Injured teenager: consequences of drone attack on Russian regions
Injured teenager: consequences of drone attack on Russian regions
Between 11:30 p.m. Moscow time on November 30 and 7:00 a.m. on December 1, on-duty air defenses intercepted and destroyed 32 Ukrainian UAVsTASS
Office for Budget Responsibility(OBR) chair quits after inquiry into early release of Reeves’s budget
Richard Hughes departs after investigation into how official forecaster accidentally published budget 40 minutes early
OBR chair quits after inquiry into early release of budget document
Richard Hughes takes ‘full responsibility’ for watchdog error as Starmer attempts to secure chancellor’s positionPippa Crerar (The Guardian)
Russian diplomat advises NATO to rein in 'escalatory' talk about preemptive strikes
Russian diplomat advises NATO to rein in 'escalatory' talk about preemptive strikes
According to Maria Zakharova, Moscow sees such statements as a deliberate attempt to undermine efforts to settle the Ukrainian crisisTASS
Ukrainian Black Sea attack infringed NATO state’s sovereignty – Kremlin
Ukrainian Black Sea attack infringed NATO state’s sovereignty – Kremlin
Ukraine’s strikes on the Kairos and Virat tankers targeted Turkish sovereignty and the vessel owners’ rights, Dmitry Peskov has saidRT
Spain reaffirms plan to skip Eurovision if Israel is allowed to compete
The head of Spanish public broadcaster RTVE has reaffirmed that his country will not join the 2026 Eurovision contest if Israel is allowed to compete - a protest by the Spanish delegation against Israel's genocide in Gaza.
Corporación de Radio Televisión Española (RTVE) president José Pablo López's statement follows weeks of lobbying by the Austrian delegation and others to keep Israel in the contest, which will take place in Vienna.
"We hold the same opinion [...] that Israel's presence was unsustainable — firstly, for the genocide. Eurovision is a contest, but human rights are not." López told a parliamentary hearing on Thursday.
López's remarks come a week before a crucial vote on whether Israel can participate in the competition.
https://www.newarab.com/news/spain-reaffirms-plan-skip-eurovision-if-israel-competes
Israel says it killed 40 Hamas fighters trapped in Rafah tunnels
The Israeli army claimed to have killed 40 Palestinian resistance group Hamas members who had been trapped in Rafah, in southern Gaza, last week.
The army said in a statement late on Sunday that it continued to intensify efforts to destroy the remaining tunnels in eastern Rafah to eliminate armed fighters inside.
Israel says it killed 40 Hamas fighters trapped in Rafah tunnels
No immediate comment from Palestinian groupTRT World
Honduras election shock; Mass casualty flooding and fires in Asia; Netanyahu demands a pardon
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/39725978
Israel kills two Palestinian children in a drone strike on Khan Younis. Trump is rewarded for his heavy intervention in Honduras’s election as his preferred candidate is leading a close race, with the left-wing party of the incumbent president trailing badly. Palestinian American teenager Mohammed Zaher Ibrahim is released from detention. Trump mandates closure of Venezuela airspace and cancels repatriation flights. A coup in Guinea-Bissau. Fires kill 150 in Hong Kong. Floods kill over 1,000 in Southeast Asia. Rains continue to imperil the people of the Gaza Strip. Israeli forces withdraw from Tubas, ending an intense operation in the West Bank city. Attacks continue near Hebron and Bethlehem Netanyahu asks for a pardon. Far-right cabinet members push for more guns for West Bank settlers and promote a Border Police officer who killed surrendering Palestinians. U.S. halts visas and asylum for Afghans. The U.S. Navy is accused of covering up plutonium leaks. Drop Site publishes a dispatch on guerilla fighters in West Papua. The Pope heads to Lebanon and continues the Vatican’s push for Palestinian statehood. Russian-Ukrainian negotiations continue as a lead Ukrainian negotiator departs, due to his role in a growing corruption scandal within the country. Israel kills 13 in Syria. A French investigation finds that Sudan’s Army used chlorine gas as a weapon of war last year against the RSF. Turkish and Kurdish negotiators reach an impasse. Iran seizes another tanker.
