be accepted, or able to do it.
A government installed by the Israeli military would not be seen as legitimate.
The #PA are already widely resented in the #West#Bank for their weakness in the face of Israeli authorities, for being inefficient, unrepresentative and riddled with corruption.
And though the majority of Gazans were not old enough to vote when #Fatah lost elections to #Hamas in 2007, there is no reason to think they have become more popular.
The only idea floated by Israeli politicians and officers for Gaza’s future, an #international#peacekeeping force, seems rooted more in wishful thinking than reality.
“It seems that the war is going to be very, very #long and we have to take into account the #hostages, the risk of conflict #spreading into the wider region, the #erosion of support and the question to whom we are going to pass #control in Gaza – for example if we have to pass it potentially to some Arab-led #multinational force,” said former prime minister Ehud #Barak.
"Those investments began to diverge sharply along red & blue lines, with conservative lawmakers often balking at public #health initiatives they said cost too much or overstepped. Today, people in the #South and #Midwest, regions largely controlled by #Republican state legislators, have increasingly higher chances of dying prematurely compared with those in the more #Democratic#Northeast and #West." #GiftArticle https://wapo.st/3PJpoZI
#Kyiv needs more of everything, including air defense ammunition, artillery shells, tanks, and long-range missiles (such as the Army Tactical Missile System, or #ATACMS) to continue targeting Russian bases in #Crimea. So far, the #West has provided most of what Ukraine has asked for, but much more slowly and in much smaller quantities than necessary.
Vorsicht ⚠ am #Bismarckplatz in #west! Dort hat @stuttgart eine Baustelle eingerichtet, die für Fuß- und Radverkehr absolut unzureichend abgesichert ist. Beschilderung gibt es keine, Unfallgefahr droht. #BaustellenBlockade
So, the #West is experiencing a "war fatigue". Bless their little hearts.
For a bit of perspective, it is the free people of #Ukraine upon whom this years-long unjust #war is presently perpetrated by a far larger nation. So, imagine Ukraine's "fatigue".
A few weeks ago, leading Russian scientists, A. Karaganov, head of the council for foreign and security politics, and dean at Moscow economic university., published an extensive strategy paper on foreign and domestic policy strategy for the Russian government, which was now leaked by a Russian news site.
The report was prepared at the request of the Russian presidential administration.
If a third-party candidate takes even a small part of the anti-Trump vote away from #Biden, Trump is likely to be returned to the White House
So will every other third party claiming to be in the “center” or on the “left” – including the Green party, which is already on the ballot in the two key swing states of Michigan and Wisconsin and whose most likely candidate for president is Cornel #West.
This is an excellent article.. worth a read. And the point that #AI and #5G is being used for heavy automation of industrial operations instead of what #ChatGPT kind of systems are being used for is a major point. It's worth understanding what #China is doing in this space and emulating not just for the #west but for countries like #India.
#Russia is showing the #west that they are the ones now taking advantage of #Africa resources.
That is the cost #Europe will have to pay for exploiting #Africa for so many centuries.
Last week, we had a day trip to #Torquay but rather than drive or take the train, we decided on a different route. The first leg was a #cycle trip to #Exmouth, about 17 km, followed by a boat trip around the #Devon#coast. The weather was a bit changeable but there were only prospects of short showers.
The first part of the #coast travelling #west is primarily #sandstone with its distinctive orange colour. You can see the layers tilted through geological action. #Erosion is always evident at the surface but on the action is the sea. The rocks are dated at about 250 million years.
Troll offices are usually divided into 4 sections:
Trolls who use taunts to enrage people
A section (X) on social media that (unsuccessfully) tries to defend arguments or opinions that Russians want to oppose or suppress
A section (Y) that successfully discuss with (X) proving (x) are wrong
(making believe that they are real conversations where 'reason or truth' prevails')
PH government urged: File territorial case vs China (www.philstar.com)
Former Supreme Court senior associate justice Antonio Carpio yesterday urged the Philippine government to challenge China to submit to arbitration its territorial dispute over Panatag (Scarborough) Shoal to finally settle which country has sovereignty....
GAZA: 3,195 children killed in three weeks surpasses annual number of children killed in conflict zones since 2019 (www.savethechildren.net)
Since October 7, more than 3,257 children have been reported killed, including at least 3,195 in Gaza, 33 in the West Bank, and 29 in Israel, according to the Ministries of Health in Gaza and Israel respectively. The number of children reported killed in just three weeks in Gaza is more than the number killed in armed conflict...
Israeli settler shoots and kills Palestinian harvester as violence surges in the West Bank (apnews.com)
A Jewish settler has shot dead a Palestinian man harvesting olives near the West Bank city of Nablus, the man’s uncle said.