2 Lebanese killed, soldier injured in Israeli drone strikes despite cease-fire
Two people were killed and an army soldier was injured in three Israeli attacks in Lebanon on Monday despite a cease-fire deal between the two countries, local media said.
An Israeli drone fired two missiles into a motorcycle in Jdaidet Marjeyoun area in southern Lebanon, leaving one person dead, the state news agency NNA reported.
The Lebanese State Security Directorate said that a security personnel was killed in a drone strike in Nabatieh in southern Lebanon.
In a statement, the directorate called the attack “a blatant violation of the cease-fire agreement,” and “a dangerous escalation.”
An army soldier was also injured when another drone strike targeted a Lebanese bulldozer while carrying out some work inside the Abbara military site in the Hosh Sayyed Ali-Hermel area in eastern Lebanon, NNA said.
The attacks came shortly after the army said that the body of a Lebanese officer who had been unaccounted for since Nov. 26 after an Israeli airstrike was found in Naqoura town in southern Lebanon
Lebanon’s Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, for his part, asked the committee supervising the cease-fire with Israel to oblige Tel Aviv to stop its violations of the deal and withdraw from the Lebanese territories.
2 Lebanese killed, soldier injured in Israeli drone strikes despite cease-fire
Two people were killed and an army soldier was injured in three Israeli attacks in Lebanon on Monday despite a cease-fire deal between the two countries, local media said.
An Israeli drone fired two missiles into a motorcycle in Jdaidet Marjeyoun area in southern Lebanon, leaving one person dead, the state news agency NNA reported.
The Lebanese State Security Directorate said that a security personnel was killed in a drone strike in Nabatieh in southern Lebanon.
In a statement, the directorate called the attack "a blatant violation of the cease-fire agreement," and "a dangerous escalation."
An army soldier was also injured when another drone strike targeted a Lebanese bulldozer while carrying out some work inside the Abbara military site in the Hosh Sayyed Ali-Hermel area in eastern Lebanon, NNA said.
The attacks came shortly after the army said that the body of a Lebanese officer who had been unaccounted for since Nov. 26 after an Israeli airstrike was found in Naqoura town in southern Lebanon
Lebanon’s Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, for his part, asked the committee supervising the cease-fire with Israel to oblige Tel Aviv to stop its violations of the deal and withdraw from the Lebanese territories.
2 Lebanese killed, soldier injured in Israeli drone strikes despite cease-fire
Two people were killed and an army soldier was injured in three Israeli attacks in Lebanon on Monday despite a cease-fire deal between the two countries, local media said.
An Israeli drone fired two missiles into a motorcycle in Jdaidet Marjeyoun area in southern Lebanon, leaving one person dead, the state news agency NNA reported.
The Lebanese State Security Directorate said that a security personnel was killed in a drone strike in Nabatieh in southern Lebanon.
In a statement, the directorate called the attack "a blatant violation of the cease-fire agreement," and "a dangerous escalation."
An army soldier was also injured when another drone strike targeted a Lebanese bulldozer while carrying out some work inside the Abbara military site in the Hosh Sayyed Ali-Hermel area in eastern Lebanon, NNA said.
The attacks came shortly after the army said that the body of a Lebanese officer who had been unaccounted for since Nov. 26 after an Israeli airstrike was found in Naqoura town in southern Lebanon
Lebanon’s Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, for his part, asked the committee supervising the cease-fire with Israel to oblige Tel Aviv to stop its violations of the deal and withdraw from the Lebanese territories.
France's Barnier makes last-minute concession to far right in bid to avoid being toppled
PARIS (Reuters) - French Prime Minister Michel Barnier on Monday made another major concession to Marine Le Pen's far-right National Rally party, dropping planned cuts to medication reimbursements in a last-minute bid to get his 2025 budget bill over the line.
It was not immediately clear if that would be enough to save his fragile coalition from being toppled this week, with an RN spokesman telling Reuters there were other key demands ahead of a crunch parliamentary vote at 3:00 p.m. (1400 GMT).
It is at least the third time Barnier has given in to RN demands after he scrapped an electricity price hike worth some 3 billion euros last week and agreed to reduce free medical help to illegal migrants.
Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger steps down from struggling chipmaker
Gelsinger, who resigned on Dec. 1, left the company before the completion of an ambitious and costly four-year plan to restore the company's lead in making the fastest and smallest computer chips, a crown it lost to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (2330.TW) which makes chips for Intel rivals such as Nvidia (NVDA.O)
While Gelsinger has assured both investors and U.S. officials, who are subsidizing Intel's turnaround, that his manufacturing plans remain on track, the full results will not be known until next year, when the company aims to bring a flagship laptop chip back into its own factories.
https://www.reuters.com/business/intel-ceo-pat-gelsinger-retire-2024-12-02/
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Intel should have pulled it's 13/14 Gen chips the moment it became clear they had serious problems. Admit you screwed up and fix it.
