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What does this mean? If I lost a link to a BBC article, it’ll get deleted?



Nppe, you don’t need a truck. We don’t need these things to survive.

Haul what you need on a bicycle or don’t haul those things because you don’t need them.


Yeah, they should just slash their tires.

Breaking things that are bad is kinda the point of direct action


US Americans*

Most counties in America don’t supply arms to the Saudis.



What’s the standard procedure for noncooperation? Oh right torture them.


Can you please write a Lemmy bot that scrapes from PressReader and publishes links here?


Hmm, ok. You can stream torrents with Deluge and Stremio.



“I’m poor, and someone on TV said it’s because of those people who don’t look like me”



As the article states, the National Government has gone further left in recent years (CDU has been replaced by a coalition between SPD and the Green Party), but the fact that AfD (which is basically a neo-nazi party) has won a district suggests that the right is unhappy with the government becoming more progressive, and they’re opting towards far-right extremism.

This is dangerous, and antifacist action is needed to prevent the facism from spreading.


BERLIN, June 25 (Reuters) - A far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) candidate won a vote on Sunday to become a district leader in Europe's biggest economy for the first time, a breakthrough for the party which has hit record highs in national polls. The 10-year old AfD, with which Germany's mainstream parties officially refuse to cooperate due to its radical views, won a run-off vote in the Sonneberg district in the eastern state of Thuringia with its candidate garnering 52.8% of the vote. It is the latest success for the party which is riding a wave of popular discontent with Social Democrat Chancellor Olaf Scholz's awkward coalition with the Greens and Free Democrats (FDP) which is dogged by infighting over policy and the budget. Polling at 19%-20%, behind the opposition conservatives, the AfD is tapping into voter fears about recession, migration and the green transition, say analysts. It even plans to nominate a chancellor candidate in the 2025 federal election. While far-right parties have gained ground around Europe, the strength of the AfD is particularly sensitive in Germany due to the country's Nazi past. The President of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, Josef Schuster, expressed deep shock. "This is a watershed that this country's democratic political forces cannot simply accept," he told RND media. Particularly strong in the former Communist East, polls suggest the party may win three eastern state votes next year. A clear victory for the AfD's Robert Sesselmann in the district, which has a population of only around 56,000 people, sends a signal to Berlin, say analysts, especially as all other parties in Sonneberg joined forces in a front against him. Sesselmann was forced into a run-off against a conservative candidate after a vote two weeks ago. The conservative candidate won 47.2% on Sunday. The party opposes economic sanctions against Moscow over the Ukraine war and disputes that human activity is a cause of climate change. The domestic intelligence agency said this month that far-right extremism posed the biggest threat to democracy in Germany and warned voters about backing the AfD. Formed a decade ago as an anti-euro party, its popularity surged after the 2015 migrant crisis and it entered parliament in 2017, becoming the official opposition. Reporting by Madeline Chambers; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama
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PARIS Greta Thunberg speaks about repression of protest (Summit for a new global financial pact)
The words of Greta Thunberg this week https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Pyi0L7_vwo ### Activists are being systemically targeted with repression and are paying the price for defending life and the right to protest. We are seeing now extremely worrying developments where activists all over the world are experiencing increased repressions just for fighting for our present and our future. There is extreme hypocrisy when it comes to this. All over the world we're experiencing this. Not the least, for example, here in France. Just the other day - that activists are being systemically targeted with repression and are paying the price for defending life and the right to protest. ### We're still speeding in the wrong direction We are now at an extremely critical point. The emissions of greenhouse gasses are at an all-time-high, and the concentration of Co2 in the atmosphere hasn't been this high in the entire history of humanity. And we're still speeding in the wrong direction. The emissions are on the rise, and science has been very clear on this. And the people living on the front-lines of the climate emergency have been sounding the alarm for a long time
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Next year: billionaires in sub go to visit ocean floor wreckage of billionaires in sub who were visiting ocean wreckage of rich people ship on ocean floor






Even some glass windows can turn your house into a Faraday cage. Be careful with building material selection, unless you want no cell signal.

Usually aluminium is just used for the studs.


To be honest a lot of them are US American Jews, a large number of them from Brooklyn.

The Israeli government pays them a monthly stipend to move to Israel. The program is called aliyah (which translates to “to rise”). You can be mad at these settlers, but a lot of them are poor US Americans and just saw it as an opportunity (free food & rent is hard for most people to pass-up). When they arrive, they’re bombarded with anti-Palestinian propaganda and most of them never leave the walls of the Settlement (literally in Israel even the roads are divided), so they’re blindfolded and oblivious to the system that they’re perpetuating.

