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naturalgasbad

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  • Chinese prisoner’s ID card apparently found in lining of Regatta coat

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  • Company towns are effective slavery.

  • Chinese prisoner’s ID card apparently found in lining of Regatta coat

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  • You can disprove China's numbers... How, exactly?

  • Chinese prisoner’s ID card apparently found in lining of Regatta coat

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  • The OP claimed China has a competitive edge from prison labour. I disproved that statement.

  • Chinese prisoner’s ID card apparently found in lining of Regatta coat

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  • Tell it to the 13th Amendment:

    Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction

    Coincidentally, those convicted parties are predominantly Black.

  • Britain's King Charles urges rapid environmental repair in COP28 speech

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  • Maybe King Charles should do something about it, then?

  • Exclusive: China lures hundreds of Taiwan politicians with cheap trips before election

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  • Meanwhile us Canadians sit idly by as right-wing American "independent think tanks" dump billions of dollars into buying out our politicians and directing policy. Fuck.

  • With Peru port project, China gains a foothold in America’s backyard

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  • Chancay port in Peru is about to be more efficient than Vancouver's ports.

    Fuck.

  • Chinese prisoner’s ID card apparently found in lining of Regatta coat

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  • Forced prison labour is the foundation of a number of economies, including the US'. It's explicitly not prohibited in the Constitution.

    China can't use prison labour to undercut global markets because they have a smaller prison labour pool than their key economic competitor (the US).

  • Air pollution from fossil fuels ‘kills 5 million people a year’

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  • This, moreso than emissions, is why countries are so eager to replace coal with natural gas. It's also why supercritical coal plants have taken off.

  • Ukraine's Security Service blows up railway connecting Russia and China

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  • Does this provide cassus belli for China to enter the war?

  • Three assassinations plotted by India on Canadian soil: US indictment

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  • It wasn't military contracts that killed Bombardier. It was the DOJ blocking Bombardier sales to the US under claims of "dumping"

  • Three assassinations plotted by India on Canadian soil: US indictment

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  • Naturally, our closest ally did what it does best and told us children (Canada and India) to stop fighting because they had more important interests in Asia.

    More important than the literal fucking assassination of Canadian citizens on Canadian soil by a foreign power, apparently. More important than supporting it's single largest trading partner in the world. More important than supporting the country that forms the other half of NORAD.

    Then again, the US DOJ literally pushed Bombardier (a Canadian jet aircraft company and massive Canadian employer) to insolvency because it might compete with Boeing. I guess I shouldn't be surprised.

  • Welcome to COP28, the U.N. Climate Conference Hosted by an Oil Giant

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  • The US is increasing the amount of energy generated from fossil fuels. It's increased by more than 40% since 2010. This isn't a case of "oopsie woopsie," it's entirely intentional and a part of policy.

  • Revealed: Saudi Arabia’s grand plan to ‘hook’ poor countries on oil

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  • The only thing that will meaningfully drive people away from fossil fuels is cheaper, greener alternatives. The lack of investment in the West into making affordable options is leaving the door wide open for big oil producers... You can't deny a country their opportunity to develop, improve living standards, and pull people out of poverty for some nebulous "greater good" while you, with your brand new Tesla and brand new iPhone flying across the country in business on a brand new Boeing 787, talk about switching to clean energy. You need to make clean energy the economical choice in the first place.

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    South Korea jails 68-year-old man for poem praising North Korea: Report

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  • A lot of Nazis ended up in exceptionally high positions in Western institutions post-WW2. Europe isn't exactly the best model either...

  • EU court says public employees may be barred from wearing head scarf

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  • Democracy is when religious freedoms are persecuted.

  • Israel arrests almost as many Palestinians as it has released during truce

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  • The people arrested will have been charged, right?

  • Revealed: Saudi Arabia’s grand plan to ‘hook’ poor countries on oil

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  • California has power rates at 34c/kWh off-peak and 43c/kWh peak. Europe isn't unique. Peak Tesla charging rates hover around 60c/kWh.

  • Human Rights Watch says rocket misfire likely cause of deadly Gaza hospital blast

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  • Human Rights Watch has drawn widespread criticism from the Israeli right (NGO Monitor) and US left (The Nation) for their lack of transparency, unclear funding sources, and poor methodology.