Honduras election shock; Mass casualty flooding and fires in Asia; Netanyahu demands a pardon
Israel kills two Palestinian children in a drone strike on Khan Younis. Trump is rewarded for his heavy intervention in Honduras’s election as his preferred candidate is leading a close race, with the left-wing party of the incumbent president trailing badly. Palestinian American teenager Mohammed Zaher Ibrahim is released from detention. Trump mandates closure of Venezuela airspace and cancels repatriation flights. A coup in Guinea-Bissau. Fires kill 150 in Hong Kong. Floods kill over 1,000 in Southeast Asia. Rains continue to imperil the people of the Gaza Strip. Israeli forces withdraw from Tubas, ending an intense operation in the West Bank city. Attacks continue near Hebron and Bethlehem Netanyahu asks for a pardon. Far-right cabinet members push for more guns for West Bank settlers and promote a Border Police officer who killed surrendering Palestinians. U.S. halts visas and asylum for Afghans. The U.S. Navy is accused of covering up plutonium leaks. Drop Site publishes a dispatch on guerilla fighters in West Papua. The Pope heads to Lebanon and continues the Vatican’s push for Palestinian statehood. Russian-Ukrainian negotiations continue as a lead Ukrainian negotiator departs, due to his role in a growing corruption scandal within the country. Israel kills 13 in Syria. A French investigation finds that Sudan’s Army used chlorine gas as a weapon of war last year against the RSF. Turkish and Kurdish negotiators reach an impasse. Iran seizes another tanker.Honduras election shock; Mass casualty flooding and fires in Asia; Netanyahu demands a pardon
Drop Site Daily: December 1, 2025Drop Site News
Honduras election shock; Mass casualty flooding and fires in Asia; Netanyahu demands a pardon
Honduras election shock; Mass casualty flooding and fires in Asia; Netanyahu demands a pardon
Drop Site Daily: December 1, 2025Drop Site News
Where can I find Wayland solutions?
Wayland is breaking a solid 30%-40% of everything on my computer right now, but I want to be better prepared for if/when I don't have an x11 option.
Is there a forum or place where people listen and actually try to help you find fixes/workarounds for Wayland problems?
Is this on a fresh install, or have you installed a Wayland DE on an existing distro? If so, you may be missing some packages. What DE are you using for both X and Wayland?
I'm surprised wlr-randr is missing a display that xrandr can see, they should be looking at the same place for the display info. If you hunt through dmesg do you see any errors related to "EDID"?
to help communicate and troubleshoot what is broken here, we need to think of Wayland as a protocol just like HTTP is a protocol
saying "Wayland broke X" is like saying "HTTP broke X", which is possible but not likely to be what you're actually trying to say
rather, we need to be talking about the implementation(s) of the protocol, not the protocol itself
e.g. "HTTP broke X" -> "Google Chrome broke X"
e.g. "Wayland broke X" -> "GNOME broke X"
"I am angry the overton window has moved so far to the right, I'm going to blame the folks trying to move it leftward"
What hasn't happened is an IRL movement around a new party or leader. What has happened is lots of "divide the left" memes and posts. I do wonder who that sentiment serves the most.
Left wing starts are anti-capitalism and anti-imperialism. The democrats are complicit in genocide and take money from AIPAC and only care about pleasing their business owners. Also the DNC is a private corporation
The Democratic National Committee is many things but democratic
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Court Concedes DNC Had the Right to Rig Primaries Against Sanders
The court affirmed that the DNC and Debbie Wasserman Schultz held a palpable bias in favor Hillary Clinton.Michael Sainato (Observer)
Moving it leftward is when you support two separate groups of genocidal fascists in Israel and Ukraine and whine at leftists for not tactically supporting the fascists enough
Divide the left
You are not on the left. But I do keep seeing a bunch of "How do you do, fellow leftists? We sure do love voting for the 𝓵𝓮𝓼𝓼𝓮𝓻 𝓮𝓿𝓲𝓵, amirite? By the way fuck communists" memes and posts. I wonder who that sentiment serves the most?
