Lammy to be new deputy PM with Cooper as foreign secretary and Mahmood at Home Office
The cabinet of UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer experienced a major reshuffle on Friday after Angela Rayner resigned as UK deputy prime minister.
Rayner stepped down after an independent inquiry found she fell short of the standards expected of government ministers over a tax error on a recent house purchase.
As part of the overhaul, Yvette Cooper was named foreign minister, replacing David Lammy, who will become deputy prime minister and justice minister, Starmer's office said in a statement.
Shabana Mahmood, currently the justice minister, will replace Cooper at the home office — or interior ministry — taking on the role which includes dealing with illegal migration.
UK: Starmer names Lammy new deputy PM in cabinet reshuffle
David Lammy was the foreign minister but has now been earmarked for the role of deputy prime minister after previous incumbent Angela Rayner resigned in the wake of a tax furor.John Silk (Deutsche Welle)
Tesla offers Elon Musk a trillion-dollar pay package
Elon Musk could become the world’s first trillionaire if he hits targets set by Tesla, under a scheme disclosed by the electric car company he runs and in which he is the largest shareholder.
Tesla outlined the terms of the incentive package, unprecedented in corporate history, in a section of its latest stock market update that began: “Yes, you read that correctly.”
Musk, the company said, will have to increase the value of Tesla from just over $1tn now to $8.5tn over 10 years.
If he presides over growth on that scale, the 54-year-old will receive new shares that would push his stake in the company from nearly 16% to well beyond 25%, increasing the fortunes of the world’s richest man to more than $2tn.
Tesla offers Elon Musk a trillion-dollar pay package
CEO will have to increase the value of his electric car company from just over $1tn to $8.5tn over 10 years.Rob Davies (The Guardian)
Tesla offers Elon Musk a trillion-dollar pay package
Elon Musk could become the world’s first trillionaire if he hits targets set by Tesla, under a scheme disclosed by the electric car company he runs and in which he is the largest shareholder.
Tesla outlined the terms of the incentive package, unprecedented in corporate history, in a section of its latest stock market update that began: “Yes, you read that correctly.”
Musk, the company said, will have to increase the value of Tesla from just over $1tn now to $8.5tn over 10 years.
If he presides over growth on that scale, the 54-year-old will receive new shares that would push his stake in the company from nearly 16% to well beyond 25%, increasing the fortunes of the world’s richest man to more than $2tn.
Tesla offers Elon Musk a trillion-dollar pay package
CEO will have to increase the value of his electric car company from just over $1tn to $8.5tn over 10 years.Rob Davies (The Guardian)
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At least 475 workers detained in major Ice raid at US Hyundai factory
Hundreds of workers at a factory being built in Georgia to make car batteries for Hyundai and Kia electric vehicles were detained in a huge raid by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) on Thursday that stopped construction.
The facility is part of what would be the biggest industrial investment in the state’s history and had been hailed as a huge boost for the economy by Georgia’s Republican governor, Brian Kemp.
About 475 workers were arrested, according to US immigration officials on Friday, the largest single-site enforcement operation in the history of the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which was created in the aftermath of the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks on the US in New York and Washington DC.
Seoul promises to help hundreds of Korean workers arrested in US in Ice raid
Total of 475 detained in Georgia at construction site of factory to make batteries for Hyundai and Kia carsClea Skopeliti (The Guardian)
At least 475 workers detained in major Ice raid at US Hyundai factory
Hundreds of workers at a factory being built in Georgia to make car batteries for Hyundai and Kia electric vehicles were detained in a huge raid by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) on Thursday that stopped construction.
The facility is part of what would be the biggest industrial investment in the state’s history and had been hailed as a huge boost for the economy by Georgia’s Republican governor, Brian Kemp.
About 475 workers were arrested, according to US immigration officials on Friday, the largest single-site enforcement operation in the history of the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which was created in the aftermath of the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks on the US in New York and Washington DC.
Seoul promises to help hundreds of Korean workers arrested in US in Ice raid
Total of 475 detained in Georgia at construction site of factory to make batteries for Hyundai and Kia carsClea Skopeliti (The Guardian)
700 days of Israeli genocide in Gaza a stain on humanity: Hamas
The Palestinian resistance group Hamas marked 700 days of Israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza on Friday, calling it a “stain on humanity” and urging the international community to take decisive action against the ongoing atrocities.
In a statement, Hamas highlighted its efforts to reach a ceasefire and a prisoner exchange agreement, stressing that it had “shown significant flexibility” in negotiations.
