Israel to bring influencers and officials in global PR campaign
As part of the war of awareness against the anti-Israel narrative worldwide, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs led by Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar is promoting an unprecedented move in its scope: By the end of December, approximately 400 delegations are expected to arrive in Israel, including over 5,000 participants who will help spread the Israeli narrative in the international media and to international audiences.
The delegations include a wide range of participants, including government officials and elected officials, journalists and influencers, academics, legal, religious, cultural and sports figures. For comparison, so far, in an average year, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has brought only 25 delegations to Israel.
The decision to "concentrate effort" on delegations, with an investment of approximately 135 million NIS, comes after studies that have shown the effectiveness of the tool in the war of consciousness, bringing public opinion multipliers to Israel, who, after their visit to Israel, spread the Israeli narrative on social media and in the communities in which they are active. A notable example of this was Caitlyn Jenner's visit, who was brought to Israel during Operation Rising Lion and her content from Israel were exposed to millions of people.
Israel to bring influencers and officials in global PR campaign
As part of the war of awareness against the anti-Israel narrative worldwide, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs led by Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar is promoting an unprecedented move in its scope: By the end of December, approximately 400 delegations are expected to arrive in Israel, including over 5,000 participants who will help spread the Israeli narrative in the international media and to international audiences.
The delegations include a wide range of participants, including government officials and elected officials, journalists and influencers, academics, legal, religious, cultural and sports figures. For comparison, so far, in an average year, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has brought only 25 delegations to Israel.
The decision to "concentrate effort" on delegations, with an investment of approximately 135 million NIS, comes after studies that have shown the effectiveness of the tool in the war of consciousness, bringing public opinion multipliers to Israel, who, after their visit to Israel, spread the Israeli narrative on social media and in the communities in which they are active. A notable example of this was Caitlyn Jenner's visit, who was brought to Israel during Operation Rising Lion and her content from Israel were exposed to millions of people.
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Western companies aren’t returning to Russia yet but ‘nature abhors vacuum’ — Kremlin
Western companies aren’t returning to Russia yet but ‘nature abhors vacuum’ — Kremlin
However, Russia is interested in the return of Western firms because any economy needs new technologies, competences, and investment, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov addedTASS
Israel backs away from West Bank annexation plan after UAE warning – WaPo
Israel backs away from West Bank annexation plan after UAE warning – WaPo
West Jerusalem was taken by surprise by the admonition, the Washington Post has reportedRT
Beware it's Putin's propaganda channel Russia today
Edit: And this isn't the only pro russian fake article this account is posting
MatuushOS: Status update
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/35765190
Neskutočné sa stalo skutočným: Vyšiel nový Status update pre môj operačný systém, ktorý sa volá MatuushOS. Tentokrát mám veľmi veľa noviniek, ktoré sa udiali na tomto operačnom systéme. Čiže sa na ne poďme vrhnúť.Use the translator in the sidebar to translate the page.
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Police use batons as dozens arrested at Palestine Action protest
The London Metropolitan Police used batons to disperse peaceful protestors and arrested dozens of demonstrators calling on the UK government to reverse its decision to designate Palestine Action as a terrorist group.
Hundreds had gathered in Westminster's Parliament Square on Saturday, holding cardboard placards reading "I support Palestine Action" and flags in support of Palestine.
One protestor was seen with blood streaming down his face after they were arrested at the rally. While another protestor could be heard screaming that the police had hurt his back during their arrest.
Among the group of people detained by the police included scores of elderly protestors and families of Holocaust survivors who sat silently on the green in Parliament Square.
Police use batons as dozens arrested at Palestine Action protest
The London Metropolitan Police used batons to disperse peaceful protestors and arrested dozens of demonstrators calling on the UK government to reverse its decision to designate Palestine Action as a terrorist group.
Hundreds had gathered in Westminster's Parliament Square on Saturday, holding cardboard placards reading "I support Palestine Action" and flags in support of Palestine.
One protestor was seen with blood streaming down his face after they were arrested at the rally. While another protestor could be heard screaming that the police had hurt his back during their arrest.
Among the group of people detained by the police included scores of elderly protestors and families of Holocaust survivors who sat silently on the green in Parliament Square.
What's the background for this report, who compiled it, what the sources were and so on?
It sounds pretty dubious since it has big ass text at the start saying
This is UNEVALUED information
It's a top secret report created by the informational gathering apparatus of a global super power/nation state, with all the interest to get an accurate picture of their geopolitical rival, but also with the interest to keep their population not in the know (not it's like the only time in US history). The fact that it fits with other historical accounts of Stalin by e.g Domenico Losurdo.
Funny how you libs always pull out skepticism when it's against the western narrative. Even if it's unvaluated, it's not going to be significantly off. The CIA is pretty good at what they do
Can you point to any of CIA's metainfo about this file? Since I don't think we have anything more than this is some CIA file, but no info about who compiled this info, what they base it on, how has it been evalued (other than at the time it was apparently unevalued) and so on. You don't even know what the CIA thought of this document. We just know they have it.
Do we just take it as true because it's from CIA, even though we have no other information about it or what?
Funny how you libs always pull out skepticism when it’s against the western narrative
I mean are you against being sceptical of some random ass CIA document with big ass text on top of it about it being "unevaluated information"? Say it ain't so.
Can you point to any of CIA’s metainfo about this file? Since I don’t think we have anything more than this is some CIA file, but no info about who compiled this info, what they base it on, how has it been evalued (other than at the time it was apparently unevalued) and so on. You don’t even know what the CIA thought of this document. We just know they have it.
Might as well ask Snowden or a top ranking official
Do we just take it as true because it’s from CIA, even though we have no other information about it or what?
Why do you think they host it?
I mean are you against being sceptical of some random ass CIA document with big ass text on top of it about it being “unevaluated information”? Say it ain’t so.
Do you even know what bias is?
It doesn't sound like you have any of the info that would make this a credible document. CIA hosts a shitload of documents and a lot of them are absolute bunk and directly contradictory. They've collected a lot of reports over all the decades they've been around, that's sorta their job and then they evaluate that information and based on that try to sus out the true information. Unfortunately we have no idea what the CIA itself thought of this info, at the time of release they haven't evalued it. It's almost like finding a book in a library and believing it to be credible because it's a well known library that has that book.
