Trump getting that gluk gluk 9000
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Google email shows it ruled Israel’s ads claiming ‘There is food in Gaza’ aren’t misleading
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ROG Xbox Ally X: The Ars Technica review
The first portable “Xbox” fails to unify a messy world of competing PC gaming platforms.
Trashy Love
cross-posted from: literature.cafe/post/25018930
**What happens when love itself becomes a form of waste management? **This is a portrait of the failure of distinction between what is wasted and what is “recyclable,” between love as pure gift and love as transaction.
Two armless mannequins kissing in a trashcan, this is not simply “trash art,” no, it is the purest materialization of the contemporary impasse of love under late capitalism.
Let’s begin with the obvious obscenity (yes ive been reading too much zizek): the kiss in the trashcan. It is not just that love here is “trash,” something thrown away — it is that love, when it is genuine, when it gives without expecting return, is structurally trash.
It cannot be recycled, cannot be reinserted into the symbolic economy of exchange. When you love, you lose an arm, because you give without measure. The armless mannequins embody this impossibility of holding, of possessing the Other. Their kiss, confined in a trashcan, is the remainder of a gesture that no longer belongs to the order of usefulness.
Like all true love, it is obscene in its uselessness.
But then — beside it — the recycling bin.
With trash and mannequin legs. The legs are crucial — they are the organs of movement. They are what allows the subject to go somewhere AND to return, to complete an exchange. To “give your legs,” in this sense, is to give only a part of yourself and to expect it to 're-enter circulation'. To give you productive value.The recycling bin is thus the perfect allegory for consumerist love, where love and consumerist products are one and the same, where even intimacy is a system of return: you give in order to receive, you recycle your emotions, hoping they will come back in a purified form just as we expect from our products.
So love has been contaminated by waste — desire itself has become polluted.
Here “authentic giving” and “productive exchange” have disintegratedd. Even our attempts to “recycle love,” to make it sustainable, are revealed as obscene. The leg, detached from the mannequin’s body, is no longer a symbol of movement but a fetishized fragment, a commodity of desire without wholeness.
Thus, the entire scene performs the commodification of the gift. The trashcan kiss — pure, useless love — sits beside its own mirror: a recycling bin that pretends to restore value but only produces dismembered remains.
So in late capitalism, even our trash is asked to be productive, to “come back” as something new. Yet love, real love, cannot be recycled. It must remain a remainder, a waste — the excess that escapes every system.
It is also crucial that they are mannequins because mannequins embody the paradox of the human under capitalism — they are perfect imitations of people, yet utterly empty, subjects reduced to pure form without interiority. Their presence exposes love and desire as already commodified gestures, rehearsed poses of intimacy with no flesh, no vulnerability. When these hollow consumer objects attempt to love — armless, plastic, discarded — the act becomes tragic: even the symbols of consumption try to transcend their function, to feel something real. But precisely because they are mannequins, their kiss is doomed to remain a simulation — a love scene without life, revealing how the machinery of consumer desire has replaced the human capacity to feel with the glossy shell of it.
To love is not to circulate but to cease circulation — to accept loss without return, to dwell in the trashcan. It is there, among the discarded mannequins, that the only authentic intimacy survives.
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American B-52 bombers in the air near Venezuela
American B-52 bombers in the air near Venezuela
Multiple U.S. Air Force B-52 Stratofortress bombers were observed flying north of Los Roques, Venezuela, on Wednesday afternoon, as tensions between Washington and Caracas continued to build.Lisa West (UK Defence Journal)
‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
By Jason Beeferman and Emily Ngo
10/14/2025 01:15 PM EDT
Leaders of Young Republican groups throughout the country worried what would happen if their Telegram chat ever got leaked, but they kept typing anyway.They referred to Black people as monkeys and “the watermelon people” and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies and driving them to suicide and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.
William Hendrix, the Kansas Young Republicans’ vice chair, used the words “n--ga” and “n--guh,” variations of a racial slur, more than a dozen times in the chat. Bobby Walker, the vice chair of the New York State Young Republicans at the time, referred to rape as “epic.” Peter Giunta, who at the time was chair of the same organization, wrote in a message sent in June that “everyone that votes no is going to the gas chamber.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/14/private-chat-among-young-gop-club-members-00592146
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Dozens Remain Imprisoned in Egypt for Palestine Solidarity While Sisi is Hailed as a Gaza Ceasefire Broker
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/37599095
Oct 15, 2025
“The pressure was enormous,” Mahmoud told Drop Site. “We had applied for approval to sail and received no official response—neither acceptance nor rejection. Then, the day before our press conference, the authorities warned that everyone present, including journalists, could be arrested.”Despite ongoing government threats and intimidation, the organizing committee continued preparations for the Egyptian flotilla to set sail and link up with the GSF as they neared Egypt’s coastline. On September 21, the owner of the boat vanished—disappeared by Egypt’s security forces. A little over a week later, on September 29, three members of the flotilla committee were arrested near their headquarters in Cairo and held in an undisclosed location until their release this past Monday.
