Microsoft admits Game Pass price hike drove away "millions" of subscribers

/me patting myself on the back for avoiding subscriptions like the plague since the 90s.

Bulletins and International News Discussion from March 16th to Whenever We Reach About 3000 Comments - The Straits Are Not Okay

ah sweet, man-made gambling horrors beyond my comprehension https://archive.ph/qREE5 Gamblers trying to win a bet on Polymarket are vowing to kill me if I don’t rewrite an Iran missile story Bettors are using death threats to try to get The Times of Israel’s military correspondent to change his report on a missile impact in central Israel. This is his alarming account ::: spoiler more On Tuesday, March 10, a massive explosion shook the city of Beit Shemesh, just outside Jerusalem, in yet another Iranian ballistic missile attack during the ongoing war. Rescue services scrambled to the scene in search of possible casualties, though as it turned out, the projectile had struck a forested area just outside the city, around 500 meters from homes. On The Times of Israel’s liveblog that day, I reported that the missile had hit an open area and no injuries were caused, citing the rescue services, as well as footage that emerged showing the massive explosion caused by the missile’s warhead. But what I thought was a seemingly minor incident during the war has turned into days of harassment and death threats against me. The saga begins Later Tuesday, I received an unusual email, in Hebrew, from someone named Aviv. “Regarding your Times of Israel report that described today’s launch as an ‘impact’ — Beit Shemesh Municipality and MDA (Magen David Adom) later corrected their reports to clarify that what fell was an interceptor fragment, not a full missile,” he claimed. “I’d appreciate it if you could update your article, as in its current form it does not reflect reality. Alternatively, if you have information that it was indeed a full missile that was not intercepted, I would be glad to be corrected.” I told Aviv that, from what I know from the Israeli military, the impact outside Beit Shemesh was indeed a missile warhead and not just fragments. I added: “The footage also shows a massive explosion of hundreds of kilograms of explosives from the warhead. Normally, a fragment does not produce such an explosion.” A day later, on Wednesday, I received another email, also in Hebrew, regarding the impact just outside Beit Shemesh, from someone identifying themselves as Daniel. “Sorry for reaching out without a prior introduction, but I assume we will get to know each other well,” he wrote, in a somewhat threatening manner. “I have an urgent request regarding the accuracy of your report on the missile attack on March 10. I would really appreciate a response if possible. There is an inaccurate report from you about the missile attack on March 10, and it’s causing a chain of errors,” Daniel’s email continued. “If you could reply to me tonight… you would be helping me, many others, and, of course, the State of Israel. And along the way, you would gain a good source.” It was indeed a little strange to receive the same question, about something relatively inconsequential, from two different people within a day. But I responded, naively: “Hi Daniel, can you elaborate on what the problem is?” He replied: “In the article and in your tweet you wrote, ‘One missile struck an open area just outside Beit Shemesh.’” “However, it appears that this was a missile that was intercepted, and its debris and interceptor fragments fell at the scene. No security authority so far has confirmed that it was a missile that was not intercepted and fell in an open area,” he claimed. “If you could correct this tonight, you would be doing me and many others a great favor,” Daniel added. Why does such an inconsequential detail matter to these people, I wondered. Half an hour later, Daniel sent me another email: “If one of you could change everything to interceptor debris, or missile fragments even tonight, it would help a lot,” he persisted. I went to sleep without answering. By Thursday morning, Daniel had sent me another email. “I would appreciate an update from you as soon as possible, because in the meantime you are already being quoted in The Economist, saying that the IDF confirmed that most of the missiles on Tuesday were intercepted except for one that fell in the Beit Shemesh area,” he said, attaching a screenshot from The Economic Times, an Indian English-language business-focused news site, and not The Economist. “I ask again, if you could handle this as soon as possible, it would help us a lot. It’s really important, if possible, still this morning,” Daniel demanded. As I read through Daniel’s veiled threats, I received another email from an anonymous user: “Is the article about March 10 interception gonna get updated?” Moments later, I received a message on the Discord online platform: “In regards to March 10th. Some sources are saying all the missiles were intercepted on March 10th per IDF. Is that true?” The Polymarket connection Meanwhile, on X, I saw a user reply to a recent tweet of mine: “There are people saying that they have received word from you that the missile strike in Beit Shemesh on March 10th was in fact intercepted, is this true or did no such interaction occur?” Another X user responded to my post with the video showing the Iranian ballistic missile impact in Beit Shemesh with: “was there any video of the actual impact.” (Clearly, he didn’t watch the video.) Checking those X accounts, both appeared to be involved in gambling on the Polymarket betting site. As far as I now understand, the emails I received were intended to confirm whether or not a missile had hit Israel on March 10 in order to resolve a prediction on Polymarket. Polymarket is one of the largest prediction markets in the world, where users can wager their money on the likelihood of future events, using cryptocurrency, debit or credit cards, and bank transfers. However, there are accusations that the site has been plagued by manipulation and insider trading. The event that these people had bet on was “Iran strikes Israel on…?” More than 14 million dollars had been wagered on March 10. The rules of the bet state: “This market will resolve to ‘Yes’ if Iran initiates a drone, missile, or air strike on Israel’s soil on the listed date in Israel Time (GMT+2). Otherwise, this market will resolve to ‘No’.” However, there is a clause: “Missiles or drones that are intercepted… will not be sufficient for a ‘Yes’ resolution, regardless of whether they land on Israeli territory or cause damage.” My minor report on a missile striking an open area was now in the middle of a betting war, with those who had bet “No” on an Iranian strike on Israel on March 10 demanding I change my article to ensure they would win big. More emails arrived in my inbox. “When will you update the article?” one was titled. The email had no text content, only an image — a screenshot of my initial interaction with Daniel. Except it did not show my actual response to Daniel, but a fabricated message that I had not written. “Hi Daniel, Thank you for noticing, I checked with the IDF Spokesperson and it was indeed intercepted. I sent it now for editing, it will be fixed shortly,” I supposedly wrote. (To be clear, I wrote no such thing.) I then received a WhatsApp message from someone named Shaked: “Can I ask one question about the impact in Beit Shemesh on the 10th?” Meanwhile, I saw a reply on X to a recent post of mine, with the same fake screenshot of my email exchange with Daniel: “There’s someone quoting that you replied to their email about making corrections to the below news article about all missile attacks being intercepted by Israel on March 10th. Is this actually true? Are we going to make this correction?” By this point, it was clear to me why these people were asking about the missile impact, and I took to X and told the gamblers to get a better hobby. This did not stop them. A colleague makes contact A few hours later, a colleague from another media outlet messaged me. He said that someone he knew asked him to ask me to change the report on the missile impact in Beit Shemesh, and that it would be “negligible” for me if I did make the change. The journalist had no idea why his acquaintance was demanding the change to the article until I told him what I understood was going on. He then confronted the acquaintance, who admitted to placing bets on Polymarket and confirmed my theory. Going further, the acquaintance even offered the journalist compensation, from his winnings, if he managed to convince me to change my report. The threats escalate After a quiet weekend, things escalated further. Shortly after midnight between Saturday and Sunday, I started to receive threatening messages in Hebrew on WhatsApp from someone called Haim. “You have exactly half an hour to correct your attempt at influence,” he wrote. “Despite the fact that you received countless inquiries — you insist on leaving it that way.” “If you do not correct this by 01:00 Israel time today, March 15, you are bringing upon yourself damage you have never imagined you would suffer,” he threatened, in a very lengthy message. Haim also attempted to call me via WhatsApp multiple times during the night, before sending me more messages. “You have no idea how much you’ve put yourself at risk. Today is the most significant day of your career. You have two choices: either believe that we have the capabilities, and after you make us lose $900,000 we will invest no less than that to finish you. Or end this with money in your pocket, and also earn back the life you had until now.” After I didn’t respond, as I was asleep, Haim sent me another series of messages: “You are choosing to go to war knowing that you will lose your life as you’ve grown accustomed to it — for nothing.” On Sunday morning, he messaged me again: “You have exactly a few hours left to fix your attempt at influencing [the market]. It would be stupid of you to ignore this.” ::: cont’d in response