Let me ask it this way: what makes you think that this report is credible, factual and trustworthy?
Let me ask it this way: what makes you think that this report is credible, factual and trustworthy?
I already answered above. It fits into the picture of historical accounts of Stalin and of how bias and interests work in regards to a nation state and it's geopolitical competitors.
You're convently ignoring the context in which this document exists and how its content relates to it.
It’s almost like finding a book in a library and believing it to be credible because it’s a well known library that has that book
Your try at abstracting something this complex fails. It's more akin having two libraries with two different accounts of history where some books are deliberately hidden (for various reasons, it exists and wasn't destroyed). This is a now a made-public book confirming the other libraries accunt history with their own source
Also:
The CIAs work is sloppy and they lie to themselves in their top secret documents. It was a soviet double agent collecting this
It sounds like you consider this document good evidence because it already aligns with what you believe in and not on the merits of how the information was gathered, how it was verified or any sort of other merits you'd usually evaluate such information when you want to use it as evidence.
And I don't think CIA was sloppy. But this again hasn't been even evalued by them, as it says on big bold letters right at the start. We have no idea what CIA actually thought of this document since we have basically no info on it. Sorry to say.
We're discussing the account of Stalin and collective leadership vs top down and not the validity of this document. Good try on moving the goal post.
Also It's not good evidence, but a valueable piece of a larger puzzle, where one understands the dynamics of political economy and has to piece it together through these. If you'd read any theory at all, you know history is always written by the dominant class and one has to read through the lines with documents like this.
Sounds like you take the western account of history for granted, and don't engage with different views. It sounds like youre taking Information by diametrically opposed forces at face value. I too would like topics like feminism explained by anti-feminists, anarchism by an anti-anarchist, Marxism by a lib etc. I definitely never engage with what the other side says
You used this document as evidence to support your argument. Of course the credibility and validity of the document is a subject for discussion.
Also It’s not good evidence, but a valueable piece of a larger puzzle, where one understands the dynamics of political economy and has to piece it together through these. If you’d read any theory at all, you know history is always written by the dominant class and one has to read through the lines with documents like this.
We have no idea who actually wrote this document. Just further pointing out how useless it really is. And believe me I'd be really interested to know the backstory of the document from a historical pov.
I used the document to highlight that even in the CIA there were people thinking Stalin is a captain of a team. I did however also point to Domenico Losurdos to underscore how its fits to existing historical accounts from a Marxist perspective
I’d be really interested to know the backstory of the document from a historical pov.
I agree, It's interesting to think about how a classified top secret document like this exists that basically could've been written by a leftie. To have this many points synthesized it required a bunch of fieldwork to come together like this, even if unevaluated.
Another interesting aspect to think about is how it relates to current dominant western narratives in regards to current geopolitical rivals
But it doesn't show that CIA thought that, as I've tried to explain. You're taking a random document we know barely anything about as some official or truly held position CIA had on the matter and that's just not what it shows.
I agree, It’s interesting to think about how a classified top secret document like this exists that basically could’ve been written by a leftie. To have this many points synthesized it required a bunch of fieldwork to come together like this, even if unevaluated. Another interesting aspect to think about is how it relates to current dominant western narratives in regards to current geopolitical rivals
I mean we don't know who wrote it, what they did to arrive to their conclusions, what was their goal, position, experience, anything really. For all we know they based it on random chatter someone heard from a friend of a friend's dog walker. That's what makes it worthless as any sort of evidence. We have a random quote or opinion, basically. To have any sort of weight, you'd need something at least, but now we have nothing.
Can you point to any of CIA’s metainfo about this file?
I believe this is the page you're looking for. It's very minimal.
cia.gov/readingroom/document/c…
What are you talking about about? Go read a goddamned book about the political structure of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, its many voting structures, its multiple state entities, its levels of power of distribution, and THEN try to argue that 1 person had full power.
It's ridiculous to think that your level of ignorance counts as a political perspective on history.
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And how does a dictatorship by a particular class meaningfully differentiate itself from a dictatorship by an individual? On a practical level, would the dictatorial class elect their own leaders democratically, have internal struggles to chose the dominant leader based on perceived merits and authority, or expect the collective of the class rule autonomously?
I can intuit this system working with democratic internal elections, but i would struggle to refer to such a system as a “doctatorship”. The proletariet don’t represent a homogeneous group with uniform needs and so would need robust democratic structures for the system to not break down into authoritarianism the first less than perfectly cool leader shows up.
Also, how do you keep the bourgeoisie from just claiming to be proletariat and gaining access to the leadership class over the immediate time frame without inducing cruelty that will earn retaliation? And then again how do you prevent infiltration over the course of generations without committing genocide? I can see maybe just wanting to strip all of the bourgeoisie of their wealth and attempting to integrate into the proletariat, but without strong democratic structures the formerly powerful would trivially coopt the whole system for their gain, or even sabatoge it to prevent others from “getting ahead” or even to exact revenge?
Yes, under a dictatorship, it's literally happened before. Are you being serious or is this supposed to be some sort of gotcha where you go "socialism can't exist without democracy so the label is pedantic"?
Socialism under one party governments have happened, that is not democracy, even if democratic elements exist within. You can't have democracy under one party, the people need the ability to form an opposition party if the need arises.
You don't understand party systems, so you imagine one-party systems are undemocratic. You are incorrect. In a multi-party systems, competing interests fight for power using the electoral system. That means you would have a capitalist party and a socialist party and they would fight for votes. Why in the world would you ever expect a communist country to have multiple parties?
Instead of that, communist parties have structures within them for different factions to have sub organizations within the party. These are all people who support communism but differ on the particulars. They fight for power within the party, ensuring that the country remains communist while still enabling democracy.
It is only in fully capitalist countries that have eliminated the power of their internal communist where you have multiple capitalist parties that actually collaborate and then spread propaganda that only multi-party states are truly democratic. It's transparent bullshit.
