Putin and Scholz Hold First Direct Call in Almost Two Years — Discuss Ways To End The Ukraine War
Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz held a phone call Friday to discuss ways to end the war in Ukraine, according a person familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity.Uncertainty over support from Western allies has also been growing ahead of Donald Trump’s return to the White House next year. Germany is Ukraine’s second-biggest supporter after the US and has pledged billions of euros in additional aid.
Israeli NSO, not government clients, controls spyware operations
Legal documents from the ongoing lawsuit between Israeli NSO Group and WhatsApp have revealed for the first time that the Israeli cyberweapons firm, rather than its government clients, is responsible for "installing and extracting" data from mobile phones targeted by its hacking software, The Guardian wrote.
These revelations emerged from sworn depositions of NSO Group employees, portions of which were made public on Thursday. The lawsuit, filed by WhatsApp in 2019, followed the messaging app’s discovery that 1,400 of its users, including journalists and human rights activists, had been targeted by NSO's spyware over a two-week period.
WhatsApp's case centers on allegations that the Israeli firm, not its international government clients, operates the spyware. NSO has consistently claimed that its technology is designed to combat serious crimes and terrorism, with clients bound by agreements to avoid misuse of the software. The company has also alleged it has no knowledge of who its clients target.
Israel destroyed active nuclear weapons research facility in Iran, US officials say
The Israeli attack on Iran in late October destroyed an active top secret nuclear weapons research facility in Parchin, according to three U.S. officials, one current Israeli official and one former Israeli official.The strike — which targeted a site previously reported to be inactive — significantly damaged Iran's effort over the past year to resume nuclear weapons research, Israeli and U.S. officials said.
https://www.axios.com/2024/11/15/iran-israel-destroyed-active-nuclear-weapons-research-facility
that means he has good connections to Israeli intelligence agents so it just makes him more reliable
Since his rise to popularity, however, he has softened some policies, saying he believes in an open economy and is not totally opposed to privatisation.Dissanayake had campaigned on a pledge to renegotiate a controversial US$2.9 billion International Monetary Fund (IMF) bailout secured by his predecessor.
But since taking office, he has resolved to maintain the existing agreement with the international lender.
The country’s main private sector lobby, the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce, has tacitly supported Dissanayake and his programme.
Yeah, not a good sign... This WSWS article on him doesn't exactly inspire hope either.
It would be great if he can at least press the IMF into agreeing to concessions on the bailout terms. The Rajapakses and their friends looted the country and ordinary people have been left holding the bag.
For now, it is great that he seems to have won over the Tamils, Muslims and hill people. Hopefully this leads to an end to the ethnic conflict that politicians (on both sides) were using to rile up their base.
Loðnuvinnslan hf (LVF) är ett företag som idag fiskar både pelagiskt och demersalt men deras huvudsakliga verksamhet är pelagiskt fiske. Huvudägare är kooperativet Kaupfélags Fáskrúðsfirðinga som innehar 83,11% av aktierna och rösterna.
Sri Lanka parliamentary elections: National People's Power on track to two-thirds majority, also wins district in Tamil majority north
Sri Lanka parliamentary poll: President Dissanayake’s NPP secures majority
Sri Lanka election results: National People's Power led by President Anura Kumara Dissanayake secures historic majority in parliament.The Hindu
Vänstern på sociala medier. Nyhetskartan har publicerat förteckningar över vänsterkonton på sociala medier. Dels alla vänstertidningar och vänstermediekanaler med länkar till deras social mediekonto, del stora personliga vänsterkonton på olika sociala medier.
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Israel carries out more airstrikes in Damascus and Beirut
Israel carries out more airstrikes in Damascus and Beirut : Peoples Dispatch
November marked an increase in Israeli airstrikes on different parts of Syria, foreshadowing a serious escalation in a third front in the region in addition to Gaza and Lebanon.Aseel Saleh (Peoples Dispatch)
Israel carries out more ~~airstrikes~~ terrorist attacks in Damascus and Beirut
I heard a very brief blurb on national propaganda radio about these zionist terror attacks. They will never give the victims the same coverage as official state allies. The imperial narrative constantly degrades its victims.