The flotilla episode revealed a pattern familiar to Egyptian activists: silence, then intimidation, then disappearance. “There is an invisible red line that no one can cross,” Mahmoud said. “And that line keeps moving closer every day.”
Dozens Remain Imprisoned in Egypt for Palestine Solidarity While Sisi is Hailed as a Gaza Ceasefire Broker
Oct 15, 2025“The pressure was enormous,” Mahmoud told Drop Site. “We had applied for approval to sail and received no official response—neither acceptance nor rejection. Then, the day before our press conference, the authorities warned that everyone present, including journalists, could be arrested.”Despite ongoing government threats and intimidation, the organizing committee continued preparations for the Egyptian flotilla to set sail and link up with the GSF as they neared Egypt’s coastline. On September 21, the owner of the boat vanished—disappeared by Egypt’s security forces. A little over a week later, on September 29, three members of the flotilla committee were arrested near their headquarters in Cairo and held in an undisclosed location until their release this past Monday.
The flotilla episode revealed a pattern familiar to Egyptian activists: silence, then intimidation, then disappearance. “There is an invisible red line that no one can cross,” Mahmoud said. “And that line keeps moving closer every day.”
Dozens Remain Imprisoned in Egypt for Palestine Solidarity While Sisi is Hailed as a Gaza Ceasefire Broker
“Gaza used to unite Egyptians. Now it only reminds them of what they've lost—the right to speak, to gather, to demand anything."Drop Site News
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Dozens Remain Imprisoned in Egypt for Palestine Solidarity While Sisi is Hailed as a Gaza Ceasefire Broker
Oct 15, 2025
“The pressure was enormous,” Mahmoud told Drop Site. “We had applied for approval to sail and received no official response—neither acceptance nor rejection. Then, the day before our press conference, the authorities warned that everyone present, including journalists, could be arrested.”Despite ongoing government threats and intimidation, the organizing committee continued preparations for the Egyptian flotilla to set sail and link up with the GSF as they neared Egypt’s coastline. On September 21, the owner of the boat vanished—disappeared by Egypt’s security forces. A little over a week later, on September 29, three members of the flotilla committee were arrested near their headquarters in Cairo and held in an undisclosed location until their release this past Monday.
The flotilla episode revealed a pattern familiar to Egyptian activists: silence, then intimidation, then disappearance. “There is an invisible red line that no one can cross,” Mahmoud said. “And that line keeps moving closer every day.”
Dozens Remain Imprisoned in Egypt for Palestine Solidarity While Sisi is Hailed as a Gaza Ceasefire Broker
“Gaza used to unite Egyptians. Now it only reminds them of what they've lost—the right to speak, to gather, to demand anything."Drop Site News
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Arab states deepened military ties with Israel while denouncing Gaza war, leak reveals
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.
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There's no white knight coming. Palestinians must seize this moment to reclaim their future
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/37599080
David Hearst
15 October 2025 18:59 BST | Last update: ~14:00 EDT
He revealed how dependent Israel has become on American arms, recalling how Netanyahu pleaded for weapons that Trump did not even know the US had.He reminded Israel of how small it was and that it could not fight world opinion.
He confirmed how he had arm-twisted Netanyahu into stopping the offensive on Gaza: “And I said, ‘Bibi, you’re gonna be remembered for this far more than if you kept this thing going, going, going, kill, kill, kill.”
There's no white knight coming. Palestinians must seize this moment to reclaim their future
David Hearst
15 October 2025 18:59 BST | Last update: ~14:00 EDTHe revealed how dependent Israel has become on American arms, recalling how Netanyahu pleaded for weapons that Trump did not even know the US had.He reminded Israel of how small it was and that it could not fight world opinion.
He confirmed how he had arm-twisted Netanyahu into stopping the offensive on Gaza: “And I said, ‘Bibi, you’re gonna be remembered for this far more than if you kept this thing going, going, going, kill, kill, kill.”