Logical Fallacies of a Vegan Diet - MD Mason [Lecture]

Dr Paul Mason obtained his medical degree with honours from the University of Sydney, and also holds degrees in Physiotherapy and Occupational Health. He is a Specialist Sports Medicine and Exercise Physician. Dr Mason developed an interest in low carbohydrate diets in 2011. Since then he has spent hundreds of hours reading and analysing the scientific literature. For a number of years Dr. Mason has been applying this knowledge in treating metabolic and arthritis patients who have achieved dramatic and sustained weight loss and reductions in joint pain. Dr. Mason is also the Chief Medical Officer of Defeat Diabetes, Australia’s first evidence-based and doctor-led program that focuses on the wide range of health benefits of a low carb lifestyle, particularly for those wanting to send into remission pre-diabetes, type 2 diabetes, and other metabolic illnesses. ::: spoiler summerizer B12 and child safety Vegan diets are promoted as healthy and ethical, but the nutrient realities can make them dangerous. Children can suffer severe outcomes on unsupplemented vegan diets without medical supervision, blood tests, and adequate nutrient planning. Plant foods do not provide adequate B12 unless fortified, and liver B12 stores only delay deficiency for years. A balanced vegan diet means fortified foods or B12 supplements, and B12 deficiency remains common among vegetarian groups. Animal foods provide B12 plus DHA, EPA, creatine, heme iron, choline, taurine, zinc, and fat-soluble vitamins that vegan diets struggle to supply. Science quality and red meat Observational nutrition research produces associations, not causation, and food-frequency questionnaires add recall and classification error. Confounding and healthy-user bias make meat-avoidance headlines weak without randomized trials. Systematic reviews depend on included-study quality, and surrogate markers such as LDL can detach from meaningful clinical outcomes. The LDL mortality review in older adults rejects LDL as a reliable nutrition surrogate. The 2015 WHO/IARC red-meat cancer release relies on observational work and carcinogen-injected rat experiments. The EAT-Lancet diet links back to that IARC work while severely limiting red-meat intake. Brain nutrients and bioavailability DHA and EPA are absent from plants, and ALA conversion is too small to protect brain development. DHA trials, creatine trials, and iron trials connect animal-source nutrients with cognition, memory, behavior, and child development. Heme iron, retinol, and vitamin D3 have better real-world bioavailability than the plant forms named in the talk. Plant anti-nutrients such as phytates, oxalates, tannins, and glucosinolates can block mineral absorption. Meat contains vitamin C, and historical Arctic, Antarctic, and military scurvy examples fit that reality. Evolution and anatomy Soil and manure are not credible B12 sources, and vegan comparative-anatomy tables rely on false premises. Human saliva enzymes, stomach acidity, colon size, and great-ape opportunistic meat eating support an omnivorous anatomy. Animals and agriculture Grain agriculture kills animals through harvest, predation after cover loss, machinery, plowing, and rodent poisons. Mouse counts, freezing behavior, plague densities, and poison lethality challenge the idea of a death-free vegan diet. Intent does not erase responsibility for deaths embedded in crop production. Environment and land Monocropping drives soil erosion, microbial disruption, biodiversity loss, pesticide dependence, and nutrient decline in crops. Ruminant grazing builds soil through perennial grasses, root turnover, biomass, and carbon storage. Livestock land-use figures narrow once marginal land that cannot be cropped is separated out. Livestock water use must separate green rainwater from blue freshwater, because crop irrigation carries the blue-water burden. Pesticides and glyphosate Pesticide use follows monocrop dependence, glyphosate-resistant weeds, grain residues, and residue concerns in cattle and humans. Glyphosate-related cues include preharvest wheat spraying, FSANZ food detections, Clostridium botulinum, cattle tissues, urine levels, organic-food differences, and chronic illness association. Closing Animal foods make the stronger case; weak nutrition research does not justify red-meat demonization, and no diet avoids death. References [00:02] The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1934 — https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1934/summary/ [00:04] How prevalent is vitamin B12 deficiency among vegetarians? — https://doi.org/10.1111/nure.12001 [00:10] Lack of an association or an inverse association between LDL-C and mortality in the elderly: a systematic review — https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2015-010401 [00:11] Carcinogenicity of consumption of red and processed meat — https://doi.org/10.1016/S1470-2045(15)00444-1 [00:13] Beef Meat and Blood Sausage Promote the Formation of Azoxymethane-Induced Mucin-Depleted Foci and Aberrant Crypt Foci in Rat Colons — https://doi.org/10.1093/jn/134.10.2711 [00:14] Beef meat promotion of dimethylhydrazine-induced colorectal carcinogenesis biomarkers is suppressed by dietary calcium — https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007114507843558 [00:14] Food in the Anthropocene: the EAT-Lancet Commission on healthy diets from sustainable food systems — https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(18)31788-4 [00:18] Maternal supplementation with very-long-chain n-3 fatty acids during pregnancy and lactation augments children’s IQ at 4 years of age — https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.111.1.e39 [00:20] Oral creatine monohydrate supplementation improves brain performance: a double-blind, placebo-controlled, cross-over trial — https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2003.2492 [00:20] Effects of creatine supplementation on cognitive function of healthy individuals: A systematic review of randomized controlled trials — https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exger.2018.04.013 [00:20] A double-masked, randomized control trial of iron supplementation in early infancy in healthy term breast-fed infants — https://doi.org/10.1067/S0022-3476(03)00301-9 [00:21] Effects of iron supplementation of low-birth-weight infants on cognition and behavior at 7 years: a randomized controlled trial — https://doi.org/10.1038/pr.2017.235 [00:22] Randomised study of cognitive effects of iron supplementation in non-anaemic iron-deficient adolescent girls — https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(96)02341-0 [00:22] Iron treatment normalizes cognitive functioning in young women — https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcn/85.3.778 [00:24] The Efficacy and Safety of Vitamin C for Iron Supplementation in Adult Patients With Iron Deficiency Anemia: A Randomized Clinical Trial — https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.23644 [00:24] Iron absorption from legumes in humans — https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcn/40.1.42 [00:25] Comparison of vitamin D2 and vitamin D3 supplementation in raising serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D status: a systematic review and meta-analysis — https://doi.org/10.3945/ajcn.111.031070 [00:32] Midbrain circuits for defensive behaviour — https://doi.org/10.1038/nature17996 [00:33] The effects of harvest on arable wood mice Apodemus sylvaticus — https://doi.org/10.1016/0006-3207(93)90060-E [00:35] Field Deaths in Plant Agriculture — https://philarchive.org/archive/FISFDI [00:36] Key messages | Global Symposium on Soil Erosion — https://www.fao.org/about/meetings/soil-erosion-symposium/key-messages/en/ [00:37] Changes in USDA food composition data for 43 garden crops, 1950 to 1999 — https://doi.org/10.1080/07315724.2004.10719409 [00:38] Livestock: On our plates or eating at our table? A new analysis of the feed/food debate — https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2017.01.001 [00:40] A Global Assessment of the Water Footprint of Farm Animal Products — https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-011-9517-8 [00:41] Pesticides use, pesticides trade and pesticides indicators: Global, regional and country trends, 1990-2020 — https://openknowledge.fao.org/bitstreams/78705276-3455-4c70-ac77-3082095f83b3/download [00:43] The Effect of Glyphosate on Potential Pathogens and Beneficial Members of Poultry Microbiota In Vitro — https://doi.org/10.1007/s00284-012-0277-2 [00:43] Glyphosate suppresses the antagonistic effect of Enterococcus spp. on Clostridium botulinum — https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anaerobe.2013.01.005 [00:44] Detection of Glyphosate Residues in Animals and Humans — https://doi.org/10.4172/2161-0525.1000210 ::: ::: spoiler Logical fallacies called out in the talk [01:45] False premise — plant foods contain usable B12. [03:48] Euphemism / hidden premise — “well-balanced vegan diet” hides mandatory supplementation. [06:21] Correlation-causation fallacy — observational association used as proof of causation. [07:25] False precision — food-frequency questionnaires treated as reliable dietary evidence. [08:07] Confounding error — hamburger outcomes blamed on meat while fries, soda, and lifestyle variables remain mixed in. [08:34] Healthy-user bias — meat avoidance confused with better outcomes from broader health-conscious behavior. [09:56] Garbage-in, garbage-out — systematic reviews treated as strong even when included studies are weak. [10:28] Surrogate-marker fallacy — LDL used as a substitute for meaningful outcomes such as mortality. [11:48] Weak-evidence overreach — red meat treated as causing bowel cancer from weak observational evidence. [13:12] Animal-model overreach — carcinogen-injected rat experiments used as evidence against normal human red-meat consumption. [15:04] Citation laundering — weak WHO/IARC evidence reused by EAT-Lancet as if it were settled proof. [16:19] Image/implication fallacy — “plant-based = brain healthy” messaging despite nutrient risks to brain development. [17:16] Nutrient-equivalence fallacy — plant ALA treated as equivalent to animal DHA/EPA. [24:29] Rescue fallacy — vitamin C assumed to fix poor non-heme iron absorption. [24:04] Nutrient-amount fallacy — plant iron counted without accounting for bioavailability. [25:00] Form-equivalence fallacy — plant vitamin A/D forms treated as equivalent to animal retinol/D3. [26:00] Whole-food absorption fallacy — plant nutrients treated as available while antinutrients block absorption. [28:03] Argument from missing data — beef treated as vitamin-C-free because USDA values listed zero without measuring it. [30:33] Meat-scurvy myth — meat-heavy diets treated as causing scurvy. [30:43] Evolutionary falsehood — humans treated as not evolved to eat meat. [31:04] Ad hoc rescue — pre-agricultural humans supposedly got B12 from accidental soil/manure ingestion. [31:19] Cherry-picked anatomy / false comparison — comparative-anatomy tables used to make humans look herbivorous. [32:25] Death-free diet fallacy — vegan diets treated as good for animals while crop deaths are omitted. [33:05] Evasion-by-agility fallacy — mice assumed to escape harvesters because they are agile. [35:00] Intentions-over-consequences fallacy — lack of intent treated as reduced responsibility for crop deaths. [38:43] Land-use equivocation — livestock land use treated as croppable land use. [40:06] False trend — livestock land use treated as increasing. [40:22] Water-use equivocation — livestock “water use” treated as blue freshwater depletion while mostly green rainwater is counted. ::: [03:48] “The phrase ‘well-balanced’ is really code for ‘needs supplementing.’” [05:18] “How can a vegan diet possibly be the healthiest diet for humankind when, without artificial supplementation, it will eventually kill you?” [19:25] “To anyone with a child on a plant-based diet, please give them a good quality DHA supplement, not flaxseed oil.” [45:58] “Finally, understand there is no such thing as a diet for which nothing has died.”