That's why we say that under capitalism you can change the party but the not the policies and under communism you can change the policies but not the party. Ever notice just how democratic the West is regarding war? No matter how much the people don't want war, no matter what party is in power, the leadership always chooses war. No matter how much we want profits to take a back seat to social issues, profit always wins. The policies of capitalism are unchangeable by the people. Is that democracy simply because you get to choose which team is oppressing you and killing foreigners?
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It's not an oxymoron, the idea is that when there are forces with opposed interests, one has to win. Note that this is talking about opposed interests, not interests that are merely in conflict.
So no matter how much you try to make concessions for the other, you have to choose if you want a bourgeois dictatorship (liberal democracy) or a proletariat dictatorship (people's democracy) at the end of the day. Socialists just use less euphemism, and therefore accused of "admitting to dictatorship", but a liberal democracy is the exact same type of dictatorship. The bourgeoisie interests dictate, and they make concessions for the sake of the proletariat.
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Pity he was banned. I was curious to see what his specific points were.
There's some interesting discussions to be had of Marx's writings on electoralism, revolution, and republics.
- What I remember from Marx and/or Engels is that a sharpening of capitalism’s internal contradictions are necessary but not sufficient. Revolution is still needed. We can’t expect some automatic transition from capitalism to socialism.
- Marx wasn’t a prophet. The first successful communist revolution happened in Russia under feudalism, not capitalism.
This is so dumb.
If you want change, you have to take power. Power is where the people think it is.
If people can't even realize their own power as workers and unionize, they're not about to rise up in some glorious revolution. And even if they did, the majority would just do capitalism again, because most people can't imagine anything else
But the economic system is collapsing. When it does, we need power. That's how this works. We take local, State, and federal positions and use them to do progressive things, to improve material conditions.
And then when we get to an inflection point, we need leaders who already have the support of the people. We need populist progressives in power
The reason it's dumb is because DemSocs don't actually have the ring of power to be able to cast it into the fire in the first place.
How many Bolsheviks were in positions of government? How much of the PLA was in power in China?
The sad reality is that nearly every successful socialist revolution was born through civil war.
Ernst Thälmann tried that
Many others within germany were also trying that too. It did not work
We must build duel power, not power within the bourgeois system
What about democracy? Can't voting fix our problems?
- Red Phoenix - Pacifism - How to do the enemy's job for them. Youtube Audiobook
- Why not just vote leftists into office: what's wrong with democratic socialism?
- Halim Alrah - Why liberal democracies are a sham.
- What about social democracy / democratic socialism / the Nordic model? Isn't Sweden socialist?
- On the unraveling of the Nordic welfare states: increasing inequality and forced austerity.
- Scandinavia's covert role in western imperialism
- Paul Cockshott - On Socialism and Democracy. 2 3
- Comrade Hakim - Why electoralism always fails.
- An Overview of Leninism, audiobook. Lenin - State and Revolution , audiobook
- LeftVoice - Bourgeois Democracy - What do Marxists mean by this term?
"Bourgeois Democracy": What Do Marxists Mean By This Term?
By Scott Cooper Republished from Left Voice . In 1947, Winston Churchill famously said that “democracy is the worst form of government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.Scott Cooper (Hampton Institute)
Marxist: Let me mock one of my closest ideological allies. That will help bring about revolution.
Democratic Socialist: The fuck did I do to you, bro?
Americans are getting the economy they voted for
Americans are getting the economy they voted for - Asia Times
Noahpinion began as a macroeconomics blog. So every once in a while I feel like I ought to report on the macroeconomic situation. Fortunately, the headerNoah Smith (Asia Times)
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LineageOS is apparently not private?
I'm planning on flashing LineageOS on my phone to debloat and to degoogle, and additionally to increase overall privacy but apparently from what I've heard here that it's not private enough or even at all?
I know about it being less secure because of the opened bootloader and the higher chances of you rooting to achieve what you want with a degoogled phone, but beyond that (especially privacy-wise) I don't know anything.
I've seen a video on how to degoogle it further, but surely it isn't all I need to do.
I need some education.
Unfortunately my phone is so obscure that it isn't supported by literally anything, but fortunately there's an unofficial port of LineageOS I found on Telegram, and that's the one I'll be using. So if you're thinking of suggesting another custom ROM, you're out of luck. Also you can't make me buy a Pixel - that thing ain't supported in my country (5G and others) and it's hella expensive as well.
itel P55 5G - Full phone specifications
itel P55 5G Android smartphone. Announced Sep 2023. Features 6.6″ display, Dimensity 6080 chipset, 5000 mAh battery, 128 GB storage, 6 GB RAM.gsmarena.com
Keep your existing phone and OS.
Use it differently. Decide what information you store on it, which applications you install or disable, what permissions you grant and what services you use.
Just installing an OS to "debloat and degoogle" is not ever going to change anything unless you change your habits and you don't need to change OS to do that.
OP was talking about Lineage, not Graphene.
If an app doesn't have data it cannot share it.
If you don't install the app, it cannot breach your privacy.
You don't need direct internet access to leak information, for example, an app with access to your calendar has indirect internet access.
OP was talking about Lineage, not Graphene.
Yes, but you said don't change your OS in general.
an app with access to your calendar has indirect internet access
True, but that is something stock Android does let you control.
And what exactly do you use the phone for?
It sounds like you're saying all you need to do to prevent abuse of your device is to not use the device. It can't spy on you if you leave it on the store shelf either.
Privacy isn't binary.
LineageOS without Gapps won't send information to Google unless you install something that does. It won't do a whole lot to prevent apps from collecting data like GrapheneOS does so it's up to you to evaluate the privacy implications of anything you install.
A locked bootloader protects against two attack vectors: malware modifying the operating system at runtime, and an unauthorized person with physical access installing a malicious operating system while you're not looking (an "evil maid" attack). The former is rare on Android. The latter is rare unless you're a high-value target or dating an abusive hacker.
Yeah I know I can't prevent apps from collecting data that's why I have all essentials from FOSS.
