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Federal judge overturns Trump’s executive order targeting law firm Jenner & Block | CNN Politics
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/23/politics/jenner-and-block-executive-order
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Documents Show US E.P.A. Wants to Erase Greenhouse Gas Limits on Power Plants
For context, increased concentrations of greenhouse gases, including CO2, are responsible for approximately all of the warming that has happened in recent decades:
With carbon dioxide being the largest part of that:
And human burning of fossil fuels (as in power plants) is substantially responsible for that increase:
Based on multiple lines of evidence using interhemispheric gradients of CO2 concentrations, isotopes, and inventory data, it is unequivocal that the growth in CO2 in the atmosphere since 1750 (see Section TS.2.2) is due to the direct emissions from human activities. The combustion of fossil fuels and land-use change for the period 1750–2019 resulted in the release of 700 ±75 PgC (likely range, 1 PgC = 1015 g of carbon) to the atmosphere, of which about 41% ±11% remains in the atmosphere today (high confidence). Of the total anthropogenic CO2 emissions, the combustion of fossil fuels was responsible for about 64% ± 15%, growing to an 86% ±14% contribution over the past 10 years.
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This may be splitting hairs, but this is being pushed on EPA scientists by the political appointees. This is why the politicization of these agencies is so critically dangerous. EPA scientists are incredibly talented and their recommendations are largely driven by good science. They know their shit. This is not that, this is political appointees forcing “interpretations” that the scientists themselves would undoubtedly take issue with.
I’m not making excuses, this is bad no matter how you slice it, but blame should be directed at the political appointees.
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Israeli use of human shields in Gaza was systematic, soldiers and former detainees tell the AP
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — The only times the Palestinian man wasn’t bound or blindfolded, he said, was when he was used by Israeli soldiers as their human shield.
Dressed in army fatigues with a camera fixed to his forehead, Ayman Abu Hamadan was forced into houses in the Gaza Strip to make sure they were clear of bombs and gunmen, he said. When one unit finished with him, he was passed to the next.
“They beat me and told me: ‘You have no other option; do this or we’ll kill you,’” the 36-year-old told The Associated Press, describing the 2 1/2 weeks he was held last summer by the Israeli military in northern Gaza.
Several Palestinians and soldiers told the AP that Israeli troops are systematically forcing Palestinians to act as human shields in Gaza, sending them into buildings and tunnels to check for explosives or militants. The dangerous practice has become ubiquitous during 19 months of war, they said.
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200 people being treated in a hospital along with a journalist you already attempted to murder? Human shields. Level the hospital.
Every single idf troop using a Gazan slave as a bullet sponge? Standard operating proceedure. Most moral nation.
Anyone claiming otherwise is antisemetic.
Any questions?
Trump's tariff threat risks a trade war with Europe years in the making
Trump's threat to impose 50% tariffs on imports from the E.U. is just the latest attack. It comes amid a broader souring in relations and after months of economic sparring.
The European Union has pushed back against Donald Trump’s latest suggestion that he will impose a 50% import tariff on all E.U. goods, warning that transatlantic trade must be built on “respect, not threats.”
The rebuke came after Trump said in a Friday post on his Truth Social platform that trade negotiations with Brussels were “going nowhere” and suggested he would slap a 50% blanket duty on all European goods entering the U.S. starting June 1.
It was just the latest bellicose remark from Trump and came amid a broader souring in relations between the two global powers that has seen months of distrust and economic sparring.
Trump's tariff threat risks a trade war with Europe years in the making
The E.U. has pushed back against President Trump’s latest threat to impose a 50% import tariff on all E.U. goods, warning trade must be built on “respect."Freddie Clayton (NBC News)
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It's not just that kind of service. There are media properties to tariff - movies, shows, music. There is software and consulting for enterprises to tariff. There are financial services to tariff.
The USA is the biggest exporter of services in the world, by a huge margin. Trump can pretend all he wants that it's only goods that matter, but the moment US services are going to be hit with tariffs, the wailing will begin. All his ultra-rich friends made their money on services.
