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Foreign ministers from 20 Muslim states call for ending Israeli hostilities dawn.com/news/1917595/foreign-…

Foreign ministers from 20 Muslim states call for ending Israeli hostilities

Demand that Middle East "be free of nuclear weapons and other WMDs", applicable “to all States in the region without exception".
Baqir Sajjad Syed (DAWN.COM)

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Understanding the Great Reset as a Cybernetics Religion matthewehret.substack.com/p/un…

Understanding the Great Reset as a Cybernetics Religion

In this comprehensive interview with Russian television's DEN TV, Matt Ehret was invited to explain the historic roots of Russian-US friendship from 1776 to the defeat of Hitler, as well as an indepth analysis of cybernetics as the foundation for the…
Matthew Ehret (Matt Ehret's Insights)

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Does anyone have any updates re: Kristi Noem?? I'm seeing nothing posted anywhere since ~2 hours ago.

Wondering if it was something other than an "allergic reaction" that sent her to the hospital. Maybe a panic attack? 🤔

My only reason for even thinking this is because as DHS Secretary, she's under enormous pressure right now.

She's so trustworthy -- I wish her all the best!!🙏🏼

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From the Rockies to Stockholm: ignoring the global crisis thenextrecession.wordpress.com…

From the Rockies to Stockholm: ignoring the global crisis

As I write, the government leaders of the Group of Seven (G7) countries – Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the US – are meeting in the remote town of Kananaskis, Albert…
Michael Roberts Blog

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Marjorie Taylor Greene Says Americans 'Have Been Brainwashed' By Fox News, New York Post As She Opposes U.S. Entering Israel-Iran War

Marjorie Taylor Greene Says Americans 'Have Been Brainwashed' By Fox News, New York Post As She Opposes U.S. Entering Israel-Iran War

Rep. Marjorie Taylor slammed Republican-leaning outlets Fox News and New York Post, calling them "propaganda news"
Demian Bio (Latin Times)

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Trump to Leave G7 Summit Earlier, Return to US Over Situation in Middle East - White House sputnikglobe.com/20250617/trum…

Trump to Leave G7 Summit Earlier, Return to US Over Situation in Middle East - White House

US President Donald Trump will leave the G7 summit in Canada earlier than it was scheduled because of the situation in the Middle East, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said.
Sputnik International

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Global Tensions EXPLODE! U.S. Air Force Sends Out NUCLEAR Emergency Codes! | Elijah Schaffer’s Stories Of The Day

Welcome to The Gateway Pundit’s Week-in-Review with Elijah Schaffer, where he covers the top stories throughout the last 24 hours.

ARTICLE 1: Is Washington Preparing for War? U.S. Air Force Reportedly Sends Out Two Mysterious Encrypted Nuclear Emergency Codes

ARTICLE 2: Trump Fires Back at Tucker Carlson Again: ‘Let Him Get a TV Network So People Actually Listen’ (VIDEO)

ARTICLE 3: “I Don’t Care What She Said” — Trump Publicly Rebukes His Own Intelligence Chief Tulsi Gabbard on Iran’s Nuclear Capabilities

ARTICLE 4: Corporate Parent Planning Network Spinoff for ‘Declining Asset’ CNN: ‘Tears on the Horizon’ minds.com/newsfeed/17818618394…


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... Emergency Codes! | Elijah Schaffer’s Stories Of The Day Welcome to The Gateway Pundit’s Week-in-Review with Elijah Schaffer, where he covers the top stories throughout the last 24 hours. ART...
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Happy Birthday to Adam Smith (06-16-1723 to 07-17-1790). Mr. Smith was one of the most influential economists who ever lived. He wrote 2 significant and important books, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776) and The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759). He created and/or formalized the ideas of Division of Labor, Specialization, and Absolute Advantage. #Scot #Economics #GreatOnes

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Nicaragua and China break ground on landmark solar project to power water access and energy sovereignty socialistchina.org/2025/06/17/…

Nicaragua and China break ground on landmark solar project to power water access and energy sovereignty - Friends of Socialist China

