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Far-right agitator Tommy Robinson avoids charge over alleged assault
British Transport Police said a decision had been made by the Crown Prosecution Service not to charge Tommy Robinson as the alleged victim “did not wish to provide a statement to the investigation.”
“Following a report of an assault at St Pancras station on July 28, detectives from BTP quickly launched a full and thorough investigation, which involved a 42-year-old man being arrested on suspicion of GBH at Luton Airport on 4 August,” British Transport Police said.
“Officers worked at pace to gather evidence, including CCTV footage and witness statements, however the victim did not wish to provide a statement to the investigation.
Tommy Robinson avoids charge over alleged St Pancras assault
FAR-RIGHT agitator Tommy Robinson will not be charged over an alleged assault at St Pancras railway station last month ...Alasdair Ferguson (The National)
After a summer of submission to Trump, Europe knows it must defend Ukraine – and itself - alone
After a summer of submission to Trump, Europe knows it must defend Ukraine – and itself – alone
Can a European-led coalition really provide credible security guarantees? Past examples are not encouraging, says Paul Taylor, of the European Policy CentrePaul Taylor (The Guardian)
Azerbaijan President Comes Out as Russophobe, Calls Russia 'Genetic Occupier', 'Aggressor'
Azerbaijan President Comes Out as Russophobe, Calls Russia 'Genetic Occupier', 'Aggressor'
Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev accused Russia of occupying his country and Ukraine, citing historical grievances while criticizing Moscow for worsening bilateral relationsLyuba Lulko (Pravda English)
Yeah sure, these would have never happened in USSR:
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Populati…
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_…
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De-Cossa…
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportat…
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportat…
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomo…
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pu…
Also, it's a conflict: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagorno-…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Populati…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportat…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportat…
I can do the same and dump a list of massacres and population transfers before & after the fall of the USSR and it would be far greater than all these lists combined. If so called 'Russification' was the goal why would Lenin and Stalin create separate constituent states for the ethnicities of the USSR? I admit that resettlement is bad, but in resolving the contradictions of creating ethnic states in a former imperialist & colonialist empire they must take steps to avoid intra-ethnic conflict between the states (Which dates back centuries), which when they stopped doing in the mid to late 80s, led to all of the conflicts seen in the former USSR today.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De-Cossa…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomo…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pu…
"According to Nicolas Werth, one of the authors of The Black Book of Communism..." are you even trying at this point?
Holodomor was a famine, common in the area for hundreds of years before the USSR, it was also the last
"An estimated 800,000 to 1,200,000 people died during the purges of the 1930s" If such a large amount of people died, can you see it in population statistics?
Also, it’s a conflict: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagorno-…
Take more than a surface look at this 'conflict'
My point wasn't dumping, I just wanted to show there are dedicated lists regarding USSR. Did those things happened? Yes. Did people suffer? Yes. Did millions die because of those policies? Yes. Nothing's gonna change that. They solved their problems by doing that. That solution was the problem for others. However, victors shape the history.
Also conflict means it's not one-sided.
By the way, I don't know about "The Black Book of Communism". What's wrong with that?
There are dedicated lists for every country that has existed, but even for the deported peoples of the USSR, namely the Chechens the vast majority of those who lived & worked in both socialism and capitalism miss the USSR and its progress in free education, healthcare, peace, and development, which was afforded to everyone, absent after the restoration of capitalism. Purely anecdotal, but in my time in Azerbaijan in an ethnically Dagestani villiage, there was a portrait of Stalin in the lodge, despite the fact that their ethnicity was deported similar to the Chechens.
