Nobel Prize for imperialist war and regime change goes to Washington’s Venezuelan puppet María Corina Machado
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded its 2025 Peace Prize to the leader of Venezuela’s far-right opposition, Maria Corina Machado, an event that is as significant as it is sinister.
The award was announced on October 9 in Oslo, Norway, a country whose wealth, strategic role in NATO, and large military investments position it as a bulwark for imperialist interests in Europe and beyond.
The award provides a glaring demonstration of the hypocrisy of capitalist public opinion as it is marshaled behind another catastrophic imperialist intervention in Latin America.
There is nothing unprecedented about bestowing the peace prize upon far-right or blood-drenched figures. If “political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize,” as American songwriter, satirist and mathematician Tom Lehrer quipped in 1973, the award to Machado hammers another nail into its coffin.
In the years in between, the prize went to mass murderers and war criminals such as Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, the former Irgun terrorist responsible for the Sabra and Shatila massacres in Lebanon, and Aung San Suu Kyi, whose government was responsible for genocidal violence against Myanmar’s Rohingya minority. Barack Obama received the award in 2009, on the eve of launching a major military surge in Afghanistan and as his government was unleashing a wave of drone assassinations. Then as now, the prize served not as a reward to peacemakers, but as a tool for anointing those favored by imperialism and to legitimize war.
Nobel Prize for imperialist war and regime change goes to Washington’s Venezuelan puppet María Corina Machado
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded its 2025 Peace Prize to the leader of Venezuela’s far-right opposition, Maria Corina Machado, an event that is as significant as it is sinister.World Socialist Web Site
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Cair calls on Nobel Prize winner to renounce support for far-right, racist and fascist parties
An American civil rights group on Friday called on the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize winner to renounce her support for Zionism and fascism, including over her links to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s political party and right-wing groups in Europe.Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (Cair) said that they “strongly disagree” with the Nobel Prize committee’s decision to award the prize to Maria Corina Machado, who they said “delivered remarks at a conference of European fascists, including Geert Wilders and Marie Le Pen, which openly called for a new Reconquista, referencing the ethnic cleansing of Spanish Muslims and Jews in the 1500s”.
Cair calls on Nobel Prize winner to renounce support for far-right, racist and fascist parties
An American civil rights group on Friday called on the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize winner to renounce her support for Zionism and fascism, including over her links to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s political party and right-wing groups in Eur…MEE staff (Middle East Eye)
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I think that the #NobelPrize was probably irrpearably tarnished when they gave one to Henry Kissinger.
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Sudanese paramilitary attack kills at least 53 people in North Darfur, aid group says
Sudanese paramilitary attack kills at least 53 people in North Darfur, aid group says
A shelling and drone attack by the Sudanese paramilitary forces hit a shelter in a besieged city in the Darfur region, killing at least 53 people, a doctors’ group said Saturday. The onslaught was the latest in Sudan's more than two-year war.PBS News
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OCCRP || Mansions, Horses, and Designer Bags: How the Ruling Family of Iraqi Kurdistan Splurged in the U.S.
Mansions, Horses, and Designer Bags: How the Ruling Family of Iraqi Kurdistan Splurged in the U.S.
The five sons of Iraqi Kurdistan’s founding president acquired real estate across the United States and went on luxury shopping sprees.OCCRP
"Enshittification": Cory Doctorow on Why Big Tech Sucks, Keeps Getting Worse & What to Do About It
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Cuomo shills are getting desperate
It's okay to just let the leftists win an election, you know?
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Lay's drastically rebrands after disturbing finding: 42% of consumers didn't know their chips were made out of potatoes | Fortune
Lay’s drastically rebrands after disturbing finding: 42% of consumers didn’t know their chips were made out of potatoes
New bags—matte-ified and designed to look like wood planks (like a potato crate)—will hold the chips with revamped ingredient lists.Matty Merritt (Fortune)
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Bernie's ex foreign policy advisor. Explains a lot why Bernie consistently has such awful foreign policy takes. He surrounds himself with AIPAC warmongers.
Hasan Piker did an awful softball interview with him a while ago where Matt Duss flops out one Zionist talking point after another and Hasan doesn't call him out somehow youtu.be/Gfv2uzVb3Pw
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'Their resilience is a lesson to us all': The maritime lions hunting seals on the beach
So on the one hand, it's an amazing story of adaptability in the face of climate change:
"In 2015, the lions found the sea again and started hunting coastal prey on the beach, after a drought decimated their usual inland prey of ostriches, oryxes and springboks. "The seals were a blessing," says Van Malderen. "Climate change has pushed these desert lions to the edge, forcing them to adapt in extraordinary ways, to survive along the beaches of the Atlantic coast.""