FLOSS communities right now

Discord is a fucking plague. I loathe it for communities. As soon as there are more than 10 people in a room, no one can follow what anyone is saying. Threads? No dude, this isn’t the 90s! Let’s slack it up!!! 🤮

Bird flu detected in raw milk sold in California, health officials say

Why do plagues surface every time Donald takes office? Strange that Christians ignore these signs.

Bulletins and News Discussion from September 4th to September 10th, 2023 - You Have Nothing To Lose But Your Supply Chains - COTW: Libya

Relevant to both current events and our COTW, here’s somebody in the Western media who does not have goldfish brain, an extremely remarkable achievement. Niger’s crisis began in Libya The events in Niger over the past few months have been alarming to watch. What began as a military coup now risks spiraling into a wider war in West Africa, with a group of juntas lining up to fight against a regional force threatening to invade and restore democratic rule in Niamey. The junta have explicitly justified their coup as a response to the “continuous deterioration of the security situation” plaguing Niger and complained that it and other countries in the Sahel “have been dealing for over 10 years with the negative socioeconomic, security, political and humanitarian consequences of NATO’s hazardous adventure in Libya.” Even ordinary Nigeriens backing the junta have done the same. The episode thus reminds us of an iron rule of foreign interference: Even military interventions considered successful at the time have unintended effects that cascade long after the missions formally end. The 2011 Libyan adventure saw the U.S., French and British governments launch an initially limited humanitarian intervention to protect civilians that quickly morphed into a regime change operation, unleashing a torrent of violence and extremism across the region. There was little dissent at the time. As Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s forces battled anti-government rebels, politicians, the press and anti-Gaddafi Libyans painted an overly simplistic picture of unarmed protesters and other civilians facing imminent if not already unfolding genocide. Only years later would a UK House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee report publicly determine, echoing the conclusions of other post-mortems, that charges of an impending civilian massacre were “not supported by the available evidence” and that “the threat to civilians was overstated and that the rebels included a significant Islamist element” that carried out numerous atrocities of its own. Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.), Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), and John Kerry (D-Mass.) all called for a no-fly zone. “I love the military … but they always seem to find reasons why you can’t do something rather than why you can,” complained McCain. The American Enterprise Institute’s Danielle Pletka said it would be “an important humanitarian step.” The now-defunct Foreign Policy Initiative (FPI) think tank gathered a who’s who of neoconservatives to repeatedly urge the same. In a letter to then-President Barack Obama, they quoted back Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize speech in which he argued that “inaction tears at our conscience and can lead to more costly intervention later.” Then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, reportedly instrumental in persuading Obama to act, was herself swayed by similar arguments. Friend and unofficial adviser Sidney Blumenthal assured her that, once Gaddafi fell, “limited but targeted military support from the West combined with an identifiable rebellion” could become a new model for toppling Middle Eastern dictators. Pointing to the similar, deteriorating situation in Syria, Blumenthal claimed that “the most important event that could alter the Syrian equation would be the fall of Gaddafi, providing an example of a successful rebellion.” (Despite Gaddafi’s ouster, the Syrian civil war continues to this day, and its leader Bashar al-Assad is still in power). Likewise, columnist Anne-Marie Slaughter urged Clinton to think of Kosovo and Rwanda, where “even a small deployment could have stopped the killing,” and insisted U.S. intervention would “change the image of the United States overnight.” … Despite grave and often-stated reservations, Obama and NATO got UN authorization for a no-fly zone. Clinton was privately showered with email congratulations, not just from Blumenthal and Slaughter (“bravo!”; “No-fly! Brava! You did it!”), but even from then-Bloomberg View Executive Editor James Rubin (“your efforts … will be long remembered”). NATO’s undefined war aims quickly shifted, and officials spoke out of both sides of their mouths. Some insisted the goal wasn’t regime change, while others said Gaddafi “needs to go.” It took less than three weeks for FPI Executive Director Jamie Fly, the organizer of the neocons’ letter to Obama, to go from insisting it would be a “limited intervention” that wouldn’t involve regime change, to professing “I don’t see how we can get ourselves out of this without Gaddafi going.” After only a month, Obama and NATO allies publicly pronounced they would stay the course until Gaddafi was gone, rejecting the negotiated exit put forward by the African Union. “There is no mission creep,” NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen insisted two months later. Four months after that, Gaddafi was dead — captured, tortured and killed thanks in large part to a NATO airstrike on the convoy he was traveling in. The episode was considered a triumph. “We came, we saw, he died,” Clinton joked to a reporter upon hearing the news. Analysts talked about the credit owed to Obama for the “success.” “As Operation Unified Protector comes to a close, the alliance and its partners can look back at an extraordinary job, well done,” wrote then-U.S. Permanent Representative to NATO Ivo Daalder and then-Supreme Allied Commander in Europe James Stavridis in October 2011. “Most of all, they can see in the gratitude of the Libyan people that the use of limited force — precisely applied — can affect real, positive political change.” That same month, Clinton traveled to Tripoli and declared “Libya’s victory” as she flashed a peace sign. … “Libya has given [the mandate of ‘responsibility to protect’] a bad name,” complained Indian UN Ambassador Hardeep Singh Puri, echoing the sentiments of other diplomats angry that a UN mandate for protecting civilians had been stretched to regime change. It soon became clear why. Gaddafi’s toppling not only led hundreds of Tuareg mercenaries under his employ to return to nearby Mali but also caused an exodus of weapons from the country, leading Tuareg separatists to team up with jihadist groups and launch an armed rebellion in the country. Soon, that violence triggered its own coup and a separate French military intervention in Mali, which quickly became a sprawling Sahel-wide mission that only ended nine years later with the situation, by some accounts, worse than it started. According to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, the majority of the more than 400,000 refugees in the Central Sahel were there because of the violence in Mali. Mali was far from alone. Thanks to its plentiful and unsecured weapons depots, Libya became what UK intelligence labeled the “Tesco” of illegal arms trafficking, referring to the British supermarket chain. Gaddafi’s ouster “opened the floodgates for widespread extremist mayhem” across the Sahel region, retired Senior Foreign Service officer Mark Wentling wrote in 2020, with Libyan arms traced to criminals and terrorists in Niger, Tunisia, Syria, Algeria and Gaza, including not just firearms but also heavy weaponry like antiaircraft guns and surface-to-air missiles. By last year, extremism and violence was rife throughout the region, thousands of civilians had been killed and 2.5 million people had been displaced. Things are scarcely better in “liberated” Libya today. The resulting power vacuum produced exactly what Iraq War critics predicted: a protracted (and forever close-to-reigniting) civil war involving rival governments, neighboring states using them as proxies, hundreds of militias and violent jihadists. Those included the Islamic State, one of several extremist groups that made real Clinton’s pre-intervention fear of Libya “becoming a giant Somalia.” By the 2020 ceasefire, hundreds of civilians had been killed in Libya, nearly 900,000 needed humanitarian assistance, half of them women and children, and the country had become a lucrative hotspot for slave trading. Today, Libyans are unambiguously worse off than before NATO intervention. Ranked 53rd in the world and first in Africa by the 2010 UN Human Development Index, the country had dropped fifty places by 2019. Everything from GDP per capita and the number of fully functioning health care facilities to access to clean water and electricity sharply declined. Far from improving U.S. standing in the Middle East, most of the Arab world opposed the NATO operation by early 2012. Only five years later, Clinton, once eager to claim credit, distanced herself from the decision to intervene. “It didn’t work,” Obama admitted bluntly as he prepared to leave office, publicly deeming the country “a mess” and, privately, “a shit show.” The New York Timescollected the damning verdicts of those involved: “We made it worse”; “Gaddafi is laughing at all of us from his grave”; “by God, if we can’t succeed here, it should really make one think about embarking on these kind of efforts.” IT WAS NEVER ABOUT HELPING! YOU OPPOSED QADDAFI BECAUSE HE OPPOSED YOUR IMPERIALISM! YOU SUPPORT ACTUAL DICTATORS ALL OVER THE WORLD WHO CREATE APPALING CONDITIONS FOR THEIR PEOPLE! LIBYA WAS THE RICHEST COUNTRY IN AFRICA AT ONE POINT! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

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Random daily meme n°6

Trees don’t actually produce a lot of oxygen, at least not in aggregate. That’s because for every ton of biomass the worlds forests gain through trees growing, you get an equal or larger amount of biomass disappearing through rotting or burning, which… releases CO2 and consumes O2. Only if tree cover as a whole grows can trees in aggregate actually increase atmospheric oxygen and decrease atmospheric CO2. Unfortunately, that hasn’t happened in centuries, maybe millenia if you discard some minor short-lived recovery periods after major reductions in human population after, for example, Gengis Khan’s conquests in the 13th century, the black plague in Europe in the 14th century or the extinction 90+% of North America’s native population by Eurasian diseases in the 16th century.

King Bazinga presents some poetry about how we actually need Supply-Side Cultural Christianity.

Between plague and war and the world on fire he dusts off the playbook for a failing Empire: “Hide your dying system’s inhumanity with a brand new, hate-filled, Christianity!” See, rhyming’s easy you arrogant shit Now do what’s right and get in the

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Siargao cafe Instagram account deleted after hate crime exposé

