Uh… either the scale of fraud is huge, at the level of a crime syndicate, or they are convicting some innocent people. Usually the government overcharges people to encourage confessions, leading to some people being found innocent.
Do we really think the Vietnamese prosecutors are the best in the world? Maybe the jury really hated these people.
Vietnamese law prohibits any individual from holding more than 5% of the shares in any bank. But prosecutors say that through hundreds of shell companies and people acting as her proxies, Truong My Lan actually owned more than 90% of Saigon Commercial.
They accused her of using that power to appoint her own people as managers, and then ordering them to approve hundreds of loans to the network of shell companies she controlled.
The amounts taken out are staggering. Her loans made up 93% of all the bank’s lending.
I read in a separate article that basically that’s how she got to where she is. A bunch of people that took bribes over the years are also going to jail. This is supposedly the Vietnamese government trying to fight that corruption. !remindme 5years to see how it works out…
I mean, maybe not actual AK47s but there are a fuckton of AK pattern rifles chambered in various NATO calibers. Aren’t those decently easy to find in the US ?
There are AK clones available here, but they aren’t "AK47"s, and they aren’t full-auto, and they aren’t a military surplus item here. Perhaps this is just journalistic incompetence, but this seems more like an anti-US hitpiece.
Absolutely not. That’s why when i heard the US abstained i had to double check why, and predictably it was because of the length of the ceasefire.
Also, demanding the change of language from ‘permanent’ ceasefire to ‘sustained’ ceasefire was scummy and probably also part of the reason why they abstained and let the vote pass.
Zhang Jun, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of China to the UN, thanked the E-10 Council members for their efforts on the draft.
Noting that his country’s negative vote on the US-led draft resolution last Friday, he stated that a comparison of the two drafts showed the differences:
“The current draft is unequivocal and correct in its direction, demanding an immediate ceasefire, while the previous one was evasive and ambiguous,” he said, adding that the present resolution also reflected the general expectations of the international community and enjoyed the collective support of Arab nations.
Why is it so hard to understand that an Unidentified Flying Object is simply something flying that the observer doesn’t know what it is. We know that the aerospace industry makes new planes, and that many of these are secret designs that we don’t have clearance to know about. Thus, many, if not all, UFOs are simply classified aircraft. Simple.
My guess would be that a majority of people don’t know what UFO stands for, or even if they do, don’t think about it. Most of the time you hear about UFOs is in pop culture referencing aliens, or the conspiracy guys equating crafts they can’t identify as alien UFOs, so it’s really not that hard to see why people jump to alien when they hear it.
100% not all. Many UFOs have been positively identified as something else, like balloons, blimps, drones, frisbees, lens effects, smut, CGI or other intentional fakes, etc.
For some equivalent posts we’ve seen significantly larger engagement numbers for Mastodon compared to X/Twitter, particularly given the relative sizes of different platforms.
I don’t do “Twitter style” social media much but when I did use my Mastodon account I found significant engagement. On Twitter my posts were invisible, but on Mastodon people found, liked, and commented on them. Conversation were good as well.
I was a beta tester for BlueSky and I found the same “invisibility” problem there. Same posts on Mastodon, Twitter, and Blue Sky and only the Mastodon ones generated responses or any acknowledgement for that matter.
I got downvoted because I insinuated that israel is treating Gaza’s people like subhumans.
There’s a population of innocent people starving because of their actions, and their only response, besides continuing the extermination, is to send assassins into hospitals, destroy aid coming their way and tell snipers to shoot to kill.
Yeah, they still print editions with the original cover art. My elementary school library had a copy with the same cover, but it was printed in the 70s, around the time the Rankin Bass animated film came out and created a new surge of popularity.
“We don’t fully know or understand the ecosystems down there and how fragile they are yet… but yeah, go ahead and run an underwater vacuum over it, sure!”
The Norwegian government said it was being cautious and would only begin issuing licences once further environmental studies were carried out.
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The government’s proposal to open an area for activity enables private players to explore and acquire knowledge and data from the areas in question. Opening up areas is not the same as approving extraction of seabed minerals.
Still sounds shady though. The research should primarily, if not only, be done by college and academic researchers I’d say. The ones who probably should be doing the publishing as well… js. its not all roses like they make it appear imo sadly.
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