Continuing to sell something you know is crap is a long-term reputation hit you are NOT going to recover from.
This is not due to the 13/14th generation CPU recall, rather Intel as a whole is floundering.
They missed the entire AI gravy train, losing market share to AMD, lost Apples business, etcetera. Intels foundry requires a lot of capital for both RnD and to keep the fabs running. They are losing market share and they have higher cost business compared to their competitors.
Intel’s CEO is out after only three years
Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger has retired after over four decades at the company and stepped down from the board of directors effective December 1st, 2024. Gelsinger rejoined Intel as CEO in February 2021, taking over from Bob Swan to turn around the already struggling chipmaker — an effort that hasn’t gone as planned. It’s largely missed out on the AI chip boom that fueled Nvidia’s rise, failed to launch new technology on schedule, and struggled with recent CPU instability issues.
While recent rumors had suggested that Qualcomm was considering an acquisition of Intel, that prospect appears to have cooled. When asked about the potential deal on November 20th, Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon said the company has “not identified any large acquisition that is necessary.”
Ahead of the launch of Intel’s new Arc GPUs this week, the company’s Core Ultra 9 200S-series processors were met with a lukewarm reception, as Robert Hallock, Intel’s VP and GM of AI and technical marketing admitted that the launch “didn’t go as planned.”
Intel’s CEO is out after only three years
Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger has retired and stepped down from the board of directors after over 40 years at the company.Emma Roth (The Verge)
Guinea stadium stampede kills 56 people following clashes at soccer match, authorities say
CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — At least 56 people, including children, have died after fans at a soccer game in Guinea allegedly clashed over a disputed call by the referee, authorities said Monday.
The stampede broke out on Sunday afternoon at the stadium in the city of Nzerekore during the final of a local tournament between the Labe and Nzerekore teams in honor of Guinea’s military leader, Mamadi Doumbouya.
“During the stampede, victims were recorded,” Guinea’s Prime Minister Amadou Oury Bah said on the X platform, without giving details. The regional authorities are working to restore calm in the area, he added.
Local media reports said security forces had tried to use tear gas to restore calm after the chaos that followed a disputed penalty call.
“This (the disputed penalty call) angered supporters who threw stones. This is how the security services used tear gas,” Media Guinea, a local news website, reported. It said several of those killed were children while some of the injured being treated at a regional hospital are in critical condition.
Videos that appeared to be from the scene showed fans in a section of the stadium shouting and protesting the refereeing before clashes broke out as people poured onto the field. People were running as they tried to escape from the stadium, many of them jumping the high fence.
Guinea stadium stampede kills 56 people following clashes at soccer match, authorities say
At least 56 people have died and dozens more are injured as security forces tried to quell clashes during a soccer match in southern Guinea’s largest city.AP News
Petition: Ban fossil fuel advertising and sponsorship
Report: electric bills could increase up to 70% in next 5 years to meet data center demand
Report: electric bills could increase up to 70% in next 5 years to meet data center demand
A new report estimates energy prices for Virginians will need to increase by 25 to 70 percent in the next five years to meet the growing demand for data centersWGME
Discovery: What we think we know about the universe is very wrong
NASA: What we think we know about the universe is very wrong - Earth.com
Determining the expansion rate of the universe, the "Hubble constant," shapes our understanding of the cosmos, its age, and its fate.Eric Ralls (Earth.com)
China surrounds ‘sea of death’ Taklamakan Desert with giant green belt
Great wall of Taklamakan: China surrounds its largest desert with giant green belt
China’s largest desert, and the world’s second-largest sand-shifting desert – is now surrounded by a green belt of various trees and shrubs, as well as a solar-based sand blocking technology.Victoria Bela (South China Morning Post)
... isn't that just how radar works? A radio emission is sent out, bounces off an object, and then detectors measure the difference?
The fact that this works from the sky is definitely new, but I think all radar is light speed by definition.
I figured something cool was happening to allow them to use radar from the air. So it's not even radar, it's like, ELFdar.
Really weird they went for the "lightspeed" angle tho
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Lol. Lmao even.
possibly even an rofl
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This is a great and nuanced comment.
Comments like this are the reason I keep coming back to Lemmy.
