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Firvulag t1_jaa0kzx wrote

Reply to Norway: Thunberg joins Indigenous protests against turbines. The young environmental activist says green energy cannot come at the expense of human rights. A court order has deemed the turbines' location in Norway illegal, as they disrupt Sami reindeer-herding traditions by DoremusJessup

This supreme court order was 500 days ago and literally nothing has been done since, an absolute disgrace by the Norwegian government.

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Silverwhitemango t1_jaa04on wrote

Reply to comment by Vanished_Elephant in Macron flies to Africa to counter waning French influence by HRJafael

Thanks for this long comment.

I watched the video too and this was one of the times where Shirvan (CaspianReport) seemed to be really biased and did not reference his sources.

Asides from the above comment, the video also omitted the fact that 2 of the nations in the CFA, Guinea-Bisseau & Equatorial Guinea, aren't even former French colonies yet they still chose to be involved in the CFA franc currency.

Or even omit the fact that nations like Mali were the ones who requested French military support.

CaspianReport & Johnny Harris are just examples of how sometimes with flashy editing and visuals, you can get away with inaccurate shit to your audience.

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Kent_Knifen t1_ja9ztpm wrote

Reply to Norway: Thunberg joins Indigenous protests against turbines. The young environmental activist says green energy cannot come at the expense of human rights. A court order has deemed the turbines' location in Norway illegal, as they disrupt Sami reindeer-herding traditions by DoremusJessup

People need to read the last sentence in the title over again.

There is a court order to not build the turbines. Energy company wants to ignore the court order. Thunberg and court are on the same side in this.

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EdHake t1_ja9ziqs wrote

Reply to Macron flies to Africa to counter waning French influence by HRJafael

>Macron flies to Africa to counter waning French influence

This look more like a good bye trip than a will to salvage anything.

Macron wanting to get out of there, isn't a bad idea. France is isolated in Africa, with US&Uk/Muslim Brotherhood/Russia/China doing everything possible to destabilise the region.

With China massively investing overthere and US intention to invest the area, Africa looks more and more like the battlefield those two decided for their proxiwar.

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f_d t1_ja9yoid wrote

Reply to comment by der_titan in Macron flies to Africa to counter waning French influence by HRJafael

>It was the countries in Europe that colonized and exploited Africa.

That's what they meant by post-colonial.

>Russian and Chinese involvement in Africa (and the Global South in general) was a response to Western exploitation and colonization.

Russia and China don't "respond" to those things in other countries. They look for their own opportunities to take advantage and guarantee access to resources, like nearly every other country does in its own way. If nobody else was in the way, they would be doing more of it.

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