Inside North Korea's Forced Labor Program
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Workers sent from the country to Chinese factories describe enduring beatings and sexual abuse, having their wages taken by the state, and being told that if they try to escape they will be “killed without a trace.” Ian Urbina reports.Ian Urbina (The New Yorker)
The goals of the Ukrainian army’s offensive in the summer of 2023 and the size of combat groups formed to carry it out are to a certain extent comparable with what the German military fielded for i…Covert Geopolitics
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All Global Research articles can be read in 51 languages by activating the Translate Website button below the author’s name (only available in desktop version). To receive Global Research’s Daily Newsletter (selected articles), click here.Global Research
MOSCOW February 25. 2024 (Saba) - Donetsk authorities announced last night that Ukrainian forces shelled Donetsk territory 13 times in the past 24 hours, firing 43 projectiles of various calibers.www.saba.ye
Console.delight
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A debate on Al Jazeera's "Up Front" about Ukraine. Plus, my weekly interview with Judge Andrew Napolitano on Netanyahu's post-war Gaza plan, US backing for Israeli occupation, and latest in Ukraine.Aaron Maté (Aaron Mate)
Building a Fly.io-like scheduler with resource requirements
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In our the last post, we built a simple coordinator and a worker that could increment a number from a client request. That simple example introduced us to scheduling tasks on workers from a compute cluster in the same style that fly.Dan Goodman (aspiring.dev)
Bethlehem/PNN/Tens of thousands of people took to the streets today in multiple cities around the world in weekly rallieenglish.pnn.ps
Taiwan is a useful pawn in the U.S. strategy of confronting China as a “great power competitor”, Finian Cunningham writes.Finian Cunningham (TheAltWorld)
The unit has recently undergone a rebrand.Didi Rankovic (Reclaim the Net)
Pleasures by Aldous Huxley (1920)
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German citizens consider the volume of support for Ukraine excessive Rossa Primavera News from the WestAlexey Krechetov (Rossa Primavera International News)
Martin Hanson “Never before in the history of the US Navy has a Navy board of inquiry ignored the testimony of American eyewitnesses and taken, on faith, the word of their attackers” Captain Dr. Ri…OffGuardian
The Palestinian Authority has sharply criticised a “day after” plan for Gaza presented by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, calling it “destined to fail.”Ed Newman (Radio Habana Cuba)
Alexei Navalny under arrest Alexei Navalny, a Russian political opposition figure whose popularity in the West far exceeded his support in Russia, died while incarcerated in a Russian prison.Dissident Voice | a radical newsletter in the struggle for peace and social justice
Iraq’s President Abdul Latif Rashid says the resolution of the long-standing conflict generated by Israel in Palestine is the prime factor for the stabilization of the situation in West Asia.Ed Newman (Radio Habana Cuba)
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Readability.js
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A standalone version of the readability lib. Contribute to mozilla/readability development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Languedoc: Willkommen im französischen Florida! | Stadt, Land, Kunst - 26/02/2024
Ende der 1950er Jahre sollte die Küste zwischen der Camargue und der spanischen Grenze durch ein pharaonisches Projekt in ein französisches Florida verwandelt werden.
Erkki-Sven Tüür, der Klang Estlands | Stadt, Land, Kunst - 28/02/2024
Der estnische Komponist Erkki-Sven Tüür betrachtet die Natur seiner Heimatinsel Hiiumaa im Halbdunkel eines Waldes oder an einer einsamen Küste, mit Blick auf die blaue Weite der Ostsee, im Wechsel der Jahreszeiten.
News - Yemen: Yemen's Armed Forces have announced a series of missile and drone strikes against a US oil tanker and several American warships in solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, who are enduring a genocidal Israeli war backed by Was…english.almasirah.net.ye
Show HN: Nekoweb – a retro static web hosting
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Lisa Reihana, ein anderes Bild von Neuseeland | Stadt, Land, Kunst - 26/02/2024
Seit den frühen 1990er Jahren erforscht die bedeutende ozeanische Künstlerin Lisa Reihana die mit der Kolonialisierung verbundenen Herrschafts- und Machtverhältnisse.
Flandern: Ein Hoch auf die Graue Krabbe! | Stadt, Land, Kunst - 27/02/2024
In der flämischen Stadt Koksijde paradiert die Königin Garnele vor den erstaunten Augen einer Menge von Neugierigen und Liebhabern. Das Garnelenfest zieht seit 1950 jedes Jahr Tausende von Besuchern an.
Katalonien: Mey Rahola, eine Fotografin der Avantgarde | Stadt, Land, Kunst - 27/02/2024
Es ist die Geschichte der Zerstreuung einer linksgerichteten katalanischen Familie im Jahr 1939, als sich der Spanische Bürgerkrieg für die Republikaner als verloren herausstellte.
