President Javier Milei gets judge to ban publication of audio recordings of his sister inside presidential palace
Milei gets judge to ban publication of audio recordings of his sister inside presidential palace
Argentine government denounces illegal espionage operation carried out by ‘individuals linked to Russian intelligence services’ ahead of crucial midterm electionFederico Rivas Molina (Ediciones EL PAÍS S.L.)
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Greece passes draconian legislation with prison terms for rejected asylum seekers
Greece passes draconian legislation with prison terms for rejected asylum seekers
Those who have asylum claims rejected and do not leave within 14 days will face prison terms of two to five yearsHelena Smith (The Guardian)
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Sask. RCMP raid 'Queen of Canada' cult compound, arrest 17 adults
Officers seized 4 replica firearms, no charges laid as of Wednesday afternoon
Saskatchewan RCMP arrested 17 adults, including cult leader Romana Didulo, in the village of Richmound on Wednesday after a firearms investigation.
At a news conference on Wednesday afternoon in Regina, Insp. Ashley St. Germaine said RCMP executed a search warrant at a privately owned decommissioned school in Richmound at around 4:30 a.m CST.
Didulo and her followers have been living for two years in the village of approximately 118 people, located 365 kilometres west of Regina, near the Alberta border.
Germaine said RCMP got a report on Aug. 25 of one of the building's occupants possessing a firearm. That led to the investigation that culminated in the raid.
"A team of skilled and experienced senior officers was established to oversee this large and complex operation," she said.
More than 30 police vehicles from multiple jurisdictions, including two tactical vehicles, were at the scene, Germaine said.
A livestream video, posted by Didulo to her followers on Telegram at 5:51 a.m. CST on Wednesday, captured the moment when two officers wearing tactical gear burst into a room where Didulo was standing.
"Leave the phone down. You're under arrest," one officer says in the video.
Didulo surrenders to officers and the camera is pointed at the floor for a few minutes. Voices off camera then remark that the phone is livestreaming before the video ends.
"Sorry, miss, but there's only enough room in this town for the one of us, and I'm already happily married."
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My buddies father in law was the mayor of that town when this shit all started. I wonder if he still is.
He told me they got family members of his wife to turn against them in town meetings, like HARD, like never talk to your brothers again bad.
They're fruits, but I'm betting "replica firearms" means "black powder". Yes, they can certainly be deadly, but my god, if you're never used black power, it's a monster pain in the ass. I can get a total of 3 or 4 shots off, reloading each time of course, and the barrel is too filthy to shove the next ball in.
BP guns are such a joke, even felonious Americans can own them, and most states allow them to be shipped straight to your porch. I have never heard of a crime being committed with one. LOL, it's like California banning modern .50cal guns. Has anyone in the history of ever used a .50BMG to crime?! OK, except Israel.
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At least 15 dead after Lisbon's historic funicular derails
At least 15 people have been killed and 18 others injured after a carriage on Lisbon's famous Gloria funicular derailed and crashed, emergency services said.
Portugal's emergency medical service authority said that five of those injured were in a serious condition. The remaining thirteen, including a child, sustained minor injuries.
Several people were earlier said to have been trapped at the scene. They have all since been freed, authorities said.
Spain's Prime Minster Pedro Sánchez said he was "appalled by the terrible accident". Lisbon's mayor, Carlos Moedas, said the capital was "in mourning", adding it was a "tragic moment for the city".
Emergency services said foreigners were among those killed were, although nationalities could not be confirmed.
It is unclear how many people were on board at the time of the cable railway crash, which occurred near the Avenida da Liberdade around 18:05 on Wednesday evening.
Footage shared widely on social media showed the bright yellow carriage overturned and almost entirely destroyed. People could be seen fleeing the area on foot as what appears to be smoke filled the air.
One witness told Portuguese newspaper Observador the vehicle was "out of control, without brakes".
Lisbon crash one of our biggest tragedies, Portuguese PM says
A day of mourning has been declared after the 140-year-old Glória funicular derailed, killing at least 16.Alison Roberts (BBC News)
Judging by the location it crashed and somebody interviewed saying that "they were afraid it would hit the vehicle below", it careened down for quite a distance since it crashed near the bottom.
Mind you, that specific funicular doesn't actual travel that much of a distance (maybe 400m if I remember correctly - it's been a long time since I had a reason to go to that part of Lisbon).
Also because it's not that long a distance, it's actually faster to just walk it up or down for most people than wait for it, plus this was the one coming down (as deduced from there being one below), so it's quite likely that most people in it were tourists.
Gaza Genocide Provokes Anti-War Dissent Among Mormons
Gaza Genocide Provokes Anti-War Dissent Among Mormons - Inkstick
Campaigners are targeting the hearts, minds and multibillion-dollar investment fund of the Utah-based faith.Taylor Barnes (Inkstick Media)
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Judge voids $2.2 billion Harvard funding freeze by Trump administration
Judge voids $2.2 billion Harvard funding freeze by Trump administration
The Trump administration in April froze grants to Harvard University over concerns about antisemitism on the Ivy League campus and other concerns.Dan Mangan (CNBC)
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Domenica 7 settembre 2025, dalle ore 19, nuvole permettendo, presso il Podere Casanteria (via Canova 16, Faenza, tra Cosina e Pieve Corleto) in collaborazione con l'Associazione ACSÈ, osserveremo l'Eclissi Totale di Luna e le meraviglie del cielo di settembre, ad occhio nudo e con i binocoli e i telescopi del Gruppo Astrofili Faenza.
Ingresso libero e gratuito, prenotazione gradita ma non necessaria.
L'eclissi inizierà globalmente alle 17:28 con l'ingresso della Luna nella penombra della Terra, e alle 18:27 ci sarà l'ingresso in ombra, ma queste fasi non saranno visibili da Faenza, in quanto la Luna sarà ancora sotto l'orizzonte.
La fase di totalità (con la Luna completamente immersa nell'ombra della Terra) inizia alle 19:31, e in Italia la Luna sorgerà intorno a quell'ora.
In particolare, nella zona di Faenza, la Luna sorge intorno alle 19:34.
Bisogna considerare che il Sole a Faenza tramonta alle 19:37, per cui potrebbe non essere facile individuare il disco eclissato della Luna (rosso scuro e poco luminoso) tra le ultime luci del giorno. Prevediamo quindi che vedremo "comparire" in cielo la Luna eclissata mano a mano che si fa buio e il cielo diventa più scuro.
Alle 20:11 avremo il massimo dell'eclissi, alle 20:52 terminerà la totalità, e alle 21:56 la Luna uscirà completamente dall'ombra, ma sarà ancora in penombra fino alle 22:55.
