This pier has got to be one of the most expensive examples of virtue signaling ever. Since Israel controls the land that the pier connects to, aid that comes off this pier would always get the exact same treatment as aid that hits an Israeli overland checkpoint, the pier is a pointless + very costly edifice.
Imo the only reason that it exists is so that the USA government can claim to be helping by throwing money at the problem, without actually doing anything about the problem.
There's bound to be a market for that. I'd love to buy peeled lemons if the peeling came at little to no additional cost.
That's some easily disprovable bullshit: Obama's final presidential approval rating in 2017 was 59%, which is pretty good. So much for "checked out in 2014". Trump and Bush w had 34%, Clinton had the highest ever with 66%.
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/statistics/data/final-presidential-job-approval-ratings
My guess is that they wanted the plane to use up most of the fuel before attempting the landing. As long as the plane is flying, the speed of the plane adds a level of safety to the fire. Once the plane lands and slows down, that fire would start affecting the rest of the wing much more, but there can't be a big kaboom anymore if the fuel tanks are empty.
Which company?
I don't believe for a second that that cop was actually afraid. This reads like he is a bully who grasps at every opportunity to pounce on someone who is in a weaker position than him. Classic bully behaviour that will continue as long as he gets away with it.
I found that it read like a fluff dramatization story from a The Guardian opinion piece, only shorter. Those are texts with a lot of words, but there's usually very little actual substance relative to the length of the text, most is just meandering embellishments. So imo not necessarily ai, humans do write texts in this style as well.
I doubt that any evidence will ever be enough for republicans, I expect that they would just move the red line again, they know that Putin's Russia is their ally too.
I can only see evidence that is really salacious or visceral work, something like Russia's 1980s kompromat on Trump for example. Everything else would need a bit of explaining and the right wing media would then be able to muddle it.
Trump's presidency was such a travesty, that without Roger Alles successful transformation of the media landscape, no other politician could have been seen to support Trump. But since Roger Ailes media plan has been brought to fruition, republicans know that facts are now optional.
2 Belgian news sources in English, so aimed at foreigners: https://www.brusselstimes.com/
https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/en/ (Flemish government broadcasting agency)
Rtbf, the Belgian french broadcasting agency, only has news in french.
If you want more Belgian news, then you could try opening them with a translator. If it works. https://apache-be.translate.goog/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp
I like the documentaries from apache (independent website) and Pano (Flemish tv documentaries, so I have no idea how you would translate this). They are fact based and critical, which now is apparently considered "leftist", so maybe this is what you are after. https://apache.be/ https://www.vrt.be/vrtmax/a-z/pano/
Hln.be is the most popular Flemish news site + paper. Populist and centre right, fairly far to the right probably. The comment sections on the site are often unhinged, but good if you want to get a taste of what some Flemish people are thinking.
RTL.be is the same thing in Wallonia (same owner even after an acquisition), but I think it's relatively less popular.
Some other news sites from the top of my head: De Standaard (center right + elitist = culture snobs, I know, I read it daily for the longest time). Het nieuwsblad (same news as De Standaard, but less words, same owner). De Tijd (center right, with an emphasis on money).
Most (according to RTL all) old walloon news papers were saved with money from the walloon government and are rumored to have lost their independence. But I don't know myself, I only ever read one incidentally when passing through.
De Standaard has always been cvp aligned, with a bit of Flemish activism (AVV VVK was on the front page for most of it's history), so centre right I'd say. De Morgen has always been aligned with the sp, so more centre left.
There is no national broadcasting, each region's broadcaster acts on its own and treats the other half of Belgium as if it is a foreign country. The vrt and rtbf might share a building in Brussels, but that does not mean that they work together across the hallway :)
Official regional broadcasting is the mouth piece of whomever controls the political appointments, which is the government parties. In the past that lead to a situation where the vrt news department was mostly controlled by cvp appointees and political interview/documentaries programs by sp appointees, which also forced them into a situation where they had to scratch each other's back to cover for each other. I don't know the current division of appointments, but I think nva is now the big honcho inside the vrt. So like you said, they're supposed to be neutral, but in the end barking up the wrong tree can still kill their career in the blink of an eye.
Strategy games are still my mainstay, but I'm always returning a few old familiar games. I've not bought any new releases in a long time. If too many other players are like me, then strategy game development is going to be in dire straits indeed.