After the fall of Artsakh, Azeri forces have full control over the native Armenian population with no resistance, which is pretty 1 sided
Although viewed by many scholars and laymen alike as an authoritative account of the crimes of Communism, The Black Book of Communism has since its publication date been criticised by its readers and writers alike for its methodology. Namely, the book includes among its "one hundred million victims" Nazi collaborators in the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (many of whom served in the Waffen-SS by the book's own admission) as well as comparing the expected population growth before a famine to the actual population growth (in essence counting people who were never born). In addition, the editors also confused the per-thousand symbol (‰) with the percent sign when translating from French to English, multiply some death tolls by 10 times.The book's own authors criticize the historical accuracy of its conclusions:
Jean‐Louis Margolin and Nicolas Werth reproach Stéphane Courtois considering ‘the criminal dimension as one of the proper ones of the communist system’s set’, he writes in his text. ‘This results in taking away the phenomenon’s historic character’, claims Jean‐Louis Margolin. ‘Even if the communist breeding ground can lead to mass crimes, the line between theory and practice is inevident, contrary to what Stéphane Courtois says.’ Disputing the ‘approximations’, ‘contradictions’, and ‘clumsinesses that make sense’, the two authors reproach Stéphane Courtois’s ‘obsession to reach one hundred million deaths’. — Le Monde
Margolin and Werth furthermore rebuked Courtois in an article published in Le Monde, stating that they disagreed with his vitriolic introduction and its political agenda. Margolin and Werth both disavowed the book, recognizing that Courtois was obsessed with reaching a body count of a hundred million and consequently leading to careless and biased ‘scholarship’. Courtois also composed the book’s introduction in secret, refusing to share it for his other contributors. They both rejected Courtois’s equivalence of German fascism with communism, with Werth telling Le Monde that ‘death camps did not exist in the Soviet Union.'
Of course there are, it's just that's much bigger in USSR's account even if you drop the percentage by 10. The Chechens I met tell the otherwise, that they were oppressed and had to live their religion secretly (though I'm not opposed the parts like where they forbid circumcision on boys), overall USSR had no religion and wanted no religion and I suspect a lot of problems occurred because of it, either the existence or absence of it. They tried to change it at once with oppression and that's an automatic backlash in human nature.
there was a portrait of Stalin in the lodge
That feels like Stockholm syndrome or laying low, I don't know which is. Because I know muslims hate Stalin.
I guess there is no perfect world and nothing changed for thousands of years. No one wants to leave others to mind their own business.
It seems "The Black Book of Communism" is a bad book and I accept that it's not fine to use it as a source. However even though that one is exaggerated, there are other sources too. By the way, I'm no expert on USSR or anything social sciences related, in fact I'm far from it. I just met a lot people who fled from USSR or who survived from persecution. None of the stories I heard even remotely praised USSR. But I don't know the other side of the stories, and most likely I never will be able to. At least not in a way unbiased.
By the way, gonna little side-track here, what's with the Ukrainians being Nazi I see around a lot, didn't they crush under Germans too?
2 children are dead and 17 people injured in Minneapolis school mass shooting; gunman died of self-inflicted gunshot wound
Minneapolis shooting live updates: Shooter dead after Annunciation Catholic school incident in Minnesota
The city of Minneapolis said that there is no active threat at this time after a Wednesday morning shooting at Annunciation Catholic School.NBC News
German auto industry cuts over 51,000 jobs over U.S. tariff, weak demand
German auto industry cuts over 51,000 jobs over U.S. tariff, weak demand: report
German auto industry cuts over 51,000 jobs over U.S. tariff, weak demand: report-english.news.cn
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Labour voters are rallying to Jeremy Corbyn
Exclusive poll: Labour voters are rallying to Jeremy Corbyn
The new left-wing party in the process of being launched by Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana might lack a name, a leader and a policy platform beyond tackling “the crises in our society with a mass redRachel Cunliffe (New Statesman)
Shooting at a Minneapolis Catholic school leaves 3 dead, including the shooter, and 17 injured
A shooter opened fire Wednesday morning during Mass at a Minneapolis Catholic school, killing two children and injuring 17 other people before killing himself, officials said.
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara said the shooter — armed with a rifle, shotgun and pistol — approached the side of the church and shot through the windows toward the children sitting in the pews during Mass at the Annunciation Catholic School.
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How western media helped turn Israel's genocide into 'fake news'
Israel justified its murder of Al Jazeera’s crew on the grounds that one among them, Anas al-Sharif, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, was secretly a “Hamas terrorist”.
