Let’s play a game.
Sure, it’s NW click bait but also a damn scary reminder of how shit can go South really fast.
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My hope would be that after a Russian first strike “our side” would be sane enough to say “OK, let’s chat.”
Also, the current war in Ukraine really calls into question how much of the Russian stuff would actually function.
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I also wonder at the accuracy of Russia continuing to be able to send so many bombs and missiles once their first nuclear bomb (right where it’ll harm Poland, Germany, and Austria, which is quite the three-fer) hits and NATO/EU/US respond with tactical force. Not half the strikes of Russia, but rather 3 or 4 times that.
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This is so 1980ies.
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Running Up That Hill may have slipped from number 1, but it is still in the charts.
The 1980s never left.
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FUCK
How do I make that FUCK so that it can be seen from space?
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Because the Political World runs on money:
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The money that’s easily traced is bad, and what’s hidden seems to be much worse. The average person would be much better off if we had stronger enforcement and big fines as a deterrent.
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Something, something, sunlight and vampires…
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The eight-page article in SPA! about the worship of Yamagami is a magnum opus on the complicated factors that have played into the elevation of the assassin from “terrorist” to “noble vigilante” by some Japanese nationals.
The headline in garish gold letters doesn’t pull any punches: “The man who attacked Abe, [Tetsuya] Yamagami is now worshiped. This god of the lower classes of Japan evokes sympathy—[from those who have also known] poverty, religion, loneliness, [and had] poisonous parents.”
After the former prime minister was killed, Yamagami claimed that his real intent was to call attention to the deep ties between Abe’s party, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), and the Unification Church–a South Korean Christian cult. It appears he has wildly succeeded. There is a thunderstorm of anger enveloping the cult and lawmakers who have cuddled up to them. Every day, LDP politicians, including Japan’s current prime minister, are taken to task by the media for their alleged servitude to the church.
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I can’t actually be 100% against that, his methods, what he did is completely wrong, however, his cry for help, which a lot of what his act as, may actually help a lot of other people indirectly. The counterpoint is it shouldn’t have to get to this point, but you know…
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Justin Bieber
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That’s good news. I seem to remember that the major stumbling block to doing anything about Hungary’s blatant rolling back of democracy before now has been that action against them would have needed unanimous action from the other countries of the EU, and until recently, Poland was blocking the issue, as they have their own corrupt right-wing regime that’s attacking democracy there.
However, they seem to have been pulled back onside by the Ukraine situation, where Poland are absolutely part of the EU bloc against Orban’s putinism.
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Helsingin Sanomat reports that the controversial Patient Safety Act — which the paper notes has “stirred emotions” — is set to be passed into law at a sitting of Parliament on Monday.
The law could see striking nurses ordered to return to work during industrial strikes, and would also give regional administrative agencies the power to postpone or suspend strikes.
If the bill does become law on Monday, a planned four-day strike called by nursing unions Tehy and SuPer would be unlikely to go ahead, HS writes.
The unions have slammed the Patient Safety Act as a “forced labour law” that would limit the right to strike while not offering solutions to the long-term nursing shortage, which they argue poses a far greater threat to patient safety.
Minister for Family Affairs and Social Services Aki Lindén (SDP) told Yle TV1’s Ykkösaamu chat show on Saturday morning that the law could also be used to prevent mass resignations in the sector, which the unions have also indicated they are planning.
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From heroes to villains in two years?
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That’s what we get when the two major parties in the cabinet are a center left and center right party.
Next year things are going to be much much worse cabinet will be lead by the right wing party with extreme right wing and center right in the mix.
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