If it were not for the US government’s subsidies to the Israeli government, Israel would not have enough money to continue the Aliyah program.


Unplug microwave. Open door of Microwave. Insert phone. Your cell signal will probably be lost. If not, (due to the missing sixth wall), build a curtain of aluminum foil to close-off the sixth wall. Poke a small hole for looking-through. Use USB-OTG keyboard/mouse.


Court documents show Hussein is accused of posting videos to TikTok on May 14, which is also his birthday.

By posting the video, Hussein “knowingly participate[d] in an activity of a terrorist group ISIS/al-Qaeda, for the purpose of enhancing the ability of the terrorist group to facilitate or to carry out a terrorist activity.”

Between June 1 and June 15, Hussein is accused of creating and possessing explosive-making instructions.


Microwaves. You can also buy Faraday bags, but (almost) everyone has a microwave.



Imagine being a reporter covering a protest and not asking the protesters why they’re protesting smh



Umm, just do a factory reset in a Faraday cage and set the locale to Ireland.




Brilliant. I look forward to John Oliver’s episode on capitalist social media companies like Twitter and Reddit fucking their userbase


Attackers use Deepfake of “Kidnapped” Daughter, Demand Ransom
After being scammed into thinking her daughter was kidnapped, an Arizona woman testified in the US Senate about the dangers side of artificial intelligence technology when in the hands of criminals. Jennifer DeStefano told the Senate judiciary committee about the fear she felt when she received an ominous phone call on a Friday last April. Thinking the unknown number was a doctor’s office, she answered the phone just before 5pm on the final ring. On the other end of the line was her 15-year-old daughter – or at least what sounded exactly like her daughter’s voice. “On the other end was our daughter Briana sobbing and crying saying ‘Mom’.” Briana was on a ski trip when the incident took place so DeStefano assumed she injured herself and was calling let her know. DeStefano heard the voice of her daughter and recreated the interaction for her audience: “‘Mom, I messed up’ with more crying and sobbing. Not thinking twice, I asked her again, ‘OK, what happened?’” She continued: “Suddenly a man’s voice barked at her to ‘lay down and put your head back’.” Panic immediately set in and DeStefano said she then demanded to know what was happening. “Nothing could have prepared me for her response,” Defano said. Defano said she heard her daughter say: “‘Mom these bad men have me. Help me! Help me!’ She begged and pleaded as the phone was taken from her.” “Listen here, I have your daughter. You tell anyone, you call the cops, I am going to pump her stomach so full of drugs,” a man on the line then said to DeStefano. The man then told DeStefano he “would have his way” with her daughter and drop her off in Mexico, and that she’d never see her again. At the time of the phone call, DeStefano was at her other daughter Aubrey’s dance rehearsal. She put the phone on mute and screamed for help, which captured the attention of nearby parents who called 911 for her. DeStefano negotiated with the fake kidnappers until police arrived. At first, they set the ransom at $1m and then lowered it to $50,000 when DeStefano told them such a high price was impossible. She asked for a routing number and wiring instructions but the man refused that method because it could be “traced” and demanded cash instead. DeStefano said she was told that she would be picked up in a white van with bag over her head so that she wouldn’t know where she was going. She said he told her: “If I didn’t have all the money, then we were both going to be dead.” But another parent with her informed her police were aware of AI scams like these. DeStefano then made contact with her actual daughter and husband, who confirmed repeatedly that they were fine. “At that point, I hung up and collapsed to the floor in tears of relief,” DeStefano said. When DeStefano tried to file a police report after the ordeal, she was dismissed and told this was a “prank call”. A survey by McAfee, a computer security software company, found that 70% of people said they weren’t confident they could tell the difference between a cloned voice and the real thing. McAfee also said it takes only three seconds of audio to replicate a person’s voice. DeStefano urged lawmakers to act in order prevent scams like these from hurting other people. She said: “If left uncontrolled, unregulated, and we are left unprotected without consequence, it will rewrite our understanding and perception what is and what is not truth. It will erode our sense of ‘familiar’ as it corrodes our confidence in what is real and what is not.”
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Not sure why this was downvoted. The NAACP issued a travel advisory for POC in Florida and the HRC issued a state of emergency for queer folks in most of the country.


