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davel , 6 months ago to worldnews in China's usually strict sensors are seemingly ignoring rising antisemitism online

The firewall was & is meant to protect indigenous technological development from being overrun by Silicon Valley corporations.

davel , 6 months ago to worldnews in Kenya court blocks deployment of police officers to Haiti

Nice try, Burgerland, but no one wants to do your dirty work for you this time.

davel , 6 months ago to worldnews in House members tell Biden he must seek authorization for Yemen strikes

Unitary executive power is ascendant. Congress isn’t going to impeach Biden over this, so what’s to stop him? People in the military swore an oath to defend the constitution above their superior officers—up to and including the commander-in-chief—but in practice they almost never do.

davel , 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to worldnews in China's usually strict sensors are seemingly ignoring rising antisemitism online

During the cold war, the anticommunist ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile evidence. If the Soviets refused to negotiate a point, they were intransigent and belligerent; if they appeared willing to make concessions, this was but a skillful ploy to put us off our guard. By opposing arms limitations, they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent; but when in fact they supported most armament treaties, it was because they were mendacious and manipulative. If the churches in the USSR were empty, this demonstrated that religion was suppressed; but if the churches were full, this meant the people were rejecting the regime’s atheistic ideology. If the workers went on strike (as happened on infrequent occasions), this was evidence of their alienation from the collectivist system; if they didn’t go on strike, this was because they were intimidated and lacked freedom. A scarcity of consumer goods demonstrated the failure of the economic system; an improvement in consumer supplies meant only that the leaders were attempting to placate a restive population and so maintain a firmer hold over them.

If communists in the United States played an important role struggling for the rights of workers, the poor, African-Americans, women, and others, this was only their guileful way of gathering support among disfranchised groups and gaining power for themselves. How one gained power by fighting for the rights of powerless groups was never explained. What we are dealing with is a nonfalsifiable orthodoxy, so assiduously marketed by the ruling interests that it affected people across the entire political spectrum.

—Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds

davel , 6 months ago to worldnews in China's usually strict sensors are seemingly ignoring rising antisemitism online

Thank you, corporate arm of US pro-genocide propaganda, very cool.

davel , 6 months ago to worldnews in Charging Israel with genocide makes a mockery of the ICJ

United Nations Security Council | Relations with the International Court of Justice

davel , 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to worldnews in Charging Israel with genocide makes a mockery of the ICJ

The ICJ will make a mockery of itself by the time this is all over, because even if it finds Isn’treal guilty years from now when the trail finally concludes, the US will veto any action at the Security Council.

Citations Needed podcast: News Brief: The ICJ Ruling and the Essentialness of Squishy Western Liberal Support for Genocide

In this public News Brief, we react to the media spin around the ICJ’s genocide ruling against Israel and how framing by the NYT and BBC seeks to uphold the logic of the so called “war” creating said genocide.

davel , 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to asklemmy in What's with all the tech layoffs?

For anyone remaining in the world who still believes cryptocurrency nonsense, I have a bridge to sell you.

davel , 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to worldnews in Davos Elites Talk About Rebuilding Trust. The People Talk of System Change.

The Forum’s annual Global Risks Report itself posits misinformation […] among the key risks to the global economy this year.

The capitalist class has lost some of its ability to manufacture consent.

davel , 6 months ago to asklemmy in What's with all the tech layoffs?

Yup. From an article I linked to in another comment:

The Federal Reserve Board’s ostensible policy aim is to manage the money supply and bank credit in a way that maintains price stability. That usually means fighting inflation, which is blamed entirely on “too much employment,” euphemized as “too much money.” In Congress’s more progressive days, the Fed was charged with a second objective: to promote full employment. The problem is that full employment is supposed to be inflationary – and the way to fight inflation is to reduce employment, which is viewed simplistically as being determined by the supply of credit.

So in practice, one of the Fed’s two directives has to give. And hardly by surprise, the “full employment” aim is thrown overboard – if indeed it ever was taken seriously by the Fed’s managers.

davel , 6 months ago to asklemmy in What's with all the tech layoffs?

Michael Hudson, Jun. 2022: The Fed’s Austerity Program to Reduce Wages

To Wall Street and its backers, the solution to any price inflation is to reduce wages and public social spending. The orthodox way to do this is to push the economy into recession in order to reduce hiring. Rising unemployment will oblige labor to compete for jobs that pay less and less as the economy slows.

davel , 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to asklemmy in What's with all the tech layoffs?

People need to understand that the Federal Reserve is the cartel of the US private banks, and that they have captured the US Treasury as well, which is the US sovereign fiat money printer. Just look at the history of people in executive positions at the Treasury and the Fed. It’s a revolving door between those positions and the executive positions at major US banks and corporations.

davel , 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to asklemmy in What's with all the tech layoffs?

The Federal Reserve raised interest rates in order to cause layoffs. The capitalist class wanted to enlarge the reserve army of labor so that workers would be too worried about losing their jobs to demand raises.

‘You Are Gambling With People’s Lives’: Warren Rips Powell Over Job-Killing Rate Hikes

davel , 6 months ago to worldnews in ‘How to greenwash’: propane industry tries to rebrand fuel as renewable

This scam is already 20 years old, starting with George W. Bush’s 2000 election campaign platform of a “hydrogen economy.”

CleanTechnica: The Hydrogen Fuel Cell Scam — From George W. Bush & “The Big 3” To Toyota, Honda, & Japan

davel , 6 months ago to worldnews in Ukraine is running out of ammo for its US-supplied Howitzers as it tries to fend off massive Russian attacks

The interviews of North Korean defectors yeonmi-park knowyourmeme.com/memes/people/yeonmi-park