My main problem with an unlocked bootloader is I'll have to do a lot of things to get most of my apps working (mainly banking apps and games).
malware modifying the operating system at runtime
Is that from installing an app or from install a malicious ROM?
and an unauthorized person with physical access installing a malicious operating system while you’re not looking
That's like impossible. It takes time to install a ROM, and my phone is always with me so that's not happening.
The latter is rare unless you’re a high-value target or dating an abusive hacker.
Bold of you to assume I'm ever dating anyone.
Getting around Google's attestation with an unlocked bootloader requires root - I believe the go-to is Magisk and the Play Integrity Fix module. It's also a good idea to put the apps in question on the Magisk denylist. I've been using this for years with good results and would not describe it as "a lot of things".
Is that from installing an app or from install a malicious ROM?
A malicious app could modify the OS, but it would need root permissions. There are three ways that can happen:
- The app exploits a privilege escalation bug in the OS. This can happen even if you don't have root access yourself.
- The app exploits a bug in a superuser permission manager (e.g. Magisk) to gain root privileges without prompting you.
- A previously legitimate app you've given root privileges to gets a malicious update (a supply chain attack).
A malicious ROM is certainly possible. Some random person's LineageOS fork is slightly less trustworthy than its maintainer (due to supply chain attacks).
Getting around Google’s attestation with an unlocked bootloader requires root - I believe the go-to is Magisk and the Play Integrity Fix module.
I'm planning on using KernelSU, because I asked on the Magisk subreddit and it's unironically what they recommended. I looked around here and it solidified my decision even more.
The recommended way for me to install it goes like install custom recovery > install custom ROM > somehow flash preferred rooting solution in recovery > install preferred rooting solution as an app. link
GitHub - awesome-android-root/awesome-android-root: Discover 400+ best root apps, Magisk/KernelSU/APatch/LSPosed(xposed) modules, and step-by-step guides for every device.
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Ahh, such distant dreams.
I have a way of using a polished official ROM, but it's GSI, and I already have MANY answers as to why NOT use a GSI if possible.
Hey PragmaticIdealist
The video guy is talking bollocks: plus he has about 50 crypto links to pay the wanker.
Honestly, I have install lineage since 2018 and installed CyanogenMod way before that.
He talks about "Removing bloatware Google packages" from Lineage, there are no bloatware google packages in lineage.
I have just plugged my oneplus 5T with lineage installed into my laptop, and typed this into my terminal: to give me a list of all the packages installed on my phone.
adb shell pm list packages -s >oneplus5-installed.txt
I have 213 packages installed. THERE ARE NO GOOGLE PACKAGES installed.
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Captive Portal is simple to disable using adb. Its not scary.
I have 5 family phones with lineage installed
I have just checked Captive Portal on all 5
db shell settings get global captive_portal_mode
all 5 phones the output is:
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you can change your dns rather than rely on your carriers DNS. I use Mullvad DNS
mullvad.net/en/help/dns-over-h…
The eu has public dns servers:
european-alternatives.eu/categ…
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not much info on itel-p55-5g on xda
xdaforums.com/t/i-want-a-vbmet…
if you want to find out about Lineage, use their forums or use the xdaforums.com/ as above and have a good look around to see what people say.
I want a vbmeta.img and boot.img for iTel P55 5g
Hey guys! I wanted to root my phone (an iTel P55 5g build number - P661N-H334IJKLN-T-GL-240911V124) but I can't find the free firmware. So can y'all just provide me with the boot and vbmeta img...suknight (XDA Forums)
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The video guy is talking bollocks: plus he has about 50 crypto links to pay the wanker.
Really. Most of the videos I've seen of him are really solid. Plus, I do think the tips he gave are good (that's why I linked it in the first place) besides this:
He talks about “Removing bloatware Google packages” from Lineage, there are no bloatware google packages in lineage.
Yeah if you didn't install GAPPS you wouldn't get any, well... Google apps in the first place. Besides this part, I do think the others make sense because they are making connections with Google.
Captive Portal is simple to disable using adb. Its not scary.
Yeah.
Also I'm wondering about whether to disable this or not, like wouldn't it break functionality?
you can change your dns rather than rely on your carriers DNS. I use Mullvad DNS
Yeah I'm also using Mullvad DNS everywhere since I discovered it in like 2024.
not much info on itel-p55-5g on xda
Yep, I already looked everywhere. The Sourceforge repo and the Telegram group was all I found.
Hey PragmaticIdealist
I dont like him because he seems to intentionally pick controversial subjects just to get clicks.
I mean. how controversial can you get by using the headline "LineageOS is apparently not private?" and then go about trying to prove your point by not referring to Lineage.
I can only assume that loads of non techy people would be put off by his claims.
Lineage does not send any information to google nor connect to google. However the apps you choose to install could connect to google. Especially if you use closed source apps.
if you stick to open source apps via Neostore, droid-ify and F-droid basic you should be fine.
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It is safe to disable Captive portal if it is already enabled on your phone.
I have disabled it on my aunts and uncles phones, they dont use lineage or any AOSP roms.
My aunt likes the idea of free wi-fi when shes out. she has a list of all the in-store wifi, in my local shopping centre, already stored on her phone, this means that she automatically connects to whatever wifi she is nearest to.
Lineage phones have captive portal disabled by default.
Looks like you are half way there.
A good VPN is also a good choice
Keep at it.
IMO locked bootloader isn't that important as graphene OS devs make it sound, but I would NEVER trust a software "found on telegram".
I have used unofficial lineage OS before, but that phone was just an entertainment machine, with no personal information on it.
Graphene OS however has security features that other ROMs don't have like improved encryption.
However Pixels are too expensive, I can't afford them either. I'm thinking as an alternative getting a Nothing phone cm 1 (or something) which is much cheaper than a pixel and can run official /e/ OS
Yeah it kinda contradicts with my goal, but really, my ultimate goal was just to debloat my phone. I just learned degoogling from learning debloating so I thought I might as well do that. (the debloating plan I had since 2021 has brought me into this deep rabbit hole of privacy, Linux and many many more)
I'd honestly rather use anything than the stock ones at this point.