OTOH - It's devastating for the seal population who likely had become accustomed to land being a safe haven from ocean predators.
"Van Malderen has watched Gamma grow up, first encountering the lioness when she was three months old. She is now three-and-a-half years, "almost an adult," she says, adding that the lioness has become a fearsome hunter capable of killing 40 seals in a single night."
'Their resilience is a lesson to us all': The maritime lions hunting seals on the beach
In Namibia, a group of desert lions have left their traditional hunting grounds for the Atlantic coast and are now thriving as the world's only maritime lions.Isabelle Gerretsen (BBC)
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'Their resilience is a lesson to us all': The maritime lions hunting seals on the beach
What, a lesson to humans? To be able to go anywhere and eat anything? We're the global champions at that.
Humans are omnivorous, capable of consuming a wide variety of plant and animal material, and have used fire and other forms of heat to prepare and cook food since the time of Homo erectus.They are apex predators, being rarely preyed upon by other species.
By using advanced tools and clothing, humans have been able to extend their tolerance to a wide variety of temperatures, humidities, and altitudes.[131][138] As a result, humans are a cosmopolitan species found in almost all regions of the world, including tropical rainforest, arid desert, extremely cold arctic regions, and heavily polluted cities; in comparison, most other species are confined to a few geographical areas by their limited adaptability.
The combined biomass of the carbon of all the humans on Earth in 2018 was estimated at 60 million tons, about 10 times larger than that of all non-domesticated mammals.
Tony Blair met Jeffrey Epstein while prime minister
Tony Blair met Jeffrey Epstein while prime minister
The ex-PM confirms he met Epstein in 2002, six years before the financier pleaded guilty to soliciting prostitution from a minor.Jennifer McKiernan (BBC News)
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Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data
Satellites beam data down to the Earth all around us, all the time. So you might expect that those space-based radio communications would be encrypted to prevent any snoop with a satellite dish from accessing the torrent of secret information constantly raining from the sky. You would, to a surprising and troubling degree, be wrong.
Roughly half of geostationary satellite signals, many carrying sensitive consumer, corporate, and government communications, have been left entirely vulnerable to eavesdropping, a team of researchers at UC San Diego and the University of Maryland revealed today in a study that will likely resonate across the cybersecurity industry, telecom firms, and inside military and intelligence agencies worldwide.
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Right to protest under ‘sustained attack’ across the west, report finds
The right to protest has come under sustained attack across the west, according to a report highlighting the growing criminalisation of pro-Palestinian demonstrations.
The study by the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) pays particular attention to the UK, the US, France and Germany, where it says governments have “weaponised” counter-terrorism legislation as well as the fight against antisemitism to suppress dissent and support for Palestinian rights in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.
Right to protest under ‘sustained attack’ across the west, report finds
Counter-terror laws being ‘weaponised’ against pro-Palestine groups in UK, US, France and Germany, says FIDHGeneva Abdul (The Guardian)
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I can't help but feel nervous when world leaders start talking about and confounding Israel/Jewish people, especially with the rise in authoritarian politics.
I don't think I have a certain fear, but I worry about strong emotions/race/and politicians.
Right to protest under ‘sustained attack’ across the west, report finds
The right to protest has come under sustained attack across the west, according to a report highlighting the growing criminalisation of pro-Palestinian demonstrations.
The study by the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) pays particular attention to the UK, the US, France and Germany, where it says governments have “weaponised” counter-terrorism legislation as well as the fight against antisemitism to suppress dissent and support for Palestinian rights in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.
Right to protest under ‘sustained attack’ across the west, report finds
Counter-terror laws being ‘weaponised’ against pro-Palestine groups in UK, US, France and Germany, says FIDHGeneva Abdul (The Guardian)
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Peaceful protests fulfill a very important role: organizing people. and giving moral legitimacy to any "less legal" means of protesting such as blocking highways.
The peaceful protest is a very important part of the subsequent not so peaceful protest.
The western states have the sterilization of protest down to a science, granting permits along preestablished routes and promoting liberal reformist types as the "real" leaders as well as using other civilians as disruptors instead of going in with the cops as a first recourse.
