New administration under Samia Suluhu gives hope after 5 years of hopelessness

After ruling out Trump trumping Biden, now we are serious considering De Santis as the real deal

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Ninaamini

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There's no appetite for conflict so the talk kinda of reassuring

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To be fair with the Chinese, it is imperative to acknowledge the global pandemic and Russian sanctions have deliberately conspired to nudge women everywhere out of labour markets.

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Perhaps the most high-profile setback came when the Communist Party last month unveiled top leaders for the next five years. For the first time in a quarter-century, there wasn’t a single woman on the Politburo—the two dozen most senior party officials in the country—either as a full member or as an alternate.

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Over the party’s history, there have been only a handful of women on the Politburo and no woman on the Politburo Standing Committee, the pinnacle of power. Still, Yan Long, a political sociologist at the University of California, Berkeley, said the complete absence of women in the party top echelon symbolizes the end of “a hopeful era.”

In 2002, Wu Yi, a former vice premier, was appointed as a full Politburo member. Until then, the only women serving as full members had all been wives of senior party leaders, including Mao Zedong’s wife Jiang Qing.

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At the 20th Party Congress in late October, Vice Premier Sun Chunlan, who had been the Politburo’s sole female member, stood out in her red blazer among a sea of men in black suits. Now Ms. Sun is retiring, giving way to an all-male top leadership.

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Researchers say female officials in China tend to be assigned portfolios traditionally associated with women, such as education and health, as opposed to areas that often serve as a springboard for an official’s career, like economics and security.

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Prof. Jiang and her co-authors found that female officials promoted to executive positions in Chinese cities tend to be younger and better educated than their male counterparts. They are also more likely to be members of ethnic minorities as the party combines multiple diversity quotas into a single appointment, the researchers found. The only woman among China’s 31 provincial party chiefs, Shen Yiqin, party chief of Guizhou, is a member of the Bai ethnic minority.

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In the years after the women’s conference, China’s nascent feminist movement grew. Young activists wore bloodstained wedding dresses to protest domestic violence, shaved their heads to challenge higher university admission bars for female students and occupied men’s bathrooms to push the government to provide more public toilet stalls for women.

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There are no rich countries to help anybody everybody is struggling

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NATO territorial integrity tenets are inapplicable to Israel. The US will never militarily enforce the territorial integrity of Palestine.

The whole balderdash of territorial integrity only pertinent when the US global geopolitical interests are under serious threat




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Scary stuff

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European nightmares before our very eyes


Rusophobia is altering European politics in fundamental ways. What we are beginning to see voters are standing up for what they believe: Their countries are not American vassals.

Most people in France and Europe continue to support sanctions against Russia and weapon deliveries to Ukraine. But Mr. Macron and other European leaders fear the economic stress could undermine public support for these policies or the governments that back them, particularly as winter sets in and demand for gas rises.

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In Belgium, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Germany, tens of thousands have marched in recent weeks, demanding pay rises to offset inflation, more state support, government intervention in the energy market and, in some instances, an end to sanctions against Russia.

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In Warsaw this week, thousands of Polish police officers, border guards and firefighters thronged the avenue passing Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki’s office this week, demanding pay rises to keep pace with the cost of living. Their rally came after a Polish teacher’s union staged its own protest demanding a 20% pay increase.

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