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Re: International Politics Thread - Deal or no Deal?
« Reply #6903 on: September 13, 2019, 02:29:25 AM »
Massive strike today from the Paris transport authority to protest against the announced reform of "special pensions system", the biggest since 2007 or 1995. Only the two automated subway lines should run normally. Most of the other 14 lines are just shut down straight (up to the stations not being accessible at all since agents are leaving fences closed) and those that run will do so with reduced traffic and within arbitrary constraints (one only at peak hours the morning and evening), another will only serve key stations, etc...). All the buses and tramways should work at 1/2 or 1/3 of their usual rate.

Back in 2007, Sarkozy and his Prime Minister Fillon passed a law enforcing a "mandatory minimum service for public services" but apparently it wouldn't work here because it only pertains, in this case, to internal employer-employee negociations not reforms the government want to impose. Participation rates are too high to ensure anything more and employees can't be drafted unless in a state of grave public disorder / emergency. This 2007 law did force a 2 day notice for striking employees and an obligation to inform users in full of service disruption at least a day before. The (right wing) head of the Paris region is bitching that the strike notice should be 3 days and threatens to withhold the equivalent of today's share of the annual budget.

In a nutshell, I'm glad I don't have to go anywhere today.
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Re: International Politics Thread - Deal or no Deal?
« Reply #6904 on: September 13, 2019, 02:19:16 PM »

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« Reply #6906 on: September 13, 2019, 04:04:43 PM »
Tbf Shofar so good is a pretty good pun to come up with on the spot, specially when you are being forced to deal with couple of looneys asking you to blow on their horns.

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« Reply #6907 on: September 13, 2019, 05:33:24 PM »
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« Reply #6908 on: September 13, 2019, 05:39:32 PM »
https://globalnews.ca/news/5899146/senior-rcmp-arrested-charged/?fbclid=IwAR2XbJVNB2CpkxIcB7qFCvLUVTvewc-dEbzdMlfX7MFt2Vpql9SHYh-VOw8

Soo in Canadian not-Federal-Election-related news, the RCMP (civilian) Director-General of Intelligence was just arrested and charged with leaking information going back to 2015.

There's not much info on him and his work history/background in the Force (even internally, I had never heard his name before today) except that he's an academic by trade, with a focus on Asia-Pacific security studies, and speaks Mandarin, so obviously the "China" signals are flashing here.

Good jon, team.  Good jon.  :-\

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« Reply #6909 on: September 13, 2019, 06:52:49 PM »
When I was in the military they sent a Chinese National (CHICOMS!!!!) to my unit in a position that required him to have a provisional TS clearance.

I remember arguing with the unit we rolled up into about how we couldn’t have this guy and he was probably a spy. His family still lived in China. It was crazy.

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« Reply #6910 on: September 13, 2019, 07:04:30 PM »
https://globalnews.ca/news/5899146/senior-rcmp-arrested-charged/?fbclid=IwAR2XbJVNB2CpkxIcB7qFCvLUVTvewc-dEbzdMlfX7MFt2Vpql9SHYh-VOw8

Soo in Canadian not-Federal-Election-related news, the RCMP (civilian) Director-General of Intelligence was just arrested and charged with leaking information going back to 2015.

There's not much info on him and his work history/background in the Force (even internally, I had never heard his name before today) except that he's an academic by trade, with a focus on Asia-Pacific security studies, and speaks Mandarin, so obviously the "China" signals are flashing here.

Good jon, team.  Good jon.  :-\

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I like to think the RCMP has an actual sign that flashes "China" in an event like this.  In my mind, it's in a dark basement monitored by a woman dressed like a 1950's secretary who probably got put there for rejecting the advances of her superiors. 

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« Reply #6911 on: September 13, 2019, 07:15:06 PM »
Like you should trust any rich British person with your kids. 

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« Reply #6912 on: September 13, 2019, 07:28:09 PM »
This makes too much sense:
https://twitter.com/pedromakee/status/1172598804882870272?
Watch the Netflix thing on Cambridge Analytica called The Great Hack.

At some point a journalist says she spoke with someone close to Farage who explained it all to her.
A bunch of billionaires got together and decided to back 'Leave' which was to be the petri dish for the upcoming US election.
They enlisted Nix and his cabal because he had toppled governments in third and second world countries.

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« Reply #6913 on: September 13, 2019, 08:23:48 PM »
Like you should trust any rich British person with your kids.

Prince Andrew loves kids!

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« Reply #6914 on: September 14, 2019, 01:43:27 AM »
https://twitter.com/MarieAnnUK/status/1172706380131831809

Anybody getting that close to Trump, and I think the Secret Service would body rush the person.

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« Reply #6915 on: September 14, 2019, 08:48:59 AM »
The secret service is not really on point protecting Trump most of the time.
If someone looked sideways at Obama they would already prepare to get in position and he did most speeches behind bullet proof glass.

