Hun Sen's war is his last gasps
🧐"immunity once enjoyed by #HunSen's inner circle is evaporating. We r witnessing a slow-motion purge of their international legitimacy, with key cronies facing visa bans & asset freezes across te US & Europe.. Hun Sen is not saving his legacy; he is mortgaging his country's future. He's gambling w te lives of #impoverished #conscripts & #border #villagers to protect a #family #fortune tt the world is rapidly marking as #illicit" #Scambodia
https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/3161149/hun-sens-war-is-his-last-gasps
#impoverished
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#urbanphotography #Orange #France #Frankreich #Provence #fashion #store #impoverished #man #renovation #urban #urbanscape #UrbanExploration #streetphotography #street #streetphoto #photography #hasselblad #x2d100c #Mode #Geschäft #verarmt #Mann #Fotografie
“To embrace #nativism in a #global, connected #economic world is to sacrifice prosperity for the sake of exclusion, just as the main effect of racial #segregation in the #AmericanSouth was to leave the region #impoverished and #underdeveloped” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/o...
Opinion | The Trump Fantasy Is...
A quotation from Franklin Roosevelt
The millions who are in want will not stand by silently forever while the things to satisfy their needs are within easy reach.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) American lawyer, politician, statesman, US President (1933-1945)
Speech (1932-05-22), Commencement, Oglethorpe University, Atlanta, Georgia
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/roosevelt-franklin-d…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #fdr #franklinroosevelt #franklindroosevelt #franklindelanoroosevelt #economicinjustice #impoverished #needy #poor #poverty #protest #redistribution #revolution #socialunrest #taking #unrest #want
There it’s processed into #tantalum, a heat-resistant #metal that fetches >$300 a kilogram & is in high demand by makers of mobile phones, computers, aerospace components & gas turbines.
#Rubaya produces ~15% of the world’s #coltan, all dug manually by #impoverished locals who earn a few dollars per day. Control of this mine is the biggest prize in a long-running conflict in this central #Africa nation.
#Congo #DRC #Rwanda #Kinshasa #Tutsi #HumanRights #exploitation #business #tech #geopolitics
America’s Future Is Hungary
MAGA conservatives love Viktor Orbán. But he’s left his country corrupt, stagnant, and impoverished.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/05/viktor-orban-hungary-maga-corruption/682111/
#theatlantic #ViktorOrbán #Hungary #poor #Europe #corrupt #stagnant #impoverished #MAGA #Washington #US #USA #Politic #politician
Until now
Trump
dismantled the #Government
dismantled the #Army efficency
cancel all Biden economic progress
and
led #USA to #Recession and #Inflation
#impoverished the #US population and deprived it of #rights
dismantled the organizations that maintained #National #Security
canceled the #Alliances of the US and associated US with #Russia
America has NEVER been in worst situation
And all in 4 weeks
Truly...
Stupidity also has limit
What are you waiting to send Trump back to Russia ?
US Dist Judge Amir H. Ali had given the admin until 11:59PM to fulfill its contractual obligations & restart the payments to organizations whose work in #impoverished parts of the world had been stopped since #Trump halted the assistance in late Jan.
Acting solicitor gen Sarah M. Harris, the govt’s top appellate atty, had asked #SCOTUS to block Ali’s order, which she said had “thrown what should be an orderly review by the government into chaos.” [who threw the govt into chaos?]
Unite and Conquer. Join or Die. #trans #gays #queers #disabled #racialminorities #religiousminorities #immigrants #impoverished #fight #oligarchy
US Dist Judge Amir H. Ali gave the govt until 11:59 PM Wednesday to fulfill its contractual obligations & restart payments to contractors whose work in #impoverished parts of the #world had been largely stopped during an ongoing #legal battle. #Trump admin ofcls must also provide examples of communication sent to partners on the ground about resuming assistance, Ali ruled.
His order applies to work done before Feb 13.
#law #USAID #ForeignAid #DOJ #geopolitics #USpol
Also made this cool chart showing how #CEO pay increases as quality decreases along with #worker #pay and #benefits
It's made with some fudged numbers, to get the idea across, but average CEO pay and Worker pay was taken from real data sets linked from the Economic Policy Institute.
It's crazy to see how much #wealth is being #extracted from the #impoverished and #middleclass by companies that are literally #poisoning our children.
Remember, part of the listeria chicken went to schools.