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You seem to underestimate how many companies and government organizations rely on American hyperscalers. It will take many years to replace these with something European. The same for Android and iOS, Windows and macOS and all the apps that were built for these. Cisco and Juniper - sure, just replace all of their hardware with something European.
Tariffs are insane when Trump applies them, they are equally insane when Europe will apply them.
You seem to underestimate how many companies and government organizations rely on American hyperscalers
No. That's the point. Those are exactly the institutions you want to target. We want them to switch away from American companies.
The point is stop relying on American stuff so yeah, tax the hell out of them so we stop using their shit.
Tariffs are insane when Trump applies them, they are equally insane when Europe will apply them.
You seem to believe that you can talk with the orange turd. You can't. The only reasoning fascism understands is strength. You never win against fascist by "playing fair", you need to hit them as strong as you can and make sure they won't stand up; so tax, tax them so hard that not a single soul in europe wants to ever use an american service again and let the orange cunt be devoured by the oligarchs that control their country and dream of ruling the whole world.
It's about time we tell the US to fuck off for good.
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Everyone should take note conditional soup has yet to give a solid answer as to how the artist actually gets paid. So here’s a good question for everybody who’s reading this if an artist doesn’t get paid why would they continue?. And by artist, I mean, painter, singer, actor, songwriter, etc.
I’m moving onto another conversation
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In most somewhat-but-not-completely sane places, the part of piracy that is illegal/criminal is distributing the copyrighted material, so downloading it to feed an LLM would already not really be an issue. The "problem" here is that most of these LLMs are used for commercial purposes, which is not allowed, and some claim LLMs are a form of distributing the copyrighted material.
If your LLM is only for personal use, then yeah that's probably totally fine already, unless you live in one of the completely not sane places where both receiving and distibuting copyrighted material are illegal/criminal.
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The alternative is having Hollywood own every video generation model.
Same for music, 70% of all music globally is owned by three record companies. Elton is being asked by them to do this, because the public wouldnt be so sympathic with Warner Bros Studio in the headline instead.
Fetterman Says His Openness on Mental Health Issues Is ‘Weaponized”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/us/politics/fetterman-senate-absence-mental-health-interview.html
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Shitty policy and behavior gets a proportional response, is all.
Another fucking Sinema.
You are being open about mental health issues. Fantastic! I wish we had more and better coverage of mental health in this country.
But here’s the thing: If I have mental health issues and don’t show up to my job a good chunk of the time, I don’t have a job anymore. I could use sick time if I had any. I could use vacation days if I could plan my mental health crises. Other than that I would have to plan all my mental health issues (with proper medical documentation) into one large block of time in which I can’t work so I can use my Long Term Disability insurance. Unless you are rich or powerful, or otherwise don’t work for an employer, Americans don’t have the luxury of taking time for their mental health.
So instead of taking it personally that you are being held to a standard that your constituents are also held to, why don’t you use that power, to which those constituents elected you, to fix the standard for everyone.
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Until then, his chair on the dais of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee had sat empty all year.Mr. Fetterman does not enjoy participating in these hearings that he has sat through in recent weeks as he seeks to prove that he is capable of performing the job he was elected to do until 2028. In fact, at a critical moment for the country, he appears to have little interest in the day-to-day work of serving in the United States Senate.
In an interview, Mr. Fetterman, who represents 13 million people, said he felt he had been unfairly shamed into fulfilling senatorial duties, such as participating in committee work and casting procedural votes on the floor, dismissing them as a “performative” waste of time.
Ohhhh this mother....
k...,so this is the committee that determined fitness for Trump's Science Advisor, Michael Kratsios. I literally begged for them to not approve his fitness. I wrote about this here, and fun fact even have a screenshot of me @ing fetterman and others on the committee on bluesky included in the article. Little did I know he wasn't even bothering to show up bc he thinks it's "performative...?!"
