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davel , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to worldnews in China’s fifth research station in Antarctica sparks concerns about its ambitions

NATO/Five Eyes represents almost the entirety of the imperial core. They’re the real threat in the world. The imperial core caused WWI and WWII and Cold War I, and now they’re starting Cold War II.

davel , 4 months ago to worldnews in China’s fifth research station in Antarctica sparks concerns about its ambitions

What national security concerns? Antarctica is on the other side of the planet. China isn’t going to invade the US from there, so I’m not especially concerned for my safety.

davel , 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to worldnews in US airman Aaron Bushnell claimed to have classified knowledge of US forces fighting in Gaza tunnels on night before setting himself on fire: pal

The Intercept:

• 2024-01-11: Biden Admin Deployed Air Force Team to Israel to Assist With Targets, Document Suggests
  Guidance for officers deployed to Israel appears to show the U.S. military providing intelligence for airstrikes in Gaza.
• 2024-02-09: “Logistics” Outpost in Jordan Where 3 U.S. Troops Died Is Secretly a Drone Base
  The Pentagon is covering up the real purpose of Tower 22: targeting the very Iran-backed militant groups that attacked last month.

davel , 5 months ago to worldnews in White House urges developers to dump C and C++

Shut up Brandon, you can’t even code. This is just propaganda from Big Rust.

davel , 5 months ago to worldnews in EU's von der Leyen proposes using frozen Russian profits for Ukraine's military

Reuters yesterday: Yellen: Moves to unlock value of frozen Russian assets ‘necessary and urgent’

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Tuesday underscored the urgency of moving forward together with Western allies to unlock the value of frozen Russian sovereign assets to help Ukraine, but said the U.S. had no “preferred strategy” for how to do so.

davel , 5 months ago to asklemmy in how many US states have a single payer healthcare system?

A marketplace of private health insurance companies is very different from single payer healthcare.

davel , 5 months ago to asklemmy in how many US states have a single payer healthcare system?

AFAIK zero states. Most have Affordable Care Act/Obamacare/Romneycare, which are marketplaces of private health insurance companies where the cost is subsidized depending on income.

davel , 5 months ago to worldnews in The Spy War: How the C.I.A. Secretly Helps Ukraine Fight Putin

This is why Putin is popular: he kicked the Global North neocolonialists out of the country.

davel , 5 months ago to worldnews in The Spy War: How the C.I.A. Secretly Helps Ukraine Fight Putin

You don’t have to wait.

• Reuters, Feb. ’14: Leaked audio reveals embarrassing U.S. exchange on Ukraine, EU
• Consortium News, Jul. ’15: The Mess that Nuland Made
• Consortium News, Apr. ’19: The Buried Maidan Massacre and Its Misrepresentation by the West
• Jacobin, Feb. ’22: A US-Backed, Far Right–Led Revolution in Ukraine Helped Bring Us to the Brink of War
• WSWS, Dec. ’22: Former German Chancellor Merkel admits the Minsk agreement was merely to buy time for Ukraine’s arms build-up
• Geopolitical Economy Report, Feb. ’23: Ukraine’s Zelensky admits he sabotaged Minsk peace deal with Russia, West blocked negotiations
• Consortium News, Oct. ’23: The Maidan Massacre, Censorship & Ukraine
• The Grayzone, Dec. ’23: Ukrainian trial demonstrates 2014 Maidan massacre was false flag

davel , 5 months ago to worldnews in NY times has confirmed what Putin has stated multiple times

brb adding the nyt to hamilton 68

davel , 5 months ago to worldnews in Burger chain Wendy's looking to test surge pricing at restaurants as early as next year

I don’t know whether to quote from Snow Crash or Libertarian Police Department.

davel , 5 months ago to worldnews in Ukrainian trial demonstrates 2014 Maidan massacre was false flag

The corporater an outlet is the truthier it is centrist

Noam Chomsky - The 5 Filters of the Mass Media Machine

davel , 5 months ago to worldnews in US airman dies after setting himself on fire outside Israeli embassy

Unless you were his psychiatrist this is just armchair conjecture.

davel , 5 months ago to worldnews in US airman dies after setting himself on fire outside Israeli embassy

Eyes Left Podcast: A Guide to Getting Out of the US Military (Now) w/ the GI Rights Hotline
GI Rights Hotline: girightshotline.org

davel , 5 months ago to worldnews in Ukrainian trial demonstrates 2014 Maidan massacre was false flag

We’ve known this was a US-backed coup for nearly a decade. The story has been beaten to death, just not on corporate media.

• Consortium News, Jul. ’15: The Mess that Nuland Made
• Consortium News, Apr. ’19: The Buried Maidan Massacre and Its Misrepresentation by the West
• Jacobin, Feb. ’22: A US-Backed, Far Right–Led Revolution in Ukraine Helped Bring Us to the Brink of War
• Consortium News, Oct. ’23: The Maidan Massacre, Censorship & Ukraine

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Our government and our corporate media fed us a load of bullshit about it being an organic “color revolution” for “freedom and democracy.” It’s standard operating procedure: The blueprint of regime change operations