Yeah when I have the money I'm planning on buying a Poco phone as well. I heard they're good for custom ROMs (as in supported by many devs), and it's the cheapest and good option for custom ROMs.
I think I need to hurry up on that plan though because it looks like I have to do many shenanigans to open HyperOS' bootloader now.
bootloader-unlock-wall-of-shame/brands/xiaomi/README.md at main · melontini/bootloader-unlock-wall-of-shame
Keeping track of companies that "care about your data 🥺" - melontini/bootloader-unlock-wall-of-shameGitHub
Nothing will be private enough for some people.
There will always be people who will scoff and puff about what is working for you or what works best for you in your attempt to regain privacy. What's important is for you to assess your threat profile, what you want to accomplish, and if LineageOS helps you with that. Just the other day people were scoffing at people buying physical movies and not backing them up in 1-2-3 format. Like, who has the fucking time and energy for that? And it's stupid. It's like scoffing at people who buy books because eventually the binding may fail or the book could get wet so they should've scanned it into a PDF. Or when people scoff at Proton users instead of being glad people are weaning off Google. It never ends and it gets worse the further you go down the hole. Ignore them.
What other options do you have for your phone at the moment besides Lineage? Regular Android? Better off having Lineage.
to debloat and to degoogle, and additionally to increase overall privacy but apparently from what I’ve heard here that it’s not private enough or even at all?
So... there is what is theoretically possible, what's pragmatically feasible with your current skillset, what you believe you need and what you actually need.
If you rely on what is theoretically possible and what you believe you need you usually end up with burn out.
If you focus on what's pragmatically feasible with your current skillset and what you actually need instead you WILL disappoint strangers on the Internet but you might remain sane and surely will learn something in the process, thus both improve your skillset AND have a better understanding of what you actually need.
A New Interstellar Propulsion Method: T.A.R.S.
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Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.www.youtube.com
Wait is the title a typo and should say 28 million?
564 258 deaths per year for fifty years?
Where does the paper say 38 million?
Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold - Nature
AlphaFold predicts protein structures with an accuracy competitive with experimental structures in the majority of cases using a novel deep learning architecture.Nature
How cities will fossilise
How cities will fossilise
The grand metropolises of 21st Century civilisation will leave a geological legacy that will last for millennia, but some things will endure far longer than others.David Farrier (BBC)
"After The Last Sky", by Mahmoud Darwish
"The Earth is closing on us, pushing us through the last passage, and we tear off our limbs to pass through.
The Earth is squeezing us. I wish we were its wheat so we could die and live again.
I wish the Earth was our mother so she’d be kind to us.
I wish we were pictures on the rocks for our dreams to carry as mirrors.
We saw the faces of those who will throw our children out of the window of this last space. Our star will hang up mirrors.
Where should we go after the last frontiers ?
Where should the birds fly after the last sky ?
Where should the plants sleep after the last breath of air ?
We will write our names with scarlet steam. We will cut off the hand of the song, to be finished by our flesh.
We will die here, here in the last passage. Here and here our blood will plant its olive tree."
– Mahmoud Darwish
"Oh Rascal Children Of Gaza", by Khaled Juma
"Oh rascal children of Gaza,
You who constantly disturbed me with your screams under my window,
You who filled every morning with rush and chaos,
You who broke my vase and stole the lonely flower on my balcony,
Come back –
And scream as you want,
And break all the vases,
Steal all the flowers,
Come back,
Just come back…"
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Ukraine is on its own. Europe is all talk, no action
Ukraine is on its own. Europe is all talk, no action
Macron’s promise of boots on the ground is an empty show of solidarity that Putin will never allowOwen Matthews (The Telegraph)
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Trump says US has ‘lost India and Russia’
Trump says US has ‘lost India and Russia’
Hours earlier president Vladimir Putin offered joint investment projects with American firms, urging Washington to renew cooperationRT
The climate of fear is self-imposed
I am not generally in the habit of criticizing the editorial decisions of The Washington Post, my employer for 11 years and an institution that continues to good, important work in covering the unwinding of American democracy. But I think the paper’s assessment of the putative debate over Donald Trump’s signature on the note provided for Jeffrey Epstein’s 50th birthday demands some context.The article’s original headline was “No clear answers on whether Trump signed the Epstein birthday book,” a declaration that was eventually softened to “Is the signature Trump’s? Epstein birthday book feeds speculation.” The article first presents the denials of Trump’s staff and allies that he couldn’t have signed the bizarre, creepy, suggestive document. It then quotes handwriting experts, some of whom who indicated uncertainty about the signature’s provenance. A number of full signatures of Trump’s are shown in an apparent effort to demonstrate variation.
The use of full signatures doesn’t make sense because the signature in the book — created in 2003, before Epstein was on law enforcement’s radar — includes only Trump’s first name. The New York Times compared that signature to other examples of Trump signing only his first name, showing that they are nearly identical. In fact, the Wall Street Journal, which originally reported on the note, also published an article demonstrating why the note was almost certainly from Trump, including similar first-name-only signatures from the now-president.
The Journal did so, it’s safe to assume, because its initial report on the letter was rejected as invented or “fake news” by Trump et al. (Trump even sued, claiming, in part, that no such letter existed.) In other words, it probably assumed that publication of the note would trigger precisely the response that it did, an effort to move the goalposts of claimed fraudulence.
There is absolutely no reason to think that the note was not, in fact, from Trump and no reason to think that the signature is not his own. Even setting aside the obvious-to-any-layperson similarity to other signatures, the idea that someone would create a phony Trump letter as a private gift to someone Trump had praised publicly the year prior doesn’t make any sense.
So why treat the idea that the signature isn’t his seriously? Why treat the assertions of people with demonstrated track records of lying on Trump’s behalf — including Trump, his communications team and right-wing influencers — as offering sincere complaints on this particular issue? Why grant them the benefit of the doubt that they actually think the signature isn’t his?
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Recommended mini linux device for streaming to TV
Looking for a simple mini device that I can plug into TV for streaming stuff via browser/jellyfin and similar, with hdmi and control via bluetooth keyboard/mouse. What do you guys recommend?