Quick summary: Kratsios is a protege of Peter Theil, who actually served as Chief Technology Officer during the first Trump administration. During that time, he helped set up all of the dangerous AI shit we're now dealing with, making sure they wouldn't be restrained by any pesky regulations.
Unregulated surveillance and facial recognition tech use by ICE, the FBI, and other LEOs, you can thank Kratsios.
Access and use of private government data to train AI, you may think that's all on DOGE/Musk but that is actually something Kratsios mentioned back in 2018
Senate Dems knew how dangerous deregulated AI was, particularly facial recognition tech for profiling use. Yet, with a few exceptions, they either approved his fitness or they just didn't show up like Fetterman
I guess it's ok bc Kratsios is now agreeing maybe we should dial it back and start to regulate AI....
Lol jk, of course he's actually saying we need to somehow further deregulate it so we will have even less protection for our privacy, rights and liberty.
Thanks Dems of the committee for taking your job so seriously 👍
And OF COURSE Fetterman showed up for this one. Not because he felt like his depression was being weaponized, it's because he just weaponizes the D next to his name to help force through Republican policy
Here is an article about that May 8, 2025 hearing.
Altman, during the hearing, said that Texas had been “unbelievable” in incentivizing major AI projects. “I think that would be a good thing for other states to study,” Altman said. He predicted that the Abilene site would be the “largest AI training facility in the world.”
But Altman also later cautioned against a patchwork regulatory framework for AI.“It is very difficult to imagine us figuring out how to comply with 50 different sets of regulations,” said Altman. “One federal framework that is light touch, that we can understand, and it lets us move with the speed that this moment calls for, seems important and fine.”
Here is a quote from Kratsios about regulation in 2019
“A patchwork of regulation of technology is not beneficial for the country. We want to avoid that. Facial recognition has important roles—for example, finding lost or displaced children. There are use cases, but they need to be underpinned by values.”
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Trump CTO Addresses AI, Facial Recognition, Immigration, Tech Infrastructure, and More
Michael Kratsios, the fourth U.S. Chief Technology Officer, explains administration policies at the Fall Conference of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial IntelligenceTekla S. Perry (IEEE Spectrum)
Facial recognition has important roles—for example, finding lost or displaced children.
Now: "But what about the children?"
Next: Vague child safety or terrorism justification to deploy this everywhere
I fully understand that he's had a major medical event that might make his life incredibly difficult in some areas. So he SHOULD FUCKING RESIGN. He's not owed a fucking Senate seat. That piece of shit and everyone around him is a goddamn parasite.
If he needs care, he should absolutely get it. Just not while failing to do his very important job. He's unfit.
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If it's too hard, he should fucking resign.
Signed,
Also someone who's had a stroke
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Having spent a year and a half in a relationship with a bipolar woman who regularly refused to take her meds, this is a common thing. Goes off the meds, gets paranoid, believes people are out to get them, turns on everyone trying to help.
It's nearly impossible to get through the mindset that someone in that state is in. I had to take my ex to the hospital twice to get her committed so they could force her to take her meds. It's horrible, and you fight having to do that to someone you care about, but sometimes it's the only way to help them.
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showing up for votes and hearings he considers useless.
Must be nice to filter showing up for work based on what you think is useful or not. My teams calendar would be wide open! =D
sorry op i said exactly what your main post did. but still.
Russia is offering Ukrainian POWs to 'occupy Europe together’
Russia is offering Ukrainian POWs to ‘switch sides and occupy Europe together’
Ukraine has submitted a list of POWs to Russia for a 1,000-for-1,000 prisoner swap. Many Ukrainian soldiers have now spent over three years in Russian captivity, where they are often being tortured, abused and offered to "join Russian forces to then …Sasha Vakulina (Euronews.com)
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I don't think that they're obscure. If you asked me to name a major, non-state-run English-language mainland European news source, it'd be in the top three to come to my mind: Euronews, Euractiv, and EU Observer (with the last focusing on stuff in Brussels; maybe a better source for the !EuropeanFederalists@lemmy.world community).
