One of the most important things in democracy is accuracy and transparency of information. That’s literally the reason why the media is being taken over by corpos all over the world.
Egregious clickbait hed. I don’t care the source, “than you might think” works psychologically on, well, more levels than you might think.
Throughout this election, and honestly, past it wouldn’t be bad, wherever you are in the world, this phrase should be a red flag that you’ve run headlong into bullshit.
That aside, Nature, are you OK? Journal articles tend to have as theses shit that isn’t somehow both obvious and vacuously true then not backed up by the passive voice, the gold standard for scientific literature. “The beaker was observed …”
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Click here to see the summaryForeign actors from India and the People’s Republic of China allegedly interfered in more than one race for the leadership of the Conservative Party of Canada, says an intelligence report tabled in the House of Commons on Monday. The report from the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians (NSICOP), a key Canadian intelligence oversight body, says there were “two specific instances where [People’s Republic of China] officials allegedly interfered in the leadership races of the Conservative Party of Canada.” Fischer said Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s campaign received no notice of interference in his race and “has no awareness of what is referenced.” In March 2023, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau asked the NSICOP committee, which is made up of MPs and senators from across the political spectrum, to investigate allegations of Chinese interference in Canada’s elections. He made the request after media reports, citing unnamed security sources and classified documents, accused China of interfering in the 2019 and 2021 federal elections. "Given the risks posed by foreign interference to Canada’s national security, the committee expected the government to act. — Saved 58% of original text.
Don’t worry, once they’ve finished doing exactly what they set out to do, the US will blame it all on one or two fall guys and pretend like it’s a current leadership problem despite bullshit like this happening since Israel’s inception.
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Click here to see the summaryBut events at al-Shifa – once the biggest and best equipped medical facility in the Gaza Strip – have arguably been the most dramatic.The two-week surprise raid, launched after Israel said Hamas had regrouped at the site, was described by the Israeli government as “precise and surgical”.Its spokesman, Avi Hyman, asserted that it had set “the gold standard of urban warfare”. “We’ve extracted martyrs, many of whom are decomposed and completely unidentifiable,” a Palestinian Civil Defence worker, Rami Dababesh told us grimly on 8 May as he stood by a line of white plastic body bags at al-Shifa, wearing a face mask and full protective gear.“We’ve found corpses of women, children and individuals without heads as well as torn body parts,” he added.The Civil Defence lacks forensic equipment and expertise, but its teams have been using photos and videos to document the remains. Later, the gunmen were said to have barricaded themselves in wards and corridors, opening fire and throwing explosives.Three Israeli soldiers were confirmed to have been killed during the two-week long operation.The IDF briefed journalists that its action at the hospital was taken based on “concrete intelligence” that Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad had taken over parts of the site, suggesting their operatives had been using it to access basic supplies as well as power and the internet. Two other Hamas operatives were named as Fadi Dweik and Zakaria Najib, said to have been involved in organising attacks in the occupied West Bank.In April, the IDF also released footage which it said was from the interrogation of Tarek Abu Shaluf, spokesman for the political wing of Islamic Jihad. Israel has consistently claimed that the group hides its fighters and infrastructure behind the sick and wounded, which it suggests has rendered hospitals legitimate military targets.Hamas denies misusing civilian sites and accuses Israel of violating international humanitarian law by targeting hospitals.In April, when the UN called for “a clear, transparent and credible investigation” of mass graves in Gaza, its spokesman Stephane Dujarric told reporters that more journalists needed to be able to work safely in the territory to report on the facts. These gained momentum as Israel targeted other health facilities which it said were being used by Hamas, particularly Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza.In late May, in a hastily repaired room of the kidney dialysis unit at al-Shifa, the journalist working with us met four patients as they sat connected to steadily beeping machines. — Saved 76% of original text.