Nonostante il caldo diurno, le temperature di notte possono ridursi notevolmente, specialmente in aperta campagna. Per passare una serata piacevole, si consiglia di portare qualcosa per coprirsi in caso di freddo.
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guy who is not authorised to make foreign policy decisions travels overseas on public's dime to.... make foreign policy decisions??? So couple of obvious themes:
- guy likes to travel with comfort on public dime
- it's a private bribe session
- he'll be asking US to kick some money his way to take over the "uncooperative" government
French police kill man suspected of stabbing five people in Marseille
French police kill man suspected of stabbing five people in Marseille
According to the prosecutor's office, the suspect was a Tunisian national with legal status who had just been evicted from his hotel.Le Monde with AFP (Le Monde)
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French winemaker jailed for multimillion-euro fake champagne scam
French winemaker jailed for multimillion-euro fake champagne scam
Didier Chopin, 56, was sentenced to 18 months in prison for selling hundreds of thousands of bottles of fake champagne he made with French and Spanish wines, to which he added aromas and gas to make them sparkling.Le Monde with AFP (Le Monde)
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Could have been but it's actually more than that:
he produced fake champagne on purpose, using wines from Spain, carbonated it and added flavour packs. He then marketed it as champagne and even attempted to export it. Once caught, he fled to Morocco to start a new business.
Real Champagne actually follow a lot of rules besides the protected origin, it's a blend of wines but it's not supposed to be carbonated, and flavor balance is to be made only with specific liqueurs.
Spain produces a lot of high quality wine, but also a lot of lower quality wine, used for mixing to make cheap "table" wine. Much of that is exported, often in cartons.
Many French winemakers have been importing that type of wine for decades to mix to increase volume in lower quality wines.
Donald Trump says Israel has lost its 'total control' over US Congress
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the full interview transcript is here (archive)::: spoiler the part of it about israel
REESE: A different war, Israel, a March Pew Poll, found that 53% of surveyed U.S. adults had an unfavorable view of Israel, that’s down – or that is up from 42% in 2022. Among young Republicans under 50, 50% have an unfavorable view of Israel. That’s up from 35% in 2022. There’s a growing group within the MAGA, America First coalition, Republicans, especially younger Republicans, who are skeptical of our support for Israel. Are you aware of this group? Are you worried about it?TRUMP: Yeah I’m aware of it. So, Israel is amazing, because, you know, I have good support from Israel. I have. Look, nobody has done more for Israel than I have, including the recent attacks with Iran, wiping that thing out. We, that plane, wiped them out like nobody ever saw before. You know, we got back and CNN was trying to say ‘well, maybe it wasn’t complete,’ and it turned out totally complete, beyond complete. But when, if you go back 20 years. I mean, I will tell you, Israel had the strongest lobby in Congress of anything or body, or of any company or corporation or state that I’ve ever seen. Israel was the strongest. Today, it doesn’t have that strong a lobby. It’s amazing.
There was a time where you couldn’t speak bad, if you wanted to be a politician, you couldn’t speak badly. But today, you have, you know, AOC plus three, and you have all these lunatics, and they’ve really, they’ve changed it. You’re too young to know this, but if you go back 15 years, probably that’s when it started, right. Israel, you would understand this very much, Israel was the strongest lobby I’ve ever seen. They had total control over Congress, and now they don’t, you know, I’m a little surprised to see that. And people, they forgot about October 7th. You know, October 7th was a truly horrible day, because I’ve seen the pictures.
REESE: I was just over in Israel, and we went right up to the war where you could hear the bombs dropping in Gaza. And we went to the places from October 7th. Scary. Being in it. I understand —
TRUMP: It was a really bad one, right?
REESE: Yeah.
TRUMP: And you know, you have people that deny it ever happened, they’re deniers. You have people that deny the Holocaust ever happened. So, they’re gonna have to get that war over with. But it is hurting Israel. There’s no question about it. They may be winning the war, but they’re not winning the world of public relations, you know, and it is hurting them. But Israel was the strongest lobby 15 years ago that there has ever been, and now it’s, it’s been hurt, especially in Congress.
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EXCLUSIVE: Full Transcript: Daily Caller Interviews President Donald Trump
The Daily Caller's White House correspondent Reagan Reese interviewed President Donald Trump for an hour in the Oval Office. This is the full transcript.Reagan Reese (The Daily Caller)
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58 in the House...
It's not huge, but it's substantial and certainly an improvement.
Last time the House stalled Biden went around them breaking multiple US and international laws. trump won't do that unless Israel pays him personally a lot of money
So trump actually is right here, Israel lost total control over US Congress. Having a sitting president willing to circumvent Congress to provide arms for a genocide is pretty "total", and they no longer have that.
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It wasn’t a single issue vote or Congress would have just approved it.
It also didn’t break U.S. laws, it’s the bullshit emergency bypass that Trump keeps doing for everything
And then you say that Trump won’t do it unless Israel pays him but the way he is behaving makes it seem like they are considering he is taking funding from school over not crushing pro Palestine protests and is calling it anti semitism
Biden fucking sucked for the people of Gaza but it’s only gotten worse since Trump was made president
Israel has prez compromised, his payment is them not showing the videos of him banging underage girls. Russia may have some of it now too, and the prez's own fixers have leaked info from justice in first term to add to his lifelong collection of blackmail.
Our polits are compromised every which way. The snake eating it's own tail, and yes it is a viper in the nest.
Nope, sorry, Israel isn't going to be enough of a distraction from all the
Child Rape.
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The two subjects are one and the same. Epstein was an Israeli honeypot. But that is surely the tip of the iceberg. Our own intelligence agencies presumably helped them too.
We need all new leadership.
Israeli government official charged with soliciting 15-year-old girl in Las Vegas
Police say Tom Artiom Alexandrovich brought condom and thought he was meeting teenager for ‘sexual contact’Adam Gabbatt (The Guardian)
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(Some) People are up in arms about Russian meddling in the west, but Israel has been doing it since the 40's and no one batted an eyelash.
The fact that some (many?) Jewish lawmakers and military are allowed to have dual Israeli/US citizenship is baffling to me.
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John Swinney pauses new funding for arms firms supplying Israel
John Swinney pauses new funding for arms firms supplying Israel
The first minister said the government could not ignore evidence that Israel was committing genocide.Glenn Campbell (BBC News)
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Why just a pause rather than cancelling any arm shipment to Israel committing a genocide?
Scottish Green co-leader Ross Greer welcomed the first minister's announcement but called on him to go further and urge all Scottish businesses to boycott Israel, a call Swinney rejected.