Would this be powerful enough for example? komplett.no/product/1323029/pc…
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The mini PC you ask about might lack a bit of RAM and SSD but I think it's good enough for how you plan to use it.
The only drawback I see here depending on how you plan to use it, is that if you don't have another device on which you can store your media you will be short on storage very quick.
I recently bought a cheap NAS for storage + a mini PC to stream medias to my local devices through jellyfin and couldn't be happier.
If you can look the geekom air12 lite mini PC with the N150 CPU, it's what I got, havent had much trouble to set it up and it's cheap for what it offers imo.
Another advice : ask yourself if you think your setup will evolve in the future and try to imagine how you want it to evolve, if your solution isn't adjustable enough you might have a hard time changing every part of your setup and do it all again.
- $120. Arch installed no problem, & everyþing worked OOTB
- $210. Again, Arch installed no issue, everyþing worked OOTB.
Þe latter is really þe best deal: AMD's þe better CPU, 12 cores, integrated Ryzen graphics, 16GB, 500GB NVMe, and both memory and NVMe are trivial to upgrade. I used it as a desktop, until I got a more recent one. Even þough it's a mobile CPU, it still seems like an insanely good deal, to me.
But þe first does þe trick for half þe price if you know you're only using it to stream.
After getting an NUC, what would you install to make it more streaming UI friendly?
Or are you suggesting to just use the tv as a large monitor and stream via websites and browser?
That's what I do. I have a bunch of .desktop files that just open Firefox in kiosk mode to whichever website I want, and a bunch of .PNG files to make them look like apps. I installed them system-wide.
I'm a pretty big KDE Stan but I decided to give Gnome a go since Plasma Bigscreen is virtually impossible to install for a normal user at the moment. Its not perfect but it gets the job done, and I love the basic parental controls it has. Still absolutely awful in terms of settings though.
I use RPi5 for this and have it hooked up to steam link.
can stream at 4k with no issue.
Do you need it to do realtime video transcoding of high resolution video (>1080p)? If so, you may need a video card to do it efficiently. Otherwise, that should be more than sufficient. I know others have recommended a raspberry pi, but I don't think jellyfin supports arm CPUs, though I could be wrong. So you'd have to run it in a virtualization layer and that would increase the hardware resources and may or may not be OK on a pi, but likely would not be as energy efficient as a pi usually is and almost definitely will have trouble with realtime transcoding.
To get around the realtime transcoding you can either make sure your devices support the codecs of the videos you are playing, or you can use a separate device to do batch transcoding of the files before giving them to jellyfin. I haven't implemented jellyfin yet, though it's next on my list, so I'm not sure if there are ways to do background transcoding inside it.
If you're not hung up on Jellyfin, check whatever streaming software for it's hardware recommendations, but Jellyfin is pretty good overall from my playing with it. It's not the lowest resource using system, though.
I read OP's question as him streaming from a Jellyfin server to this box, not using this box as a Jellyfin server itself. Could be wrong, though.
Also, it's my understanding that transcoding is 100% about hardware support for the codecs and that integrated graphics that have it (TL;DR: 12th gen Intel) are going to perform pretty much just as well as even a high-end discrete gaming GPU for that task.
(I say "gaming" GPU because I was reading about the Arc Pro B50 the other day and it has two separate sets of transcoding hardware, so it presumably would actually perform better in terms of the number of simultaneous streams it could handle. But short of something like that, it apparently doesn't make much difference.)
Hardware Selection | Jellyfin
This page covers what you need to know in order to select appropriate hardware for a Jellyfin server and take full advantage of its features (e. g. hardware acceleration).jellyfin.org
Your old laptop & a generic bluetooth keyboard/mouse combo unit.
That is my setup. 😀
Looks at lap
Logitech K400 still kicking it! (No clue if there is a better one, but it's going to be hard to beat the classic)
Cool, using this setup now.
Thinking of ways to make it more friendly for my SO and guests coming to visit or babysit etc, who are not used to linux (gnome). Any tips there?
Top of mind is auto open browser on startup with fixed tabs for relevant streaming services. But could also be a simple wrapper of some kind, with UI similar to kodi, plex, jellyfin etc - but for accessing content on web.
The problem with a wrapper as you put it, specifically one running on Linux, is DRM. The only way I know of to achieve the desired Widevine encryption level is running the service in a tab in Chrome. Not any other browser, not even Chromium.
Of course you could just bypass all that nonsense by pirating your media, and have a nice easy interface consolidating titles from all streamers - even retaining a network badge so they can see where a given popular show is airing - like what I've set up in Kodi for myself as well as boomer relatives.
Other than that I'd recommend Flirc for input via remote (or LIRC if you have a supported remote already and don't mind some extra configuration)
Lol. Lmao even.
If it has google play services on it, at all, there is absolutely no privacy.
If you can manage to stick to an F-droid+Aurora+Obtainium setup (maybe with IzzyOndroid enabled in F-droid), you can probably pull off privacy, but in my experience there are at least three major streaming services ive encountered that refuse to run if Google Play Services aren't running and you can't pass the SafetyNet authenticity/security check thing (which raspberry pi is missing the firmware and hardware to be able to support.) Netflix being the biggest of them, I think Disney Plus has issues, and it's been a while since I tried but either crunchyroll or hbo Max gave me a hard time.
Who said anything about streaming services? What an absurdly silly way to throw away money in this day and age. In this economy?
I kid, but yeah OP was asking about browser/jellyfin streaming.
That is pretty expensive nowadays, if OP wants to go that expensive, getting a mini PC with the latest intel N150. The pi 5 doesn't even have hardware AV1 decoding. By the time you have all of the pi accessories, it is not much of a price difference, but defi itely a performance difference.
Plus you get benefits like actual storage instead of a separately bought SD card, more RAM, 2.5G ethernet, and HDMI2.1 & USB–C displayport.
Then you slap Linux on it (and also hope that plasma bigscreen is a success in the near future) and you have a very reliable 4K HTPC that can decode anything you throw at it. It has enough horsepower to be a home server at the same time, unlike a pi while also having just a bit higher idle power usage (2W or so).