There's no white knight coming. Palestinians must seize this moment to reclaim their future
The theatrics of the Gaza ceasefire deal, led by Trump and backed by complicit Arab nations, will not lay the groundwork for genuine liberationMiddle East Eye
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There's no white knight coming. Palestinians must seize this moment to reclaim their future
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/37599080
David Hearst
15 October 2025 18:59 BST | Last update: ~14:00 EDT
He revealed how dependent Israel has become on American arms, recalling how Netanyahu pleaded for weapons that Trump did not even know the US had.He reminded Israel of how small it was and that it could not fight world opinion.
He confirmed how he had arm-twisted Netanyahu into stopping the offensive on Gaza: “And I said, ‘Bibi, you’re gonna be remembered for this far more than if you kept this thing going, going, going, kill, kill, kill.”
There's no white knight coming. Palestinians must seize this moment to reclaim their future
David Hearst
15 October 2025 18:59 BST | Last update: ~14:00 EDTHe revealed how dependent Israel has become on American arms, recalling how Netanyahu pleaded for weapons that Trump did not even know the US had.He reminded Israel of how small it was and that it could not fight world opinion.
He confirmed how he had arm-twisted Netanyahu into stopping the offensive on Gaza: “And I said, ‘Bibi, you’re gonna be remembered for this far more than if you kept this thing going, going, going, kill, kill, kill.”
There's no white knight coming. Palestinians must seize this moment to reclaim their future
The theatrics of the Gaza ceasefire deal, led by Trump and backed by complicit Arab nations, will not lay the groundwork for genuine liberationMiddle East Eye
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There's no white knight coming. Palestinians must seize this moment to reclaim their future
David Hearst
15 October 2025 18:59 BST | Last update: ~14:00 EDT
He revealed how dependent Israel has become on American arms, recalling how Netanyahu pleaded for weapons that Trump did not even know the US had.He reminded Israel of how small it was and that it could not fight world opinion.
He confirmed how he had arm-twisted Netanyahu into stopping the offensive on Gaza: “And I said, ‘Bibi, you’re gonna be remembered for this far more than if you kept this thing going, going, going, kill, kill, kill.”
There's no white knight coming. Palestinians must seize this moment to reclaim their future
The theatrics of the Gaza ceasefire deal, led by Trump and backed by complicit Arab nations, will not lay the groundwork for genuine liberationMiddle East Eye
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Gaza protests show we need union power to hit the system where it hurts
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/37598783
Sai Englert
15 October 2025 12:09 BST
Last update: ~ 07:00 EDT
Israel’s genocide in Gaza - supported directly by the ruling classes in the West, and indirectly by their counterparts in the Arab world - has shone a spotlight on many pre-existing political realities: the crumbling global liberal order, the crisis of #US hegemony, the extent of Israel's integration into the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)-centred Middle East, and the brittleness of civil liberties around the globe.It has also clarified much for previously less-informed people around the world: the genocidal character of Zionism, the cravenness of our own rulers, and the hypocrisy of international law - to name but a few.
Gaza protests show we need union power to hit the system where it hurts
Sai Englert
15 October 2025 12:09 BST
Last update: ~ 07:00 EDTIsrael’s genocide in Gaza - supported directly by the ruling classes in the West, and indirectly by their counterparts in the Arab world - has shone a spotlight on many pre-existing political realities: the crumbling global liberal order, the crisis of #US hegemony, the extent of Israel's integration into the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)-centred Middle East, and the brittleness of civil liberties around the globe.It has also clarified much for previously less-informed people around the world: the genocidal character of Zionism, the cravenness of our own rulers, and the hypocrisy of international law - to name but a few.
Gaza protests show we need union power to hit the system where it hurts
To deliver real and lasting solidarity with Palestinians, we must transform our own societies from top to bottomMiddle East Eye
Gaza protests show we need union power to hit the system where it hurts
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/37598783
Sai Englert
15 October 2025 12:09 BST
Last update: ~ 07:00 EDT
Israel’s genocide in Gaza - supported directly by the ruling classes in the West, and indirectly by their counterparts in the Arab world - has shone a spotlight on many pre-existing political realities: the crumbling global liberal order, the crisis of #US hegemony, the extent of Israel's integration into the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)-centred Middle East, and the brittleness of civil liberties around the globe.It has also clarified much for previously less-informed people around the world: the genocidal character of Zionism, the cravenness of our own rulers, and the hypocrisy of international law - to name but a few.