Browser Fingerprinting And Why VPNs Won’t Make You Anonymous
Browser Fingerprinting And Why VPNs Won’t Make You Anonymous
Amidst the glossy marketing for VPN services, it can be tempting to believe that the moment you flick on the VPN connection you can browse the internet with full privacy. Unfortunately this is quit…Hackaday
This is a bit of a misnomer. No one PC can be fully anonymized or fully private, even if the PC provided fake data points, they will still be technically fingerprinted. Having said that, having a browser that tries to spoof stuff like LibreWolf, Tor or IronFox is decent.
The gains in using a VPN, among other best practices is that helps --assuming people do not log on to something like Google-- is to minimize the fingerprint of the PC to you, as a user. Assuming one trust their VPN provider, helps.
Tor leverages the point of having all users look and be fingerprinted mostly as the same, so you get lost in the shuffle and crowd.
The Global Zionist Organ Trafficking Conspiracy
In July 2015, the European Parliament issued a landmark report on organ trafficking. Its introduction notes, "before 2000, the problem of trafficking in human organs...was primarily limited to the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia." However, following the turn of the millennium, "trafficking in organs has seemingly started to spread globally, to a large extent driven by Israeli doctors." The document went on to detail a number of high-profile organ trafficking cases.
The Global Zionist Organ Trafficking Conspiracy
All my investigations are free to read, thanks to the enormous generosity of my readers.Kit Klarenberg (Global Delinquents)
i asked ai to summarize the article and it started and ended with warnings that this was anti-semitic and, when i asked why, it flat out said that ant-zionism is inherently antisemitic. lol
even deepseek is kowtowing to that definition of antisemitism and it makes me sad.
When objective, real Criticism is labeled as "anti-semetic" just by fact of existing, then it makes you question how much you are being lied to in so many things regarding them and their interests.
Sadly, AI cannot be trusted on this topic if that is what it does.
Germany wants to build Europe’s strongest army – a new conscription bill is moving that closer
This year, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz pledged to build Europe’s strongest army – a tall order for a country whose military has undergone years of neglect.
The coalition government is hoping a new bill agreed upon last week will help make this a reality, bolstering Germany’s forces in the face of the perceived threat from Russia and a significant shift in US foreign policy.
The sweeping new reforms will see Germany attempt to boost its numbers to 260,000 soldiers, up from around 180,000 currently, in addition to an extra 200,000 reservists, by 2035.
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/11/23/europe/germany-europe-army-reform-intl
It is a lot of slow frog boiling. They start off with "voluntary" so they can eventually introduce mandatory conscription without too much pushback.
Europe and the US are very likely gearing up to start World War 3 in a few years.
Ways to convince people to take online privacy seriously - common objections debunked
Common objections debunked
Your one-stop-shop for convincing people to take online privacy seriouslyPatrick Leavy (The Rebel Blog)
Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out
Cross posted from: lemmy.world/post/39114169
How to opt out
Opting out requires you to change settings in two places, so I’ve tried to make it as easy to follow as possible. Feel free to let me know in the comments if I missed anything.
To fully opt out, you must turn off Gmail’s “Smart features” in two separate locations in your settings. Don’t miss one, or AI training may continue.
Step 1: Turn off Smart Features in Gmail, Chat, and Meet settings
Open Gmail on your desktop or mobile app.
Click the gear icon → See all settings (desktop) or Menu → Settings (mobile).
Find the section called Smart Features in Gmail, Chat, and Meet. You’ll need to scroll down quite a bit.
Smart features settings
Uncheck this option.
Scroll down and hit Save changes if on desktop.
Step 2: Turn off Google Workspace Smart Features
Still in Settings, locate Google Workspace smart features.
Click on Manage Workspace smart feature settings.
You’ll see two options: Smart features in Google Workspace and Smart features in other Google products.
Smart feature settings
Toggle both off.
Save again in this screen.
Step 3: Verify if both are off
Make sure both toggles remain off.
