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India not even doing the bare minimum by signing an angry letter:
https://xcancel.com/suhasinih/status/1845109853280505901

It’s never been more over for the UK:

Treasury asking ministers to draw up billions of pounds of infrastructure cuts

Ministers are being asked to draw up billions of pounds in cuts to infrastructure projects over the next 18 months despite Rachel Reeves pledging to invest more to grow the economy, the Guardian has learned.

Members of the cabinet have been asked to model cuts to their investment plans of up to 10% of their annual capital spending as part of this month’s spending review, government sources said.

The demands would mean big projects such as hospital improvements, road building and defence projects being slowed down or stopped altogether as the government looks for ways to repair what they say is a £22bn black hole in the public finances.

Economists warn that such cuts to capital spending could end up damaging the economy and Britain’s creaking public infrastructure.

It’s never been more over for the Euros:

Germany expects economy to shrink after cutting 2024 forecast

Germany is facing its first two-year recession since the early 2000s, as the government downgraded its growth forecast for 2024, predicting a contraction of 0.2 per cent.

“The situation is not satisfactory,” Robert Habeck, economy minister, said on Wednesday. “Since 2018, the German economy has not been growing strongly any more.”

Just a few months ago he had forecast the economy would grow by 0.3 per cent this year.

Germany has been battered by high interest rates, inflation and an increasingly uncertain geopolitical environment, which has suppressed consumer demand and investment activity.

Some companies, complaining of high labour and energy costs, a big tax burden and political turbulence, are considering locating some of their production to cheaper countries.

At the same time, consumer spending remains depressed, despite an increase in real wages and falling inflation. The government’s earlier forecast had expected a more robust rebound in consumer demand.

Political instability is also taking its toll on sentiment. Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s three-party coalition is riven by policy conflicts and the rise of populist parties on the far right and far left is undermining business confidence.

Incredible how ideological entrenchment (neoliberalism) + a currency war from the US (Ukraine war) accelerated the destruction of the future of the UK and continental Europe in just a few short years.

Europeans who have been laughing at how Americans don’t have healthcare and social welfare are going to have to seriously think about migrating there over the next decade and get used to what it feels like to live without basic welfare guarantees.

So this week I've been dealing with a fucking $$ettler KKKolonialist virus that was trying to colonize my body and commit genocide on all of my body cells. Thankfully the Resistance (my immune system) fought them off. However, since I am left a coughing mess afterwards, and am still in pain, who's to say the virus really lost? Maybe causing me immense pain after the infection was the virus's true goal all along, and my immune system didn't actually win despite purging the virus from my body.

Anyways back to the point, has there been any major news since then? Are Israeli ground troops still getting torn up in Lebanon?

oooh godspeed made new album

The Swedish Consumers Association blacklists Tesla, due to a customer being denied compensation in a warranty issue.

"I will r-word your mom and your entire family and you. You look like a n-word." - Female Zionist high school student after finding out the streamer is a Palestinian American who loves Palestine

https://xcancel.com/hippyygoat/status/1845003003708756036