A rare, direct warning from Japan signals a shift in the fight against child sex tourism in Asia
Japan’s embassy in Laos and its Ministry of Foreign Affairs has issued a rare and unusually direct advisory, warning Japanese men against “buying sex from children” in Laos.The move was sparked by Ayako Iwatake, a restaurant owner in Vientiane, who allegedly saw social media posts of Japanese men bragging about child prostitution. In response, she launched a petition calling for government action.
The Japanese-language bulletin makes clear such conduct is prosecutable under both Laotian law and Japan’s child prostitution and pornography law, which applies extraterritorially.
This diplomatic statement was not only a legal warning. It was a rare public acknowledgement of Japanese men’s alleged entanglement in transnational child sex tourism, particularly in Southeast Asia.
It’s also a moment that demands we look beyond individual criminal acts or any one nation and consider the historical, racial and structural inequalities that make such mobility and exploitation possible.
「目に余る」 ラオス児童買春、外務省の注意喚起を引き出した女性 - 毎日新聞
ラオスでの日本人男性による児童買春が疑われるような投稿が交流サイト（SNS）で相次いでいるとして、現地在住の日本人女性が6月初旬、撲滅を求める署名を提出した。女性は「あまりにも目に余る状況で、見て見ぬふりをできなかった」と語る。在ラオス日本大使館は女性の訴えを受けて、異例の早さで注意喚起文を出した毎日新聞
Pakistan: Sanitation workers facing systemic discrimination and other rights violations need better legal protection – new report
Sanitation workers facing rights violations need better legal protection in Pakistan
Pakistani authorities must ensure robust protections for sanitation workers against institutionalized religious and caste-based discrimination.Amnesty International
As governments around the world are set to make the Internet more restrictive and privacy-invading, we need a solution
I'm sure I'd be preaching to the choir if I told you that it's time for us to immigrate from übercorp owned social media and services. All of you have done so, so that's not the point of this post. Even though we are on these new platforms, the fediverse is still sensitive to requests from governmental bodies and organizations. Lemmy.zip has already blocked UK users and Lemmy.world will almost certainly do the same. Due to the size of Matrix's biggest homeserver matrix.org, the admins of said homeserver are beginning to follow the OSA and have already raised their minimum age to 18+. And instances who don't follow the Act could be subjected to insurmountable paperwork and even blocked from the UK, Australia and other countries enacting these outrageous laws soon.
Blocking UK users to avoid this is almost a necessity, and as Labour is attempting to get lawmakers to outlaw VPNs, we could be seeing the equivalent of the UK Great Firewall soon. However, it will take significant amounts of time, money and paperwork to outlaw VPNs and to get ISPs to block sites and protocols. This is where federated and open source platforms have an advantage, without being shackled by bureaucracy they are able to quickly adapt. But this is not sustainable, and eventually the UK will become even more overreaching in order to gain more control over people's Internet usage.
Darknets such as Tor, I2P and Yggdrasil are a potential solution, however they have multiple issues. Tor is slow and has a reputation of being used by pedophiles and drug traffickers. I2P is scattered in implementation and cannot handle high load. ~~Yggdrasil is alpha software and requires IPv6, which in many countries is simply not possible to use~~. Whilst these darknets are extremely resistant to censorship from other countries, with the only way to fully dismantle them would be to shutoff all access to the Internet, they still are not capable of handling modern Internet usage.
We might need new completely independent mediums seperate from the Internet to avoid this. Physical bluetooth mesh networks or other technology is an example. Maybe even a new version of dial-up. All I know is that governments will not stop here. I might seem like I'm overreacting here, but we need to be prepared for what is coming.
CORRECTION: I was told by a peer that Yggdrasil peers must have IPv6, however one does not need an IPv6 enabled network to use it, they just need an IPv6 operating system/device, which virtually every modern operating system including Windows and Linux does. Yggdrasil is actually Beta software.
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Yep, the answer to many of these problems is I2P.
TOR was invented by the US Navy, roughly 1/3 of major entry/exit nodes are estimated to be comprimised / run as honeypots by various LE / Intel agencies, and said LE and Intel agencies also know how to, and have deanonimyed various people and groups on TOR that they really wanted to go after.
TOR ain't it.
I2P is a lot closer to 'it'.
The other part of the answer is:
Well, now it turns out data hoarders were not just paranoid weirdos, they actually had foresight.
If you can host your own at least several terabyte mini/curated backup of the Internet Archive, and plug that into I2P, then congrats, you now are the backup plan for when, not if, they get massively purged of even more of their content than has already been taken out in the last ~2 years.
The old cyberpunk line holds true in another sense of meaning:
The future is already here, it just isn't evenly distributed.
Wi-Fi mesh might be possible with neighbors, but mitm is extremely likely.
While not secure it could still provide a free and censorship-less alternative to the internet
This tech we all use is advancing exponentially.
And we must be ready to embrace the dizzying changes in the next few years so that we can improve our lives and have better governments.
Besides being slow I think the issues with darkweb can be overcome simply through general interest growing. Currently I personally have no real motivation to use such technologies beyond the decentralized fediverse on clearnet. But if things keep going the way they are, then I'll have motivation. I'm into digital media archiving so if that gets pushed further underground then I will have reason to bother.
I am paying attention of course, Canada is likely to copy cat EU/UK/AUS. Just as a general rule of thumb, but this stuff is in the works here too specifically.
Another thing to consider: handshake.org/
"Decentralized naming and certificate authority. An experimental peer-to-peer root naming system."
