This video explains another big question: why Chinese high-speed railways are not profitable, yet China still keeps building them.
That’s because of the long-term calculation of overall social interests by the central government, "The HSR drives the flow of people, traffic and info and all social flows… The incentives on the economy are immeasurable. We always calculate the whole economic impact. It’s about overall social interests."
This argument simply doesn't work when we know that Palestinians from 90 different villages in area C have been run off their land by Israeli settlers, supported by the state.
The weirdest thing about white people saying anything nice about Pakistan is that they will make it sound like Pakistanis were incapable of thinking about it.
The fact is Solarisation started after the State Bank introduced Solar refinancing for Industries in 2009, and greatly expanded it in 2016. NEPRA also began given Net-metering licenses in 2015.
This wasn’t a miracle ‘nobody planned’. Pakistanis waited to make the decision based on household economics. The policies were in place, and in fact were ahead of their time. They effectively worked too well.
Another alternative energy transition that has actively accelerated is use of biomass in the country, which is going to pick up more pace. And soon after there will be more stories how nobody planned it.
گزشتہ سال پنجاب میں باقاعدہ قانون بن چکا ہے کہ صوبائی حکومت کسی بھی پبلک پراجیکٹ کا نام تبدیل کر سکتی ہے اور کوئی نیا نام بھی رکھ سکتی ہے۔ اس لیے نواز شریف، مریم نواز، کیپٹن صفدر، جنید صفدر، راحیل منیر وغیرہ وغیرہ کے نام پر پراجیکٹ کا نام رکھنا اب قانونی طور پر جائز ہو چکا ہے۔
West Bank Palestinians have endured repeated progroms since 2022. The pogrom in Huwara in February 2023 was so bad that Israeli press (yes, ISRAELI), compared it to Kristallnacht.
This is the dude who tried to guilt trip Hannah Einbinder when she first spoke out in solidarity with Palestine. The kind of upstanding citizens we’re dealing with.
Sam Harris published "if Palestinians laid down their arms, there would be peace" on the same day a 7 month old Palestinian baby was shot and killed by Israeli soldiers.
the baby's name happened to be Sam, too.
I need you to understand the power of language.
Notice how the IDF does not describe a 7-month-old baby by name, as a child, or even as a member of a family.
Instead, Baby Sam Fahed Abu Haikal and his relatives are referred to as “uninvolved individuals.”
This is textbook dehumanization. They want to normalize this abhorrent violence against Palestinians and label them all as “involved individuals” by default to justify exterminating them.
He was a baby.
You cannot whitewash conduct that violates FIFA regulations and breaches the United States’ host obligations merely by praising yourselves.
Why do you not say that visas were denied to a large portion of the managerial and executive staff, technical advisers, and others who are an integral part of any national football team?
You have now escalated the deliberate and discriminatory treatment against Iran’s national football team to its highest level.
By extending your whimsical hostilities against the Iranian nation into the realm of sport, the U.S. government in practice is depriving Iran’s national team of its right to play in the World Cup under normal conditions and without undue pressure and stress.
This represents the worst possible form of politically biased interference in sport.
FIFA must hold the US accountable for violations of its rules and for the discriminatory treatment of Iran's national football team.
Do people think Israelis fall out of the sky? They are Americans. They are from Germany, Russia, the UK, France.
It's a Western colony. Founded, armed, and supported by the West, and made up of Westerners.
What he was supposed to wear Vs what he has actually worn today
This is Mohannad Farawna’s shrouded corpse from the hospital minutes ago. He was killed by Israel on his wedding day a few hours ago in Khan Younis, south Gaza.
I recognised Lizzy’s iconic mug but couldn’t place the loser she’s talking to. Lo and behold, it’s this bozo who was kind enough to slide in my dms to let me know I was a bad Jew for satirising rape propaganda back in late 2023.