oh right. goodbye, biden’s billionaire tax.

as with their scientific paper mills, China produces quantity, not quality.

https://www.ft.com/content/32440f74-7804-4637-a662-6cdc8f3fba86

"The exclusion of anyone who doesn’t unilaterally condemn Israel is an inversion of morality and an obfuscation of reality.”

their solution is for everybody to unilaterally accept Israel as the picture of morality despite concluding the genocide and colonization of Palestine.

you are in company.

“and the list goes on…”

yeah, The US backs down.

they backed down in Vietnam, they backed down in iran, somalia, they backed down investigating the Saudi Arabian terrorists in 9/11(which is almost all of them), and the list goes on.

the US is not often gracious about backing down or wise enough to back down prudently, but they do back down.

“The court imposed a fine of 100 thousand rubles ($1,025) per day, with the total fine doubling every week. Owing to compound interest…”

it’ll add up to a hell of a lot of justified reparations when the US backs down.

are you serious? and I don’t mean that as an insult, I’m actually unsure if you are serious.

a total collapse of Cuba is the whole reason the US has been blockading them for half a century.

infrastructure collapse is happening specifically because the US won’t allow Cuba to make infrastructure deals and technology deals with other countries without facing explicit and implicit sanctions and severe material limits.

desperate poverty is exactly what the US government has been working towards inflicting on Cuba for decades.

“or our interests…”

that hegemony talk sure is something.

“I am pleased that justice has been served for them and for the wider community who will be protected from this dangerous offender for many years.”

The seems pretty tone-deaf by the detective.

I don’t think either raped youth is satisfied with the "justice served’ in this instance.

is this real?

BBC is reporting on it also:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gl4r826exo.amp

that switch is maybe my favorite thing ever drawn in the far side.

so funny, I still think about it occasionally.

Great article, very informative and accurate.

here’s the original report by Humphreys: https://www.aph.gov.au/DocumentStore.ashx?id=6b7c0a49-21d2-4059-8b5f-31f6c029ac29&subId=761905

submitted to the Australian parliament.

new information to who?

almost every hijacker was known to be Saudi and highly connected.

awesome, every now and then I’m completely perplexed by a far side cartoon.

this was one of them.

thanks

time to get reacqaaaaainted

Cool we were running out of new ones.

Filipinos have been running guerilla wars for a long time against a lot of invaders, I’d be surprised if they don’t have explosive boats and other measures on hand now, especially after so much antagonism by china.

China keeps getting real FAFO with Filipino ships.

thailand, Indonesia, okay, they’re not internationally aggressive countries and have a lot of economic deals with China.

but the Philippines?

china is banking on “my boats are so big”, but that doesn’t translate to combat readiness and if they continue sustained escalating conflicts or the Philippines stops putting up with their shit, I’m leaning Philippines the same way i was leaning Ukraine.

and guess who’ll be getting military aid from NATO?