The movement blamed the repeated failure of mediators on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and called him “a war criminal committed to undermining diplomatic initiatives, pursuing indefinite plans of extermination and displacement, and placing the lives of captives at risk to serve his government’s agenda.”
Hamas renewed its call to the international community, including Arab and Islamic countries, the UN, and its organs, particularly the UN Security Council, to “fulfill their responsibilities toward the Palestinian people and intervene to halt the crimes of the fascist occupation government.”
The movement emphasized the need for “punitive measures against Israel,” warning that “mere condemnations are insufficient” and that, without substantial consequences, Israel would “continue its crimes without regard for international protests or positions.”
Hamas also praised global grassroots solidarity with the Palestinian people and welcomed the launch of the Global Sumud Flotilla, an initiative to break the blockade on Gaza.
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Dissenting civil servants are silenced, says UK diplomat who quit over Gaza
He said he was repeatedly warned by colleagues against documenting his concerns in writing, as he worked on a report assessing whether the government is legally compliant in exporting arms to certain countries.
“I was routinely asked to go to senior directors’ offices and told to, quote, ‘make the situation look less bad,” said Smith, who was a diplomat and policy adviser at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. “Sections that I’ve written which talked about civilian casualties, for example, I was asked to kind of play them down, make them smaller.”
He described the office’s working culture as “very strange” and “different to anything I’ve ever experienced in the civil service”. “Everyone wanted to make it look as though we were on the right side of the law, and any kind of suggestion [otherwise] tended to be met with panic and a kind of extreme pressure, to not talk about that.”
He said it is “fully understood in the department” that conversations about the UK’s conduct and relationship with Israel should take place “in person and not in writing”. “The reason for that is that we didn’t want those conversations to be requested by a court,” he claimed.
Dissenting civil servants are silenced, says UK diplomat who quit over Gaza
Mark Smith resigned last August over the UK’s failure to stop selling arms to Israel.Anealla Safdar (Al Jazeera)
Dissenting civil servants are silenced, says UK diplomat who quit over Gaza
He said he was repeatedly warned by colleagues against documenting his concerns in writing, as he worked on a report assessing whether the government is legally compliant in exporting arms to certain countries.
“I was routinely asked to go to senior directors’ offices and told to, quote, ‘make the situation look less bad,” said Smith, who was a diplomat and policy adviser at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. “Sections that I’ve written which talked about civilian casualties, for example, I was asked to kind of play them down, make them smaller.”
He described the office’s working culture as “very strange” and “different to anything I’ve ever experienced in the civil service”. “Everyone wanted to make it look as though we were on the right side of the law, and any kind of suggestion [otherwise] tended to be met with panic and a kind of extreme pressure, to not talk about that.”
He said it is “fully understood in the department” that conversations about the UK’s conduct and relationship with Israel should take place “in person and not in writing”. “The reason for that is that we didn’t want those conversations to be requested by a court,” he claimed.
Dissenting civil servants are silenced, says UK diplomat who quit over Gaza
Mark Smith resigned last August over the UK’s failure to stop selling arms to Israel.Anealla Safdar (Al Jazeera)
In the West, it is a crime to deny one Holocaust and dangerous to name another
No self-respecting journalist considers Holocaust denial a legitimate point of view, and no serious media organisation argues that impartiality requires it to provide Holocaust denial with a platform in any serious discussion about Germany's extermination of Europe's Jews during World War Two - let alone equal time, or beginning and ending every such discussion with "Germany said".
Gaza Genocide denial, by contrast, is a well-organised and orchestrated global campaign sponsored, funded, and avidly promoted - without any hindrance whatsoever - by the regime perpetrating the genocide.
Serious media organisations not only consider it a journalistic requirement to give Gaza Genocide denial a platform and equal time, but they also routinely communicate Israel's talking points to their audiences. The BBC's compulsive resort to "Israel says" is a case in point.
The ICJ itself has already ruled, on multiple occasions, that Israel must implement a series of measures to ensure it is not violating its obligations under the Genocide Convention. Israel has dismissed these instructions out of hand and categorically refused to implement even one of them.
It is now widely considered a foregone conclusion that the ICJ will rule either that Israel's entire Gaza campaign constitutes genocide, or that specific acts and policies Israel has pursued in the context of its military campaign qualify as genocide under the Genocide Convention.