Refresh your Gmail app or sign out and back in to confirm changes.
Why two places?
Google separates “Workspace” smart features (email, chat, meet) from smart features used across other Google apps. To fully opt out of feeding your data into AI training, both must be disabled.
Note
Your account might not show these settings enabled by default yet (mine didn’t). Google appears to be rolling this out gradually. But if you care about privacy and control, double-check your settings today.
[Correction] Gmail can read your emails and attachments to power "smart features" | Malwarebytes
Did you know that Gmail can use your emails and attachments for its smart features? Here's how to check your settings.Pieter Arntz (Malwarebytes)
Quite true, but that should not be a reason to use Gmail, anyway.
More so if you have friends who are not on Gmail.
Linus Torvalds with Linus Sebastian (Linus Tech Tips)
In-case you didn't know, Linus Sebastian of LTT media made a video with Linus Torvalds. If you watched the video, what are your thoughts?
BTW, he uses Fedora.
- YouTube
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
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Tbf though, Lemmy/The fediverse has been MUCH better then ol rage book and xitter
Ireland: Report finds rise in child brain injuries from e-scooters
Report finds rise in child brain injuries from e-scooters
A new report from the College of Physicians has found that e-scooters are the leading cause of traumatic brain injuries to children at Temple Street Hospital.RTÉ News (RTÉ)
International Criminal Court: Justice at Risk
- The International Criminal Court (ICC) is under assault by the United States and Russia, among others, which are determined to undermine its mandate as the court of last resort.
- ICC member countries need to stay firm in their defense of the court so that impartial justice remains a critical part of the rules-based international order.
- ICC member countries should use their annual meeting to defend the court human rights groups, and others cooperating with it, and to enforce judicial findings against members who fail to arrest and surrender those sought by the court.
International Criminal Court: Justice at Risk
Member countries of the International Criminal Court (ICC) should intensify efforts to protect the court and human rights groups campaigning for justice from attack.Human Rights Watch
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What is the alternative?
At least international law puts some small hurdles in criminals path and make historic judgments that is recorded.
The alternative is clear path for criminals with no judgment.
If international law can't stop genocide it doesn't exist, it's a figleaf that is only seriously used against the empire's enemies.
The alternative would be world revolution. You can't have international law coexist with imperialism. The empire must die.
What are the best reasons people have given you for not wanting to try Linux?
Heyho, recently someone asked for the silliest reasons, but as someone who has suggested linux to many people, I often encounter people having valid reasons for staying with Windows or switching back.
The most boring but valid one is "I have to use Windows for work. It is a requirement (of some software I have to use)". But there are also other answers that fit. My sister for example tried Linux, but while installing software constantly encountered issues that I helped her solve and eventually switched back because she felt like she had less control than over windows. While I am aware that this is fundamentally wrong, it is valid that some amateur users do not want to invest enough time to get over the initial hurdles of relearning how to install software.
What are the best reasons people have given you for not wanting to try Linux?
DistroWatch.com: Put the fun back into computing. Use Linux, BSD.
News and feature lists of Linux and BSD distributions.distrowatch.com
Intel graphics support, or the absence of it
That's like one of the best platforms.
Decent touchscreen support
Pretty much everything on Wayland LGTM. If something doesn't look quite right (like, hover tooltips), it's probably the fault of the widget toolkit and will also be broken on Windows.
Windows Ink
As in stylus/pen/drawing tablet? kwin has awesome support, other compositors have some basics.
WSL which I use with NixOS
??? you want a container? distrobox can do that, or something like this
Adobe apps
true... slightly outdated repacks work fine in Wine tho
PowerPoint
Libre Impress (...) it's not even close
Wine.