Meshtastic is a project that enables you to use inexpensive LoRa radios as a long range off-grid communication platform in areas without existing or reliable communications infrastructure. This project is 100% community driven and open source!
Meshtastic
An open source, off-grid, decentralized, mesh network built to run on affordable, low-power devicesmeshtastic.org
Lora is typically 50k max (theoretical 256k). So less than dial up speed.
It is in no way a replacement technology for wifi.
Obviously the solution is to have thousands of nodes per file transfer to increase the bandwidth.
This is a perfect plan which has absolutely no downsides.
Tor is slow and has a reputation of being used by pedophiles and drug traffickers.
It sucks that literally using something that should be the default, truly protecting privacy, has such a bad reputation because… well it protects privacy.
Seriously. The reason CSAM merchants and drug dealers use Tor is because it actually protects their privacy successfully. Whereas, if you're using a VPN or whatever cobbled-together solution, the feds just have a hearty laugh about it, send a subpoena by email or use some automated system that's even more streamlined, and then come and find you.
Tor is not bulletproof; they regularly run operations where they take down some big illegal thing on the dark web. But they have to do an operation for it, and if there were any solution that was any better, that thing would be even more infested with illegal material than "the dark web" is. That's just how it works. And listening to the newspapers when they tell you that it's a sign you need to stay away from those actually-effective solutions because "terrorism!" or whatever is a pretty foolish idea.
Tor is not bulletproof; they regularly run operations where they take down some big illegal thing on the dark web.
That tends to be more due to bad opsec than Tor itself, though.
Yeah. As far as I know, there are some theoretical state-actor attacks, but nothing that anyone's ever been able to make work in practice. Compromising something else is just always easier.
It was literally designed by professional spies to be resistant against state intelligence agencies. It was originally made by US intelligence for secret communication with their assets, and only released to the public when they realized they needed a bunch of additional traffic on the network that the US intelligence traffic can blend in with. At least as of the Snowden leaks (which showed NSA compromise of huge amounts of the internet including most HTTPS traffic), they hadn't figured out a way to undo it for their own spying purposes, either.
I've literally never in my life heard of "this person was doing (whatever), but they were behind a VPN, so we had to do (whatever elaborate sting operation) instead of compromising the VPN." I've heard that many times about Tor.
It's possible that no one's ever done something significant enough to make the feds interested from behind a VPN, just always used Tor, but I feel like it is unlikely. I feel like it's more likely that they either have the ability to force the VPN companies to comply with some legal structures that give them the info they need, or else just wiretap the pipes going in and out of the VPN servers and can sort things out pretty straightforwardly if they really start to care about it.
VPNs are certainly useful; they make it a lot more difficult for non-law-enforcement people to know what you're up to, which is a significant gain, and they are faster and generally more convenient than using Tor. But if you're actually concerned about the government, I would use Tor 100% of the time over a VPN.
Well, but we're talking about how to prepare for the future where it does need to be fed proof. At some point, I think pretty soon from now in some places, it's going to become necessary to either break the rules of the internet in ways that can actually get you in trouble, or accept that you have to do things like upload your ID to all these places, agree not to access certain types of content the government doesn't want you looking at, not say certain political things on social media or else you're going on a list, things like that.
I think option A is probably better and it probably makes sense to start to think about, how are we going to do that and not have the expanded-and-mission-creeped version of ICE showing up at your door for it to give you a citation or worse, a year from now.
Right now, yes, a VPN is fine. But that's only true for as long as the government doesn't strongly dislike anything that you are doing.
That reputation has entirely been created by the media frenzy over busting the worst kinds of criminals.
Oh they're all using the same technology? Yeah of course they are, because that's the technology that works the best. It has so many fucking use cases.
Funny that the media frenzy is hitting a fever pitch just as we most desperately need powerful tools for opposing fascism. Almost like that's not really a coincidence.
Paper money is slow and has a reputation of being used by pedophiles and drug traffickers.
A lot of inert things are used in bad ways.
Maybe we aren't meant to have things, we just had a lucky period, but the default state is total depravation.
The longer you hold onto things that aren't yours, the more you will suffer.
Frankly, the answer should be for every site to just cut the UK off entirely.
Tech corporations own most popular and visited websites/services, they are not going to do it. That said you have countries with major websites blocked like russia or china, while it upset many people censored internet is also a strong tool to brainwash people so don't assume a blockage would lead to a positive outcome.
Two days from now there's a seminar happening in the capital city of my country on a technology called mesh/meshtastic(?). They claim to have found a way to send messages in blackout conditions.
I'ts difficult to find resources but here's a blogpost about it:
blog.liamcottle.com/2024/05/01…
Not saying this is our solution, but I think these sorts of ideas and re-imaginings are what we ought to be in the pursuit of right now.
Getting started with Meshtastic - Liam Cottle's Blog
A few recommendations and opinions on what hardware to use when getting started with Meshtasticblog.liamcottle.com
I just ordered a couple of meshtastic transceivers. Here's what it is:
LoRa is a patented radio technique that uses some kind of fancy spread spectrum technique to give very low power sub-GHz UHF radio somewhat impressive range. We're used to a single Wi-Fi access point being able to cover about the size of a large-ish house with wireless data. I can't pick up my house Wi-Fi in my workshop at the back of my suburban property. LoRa manages to reach out several miles on the same amount of power as a Wi-Fi signal. The tradeoff is bandwidth. A typical Wi-Fi connection can stream video, LoRa isn't really practical for much more than text messaging. It is my understanding that it's designed to do things like industrial telemetry.
