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atro_city , to world in Hindu homes, temples targeted in Bangladesh after Hasina ouster, minority group says

From one repression to the next -_-

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velox_vulnus , to worldnews in Hindu homes, temples targeted in Bangladesh after Hasina ouster, minority group says

Well, with the BNP winning the next election (and they will), Bangladesh will be joining in with other ultra-orthodox, religious extremist countries. To deface the statue of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, that’s a new low.

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mlg , to world in Nine UNRWA staff may have been involved in Oct. 7 attack on Israel, says UN
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UNWRA said in March that some employees released into Gaza from Israeli detention reported having been pressured by Israeli authorities into falsely stating that the agency has Hamas links and that staff took part in the Oct. 7 attacks.

davel , to worldnews in US personnel wounded in attack against base in Iraq, officials say
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Maybe they shouldn’t be in Iraq. Or Syria. Or Israel.

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girlfreddy OP , to world in Farmers attack Indigenous people reclaiming land in Brazil
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As always, ACAB.

Waveform ,

I’m probably blind, but I can’t find where the police were at fault this time. It said the cops failed to stop the farmers… maybe it’s similar to the Israeli military/settler dynamic?

girlfreddy OP ,
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The cops failed to stop the farmers. That’s the problem.

Waveform ,

I’m not sure anything short of a large, sympathetic militia and/or military intervention was going to help, since the farmers had armed men.

That said, who else but cops would be using rubber bullets? Seems suspicious… maybe the cops didn’t just fail to stop the farmers after all.

Just trying to look at the thing from every angle.

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CanadaPlus , (edited ) to world in Nine UNRWA staff may have been involved in Oct. 7 attack on Israel, says UN

Cool. Now what proportion of Israeli NGO workers were somehow, someway involved in the various atrocities that came next?

Streamwave OP ,
CanadaPlus ,

That makes us even then.

p5yk0t1km1r4ge , to world in Exclusive: US personnel hurt in attack against base in Iraq, officials say
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I gave this a brief glance and thought it said

“Exclusive: US personnel hurt in attack against bees” and I was very confused

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daniyeg , to world in Nine UNRWA staff may have been involved in Oct. 7 attack on Israel, says UN

from the article:

Israel stepped up its accusations in March, saying over 450 UNRWA staff were military operatives in Gaza terrorist groups. UNRWA employs 32,000 people across its area of operations, 13,000 of them in Gaza.

so according to the UN israel was off by a factor of 50, which would make UNRWA 9/13000 = 0.07% of a terrorist organization. since you seem like a zionist, if this is somehow gonna convince me to support israel’s bullshit claims about aid workers in gaza, lmao. lol even.

Streamwave OP ,

Per the article, they didn’t investigate all 350, the UN only investigated 19. Not really interested in that argument, though.

What do you mean when you say ‘Zionist’ about me? Specifically, what do you mean by that word?

daniyeg ,

they did a investigation which discovered findings related to 19 people, one of whom was dismissed and the other 9 were deemed insufficient. it doesn’t mean they only investigated 19 people and found 9, it means out of all the allegations only 19 could even be reasonably investigated, and they decided to terminate 9 people.

and by Zionist i meant a supporter of state of Israel (which you seem highly engaged in covering for them) regardless of ideology and politics. this is the most common use of the word by self identified (most of whom are evangelical christians and are zionists for very anti-semetic reasons) and the general public. stop baiting people into the gotcha “anti-semetic” debate bullshit you disingenuous fuck.

I won’t respond to anything you say because new account posting lie after lie doesn’t seem genuine, so go nuts in the replies.

Streamwave OP ,

Oh god. I knew it would be this sort of low-IQ shit when I saw your @lemmy.ml address.

they did a investigation which discovered findings related to 19 people, one of whom was dismissed and the other 9 were deemed insufficient. it doesn’t mean they only investigated 19 people and found 9, it means out of all the allegations only 19 could even be reasonably investigated, and they decided to terminate 9 people.

They investigated 19 people and found 12 of them were so highly plausibly involved in the October 7th Holocaust, even by the UN’s ridiculous standards which always try to absolve themselves, that they have already fired them. That’s it. They’re already fired by the UN because of the evidence they uncovered. They’ve already been fired for it.

and by Zionist i meant a supporter of state of Israel (which you seem highly engaged in covering for them) regardless of ideology and politics

OK, so the idea here appears to be that Israel is unique among all the nations of the world in that it only has a right to exist insofar as one can individually and subjectively support their government. Have I misread this?

this is the most common use of the word by self identified (most of whom are evangelical christians and are zionists for very anti-semetic reasons) and the general public

This isn’t true, you just watched it on a YouTube video.