GitHub - nix-community/nix-user-chroot: Install & Run nix without root permissions [maintainer=@Mic92]
Install & Run nix without root permissions [maintainer=@Mic92] - nix-community/nix-user-chrootGitHub
re: Intel
i have not been able to properly set things up on nix. i need oneapi Blender support, SYCL etc. unfortunately, i can't spend several days trying figure it out on my own.
re: kwin
again, my experience was mixed. some apps sort of worked out of the box, others had issues with detecting pressure sensitivity or palm rejection.
re: wsl
I don't need a container. when on Nix, i use devshells. what i was saying is that all the linux tools i ever need are easily available on windows.
re: ppt
again, i tried. it sort of works for older versions. but even then once i started importing media, it would crash. when I'm traveling and need to show slides, i simply can't afford to just debug all night why the video won't show properly.
for the record: i do have a linux laptop (fw16, with nixos), i just need to keep another windows one for very specific tasks.
We've Detected Lightning on Mars for the First Time
We've Detected Lightning on Mars for the First Time
Scientists analyzed 28 hours of recordings over two Martian years, listening for electrical signals.Passant Rabie (Gizmodo)
RNA viruses like flu and COVID-19 mutate rapidly, creating new variants that escape immunity. On the other hand, viruses like measles mutate in ways that are mostly harmful to themselves.
Why Do Viruses Like COVID-19 and the Flu Mutate Rapidly and What Does it Mean for Vaccines?
Some viruses mutate more rapidly than others. Learn more about why that is and what that means for your health.Avery Hurt (Discover Magazine)
We are all mosaics: vast genetic diversity found between cells in a single person
We are all mosaics: vast genetic diversity found between cells in a single person
Technical advances allow researchers to trace the genetic changes that occur over time.Ledford, Heidi
Scientists Are Increasingly Worried AI Will Sway Elections
Scientists are raising alarms about the potential influence of artificial intelligence on elections, according to a spate of new studies that warn AI can rig polls and manipulate public opinion.In a study published in Nature on Thursday, scientists report that AI chatbots can meaningfully sway people toward a particular candidate—providing better results than video or television ads. Moreover, chatbots optimized for political persuasion “may increasingly deploy misleading or false information,” according to a separate study published on Thursday in Science.
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Scientists Are Increasingly Worried AI Will Sway Elections
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Subscribe to 404 Media to get The Abstract, our newsletter about the most exciting and mind-boggling science news and studies of the week.Scientists are raising alarms about the potential influence of artificial intelligence on elections, according to a spate of new studies that warn AI can rig polls and manipulate public opinion.
In a study published in Nature on Thursday, scientists report that AI chatbots can meaningfully sway people toward a particular candidate—providing better results than video or television ads. Moreover, chatbots optimized for political persuasion “may increasingly deploy misleading or false information,” according to a separate study published on Thursday in Science.
“The general public has lots of concern around AI and election interference, but among political scientists there’s a sense that it’s really hard to change peoples’ opinions, ” said David Rand, a professor of information science, marketing, and psychology at Cornell University and an author of both studies. “We wanted to see how much of a risk it really is.”
In the Nature study, Rand and his colleagues enlisted 2,306 U.S. citizens to converse with an AI chatbot in late August and early September 2024. The AI model was tasked with both increasing support for an assigned candidate (Harris or Trump) and with increasing the odds that the participant who initially favoured the model’s candidate would vote, or decreasing the odds they would vote if the participant initially favored the opposing candidate—in other words, voter suppression.
In the U.S. experiment, the pro-Harris AI model moved likely Trump voters 3.9 points toward Harris, which is a shift that is four times larger than the impact of traditional video ads used in the 2016 and 2020 elections. Meanwhile, the pro-Trump AI model nudged likely Harris voters 1.51 points toward Trump.
The researchers ran similar experiments involving 1,530 Canadians and 2,118 Poles during the lead-up to their national elections in 2025. In the Canadian experiment, AIs advocated either for Liberal Party leader Mark Carney or Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre. Meanwhile, the Polish AI bots advocated for either Rafał Trzaskowski, the centrist-liberal Civic Coalition’s candidate, or Karol Nawrocki, the right-wing Law and Justice party’s candidate.
The Canadian and Polish bots were even more persuasive than in the U.S. experiment: The bots shifted candidate preferences up to 10 percentage points in many cases, three times farther than the American participants. It’s hard to pinpoint exactly why the models were so much more persuasive to Canadians and Poles, but one significant factor could be the intense media coverage and extended campaign duration in the United States relative to the other nations.
