Does this protect him from extradition?

September 26th's update is here! TLDR? Here's the summary.

Next thread here. Sorry, the threads start breaking down at above 1000 comments.

edit: I've found a number of sources to use, mostly based on analysis rather than purely event reporting. I've kept some of the better mainstream sources, but I decided that I was gonna cut the six most aggravating sources out entirely: NYT, WaPo, Bloomberg, Forbes, Business Insider, and Politico. I'm not yet sure if I have enough for fully fledged updates (or maybe eventhe new material is too much) so I will do tomorrow's update with what I've found so far, and if I think I need more, I will add more. Unless I managed to get it just right the first time, I think I will end up iterating over the next week towards the best balance of lots of good sources that don't take too much time to sift through.

Coalition led by Giorgia Meloni would be country’s most radical government since Mussolini

Bust out the :anti-italian-action: emotes paisanos!

Here is September 19th's update! TLDR? Here's the summary.

Here is September 20th's update! TLDR? Here's the summary.

Here is September 21st's update! TLDR? Here's the summary.

Here is September 23rd's update! TLDR? Here's the summary.

Here is September 24th's update! TLDR? Here's the summary.

https://twitter.com/gossithedog/status/1571417934911643648

Keffals stay winning!

What a fucking trashbag.

Headline if they were being honest: "Brave protester assaulted by police state for using free speech to criticise regime backed pedophile"

Another thing interesting to note, every video of this covered by the 'free press' uses the word 'heckler' instead of 'protester'. How odd that they would all use the same word, almost like they have a motive :thinking-about-it:

Get those crabs ready folks :too-bad: :crab:

Here is September 5th's update! TLDR? Here's the summary.

Here is September 6th's update! TLDR? Here's the summary.

Here is September 7th's update! TLDR? Here's the summary.

No updates on Thursdays.

Here is September 9th's update! TLDR? Here's the summary.

Here is September 10th's update!

A few improvements:

• I'm gonna try and include more images, now that I've figured out how to do it on my end without things getting confusing. Namely, I now have a whole folder on my computer dedicated to this stuff where I can put things. A truly incredible development. However, a lot of the articles don't have images, and if they do, they aren't all that noteworthy - think "typical stock image of an oil barrel or a dude looking frazzled at a stock market screen". But still, there's usually at least 1 or 2 images that I can and should put in every day for added pizazz.

• I'm actually using the tagging system, instead of it just being "ukraine" and "russia" the whole time, and will be slowly working on adding them for the previous updates too. Eventually, you will be able to search by country throughout the whole update list, from the ever-present "china" or "united states" to the very rare "uzbekistan".

• More consistent climate and space updates. Hopefully.

• 100% more love for our trans comrades.

• Adding what you people post in these megathreads to the summaries too. The tyranny of only referring to my own work without talking about anything of the comments you guys make shall end.

On that note: do you have a lot of knowledge about the current state of a particular country (beyond mindless electorialism)? Do you, for some reason, have a lot of knowledge about hydrogen power, or the fossil fuel industry, or renewables, or rare earth mining, or have you delved into a wikipedia rabbithole on a topic and became a semi-expert? Hell, are you an actual expert? If the answer to any of the above is yes, please comment more! There are like 200 countries on this planet and I realistically only have time to talk about a fraction of them on a given day, and of that fraction, only a single article. I may have a vibe about certain countries, but if you wanna rant about the current situation in X country or how neoliberalism is ruining Y country, but you think "nah, who gives a shit" - I give a shit. Some of the best content in these megathreads is people being like "The general media narrative around what's happening in this country is wrong, here's what's actually going on here."

I'll even quote your username in the summaries if you do it. It's a meritocratic version of the general megathread's username list that they do every time. The thrill of a purple number next to the bell in the upper right corner of your screen can be yours for the low low price of a microessay for our reading pleasure.

https://mobile.twitter.com/jasonhickel/status/1566387987235176449

“ The tragedy in Pakistan is a stark reminder of climate injustice. The top map shows which nations are most responsible for excess emissions. The bottom map shows which nations are most impacted by it. Climate breakdown is playing out along colonial lines.”

