bitterness is growing within China's armed forces to President Xi Jinping's decision to cut troop numbers by 300,000, and, according to a source and commentaries in the military's newspaper, considerable effort will be needed to overcome opposition to the order with PLA official sources warning "people are worried, it's been too sudden."Will Xi become Pertinax? Time will tell.
...Officer Harding received a ‘letter of appreciation’ from the Juvenile Restorative Justice Initiative.
One of these six cops found Roberts identification card that showed he was a supervisor at the IPRA. Once they discovered that Roberts was a man who is tasked with holding police accountable for a living, the dashcam recording of the incident goes black.
The irony, in this case, is that the IPRA rarely finds cops at fault for anything, even when they shoot and kill innocent women.
Perhaps the reason for the failure of the IPRA to hold cops accountable is that they are all afraid they may end up like Davis or Roberts.
It seems that NATO countries, and especially the United States, have developed a peculiar understanding of security which is fundamentally different from our view. The Americans are obsessed with the idea of securing absolute invulnerability for themselves, which, incidentally, is a utopia, for both technological and geopolitical reasons. But that is exactly where the root of the problem lies.Absolute invulnerability is also impossible. Pursuing it is insane; as such is it any surprise the USG is the mad dog of the world?
Absolute invulnerability for one nation would mean absolute vulnerability for everybody else. We cannot agree to this. Of course, many nations prefer not to raise this question openly for a variety of reasons. But Russia will always call a spade a spade and speak openly about such matters. I would like to stress once again that violation of the principle of common and indivisible security (accompanied by repeated assurances that they are still committed to it) may have extremely serious consequences. Sooner or later, those consequences will also affect the nations that initiate such violations, whatever their reasons are.
“Since ancient times, when there was no money, transactions happened through bartering,” he said. “I have no faith in money the way it has evolved today. This crisis is the byproduct of what money has become, where there’s a lot of it in the hands of the few, and a deficit of it for most other people.”The wages of dishonest money.