So Israel will keep getting revenues from trading that will be used for the genocide
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That price includes a whole bunch of stuff besides the actual tank. To quote the Czech Ministry of Defence (machine-translated):
The purchase price of 44 tanks includes self-propelled and anti-mine protection systems, as well as integrated logistics support including spare parts, support management, documentation and training.
So basically it's 44 tanks plus a massive service and supply contract to keep the tanks running properly
Hot mic catches Xi and Putin discussing organ transplants and immortality
Hot mic catches Xi and Putin discussing organ transplants and immortality
The Chinese and Russian leaders have been in power for 13 and 25 years respectively, with neither expressing any intention of stepping down.Emily Atkinson (BBC News)
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should get a brain transplant asap
Maybe Trump already did
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My guess is that billionaires will go for self-cloning until immortality exists
It's for this reason one of my dream is to take a shit on Mao's grave.
This poeple needs to be remembered in the right way.
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"In the past, it used to be rare for someone to be older than 70 and these days they say that at 70 one's still a child," Xi's translator could be heard saying in Russian. An inaudible passage from Putin follows.
It's the BBC printing a translation of a rumor of a partial conversation from two world leaders their parent government hates. Might be worth taking this with a grain of salt.
Nothing western press loves more than doing Ralph Wiggim tier headlines any time a National Enemy gets near a podium.
I agree, but they got the translation wrong. This is interesting because this is not uncommon due to the dialectical differences between Russian and Mandarin.
When you listen to the actual audio clip, you will understand that it is said "one becomes child again". It's a sly dig at aging brains that doesn't translate well when done literally. The nineteen eighty nine authoritarian response and slaughter of thousands of innocent civilians in response to the tiananmen square protests and xi being a winnie the pooh knob head is hilarious you authcino bootlicker if you don't understand the cultural idiom component.
Immortality has been the dream of autocrats for millennia. As soon as we see centralized oppressive regimes, we see leaders obsessed with immortality and their afterlife.
Death is the final equality and we'll always see the most bloated parasitic elites trying to skirt their responsibility to die like it was their fair share of the tax burden.
It's wild that after so many thousands of years of rulers chasing the mystical arts and obscure kookery to gain immortality, we're actually living in the age where we have an understanding of biology and physical processes on a deep enough level that we can actually conceive of real immortality as a possibility.
Which proves to me that these oligarchs and dictators are complete idiots. Because if they had several brain cells to rub together, they would be converting all that stolen wealth into science and research on moonshot scales to unlock biological immortality or anti-aging tech close to it. Sure they would still horde the tech as long as possible, but the point is they are like everyone else... incapable of investing in their own future over maintaining social status in the here and now.
elites trying to skirt their responsibility to die like it was their fair share of the tax burden.
Nicely phrased! A++ would read again.
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Fifa says 2026 World Cup tickets will start at $60 but dynamic pricing looms
Fifa says 2026 World Cup tickets will start at $60 but dynamic pricing looms
The World Cup organizer has set a price floor of $60 per match, though that will likely change as variable pricing takes hold early.Alexander Abnos (The Guardian)
States fast-track wind, solar permits and contracts to beat Trump’s deadline
States fast-track wind, solar permits and contracts to beat Trump’s deadline
Federal tax credits have brought project costs down 30 to 50 percent, advocates say.Alex Brown, Stateline (Grist)
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Jamaicans head to polls for election as ruling party faces corruption concerns
Jamaicans head to polls for election as ruling party faces corruption concerns
Polls point to ‘very close election’ between the Jamaica Labour party and the opposition People’s National partyNatricia Duncan (The Guardian)
Sudanese rape victims speak from Chad’s refugee camps
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Sudanese rape victims speak from Chad’s refugee camps
Hundreds of thousands of women and girls have fled Sudan’s war, only to be faced with violence again in Chad.Caitlin Kelly (Al Jazeera)
In a war in Mexico between cartel factions, influencers become targets
In a war in Mexico between cartel factions, influencers become targets
Targeting of influencers reflects their alleged role in money laundering – and their place in cartel propagandaThomas Graham (The Guardian)
Jeremy Corbyn: Labour Is Paving the Way for Fascism
The Labour Party could have made the case for a humane immigration system that treats refugees with dignity. Instead it has fanned the flames of racism and emboldened the far right.
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History repeats itself.
We'll get another entry for "Social democracy the left wing of fascism" in another decade or two.
I wish Corbyn and the like-minded success in preventing fascism and further neoliberal regression.
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How very sad it is that Corbyn was ousted as leader for making the case for Palestinian rights too early. Now look at what the current ruling Labour party is doing.
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This is a very weird framing of what I understand was a refusal to join a meeting in Jan 2018, which was organised by SNP and had no government presence. He never went in the room at all, so the "flounced out in a huff" appears to be complete fiction.
I personally don't think that one meeting, containing small parties that were not in power, had any meaningful effect on the proposed deal with the EU, which was still being discussed up until 2020.
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I don't think letting asylum seekers work would make a blind bit of difference. The right just don't want them here at all. They want them to stop coming, not let them continue coming but then working. The right will just complain that they're taking people's jobs.
I'd be curious what approach Corbyn's policy would be on this.
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I don't think letting asylum seekers work would make a blind bit of difference.
It would because if they can work and become productive members of society, the real issues fueling rightwing bigotry would be lessened. Of course the already bigoted will want them gone, but the right relies on issues like crime and the budget to spread.
The right will just complain that they're taking people's jobs.
True, which is why a comprehensive leftwing program is necessary to facilitate job creation and provide safety nets for those who fall through the cracks.
As long as they keep seeing x number of immigrants arriving each day, they'll keep voting far right. They just want them to stop, I think they've been clear on that. They want a party who says what they want to hear (I doubt Reform would be able to do anything about it).
I think the reason why asylum seekers aren't allowed to work is because the stay is supposed to be strictly temporary. They're supposed to return home when things are safe. Letting them work would probably make it less likely they're going to return home if they start settling. I can't see that being a popular policy as they'll see it making the UK more inviting (either way it's the wrong move as they'll just complain they're on benefits).
Fuck the right wing.
That's what the policy should be. Throw their Nazi asses in jail.