Sharif, we are told, similarly found time between breaks from his 22-month, frantic reporting schedule - much of it on camera - to serve as a Hamas commander “directing rocket attacks on Israeli civilians”.
We now know exactly where this ridiculous story originated: from something Israel calls its “Legitimisation Cell”. The intelligence unit’s name, which was surely never supposed to come to light, is the give-away. Its job has been to legitimise Israel’s atrocities with stories vilifying its victims and thereby making the genocide more palatable to Israeli and western audiences.
The Israeli news website +972 exposed the cell within days of Sharif’s killing this month, reporting that it was formed after 7 October 2023 - the day Hamas and other groups broke out of their Gaza prison camp, spreading carnage, following 17 years of a brutal siege.
But while Israeli mendacity is entirely to be expected - after all, it is the whole purpose of its official hasbara industry - what astonishes most is the western media’s continuing connivance in promoting Israel’s litany of lies.
Germany’s most popular paper, Bild, published a front page that might as well have been written by the Israeli military: “Terrorist disguised as a journalist killed in Gaza.” No claim, no quote marks. Just a statement of fact.
The UK media was little better, with most outlets prominently featuring Israel’s unevidenced “legitimisation” smears of Sharif in headlines and coverage. Astonishingly, BBC coverage on its flagship News at Ten swallowed whole Israel’s framing of Sharif as a legitimate target - as well as uncritically peddling the presumption that Israel was targeting him and him alone.
The context that has been missing from western coverage is this: Israel has killed more than 240 Palestinian journalists in Gaza over the past two years - more than all the journalists killed in both World Wars, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the wars in the former Yugoslavia, and the Afghanistan War combined.
This is a pattern - a glaring one - but seemingly one to which western journalists are entirely blind, even as Israel continues to bar them from reporting in Gaza, nearly two years into its genocide.
How western media helped turn Israel's genocide into 'fake news'
Israel's intent to annihilate Gaza would have been clear much sooner had we listened to Palestinian journalists, rather than the evasions and equivocations of the BBCMiddle East Eye
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Linux and Secure Boot certificate expiration
Linux and Secure Boot certificate expiration
Linux users who have Secure Boot enabled on their systems knowingly or unknowingly rely on a ke [...]LWN.net
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Home values are falling in half of the top 50 metros, report finds
Home values are falling in half of the top 50 metros, report finds
27 major metros are in buyers' favor or neutral, up from 24 last month. The median for-sale home has been listed for 60 days, the longest of any JConsumerAffairs
Democratic congressman Jerry Nadler for New York will retire next year in move to galvanize generational change among Democratic party
Jerry Nadler, a Democratic representative from New York, will retire next year after 34 years in Congress in a self-proclaimed move aimed at galvanizing a generational changing of the guard in the party.
Nadler, 78, who represents one of New York’s wealthiest districts covering midtown Manhattan, said he had been persuaded not to run for re-election in 2026 after witnessing the implosion of Joe Biden’s presidential bid last year. The former president was pressured into abandoning his candidacy amid widespread doubts about his age and mental acuity. He was replaced by the former vice-president, Kamala Harris, who subsequently lost the election to Donald Trump.
“Watching the Biden thing really said something about the necessity for generational change in the party, and I think I want to respect that,” Nadler told the New York Times, which broke the news of his forthcoming retirement.
He told the newspaper that a younger replacement “can maybe do better, can maybe help us more”.
Democratic congressman Jerry Nadler will not seek re-election in midterms
New York representative will retire next year in move to galvanize generational change among Democratic partyRobert Tait (The Guardian)
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What will MS do when Linux becomes a serious threat to their monopoly ?
What actions might they take in the future?
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I'd wager they have enough resources to stave it off for as long as possible, and when they can't do that anymore they will have a strategy for making money off of their "services" in the linux space.
Microsoft is part of the cabal at this point. Businesses give it money because they're expected to.
Private messaging is not "secure" - can this wording be improved?
Good day dear Lemmy community!
When I try to use lemmy's private messages, I get the following warning:
Warning: Private messages in Lemmy are not secure. Please create an account on Element.io for secure messaging.