The following report in Telesur notes that Nicaragua, in partnership with China, has inaugurated construction on the country’s largest solar plant to date, powering water systems, cutting energy costs, and deepening South-South cooperation on infrast…
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Russian Armed Forces strike defense industry facilities in Kiev and in Zaporozhye eu.eot.su/2025/06/17/russian-a…

Russian Armed Forces strike defense industry facilities in Kiev and in Zaporozhye

Russian Armed Forces strike defense industry facilities in Kiev and in Zaporozhye Rossa Primavera News from Russia
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Italian PM Giorgia Meloni’s Hilarious Eye-Roll Reaction at France’s Emmanuel Macron’s Whispers at the G7 Meeting Goes Viral (VIDEOS)

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Italian PM Giorgia Meloni’s Hilarious Eye-Roll Reaction at France's Emmanuel Macron’s Whispers at the G7 Meeting Goes Viral (VIDEOS) | The Gateway Pundit | by Paul Serran

          Conservative champion, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is an outspoken leader who also is very expressive, saying so much else through her hilarious facial expressions.
Paul Serran (Where Hope Finally Made a Comeback)

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Why Don’t We Listen to Warnings? The Horizonless Society thephilosophicalsalon.com/why-…

Why Don’t We Listen to Warnings? The Horizonless Society - The Philosophical Salon

As Slavoj Žižek often recalls, philosophy’s purpose is not to provide all the answers but to ask the right questions. If the question concerning warnings is one of them, it’s ... Read More
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Stand with Iran, stand with Palestine. No to U.S.-Israeli war in the Middle East

Israel’s recent missile strikes on Iran have killed over 200 Iranians in one week. Iran has rightfully defended itself, as any sovereign nation would, and has struck back with precision, raining missiles through Israel’s ‘Iron Colander’.

Despite what Rubio and others in the Trump administration say to distance themselves from the attack, they are complicit. The U.S. has never attempted to ‘de-escalate’ things. They have done the opposite. The U.S. Navy is shooting down the missiles Iran launches in self-defense. Israel’s attacks on Iran are deliberately provoking a wider war in the Middle East, and if U.S. military bases in the region are targeted, they only have themselves to blame.

This recent aggression is part of a decades-long campaign of assassinations, sanctions, and military provocations, aimed at weakening and destabilizing Iran and the arc of resistance.

While the U.S. arms Israel’s genocide, Iran arms the resistance. Iran has been a critical ally of Palestinian liberation, training and equipping resistance forces in Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen to defend the Palestinian people against Zionist occupation. This is why the U.S. and Israel want Iran destroyed: not because of ‘terrorism’ or a nuclear threat, but because Iran refuses to kneel to imperialism in the region.

Dying empires like the U.S. are dangerous. They’re desperate to maintain control and in lashing out, they are escalating a war that could engulf the entire region. Everyone who prefers peace to war should stand with Iran, and all forces of resistance against imperialism and Zionism.

Stand with Iran!

Stand with the Palestinian Resistance!

End U.S. aid to Israel‒No to war in the Middle East!

#International #Iran #AntiWarMovement #FRSO #Statement #Palestine

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Cuba reiterates its condemnation of Israel's genocide in Gaza cubanews.acn.cu/world/26975-cu…

Cuba reiterates its condemnation of Israel's genocide in Gaza

HAVANA, Cuba, Jun 16 (ACN) Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, Cuban Foreign Minister, reiterated today the condemnation of Israel's offensive in Gaza, which has killed more than 55,362 people since it began in October 2023.
www.cubanews.acn.cu

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spectra.video/w/7wEFKqfZSPWZyF… Keynote by Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic) at FediForum June 2025. - an interesting opinion on big tech and social media

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FediForum Keynote: Cory Doctorow


Keynote by Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic@mamot.fr) at FediForum June 2025.

More info: fediforum.org/2025-06


FediForum | FediForum June, 2025: Agenda

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Marco

that right at the beginning cracked me up 🤣

1:13 In the last couple of years, I've managed to get a lot of normies to be more interested in tech policy by coining this word that lets them swear. And that word is enshittification. And it turns out that just a very minor license to profanity is a great way to get people to engage with what I flatter myself is a pretty nuanced technical political message about how we got here and what we should do about it.

