"the prime minister’s avoidance of direct questioning"
Autocrats hate criticism.
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"the prime minister’s avoidance of direct questioning"
Autocrats hate criticism.
I've long been suspicious of who this NISA hype is really supposed to benefit. Abe did everything he could to ramp up share prices.
Trump team says First Amendment doesn't apply to jounalism
www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
How many languages do you speak ffs? Muang Thai eh?
S&S used to pop up now and then on searches, and didn't seem too bad. Till now...
"The law makes it clearer than ever that in Xi Jinping's PRC non-Han peoples must do more to integrate themselves with the Han majority, and above all else be loyal to Beijing"
China approves 'ethnic unity' law requiring minorities to learn Mandarin www.bbc.com/news/article...
wow
Some interesting points here. Glad to see the author dismiss the religious difference” argument and focus on the political moment. I’d add that the anxiety about depopulation in Japan makes people more inclined to see the practical benefits of AI and less likely to see it as a threat to their jobs.
@rmarcantuoni.bsky.social has written a lot about SanSeiTo, but I missed this useful article from last November:
Sanseitō and its far-right conspiracy ideology – Tokyo Review www.tokyoreview.net/2025/11/what...
"Poll: No recovery in life for 40% of evacuees since nuclear accident"
But don't worry; it will never happen again (if you go by the Japanese government's attitude).
www.asahi.com/ajw/articles...
"With the emergence of players like Trump who operate outside the established international system, the weakened legitimacy of authoritarian regimes becomes a major threat to their security."
How Trump and Israel's Killing of Khamenei Feed Putin's Paranoia foreignpolicy.com/2026/03/04/p...
" [the Israelis] see the best opportunity they have ever had to reorder the Middle East and strengthen their position as the unchallenged military hegemon."
Jeremy Bowen: Trump has called for an Iran uprising but the lessons from Iraq in 1991 loom large www.bbc.com/news/article...
On Saturday, Trump told us the attack on an elementary school in Iran that killed 175 people – mostly children – “was done by Iran.”
Now the U.S. military admits it was a U.S. strike.
If they are lying about something as obvious as this, what else are they lying about?
Read the other essays too.
I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public.
I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are.
1/ Here's what I can share:
No. Might does not make right.
When the rich are buying bunkers, does it not occur to them that that money would be better spent creating a world that doesn’t need bunkers?
... just double down on the lies till people forget about it.
Read this, it's even worse than you might imagine.
A good read.
Warning from airline ANA that Gmail may potentially display incorrect information about the flight the email is about.
I see the AI revolution is going just fine and is in no way inconveniencing people with the statistical word prediction machine's wildly incorrect guesses about what is going on.
Human rights belong to every citizen of the world.
They should never be used to advance geopolitical agendas.
Because at the end of the day, we are all brothers and sisters. 🌍❤️
Yes, that's likely true. That window closed. But if *everyone* had nukes would the chance of someone using one fall?
Multiple news outlets are reporting a US attack on an Iranian #desalination plant.
If verified, this violates international law protecting #water systems during wars, and it sets a dangerous precedent, given intense dependence of Gulf countries on desalination.
timesofoman.com/article/1691...
Gaza Jabalia before and after war
So the plan is to leave Iran looking like Gaza does now?
#IranWar #Gaza #Iran #Israel #warcrimes #Epstein
It's the same argument that carrying guns reduces the murder rate.
"Putin has been careful not to criticise Donald Trump too harshly over the bombing of Iran ...he sees [him] as pivotal in putting pressure on Ukraine to accept peace terms on Moscow’s conditions.
...with every increase in oil prices, there is barely concealed satisfaction among Russia’s elite."
This didn't start in the 21st Century of course. Remember the newspaper barons of old, as depicted in Orson Wells' Citizen Kane?