Banning protests and going for naked repression is pretty much exactly how you get protestors gravitating toward organizations that aren't permit fetishists with NGOs.
Arab states deepened military ties with Israel while denouncing Gaza war, leak reveals
Arab states deepened military ties with Israel while denouncing Gaza war, leak reveals - ICIJ
Israeli and Arab military officials have come together for meetings and trainings, facilitated by U.S. Central Command, on regional threats, Iran and underground tunnels.David Kenner (International Consortium of Investigative Journalists)
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They want to be on the winning side.
They don't understand that they'd be the next targets.
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Macron accuses rivals of fuelling instability as he dismisses calls to resign
The French president, Emmanuel Macron, has accused rival political parties of fuelling instability as he brushed aside calls by the opposition for him to resign amid France’s worst political crisis in decades.
“Many of those who have fuelled division and speculation have not risen to the moment,” Macron said of French opposition parties, as he arrived in Egypt on Monday to attend a summit on Gaza. He said rival “political forces” were “solely responsible for this chaos” after they “instigated the destabilisation” of the prime minister, Sébastien Lecornu.
Lecornu, a Macron ally, held his first meeting with France’s new government after he appointed a mix of stalwarts from Macron’s centrist grouping, as well as a few faces from the upper ranks of the civil service and civil society. New arrivals included Jean-Pierre Farandou, who headed the state-run railway, SNCF, and is now labour minister.
Macron accuses rivals of fuelling instability as he dismisses calls to resign
French president says opposition has not ‘risen to the moment’ after reappointment of Sébastien Lecornu as PMAngelique Chrisafis (The Guardian)
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Because he is gay, he is lgbt, he is jewish, he is Gaza.
Remember that unhinged speech he gave? I remember.
UK, France and Germany unite to turn Russian assets into Ukraine aid, unlocking up to £250 billion for Kyiv
cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/43902528
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In a move co-ordinated with France, Germany and the United States, Sir Keir Starmer said the UK was willing to unlock up to £25 billion of Russian money held in the UK for the war effort.
The decision, after months of talks among the G7 and other western allies, may release as much as £250 billion to Ukraine in tranches to fund weapons purchases and prop up its war economy.
In a joint statement with President Macron of France and Friedrich Merz, the German chancellor, Starmer said that the three leaders had agreed to “increase pressure” on Putin to counter his “stalling tactics and abhorrent attacks in response to peace talks”.
They said: “To that end, we are ready to progress towards using, in a co-ordinated way, the value of the immobilised Russian sovereign assets to support Ukraine’s armed forces and thus bring Russia to the negotiation table. We aim to do this in close co-operation with the United States of America.”
Starmer is also understood to have discussed the plan with President Zelensky of Ukraine. Downing Street said that the UK, France and Germany were “united in wanting to drive progress towards using the full value of the immobilised Russian sovereign assets to end the war”.
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UK, France and Germany unite to turn Russian assets into Ukraine aid
The G7 plan could unlock up to £250 billion for Kyiv by converting frozen Russian state funds into loans and military supportOliver Wright (The Times)
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The UK is believed to hold more than £25 billion of Russian financial assets that were seized after the invasion of Ukraine [...]
Belgium holds €190 billion (£165 billion) worth of assets in Euroclear, the Brussels-based central securities depository, and France holds €19 billion (£16 billion).[...] under a plan being worked up by EU and G7 leaders, countries would issue up to €172 billion (£149 billion) in loans to Ukraine by swapping Russian cash linked to the immobilised assets for zero-interest bonds. Ukraine would have to pay back the loan only if Moscow paid war reparations, which is considered unlikely.
Instead of directly transferring the assets, they are using them as collateral for loans to strip the legal risk. The result should be indistinguishable as long as russia is eventually sentenced to pay reparations.
Madagascar soldiers join protestors, refuse orders to shoot demonstrators
Groups of Madagascar soldiers joined thousands of protestors in the capital Saturday, AFP reporters said, after announcing they would refuse any orders to shoot demonstrators.Fresh youth-led demonstrations in Antananarivo drew large crowds in one of the biggest gatherings since a protest movement erupted on the Indian Ocean island on September 25.
Madagascar soldiers join protestors, refuse orders to shoot demonstrators
Groups of Madagascar soldiers joined youth-led protests in the capital of Antananarivo on Saturday after police used stun grenades and tear gas.FRANCE 24
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First US flight with third-country deportees arrives in Guatemala
The flight brought three Hondurans and 56 Guatemalan nationals, according to Guatemala’s IGM migration agency.