“In the U.S., the candidates are very well-known,” Rand said. “They've both been around for a long time. The U.S. media environment also really saturates with people with information about the candidates in the campaign, whereas things are quite different in Canada, where the campaign doesn't even start until shortly before the election.”
“One of the key findings across both papers is that it seems like the primary way the models are changing people's minds is by making factual claims and arguments,” he added. “The more arguments and evidence that you've heard beforehand, the less responsive you're going to be to the new evidence.”
While the models were most persuasive when they provided fact-based arguments, they didn’t always present factual information. Across all three nations, the bot advocating for the right-leaning candidates made more inaccurate claims than those boosting the left-leaning candidates. Right-leaning laypeople and party elites tend to share more inaccurate information online than their peers on the left, so this asymmetry likely reflects the internet-sourced training data.
“Given that the models are trained essentially on the internet, if there are many more inaccurate, right-leaning claims than left-leaning claims on the internet, then it makes sense that from the training data, the models would sop up that same kind of bias,” Rand said.
With the Science study, Rand and his colleagues aimed to drill down into the exact mechanisms that make AI bots persuasive. To that end, the team tasked 19 large language models (LLMs) to sway nearly 77,000 U.K. participants on 707 political issues.
The results showed that the most effective persuasion tactic was to provide arguments packed with as many facts as possible, corroborating the findings of the Nature study. However, there was a serious tradeoff to this approach, as models tended to start hallucinating and making up facts the more they were pressed for information.
“It is not the case that misleading information is more persuasive,” Rand said. ”I think that what's happening is that as you push the model to provide more and more facts, it starts with accurate facts, and then eventually it runs out of accurate facts. But you're still pushing it to make more factual claims, so then it starts grasping at straws and making up stuff that's not accurate.”
In addition to these two new studies, research published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences last month found that AI bots can now corrupt public opinion data by responding to surveys at scale. Sean Westwood, associate professor of government at Dartmouth College and director of the Polarization Research Lab, created an AI agent that exhibited a 99.8 percent pass rate on 6,000 attempts to detect automated responses to survey data.
“Critically, the agent can be instructed to maliciously alter polling outcomes, demonstrating an overt vector for information warfare,” Westwood warned in the study. “These findings reveal a critical vulnerability in our data infrastructure, rendering most current detection methods obsolete and posing a potential existential threat to unsupervised online research.”
Taken together, these findings suggest that AI could influence future elections in a number of ways, from manipulating survey data to persuading voters to switch their candidate preference—possibly with misleading or false information.
To counter the impact of AI on elections, Rand suggested that campaign finance laws should provide more transparency about the use of AI, including canvasser bots, while also emphasizing the role of raising public awareness.
“One of the key take-homes is that when you are engaging with a model, you need to be cognizant of the motives of the person that prompted the model, that created the model, and how that bleeds into what the model is doing,” he said.
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Subscribe to 404 Media to get The Abstract, our newsletter about the most exciting and mind-boggling science news and studies of the week.Persuading voters using human–artificial intelligence dialogues - Nature
Human–artificial intelligence (AI) dialogues can meaningfully impact voters’ attitudes towards presidential candidates and policy, demonstrating the potential of conversational AI to influence political decision-making.Nature
If all you do is read the little statements booklet they send out, and then do the mail vote based on that,
... then you are no better informed than Bob, who is voting for the guy his pastor told him to. People should personally vet any candidate they are voting on. AI will make that more and more difficult moving forward.
Well my approach is:
- Mark off every candidate who did not bother to provide a statement
- Mark off every candidate with no listed volunteering experience in the little section for it
- Mark off every candidate whose statement claims they will do things their desired office is not empowered to do
- Mark off every candidate with a platform that doesn't claim to be aiming for any kind of change or improvement in particular. (I don't support chair warmers.)
