International Politics Thread - Disease and Disaster

[Nintex]

If anyone is going to stay in the EU in the end it's Boris.

The tories are not as dumb as they look. 

[Occam]

After 30 years of killing whales and eating them for "research", Japan has officially started whaling again today. No longer for "research".

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"Due to its low food self-sufficiency rate, around 40%, Japan relies on stockpiling to secure a stable food supply. As of 2009, Japan's 1.2 million ton seafood stockpile included nearly 5000 tons of whale meat. In 2005, the Japanese government began encouraging public schools to serve whale meat in school lunches as part of an initiative to reduce the country's stockpiles. A reported 18 percent of public elementary and junior high schools offering lunches served whale meat at least once during the 2009/2010 fiscal year. However, there has been criticism of serving whale meat to school children due to allegations of toxic methylmercury levels. The World Wildlife Fund has also estimated that the Japanese government has had to invest $12 million into the 2008–09 Antarctic whale hunt alone just to break even, and that subsidies in total have amounted to about $150 million since 1988.

One study found levels of mercury in whale red meat at six times the limit set by the US FDA for food. Whale meat can also be contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls. Critics claim that, because of contamination, it constitutes a health risk. Thus children and pregnant women are advised to refrain from eating whale meat."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whaling_in_Japan#Commercial_viability

You can't make this up.
"Whaling makes no commercial sense and the meat of which we have stockpiled too much already is poisonous. Solution: Let's kill even more whales and feed them to our children!"

[Kara]

Netherlands national rail finally paying restitution for being paid to transport people to Nazi death camps. Better late than never!

Unless most survivors and perpetrators are dead, I guess.

[Nintex]

Boris still making moves

https://twitter.com/MsHelicat/status/1145797164754505728

[Nintex]

At least the UK still has elections.

The new EUSSR leaders have been appointed by the central committee

https://twitter.com/EUCouncilPress/status/1146110407964352513

None of these people were even candidates or leaders of their political blocks 

1. Wrecked Germany's armed forces

2. Wrecked Greece

3. Wrecked Belgium

4. Convicted of fraud and famously said the US only had to kill 4 Indians to form a nation

[VomKriege]

Lagarde keeps failing up and up Jesus.

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I dunno maybe she's good at what she does. At least she didn't assault a Sofitel maid.

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[Rufus]

Von der Leyen failing upward as well. No doubts about incompetence.

Parliament still has to vote, so... All hope is not lost.

[BisMarckie]

Von der Leyen failing upward as well. No doubts about incompetence.

Parliament still has to vote, so... All hope is not lost.

Sending failing politicians to Brussels is a proud tradition.
She can say hi to Günther Oettinger. 


Maybe the next minister of defence can ensure that more than 1 ship is considered ready for duty.

[Kara]

1. Wrecked Germany's armed forces

This is supposed to make me not like the klanidate [sic]?

[Nintex]

Von der Leyen failing upward as well. No doubts about incompetence.

Parliament still has to vote, so... All hope is not lost.

It's a deal made between the Visegrad countries and the others.

Orban didn't want Weber, so the socialists lobbied for the top job and the others settled on Frans Timmermans but Orban blocked him too.
So as a compromise they've decided on Ursula. With a German as President they can't deliver the head of the ECB as well.
So that's where France comes in and Macron backed Lagarde for the position.

But these are some bottom tier establishment picks for sure and Orban backed these because they're A) horrible and B) easy targets.
No one has to worry about anything changing the EU except the bar tab and maybe Lagarde will put the entire block on some austerity. 

[BisMarckie]

Without the threat of German invasion, Dutch forum users became known as the worst posters per capita.

[Kara]

The Dutch seemed quite comfortable being occupied by Germans.

[VomKriege]

An italian judge gave back her freedom to Carola Rackete, the captain of the Sea Watch 3 who forced through the refusal from authorities to anchor in Lampedusa with over 40 migrants they picked up in the Med.

[Cerveza mas fina]

Netherlands national rail finally paying restitution for being paid to transport people to Nazi death camps. Better late than never!

Unless most survivors and perpetrators are dead, I guess.

Its late but better late then never.

[Raist]

At least the UK still has elections.

You mean, like they got Theresa May without voting for her originally? Or how they'll get Bojo without voting for him? Or the House of Lords?

[Cerveza mas fina]

The Eu is also a democracy but not a direct one thank god so we dont have to worry about clowns like Boris, Trump, Orban, Duda etc.