Here’s an example: I’m a Zionist because I believe the Jewish people have a right to national self-determination in their ethnic and religious homeland.

Anti-Zionists therefore presumably believe that the Jews have no such right, and therefore their state – uniquely among all the states on the planet, from the United States to Australia – must be destroyed and abolished.

Which bit of that is ‘incorrect’ in your view, assuming you’re willing/able to activate some element of your prefrontal cortex in responding?

stop baiting people into the gotcha “anti-semetic” debate bullshit you disingenuous fuck.

I haven’t baited anything. I wanted to know what you meant when you labelled me as a “Zionist”, in your own word(s).

Nothing you’ve said has convinced me that you wouldn’t have been piling up ‘Pro-Zionist’ books on the bonfires of Berlin in 1939.

Streamwave OP ,

What do you think ‘Zionist’ means?

TokenBoomer , to world in Nine UNRWA staff may have been involved in Oct. 7 attack on Israel, says UN

🇺🇳 The UN has a right to defend itself.

Streamwave OP ,

(The UN does not, in fact, have a ‘right to defend itself’, nor to slaughter Jews in brutal pogroms, nor to teach generations of children that the greatest thing they can do with their lives is detonate a suicide vest in a crowd of Jewish civilians using the money of the international community)

TokenBoomer ,
Streamwave OP ,

Have you read the article?

You mean the plan accepted by the Jews and rejected by the Arabs, right before they launched a war which in the words of Haj Amin al-Husseini, Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and close friend of Adolf Hitler, they would “continue fighting until the Zionists were annihilated” and, in the words of one of the most senior leaders of Jerusalem, Jamal al-Husayni, that “the blood will flow like rivers in the Middle East”?

That’s the war you’re referring to re: “The UN’s right to defend itself”?

Because of course, it could have done at the time, and defended itself against the side that rejected the UN plan: the Arabs. And it didn’t.

So what’s your point here, if not spreading Jew-hatred?

TokenBoomer ,

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  • Streamwave OP ,

    Ah, okay. So you made a laughable claim, I corrected you on it, and you’ve pivoted into personal insults.

    Great. That sounds about right for the antisemitic left. Par for the course.

    Free Palestine from the Jihadis so that the normal people of Palestine can have a state of their own side-by-side with Israel.

    EDIT: I don’t know why I bothered. You’re just about to call me a ‘Zionist’ and make some bullshit claims and then run off as if you scored a victory.

    TokenBoomer ,

    You are new here. Do a search 🔍 Read the room. This topic has been discussed ad nauseam for the past 8 months, you’re late to the party.

    FreePalestine

    Streamwave OP ,

    I’m not new here, I’m just not a coward who forms their opinions based on groupthink and the hysteria of antisemitism, which does not discriminate on left or right biases.

    Glad you proved me right though. Reaffirmed how little I think of the pro-Hamas rabble/tribe.

    Sami ,
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    How do you feel about the rising islamophobia culminating in riots in the UK?

    Streamwave OP ,

    Not much. British Muslims spent the last 10 months attacking British Jews and calling for a genocide of the Jewish people in Israel, burning Union Jacks, calling for ‘death to the West’, and so on and so on.

    I’m not saying they should be subject to similar attacks themselves, but I’m not going to march in their defence.

    They could have done that after October 7th, and they chose to celebrate the death of Jews. So I’m simply not going to march with them at all. Let’s see what happens.

    Sami ,
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    Got it. Sorry to tell you but if this were the 1930s you would be siding with the Germans. That’s why no one here engages with bigots like yourself.

    Streamwave OP ,

    Ah. Okay, so you, currently attacking the Jews, are convinced that in 1930s Germany you would have in fact been defending the Jews?

    Interesting. Bold. Avant-garde, even.

    TokenBoomer ,

    You do realize there is a difference between Zionism and Judaism? Right?

    TokenBoomer ,

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  • JohnDClay , to technology in China launches first satellites of constellation to rival Starlink

    It looks like they haven’t launched any yet? It’ll be interesting to see if they can since they don’t have a cheap launch vehicle.

    yogthos OP ,
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    A bunch of Chinese companies are already working on launch vehicles comparable to Falcon 9. It’s not gonna be long before parity is reached.