They featured prominently on /r/Europe back when I followed it.
So, the breakdown of their ownership on the about page that links from the front page is not enough to answer some of your questions?
Let me wikipedia that for you.
"left-center" is likely to be US brainrot, though, everything left of Nixon is far-left to them.
.ml is that way —-> [rightward pointing arrow]
something something "stethoscope theory"
Interesting parallel:
encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov%…
Russians loved the nazis, and agreed to split Europe with them too!
But then again, they'd been genociding jews, Ukrainians and everyone else for centuries by then, I suppose they saw kindred spirits.
That's a mighty good wish that will never come true because of its internal logic.
With their culture, if left alone, something will fester and they WILL come back.
I'd rather have Russia become an actual, real democracy that controls their police apparatus and army well. It's the only way forward
Would be nice, but there is no path there right now. Every single bridge built to them was twisted and weaponized (some of it thanks to western anarchocapitalists)
PS: it took all major armies in the world to fix France and get rid of Bonapartism, it took all major armies in the world to fix Germany and get rid of nazism...but there are no resources to fix russia and putinism, especially if MAGAts and China want to use it to keep Europe in check.
Russia contacted Britain and France to fight the Nazis. Britain and France refused to fight Hitler. Thus the Russians made a peace pact to have time to prepare for an attack.
A big thing people often like to leave out.
The peace treaty was for 10 years.
And they made that treaty so they could partition Poland and invade and brutalize Finland, no other reason.
The secret protocol was very clear.
I'm just scared that people like you will drag us in an outright war, and I don't wanna go die in our overlords' bid for more resources.
Well, here is the thing, I was in the military in Europe decades ago, conscript. Considering what we are seeing as far as effectiveness, training, etc of russian forces, I'd give my generation a 10 to 1advantage, at least, in kills. Multiply by all of Europe combined. Also, current troops in most of Europe are professional, so a 20:1 ratio is not far fetched. I like those odds.
EDIT: Also, let's not forget that western hardware is whooping russian ass
First of all, Russia has already fired the first shot. They've been attacking not just Europe but the rest of the world for years in an information war. The situation in the US can undoubtedly be tracked back to them. To attack Russia wouldn't be a war of aggression, it would be a retaliatory strike.
Secondly, there is no way that Russia has all the military might they've claimed to have. On a military level they are a paper tiger. Just look at the OP, they're trying to enlist Ukrainian soldiers to fight for them. I remember reading a little time ago about how they were even considering training and fielding children to the front. It wouldn't be an outright war, it would be a brief struggle. A local pro-Russia militia would probably pose a greater threat than the Russian army.
Russians themselves were willing (or were ordered instead of asked) to go die in WW2 against Nazi Germany. Was this a "sheer hatred of germans" that was due to "germanphobic propaganda"? Perhaps a bit, but there cleary was a worthy cause behind it all.
If it meant an end to the fascist regime of Russia, it'd be worth it. We all die anyway at some point, why not die for a good cause then.
Yeah it definitely won't be the Russian invaders who drag us all into a war.
Fuck all the way off with this "stop struggling or this rape will turn into a murder" shit.
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Supreme Court allows Trump to fire members of independent agencies — for now
The supreme court just green lighted the ability for trump to fire the heads of independent agencies. Some news outlets saying this type of power hasn't been seen since kings.
This is the supreme court again rewriting history and killing one of their own decisions.
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More fuel for change later, not sure what kind of change or if it will be bad or good.
But a lot of potential social energy is being stored up and it had to go somewhere later!