Brexit shows how stupid people are.

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R.B.R
17 hours ago
Great idea. Yasser Arafat, Hugo Chavez were slowly poisoned, by Mosad and the CIA. 

[Raist]

Today in "Brits behaving like a bunch of 5yo abroad".

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-48839829

[Occam]

Inspired by their role models.


Members the NSDAP in the Reichstag, 1930
Image text:
The Nazi party fraction turns away from the speech of Dr. Loewenthal. In the middle in front Joseph Goebbels writes with his body averted (in light su​it).
Photographer:
Scherl
Date:   10.12.1930

[Nintex]

The Eu is also a democracy but not a direct one thank god so we dont have to worry about clowns like Boris, Trump, Orban, Duda etc.

Brexit shows how stupid people are.

You have the chance not to appoint fuck ups and you go with Leyen, Michel, Lagarde and a Spanish convict for the top jobs.
That kinda beats the whole point of appointing the best men/women for the job.

They could've decided on any other establishment picks who aren't complete fuck-ups.   

[VomKriege]

They could've decided on any other establishment picks who aren't complete fuck-ups. 

They obviously couldn't or we wouldn't be there.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

at the US president drinking Diet Coke out of a wine glass at the G20

WAT

[Nintex]

at the US president drinking Diet Coke out of a wine glass at the G20

Them: "We will have flying cars in the future"

The actual Future:

[Cauliflower Of Love]

omg

[Kara]

at the US president drinking Diet Coke out of a wine glass at the G20

Maybe it was kalimotxo, Luis Carrero Blanco.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

not gonna lie though the same characteristics for a wine glass that deliver flavor and senses, also deliver carbonation.  source: I drank coca cola out of wine glasses till I was 57.

[Nintex]

Trump drinks at least 12 diet cokes a day.

After his UN speech a while back he toasted with a diet coke. 

[Cauliflower Of Love]

Never trust a person who doesn't drink.

[BisMarckie]

If Trump eats Lunchables at a diplomatic dinner then I might have to rethink my stance on him.

[Raist]

Today in "Brits behaving like a bunch of 5yo abroad".

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-48839829

New episode.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-48869520

[Raist]

https://twitter.com/GMB/status/1146309908154978305

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[VomKriege]

Yeah yeah nice, no appeasement, can you kindly fuck off now ? You said you were leaving 2 hours ago.

[VomKriege]

Algerians still in the street (on the day celebrating the independence, no less) to get what they want. The presidential election was supposed to have been held yet for a painful lack of legitimacy of the few people the current institutions are willing to offer the citizens.

[Raist]

Those trade deals are shaping up nicely.

[Raist]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-48881327


3 to 11 years?

Put those pieces of shit behind bars for 30y minimum, wtf.

[Raist]

https://twitter.com/alanferrier/status/1146100784200867842

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1146992859159171072

 

[Occam]

https://mobile.twitter.com/DavidLammy/status/1147068717848829952

[HardcoreRetro]

Netherlands national rail finally paying restitution for being paid to transport people to Nazi death camps. Better late than never!

Unless most survivors and perpetrators are dead, I guess.

My dad has rights to it, but doesn't want to get money over his dad's dead body.

[VomKriege]

I learned that Boris Johnson is the son of a British MEP and Euro public servant (among other activities) and lived briefly as a teen in Uccle. Fortune is one cheeky bitch.

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/lacey_butcher/status/1147251657698402304

https://twitter.com/EuropeElects/status/1147268923290767360

 

[VomKriege]

I imagine Québec has laws similar to what we have in France (or have/had in Turkey) ?

[Mollys Fruity Loops]

Tory members sent 'multiple ballots' for leadership vote

Some Conservative members have reportedly been sent more than one ballot paper for the leadership election.

More than 1,000 people could have multiple forms in the contest between Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt, according to a BBC report citing a party source.

The broadcaster said those affected could include people who joined their local Conservative party at their home and work address or others who have changed their name.

Hunt’s campaign chairman, the former cabinet minister Sir Patrick McLoughlin, warned party members should only vote once even if they had received two ballot papers. “It’s made very clear on the ballot paper that you are only allowed to vote once. I expect Conservative members to follow that,” he told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.


Hunt says he received 'Back Boris' campaign email without signing up
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McLoughlin acknowledged the error has “got to be looked at”, but added: “It can’t be clearer, it’s right there on the ballot paper saying that you must only vote on one occasion and I expect people to do that.”