It is very good to have this warning! However, can it be improved?
When I first encountered this wording, I was completely unsure whether the DMs would be totally public due to lemmy's limitations or its open stance, or whether the messages would have a similar security to e.g. email where your trust relies on TLS and the servers involved.
My proposal would be to change the wording to something like:
Warning: Private messages in Lemmy are not End-to-End encrypted. Please create an account on Element.io for secure messaging.
Or if the team is open to it,
Warning: Private messages in Lemmy are not End-to-End encrypted. Please use a platform with E2E encryption for private messaging.
Or if the team is even more open to it,
Warning: Private messages in Lemmy are not End-to-End encrypted. Please use a platform with E2E encryption for private messaging. Lemmy recommends Element.io and XMPP.
Thoughts? I'm ready to create a PR.
Element | Secure collaboration and messaging
Element is a Matrix-based end-to-end encrypted messenger and secure collaboration app. It’s decentralised for digital sovereign self-hosting, or through a hosting service such as Element Matrix Services.element.io
Messages between two people are not exposed via public APIs, but they can be accessed by admins of 1-2 servers (depending on whether you're sending these messages to someone on a different server).
Element fixes Lemmy's message content exposure problem, but none of the metadata problems (who is communicating with whom, when, how often, etc, are all still available to those 1-2 sets of server admins).
Why Communication Metadata Matters
As its name suggests, metadata is data about data. Metadata is used in a variety of contexts, often for cataloging information, like tagging keywords in a video so it’s easy to find later.ssd.eff.org
Based on the comments so far, maybe something like this makes sense:
Warning: Private messages in Lemmy are not End-to-End encrypted, so the respective instance owners are technically able to read them. Please use a platform with E2E encryption for private messaging. Lemmy recommends Element.io and XMPP.
Element | Secure collaboration and messaging
Element is a Matrix-based end-to-end encrypted messenger and secure collaboration app. It’s decentralised for digital sovereign self-hosting, or through a hosting service such as Element Matrix Services.element.io
Linux on my smart tv?
I have been rather unhappy with my smart TV's functionality as I feel it isn't smart for me but smart for the manufacturers. I just can't use it how I want to. I would love to overwrite the existing OS from Android to Linux. I've recently converted from Windows and loving Mint.
I haven't read too much regarding Linux smart tvs as my searches mostly come up with raspberry Pi and overwriting an Android box. I don't want to connect anything and just want my tv to boot up in Linux when it's turned on, and get some of my apps going. Is there a way to do this?
For reference I have a Sony Bravia with Android installed on it.
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I wish! I have a Samsung and I used to have an LG. One thing I anticipated which turned out to be on the nose is that these TVs stay operational just up until the maker decides they want your money again. I never bought into it to begin with. I only got a Smart TV to begin with because it has everything else I want. But I go straight to hooking up a computer. The apps on the TVs are all ooh and aah until a couple of years go by and then suddenly the apps are not compatible with the sites or backends what have you, and guess what? No more updates. You need a new TV despite the fact that yours is 100% perfectly fine, other than the inherent sabotage built in.
So that’s why I never even had any expectations. But I would love to find the best Linux distro for a media machine that my wife could learn to use. Right now I have to do all of it because it’s just browse to the files or load a playlist. I’d like something like Kodi or Plex but they have issues with one thing or another. I just want an SMB based connection in an interface that shows friendly thumbnails kinda like Nova player on Android. That app is highly underrated. Free, as far as I know open source and aside from a few control designs not being too great, the app is terrific. Kicks VLC’s butt. Why are they still designing the software like it’s 20 years ago and it’s on Windows XP?
Anyway I digress. Smart TV running Android or Linux would rock but I don’t expect it to be too feasible. But what do I know, because I’m not a professional dev.
The cheapest is to buy some android box with armlogic processor and install coreelec on it. You can do it for 20 bucks, then you have a kodi oriented linux distro on your tv.
Though I prefer to straight up connect my laptop to the tv with a small remote keyboard and have full computer functionality. I'm looking to change the laptop for a miniPC when the laptop finally breaks down. I would use a normal DE. Nothing specially suited for smartTV usage. But you get used to it pretty quick.