On top of this is built Meshtastic, an open source mesh networking protocol. You buy a little circuit board that's got a microcontroller, a LoRa transceiver and a bluetooth transceiver. You flash the Meshtastic firmware to it, and now it is a "node." "Nodes" can be configured in several ways, but in general they'll sit there and scream into the void looking for other nodes. Messages sent are like "Tell John I say hello. Pass this on Three times." If your node hears that message, it will automatically transmit "Tell John I say hello. pass this on Two times." So in that way, nodes can automatically act as repeaters.
So they have astonishing range for their band and power, and the automatic relaying of messages means a message can propagate pretty far. Mind you, it has limitations similar to old school SMS; a message is pretty strictly limited to something like 288 characters, including emoji.
Many "nodes" don't have much of an onboard UI; some do but the main intended way for the user to access a node is over bluetooth from the Meshtastic app running on an Android or iOS device. Some units do have onboard UIs or can host a web interface accessed via wi-fi or ethernet.
Meshtastic essentially forms an ad-hoc off-grid SMS-like service. The bandwidth is simply too low to allow anything like web hosting, audio or video. At a ham convention, several hundred nodes saturated the available bandwidth just with procedural pings leaving no room for actual traffic.
Encryption is permitted on this network, I wouldn't exactly plan a coup over Meshtastic but I think I could coordinate meeting friends at a restaurant without being stalked.
If your project is to abandon the internet, this may be one of many tools necessary.
Woah thats insane, thanks for the summary. The stuff I had been reading about it was a bit dense for me as someone with 0 background in radio.
Maybe I'll get one and become a node
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An open source, off-grid, decentralized, mesh network built to run on affordable, low-power devicesmeshtastic.org
Trouble is, there is little that can be done.
Enough folks drank the coolaid, and now we're stuck with surveillance laws masquerading as child protection laws.
Those laws can, and will, get worse over time. However, new mediums will arise, or old ones will rise to the occasion (IRC goes brr). The main thing to do is remain calm, make it a key voter issue, and watch the bastards fold right before the next election.
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The main thing to do is remain calm, make it a key voter issue, and watch the bastards fold right before the next election.
What's your plan to make it a key voter issue? Lamenting about it on censored internet?
We need bulletproof alternatives and solutions.
Enough folks drank the coolaid,
You say that like the UK all sat down in a room and most of the country said "please censor me".
Lemmy.zip has already blocked UK users and Lemmy.world will almost certainly do the same.
For clarity, lemmy.zip had blocked them months ago because the owner of lemmy.zip is based in the UK and theoretically could actually be fined. This is not the same situation as lemmy.world.
Tor is slow and has a reputation of being used by pedophiles and drug traffickers. I2P is scattered in implementation and cannot handle high load.Physical bluetooth mesh networks or other technology is an example. Maybe even a new version of dial-up.
These are incompatible statements lol
Tor is fine, I'm looking at this on Tor Browser right now. I would say the jank level is about 20%. Quokk.au, actually, for some weird reason has significant problems with it (significant slowness and sometimes refuses to load a page). I actually have no idea what's going on with that, but it and I think one other site are the only Fedi sites that have any kind of problem at all. The majority (but not all) news sites and things work fine. Some things do not and I have to bounce over to some normal browser. The jank level is definitely not 0, but it's bearable.
I actually do agree about needing to set up a better architecture overall. Tor is an extremely special-purpose architecture for one thing only (near-bulletproof privacy and firewall traversal even against extremely aggressive government attempts to defeat both), which is honestly a pretty fantastic start, but there's a lot more that goes into "the internet" than just slapping a slightly janky but super-safe VPN over the front of it.
The main point is: Hey! Don't badmouth Tor, it's good (and the jank level of starting from scratch instead will be super high for any forseeable future.)
Explore Offline Wikipedia and Educational Content with Kiwix- Kiwix
Your gateway to offline Wikipedia and a vast array of educational content. Access knowledge anytime, anywhere without an internet connection.Kiwix
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I was under the impression linkwarden just saved... links.
Entire webpages? Do tell!
Results can vary a lot depending on how the page is implemented. Sometimes most of the formats are empty or broken, but I always got at least one that's usable.
But it creates a link to archive.org so you can see if there's older versions there.
The libraries are files with the data you want to host (wikipedia, stack overflow, etc).
There's a lot of applications for different platforms. Some allow to download the libraries directly, otherwise you can download them manually into a folder and tell the app where to find them.
Kiwix Applications - Access Knowledge Offline on Various Platforms- Kiwix
Discover Kiwix applications that enable offline access to knowledge on different platforms. Explore the convenience of accessing information without an internet connectionKiwix
Only tangentially related, but in the vein of privacy and circumventing surveillance, one communication idea I really like in that vein is from the show The Leftovers--the way the "Remnant" group communicates only by simple handwritten notes.
I just like the idea that something so rudimentary could theoretically overcome a lot of very high-tech snooping equipment. Good luck using your Stingray cell tower simulator to intercept my notepad scribbles.
The UK moves are very worrying. We're trying to help people to move away from big tech at our site rebeltechalliance.org/
We recommend fediverse protocols wherever possible - so I'm interested in the comments here about how that is affected
If doing an overlay network (network on top of the Internet), you probably won't be able to do much better than Tor or i2p.