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Enda godkända vindkraftsparken slår sönder fisket. Den svenska regeringen godkände en av 14 planerade vindkraftsparker. De 13 som planerades i Östersjön godkändes inte. Den enda vindkraftsparken som godkändes av Poseidon i Skagerak.
Mordförsök i Getebergsäng. Igår eftermiddag strax innan klockan tre skadades tre personer vid ett mordförsök som ägde rum på en frisersalong vid Mölndalsvägen mittemot Lisebergs lilla ingång och det nya Grand Curiosa Hotel.
Tens of thousands of Bangladeshi garment workers continue protests
Tens of thousands of Bangladeshi garment workers continue protests
The Interim Government’s brutal assault on striking garment workers shows that it is committed to the same big business agenda as the ousted Hasina regime.World Socialist Web Site
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Russian sales of Chinese cars surge after western sanctions hit
Sales of Chinese cars in Russia have hit fresh records after the country became the largest export destination for the Asian nation’s automakers when sanctions forced western brands to cut ties with Moscow.Surging in Russian sales have helped Chinese carmakers at a time when Beijing faces higher tariffs on electric vehicle exports from Washington and Brussels — while engineering a rapid change in Russian auto culture.
Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine sparked a sharp decline in sales of vehicles from the European, Korean and Japanese carmakers that previously dominated the country’s car market.
At the time of the full-scale invasion in February 2022, their brands made up 69 per cent of all sales, according to the Avtostat analytics agency. They now have a market share of just 8.5 per cent, while Chinese manufacturers’ share over the same period has risen from 9 per cent to 57 per cent.
Russian sales of Chinese cars surge after western sanctions hit
Purchases of vehicles from Asian nation’s automakers reach fresh records as Russians ‘vote with their wallets’Daria Mosolova (Financial Times)
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No? Despite Imperial core sanctioning efforts, Russia is doing fairly well. You wouldn’t know it from Western government propaganda or Western corporate media, though.
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Nice data, but I think we should take a broader view too:
data.worldbank.org/indicator/N…
I semi randomly picked India because it is part of BRICS and had a similar economic trajectory: It is quite interesting playing with all those nobs and labels.
In this context I think PPP - which you showed - is a good indicator of the internal quality of living, but as far as I understand it, it has an hard time showing the difference in quality and standards of the consumer products between countries, so a dip in nominal GDP is an interesting context with the PPP adjusted rise. Less expensive things, because they are less regulated?
Aside from that Russia has almost completely pivoted to a war economy which, as far as I know, tends to give a big initial boost but it stresses and makes the real (for lack of a better term) economy crash in the long run.
What do you think about this? It is an interesting topic.
Or, you can block Lemmy.ml from your side using your blocklist, the majority of dbzer0 users seem to be okay with Lemmy.ml and thus want to stay federated. Lemmy.ml has no reason to defed either.
What kind of instance do you want, exactly?
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"You were a racist site!"
The absolute lack of subtlety on this meme, my god. The point blank spelling out of the authors opinion, the complete absence of a joke, and that exclamation mark. My word.
Personally wish it said
No.You racist shite.
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Dorsey took care to hire on for the Bluesky staff a collection of LessWrong rationalists, neoreactionaries, VibeCamp anti-wokeist race scientists and crypto developers. And Bluesky still had to asymptotically approach a tolerable degree of moderation and — eventually, despite the CEO and several devs being followers of the test case offender — ban the Nazis.
I hate the term "normalization" because it doesn't mean anything to most people. The closest approximation of it's meaning to most people is "stuff (usually negative) is happening".
Please point me to the time in American history where it was normal to:
- pay taxes for everyone's health care
- follow international law
- not do extrajudicial killings/imprisonment
- not be personally or institutionally racist
Spoiler you cannot. These times literally do not exist in any meaningful way, they only exist as ephemeral pockets of modernity that you personally have experienced. Many of the arguments that you can make in favor of these points of time, suffer greatly from the just world fallacy. When you look a little too hard at those pockets of time, you'll find that your feeling was just a feeling and it wasn't even true.
This meme may be good at convincing libs their world view is fucked, but it's not an accurate depiction.