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Aid Line Massacre, Resistance Ambushes: 50 Killed in Gaza, Israeli Losses Mount #Palestine palestinechronicle.com/aid-lin…

Aid Line Massacre, Resistance Ambushes: 50 Killed in Gaza, Israeli Losses Mount - Palestine Chronicle

Over 50 Palestinians were killed while awaiting aid in Khan Yunis, as Palestinian resistance fighters launched deadly ambushes.
admin (Palestine Chronicle)

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Update on being ticketed: Cops and the city government and the DNR have said I am allowed to have a native prairie yard as long as it doesn’t go over 8 inches. I am supposed to cut prairie grass and flowers to 8 inches. Like Morticia Addams cutting off rose blooms but keeping thorny stems. Prairie is waist high, naturally. This is the stupidest fucking timeline we’re living in.
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"The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by a resistance to every kind of improvement. They call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty. They call themselves democrats, but they yearn for dictatorship. They call themselves revolutionaries, but they want to make the government omnipotent. They promise the blessings of the Garden of Eden, but…

Quotation by Ludwig von Mises

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"The truth is that, to many people calling themselves Socialists, revolution does not mean a movement of the masses with which they hope to associate themselves; it means a set of reforms which 'we', the clever ones, are going to impose upon 'them', the Lower Orders."

-- George Orwell
[Eric Arthur Blair] (1903-1950) British author

Quotation by George Orwell

"The truth is that, to many people calling themselves Socialists, revolution does not mean a movement of the masses with which they hope to associate themselves; it means a set of reforms which 'we', the clever ones, are going to impose upon 'them', …
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Ansarullah Political Bureau condemns Israeli heinous massacre in Khan Yunis en.ypagency.net/359812

Ansarullah Political Bureau condemns Israeli heinous massacre in Khan Yunis

SANAA, June 17 (YPA) - Ansarullah Political Bureau strongly condemned on Tuesday the Israeli occupation's heinous massacre in Khan Yunis, which resulted in dozens of martyrs and hundreds of wounded.In a statement, the official considered the horrific
احسن (Yemen Press Agency)

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"Marx’s Kapital is not a treatise on socialism; it is a gerrymand against the bourgeoisie. It was supposed to be written for the working class, but the working man respects the bourgeoisie and wants to be a bourgeoisie. Marx never got a hold of him for a moment. It was the revolting sons of the bourgeoisie itself, like myself, that painted the flag red. The middle and upper classes are the revolutionary element in society. The proletariat is the conservative element."

Quotation by George Bernard Shaw

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BREAKING: Ohio woman sentenced to nearly 6 years in prison for defrauding the COVID relief funds program.

Lorie A. Schaefer, illegally obtained more than $1.9 MILLION in COVID relief funds by fraudulently claiming affiliation with local restaurants in order to receive payments. She reportedly spent the money on liposuction, home renovations, vehicles, and property.

She also assisted a co-defendant in fraudulently receiving more than $980,000.

Imagine how much more fraud there is. It all needs to be investigated.

Original tweet : xcancel.com/libsoftiktok/statu…

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Othmane Benafan is a NASA engineer whose work is literally reshaping how we use aerospace materials — he creates metals that can shape shift. Benafan, a materials research engineer at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, creates metals called shape memory alloys that are custom-made to solve some of the most pressing challenges of space […]

Career Exploration: Using Ingenuity and Innovation to Create ‘Memory Metals’ - NASA

Justin Locke (NASA)

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With only 2 weeks of funding left, US group tracking Russian abduction of Ukrainian children prepares to shut down

With only 2 weeks of funding left, US group tracking Russian abduction of Ukrainian children prepares to shut down

"Right now, we are running on fumes," Nathaniel Raymond, the lab's executive director, told CNN. "As of July 1, we lay off all of our staff across Ukraine and other teams, and our work tracking the kids officially ends."
Anna Fratsyvir (The Kyiv Independent)
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Zorsith

Full sets of matching cookware. Its almost always a bunch of display junk that never gets used. Buy your stuff as individual pieces, you'll likely have nicer quality. This goes for pots, pans, knives, silverware, spatulas, damn near everything cooking related.