Gaza protests show we need union power to hit the system where it hurts
Sai Englert
15 October 2025 12:09 BST
Last update: ~ 07:00 EDTIsrael’s genocide in Gaza - supported directly by the ruling classes in the West, and indirectly by their counterparts in the Arab world - has shone a spotlight on many pre-existing political realities: the crumbling global liberal order, the crisis of #US hegemony, the extent of Israel's integration into the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)-centred Middle East, and the brittleness of civil liberties around the globe.It has also clarified much for previously less-informed people around the world: the genocidal character of Zionism, the cravenness of our own rulers, and the hypocrisy of international law - to name but a few.
Gaza protests show we need union power to hit the system where it hurts
To deliver real and lasting solidarity with Palestinians, we must transform our own societies from top to bottomMiddle East Eye
Gaza protests show we need union power to hit the system where it hurts
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/37598783
Sai Englert
15 October 2025 12:09 BST
Last update: ~ 07:00 EDT
Israel’s genocide in Gaza - supported directly by the ruling classes in the West, and indirectly by their counterparts in the Arab world - has shone a spotlight on many pre-existing political realities: the crumbling global liberal order, the crisis of #US hegemony, the extent of Israel's integration into the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)-centred Middle East, and the brittleness of civil liberties around the globe.It has also clarified much for previously less-informed people around the world: the genocidal character of Zionism, the cravenness of our own rulers, and the hypocrisy of international law - to name but a few.
Gaza protests show we need union power to hit the system where it hurts
Sai Englert
15 October 2025 12:09 BST
Last update: ~ 07:00 EDTIsrael’s genocide in Gaza - supported directly by the ruling classes in the West, and indirectly by their counterparts in the Arab world - has shone a spotlight on many pre-existing political realities: the crumbling global liberal order, the crisis of #US hegemony, the extent of Israel's integration into the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)-centred Middle East, and the brittleness of civil liberties around the globe.It has also clarified much for previously less-informed people around the world: the genocidal character of Zionism, the cravenness of our own rulers, and the hypocrisy of international law - to name but a few.
Gaza protests show we need union power to hit the system where it hurts
To deliver real and lasting solidarity with Palestinians, we must transform our own societies from top to bottomMiddle East Eye
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Gaza protests show we need union power to hit the system where it hurts
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Sai Englert
15 October 2025 12:09 BST
Last update: ~ 07:00 EDT
Israel’s genocide in Gaza - supported directly by the ruling classes in the West, and indirectly by their counterparts in the Arab world - has shone a spotlight on many pre-existing political realities: the crumbling global liberal order, the crisis of #US hegemony, the extent of Israel's integration into the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)-centred Middle East, and the brittleness of civil liberties around the globe.It has also clarified much for previously less-informed people around the world: the genocidal character of Zionism, the cravenness of our own rulers, and the hypocrisy of international law - to name but a few.
Gaza protests show we need union power to hit the system where it hurts
Sai Englert
15 October 2025 12:09 BST
Last update: ~ 07:00 EDTIsrael’s genocide in Gaza - supported directly by the ruling classes in the West, and indirectly by their counterparts in the Arab world - has shone a spotlight on many pre-existing political realities: the crumbling global liberal order, the crisis of #US hegemony, the extent of Israel's integration into the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)-centred Middle East, and the brittleness of civil liberties around the globe.It has also clarified much for previously less-informed people around the world: the genocidal character of Zionism, the cravenness of our own rulers, and the hypocrisy of international law - to name but a few.
Gaza protests show we need union power to hit the system where it hurts
To deliver real and lasting solidarity with Palestinians, we must transform our own societies from top to bottomMiddle East Eye
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Gaza protests show we need union power to hit the system where it hurts
Sai Englert
15 October 2025 12:09 BST
Last update: ~ 07:00 EDT
Israel’s genocide in Gaza - supported directly by the ruling classes in the West, and indirectly by their counterparts in the Arab world - has shone a spotlight on many pre-existing political realities: the crumbling global liberal order, the crisis of #US hegemony, the extent of Israel's integration into the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)-centred Middle East, and the brittleness of civil liberties around the globe.It has also clarified much for previously less-informed people around the world: the genocidal character of Zionism, the cravenness of our own rulers, and the hypocrisy of international law - to name but a few.
Gaza protests show we need union power to hit the system where it hurts
To deliver real and lasting solidarity with Palestinians, we must transform our own societies from top to bottomMiddle East Eye
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The Perfect Private Messenger
What's the closest thing we have to a perfect private messanger?