- Mark off every candidate whose email is a personal one listed as itsyaboymrthiccpenis@yahoo.com or something else similarly unprofessional
- Mark off any candidate aligned with the party that supported the coup attempt in 2021
After this quick pass, which only takes a couple of minutes, I'm typically only left with two or three offices with more than one remaining choice to compare. I then read their platform and pick the candidate with the platform goal that seems most relevant to my or my community's interest.
Guerilla Fighters in West Papua Are Facing Extermination by Indonesia's High-Tech Forces
Kristo Langker
Nov 30, 2025
This dispatch from Kristo Langker is from the mountains of West Papua, a part of the world we don’t typically cover, and it’s different in another way, too: we usually report on, and from, parts of the world where the U.S. war machine operates. In this story, the weaponry in question is made by a multinational French weapons manufacturer and Chinese manufacturer, but you’ll see the structure is the same: the Indonesian government using drones and helicopters to terrorize and displace the people of West Papua, while the historical reason imperial interests loom over the region stems from a U.S. mining project in the 1960s. The videos in this story are well worth watching: exclusive interviews with the guerilla group fighting off the drones and airplanes with bows and arrows.
Guerilla Fighters in West Papua Are Facing Extermination by Indonesia's High-Tech Forces
The West Papua National Liberation Army has resisted counterinsurgency in the Star Mountains for decades. Drop Site spoke with guerilla leader Lamek Taplo a week before he was killed.Kristo Langker (Drop Site News)
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African leaders push for recognition of colonial crimes and reparations
African leaders push for recognition of colonial crimes and reparations
Algerian foreign minister says African countries and peoples continue to pay a heavy price for colonialismGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
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Benjamin Netanyahu asks Israel’s president for pardon in corruption case
Presidential pardons in Israel have almost never been granted before conviction, with the one notable exception of a 1986 case involving the Shin Bet security service. A pre-emptive pardon of a politician in a corruption case without an admission of guilt would be precedent-setting and highly controversial.The submission on Sunday comes weeks after Donald Trump wrote to Herzog to ask him to pardon Netanyahu, who has been on trial since 2020 on charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust, involving alleged political favours for wealthy backers in return for gifts or positive media coverage.
Trump writes to Israeli president calling for Netanyahu pardon
Isaac Herzog can pardon convicted criminals in some circumstances, but cases against Israeli PM are ongoingJason Burke (The Guardian)
Air Force award ceremony shows just how close Ansar Allah came to smoking US jets, supercarrier
It is very telling what the US military's own press releases will not say. A recent award ceremony gave a Silver Star to Lt. Col. William Parks for gallantry during missions in early 2025. The official story describes a fifteen minute life or death struggle where he performed high G maneuvers to evade missiles that were detonating feet from his aircraft. He is credited with six aerial victories and personally defending against five surface to air missile engagements, all while preventing the loss of two other US jets.
"For 15 minutes, with enemy missiles detonating mere feet from his aircraft, Parks led his flight through a serious of high-G maneuvers and countermeasure employment” and coordinated the emergency deployment of tankers, which “prevented the probable loss of two aircraft due to fuel starvation."
Parks was “Parks has been credited with six aerial victories protecting the lives of more than 5,000 Sailors aboard the USS Harry S. Truman” carrier, and “personally defended against five deadly surface-to-air missile engagements targeting his aircraft.”
The curious part they completely omit is who he was fighting. The release does not mention Yemen, the Red Sea, Ansar Allah, or the Houthis. The only clue is that his deployment supported Operations Prosperity Guardian and Rough Rider, the twin US campaigns against Yemen.
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in reply to VlerrieBR • • •Go mourn Charlie Kirk somewhere else, you dollar store Svengali
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in reply to VlerrieBR • • •fuck off, nazi scum.
you fucks love playing the victim don't ya?
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in reply to VlerrieBR • • •Not only did he get what he deserved
You and yours made it very clear after the fact it was the correct thing to do
Which is great because now literally no one has any lingering sympathy
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in reply to VlerrieBR • • •DarkFuture
in reply to 🏴حمید پیام عباسی🏴 • • •Can you imagine how much conservative whining and crying we're going to witness when this traitor fuck dies and the vast majority of the world throws a fucking party?