“This assault represents a new and unacceptable level of aggression against the people of this island.” By Elisha Beatrice UmaliBulatlat.com LAGUNA – Siargao-based cafe Cartoon Cafe’s Instagram account was deleted on June 11, following the posting of CCTV footage of an assault on the cafe owners perpetrated by alleged Israelis. The CCTV footage, along with their full statement, was cross-posted in Facebook and Instagram. The Instagram post was taken down hours later, said Luz Fernandez Ayala (not their real name) in an interview with Bulatlat. Ayala is a close friend directly in contact with the Cartoon Cafe owners. It was the first time the owners posted the video and their full statement. “After exposing the assault on Instagram and gaining more than 100,000 views and outrage, Instagram simply DELETED our profile,” the cafe stated in a Facebook post. They also encouraged netizens to follow their newly-made Instagram account. Screenshot from social media platform Instagram taking down Cartoon Cafe Siargao (@cartoonsiargao)’s profile after posting the CCTV footage. Photo courtesy of Cartoon Cafe Siargao. The 90-second video, captured by a hidden camera inside the cafe, caught two unidentified men breaking into the cafe while beating the husband-and-wife cafe owners. The said attack happened in the early morning of May 11. Moments before the attack, the assailants took down and stole one of the cafe’s CCTV cameras. They also threw rocks on the cafe window before assaulting the owners. The cafe management referred to the attack as a “hate crime against the family running Cartoon Cafe on Siargao Island.” One of the owners– a Filipina Lumad– sustained severe facial injuries due to “Israeli-induced” trauma by fists and a wooden club. According to the public statement on the cafe’s website, two anonymous witnesses testified they heard the perpetrators speak Hebrew while on the run after the assault. “We can hear in the videos that the attackers were speaking to one another and shouting at the victims as well. It was verified by reliable sources that they were speaking in Hebrew,” said Ayala. They added that General Luna Siargao local police immediately dismissed rumors that Israelis were behind the assault. Cartoon Cafe initially refrained from posting the footage and their statement to not impede criminal investigations. However, the management was prompted to publicize the details due to speculations and public defamation online. Among these is a Zionist influencer calling one of the owners– a German national outspoken about the Israeli occupation of Palestine– a neo-nazi. “Several members of our community in Siargao have also been dangerously branded as nazis or antisemites just for standing up for Siargao and/or speaking up about Palestine,” said Ayala. Based on the cafe’s statement, the attack was likely linked to an incident a week before when an “Israeli” couple stole a Palestinian flag hung on the cafe’s exterior. This flag was installed at the front of the cafe to deter Israeli tourists showing “repeated disrespect toward the [cafe’s] employees and owners.” Facial swelling and injuries of the Filipina Lumad owner of Cartoon Cafe Siargao from the May 11, 2026 assault. Photo courtesy of Cartoon Cafe Siargao. This theft was also caught on video and posted on social media, urging Siarganons to call for an investigation of the incident. Israel Ambassador to the Philippines Dana Kursh told Siargao locals to not politicize Israeli and Israel Defense Forces (IDF) veteran harassment in the island via an online meeting on May 13 during her visit to Siargao island. Prior to this, the local government of Siargao called for a town hall meeting on May 12. Cartoon Cafe owners and other community members attended the said meeting but Kursh was notably absent. Read: Envoy flexes military background amid reports of abuses by Israelis in Siargao As of writing, the case remains “under investigation” a month after the assault. The Siargao local government unit along with the national government have not yet provided concrete steps in addressing the growing local dissent on Israelis. Cartoon Cafe, via their full public statement, aims to amplify the calls for government action on the increased population of Israelis on the island. “This assault represents a new and unacceptable level of aggression against the people of this island. Nothing justifies such vile behavior,” their statement read. “Please save Siargao. Because today, it’s Siargao. Tomorrow, it’s Manila and the whole country,” stressed Ayala in an interview with Bulatlat. “We call on the national government to work on banning Israeli nationals from our country with utmost urgency.” (DAA) Author’s note: The real name of the person interviewed was withheld due to serious threats to safety and security. The post Siargao cafe Instagram account deleted after hate crime exposé appeared first on Bulatlat. From Bulatlat via This RSS Feed.

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Senedd candidate in Nazi salute photo row now Reform special adviser

Reform Senedd candidate Corey Edwards, who stepped down from the election after a photo emerged of him doing a Nazi salute, is now, apparently, the special adviser for the far-right party’s Welsh leader. Mere hours after Reform announcedhim as a candidate for Bridgend and Vale of Glamorgan, a photo of Edwards performing a Nazi salute (complete with a finger in place of a Hitler-style moustache) came to light. The picture was reportedly taken more than six years ago. Edwards ‘apologised’ publicly but also tried to play it down as a joke. He even attempted a feeble swipe at anti-Zionist protests. My dear grandfather fought against the Nazis and his brother-in-law was a prisoner of war. I’m a staunch champion of Judaism, and it sickens me to see the recent openly anti-semitic marches on the streets of Britain. Utterly shameless. He fits right in with the Reform lot. Senedd collagues volunteer to be bullied instead Fortunately, party leader, Nigel Farage, is (allegedly) no stranger to the occasional youthful Nazi salute-and-heil. He merely stated that he “wouldn’t approve of it”, but he wouldn’t kick Edwards out of the party. However, in what was hopefully a relief for the people of Bridgend, Edwards ducked out of his own accord. A Reform UK Wales spokesperson said: Corey Edwards has informed us that he is stepping down as a candidate for the Senedd election this