Israeli soldiers accused of widespread use of human shields in Gaza – Middle East crisis live
Israeli soldiers accused of widespread use of human shields in Gaza – as it happened
Israel’s military says it prohibits using civilians as shields, a practice it has long accused Hamas of usingAmy Sedghi (The Guardian)
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Guardian reporters win UK Press Award for investigation into a covert operation by the Mossad
Mossad investigation among Guardian prizes at UK Press Awards
Harry Davies’ report on Israeli intelligence agency and columnist Marina Hyde are winners for 2025Michael Savage (The Guardian)
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Let's hope that they don't have "accidents" any time soon
Israel only exists because the US and UK have used Mossad to do their dirty work, and they provide a black hole in the middle east for people to go when information is to be extracted
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Don't let the facts slow you down, eh.
Attributing the existence of a country to an agency the country built, is a bit on the fast side, I think. The agency was born 1 year after Israel and built from scratch.
Israel exists because millions of people didn't have a place they could call their home country.
Sadly, what has become of that country is not cheerful. Its war in Gaza seems to intend making life impossible in the sector (making a population's life impossible in their homeland has a definition: genocide) and prime minister Netanyahu is grabbing for more power, likely with thoughts about "staying a bit longer".
Mossad (role: foreign intelligence) is an agency directly subordinated to the prime minister of Israel (unlike some others, e.g. Shin Bet (role: internal security and counterintelligence), which recently had its chief fired because he wouldn't swear personal allegiance to Netanyahu). So, in the current political situation, there is credible suspicion that Netanyahu is creating a precedent and subordinating all intelligence agencies to his person - if not directly then indirectly.
Mossad's cooperation with foreign agencies has been punctuated by episodes of non-cooperation.
I can point out several moments in history where the interests of Mossad contradicted, for example, the interests of the CIA. Threats were made, negotiations were held, some Mossad guys got caught and were imprisoned in the US.
However, during less tense periods, agencies have also been trading tips. Mossad has built a highly successful "business" of assassinating people. It logically follows that if agency A knows that person X is on Mossad's "hit list", and they find out where X lives, then A won't need to send a killer, but tips off Mossad. Intelligence agencies may sometimes (not cheerfully) share part of their technical networks with each other, but human networks - almost never. It can get their own agents killed or imprisoned, if another agency is careless.
Israel exists because millions of people didn't have a place they could call their home country.
That's... Uh... No. Israel exists because European antisemites want somewhere to dump their Jews and answer "the Jewish question", with two big pushes from early 20th century Russia and Nazi Germany. Before the Holocaust the position of most Jews around the world was "huh? What right do you have to dump me in buttfuck Palestine," and even after the Holocaust it was far from a universal position. Let's not pretend Israel was ever anything other than a settler colonialist project whose most ardent supporters were antisemites.
Let’s not pretend Israel was ever anything other than a settler colonialist project whose most ardent supporters were antisemites.
I'm a bit poorly informed about public and private discourse on the subject, in the late 1940-ties. Can you point me to any evidence which would substantiate that claim?
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balfou… and en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histor…
A lot to cover, but it started earlier than the 40s.
He's partially correct, imo when the Zionist movement was growing (early 1900s) a large part of the colonist nations were quite content with having Jewish people leave their countries for Palestine without caring about what the results may be. Because they were absolutely antisemites.
This emigration was supercharged in the 30s, because of obvious reasons.
Then in 48 it was declared a state. Probably to try and wash their hands from their own behaviour in regards to Jewish people when it became public how fucked up the Nazis had treated them.
Jewish emigration had already started, and they were equally racist, so who gave a shit if Muslims lost their land.
Guess you could call it a co-op. Zionist wanted land, racists and antisemites wanted them out
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This goes a lot deeper than the 1940s.
It really begins with Herzl. Herzl himself said that antisemitism would help his cause, precisely because antisemitism would convince Jews that they had more of a chance of being successful outside of Europe than inside of Europe.
Hell, even Balfour (the Balfour declaration guy) was an antisemite, and thought that Zionism would
mitigate the age-long miseries created for Western civilization by the presence in its midst of a Body [the Jews] which it too long regarded as alien and even hostile, but which it was equally unable to expel or to absorb
He also thought that
We have to face the facts. Men are not born equal, the white and black races are not born with equal capacities: they are born with different capacities which education cannot and will not change.