I'll only be upset about how much tax payer money is going to be spent giving this felon rapist pedophile a state-funded funeral.
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in reply to DarkFuture • • •Kissinger looked like this in his 80s and made it another 20 years.
Don't hold your breath.
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in reply to abbiistabbii • • •If I had a dollar every time I heard "Politician I hate definitely has late stage physical/mental illness and will be going away shortly", I'd be rich enough to blow millions bankrolling corrupt NYC mayoral candidates who promised to keep my taxes low.
Trump appears healthier than Cheney and Cheney lasted five years longer than Trump is right now. So don't hold your breath.
abbiistabbii
in reply to UnderpantsWeevil • • •My sibling in sin, half his face is drooping.
UnderpantsWeevil
in reply to abbiistabbii • • •abbiistabbii
in reply to UnderpantsWeevil • • •First off, have you ever had relatives with dementia? When you have a relative, especially a close relative, you can see the signs. A drop in the face is one of the most noticeable, often it's one of the first things you notice, alongside other things like trouble walking, coordination issues, and often Erratic, Hostile behavior. The last one of course is one that Trump has always had, but the other ones can be seen very clearly in most news footage of him. Man's got issues.
Second off, I don't know what things are like over there, but here we have public information films that are broadcast on TV to teach people how to spot a stroke, because it's imperative that you get someone help when you suspect a stroke. The signs are:
The Acronym "FAST" is used here: Face, Arms, Speech, Time. A droop in the face is something that remains for a while after a stroke. Donald Trump very likely has either had a stroke or a severe brain injury on the level of being shot through the head and surviving. If I saw a man who looked like Donald Trump in that picture in the Supermarket, I would stop and ask if they were OK, because I might need to call a fucking Ambulance!
And I'm not saying that for partisan reasons, even with Biden's senior moments I thought that (as did he) that he was getting too long in the tooth, but it's very clear this man has dementia and it is developing quickly. His father had dementia and people who have had family members with the condition are at a higher risk of having it.
All of this is an issue because this man is in charge of Nuclear Weapons and is also the head of a personality cult that the ruling party want to maintain no matter what and thus is reluctant to officially at least trigger the Twenty-fifth Amendment. Donald Trump is becoming incapacitated and the Administration is reluctant to accept that.
Despite not being American, the fact that America has nukes, one of most powerful armed forces in the world and are in a Cold War with two others nuclear armed nations with one of them at war with a European country and the other threatening to Invade an ally and the source of the world's Microprocessors, and has a President who's very clearly had a stroke and is developing dementia, it is kinda my problem because I don't particularly want to be vaporized when the Russians slam nukes into Edinburgh City Center and Edinburgh Airport, because I just happen to be in the blast radius of both of those places, ken?
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in reply to abbiistabbii • • •UnderpantsWeevil
in reply to abbiistabbii • • •Get on Kalshi and place your bets.
But all this naked speculation about how Trump is on death's door has been going on since he was running for President the first time way back in 2015.
abbiistabbii
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in reply to UnderpantsWeevil • • •Wilson and Reagan left office before the dementia really took hold at 60 and 78 respectively, Trump on the other hand is 79, one year older than when Reagan left office and has four years left to go, when he'll be 83, and dementia doesn't stop for anyone.
Wilson threw in the towel when he realized he was getting too long in the tooth admitting that he was not up to the job. Reagan left office because he legally had to (two terms) which is something Trump is openly saying he will not do.
So one admissions of poor health, one case of being legally required to. Not exactly good arguments against a man who openly is saying he will flout the constitution for a third term.
UnderpantsWeevil
in reply to abbiistabbii • • •Wilson had intended to seek a third term in 1920, but was fully incapacitated and bedridden by October of 1919
Multiple Reagan staffers confirm he was fully in the thrall of dementia by his final year.
abbiistabbii
in reply to UnderpantsWeevil • • •OH WOODROW WILSON.
I thought you meant Harold.
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