May, citing issues with his mental health. We wish him well for the future and hope his privacy can be respected at this difficult time. The party also said it would provide mental health support to the poor wee racist. However, now it seems the promised mental health support has taken the form of a shiny new job as a special adviser for Reform’s Senedd leader, Dan Thomas. Fellow Reform Senedd appointee Llŷr Powell rushed to Edward’s defence, arguing that he would rather people focus their criticisms on him than staff behind the scenes. I’m big enough, with my shoulders open, so is Dan Thomas. I think leave staff alone. I don’t like this bullying culture that is here in Cardiff Bay. I’m not prepared to stand for it. If the media and other critics want to carry on, fine. You know what, that’s awfully big of Powell, and we’ll gladly take him up on it. Richard Gurner, editor of the Caerphilly Observer, personally credited Powell with tanking Reform’s chances at dominating Wales. As part of a BBCdebate, a member of the public charged Powell and his party with making her mixed-race family feel unwelcome in the area. This, according to Gurner, was “the line in the sand” for his community. Plaid Cymru went on to beat Reform 43 seats to 34, helped along by Powell being a desperately uncharismatic, racist tosser. ‘Reform have shown their true colours’ Speaking of Plaid Cymru, the victorious Welsh party had words to say about Edward’s appointment: Once again, Reform have shown their true colours. It’s no wonder the people of Wales decidedly chose hope with Plaid Cymru over Reform’s division. Likewise, a spokesperson for Welsh Labour also chimed in, stating that their far-right counterparts “haven’t learned their lesson and their values do not align with the people of Wales”. Reform UK didn’t have the decency to deem Corey Edwards unfit to be a candidate. He stepped back himself after the truth came out. Now they think he is fit to advise their leader in Wales. Of course, it’s hardly surprising that Reform has given a racist dropout a cushy new job. Back in April, the Canary reported that suspended bigot Adam Mitula had continued working as an election agent for Reform’s Matt Goodwin. Hell, the party even deployed him in a public-facing campaign role. If Edwards tosses in a few racist social media rants, Reform might even let him run for election again next time. A history of vile posts is virtually the party’s only selection criterion at this point. Featured image via the Canary By Alex/Rose Cocker From Canary via This RSS Feed.

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Trump Loyalist Ken Paxton—Dubbed 'Most Corrupt Politician in America'—Wins Texas Senate Primary

Ken Paxton, the scandal-plagued Texas attorney general backed by President Donald Trump, handily won a Republican US Senate primary runoff on Tuesday, ousting incumbent Sen. John Cornyn and setting up a critical race with Democratic nominee James Talarico—who wasted no time blasting Paxton’s long record of self-dealing. “Ken Paxton embodies the broken political system that we’re running against,” Talarico, a Texas state representative, said in an MS NOW appearance following Paxton’s victory. “He is the most corrupt politician in America. Three years ago tomorrow, he was impeached by his own party for using his public office, his position of public trust, to enrich himself and his donors at our expense.” Talarico highlighted that Paxton has been indicted on securities fraud charges and said he “has shown over and over again that he’s only concerned about himself.” “And that is exactly the problem in our politics,” said the Democratic candidate. “It’s puppet politicians who serve themselves and their billionaire megadonors instead of serving us. It’s why we can’t afford anything. It’s why we can’t get ahead no matter how hard we work. The system is rigged by corrupt politicians like Ken Paxton. And so it’s going to be all of us. It’s going to be Democrats, independents, and Republicans. It’s going to be urban Texans, rural Texans, suburban Texans. It’s going to be all of us coming together, the people versus Ken Paxton.” Ken Paxton is the most corrupt politician in America. He embodies the broken system we’re running against. It’s time to come together: The People vs. Ken Paxton pic.twitter.com/xL3cckibX9 — James Talarico (@jamestalarico) May 27, 2026 US Rep. Greg Casar (D-Texas), the chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, echoed Talarico, dubbing Paxton “the most corrupt politician in America” and adding, “Calling Ken Paxton just a crook is like calling Texas summers a little bit warm.” “The guy makes Richard Nixon look like a Boy Scout,” said Casar. “We cannot allow him to become a United States Senator.” The Texas Tribune noted in its coverage of the primary outcome that Paxton is “known for his checkered history of personal ethics and legal troubles: He was once indicted for felony securities fraud (charges that were later dropped) and impeached by the GOP-controlled Texas House for corruption and abuse of office (and acquitted by the Republican majority in the Senate). And he has come under fire for alleged infidelity and an accumulation of assets during his time in office.” A Wall Street Journal report published last year detailed how Paxton “went from being a middle-class lawyer to a multimillionaire during his two decades on a public official’s salary.” “Paxton, who entered state government in 2003 with a modest income and few assets, by 2018 told a lender he had amassed a net worth of about $5.5 million, not including millions in assets he and his wife had previously moved into a blind trust,” the Journal reported. “The following year, Paxton reaped an additional $2.2 million gain—never previously disclosed—from his investment in a local company with a lucrative Texas state contract.” Talarico—who, if victorious in November, could be a decisive factor in helping Democrats retake control of the US Senate—said in his television appearance late Tuesday that Paxton “owns 11 homes while we can’t afford one.” “Ken Paxton’s net worth went up by 7,000% while our pay has been stagnant,” he added. “This is not just about Ken Paxton—it’s about the corrupt system that he embodies, that he represents. If we can defeat the most corrupt politician in America in this year, in this race, in this state, then we can defeat this entire corrupt system.” From Common Dreams via This RSS Feed.