With regards to disenfranchisement of black people in South Africa. This is the kind of people Zionists counted on for support.
You also have Zionist militias that would later become the IDF being sustained by Polish arms and training.
During the interwar period, as part of its policy of supporting a Jewish state in Palestine in order to facilitate mass Jewish emigration from its territory, the Second Polish Republic provided military training and weapons to Zionist dparamilitary groups, including Haganah.
Hell, even if we restrict ourselves to the 1940s you have the USSR under Stalin, a notorious antisemite, supporting Israel with diplomacy and Czechoslovakian weapons. The latter especially was crucial to their victory in the war against the Arab states.
I think they earned their award. The original story, now 11 months old, is perhaps worth re-reading.
Summary: anticipating ICC conclusions about the war in Gaza, Netanyahu (from whom Mossad takes commands) sent the agency to collect compromising material about the ICC prosecutor. The head of the agency threatened her, but she disclosed the contacts to other ICC officials and proceeded with the investigation.
According to accounts shared with ICC officials, he is alleged to have told her: “You should help us and let us take care of you. You don’t want to be getting into things that could compromise your security or that of your family.”
Revealed: Israeli spy chief ‘threatened’ ICC prosecutor over war crimes inquiry
Mossad director Yossi Cohen personally involved in secret plot to pressure Fatou Bensouda to drop Palestine investigation, sources sayHarry Davies (The Guardian)
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Bangladesh's Yunus could quit over lack of reform progress, student leader says
Nobel peace laureate Muhammad Yunus, 84, took over as interim head of the South Asian nation of 173 million last August after a student-led uprising forced then Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to flee to India.
Bangladesh's Yunus could quit over lack of reform progress, student leader says
DHAKA: Bangladesh's de-facto prime minister has threatened to step down if political parties cannot agree on reforms that citizens await with growing impatience, a top student leader has said, deepening uncertainty in the wake of deadly protests last…CNA (Channel NewsAsia)
Eurovision: Israel's result prompts questions over voting
Eurovision: Israel's result prompts questions over voting
Countries including Spain, Ireland and Finland raise concerns about the song contest's public vote.Ian Youngs (BBC News)
Being a popularity contest is not a problem. It’s always been like that, it’s “whatever”. Like it, don’t like. Doesn’t matter.
But Israel manipulating votes to “artwash” genocide is a whole different bag of cats, and very wrong.
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When countries vote for their neighbour, that is usually not enough to change the end result. The most popular song usually still wins. But Israel is assembling political votes all across Europe. Only a few percent of the voters need to be rallied to completely overtake the public votes. Also considering that Israel supporters are motivated to vote 20 times, people voting for their favorite song will likely only vote a few times, if at all.
Yes, Eurovision has always been political to some degree, but it hasn't really swayed the results this much ever before.
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what was done to them.
Israel is not governed by holocaust survivors. They just like to pretend it is in order to use misplaced sympathy as a "get away with anything" card
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MoroccanOil is main sponsor of Eurovision, and it is Israeli company.
It's all about he money, babyy
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They have $750M revenue, definitely they can spend tens of millions in advertising .
Edit: tried to also get some info how much money EBU (owner of Eurovision) does. Seems that they don't make them public any more, which is bit sus. 2021 was last that I found and they made around $400M, and "other revenue" were I assume advertisement deals are was $50M.
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It’s technically not countries participating, but broadcasters and they need to be independent of state control
So...same problem as the geography question then. How the fuck does Australia participate? As best I can tell, it's broadcast here on SBS, a state-owned broadcaster.
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The person you replied to said that the needed to be independent of state control, not that they couldn’t be state owned.
I don’t know about SBS but it is broadcast on BBC One in the UK which is also state owned but is not directly controlled by the state.
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It's a joke...
Votes were always political BS, they ban a bunch of very legitimate things like the pride flag and Palestine flag, yet they don't mind having a country in the process of committing genocide in it.