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This is it, it’s fucked, and every bit as bad as we thought it was going to be. It is categorically unfair that this is playing out along colonial lines. Be aware of an uptick in the already brutal racism against south asians in the west, the water wars haven’t even started. This was one natural disaster that DISPLACED 30 MILLION PAKISTANIS.

THIS SHOULD BE THE BIGGEST NEWS IN THE WORLD RIGHT NOW

Direct pdf link to UN report

Select passages from the BBC article:

The UN has accused China of "serious human rights violations" in a long-awaited report into allegations of abuse in Xinjiang province.

China had urged the UN not to release the report - with Beijing calling it a "farce" arranged by Western powers.

The report assesses claims of abuse against Uyghur Muslims and other ethnic minorities, which China denies.

But investigators said they uncovered "credible evidence" of torture possibly amounting to "crimes against humanity".

They accused China of using vague national security laws to clamp down on the rights of minorities and establishing "systems of arbitrary detention".

The report, which was commissioned by the UN's Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights, said prisoners had been subjected to "patterns of ill-treatment" which included "incidents of sexual and gender-based violence".

Others, they said, faced forced medical treatment and "discriminatory enforcement of family planning and birth control policies".

The UN recommended that China immediately takes steps to release "all individuals arbitrarily deprived of their liberty" and suggested that some of Beijing's actions could amount to the "commission of international crimes, including crimes against humanity".

...

China denies all allegations of human rights abuses in Xinjiang.

In response to the Xinjiang Police Files, China's foreign ministry spokesman told the BBC that the documents were "the latest example of anti-China voices trying to smear China". He said Xinjiang enjoyed stability and prosperity and residents were living happy, fulfilled lives.

China says the crackdown in Xinjiang is necessary to prevent terrorism and root out Islamist extremism and the camps are an effective tool for re-educating inmates in its fight against terrorism.

It insists that Uyghur militants are waging a violent campaign for an independent state by plotting bombings, sabotage and civic unrest, but it is accused of exaggerating the threat in order to justify repression of the Uyghurs.

China has dismissed claims it is trying to reduce the Uyghur population through mass sterilisations as "baseless", and says allegations of forced labour are "completely fabricated".

Criticism of the report (Reddit comment):

A lot more underwhelming that I expected. Seems to boil down to a few main points:

1. The XUAR has seen a large rise in acts of terrorism related to religious extremism
2. To prevent this, China implemented a system of "Vocational Education and Training Centres" (VETCs) to rehabilitate and educate away the extremism

The concern then follows:

1. China has implemented a system of policing that is overly vague and overreaching, that allows the government to easily place citizens in the VETCs.
2. China trains their police force in ridiculous manners to identify religious extremism
3. Once transferred to a VETC, the conditions there are brutal and more akin to a torturous prison.
4. There are also concerns of erasure of religion and attempted forced birth control

My issue with the report, is the use of a small amount of interviews declared credible, to then corroborate the rest of the sources. These sources include the classic and long debunked Zenz, Xinjiang Police Files, unofficial document translations (long history of bias in translations), etc. Given the long history of terrible witness reliability (Nayirah testimony, SK $900,000 reward to NK defectors, Iraq's WMDs, etc), I'm still going to hold off on agreeing with the accusations of genocide.

rest in pizzahut

I don't know how to feel about this. F or 🦀?

BBC Obit:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-13669848

Sources said President Biden’s intended measure will include at least $10,000 in loan forgiveness for borrowers who make less than $125,000 annually, as well as another payment freeze for roughly four months.

August 22nd's update is here! TLDR? Here's the summary.

August 23rd's update is here! TLDR? Here's the summary.