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Putin and Xi brainstorm living to 150 with modern organ transplants
Putin and Xi brainstorm living to 150 with modern organ transplants
Russia’s leader caught on hot mic musing about “immortality” with Chinese ruler.Elena Giordano (POLITICO)
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China forcefully harvests organs from detainees, tribunal concludes
China's harvesting of detainees' organs serves a booming transplant trade that is worth some $1 billion a year, according to an international tribunal.Saphora Smith (NBC News)
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Yup. The elderly generally do not do well with:
1. Major surgery
2. Immunosuppression
And they're asking for repeated episodes of 1 and possibly 75 years of 2. I'd be all for letting them slowly kill themselves this way if it weren't for the fact that every organ they use is an organ that could've been given to someone who actually needs it.
Your phrasing of "allowing" implies that these guys are in power through some sort of legitimate electoral process. They're both dictators, who claimed power through force and intimidation. There's no "let" about it, nor any "say" in the situation from people at large.
Just because dictators demand to be called by western elected official terminology in translations to english media, doesn't make them same animal. It's propaganda meant to normalize their rule.
Right, by that reasoning the people of Gaza are willingly allowing themselves to be genocided. They should just rise up and declare a democracy in the region.
Oh, wait, the real world doesn't work like that.
To me it seems naive to think that the disparity between the people of Gaza, and the people of Israel, is not dissimilar to the wealth inequality of the poor, and the rich. People seem to gloss over how modern western democracies generally got going -- through violent revolutions with lots of dead rich people. And those movements were often seeded by essentially the middle class military, who the rich had paid to outfit with the intent that they'd carry out the upper class's orders. People like Cromwell didn't exactly wake up one day, and just happen to trip across a bunch of Cannons to point at the British royalty. Until there'd been that blunder from the nobility giving the military too much autonomy, coupled with the advent of Canons, the ability for regular peasants to rise up against the nobility and their goon squads was pretty fuckin limited. For such a revolutionary figure to emerge from a poor, downtrodden and financially bereft area such as Gaza, would just be highly improbable.
Like China hired gangs of thugs with bats to beat the shit out of Democratic advocates during the crack down in Hong Kong, and has taken out bounties on people living abroad who advocate too vocally for human rights in the region. You can't realistically look at what went on there, in my view, and say that the people didn't try really hard to maintain their civil liberties -- but were beaten down quite explicitly by force and the sheer scale of resources available to the CCP. Yes, if there was some mass uprising all across the country they could spontaneously change their systems of governance -- but that's practically unheard of in real world countries of note in modern times. Taking a more realistic view of the situation doesn't make it any better, in that things will most likely continue to suck for most people, but it at least sets more reasonable expectations.
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leaders of two of the world's most technologically prominent countries muse on the prospects of transhumanism in front of a crowd of dozensrabid disapproval from liberals who claim that Putin and Xi got caught on a hot mic wanting to live forever so they can rule eternally or something, idk
Seriously, the reading comprehension is abysmal in this thread. Can someone show me where Putin or Xi said they personally wished to live to 150?
two of the world’s most technologically prominent countriesRussia
LMFAO. lemmy.ml users just can't stop glazing autocracies, can they?
Not even remotely related to the part I quoted and laughed at, but I'll humour you.
It's called deduction, you just need to use that gray matter of yours. Two, rather old, psychopaths muse about extending one's lifetime. Could it be that they themselves have a vested interest in this? No, that must be a conspiracy theory by filthy liberals.
Not even remotely related to the part I quoted and laughed at, but I'll humour you
So how does a claim regarding Russia's technological capabilities relate to my original comment? The only person being humoured here is you.
The way the healthy skepticism just leaves the liberal mind once a state department hit pieces comes out is laughable. You have been effortlessly oriented. Yall just eat this shit up. "Deduction"... lmao.
Again, maybe one day show me where Putin or Xi expressed interest in extending their lifespan. You won't.
So how does a claim regarding Russia's technological capabilities relate to my original comment?
Your original comment literally calls Russia one of the world's "most technologically prominent" country, stop trying to gaslight me.
leaders of two of the world’s most technologically prominent countriesPutin and Xi
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My original claim was that in none of these articles is there any evidence of Putin or Xi expressing interesting in extending their lifespan.
It's a claim you still have yet to disprove, btw.
Claiming that Russia is not technologically advanced is a nonsequiter. Refusing to engage with a nonsequiter is not underhanded. And you're not humouring anyone by backing down from your attempt to turn this conversation into one about Russia's technological capabilities. You're just backpedaling.
Again, please show me where Putin or Xi expressed interest in extending their lives.
Old farts should sit in care homes, not ruling nations. Term limits and the same age cutoff as the regular blue collar worker and then go paint bad pictures on your ranch like W Bush.
I didn't think I'd ever get a very opinion of the latter, but here we go.
It's just that there should be a term limit for everyone. 5 to 10 years top then you're out.
"Earlier, people rarely lived to 70, but these days at 70 you are still a child," Xi told Putin according to the translator in Russian.
Hard to argue with that. Both of these cunts seem to lack any emotional intelligence whatsoever.
Why does no journalist ever ask why government officials want Israel to be our ally. Just because they were for x number of years has no bearing on whether or not they should have been or should still be our ally. Russia was our ally, guess what, they’re not anymore. We don’t have to ally ourselves with murderous countries.
The whole interview centers on Israel must be our ally so we must do stuff for them. They shouldn’t fucking be our ally!!! They’ve been committing atrocities for generations at this point!
Isreal is an ally because it's a FOB for the US to use against the middle east.
That, and modern Evangelical Christianity hinges on the Jews controlling the holy land as a precursor to the apocalypse. And Evangelical Christians vote Republican.
He got super close to asking that, and Lew’s answer was completely infuriating, as was every response he gave. But you’re right, I wish they would ask it outright.
Q: In the essay, you write a lot about the shared values of America and Israel. But today you have talked about pushing them to deliver aid, and you’ve talked about the fact that once Trump came into office and that push wasn’t there, the humanitarian situation got worse. Why was there a need to push so hard? Why do they need to be pushed to not ethnically cleanse Gaza? Why do they need to be pushed to have their military act in an honorable way? If they are our shared ally and our great friend, why aren’t they doing these things on their own?A: The environment in October and November of 2023 was how do you sustain an enemy that just slaughtered twelve hundred of your citizens? You had to create a way for the aid to get in without it having the effect of making your enemy succeed. It is pretty unusual.
Wow, what pieces of shit. I had often wondered if it was just pride and sunk cost fallacy, but they’re pieces of shit
Maybe I’m naive but I bought into it at first. Israel did suffer a horrible terrorist attack, their citizens were kidnapped, and terrorists were hiding among Palestinians, so a military response could be expected. But there’s got to be a point where they recognize the harm to innocent civilians, where enough is enough and they’ve long past it for most people. Yet still trying to justify it?