Oh course. Certainly don't mention the Democrat party that ran two uncompelling candidates against the most flawed opponent in history, spent 2.5 billion dollars in 15 weeks while having almost no presence nationally, and give the American people nothing to get excited about, exerting no effort while expecting IQs above 100 and plenty of involvement from every voting American in order to win, even though those Americans don't really understand that inflated prices aren't going down but that's not the administration's problem, they're not going to change anything.
WHAT COULD GO WRONG?
Obviously, that's not all that was needed. And I would have like to have our party do what's needed rather than expect things to happen without them trying.
Plus all that money. Wtf
Are you really this entrenched? Are you a foreign asset here to troll?
It's not wrong to point out the Democrat's faults in the campaign. It's how we learn to do better next time. It wasn't inevitable that Trump got elected. The Harris campaign fucked up. They alienated people.
Your need to blame voters borders on pathological.
Not being Trump is basically all that was needed.
Clearly. And if Harris had maybe gone just a teensy bit more to the right she would have gotten so many republican votes, right?
I cant beleive this drivel keeps popping up a full month later.
Have you never met anyone else from any circle that isn't echoing back at you? My Romanian boss brags about how good Trump will be and laments it's not good for him.
All over the world right wing parties gathered more power but somehow Americans are more special? And everyone else is super smart because they should be?
No, you don't just get to blame everyone else with saying they should have been more educated or more smart or just done what you say harder.
Those are not owed and do not work in a real world. But continue to live in fantasy and denial to make yourself happy as one of the good ones while being apathetic to suffering and giddy at the idea of punishment. If only you could personally hold the whip.
I was directly responding to your bad take.
Not trump is not all that is needed cause people wanted him as well for reasons that if ignored make the whole issue a lot easier to assign blame on. And specifically calling Americans stupid as if their right wing lean lately is unique is false when the whole world went more right.
All of your points are bad and completely unhelpful and false.
If you aren't understanding my response it's cause you don't want to see outside of the perspective you want. I'm talking to you. If you don't want to hear it that's you not me.
You already said you don't care about other people.
How so? I honestly thought it was funny.
Edit: I read it a few times and now I get it. That wasn’t my intention. I’m sorry to those I offended.
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Biden is not sharpening the knife: he simply placed a knife sharpener on the counter and is a good sport about letting others use it .
It always was a caretaker presidency, that’s what I thought when he first got into office.
I expect thoughtful words from his speeches as he gently leaves office
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Nevermind elected officials in power... let's point out the cowardice of people in a Lemmy thread.in the meme board, at that, lmao, of all places
If that was Biden's motivation, then where is Fauci's pardon? Or Adam "Enemy from Within" Schiff's pardon? Or what about Liz Chenney who is supposed to face treason charges according to Trump, where is her pardon? What about Jack Smith, where is his pardon? Kash Patel has an appendix in his book which is a literal enemies and prosecution list, any pardons for anyone on that list?
If Biden was concerned about the Trump justice department going after his political enemies, and Biden wanted to protect those people, there's probably 80+ pardons he should be handing out.
But instead he only issued one. For his son. So Biden is either actually concerned about overreach of the Trump justice department but he's only willing to save his son, and leave everyone else hanging. Or, Biden isn't actually that concerned with the Trump justice department and is just abusing his pardon power to protect his shithead son from the consequences of his own actions. Either way, fuck Joe Biden.
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Oh course. Certainly don't mention the Democrat party that ran two uncompelling candidates against the most flawed opponent in history, spent 2.5 billion dollars in 15 weeks while having almost no presence nationally, and give the American people nothing to get excited about, exerting no effort while expecting IQs above 100 and plenty of involvement from every voting American in order to win, even though those Americans don't really understand that inflated prices aren't going down but that's not the administration's problem, they're not going to change anything.
WHAT COULD GO WRONG?
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Oh I showed up and voted. you're not some special snowflake. just didnt vote for harris or trump. get better candidates next time and maybe we'll support your shit party. You know maybe people who dont shit on a minority group being murdered by our policies their entire campaign, or immediately try to through lgbt+ groups under the bus immediately following their loss. Maybe someone who also supports policies beneficial towards the working class.
You know, basic fucking human decency. if you want safety for yourself you need to support safety for others. which dems clearly don't. Next time you spout 'blue no matter who' or other such nonsense to defend your preferred parties candidate remember: you need to actually give people reasons to vote for your candidate. things you may not personally agree with.
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Small bit of relative truth mixed with hypocrisy, dog-whistle, complaint, misunderstanding of word, misunderstanding of concept of voting population.