With Trump, they just let him wander off across the North Korean DMZ or halfway down a runway to talk to the press.
Or people toss shit at the podium and no one reacts.
There's all the paparazzi making 'watch Trump golf' pictures too and the occasional arrest at the Mar-a-lago of a Chinese national with a USB stick  :doge

It might also have to do with technology (that they're using drones and such so they don't need as many 'eyes on the ground' anymore) but the contrast is clear.

With Boris, he actually got the question if he thinks he needs more security because he just rides around on his bike in London with people yelling wanker at him.
To which he answered that he doesn't believe that would make him safer and he didn't think it would be necessary.

You can say many things about Boris but he's not holding up in some ivory tower even though he gets the occasional egg thrown at him or a broken nose in the pub.

Reminds me a bit of our PM, who also walks or rides his bike across The Hague every morning to parliament.
In fact, if you take a stroll in the Hague near parliament there's a chance you'll walk into a secretary or minister walking to a different department.
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« Reply #6916 on: September 14, 2019, 12:16:45 PM »
https://twitter.com/ejmalrai/status/1172718839974510592

not sure what the problem is, some of us would pay for that  :doge
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« Reply #6917 on: September 14, 2019, 12:18:39 PM »

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« Reply #6918 on: September 14, 2019, 12:21:00 PM »
 :trumps still would
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« Reply #6919 on: September 14, 2019, 01:33:49 PM »


Is this praxis?

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« Reply #6921 on: September 14, 2019, 03:49:43 PM »
Be like Princess Diana... :dead
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« Reply #6922 on: September 14, 2019, 03:55:05 PM »
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« Reply #6923 on: September 14, 2019, 05:50:44 PM »
Be like Princess Diana... :dead
suck big arab cock  ???
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« Reply #6924 on: September 14, 2019, 07:15:21 PM »
https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/1172948278058659841
Whatever Boris is doing it seems to be working
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« Reply #6928 on: September 15, 2019, 05:26:23 PM »
To celebrate John Bolton leaving Iran blew up Saudi oil tanks with their proxies.
The Trump administration declassified the intel images which shows substantial damage.
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« Reply #6929 on: September 15, 2019, 05:30:04 PM »
https://twitter.com/Dalatrm/status/1173336741136281602

America should sue Iran for terrorism for the damage some khat chewing houthis etc have done to the reputation of their patriot missile system.

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« Reply #6930 on: September 15, 2019, 05:49:07 PM »
The Saudi's quite possibly have one of the worst performing modern armies in the world.
The Houthi's have in multiple occasions crossed the border into the KSA to blow up some military posts and what not.
In this case, the KSA doesn't even have a clue where this attack came from.

The US suspects Iranian proxies firing missiles from Iraq and Houthi rebels with drones.
Lindsey Graham wants to bomb Iran just in case.

Half of Aramco production knocked out and oil up $5 - $10 tomorrow. LMAO fucking Saudi hacks  :lol 
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« Reply #6931 on: September 15, 2019, 05:58:49 PM »
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« Reply #6932 on: September 15, 2019, 06:00:01 PM »
Algerian presidential election now planned for December.
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« Reply #6933 on: September 15, 2019, 06:01:28 PM »
The Saudi's quite possibly have one of the worst performing modern armies in the world.
The Houthi's have in multiple occasions crossed the border into the KSA to blow up some military posts and what not.
In this case, the KSA doesn't even have a clue where this attack came from.

The US suspects Iranian proxies firing missiles from Iraq and Houthi rebels with drones.
Lindsey Graham wants to bomb Iran just in case.

Half of Aramco production knocked out and oil up $5 - $10 tomorrow. LMAO fucking Saudi hacks  :lol

The oddest thing I keep on taking away from Middle East geopolitics is why the fuck the U.S. is being the attack dog in a cold war between Saudi Arabia and Iran, or Israel and Iran.

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« Reply #6934 on: September 15, 2019, 06:12:14 PM »
Oil

Brent +18%
WTI +14.8%

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« Reply #6935 on: September 15, 2019, 06:13:41 PM »
The Saudi's quite possibly have one of the worst performing modern armies in the world.
The Houthi's have in multiple occasions crossed the border into the KSA to blow up some military posts and what not.
In this case, the KSA doesn't even have a clue where this attack came from.

The US suspects Iranian proxies firing missiles from Iraq and Houthi rebels with drones.
Lindsey Graham wants to bomb Iran just in case.

Half of Aramco production knocked out and oil up $5 - $10 tomorrow. LMAO fucking Saudi hacks  :lol

The oddest thing I keep on taking away from Middle East geopolitics is why the fuck the U.S. is being the attack dog in a cold war between Saudi Arabia and Iran, or Israel and Iran.
I believe Wesley Clark explained that. "If you all you have is a hammer, every problem becomes a nail". But of course it goes way back to Kissinger and even Roosevelt. 