In my mind the perfect private messanger is both completely secure, and also completely anonymous.
All the mainstream messengers can pretty much ensure the contents of the message will not be revealed....but that is not good enough. I want to be able to deploy and establish a completely anonymous AND private channel of communication on a dime without having to jump through extreme operational security hoops.
Does it really exist?
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Trump confirms he authorized CIA action in Venezuela
Trump confirms he authorized CIA action in Venezuela
The CIA's operations are usually shrouded in secrecy, but Trump said on Wednesday he had authorized the spy agency to take unspecified action in Venezuela.Dan De Luce (NBC News)
Rare protests at American University of Cairo drive off former US ambassador
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/37598303
By MEE staff
Published date: 15 October 2025 17:32 BST
Last update: ~12:30 EDT
Video footage of AUC’s campus shows hundreds of young, diverse Egyptians swarming the campus’s grounds and halls in protest against Kurtzer's arrival. Many students are wearing Palestinian keffiyehs and waving the Palestinian flag."Who said '67? All the land is Palestine. We won't normalise," the students chanted, in an apparent rebuke of Arab states who call for a solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict based on pre-1967 borders.
In a statement, AUC’s Student Union said more than 40 student organisations had participated “in outrage, conscience, and solidarity with Palestine”.
Rare protests at American University of Cairo drive off former US ambassador
By MEE staff
Published date: 15 October 2025 17:32 BST
Last update: ~12:30 EDTVideo footage of AUC’s campus shows hundreds of young, diverse Egyptians swarming the campus’s grounds and halls in protest against Kurtzer's arrival. Many students are wearing Palestinian keffiyehs and waving the Palestinian flag."Who said '67? All the land is Palestine. We won't normalise," the students chanted, in an apparent rebuke of Arab states who call for a solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict based on pre-1967 borders.
In a statement, AUC’s Student Union said more than 40 student organisations had participated “in outrage, conscience, and solidarity with Palestine”.
Rare protests at American University of Cairo drive off former US ambassador
Students at the American University of Cairo staged rare protests against former US ambassador to Egypt Daniel Kurtzer on Tuesday, forcing him and a group of American graduate students to leave the campus.MEE staff (Middle East Eye)
Rare protests at American University of Cairo drive off former US ambassador
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/37598303
By MEE staff
Published date: 15 October 2025 17:32 BST
Last update: ~12:30 EDT
Video footage of AUC’s campus shows hundreds of young, diverse Egyptians swarming the campus’s grounds and halls in protest against Kurtzer's arrival. Many students are wearing Palestinian keffiyehs and waving the Palestinian flag."Who said '67? All the land is Palestine. We won't normalise," the students chanted, in an apparent rebuke of Arab states who call for a solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict based on pre-1967 borders.
In a statement, AUC’s Student Union said more than 40 student organisations had participated “in outrage, conscience, and solidarity with Palestine”.
Rare protests at American University of Cairo drive off former US ambassador
By MEE staff
Published date: 15 October 2025 17:32 BST
Last update: ~12:30 EDTVideo footage of AUC’s campus shows hundreds of young, diverse Egyptians swarming the campus’s grounds and halls in protest against Kurtzer's arrival. Many students are wearing Palestinian keffiyehs and waving the Palestinian flag."Who said '67? All the land is Palestine. We won't normalise," the students chanted, in an apparent rebuke of Arab states who call for a solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict based on pre-1967 borders.
In a statement, AUC’s Student Union said more than 40 student organisations had participated “in outrage, conscience, and solidarity with Palestine”.
Rare protests at American University of Cairo drive off former US ambassador
Students at the American University of Cairo staged rare protests against former US ambassador to Egypt Daniel Kurtzer on Tuesday, forcing him and a group of American graduate students to leave the campus.MEE staff (Middle East Eye)
Rare protests at American University of Cairo drive off former US ambassador
By MEE staff
Published date: 15 October 2025 17:32 BST
Last update: ~12:30 EDT
Video footage of AUC’s campus shows hundreds of young, diverse Egyptians swarming the campus’s grounds and halls in protest against Kurtzer's arrival. Many students are wearing Palestinian keffiyehs and waving the Palestinian flag."Who said '67? All the land is Palestine. We won't normalise," the students chanted, in an apparent rebuke of Arab states who call for a solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict based on pre-1967 borders.
In a statement, AUC’s Student Union said more than 40 student organisations had participated “in outrage, conscience, and solidarity with Palestine”.