You hit all the highlights, personally i'd have gone with more dogwhistles, maybe something to do with immigrants ?
A solid 8/10 shitpost.
Vast means large btw, as in big.
Moving goalpoats, unrelated, more goalpost moving, claiming victory without any actual rebuttal, semi-truth, hope stated as fact, implication of stance not actually taken.
Hmm, a bit derivative but overall a solid entry, not as good as the last, still no immigrant references, i'll give this a 7/10 shitpost.
Hey, if you want to reinterpret what "vast majority" in the context of a political win means, you do you.
Easily provable lie, hope stated as fact, victory claimed on position never stated.
Come on guy it's like you aren't even trying anymore.
Still no immigrants, not even an LGBT ? Really?
lacklustre 2/10 shitpost, must try harder.
abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-…
pbs.org/newshour/politics/the-…
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politifact.com/article/2024/no…
in fairness that last one did use the phrase "vast majority" to describe the number of counties that shifted to red, not the actual number of votes
I know i highlighted the difference between the two statements but i'm not expecting you to understand how statistics works or acknowledge the difference so don't strain yourself.
MA-JOR-ITY.
If this happened to Kamala you would be doing back flips at the gay rights parade. But it didn't. It didn't even come close. Get ready for actual common sense leadership, smaller government, and the majority of Americans being united in making America Great again.
Good things are right around the corner.
Moving goalposts again? you've already used that twice, le sigh
"vast majority" and "majority" aren't the same, i specifically called out the vast part...but you do you.
yes, finally an lgbt dig i was losing hope at this point but i get it now, you were keeping it in reserve, i can't wait to see what you do with the immigrants, perhaps even we can hope for some drag queen action?..wait no, don't tell me, i want it to be a surprise.
a bit weak after that though
provable unlikelihood presented as fact x2 , then lie that is easily provable and contradicts your own stance ( and still fundamentally misunderstands the difference between regular and voting population )
You did get the slogan in though so some extra points for that, weird capitalisation, but close enough.
hmm, a tough call this one.....i'll give it a 6/10, a couple new bingo entries but repetition and self contradiction are fairly weak.
Oh i see where my confusion is coming from, you're the personification of a county.
That is entirely my bad for thinking you were talking about either voting population or actual population, neither of which has a vast majority of anything.
You were just talking about how you and your swing state county personification buddies won out by a narrow margin.
What were there, like 10 of you, 12? i suppose 7 or 8 out of ~12 could be considered a vast change.
You have defeated me sir (or whatever the pronoun for a county is) , with unassailable logic, facts and a true understanding of statistics and the word "vast".
I concede.
Just realised that if you are struggling with "vast" you might not understand what a personification of something is, if so , disregard all of the above it isn't going to make any sense.
Dammit forgot the rating.
Repeating of a factually incorrect statement, self-proclaimed victory over a position not claimed or proven.
1/10 - lacks originality, no personal attacks, no strawmen, no fallacies at all as far as i can tell, not even a single slur.
A single easily provable mis-truth and then a self proclaimed victory over an imaginary battle, what is this amateur hour?
If a gambit doesn't land, you switch tactics or double down, come on now, it's like you aren't even trying.
Low turnout meaning the 15 million liberal 'voters' that only ever showed up in the last election, LMFAO.
The Democrats got told by the Bigly Majority of American Citizens...We are done with your bullshit. Maybe you should go to a safe space and try to calm your emotions?
I think Trump should send all Democratic voters a participation ribbon, you know, to make them feel less like a loser.
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oh, no. I'm being challenged!
"Haha, I'm gonna say Rogan, telegram, Russia or Altright and fuck off because I have no opinion outside of spoonfed leftist media, haha"
The only difference between you and a Trump voter was the position of your hand on the ballot.
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Him pardoning his son is a giant nothing burger.
Hunter was the victim of a partisan witch hunt that wanted to get him on Trumped up charges (pun intended) because of his last name.
And there are tens of thousands of people in that exact position but didn't get pardoned because they don't have that last name.
Like, he could have blanked pardoned that particular crime in general, but I presume that would have been too much paperwork and might have been too close to actually doing something good for his people.
Find me a case of another person being charged with purchasing a gun while being addicted to a drug. Or better yet tens of thousands. You might find someone arrested for attempting to buy a gun while on drugs, but none that reviewed their past logs and tried to find out they were possibly addicted at the time of a purchase of a gun.