Personal opinion, all-clad is overrated. Their skillet/saucepan handles are shit and hurt to hold for longer cooking sessions.

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thermal_shock

You tell me! You asked, so it seems like you have a different definition. Also I'm not the op you originally asked, I'm not going to answer for them, but seems they were very clear.

Whether they mean the same and how society accepts definitions of words are completely different. Do you call your mom a female or a woman? Because female would be insulting in my opinion.

In a more scientific environment absolutely female and woman could mean exactly the same and have no difference. But in society if you call a woman a female I would not care if she slapped the shit out of you.

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screenshot from al jazeera. im surprised al jazeera doesn't have anyone editing the live feed that understands the difference between the Caliphs and Imams but oh well.
What the comment implies, is no matter the size of the army, the followers of Imam Ali never back down in the fight for good.
Clearly, nobody has done any research at all on the Iranians lol.
from Al Jazeera: "‘The battle begins,’ says Iran’s supreme leader In his first statement since Trump’s threat to assassinate him, Ali Khamenei writes on X: “In the name of the noble Haidar, the battle begins.” Haidar is an alternative name for Imam Ali, the fourth Muslim caliph and a revered figure in Shia Islam. The war has been raging since Friday morning, so it is not clear what the Iranian leader means with his comment, and whether it signals the start of more intense Iranian attacks."
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Ech

Lol, the cognitive dissonance of whining about capitalism because their vidya game got a little more expensive. Not only is the entitlement and hypocrisy off the charts, there are so many ways to play games for cheap and/or free, the criticism is entirely moot. Don't like the price a company is asking for for an entirely optional commodity? Don't fucking pay it. It's not that hard.

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Jump Ship Demo is Live!
I've been interested in trying this game out ever since they posted some early gameplay footage over a year ago. Looks kind of like a mix between Star Citizen (in and out of ship gameplay), Helldivers (4 player co-op/PvE missions), and Sea of Thieves.

Jump Ship Demo on Steam

Jump Ship is a mission based co-op PvE for up to 4 players, where you are the crew of a spaceship. Transition seamlessly from crewing the ship to on-foot exploration and space walks.
store.steampowered.com

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Nintendo Switch 2 Hacked in 48 Hours — But Here’s Why It’s Just the Beginning

Nintendo Switch 2 Hacked in 48 Hours — But Here’s Why It’s Just the Beginning

A harmless green line on the screen may have just opened the floodgates for hackers — inside the first real exploit on Nintendo’s most secure console yet. It took less than 48 hours for hackers to…
Aaron (InfoSec Write-ups)

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What people miss about Steam Deck's "loss" to Nintendo

It’s silly to compare Switch 2 sales to Steam Deck sales.

The Switch 2 is a locked-down, vertically integrated platform. There are no ROG Switch 2s. No Lenovo Switch 2s. No Switch laptops or tower PCs with discrete GPUs. If you want to play Mario Kart World, your only option is to buy a Switch 2. Period.

Steam Deck, by contrast, isn’t a platform. It’s just one hardware option—one entry point into the sprawling, open ecosystem known as PC gaming.

Every year, around 245 million PCs are shipped globally. If even 20–25% of those are gaming-focused, that’s 49–61 million gaming PCs annually. Steam Deck is a sliver of that. So of course it won’t outsell a console that’s the only gateway to a major IP.

But that’s exactly the point.

PC gaming is too decentralized for any single device to dominate. The last “PC” that did was the Commodore 64, which sold 12.5–17 million units over 12 years because it was a self-contained platform, unlike modern Windows, Mac, or Linux machines.

That the Steam Deck has sold 4 million units despite competing with every other gaming PC in existence is remarkable. It didn’t just sell—it legitimized a category. Handheld PC gaming is now a thing. That’s why Lenovo, ASUS, and MSI have followed. Even Microsoft is getting in, optimizing Windows for handhelds—something they would never have done if the Steam Deck didn't hold their feet to the fire.

