Good for her!
Meanwhile in Europe… the European Union passed a law recently banning national governments from disclosing to the public a list of environmental data about data centers. Europeans can access aggregate info, but specifics about the environmental impact of any datacentre in particular is now secret.
I thought the 5-year ban was a dangerous, desperate idea. Political rights like who can vote or stand for election should be defended no matter who’s being targeted.
Le Pen and her colleagues were found guilty of misappropriation of European funds by paying the salaries of some of their party officials in France with money that should only be spent on salaries of European Parliament assistants. European Parliament assistants can be party officials, and the official seat of the European Parliament is in France (Strasbourg), so the crime they committed wasn’t far from the EU’s rules.
A fine and criminal record makes sense. But custodial sentences? And suspending political rights for 5 years??
Meanwhile, German-Israeli nationals who just participated in war crimes, crimes against humanity and acts of genocide in Gaza are free to return to Germany for R&R.
EU Member States decided on Wednesday—while citizens were literally dropping dead from extreme heat—that “green finance” should include companies engaged in fossil fuel expansion (eg new oil drilling). The banality of evil. https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-countries-oil-exploration-green-investment/
What if NATO is a threat to everyone, including people living in NATO member states? What if it’s a scam to direct public funds into armaments and to undermine the UN Charter?
They may have overplayed their hand.
Ukraine never had operational control of the Soviet nukes on their territory.
Threatening indiscriminate mass murder (ie “nuclear deterrence”) says more about a government than about what they believe they’re up against.
They never doubted that they had the right. They don’t even dispute that IHL even compels states to act. They don’t care.
Sorry I don’t see how to. I’m using the Mlem iOS app
Not Russian or Ukrainian. Am anti-fascist though.
Good. Any effort that can slow or reduce warmaking abilities should be welcomed.
Rutte is shameless.
The Real IRA “issued an evacuation order” just before the Omagh Bombing
Great!
Interesting article about him here — https://www.dangerousspeech.org/counter-speech-case-studies/hasnain-kazim
He’s doing Mastodon a favour. He can always return to anywhere on the fediverse. Complaining that one moderator on one Mastodon instance was mean isn’t news, but maybe it is if it’s a journalist. Good for him.