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Pink Tide 2.0? Latin America’s new wave of leftist governments https://therealnews.com/pink-tide-2-0-latin-americas-new-wave-of-leftist-governments A woman in northern France is to be put on trial on charges of insulting President Emmanuel Macron after describing him as 'filth' in a Facebook post, a prosecutor says. Potentially millions of petrol and diesel cars may about to become unsellable in China as the country implements new vehicle emissions standards, and as EV demand booms. https://thedriven.io/2023/03/30/legacy-auto-faces-disaster-in-china-with-unsellable-cars-as-pollution-crunch-looms/ How improving urban transport infrastructure spurs innovation: Evidence from China https://voxdev.org/topic/infrastructure-urbanisation/how-improving-urban-transport-infrastructure-spurs-innovation-evidence-china Why has democracy in America become more like an autocracy? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Otpm54fvuqc  @yogthos There's never been democracy in the United States. Those with money and power have always had a systematic advantage, and the electoral college system is not even approximately democratic. The United States’ Arbitrary Detention at Home and Abroad: Truth and Facts https://www.fmprc.gov.cn/mfa_eng/wjdt_665385/2649_665393/202303/t20230329_11050809.html Chinese journalist asks UN spokesman about US proposed return to UNESCO.What about...the $600 million owed? Does the U.S. have to pay off its arrears before it can join again? US has over 10k gun deaths this year, and it's only March https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/ In a a shocking development, it turns out that Credit Suisse whistleblowers say Swiss bank has been helping wealthy Americans dodge U.S. taxes for years.
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  @yogthos Nobody saw that coming. Nobody would expect such a thing from banks that guarantee anonymity. /s @yogthos Swiss banks have been doing that for centuries for wealthy people in various countries. The Report on Human Rights Violations in the United States in 2022 http://english.scio.gov.cn/m/scionews/2023-03/28/content_85196298.htm China and Brazil have reached an agreement to ditch the US Dollar for trade, and trade in their own currencies instead. https://www.barrons.com/news/china-brazil-strike-deal-to-ditch-dollar-for-trade-8ed4e799 @yogthos that is amazing news, im hopeful that this blooms into a nice industrialization programe in the future The Iraq and Afghanistan invasions cost US somewhere between $4 to $6 trillion. https://www.hks.harvard.edu/publications/financial-legacy-iraq-and-afghanistan-how-wartime-spending-decisions-will-constrain @yogthos Public debt reached all-time high of roughly 2.37 trillion euros at the end of 2022. Debt of the overall public budget 2.0% higher than at the end of 2021. A 13-year-old who was burned with caustic chemicals while working for Packers Sanitation Services in Nebraska told investigators the accident occurred during a shift that lasted from 11 p.m. to 5 or 7 a.m., a direct violation of multiple federal laws. |