Rare protests at American University of Cairo drive off former US ambassador
Students at the American University of Cairo staged rare protests against former US ambassador to Egypt Daniel Kurtzer on Tuesday, forcing him and a group of American graduate students to leave the campus.MEE staff (Middle East Eye)
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America Is Heavily Reliant on China for Raw Materials in Medicines
A new analysis found that nearly 700 drugs approved for use in the United States depend on chemicals solely produced in China.The analysis found that China was the sole supplier of at least one chemical in widely used antibiotics, like amoxicillin, and generic drugs for heart problems, seizures, cancer and H.I.V.
for example, amoxicillin, the widely used antibiotic that is sold by many different generic manufacturers. Factories in different parts of the world, including India, Jordan and Canada, handle the later stages of producing it. But two of the raw materials used to make amoxicillin are produced entirely in China, the analysis found.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/health/us-drugs-china-production.html
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Israeli captives in Gaza: How many were there and what happened to them?
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/37598002
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/37598001
By Nadav Rapaport
Published date: 15 October 2025 17:40 BST
Last update: ~13:00 EDT
On Monday, the last 20 living Israeli captives were released by Hamas in exchange for 1,968 Palestinian prisoners and detainees.For Israel, it marked the end of a chapter of history where the fate of Israelis captured on 7 October 2023 had loomed over society.
For Palestine, meanwhile, more than 9,000 Palestinian prisoners remain in Israeli jails – nearly double the number before Israel’s genocide in Gaza began.
Now, the bodies of the last dead captives are being recovered by Hamas and delivered to Israel.
Middle East Eye breaks down what we know about the Israeli captives, how they were freed and how some of them were killed.
Israeli captives in Gaza: How many were there and what happened to them?
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/37598001By Nadav Rapaport
Published date: 15 October 2025 17:40 BST
Last update: ~13:00 EDT
On Monday, the last 20 living Israeli captives were released by Hamas in exchange for 1,968 Palestinian prisoners and detainees.For Israel, it marked the end of a chapter of history where the fate of Israelis captured on 7 October 2023 had loomed over society.
For Palestine, meanwhile, more than 9,000 Palestinian prisoners remain in Israeli jails – nearly double the number before Israel’s genocide in Gaza began.
Now, the bodies of the last dead captives are being recovered by Hamas and delivered to Israel.
Middle East Eye breaks down what we know about the Israeli captives, how they were freed and how some of them were killed.
Israeli captives in Gaza: How many were there and what happened to them?
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/37598001
By Nadav Rapaport
Published date: 15 October 2025 17:40 BST
Last update: ~13:00 EDT
On Monday, the last 20 living Israeli captives were released by Hamas in exchange for 1,968 Palestinian prisoners and detainees.For Israel, it marked the end of a chapter of history where the fate of Israelis captured on 7 October 2023 had loomed over society.
For Palestine, meanwhile, more than 9,000 Palestinian prisoners remain in Israeli jails – nearly double the number before Israel’s genocide in Gaza began.
Now, the bodies of the last dead captives are being recovered by Hamas and delivered to Israel.
Middle East Eye breaks down what we know about the Israeli captives, how they were freed and how some of them were killed.
Israeli captives in Gaza: How many were there and what happened to them?
By Nadav Rapaport
Published date: 15 October 2025 17:40 BST
Last update: ~13:00 EDTOn Monday, the last 20 living Israeli captives were released by Hamas in exchange for 1,968 Palestinian prisoners and detainees.For Israel, it marked the end of a chapter of history where the fate of Israelis captured on 7 October 2023 had loomed over society.
For Palestine, meanwhile, more than 9,000 Palestinian prisoners remain in Israeli jails – nearly double the number before Israel’s genocide in Gaza began.
Now, the bodies of the last dead captives are being recovered by Hamas and delivered to Israel.
Middle East Eye breaks down what we know about the Israeli captives, how they were freed and how some of them were killed.
Israeli captives in Gaza: How many were there and what happened to them?
By Nadav Rapaport
Published date: 15 October 2025 17:40 BST
Last update: ~13:00 EDT
On Monday, the last 20 living Israeli captives were released by Hamas in exchange for 1,968 Palestinian prisoners and detainees.For Israel, it marked the end of a chapter of history where the fate of Israelis captured on 7 October 2023 had loomed over society.
For Palestine, meanwhile, more than 9,000 Palestinian prisoners remain in Israeli jails – nearly double the number before Israel’s genocide in Gaza began.
