https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maui
The island of Maui (/ˈmaʊi/; Hawaiian: [ˈmɐwwi]) is the second-largest island of the state of Hawaii at 727.2 square miles (1,883 km2), and the 17th-largest island in the United States
Aug 21 (Reuters) - Wildfires on Hawaii's Maui have killed at least 114 people, forced tens of thousands of residents and tourists to evacuate the island and devastated the historic resort city of Lahaina. It's the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century.
Cool thing is pirates get to play the game earlier than the paypigs who did not buy the overpriced Deluxe edition or whatever it is called. (This is not a call to publishers to Denuvo their games.)
I feel like calling situations like this a "crisis" makes it sound like a natural disaster rather than an intentionally manufactured one.
The first Dark Souls game felt like torture. I remember running around in the underground poison swamp to farm upgrade material then running up to Andre to upgrade my weapon and it felt like such a chore. In Anor Londo, after fighting a gargoyle, the way forward was so unintuitive I gave up because the game was not for me. I ended up watching some YouTuber play the game after that.
The point is that if you sanction a country like DPRK with a weaker industrial and technological base, you can cripple them very severely. China is a much more advanced country. Them being sanctioned in the realm of 5G chips led to an initial slump but eventually they ended up becoming capable of manufacturing their own chips which in the end is a huge win for China.
Moonofalabama had a short post about this earlier in case you wanna read it: https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/08/huawei-chips-demonstrate-the-perils-of-technology-protectionism-.html
George Soros obviously
UHRP is a CIA cutout
Uyghur Human Rights Project was founded in 2004 by the Uyghur American Association, and have eight full-time staff.[1] The project was founded with a grant from the National Endowment for Democracy, and became a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, tax-exempt organization in 2016.[3][4]
I get your point now. But the rooting out of corruption part is a big if in realising the democratic potential of elections. When there are Western interests in play as is the case with many African countries, the corruption is crucial in keeping the subject open to western exploitation. As such any effort that would seem to curb corruption also opposes western interest and faces opposition because of that.
This is why there is a contagion of anti-French coups in Africa currently. It is not because they don't know how to do democracy better but because it's extremely difficult to overturn the ruling class through legal and electoral means.
If elections were rigged, that would mean that there was no democracy in place to begin with. How is changing to any other system a loss in democracy even though there was none to begin with?
I didn't know that the American Christian movie industry had the resources, time or know-how to make a knockoff of Finding Nemo. I guess it makes sense considering it's the religion of choice of the settler population there and is used as a cudgel to enforce "American values" or whatever.
Source is Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism by Kristen Ghodsee
They probably donated themselves but that wasn't enough PR for them. Gotta milk it.