The U.S. is one of five permanent members who can veto any council action. Members of its U.N. delegation reiterated Monday that the Palestinian Authority needs to exert control over all of the Palestinian territories and negotiate statehood with Israel before it wins statehood.
The fucking PA, which is under the israeli military’s control nowadays and allows its settler colonialism.
PA, which is under the israeli military’s control nowadays and allows its settler colonialism
Violent resistance by armed organizations remains the only way for national liberation. Be it the Viet Cong driving out the US, Bangladesh’s Mukti Bahini driving out US-backed Pakistan, or indeed Palestine’s Hamas and PFLP driving out the US-backed settler colony.
Any other groups like the PA will simply be brought under control by the occupying force.
Yea, and why would Palestine have to “negotiate statehood with Israel before” getting statehood?
And what was the U.N. partition plan for Palestine in 1947, didn’t it make a Jewish state and an Arab state? Does this mean Israel also doesn’t have statehood? It’s fucked up yea but it also makes no sense if you’re not racist.
They're referring to Hamas and the PA's lack of authority in Gaza after the Fatah-Hamas schism in 2007, not the Israeli-occupied territories in the West Bank.
It seems like for lot of countries, oil is a poison pill. The entire economy as at the whim of a single market, and there’s very little room for a middle class. There’s just the wealthy who own the oil and the poor who have nothing.
South Sudan started as a beautiful dream, but without responsible leadership and developing a more diverse economy, that dream may be lost.
According to the UN, 12,000 people have died as a result of the conflict, a figure that is surely greatly underestimated given the extent to which whole swathes of the country have been cut off from the rest of the world.
It has also displaced 7.1 million people, including 1.5 million in neighbouring countries, said Stéphane Dujarric, spokesman for the UN Secretary-General, on Thursday, describing it as "the world's largest displacement crisis".
On Friday, the United Nations Security Council expressed "concern" at the intensification of violence in Sudan, while "strongly condemning" attacks against civilians and the extension of the conflict "to areas hosting large populations of displaced persons".
On numerous occasions, Félix Tshisekedi has denounced Rwandan "aggression" "under the guise of the M23", accusing Rwanda, which he described a few months ago as a "horrible neighbor", of wanting to monopolize the wealth, particularly mining, of eastern Congo.
"But this time, (Paul Kagame) has met a son of the country determined to protect his country against all kinds of foreign aggression", said Félix Tshisekedi, whose remarks in French were translated into Swahili (a language spoken in eastern DRC and several East African countries), in front of thousands of people gathered in Bukavu's Place de l'Indépendance.
In power since January 2019, Félix Tshisekedi is seeking a second term in the elections scheduled for December 20 in the DRC, and is multiplying his travels across the country. After South Kivu, he is scheduled to visit Goma, the provincial capital of North Kivu, this weekend.
Nigeria has been screwed over by unstable religious zealots inculcating their heads with pernicious misinformed bullcrap for decades. This is the primary example I use when explaining why I equate missionary work with slavery and abuse in every possible way. It's far more corrupt and perverse to brainwash ignorant people into sick and unjustifiable bigotry against other better human beings than it is to perform any other act of malicious intent possible. Nigeria has been lead into the deepest darkness of all - ignorance and hate and the pernicious filth of bigotry. And that's why they totally fail as a nation.
They fail as a nation because it was pieced together by British crooks for the benefit of theft, which required ethnic/political instability for it to work. The most popular religion in the south of the country was also introduced by Brits (alongside other European capitalists) for the benefit of the European capitalists. Nigeria is a completely artificial nation, nothing about it makes sense or was done for the benefit of its inhabitants.
This is not a matter of violence. We have come here peacefully just to let the whole world know we are ready to die
That has to win a price for most aggressive message behind a peaceful protest.
‘I’m here to let you know peacefully that I disagree with the color of petunia in your garden. If you don’t remove them I will have to resort to extreme violence’
They had on Tueday [sic] refused the minimum wage proposal by the government at 60,000 Naira.
That $45 or 41 Euro. Not sure if that’s daily, yearly, quarterly or what. That article left a lot to be desired, as evidenced by the typo I chose to include
It looks like this would be a monthly figure. Based on this source minimum wage currently sits at 30.000 Naira ($22,45) /month.
From what I understand it is higher than what it was set at in the 80s, but the value of the Naira did drop quite a bit over time (when compared to the US dollar)
According to this website the 1981 wage would have been equivalent to $204, while the 2024 wage is equivalent to $24
In the end it’s not about your absolute wage, it’s about buying power.
If you can buy the same of more with your wage, your quality of life is going up.
The comparison to US dollars is probably skewing the picture somewhat (since the US dollar is quite strong right now), but I find it hard to believe that an eight-fold decrease in value doesn’t negatively affect buying power.
Looks like you’re right. Canada, the United States, Japan, South Korea, Germany, France and Australia seem to be the only ones after a quick search. I never knew that
I’m not sure which is a better system. Could you pay someone pennies daily and then give them a bigger paycheck at the end of the month to meet the minimum?
Or is it effectively the same system in action but with an additional minimum monthly pay?
Perhaps. But the fact that is getting and catching attention is a step in the right direction. Most Americans could not find Palestine on a map months ago. They might still not but at least they have been made aware of it.
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