So no, Steam Deck didn’t outsell the Switch 2. It didn’t need to.

It won by changing the landscape.

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YouTube relaxes moderation rules to allow more controversial content. Videos are allowed if "freedom of expression value may outweigh harm risk"

YouTube relaxes moderation rules to allow more controversial content

The Google-owned site has provided moderators with new guidelines and training on how to deal with inflammatory content that breaks YouTube's code of conduct, writes The New...
Rob Thubron (TechSpot)

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New Carnivore Community does not like opposing opinions

feddit.org/post/13994826/71651…

Everything I downvoted was because I genuinely do not think it's good. Like meat is not going to cure cancer.

I actually really like eating meat I just try to life a life that gives others room to enjoy this earth too without mutually destroying it.

Please tell me how I am the asshole 😀

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Universal Monk

I think you’re making it out to be a bigger deal than it actually is.


Well, the developers did make it a feature to be able to ban based on voting.

We didn't always have that feature, it's relatively new. So I guess there were enough people asking for it that it became a thing. Also, you yourself mentioned that you were troubled at seeing the "normalization" of the practice, so obviously there are enough people seeing it as an issue that you have noticed it.

Also, you put too much value into the meaning of votes.


Again, I'd love if Lemmy got rid of the option to upvote/downvote. And just for background, I once had a guy who would take screen shots of how many dowvotes I had on my posts, then post that screenshot, and laugh about it and use that to argue to others that they should just bully me off of Lemmy. I won't say his name here, but he still mentions my name a lot. lol

Learn to deal with criticism.


There's criticism, and then there's the weird stalker types that seem to be on Lemmy that become serial downvoters. There are even some that create downvoting bots. Yeah, bots just to downvote. That has also been an issue that admin had to work on.

No voting at all, would solve it though!

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propitiouspanda

Yeah, we need to make sure people like you and ideas like yours infest as few communities as possible.

You're clearly not mature enough to handle anonymous discourse on the internet, so you need to have tools in place to abuse your power against those you don't like.

I'm going to ignore you now. Hopefully we don't have to cross paths again and I never have the displeasure of seeing one of your censored communities.

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Any foods you prefer or can't stand depending on whether they are raw, fresh, pickled, cooked etc?

I thought I hated capsicum most of my life but lately (past my mid 30s) I've come to actually really like it raw. As in salads or sandwiches. I'm enjoying that. As a child my parents would add it frequently to meals but it would always be cooked and I was never a fan.

Or mushrooms for example. I love them almost any way except preserved. If they came from inside a tin or jar with long shelf life the taste is just horrendous.

Similar for artichokes, they must be fresh.

I love sesame seeds, but I absolutely hate sesame seed oil and I can't understand why. The taste is so different.

Curious about yours. Any similar examples?

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With a Trump-driven reduction of nearly 2,000 employees, F.D.A. will Use A.I. in Drug Approvals to ‘Radically Increase Efficiency’

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The Food and Drug Administration is planning to use artificial intelligence to “radically increase efficiency” in deciding whether to approve new drugs and devices, one of several top priorities laid out in an article published Tuesday in JAMA.

Another initiative involves a review of chemicals and other “concerning ingredients” that appear in U.S. food but not in the food of other developed nations. And officials want to speed up the final stages of making a drug or medical device approval decision to mere weeks, citing the success of Operation Warp Speed during the Covid pandemic when workers raced to curb a spiraling death count.

“The F.D.A. will be focused on delivering faster cures and meaningful treatments for patients, especially those with neglected and rare diseases, healthier food for children and common-sense approaches to rebuild the public trust,” Dr. Marty Makary, the agency commissioner, and Dr. Vinay Prasad, who leads the division that oversees vaccines and gene therapy, wrote in the JAMA article.

The agency plays a central role in pursuing the agenda of the U.S. health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and it has already begun to press food makers to eliminate artificial food dyes. The new road map also underscores the Trump administration’s efforts to smooth the way for major industries with an array of efforts aimed at getting products to pharmacies and store shelves quickly.