Now, the bodies of the last dead captives are being recovered by Hamas and delivered to Israel.
Middle East Eye breaks down what we know about the Israeli captives, how they were freed and how some of them were killed.
Crowds chant outlawed anti-Putin songs in rare St Petersburg protest
Crowds chant outlawed anti-Putin songs in rare St Petersburg protest
The crowd joined street musicians to sing “Cooperative Swan Lake,” which was outlawed in May 2025 when a St. Petersburg court labeled it “extremist.”Alex Nichol (LBC)
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In one viral social media video the crowd and street musicians can be seen dancing and singing the banned song “Cooperative Swan Lake.” The song, was originally written by exiled 40-year-old pro-Ukraine rapper Noize MC, a.k.a Ivan Alexeyev.
One thing that russia has over other countries is that you have that seal of approval. If artist is banned as a foreign agent by an arbitrary agency, - not as extremist, that is still done by guys in FSB for real cases, - you can tell they are at least potentially based. That is done to only lib, progressive, antiwar and lefty persons uncompatible with the regime, for some irl protests or content they posted, so you can be 90% sure they are sticking to the truth. There are some problematic or rather idiotic actors, but for artists - almost everyone repressed by that regime deserves praise for not confroming.
Israel returns Palestinian bodies showing signs of torture and execution
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/37597699
Published date: 15 October 2025 15:49 BST
Last updated: ~11:00 EDT
Bodies of Palestinians returned by Israel show signs of torture, execution and being run over by tanks, Middle East Eye has learned.Israel handed over the unidentified remains of around 45 individuals to Gaza on Tuesday as part of its prisoner exchange agreement with Hamas.
A source at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, which received the bodies via the International Committee of the Red Cross, told MEE that some of the deceased were recently killed, while others arrived in a decomposed state or as partial remains.
Several bodies bore signs of severe abuse, including strangulation marks, broken bones and mutilation.
Some were found with their hands and feet bound and their eyes blindfolded. Others were missing limbs.
Israel returns Palestinian bodies showing signs of torture and execution
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/37597699Published date: 15 October 2025 15:49 BST
Last updated: ~11:00 EDT
Bodies of Palestinians returned by Israel show signs of torture, execution and being run over by tanks, Middle East Eye has learned.Israel handed over the unidentified remains of around 45 individuals to Gaza on Tuesday as part of its prisoner exchange agreement with Hamas.
A source at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, which received the bodies via the International Committee of the Red Cross, told MEE that some of the deceased were recently killed, while others arrived in a decomposed state or as partial remains.
Several bodies bore signs of severe abuse, including strangulation marks, broken bones and mutilation.
Some were found with their hands and feet bound and their eyes blindfolded. Others were missing limbs.
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Israel returns Palestinian bodies showing signs of torture and execution
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/37597699
Published date: 15 October 2025 15:49 BST
Last updated: ~11:00 EDT
Bodies of Palestinians returned by Israel show signs of torture, execution and being run over by tanks, Middle East Eye has learned.Israel handed over the unidentified remains of around 45 individuals to Gaza on Tuesday as part of its prisoner exchange agreement with Hamas.
A source at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, which received the bodies via the International Committee of the Red Cross, told MEE that some of the deceased were recently killed, while others arrived in a decomposed state or as partial remains.
Several bodies bore signs of severe abuse, including strangulation marks, broken bones and mutilation.
Some were found with their hands and feet bound and their eyes blindfolded. Others were missing limbs.
Israel returns Palestinian bodies showing signs of torture and execution
Published date: 15 October 2025 15:49 BST
Last updated: ~11:00 EDTBodies of Palestinians returned by Israel show signs of torture, execution and being run over by tanks, Middle East Eye has learned.Israel handed over the unidentified remains of around 45 individuals to Gaza on Tuesday as part of its prisoner exchange agreement with Hamas.
A source at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, which received the bodies via the International Committee of the Red Cross, told MEE that some of the deceased were recently killed, while others arrived in a decomposed state or as partial remains.
Several bodies bore signs of severe abuse, including strangulation marks, broken bones and mutilation.
Some were found with their hands and feet bound and their eyes blindfolded. Others were missing limbs.
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Israel returns Palestinian bodies showing signs of torture and execution
Published date: 15 October 2025 15:49 BST
Last updated: ~11:00 EDT
Bodies of Palestinians returned by Israel show signs of torture, execution and being run over by tanks, Middle East Eye has learned.Israel handed over the unidentified remains of around 45 individuals to Gaza on Tuesday as part of its prisoner exchange agreement with Hamas.