[Nintex]

Tory members sent 'multiple ballots' for leadership vote

Some Conservative members have reportedly been sent more than one ballot paper for the leadership election.

More than 1,000 people could have multiple forms in the contest between Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt, according to a BBC report citing a party source.

The broadcaster said those affected could include people who joined their local Conservative party at their home and work address or others who have changed their name.

Hunt’s campaign chairman, the former cabinet minister Sir Patrick McLoughlin, warned party members should only vote once even if they had received two ballot papers. “It’s made very clear on the ballot paper that you are only allowed to vote once. I expect Conservative members to follow that,” he told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.


Hunt says he received 'Back Boris' campaign email without signing up
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McLoughlin acknowledged the error has “got to be looked at”, but added: “It can’t be clearer, it’s right there on the ballot paper saying that you must only vote on one occasion and I expect people to do that.”

It seems like Jeremy Hunt was the only Tory not informed that they needed a scapegoat for tanking Brexit 

[Madrun Badrun]

I imagine Québec has laws similar to what we have in France (or have/had in Turkey) ?

Yes

[VomKriege]

I imagine Québec has laws similar to what we have in France (or have/had in Turkey) ?

Yes

I know French style aggressive secularism confound a lot of people but it doesn't shock me.

[Madrun Badrun]

My issue is that it seems like a law designed so people can tuck their crosses into their shirts while Muslims get targeted; I don't think its truly a secular motivated law. 

[Kara]

That's true.

[Kara]

At least Québec can point to a time in living memory when their KKKulture was dominated by a very conservative Catholicism. La république outchea fronting when they ain't even got any Cult of Reason festivals on rotation.

 

[VomKriege]

Some of the recent developments are clearly Muslim-related but Christians and Catholics in particular never were treated with kid's gloves on the matter. Public servants having to conform at work and citizens having to provide standardized ID photos without any garment or accessories for official identification (and the corollary of police being able to verify those) are fair to me. France allows for private, religious schools for those who can't back down from their faith to that extent.

The rest of the things like mayors banning "burkinis" or whatever is stupid and prejudiced. I don't like burkas but private citizens are allowed to wear them if they so choose. The problem is often vastly overblown when it get coverage.

[Rufus]

France can point to strict secularity at least. In Germany you'll find plenty of crosses in classrooms.

Or in the case of Bavaria, an outright mandate to put one on every public building:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-43892329

Premier Markus Söder said crosses should not be seen as religious symbols but as a "clear avowal of our Bavarian identity and Christian values".

[Kara]

Without Catholicism Bavaria would be *checks notes* the place that speaks silly German that has silly beer laws and a newspaper that functions as the only political opposition. The worst subnational BfV office too I guess.

[VomKriege]

France can point to strict secularity at least. In Germany you'll find plenty of crosses in classrooms.

Or in the case of Bavaria, an outright mandate to put one on every public building:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-43892329

Premier Markus Söder said crosses should not be seen as religious symbols but as a "clear avowal of our Bavarian identity and Christian values".

There might be some exceptions in Alsace (clergymen for all Abrahamic denominations are still on public payroll AFAIK).

Edit : I didn't look deep into this but a couple of years ago, imams weren't included in the Alsace-Moselle Concordat dispositions. Some Mosques were financed by public funds in that region on its basis however.

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https://twitter.com/DavidKlion/status/1147884890110812160

[Kara]

Without Catholicism Bavaria would be *checks notes* the place that speaks silly German that has silly beer laws and a newspaper that functions as the only political opposition. The worst subnational BfV office too I guess.

TIL Carl Wurster received the Bavarian Order of Merit in 1955.

[benjipwns]

Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov explained why Vladimir Putin came to dinner in honor of the G20 leaders with a personal thermocup, Znak.com reports.

“He drinks tea from this thermos,” RIA Novosti quotes Peskov. What kind of tea does the Russian leader drink, his press secretary did not reveal.

[shosta]

I am 100% certain it's so he doesn't get poisoned by an assassin

[benjipwns]

Actually, I think Putin is STRAIGHT EDGE like Trump isn't he?

Maybe they bonded over being germaphobes too. With TRUMP™ Hand Sanitizer.

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Yes, I edited in "STRAIGHT EDGE" because it's better.

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[Nintex]

Diet coke and tea

Those guys are living it up

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