We confirm the trilemma that an AC [anonymous communication] protocol can only achieve two out of the following three properties: strong anonymity (i.e., anonymity up to a negligible chance), low bandwidth overhead, and low latency overhead.
freedom.cs.purdue.edu/projects…
This applies to all types of anonymous networks as well (BT, Wifi, etc).
I tried really hard to use IPFS. I set up a syncthing and did some auto-publishing scripts.
It's slow AF, and unless you pay some big player to pin your files there's only about a 1 in 10 chance of it actually being available everywhere. I had to actually peer my computers together to get sure fire access to my own data.
Then there's very little in the way of privacy. I did some JavaScript crypto self-decrypting archives that was kind of fun But with the distribution problems it just became more of a hassle to use than anything.
Something like Tor only solves half the problem. A Tor hidden service still has physical reality and a person who is hosting it, and who can be held responsible for failing to register the thing with the feds or file a moderation transparency report or whatever the latest nonsense is. The anonymity network helps to hide where the equipment and who the operator is, but there's still a single point of failure and a person to blame for the community.
We need a way to run online communities that are not online services: no single point of failure, no individual or partnership describable as a service's operator, and no meaningful way in which one person provides access to the system to another person.
with the only way to fully dismantle them would be to shutoff all access to the Internet
I don't think this is true. It's a bit complicated because there are ways to obfuscate the traffic, but generally speaking, I'd assume governments could track and block nodes just as easily as you can find them.
Tor is slow
It might trip you up for real-time things like gaming and you might take a while to download HUGE files, but it's much faster than its historical reputation
and has a reputation of being used by pedophiles and drug traffickers
This is true for any privacy software. Encrypted chats, cryptographic currency, darknets. Even the internet itself has that reputation. Anyone trying to hide what they're doing is likely to seek privacy tools. Reputation means nothing.
Cuba's huge leap forward in trans rights– citizens can now legally choose gender
Cuba’s huge leap forward in trans rights – citizens can now legally choose gender without surgery
Cuba has taken a significant step forward in trans rights by approving a law that allows individuals to self-declare their gender without requiring surgery.Chantelle Billson (PinkNews | Latest lesbian, gay, bi and trans news | LGBTQ+ news)
Yes I understood what was written but that doesn't make sense and is an insane blanket statement.
If it would've been stated that the major problem is the sanctions or the most significant one, maybe/probably true. But to try and compress the complexity of any nation down like this is very negligent and borderline evil as you judge that literally nobody in the country can have a justified problem with their government or how things are run etc pp. Which is straight up insane and condescending.
Edit: didn't immediately get that this account is a different one, doesn't change anything but the grammar though
Is this a reasonable response to what I said? Obviously there are other problems that affect Cubans, use context clues my dude. Was what I said insane? I would characterize your response to the mild statement I made as more insane... It's evil and condensing to describe the economic suppression of an entire nation by the US, because you lack historical reading for it to "make sense" to you?
It's evil and condensing that you admit you don't understand the argument being made, and immediately jump up rejecting it and attacking the person making it.
Name a problem that's uniquely Cuban and can't directly be attributed to American sanctions or straight up terrorism.
Edit: downvote and run away from the discussion. Put your head in the sand. Keep giving your life away to capitalists as they oppress entire nations and refuse to even learn something new.
Wow. I know I say this a lot but I really mean it this time.
That's fucking crazy. (In a good way)
Seriously, good for them.
Yeah, they've also seemed to follow Fidel's model of willingness to reflect and grow. Early Cuba was brutal, before and after their revolution. Fidel did and ordered horrible things, but he changed and showed remorse as he aged. That trait made him stick out to me among world leaders as someone who genuinely wanted what was best for his people and country. He also seemed to try to not rob the country blind as so many in positions like his do.
I wish nothing but the best for my neighbors in Cuba. I know they're going through more rough times, but they're tough as all get out and I suspect that they're far more likely to eventually move to a stateless, moneyless, and free society than any other nominally communist nation at the moment. And to my trans siblings in Cuba, congrats
The true one:
Here's a command line interface with vim open. Close it to disable the trap.
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I love it when wild animals yell at me.
Whether it's that guy at the bus stop who blocks the traffic or the one with the bible and the speaker that renders his words into nonsense noise...
They're all a part of our ecosystem!
Israeli rights groups accuse Israel of genocide in Gaza
Israeli rights groups accuse Israel of genocide in Gaza
Israel's government rejects the allegations in the separate reports by B'Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights-Israel.Emir Nader (BBC News)
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~~Pheasants~~ gamers buy ~~cheap inference cards~~ gaming cards.
The absolute majority of Nvidias sales globally are top-of-the-line AI SKUs. Gaming cards are just a way of letting data scientists and developers have cheap CUDA hardware at home (while allowing some Cyberpunk), so they keep buying NVL clusters at work.
Nvidia’s networking division is probably a greater revenue stream than gaming GPUs.
Yeah, that’s the thing.
The gaming market only barely exists at this point. That’s why Nvidia can ignore the gaming market for as long as they want to.
Thousands in Greece and Turkey evacuate as winds and heat fan wildfires
Thousands in Greece and Turkey evacuate as winds and heat fan wildfires
Czech firefighters and Italian aircraft join rescue effort in Greece, and firefighter among those killed in TurkeyHelena Smith (The Guardian)
Brazil to double down on Brics in defiance of Donald Trump
Celso Amorim, lead foreign affairs adviser to leftwing President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, told the Financial Times those attacks “are reinforcing our relations with the Brics, because we want to have diversified relations and not depend on any one country”.