A source at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, which received the bodies via the International Committee of the Red Cross, told MEE that some of the deceased were recently killed, while others arrived in a decomposed state or as partial remains.
Several bodies bore signs of severe abuse, including strangulation marks, broken bones and mutilation.
Some were found with their hands and feet bound and their eyes blindfolded. Others were missing limbs.
US weight-loss biotech’s $600mn fund raise signals China’s role in drug trials
US weight-loss biotech Kailera Therapeutics has raised $600mn from investors buoyed by the company’s ability to accelerate drug development by relying on China for cheaper and faster clinical trials.Kailera acquired the global rights for its weight-loss drugs from Jiangsu Hengrui Pharmaceuticals in Lianyungang, China.
Exclusive: Hamas says Israel’s ‘indiscriminate’ destruction of Gaza behind delay in locating captives' bodies
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A senior Hamas source has told Middle East Eye that Israel bears responsibility for delays in locating and returning the bodies of captives still missing in Gaza.The source was speaking after Israeli officials said on Tuesday that the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt would remain closed through Wednesday and accused Hamas of holding onto the bodies of captives it had pledged to return as part of the US-brokered peace deal that halted the two-year war.
But the Hamas source told MEE that its negotiators clearly stated during talks that the presence of Israeli forces and the genocidal, indiscriminate Israeli attacks that caused widespread destruction would complicate the task of locating the bodies of killed captives, requiring greater time and effort.
Exclusive: Hamas says Israel’s ‘indiscriminate’ destruction of Gaza behind delay in locating captives' bodies
A senior Hamas source has told Middle East Eye that Israel bears responsibility for delays in locating and returning the bodies of captives still missing in Gaza.The source was speaking after Israeli officials said on Tuesday that the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt would remain closed through Wednesday and accused Hamas of holding onto the bodies of captives it had pledged to return as part of the US-brokered peace deal that halted the two-year war.
But the Hamas source told MEE that its negotiators clearly stated during talks that the presence of Israeli forces and the genocidal, indiscriminate Israeli attacks that caused widespread destruction would complicate the task of locating the bodies of killed captives, requiring greater time and effort.
Australia's tropical trees emit more carbon than they absorb: study
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AFAIK (I'm not a botanist) it's true of many larger trees that they use more oxygen than they produce and emit more CO2 than they consume. It's the biosphere that the large trees support that does a lot of the carbon sinking - mosses, ferns, vines, etc.
As a rule of thumb, the greater the ratio of woody mass to leafy mass the more the ratio tilts away from being a carbon sink, as the whole lifeform has to undergo aerobic respiration but only the leaves participate in photosynthesis.
How First Wap's Surveillance Tool Called Altamides Tracks Phones Around the World
Trove of surveillance data challenges what we thought we knew about location tracking tools, who they target and how far they have spread
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Most countries have a legal mandate to carry out domestic phone network surveillance. The First Wap archive demonstrates, however, how phone network connections can be leveraged to allow tracking all over the world, without authorisation from the targeted networks.In recent years, a number of investigations have explored the ways in which surveillance companies gain access to phone networks to enable this type of tracking. Lighthouse and its partners have previously written about how SS7 abuses were linked to the murder of a reporter in Mexico and a crackdown on an activist in Congo, and how they were enabled via leasing of Global Titles.
How First Wap Tracks Phones Around the World - Lighthouse Reports
From telecom protocols to a 1.5 million row dataset, here’s how we uncovered the reach and tactics of a mercenary phone-tracking companyLighthouse Reports
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in reply to KingGimpicus • • •The third Reich was not in the name of God. The Church had to subjugate under the Nazis. Same with Stalin and the communists. They hated religion and I am pretty sure they committed quite a few atrocities in the USSR, Mao in China, Pol Pot in Cambodia ...
God is a convenient reason for atrocities but far from the only/most prevalent one.
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in reply to KingGimpicus • • •Middle East and the spread of Islam.
Zimbabwe and Ghurukundi (I made a typo here somewhere).
Shaka and Mfecane.
Rwanda and Tutsi.
Just adding a few because you clearly need more thorough education if you can't name one in Africa by Africans.
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in reply to KingGimpicus • • •The problem through the whole history, even between different christian Religions- the war of 30 years between catholic and protestants, 80 years between irish and british people.......
After the industrial revolution it has become worse, because the religion of money has also been added.
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