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The Ukrainian economy at war (2024) - Defence production, energy and endurance
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Domestic abuse experts to be embedded in emergency response control rooms in England and Wales
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Wisconsin towns are trying to limit Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations. The Dairy industry is fighting back.
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London saw a surprising benefit to fining high-polluting cars: More active kids
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Norway sees electric cars outnumber petrol models – sovereign wealth fund cushion has made it possible for government to offer green incentives to motorists
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Swedish government says excessive screen time is causing a severe health crisis for youth – new legislation in the works to require schools to ban access to digital devices
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The carbon tax is good for Canadians. Why axe it?
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Donald Trump is safe after Secret Service opened fire at suspect with firearm near his Florida golf club
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NYPD officer lands $175K settlement over ‘courtesy cards’ that help drivers get out of traffic stops
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It is time to do away with the empty recurring weekly threads
It's time to do away with the recurring weekly threads about US politics, about Israel and Palestine and other similar threads that clearly do not need weekly recurring threads. Those who do not...
It's time to do away with the recurring weekly threads about US politics, about Israel and Palestine and other similar threads that clearly do not need weekly recurring threads.
Those who do not wish to see topics on those events should unsubscribe from the relevant keywords for their own browsing, as all of us with other interests unsubscribe from those keywords.
There is no flood of this content that makes gathering things in weekly threads relevant.
No content is drowning on tildes, as no group has issues with too many posts.
It's uninviting to folks who are actually contributing submissions to the site to be told they shouldn't be making these, but should rather make them in empty, dead posts. That is not fair to them, nor is it a good look for the site.
These dead recurring threads should be done away with. They serve no function. The experiment has shown they are not needed, are not used and are simply auto-generated robotic clutter.
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Dutch will spend $2.7 billion on improving infrastructure to keep ASML
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After this year's widely lauded Olympics in Paris, Denmark's capital announced it is exploring the possibility of hosting the international sporting event in 2036
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Texas is close to adopting new oil and gas waste rules, first in decades
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How a start-up utopia became a nightmare for Honduras: US investors are suing Honduras over special economic zones, and the dispute could bankrupt the country
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China's Arctic dreams make the Norwegian port of Kirkenes a global prize – and an unlikely hotbed of East-West rivalry
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We found North Korean engineers in our application pile
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Greece cracks down on excessive tourism. Curbs on short-term rentals and cruise ship traffic could damage crucial sector, warns hospitality industry.
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The Russian economy at war (2024) - Sanctions, growth, inflation and mounting risks
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The games behind your government's next war
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Russian banks say yuan coffers empty, urge central bank action, while Chinese banks in Russia are avoiding currency trading for fear of secondary Western sanctions
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Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of September 2
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant US political content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate...
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant US political content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate topic, but almost all should be posted in here.
This is an inherently political thread; please try to avoid antagonistic arguments and bickering matches. Comment threads that devolve into unproductive arguments may be removed so that the overall topic is able to continue.
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The new Māori Queen: Kuini Nga wai hono i te po, 27, to succeed her father Kiingi Tuheitia as Māori monarch
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Bethesda yanks Thatcher's Techbase Doom mod from in-game browser
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Sweden has announced controversial plans to scrap its tax on airline tickets from 2025
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Bipartisan group of 350 US city mayors commit to electrifying fleets and broadening EV charging infrastructure
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US Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to invest $76 million closing legacy oil & gas wells in Pennsylvania
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Sweden's immigrant hip-hop stars are redefining Swedishness – Muslim rappers are dominating the charts with music sharing the Swedish Muslim experience
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Finland's Fortum starts using US nuclear fuel in bid to reduce Russian dependence
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Initiative to extol benefits of allemannsretten, Norway's “right to roam”, to international tourists has met with strong criticism – tourism campaign shelved over environmental fears
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Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of August 26
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant US political content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate...
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant US political content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate topic, but almost all should be posted in here.
This is an inherently political thread; please try to avoid antagonistic arguments and bickering matches. Comment threads that devolve into unproductive arguments may be removed so that the overall topic is able to continue.
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Over the last ten years Finland reduced road deaths by a sizable 29% – the average decline in the European Union was 16%
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Eiffel Tower will keep Olympic rings permanently, Mayor says
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ABBA becomes the latest in a long line of artists to ask former US President Donald Trump not to use their music at campaign events
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UK rail minister got engineer sacked for raising safety concerns. Peter Hendy threatened to withhold public contracts while seeking disciplinary action.
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US Republicans are sneaking anti-trans amendments into beneficial bills
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How anti-trans US policies in Project 2025 could impact all families
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The intractable puzzle of growth
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Blue and red US states were putting period products in schools — then came the anti-trans backlash
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Social platform X edits AI chatbot after election officials warn that it spreads misinformation
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Book review: "Escaping Gravity" by Lori Garver
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What works: Groundbreaking evaluation of climate policy measures over two decades
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Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of August 19
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant US political content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate...
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant US political content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate topic, but almost all should be posted in here.
This is an inherently political thread; please try to avoid antagonistic arguments and bickering matches. Comment threads that devolve into unproductive arguments may be removed so that the overall topic is able to continue.
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Stavanger's pristine white facades create a timeless, quaint atmosphere. Yet, amidst this traditional setting, a vibrant street art scene has emerged.
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Anti-trans school board candidates backed by Ron DeSantis get crushed in Florida
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The US government spends millions to open grocery stores in food deserts. The real test is their survival.
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Sweden and Denmark will summon tech companies over ads on their platforms that are posted by gangs to recruit young Swedes to commit violent crimes in the Nordics
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Sweden to kill 20% of its brown bears in annual hunt – conservationists say number of hunting licences granted is too high and condemn it as ‘pure trophy hunting’
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What is the motivation to keep sending Benajmin Netanyahu military aide while the Gaza crisis continues?
I hope it is kosher to post this under ~talk. I know people are sick of this topic, so I put plenty of tags in to help those not interested avoid seeing this thread. FWIW, you can go into your...
I hope it is kosher to post this under ~talk. I know people are sick of this topic, so I put plenty of tags in to help those not interested avoid seeing this thread. FWIW, you can go into your Settings and enter keywords to filter threads on ( via tags ).
To my question.
Netanyahu has been killing people with no means of defense.
What is President Biden's motivation to keep sending military aide to Israel while Netanyahu continues to do this?
I have a few guesses, but none of them on their own or together seems to justify the political or humanitarian costs:
- Somehow it is in the geopolitical interest of the U.S. to do so
- Israel would be destroyed without military aide ( but defensive weapons can still be sent )
- The U.S. benefits from Israeli intelligence
- Congressional republicans aligned with Christian Nationlists want to see Israel live out a Biblical prophesy and it would cost President Biden politically if he were to push a decrease in military aide - assuming he could.
- President Biden might have lost Jewish American votes, BUT Jews are a minority in America and many American Jews are against what Netanyahu is doing.
Those are the possibilities I could come up with. Am I missing anything? All of these possibilities together do not seem to be worth the political cost President Biden incurred. Is there something I missed?
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