General News Thread

(18-05-2025 19:28 )Charlemagne Wrote:  It's reported that James Corden is concidering going for the Mayor of London gig....

as an Independent candidate? (though I highly suspect Reform might install him as their candidate), he'd do well to dislodge dodgy Sir Khan from said gig but many will probably say that he couldn't run as he's not lived in London long enough to considered a serious candidate.

(18-05-2025 19:28 )Charlemagne Wrote:  It's reported that James Corden is concidering going for the Mayor of London gig....

If a clown like Boris did it I'd say he's adequately qualified.

^True, It's been one clown after another with Johnson and Khan doing the gig.

****BREAKIN NEWS******
Former US President Joe Biden has been diagnosed with having prostrate cancer.

Good to see well wishes from both sides of the political divide.
Makes a change from the usual bitterness and rancour.

Britain suspends trade talks with Israel after David Lammy states Gaza conflict "has entered dark new phase" with Israel's current millitary operations.

Israel reportedly have allowed in 100 aid trucks into the Gaza.

There is something very wrong when the sheer amount of civilians being killed hasn't stopped trade talks already, waiting for undeniable genocide are we, fucking politicians.

The aid trucks are a sham, they are still intentionally starving Gaza, the tiny amount of aid being allowed is a smokescreen and not helping at all.

Quote:‘Ridiculously inadequate’ aid allowed into Gaza will keep population ‘barely surviving’, aid organisation says
Medecins Sans Frontiers (MSF) has decried the small amount of aid being allowed in was a “smokescreen” to pretend the blockade was over.

Pascale Coissard, MSF emergency coordinator in Khan Younis accused Israel of making aid a “tool to further Israeli forces’ military objectives”.

“The Israeli authorities’ decision to allow a ridiculously inadequate amount of aid into Gaza after months of an air-tight siege signals their intention to avoid the accusation of starving people in Gaza, while in fact keeping them barely surviving,” he said.

MSF pointed out that before October 2023, the UN reported that 500 aid trucks were entering Gaza each day, and said the current authorisation of 100 trucks a day was “woefully inadequate”.

Bomb and starve has always been the plan, totally not war crimes happening, honest

It's just horrific literally seeing hell on earth happening with world leaders still sitting on their hands letting it happen. Stop trade talks indeed, whoopey doo.

What's ironic is Hamas themselves use and see this slaughter of their own people as an instrument to expose how heinous Israel is towards them, and in that they've succeeded.

But at least eyes of the world are watching. More than those closed to the atrocities in Sudan.

Trump seems more interested in the killings of white farmers in South Africa having met the South African PM.

It's a racist conspiracy that he's pushing, yes South Africa has a high murder rate and yes white farmers have been killed, but his claims of white genocide involving farmers is simply not true. He ambushed the South African president with fake evidence to back up his fake claims, it's online right wing, racist conspiracy nonsense.

When will somebody stand up, call him a fucking liar to his face, walk out of the room and then go straight to the press with facts to challenge the lies he spreads. Disgraceful.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce9vxve994ro

Quote:The footage played by Trump in the Oval Office showed rows of white crosses stretching off into the distance along a rural road. Trump claimed: "These are burial sites right here. Burial sites. Over a thousand of white farmers."

However, the crosses do not mark graves. The video is from a protest against the murder of white farming couple Glen and Vida Rafferty, who were ambushed and shot dead on their premises in 2020. The clip was shared on YouTube on 6 September, the day after the protests.

"It's not a burial site, but it was a memorial," Rob Hoatson, one of the organisers of the event, told the BBC. He said the crosses were erected as a "temporary memorial" to the couple.

Quote:The country has one of the highest murder rates in the world. There were 26,232 murders last year, according to South African Police Service (SAPS) figures.

Of these, 44 were killings of people within the farming community and of those, eight were of farmers.

These figures are not broken down by race in any public stats release that we've been able to locate - but they clearly don't provide evidence for the claims of "white genocide" made repeatedly by Trump.

In February, a South African judge dismissed the idea of a genocide as "clearly imagined" and "not real".

Quote:During the meeting, Trump held up a series of articles which he claimed showed evidence of white farmer killings in South Africa.

There was an image clearly visible as Trump spoke and said: "Look, here's burial sites all over the place. These are all white farmers that are being buried."
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But the image isn't from South Africa - it's actually from a report about women being killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The French news agency (AFP) initially pointed out the image, and BBC Verify ran a search and confirmed it as being from a Reuters news agency clip filmed in the DR Congo city of Goma in February.

So false claims of white genocide are a massive deal to Trump and his supporters, but real genocide in Gaza is unimportant, something very wrong with that. Race plays a part.