[JS] GPUGate Malware: Malicious GitHub Desktop Implants Use Hardware-Specific Decryption, Abuse Google Ads to Target Western Europe
::: spoiler Key Takeaways
- Trusted‑source Illusion: Even when a link seems to point to a reputable platform such as GitHub, the underlying URL can be manipulated to resolve to a counterfeit site.
- Ad‑driven Redirection: Paid search and display ads can be weaponized by bad actors to distribute malicious payloads at scale, misleading users who rely on search engines for discovery.
- Privilege Escalation: Once the malicious payload is executed by the user, it gains administrative rights, enabling further lateral movement and persistence.
- Malware Uniqueness:
- The initial installer is a 128 MB MSI file that mimics the legitimate GitHub Desktop installer but contains over 100 dummy executables to inflate size and evade sandbox limits.
- The installer employs a GPU‑gated decryption routine: an OpenCL™ kernel derives the AES key only on machines with a real GPU, whose device name is at least ten characters long, causing the payload to remain encrypted in headless analysis environments. (A headless environment is where the front-end or user interface of an application (the “head”) has been decoupled from the back-end services, allowing each to be developed and operated separately.)
- The GPU-based decryption mechanism suggests the attackers are targeting systems with specific hardware configurations, potentially focusing on users involved in development, gaming, or cryptocurrency mining activities.
- Campaign Goals: We believe the goal of this campaign was to gain initial access to organizations for the purposes of malicious activity such as credential theft, infostealing and ransomware deployment, by misleading IT workers (who often have higher level of network access) into downloading malware while attempting to install GitHub Desktop.
- Geography and Industries Targeted: The campaign we observed targeted users in Western Europe, in the Information Technology industry.
- Attribution: The threat actors behind this campaign have native Russian language proficiency, as demonstrated by PowerShell script comments written in Russian.
:::a threat actor leveraged GitHub’s repository structure together with paid placements on Google Ads to funnel users toward a malicious download hosted on a lookalike domain. By embedding a commit‑specific link in the advertisement, the attackers made the download appear to originate from an official source, effectively sidestepping typical user scrutiny
The delivered malware is unique: the bloated 128 MB Microsoft Software Installer (MSI) evades most existing security sandboxes, while a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)-gated decryption routine keeps the payload encrypted on systems without a real GPU. We have called this new attack technique “GPUGate”.
GPUGate Malware: Malicious GitHub Desktop Implants Use Hardware-Specific Decryption, Abuse Google Ads to Target Western Europe - Arctic Wolf
Arctic Wolf has uncovered a sophisticated delivery chain: a threat actor abused GitHub’s repository structure and Google Ads to redirect users to a malicious download, while a GPU-gated decryption routine keeps the payload encrypted on systems withou…Arctic Wolf Threat Research (Arctic Wolf Networks)
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Xi and Putin overheard talking about organ transplants and immortality
In short:
A live-stream broadcast of China's military parade has captured Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin discussing biotechnology's potential to extend life.
An interpreter translating Mr Putin can be heard saying in Mandarin that human organ transplants could let "us live younger and younger, and perhaps even achieve immortality".
Mr Xi responded that it may be possible for people to live to 150 years this century.
ABC News
ABC News provides the latest news and headlines in Australia and around the world.Iris Zhao (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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Uncovering Evil: Illegal Organ Harvesting in China and the 2025 “Stop Forced Organ Harvesting Act” - McCain Institute
This blog is part of a summer blog series written by the McCain Institute’s Summer Junior Fellows. Jillian Proshan is a junior fellow for the Human Rights & Freedom program. Let’s begin with a math problem.Staci McDermott (McCain Institute)
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Having a PhD does not automatically mean you know what you’re talking about outside your field lol.
smart people are wrong sometimes
issac newton thought he could synthesize a philosophers stone
Intelligence isn't required of these people and I doubt anyone in that room could explain telomere shortening and aging at a molecular level.
You cant do a brain transplant from a clone and be the same person even. Just megalomaniacs who care nothing for anyone but themselves.
We need to forcefully redistribute all excess wealth and power.
These delusional sycophants are going to be the death of our species.
Apart from the fact that your brain ages too and it's 100% irreplaceable, the main issue with turning yourself into the human Ship of Theseus is that you're going to be on immunosuppressant drugs forever.
I guess if you were a monster you could raise clones of yourself to adulthood and then murder them for their body parts. This doesn't solve the problem of some parts not being reasonably replaceable, but it could protect you from some organ failures.
There are current studies about growing entire organs in a lab environment using 3D printed scaffolding and stem cells harvested from the patient, so the final product is 100% compatible and eliminates the need for immunosuppressants.
Still a few decades out for human testing imo but they'd be the first in line.
If we figure that out, artificial blood (which is already making good progress) and finally a way to regenerate brain cells without causing massive brain tumors we can extend life considerably, probably closer to 200 years on extreme cases.
Or, at least, making it to 110 while still having a good quality of life, basically making 100 the new 60.
Lol, lmfao
They can't even give us a relatively nontoxic living environment and adaptive and responsive nutrition plans
Not to mention there has NEVER been a patient who has had MULTIPLE 3D printed organ transplants, let alone continuous transplants PRN (the suture sites are going to be dissolving scar tissue). And that 3D printed organs are extremely complicated especially depending on which one is being built, with their own cellular memory including circadian rhythm and local homeostasis.
Not to mention that merely transplanting an organ does not mean the patient will have adequate neurochemicals or enzymes or receptors to carry out the processes needed to support these organs, regardless of supplementation
Like certain conditions, at end of life, oppose each other especially in treatment. Eg congestive heart failure, pulmonary edema, and kidney failure all interfere and interact with each other. Assuming you could successfully perform a lung, heart, and kidney transplant in a geriatric patient, whose to say their veings, connective tissue, ureters, etc won't prolapse or blow out from all the pressure and new stressers?
This shit isn't as easy as they want to claim (maybe they want to taunt Trump with immortality), but if they want to be the guinea pigs for it, let them ig - that's the most ethical thing they could do with this, is experiment on themselves and take the consequences.
Well, you suggested to let them do it. I'm suggesting that they will not hesitate to commit massive human rights violating, nonconsensual nazi experiments, so no we shouldn't allow them.
The fact that it absolutely won't work is secondary.
I'm not granting permission, I'm saying if we follow their logic and methods to its natural conclusions, they will die, eg giving a proof.
They cannot use other human organs, this is already a roadblock for them. If they could, they already would be doing so (see blood transfusions). I was talking about 3D printed organs, not organs from others.