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Ben-Gvir Accidentally Exposed the Truth About Israel

After startling images showed peaceful, humanitarian activists who had attempted to deliver aid to Gaza arriving back in Istanbul on stretchers late last week, stories have continued to emerge over the weekend of systematic beatings, torture and rape in Israeli detention. If you’re on day three of a bank holiday bender, you might not have heard the harrowing testimonies yet, but if you’ve been at least semi-online, you almost certainly will have done. That’s because something shocking and unprecedented has happened. No, I’m not talking about Israel – a genocidal entity where prison guards routinely rape Palestinian detainees with dogs and soldiers gun down five-year-old kids and the paramedics who try to save them – displaying utter depravity. I’m talking about the rest of the world suddenly, at least temporarily, actually seeming to give a shit. “Outrage grows,” the Guardian reported in a live blog last week, where it explained that Israeli national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir had sparked a “diplomatic crisis” by sharing footage of soldiers severely mistreating detained activists, as he personally gloated over their kneeling, bound bodies. British foreign secretary Yvette Cooper – not usually a champion of direct actionists or their basic human rights – quickly condemned Ben-Gvir’s behaviour, while France and Poland banned him from entry. The mainstream media, too, suddenly snapped into gear, publishing dozens of stories of activists alleging abuse, when in the past it hasn’t really been interested. So what happened? And what changed? In all the testimony from activists describing “the roughest 72 hours of my life”, as one German man put it, the worst bit isn’t something someone says, it’s something someone can’t. After recounting the rest of her ordeal, an older French activist starts crying and ends the interview abruptly, unable to speak about the experience of hearing other women systematically sexually assaulted by Israeli prison guards. It’s hard to summarise the abuse activists say was meted out against them across three days last week, after 428 people were kidnapped in international waters near Cyprus last Tuesday. In dozens of interviews shared online, flotilla participants describe being told “welcome to Israel” by soldiers, and then by the national security minister himself, before being brutalised. One by one, people were taken away to a shipping container or tent, they say, where some were raped and all were beaten, while others outside had to listen to them screaming. Countless ribs were broken. People were shot at, attacked by dogs, photographed topless, denied water and injected against their will with unidentified drugs. Several activists remain in hospital in Turkey, one with a punctured lung, another with internal bleeding. Zeteo journalist Alex Colston, who was sailing for the second time, said the violence was “magnitudes worse” than when two flotillas were intercepted in October last year. “The guards were getting very obvious pleasure from hurting us as much as they possibly could,” he said. “We were tortured,” said Australian filmmaker Juliet Lamont. “They put so much water under me for an hour that I thought I was going to drown. I was sexually assaulted in this kind of torture chamber… five men were bashing me and smashing my face.” Thanks to Ben-Gvir – who visited detainees shortly after they arrived at Ashdod port, filmed their abuse, and shared it online – we now have graphic footage to prove much of what flotilla activists are saying. And it seems to have made all the difference. Because while this mission clearly saw a marked escalation in violence, some people who sailed in October were raped and beaten then, too. As shocking as it is, nothing that Israel did this time was really surprising. Four flotillas were intercepted in 2025, and Israel’s response escalated from taking pictures of Greta Thunberg being given sandwiches back in June, to badly beating labour organiser Chris Smalls in July, to cable-tying activists’ hands behind their backs and forcing them to kneel on the ground for five hours in October, and then to shackling journalist Noa Avishag Schnall by her wrists and ankles and beating her black and blue a week later. Britain and other governments received their citizens back with black eyes, a few broken bones, and, in some cases, serious trauma – and said nothing about it. Aside from coverage by Novara Media, Al Jazeera and Middle East Eye, which all sent journalists on board, the detention of 400 people in October barely made a ripple in the international media. If anything, October’s flotillas seemed only to illustrate Israel’s utter impunity. That is the tip of the iceberg of the same impunity that lets it hold more than 9,500 Palestinians – including at least 350 children – and around half without trial – in prisons where they are routinely tortured. Palestinians are beaten, raped and starved over weeks, months and years rather than just 72 hours, with at least 100 dying in two years as a result. Shortly after flotilla activists spent a brief few days in detention in autumn 2025, nearly 2,000 Palestinians were released from prison as part of a ceasefire deal. They staggered out gaunt and broken, some physically disabled by Israeli abuse. It is the same impunity that, beyond the prison system, has let Israel perpetuate a genocide, killing over 72,000 people – likely far more – and lets it continue to commit war crimes in Palestine and Lebanon. The problem Israel has now is that Ben-Gvir has shattered a pact it had long since established with the rest of the world. While clearly playing to a domestic audience (which says a lot about the Israeli public at present), he probably assumed that internationally, no one would care what he did to activists, as few had cared before. And so he shared footage that was a little too graphic, of Europeans being treated a little too much like we all know Israel treats Palestinians, in the shadows of deep desert torture prisons. In doing so, he made it that bit harder for Israel to deny what it is, and what it does, and harder for the world to agree to pretend not to see. On Thursday evening, all 400-plus participants were abruptly deported after the far-right minister’s videos spread. Unfortunately, the damage already done to their bodies has only made things worse for Israel. Amid a diplomatic crisis, prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has desperately sought to distance himself from the footage, saying “the way that minister Ben-Gvir dealt with the flotilla activists is not in line with Israel’s values and norms.” Israeli foreign minister Gideon Saar went further. “You knowingly caused harm to our state in this disgraceful display – and not for the first time,” he wrote to his colleague on X. “You are not the face of Israel.” Ben-Gvir has momentarily shattered the normal order. “Welcome to Israel,” he said, on camera, and showed us brutality. Watch the Israeli establishment now scramble to disown him – when his actions epitomise it entirely. From Novara Media via This RSS Feed.

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Its not the black death but the special “native american plague” which happens when europeans arrive in the new world and kills 90%+ of your population. We tried to advocate for higher native populations in general and a higher focus on european brutalization leading to high casualty rates but alas. They didnt even include the amazonian civilizations. Some modders, a paradox employee and me are currently working on a general new world overhaul mod.