No updates today or Thursday as I have caught coronavirus. I only have a couple symptoms, and a bit of mild brainfog, so hopefully we can be back on track come Friday.

August 26th's update is here! TLDR? Here's the summary.

August 27th's update is here! TLDR? Here's the summary.

No updates on Sundays.

"Meta" is doing a remarkable job being even worse than its original "Facebook" name that it tried to escape for horrible shit.

China has overtaken the US as the world leader in both scientific research output and “high impact” studies, according to a report published by Japan’s science and technology ministry.

The report, which was published by Japan’s National Institute of Science and Technology Policy (NISTP) on Tuesday, found that China now publishes the highest number of scientific research papers yearly, followed by the US and Germany.

The figures were based on yearly averages between 2018 and 2020, and drawn from data compiled by the analytics firm Clarivate.

The Japanese NISTP report also found that Chinese research comprised 27.2% of the world’s top 1% most frequently cited papers. The number of citations a research paper receives is a commonly used metric in academia. The more times a study is cited in subsequent papers by other researchers, the greater its “citation impact”.

The US accounted for 24.9% of the top 1% most highly cited research studies, while UK research was third at 5.5%.

China published a yearly average of 407,181 scientific papers, pulling ahead of the US’s 293,434 journal articles and accounting for 23.4% of the world’s research output, the report found.

China accounted for a high proportion of research into materials science, chemistry, engineering and mathematics, while US researchers were more prolific in research into clinical medicine, basic life sciences and physics.

The report was published on the day US president Joe Biden signed the Chips and Science Act, legislation that would authorise $200bn in research funding over 10 years to make US scientific research more competitive with China.

The Chinese embassy in the US said last month that China was “firmly opposed” to the bill which it said was “entrenched in [a] cold war and zero-sum game mentality”.

The “high impact” finding is in keeping with research published earlier this year, which found that China overtook the US in 2019 in the top 1% measure, and passed the European Union in 2015.

Papers that receive more citations than 99% of research are “works that are seen as being in the class of Nobel prize winners, the very leading edge of science”, study co-author Dr Caroline Wagner said at the time. “The US has tended to rank China’s work as lower quality. This appears to have changed.”

The US still spends more on research and development in the corporate and university sectors than any other country, the report also found. “China has the largest number of researchers in the corporate and university sectors among major countries. In the corporate sector, the United States and China are on par with each other, and both are showing rapid growth.”

“China is one of the top countries in the world in terms of both the quantity and quality of scientific papers,” Shinichi Kuroki of the Japan Science and Technology Agency told Nikkei Asia. “In order to become the true global leader, it will need to continue producing internationally recognised research,” he said.

No more hell for us we got enough, it's fucked , 9 Reagans in iraq are over 50c° or 122f° , and in 4-6 of those we have no electricity at all and the other ones has fack all electricity, the turks are booming electricity towers , the Iranians just made us pay double for the electricity, Saudi Arabia is... Saudi Arabia, America is holding the people hostage using electricity, water (witch they contaminated so we buy from there companies, and Iran and turkey usually cut on us) and food, we are not people for them, just numbers, and as I calculated (I am not someone who is good in these stuff so I might be wrong, and if so correct me in the comments and I'll edit) Americans pay around 120$ to get 100A for 24/7h ,while I a privileged person will pay 100$ for 10A (gets less because of the heat) for 18h/d

The situation is facked, we are hostages for the imperialist and we die for not complaining,

Some pics :

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/973978917503369247/1006156279888224256/resize.jpeg

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/973978917503369247/1006156279888224256/resize.jpeg https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/973978917503369247/1006156707908562985/merlin_178393590_74b65e05-f032-4056-8707-ada4e1a4bd7f-superJumbo.jpg

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/973978917503369247/1006156287819649024/113753411_tv062693427.jpg

May also work on preventing mental deterioration from epilepsy and Lyme disease.

Holy moly :bloomer:

👁️ .