No matter which side you are in the statement “The Taliban’s successful opium ban is bad for Afghans and the world.” is objectively true. The shortfall in opioid production will easily be made up from other sources, likely adulterated with synthetics that cause more harm. As for the Afghan farmers who grew the stuff they've not been given another alternative..they just had their crops destroyed and have no other sources of income.
You can't solve a shortage of houses by discouraging people from building them. Canada is simply not building enough housing and has not been doing so for a long time. Your proposal would have a marginal effect at best and would in any case be only a temporary solution. People who buy second homes do so in places where there are generally few jobs. And people who buy houses as an investment need to rent them .. which is not necessarily a bad thing. The problem we have is that home prices have risen to such stratospheric heights primarily because of policies that discourage new development. The only way to fix that is to promote legislation that penalizes NIMBYism and encourages building in urban areas.
Your Democratic vote is the only thing preventing this country becoming a theocracy. We had one term of Trump and look at the damage he caused. Imagine what a second term would look like.
So if corporate greed is responsible for things like high oil prices what happened on April 20, 2020 when oil prices touched 0.01 per barrel? Do you think the oil companies were suddenly overcome with a spirit of charity?
It's true there may be some profiteering during times of economic instability but those are exceptions and they certainly don't account for the high profits experienced after the pandemic..those were a result of supply chain bottlenecks and a release of pent up demand. Corporate profits are now trending back down, at least in the US. Do you think the companies there have suddenly become less greedy?
The article confuses cause and effect. Stratospheric corporate profits are the result of too much money chasing too few goods and services, the same as it's always been. The culprits are not corporations but rather profligate spending by rich world governments.
During the pandemic central banks reacted by opening up the money spigots, injecting vast amounts of cash into economies trying to keep them afloat. It was the right thing to do. The problem was that they never turned off the taps, nor did they raise interest rates or taxes to try to balance the books.
The fact that companies raise prices in response to shortages is not only natural it's also desirable. There is no other way to align supply and demand short of rationing.
There's nothing inherently bad about propaganda. The problem with Russian propaganda is that it's trying to justify a brutal invasion that has killed hundreds of thousands of people, among them children buried in rubble by missile strikes. The US did the same after it's invasion of Iraq. It was wrong then and it's wrong now.
Cuba was removed from the list during the Obama administration and put back on the list by Trump. This has nothing to do with terrorism and everything to do with appeasing a large and vocal group of Cubans in Florida.
Both Russia and Ukraine have been using Soviet-era cluster bombs. Ukraine has asked America to supply dual-purpose improved conventional munitions (DPICM), a class of cluster munition that could be fired from howitzers or from the himarsrocket launchers that Ukraine has been receiving for around a year. They have the added benefit of fewer duds so that risk to future civilian populations is reduced.
I understand what you're trying to show but this doesn't really work. Every one of the categories you list could also include members of the LGBTQI+ community. Also the numbers should be relative to the proportion of each group in society and not raw counts in order to really answer the question.
No-one in the comments seems to have read the ruling. The discrimination is not "based on the client's sexual orientation" at all. It's based on the specific message that the client wanted to display.
If I, as a devout Satanist, believe in a womans sacred right to have an abortion I could refuse to design an anti-abortion website for a Christian group, but I couldn't simply refuse to design a generic website simple because the client is a Christian.
I'm not saying I agree with the ruling, I'm just explaining what it means.
Hopefully, examination of the wreckage will yield valuable information about the cause of the failure and help future designs of deep-sea submersibles.
Citizens of authoritarian countries often trust their governments more than those in liberal democracies. This apparent paradox is easily explained by the tight control these governments maintain over what people can see and hear. Since Tiananmen the Chinese government has ramped up it's campaign to eradicate any opinions that are contrary to the government line, and now a whole generation has grown up in this new, hermetically sealed environment.
And who killed them? Not the countries they are trying to flee to. The people who killed them are the ones who packed them into leaky boats or crammed them into airtight containers, to profit from their misery.
It's a result of compassion fatigue. When the first dead migrant children washed up on the Greek coast on people were appalled and transfixed. But the next month there were more dead bodies, and then more. Eventually people stop caring.
I'm old enough to remember "Live Aid". When Bob Geldof got up on stage and said we were going to end world hunger people really believed it was possible. Since then there have been dozens more famines in Ethiopia, and the deaths run to the tens of millions. And now no-one mentions them.
French press. Pre-heat with boiling water before adding freshly ground coffee. Slowly pour water at 95 degrees over the coffee. Stir with wooden spoon, insert lid and let stand 5-10 minutes. Slowly press plunger to bottom. Serve and enjoy.
I think it's probably premature to call this the beginning of a new era. The Palestinians have been fighting Israel since 1965 .. and 50 years later they've achieved absolutely nothing. Palestinians are no closer to having a homeland and the Israelis continue to build settlements in defiance of world opinion. Worse,l the Israelis charm offensive has actually brought some Arab states on to their side.
There is no military solution to this for the Palestinians. The best they can do is to deny security to the Israelis .. but at what cost? A generation of Palestinian children have grown up knowing nothing but occupation. It's time to admit that the military strategy has been a collosal failure. This fight can only be won by being smarter, and the first step is renouncing violence and focusing on a PR campaign to move public opinion inside and outside Israel.
Hopefully the whole debacle will focus people's minds on the real problem. The US government is spending more than it is taking in, and that's a problem with only 2 possible solutions (continuing to raise the debt ceiling doesn't count as a solution). We must reduce spending or increase revenue by raising taxes. There is nothing else to discuss.. kicking the can down the road only hurts us more in the long run.
No matter which side you are in the statement “The Taliban’s successful opium ban is bad for Afghans and the world.” is objectively true. The shortfall in opioid production will easily be made up from other sources, likely adulterated with synthetics that cause more harm. As for the Afghan farmers who grew the stuff they've not been given another alternative..they just had their crops destroyed and have no other sources of income.