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The Dutch government declared a national water shortage Wednesday caused by the hot, dry summer that is parching much of Europe, and formed a national team to draw up measures to manage supplies, while asking the public to also chip in with savings.“The water shortage is already having a negative effect on shipping and agriculture in particular,” said Minister of Infrastructure and Water Management Mark Harbers.
lol that's fucking bullshit. They make up new 'crises' every day to blame on Putin.If he's making everything so horrible just declare war already and level the Kremlin, even better give me command of NATO for a week and I will mop up China and Russia.
Inspiring words about President Ben Franklin from Nancy Pelosi!https://streamable.com/8m1gwc
just declare war already and level the Kremlin, even better give me command of NATO for a week and I will mop up China and Russia.
US National Security Council spokesman: We are monitoring developments in Gaza and urge all parties to calm down.
She's on a roll.https://twitter.com/AdamBienkov/status/1555624903566663680
https://twitter.com/JimmySecUK/status/1556997925775020032
Russia says ammunition detonated Yeah, it sort of did, I guess
Russians fleeing Crimea https://twitter.com/Flash43191300/status/1557094731829727232
Talking about powerhttps://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1557020018092789764
Author Salman Rushdie attacked on stageA reporter from the Associated Press news agency witnessed the attack on Salman Rushdie just ahead of a lecture he was due to give in western New York.The journalist saw a man storm the stage at the Chautauqua Institution and begin punching or stabbing Rushdie as he was being introduced, the news agency says.The author was taken or fell to the floor, and the man was restrained, it reports.
Ayatollah Khomeini’s 1989 fatwa that called for Rushdie's execution and offered a $3 million reward for his murder.But as recently as 2016, Iranian state-run media outlets added $600,000 to the bounty on his head.
The Russians have beefed up their air defensehttps://twitter.com/na_intel/status/1557381938742263808
Salma al-Shehab, 34, a mother of two young children, was initially sentenced to serve three years in prison for the “crime” of using an internet website to “cause public unrest and destabilise civil and national security”. But an appeals court on Monday handed down the new sentence – 34 years in prison followed by a 34-year travel ban – after a public prosecutor asked the court to consider other alleged crimes.According to a translation of the court records, which were seen by the Guardian, the new charges include the allegation that Shehab was “assisting those who seek to cause public unrest and destabilise civil and national security by following their Twitter accounts” and by re-tweeting their tweets. It is believed that Shehab may still be able to seek a new appeal in the case.By all accounts, Shehab was not a leading or especially vocal Saudi activist, either inside the kingdom or in the UK. She described herself on Instagram – where she had 159 followers – as a dental hygienist, medical educator, PhD student at Leeds University and lecturer at Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University, and as a wife and a mother to her sons, Noah and Adam.Her Twitter profile showed she had 2,597 followers. Among tweets about Covid burnout and pictures of her young children, Shehab sometimes retweeted tweets by Saudi dissidents living in exile, which called for the release of political prisoners in the kingdom. She seemed to support the case of Loujain al-Hathloul, a prominent Saudi feminist activist who was previously imprisoned, is alleged to have been tortured for supporting driving rights for women, and is now living under a travel ban.
Quote from: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/16/saudi-woman-given-34-year-prison-sentence-for-using-twitterSalma al-Shehab, 34, a mother of two young children, was initially sentenced to serve three years in prison for the “crime” of using an internet website to “cause public unrest and destabilise civil and national security”. But an appeals court on Monday handed down the new sentence – 34 years in prison followed by a 34-year travel ban – after a public prosecutor asked the court to consider other alleged crimes.According to a translation of the court records, which were seen by the Guardian, the new charges include the allegation that Shehab was “assisting those who seek to cause public unrest and destabilise civil and national security by following their Twitter accounts” and by re-tweeting their tweets. It is believed that Shehab may still be able to seek a new appeal in the case.By all accounts, Shehab was not a leading or especially vocal Saudi activist, either inside the kingdom or in the UK. She described herself on Instagram – where she had 159 followers – as a dental hygienist, medical educator, PhD student at Leeds University and lecturer at Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University, and as a wife and a mother to her sons, Noah and Adam.Her Twitter profile showed she had 2,597 followers. Among tweets about Covid burnout and pictures of her young children, Shehab sometimes retweeted tweets by Saudi dissidents living in exile, which called for the release of political prisoners in the kingdom. She seemed to support the case of Loujain al-Hathloul, a prominent Saudi feminist activist who was previously imprisoned, is alleged to have been tortured for supporting driving rights for women, and is now living under a travel ban.Talk shit and fuck around, get hit and find out. So-called "freedom of speech" doesn't mean you can undermine democracy.
Team Sunak is still trying to sink Liz.In the latest episode, she's caught on a recording saying that not all problems should be blamed on the EU and immigrants but that you know, the brits are a bit lazy.https://twitter.com/Femi_Sorry/status/1559672792878129152