    JohnDClay ,

    Yeah, I’d guess about 10 years, since that’s about how long it took SpaceX to get cheap falcon 9.

    yogthos OP ,
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    First of all, it always takes longer to do something the first time because you don’t know what the best way to do it is. That means having to do a lot of experimentation, and having false starts. Once a particular approach is proven, it takes much less time for competitors to follow it. This has been a constant with every type of technology out there.

    Second, it’s not like Chinese companies are just starting today. There are already plenty of companies that have functioning prototypes of reusable rockets that are actively being tested today. Here are a couple of examples for you:

    You’d think people would learn from the way Chinese companies were able to dominate in areas like solar panels, EVs, battery tech, and are now catching up in chip manufacturing. In every one of these cases, exact same arguments were made, and China shocked westerners by how rapidly it was able to develop these technologies.

    JohnDClay ,

    Yeah those tests are why I put them at the falcon 1 test flight stage generously. It was 10 years from the last flight of falcon 1 to the first flight of falcon 9 block 5, which is where reusability really started to kick in.

    Sure there is a follower advantage, but I don’t know if they can make full use of it since they won’t be able to head hunt talent as much as a US company. Itar might also make it more difficult to use the same suppliers and methodology for a more direct copy.

    I’m sure they’ll come up with something pretty cheap eventually, but I think it’ll still take a while for economic rapid reuse.

    yogthos OP ,
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    It will take a few years to develop, but as I’ve already pointed out, China has a good track record of producing advanced technology much faster than anybody expected. Meanwhile, if there is strategic value in having these types of low orbit constellations then the government will eat the cost until reusable rockets become available.

    JohnDClay ,

    Yeah I suspect that’s what will happen. They’ll launch these satellites on their non-reusable long matches until they eventually have a cheaper reusable capability. I guess we’ll see how long that will be.

    technocrit ,

    strategic value

    What’s the strategy? For what goal?

    yogthos OP ,
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    Same as what US is using them for in Ukraine for example.

    technocrit ,

    You’d think people would learn from the way Chinese companies were able to dominate

    People underestimate the power of forced labor, slave labor, prison labor, etc. It can really help an empire waste resources and destroy the planet much faster.

    yogthos OP ,
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    I love how this idiocy has been debunked so many times now, and yet here you are regurgitating it once again. I guess you just need to believe in the atrocity propaganda because you can’t accept the fact that your shithole country can’t compete with China. All these stories ultimately trace back Zenz who is an utter nutcase. And right wing fundamentalists are your source for news about China, then what else is there to say about you as an individual.

    CHRD states that it interviewed dozens of ethnic Uyghurs in the course of its study, but their enormous estimate was ultimately based on interviews with exactly eight Uyghur individuals. Based on this absurdly small sample of research subjects in an area whose total population is 20 million, CHRD “extrapolated estimates” that “at least 10% of villagers […] are being detained in re-education detention camps, and 20% are being forced to attend day/evening re-education camps in the villages or townships, totaling 30% in both types of camps.” Furthermore, it doesn’t even make sense from logistics perspective.

    Practically all the stories we see about China trace back to Adrian Zenz is a far right fundamentalist nutcase and not a reliable source for any sort of information. The fact that he’s the primary source for practically every article in western media demonstrates precisely what I’m talking about when I say that coverage is divorced from reality.

    Zenz is a born-again Christian who lectures at the European School of Culture and Theology. This anodyne-sounding campus is actually the German base of Columbia International University, a US-based evangelical Christian seminary which considers the “Bible to be the ultimate foundation and the final truth in every aspect of our lives,” and whose mission is to “educate people from a biblical worldview to impact the nations with the message of Christ.”

    Zenz’s work on China is inspired by this biblical worldview, as he recently explained in an interview with the Wall Street Journal. “I feel very clearly led by God to do this,” he said. “I can put it that way. I’m not afraid to say that. With Xinjiang, things really changed. It became like a mission, or a ministry.”.

    Along with his “mission” against China, heavenly guidance has apparently prompted Zenz to denounce homosexuality, gender equality, and the banning of physical punishment against children as threats to Christianity.

    Zenz outlined these views in a book he co-authored in 2012, titled Worthy to Escape: Why All Believers Will Not Be Raptured Before the Tribulation. In the tome, Zenz discussed the return of Jesus Christ, the coming wrath of God, and the rise of the Antichrist.

    The fact that this nutcase is being paraded as a credible researcher on the subject is absolutely surreal, and it’s clear that the methodology of his “research” doesn’t pass any kind of muster when examined closely.

    Meanwhile, US of A is where actual documented slave labor is happening apnews.com/…/prison-to-plate-inmate-labor-investi…

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