Some aspects of the proposals outlined in JAMA were met with skepticism, particularly the idea that artificial intelligence is up to the task of shearing months or years from the painstaking work of examining applications that companies submit when seeking approval for a drug or high-risk medical device.

“I don’t want to be dismissive of speeding reviews at the F.D.A.,” said Stephen Holland, a lawyer who formerly advised the House Committee on Energy and Commerce on health care. “I think that there is great potential here, but I’m not seeing the beef yet.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/health/fda-drug-approvals-artificial-intelligence.html

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Israeli forces kill 17 people in latest Gaza aid massacre

At least 17 Palestinians have been killed and dozens more wounded after Israeli forces opened fire on a crowd of displaced Palestinians waiting for food near a distribution site operated by the Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation in central Gaza, local health authorities said.

Doctors said casualties were sent to the Al-Awda Hospital in central Gaza and Al-Quds Hospital in the north.

Massacres of Palestinians near GHF sites have become almost a daily occurrence since the organisation started operating at the end of May, with hundreds of people being killed and wounded by Israeli troops.


Israeli forces kill scores in latest Gaza aid massacre

Medics say Israeli forces shot dead dozens of Palestinians on Tuesday in the latest in a string of massacres near Gaza Humanitarian Foundation facilities.
The New Arab Staff (The new Arab)

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Hong Kong warns downloading game could be national security crime
Hong Kong (AFP) – Hong Kong police have warned downloading a mobile game in which players can attempt to overthrow a stand-in for China's Communist Party could constitute a national security crime, as it vanished from Apple's local App Store Wednesday.

Beijing is extremely sensitive to even subtle hints of dissent, and in 2020 imposed a national security law in Hong Kong that has effectively quashed any political opposition.

In "Reversed Front: Bonfire", developed by a Taiwan-based company, users can "pledge allegiance" to entities including Taiwan, Hong Kong, Tibet and "Uyghur" to "overthrow the communist regime".

Although the game takes place in a historically different universe, the description reads: "This game is a work of NON-FICTION. Any similarity to actual agencies, policies or ethnic groups of the PRC (People's Republic of China) in this game is INTENTIONAL."

On Tuesday police in Hong Kong said "Reversed Front" was "advocating armed revolution" and promoting Taiwan and Hong Kong independence "under the guise of a game".

Downloading the game could see players charged with possessing seditious material, while making in-app purchases could be viewed as providing funding to the developer "for the commission of secession or subversion", police warned.

Recommending the game could constitute the offence of "incitement to secession".

Although players can choose to "lead the Communists to defeat all enemies", the game description makes clear they are meant to be the villains.

The Communists are described as "heavy-handed, reckless and inept" and accused of "widespread corruption, embezzlement, exploitation, slaughter and defilement".

Many of the other playing roles correspond to flashpoint issues for Beijing -- including self-ruled Taiwan, which China claims as its territory, and Xinjiang, where it has denied accusations of human rights abuses against the minority Muslim Uyghurs.

Hong Kong's vibrant civil society and political opposition have all but vanished since the imposition of the national security law, which was brought in after huge and sometimes violent pro-democracy protests in 2019.

OpenAI last week said it had detected and banned a number of "likely China-origin" accounts targeting "Reversed Front" with negative comments.

"The network generated dozens of critical comments in Chinese about the game, followed by a long-form article claiming it had received widespread backlash," said OpenAI.

On Wednesday Apple appeared to have removed the game from the Hong Kong version of the App Store, after it had been available the day before, an AFP reporter saw.

It was not available on Hong Kong's Google Play on Tuesday, local media reported.

But the game's developer said it had seen a surge in searches since Tuesday's police announcement, jokingly implying it was thankful to authorities for the visibility boost.


Hong Kong warns downloading game could be national security crime

RFI

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Police make 'mass arrests' in LA during nighttime curfew
Los Angeles (United States) (AFP) – Los Angeles police began arresting people in the city's downtown late Tuesday, as groups gathered in violation of an overnight curfew after a fifth day of protests against Donald Trump's immigration crackdown.

Looting and vandalism in the second-biggest US city have marred the largely peaceful protests over ramped-up arrests by immigration authorities.