I believe in the BRICS proposal. For any of you who don't, if you lived in a third world country you would understand what the missed potential is all about. Latin America is somewhat integrated, but people from Brazil could do scientific exchange with Uzbekistan, or an Algerian could be a professor in Senegal. The human potential is so great, because there are a lot of people who are left out from the current state of things.
Everyone wants to go study or be a professional in Europe, but what about all the other countries? Doing the hard thing (working together to reach new heights) is difficult, but it is the only way forward. And that's what the BRICS propose.
Lula says the US has ignored Brazil’s attempts to negotiate Trump's announced tariff
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said Thursday that his government has not been successful in trying to negotiate the 50% tariff on Brazilian imports that Donald Trump has threatened to impose.
Washington has ignored Brazil’s attempts to negotiate ahead of the measure’s expected implementation on Aug. 1., the Brazilian leader said.
https://apnews.com/article/lula-brazil-trump-tariffs-bolsonaro-561abba98f3a66ef2bfc36c7cb2034a4
Our Genocide
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PDF:
- Full Report.
- Summary.
Since October 2023, Israel has shifted its policy toward the Palestinians. Its military onslaught on Gaza, underway for more than 21 months, has included mass killing, both directly and through creating unlivable conditions, serious bodily or mental harm to an entire population, decimation of basic infrastructure throughout the Strip, and forcible displacement on a huge scale, with ethnic cleansing added to the list of official war objectives.This is compounded by mass arrests and abuse of Palestinians in Israeli prisons, which have effectively become torture camps, and tearing apart the social fabric of Gaza, including the destruction of Palestinian educational and cultural institutions. The campaign is also an assault on Palestinian identity itself, through the deliberate destruction of refugee camps and attempts to undermine the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA).
An examination of Israel’s policy in the Gaza Strip and its horrific outcomes, together with statements by senior Israeli politicians and military commanders about the goals of the attack, leads to the unequivocal conclusion that Israel is taking coordinated, deliberate action to destroy Palestinian society in the Gaza Strip. In other words: Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
The term genocide refers to a socio-historical and political phenomenon involving acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group. Both morally and legally, genocide cannot be justified under any circumstance, including as an act of self-defense.
Genocide always occurs within a context: there are conditions that enable it, triggering events, and a guiding ideology. The current onslaught on the Palestinian people, including in the Gaza Strip, must be understood in the context of more than seventy years in which Israel has imposed a violent and discriminatory regime on the Palestinians, taking its most extreme form against those living in the Gaza Strip. Since the State of Israel was established, the apartheid and occupation regime has institutionalized and systematically employed mechanisms of violent control, demographic engineering, discrimination, and fragmentation of the Palestinian collective. These foundations laid by the regime are what made it possible to launch a genocidal attack on the Palestinians immediately after the Hamas-led attack on 7 October 2023.
The assault on Palestinians in Gaza cannot be separated from the escalating violence being inflicted, at varying levels and in different forms, on Palestinians living under Israeli rule in the West Bank and within Israel. The violence and destruction in these areas is intensifying over time, with no effective domestic or international mechanism acting to halt them. We warn of the clear and present danger that the genocide will not remain confined to the Gaza Strip, and that the actions and underlying mindset driving it may be extended to other areas as well.
The recognition that the Israeli regime is committing genocide in the Gaza Strip, and the deep concern that it may expand to other areas where Palestinians live under Israeli rule, demand urgent and unequivocal action from both Israeli society and the international community, and use of every means available under international law to stop Israel’s genocide against the Palestinian people.
OUR GENOCIDE
OUR GENOCIDE B’Tselem, July 2025 Since October 2023, Israel has fundamentally changed its policy toward the Palestinians. For more than 21 months,…Vimeo
The Fediverse is the Left Wing Circle Jerk
You could be forgiven for looking around Reddit and saying "this is the most Left wing place on the Internet".
But there is an even bigger Left wing bastion of insanity, Transgender orthodoxy, and unchecked out of control Moderation. And its called "the Fediverse"
Never in my life have I seen such a Hive containing the Damned and Reprobates of life.
A wise man once said "I may had voted for Obama.....but you people are insane".
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Transgender orthodoxy
Super interested to find out what you mean by that.
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Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.
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Fucking lol
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I get where you're coming from. There's certainly a "I know best and should never reconsider my views" anti-sympathic thinking to be found here, mostly of the communist variety. But I wouldn't say it's more than elsewhere.
In any case, the technology is wonderfull. Start your own instance, be the change you want to see in the world.
Try to find a flower today, appreciate how beautifull it is.
Start your own instance, be the change you want to see in the world.
This right here is the beauty of the Fediverse. And as such, it's not "The Fediverse" that's a "Left Wing Circle Jerk", it's just the servers you've found so far.
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‘Revenge Is Not a Policy’: Israelis Voice Dissent Against the War in Gaza
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My parents’ conservative bubble of news has informed them that the starvation is because Hamas shoots at Palestinians who try to get aid.
(I told them, “Wow, so Hamas and the IDF have something in common?”)
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I welcome it.
Provided the USA follows through of course.
But I cannot help but think what he's deflecting from by unexpectedly showing a humanitarian face.
Or that it's going to be just about enough to save face (for Israel as well) and improve his abysmal ratings, but not enough to actually improve, let alone solve anything for Palestine.
All it took for the West to so much as begin turning on Israel was pictures of skeletonised children.