In the West, it is a crime to deny one Holocaust and dangerous to name another
While outlawing Holocaust denial, western governments punish critics of Israel's crimes and elevate denial of its ongoing genocide in Gaza to official policy and media orthodoxyMiddle East Eye
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1. Kicking Hitler's corpse is a cheap way to pretend to care for human life, without improving anything. But fighting a present genocide could actually prevent it. There might also be pushback. The adage: liberals oppose all wars, except the current war.
2. Europe and its successors (like US and Australia) genocided many red, brown, and yellow peoples. Hitler was meant to genocide slavs (not fully white) and especially communists, but escaped the leash and killed too many French, Jews and other whites.
Outlawing holocaust denial is dumb as fuck.
Japan was literally worse than the Nazis during World War 2, but we can think or say whatever we want about them.
Bolsonaro Coup Trial, Day 4 of 5: Supreme Court Majority Secures Conviction
The fourth day of Jair Bolsonaro’s Supreme Court trial brought a decisive turn. By Wednesday evening, four justices had voted to convict the former president and his seven allies for plotting to overturn the 2022 election, assuring a guilty verdict before the trial’s conclusion.
Justice Alexandre de Moraes, the rapporteur of the case, opened the session with a lengthy vote to convict on all charges, including coup plotting, criminal association, and violent attack on democratic order.
He described the scheme as an “unprecedented assault” on Brazil’s democracy, warning that past cycles of impunity for coups must not be repeated. Moraes proposed severe sentences that could exceed 30 years in prison for Bolsonaro.
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Global South Lines Up: From China to BRICS, Investors Ready to Chip in to Russia’s Far East
Global South Lines Up: From China to BRICS, Investors Ready to Chip in to Russia’s Far East
President Vladimir Putin’s push to drive Far East development through a unified business-friendly regime is drawing keen interest from ASEAN and other regional players, according to experts.Sputnik International
Did Putin really threaten potential peacekeepers in Ukraine? Here’s what he actually said and how Western media misled the public
Did Putin really threaten potential peacekeepers in Ukraine? Here’s what he actually said and how Western media misled the public
Here’s how a familiar Russian warning morphed into a Western story about targeting peacekeepersRT
For the record, I agree with you, lol.
I was purposefully asking this person who seems to disagree. I wanted to know what they see in western media that seems more convincing, if anything.
Europe power guru Wang Xiongfei brings grid stability expertise home to China
Europe power guru Wang Xiongfei returns to China, bringing expertise in grid stability
The newly appointed Xinghua chair professor at Tsinghua University remains involved in six European research projects.Shi Huang (South China Morning Post)
India’s new tax law raids your cloud
India’s new tax law raids your cloud
The 2025 Act arms tax officers with sweeping powers to crack open passwords, sweep digital lives, and hide their reasons from scrutiny.Apar Gupta (Internet Freedom Foundation)
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Skill issue. If you can't fix this, how will you ever fix that?
See part 1: lemmy.world/post/35312231
Classic tech disinformation and my battle-tested counterattack cheat sheet (work in progress)
Privacy is multiplayer. So, we must spread it.To do well, we must fight efficiently.
We cannot waste our lives writing a custom essay against every troll, disinformer and psyop agent.
Short, simple and focused response is vital.
Here is what works for me:
- > I do not care about privacy
- Agreed. We do not control X, scam. Why should we let it abuse us?
- Agreed. X is not libre software, we do not control it, scam. Why should we let it abuse us?
- Agreed. X fails to include a libre software license text file, we do not control it, scam. Why should we let it abuse us?
- > Open source ...
- 'Open source' misses the point of libre software, by design.
- 'Open source' is a blatantly backdoored phrase, engineered to neutralise libre software.
- > Developers [owners] [of anti-libre software] need [to make money] to eat.
- You are not entitled to infect our devices and hijack control over our computing.
- Selling libre software is good.
- > You must read all its source code to guarantee it is safe.
- Blatant lie, classic disinformation, who told you to read it alone? lmao
- When it bans us from forking it, we do not control it, guaranteed. lmao
- > Crypto [currency] ...
- Truth nuke, the biggest scam ever made is the $
- Cash will never be more safe or private than 12 words in my head.
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They have to come around it themselves.
I just plant seed, they come back once they are ready to have the adult discussion.
it took years to move my friends into privacy focused product. with each new fiasco one or two would reach out.
What are you going to do
I've already done it and I never needed force.
An app is never convenient when we do not control it.
Even if we get people to shift to privacy respecting or encrypted apps, the problem still stands. They could just ask you to give access to those services. If you don't, it would come with its own legal challenges.