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Click here to see the summaryHONG KONG (AP) — As the 35th anniversary of Beijing’s Tiananmen Square crackdown neared, Rowena He, a prominent scholar of that bloody chapter of modern China’s history, was busy flying between the United States, Britain and Canada to give a series of talks. In Hong Kong, once a beacon of commemorative freedom, the massive June 4 annual vigil that mourned the victims for decades has vanished, a casualty of the city’s clampdown on dissidents following huge anti-government protests in 2019. However, attempts to silence commemorative efforts have failed to erase the harrowing memories from the minds of a generation of liberal-minded Chinese in the years after tanks rolled into the heart of Beijing to break up weeks of student-led protests that had spread to other cities and were seen as a threat to Communist Party rule. As of early May, its board chair Wang Dan, also a leading former student leader of the Tiananmen protests, estimated the New York museum attracted about 1,000 people, including Chinese immigrants, U.S. citizens and Hong Kongers. Alison Landsberg, a memory studies scholar at George Mason University in Virginia, said that overseas efforts carry the potential to inspire people from other places who are facing their own challenges in the pursuit of democracy. The play, produced by Lit Ming-wai, part of the Hong Kong diaspora who moved to the U.K. after the enactment of the 2020 security law, tells the story of an elderly couple who wish to properly mourn their son who died in 1989. — Saved 78% of original text.
I mean, those are the traditional values they are fighting for - a traditional family made up of only one man and one woman, where one of them (usually the former) is aggressive with the other as a normal way of life.
This is also what the Putler-backed far right parties in Europe stand for.
A horrible simplification. Power is what they are fighting for and they are getting it.
This is also what the Putler-backed far right parties in Europe stand for.
In European politics corrupt, and usually by Russia among others, parties encompass much more than these. You can tell easily a not yet poisoned voice when comparing with theirs.
Power is what they are fighting for and they are getting it.
Indeed, they are fighting for power, that's what every political force does. But what I was referring to was the way they do it - they put excessive emphasis on "traditional values" in their campaigns (whichever those might be). They picture an idilic image of these and sell to the public, so they can get the votes, while in reality, the stuff these mean is completely different. And it is not just the "traditional values" - history also plays a part in this.
In my country, the AUR party makes heavy use of medieval rulers like Vlad the Impaler (yes, that one that is known in the Western pop culture as count Dracula) to stirr nostalgia for a past most people don't know. Or their Facebook pages post lots of ex-communist propaganda (messages like "before 1989 we were masters on our own lands, now we're slaves to the foreigners" or "we had an industry back then, we had factories, we were producing our own stuff, now we sold everything and we no longer have shit" etc.).
They are basically romanticising the past in order to get to power, and maybe blur the line between the democratic institutions afterward - just like in Russia, but also in Hungary or even Poland.
excessive emphasis on “traditional values” in their campaigns
It was also “if not us then Communists”, “if not us then Nazis”, “anti-fascism in the world” and “counter-terrorism” in the past.
In my country, the AUR party makes heavy use of medieval rulers like Vlad the Impaler (yes, that one that is known in the Western pop culture as count Dracula) to stirr nostalgia for a past most people don’t know.
We-ell, there’s a certain appeal in impaling Turks for me, it makes the remaining ones friendlier.
They are basically romanticising the past in order to get to power, and maybe blur the line between the democratic institutions afterward - just like in Russia, but also in Hungary or even Poland.
As if they weren’t in France or in UK or in Italy.
My opinion is that we’re fucked from all sides, there’s no need to pretend it’s only a handful of countries.
I know this whole thing is tiring and frustrating. I just explained how things look like in this side of the world, where in the current young(er) democratic regimes people are still nostalgic over the older despotic regimes where the economy was flourishing (spoiler: it was not) and basic human rights were systematically violated by the state.
I respect your opinion, and if there are any elections where you live, I urge you to go out and vote for the best option you may find. Be on the lookout for what every political force is saying/doing, corroborate all the information as good as you can, compare them, and choose the person you find less likely to turn your country into something like I described above.
Democracy is, after all, the power of the people, and if any politician/party is threatening to take away this power - or even erode it - then that one is not fit for any seat that is running for.
I live in Russia, so meaningful elections are off the menu for a period of time.
The fact that a mod decided that my comment should be removed is telling. See, if we consider that only freaks openly funded by Russia yadda yadda are its hands in Europe, then what I said is harmful, because I’m spreading the attention of the reader to wide. But if what I said is true and European politics are in general, just as well in the West, penetrated by Russian\Azeri\etc influence, with bribing politicians and companies which then lobby for criminal regimes, then what that mod did is much more harmful.
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