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I think you misunderstand me here. I'm not saying the system can be changed by liberal means like voting every four years. The change comes from people organizing and building a worker movement that can take tangible action like doing general strikes, mass protests, and so on. However, political education is a prerequisite for such a movement. People need to agree on what the problems are and what the necessary action to solve these problems is. That's where ability to discuss things is important.
Also, if you bothered to watch the lecture then you'll see that it's discussing how workers in US struggled for rights. It doesn't talk about USSR at all.
It's not a completely different statement though. A society is fundamentally a social construct based around common ideology. That's what the government derives its legitimacy from. An organized labor movement is a path towards revising the social contract.
At the end of the day if your way to fight back against the ruling class is through material leverage, public debate simply doesn’t matter, worker organization sublimates that.
As I pointed out above, worker organization doesn't come out of thin air. It requires education of the masses, which involves public debate. If you study any effective social movement throughout history then you'll see that it always starts with public debate.
Okay I'll buy the ticket, lets take a ride:
There was plenty of public debate in 1930s.
Show me. Show me your 1930's public debate. Show me how many "views" it got, and compare that to something unquestionably popular in the 1930's. I'll even concede to you the unrealistic expectation that a view = 100% conversion.
Then explain how that situation is equivalent to 2024.
It’s not debate it’s organized material opposition.
Nice cherry picking there. What Parenti says in the speech is that it's actually both. He gives examples, such as how Wagner Act was leveraged by the workers to start doing mass organizing, showing how the system can indeed be leveraged along side organization outside the system. His whole point is to use all the tools available and to dismiss simplistic analysis that you're advocating for here.
since you continue to ignore my point, public debate serves as a way to educate people. Education does not happen magically out of the blue.
You know how sometimes it feels like you're talking to a wall online? Yeah in 2024, "public debate" is talking to a wall. You have to meet people where they're at and move them, not force feed them Parenti lectures.
I didn't argue against the idea that public debate serves as a way to educate people. I have said the plain truth that it is ineffective in today's society. In 2024 there's hundreds of thousands of ways to educate yourself for free, you need to answer the question of why people don't use them. Not argue about how technically public debate is educational.
Public debate is as effective as sending people marxists.org, youtube parenti library links or yelling at them to read theory over twitter.
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In the modern era the problem isn't "reaching people". It's getting them to show up. It's the same problem of electoral politics dude.
If I am a McDonalds worker you have to convince me that it's worth my time to go to your little meetings, time that I could be using to watch Mr Beast give someone a million dollars in return for the same kind of light torture I experience at my job.
Talking to leftists is the same as talking to Democrats sometimes. You just have to be "the smartest" while willfully not understanding that to a real life worker your hands look as empty as the lib next to you.
You're not competing with 20th century poverty, you're competing with 21st century dopamine rat poverty and the left as a whole hasn't evolved to handle that.
Getting them to show up for what specifically?
Again, people need to understand what it is that's being proposed and why it's in their interest to participate. If you can't even articulate that here, whom are you going to convince exactly. And yes, you are very much dealing with real genuine poverty and overwork in 21st century. Millions of people are struggling to make ends meet, working multiple jobs, and being stuck in debt.
it says, that you always should vote the lesser evil, since else the lesser evil will become more and more evil
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not a lib, just think that we should always vote the lesser evil, even if it isn't good. also the time isn't ripe for a revolution yet, and, no offense, even if it was, what have you been doing to change society?
also how has what been working out for me?
compared to voting more extreme parties not bad actually, the last time I voted the communist party it didn't even get into parliment and I don't think it will next time
or are we talking about voting in generall?
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They competed against Trump in 2020 and ran a more progressive campaign, and won. They competed against Trump in 2024 and ran a genocidal campaign that paraded around warmongers like Liz Cheney, and lost even the popular vote.
Obama is the premier example of a warmongering neoliberal that could perfectly orate for progressive voters despite his actual policy, both domestic and foreign.
Linux and the Fear of Change (a video for the normies in our lives)
unix is about doing one thing and doing it well, which is why systemd, baaad
...what do you mean ditch x11 in favor of wayland? no no, we need to preserve x11, the famous one-thing-well-doer
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(although its nice that some return to diplomacy happens, jesus christ)
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