"A new “Stormont brake”, a surprise measure in Monday’s package, means the Northern Ireland assembly can oppose new EU goods rules that would have significant and lasting effects on everyday lives in Northern Ireland"

Does this mean the EU has to ask the NI assembly for permission to pass EU goods rules (because in theory, any EU goods rules apply... well, EU wide...) ?

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I expect there will be a movie about this.

The "invaders from the west" thing also resonates very strongly with many Russians such as Putin, because the West sent troops to Russia during the Russian Civil War that ended the Russian Revolution. As the Wikipedia page on the subject says:

"Soviet and Russian interpretations greatly exaggerate the role of the Allies in the Civil War and try to portray these as attempts to suppress the Bolshevik revolution and to partition Russia."

So yes, there is a very strong sentiment against "invaders from the west" that doubtless plays a part in Putin's/Russians' thinking.

She looks just like her great grand father Kim il sung. She'll be fine.

If the climate is the top priority then it looks pretty silly to be campaigning for alternative priorities that conflict with pro-climate action.

The alternative is to watch Yemen turn into the next Syria, under Iranian control.

It's a centralized economy with a black market. Ultimately all communities intermingle, and every village has weekly meetings for self criticism.

And if Chechen partisans could get back to doing what Chechen partisans did in the 1990s...

Technically we can't literally delete all of humanity even in a nuclear winter scenario, but you are correct of course.

I think in more recent times people began to be less afraid of nukes for some reason. Perhaps its just war propaganda clashing against realities, like a constant stream of "look at this terrible thing X country does!" clashing against "no we can't actually start a war with X, they have nukes".

This hatred and moral grandstanding then makes people say unhinged things like "Nukes aren't so bad / we shouldn't be afraid of them / we shouldn't nukes let us stop doing the right thing / they wouldn't actually use nukes if it comes down to it / oh their nukes are not working anyway just look at their tanks / oh we can deflect their nukes anyway / etc.".

This also reminds me a bit of the constant screams for an Iran war like 10 years or so ago, clashing with the reality of what a clusterfuck that would actually be like.

I don't know why war propaganda was so different during the cold war, there was a constant stream of "look at how horrible the soviet union is!" but there was also a constant stream of "nukes suck, like a lot, they are really really really fucking horrific, be scared of them!". And as is very apparent now, the latter was really necessary in hindsight, it might have prevented the cold war from going hot actually.

South African Government can’t even keep the electricity on for 24 hours. They should rather concentrate on their piss poor performance in the country and solve their own problems rather than giving any advice to another country. So living up to the stereotypical “African Leadership.“

Western countries supplying aid to rebuild Yemen while at the same time arming Saudi Arabia is kinda funny ngl

Don't forget heavy cigarette smokers.

You paper literally says exactly what I said above for how Tritium interacts with your body's metabolism, and the risk factors of that.

Thank you for proving my point.

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Already vasectomized! ;)

That's more like a revolutionary group. They are trying to overthrow their own government.

Partisans tend to be more about citizens fighting back against a foreign army that is on their soil.

She's on the national team

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> The United Nations has raised about $1.2bn from crisis-strained donors towards its $4.3bn aid plan for Yemen, one of the world's biggest humanitarian disasters despite a no-war, no-peace stalemate that has largely stopped fighting.

> The US, Yemen's top donor, pledged more than $444m for this year's humanitarian response, bringing its total contribution since the start of Yemen's war to $5.4bn. "Record global humanitarian needs are stretching donor support like never before, but without sustained support for the aid operation in Yemen, the lives of millions of Yemenis will hang in the balance," the UN said in a statement.

> Erin Hutchinson, Yemen director for the Norwegian Refugee Council aid group, said the amount raised on Monday was woefully inadequate for Yemen's needs.

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> CHISINAU, Moldova - Moldova's intelligence agency said Monday that two foreign nationals who posed as tourists have been expelled from the country and banned from returning for 10 years after they were caught carrying out "Subversive actions" to destabilize Moldova.

> The SIS did not state when the foreign nationals arrived in Moldova, which countries they were from, or for whom they were allegedly working.

> ADVERTISEMENT. The SIS added that the foreign nationals were actively monitoring and documenting social and political processes in Moldova, including protests it said were "Organized in the capital by certain political forces."

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I remeber thinking permanent residency and citizenship are practically the same here, I had a friend in high school who had residency instead of citizenship.

After looking it up, you are correct. They indeed are not the same.

I'm not sure, like there are other large pieces still missing that can't be eaten. This whole case is sick. I truly hope that's not what happened.

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Well, yeah. That’s why we all think you’re stupid for starting it.