Taliban 'ready and willing' to join forces with Nigel Farage for deportation scheme
The Taliban is reportedly "ready and willing" to work with Nigel Farage and accept Afghans deported from Britain under Reform UK's unprecedented new mass deportation plan.
Reform leader Farage announced on Tuesday new plans to deport a staggering 600,000 illegal migrants within five years of a Reform government, which would mean deporting 300 people a day.
Farage said his government would negotiate returns agreements with countries including Iran, Eritrea and Afghanistan, which is governed by the Taliban.
Taliban 'ready and willing' to join forces with Nigel Farage for deportation scheme
The Taliban is reportedly "ready and willing" to work with Nigel Farage and accept Afghans deported from Britain under Reform UK's unprecedented new mass deportation plan.
Reform leader Farage announced on Tuesday new plans to deport a staggering 600,000 illegal migrants within five years of a Reform government, which would mean deporting 300 people a day.
Farage said his government would negotiate returns agreements with countries including Iran, Eritrea and Afghanistan, which is governed by the Taliban.
Do you guys just have flawless experiences or what?
It's been a week. Ubuntu Studio, and every day it's something. I swear Linux is the OS version of owning a boat, it's constant maintenance. Am I dumb, or doing something wrong?
After many issues, today I thought I had shit figured out, then played a game for the first time. All good, but the intro had some artifacts. I got curious, I have an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 and thought that was weird. Looked it up, turns out Linux was using lvmpipe. Found a fix. Now it's using my card, no more clipping, great!. But now my screen flickers. Narrowed it down to Vivaldi browser. Had to uninstall, which sucks and took a long time to figure out. Now I'm on Librewolf which I liked on windows but it's a cpu hungry bitch on Linux (eating 3.2g of memory as I type this). Every goddamned time I fix something, it breaks something else.
This is just one of many, every day, issues.
I'm tired. I want to love Linux. I really do, but what the hell? Windows just worked.
I've resigned myself to "the boat life" but is there a better way? Am I missing something and it doesn't have to be this hard, or is this what Linux is? If that's just like this I'm still sticking cause fuck Microsoft but you guys talk like Linux should be everyone's first choice. I'd never recommend Linux to anyone I know, it doesn't "just work".
EDIT: Thank you so much to everyone who blew up my post, I didn't expect this many responses, this much advice, or this much kindness. You're all goddamned gems!
To paraphrase my username's namesake, because of @SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone and his apt gif (also, Mr. Flickerman, when I record I often shout about Clem Fandango)...
When some wild-eyed, eight-foot-tall GNU/LINUX OS grabs your neck, taps the back of your favorite head up against the barroom wall, and he looks you crooked in the eye and he asks you if ya paid your dues, you just stare that big sucker right back in the eye, and you remember what ol' Jack Burton always says at a time like that: "Have ya paid your dues, Jack?" "Yessir, the check is in the mail."
I agree that there should be a grace period after payments are stopped before they delete stuff. But I see no reason that they should provide you with free access to their service - if you haven’t paid, service is cut off.
But that is just my opinion.
Greenland: Denmark summons top US diplomat over alleged influence operation
Greenland: US tells Denmark to 'calm down' over alleged influence operation
The aim was reportedly to infiltrate Greenland's society and promote its secession from Denmark.Paul Kirby (BBC News)
although it was unable to clarify who the men were working for.
The rest of the world can put two and two together
Why do Waymos keep loitering in front of my house?
Why do Waymos keep loitering in front of my house?
Waymo vehicles have been loitering outside some houses in LA, leaving residents confused as to why their streets have become informal hangouts for the robotaxis.Rachel Kraus (The Verge)
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ICJ demands investigation and possible removal of “The Lord is counting on me to stand on the side of Israel” Vice-President Sebutinde.
The ICJ has sent a communication to the President of the International Court of Justice (the Court), Justice Yuji Iwasawa, to urge the Court to conduct an investigation into allegations relating to certain statements attributed to ICJ Vice-President Sebutinde.