Rumor has it Saudi Arabia has fragments of Iranian cruise missiles from at least one of the attacked oil fields.
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« Reply #6937 on: September 16, 2019, 05:00:17 AM »
French Justice Minister declared she was "for" granting asylum to Edward Snowden, a position quickly labeled "personal" from the people sitting higher in the food chain
A couple of other voices from the majority came out in favour. Snowden reiterated that he would be very glad to Macron if it happened and that he sent demands to France starting in 2013 (and contacted 20 other countries as well).
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« Reply #6940 on: September 16, 2019, 01:20:17 PM »
LMAO
https://twitter.com/BBCPolitics/status/1173600589864820736

Anyhow, Luxembourg is against another extension. There won't be one. It'll either be deal or no-deal on October the 31st.
Unless something 'dramatic' happens. Like say all out war in the Middle East.


https://twitter.com/BBCPolitics/status/1173632094666448896

https://twitter.com/BBCPolitics/status/1173629016953249792
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« Reply #6941 on: September 16, 2019, 03:56:29 PM »
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« Reply #6943 on: September 16, 2019, 05:29:41 PM »
lmao Putin promoting his missile systems.

This level of grift  :lawd
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« Reply #6946 on: September 17, 2019, 06:47:54 PM »
Israeli election too close to call.

Bibi and Gantz in dead heat  :doge
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« Reply #6948 on: September 18, 2019, 09:11:36 AM »
Aaaaaand another one.

https://twitter.com/BBCPolitics/status/1174291989203959808

He keeps looking like a 5yo getting told off :lol

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« Reply #6949 on: September 18, 2019, 10:53:52 AM »
does he really say "there's no press here" at the end? in front of the press and cameras?

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« Reply #6950 on: September 18, 2019, 01:57:36 PM »
That's way before October 17th (when Boris plans to 'make a deal' at the summit)
https://twitter.com/Independent/status/1174371789201465344
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« Reply #6951 on: September 18, 2019, 02:53:42 PM »
does he really say "there's no press here" at the end? in front of the press and cameras?

Of course he does. Good old Boris.

It's clearer here:

https://twitter.com/Channel4News/status/1174300220571705344

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« Reply #6952 on: September 18, 2019, 03:59:23 PM »
This was uploaded 4 days after the referendum in 2016. It's amazing how well it held up.
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« Reply #6953 on: September 18, 2019, 05:02:04 PM »
Concession to national sovereignty? Appeasing the skittish newcomers*? :idont
I think further unification is inevitable now that the Eurozone exists. More likely than everyone (but Germany and France) abandoning the Euro. It is going to be slow going though.

*Article 50 is pretty fresh. It only went into effect in 09. Before then, there was no formal way to leave the union. Poland, Czechia, the Baltics, etc. (who joined in 04) wanted an out in case being in the EU fucked them.
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« Reply #6954 on: September 18, 2019, 05:14:21 PM »
Concession to national sovereignty? Appeasing the skittish newcomers*? :idont
I think further unification is inevitable now that the Eurozone exists. More likely than everyone (but Germany and France) abandoning the Euro. It is going to be slow going though.

*Article 50 is pretty fresh. It only went into effect in 09. Before then, there was no formal way to leave the union. Poland, Czechia, the Baltics, etc. (who joined in 04) wanted an out in case being in the EU fucked them.
The Netherlands actually had a plan worked out to leave the EU and reinstate our own currency at the apex of the Greek crisis.

Greece of course wanted to leave the Eurozone and Varoufakis came as far as finding a hacker who would get him into the national banking systems that they were locked out from by the Troika.
But he asked the PM for permission to do so and when he declined Varoufakis resigned on the spot.

The UK was sort of at a crossroads. They had to either integrate further by adopting the Euro and joining France and Germany to campaign for a Federal European superstate or they had to leave.
At the time most of the other heads of state already had enough of Cameron's lack of commitment and 'special' treatment in terms of EU membership.
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« Reply #6955 on: September 18, 2019, 05:21:09 PM »
How did the EU not have a "all members have to vote to allow a member to leave" caveat written in when it was formed

Well, it's a union of sovereign states. Whatever directive the EU comes up with means exactly nothing if one of those independent nations decides to leave. And I don't think a single nation in the EU is ready to give up their formal sovereignty at this point in time, so Article 50 was just codifying what everyone already knew to be true - every nation can leave, because there is no legal entity around with the power to stop them.

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« Reply #6956 on: September 18, 2019, 05:28:18 PM »
Cause we got tired of killing one another.

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« Reply #6957 on: September 18, 2019, 05:30:36 PM »
Then what's the point of the thing existing at all

free movement of goods, services, capital and labour

and also peace in europe


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« Reply #6958 on: September 18, 2019, 05:31:25 PM »
Then what's the point of the thing existing at all

What's the point of you existing?

Edit: Sorry, that was unnecessarily mean.
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« Reply #6959 on: September 18, 2019, 05:55:21 PM »
To make sure the Germans would not stomp out little countries like Greece.

Oh wait.
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