The demonstrations, which began Friday, and isolated acts of violence prompted Trump to take the extraordinary step of sending in troops, over the objection of the state governor.

The protests again turned ugly after dark Tuesday, but an hour into the overnight curfew only a handful of protesters were left downtown, with police making several arrests as they warned stragglers to leave.

"Multiple groups continue to congregate on 1st St between Spring and Alameda" within the designated downtown curfew area, the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) wrote on X late Tuesday.

"Those groups are being addressed and mass arrests are being initiated."

Police arrested 25 people on suspicion of violating the curfew as of Tuesday evening, the Los Angeles Times reported, citing an LAPD spokesperson.

The number of arrests was likely to rise as law enforcement worked to remove the remaining protesters from the area, the newspaper said.

Earlier, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said she had issued the curfew "to stop the vandalism, to stop the looting."

One square mile (2.5 square kilometers) of the city's more-than-500 square mile area will be off-limits from 8:00 pm and 6:00 am (0300 to 1300 GMT) for everyone apart from residents, journalists and emergency services, she added.

One protester told AFP the arrest of migrants in a city with large immigrant and Latino populations was the root of the unrest.

"I think that obviously they're doing it for safety," she said of the curfew.

"But I don't think that part of the problem is the peaceful protests. It's whatever else is happening on the other side that is inciting violence."

At their largest, the protests have included a few thousand people taking to the streets, but smaller mobs have used the cover of darkness to set fires, daub graffiti and smash windows.

Overnight, Monday 23 businesses were looted, police said, adding that more than 500 people had been arrested over recent days.

Protests against immigration arrests by federal law enforcement have also sprung up in cities around the country, including New York, Atlanta, Chicago, San Francisco and Austin.

Trump has ordered 4,000 National Guard troops to Los Angeles, along with 700 active-duty Marines, in what he has claimed is a necessary escalation to take back control -- despite the insistence of local law enforcement that they could handle matters.

A military spokeswoman said the Marines were expected to be on the streets by Wednesday.

Their mission will be to guard federal facilities and to accompany "federal officers in immigration enforcement operations in order to provide protection."

Demonstrators told AFP the soldiers "should be respected" because they had not chosen to be in Los Angeles, but Lisa Orman blasted it as "ridiculous."

"I was here for the Dodger parade," she said, referring to the LA team's World Series victory.

"It was 100 times bigger," she said, branding the idea that Marines were necessary as "a big show" that Trump wanted.

The Pentagon said the deployment would cost US taxpayers $134 million.

Photographs issued by the Marine Corps showed men in combat fatigues using riot shields to practice crowd control techniques at the Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach.

Late Tuesday, Texas Governor Greg Abbott said his state would deploy its National Guard "to locations across the state to ensure peace & order" after solidarity protests.

"Peaceful protest is legal. Harming a person or property is illegal & will lead to arrest," Abbott wrote on X.

The Texas National Guard "will use every tool & strategy to help law enforcement maintain order."

In sprawling Los Angeles on Tuesday, it was largely a typical day: tourists thronged Hollywood Boulevard, celebrities attended red carpet premieres, tens of thousands of children went to school and commuter traffic choked the streets.

But at a military base in North Carolina, Trump was painting a much darker picture.

"What you're witnessing in California is a full-blown assault on peace, on public order and national sovereignty," the Republican told troops at Fort Bragg.

"This anarchy will not stand. We will not allow an American city to be invaded and conquered by a foreign enemy."

California Governor Gavin Newsom, a Democrat who has clashed with the president before, said Trump's shock militarization of the city was the behavior of "a tyrant, not a president."

In a filing to the US District Court in Northern California, Newsom asked for an injunction preventing the use of troops for policing.

US law largely prevents the use of the military as a policing force -- absent the declaration of an insurrection, which Trump has mused.

The president "is trying to use emergency declarations to justify bringing in first the National Guard and then mobilizing Marines," said law professor Frank Bowman.


Police make arrests in downtown LA during nighttime curfew

Downtown Los Angeles was largely calm overnight into Wednesday, with police arresting at least 25 people for violating a curfew after a fifth day of protests against President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown.
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