“…the Ford Motor Company will begin to produce electric trucks at BlueOval City, a sprawling manufacturing complex in an #impoverished #rural area of TN. The multibillion-dollar project, received a federal loan through the Infrastructure Investment & Jobs Act [HR3684] that #Biden signed in 2021, already created thousands of construction jobs that pay substantially more than locals are accustomed to earning.
#Israel’s #HiddenVictims, #Arab #Bedouins, Were Attacked by #Hamas Too. At least 17 died in the Hamas attacks, and many more in the #impoverished community have since lost their livelihoods in #Jewish #farms that were #ransacked. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/29/world/middleeast/israel-hamas-arab-bedouins.html
The decline in student funding is a good way to measure the collapse of a nation. My father got a grant to go to #university. I got a loan that I was able to pay back in a few years (mostly by living at home for a spell during and after my studies). Evidently this isn't an option for most, meanwhile successive governments have acted to impoverish the student body.
Student maintenance loans almost entirely used up by rent, report warns - BBC News
https://www.bbc.com/news/education-67206767
#Israel is massing #troops near the #Gaza Strip ahead of an expected #ground assault; an #IDF spox said Thurs that Hamas would no longer be tolerated as a “#sovereign [entity] located adjacent to Israel.”
In Gaza, authorities warned of dire #water & #electricity #shortages after Israel ordered a “full #siege” of the densely populated, #impoverished #Palestinian enclave. The Palestinian MOH in Gaza said #IsraeliAirstrikes left #hospitals at full capacity as #medicine & #fuel run out.
#Hamas #war
the #movie: [a #wealthy #capitalist sets up a #factory in the middle of a low-income #british(?)/ #american(?) #neighborhood to #exploit cheap #labor, only to fire #everybody when his #IP might be threatened; #exploits indentured #colonized #people for #free labor; "tests" an impoverished #kid by dangling thousands of #dollars in front of his face, claiming he "passed" when the kid refused to better his situation; lets four #children probably die; probably has mountains of osha #violations and is trying to #pawn off his factory onto #someone else so he doesn't have to deal with the #consequences]
the #theory: is the #impoverished bed-ridden 80-year-old #man who stands up for the aforementioned kid during the "#test" actually the real #villain of this story???? 😱🤯😏😜
In a rare foray from his country, #Kim would travel from #Pyongyang, #NorthKorea, probably by armored train, to #Vladivostok, #Russia, where he would meet w/ #Putin, the ofcls said. Kim could possibly go to #Moscow, though that is not certain.
Putin wants Kim to agree to send Russia #ArtilleryShells & #AntitankMissiles, & Kim would like Russia to provide North Korea w/advanced #technology for #satellites & #nuclear-powered #submarines…. Kim is also seeking #FoodAid for his #impoverished nation.
I’d love if we could roll back the clock and choose a different future.
If we had started remaking our society to be more sustainable when the crisis was first becoming obvious — 50+ years ago — we could have avoided most of the catastrophes that are now unavoidably our lot.
Had we got going when the science was clear and sustainability solutions readily available (say, two decades ago), the desolation we now face would have been much reduced.
Heck, if we were even responding at the speed demanded today (instead of our slow-if-inevitable march towards a less harmful economy), we wouldn’t be bracing for such unforgivably massive destruction.
Action is happening, sure, and will accelerate. Unfortunately, even if we move much more quickly than we currently are, that will mostly mean a reduction in the future magnitude of the crisis, rather than a reversal of the climate change and ecological collapse we’ve already set in motion.
There’s a huge gap between how most things function now, and how they realistically need to work to limit the crisis and thrive in this hard new future.
Being outdated brings consequences. When assets remain stuck on the old side of the gap, they end up devalued; when institutions do, they become destabilized; when people wind up on there, they get #displaced and #impoverished.
Hundreds of millions of people around the world live in dire poverty — usually in places already struggling with massive, complex, and deeply-rooted societal challenges. They now face the transapocalyptic realities of poverty in a planetary crisis.
If we think of the widespread displacement and ruination now rolling over people as the prize in a sort of terrible lottery, these poor folks have already been issued a winning ticket.
In the real world, there’s little they can do to give back that ticket, and little appetite in the wealthier countries for cancelling the transapocalyptic sweepstakes.
We in the wealthy world — the vast majority of people reading this — are still lining up to find out what kind of tickets we’re holding.
https://alexsteffen.substack.com/p/you-too-can-be-a-climate-refugee
USA CHILD LABOR
tell us what you think of US treatment of children...
#children #abuse #US #labor #migrants #indigenous #impoverished #slavery #trafficking
Another day and the army of the working #impoverished get ready for yet another day in the rat race. Good times!
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