the (unfinished) cartoon in question

I'm not totally sure what biden is trying to say in the quote honestly. I'm sure he tried his best.

I assume people who harvest rubber from the trees

Do employers pay into pension schemes in China? How much do they have to put in?

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I don't think it's a secret that cobalt mining, or any mining really is exploitative of labour beyond normal wage relations. Plus the environmental cost is substantial as well. That is true enough, although like most real injustices this critique is ,for political reasons, aimed at former colonies rather than the more powerful governments that have the (stolen) wealth to actually create some kind of real solution.

As for the coup attempt by Christian Malanga, to me it's hard to tell how serious of an attempt at regime change that was by the US/UK simply because of how bad the attempt was. The impression I got was that the alphabet boys did not send their best, if they even bothered to get involved. Malanga and his group were quickly suppressed, Malanga himself was killed and his son imprisoned. As far as I know the only support he had was either among diaspora or western NGOs. So a total failure there. Malanga had ties to all sorts of western entities so it seems plausible he had at least a green light from some western backer to go ahead with the coup attempt with an implicit promise to be recognised upon success.

My guess is that this was an incompetent or just plain lazy attempt at regime change symptomatic of a decline in state power compared to the 50s/60s. As for the online boycott campaign, without knowing more I would venture that's maybe a 60/40 split between being created by naive libs vs from a suit filled board room somewhere.

This comes after years of wildfire fighting cuts by the ucp. https://thenarwhal.ca/alberta-wildfire-ucp-cuts/

Except for the repair crew on it / crewmembers on the ship

With NYT should always use an archive link

https://archive.is/MtG1P

This situation — in which narrow domestic politics could end American support for a war effort — is unusual, said Stacie Goddard, an international security expert at Wellesley College. The U.S. has abandoned war efforts in the past, typically after battlefield defeats or as the public loses trust in a cause. Neither is true for Ukraine. The war is at a stalemate, but Ukraine is not losing. And most Americans still support providing aid.

Don't think the first has been true for at least 6 months, and watch the second point dissolve if you frame the question as "do you want to participate in another overseas war while your groceries and gas are 20% more expensive?"

Is hamas large enough to have dozens of "commanders", I feel like that's a thing you can't have more than maybe 15 or so of

Yes, I saw some people on here saying that the half life of tritium is such that if it were contained for 50 years then the radioactivity would be much less.

not necessarily an easy task, but I refuse to believe humanity is incapable of doing it. If the Japanese government made serious moves towards that kind of solution I think you'd see a lot less animosity coming from their neighbouring countries.