You brought up organs from others. I then explained it is even MORE of an issue to attempt to transplant (hence why we developed other means). Your refusal to understand that does not mean you are correct that they will do this. You're in fact wrong.
However, perhaps they want to eat these organs instead of transplant them, I'm not saying they won't go after human bodies for various reasons, and obviously all genocide should be stopped.
But they aren't going to do multiple organ transplants from other human to human donors in our lifetimes, if ever. If you understood transplants, you'd understand why that just isn't a thing and won't be a thing.
It's as stupid as head transplants and Neuralink.
I think if ALL, literally ALL of your other organs were functioning great, then it is unlikely your brain will deterioriate by itself randomly. Your body is constantly repairing itself, that's why we are able to live so long.
But like, are they REALLY going to transplant things like the thymus? Can they even do that? Adrenal glands, parathyroid glands, thyroid, kidneys, livers, pancreas - idk man, I do not see these people getting all these organs replaced. That is an INSANE bodily experiment that has never truly been tested, let alone with lab grown organs (as Xi or Putin suggested), let alone in elderly and delicate subjects. We can't even pull off natural looking facelifts in most subjects.
Adding in organs with different ages and donors also means they also may have increased loads on their remaining old aged organs too. Everything works together and donor organs can have a different circadian rhythm, let alone different genes which means different reactions to stimuli. Not to mention currently the most likely situation for organ transplant would be gene editing animal organs - again, experimental and never done on multiple organs.
hms.harvard.edu/news/first-gen…
Like managing multiple organ rejections in a 90yr old seeking immortality sounds like a joke of a case for any health care provider.
But please, someone convince both those men to get multiple organs transplanted ASAP
In a First, Genetically Edited Pig Kidney Is Transplanted Into Human
Procedure marks milestone in quest to provide more organs to patients in needhms.harvard.edu
Apart from the fact that your brain ages too and it’s 100% irreplaceable
Braincells are irreplaceable (barring some experimental stem cell work) but the networks between those brain cells keep growing and intertwining. It's the network between the cells that defines your mental aptitude. Plenty of stories about people with severe brain damage who still continue to function comparatively normally after a period of recovery and rehabilitation. The human brain is remarkably plastic.
I guess if you were a monster you could raise clones of yourself to adulthood and then murder them for their body parts.
Even that isn't strictly practical. The failure rate on cloning is enormous. What's legit more monstrous than killing someone for organs is producing all of the failed clones necessary to land on a copy that's viable.
Dolly the Sheep was a "successful" clone, and even it didn't live a particularly long or happy life, being euthanized at half the normal age of a domesticated sheep of her breed due to arthritis and lung disease.
No doubt someone is out there doing human cloning illegally. But I would not bank on it as a viable alternative to simply getting bumped up the organ donor list the old fashioned way.
I don’t see why they can’t live 150 years with that.
The reason is typically measured in caliber.
Israel harvested organs in ’90s without consent
Israel admits that in the 1990s, its forensic pathologists harvested organs from dead bodies, including Palestinians, without permission of their families.NBC News
Real liberty can exist only where exploitation has been abolished, where there is no oppression of some by others, where there is no unemployment and poverty, where a man is not haunted by the fear of being tomorrow deprived of work, of home and of bread. Only in such a society is real, and not paper, personal and every other liberty possible.
Real liberty can exist only where exploitation has been abolished, where there is no oppression of some by others, where there is no unemployment and poverty, where a man is not haunted by the fear of being tomorrow deprived of work, of home and of bread. Only in such a society is real, and not paper, personal and every other liberty possible.
Literally no where is like this
In Eastern Europe, Russia, China, Mongolia, North Korea, and Cuba, revolutionary communism created a life for the mass of people that was far better than the wretched existence they had endured under feudal lords, military bosses, foreign colonizers, and Western capitalists. The end result was a dramatic improvement in living conditions for hundreds of millions of people on a scale never before or since witnessed in history.
~ Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
people in China, Russia, north Korea etc still suffer
The sharpest spike in human misery in both Russia and N Korea followed after the Yeltsin coup of the Soviet Parliament in 1993.
This precipitated a wave of de-industrialization, mass displacement, and famine spanning the USSR. It paved the road to multiple civil wars, invasions, and genocides, not the least of which we're seeing the modern day.
Westerners will tell you that these countries were liberated with the collapse of the USSR. They'll also insist the residents of these countries are subhuman and deserve to die.
Yeltsin Shelled Russian Parliament 25 Years Ago, U.S. Praised “Superb Handling”
Washington, D.C., October 4, 2018 – Twenty-five years ago last night in Moscow, Russian President Boris Yeltsin ordered tanks and airborne troops to shell and storm the “White House,” the Russian Parliament (Supreme Soviet) building, to suppress the …nsarchive.gwu.edu
Westerners will tell you that these countries were liberated with the collapse of the USSR. They'll also insist the residents of these countries are subhuman and deserve to die.
Maybe some, but certainly not most, but to say that there was no one ruling over them before yeltsin is silly, fucking Stalin was a monster, krushchev wasn't great. Mao was a horrible dictator.
to say that there was no one ruling over them before yeltsin is silly
The Soviets self-governed for the length of the Cold War. A radical departure from Nazi occupation of the 30s/40s or the debt peonage of the interwar period.
fucking Stalin was a monster. Mao was a horrible dictator
Confederates said the same thing about William T. Sherman and Abraham Lincoln.
The Soviets self-governed for the length of the Cold War
Except for the leaders of the party? How do you define self governing?
Confederates said the same thing about William T. Sherman and Abraham Lincoln.
Sure there were some monsters in the Union army, but they were fighting slavers, so I don't really care for their opinion. Nor should you
Except for the leaders of the party?
You mean the survivors of the Holocaust and resistance movement heroes that liberated their nations from brutal occupation?
Sure there were some monsters in the Union army
Okay buddy. Glad to know where you stand
You mean the survivors of the Holocaust and resistance movement heroes that liberated their nations from brutal occupation
Your original premise was that there was freedom without being ruled over, I was saying that was bullshit.
Okay buddy. Glad to know where you stand
Anti slavery? Yeah happy to be anti slavery haha. I'm glad to know where you stand
I was going to say there was no actual evidence, but huh, I actually fell for some of the tankie lies after enough time. China's deputy health minister Huang Jiefu repeatedly publicly acknowledged that most organ transplants came from death row inmates, and separately China was exporting organs to south korea on a massive scale prior to 2007.