It was an investigation that I've never seen anywhere before. Any normal situation and a judge would have dismissed it completely as the person was not on drugs at the time of the charge, nor harmed/threatened anyone with the gun
Note: several judges stated such laws were unconstitutional during the years of the investigation, so any Republican supporting it must admit that States have the right to restrict any and all gun purchases for any and all reasons as the constitution states no such laws pertaining to addiction over lap and gun purchases... Or the law cannot support that case
Sidebar: whatever he did with taxes if it was unlawful and others do get charged with it, sure he should be charged
Like, he could have blanked pardoned that particular crime in general, but I presume that would have been too much paperwork and might have been too close to actually doing something good for his people.
I have nothing to add to this, I agree
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Biden pardons his son.
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- entire newscycle every day dedicated to the ABSOLUTE OUTRAGE this grievous crime is. Now the Presidential office is forever tainted....
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It's hard to even grasp how deeply loyal to Trump these institutions are.
Especially since Hunter Biden was unfairly targeted just for being Joe's son, and it's clear the things he's guilty of are clear examples of selective enforcement.
Anyone paying even the slightest attention just saw a father who was there for his son in his time of need.
“Hypocrisy isn’t illegal, nor is it particularly unusual in politics,” Stewart said Monday about Biden’s pardon. “It’s not like he’s ever going to run again. So why not take care of your kid, even if you said you weren’t gonna? I respect it. I don’t have a problem with it.”
Suck it whiners.
Go pass your own purity tests.
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Democrats can complain, although I'm not a fan of the decision, I get it.
Republicans can go suck a giant dick. You've lost your right to complain after electing a treasonous, orange rapist.
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What is your favorite flavor of boot, personally?
I'm quite partial to black leather, good thing that will be in fashion next year.
Indeed, it's just the Right Wing Media giving us more "It's only wrong when Democrats do it" bullshit.
The real story shouldn't even be "Biden protects son from Partisan Witchhunt" it should be "Trump returns to White House despite the 14th Amendment saying he can't."
it should be "Trump returns to White House despite the 14th Amendment saying he can't."
I agree, if only there had been someone in charge of a government agency with the mandate to go after people like that, using a system of laws and justice, administered in some kind of court... Ideally someone the offender didn't appoint themselves, with a time period of roughly, idk, 4 years to get it done?
Vulkan Video Now Enabled By Default For Radeon VCN2/VCN3 Hardware On Linux
Vulkan Video Now Enabled By Default For Radeon VCN2/VCN3 Hardware On Linux
An exciting merge today for the Radeon 'RADV' Vulkan driver with next quarter's Mesa 25.0 is enabling Vulkan Video API support by default for AMD graphics having VCN 2.x and VCN 3.x hardware.www.phoronix.com
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The video quality for encoding has always been bad with AMD.
I'm hoping that by using Vulkan we can bypass poor quality encoders in drivers and get standardised accelerated encoders.
From my understanding, it's the hardware that produces bad results. There's no encoding logic in the drivers itself. That's why the encoding is accelerated in the first place.
E.g. if the hardware doesn't support b-frames – which for long it didn't – a new driver won't do jack. This is just about how video data gets into and out of the card, any encoding logic is handled by the hardware.
If the driver is no longer using a dedicated piece of encoding hardware thats shit, but using the Vulkan logic then surely the quality would be essentially guaranteed by it being Vulkan conformant?
The hardware wouldn't support b-frames in this scenario, and wouldn't matter because your just using the standard matrixes to encode the stream and if it didn't work then surely games would also be broken.
Or am I incorrect. Is this just standardising the API in Vulkan and it gets forwarded to the same video encoding driver? Could we not have Mesa doing a better job? 😒
Or am I incorrect. Is this just standardising the API in Vulkan and it gets forwarded to the same video encoding driver? Could we not have Mesa doing a better job? 😒
This is how I would read it. But if you have Mesa do it, it's in software, and you might just be using a software coded directly then, it's much easier.
I wrote Mesa but meant ffmpeg. Wishful thinking that they are able to make a generic ffmpeg encoder in Vulkan to allow it to be accelerated in hardware but not relying on bad video driver codecs.
Oh well, back to Intel.
REVEALED: Israeli Settler Company Specializing in West Bank Outposts Now at Work in Northern Gaza
A job advertisement from Libi Construction and Infrastructure Ltd.—a settlement construction company registered in the illegal outpost of Shiloh near Ramallah—recently posted in a Facebook group named “reservists” to conduct demolitions in Gaza. But the use of private contractors enables civilian workers, not just Israeli reservists, to enter Gaza. “Looking for bulldozer operators for demolition work in Gaza,” the job description reads, “The job is also relevant for those who have not served in the army. Good pay.”