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Israel refuses to release abducted Palestinian doctors, will not let foreign medics enter Gaza either
cross-posted from: ibbit.at/post/79582
Israel is continuing to force the collapse of Gaza’s devastated healthcare system, despite the supposed ceasefire – during which it has killed well over a hundred people through continued bombing and shooting.
Israel is refusing to release kidnapped Gaza medics
The occupation has refused to release doctors abducted during the genocide, such as Kamal Adwan Hospital’s Hussam Abu Safiya, kidnapped almost a year ago by Israeli forces after they destroyed most of the hospital and murdered many of its medical staff, and field hospital director Marwan al-Hams, abducted in July. Abu Safiya has been beaten, starved and repeatedly tortured in an Israeli jail. Soldiers also took Al-Hams’s daughter Tasneem, a nurse, last week.The colonial regime has also refused entry to international volunteer doctors trying to return to Gaza to help treat the wounded and starving during the ‘ceasefire’, as surgeons Victoria Rose and Graeme Groome explained during an interview yesterday:
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Israel has murdered over 1,500 healthcare workers, some of those tortured to death in prison. Israel has over 350 healthcare workers abducted and being held in prisons, under inhumane conditions and frequent torture and violence. The occupation has destroyed or severely damaged all of Gaza’s hospitals and medical experts say that more than four hundred people a day in Gaza are dying from hunger and disease.
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Doctors are valuable. Why release a high value slave.
Maybe some of those anti semitic sentiments people hold are grounded in reality...
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For the liberals who think it it doesn’t matter he claims Israeli captives are being tortured while not even mentioning the same for the Palestinians in extermination camps: your medicare won’t matter to him either. Stop torturing billionaires.
Palestine is the ultimate litmus test.
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The Right's Secret Plan to Help Billionaires Buy Elections
I'd not heard about the Montana initiative. But it's not surprising ... it's an interesting state, politically, as the main throughline seems to be "leave me the fuck alone, and if others aren't hurting me, let them do what they want." You know, rugged individualism that we at once enshrine as the basis of the American spirit and also call "woke."
In a way, I'm glad Orwell didn't live to see how far short he fell with Nineteen Eighty-Four. We see Ingsoc fully formed, but the road there is left as an exercise for the reader.
The better analogy at this point is V for Vendetta.
On the 20th anniversary of the creation of the Roberts Supreme Court, one point of consensus persists: Most Americans believe money corrupts the political process — and they want to overturn the Citizens United precedent that empowers oligarchs to buy elections.And yet, in two little-noticed cases — including one spearheaded by Vice President J.D. Vance — the high court could soon do the opposite, eliminating the last restrictions on campaign donations and obstructing law enforcement’s efforts to halt bribery.
As we recount in our new book Master Plan, the Citizens United case was the culmination of conservatives’ 50-year master plan to deregulate the campaign finance system and legalize corruption. What started as an incendiary memo from soon-to-be Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell became one ruling equating money with constitutionally protected speech and another extending personhood rights to corporations.
J.D. Vance and the Right's Plan to Help Billionaires Buy Elections
J.D. Vance and other MAGA interests are working to get the Supreme Court to end restrictions on campaign spending limits.David Sirota (Rolling Stone)
YouTube to give banned creators a 'second chance' after rule rollback
YouTube will give banned creators a 'second chance' after rule rollback
YouTube is rolling out a feature for previously terminated channels to apply to create a new channel after scrutiny from Republicans and President Donald Trump.Zach Vallese (CNBC)
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People have been dropping the preceding adjective. It used to be that temp bans were handed out for first violations or accumulated minor violations, with the severity of the violation dictating whether it was a temporary ban of hours, days, weeks, or months.
Really egregious violations, or a pattern of temp bans not changing the users behavior would trigger a permanent ban.
I also hate the use of “ban” alone to mean temporary. The default use of “ban” should, does, mean permanent. If it’s temporary, it should be specifically conditionalized as such. I don’t really know when this started or how we got here, but it’s fucking annoying.
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For the liberals who think it it doesn't matter he claims Israeli captives are being tortured while not even mentioning the same for the Palestinians in extermination camps: your medicare won't matter to him either. Stop torturing billionaires.
Palestine is the ultimate litmus test.