If America and Europe truly believed in "Never again!" we would have carrier groups running 24-hour sorties and bombing Tel Aviv into the stone age. Any other country (outside of Africa, ugh) pulling this shit would have been flattened and invaded by now.
Nope! Instead we paid for this genocide. Solid return on AIPAC's investment!
I'm fucking sick. We're seeing images out of WWII concentration camps on the 2025 news. Cut Israel out from the world of decent men. They've forfeited their right to exist. Sorry guys, used to root for you. Never again!
I'm pretty sure Yemen is outside of Africa, yet America and Europe have not gone after Saudi Arabia and the UAE for their war crimes there.
What might be the connecting factor here?
Any other country (outside of Africa, ugh) pulling this shit would have been flattened and invaded by now.
Are you not aware of many wars around the world like Myanmar (and rohingya genocide) and Ukraine? What about yazidi? You're straight up delusional if you truly think any country with sizeable power would get flattened, especially nuclear-power.
Israel only has power because America gives it to them. They would collapse overnight if we went rolled into the Mediterranean looking for a fight.
Hell, if America pulled our support, their neighbors would flatten them, Sampson Doctrine be damned.
USA didn't give nukes to Israel and the neighbour thing you talk about was already tried in arab-israeli war.
foreignpolicy.com/2025/02/07/i…
Israel's Nuclear Weapons: How Israelis Deceived American Presidents From Eisenhower to JFK and Johnson
Newly declassified documents reveal how Israel operated under the noses of U.S. inspectors.Avner Cohen (Foreign Policy)
Trump says he cut ties with Jeffrey Epstein because 'he stole people who worked for me'
Trump says he cut ties with Jeffrey Epstein because 'he stole people who worked for me'
Trump's past friendship with Jeffrey Epstein has come under scrutiny after Attorney General Pam Bondi said she would not release files about Epstein.Dan Mangan (CNBC)
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Trump Gives Russia Less Than Two Weeks to End Its War in Ukraine
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President Trump said on Monday that he was “disappointed” with President Vladimir V. Putin over the war in Ukraine,
Abbreviating a patronymic to a single letter is a very weird thing to do.
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Money quote from the article:
For its part, Russia had largely shrugged off Mr. Trump’s previous 50-day deadline, noting that past deadlines set by Mr. Trump or his team had come and gone with little consequence.
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Dude is like the construction crew from the movie the money pit with his constant refrain of two weeks.
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Hmmm... What happened to 24 hours?
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Trump vowed to end the Ukraine war in 24 hours, but the conflict still rages
President Donald Trump pledged to end the war in Ukraine within his first 24 hours in office. The conflict still rages.Daniel Arkin (NBC News)
Ah, the infamous two weeks deadline. The same two weeks he would eradicate ISIS, fix American healthcare, create peace in the Middle East etc. etc.
Which means in two weeks he will never mention it again and act like he never said it.
Thailand and Cambodia Agree to Halt Fighting That Has Killed Dozens
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Tech bug keeps Mazda radios locked in to NPR
Tech bug keeps Mazda radios locked in to NPR
National Public Radio becomes essential listening for some drivers - because they are unable to retune.BBC News
Israel committing genocide in Gaza, say Israel-based human rights groups
Two leading human rights organisations based in Israel, B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights, say Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza and the country’s western allies have a legal and moral duty to stop it.In reports published on Monday, the two groups said Israel had targeted civilians in Gaza only because of their identity as Palestinians over nearly two years of war, causing severe and in some cases irreparable damage to Palestinian society.
Multiple international and Palestinian groups have already described the war as genocidal, but reports from two of Israel-Palestine’s most respected human rights organisations, who have for decades documented systemic abuses, is likely to add to pressure for action.
Israel committing genocide in Gaza, say Israel-based human rights groups
Reports detailing intentional targeting of Palestinians as a group, and systemic destruction of Palestinian society, add to pressure for actionEmma Graham-Harrison (The Guardian)
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Two ~~leading human rights~~soon-to-be-terrorist organisations based in Israel
I guess this would be the important internal test for this society. Wether they'd snap out of it and face the crimes they committed and drastically change direction as a result. Or wherher they double down and increase domestic repression against dissenting voices who bring up those crimes. I bet on the latter since that's where many economic interests are vested and it would avoid instability at least for a while.
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French PM says EU-U.S. trade deal an act of ‘submission’ and a dark day for Europe
French PM says EU-U.S. trade deal an act of ‘submission’ and a dark day for Europe
France called a framework trade deal between the United States and European Union a “dark day” for Europe, saying the bloc had caved in to U.S.Reuters Staff (CTVNews)
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They are building their nukes but they are mounting them in top of US missiles.
So without the US they can't use their nukes.
I actually think they're trying to leverage it to gain back what was originally in place instead of caving in like everyone else.
Like right now Macron is talking big about announcing recognition of Palestine in September. He's giving the US 2 months to bring a better deal or risk losing unilateral NATO support over American foreign policy in Israel.
I mean its good that they're actually deciding these things for themselves, but if Trump hadn't blown up the global market with delusional tariff wars and hanging "allies" to dry, France probably wouldn't have blinked an eye for anything the US demanded so long as they get paid.
The rest of Europe doesn't want to take on the burden of an independent foreign/defense policy.
Western European countries get to enjoy their peace dividend while not needing to answer to their public about foreign policy. Eastern Europe is scared that Russian aggression is going to include their countries.