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Bulletins and News Discussion from May 19th to May 25th, 2025 - The Beginning of the End of the Monroe Doctrine

BIG POST about Portugal’s elections on sunday. I wrote about the exit polls here but full results were even worse. So the incumbent center-right PSD which called elections on itself to avoid further questions into the PM’s private business ventures (which I wrote about here and here) won the election with 32% (+3% than last time), key takeaways are that people REALLY didn’t want to have elections 3 years in a row and also that no one cares that the PM’s family business gets money from companies that also deal with the state. Shockingly the center-left PS which had been in power for 9 years prior to 2024 basically tied for second place with the far-right CH, they both got 58 MPs and there are still 4 MPs to hand out, those belonging to the Europe and Out-of-Europe electoral districts, last years CH elected 1 MP from each of those districts while the PS only elected 1 from the Europe district, so it’s not inconceivable that the PS will be knocked down to 3rd place. This is unprecedented and the effects are still reverberating, the PS party leader, who’s strategy was rhetorically moving to the center while being perceived by most people as being from the left-wing of the party, already resigned and the main question surrounding the party now is if the new leader will give full support to the PSD government to avoid it having to seel support from the far right or if it will be in full opposition. Looking at the electoral map it’s easy to see what happened, while the PSD dominated the north of the country (which has always voted right wing), the PS was eaten apart in the center, south and interior by the CH. The CH also solidified itself into regions were the communist party used to be electorally strong. Key takeaway, it doesn’t matter if CH is riddled with criminals and scandals (here and here), anti-immigration and anti-migrant discourse has become VERY powerful in this country, so much that even the PSD and PS took it up in this election, with southeast asian and romani people being the key targets. On the left the results are also sobering, the europhile pro-war greens were the only party to grow, they increased by 1%, now becoming the largest to the left of the PS, the less said about these people the better, they are a plague on the european left, I wrote about the link above about the exit polls. Really it’s surprising that portugal lasted this long without, or rather that the PS could contain inside itself for this long, a europhile-green party in a country with such huge pro-eu sentiment. The communists did not manage to increase their vote share like people expected, in fact we lost 0.3% and around 20k votes (a lot of them due to people passing away most likely), which is less than what we lost last time, and this was despite running what was seen by pretty much everyone to be a better campaign than usual (what that really means is that the party leader did well in the interview/debate circuit). Nevertheless it wasn’t going to be easy to grow anyways and these are still tough times to be a communist publicly in the political sense, let’s hope that next time the factors that make it hard for people to vote for us aren’t as relevant, that is the ukraine war, overwhelmingly pro-eu sentiment among the population, racism (which shuts off people’s brains to proposals which materially benefit them) and the fact that it’s just not popular nowadays to identify yourself as a communist (this probably won’t change). But the results of the post-trot demsoc BE show it could’ve gone way worse for the communists. A big upset , and usually I would be celebrating this but not this time, is that the BE, which came into the scene in 2000 to dislodge the communist’s dominance over left politics and in 2019 was the 3rd most voted party, only got 2% and only elected the party leader as an MP…wow. And it’s very easy to see why, it’s not that young left-wing (sorta), socially liberal, eco-minded people aren’t voting anymore, the problem is that…those people REALLY fucking love the EU and probably felt trapped voting for a party that, unlike the pro-war greens, doesn’t wave around the EU flag in meetings, that has always been an anti-capitalist eurosceptic party and that says it only supports arming ukraine if it doesn’t “become a war business” (wat? the communists just outright oppose arms shipments btw). I don’t know what they’re gonna do now, there are a loft of big names and activists affiliated with the party, and in the hard left of the party the animosity towards the communist party over stuff that you’d expect from trotskyites means that they likely won’t want to enter the communist party’s coalition, but also the soft left of the party now knows that the greens are more viable electorally, it’s a fucked situation but a funny reversal that after years of discourse around the death of the communist party it’s the BE that’s on life support. Nauseatingly, the leader of the far-right congratulated himself by saying that he “surpassed the party of Mario Soares (founder of the PS), killed the party of Alvaro Cunhal (historic leader of the communist party) and swept the BE off the map”, that second claim isn’t true but the other two…damn. If I had to blame 1 single thing though is that the private news channels, where most people get their politics from, are completely dominated by right wing pundits, and much like Trump is beloved by media networks for drawing eyes to them, the mainstream media here ADORES Andre Ventura the leader of far-right, during the drama around his apparent health scare in the campaign trail (here the networks had fucking camera people stationed outside the hospital for hours waiting for the guy to get out, and everytime a CH guy farts they bring in pundits FROM THE PARTY to commentate on themselves. On one occasion one pundit was explaining how the rise of the far-right could be explained by the amount of media attention they’re given only to be interrupted by the anchor who had to cut to the hospital cameras because there were supposed to be updates only for it to turn out that there were no updates and cut back to the pundit to keep making his point The right now has a 2/3 majority to alter the constitution and if they can sort themselves out will probably remove the “towards a socialist society” from the preamble of the constitution which means portugal will no longer be an AES country 😦 (sorry Richard Wolff). That’s the very least, and the preamble is only simbolic anyway, further constitutional reforms about the welfare state are far more dangerous. Next are the local elections in september-october, these results don’t bode well for the communists who are usually the 3rd largest force in local elections, in 2021 we got 8%, especially in the south and interior where CH, who got 4%, just got a huge boost, but it’s not clear what that entails since plenty of people vote for the communists in local elections but not in the legislative elections. And in 2026 are presidential elections where the country is likely to elect a navy guy to be president (which I talked about here) Among leftists online I’m seeing plenty of hotheaded takes and a lot of hyperbole that could be premature (or could be presciently on point) so it’s probably going to take some time for people to settle down and have a clear view of what these results actually mean. Nevertheless that’s not a reason to stop fighting and it’s not good to feel down for too long, the struggle continues.

The effects of the intense blockade against Cuba are reflected in its economic growth and in the living conditions of its people

