and this is why it is so important to have a good translator! i’ve been to several concerts here where i could barely understand the translator. this is by far my fav, she was the translator during kaion/do it! too. this is how they get to learn a bit of our language
"The hardest decision we had to make in completing this report was.. not to name the Palestinian children, whose deaths, injuries & suffering we describe.. we didn't name them because we feared the consequences for their families"
He means Israel would go after them too.
on a similar note i saw a video where a former pre-K teacher responded to a commenter who thought words like “ordovician” and “carboniferous” were too big for a 4-year-old to learn and her rebuttal was “if you don’t tell kids these terms are intimidating, they aren’t intimidated”
There was a rule when I was in Trump's first term: if a memo had a staple in it, it was too long for him to read.
Life-or-death decisions were cut to one page. Or a half-page. Or less. Bold fonts. BIG pictures.
When you’re wondering why everything’s a mess, remember that.
They are so afraid of you realizing there are politicians who can and actually want to make your life better and not just collect checks from lobbyists and corporations.
Its 36 years since one of the most famous deceptions in history.
A deception the US deep state invented to justify the bloody first invasion of Iraq.
"Kuwaiti girl" Naira tearfully testified before the US Congress in October 1990, where she claimed to have witnessed horrific scenes in one of Kuwait's hospitals
"Iraqi soldiers stormed the hospital, threw newborn babies out of incubators, and left them to die on the cold floor!"
The story pushed the country to war. US senators passed a resolution to invade Iraq by a margin of five votes. Seven of them believed the girl's words.
Two months before the testimony, 17% of Americans supported US involvement in the conflict. Two months later, nearly half of Americans believed military intervention was necessary.
After the war ended, it was revealed that Naira was the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador to the US, and her story was fabricated by the PR agency Hill & Knowlton, hired by the Kuwaiti government. During the first Iraq war over 135,000 Iraqis were killed.
"Yo solo recolecto los granos de cacao, no sé qué hacen con ellos los blancos, dicen que hacen cosas ricas con él pero nunca lo he visto, no sé si es cierto. Nunca he probado el chocolate en toda mi vida".
Trabajadores del cacao en Costa de Marfil, que son esclavizados en los campos por apenas 7 dólares al día, ni siquiera sabían que existe el chocolate con sale de los granos de cacao y no lo han probado en toda su vida.
Esta es la realidad del capitalismo y la enajenación en los trabajadores más pobres que producen los objetos de consumo, como decía Marx:
"El objeto que el trabajador produce con su esfuerzo se le vuelve ajeno. El producto no le pertenece, cobra vida propia, nunca lo verá ni se lo podrá permitir, solo es producido por el trabajador para que el capitalista pueda enriquecerse."
What people dont realize, is how expensive getting into university is, and i dont even mean yuran semester. Nak masuk U tu - transport, barang, yuran pendaftaran, itu je dah almost 1k depending on which U and where the student lives.
Some kids just give up and stay home.
I've said this before and I'll say it again. Japanese are generally polite but their politeness doesn't mean friendliness. It's mostly to take care of their image. They'll talk shit about behind your back lol.