France is probably the only EU nation that can self deploy an expeditionary force or project power beyond its borders. France is also the only EU nation with a nuclear deterrent.
I did most of my growing up in the 1970s, where the universal parental advice to every single child who was bullied was, "The only way to stop a bully is to stand up to him."
Like so many other things Gen-X was taught in our childhood, I now believe it was just a hollow lie. Maybe my parents repeated it without realizing it was one, like so many others.
Thanks, good point, I think I just had a subconscious need to take a sideswipe at the reality that, had the US I was taught about in school not been a fabrication, we would not today be in the circumstances we are in.
I'm carrying a certain baseline level of rage pretty continuously since Jan 20, 2025, and it sometimes leaks out at inappropriate times.
Edit: No, since the morning of November 6th when I awoke to find myself having this reaction:
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Israel committing genocide in Gaza, say Israel-based human rights groups
Israel committing genocide in Gaza, say Israel-based human rights groups
Reports detailing intentional targeting of Palestinians as a group, and systemic destruction of Palestinian society, add to pressure for actionEmma Graham-Harrison (The Guardian)
Viral 'honour' killing in southwest Pakistan triggers national outrage
KARACHI (Reuters) -A viral video of the "honour killing" of a woman and her lover in a remote part of Pakistan has ignited national outrage, prompting scrutiny of long-standing tribal codes and calls for justice in a country where such killings often pass in silence.
While hundreds of so-called honour killings are reported in Pakistan each year, often with little public or legal response, the video of a woman and man accused of adultery being taken to the desert by a group of men to be killed has struck a nerve.
The mother, Gul Jan Bibi, said the killings were carried out by family and local elders based on "centuries-old Baloch traditions", and not on the orders of the tribal chief.
"We did not commit any sin," she said in a video statement that also went viral. "Bano and Ehsan were killed according to our customs."
Israel committing genocide in Gaza, say Israel-based human rights groups
Israel committing genocide in Gaza, say Israel-based human rights groups
Reports detailing intentional targeting of Palestinians as a group, and systemic destruction of Palestinian society, add to pressure for actionEmma Graham-Harrison (The Guardian)
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Use of lights and reflective or hi vis clothing is sensible and already common.
Thanks for sharing, would you say accidents happen enough to make this mandatory?
Like seatbelts, of it saves lives and is harmless, then why not. If no lives are saved, nobody is worse off. If one life is saved, it's worth it. Like seatbelts laws, the idea is a change in thinking not to fine people for non compliance.
I doubt it will become mandatory. It seems more like a thought bubble. Ireland used to have very high road death figures but has worked hard to change that.
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I think you are misunderstanding the roads. The roads in towns and cities have footpath and lighting. These are rural roads with minimal car or foot traffic.
Conversion would be both cost prohibitive and wasteful. Not to mention that many of these roads are narrow and to wide sufficiently would mean encroaching on people's houses or farms.
Ireland already has one of the lowest level of road deaths per 100, 000 people globally. This is not a case where the road system needs evaluation but a low cost method to reduce road deaths further.
I think you're looking at it from a USA overzealous cop perspective. It's like seat belt laws. Nobody ever gets a fine (ticket). It's setting an expectation to force through mentality change.
Ireland has aggressive road safety advertising that puts the blame and onus on the driver. There is a culture of driving safe being the responsible thing to do and not tolerating speeding or drink driving. (There are enforced fines for those). It's socially unacceptable to drive after drinking. It does still happen but at low levels. Whereas other countries, it's illegal but common.
Here is a sample of a recent ad.
This Irish Road Safety Ad Is So Horrifying, It's Banned On TV Before 9PM : r/fuckcars share.google/MpYA2UolsWhyuWkD0
Where you live, do people already wear reflective gear to go walking? In Ireland they do already.
Yeah, I'm guessing you've never been anywhere properly rural. The distances involved are huge, and there are almost no pedestrians, as going anywhere but the neighbour's place would mean walking for hours.
Putting in footpaths on every road would be an absurd amount of money.
Is wearing hi vis clothing sensible on country roads with no sidewalks? Yes.
Should it be mandatory just to go out on a walk? No. How about we lower speed limits on those roads or create safer roads. Walking is a basic human right (or moving about in whatever way you need to if your body doesn't allow you to walk). Driving a car is not.
Those roads already have a lower speed limit. I think the geography of the landscape and the neighbouring properties does not allow them to be more visible without loss of scenery.
Roads are designed for transport. Cars can be fatal. It's all well and good to say we should be safer but is wearing appropriate clothing when walking in a shared car pedestrian zone really be that onerous?
We already require the cars to have multiple safety standards to aid pedestrians and visibility. Cyclists are required to wear helmets in many places etc.
I am finding it odd that many comments talk about pedestrian freedom, yet jaywalking is illegal in many places but not in Ireland, where people can use their personal judgement and the cars are held responsible.
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Sure, make it a problem of everyone else. Just please, please, don't inconvenience the car enthusiasts! 😭
What about streets that don't endanger others? Bike lanes that don't cross streets? Dunno, make car drivers drive careful?
He is not wrong. Makes it way easier to hit pedestrians.
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How DARE people move around the landscape in the traditional way that humans have been locomoting for tens of thousands of years without considering YOUR needs!
(That is, if you can't see what's in front of your car, you need to slow down.)
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Not necessarily true. Hi-viz markings on vehicles have proven to reduce crashes by as much as 20%.
I don’t see why the same logic couldn’t be applied to crashes involving people.
