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Xi Jinping said on Tuesday that with joint efforts, China-Vietnam ties will enter a new stage of greater political mutual trust, more solid security cooperation, deeper mutually beneficial cooperation, stronger popular support, closer multilateral coordination and better handling of differences.

Xi also said that the cause of socialist construction in China and Vietnam will advance steadily and make new contributions to the stability, development and prosperity of the region and the world at large.

During the talks, the Chinese leader also said China firmly supports Vietnam's cause of socialist construction.

Lmao. People claimed the Houthi declaration that they would interdict Israeli ships made no sense because they lacked anti ship missiles.

In Texas, Paxton mounted an aggressive defense to try to prevent Cox from having an abortion. He sent three Houston hospitals letters warning of legal consequences — both criminal and civil — if they allowed Cox’s physician to provide the procedure. He also argued that Cox had not demonstrated that her life was at imminent risk, including noting that she was sent home after her multiple visits to emergency rooms.

Cox had cesarean surgeries during her first two pregnancies. Her lawsuit argued that inducing labor would carry a risk of a uterine rupture because of her prior C-sections, and that another one at full term would would endanger her ability to carry another child. But Paxton contended those arguments still fell short.

Absolute fucking ghouls

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Child Radicalization in

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The same guy before: Take away Russia’s nuclear weapons – for Putin is finished and his country may soon collapse

Image is of the Cobre Panama open-pit copper mine, located 120 kilometers west of Panama City.

Canada is a prolific mining country, hosting many of the world's top mining corporations. Some of its extraction is local - for example, Saskatchewan is the world's largest producer of potash, a critical agricultural nutrient. Much of the extraction is abroad. Naturally, this means that Canada has cut a bloody, but often ignored, path through the global periphery, extracting minerals and causing environmental degradation.

A notable recent example is that of the Cobre Panama copper mine, which is owned by First Quantum Minerals, one of the largest mining companies in Canada. The company earned $10 billion in revenue in 2022, of which the Cobre Panama mine generated $1 billion. Protests in Panama about this mine have gone on for over a decade, urging for a greater share of the profits, protection of indigenous people, and stronger environmental protections. Canada has maintained a stoney silence (pun somewhat intended) on these movements.

On October 20th, the president of Panama, Cortizo, renewed the company's mining concession for 20 years, after a halt in production since the end of 2022 due to negotiations and reform. Everybody hated this. In October, protestors took to the streets in sufficient numbers that Cortizo was forced to halt new mining approvals, and announced a public referendum on whether the contract with First Quantum should be repealed. This was immediately cut down, but the government decided to invalidate the new concession anyway in late November, calling it unconstitutional, and closing down the mine.

First Quantum Minerals has lost about half its market value since October. Various international banks have said that Panama could lose its investment-grade credit rating next year due to the income hit - the mine generated 5% of its GDP. The international arbitration process which First Quantum has initiated against Panama could last years.

The book Canada in the World: Settler Capitalism and the Colonial Imagination handles Canada's role as an imperialist, anti-indigenous, extractive state throughout its history, and is on our geopolitical reading list.

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Back in October - Mexican official confirms cartel gunmen forced a dozen tanker trucks to dump gasoline at gunpoint

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U.S. Reps. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, and Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, also signed the letter, which accuses Mexico of trying to “nationalize its economy and renege on its commitments in the USMCA as a means of empowering its failing state-owned petroleum company.”

Nationalizing it's economy and thwarting our not so covert attempts at undermining it! The horrors!

What about the spirit of the US Mexico Canada Agreement ?!

USMCA more like US Marine Corp Agreement

Plus, gasoline is far more expensive in Mexico, by about 125% in some instances.

Also Californians Flock to Mexico for Cheap Gas as Prices Rise to $6 in State

Californians are traveling to Mexico for cheaper gas, as fuel prices surge following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, according to The San Diego Union-Tribune and the Los Angeles Times.

Awwwww is Mexico kind of immune to your sanctions shitfuckery becauss it nationalized it's oil and gas?

Hillsdale College has been notorius for sending anti LGBTQ physical and digital spam promoting their (CW ANTI LGBTQ / Socialism ) Imprintus propaganda.

How this tiny Christian college is driving the right’s nationwide war against public schools

The College That Wants to Take Over Washington

Christian Hillsdale College failed students who reported sexual violence, lawsuit alleges

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Several California residents have filed a lawsuit against Hillsdale College for spam emails, court documents show.

California’s anti-spam laws regulate spam sent to residents, according to a complaint filed Thursday in federal court.

Hillsdale College and several third-party publishers, who sent emails on Hillsdale’s behalf, are accused of sending over 1,400 “unlawful unsolicited commercial email advertisements” that promoted the college.

In the lawsuit, the third-party publishers are accused of concealing their identities to send the emails, allegedly using untraceable domain names — or third-party domain names without permission — in email headers so that recipients could not identify who actually sent the emails.

Even if Hillsdale itself did not actually send the emails, the lawsuit says the college chose to work with third-party senders to promote itself and can also be held responsible for the emails.

“This Court should award liquidated damages of $1,000 per email … and not consider any reduction in damages, because Hillsdale and its affiliate-senders failed to implement reasonably effective systems to prevent advertising in/conspiring to advertise in unlawful spams,” the complaint reads.

Bare minimum.

Archived link: https://archive.is/20231210001309/https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/12/09/gaza-starvation-israel-war-united-states-veto/

https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/08/us/texas-abortion-ruling-attorney-general-petition/index.html

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