Should it be confirmed that these statements are in fact remarks made by the Vice President, the ICJ has requested that the Court undertake remedial action consistent with Principles 17-20 of the UN Basic Principles on the Independence of the Judiciary.
In addition, the ICJ seeks the immediate removal of Vice-President Sebutinde from participating further in proceedings in the South Africa v. Israel case.
The statements attributed to her are reported in an article published in the Ugandan Newspaper The Daily Monitor on 13 August 2025, entitled “My country disowned me after Israel–Gaza ruling”.
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GE-Proton10-14 Released
- fixed launch crash regression in Age of Empires 4
- fixed UE4SS mod failure regression in Wuchang: Fallen Feathers
- fixed Impetus Repository menu video playback crash in Wuchang: Fallen Feathers
- fixed Black Desert settings not saving regression
- fixed menu and mouse focus regression in Dead by Daylight with wine-wayland
- fixed wine-wayland crashes in Warhammer 40k: Darktide
- fixed lost mouse focus in Teardown with wine-wayland
- fixed broken menus in Outer-wilds with wine-wayland
- fixed mouse click crash in Halo:MCC with wine-wayland
- fixed broken raw input in Overkill withn wine-wayland
- fixed system mouse cursor shape crash in wine-wayland in multiple games -- fixes P-Organ crash in Lies of P
- fixed WAYLANDDRV_PRIMARY_MONITOR not being respected withn wine-wayland
- fixed controller input in Dragon Age Inquisition (NOTE: YOU HAVE TO GO IN-GAME AND CHANGE CONTROLS FROM M+K TO CONTROLLER)
- fixed video playback intro crash in Assassin's Creed Syndicate
- fixed video playback in Life Makover
- fixed video playback in Ark: Survival Evolved
- removed no longer required cursor force grab protonfix for helldivers 2
- add protonfix for Two Worlds: Epic Edition
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- fixed github actions release build not providing .tar.zst file.
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fixed launch crash regression in Age of Empires 4 fixed UE4SS mod failure regression in Wuchang: Fallen Feathers fixed Impetus Repository menu video playback crash in Wuchang: Fallen Feathers fixed...GitHub
Attempt to partner African countries with Japanese cities triggers xenophobic backlash
An attempt to promote friendship between Japan and countries in Africa has transformed into a xenophobic row about migration after inaccurate media reports suggested the scheme would lead to a “flood of immigrants”.
The controversy erupted after the Japan International Cooperation Agency, or JICA, said this month it had designated four Japanese cities as “Africa hometowns” for partner countries in Africa: Mozambique, Nigeria, Ghana and Tanzania.
The programme, announced at the end of an international conference on African development in Yokohama, will involve personnel exchanges and events to foster closer ties between the four regional Japanese cities – Imabari, Kisarazu, Sanjo and Nagai – and the African nations.
Some critics appeared to believe that “hometown” status meant that people from the African countries would be given special permission to live and work in their Japanese partner cities.
“If immigrants come flooding in, who is going to take responsibility?” said one social media post.
Attempt to partner African countries with Japanese cities triggers xenophobic backlash
Cities in Japan have received thousands of complaints amid confusion over scheme that was intended to foster closer tiesJustin McCurry (The Guardian)
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Trump imposes 50% tariff on India as punishment for buying Russian oil
Donald Trump imposed 50% tariffs on most US imports from India, making good on a threat to punish one of the world’s largest economies over its purchases of discounted Russian oil.
The tariffs, which came into effect just after midnight on Wednesday in Washington, risk inflicting significant damage on the Indian economy and further disrupting global supply chains.
US tariffs of 25% on Indian goods went into force earlier this month, but Trump announced plans to double the rate, citing New Delhi’s purchases of Russian oil, which the White House has argued is indirectly funding Russia’s war against Ukraine.
Trump imposes 50% tariff on India as punishment for buying Russian oil
US president has argued New Delhi indirectly helping fund Ukraine war as experts say move is ‘own goal’ against allyCallum Jones (The Guardian)
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does that include things like wealth?
the ultimate trump card seems to be military capability should the g7 ever decide that they can no longer tolerate a threat to their wealth like they've done in the past with forced regime changes and invasions.