Guatemalan journalist faces decades in prison
One of Guatemala’s best known journalists is facing up to 40 years in prison on Wednesday in a case that has raised alarm about a squeeze on democracy in Central America’s largest economy. José Rubén Zamora said he believed the charges of money laundering, blackmail and influence peddling against him were filed in retaliation for stories published by his newspaper that alleged corruption by the government of President Alejandro Giammattei. Days before his final hearing, Zamora told the Financial Times: “What [the president] has done to me is horrible . . . [But] I’m glad that he put me here for doing my job properly.” Giammattei’s office denied any role in Zamora’s case. Businessman and journalist Zamora, who is being held in the isolation wing of a prison on the outskirts of Guatemala City, won international acclaim for his work exposing corruption since the country’s civil war. Zamora has been the target of attacks, raids and threats for decades. But in May he said political and economic pressure had made it impossible to continue and he shut down El Periódico, the newspaper he started as the country signed peace accords to end its 36-year civil war in 1996. The detention and potential conviction of one of the country’s highest-profile journalists has sparked fear among Guatemala’s reporters, with more than 20 fleeing the country in a little over a year, according to the journalism collective #NoNosCallaran (“They will not silence us”). Zamora’s case comes as members of the media across the region face increasing physical and legal threats, pushing major outlets such as El Salvador’s El Faro and Nicaragua’s La Prensa to relocate abroad. The verdict in Zamora’s case could come under two weeks before presidential and congressional elections. “Everyone is terrified,” Zamora said of the country’s press corps. He spoke from the prison on a military base surrounded by lush green forest where he is kept separate from other inmates. Zamora has just one hour a day outside his cell on a small patio. Giammattei has insisted there is a free press in Guatemala and has underscored its importance for building a democracy. A spokesperson for him rejected any suggestion he was involved in Zamora’s case, stressing the executive branch is separate from the judiciary. “Guatemala respects and works to guarantee the free exercise of journalism,” the spokesperson said. “We’ve counted more than 6,000 critical stories about the government of Guatemala and there has been no censorship, therefore publishing baseless assertions is an irresponsible decision.” Giammattei and other political leaders have stressed that the case against Zamora is about how he handled the newspapers’ finances, not its stories. “Does press freedom mean immunity for his acts that aren’t acts done as a journalist but as a businessman?” Giammattei told Colombian radio earlier this year. Zamora and rights groups say the case is politically motivated and plagued with procedural irregularities. He was arrested within days of the original complaint, and the case could be wrapped up in just a year in a country with widespread impunity and where cases often drag on for years. Prosecutors have asked for a longer than standard sentence because he “disrespected the authorities”. The country’s attorney-general and chief anti-corruption prosecutors are on Washington’s undemocratic and corrupt actors list. Prosecutors have also pursued cases against several of Zamora’s defence lawyers, reporters and family members, including last week asking the now-shut El Periódico for all the stories published by nine of its journalists since July 2022. “This is something you would expect in Cuba, not in a democratic country,” said Juan Pappier, acting deputy director for the Americas at Human Rights Watch. “There is a push to destroy the independent press in Guatemala through various means.” Several journalists in Guatemala said they felt they had to be careful before publishing stories. In March, the US embassy in Guatemala said it was “deeply concerned” about the reports of an investigation into El Periódico journalists. Journalist Sonny Figueroa, founder of Guatemalan news site Vox Populi, said there were still critical journalists in the country doing essential work, but that he had suffered harassment, death threats and a criminal complaint made by subjects of a corruption story. He and his reporting partner Marvin Del Cid had already left the country temporarily twice. “We have one foot out and one foot in,” he said. The drive to prosecute journalists ramped up after the state had already pursued cases against former officials, who had investigated corruption with a UN-backed commission known as the CICIG. The CICIG filed more than 120 cases and helped to topple former president Otto Pérez Molina but its mandate was not renewed by the former government in 2019. Since then, many of those involved in trying the cases have been prosecuted themselves, and more than 30 former justice system officials have left the country, according to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. Claudia Samayoa, founder of non-profit the Human Rights Defenders Protection Unit in Guatemala, called the crackdown “the politics of revenge”. Samayoa said prosecutors were increasingly using laws aimed at tackling organised crime to pursue reporters. “The real intention of all these cases is to capture the journalist . . . it’s very easy to be put in prison, getting out of prison is difficult,” she said. Zamora, who spends his days reading through a pile of books from novels by Jorge Luis Borges to a Winston Churchill biography, said he thought Guatemala and neighbouring authoritarian Nicaragua were like “twin brothers”. “We are at a high risk . . . of becoming a tyrannical, fascist dictatorship,” he said.
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