(though it's notable that this has not been connected to the Uyghur situation specifically)
(Also noting that it's Israel claimed to end the practice in 2000, while China claimed to end the practice in 2015)
sources pre-emptively posted: the guardian, (old) beijing times, zhenhua.163.com, der spiegel
China Prepares for Olympics: Drop in Executions Leads to Organ Shortage
With the Olympics in Beijing just 500 days away, China has begun cleaning up organ trafficking practices. Not only have exports been banned, but with fewer prisoner executions, a major source of organs has dried up.DER SPIEGEL
And if you solve enpugh to get to 150, you should live a lot longer.
Really depends on how you solve it. Announcing "we can keep you in a vegetative state for an extra 50 years" isn't a strong sign that the technology is there yet. Besides, there's a lot more to living than just heartbeat and baseline brain activity.
I honestly believe people could live to 150 within the next century
It's a fun and easy thing to believe. Significantly harder to accomplish.
I don’t expect those advances to be soon enough to help either of these guys
They've already benefited substantively from the last 70 years of health technology. And I wouldn't be surprised of Xi, in particular, is enjoying some knock-on effects of being the head of state in a nation that's on the cutting edge of medical research.
But there's a huge difference between "living to 100" and "being a functional adult at age 100". Xi's already pushing the line in his 70s and should have been queuing up a successor two terms ago. Putin's in it even worse, having trotted out Medeved and watched him flop in front of Parliament back in... what? 2008? Now he's got the tiger by the tail as he coasts into his own golden years.
The fact that the US is floundering amidst its own techno-fascist gerentocracy should be a giant alarm bell for every other national government. You can't just stack the fate of your country on whether Chucks Grassley and Schumer can maintain a pulse indefinitely. But I guess when its your turn in the big chair, its easy to think you'll live forever.
Life expectancy at 25 hasn’t changed dramatically in the last 2000 years
Heavily dependent on where and when you lived. In Tibet, for instance, life expectancy topped out at around 35 years in 1950 and is now cresting 75 in 2025. In the Palestinian Territories, the last ten years have seen life expectancy actually grew from 67 years to 76 years between 1992 and 2022. Then, in 2023, it fell off a cliff for some reason.
A nasty famine, a brutal war, or a global pandemic can clip the lives of senior citizens short very quickly.
But otherwise, sure. Solving the problems of agriculture and sanitation modernization have been comparatively easy relative to addressing telomere erosion or alzhemier's treatments. Simply not killing people is a lot easier than keeping them alive indefinitely.
Although, one might also argue that the problems of aging haven't been felt so acutely prior to the 1950s, because comparatively fewer people were living into their senior years. Now that we have a bumper crop of senior citizens, we've been given a strong economic incentive to pursue technologies at an industrial scale. It's not just The Qin Emperor downing cups of mercury, thinking his exceptional wealth and privilege will grant him an extract century of youthfulness.
The life expectancy at 25 in Roman times was about 70 years old.
Maybe for a Senator or other member of the patrician class.
But even in the last century, we've seen more movement than what you're describing.
in the early 20th century (around 1900-1902), a 25-year-old could expect to live approximately 39 to 40 more years, reaching around age 64-65. By 2017, a 25-year-old could expect to live about 55 more years, reaching roughly age 80.
So, closer to 20%
of our advances have added about 10% to a person’s life span after they got past childhood diseases, the recklessness of youth, and serving in the military in the case of Romans.
The vast majority of these advanced have occurred in the last 70 years. The intervening 2500 has been relatively flat.
And I’m not entirely sure of the relevance of a genocide in Israel to Xi’s prospects.
Mostly just a comparison of wealth and technology.
Decennial Life Tables for the White Population of the United States, 1790–1900 - PMC
This article constructs new life tables for the white population of the United States in each decade between 1790 and 1900. Drawing from several recent studies, it suggests best estimates of life expectancy at age 20 for each decade.pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
A lot of people see the idea of age limits (or term limits) as a backdoor way of getting "their guy" off the ballot. Because so much of the modern political scene is just charismatic demagoguery, anything that threatens the position of your personal political Messiah is an attack on your ideological faith.
Better to elect some decrypt mummy leaking shit out of his adult diaper than risk some rival sect of the party taking office.
Pretty sure that's part of the plot of Time Enough to Love
Also, hope you enjoy your diets of microplastics and really fucked up climate
There's a fictional movie about it.
Honestly kind of idyllic. The premise of living in a childish Utopia until you've "won the lottery" seems far more generous on its face than the slaughterhouse conditions most domesticated animals endure.
Okay, just because you think can live that long physically doesn't mean you'll be there mentally. You can do all these transplants to keep your body going, but I don't think we've figured out how to replace the brain without killing someone since I doubt healthy living and organ transplants are gonna keep the brain healthy enough to be mentally fit to do much of anything.
Also, I personally wouldn't want people like them to be living that long.
I think this is Xi and Putin deliberately fucking with Trump.
Think about it: he's circling the drain, they know it, and he's desperate for anything to save him.
interestingengineering.com/sci…
World-first: Paralyzed patients walk with China's brain-spinal chip
Paralyzed patients in China regained mobility within 24 hours of groundbreaking brain-spinal implant surgery.Sujita Sinha (Interesting Engineering)
Xi Jinping says world faces ‘peace or war’, as Putin and Kim join him for military parade
Xi Jinping said the world was facing a choice between peace or war as he held China’s largest-ever military parade, joined by Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un in a show of defiance to the west.Putin and Kim, the authoritarian leaders of Russia and North Korea, were among dozens of world leaders who attended the parade, a massive display of military hardware and personnel, orchestrated to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the second world war, which China calls the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression.
“Today, humanity is again faced with the choice of peace or war, dialogue or confrontation, win-win or zero-sum,” Xi told the crowd of more than 50,000 spectators, adding that the Chinese people “firmly stand on the right side of history”.
Xi Jinping says world faces ‘peace or war’, as Putin and Kim join him for military parade
Trump criticises victory day event as China caps off week of diplomatic grandstanding seen as rebuke to the westHelen Davidson (The Guardian)
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When an authoritarian offers "peace" they mean "everyone lets me do what I want"...
That's not peace, it's waging war on their own citizens and usually a couple neighboring countries.
Nothing is more peace than:
- a military parade showing of weapons capable of ending the world
- having a guy who has started and still cotinues the biggest war of 21st century
- having another guy who runs the most brutal and isolated country in the world who's also contributing to the said war
It's just blatantly giving
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength
Don't know why you were downvoted
FYI : all comments have been downvoted. Twice to be exact. Thats not a coincidence.
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They are whiny babies who don't even trust each other. They want their way with everything and not getting it is a crime to them.
There is true evil in this universe.
Those that do not value the life of other intelligent beings as though they were themselves are in this category.