The job posting on Facebook was a screenshot of a WhatsApp story of a man named Harel Libi, officially registered as an administrator of the company. I approached Libi directly to inquire about the job, and he confirmed the company employs civilians in addition to members of the Israeli military. The only question Libi had was whether I had any experience, to which I said yes.
He told me that he was in Gaza, but would send us all the relevant papers and documentation when he returned to Israel. We agreed that the work would begin within a few days.
Based on my conversations with Libi, the payment terms for the work are set at a daily rate of 600 Israeli shekels (approximately $165/day), with the work schedule running from 5:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., five days a week, in Beit Lahia. The work is set to begin as early as next week. Libi made it clear that individuals working on the project are not permitted to leave the area without a military escort. He also noted that the project duration is undefined, with no specific end date for the contract.
The day after I first got in touch, Libi sent me a document to complete in order to proceed. The document does not mention “Gaza” but asked me to acknowledge that the work will be done outside the Israeli border.
The key terms for participating as a civilian in operations beyond Israel’s borders included:
- Article 2: The individual acknowledges that he has received safety and security instructions associated with performing duties outside the borders.
- Article 3: The individual was offered the option to fulfill their obligations as part of the military reserves but chose to perform the assigned work as a civilian.
- Article 6: In the event of death during these operations, the individual will be recognized as a “victim of hostile acts” rather than as a “fallen soldier.”
REVEALED: Israeli Settler Company Specializing in West Bank Outposts Now at Work in Northern Gaza
A prominent Israeli settler offered me $165 per day to demolish homes in Beit LahiaYounis Tirawi (Drop Site News)
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Pro-Palestinian journalist found dead on rooftop in Marseille
French journalist and renowned Middle East expert Marine Vlahovic was found dead at her home in Marseille on Monday, November 27.
According to reports by La Provence, her body was discovered on the roof terrace of her residence by friends who had grown concerned after she failed to respond to calls or messages. She was 39 years old.
According to ARTE Radio, Marine Vlahovic had dedicated part of her short life to the Palestinian cause.
In Gaza Calling, she compiled video and voice messages from her colleagues and friends in Gaza, trapped under the bombs.
Pro-Palestinian journalist found dead on rooftop in Marseille
Authorities in Marseille have launched an investigation to determine the cause of Vlahovic's death.Al Mayadeen English (Pro-Palestinian journalist found dead on rooftop in Marseille)
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I think you need to read about the history of Mossad.
Israel has a long history of assassinating people abroad.
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It's a meme deployed whenever a westerner describes something their government does as bad by way of comparing it to 'those evil asiatics' as if it's natural to them but not to us
It's extremely racist in a way that most people don't even think about, so the meme is to needle them into understanding
Authorities in Marseille have launched an investigation to determine the cause of Vlahovic's death.
They'll get to it just after they figure out who blew up NordStream 2
disgusting pipelines controlled by fascist capitalists
It wasnt Germany who controlled it, it just delivered the gas to them, it was Russia who controlled it.
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An oligarchy is not a democracy... Not even a "liberal western democracy", aka "Constitutional Democratic Republic"...
Now, if you wanna get all pedantic and all, we certainly can.
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I will pedant your debatefetishist asshole in half, fuck face:
Let's get up a definition of oligarchy, shall we? You're gonna run to Wikipedia or dictionary.com so I'll just go for Wikipedia:
Oligarchy (from Ancient Greek ὀλιγαρχία (oligarkhía) 'rule by few'; from ὀλίγος (olígos) 'few' and ἄρχω (árkhō) 'to rule, command')[1][2][3] is a form of power structure in which power rests with a small number of people. These people may or may not be distinguished by one or several characteristics, such as nobility, fame, wealth, education, or corporate, religious, political, or military control.
Now, in the UK, there's a population of around 70 million people, with 650 elected members of government and 805 unelected members, making up a rounding error of the total population.
In America, over 300 million people are represented by 535 members of its senate, plus a handful of unelected judges and executive legislators. Again, they make up a rounding error of the population.
France - 66 million, 925. Germany - 85 million, 733. Norway - 5 and a half million, 169. By all means, include the family members and hangers-on who aren't actively in power but still weild it, and you could quadruple or quintuple those numbers. Doesn't really matter, still comes out to a rounding error.
Maybe instead of jacking yourself off over liberalism you should take a moment to actually step back and look at the situation a little more objectively. Being able to vote for which people the power rests with does not increase the number of people welding it.
Literally voting for your reps is not what the government of Russia is, though...