Look, the 7.10 was terrible, Israel had every right to fight back. But genocide is genocide and it is not self defense.
Fuck Hamas, fuck Israel and fuck the Eurovision.
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Israel had every right to fight back
Maybe after a third year of Livestreamed genocide people will stop saying this stupid shit.
7.10 was the armed resistance of a colonial concentration camp broke out and attacked the fascist ethno supremacist state in an act of SELF DEFENSE. You can condemn individual acts of violence, but Israel is the aggressor and history doesn't begin on 7 October.
What a load of BS. It was a terrorist attack on civilians.
The Israel-Palestine conflict has been goibg on for long, Israel is to blame for a lot of it, some of the attacks by Hamas can be categorized as resistance, the 7.10 was a pure terrorist attack, no two ways about it.
Targeting civilians based on which side of the border they reside in is a terrorist attack, this applies to both sides. On the 7th Hamas murdered who ever they found, including Muslims.
Civilians that happen to be occupation military and their families living on illegally occupied land around the concentration camp in what they themselves describe as a buffer zone and a first line of defense when the colonized inevitably break out of the concentration camp?
Those civilians? The literal human shields put there by the state?
You can condemn individual attacks and label them "terrorist" even, but you when you insist history begins on that day and give Israel the "right to defend itself", you're whitewashing genocide.
Nat Turner's rebellion was described the way you describe October 7 today, and people will describe you as the tone deaf Nazi sympathizers tomorrow, as we describe your like back in Turner's day.
The right of self defense belongs to the Palestinians, the occupied, the people without an army fighting a fascist ethno-supremacist nuclear super power, not the other way around.
Sure, because as everyone knows, theses cases are so clear cut and there is alwas a good side that does no wrong and a bad side that does only wrong.
Maybe you are too close to the problem, I don't know your story, but from the side it is obvious that the 7.10 was hate fueled terrorism (you can see them even shooting friendly dogs) just as it is clear that right now there is a genocide going on.
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The very simple fact Israel, a middle eastern country, is allowed in an European event, raises the fact that it is allowed because populated by (mostly) settlers of European descent.
Lebanon is not allowed, albeit being closer.
Turkey is not allowed, albeit having a part of its territory in Europe.
Cool disinformation.
Any country is allowed if they are full members of the European Broadcasting Union or paid 'associate Members' that are invited to compete by the EBU.
Lebanon is absolutely allowed - as are any EBU full members. However their national broadcaster has declined to join the contest due to their own laws prohibiting the transmission of any Israeli content, and their concerns of this being impossible with Israel being members of the competition.
Turkey has been part of Eurovision over 30 times and even won and hosted the competion in 2004. They withdrew in 2013 citing criticisms with the rules of the competition and have not competed since - their government's choice, so blame Erdogan.
why are any countries but greece in the olympics?
because times change and events transform to include more people who enjoy participating
Who attended Trump’s crypto dinner? Photos and social media offer some clues
Who attended Trump’s crypto dinner? Photos and social media offer some clues
For weeks, President Donald Trump’s meme coin project pushed a promotion: top holders of the crypto asset would get to attend an exclusive dinner with the president, and an even more select group of people would get to meet the president and receive …Ben Goggin (NBC News)
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More than 200 people heeded the call, putting up an average of $1.8 million each to buy the $TRUMP coin. But it was unknown who the vast majority of the invitees were, and the White House wouldn’t say, leaving the 44-character identification numbers or aliases tied to their crypto wallets as the only public information about their identities.
Trump's crypto dinner cost over $1 million per seat, on average
More than 200 wealthy, mostly anonymous crypto buyers are coming to Washington on Thursday to have dinner with President Donald Trump.Kevin Collier (NBC News)
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The longer I look at this shit the more I think:
They're selling out the USA - to themselves of course.
Right now they're at a phase where more and more people wake up to that fact; some want to get out, others scramble to get a slice of the pie before it's too late.
Those who are in all have an exit plan for when this country implodes.
We want names!
