France has been a big fan of revolution since the late 18th century. They're on their Fifth Republic and I'm sure some French people feel they're overdue for a Sixth, just for the sake of keeping the tradition alive.
Tbh, coming from a constitutional monarchy myself, where the king and queen are a moral backbone, born and bread diplomats, using their funds to salvage, maintain and protect items of cultural heritage like buildings, furniture, art, etc, giving people hope everytime they speak…
… I’m glad we’re not just stuck with politicians. Like OMG! Americans whining about monarchies when their oligarchy reminds of the aristocracy in all the wrong ways becomes a facepalm moment.
Have there been bad monarch’s? Yes. Have there been bad politicians? Yes. Have both partaken in both classic and modern colonisation? You betcha. But sometimes, just sometimes, you want someone born dedicated to your country - and despite how many politicians rub sensually up against the concept of patriotism, you notice real quick who’s just wearing the emperor’s clothes - and in my case it ain’t the king nor queen.
I’m Finnish so we’re surrounded by constitutional monarchies, and honestly aristocracies are just not something I’d expect from a modern nation. The idea that only a person with the correct heritage is fit for a national leadership position is frankly nuts, and I don’t think the only option to that is the dumpster fire that is US politics
Not really if you come from anywhere outside the Americas. Half of Europe and Asia still have kings/emperor’s and a big chunk of countries exist under other nations royals like the British Commonwealth.
I’m Finnish, and as I noted in another comment here we’re surrounded by constitutional monarchies and I don’t find “well everyone does it” a very compelling argument for aristocracy
Love how the Examiner makes it easy for readers to recognize it as a right-leaning source of news.
Citing race multiple times, along with nationalities... And the family name of the 17 year-old (we know the name over here, but newspapers don't print it).
Many of the looters and rioters that have been arrested (and charged already) admit that their actions have nothing to do with what happened. They are using it as an excuse to act out.
There are systematic problems here in France that cannot be excused or defended. What happened may happen again and can be seen around the world. Gentrification pushes low income families to certain parts of the city. In France, not every school is equal, so low income areas get poorer education, there are higher dropout rates, etc. Police do racially profile and it so happens that many of these low income families come from different parts of Africa. I live about an hour from Paris and see it where I live. My mother-in-law lives in a small town in France, and they burned down the McDonald's last night.
Nahel was one of these dropouts who had been stopped by the police multiple times. His death has been deemed a murder. The riots are now out of control and I am a little concerned that either someone will be killed tonight, or the riots will last weeks... Or a state of emergency will be invoked which could mean restrictions on digital communications because the riots are being organised using Telegram.
I’ll be glad if Brasil’s image starts turning from corruption ridden banana republic to corruption hunting democracy. I see signs, and they give me a little hope.
Complementary currencies have been in place for thousands of years in human history, and it was largely for the benefit of the societies and their individuals, for crisis development, transitional economies and/or commons-based communities.
Blockchain is a great tool for this kind of money. Saying something like the whole of the crypto world is a scam is a gross generalization that has nothing to do with reality, as much as fiat money isn't a scam because of the corruption, scandals and crises we have been experiencing in the fiat system.
If you want to bribe a person or something, then the least thing you need is a decentralized network like a blockchain where all the data is stored across the network on all nodes. Crypto "enables corruption on a scale unseen before" ?THIS is BS.
You're ignoring the last few years of the crypto space, it's all crooks taking advantage of idealists and the clueless, over and over and over and damn fucking over again, and now they got you
I blame the criminal gang that took their money, provided the boat and sent them all out there. Odd the news never mentions that end of the boats journey. I guess that would require some journalism though instead of the “This person said this. That person said that” lazy copy that is standard nowadays
Well yes, it’s always easier to just blame the government rather than doing a full investigation to find the actual root of the issue and the culprits.
I imagine a lot of that is due to issues with liability. If a journalist says “X did Y”, that opens them up to lawsuits. If they say “A alleges that X did Y”, then that allows them to report without fear of a lawsuit.
The end of the article did talk about who may have sent them out there.
Two of the survivors said Greek authorities had asked them, through interpreters and lawyers, to give evidence against the nine Egyptians who have been accused of people trafficking.
But all four survivors said the nine Egyptians were passengers, seated among them on the journey. They say the ship’s crew were masked and spent most of their time in the cabin.
“The crew jumped in the water when the coastguard approached and some of these nine Egyptians tried to sail the boat,” one of them told us. “It seems to me they are not the ones involved in people smuggling,” he added.
Relatives of Egyptians who fear their loved ones were on board have told the BBC that they paid $4,500 (£3,500) each for the journey.
I’m terrible at headlines, but honest journalism would have a title sort of like: “Criminal Human Traffickers Overload Boat Full of Immigrants, Causing Rescue Attempt to Fatally capsize boat”
The German non-governmental organisation Sea-Watch charters boats to rescue migrants and refugees in the Mediterranean. It said it does not have enough information yet to assess exactly what happened but its head of operations told us: "Towing an old vessel with hundreds of people on board in heavy seas is sure to fail and be a disaster.
"According to what we know from the pictures and the testimonies, it's not a safe way to rescue the people on the boat in distress."
Your headline puts all blame on the human traffickers and absolves the coast guard, but if the coast guard that is meant to rescue people instead caused, or even partially caused, their mass death, even if through incompetence, that is news. This was hundreds of people that died.
I haven't heard a single person defend the traffickers' actions, but it's much harder to fix that side of the problem than it is to determine how one's own nation responds. It's worthwhile to see news about things you can actually have a chance of doing something about.
Letting people die, allowing the coast guard to commit mass negligent homicide (or whatever it ends up called) without consequence or any attempt at reforming it, and denying all responsibility because someone else screwed the refugees over first would be absurd and morally bankrupt.
It'd be like finding someone bleeding out in an alley, and instead of calling an ambulance you stab them or punch them a couple times. That's still criminal as all hell, even if the person might have died anyway before you showed up.
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