Agreed. I just didn’t know that financial crimes could be punished that severely. Half the financial industry should be behind bars now.
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it’s not a victimless crime. they’re toying with peoples’ survival, often while living it large themselves.
while there appears to be severe sentencing for it, it seems like few face any repercussions because of it (though i’m more than happy to be corrected on that front).
more than half. eat em all.
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Oh my lord.
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How do you get an “all-natural” “fruit” treat to have more sugar than a bad of lolly snakes?
"You start out in 1954 saying "N****, N*****, N*****" by 1968 you can’t say N*****, that hurts you. Backfires. So you say things like forced busing, state’s rights and so on…* - Lee Atwater on the Southern Strategy (1981). He then went on to pretend Raegan never meant to hurt Black communities when he did things that always “magically” seemed to impact them negatively.
"The goal is to have the public read something crazy in the news paper and immediately think “Critical Race Theory”. We have decodified the term and will recodify it to annex the entire range of cultural constructions that are unpopular with Americans - Christopher Rufo on his successful misinformation campaign (dated THIS YEAR)
Speaking of misinformation campaigns another person is stating the obvious…
Ditch that Zuckerbitch!
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The Democrats narrowly avoided losing a 2nd governorship in New Jersey.
Although Murphy is the first Democratic governor to be re-elected in over 40 years, so at least that’s something.
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this is why you shouldn’t mark your own homework:
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Apparently there is a secret international court that is able to sue countries that try to get rid of coal? I don’t understand half of this.
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From what I can gather: The ECT or the energy charter treaty is an agreement signed by 54 countries that states that energy companies can sue governments if they fuck up their profit margins. It seems like it was used Soviet and post-Soviet countries if they tried to nationalise extraction industries but now people fear the ECT signatories will use it to hamper Europe’s green transition by suing governments that phase out non-renewables in a manner the ECT doesn’t like.
The secrecy comes from the system itself. People who activate the ECT have no legal obligation to disclose the details of their cases. The ECT has over 100 active cases on record and whistleblowers state the combined payment of the lawsuits will be over a trillion dollars which means less public funding for green policies. Which is what the ECT wants, it is basically an extortion racket run by oil, gas and coal companies really.
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To add to what @Accidental_Kills98 said.
It’s not technically if governments fuck up their profit margins. It’s only (here) relevant in investments.
The ECT was made with the goal to make energy resources a part of a nation sovereignty, while letting foreign/private investment relatively free. In other term : the energy sector is the responsibility of the nation and its government. In return they make sure the sector is not so unstable that it cannot be reasonably worked on/in.
The argument you will see will basically be “we invested in good faith in the energy sector of this country, but then they changed the way the sector worked. We couldn’t reasonably know/predict that. And now our investment is useless. This is not a proper conduct or a healthy environment for long term business, we demand a refund of our investment or to be paid the lost returns.”
I should also point out that the ECT was not signed by the US, China and OPEC countries. (they are observing members, but not signatories).
Everything else @Accidental_Kills98 said is true.
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The members of the Pastafarianism (church of the flying spaghetti monster), are allowed to add signs to existing religious signs in a German city to inform other members of the weekly noodle mass.
Evangelist, Catholic and Baptist churches are protesting against this decision.
They saw Pastafarian liturgical practices such as pasta communion and a reading from a rolling pin as a Torah replacement as a “denigration of the Jewish belief and the Christian churches.”
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Justice for pastafarians 
Isn’t this old news though Urben?
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The legal process went on since then, it was decided today. It was basically a second ruling of a higher court.
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Der Spiegel reported that someone fell to his death from the Russian Embassy to Germany in Berlin last month.
Ah, the russians.
(I know it’s not really an important news, but you know Russia and fall accident… I also want to say that Bellingcat is currently one of the best osint journalism outlet and you should check it out)
For anyone following COP26 and the climate crisis, the news are rather predictable : countries are already breaking the good will presented in the summit.
Everything is going to be fine.
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I would like to state that this is wrong. ScoMo can’t do the opposite of what ScoMo said we would do because Scotty never said anything about us doing anything other than lowering emissions by 2050 which he will do never soon, probably. His climate change plan is just the word “clean coal” and “carbon capture” over and over again for twenty pages and some PragerU style unlabelled graphs with numbers going really up or really down.
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The toll is not definitive, non confirmed reports are telling of a high number of wounded, some critical.
The situation is still developing.
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Gee, I wonder who is behind this?
I wonder…
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For everyone, because the title if read alone can be a bit misleading :
According to the Iraqi intelligence and Iraqi security forces,
We are talking of an attack made with civilian size, “normal” drones, not a military one. Three were intercepted. They were carrying explosives.
This kind of operation is unfortunately more and more frequent in the region.
The attack happened a few weeks after the general election.
The election is heavily contested, more virulently by groups and militias that are suspected to be backed by the Iranian government.
The PM himself is (relatively) western friendly, or at least not western hostile.
The possibility of a direct operation by a state actor is possible, but the most probable will be a deniable actor.
A purely independent actor is possible, but they are rare in Iraq at the present.
The possibility of a false flag for consolidation of power (akin to what was done in Turkey) is null.
An article about this kind of attack by drones from their first recorded use by ISIL (the possibilities, configurations and ordinances used have since expanded),
and another one about the equivalent used by the Iraqi Federal Police to counter them.
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