Thailand ruling party moves to dissolve parliament
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Thai politicians doing Thai politics.
I'm certain it would be entertaining if I only know what the hell was going on. I've been a long time observer but I just don't get it.
Donald taking notes
Or he would, if he could read or write
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Pedro Sánchez: Europe’s response to war in Gaza has been a failure
Pedro Sánchez: Europe’s response to war in Gaza has been a failure
Spanish prime minister says double standards over Gaza and Ukraine threaten to undermine the west’s global standingSam Jones (The Guardian)
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This is just hand wringing.
Until you actually recognise this as genocide and then implement your responsibilities under international law then you are still complicit.
Foreign policy is not part of the EU and is the sovereign responsibility of each country so you do not have to be in sync or follow others in this.
Argentina couple under house arrest amid search for painting stolen by Nazis
Argentina couple under house arrest amid search for painting stolen by Nazis
Daughter of former Nazi official and her husband to be questioned after raid on home failed to find masterpieceGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
US kills 11 people in strike against alleged drug boat from Venezuela
US kills 11 people in strike against alleged drug boat from Venezuela
President Trump confirmed the operation, accusing the ship of carrying drugs and of having ties to the Tren de Aragua criminal organizationMacarena Vidal Liy (Ediciones EL PAÍS S.L.)
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What will Venezuela now do? It feel much like Middle East
Terrorist v drug
Israeli drones drop grenades near UN peacekeepers in Lebanon in what UNIFIL calls a serious attack
The peacekeeping force known as UNIFIL described the Tuesday morning incident as “one of the most serious attacks on UNIFIL personnel and assets” since the cessation of hostilities in November that ended the 14-month Israel-Hezbollah war.
UNIFIL said Israeli drones dropped four grenades close to the peacekeepers, who were working to clear roadblocks that hindered access to a U.N. position along the border line. One grenade hit within 20 meters (yards) and three others within approximately 100 meters of U.N. personnel and vehicles, it said, adding the drones were observed returning toward Israel. No one was hurt in the attack.
UNIFIL said the Israeli military had been informed in advance of the peacekeeping force’s road clearance work in the area, southeast of the village of Marwahin less than a kilometer (mile) from the border line.
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Death penalty for Indian man who burnt alive wife over skin colour
Udaipur: Death penalty for Indian man who burnt alive wife over skin colour
The judge said the murder fell in the category of "rarest of the rare" and was "a crime against humanity".Geeta Pandey (BBC News)
I live life by recognising three things we all share in common...
- We had no say in being born
- We had no say in what vessel we'd get to live in
- We had no say in the conditions we'd be born into
Anyone that can't acknowledge this has long since been able to acknowledge themselves. They are so lost that they will never find happiness.
I' don't condone torture, but in this case, my protest would probably accidentally arrive too late.
Tolerance towards intolerance feeds intolerance.
Paradox of tolerance:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_…
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Dunno - that seems like it could be made to last a lot longer than incineration, unless you saved him from the fire but made him live with the burns. Of course your suggestion has its own possibilities like pouring salt or alcohol into the fresh open wounds.
Anyway, that's enough for me. Can't believe I even just said that stuff because I'm not normally an eye-for-an-eye person - this crime just disgusted me that much.
Goodnight.
only the stupid among us would think they are superior because their skin makes less vitamin D so they have to take supplements if they want to live north or they can only be outside for 10 minutes each day if they want to live south…or get a sunburn and get called redneck for that.
Is this referring to white skin or darker skin? i get your message im just confused by the example.
On the night she died, Kishandas had brought a plastic bottle with a brown liquid - he said it was a medicine to make her skin fairer.According to the statements, he applied the liquid to her body and when she complained that it smelled like acid, he set her on fire with an incense stick. When her body started burning, he poured the rest of the liquid on her and ran away.
Kishandas's parents and sister took her to hospital where she later died.
Right? I am pale as snow and man I envy people who can just throw on shorts and walk outside without concern because I am an absolute reflective hazard. I could blind someone!
Grass is always greener, I guess...
Two reasons:
- Internalised oppression. Because of European colonisation, white skin has been equated to beauty and higher status in former colonies.
- However, even before European colonisation, fairer skin has always been seen as a status symbol. Fairer skin means someone wealthy enough not to work outside being exposed to the sun.
It is not one or the other explanation by the way, these two coalesced. But in some countries that were never colonised by Europeans, the answer for obsession with lighter skin is number 2.
Edit: I should also mention, Europeans used to be obsessed with light skin for the precise reason as number 2. European nobility powdered themselves white. The obsession with getting tanned only came much more recently, because getting tanned implies one can afford holidays and thus a sign of status symbol, at least in Europe.
Trump accuses Xi of conspiring against US with Putin and Kim
Trump accuses Xi of conspiring against US with Putin and Kim
Donald Trump's comments came as China held a massive military parade attended by the Russian and North Korean leaders.Emily Atkinson (BBC News)
Child Rapist attempts yet another distraction.
I'm not an unreasonable person. In lieu of the Epstein Files, I'm willing to accept your obituary.
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Or maybe he is just pretending, because how could anyone no matter how stupid have expected otherwise from the policies of Trump? You'd have to be a MAGA republican to be that stupid!
Oh wait...
How surprising, countries working together against a country that is clearly trying to undermine them!
Even fucking Europe and Canada are working closer together with China now, because Trump forced them to.
Trump is a traitor and a Russian asset, he is just pretending to be upset by the results of the policies he was instructed to by Russia!
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Chat are the allied countries of Russia and China conspiring?
Dude's about to find out how he got elected.
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blech. literally every expert said we shouldn't do this and the rightoids did it anyway because they're obsessed with culture.
edit:
some of my favourite nonsense includes
- a documentary from the 70s about the mods subculture
- the criminal code
- a waterfall
- a speech about the welfare state
- the post of national ombudsman of justice
- a house where a painter used to live
- a jet fighter
this is insane. and when interviewed by aftonbladet, the cultural policy spokesperson for the sweden democrats said, quote
Det är en bekräftelse för den öppna nationalism som jag och sverigedemokraterna står för
lit. "this is an affirmation of the open nationalism that me and my party stand for"
the fucking what
SD party has nazi roots, so you can have a better perspective.
And now they're the second parti in Sweden 😱
Man, I hope you won't believe anybody in the world cares about any single letter or sound you emit, cause it would be pretty sad for your life.
If you think my post it's out of focus, just go ahead, it's called being an adult.
"It must be 50+ years old so no ABBA!"
In 1974, ABBA won the Eurovision Song Contest for Sweden with their song "Waterloo".
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