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Vi bruker mengder av disse som avspillere for infoskjermer. Har brukt intel sine også, kjørt linux på de siden 2016.
I've tried Kodi on librelec, the old Xbox launcher. It has an app called kodi remote: your phone is the remote.
Currently I'm using an old 2013 laptop with Debian and xfce. I've installed KDE connect on it, and it also has an app KDE connect that turns your phone into the remote.
The main advantage of the remote on your phone is you can type text, copy/paste URLs, passwords and whatnot
Random fun fact: back in college, my girlfriend's best friend (and my best friend's girlfriend) was named Elisa. This being the early 2000s, I used an old school flip phone that had T9 for text entry. But "Elisa" wasn't in the T9 dictionary, so I would hit 3-5-4-7 and it would prompt "Elis"—presumably expecting an "e" after—but once I hit that last 2, it would change to "flirc."
It's interesting that that's actually become a thing now.
An Airmouse is a gamechanger.
Its a TV-remote-style device that works like a Wii remote to control the mouse, usually has a keyboard on the backside, and connects to a USB 2.4ghz or Bluetooth receiver depending on the model you get.
I got a $20 Rii and a $10 other brand one to try out. Both are fine. I like the buttons on the Rii better but it has no backlight which sucks because I'm usually watching TV in bed at 9pm. The $10 one's keyboard also responds faster so I can actually speed type.
I've just set up Jellyfin on an Intel NUC with a Celeron J4025, 8GB ram and 1TB ssd and it works flawlessly, can handle at least 3 4k (hardware accelerated) transcodes (didn't test with more). No tone mapping tho, its pretty slow. The thing cost me around 140 eur.
If you really want tone mapping and don't have the budget/space for a dgpu I heard the Intel N100/N150 mini pcs (like you picked) are great. I would be a little worried about the ram tho.
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Been using Raspberry Pi 5 with 8GB of RAM, and swapping between Android 16 (KonstaKANG's AOSP fork) for Grayjay and NewPipe, and some random Linux distro for Kodi and other offline stuff.
So far working nicely.
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(Thinking aloud) Wonder if it works in ARM devices and with programs that require constant connection... 👀
Thanks! Will be cooking something now =D
Dell Optiplex 3050
Lenovo m720
HP whatever with a 7th gen Intel
All can be had for $50 ish
Otherwise we use a Chromecast with Google TV dongle/remote that works pretty well.
I agree it's not ideal, but they're cheap devices that require little setup. Its not like you need to pay a subscription fee to use them for Jellyfin, so I'm okay with it on balance.
Replied from my Pixel phone with stock android as well.
Also, in my experience of trying Android boxes first and ending up with a Mini-PC with Linux, the Android boxes which are cheaper than basic Mini-PCs like the one with an N100 that I have, are underpowered, and the one's which aren't underpowered cost about the same as the Mini-PC.
Further, you can install all manner of services running on the background on the Linux machine: mine works as TV Box with Kodi as the frontend that's displayed on my TV, but it's also working as my home NAS and runs a bittorrent server with a web interface on top of an always on VPN, all of which uses very little of its computing power. I manage the "linuxy" stuff remotely via web-interfaces and SSH whilst in the living room were it is I actually have a remote for it and use it just like a regular TV Box.
This in addition to as you pointed out the Android stuff being locked down and often bloated.
I really would advise people against an Android TV box, but if one really wants the lower consumption of those (they do consume half as much power as my Mini-PC, with TDPs around 8W or less to the Mini-PC's 15W) best get an SBC and a box for it, and then install Libreelec on it or a full linux distro (often the manufacturers have a Linux distro for those and there's always Armbian),
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I was in a similar boat. I've been using a Ryzen 5000-based mini PC for about two years now. It's running:
Debian for stability
Flex Launcher for the 10ft TV UI
Flex Launcher has shortcuts for Plex HTPC, Netflix in a full screen Chrome page, etc.
An AirMouse Remote with a keyboard on the back and basic controls up front. It has 5 programmable IR buttons that I have bound to TV Power, TV Input, TV Select, and Sound Bar Vol-/+
My kids also use it for Steam and Retro gaming, so I have it launch ES-DE and Steam Big Picture Mode from Flex Launcher.
Other than the occasional tweaking, it has needed very little and been rock solid for about 2 years now. I have a cheap Android TV set top box still attached for when Grandma goes to use the TV. I can switch inputs and hand them the Google TV remote, but my wife, my kids, and I use the HTPC almost exclusively.
I use one of these which I got from AliExpress along with one of these, though of course it will work fine with mouse and keyboard.
(Please note that I haven't tested it specifically with a bluetooth keyboard and mouse).
I installed Lubuntu on it because it's a lighter distro (it will work fine with the full desktop Linux distros, but why waste computing power on fancy window managers for something that's just a TV Box that's always showing Kodi) and have it always turned on (the TDP of this is pretty low) with Kodi as interface and its runs perfectly.
It's sitting on my living room under the TV.
It's probably a little overpowered, but that means its fan almost never turns on (it's pretty quiet when it does, but silence is better), so I'm also running a bittorrent server on it with an always on VPN, plus it's my NAS. There's room for more if I wanted.
I don't really understand people advising the more powerful Mini-PCs: they're way overpowered for the job hence needlessly expensive plus the TDP of their processors is way more than the N100 in this one hence it both consumes more and is a lot less quiet because the fan has to be bigger and running a lot more often to cool that hotter processor down.
PS: Also the downside of using old PCs for this as some recommend is their higher power consumption, even for notebooks, plus they generally don't really look like a nice TV-Box to have in your living room, which this one does. If you're going to run it all the time, a low TDP mini-pc will probably quickly pay itself over using an old desktop, longer if versus an old notebook.
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If the thing is not meant to use as a Desktop, why load it with heavier applications that aren't delivering anything useful?
No matter how efficient a core is at most tasks, it can't beat the power savings of not actually running needless code.
My homemade TV Box isn't running a lightweight desktop because I had to "limit myself", it's running one because I'm not losing anything by not having that which I don't use and if that even just saves a few Watts a week, it still means I'm better off, which is satisfying as I like to design my systems to be efficient.