UK: Foreign Secretary says China does pose a security threat to Britain, says she is ‘deeply frustrated’ at collapse of spy trial
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ArchivedUK: Foreign Secretary says China does pose security threat to Britain, says she is ‘deeply frustrated’ at collapse of spy trial after Labour refuses to call Beijing an enemy
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Yvette Cooper admitted the UK faced a “whole series” of risks from Beijing, days after the chief prosecutor said a case against two alleged spies collapsed because the Government had failed to brand China a threat to national security.
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Ms Cooper was asked whether, during her time at the Home Office, she saw a dossier outlining the fact that China had frequently been referred to as a threat to Britain’s national security.
She told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “Let me be clear that we know China poses threats to UK national security from things like transnational repression and espionage to hostile cyber activity as well, and we have said so.
“And they also of course are a trading partner and they are a crucial partner in the process for example on tackling climate change. But I am deeply frustrated about this case because I of course wanted to see it prosecuted.”
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Christopher Cash, 30, and Christopher Berry, 33, had been accused of passing foreign policy information to a high-ranking member of the Chinese government, charges that were denied by both men.
A Whitehall investigation into Chinese spying was also suppressed by Jonathan Powell, the national security adviser, after lobbying from the Treasury.
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China sceptics have long called on successive governments to formally shift their diplomatic stance and call China a threat to reflect concerns around security, surveillance and human rights abuses.
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Chinese state-backed hackers targeted the Electoral Commission and accessed the voting records of 40 million people from August 2021. The breach was not identified until more than a year later.
China was also blamed for hacking the Ministry of Defence in May 2024, with hackers gaining access to payroll information including bank details, names and addresses.
China does pose security threat to Britain, says Yvette Cooper
Foreign Secretary ‘deeply frustrated’ at collapse of spy trial after Labour refuses to call Beijing an enemyDominic Penna (The Telegraph)
China retaliates against U.S. port fees with new charges on American ships
- China on Friday announced that starting Oct. 14, it will start charging U.S. ships for docking at Chinese ports.
- The move was a direct response to similar U.S. port fees on Chinese ships set to take effect the same day.
- The U.S. only accounts for 0.1% of global shipbuilding, versus 53.3% for China, according to the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
China retaliates against U.S. port fees with new charges on American ships
The move comes a day after China ramped up restrictions on rare earths exports amid ongoing tensions with the U.S.Evelyn Cheng (CNBC)
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North Korea displays long-range missile at parade
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Nobel peace prize officials investigate surge in bets for winner
Nobel peace prize officials investigate surge in bets for winner
Bets for Maria Corina Machado spiked on Polymarket gambling site hours before she was awarded prizeLeyland Cecco (The Guardian)
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"detect-fash" Feature Developed (and Rejected) for Systemd
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How do I create my own community and is it allowed on my instance?
I'm on SJW mainly because it's somewhat popular and it supports vpn usage.
I use voyager as my main means of interacting.
What's the word, friends?
How do I create my own community
try the "Create Community" button maybe?
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Alright you beautiful shitter. I'll give it a go
So where is that in voyager, maybe?
While Voyager has mod tools, I'm not sure if you can create a community in the app.
You might need to do the initial setup on the website: sh.itjust.works/create_communi…
Afterwards you should be able to take mod actions on the app
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China issues rewards for information about Taiwan military’s ‘psychological warfare unit’
China issues rewards for information about Taiwan military’s ‘psychological warfare unit’
Taipei hits back at ‘despotic and pig-headed authoritarian regime’ as Beijing publishes identities of 18 people it claims are spreading ‘separatist’ messagesGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
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Kenyan Catholic Church drops Mass wine after it becomes common in bars
Kenyan Catholic Church drops Mass wine after it becomes common in bars
The previous brand was said to have lost its sanctity due to its widespread use outside the church.Wycliffe Muia (BBC News)
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What Is Going on with All This Radioactive Shrimp?
cross-posted from: lemmy.bestiver.se/post/668839
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What Is Really Going on With All This Radioactive Shrimp?
Here’s the latest on how shrimp and spices got contaminated with cesium-137, how the FDA has responded, and why consumers should not panic.Paris Martineau (Consumer Reports)
Not every salt is easily soluble in water. Salt in a chemical sense is a compound made up of multiple ions. Marble and pretty much all rocks/minerals are also salts in a chemical sense and you don't see our mountains being washed away by one rainfall. So saying they use a thorium salt is not in itself a problem, depending on which salt they use.