In recent weeks, the Trump administration has taken its hostility toward Cuba to an unprecedented critical point. While Secretary of State Marco Rubio rhetorically downplays the effects of the energy embargo—calling it “regime exaggeration”—the facts on the ground show a country mired in daily blackouts, paralyzed transportation, and a growing host of social problems. The US strategy combines three synchronized axes: increasing military pressure —drone overflights, naval deployment and belligerent statements—, an unprecedented judicial offensive —criminal charges against General Raúl Castro— and a public discourse that denies the intentionality of the humanitarian damage. Denial of the obvious to justify an assault Trump has escalated his threats to a “dangerous and unprecedented level,” according to Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel. The magnate has openly raised the possibility of “taking control of Cuba almost immediately,” linking this hypothetical action to the end of military operations in Iran. Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez , for his part, warned that a US military aggression would provoke “a true humanitarian catastrophe, a bloodbath.” However, Marco Rubio’s stance is particularly contradictory. While Havana presents concrete data on the electrical collapse—deficits of more than 2,000 megawatts and blackouts that leave more than 60% of the population without service at night—Rubio insists on characterizing the crisis as a “victim narrative” fabricated by the Cuban government. In a five-minute video, the high-ranking official, the son of Cuban immigrants, exonerated Washington from the severe electricity crisis plaguing the island. He stated that the Cuban government is “the reason” why some 8 million citizens are “forced to survive 22 hours a day without electricity.” “As you well know, you have been suffering from blackouts for years. The real reason you have no electricity, fuel, or food is because those who control your country have looted billions of dollars, but none of it has been used to help the people.” Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez harshly criticized him: “Rubio knows the energy blockade is real, but he lies for political gain,” adding that the Cuban-American “is the mouthpiece of corrupt and vindictive interests concentrated in South Florida, interests that do not represent the feelings of the majority of the American people, nor of the Cubans who live there.” President Díaz-Canel, for his part, accused Washington of “lying to justify aggression” and declared: “Army General Raúl Castro is Cuba, and Cuba must be respected.” Although sources indicate that Washington “does not foresee imminent military action,” suspicion intensifies with measures such as the indictment of Raúl Castro by the Department of Justice for the downing of planes in 1996. Siege data Sanctions are not an abstract concept. Since January 3, following the kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro, the United States has blocked all shipments of Venezuelan crude oil to Cuba—which represented 65% of the fuel consumed on the island—and extended extraterritorial secondary measures to punish any shipping company or country that attempts to fill that gap. The White House invoked the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to designate Cuba as an “unusual and extraordinary threat” in Executive Order 14404. This introduced far-reaching primary and secondary sanctions against anyone doing business in the local energy, defense and related materials, metals and mining, financial services, or security sectors. On May 13, Díaz-Canel announced the complete depletion of the Russian oil donated in March, which had been the only shipment received in four months. In response, the Cuban Minister of Energy and Mines, Vicente de la O Levy, stated that “we have absolutely no diesel,” and blackouts in Havana are lasting between 20 and 22 hours daily. The situation of the National Electric System (SEN) is “particularly tense,” with deficits exceeding 2,000 megawatts during peak hours, leaving more than 60% of the island without electricity at night. This crisis has a humanitarian dimension documented by the United Nations: it affects 5 million Cubans with chronic illnesses and compromises essential services such as hospitals and water supply systems. The economy has contracted by 15% between 2020 and 2025, and migration has increased as a consequence of shortages and the collapse of basic services. The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) forecasts that the island’s real GDP will contract by 6.5% in 2026, following a 3.8% drop in 2025. With the exception of 2020, the year the COVID-19 pandemic broke out, this is the worst contraction since the period 1990-1993. Despite this dire situation, the Cuban government vehemently rejects the “failed state” label promoted from abroad. Cuba is making progress in renewable energy alternatives through solar parks that have contributed 3,348 MWh, and aims to reach 15% clean energy this year. However, experts point out that the obsolescence of the thermoelectric infrastructure and the historical dependence on imports exacerbate the problem. Amid threats, dialogues, accusations, and reactions The escalating rhetoric is accompanied by tangible military movements that are generating strategic uncertainty. This week, Southern Command confirmed the arrival of the USS Nimitz carrier strike group in the Caribbean, comprised of nine air squadrons and support ships. Although Trump later denied that the deployment was intended to “intimidate the Cuban government,” regional security analysts interpret it as a deterrent in a context of hemispheric tensions. Simultaneously, military intelligence flights over the Cuban coast have increased, a practice that Havana denounces as a violation of its sovereign airspace. On the other hand, there are also discreet channels of dialogue that suggest a dual strategy. CIA Director John Ratcliffe met with Cuban officials in recent weeks. These contacts, while not resulting in any public agreements, indicate that both sides are maintaining lines of communication to manage crises and avoid unwanted escalations. Washington later offered $100 million in aid conditioned on “significant reforms to the communist system.” Havana stated its willingness to listen to and technically analyze the proposal, but stressed that real help consists of de-escalating and ending the energy blockade. A US ultimatum to release more than 700 “political prisoners” expired without an agreement, as Cuba warned that this issue "is not on the negotiating table . " The accusation against Castro appears to be a tool in the rapprochement, and the reactions from Havana reflect this. Díaz-Canel declared that “the United States is lying and manipulating the events surrounding the downing of the Brothers to the Rescue narco-terrorist organization’s planes in 1996,” an operation carried out by the Cuban military, which was headed by Castro as Minister of the Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR). He added that on that occasion, “there was no reckless action nor any violation of international law, unlike what U.S. military forces have been doing with their coldly calculated and openly publicized extrajudicial killings of civilian vessels in the Caribbean and the Pacific.” Domestically, in the United States, this polarization is reflected in the legislative debate: Democratic Congressman Greg Casar warned a few days ago that “we cannot allow Donald Trump to start a war against Cuba… he is leaving hospitals without electricity and condemning innocent people to hunger.” The Senate passed a resolution on Tuesday, May 19, to restrict President Donald Trump’s powers and prevent him from restarting his military aggression against Iran. The initiative was approved with 50 votes in favor and 47 against. This reflects divisions over the limits of executive power in foreign policy. International reactions add another layer of complexity. China and Russia have publicly rejected the renewed US pressure against Cuba. In a statement on May 21, the Chinese Foreign Ministry affirmed : “We will not tolerate interference in the internal affairs of sovereign states.” For its part, Moscow described the energy blockade as “a cynical embodiment of the resurrected Monroe Doctrine.” These positions could limit Washington’s room for maneuver in multilateral forums, which does not effectively stop US attacks, as is evident. Questions in the smoke Several geopolitical analysts agree that the sudden escalation against Cuba stems from the White House’s need to divert national and international attention from the growing military impasse in Iran. While the war against Tehran intensifies with significant losses and logistical strain that is beginning to generate internal criticism within the Pentagon, Trump is using the traditional “communist threat in the Caribbean” as an effective tool for emotionally mobilizing his electoral base. The manufactured energy crisis in Cuba and the exaggerated warnings of intervention would thus serve as a media smokescreen to conceal tactical failures in West Asia and the lack of a clear exit strategy on that front. A “redemption” is being proposed through a supposed quick and low-cost victory in Cuba, even though the reality on the ground in both scenarios is far removed from these triumphalist pronouncements. The central question remains: Can maximum pressure achieve political change without precipitating a humanitarian crisis with regional repercussions? Historical experience suggests that unilateral sanctions rarely produce democratic transitions, but rather exacerbate the suffering of vulnerable populations. In a hemisphere marked by mass migration and climate vulnerability, such a crisis could generate additional migration flows toward the United States, contradicting the stated objectives of regional stability. Another question is whether external pressure will prevail over the internal cohesion that has characterized the Cuban revolution for six decades. Cuba’s historical resilience, the support of allies like Russia and China, and the lack of internal consensus in the United States regarding military intervention reduce the likelihood of forced change. For now, the Cuban people endure a crisis induced by a policy that pretends to ignore its own consequences. The margin for a peaceful solution narrows every day, and the answers to these dilemmas will define Cuba’s future and confirm the expected negative effects of the US strategy in the hemisphere. Source -> https://misionverdad.com/globalistan/donde-esta-la-linea-roja-en-el-asedio-cuba

What is Bending Spoons? The little-known firm behind Vimeo's sweeping layoffs

Bending spoons are a bunch of no-talent hyper capitalist private equity fuckwits whose core competence involves acquiring companies and cutting any novel, interesting, or long term projects that require any investment whatsoever to the bone, regardless of whether or not said cuts destroy long-term core competencies, and then extracting as much value as possible from the remains until it goes tits up. They are a plague of a company, and they’ve sucked the life out of more than a few companies that don’t deserve to have been parasitized like that. This fluff article is comically obvious, disingenuous, and gross. They are a bad company, and they provide no real value to anyone except their shareholders. Which, I guess, makes them “successful” in this day and age. Source: worked at a company they acquired. Left before the acquisition, but I had some good friends who were still there when it happened. They cut upwards of 90% of the staff, hollowed out the parts of the business that, while less profitable, was by far the most interesting and challenging technical domain and enabled novel R&D, and converted from primarily B2B to a direct-to-consumer subscription model that completely flopped.

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