THEY HAD ELECTIONS IN MARCH YOU DUMB FUCK
IT JUST HAPPENED
THEY LITERALLY JUST DID ELECTION BUT YOU'RE SO FUCKING BUSY HUFFING YOUR OWN FARTS YOU DIDN'T NOTICE
"People with money and power have all the say".
Thank god we don't have that in the capitalist west, can you imagine? Why, they could just carry out a genocide and send the police to bludgeon and teargas protestors, they could dissappear activists into blacksites and torture them for days, they could install fascist governments everywhere and poison the world, and just wave nukes at anyone who tried to stop them.
What an unimaginable nightmare that would be, I'm so glad I don't live under the kind of irredeemable oligarcical government that would be defined by doing those things.
Also your understanding of power is a tautology. The people with power have the power? Interesting, much to consider
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For all the failures of the US, or other liberal democracies... Yes, they can vote fascism right into power, and we have, in the US, and in Germany in the 1930's too.
However, let's not pretend this is exclusive to liberal democracies... Lest we forget how quickly the oligarchs captured the socialist movement in Russia in the 1910's. Not even two years post-revolution, the Soviets were also murdering the working class for high crimes such as "Doing a labor strike" or "Daring to use a system other than Leninism"...
For all the failures of the US
Failures? What on earth are you talking about, failures? All of these ventures have been massively successful, they generated untold billions in profits for our oligarchs. You only view them as failures because you still believe for some reason that they were ever supposed to help you at all. The US hasn't failed it's people, we're just not it's people. It's you who's failed to understand this situation.
As usual, the latent American exceptionalist propaganda that's programmed into all of us from birth keeps you from viewing America as you would view any other nation-state, or one of it's rivals. We're told we have the biggest, bestest American moral aspirations and that justifies our actions, but we're also trained to carve out constant exceptions and excuses for why America has never, ever come close to meeting them. We learn to endlessly justify the atrocities of our own society while collapsing the actions of every other society down to some innate cartoonish quality, usually winkingly implied to be racial. Your worldview can only make sense for more than five seconds if you exclusively grant America some complexity and capacity for "redemption" that you deny to everyone else who America wantonly destroys, as if they aren't real enough to warrant anything but smug dismissal.
It's a cartoon view of the world that has led you to cartoon conclusions, its no wonder you're giving me the Flawed City on a Hill cliche. It's West Wing shit, not reality. In reality, America has never not been fascist. The fascism just wasn't evenly distributed, same as everything else.
But as usual, when faced with the most abbreviated possible list of their own crimes, any one of which would make another country irredeemably autocratic in their eyes, the liberal response is to retreat into "it's complicated." The final mask of moral cowardice in the face of incontrovertible evil. Colonialism was "complicated". Chattel slavery was "complicated". Blair Mountain was "complicated". Fucking MKULTRA, Tuskegee, Paperclip, leveling Asia with bombs, Iraq and Afghanistan were all "complicated" according to the legions of carefully cultivated, amoral yes-men who's only role at every historical juncture has been to solemnly shake their heads at the carnage while giving it the thumbs up to continue. Our current pet genocide in Palestine was "complicated" right up until that facade became too hard to maintain, and they just stopped talking about it. Now the US seems intent on starting WW3, and you can bet any amount of money that it will initially be sold as "complicated", right up until they throw a switch from "it's complicated" to "exterminate the brutes", and by that point all the liberals will be fully on board. Just look how quickly, how gleefully so many of them took to calling russian people "orcs". I want to give you a genuine warning, just from one person to another: you are being sleepwalked into fascism, and its actually not that complicated at all; it's the worldview that is taught to us which is overly simple.
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If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.
Time is a flat circle
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Maybe I'm dating myself, but when I see comments like this it reminds me of Home Alone. Specifically the part of Home Alone where Kevin's siblings are telling him lurid and outlandish horror stories about the old guy who lives next door, which all obviously turn out to be wild bullshit.
I think of this when I see people who have clearly only heard about hexbear secondhand from the bitterly banned, try to make fun of it with no real information to work from. Yeah man, we're all communists but we all somehow missed the memo about 1991, that makes sense. You remind me of when I used to be a liberal who made Winnie the pooh jokes to Chinese people, just so far out of your depth that you can't even perceive how deeply embarrassing you're being.
Most of the hexbear people I run into here are not even communists and barely know the first thing about communism (there are a few exceptions).