I couldn't find any definitive answer, but from what I found on Wikipedia is that they mostly use Thorium dioxide at the moment, which is practically insoluble in water and alkaline, by slightly soluble in acids.
So no, salts don't all dissolve. It completely depends on the specific salt and its properties.
But yeah, nuclear industry in general is pretty hands off with regard to accountability and taking care of the long time effects.
I knew, when writing, that some salts are functionally insoluable ( lithium-fluoride, I'd read, pretty-much doesn't dissolve in water ).
I'd hoped that I'd phrased it carefully-enough, but obviously didn't.
Definitely thank you for identifying that the salt specific to thorium-salt reactors isn't at room temperature going to be easily dissolveable into our environment..
but .. I've also learned that hot-chemistry can be drastically different from room-temperature chemistry, & after all the .. gaslighting .. of various industries, through the past decades..
I want systematic & thorough testing to see what that salt can react with, under its entire temperature & pressure regime, before anybody signs-off on it.
"hands off" is a very polite way of saying it, Hoomin..
& I'd never thought of marble as a salt, you got me on that point!
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What would you do with a device like this
Was given this little wintel box by a friend fairly recently, but I haven't yet even powered it on. I don't have a power cable for it unfortunately but when I do, what do you think I should do with it? What would you do with it?
I think it could potentially be just a basic lightweight desktop for web browsing and such, maybe a little smart tv box or something like that to replace the Chromecast I'm ashamed to admit I use, maybe run some basic self hosted stuff like pihole or home assistant? Could probably be a little emulation machine for retro games but I doubt it would be capable of much more than that. But I'm not sure there's too many ideas! I need suggestions people
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in reply to technocrit • • •Watch carefully. You won't see civilization fall apart at this rate twice in a lifetime.
Sic transit gloria mundi.
etuomaala
in reply to technocrit • • •Then, I clicked through and realised it was editorialised by the source itself. This is not serious news. It is effectively opinion. It does not belong here. Read the rules again, OP.
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in reply to Cryptagionismisogynist • • •Opinions are not gauged for accuracy. They're just opinions.
AmidFuror
in reply to etuomaala • • •OP posts articles from WSWS all the time. They all have a Marxist bent. They have to link every news story to how the workers of the world are getting screwed in some way.
There are a lot to choose from in this article, so I'll just include the one that indicates disdain for Stalin, as WSWS is very much in favor of Trotskyism. They don't like Chavez and Maduro, but for all the wrong reasons.
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doben
in reply to Skiluros • • •You are a national extremist, using dehumanizing language (roaches, degenerates) against your politcal opponents. Things that fascists do. People should ignore you, Mods should ban you.
The claim, that socialist journalism supports "russian genocidal imperialism" is counterfactual, based on a deep misunderstanding what their analysis means and directed by your own ideological encrustation.
Skiluros
in reply to doben • • •No, it is fair to call disgusting tankies roaches and degenerates.
There is no ideology involved. "North Korea is a great place to live and is a vanguard against imperialism" is not a serious statement.
We both know that the vast majority of tankies are bored teenagers and malicious demagogues. Don't play dumb with me.
The tankie source does support russian genocidal imperialism.
You don't even speak Ukrainian or russian and have never lived here. You're in no position to talk about "deep misunderstanding".
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in reply to Skiluros • • •Thanks for proving my point.
Like, lol. But alright, let's go, I bite.
No sane person would confirm, that it's "fair" to use dehumanizing language. That statement only shows how far off the rails you are.
But alright, what's a tankie for you? I asked in the past, you didn't answer. Every russian? People that support a socialist agenda?
You use that as a blanket statement, as a degoratory generalisation against people that do not support your hate-fueled diarrhea. And the hate comes through in the form of dehumanising hate speech. Thanks for affirming that.
Okay sure, so you do not think that North Korea does exist in a constant struggle against capitalist takeover? Sure, that's an acceptable take. But why do you have to make things up and generalise, again, to then throw that fantasy take as a blanket over every "tankie"? I'm sure, there might once has been some person that might have said that, but what does that prove about anyone else, other than that person? You do realise this is disingenuous and dumb, right?
I reject every part of that take - you seem to be living in oppositve-world. It's driven by your ideological hate towards leftist thought. Do you ever leave your flat? Why do you keep generalising towards your degoratory use of the word "tankie", only to excuse yourself to dehumanise people?
Without yapping, prove their support for "russian genocidal imperialism", and while doing that, please also prove the "genocidal" part.
