CoralMarks [he/him]
Not really news but still pretty funny and I just heard about it for the first time.
A different kind of blowback:
Dust from the Sahara is being blown over to France, bringing with it radiation left over from French nuclear weapons tests from the 1960s.
The Taliban, who rule Afghanistan, have negotiated with the USA about a prisoner exchange, as Taliban spokesman Sabihullah Mujahid told journalists in Kabul on Wednesday. Two US citizens are in custody in the country. They are to be exchanged for Afghans who are interned in the US prison camp at Guantanamo in Cuba. The talks took place on the sidelines of a recent summit with UN representatives and Afghanistan envoys from various countries in Qatar. Nothing is known about the results so far.
The balloons full of garbage that the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) has been sending to South Korea for weeks are having an impact on air traffic. More than 110 flights have been disrupted by the balloon launches that have been going on since the end of March, said South Korean MP Jeong Jun Ho on Wednesday, citing the Ministry of Transport. More than 10,000 passengers were affected. The DPRK is using the balloons to respond to previous actions from South Korea in which propaganda material was also sent north in balloons.
But that won’t do anything to the size of their voter base, it will only legitimise their ideas even more and will draw in more people dissatisfied with the old established parties who will vote for new or other parties that share those same ideas.
For example the former chief of the Verfassungschutz, Maaßen, is currently in the process of starting up his own right wing party.
So, imo this can only backfire at this point, this should’ve been done a long time ago.
Unfortunately I don’t have any good ideas how to stop Germany going full fash, maybe Sahra Wagenknecht is successful with her culturally “conservative”, yet somewhat leftist and anti-imperialist politics in making people vote for her instead of the AfD or whoever takes their place.
To add onto this, because I’ve been looking at Israeli opinion polls today, the Israeli public widely supports this stance:
The first day of strikes Friday hit 28 locations and struck more than 60 targets.
early Saturday struck another Houthi-controlled site in Yemen that it had determined was putting commercial vessels in the Red Sea at risk
Lt. Gen. Douglas Sims, director of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Friday’s U.S. strikes were largely in low-populated areas, and the number of those killed would not be high. He said the strikes hit weapons, radar and targeting sites, including in remote mountain areas.
The strikes involved more than 150 precision-guided munitions and Tomahawk missiles.
As an aside, there’s also a recently released Chinese TV show adaptation of the books, which IMO is actually pretty good.
B-1 bomber crashes at South Dakota Air Force base, crew ejects safely
Their wunderwaffen sure crash a lot, curious.
