The Countries: Forget it, Burkina Faso, Michigan is still the worst.

[Jimjamesak]

The Saudis are doing anything they can to white wash their authoritarianism...

And to be honest, the British ruling class are all too happy to sell off practically anything to the Middle East for a few extra pounds.

The World Darts Championship, the quintessential working class Brit event, being sold off to the Saudis would be poignant.

 

[Handyman]

How long until the Saudis own an NFL team?

 

[Jimjamesak]

How long until the Saudis own an NFL team?

Years. No owner is really desperate to sell and it’s not like there’s a shortage of American billionaires who would love to own the ultimate status symbol.

The NBA on the other hand…

 

[RaceBoarder]

Years. No owner is really desperate to sell and it’s not like there’s a shortage of American billionaires who would love to own the ultimate status symbol.

The NBA on the other hand…

I could see the Saudi's dropping $7-8 Billion to make that happen and to make a statement. They would just post a number that no one else could touch.

 

[dxmnkd316]

The Saudis are doing anything they can to white wash their authoritarianism...

Eh. Once oil runs out or we all convert to renewables, that entire country dies. Who the fuck wants to visit Saudi outside of sports and the Hajj?

let them spend their wealth on sports and stupid megaprojects. They'll disappear into the desert within my children's lives if they keep exporting this much money. Certainly my grandchildren.

Their power is fading and they know it.

 

[Kepler]

Eh. Once oil runs out or we all convert to renewables, that entire country dies. Who the **** wants to visit Saudi outside of sports and the Hajj?

let them spend their wealth on sports and stupid megaprojects. They'll disappear into the desert within my children's lives if they keep exporting this much money. Certainly my grandchildren.

Their power is fading and they know it.

IINM, The Saudis have the largest investment in solar in the world. Not per capita -- total.

The Harkonen are in it to survive.

 

[Kepler]

Slovak leader behaving badly.

He threatened to end sending electricity supplies to Ukraine, reduce support for Ukrainian refugees, halt humanitarian aid and block EU financial aid to Ukraine in retaliation.

The crowd condemned Fico’s plan.

“Fico acts as an agent of a foreign power,” former Foreign Minister Rastislav Kačer said.

The rallies also took place in more than a dozen places, including locations in Slovakia, Czech capital Prague and Krakow, Poland, organizers said. They said that their protests would continue.

Fico’s views on Russia have sharply differed from the European mainstream.

He returned to power last year after his leftist party Smer (Direction) won a parliamentary election on a pro-Russia and anti-American platform. Since then, he has ended Slovakia’s military aid for Ukraine, lashed out at EU sanctions on Russia and vowed to block Ukraine from joining NATO.

He's another sh-tbag like Orban or Dump.

 

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

WHO says there’s a Marburg outbreak in Tanzania

shudder

 

[French Rage]

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/...ilt-dangerous-holocaust-memorial-c-rcna189316

In an apparent reference to Germany’s Nazi history, the head of the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency, whose smiling face was projected onto a vast screen, told a roaring crowd that “children should not be guilty of the sins of their parents, let alone their great-grandparents.”

“There is too much focus on past guilt, and we need to move beyond that,” he added at the rally in the eastern German city of Halle.

It feels like if you were trying to endorse a right-wing German party that is going to inevitably engender comparisons to the Nazis, I would go more with "point out how they are nothing like the Nazis" rather than "say people need to stop complaining about the Nazis", but that's just me.

 

[LynahFan]

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/...ilt-dangerous-holocaust-memorial-c-rcna189316



It feels like if you were trying to endorse a right-wing German party that is going to inevitably engender comparisons to the Nazis, I would go more with "point out how they are nothing like the Nazis" rather than "say people need to stop complaining about the Nazis", but that's just me.

Worrying about kids being punished for the sins of their parents while ending birthright citizenship……FTW?

 

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

Another undersea cable cut, this one between Latvia and Sweden

 

[Kepler]

Another undersea cable cut, this one between Latvia and Sweden

Let's not go rushin' to conclusions.

Gonna be interesting to see what the EU does now that they are encircled by Putin and his puppet.

 

[Handyman]

 

[dxmnkd316]

This post shows blank for me.

 

[Handyman]

Weird it was there...

 

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

The Christian Iraqi in Stockholm who burned a Qaran in a permitted protest a few years ago has been murdered in his own home

I’m sure it’s not related