And I mean support, you know what the word means, right? Again, not just some kind of position that's not in line with your hope and dreams for your national purity.
"The pattern shows that accusations of supporting 'Russian genocidal imperialism' primarily come from centrist liberals, NATO supporters, and establishment political figures who use these extreme characterizations to delegitimize any leftist critique of Western foreign policy, regardless of whether those leftists actually support Russian actions or simply advocate for diplomatic solutions and criticism of all imperial powers." Some AI summary, because I can't be bothered to do more for you.
*no position
You excluding my opinion based on nationality or language (without actually knowing which languages I speak) is an immature ad hominem, a clear sign of your nationalist character and also displays your lack of understanding socialist or communist thought.
Are you claiming, that "tankies" are always russian or that every socialist is a tankie? What you say doesnt even make any sense. What's with socialist Ukrainians, are they tankie cockroaches, too?
So, do I either have to be a tankie or an enemy of a tankie to actually understand either take and formulate an opinion on them?
You do have opinions on Palestine and Israel, I've seen. But you're neither. You see the problem?
You're full of shit and you are a hateful nationalist. Get fucked.
Skiluros
in reply to doben • • •You know exactly what a tankie is, don't play dumb.
I will most definitely call out idiots who roleplay as communists online and don't speak any other languages. No one is buying your bullshit about "Ukrainian socialists". The communists party of Ukraine was a russian proxy force. Genuine Ukrainian socialists (or anyone for that matter) would want nothing to do with some online roleplayers who come up with degenerate statements such "North Korea is the vanguard against imperialism!" and support russian genocidal imperialism.
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doben
in reply to Skiluros • • •I don't play.
And I will most definitely call out Nazis who roleplay as victims online and don't speak other languages.
I know what the term "tankie" actually means and also how right-wingers use it to discredit anything opposing their little völkisch fantasies. I asked you specifically, how you define it, because you throw it around everywhere and you make that outgroup (them, the others) out to be responsible for all the bad things in your world. So much so, that you end up yapping like a lunatic two seconds before stroking out.
Which you are, a little Ukrainian nationalist lunatic with a hate for everything slightly pointing towards anything associated with your Russian neighbour, ... like the endangerment of the Ukrainian national identity. But sadly, that's all you've got, it's everything that defines you as a person.
But the reality is, the Ukrainians are forced to kill their Russian brothers and sisters and the Russians are forced to kill their Ukrainian brothers and sisters. You are the same, working class people. You are not fighting for your country or your Ukrainian blood, you are being consumed by the capitalist, imperialist war machine. You fucking idiot, snap out of it, the enemy is not at the other end of the field.
You delegitimise leftist thought by claiming they'd only be roleplaying. Conveniently, when you do that, you have a basis to then go on to tell us, that they are just lying and are evil for deceiving us like that. And since they're evil, they're roaches and need to be exterminated. Convenient thought process. Interestingly, they're so clever to deceive us, but also so very deranged, huh.
You are a dumb Nazi, the sooner you realise that, the sooner you can heal.
Step 1: Don't be a Nazi.
Step 2: Punch up, not sideways or down.
goat
in reply to doben • • •doben
in reply to goat • • •Nice one, stalker. Please, show me the part where I do that and explain to me, how that's victim blaming.
Also, you are coming to the defense of the guy you reluctantly banned for, let me check, five whole days from your little nazi bar for repeately using dehumanizing hate speech, only after weeks during which you did not act on it, although you were confronted with it several times. You are the Bartender of a nazi bar, gj.
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in reply to doben • • •doben
in reply to goat • • •You failed to elaborate on the victim blaming thing you just mentioned.
Also, I only called Skiluros a nazi, do you have problems with reading comprehension? You are merely a bartender — but do you identify as a nazi?
goat
in reply to doben • • •doben
in reply to goat • • •Skiluros
in reply to doben • • •Typical tankie world salad.
At least come with some new copytext! You think I haven't seen this gibberish before?
Everyone I don't like is a Nazi!
It is reasonable to call an individual who lectures Ukrainians (without knowing Ukrainian or ever having lived here) that "you are brothers with the russians" a degenerate roach.
Your attitude shows that you lack humanity.
doben
in reply to Skiluros • • •Your attitude shows the lack of solidarity with your equals and the lack of actual humanity by consistently using dehumanizing language.
Nah man, not everyone, you specifically.
If you keep being confronted with these kinds of accusations, maybe stop and wonder:
Why does this keep happening?