I'd love to see a source for that claim, because I do drive in rural areas with no street lighting, and high vi's makes a person visible from multiple times the distance.
Also, people driving on the back roads tend to be paying a bit more attention.
That website is propaganda group that both fuels and funds far-right movements. They are not journalists, but an influencing machine. The better subs have banned their links.
If you want to read about our asshat politician and this story in particular, it's covered here: irishcycle.com/2025/07/05/td-a…
I mean, making sure drivers can see you seems like a very sensible thing to do. I've come across pedestrians on unlit roads, and any sort of high visibility clothing or a light makes them visible from multiple times the distance.
There's a reason cyclists are required to have lights outside of daylight hours where I live.
Maybe they should also make it mandatory for pedestrians to carry rocket-propelled grenade launchers, and be trained in their operation.
This would hopefully make car drivers to exercise more caution.
/sarcasm that has an unfortunate chance of becoming reality in a few decades, you just watch
Cambodia and Thailand agree to ceasefire, says Anwar
Thailand and Cambodia have agreed to an immediate and unconditional ceasefire beginning at midnight, following a successful special meeting hosted and chaired by Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.
Cambodia and Thailand agree to ceasefire, says Anwar
PUTRAJAYA: Thailand and Cambodia have agreed to an immediate and unconditional ceasefire beginning at midnight, following a successful special meeting hosted and chaired by Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.The Star Online (The Star)
More than 40 killed in DR Congo attack linked to Islamic State
ADF in DR Congo: IS-linked rebels accused of killing Christian worshippers in Komanda
Most of the dead were worshippers taking part in a night vigil which was stormed by armed men, officials said.Joseph Winter (BBC News)
BBC investigation uncovers lasting toxic legacy of cargo ship disaster off Sri Lanka
BBC uncovers lasting toxic legacy of cargo ship disaster off Sri Lanka
Scientists warn the damage to the environment after the 2021 X-Press Pearl disaster could be much more enduring.Leana Hosea & Saroj Pathirana (BBC News)
Nurdles are the raw materials that are melted to make plastic products and it is not unusual for large amounts to be transported in the global plastic supply chain.
Plastic should be banned for at 90% of its current usage.
Stop Big Oil from making billions from plastic.
Sewage spill causes deadly train derailment in Germany, police say
Sewage spill caused deadly train derailment in Germany, police say
The train driver, another rail employee and one passenger died, while 41 people were injured, prosecutors say.Emily Atkinson and Bethany Bell (BBC News)
Five killed in Bangkok market mass shooting
Thailand: Five killed in Bangkok market mass shooting
Police say officers are investigating the motive behind the incident in Thailand's capital.Jonathan Head (BBC News)
Head of Shaolin Temple in China under investigation on suspicion of embezzlement
Head of Shaolin Temple in China under investigation on suspicion of embezzlement
Controversy comes to the birthplace of kung-fu with accusations against head monk Shi YongxinGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
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Muscovites’ travel plans disrupted as Ukraine targets airspace with drones
Muscovites’ travel plans disrupted as Ukraine targets airspace with drones
Tens of thousands of passengers affected by systematic campaign aimed at bringing the war home to ordinary RussiansPjotr Sauer (The Guardian)
Moscow starts direct flights to North Korea amid decline in options for Russian tourists
Moscow starts direct flights to North Korea amid decline in options for Russian tourists
The Moscow-Pyongyang flights operated by Russia’s Nordwind Airlines will initially operate only once a monthGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
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US-EU trade deal is a ‘dark day’ for Europe, says French PM
Trump tariff of 15% means European exporters will face more than triple the average 4.8% levy now in force
The US-EU trade deal, clinched in a ballroom at Donald Trump’s golf resort in Scotland on Sunday, has been criticised by France’s prime minister and business leaders across Germany.
The deal, which will impose 15% tariffs on almost all European exports to the US including cars, ends the threat of a punitive 30% import duties being imposed on Trump’s 1 August deadline for a deal, but it is a world apart from the zero-zero import and export tariff the EU offered initially.
It also means European exporters to the US will face more then triple the average 4.8% tariff now in force, with negotiations to continue on steel, which is still facing a 50% tariff, aviation, and a question mark over future barriers to pharmaceutical exports.
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I’m enjoying finally being able to find Canadian goods everywhere.
And it’s all thanks to Trump. I buy very few US goods now. If there’s an alternative, almost any alternative, I take it.
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Too many are helplessly dependent on MS, Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc.
They can't even imagine freedom from them.
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And then let the Tech oligarchs protecting trump feel the loss and then renegotiate.
Merz hailed the deal, which was clinched in a ballroom at Trump’s golf resort in Scotland, saying it avoided “needless escalation in transatlantic trade relations” and averted a potentially damaging trade war.
Nothing about this "deal" prevents Trump from being Trump.
EU caved, and that's a massive show of weakness.
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Thailand: Five killed in Bangkok market mass shooting
Five people were killed in a mass shooting at a food market in Bangkok on Monday.
The suspect in the attack at Or Tor Kor Market died after taking his own life, police in Thailand's capital confirmed.
Four of those killed were security guards and the fifth victim worked at the market. Two other market sellers were injured, police said.
Police Lieutenant Siam Boonsom told local media that the gunman was Thai and he had disputes with the market's security guards before.
Thailand: Five killed in Bangkok market mass shooting
Police say officers are investigating the motive behind the incident in Thailand's capital.Jonathan Head (BBC News)
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