The US has warned of potential sanctions for any country considering business deals with Iran, hours after India signed a 10-year contract to operate a port with Tehran.

 R_P wrote:

LOL. Ouch! Stupid band wagon. I mean paddy wagon. I mean, shout out to the slaggers one and all!

Thank you for your cooperation

The Right Has Been Pushing “Free-Market” Propaganda in US Public Schools for Over a Century

In their new book, The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market, Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway recount the astonishing tale of an industry-led effort to feed students and their teachers “correct information” about capitalism and free-market principles.

In the 1920s, private electrical utilities faced a dilemma. They resisted rural electrification as it wasn’t profitable, but they didn’t want the government to step in and provide the service. The solution that the National Electric Light Association (NELA) settled upon was a propaganda effort through the schools. By influencing textbooks and teachers, went the thinking, these titans of lighting hoped to shape the future generations. These 1920s-era young people, having learned in school that government regulation and public ownership were bad, would grow up to cast their votes for officials who felt the same.

Rules-based bully

 R_P wrote:

The "agitators" and "activists" being folks relating messages of the history of Palestinian demise and oppression, Gaza being nothing but a concentration camp controlled by the Israelis, etc.

In other words: No, you are not crazy They really are banning TikTok to cover for a genocide and regain control of the narrative.

Narrative/PR control with a bit of projection

 R_P wrote:
It doesn't help the world at all if this is constantly being swept under the carpet. 

Thing is, this is happening on a global scale... not only to Israel.
Why TikTok being banned in the US is another message needful of being spread, as hardly any western media have it in their news.

Politicians mostly still live in the 20th century, and their press editors, too. OMG

World Press Freedom Index 2024 - journalism under political pressure

ICC prosecutor calls for end to intimidation of staff, statement says

 thisbody wrote:

You are saying the Palestinian children are the cause of their maiming? I get that's not what you said, but you cannot hold that blanket view and not hold the children responsible also. Too many people's distinct right and wrong views do not bother to look at the whole of what it means, what it causes. And rarely do they hold to those views when the roles are reversed.

ICC

This came out yesterday, from a TED conference in British Columbia last week.

Scott Galloway can be repetitive, arrogant, and annoying, but that doesn't mean he's wrong.  There is a ton of common sense-based reality in this talk.