And no, it’s not because the people that bring forth those accusations are degenerate roaches.
Skiluros
in reply to doben • • •The real irony is we both know tankies regularly use the term roaches and call for death over the stupidest things (with fantasies about killing posters with ice picks).
Some degenerates claiming that "everything I don't like is a BIA conspiracy!!!" are not my (are anyone's) equals.
doben
in reply to Skiluros • • •No, we do not both know that. I don’t even know why you yap about Serbia‘s security information agency. You‘re in fantasy land again.
Prove to me that this is what “tankies” say, like in a way that shows „that‘s representative of tankies“, because you are the one accusing a whole group, that you deem to be a roaches. You can’t, because you make this shit up. Liar.
But either way, that also would never excuse your own hate speech. You don’t even reject me labeling you a Nazi or fascist, because you’re proud of it, but you are also a freaking coward, without the courage to openly say it, because it would get you in trouble. Coward.
You also failed to prove that these journalists are “supporting Russian genocidal imperialism”, but you do repeatedly delegitimize and dehumanize journalists that don’t follow your narrative. You know who does that? Facsists do.
j_overgrens
in reply to doben • • •Now... why would that be? :´)
doben
in reply to j_overgrens • • •Sure, he be mad. But his national identity is all he’s got, it’s how he defines himself, how he gets his self worth. Normal people don’t screech around the internet, how everyone are cockroaches and degenerates, if they only so much as try to formulate an opinion other than ‘Slava Ukraina’. That’s still hate speech.
We don’t tolerate this shit with Russians, nor Palestinians, sometimes we do with Israelis, but sane people don’t.
You don’t need to tolerate or excuse national extremism, to show support and solidarity with the people being forced to fight and die in a war.
j_overgrens
in reply to doben • • •doben
in reply to j_overgrens • • •If that would be the case, then I’d suggest to them to lay down the phone, go outside and touch some grass.
Their nationalism emerging through lemmy commentary is what I would call a hot take.
They’re not forced to engage in political discussion on the internet, that they have trouble to process emotionally and they are also not forced to participate in hate-based communities, neither are they forced to use hate speech in general.
This user is notoriously using hate speech and counterfactual fabrications. I appreciate you trying to explain their behavior in an effort to show solidarity with what the Ukrainian people are enduring, but I’d also caution you, not to find excuses for right-wing extremists.
SereneSadie
in reply to doben • • •Fuck tankies and their defenders.
Not reading mental spew from retards defending fascists.
doben
in reply to SereneSadie • • •Why hello, my confused, stereotypical American friend. I'm sure life's hard over there in the imperial core, so let me suggest some light reading to you, while you wait for the complete authoritarian take-over from the right, while you keep whining about the left:
Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism by Michael Parenti
An accessible exploration of the differences between fascism and communism, addressing why Western societies often conflate the two, and how capitalist interests have portrayed socialist movements as “red fascists.” Especially readable for American audiences looking for a critical but not apologetic take on “tankies” and authoritarianism.
The Authoritarian Specter by Bob Altemeyer
A highly readable introduction to the psychology of authoritarianism, focusing especially on how these tendencies can arise in ordinary Americans — not just extremists or “the other side.” Explains why people across the spectrum endorse authoritarian politics.
Or may I suggest a pretty good video, getting into the basics:
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in reply to doben • • •doben
in reply to AmidFuror • • •Yes, you are correct in that Geopolitical economy is a contemporary Marxist approach to understanding the capitalist world historically. I don‘t see the problem. You scared of Marxism?
If billionaire owned western media does not provide factual reporting, you‘ll have to go elsewhere.
As I said, focus on the substance. Do you believe what is shown there is wrong? Like, the tweets of Machado or the quoted reporting from more mainstream outlets?
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in reply to technocrit • • •anarchiddy
in reply to technocrit • • •Listening to her interview on NPR was kind of wild
She had nothing but praise for Trump and defended the decision to bomb the boats in the Caribbean. Then she made a bunch of proclamations about accepting US intervention for enforcing regime change, and then advocated for doing the same in Cuba and Nicaragua
Ive heard a few people ask if she's a CIA asset, amd while I don't think it's appropriate to speculate, I can see why the question is asked. The American State Department has been trying to install western-backed regimes in central and south America since the cold war.
Part of the reason we even have narco states in the south is because of the decades long proxy battle happening there.
The Nobel prize has a weird amount of legitimacy for how often it backs western regime change
Mrkawfee
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