https://www.politico.com/news/2024/07/17/pelosi-biden-dragging-down-democrats-00169317
https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/07/17/abortion-case-uk/
A woman is facing trial in the UK after allegedly being prescribed NHS abortion "pills by post" during lockdown.
Biden has done more to undermine the US empire in the last 8 months than Trump did in 4 years. Biden is exposing the contradictions of US empire in a way that Trump could never.
If Trump was president, then the mainstream narrative would be that the genocide in Gaza was simply because of Trump and Bibi's leadership. And you know what? Given how past presidents were able to rein in Israel when polite society started sympathizing with Palestinians, it would be believable. Instead, we get to see front and center, how a man that's been at the top echelons of us foreign policy for decades approves and supports genocide. This is the establishment's genocidal war.
In other words, Trump is perceived as an aberration, even when hes just continuing the same US foreign policy that weve been doing for decades. Moving the embassy to Jerusalem is still framed as entirely Trump's decision, even though he was just enacting a policy that Biden voted for in the 90s. And of course Biden did nothing to reverse that move, or even try to extract concessions to move peace talks forward.
Biden is damaging the "international rules-based order" in a way that would make Dick Cheney blush. Bush at least tried to put a veneer of international law on the criminal invasion of Iraq. But it appears the US and Israel are ready to burn the UN to the ground in order to carry out this genocide. Trump would be doing the same exact thing, except he would also serve as a scape goat for the liberal order (just get trump out of office, and we can go back to rule-following)
Don't get me wrong, they're both excellent accelerationist candidates. The world is watching two senile, hateful, egotistical vile men fight for control of the empire as the world burns.
Looking for recommendations of music podcasts. The only one I listen to is Afropop worldwide, which is one of my favorite podcasts/radio shows . I realize there aren't a ton of straight-up music podcasts because of copyright issues, but what have you got?
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/6/yemen-at-a-crossroads-nearly-200-aid-groups-issue-urgent-funding-appeal
Only a fraction of funds needed to provide aid to millions in the war-torn country is secured, the groups say.
Their original intro was a banger. It's something like a ringtone trying to do pop punk. 5 seconds into the intro, the hosts start telling you the upcoming stories as the music fades in and out. A host tells the date and her name, then the other hosts introduce themselves. 40 seconds in, the show starts. The whole time that song was fun. A+ intro. I would have no problem listening to the intro anywhere.
Compare that to their current intro. It's a slow dollar store Brian eno jingle that swells as you hear the most cliche'd clips about what science is. You have an old professorial European talking about "data". You have an annoying kid asking a question about light. 40 seconds into the intro, and you're just getting the headlines. That just takes a few seconds, then you're forced to suffer through 10 more seconds of the Brian eNot.
An example of the old intro: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02159-6 after just 5 seconds you're hearing about mollusk fossils
Example of the new intro: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01230-1 It's cringe. I would die if someone heard that intro coming from my car (still a good podcast though).
https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2024/4/5/bangladesh-opens-mosque-for-transgender-hijra-community
The South Asian nation has, since 2013, officially allowed members of the hijra community to identify as a third gender.
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