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UN finally passes a resolution recognising one of society's most marginalised groups (www.thecanary.co)

The UN Human Rights Council passed its first ever resolution on Thursday 4 April over tackling discrimination against intersex people, despite opposition from several countries to the terminology used. The resolution passed in the 47-member council with 24 votes in favour, none against and 23 abstentions....

Tensions with China Drive Investors Towards Vietnam (www.ipsnews.net)

HO CHI MINH CITY, Apr 3 2024 (IPS) - In recent months, several European representatives embarked on trade missions to Vietnam. German President Steinmeier visited Hanoi in January. The Netherlands sent Prime Minister Mark Rutte, with the Dutch royal couple, King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima, soon to follow suit. Notably,...

Report: Israeli Army Uses AI to Mass-Produce Palestinian Targets for Assassination (truthout.org)

The Israeli army is making heavy use of an artificial intelligence (AI) system that mass-generates assassination targets in Gaza in order to reach certain thresholds of killing of Palestinians every day, a new explosive report finds. This AI generated information is used by the military to kill targets as soon as they step into...

France 'Intends Legal Action' Against French-Israeli Soldiers Complicit in Gaza War Crimes (www.palestinechronicle.com)

According to Haaretz, the “underreported announcement” came after “pressure from members of the far-left France Unbowed party,” as well as the release of “various unverified videos” on social media platforms which show Israeli soldiers “engaged in illegal acts against prisoners of war.”...

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Even if it wasn’t

BDS: bdsmovement.net/boycott-hp

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IT WAS ALL THOSE DAMN AVOCADOS, WHY DIDN’T WE JUST SIMPLY STOP EATING THOSE AVOCADOS

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I don’t disbelieve it, but I’m gonna wait to read about it not in the daily mail and I don’t think other serious sources have reported on it yet, unless google has just ceased working as a search engine which is very possible.

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I’m personally against sentencing death regardless of what they did, especially in cases like Saudi Arabia where they have more than enough money to handle imprisoning people for life. Call me a crypto-catholic, but I don’t think killing people is good if it can be avoided, which in this case it definitely could have been.

Norwegian salmon farms gobble up fish that could feed millions in Africa: Report (news.mongabay.com)

Norwegian salmon farms are taking huge amounts of wild fish from West Africa, mining the food security of the region, according to a report from the U.K.-based NGO Feedback. The analysis comes as the industry faces a wave of public opposition after revelations of high mortality rates and the sale of fish deemed unfit for human...

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Employees “You have to not say anything about your politics or else you’ll lose your job”

Franchisees “Glory to the state, all hail death and destruction and swing by for a BigMac TM”

American Media Keep Citing Zaka — Though Its October 7 Atrocity Stories Are Discredited in Israel (theintercept.com)

Yossi Landau is the head of operations for the southern region at Zaka, an Israeli search-and-rescue organization. Assigned to collect human remains after the October 7 Hamas attack in Israel, Landau and his fellow Zaka members riveted media outlets worldwide with the horrific atrocities they saw....

Thousands of Ugandans may sue over U.S. security work in Iraq, Afghanistan (www.semafor.com)

KAMPALA, Uganda — Thousands of Ugandans who guarded U.S. government buildings in war zones are preparing to sue their former employers who they claim failed to pay their agreed wages and cover medical bills, leaving many badly injured and mired in debt....

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To be fair to the euros they tried to both sides it and let arab/north african countries in, but those countries refused for obvious reasons.

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It only has to do with being an ebu/sister org member which many arab states are eligible to compete, but refuse to do so since Israel is in it/ in some cases having laws preventing the broadcasting of anything Israel was involved in making.

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IDK nothing indicated they would be booted, they pretty prominently announced they wouldn’t be restricting Israel from competing, to much controversy at that

Tumblr and Wordpress to Sell Users’ Data to Train AI Tools (www.404media.co)

this could not be timed worse for Tumblr which is in huge hot water with its userbase already for its CEO breaking his sabbatical to ban a prominent trans user for allegedly threatening him (in a cartoonish manner), and then spending a week personally justifying it increasingly wildly across several platforms. the rumors had...

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Yeah I’ve seen almost no movement against Tumblr while everyone got very riled up about Meta federation ie fedipact, probably a blindspot bc users have positive associations with tumblr, but it’s still an ad/data company all the same.

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The obvious difference being my/others mastodon posts aren’t showing up on wordpress and being monetized. One way federation to masto doesn’t matter bc it isn’t data farming / putting ads on masto content.

