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The Great White Replacement Theory has its own version in India, that Muslims will out-populate Hindus
Media Matters list all the excuses used by the Right to justify lax gun control after Uvalde Massacre
https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-news-blames-everything-guns-uvalde-massacre
Hopefully, the small under-funded island nations can successfully play off the global powers.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi is holding talks with his counterparts from 10 Pacific island nations in Fiji as part of a diplomatic tour that has stirred deep Western concern. The meeting on Monday will discuss proposals for Beijing to radically increase its involvement in the security, economy and politics of the South Pacific.
An update on the election here
And here
Signs are the leftist candidate will win.
An article on the influence and beliefs of America’s Christian Nationalists
Zelenskiy ruled out the idea of using force to win back all the land Ukraine has lost to Russia since 2014, which includes the southern peninsula of Crimea, annexed by Moscow that year.
“I do not believe that we can restore all of our territory by military means. If we decide to go that way, we will lose hundreds of thousands of people,” he said.
The Quad – an informal alliance made up of Japan, the United States, India and Australia have launched a maritime surveillance plan that analysts say is its most significant move so far to counter China.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/5/28/why-has-the-quad-launched-an-anti-china-surveillance-plan
The Quad – an informal alliance made up of Japan, the United States, India and Australia have launched a maritime surveillance plan that analysts say is its most significant move so far to counter China.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/5/28/why-has-the-quad-launched-an-anti-china-surveillance-plan
The report, compiled by two thinktanks, the New Lines Institute in Washington and the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights in Montreal, found that there were “reasonable grounds to conclude” that Russia is already in breach of two articles of the 1948 Genocide Convention, by publicly inciting genocide, and by the forcible transfer of Ukrainian children to Russia, which the report notes is itself a genocidal act under article II of the convention… The report concludes there is “a serious risk of genocide in Ukraine..,
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/27/russia-guilty-inciting-genocide-ukraine-expert-report
115 national guardsmen, known as Rosgvardia, have been fired for refusing to fight in Ukraine.
It came to light after a local Russian court rejected their collective lawsuit that challenged their earlier sacking. The lawsuit was dismissed after the judge determined that the soldiers had been rightfully fired for “refusing to perform an official assignment” to fight in Ukraine and instead returned to a duty station.
Russia’s blockade of Ukraine’s Black Sea ports is being blamed for the rise in food prices but some experts blame the sanctions on Russia as the main culprit.
David Laborde, a senior research fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute, pointed out that “the biggest threat the food system is facing is the disruption of the fertilizer trade.” This is because, he said: “Wheat will impact a few countries. The fertilizer issue can impact every farmer everywhere in the world, and cause declines in the production of all food, not just wheat.”
Watch this space…
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken says that Russia may represent an immediate threat, but on the long-term, China poses to the global order a more serious one.
Blinken said, “China is the one country that has the intention as well as the economic, technological, military and diplomatic means to advance a different vision of international order.”
https://www.dw.com/en/blinken-warns-china-threat-greater-than-russia-long-term/a-61941942
Even the Guardian is surprised by pro-war anarchists protecting Ukraine
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/26/putin-anarchists-join-ukraine-war-effort
May be unnecessary now that Russia is proposing some sort of safe channel for ships.