Section 247(1)(ii)–(iii) mandates individuals and businesses to disclose passwords or encryption keys and permits officers to “override the access control” of any device or account. If you don’t hand over your phone passcode or email password on demand, officials can hack into the device. Any refusal is now explicitly punishable as non-compliance.End-to-end encrypted messaging services like WhatsApp or Signal could be forced open during a tax raid.
Solving the issue would need to come from challenging the act itself.
They won't know what we're using.
If you can't challenge a few apps, you'll never challenge that.
If you scroll down the article you would see that the select committee is shutting down any requests for change with the same set of arguments. The recourse might be to challenge the act in court but that seems unlikely, The public wont really do anything about it, because in their view it doesn't affect them; they fail to see(and are veiled from seeing) the highly probable misuse angle of such far reaching legislation.
Bottom line: As long as you don't touch the street dogs you can get away with anything
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I hate that you are right. I really wanted to do something to make a difference, but it's saddening to see no one batting an eye to this.
But you can do something to make a difference, get others to care. How? See this:
Start with the easy stuff. Get those around you off WhatsApp and Discord.
Now they don't have to use other methods of regurgitating garbage, they can now use LLMs to automatically regurgitate garbage FOR them.
It's almost like these rich people have some other idea of how the world works, and some seem to not notice it.
US commandos killed North Korean civilians in botched 2019 mission, NYT says
SEOUL, Sept 5 (Reuters) - U.S. Navy SEALs shot and killed a number of North Korean civilians during a botched covert mission to plant a listening device in the nuclear-armed country during high-stakes diplomatic negotiations in 2019, the New York Times reported on Friday.
Citing unidentified sources, including current and former military officials with knowledge of the still-classified details, the newspaper said Donald Trump approved the operation during his first administration, as he was involved in historic talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
The civilians appeared to be diving for shellfish when they inadvertently came across the detachment of SEALs as they splashed ashore at night, the Times reported. The American forces opened fire, killing all those aboard the small fishing vessel, the report said, without specifying the number of casualties.
A classified Pentagon review later concluded the killings were justified under the rules of engagement, the report said.
US commandos killed North Korean civilians in botched 2019 mission, NYT says
SEOUL, Sept 5 (Reuters) - U.S. Navy SEALs shot and killed a number of North Korean civilians during a botched covert mission to plant a listening device in the nuclear-armed country during high-stakes diplomatic negotiations in 2019, the New York Times reported on Friday.
Citing unidentified sources, including current and former military officials with knowledge of the still-classified details, the newspaper said Donald Trump approved the operation during his first administration, as he was involved in historic talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
The civilians appeared to be diving for shellfish when they inadvertently came across the detachment of SEALs as they splashed ashore at night, the Times reported. The American forces opened fire, killing all those aboard the small fishing vessel, the report said, without specifying the number of casualties.
A classified Pentagon review later concluded the killings were justified under the rules of engagement, the report said.
US commandos killed North Korean civilians in botched 2019 mission, NYT says
SEOUL, Sept 5 (Reuters) - U.S. Navy SEALs shot and killed a number of North Korean civilians during a botched covert mission to plant a listening device in the nuclear-armed country during high-stakes diplomatic negotiations in 2019, the New York Times reported on Friday.
Citing unidentified sources, including current and former military officials with knowledge of the still-classified details, the newspaper said Donald Trump approved the operation during his first administration, as he was involved in historic talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
The civilians appeared to be diving for shellfish when they inadvertently came across the detachment of SEALs as they splashed ashore at night, the Times reported. The American forces opened fire, killing all those aboard the small fishing vessel, the report said, without specifying the number of casualties.
A classified Pentagon review later concluded the killings were justified under the rules of engagement, the report said.
A classified Pentagon review later concluded the killings were justified under the rules of engagement, the report said.
