Well this one in particular would be good to revisit in 5 years or so to see what Sinomine is doing with the site
today's nakedcapitalism roundup on the gaza ceasefire is worth a look. the triumphalism of unsurprising given how desperate any normal person is to see even a pause in the israeli genocide, but celebration seems quite premature given modern history and the incentives of various parties to fuck things up or look the other way while people fuck things up.
A couple months ago I hosted the mega thread and the intro was about the Giant mine in northern Canada, an abandoned mine with big arsenic contamination issues. Here's a story about a Canadian mining company doing the same thing in Namibia. The Chinese company Sinomine owns it now - I hope they do better.
Damn can you imagine oligarchy, that would be nuts
we remember all the families whose loved ones were killed in Hamas’s October 7th attack, and the many innocent people killed in the war that followed
Curious, who was doing all that killing of innocents?
And will likely break the ceasefire anyway. There's been some cautious trump dick riding lately over this ceasefire - let's see what happens when the genocidaires inevitably break the ceasefire. Will the trump admin pressure Israel at that point as well or will they rest comfortably on this week's nice headlines and then continue allowing Israel to do whatever they want?
Oh I was thinking of grizzly and lemmings. It's another bear and little critters show so I got them confused. I think grizz is Canadian made (Quebec maybe?)
I'm not holding my breath on this, I'll believe a ceasefire when I see it inked and it's been honoured for a few days at least. This morning on haaretz there's a headline about an Israeli official complaining about Hamas adding conditions at the 11th hour. Some bullshit like that could scupper this whole thing.
I certainly hope there will be a ceasefire, but hope in one hand and shit in the other and see which hand fills first.
Masha and the bear is a very funny cartoon
(c) This memorandum is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.
"even though we're clearly wrong on this and Cuba is not a sponsor of terrorism and even though sanctions have brutally impacted Cuban quality of life, we're not actually sorry so go fuck yourself"
Surely there was another coup in west Africa in 2024, wasn't there? Or did that all first go down in 2023?
Wow this must be what it's like in communist china