Isn’t the reason that Israel has wildfires because the colonizers planted European pine trees in the desert?

global warming + non-native plants = fire

http://kcna.kp/en/article/q/f8b605dd8138953cff78bf29e179e369.kcmsf

https://archive.is/OvARX

This bridge was first agreed upon 10 months ago, June 20 2024. “The agreements were signed between the governments of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and the Russian Federation on building a motorcar bridge over the River Tuman on the DPRK-Russia border”. In the older article, the bridge is called a “motorcar bridge”. In the new article, DPRK calls this a “motor bridge”, which I think is a mis-translation made by DPRK. The new article says that the purpose of the bridge is “travel of persons, tourism and circulation of commodities”. I am under the impression that the bridge will be a road bridge for civilians to use motor vehicles to travel between Russia and DPRK.

Maybe Greg Abbott is saying that he wants people to boycott Texas. lol

PSL attended and filmed Mohsen’s release from detention. I’m not sure to what extent Mohsen is involved with PSL. It’s good that PSL is showing support to people wrongly detained by ICE.

Mohsen was detained by ICE while attending a naturalization interview for attaining US citizenship. US anticommunism laws make it more difficult for people with socialist affiliation to attain US citizenship. For this reason I am unsure whether he is involved with PSL.

Mohsen Mahdawi is the Palestinian activist who was arrested by ICE while attending a naturalization interview for attaining US citizenship.

The comments from the town local subreddit are decent.

Why is San Marcos sending Israel $4 million of their tax money to begin with? That’s insanity.

Our federal government already subsidizes Israel so much that they’re able to offer their citizens every social program known to man. Healthcare, education, housing.

If that number of tax dollars from San Marcos sent to Israel is accurate it’s just fucking depressing. 4 million dollars that could’ve been spent on housing, healthcare, our roads, or our river instead goes to some shitty military of 19 year old colonels to commit war crimes.

Criticism isn’t antisemitism. Wanting your tax dollars to be spent in your community instead of being funneled to a foreign government isn’t antisemitism.

Whack and I say that as someone who has no interest in boycotting Israel.

When your policy is fear mongering and withholding funds from people you disagree with, you’re probably not a real Christian.

Odd. Well now I’m curious. What is San Marcos investing in that it plans to stop?

https://old.reddit.com/r/sanmarcos/comments/1kb5h41/governor_abbott_condemns_city_of_san_marcos/

The 2% GDP number includes all trade with the USA. Is around 2.8%. So you are wrong. I am including that.

What does GDP stand for? Gross Domestic Product. Domestic Product. Domestic. Product. Domestic. Imports are not “Domestic Product”. GDP is a measure of the monetary value of goods and services produced domestically by the country. The 2.8% number that you have cited is a percentage of total goods that China has produced which were EXPORTED to the US. It does not include the imported products that it receives from the US. 7% of all imports that China receives are from the US.

You are right. I added another photo. He argues with the interviewer for a whole minute that the lettering is not added on top of the photo.

It’s hard to believe. Trump says “He had M S 1 3 as clear as you can be. Not Interpreted. This is why people no longer believe the news because it’s fake news.”

I’m not familiar

I believe the comic is depicting a Chinese restaurant in the US. Chinese food restaurants in the US often sell Japanese food or elements of Japanese cuisine because Japanese restaurants were shut down during the WWII Japanese internment camps. US Chinese food restaurants started selling some Japanese foods to fill the market gap and many of the Chinese food restaurants still continue that.

The Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson was asked about the video this morning and said that they hope the video will help people understand China’s positions.

Reuters: The Foreign Ministry WeChat account this morning published a video, both in English and Chinese, in which it said China would not kneel to the U.S. and accused Donald Trump of “playing a 90-day pause game with other nations and forcing them to limit trade with China.” Do you have any comment on this?

Guo Jiakun: Thank you for your attention to the social media accounts of the MFA. We hope this video will help everyone better understand China’s position.

https://www.mfa.gov.cn/eng/xw/fyrbt/lxjzh/202504/t20250429_11609405.html

I made this statement “GDP is a misleading thing to look at.” Then the first reply to your comment where you mention first the 2% GDP number, the OP of the post has replied to you “barely noticeable drop in exports for China.” Then you replied to that user, correcting them that the 2% number is more significant than it appears. You are seeing in real time that the information you provided has the capability of misleading people.

The 2% number that you are citing also doesn’t account for the imports that China receives from the US, which makes up 7% of all imports. Internal trade and external trade are misleading to compare because external trades are for the purpose of acquiring things that can not be gotten internally. These are among reasons why I say 2% is a misleading number to look at when you consider the total impact of loss of trade.

China knows that it is being hurt a decent amount by losing trade with the US. This is why China has said to drop the tariffs. China has not denied that the tariffs are hurting them. China likes doing trade with the US. What the Chinese government has said is that the US is a bully and that bullies take a mile when you give them an inch. China is hoping that the US concedes to their self-inflicted wounds and then continues to do trades with China.

Putin issued a congratulatory statement to the DPRK for victory in the Kursk area.

http://kcna.kp/en/article/q/c555ddd2b262a3b1439e65c861e80efc.kcmsf

https://archive.is/YtBxD

Nightmare Blunt Rotation. These are Biden officials who were interviewed in the studio of the Israel news show.

Tom Neides, Jack Lew, Amos Hochstein, Dan Shapiro, Ilan Goldenberg, Jake Sullivan, John Kirby

The 2 others Biden official who are interviewed but not in this screenshot are Roger Carstens and Stacy Gilbert. 7 + 2 = 9

I watched the hour long video. It was half english, half hebrew. I skipped some parts. A lot of what the Biden officials said was something like “We gave unlimited weapons to Israel, I am shocked that Netanyahu chose to side with Trump over Biden” (paraphrasing). It feels like the whole news segment was made to say that Biden’s administration is more genocidal, to appeal to Zionists.

I tried to find a way to watch the full TV episode. It seems to be only possible if you have an IP address in Israel. There’s the 6 minute clip of the show uploaded to youtube in my other comment.

Okay I figured it out. I can watch the full episode when I disable my ad blocker. The whole website is in hebrew.

https://13tv.co.il/allshows/series/27/season/24/3728556/

Here’s another clip of the show where Jake Sullivan is pledging loyalty to Israel.

https://xcancel.com/HaMakorTV/status/1916745651401994420#m

To think that a country can rely on it’s own internal economy is the foolish mistake that Trump is making. China is not foolish in this way. They know that the growth of their economy is accomplished by trade with other countries. Trading with the US was very useful for the growth of China’s economy. When China reduces trade with the US, they will increase trade with other countries to compensate, not rely on internal economy.

This is possibly why China is doing One Belt One Road, because they want to create more trading partners. Which is why I think it is misleading to compare their internal economy with their international trade.

This is a 6 minute clip from the show. I recognize Jake Sullivan in the clip. I’m currently not sure who the other 8 Biden people are

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i87LF7viF6A

Dismantling sanctuary cities will have the opposite effect of “pursuing criminals”. The whole point of sanctuary cities is that it made undocumented migrants willing to speak to the police as witnesses. Now undocumented migrants won’t report any crime that they witness because of fear of deportation.

GDP is a misleading thing to look at. 15% of Chinese exports go to the US. 7% of commodities imported to China come from the US. The US is the largest trade partner of China. It’s still manageable for China to cut off trade from the US, but it’s more significant than 2%.

It’s fake news from last week when JD Vance killed the Pope. Walter is worried that JD Vance will also try to kill Xi Jinping.