Most are just wumaos (or 50 cent army) who dogmatically post the "CPC" party line, or whatever RT is posting, as well as posting right wingers and neoliberals like the Daily Caller or Jeffery Sachs because they agree with the propaganda they're consuming/spreading. They have George Bush level logic: "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" assuming that if the US is bad then, transitively, Russia and China are good. The idea that all three are terrible, in different ways, seems to be too much for them.
Most of the hexbear people I run into here are not even communists and barely know the first thing about communism
Well damn, I guess I must have hallucinated all the monthly book clubs. But hey, I don't want to be trafficking with fake communists, so I'm very glad I ran into you! Can you please tell me where the hexbears have gone wrong so that I and others may avoid repeating their mistakes? It's only the comradely thing to do, and besides, it would be dangerous and irresponsible to leave misinformation uncountered. So, what is the "first thing" about communism that they're missing?
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Well that could mean anything between "she died of not immediately obvious medical reason, so cause of death inguiry is needed" to "she was murdered, we are investigating". Heck to investigate "there is no external markers, but we don't know is it medical stroke or a poisoning murder".
So I would say, wait until they investigated and tell, if they suspect foul play before jumping to conclusions. Not that Israel isn't capable and on choosing so willing, but sometimes people just suddenly die of medical causes without prior warning.
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It's disgusting to go after journalists who do nothing but uncover the truth.
Stories like these might frighten journalist, leading us into a dystopian world of wars and lies.
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leading us into a dystopian world of wars and lies.
Leading? Ye best start believin' in dystopias, yer in one!
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While the circumstances remain unclear, police have stated that there is no initial evidence that a crime has been committed.
Are you fucking kidding me
But.. Why target journalists when they already have free reign of terror. Few foreign journalist could only cause so much damage.
The Israeli army themselves are attracting lot more notoriety.
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It's not as if Israel or its leaders have to fear suffering any kind of consequences from France on this, whose posture has been nothing more than mild talkie-talkie and who even refuse to abide by an Arrest Warrant from the ICC on Netanyahu (a very obvious wink-and-nod from Macron to the New Nazis in Israel).
With mainly Collaborator politicians in the various governments in Europe (notable exceptions being those in Spain and the Republic Of Ireland), it's open season for Mossad to murder Europeans in Europe at will.
That's an absolutelly natural consequence from in practice condoning and even protecting Nazis going full-on Genocidal and they lose all fear of consequences.
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I use "New" or even "Neue" to distinguish the Nazis that claim to represent Jews and are genocidal towards Arabs, from the Nazis who claimed to represent Arians and were genocidal towards Jews (and Roma, though "curiously" here in the West almost nobody mentions those).
Because the etnicity targetted by one group of Nazis is the "dominant" etnicity of the other, if I don't do this some people confuse my anti-Zionist point with being pro-Zionist, especially given that the Zionists themselves will use Nazi as a form of slander against people who criticize them.
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The Saudis used a bonesaw to make kashoggi disappear... the Israelis want to send a message:
We are not acting like the good guys any more.
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What's weird is that I can't find even one article about her death in the more mainstream French newspapers such as Le Monde or Le Figaro or Libération. There's something in Ouest France. Did anyone find more?
They're currently not treating her death as suspicious. I know it doesn't mean that it isn't but I think it's worth mentioning.
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When I entered her name in google some small independent articles come up, but its clearly being silenced on all the major networks.
google.com/search?q=Marine+Vla…
It happened days ago so its not an issue of waiting for the major news outlets to catch on-- its censureship.
Truly, Rest in peace Marine Vlaholic, and good for you for doing what you did.
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Found dead while making a documentary about the killings in gaza. Of all the rotten luck, eh.
I wonder if there will be an actual transparent independent autopsy or will it be some sort of sham.
I mean I dont wonder very much, we all know the answer. But I still wonder a little bit.
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Fedora Linux Flatpak cool apps to try for December - Fedora Magazine
Fedora Linux Flatpak cool apps to try for December - Fedora Magazine
Describes four interesting applications available as Flatpak applications in four categories: Productivity, Games, Creativity, and Miscellaneous.Eduard Lucena (Fedora Project)
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I never really understood flatpak hate.
The storage use is negligible nowadays.
Permission requests feel way more user friendly and modern.
Finally linux has a universal package and people still hate it. It's probably one of the best things to happen to linux in years
Great news! Security and build-release people also hate snap junk.
Same reasons.
Ask us about npm next.
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We like terms like "security professionals" or "build-release engineers" to describe why package validation and provenance is important, as is SSoT for avoiding dependency hell by proxy.
But when you don't understand the real terms, use whatever ya like. Yes, honey, that's the goer-upper, and now we press the button for the floor we want.
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