BRICS are in a superior position relative to G7 in terms of material wealth, which is ultimately what people need to live.
In terms of going to war, we're already seeing how that's working out in Ukraine and Iran. The empire doesn't have the capacity to take on countries with large industries. Meanwhile, China has already put a squeeze on rare earth exports that are needed for any modern weapons production.
Objectively so should Biden then. His weaponization of the Swift system 100% accelerated the desire for most of the world to say, "Fuck the USA and its dollar." Then, "No thanks. Let's see what else is out there."
Or did people already forgot that happened? And this is not me taking a side, that did happen. I think the USA is partly foundering and I do not blame you. The USA is increasing your debt by like a trillion every 100 days or so. I was talking to some friends in Finance a while ago about how the USA's debt was flying past $33 trillion, and that was last year, I thing you guys passed $37 trillion recently and are still using the commodity of the dollar as a weapon. Most of the world sees this and thinks, they can do that to anyone they do not like, that could be us in the future.
Exactly. If the USA wanted for go after Russia, they could have used other tools, ones that not other countries have agreed to use as freely. It was such an incredibly shortsighted move. Or, something that could be perceived as a desperate move. Since is not as if the USA is or was short on other options.
Any country with common sense would look at that action and be weary. If I was a world leader, I would be. I would certainly look at what my other choices in trade are or could be, if just in case. A direct or proxy war is not even needed, perhaps just a geopolitical or bad trade dispute could fuck your economy if the Bald Eagle decides to cut you off. It is just too high a risk to ignore.
Sure, but Biden did it through official channels and in the standard USA way of diplomatic blackmail with a fake carrot and the threat of a lot of stick.
This dumb motherfucker gives you stick and a promise not to give you even more stick, then tells everyone you're such a huge cuck you're probably gonna take more stick later anyway. One is obviously gonna drive all but the most whipped of whipped dogs (the EU) away.
the headline says “initial inquiry says…”
so they’re not calling themselves hamas because israel wants them to, they’re say “isreal killed our cameraman man and said it was hamas”.
why does everyone respond to titles without reading the article? that should be an incredibly shameful thing to do….
Torres Invested in Weapons Makers as He Backed Billions in Arms for Israel
Torres Invested in Weapons Makers as He Backed Billions in Arms for Israel
The congressman's office tells Sludge the defense contractor stocks were bought by an independent manager and that he will no longer be buying individual corporate stocks.Donald Shaw (Sludge)
Get bribed by AIPAC for millions of dollarsUse the AIPAC money to invest in the weapons companies which send weapons to Israel
Vote to give Israel billions in taxpayer dollars for weapons from said companies
Sept. 11 Victims’ Lawsuit Against Saudi Government Can Go to Trial, Judge Rules
In his ruling, Daniels noted that the two sides had different interpretations of almost every piece of evidence. But he endorsed the plaintiffs’ views of several key exhibits, including a diagram of an airplane found in one of Bayoumi’s notebooks. Citing aviation experts, the plaintiffs’ lawyers said the drawing and the calculations beside it showed how a plane might hit an object on the ground. The Saudis’ lawyers suggested that Bayoumi had drawn it while helping his son with homework.
Daniels said the plaintiffs’ evidence created “a high probability as to Bayoumi and Thumairy’s roles in the hijackers’ plans, and the related role of their employer,” the Saudi government. “In many instances,” he added, “it even appeared that Bayoumi actively injected himself” into the hijackers’ illicit activities.
9/11 Victims’ Lawsuit Against Saudi Kingdom Can Go to Trial: Judge
Information uncovered by plaintiffs has already undermined the FBI’s conclusion that two U.S.-based Saudi officials “unwittingly” helped al-Qaida hijackers after they arrived in America.ProPublica
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in reply to xthexder • • •with ublock origin you would have to edit the blocklist and add the url you want to block/unblock. with umatrix you have a table like this:
you can block/unblock domains, and also change the global configuration. I, by default, block all javascript and XHR and enable some if they are needed.
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