The person they quote a lot: Michelle Bystritsky, her brother Jack Tietz, Lamar Odom, Justin Sun, Jack Lu, Chris Akhavan, Clinton Bembry (Slingshot Finance), Michael Raumann, Stephen Hess & posse (Metaplex), Sandy Carter (Unstoppable Domains), Bryce Paul (Tower 18 Capital), Kendall Davis, Brian Ng, Dylan Stansfield, Nick Pinto...
“Mostly men, I think I was one of the maybe 5 women there,” she wrote. “Felt like 50/50 of people from the states compared to those from other countries — we met people from China, Philippines, Dubai, Korea, etc.”
Loooots of crypto bros. And many were pissed that they'd been identified.
And a bitter cherry on top of this pile of scammers:
The White House (...) said Trump “only acts in the best interests of the American public.”
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“He gave his speech and then immediately left. I wrote ‘Can I get picture?’ on my phone screen using Snapchat text like people do at concerts, and I know that he read it as he looked at me several times during his speech. I was at the front of the line. He didn’t even stay to personally hand the watches to the top four people that paid eight figures to get that rank.”
Ohhh poor little grifters got grifted by the grifter-in-chief.
Lmao what a fucking shit show, I hope all the farmers and steel workers who stood by trump are happy.
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I hope all the farmers and steel workers who stood by trump are happy.
Many of them would die supporting him even if he directly stole money out of their hands, or chewed food right out of their mouths. It's a cult.
Wouldn't it be much more customer-friendly if the US regime set up a web shop where you could buy laws, tax breaks, and all that stuff directly?
In this day and age, it really shouldn't be necessary to show up in person just to pay a little bribe, and then, to top it all off, have to dress up for the occasion.
/s, of course.
Israeli settlers force about 150 Palestinians to leave their West Bank village
Israeli settlers force about 150 Palestinians to leave their West Bank village
Two settlers under UK sanctions among those who carried out intimidation campaign under Israeli authorities’ watchQuique Kierszenbaum (The Guardian)
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Trump Insists Apple Can Move Production to the US Because of 'Computerized' Factories After Threatening Tariffs
Trump Insists Apple Can Move Production to the US Because of 'Computerized' Factories After Threatening Tariffs
President Donald Trump stated that Apple could create computerized production plants in the US to produce iPhones at the same price they are being produced at now after threatening to levy tariffs...Maryam Khanum (Latin Times)
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Unclear if he actually wants to do that. He may just want to make money off of his crypto meme coin and via market manipulation.
Its up to his supporters to see through the facade but given the average education level in the US (>50% read at a grade 6 level, not even high school) and general addiction to social media, it's unlikely.
How long until Tim Cook offers Trump a bribe to reduce tariffs?
I'm guessing two weeks.
He’s already given him at least one, like all of the other tech billionaires at the inauguration.
But what they failed to understand was that one of Trump’s major innovations was moving corruption from a one time payment to a subscription model.
Karma’s a bitch.
One would have thought that he at least talked a bit with Elon about his experiences with the topic.
I have experience with designing manufacturing equipment, and it really isn't as easy as you may think.
That was Musks plan for the Tesla factories and such, but he had to give up on much of the automation plans.
Machines are too bad at handling deviations from standard measurements or accidents, and the delays these things can cause when there aren't many people on the site means that the savings on labor quickly gets eaten up.
Netanyahu accused of slander after criticising Macron, Carney and Starmer
Netanyahu accused of slander after criticising Macron, Carney and Starmer
Israeli leader’s antisemitism claim labelled defamatory as he is warned against pursuing a war without endPatrick Wintour (The Guardian)
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DHS Is Getting Ready to Identify Everyone Who Leaves the Country, Expanding Immigration Dragnet
DHS Is Getting Ready to Identify Everyone Who Leaves the Country, Expanding Immigration Dragnet
Legal experts say new land border checkpoints and surveillance measures may herald an expanded crackdown on student protestors.Murtaza Hussain (Drop Site News)
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