News - Yemen: The United States and the United Kingdom have launched a string of airstrikes against targets in the Yemeni capital, Sana'a, and several other Yemeni cities in a futile attempt to hinder Yemen's support for the Palestinian people in …english.almasirah.net.ye
On Friday the Türkiye Chancellor met with the President Nicolás Maduro and today with his Venezuelan counterpart Yvan Gil to reaffirm the friendship and solidarity between both nations.teleSUR/ACJ (teleSUR)
This article was submitted by Natasha at geopoliticon. Check her out at: https://medium.com/@geopoliticon Operation “Gladio” is an intriguing account on espionage, conspiracy and political unrest and violence performed on the Italian turf by “covert …DD Geopolitics
The first genocide of the 20th century was carried out in Africa by German colonial authorities. This Black History Month, we remember the horrors of the concentration camps in Namibia, built decades ...Odysee
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In an opinion piece published on Saturday, Turley draws comparisons of criminal behavior between the current US president and that of his Civil War forefather.Sputnik International
You almost never see a clock at the mall
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Retailers, casinos, and grocery stores use a trick called temporal distortion to make you forget about the real world.Mark Dent (HubSpot)
Trump projected to win South Carolina Republican primary-english.news.cn
Microsoft Is Driving Users Away
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Moscow, SANA- Russian air defense units shot down 6 Ukrainian drones on Saturday night over the Russian border region of Belgorod and over the Black Sea.Syrian Arab News Agency
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Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): You don’t get to apply the label “lesser evil” to a president who is backing a literal genocide. That’s not a thing.Caitlin Johnstone (Caitlin’s Newsletter)
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Jamil Jaffer is a former official at the U.S. Justice Department under President George W. Bush, and he is a current/former member of multiple national security think tanks populated with former officials of the CIA and Pentagon.Kevin Gosztola (The Dissenter)
A Face Is Exposed for AOL Searcher No. 4417749 (2006)
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A truce agreement seems out of reach as starvation hits the north and as a devastating assault looms over the southThe Cradle
The Top of the DNS Hierarchy
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[This article follows CAM’s attempts to expose the criminal history of the CIA and is also part of a special for Black History Month that looks at the intelligence agency's war on Black American activists, which the corporate media never spotlights.Jeremy Kuzmarov (CovertAction Magazine)
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World War III is here, playing out asymmetrically in military, financial, and institutional battlefields, and the fight is an existential one.Kolozeg.Org
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Mamba Explained: The State Space Model Taking On Transformers
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German-Finnish businessman Kim Dotcom has said that the counter-offensive by the Ukrainian armed forces has turned out to be a disaster, nevertheless the West is not keen to push Vladimir Zelensky into negotiations with Russia.pogribnyack.dasha (English News front)
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Efficient recovery and recycling of cobalt from spent lithium-ion batteries
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The Ukrainian military commanders are afraid that ammunition supplies may soon run out. This was reported by The Washington Post, citing an anonymous senior NATO official.pogribnyack.dasha (English News front)
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TSMC is having more luck building in Japan than in America
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Truculent workers and red tape have slowed its efforts in ArizonaThe Economist
Ukrainian Prime Minister Denis Shmygal has said that Kiev has attracted $74bn from Western countries over 2022 and 2023. In his Telegram channel, he wrote that last year “economic renewal began” in Ukraine and GDP grew by more than 5 per cent.pogribnyack.dasha (English News front)
The command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is forced to save ammunition due to their acute shortage, NBC News reported.pogribnyack.dasha (English News front)
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President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko said that Russia has set a course for a peaceful settlement of the Ukrainian conflict and Kiev has enough reasons to agree to negotiations. “The grounds are more than enough now. More than enough.pogribnyack.dasha (English News front)
Even a sharp increase in supplies from Western allies cannot make up for the critical shortage of shells in the Ukrainian Armed Forces (AFU). This was stated by military expert Hendrik Remmel, as quoted by the German portal Tagesschau.pogribnyack.dasha (English News front)
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A representative of the State Border Service of Ukraine, Andriy Demchenko, said on air of the Rada TV channel that about 2.4 thousand lorries had piled up at six checkpoints on the Ukrainian-Polish border blocked by Polish farmers.pogribnyack.dasha (English News front)
ARTE Journal (25/02/2024) | Niederlage für Haley / Schläge gegen die Houthis / Ende der Berlinale
In den USA triumphierte Donald Trump bei den Vorwahlen der Republikaner in South Carolina. Der Heimatbundesstaat seiner Rivalin Nikki Haley.
Borrel admitted that the outcome of the conflict in Ukraine will be decided in the coming monthsThe outcome of the conflict in Ukraine may be decided in the near future, EU diplomatic chief Josep Borrell has said. “(The outcome of the conflict.pogribnyack.dasha (English News front)
Coroutines in C (2000)
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Ukraine may lose more territories in the coming year, in particular, the part of Donbas that remains under the control of the Ukrainian army. This was reported by the British TV channel Sky News with reference to analysts.pogribnyack.dasha (English News front)
The Ukrainian armed forces have shelled a residential area in Donetsk’s Kirovskyy district. Two people were injured as a result of the shelling. This was reported by the city’s mayor, Oleksiy Kulemzin, in his personal Telegram channel.pogribnyack.dasha (English News front)
Neat Parallel Output in Python
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An adviser to the head of the DPR, Igor Kimakovskyy, said that US Abrams tanks had been spotted for the first time north-west of Avdeevka, which was liberated by the Russian Armed Forces. “Our fighters have recorded the appearance of Abrams.pogribnyack.dasha (English News front)
Osquery: An sqlite3 virtual table exposing operating system data to SQL
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Zu Tisch | Rumänische Schwarzmeerküste
Die Aromunen, im Hinterland der rumänischen Schwarzmeerküste beheimatet, sind traditionell Viehhirten. So auch die Familie von Nicolae Migit im Dorf Stejaru.
Karambolage | Karambolage wird 20!
"Karambolage" feiert 20. Geburtstag! Und Claire Doutriaux nimmt dies zum Anlass, einen Ehrengast bei "Karambolage" zu empfangen. Hier der zweite und letzte Teil ihrer Hommage an Madame de Staël.
Wie sehen die Ampelmännchen in verschiedenen deutschen Orten aus?
Kamera: Celia Schütt
Wie sehen die Ampelmännchen in verschiedenen deutschen Orten aus? Kamera: Celia SchüttARTE
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in reply to Acta Populi • • •I see clouds of USA Taxpayer money.