For fancy Linux Desktop things I have an actual Desktop PC with Linux - the homemade TV Box on my living room is only supposed to let me watch stuff on TV whilst I sit on my sofa.
Further, there are more than one form of efficiency - stuff like the N100 (and even more, the ARM stuff) are designed for power consumption efficiency, whilst desktop CPUs are designed for ops-per-cycle efficiency, which are not at all the same thing: being capable of doing more operations per cycle doesn't mean something will consume less power in doing so (in fact, generally in Engineering if you optimize in one axis you lose in another) it just means it can reach the end of the task in fewer cycles.
For a device that during peak use still runs at around 10% CPU usage, having the ability to do things a little faster doesn't really add any value.
Even the series 4000 Zen2 being more optimized for power consumption is only in the context of desktop computers, a whole different world from what the N100 (and even more things like ARM7) were designed to operate in, which is why the former has a TDP of 140W and the latter of 15W (and the ARMs are around 6W). Sure the TDP is a maximum and hence not a precise metric for a specific use case such as using something as a TV Box, but it's a pretty good indication of how much a core was optimized for power consumption, and 15W vs 140W is a pretty massive distance to expect that any error in using TDP to estimate how the power consumption of those two in everyday use as a TV Box compares would mean that the CPU with 140W TDP consumes less than the one with 15W.
PS: All that said, if the use case was "selfhosting" rather than "TV Box (with a handful of lightweight services on the side)", you suggestion makes more sense, IMHO.
I use "Beelink" brand mini PCs for this purpose. (They are the same form factor as your photo.) I have three, and they're all good. I've used multiple distros on them with no compatibility issues, but MX Linux is my daily driver.
They have fans built in, but the cases on the higher end ones are metal, which helps with heat dissipation. The only downside with that is that sometimes USB peripherals get super hot while plugged in, and I had a mouse dongle that would overheat and malfunction. A simple USB hub fixed this problem (the hub itself apparently didn't mind getting hot).
I use a "Mini Keyboard with touchpad" on the ones connected to TVs. I recommend those as well. Rii brand is decent.
Genocide by remote control: Israel's explosive robots devastate Gaza
Israeli forces deploy explosive robots at 'unprecedented pace', obliterating homes and displacing families
Genocide by remote control: Israel's explosive robots devastate Gaza
Hamza Shabaan woke up mid-air. A massive blast had hurled him off his mattress, leaving him disoriented and shocked.Mohammed al-Hajjar (Middle East Eye)
One year on, family of US citizen killed by Israel still seeking justice
Aysenur Ezgi Eygi’s loved ones say they will continue to pursue accountability for her 2024 killing in the occupied West Bank.
One year on, family of US citizen killed by Israel still seeking justice
Aysenur Ezgi Eygi’s loved ones say they will continue to pursue accountability for her 2024 killing in the West Bank.Ali Harb (Al Jazeera)
In the West, it is a crime to deny one Holocaust and dangerous to name another
The difference between Holocaust denial and Gaza Genocide denial is that Holocaust denial is illegal or a criminal offence in many countries, and is, for the most part, the preserve of marginalised kooks and conspiracy theorists.
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.
In many states, Gaza Genocide denial counts among its champions elected and other senior officials, influential lobbies and powerful organisations. Its messages are amplified by an international network of conspiracy theorists, fanatic ideologues and hired hands.
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.
No, Russia isn’t ‘lost to China’ – it simply refuses to be owned
No, Russia isn’t ‘lost to China’ – it simply refuses to be owned
Moscow always keeps its diplomatic options open – as long as its sovereignty is respectedRT
There's an old saying in Tennessee—I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee—that says, “Fool me once, shame on...shame on you.” Fool me—you can't get fooled again. — GWB
Russia already got owned once, and Putin helped get it un-owned. It’s still got oligarchs, but at least they’re not imperial core compradors anymore.
Extreme Free-Market “Shock Therapy” in Postcommunist Eastern Europe Was a Disaster
Free-market ideologues claimed that economic “shock therapy” would turn communist states into models of prosperity.jacobin.com
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Ahh yes, Russia the oligarchy which ‘refuses to be owned’.
That Russia, that is owned by private capital concentrated into the hands of the few?
Where 500 people own more than the rest of the country combined?
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Love that anyone who isn't a slavish puppet state of the US is automatically assigned as the slavish puppet state of the US's geopolitical enemy.
Goldfish brain foreign policy.
Israel has officially moved on from destroying Hamas to erasing Palestine
Israel has officially moved on from destroying Hamas to erasing Palestine
Despite objections from across the world, Netanyahu’s government is redrawing the map with tank tracksRT
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Wait, you're telling me that the "Israeli" guy who's family has lived in New York for generations doesn't have claim to an arab persons home and land? You must be antisemitic!
Condom Hummus! Condom Hummus right now!
Agreed. But I meant they're gonna move past the bombing and general terror tactics to full fledged extermination. Of people and culture.
Gonna build the parking lot they intend to build their "riviera" on top of.
Manufactured Instability: Georgia and the Region, Shadow Networks Behind Hotspots
Manufactured Instability: Georgia and the Region, Shadow Networks Behind Hotspots
The shadowy career of U.S. operative Sam Patten highlights how foreign consultants, lobbyists, and NGO-linked actors fuel instability in Georgia andГенри Каменс (New Eastern Outlook)
Russia Supports China's Global Governance Initiative, Details to Come Later
Russia Supports China's Global Governance Initiative, Details to Come Later
It is unlikely that China's comprehensive and important initiative on global governance can be detailed in a few days, this is a task for subsequent periods, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in an interview with Sputnik at the Eastern Economic Fo…Sputnik International
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in reply to BigMacHole • • •Censor enough people and keep the focus on "We have to beat Hamas". Eventually you'll get a public as rabidly genocidal as the Israelis themselves.
Then move from Palestinians to Muslims, generally. And on to Latinos and East Asians. And anyone who is non-White.
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in reply to geneva_convenience • • •Great. Let's out the genocidal creeps. This will surely age great for them...
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