This is just adding insult to injury "yeah we invaded a foreign country who has never done any harm to us and gunned down a group of random bystanders but you can't get mad at us because we wrote a piece of paper saying that we're allowed to do it"
NATO troops on Ukraine battlefield would be ‘legitimate targets’ – Putin
NATO troops on Ukraine battlefield would be ‘legitimate targets’ – Putin
Russian President Vladimir Putin has reiterated opposition to any Western military presence in UkraineRT
PM Benjamin Netanyahu shares article calling him an 'icon of the global right'
PM Benjamin Netanyahu shares article calling him an 'icon of the global right' | The Jerusalem Post
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu retweeted statements made by MK Avichai Chikli shortly after Likud's Twitter account accused social media sites of "political censorship."The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com
Only 15% of French people trust Emmanuel Macron
La confiance des Français à l’égard de Macron et Bayrou continue de chuter, leur record d’impopularité battu
Seulement 15 % des Français font confiance à Emmanuel Macron, tandis que François Bayrou recueille 14 % d’opinions favorables, selon un sondage.Le Parisien avec AFP (Le Parisien)
Jeena's Hyprland Demo
I switched to Hyprland some time ago and now I made a video showcasing all the features I've implemented for myself, check it out!
In this video I'm showing my current Hyprland setup as a demo. I'm showing features I implemented myself and my configuration of hyprland, waybar, tofi, wlogout, kitty and other tools.
And here the link to my hypr-dotfiles: git.jeena.net/jeena/hypr-dotfi…
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Israel’s Attacks on Seed Banks Destroy Millennia of Palestinian Cultural Heritage
Israel’s Attacks on Seed Banks Destroy Millennia of Palestinian Cultural Heritage | Truthout
When Israel targets Palestinian seed banks, it’s not just destroying buildings. It’s attacking the future itself.britney (Truthout)
Let’s use healthcare as an example. Liberalism generally believe in the power of the markets so are quite happy to privatise healthcare.
It’s pretty obvious to anyone paying attention that a healthcare system that requires private individuals to pay for coverage will result in the poorest and most unfortunate having no coverage.
The very idea of privatised healthcare being acceptable on any level is antithetical to leftist beliefs but compatible with liberal ideology, hence it is right wing.
Liberalism is an ideology with two main parts. First is political liberalism which focuses on individual freedoms, democracy, and human rights. Second is economic liberalism which centers around free markets, private property, and wealth accumulation. These two aspects form a contradiction. Political liberalism purports to support everyone’s freedom, while economic liberalism enshrines private property rights as sacred in laws and constitutions, effectively removing them from political debate.
Liberalism justifies the use of state violence to safeguard property rights, over supporting ordinary people, which contradicts the promises of fairness and equality. Private property is seen as a key part of individual freedom under liberalism, and this provides the foundational justification for the rich to keep their wealth while ignoring the needs of everyone else. The talks of promoting freedom and democracy is just a fig leaf to provide cover for justifying capitalist relations.
This is an excellent primer on the subject orgrad.wordpress.com/articles/…
Liberalism: the two-faced tyranny of wealth
1. The rule of money 2. Liberalism as deception 3. Liberalism and fascism 4. Fake “lessons from history” 5. A spectacle of lies 6. Case study: Macronist France 7. Conclusions 1. The rul…organic radicals
Palestinian boys shot in testicles as “target practice” (Video short)
Dr. Nick Maynard, from Oxford University Hospital, talks about Palestinian boys in Gaza with gunshot wounds he believes were caused by deliberate targeting by Israeli soldiers.
Palestinian boys shot in testicles as “target practice”
Dr Nick Maynard on treating Palestinian boys in Gaza with gunshot wounds he believes were caused by deliberate targetingAl Jazeera
Over 19,000 children killed in Gaza by Israel as genocide marks 700th day
According to the latest figures from the Palestinian health ministry in Gaza, at least 19,424 children have been killed in Israeli attacks since October 2023 - the equivalent of one child every 52 minutes. Among them are 1,000 infants under the age of one.
Over 19,400 children killed in Gaza by Israel as genocide marks 700th day
Children in Gaza account for more than 30 percent of deaths since Israel began its genocide nearly two years ago, as the besieged enclave remains the "most dangerous place to be a child".Mera Aladam (Middle East Eye)
Hamas publishes new video of captives
“We thought we were hostages of Hamas; but the truth is we are hostages of our own government, of Netanyahu, Ben Gvir, and Smotrich,” captive Guy Dalal said in the video, according to a translation on Telegram.The video called on the public to protest the Israeli government’s actions and highlighted the vulnerability of the captives as Gaza City is being levelled by Israeli strikes.
The first video is Palestinian CCTV, the second video is IDF militants bragging how much money they are stealing.
Many money exchanges have been raided, the videos might not be from the same exchange. But they are from this week.
Some additional context in this short Aljazeera video:
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Pretty ballsy to sit and count the money in the bank as you steal it rather than taking it and counting later.
Then again who's going to stop you when they are who show up when the cops get called.
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