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It’s a bit of a beleaguered point, but it’s very telling that this will assuredly get almost no coverage on big news networks like abc, cbs, fox, etc. and virtually no coverage in the larger papers like the NYT, sure the press agencies like Reuters and the AP will cover it and then redistributors like your source will publish this, but little thought among the media class/commentariet will be given to the man who decided there was so little hope of being able to do anything through legal/electoral means to stop a genocide that he could no longer stand idly by and had to do something to protest the sheer inhumanity of what’s going on. Barely anyone probably still remembers the person who did the same thing and died in 2022 on earth day protesting inaction on climate change/destruction, that story was absolutely buried. I don’t support any kind of self harm, but doing something as drastic as this requires a pretty compelling reason, most people remember Tibetan monks doing the same thing, but the same importance was not extended to that person in 2022 and will almost definitely not be extended to this person now. I may end up being wrong, but I expect this to be out of the news cycle/discourse in days at most.

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Yeah, I’ve seen some discourse that things like this when done by an individual as opposed to a group effort like the Tibetan monks are primarily to take their own life and the message is secondary/additional, but I would like to think that on some level something positive will come out of someone doing something as drastic and sad as this. Dying or taking your own life is not something positive or to be glorified, but when someone feels so hopeless to the point that they turn to this, I hope it’s at least a wake up call for some people to take this seriously and not just ignore/tune out one of the biggest genocides in recent history.

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you managed so thoroughly to miss the point I was making, I’m impressed

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fact check! deboonked!

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OMG THEY HAVE AN ARTICLE OMG THAT WAS TOTALLY MY POINT, I QUITE LITERALLY TALKED ABOUT REDISTRIBUTING THINGS FROM PRESS AGENCIES JFC, HOW CAN YOU READ WHAT I WROTE AND GET TO THIS, IS THERE ANYTHING RESIDING IN BETWEEN YOUR EARS ???

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God, an unironic “you mad bro” go back to reddit lmao

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I’m not hopeful when they won’t even impose sanctions on Israel, only undeclared “bureaucratic obstacles” at most, not that sanctions are the be all end all of diplomacy, but if anything merited them this would be it. You may counter “oh they have to be neutral so they can negotiate”, but I would say to that, what they have publicly said the furthest they are willing to negotiate is a two state solution, which is impossible to achieve. Not to mention the obvious problems with the Gaza strip and the west bank physically being separated and what problems that would entail, the Israelis will never accept a Palestine that gets a seat at the UN, a country that has it’s own air space, a country that has it’s own rights to nearby oil reserves, a country that has a right to assemble a standing military, a country that could offer a right to return to all of the millions of displaced Palestinian diaspora around the world.

All of these things are a non starter for Israel, there is nothing to negotiate, diplomacy will never compel Israel to entertain a Palestinian state. Unless countries do meaningful things like sanction/divest-from Israel, cut off the supply of weapons, oil, etc. and as long as the US is willing to veto any meaningful UN resolution, nothing will come of any kind of soft pressure, in regards to this offensive or in general. There is nothing to mediate, both the US and Israel have made it clear that Israel will stop when Israel has decided it’s in their interest to do so and no time sooner and no amount of arbitration will change that unless more direct meaningful pressure is applied to the state carrying out the genocide.

And meaningful pressure has basically only been applied by states like Iran and groups like the Houthis and Hezbollah no state with any significant leverage over Israel has done anything outside of Iran, including Russia, China, Turkey, etc. who all talk a big game supporting UN resolutions for a ceasefire and making public statements in support of Palestinians, but who refuse to take actions that would actually compel that to happen like divestment/sanctions due to the correct fear that states like the US/UK/etc. would respond in kind with massive sanctions that could hurt economic stability at home.

Customs and Border Protection's top doctor tried to order fentanyl lollipops for helicopter trip to U.N (www.cbsnews.com)

The chief medical officer for the Customs and Border Protection agency repeatedly asked staff members to order fentanyl lollipops for him to take on a helicopter mission to the United Nations in New York City in Sept. 2023, according to a whistleblower report by the Government Accountability Project....

Exclusive: ADL pushed BMG to drop Roger Waters by threatening to weaponize company’s Nazi past - The Grayzone (thegrayzone.com)

The Grayzone has obtained a private letter authored by ADL director Jonathan Greenblatt threatening to weaponize the Nazi past of the BMG music company unless executives terminated a major deal with Roger Waters. BMG has publicly denied Israel lobby influence on its decision to nix Waters’ contract.

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I get you like this article but posting it 5x is a bit much, you can just post it to lemmy.ml if you want everyone to see it almost everyone is federated with them.

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Yeah like is the New York Times in the room with us right now? God forbid the US officials/media are hypocrites, anything but hypocrisy! Just an excuse to not engage with the article.

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